福建省莆田市2020年中考英语试卷（含听力音频）

— How _________________！

— So I have to _________________ my trip to Macao.

— Sorry, I'm using it now. You can ask Maria for _________________.

— Luckily, China is taking measures to solve it.

— That's not necessary. He will come here by taxi.

— Great! It's truly _________________ too late to start doing things.

— About ten minutes' walk.

— No, it _________________ be him. He has gone to Shanghai on business.

— I've no idea. Nobody knows the date for certain.

    Once there was a young man. He walked each day to the marketplace to sell his wares (货物). It was a hard life, but the young man was still1. He worked from sunup until sundown. He knew that one day his hard work would2.

    One day, as the young man made his way to the marketplace, he could see a large wagon (马车) filled3goods. The young man set down his bundle (捆) of baskets. Greed (贪婪) began to4his heart.

    "I could buy those flowers in the wagon and sell them for a5price. The land is too poor for planting flowers, and I know I could sell them6." he thought.

    So with that, the young man offered his goods in exchange for the flowers. The young man and the seller made their7.

    The young man made his way to the marketplace. He laid out his flowers and waited for the ladies to come to buy his flowers. But the hot sun shone down on the flowers, and without any water nearby, they soon dried up. The young man8his mistake. He looked over at the man selling his goods.

    The next day, the young man saw the man with a wagon full of fruit. The man asked the young man9he wanted to trade. The young man saw money in the man's eyes and said simply, "It is better to work for10than to wish it away."

    Pat has an unusual hobby. She makes cheese on the family farm in Australia. She began by making yoghurt (酸奶) with her mother when she was little. Then she started watching her father's workers make cheese. When she was ten, she made some herself for the first time. "It wasn't great," she says, "but the workers told me what I was doing wrong and that helped me to slowly get better."

    Pat always needs good milk for her cheese, but she doesn't have to buy it. Her parents keep 100 cows on their farm. Pat can just ask them when she needs more. Last year, Pat's neighbor gave her a young cow to keep and look after, but it doesn't produce milk yet.

    Pat and her family make several types of cheese. Recently they won a prize for one of them. "It's been great for helping customers find out about us," says Pat. "Last month we started selling cheese in New Zealand. People there read about our prize in magazines. Soon we're going to do some advertisements, too.

    Pat's next idea is to post some online recipes (菜谱) for cooking with cheese. "Our cheese is lovely with pizza-I hope a restaurant might buy some one day." But right now Pat is still at school. "Making cheese is fun and winning a prize for it is great, but doing well in my studies matters more for now."

    Jessica Bucknam shouts "tiao!"( tee-ow), and her fourth - grade students jump. "Dun!"( doo- wen) she commands (指令), and they do. They laugh as the commands keep coming in Chinese. Most of the kids have studied Chinese since they were in nursery school.

They are part of a Chinese一immersion program at Woodstock Primary School in Portland, Oregon. Bucknam，who is from China, introduces her students to about 150 new Chinese characters each year. Students read stories, sing songs, and learn math and science, all in Chinese. Half of the 340 students at the K- 5 school join in the program. They can continue studying Chinese in middle and high school. The goal: to speak like natives.

    At present, about 24, 000 American students are learning Chinese. Most are in high school. But the number of younger students is growing in response (回应) to China's rise as a global superpower.

    The United States government is helping to pay for language instruction. Recently, it gave Oregon schools $ 700, 000 for classes like Bucknam's. The Senate (参议院) is considering giving$ 1.3 billion for Chinese classes in public schools.

    "China has become a strong partner of the United States," says Mary Patterson，Woodstock's principal. "Children who learn Chinese at a young age will have more opportunities for jobs in the future."

    Isabel Weiss, aged nine, isn't thinking about the future. She thinks learning Chinese is fun. "When you hear people speaking in Chinese, you know what they're saying," she says." And they don't know that you know.

    In a village in Uganda, a woman named Fatima ran a small store. She sold food and other useful items. However, she had trouble making enough money to keep the shelves stocked (储存的). To stay in business, Fatima got a microfinance loan - a small total of money from a person in another country. It was just enough for her to buy a cell phone. She let villagers make calls using her phone and charged them some money for each call. This helped her make enough money to keep her shelves stocked with items. Fatima then used the money to send her children to school and improved their lives, as well as her own.

    Microfinance is the practice of giving small loans to people in need. Most microfinance loans are for less than two hundred dollars. The loans are used to start or enlarge a small business, such as catching fish, raising chickens or selling produce. Lenders are willing to make these loans because most of the people who receive them are very likely (可能的) to repay the loans.

    Microfinance loans are important for several reasons. The businesses that these loans support often provide needed services or goods to their communities. Also, many of the people who receive microfinance loans cannot get money any other way. Although they have to pay a rate (比率) of interest on the money they borrow， the rate is lower than if they borrowed from a local moneylender.

    It doesn't seem like such a small total of money could make a big difference，but microfinance loans have been shown to help improve some people's lives and put new life into the communities like Fatima's.

    It seems to me that families used to eat more meals together. There's often a TV nearby，or someone's talking on a cell phone or texting during dinner.

     We'd wait for everyone to get home, and then we'd all sit down together. During dinnertime conversation, everyone had a chance to talk. Back then, I was a little quiet, so my dad would often ask me to talk about my day.

    Speaking of taking turns，all of us kids used to take part in either preparing the meal or cleaning up. Sometimes my mom would let me help her in the kitchen. We'd always have fresh food - no fast food or take out.

    Now，I won't pretend (假装) our mealtimes were completely perfect. We used to fight all the time, and sometimes kick each other under the table. Nobody knew exactly what" or else" meant, but we didn't want to risk finding out.

    These days, it seems like families have little time together, especially at mealtimes. However, I wonder if those families know what they're missing.

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    Climate emergency has been picked as the word of the year for 2019 by Oxford Dictionaries. It was (report) that the expression was used 10,796% more in 2019 than in 2018, and the dictionary company said reflected (反映) the mood and concerns felt by people this year. Though it's made up of two (word), climate emergency is treated as a single word, in same way as heart attack.

    Many people have started to use climate emergency to describe the /hju:dʒ/ challenge facing the planet, in place of the term climate change.

    Climate change refers to long-term changes in the world's / 'weðə(r)/ patterns (模式).They are mostly caused by activities such as (burn) oil and farming. Climate emergency means a "situation in which urgent (紧急的) action is required to reduce or stop climate change".

    According to the dictionary company, climate became the most common word used with emergency in 2019, the two were used together three times more often than the (two) most common word, which was health. /'djuəriŋ/ the year, Canada, France and the UK all announced climate emergencies.

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Dear editor,

    I'm very glad to introduce myself to you.  

Sincerely,

Li Hua