吉林省长春市宽城区2020年九年级中考英语一模试卷

— OK, here you are.

— __________________ hard-working and creative the person is!

—           . It's far from here.

—_________. I didn't drive my car this morning.

Li Feng: Han Qi, long time no see.

Han Qi: Not too bad. How about you?

Li Feng: I am a little scared all the time. It's because of COVID-19 (2019冠状病毒).

Han Qi: Yeah, it's terrible.

Li Feng: That's for sure. It gets spread like most cold and flu viruses (病毒). If someone coughs, a second person standing nearby can get infected that way.

Han Qi: So everybody stayed at home and everything was quiet and peaceful outdoors for a long time. People's study and work plans are different now.

Li Feng:

Han Qi: You're right. We often wash hands and take temperature. My parents told me to be careful outside.

Li Feng: That's true. Now we're at school. There are so many people here.

Han Qi: Yeah, there are a few things we should do. First of all, wear a mask (口罩) when we go out. Secondly, never touch our faces with unclean hands. Thirdly, keep at least one metre away from other people.

Li Feng: I'll do all of them for sure.

Han Qi: That's great. It can make us stronger. Let's keep healthy and don't be afraid of viruses.

    Henry is going through a very hard time. His wife has just passed away. He feels that life 1her is meaningless. For months, Henry sits in his house, doing2. His family try to encourage him to do new things and enjoy life, but they're not3.

    Henry's neighbor, an old woman named Lisa, sees him from her yard one day. She has not seen him outside in days! She asks him to4closer to the fence (篱笆) next to her house.

    "Hello, Henry! Just look at this fence. It is, falling apart. You are a5man. Can you help me fix this fence?" Lisa asks.

    Henry is angry inside. He is the one who needs 6 right now. He thinks the old lady is being kind of impolite. But she is too old to fix the fence7, so he agrees.

    Henry works on the fence for days. Lift brings hire orange juice8 he works. When he finishes, she thanks him. Henry 9 for the first time in months.

    "What a wonderful job! Could you please paint it 10 me?" Lisa says to him. Henry cannot believe she needs more help. Doesn't she know stow sad he is? But 11 he respects (尊敬) her, he agrees. He works bard painting the fence in the hot 12, but Lisa's orange juice and encouragement are helpful. As their neighbours 13 by, they all tell Henry what a beautiful job be has done. Henry feels very happy.

    Henry no longer feels that14 is meaningless. He finally realizes that Lisa wasn't being impolite. She knows that staying15can help us forget our sadness. He helped her, but she truly saved him.

    Seventy years ago, China was a poor country. But seventy years later, the country has made progress in many areas. It has become a rising power in the world. Now we'll take a look at some of China's biggest changes.

    What would you give up to protect the environment? Many people have given up animal products of all kinds. They are practicing a lifestyle called veganism (纯素主义). Some people choose to become vegan (素食主义者) because they are upset about the way humans treat animals.

    For many people, veganism simply means eating no meat, cheese or eggs. But the idea of saving animals also appears in the fashion and manufacturing industries (制造业）.

    For example, leather (皮革) is used in many products, such as shoes and clothes. Every year more than a billion animals, listing from horses to snakes, are killed so that we can use their skin to make leather products. Now, many brands are looking for other ways to make their products.

    The sports brand Puma, for example, has made shoes out of pineapple (菠萝) leaves. Tesla, the American car-maker, is reported to have stopped using leather to make its seats.

    Veganism is growing in popularity. In 2017, the BBC said it was the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the United Kingdom. At the same time, some news reported that a quarter of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 are vegans. No wonder the map7ine named 2019 "the year of the vegan".

    So, if you're interested in protecting animals and saving the environment, you might want to give veganism a try. But somebody asks: "Is veganism healthy?" Some people worry that eating no treat at all is not good for our health. It's your personal choice to be a vegan or tot. Just make sure to keep healthy as well.

    Open an app, place your order, and wait for your food to be delivered (递送) to your home-this is how many people eat in China these days. According to the latest report, 421 million Chinese people use online food delivery services. That's about half of the total number of internet users in China.

    Which group of people is ordering food online the most? It's mainly young people. Meituan, a food delivery service, showed that 86.3 percent of the service's users are between 20 and 34 years old. These people, who live in small families, are driving the development of the food delivery industry. Small families depend greatly on food delivery services.

    Chinese families have changed in size over the past years. In 2002, only 7.7 percent of them were single-person families. But this number increased to 15.6 percent in 2017. The two-person families rose from 18.4% in 2002 to 27.2% in 2017. For small families, cooking needs more time and materials, so ordering food online has become more popular.

    The food delivery services have become much faster than before at present. According to Meituan's report, the time it takes to make a food delivery dropped from 38 minutes in 2016 to 29 minutes in 2019. Many delivery platforms (平台) are also offering more services, delivering products such as fruit, vegetables, medicine and flowers. More and more customers are interested in the improvement of China's food delivery services. As its services continue to improve, it's possible that the food delivery industry will keep growing.

    Do you get lots of reading tasks as part of your homework? You might wish that you could read faster. But experts have dismissed (驳回) this announcement.

    "Speed reading is not actually possible," said Elisabeth Schotter, a scientist at the University of South Florida, US. Schotter pointed out that people who say that they can teach others how to speed read are usually doing it to make money by selling courses and books.

    In fact, speed reading has been advertised (做广告) since 1959, when US educator Evelyn Wood introduced a speed reading program. Several US presidents have event asked their staff to take speed reading courses,

    Schotter explained that reading is a complicated (复杂的) process. It includes four stages: seeing a word, searching its meaning from your memory, connecting it with other words in the same sentence, and then moving on to the next word. It can't be sped up. Some people who are able to speed read are simply skimming (略读） Skimmers can find out the main idea of a passage. But they will not be able to recall all of the information.

    Research suggests that you should try to improve your vocabulary and simply read more. Then you can improve your reading speed.

A. This process uses many parts of the-brain at one time.

B. Skimming needs to read a passage quickly and only look for certain words or sentences.

C. There are some people who announce that, you can learn to read at super-high speeds.

D. So is there a way to become a faster reader?

E. However, the staff found that there is no real science behind speed reading.

    At the age of 16, Einstein always played with a group of crazy kids. Because he was so busy playing, he didn't study enough and failed his final exam.

    One morning, when Einstein was holding a fishing tool and was about to go fishing with his friends, his father stopped him and said seriously, "Einstein, you're so crazy about playing that you failed your exam. I'm worried about your future."

    "What are you worrying about? Jack and Robert also failed, but don't they still get to go fishing?"

    "My boy, you can't think like that," his dad said. "There is a story that people tell in our hometown. Listen to it now."

    "There were two cats playing on the top of a house. One cat was careless and fell down the chimney (烟囱) while holding the other cat. When the two cats climbed out of the chimney, one of the cats had soot (烟灰) on his face, while the other cat's face was clean. Seeing the soot-faced cat, the clean cat thought its face must be dirty, so it quickly ran to the riverside and washed its face. The soot-faced cat saw the clean-faced cat and thought its face was also clean, so it just walked down the street happily."

    "Einstein, no one can be your 'mirror'. You have to think for yourself. If you follow others, you will never learn."

    Hearing this, Einstein laid down his fishing tool and returned to his room. He studied hard and didn't follow others from then on. This allowed him to be successful.

    So, what kind of people do you usually hang out with? Do they study a lot or do they just want to play all the time? Don't blindly follow others.

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