山东省淄博市高青县2020年中考英语一模试卷

    Is it good to be in the middle? Sometimes, no, like when you're in the middle 1on a long car ride. But sometimes, yes, like when you're in the middle of a great movie. What will happen next? Middle school is a little bit like that.

    For a kid, going to middle school is a big 2: First, it often means 3  to a new building. You have to take some time to adjust (适应). Second, it may mean taking a 4  bus, with different students. Third, the friends you made in primary school may 5 going to different middle schools.

    All of this can make you feel a bit6on the first day of school. Here is some 7 to help you on your first day. Get to bed on time the night before. Before bed, put all your things into your schoolbag so you don't forget 8.

    On the big day, eat breakfast 9 be brave. On your way out the door, take everything you need and try to say "hi" to everyone you meet.

    In class, listen to the teachers 10and take notes. Try to write down the most important things and then you can look them over when you get home and be prepared for the next day.

    Sometimes, I doubt whether there is any love between my parents. Every day they are busy trying to make money. They don't act romantically the way couples do in books and on TV. They never say: "I love you." It's not their style.

    One day, my mother was sewing (缝) a quilt (被子). I sat down beside her.

    "Mom, I have a question to ask you," I said after a while.

    "What?" she asked while still working.

    "Is there love between you and Dad?" I asked her.

    She didn't answer right away.

    I thought I had hurt her.

    "Susan, look at this thread (线)," she said finally. "Sometimes it appears, but most of it disappears in the quilt. It makes the quilt strong. If life was a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere, but it's still important."

    The next spring, my father suddenly got very sick. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.

    After they got back, she helped my father walk slowly down the road every day. My father had never been so fragile (脆弱的).

    "Dad, how are you feeling now?" I asked him one day.

    "Susan, don't worry about me," he said. "I just like walking with your mom."

    Once, I thought love meant flowers and gifts. Now, I know that love is the thread that holds a family together.

    "Please don't travel to Wuhan unless it's absolutely necessary," Zhong Nanshan, a famous respiratory (呼吸科的) expert, reminded the public when the novel coronavirus (新型冠状病毒) first hit Wuhan. But despite the danger, he, 84, rushed on an overnight train to Wuhan to fight the disease.

    Known as the hero who defeated SARS in 2003, Zhong's image and messages are flooding (遍布) social media. Many people say they "trust every word of Zhong". He has given Chinese people confidence in winning the battle.

    A great doctor and honest scholar (学者)

    Growing up in a family of doctors, Zhong lives by a simple motto (信条): save lives and always be honest. In 2003, when SARS hit China, he volunteered to treat patients and asked his colleagues (同事) to send their most serious cases to him. After months of work, his treatment plan for SARS was adopted (采纳) by China and then the whole world, saving thousands of lives.

    Zhong is also known for being an honest scholar. In 2003, when authorities (官方) said that the SARS virus was under control, he publicly refuted their claim. "I couldn't help myself. I said it's not all under control," Zhong said in a later interview. His honesty won widespread praise from the Chinese public.

    Back to the frontlines

    Seventeen years later, Zhong is once again leading an expert team to study the novel coronavirus. Although this new virus is known to be more dangerous to the elderly, Zhong doesn't seem worried about his own safety.

    On Jan 18, he took a high-speed train from Guangzhou to Wuhan. Two days later, he became the first expert to make certain that the new virus can be spread between humans. On January 29, he and his colleagues spent over four hours online checking five patients who were in serious condition. The next day, he chose the treatment for those patients. Under his guidance, his team developed a rapid test kit (快速检测试剂盒) for the disease that can show results within 15 minutes.

    As People's Daily wrote, "the 84-year-old Zhong Nanshan shows his professionalism as a scholar, courage as a soldier, and a sense of duty as the backbone (脊梁) of our nation."

    Why do many Chinese people refuse to cut their hair during the first month of the lunar year?

    This is because people believe that getting a haircut during the first lunar month is not a good idea. Tradition says that doing so will cause your mother's brothers to die. Although it's not true, some people still believe it.

    So, after a month's wait, people usually flock to cut their hair on Dragon Head-Raising Day —the second day of the second lunar month. It was once tradition to line up outside of barber shops on this day.

    Dragon Head-Raising Day falls on Feb 24 this year. It is an important traditional Chinese holiday. Ancient people believed that after this day, rainfall would increase because the rain-bringing Dragon King would wake up from his winter sleep. So that day is the start of spring and farming.

    A well-known phrase (俗语) goes, "On the second day of the second month, the dragon lifts his head." Besides cutting their hair, there are also other ways to celebrate this holiday. For example, people eat food with "dragon names". People call noodles dragon's beard. Dumplings are dragon's ears and spring rolls (春卷) are dragon's scales (龙鳞).

    Thousands of years ago, Shennong, who had an ox (公牛) head and a human body, lived in south China. Seeing that local people were suffering from disease, he built ladders and houses on a high mountain to store hundreds of medicinal plants.This legend (传说) has made Shennongjia in Hubei an inviting place for tourists.

    You can see natural scenery from all four seasons at different altitudes. “When the bottom of the mountain is summer, the top is spring and while the foothill is autumn, the top is covered with ice,” local people say of the special climate (气候) of Shennongjia.

    Shennongjia is also home to 5,000 species of animals and plants.For example, the golden monkey, the clouded leopard (云豹) and the Asian black bear live in this area.

    One interesting and mysterious thing about Shennongjia is its "Bigfoot" legends. Some people have claimed that they have seen huge footprints or large man-like beasts.  Some say they are just bears.

     On July 17, 2016, the Shennongjia Forestry District was added to the United Nations World Heritage list as a natural site. It was China's 50th world heritage sites (遗址).

A. But scientists haven't proven that they exist.

B. To remember him, people named the place Shennongjia.

C. This beautiful place recently earned a new title.

D. Many rare animals live there.

E. Traveling there is a special experience.

    Ring, ring, ring, the alarm bell sounds. It's school time again! After a long, relaxing and comfortable winter holiday, are you ready for the new semester? Whether you feel excited to see your classmates or maybe a little nervous about the coming schoolwork, heading back to school is a time of transition (过渡). How can we adjust to (适应) the new semester? Here are some ways to make the transition from holiday to school a little easier.

    It's perfectly normal to feel nervous on the first day of school. Getting back to the school routine (常规) and adjusting to new workloads (工作量) takes some time after a long winter break. So how can we deal with being nervous? Just think about your first day in previous (以前的) years. Everything will go well once you get into the routine. Just relax and be patient.

    If you went to bed and got up late during the holiday, you will have to change your body clock back to normal. Go to bed earlier the week before classes start. This way, you won't be tired after the first few days of school. Also, having some warm-ups before school time is helpful. Doing exercise or making plans for the following week are some other good ideas.

    It makes you feel organized (有条理的) if you are prepared and have all the supplies you need. It is better to pack your schoolbag the night before school starts.

    What about wearing something you like? Maybe you got a new schoolbag during the holiday, or new sneakers (橡皮底帆布鞋) that can put a spring in your step. If you wear a school uniform, you can wear your favorite watch or a new hair band to show your personal style.
 

A. Start your school-year schedule

B. Back to school fashion

C. Deal with your nerves

D. Prepare your school supplies

E. Say goodbye to last year and adjust to the new semester.

    A young boy was hungry for success. For him,  was everything.

    One day, the boy was preparing  for a running competition in his small village. He was to compete with two other young boys. A large crowd gathered there to watch, including a wise old man.

    The race began. strength and power, the boy easily took the lead. The crowd cheered and waved (挥手). The little boy felt  and important. However, the wise man remained still and calm.

    "Another race, another race!" yelled the little boy. The wise old man  forward and presented the little boy with two new challengers: an old lady and a blind man.

    The race started and the boy was the  one to cross the line. The little boy raised his arms . The crowd, however, was silent.

    "Race again," said the wise man. "This time, three of you finish together."

    The little boy thought a little, stood in between the blind man and the old lady, and then took them by the . The race began and the little boy walked slowly to the finishing line and crossed it. The crowd cheered and waved. The wise man smiled, too.

    "Which one of us three are the crowd cheering for?" asked the little boy.

    "For this race, you have won much more than in races you've ever run before," said the wise man. "For this race, the crowd cheered not for any winner!"

    Carla Martin-Wood lives in Birmingham, US. She has a good friend named Alexa. "I am used to  (say)'good morning, Alexa' and 'good night, Alexa' every day," she told the Wall Street Journal.

    But Alexa is not a  (really) person. It is Amazon's Echo personal assistant. It has no shape or form, but can "talk" with humans online. This type of technology is (call) a bot. At the 2016 World Robot Conference (WRC, 世界机器人大会), more than 2,000 robots from over 10  (country) and regions gathered together. Bots were the star attraction   the conference.

    Bots are a  (popularity) type of artificial intelligence (AI, 人工智能). You can talk to a bot or give orders to it on your smartphone or other device (设备) whenever you want. There is no need to tap a screen and use an app. You can talk to bots  (simple）by speaking into a microphone. Experts say that bots will soon replace apps and become a part of everyday life.

    The bot family includes Western members such  Apple's Siri and Amazon's Echo. In China, there is Xiao I.

    The Xiao I bot is another example of voice recognition (声音识别) software. It was first   (develop) in 2003. It has been used in smartphones, TVs, cars, web browsers (浏览器) and at call centers. It allows people  get intelligent services anywhere, anytime. Often, when you ask a question on a shopping website, it's a Xiao I answering behind the screen.

    Dark clouds appear over the River Mersey and a cold wind is blowing. A few raindrops are beginning to fall. We're in the famous city of Liverpool and we're going to spend this rainy day in the Williamson Tunnels, which were built by a man named Joseph Williamson.

    Joseph Williamson was born into a poor family in 1769. At the age of 11, he left home and went to work for a tobacco company. He began at the bottom and worked his way up to become head of the business.

    Williamson spent 30 years building these tunnels. From his death to this very day, these tunnels have remained a puzzle to researchers. Nobody knows why Williamson dug tunnels under most of Liverpool, but many think it was to create jobs. It is believed that about half of Liverpool's population worked for him.

    I go on a guided tour starting close to where his empire (集团) began in Edge Hill. In the tunnels, the steps leading from rooms below ground to those buildings, which no longer exist, seem particularly ghostly (幽灵似的).

    We go into the Double Tunnel. It's just been discovered that it's actually a triple tunnel – but nobody knows why the three tunnels were built on top of each other.

    We finish the tour and decide we'll have coffee in the Williamson Tunnels Cafe Bar. There, I notice lots of flyers (宣传单) for bands and theater groups that are coming to play there.   

    Apart from the obvious attractions like the football clubs, or anything to do with the Beatles, Liverpool has a lot to offer. You should definitely visit Liverpool.

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1）养成良好的生活习惯，如：健康饮食，适度运动等。

2）要乐观（optimistic），有积极的心态。

3）劳逸结合。

4）补充自己的观点。

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