广东省佛山市顺德区2020年九年级英语一模调研试卷

    How many times have you complained, "There aren't enough hours in the day?" Holly White1 graduated from University of Cambridge probably disagrees.

    Since she began school four years ago, White2 her school daily life on the video-sharing website YouTube. In her videos, she gets up at 6:30 am and goes to bed at 10:30 pm every day. In between, studying, cooking, house cleaning and exercising 3 well.

    A similar case happened to college students in China. Months ago, Tsinghua University showed pictures of students' plans, study notes and timetable. In one of them,4 undergraduate arranges (安排) his daily life fully. He usually goes to bed at 1:00 am and gets up at 6:00 am.5 he only takes 10 classes a week, he books the rest of his day tightly.  When he feels it hard6 his timetable, he writes encouragements to himself, like, "You're the best", and "Go for it".

    Both students succeeded 7 completing their study because of hard work. White was at the top of her 152 other classmates; and the Chinese undergraduate won a first-class scholarship. The two have 8 in common. They both have regular schedules and learn a way of managing time well. Some wonder how they 9 avoid tiredness and stress.    White's video probably provides an answer. She advises to write our tasks on a to-do list. We should also know how to avoid and release (释 放) stress because, "Mental health is as 10 as our physical health." To White, dancing is something she takes as a reward after finishing everything on the list. Then enough sleep can rest her body and get ready to do a good job the next day.

    There is always something unexpected in our life. I find it humorous sometimes that even the most ordinary thing can have an 1 on us.

    My wife, daughter, and I moved into our home nine years ago and we 2 a lot of   time and energy working in the yard to get it look like what it does today. We called this area our "rock garden" because there were so many rocks. We did the best we could to make the yard 3 . Then, we started to grow plants and flowers and 4 them carefully.

    Last summer I walked to the end of the rock garden and found a tiny little plant that I could not immediately tell what it was. I knew I didn't plant it and Denise said that she didn't 5 . We decided to let it continue growing until we could 6 what it was.

    Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the mystery (神秘的) plant, I found it grow taller. It appeared to be a Sunflower. As I pulled rocks from the area, I noticed something 7 . The Sunflower didn't start where I saw the stalk (茎) begin. It actually began under a big rock and grew under and around it to 8 the sun.

    Suddenly I realized something. " 9 a tiny little Sunflower has the ability of overcoming a big rock standing in its way of developing, we also have the ability of doing the same thing." Like the Sunflower, it knew it had the ability to overcome difficulties.

    Stand tall like the Sunflower and take 10 in who and what you are and the environment will begin to support you. You will find a way to go under or around big difficulties in order to achieve your goal.

    Have you ever had dreams about building a robot? Or putting together a spaceship? Or even seeing your face made out of chocolate? All you need is a 3-D printer!

    The possibilities of 3-D printing seem endless. All the user has to do is to design an object on the computer and choose a material to print in. The printers print in hundreds of different materials including glass, sugar and even skin! When the user presses "print", the 3-D printer spreads the material layer (层) by layer and like magic the object is produced.

    The first 3-D printer was invented in 1986 by an American, Charles Hull. But 3-D printing has only become cheap enough recently for most people to use.

    Designers now use 3-D printing to create unusual things. The Dutch artist Dirk Vander Kooj prints furniture made from old fridges. And doctors have used 3-D printing to print human body parts! The Telegraph reported in February that scientists from Cornell Medical College even printed a man-made ear.

    But like a lot of new technologies, if 3-D printing gets into the wrong hands, it can be dangerous. In 2011 a group of four men in the US used 3-D printing to produce ATM skimmers (提款机盗刷器). These were placed on an ATM and stole over $ 400,000 from users of the ATM. It is terrible to think that criminals like them might one day use a 3-D printer to print a gun.

    But for better or for worse, 3-D printing has been put into use. In a few years, you'll probably be wondering how you could ever live without your 3-D printer!

    Years ago in Scotland, the Clark family had a dream. They made plans for their nine children and themselves to travel to the United States. Clark and his wife worked hard and finally, they became wealthy to afford the trip.

     whole family was looking forward to the trip. For the first time in their life, they could have the chance to breathe the fresh air in that dream country. All of them werewith excitement about life in America. They were busy preparing for their trip happily., seven days before their trip, the youngest son was bitten by a dog. The doctor treated the boy and told them they had to be quarantined (隔离)  fourteen days.

    They would not be able to make the trip to America as they planned. The father was disappointed and cursed (诅咒) both his and God for their bad luck.

    Five days , the sad news spread throughout, " Scotland—the mighty Titanic (泰坦 尼 克) sank." The unsinkable ship sank! The ship took away hundreds of with it.

    They would be on that ship if the son were not bitten by a dog!

    When Mr. Clarkhe news, he hugged his son and thanked him for saving the family. He thanked God for saving lives.

Although we may not always understand, all things happen for a reason.

    In late January, the Ministry of Education announced the postponement of the 2020 spring semester for schools nationwide. Early this February, many schools started the new term by using online platforms to take classes during the novel coronavirus outbreak. Will online education replace traditional schools? Student readers share their opinions.

    Simon: Online education is good for those in a short course and at an older age. For children, traditional school is still the best. Education is not all about what's in our head but also how we deal with people around us.

    Kaka: Online education is the best solution under the present situation. Seventeen years ago, when SARS was hitting China, I was a graduating senior. I still remember clearly that we had to wear masks to attend classes every day, which was very uncomfortable. Kids today are very lucky.

    Mumuzi: I think at least for now, schooling provides more for students than studying by Internet. In the long-run of their development, besides knowledge, students need to take part in different class activities to gather first-hand experience, which makes it possible for them to solve practical problems when leaving school.

    Olivia: There are both advantages and disadvantages, but during the outbreak period, schools just want to catch up with progress and provide more resources. For example, for students who will take the "gaokao" and "zhongkao", it's a difficult period. Most of them felt worried when they knew they could not go back to school as before. Schools are trying to provide high quality online courses although there are still a lot of problems to be solved.

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Dear Minister，

    I hope this email finds you in good health.

    I am looking forward to your reply.

Best regards, Li Hua