广西梧州市藤县2020年中考英语一模试卷

—________, but we have some milk. Would you like some?

—Great! I'm looking forward to it.

— Li Jing does.

—I'm looking for the ring ______my husband bought me last year.

—July, the________ month, because summer vacation begins in this month.

—Yes, but I haven't planned ________.

—I'm sorry. ________, I'm in a hurry.

Mary is going to a private school that costs $15,000 each year. Mary does not have to pay anything1 she has a scholarship (奖学金). Her parents are very poor. Her parents work as workers. Mary has to do well in her lessons every term to keep her scholarship. She pretends (假装) that she is2 so she can have friends. Everyone at the school has nice clothes. It can be hard for Mary to take up with them.

Mary's friend Patricia was having a3 for her 16^th birthday. It was going to be in the ballroom of a hotel. There was going to be hundreds of guests. Mary had to4 a beautiful dress, but she knew she could not5 it. "Mary, what are you going to wear?" Patricia asked. "I think I'll wear the dress I wore at your birthday party last year." she said. Patricia started laughing out loud." You're6, right?" Patricia said. It took Mary over two years to pay off the dress she bought last year. Now she had to get a7 one.

Everyone would be wearing dresses that8 at least $100. Mary could only spend $30 on a dress. She went to a9 selling old things. She looked around for hours trying to find something good. Mary finally came across a long, red dress. It sold for $300 before, but now10$20! What a good idea! Mary wore the dress at Patricia's party and everyone complimented her.

When Jim was young, he liked watches very much. When he was 18 years old, he joined the army, and after a year, he began to teach himself to mend watches. A lot of his friends brought him their watches with problems and asked for mending. Jim was always glad to help.

Jim's captain (上校) heard about this, and one day he brought Jim a watch and said, "My watch doesn't work, can you mend it for me?" "Yes, sir. I can." Jim answered. A few days later, he brought the watch back to the captain. "How much shall I pay?" the captain asked. "Nothing, sir." Jim said. He took out a small box and gave it to the captain and said, "In the box are three wheels from your watch, I couldn't find any places for them when I put everything back."

These years people show all kinds of things on the Internet—good food, nice clothes, wonderful vacations and so on. Now showing the number of steps is becoming popular too. Why?

People are finding it important to be in good health. To keep healthy, many people go to work on foot. When they start walking, they open the step counter app in their phones to record how many steps they walk that day. After a day's walk, some people show the number on WeChat or Weibo. This can make them learn from each other and keep exercising.

"This helps me to exercise much and keep a good habit." Miss Liu said, "I can also talk about how to keep healthy with my friends on WeChat. We are in the same group to encourage each other to keep exercising."

Mr. Wu likes to exercise. But in the past he was kind of lazy and didn't want to exercise every day. "After I use the step counter app, everything is different. It's great to exercise with my friends. Sometimes there are prizes for those who walk more steps. I really like it." he said.

Walking is a relaxing and useful way to exercise. Both the old and the young like it. Recording the steps helps people develop a good habit of walking and showing the number can make people more interested in walking. But don't take the number too seriously.

There were two men who lived next to each other. One of them was a retired teacher and the other was a businessman. Both of them had planted many plants in their gardens. The retired teacher seldom watered his plants and didn't pay a lot of attention to them. But his neighbor was very careful with his plants and watered them often.

The retired teacher's plants were small, but still looked okay, while the businessman's plants were much bigger and greener. One night, there came a storm with a heavy rain and strong wind. The next morning, both of the neighbors came out to check in their gardens. The businessman saw that his plants had been ripped (撕裂) and were totally destroyed. But the retired teacher's plants nicely stood where they were.

The businessman was surprised. He went to consult (咨询) the retired teacher. "We both grew the same plants and I cared for my plants better than you did. How could your plants still be okay?"

The retired teacher smiled and said, "Because you gave your plants too much attention. You made it too easy for them to grow. I gave my plants just a little bit of water, so they had to grow deeper to absorb (吸收) more water. That is why my plants survived."

You should eat well and get lots of exercise if you want to be a healthy kid.  As for running around with your friends. If you're a kid who wants to be healthy, here are some rules for you.

If you eat different kinds of foods, you can get the nutrients (营养) your body needs. Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

Drink milk often. But kids need calcium (钙) to grow, and there is enough calcium in the milk. If you are younger than 9 years old, drink 2 cups of milk a day. Children who are over nine years old should drink 3 cups of milk a day.

Limit screen time. The more time you spend on the sitting—down activities, the less time available for activities, like basketball, bike riding, swimming and so on.  

Be active.  Not everyone loves baseball or soccer. Ask your parents to help you do your favorite activities regularly. Find ways to be active every day.

What do you do with your old shoes? Do you throw them away? Most shoes may end up in a landfill (废弃物填埋场). In fact, shoes are very hard to recycle. Now German shoemaker Adidas has already new shoes that you can break down at home. The new shoes use man—made spider silk  Biosteel (生物钢). To destroy the shoes, put them in water and add a special kind of enzyme (酶). The shoes will decompose (分解) with in 36.

Some customers said that they were a littleabout the quality of the shoes. A girl said, "I wonder weather the shoes will decompose or not when they are in water. What if we wear on rainy days?"

"This process is 100% natural." an Adidas spokesperson said. "The shoes will not break down when they  only in water. They won't decompose the special kind of enzyme. The shoes have good quality. Don't worry about their quality."

The company will put the new shoes on the market by next year. Some young people are  forward to the new shoes. They wait to buy and put them on.

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