广东省英德市2020年初中英语毕业生学业考试模拟试卷（一）

When you were young, whoflew kites with you in the park? Who taught you how1 football?Who helped you work out2 first difficult math problem? Who told you thedifference between right and wrong? Your dad. Now it's your turn to do somethingfor him. This Sunday, June 18, is Father's Day. So why not do something to thankyour dad?

This idea of Father's Day3 froman American lady called Sonora Dodd4 1909.She wanted a special day to honor her father. He raised six children by himselfafter his wife5 duringthe birth of their sixth child. Sonora thought there needed to be a day to honourgreat and loving dads. Her father6 bornon June 19. So she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration on his birthdayin 1910. In 1924, the US president Calvin Coolidge liked the idea of a nationalFather's Day. Finally, in 1966, the third Sunday in June7 Father's Day.

There are many ways toshow your love and thanks to your father, such as sending him a greeting card. Usuallyfathers prefer cards8 arenot too emotional. So maybe you can choose one that will make him laugh happily.A small present, such as a photo of your family, can make him feel9 . Send him flowers—the red rose is the official Father's Day flower. If he has10 iPad, cover it with words like "I love you,Dad!"

An ant is walking by theriver. He looks at the river and says to himself. "1 niceand cool the water looks! I must drink some of it." But when he is drinking,he2 intothe river.

"Oh. Help! Help!"the ant cries.

A dove (鸽子) is siting3 thetree. She hears him and offers him a leaf. "4 up that leaf," she says, "and you willget to the bank."

The ant climbs up ontothe leaf, and the wind blows the leaf to the bank.

"Thank you, Dove.You're so5. Youhave saved my life, and I wish I could do6 foryou. Goodbye!" the ant says and runs home.

"Goodbye!" saysthe dove, "Be7 notto fall into the river again."

After a few days, the doveis building her nest. And a man is raising his gun to kill8 .

The ant sees this, andruns9 to bitethe man's leg. "Ouch! Ouch!" The man10 a terrible pain and drops his gun. The dove fliesaway quickly. So the man picks up his gun and leaves.

The dove comes to the antand says, "Thank you, my little friend. You have saved my life." The littleant is so glad, because he can help the dove.

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We can't remember clearly when we started to take our mobiles to a dinner table. This happens a lot, especially when we eat out. Once a dish comes, instead of lifting our chopsticks, we take out our mobile phones and take photos of it. Later, we post (发布) the photos onto Weibo or WeChat, waiting to be "liked". Then we check our mobiles from time to time during the meal, to see whether we get "liked" or not. We just can't leave our mobiles for only a meal.

Does that sound familiar to you? Do you do that often? If not, how do you feel when others do that when having dinner with you?

A recent study suggests that what we are used to doing is not so good. Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant. To test this, some researchers did an experiment. Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy the food. As a result, it showed that the more photos they took, the less delicious the food seemed to them. So why not stop taking photos and just enjoy the food in front of you?

Besides the scientific result, there are also some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals. After posting the photos onto the Internet, one will not be able to control himself and check his mobile phone many times. "Does everyone like my photos? I hope a lot of people like them!" It seems that your phone secretly calls your name all the time, even when you are with real people.

So next time when you go out to have dinner with your family or friends, how about not taking photos of food? Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you. Trust me, it will be a wonderful time.

Last Saturday, I went out to see a film after supper. On my to the cinema, I met an Englishman. He looked puzzled (茫然的). So I walked up to him and said to him. His first was Kevin. I asked if I cold help him. He told me he got . He couldn't find his way to the hotel. So I gave up the film and took him to his hotel. While going there, I told him the great changes that had taken place my hometown in the past few years. Kevin told me interesting about his country.

Though I didn't see film, I felt very happy. I had not only helped Kevin get out of trouble, also practiced my spoken English. I also realized that if I had not worked at English, I would not have been able to help Kevin.

1）你在新冠疫情(the coronavirus pandemic)期间是怎样学习的？你对网上教学的感受。

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Dear Joey,

Feb. 17 was the start of school, but the coronavirus pandemic made it impossible for us to return to school.

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Best wishes,

Li Ming