广西北部湾经济区2021年初中学业水平考试英语模拟卷一

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—________. Here you are.

—________. I'd like to choose the green one.

—For two weeks.

One night in November, Itzhak Perlman gave a concert in a theatre. If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, you know that becoming a1is not a small achievement for him. He had to walk with the help of two walking sticks as a result of the disease he caught as a child.

People sat quietly while he made his way to his chair and began his play. But this time, something went 2. Just as he finished the first few parts of the music, one of the strings on his violin 3. We thought that he would have to stop the concert. But he didn't4, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then asked the conductor to begin again. The orchestra began and he played with such strong feeling and purity as they had never heard before.

Of course, everyone knows that it is5for a violinist to play a pleasant work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that. 6 that night Itzhak Perlman didn't want to accept that. When he finished, there was a terrible 7 in the room. And then people rose and8 from every corner of the theatre.

Perlman was excited. He smiled and said, "You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to9how much music you can still make with what you have left. So, suppose our task in this fast-changing world is to make music, at first we should try our best with all that we have. And then, when it is no longer possible, try to play it with10 we have left.

Once, there was a small hotel's owner who always cared about money.

One day, a businessman arrived at her hotel. The owner looked at the man's thick wallet and thought, "Oh, I wish that all the money could be mine!" The businessman ordered the most expensive room and went to his room to dress for dinner.

Around the hotel, there were some ginger(姜) plants. Many people said that eating the buds(芽)of ginger would make a person forgetful.

The owner thought, "If some buds of ginger were served to the businessman, he may be forgetful to take his wallet!" Then she went into the kitchen.

Soon, the businessman came downstairs and asked for dinner. The owner was very excited as the dish was served to him. "Delicious!" said the man. When dinner was finished, he went to bed happily.

In the next morning, the owner saw the businessman leaving from the front door. As soon as he was out of sight, she ran up to his room. She looked all over the room for the wallet, but couldn't find it. Suddenly, she noticed a piece of paper on the floor. It was the businessman's bill. He didn't pay it! She ran down the stairs, out of the front door and across the - road until she was out of breath, but the businessman was already, far away. "I'm so silly!" cried the owner.

A primary school bus driver stopped the bus in a gas station in Ohio because he had to use the bathroom. Instead of turning off the engine(发动机)and taking the key with him, the driver left the bus running. And he forgot to set the brake(制动器) because he was in a hurry. "It was cold outside, and I didn't want the kids to get cold while I was using the bathroom, "he told a police officer.

The bus slowly started moving away from the gas station. As the bus picked up speed, the kids began shouting and crying. Ten-year-old Jake ran forward to the driver's seat and held the steering wheel(方向盘). He pressed hard on the brake pedal(踏板)and managed to stop the bus as it cane nearer to a river, Jake turned off the engine at last. After the police arrived at the scene, they praised Jake for his great effort.

"That is one cool kid, "said the police officer." I told him he would become a great police officer when he grew up."

Jake wasn't impressed with what he had done. "Stopping the bus, "he said," was easy compared to playing Grand Theft Auto l, his favorite action video game." The bus driver was taken to the police station. He was at first charged(指控)with" leaving a child alone while the motor is running". The lawyer said he hoped to upgrade the charge because of the number of children (twenty) on the bus. "Whatever he is charged with, "the police officer said, "I will see that he never drives a bus again."

Your brain controls everything you do. It makes it possible for you to think, learn, create and feel; to blink (眨眼) and breathe and for your heart to beat--this fantastic control center is your brain. It is so amazing that a famous scientist once called it" the most complex(复杂) thing we have yet discovered in our universe".

Can this small grey organ(器官), which weighs less than one and a half kilos, really do so much? Amazingly , your brain contains(包含) about 100 billion neurons(神经元)-it would take you, over3, 000 years to count them al. Believe it or not, the activity in your brain never stops. Your neurons create and send more messages than all the phones in the world. And although one neuron creates only a little electricity, all your neurons together can produce enough electricity to power a light bulb.

So exactly how fast does your brain work? Well, imagine this: a bee lands on your foot. Neurons in your skin send this information to your brain at a speed of more than 240 kilometers per hour. Your brain then uses other neurons to send the message back to your foot to shake the bee off quickly. These neurons can send this information at more than 320 kilometers per hour. No computers have your brain's unbelievable ability to deal with the amount of information coming from your eyes, ears and other sensory organs.

But how does your brain allow you to learn things that you will use in the future? The structure(结构) of your brain changes every time you have a new thought，remember or learn something. For example, riding a bike seems impossible at first, but soon you are able to do it. How? As you practice, 'your brain sends" bike riding" messages again and again soon, the actions are learnt and you are able to ride a bike easily from then on.

A: Hi, Mary. I have just received a new postcard from my American pen pal.

B: Really? Let me have a look. Wow! It's wonderful.

A: Yes, because I can learn different cultures from them.

B: Many people enjoy collecting them.

A: Do you collect anything?

B:

A: Can you tell me why you like it?

B: Because it makes me relaxed.

A: Do you think developing hobbies is important?

B: Yes.

A: You are right. I agree with you.

With the development of society, our language is changing. Have you ever that our Chinese words such as tofu, zongzi and erhu are in English? More and more Chinese are making a to the English language. Maybe the reason is that there are too Chinese people studying or speaking English.

A study says a lot of Chinese words are collected in the English dictionary every . The Oxford English Dictionary now has 1, 000 words of Chinese origin(根源), such as taikomen (an astronaut from China).

These years, The Wall Street Journal(《华尔街日报》) used the word dama (Chinese pinyin for "big mother") to describe those middle-aged Chinese .

Han Baochen is a famous language teacher at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He said, "Using Chinglish doesn't mean Chinese words are to take place of English words. That's only we can't find the right words in English to say the meaning in Chinese. "In fact, the mixing of the two languages makes it easier to learn a language. A 24-year-old Canadian Lisa said, "My mom can't speak any Chinese, but she tries to remember nihao (hello) by knee and hao. In this way, she can say some Chinese words.

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⑵养成健康的生活习惯；

⑶与人相处融洽。

写作要求：⑴要点齐全，可适当发挥，使行文连贯；

⑵语篇完整，语句通顺，语法正确，书写规范；

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