广东省深圳市2021年中考英语模拟卷（8）

    Eleven-year-old Cherry Holmes is walking along the beach with her big sister and a friend. Wearing gloves to 1 their hands from any sharp objects, they are 2 a large rubbish bag with everything from fishing line and dirty plastic bottles to old shopping bags.

    The girls are taking part in International Beach Cleanup Day. It's an annual event that helps people see the 3 of keeping the world's oceans clean and sea-life safe. 4, a lot of rubbish never goes into a rubbish bin. Instead, it blows on the wind, and travels down rivers to the sea.

    Rubbish isn't just ugly — it can be 5 for animals that live in the water. Sometimes animals get caught up in rubbish and die. Sometimes they eat rubbish that poisons them. Sea turtles, for example, often mistake plastic bags for the jellyfish they love to eat.

     "When they first ask us to take part, I felt terrible! We had to 6 rubbish!" says Cherry. "But when I got there I found it was really 7! I liked meeting all the other people and improving the 8."

    This one-day event sends out an important message: "We are all connected to the ocean. We can help keep the ocean clean by 9 rubbish in the right place. Take the extra time to place rubbish in the bin instead of throwing it on the ground, and 10 everything we can to reduce pollution," say the event organizers.

Plastic snow falls from the sky.

    When you think of the Arctic (北冰洋), you may imagine an icy land of white snow. And some people may imagine it as the last really clean place left on Earth. In fact, we have polluted the deepest oceans with plastic rubbish, and now, CNN says, "It's the Arctic's turn."

    German scientists have recently found microplastics in Arctic snow. Microplastics are pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters. Sadly, the scientists found 1,800 pieces of microplastics per liter (升) of snow. That may cause terrible air pollution.

    How is plastic pollution reaching the Arctic? According to scientists, "It's clear that most of the microplastics in the snow come from the air. They fall off plastic objects and are moved by the wind. They mix with ice in the air and fall to the ground as snow."

    Are they bad for us? We do know that our bodies cannot take in "large" pieces of microplastics. However, if the plastics are small enough, they can find ways into our bodies and stay there for a long time, which can be bad for our health.

    Microplastics have also been found in rivers and oceans around the world. Research has found that they flow over long distances and into our oceans, damaging ecosystems (生态环境) along the way. When we wash clothes with plastic fibers (纤维), they start in our wastewater. The wastewater then flows into rivers and out to sea. They are eaten by sea animals there. If people then eat these animals, it means that we're eating the plastic as well.

    Are robots going to take over the world? This was one of the biggest fears people had about the development of technology. But since then, those fears have been largely replaced by COVID-19. Now, more and more people are beginning to regard robots as a useful solution for social distancing problems.

    Robots have been used for years, even though you might not connect these tasks with robots. ATMs in banks are common examples of everyday robots. There are many companies using robots even before the pandemic (疫情). Robots have also been used for tasks considered dangerous.

    Among COVID-19 conditions, new robots are being tested in many fields. At McDonald's and other fast-food restaurants, robots are being tried as waiters and even cooks. Restaurants are using robots to send their food safely to homes of old people because they're at high risk from COVID-19. Disinfection (消毒) robots have been developed to fight against COVID-19 in Qingdao, Shandong Province. They can replace human beings in carrying on the responsibility of disinfection. These newly developed disinfection robots have been put into operations in the quarantine wards (隔离病房) of some hospitals.

    The arguments against robots include the loss of human jobs and the idea that machines could control our lives. But now that COVID-19 has changed the world, more people will likely be accepting robots. The situation now is showing us how technology can be used to improve the world.

    Thanks to the ancient Silk Road, the lands of Italy and China have been connected for more than 2,000 years. Tourists from China and every corner of the world come to visit Italy every year. Here are four famous cities of Italy.

    Walk into a store in East Asia, and you may see a cute little cat sitting there greeting you. It is not a real cat. It's made of ceramic, wood, plastic, etc. It's also known as a " welcoming cat", " lucky cat" or "money cat". Whatever its shape, size, or color, it is believed to bring good luck to the owner.

    It is said that the tradition of making maneki-neko started from Japan over 1, 000 years ago and spread to nearby countries.  Here is the most popular one. A rich man was sitting under a tree on a rainy day. He saw a cat in a temple greeting him. He felt it was funny and went to see the cat up close. As soon as he left the tree，it got struck by lightning(被闪电击中) .The cat saved his life.  The cat then became connected with wealth.

    Maneki-neko comes in different colors. The most popular maneki-neko is white with dark spots because this is thought to be the luckiest. The color white is a symbol of happiness and purity (纯洁) while black scares away evil spirits(邪灵).  For example，if you're looking for good luck in your love life, you should get a pink maneki-neko.

     Many people believe that it s necessary to have one for their business and their personal lives.

    For 72 years, Lisa Gumpel kept a secret. "For a long time, I decided not to tell anyone about it," said Gumpel, 85 years old, who finally settled (定居) in Minnesota  the war and now lives in the Twin Cities.

    She told people that she and her two sisters were among the 669 Jewish children   (save) by a kind man to run away from the Nazi concentration Camp  1939. Their rescuer(营救者)was a British businessman named Nicholas Winton, who also kept the story to   (he) until his wife found a list of the  (children) names.

    Gumpel was very surprised in 1988 when the truth about Winton's one-man rescue operation finally came out. "  (someone) knew that he actually did all by himself," she said. "He  (work) so hard to save lives."

    Winton still doesn't think he's a hero, saying that his life was never  danger and that he was doing what he feels every person should do.

    A party was held for him and the people he had saved. Gumpel was  (excite) when she finally met him. "He still treats us all like we're his kids," she said with a  (warm) smile on the face.

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