广东省深圳市2021年中考英语模拟卷（5）

    You and your family are planning a picnic for tomorrow. But you want to1the weather forecast (预报)first to see whether there will be rain or not. Your father turns on the television and the family listens to the2make the weather report.

    "It will be partly cloudy tomorrow morning,3clearing by early afternoon. The high tomorrow will be 85."

    As there will be no rain, the whole family feels4. Without the weather forecast, you would not know this, and you would just have to take your chances. But now you can plan your picnic5worrying whether it will rain or not.

    The man you can thank for this is Cleveland Abbe. He is known as the father of the weather bureau.

    He was the first person to publish6weather forecasts in the United States.

    Abbe began his daily weather bulletins (简报)in 1869. They were based on weather7he drew from telegraphed reports of weather conditions. Because of their accuracy (精确), the reports were8.

    Congress (国会)became9in Abbe's weather reports. They made Abbe a meteorologist (someone who studies weather conditions), and he10issuing (发布)forecasts three times a day. He was the first official forecaster of the U.S. Weather Service. Because he often forecast probable storms, Abbe earned the nickname of "Old Probabilities".

    Everybody's house smells in some way.

    You almost never even notice the way your own place smells. You notice the way everyone else's place smells as soon as you walk in. There are their cats, and the soap, and the new furniture they just got. And those all add up to the way their house smells.

    But you can only smell your own house after you've been away for a while—like, a long while. Not just a workday, but like a week.

    It has to do with sensory adaptation (感觉适应). That's the scientific way to say that you just get used to it. And it's more pronounced for our sense of smell than for any other sense, like our hearing, for example.

    Researcher Pamela Dalton at the Monell Chemical Senses Center has done a lot of work on sensory adaptation. She and her team say that adaptation means you respond (做出反应) less when a stimulus (刺激物) is repeated. So when you're at home, the smell of your house is all around you. It never goes away. It's not just repeated—you're swimming in it. So you become adapted to the way it smells.

    The thing with smell, though, is that you adapt to smells really quickly. After "even a few breaths" of a smell, Dalton says, you begin to acclimate to it.

    You start to experience that smell as being less strong and finally take no note of it at all. That's why you can smell your friend's house when you walk in, but you don't really notice it all the time you're there.

    Being able to detect (探测) smells is important. It might warn you of danger, like an approaching (接近的) tiger or something gone bad in your drinks. Or it might mean something pleasant, like that fresh bread or the blooming flowers.

    Your nose can stay on the lookout for new smells that are dangerous or delicious.

    It might be a simple housekeeping thing, like a dishwasher in the kitchen or towels in the bathroom that needs to be cleaned.

    Then, if you still want to change the way your house smells, many things might do the trick, like a million candles, fresh fruits, or a bottle of perfume.

    The world is not only hungry, but it is also thirsty for water. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 70% of the earth's surface is covered with water. But about 97% of that is sea water, or salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3%—the fresh water from rivers, lakes, underground, and other sources. And we can not even use all of that. Even worse, some of it has been made dirty.

    However, as things stand today, this fresh water is still enough for us. But our need for water is becoming larger and larger quickly—almost day by day. We should take steps to do with this problem now and in this way we can get away from a serious world wide water shortage(缺少) later on.

    We all have to learn how to stop wasting our valuable water. One of the first steps is to develop ways of reusing it. Today in most large cities, water is used only once and then sent out into a sewer system(下水道). From there it returns to sea or runs into underground places.

    But even if every large city reused its water, we still would not have enough. All we'd have to do to make use of sea water in the world is to remove the salt. If we take these steps we'll be in no danger of drying up.

    Henry worked on a ship, doing tricks (魔术). Each week he showed the same tricks over   and over again, because the passengers on the ship were different. There was also a parrot （鹦鹉） on the ship. It saw the shows so many times that it understood everything. Then it started shouting during the show:

    "Hey, he has put the flowers under the table!" "All the cards are the same."

    "Look carefully. It's a different hat!"

    Henry was very angry but could do nothing.

    One day the ship had an accident and broke into pieces. Henry fell into the water. When he climbed up onto a piece of wood, he found the parrot there. He looked at the parrot angrily and did not say a word. This went on for one day, then another and another. In the end, the parrot said, "Oh, how I wish I hadn't said anything during the shows. Please tell me where you've put the ship and I won't open my mouth again!"

    Once a king got two nice falcons(猎鹰)from his son. He had never seen such beautiful falcons before. He loved them so much. .

    After several months, the king came to see how the training was going on., while the other was staying on the branch of a tree quietly, just keeping still.

    The king called all his falconers together and ordered them to try every way they could to make the other falcon fly..

    One day, while the king was taking a walk in the forest, an idea came to his mind. Maybe someone who knew the natural environment well could solve this problem. He sent for a farmer who lived in the forest into his palace to train it at once.

    The next morning, the king saw the other falcon flying above in the sky freely."!" shouted the king. "How could you make it happen?"

    The farmer replied, "It's very easy. I just cut off the branch where the falcon rested."

    .We all have "two flying wings" in our hearts as well, but we often seem not to notice them and stay where we feel for safety and comfort. We won't realize we can fly so high and freely until the "branch" we are resting on breaks.

A. He found that one falcon had already been able to fly high in the sky

B. It is unbelievable

C. He ordered the best falconer (猎鹰者) to train them to fly

D. It is always the same to human beings

E. But none of them succeeded

F. One will succeed if he tries his best

    Nowadays we can see more and more electric bikes in the street. Electric bikes 61. (be) easy to ride. They run fast and make no (pollute). They become very popular, the electric bikes also cause more traffic accidents. So China plans (make) a new rule for the electric bike riders. If an electric bike is (heavy) than 40 kilos and can go faster than 20 kilometers an hour, its rider must get a license. It means some riders have to pass driving tests before they ride (them) electric bikes on the road.

    People have different ideas after (hear) the plan. Some welcome the plan. A bus driver said happily, " a good plan! I think it will make the street much safer." Some are not happy with the new rules at all. One rider said (sad), "I don't want to get a license. It's not convenient me to get one." Some don't care about it. A young rider said calmly, "I prefer to use shared bikes which are popular in many big cities of China now. I hope they can come to Loudi earlier!"

1）我希望有一天醒来,街道上车水马龙,我也不用戴口罩；

2）好想去公园散步,看满园春色；

3）期待可以跟好朋友聚餐；

4）盼望可以再次漫步校园内,与同学一起学习…… 请根据以上提示,写一篇英语作文。

参考词汇：新冠病毒 novel coronavirus 疫情 epidemic situation 口罩 face masks

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