广东省深圳市2021年中考英语模拟冲刺试题（三）

One afternoon last year, I walked with one of my friends along the road in my hometown. He was not a clever student but worked harder than any other student when we studied at school. And now, he is an 1 worker in his company. I wanted to ask him for help because I had some 2 with my work.

When we came to a wide bridge, we met a blind man who went to the 3 direction as ours. He walked very 4, finding the way with the stick in his hand.

I chatted with my 5 as we were walking. I 6 my five job-hopping (跳槽) experiences within two years and complained the trouble I was still going through. My friend 7 nodded and smiled, but he kept silent all along.

After a while, I looked forward and found that the blind man walked farther than we did. I couldn't 8 it. I asked, "How did the blind man walk 9 than we did?" My friend said, "Because he put his whole 10 into walking. He was trying his best to walk while we were walking."

That was for sure. He was just absorbed (专注的) in walking, but I was always talking and complaining while walking. When we do something, we must do it with all our heart.

Scientists around the world are racing to create and test vaccines（疫苗）to help protect people against the COVID-19. They are making progress, and some vaccines have been ready.

There are many different ways to make vaccines. At least 115 different vaccines for the COVID-19 are being developed around the world right now. Many of them may not work or may have side effects that can be dangerous. That is why testing is very important.

Before a vaccine is ever tested on humans, it's first tested on animals to make sure it seems safe. Testing the vaccine on humans is done in several different periods. In Period 1, a small group of people are given small amounts of the vaccine to see if it has any bad effects.

Period 2 still tests the vaccine's safety, but it's mainly a test to see if the vaccine seems to work. If Period 2 goes well, the vaccine can begin Period 3. During Period 3, the vaccine is tried on a much larger group of people to see how well it works.

Because of the serious and worldwide influence of the COVID-19, there is huge pressure to develop a working vaccine quickly. It usually takes seven or more years to develop a safe vaccine that works well. However, Chinese scientists spent only about half a year to create working vaccines. And many people have got the vaccine so far.

With the development of economics(经济), the problem of left-behind children has become a serious social problem. More and more people have realized we should do something to help them.

One of the biggest problems is that the children are all hungry for the love from their parents. Many of them can just get a call or a letter from their parents half a year, a year or even several years, which makes some children lost their parents' faces. When they meet their own troubles, they have no one to talk with. Nobody gives them enough care.

Because of being too far away from their parents, the left-behind children's study is the second biggest problem. From a survey about their study, only two percent of the children get good results, while ten percent of them are common and eighty-eight percent of them are poor.

What a pity!There are also many other problems of the left-behind children, such as having no ability to protect themselves, unhealthy lifestyles, spending too much pocket money and being crazy about Internet and so on.

In a word, to solve all the problems of the left-behind children needs the government, families and schools to try their best together.

"Today I will give you a special test," said the English teacher with a smile on his face.

All the students sat up straight and waited for the test to begin. The teacher began to give the test papers to all the students. After he finished handing out the test papers, he asked them to begin.

The students were very surprised to see that there was not a question but a black dot（圆点）in the center of the paper. The teacher noticed the students' surprise and said, "I want you to write about what you see there." At the end of the class, the teacher took all the students' answer sheets and read the answers. All of them described the black dot. After reading all the answers, the teacher said, "Here everyone only paid attention to the black dot, but no one wrote about the white paper." The whole class listened silently, because they were afraid to fail in the exam. Then the teacher said, "Don't worry about your marks for this test. I just want you to think about our life. The white paper is like our whole life and the black dot in the center of the paper represents（代表）problems in our daily life".

Our life is a gift given to us by God with love and care. However, we just pay attention to the problems like illness and poverty, and never see happy things in our life. So we should try to solve our problems and enjoy each moment life gives us.

Can you imagine life without French fries (炸薯条)? Potatoes are very popular today. Potatoes grew in South America five thousand years ago. They only became popular in other places two hundred years ago.

In the 16th century, the Spanish took the potato from South America to Europe. Some people thought that if you ate the potato your skin (皮肤) would look like the skin of a potato. Other people could not believe that you ate the underground part of the plant. So they ate the leaves instead.

In the 1800s people started to eat potatoes. In Ireland potatoes became the main food. Then, in 1845, a disease killed all the potatoes in Ireland. At least another million were forced to leave their homeland.

 Germans eat potato salad, and the United States has the baked (烤) potato. And, of course, the French invented French fries. Now French fries are popular all over the world. The English and the French eat them with salt, and the Americans with tomato sauce.

Tom is studying history in a university. He wants to study about ancient cities of China.

Wei knows some ancient walls in northern China very well. Now, he wants to know the differences between the southern walls and the northern walls.

Lucy is from the USA. She is interested in ancient palaces in China.

Lin Tao is interested in travelling. He wants to enjoy a place where he can climb mountains as well as play with water.

Kate is living in the mountain area in Sichuan. She hopes to have fun in the sea this summer vacation.

Last summer I got the chance to spend a month helping out in a hospital in Africa. I had one year left at school, and I was (interest) in studying medicine at university.

It was a month that changed my life. I (introduce) to a world that is very different to mine in so many ways. I was shocked at how poor so many (family) over there are and how difficult their lives can be. But I was also surprised at how positively people spend (they) daily lives.

The way they come together and help each other is a real inspiration, and something I think a lot of us here in the UK have forgotten. I think many of us don't realize lucky we are. My work in the hospital was hard. Not only did I spend a lot of time cleaning floors, but because I got to spend some time (look) after the patients. And I got the chance (talk) to some doctors and ask them about the job. I saw some (true) awful things in the hospital,  but none of them changed my mind about being a doctor. fact, they only made me more determined to do medicine!

When I finish, I know what I'm going to do: I want to work for international organization like the Red Cross. I can't wait to get started.

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①你经常做家务吗?你一般做什么家务?②

②你认为中学生应该做家务吗? 为什么(至少两点)？

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