山西省2021年中考英语真题试卷

— Maybe working in groups is a good ________.

— I agree with you.

— Why not buy a second-hand one on the Internet?

— Doing sports can help you sleep ________.

— As Chinese, we ________ our country.

— They never gave up and fought the last minute in the game.

（The friends are talking about a speech competition.）

A. Good luck!

B. I don't think so.

C. What's it about?

D. That sounds great.

E. What are you doing now?

F. When is the competition?

G. I'm not sure what I will talk about.

High school life is coming to an end. Every student got a gift, but few gifts can be nicer than that Linda got from her dad.

What's 1 about it? It's a long story. Ever since kindergarten (学前班), Linda's father had invited each of his daughter's teachers to write some words about her in a notebook. Her teachers 2 their beautiful days with Linda from kindergarten to high school. And Linda's father kept the notebook 3 she graduated from high school. The final gift was so surprising and moving that it made her cry a lot.

Linda's father has kept this notebook as a 4 these years and the notebook has become yellow. "It's clearly believed that everyone else in my life knew about it," Linda said. "The words from every teacher 5 me. They help me remember my years. Thanks to it, I can look back at the past school years. I can also enjoy the happy memories in the 6 of my life. My teachers mentioned my smile. But what they wrote about me most is my deep love for life. I 7 imagine the gift is so special. I would keep it for myself forever. It will be the most valuable thing in my life."

Maybe we should think about using this gift from Linda's father as inspiration for gift-giving. The most important thing is something meaningful 8 it. Sometimes, the best gift is not the most expensive one.

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When looking at a pair of old chopsticks, most people would see nothing but waste. But Felix Bock would see boxes, tables, shelves and so on.

In 2016, Felix Bock, a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia, Canada, found out people threw away about 100,000 pairs of chopsticks every day in Vancouver alone. He felt the need to do something. So he started the company ChopValue in the same year. The company collected used chopsticks from restaurants, schools and shopping centers in Canada and the US and turned them into furniture and other artworks. Now in its fifth year, with the rapid growth of the company, Bock employs 40 people, and using his special methods of steam and press machines, he has recycled 32 million pairs of chopsticks.

Bock takes pride in his work. And he hopes the idea behind ChopValue will help people rethink what they see as waste. "I believe every small action can help," he said. "And I am happy that my business provides a new way for people." Hundreds of restaurants across North America pay a small sum of money to Bock for the recycling of their used chopsticks. Bock doesn't stop there. Now he is busy taking his business to more countries and has set up factories for recycling local wood like chopsticks in 10 countries.

Recently, teenagers face many kinds of problems. Like many of them, I was once troubled with worries and dissatisfaction. Few people could understand my feelings.

"The problem with your generation is that you always expect to be happy," my mother once said.  Shouldn't we try hard to achieve it?

But now I have noticed a change in my thinking. I gradually realize what my mother said was correct. Over these years, many studies have shown that we are crazy about happiness and high personal confidence.  In fact, we may often be happier when we stop focusing on happiness.

We should also reset our expectations of the future. Don't expect miracles (奇迹), and accept that no matter how hard we try, feelings of failure and unhappiness will appear from time to time. When we feel sad, it's often because we have learned something painful but important.  At the same time, we should learn how to deal with them better than trying to make them disappear.

 As my mother tried to teach me all those years ago, "Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and be unsurprised by everything in between."

A. Neither could my parents.

B. We should keep the stress off ourselves.

C. Surely happiness was the purpose of living.

D. That may make us less satisfied with our lives.

E. Happiness arrives when we are least expecting it.

F. So it's necessary for us to accept sad feelings as part of life.

In 2009, Todd Bol put up a Little Free Library with the used boards. That was to show his respect and love for his mother, who loved reading very much. The idea quickly spread, and Todd made a wise decision to set up Little Free library as a non-profit (非营利的) organization with signs that read "Little Free Library: Take a Book, Return a Book." Today there are about 100,000 little free libraries in over 100 countries and they have a great influence on people's life.

Studies have shown that books in the hands of children have a meaningful influence on improving literacy (识字). Little Free Library spreads the idea that literacy is of great importance and pushes people to learn and grow in their own literacy.

Little Free Library can greatly improve the relationship among neighbors and strangers, too. "Within just a few miles of me, there are many little libraries in folks' front yards, sharing the joy of reading with anyone who passes by. I just live in such a world where books, and the knowledge that comes with them, are highly valued." Catherine, an American woman, said, "I've even received a note of thanks from a gentleman named Esteban. He was especially thankful to have a "friend" on a cold night: 'Thank you for this wonderful gift of a book. It's an excellent friend on this cold and lonely night. I'll return one in its place as soon as I can!'"

If each building has such a library, we will soon have a society that spends less time on the phones and more on the pages of a book.

As the saying goes, "Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles". In modern society, travelling is a very common thing. Almost everyone can go on a trip at any time as long as they want to. In fact, centuries ago, some famous people already travelled around China and they got a lot from exploration (探险).

Xu Xiake, a geographer and writer in Ming dynasty, spent more than thirty years on the road four hundred years ago. With his mother's encouragement, Xu Xiake travelled around China. He met with many difficulties on the road. But he never stopped travelling and writing.

Xu Xiake was on the road all his life, and his travel notes covered as much as his knowledge. His 600,000- word travel notes finally came out in 1776, about 135 years after his death. China Tourism Day is set on May 19th, the date when he started The Travels of Xu Xiake.

Some of Xu Xiake's Footprints around China

Macro Polo's Journey to the East

Marco Polo, a businessman born in 1254 in Italy, is known as a travel king in the west. In 1271, Marco Polo with his father and uncle set foot on the road to China. It took him four years. Along the way, he met bad weathers, a shortage of food and water and so on.

They reached Shangdu in Inner Mongolia in 1275. Kublai Khan gave them a warm welcome there and took them to Dadu.

Macro Polo's hard journey created one of the world's first best sellers The Travels of Macro Polo. Medieval (中世纪的) readers fell in love with Polo's wonderful descriptions of faraway lands and got to know China and Middle Asia.

The sweetest memory of my childhood is about a round table. When I was still little, my whole family would get together on different traditional  to have dinner. We kids would be sitting around or playing hide-and-seek under the table while the grown-ups were having a .

When I got a bit older, my aunt brought back her boyfriend and my grandma cheerfully  another seat to the round table. It seemed a little more crowded, but we all felt much  to each other. When I was twelve, my grandpa passed away. That made us sad. However, when the whole family got together once again, we agreed that his chair, his bowl and his chopsticks should remain the same, even though his seat was empty, we felt like that he had never left us.

We all have a table like this in homes. It is a sign of reunion of our family showing our feelings.  the reason why we come together may be different, the feelings behind it are the same. Usually different cultures by us around the table. What's more, we express the love not only for our family, but also for a community, our nation and even the whole world.

The history of our nation has been the stories of looking for or running to the round table we belong to. The round table has been a symbol of the Chinese feelings. It was, it is and will always be.

在我们成长的过程中，会遇到各种各样的选择，选择读一本喜欢的书；选择做感兴趣的事；选择与志趣相投的人交朋友……在选择面前，如何客观、理性，并且遵从自己内心的感受，这是我们应有的处事态度。

请根据以上内容，结合图片信息，写一篇英语短文。

内容包括：

1）从以上提示中选择某个方面，谈谈你对这个选择的观点；

2）围绕以上观点，描述你曾经历过的一件事；

3）这件事带给你的思考。要求：

4）词数不少于 80 词；

5）提示词会仅供参考；

6）文中不得出现真实的人名、校名。