广东省佛山市高明区2021年中考一模英语试题

It was a music class and the students were listening to the teacher carefully. When a new pupil 1 at the music class, all the children laughed immediately.

"Be quiet, children. Let's meet Mr Boo. I used to teach his children. Now Mr Boo no longer has to work, and he wants to learn the flute(笛子)," the teacher told the students.

"Can old people really learn?" asked the children 2.

"It's never too late 3." the teacher answered.

At first, the children laughed at Mr Boo. 4, Mr Boo was always the first to get to the classroom. Soon the old man learned to play the flute better than 5 student in the class.

Six months went 6. There was a flute contest in the country. It 7 once a year. The prize for the winner was a golden flute. All the pupils in the music class would take part in it.

"Is Mr Boo coming too?" the children asked.

"Of course, he's the best pupil 8 I've ever taught," the teacher answered.

Then the big day came. When Mr Boo walked onto the stage, everybody wondered 9 the old man was there.

"You're in the wrong place, Grandpa—this is a contest for pupils!"

"And I'm also 10 pupil" the old man said proudly. Then Mr Boo started playing. He did so well. In the end, he won the golden flute.

These days, more young people have the chance to go to another country to study. They go abroad for 1 reasons.

Many western children go on student exchange programs. For example, Frank, a boy from Germany, studied in Australia for six months. He wanted to travel to a faraway 2, make some friends and improve his English. A fifteen-year-old girl called Jean, who's from Canada, 3 in Sweden for a year. She wanted to learn another language and see how people in Europe lived, 4 she applied for the student exchange programs in her school. Luckily, she got the 5 . Most western students like to travel and experience a different culture. Some of them want to learn a new language, but making new friends is what they 6 the most.

Thousands of students from Northeast Asian countries also go abroad to study, especially students from Korea, Japan and China. They usually 7 a three-week or six-week camp in the United States or the UK to develop their English skills during the summer holiday.

Generally speaking, Asian students 8 to go to English-speaking countries. They want to experience different cultures and make new friends, but most of them 9 want to improve their English ability. And they can improve their spoken English easily by practicing with native speakers. They hope that having 10 English skills will help improve their grades when they return to school in their home countries.

In the long history of humans, women's stories have often been overlooked (忽视). However, as modern society has allowed women to speak for themselves, more and more women are standing up to choose how to live their lives. Here are four powerful films that may help you re-consider what it means to be a woman.

Most people suffer from "Just-me-ism". What is that? Well, say you leave the tap running while you brush your teeth, leave a light on when you go out or you drop a piece of litter on the ground. You know that all those things are wrong, but so what? You say to yourself. "There are millions of people in the world and I'm just me. How can it matter if I leave one little tap running, one little light on or leave a little piece of litter on the road? And anyway, no one will know."

Of course, it won't matter if there are just a few people in the world. But all the millions of people may follow suit. That will be very harmful to the environment.

To call on young people to take action for the environment. Roots & Shoots(根与芽) was set up in the early 1990s by Dr. Jane Goodall, a scientist who is the world's best-known expert on wild chimpanzees(黑猩猩).

The organization is called Roots & Shoots because roots move slowly under the ground to make a firm foundation(基础), and shoots seem small and weak, but they can break walls to reach the light. The roots and shoots are you, your friends and young people all around the world. Hundreds and thousands of roots and shoots can work together to solve the problems, change the world and make it a better place to live in.

A sick man asked a doctor for help. He said he was afraid to die and hoped the doctor could tell him how long he would . But the doctor said he didn't know.

The man became a little angry. A few seconds later, the doctor shared his own experience. "I got cancer ten years . As a doctor, I clearly knew my life might end at any moment. I had the same feeling as you. At that time, I was worried to know how long my life would last. Before dying, should I live in sadness? Should stop being a doctor and then wait for ? No. I decided to treat every day as a gift. From then on, I  the past ten years doing meaningful things. Life is full of wonder. Though I don't know the answer your question, I believed that the meaning of life is not decided by how long it is, . by the way you live. Your life may be long or . However, if you do something meaningful, you will make your worthy." The patient nodded and turned his worried face into happy look.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future. After all, tomorrow is still unknown. Don't think about . that we are not sure of. Just make the best of today.

Teacher sets an example of how to help others

Zhang Guimei, the headteacher of Huaping High School for Girls in Liiang city, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, was born in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province in 1957. At the age of 17, Zhang traveled to Yunnan and has been a teacher there for over 40 years.

The school founded by Zhang in 2008 was the first high school in the country to provide free education to girls. With Zhang's help, the girls were able to continue their studies after completing their nine years of compulsory education. Zhang did so much to improve the education for girls from poor families that she was given the title "Role Model of the Times" in 2020.

If you know Zhang's own conditions, you will be more deeply moved by her. She has no personal property (资产), and she has lived in the student dormitory since its founding. She spends most of her salary and the bonuses (津贴) she receives on her students. Although she has serious health problems, she always takes morning classes together with the students. She has also walked up to 110,000 kilometers to visit her students' families over the years.

Thanks to her efforts, about 40 percent of the high school leavers have been accepted by key universities. More than 1,800 girls from poor families have entered universities through her education.

Zhang's story will be long remembered and encourage more people to follow her example.

不惧碾作尘，无意苦争春。张桂梅的精神值得我们学习，她的行为值得我们敬佩。在你的成长路上，也一定出现过值得你敬佩的人。这个人可能是你的父母、老师或你的朋友……。你们学校正在组织英语作文比赛，请以"The person I respect"为题，写一篇短文参赛。

内容包含：1）人物介绍(如职业、性格、外貌等，至少要有两个要点)；

2）敬佩他/她的原因 (讲述他/她具体做了哪些事情)；

3）他/她对你的影响。

作文要求：1）不能照抄原文；

2）不得在作文中出现学校真实的名称和学生的真实姓名；

3）语句连贯，词数80个左右。

The person I respect