浙江省金华市婺城区2021年中考英语冲刺卷（一）

One day I came home from school, changed my clothes and got ready for work. I work at a local restaurant in town as a waiter.

I went to work feeling1.And to make matters worse, I was busy that evening. It's the same thing over and over again. Dealing with customers who complain about their2and their seats is too big or too small. Little things like that tend to annoy(恼怒) a lot of us but we3to deal with it.

Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the windows. It happened to be the very table near where keep the dirty4in the boxes. Trying to keep up with all the dirty tables, customers leaving and coming in and5running all over the restaurant, it was crazy.6these elderly women were quietly watching7 I was working to make sure every table was clean and ready for the next customers.

When they8their meals, I took their plates back to the kitchen. They talked to me for a while about my school, how I was going on with my study, what grade I was in and what I planned to do9.

As they were about10, they walked past me and one of them said to me in a11voice, "You are going places(你前途无量)."And that was it. They left the12and l had tears in my eyes, because they gave me courage to13myself. They picked up my spirit from being down and gave me a14to keep on working hard.

People used to tell me that I couldn't have a job in15until I had a degree. I'm now a co-anchor(联合主持人) of a student-produced television show. And the best thing is: I'm only 17 years old and I am a senior in high school.

A university admission letter(录取通知书)is not just a piece of information paper now. Universities are presenting specially-designed admission letters to attract the best and brightest, the Chengdu Economic Daily reported, 2018.

Like many lovers of books, Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, seldom walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own bookstore one day.

When Mary was hospitalized with heart trouble in 1989, they decided it was time to get serious. Richard, who worked for a business company, hoped to work for himself, and Mary needed to slow down from her demanding(很费力的)job.

They started by talking to bookstore owners and researching the industry. "We knew it had to be a specialty store because we couldn't compete with the big chains," says Mary. One figure caught her attention: She'd read nearly two hundred mysteries(推理小说), and many buyers spent more than $300 a year on books. She and Richard were themselves mystery readers.

On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop near their home. With three children in college, the couple could not spend all the family's money to start a shop. To cover the $100,000 cost, they drew some of their savings and borrowed some money from relatives and from a bank.

The store merely broke even in its first year, with only $ 120,000 in sales. But Mary was always coming up with new ways to attract customers. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered gifts to mystery lovers and served dinners for book clubs that met in the store.     ▲   

Now they makes sales of about $ 420,000 a year. After paying taxes and other costs, they earned about $ 340.000.

"The job you love may not go hand in hand with a million-dollar income," says Richard. "This has always been about an enjoyable life for ourselves, not about making a lot of money."

If we want to find out what kind of technology people used in the past, we normally have to depend on archaeologists to find ruined(毁坏) buildings and parts of tools or instruments or machines. Archaeologists then try to reconstruct(修复),sometimes with the help of computer technology, what these ancient buildings and objects must have looked like, and how they might have been made. Sometimes historians are lucky and find an ancient document with a written description of these ancient buildings and objects.

We can understand, then, why Chinese historians were so excited when they found cave paintings which show ancient science. They found these paintings in the world-famous Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City, in Northwest China's Gansu Province. There are 500man-made caves with a history of at least 1,600 years. Almost all of these caves have paintings on their ceilings or walls and they date from the 4th to 14th centuries. Wang Jinyu is an expert on these cave paintings (also called frescoes(壁画)) and he says, "We discovered frescoes with scientific and technological content in almost all of the caves which have frescoes." According to the Xinhua News Agency, these cave paintings provide evidence(证据) of ""scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, geography, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipment, ...etc."

Among the discoveries that experts have made are cave paintings showing ancient techniques of pottery making and wine production as well as paintings showing ancient weaving machines and then toothbrushes! The paintings also give some evidence of the lifestyle at the time with, for example, pictures of people boiling milk over 1,000 years ago. Experts believe that there is more evidence to be found, but even now the caves are a wonderful natural museum. If the walls and ceilings of the caves were all put together, they would form a tapestry(壁毯), 20 kilometers long and 2 meters high!

It won't be possible to travel back in time—that only happens in films—but visiting these caves would be the nearest experience you could get to travelling back in time.

There once lived a rich businessman who had a lazy son. The businessman wanted his son to realize the value of hard work and said," Today, I want you to go out and earn something, or you won't have your meals tonight."

The son went crying straight to his mother. Her heart melted at her son's eyes. She gave him a gold coin. When the father asked his son what he had earned, the son presented him the gold coin. The father asked him to earn more money.

This time since there was no one to help him, the son had to go to the market. One shopkeeper told him he would pay him two coins if ne carried his wood to his house. He did so and sweated plenty. As he returned home he was asked to do the same. The son almost cried out. He could not imagine throwing his hard-earned money like this. He cried, "My whole body is aching. You are asking me to throw the money into the well."

At this moment, the businessman told him one feels the pain only when the fruits of hard work are wasted. On the earlier two occasions(时机) he was helped and therefore had no pain in throwing the into the well. The son had now realized the value of hard work. He promised never to be lazy and to safely keep the father's wealth. The father handed over the keys of his shop to the son and promised to guide him through the rest of the life.

With a round face, short hair and a big nose, my dad is a diligent(勤勉的) worker in a factory in Beijing. He likes playing soccer, just like me. He is very (严肃的，认真的), but l know that everything he does is for the benefit of our family. We always talk about soccer and play it together on weekends.

A few days ago, something interesting (发生) at home. It was a sunny Sunday and my dad didn't go to work. After lunch, my dad took a nap and I felt a little bit (无聊的).Suddenly, I had a funny idea. I decided to draw on my (爸爸) face while he was sleeping to (使惊讶) him and make him laugh.

I took out four color pens and crept into(偷偷溜进) my father's room, trying not to make a sound.

Then, I slowly drew on his face with my yellow, (蓝色), red and green pens. It took me about 10 (分钟) to finish my dad's "makeup", but it didn't wake him up.

Then I went back into the living room and pretended (假装) to watch TV. About half an hour (后来；稍后), my dad woke up, looked at (他自己) in the mirror and yelled(叫喊). He was shocked at how he looked, but he wasn't angry. It really made both of us laugh.

As the old saying goes, "A father's love is like a mountain. "But fathers don't necessarily have to draw a long face. They can have a sense of (幽默), too.

One day, two cats were walking through a forest. Suddenly, they found a loaf of bread (lie) under a tree. Both pounced(猛扑) on it and (catch) the loaf at the same time. Neither would give up and so they decided to divide it two pieces and take one piece each. "But how do we divide it?" one cat said.

A monkey sitting on a branch of a tree saw what had happened between the two cats. He got idea. He came down from the tree and walked up to the confused cats.

"Hi, my dear friends! Can I help you?" the monkey asked. The cats told the monkey what the problem was and asked, "Can you divide the loaf for us?" The monkey agreed.

The monkey broke the bread into two (piece). But one piece was a little (big) than the other. "Oh no! I (take) a little bite of this bigger piece to make both equal(相等的)."the monkey said. He took a bite from the bigger piece. But the bite he took was too big. "Uh oh! Now has become smaller than the other piece. I will just have to take a little bite from this piece now." the monkey said.

The monkey took another bite. The two cats sat in front of the monkey, seeing the loaf of bread get smaller and smaller. the whole loaf was finally gone, the monkey said, "I am sorry. It was really difficult to divide that loaf. I must be going now." He jumped back into his tree and was gone.

regretful the two cats were! "If only we had not tougnt against each other, we could have stuck together and kept our bread!" they said.

How can you show your personality without saying a word? Clothes and shoes may help you a lot. You can let your fashion do the talking, while your sneakers(球鞋) do the walking.

The sneaker culture we live in today first started in the 1980s. At that time, basketball became more popular in the US and abroad. Many clothing brands began to tie their sneakers to basketball stars. Even today, we see lots of sports stars wearing the latest shoes in TV ads.

However, basketball sneakers are not only for sportsmen. They're also popular with young people. Sneakers are not only comfortable to wear, but also encourage kids to create. Students can take part in design-your-own-sneaker competitions. They are given blank, white shoes like an artist's canvas(画布).Then it is up to them to create their own sneaker artwork using pens and paint.

In Britain, students can also design their own sports shoes online before buying them, including colors and patterns.

Sneakers in the US are more than simply shoes to wear them for school or sports. Many Americans collect them, too. People who collect sneakers even have a club for themselves. They're called "sneaker heads".

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