广东省河源市和平县2022年中考一模英语试题

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and seen a blue moon? A blue moon doesn't happen at1fixed time and it is not a common sight. And most of the time, it isn't actually blue. A blue moon takes place when there2two full moons in one month. Most months have 30331 days, so sometimes a month will have two full moons.

In fact, the moon doesn't change the color to make4appear orange, red or blue. Instead, particles (微粒) in the Earth's atmosphere (大气层) lead to the result. For example, the moon5appeared blue in Indonesia in 1883. That year, the volcano Krakatoa erupted (爆发). The ash (灰)6into the air, which stayed in the atmosphere for quite a while. It had the effect of making the moon appear blue.

In 2020, sky-watchers were in for a treat when a blue moon lighted up the night sky7October 31, the first time that had happened in nearly 20 years.

The blue moon also has another8. Have you ever heard the phrase "once in a blue moon"? When people say that, they mean9something uncommon happens—like a blue moon.

What other colors have you seen the moon takes on? Carry on watching the night sky and you are sure10a beautiful moon at some point.

Many years ago, back in the seventies when I was young, there used to be a Polish lady called Mrs. Jankowski, who lived in one of the flats in our building. Her husband1many years ago, and she lived with her cat Misty. Everyone in the building liked her a lot and she liked them, too. For the past few years, as she was getting2, people in the building helped her as much as they could. Some neighbors used to get her medicine and gave her a3in their cars when she needed to see a doctor. My mother liked to visit her and take her some homemade biscuits, cakes and pies. Others came and brought her books, did some shopping for her and took her to have lunch with their family. She had a nice comfortable flat which she4. Although she had been living in the UK for nearly forty years, she still had a strong5for her native country, Poland. You could6this through the way she decorated (装饰) her flat. As a child and until I got married, I used to like visiting her to keep her company, play with Misty and7her stories about her childhood in Poland. She was a good8. I visit Mrs. Jankowski whenever I go over to visit my parents. She is like family to me and I love her9. My mother called me a few days ago and told me that Mrs. Jankowski had a10for the first time from Poland and to my great surprise, she also told to me that it was her twin sister.

It is calculated that by the year 2230, the entire population of the USA will be dangerously overweight. Nine years ago only one in eight was obese (肥胖) . Nowadays in five Americans one is obese and the number continues to rise. One of the problems is the big amounts of what they eat. The drink and food portions (分量) are so large in America that a new vocabulary has appeared on the menus to fit the portions. Food sizes no longer stop at large, but run through jumbo, supreme, monster and super size.

Everybody is not only eating more, but also consuming more and more junk food. And everybody knows what food like this can do to their weight and health. Americans eat about 20 teaspoons of sugar a day, twice the suggested safe amount and 25 percent more than 10 years ago.

Besides, most of the Americans sit at a desk all day, go past a drive-through restaurant, head home, open the garage door and head for the armchair, television with voice control and mobile phone resting on the arms. Everything is electric, and everything has been motorized or electrified.

The growth of obesity among children is also worrying American health experts. Children are spending long hours sitting, watching TV, surfing the Internet or playing computer games. As a result, 12 percent of teenagers are overweight.

The Center for Disease Control has already warned the nation about an epidemic (泛滥) of obesity, but it is hard for people to give up their eating habits even if they know about the health risks they run.

When looking at a pair of used 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 away about 100, 000 pairs of chopsticks every day in Vancouver alone. He felt he needed to do . So he started the company ChopValue in the same year. The company collected used chopsticks 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 growth of the company, Bock employs (雇佣) 40 people. By using his special methods of steam and press machines, he has 32 million pairs of chopsticks.

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

1）农民丰收节的时间和地点；

2）农民丰收节的活动内容（2项）；

3）邀请Bill来参加此活动。

参考词汇：民俗 folk

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Dear Bill,

How is everything going?

Looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua