四川省资阳市安岳县2023年英语中考一模试卷

You may think there is only sand in the desert of the world, but it is not true. In the desert, as we know, there is a little rain, but it is not1for most plants. Still we can see some plants2 in the desert.

There is3in some places in the desert. We4 these places oases（绿洲）. In the oases, there are villages and towns. People grow all kinds of crops in the fields there.

People5 live outside the oases. They have camels, sheep and other animals. These animals depend on the desert plants for their food and do not need6water.

The7 are useful to the desert people in many ways. People can eat the meat and drink the milk of the animals. They use the camels for carrying water, food, tents and something else.

The people of the desert have to keep8 from place to place. They must always look for grass or desert plants for their animals. When there is no more food for their animals, they move to9 place. The desert people are friendly. No man in the desert would ever refuse10 the people in trouble and give them food and water.

I was the youngest of the three sons in my family. My1were five and seven years older than me. They did most of the housework around the house. I rode my bike around our town, played basketball or walked in the woods. What I did was just 2 fun during my childhood. But I had none of my responsibility （责任）.

By the time I entered my early teens, however, both of my brothers had moved out of our home. My dad was 3 ill. He was too weak to work. I soon found myself doing more work than before. I sowed seeds （播种） in 4and watered them in summer. In autumn I 5wood to keep us warm in the winter months to come. And all year round I carried water from a mountain spring （泉水） back to our house so we had water to drink and cook with. Every day, I was so busy that I felt very 6.

At 7, I complained to myself. But later, I began to find joy in helping my parents that I loved so much. I sang to myself while collecting wood, and I8while carrying water. I even found myself9 my mum with the dinner dishes and cleaning. I started to realize something that I would carry with me the rest of my life: 10your work is done with love, it isn't work.

Sophie Chen is a 14-year-old girl from Taiwan. When she was 6 years old, she did something amazing!

She finished a 2, 100-kilometer bike journey from Xi'an, the capital city of Shaanxi, to Turpan （吐鲁番） in Xinjiang, with her parents. It took them two and a half months. Sophie became the youngest child in the world to have biked along the Silk Road. Chinese novel Journey to the West inspired her to do so.

That is not all. Sophie wrote a book about the long journey with her father Jack Chen, a professional outdoor explorer. On April 26, the book's English version Biking the Silk Road: 6-year-old Sophie's Fantasy Tour came out in Beijing. New World Press published it.

Now Sophie studies at Ta Hwa High School. She sees the journey as a special experience in her life. She became more hard-working and learned history and geography better because of it.

On the way, she met many friendly local people and saw amazing things. She even picked some grapes! "The grapes in Xinjiang were so big and sweet. I have never seen them in Taiwan," she said.

Still, it was not easy. "The biggest challenge was the bad weather and road conditions," she said. She wrote in the book, "It was terribly hot in the Gobi Desert. I almost got sunstroke and could never have enough to drink. "

Sophie has biked in other countries, such as the United States and Turkey. This summer holiday, she plans to ride a bike from Greece to Portugal in Europe.

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Would you try food made of rubbish? When world leaders got together at the UN for a meeting on climate（气候） change, they had a special lunch. The food was made from something that most of us would throw away. There was a salad made of vegetable scraps（剩菜叶）. The leaders also had hamburgers made of fruit left over from juicing.

The UN said this reminded people about food waste and the bad influence it has on climate change. "Food waste is not often noticed in climate change, and that is shameful when so many people are in hunger. " said a government secretary.

Most people don't even realize how much food they throw away every day. Sometimes they cook too much or they don't use it in time. Every year more than one-third of all food produced worldwide goes to waste, according to the UN. Stop the waste, and the whole world could save ＄300 billion from wasted food. More importantly, it could also do less harm to the environment.

Think about a bag of cheese（奶酪）. Before we buy it at the store, people have to raise the cows, deal with the milk, and drive to the shop to sell the cheese. If you throw the cheese away, you have wasted energy, fuel（燃料） and water, which give out greenhouse gases that add to global warming.

The UN said if we stop throwing good food away, we could cut down up to 17 million tons of CO₂. The good of that would be the same as taking one in every four cars off the road.

This is the word "family" written in Chinese"家". It's a pictographic character（象形文字）. The"宀"looks like the roof（屋顶） of a house, and the"豕"is a pictographic character for "pig", which is developed from a picture like this:  

The word"家"with a pig under the roof of a house may show the importance of domestic animals（家畜） to traditional Chinese families.

There is a strong feeling between parents, children and other family members. The father is usually very strict with their children. Parents work very hard to set a good example for their children, while children study hard. Brothers and sisters in the family are very friendly and helpful to each other. All the family members make an effort to live a happy life.

Our ancestors（祖先） will be part of our life and a warm memory forever. They connect all the family members together.

We remember our ancestors, not for any advantages for ourselves but to make our feelings more active. Whenever we think of them, they make us stronger inside.

Everyone values the idea of "making all the members of the family happy". We should all have this same idea as the great "China dream". There are thousands of families in China, just because every family goes well, China is getting better and better.

A good book can open your eyes and clear your minds. If you want to get into a good reading habit, there are a number of ways to develop it.

Plan your time. You should give yourself at least thirty minutes in all for reading every day. For example, make it a habit to read during breakfast or lunch time.

Wherever you go, carry a book with you. When you leave the house, make sure that you always carry a good book.

Find a quiet place. Find a good place in your home where you can sit in a comfortable chair. There should be no televisions, computers, music, or even noisy family members around you.

Have a library card. If you have a library card, you can read as many good books as possible in the library. You can save a lot of money.

Share it. You can share your ideas after looking through your WeChat Moments. And you can also ask your friends and family to go there to share their ideas and offer you suggestions.

A. Make a weekly trip to the library.

B. Always carry a book.

C. Stick to reading every day.

D. When you read a book, no one will trouble you.

E. When time is set, nothing can change it.

I'm Lin Yue. In March, 2022, COVID-19 started suddenly in my city. It was so serious that the whole city was locked down. At the very beginning of the lockdown（行动限制）, some old people, especially those living alone, had difficulty getting vegetables.

One day, in the community WeChat group, an old man said that he was short of vegetables so I had an idea of setting up a food bank in the community, and my neighbors were also ready to offer help.

To keep social distancing（社交距离）, I used a large box as the food bank, and put it in the public area. Neighbors could give away and get some food there. The large box was quickly filled with vegetables, rice and snacks.

One evening, I saw a bag of vegetables with a note saying" These are fresh vegetables. Please take them home if you need. "

In the WeChat group, an old lady who got the vegetables said, "I was so moved by the good-will（善意）, but I only took three tomatoes, because I wanted to leave the rest for those people really in need. "

There were many similar stories in my city during the lockdown. Although COVID-19 keeps us apart, we can get through the hard times as long as we pull together.

Zhang Yugun is head of Heihumiao Primary School in Henan Province. He is a person full love and responsibility（责任）.

After graduation in 2001, Zhang chose to work in the poor countryside. Over the past 21 years, he has many teachers come and go because of the poor conditions in the village. However, he has stayed on and made every effort to help the children deal with their .

One winter, travelling on the mountain road was much than usual. The school was about to start, but those students' books were still in a town outside the village. Then Zhang and another teacher left early in the morning with a shoulder pole（扁担）. They carried back kilos of books. When they to the school, they were both covered in mud（泥）, but the books were protected . In 2006, a cement road（水泥路） was in the village. So Zhang started to carry the books with a motorbike.  four motorbikes broke down, he never stopped.

In order to provide better care for the students parents had left the village to find work in the city, Zhang asked his wife to give up job to help cook and clean for the students. Thanks to the teachers like Zhang, the students in Heihumiao Primary School are able to learn at school and hope for a brighter future.

内容包括：

1）结合实际，谈谈在生活中提高自我管理能力的重要性。

2）列举在生活中自我管理能力薄弱的现象(至少两个)，并提出合理化建议。

3）发出在生活中提高自我管理能力的号召。

写作要求：

1）语言流畅，层次清晰，内容可以适当发挥。

2）词数80-100 ， 开头与结尾部分已经给出，不计入总词数。

3）书写规范，卷面整洁。

4）文中不能出现考生姓名和学校名称。

Learning to Manage Our Own Lives

These days, we Chinese teenagers often depend on our parents in our daily lives.

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In short, the earlier we manage our own lives, the better it is for our future.