天津市河东区2023年中考英语一模试卷

—Tom Sawyer, _______the famous American writer, Mark Twain. I'm writing about him _______my English project.

—In my opinion, you can do some housework for her.

—___________! I went to Shenzhen, a magical city.

Run for Class President

Two months ago, when our class election（选举） started, so I felt it easy to win. But I was1that people would feel bad for me if I lost.

I was busy preparing in the following week. My plan wasn't to make promises to do things I couldn't2but to show my class why I wanted to be the president. I put up my posters in hallways and in the classroom. I also spent three hours writing my speech, saying that I was the one they could turn to whenever they had a problem. Since I was3prepared, I felt that my chances of winning were strong.

However, when I gave my speech on Election Day, the response（反应）wasn't what I had 4. Few people actually listened. When it was my opponent's（对手的） turn, everyone was screaming（尖叫） his name. His speech was short, 5all to the point. By then, I realized I should have made6 shorter and clearer.

It was obvious（明显的） who would7. For the rest of the day, I felt like it was over. I wanted to just go home and cry, but I made it through.

My prediction was right: I didn't win.

The next day, people were still talking about the8. I just pretended（假装） not to hear. But later, things got better. People9about the election and talked to me just as they did before. I don't regret putting time and energy10the election because I've learned that things aren't always going the way I expect. And moments of failure like this build character一since then I've learned to face disappointment and grown stronger.

There is a king in the palace. Every year, he fixes his palace to make it look better than before. One day, the king says, I must make the palace perfect（完美的）. Everyone in my country will praise it. " After a month, the king asks many people to come to the palace and talk about their ideas.

"This is a perfect palace, " say many people. But only a tall man doesn't say anything.

The king wants to know why this man keeps quiet. So he asks, "Is not my palace perfect?"

The man answers, "My dear king, your palace is very beautiful. But it isn't perfect. A palace is perfect because the people inside are perfect. You spend too much time making the palace perfect. Why not spend some time making yourself a perfect king?"

The king thinks a lot about it. He thanks the man for his words. After that, he never tries to（尽力）make the palace perfect again.

My grandfather is an eighty-year-old man. He changed, and he often says that life used to be better.

Families aren't families the way they used to be. A lot of families have broke down. If husband and wife have problems with their marriage, they no longer stay together. And mothers used to stay at home and take care of their children, but now everyone's working. No one has time to look after children at home.

And the cars! No one walks any more: everyone drives. We used to walk five miles to school every day, even in winter. But now they don't. And in school. the children don't have to think any more. In math class, for example, subtract, multiply and divide in our heads. Kids don't use their heads any more, they use calculators（计算器）.

Most families have computers now. In the past we didn't have computers. We didn't even have lights. My mother used to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now nobody eats home. cooked food any more.

And people don't talk to each other any more. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, too

Life used to be simple, but it isn't any more.

There was once a professor of medicine, who was very strict with the students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee （委员会）, the students would be in fear, the students of medicine would take their exam again. Now a student entered the room and got seated before the committee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not be so easy to get through the exam at all.

The professor began to ask. The student was asked to describe a certain illness, his description of which turned out to be OK.

Then the professor asked about the cure （治疗） for illness, and the student also answered just as right.

"Good, " said the professor, "and how much will you give the patient?"

"A full spoon（勺子）. " answered the student.

"Now you may go out and wait for what you can get, " said the professor. At the same time the committee discussed carefully the answers the student had given. Suddenly the student noticed that there was something wrong with his last answer. "A full spoon is too much, " he thought to himself. Anxiously, "Mr. Professor, I've made a mistake! A spoon is too much for the patient. He can take only five drops. "

"I'm sorry, sir, " said the professor coldly

A: How is your school life this term?

B: Sill busy but more wonderful and relaxing.

A: Really?

B: Because we have different kinds of clubs.

A: Good.

B: We have a poem club, a sports club, a dancing club. . . Ah

A: Fantastic!Which club are you in?

B:

A: Oh?Why didn't you join the dancing club?

B: Yes. But I am practising it at a dancing school on Sunday afternoon.

A: I see. You have a colorful life in and out of school.

B: Oh, I'm running out of time. Bye for now！

A: See you！

I often the fairy tales that were told by my grandma when I was young.

More and more foreigners are China's tea culture.

Drinking  Coke is bad for us.

Parents should encourage their children to visit their grandparents  on weekends.

A perfect vacation your wise decision an action.

When Sean Aiken bought a bike helmet (头盔), he never thought it would help him so soon. Only a week later, it saved his life. He was hit by a car while riding home from school in Tucson, Arizona. His bike was broken into pieces in the accident. But Sean was alive. His helmet protected him from serious head injury (伤)."I used to think helmets were unnecessary. I thought I would never get hut," Sean said. "But it can and will happen to you if you're not careful." Sean later spoke before the Tucson City Council (委员会) about the need of bike-helmet laws. This led to a new Arizona law that requires people under the age of 18 to wear a bike helmet while cycling.

Fifteen-year-old Mike Jones of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, knows about safety. Two years ago, he was seriously hurt in a car accident. Mike hurt his head badly when he was thrown from a van. "I don't know why I didn't wear a safety belt that day. Now I always wear it" Mike said. Today, he can still think of that experience. "I used to love sports, but I can't do them anymore. I can't risk getting another serious injury." he said.

Like Mike, many people around the US are becoming more safety-wise. "Parents can't watch kids every minute. Kids must know how to be safe. It's their control and power," says Susan Gallagher, the director of the Safety Network.

New technology is also helping to prevent injuries. More people than ever before use products such as fire alarms in their houses and seat belts in their cars. Most cyclists know that they should use bike helmets. New laws, such as the bike-helmet law Sean Aiken helped pass are also making more people use these products. The number of serious injuries caused by car accidents and fires has gone down over the years.

Kids are taking actions to help prevent injuries. Like Sean Aiken and Mike Jones, they know that safety works.

Huang Wenxiu is the role model of the times. In 2022, a TV show The Daughter of The Mountain told us her s . It was thought of highly by many people.

When Huang was in college, the idea of serving her home town came to her. She wanted to go back and do her best to i the backward situation of her home town. After graduating from Beijing Normal University in 2016, Huang  r to Baise, her home town, instead of staying in the capital. She once said v where quite a number of people live in poverty（贫穷）. And all I wish is to do my part to c their life. "

But Huang soon discovered that her job was not e . She had been worried about the village development for a long time. It took her two months just to visit the 195 poor families through the village. The road out of poverty is l, She travelled 25, 000 kilometres by car in one year in the job. Huang encouraged villagers to plant sugar oranges and many other plants, and she helped them learn about how to sell their products online. , 8, 418 villagers were lifted out of poverty in the end thanks to Huang Wenxiu's hard work.

However, on June 16, 2019（山洪）. She was swept away by the flood when she was d back to work.

A she passed away, her spirit still lives on. "I believe that one day we can turn our country into the rich one. " Huang Wenxiu once dreamed of.

1）开始下雨，路上有很多行人，有放学回家的学生

2）在人行道上的一个井盖出了问题，快要破碎了；为保证人们安全；人们纷纷表达感谢。

3）有人主动给他们打伞；有人拨打电话报警。

4）你认为……

参考词汇: 人行道  pavement  井盖 manhole cover

要求:

1）词数: 80～100词；

2）日记格式和开头已给出, 不计入总词数；

3）要点齐全，行文连贯，可适当发挥。

Wednesday

When I was on my way home from school, I noticed