福建省福州市2023年初中毕业生学业考试英语模拟试卷

— 101 years. It's her 101st birthday this year.

 —Oh, Mr. Li is kind and knowledgeable. He will ____ be able to offer us advice.  

 —Nothing but some old cards.  

Rick goes to Boston 1 a meeting. The meeting is in Prince's Building on 2 Street, and Rick wants to be there on time. However, it is Rick's first time to visit the city, 3 he doesn't know his way around. When he sees an old couple sitting on a bench, he goes up to ask for 4 The couple kindly tell Rick to 5 the underground and to get 6 at Prince Station. Rick follows their direction, gets off at Prince Station and walks east for two blocks. An hour later, he is disappointed(失望的) to find that he is 7 41st Street, not 44th Street. The 8 misheard(听错) him and gave him the 9 direction. Another hour later, when a policeman takes him back, he sees the old couple again. They are still 10 on the bench, right in front of Prince's Building.

 Conor Grennan was unwilling to be a volunteer. The 29-year-old American was not sure if he had the skills or a strong feeling for it.  

 However, he went to work at an orphanage (孤儿院) in Nepal. His first thought was to make people impressed.  

"I thought that if I volunteered just once, I could retell the story over and over," Grennan said in the Huffington Post.

However, his three-month stay in the orphanage turned into an unusual experience. It was in 2018 and Grennan had given up his job to begin a year's long around-the-world trip. His first three months were spent in Nepal.

When he arrived in the village, he knew nothing about the children or the local culture. When he opened the gate of the Little Princes Children's Home, he was faced by the excited children.

The young American ended up caring for 18 children. He later discovered that they were trafficked (被拐卖的) children. So he walked through the mountains with great difficulty to find the kids' families. "I started walking with photos of the kids," he told the Reuter's reporter. "I would show up in villages and show photographs around. I went with 24 photos, and I found 24 families. "

 At the same time, he put his heart into Nepalese culture.  

Grennan said, "Volunteering is the single best way to see how the rest of the world lives. "

 He also encouraged others to do what he had done. He believes that volunteering needs only making decisions to show up.  

Grennan's fight against child-trafficking has changed him. His book, Little Prince, came out last week.

On a small farm in Mexico, there are no schools. A bus is the school. The driver of the bus is the teacher. It's a school bus, but it doesn't take the children to school. It just goes round from place to place, and sometimes it comes to this farm. The bus will stay here for three months. The farmers call it a school on wheels (车轮). Every time when the bus comes, the farmers will come, running to it, shouting and laughing. They warmly welcome the school bus.

 When the bus is on the farm, in the morning, the teacher teaches the small children. In the afternoon, the bigger children come to have their lessons because they must work in the morning. At night, the fathers and mothers come to school. They want to learn, too. How the farmers hope that some day they can have a real school on their farm! 

I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch(牧马场). The last time I was there he told me his story. When he was young, his family was too poor to have a house to live in. As a result , when he was in high school, all the students were asked to write a paper about what they wanted to be and do when they grew up. That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of owning a horse ranch. He also drew a picture to show a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a beautiful farm. The next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F. Roberts asked, "Why did I receive an F?" He teacher said, "This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. " Then the teacher added, "If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade. "

The boy went home and thought about it for a long and hard time. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, " Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important decision for you. "Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all. He told his teacher "you could keep the F and I still keep my dream".

He tells me this story because I am sitting in his 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of the 200-acre horse ranch. "I still have that school paper now. " He added, "The best part of the story is that two years ago that teacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week. " When the teacher was leaving, he said, Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids'dreams. Luckily, you had enough gumption not to give up on yours. . "

 We can see two overbridges in Yulin city. There is one near the No. 1 People Hospital.  The bridges can help people to keep safe when they cross the roads.  

But many people think it is a great trouble to walk on the overbridges. They have to go up and down the overbridges. Because the old people and children don't walk fast. And when they cross a busy road using a street crossing, they make the traffic stop or get hurt in a traffic accident. We have the overbridges.

 We should have more overbridges. We need a lot of money.  We should always use them. It can help us stop traffic accidents.  

 A. We need to keep safe.  

 B. There is one in front of the bus station, too.  

 C. But why do we need so many overbridges? 

 D. The old people and the children think it is difficult.  

 E. People and the traffic can move at the same time (同时).  

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is this schoolbag?

your name?

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 How  ! 

Thailand (泰国) carried out new COVID-19 restrictions (管制) to deal with a rapid increaser in COVID-19 cases recently. These restrictions were much (strict) than before. Since then, they (leave) its capital Bangkok's busy streets quiet and lots of taxi drivers have been out of work. So many drivers left Bangkok for (they)home villages, leaving so-called "taxi graveyards (墓地)" behind.

  (wise), a company came up with an idea: turning the roofs of these taxis into small vegetable gardens. It promised  (help) those out-of-work drivers and others. In an open-air parking area in the west of Bangkok,  (worker) at the company built the tiny gardens by putting black plastic bags on bamboo frames (支架) and covering them with soil. They then planted many kinds of crops,  (include) chillies, cucumbers and eggplants. It is hoped that after helping the drivers, any remaining vegetables can be sold at local markets.  

 The taxi trade in Bangkok depends heavily  tourism (旅游业). But tourists have reduced to almost none because of strict rules on entering (进入)  country.  

"Many of the cars still have large outstanding loans (未偿贷款)," said one of the company owners. "We think we can grow vegetables on the roofs of these taxis. We will continue the work unless the situation (情况) gets (good). "

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 要求：  

 ✧ 文中不能出现真实的人名，地名和校名； 

 ✧语言通顺，表达正确，要点齐全，适当补充； 

 ✧词数不少于60，开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 

 参考词汇：书法 calligraphy 武术 martial art 

 Dear Peter,  

 There will be a show to celebrate the 100 birthday of the Chinese Communist Party in our school.  

 I am looking forward to your reply.  

 Yours, 

 Peter