浙江省余姚市2020年初中英语学业水平模拟考试试题

阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

    George's mother was very poor. Instead of having bright fires in winter, she had1to burn but dry sticks. One fine day in July, she sent George to the forest to collect2.

    It was a sunny day, and George worked very3; so that by the time the sun was high, he felt4, and wished for a cool place where he might5and eat his dinner.

    While he hunted about the bank, he saw some fine, wild strawberries6the grass.

    "How good these will be with my7and butter!" thought George; and lining his little cap with leaves, he set to work to gather (收集) all he could8.

    George thought of all this, and just as he was9the first strawberry to his mouth, he said to10,"How much mother would like these" and he11, and put the strawberry back.

    "Shall I save them for her, I will eat half, and take the other half to her," said he; and he divided them into12groups. But each group looked so small, that he put them together again.

    "I will only taste one," thought he; but, as he again lifted it to his mouth, he saw that he had taken the finest, and he put it back. I will13them all for her," said he, and he covered them up14till he should go home.

    15the sun was beginning to sink, George set out for home. How happy he felt, then, that he had all his strawberries for his sick mother. The16he came to his home, the less he wished to taste them.

    Just as he had thrown down his wood, he17his mother's voice calling him from the next room. "Is that you, George? I am glad you have come, for I am18and want to drink some tea."

    George ran in to her, and joyfully19his wild strawberries. "And you saved them for your sick mother, did you?" said she, laying her20fondly on his head, while the tears stood in her eyes.

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No matter how difficult life maybe.

    There's always a reason to smile and be happy.

I may struggle to get through
the challenges of today.  But I know,
as long as I keep going,
I will be OK.

    Some of the biggest trees started off as the smallest seeds,
so never give up on your _______________________.

Life may fly by in the blink of an eye,
but the memories I have made will last forever.

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    Kelly could hardly believe that she had been so stupid! At lunchtime in a busy sandwich bar, she had hung her bag on the back of her chair. Seconds later, the bag had gone, and her mobile phone, her money, her bank cards and her keys had gone with it. Luckily, she was with her friend, Anna. Using Anna's phone, Kelly was able to call the bank and the phone company at once. The thief would not be able to use her cards or her phone, at least!

    Back at the office, Kelly began to feel better. At least six people asked if they could lend her some money. At teatime, three colleagues competed to pay for her tea.

    One more difficulty lay ahead. Kelly's bicycle was locked. Unless she could unlock it, she would not be able to get home that night. She asked Tom, the Building Manager, if he could help. Tom appeared with his assistant, Ben, and a big bag of tools. They tried every tool in the bag, but they couldn't cut or break the lock. There was only onesolution.

    Kelly rang the fire station and explained the situation. Four minutes later, an enormous red fire-engine pulled up outside the building, with some handsome young firemen on board. 'We always travel like this,' one of them joked, as the others unloaded the cutting equipment and freed Kelly's bicycle.

    As she cycled home, Kelly thought, "For every one thief in London, there are thousands of ordinary, kind people!"

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    If you are in Shanghai and want to throw away a cup of milk tea, be careful. You need to follow these steps: first, pour out any leftover into a wet waste bin; second, put the paper wrapper into a recyclable waste bin; third, throw the single-use cup and straw (吸管) into a dry waste bin.

    Sound complex (复杂的)? You'll have to get used to it. From July 1 on, people in Shanghai are required to sort (将...分类) their garbage according to strict rules. Many other cities in China are planning to create similar garbage-sorting rules.

    Why should we sort our garbage? The answer lies in the increasing amount of waste we are producing. Chinese cities produce over 200 million tons of waste each year, according to China Economic Net. Most of this waste is buried (填埋) in landfills (垃圾填埋场), which may pollute water and soil. Moreover, we are running out of space for new landfills.

    In fact, more than half of our waste can be recycled. Recyclable garbage can be made into new materials, while wet garbage can be used to make gas, heat and fertilizer. But in order to recycle efficiently, we need to sort our garbage.

    Can't garbage- processing companies do the sorting job for us? They can. But that requires a lot of work and costs lots of money. Things will become much easier if each of us can sort our own garbage. Besides, the troublesome task of sorting might encourage people to produce less waste. Do you still want to buy that milk tea?

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    Comfort Zone is a state of mind where there is the least stress (压力). However, stepping into the learning zone can help to bring out the best in us. Here are the reasons.

    ▲Challenging yourself can help you do at your best.

    Stepping outside one's comfort zone is important to personal development. How can we expect to make ourselves better if we only stick to habit and routine (日常)? We should try something we might not succeed at.

    ▲Taking risks is what helps us grow.

    As children, we're natural risk takers. But as we get older and learn to fear failure (失败), we start trying fewer new things. We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. There is no learning without some difficulty.

    ▲Facing new challenges can help us age better.

Our comfort zones seem to become smaller as we get older一but if we can keep expanding them, we'll open ourselves up to a greater world as we age. As we step into the learning zone, we will get more comfortable with the skills gradually and we'll start to move into the comfort zone. A study found that learning new life skills can help our brain stay sharp (敏锐的) as we get older.

    However, don't push yourself too far. Have you heard of "Yerkes-Dodson Law"? It means performance increases as stress grows, but only up to a point. If the level of stress becomes too high, performance will go down. When stress becomes too great for us to deal with, we enter the danger zone.

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    Gloria is a famous hostess of a TV station. When she was 15, she happened to walk into a bookstore in her hometown and began looking at the books on the shelves. The man behind the counter, John Smith, asked if she'd like a job. She needed to start saving for college, so she said "yes".

    Gloria worked after school and during summer vacations, and the job helped pay for her first year of college. During college she would do many other jobs: she served coffee in the student union, was a hotel cleaner and even made maps for the Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most satisfying jobs.

    One day a woman came into the bookstore and asked Gloria for books on cancer. The woman seemed anxious. Gloria showed her practically everything they had and found other books they could order. The woman left the store less worried, and Gloria has always remembered the pride she felt in having helped her customer.

    Years later, as a television hostess, Gloria heard about a child who was borm with problems with his fingers and hand. His family could not afford an operation, and the boy lived in shame, hiding his hand in his pocket all the time.

    Gloria persuaded(说服) her boss to agree to let her do the story. After the story was broadcast, some doctors called, offering to perform the operation for free.

    Gloria visited the boy in the hospital after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his repaired hand and say, "Thank you". What a sweet sense of satisfaction Gloria felt!

    At Smith's bookstore, Gloria always realized she was working for the customers, not the store. Today it's the same. The TV station pays her, but she feels that she should work for the people who watch the programs, helping them understand the world better.

2020年春节的新冠肺炎疫情给我们上了一堂非常有意义的公共卫生教育课，请阅读小题有关带口罩和洗手的英文指示，然后从A、B、C、D中选择符合文字内容的图示，并回答第5小题。

A.    B.    C.    D.

To quote Kobe Bryant, he has (建造)a bridge between each of us.

How can our company serve many doctors and nurses better and more (便宜地)?

We asked her to (回顾)what kind of things she did for ten years in Singapore.

All those measures produced better services for (病人)in the hospitals in Wuhan.

Learning a (音乐的) instrument introduces a child to an understanding of music.

The accident again raises questions about the (安全)of the food and drinking water.

Many soldiers (出席) the opening of the 7th CISM Military World Games last year.

Excuse me, madam, could you let me have a single room on the (第九) floor tonight?

Look, my grandma is (加热)the tomato and beef soup for Jimmy in the kitchen.

Many experts will try best to keep that old man (活着)on a life support machine.

根据短文内容，用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

    We use computers for study or play. But they are very different from supercomputers. Supercomputers can do operations quickly and have large amounts of memory. They are usually much than the computers we use at home and school.

    In 1983, China successfully developed its first supercomputer, the Galaxy-1. It could do 100 million operations per second, reported CRI.

    The of the Galaxy-1 made China the third country in the world to design(设计) and build its own supercomputers after the US and Japan. Since then, China has developed many other supercomputers.

    Supercomputers are our lives in different ways. Since they can operate very quickly, they are in areas that need many quick calculations, such as weather forecasting.

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

    The Danish(丹麦的) term hygge refers to the Danish lifestyle. It is an idea that can be described as a feeling of comfort and satisfaction, as well enjoying all the good things and people in your life. It is also often (connect) to be the idea that Danish people are the happiest people in the world.

    Moments of hygge can be anything: buying flower, eating ice cream, (boil) drinking water, having dinner with your family, putting technology to side or watching a dog asleep at your feet.

    Hygge is about the simple, small (pleasure) that make life great, which perhaps sometimes pass us by," US author Emily Robertson said.

    Spending time with family and loved ones is (center) to hygge, as is being fully focused on what you're doing," When you sit on the sofa a cup of tea watching TV, don't feel bad that you are not "doing" , Charlotte wrote. "You are doing something when you are hygge-ing."

    The Visit Denmark website's online (manage), agreed that while hygge mostly means sharing togetherness and taking time out, people can also hygge alone to enjoy emotional warmth and slowness.

    A new season of a TV show is coming out, and you want to hygge by yourself, get some candy, get some candles going, and you can definitely have that," he said.

不少毕业班同学因为最近学习紧张而导致睡眠质量不佳。假设你们班英语课开展了主题为"Sleep Smart"的小组讨论。请你根据以下所给讨论信息，结合自己的体会和感受，撰写一篇以此为题的英语发言稿。

Terrible Sleep	Advice
⒈ influence one's schoolwork	⒈ listen to light music
⒉ make sb feel sad	⒉⒉ take a warm shower
⒊ become sick	⒊ communicate with parents
⒋ ...	⒋ ...

注意：

⑴发言稿必须包括图表中所有要点，并适当发挥;

⑵文中不得出现真实的人名和校名;

⑶词数: 100个左右；

⑷发言稿首句仅供参考，不计入总次数。.

Sleep Smart

    Are you short on sleep today? According to our group's discussion,