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湖南省永州市冷水滩区2017年中考英语第二次模拟考试试题

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日期: 2024-11-08
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    Every year many young people leave school for a few weeks or months and enjoy an unusual type of educational program. They learn new skills by living in a different country and doing unusual jobs. There are several organizations. They help students to find the experience they are looking for. The table below shows a few possibilities for students.

Country

Job

Time

Description

India

Teaching young children

One month

·Teaching music and dance

·Helping children learn how to communicate

Ghana

Health care work

Two months

·Seeing how doctors work in a less developed country

·Helping care for patients

Thailand

Saving elephants

Three weeks

·Cleaning elephants

·Helping train elephants

New Zealand

Teaching Chinese

Six weeks

·Helping adults learn Chinese

·Spreading Chinese culture

    One interesting possibility is helping elephants in Thailand. Most people think of elephants as animals in zoos. In fact, many elephants in Thailand are no longer kept in cages. Now, hundreds of them are homeless. They don't have owners to care for them. Although they may look well, they are often in poor health and don't have enough to eat.

    One center in Thailand cares for these elephants. It gives them a safe and natural living space. Whentheyare at the center, they stay in a building but are free to walk around. Students come from all over the world to help here. The student helpers work with the elephant keepers. These keepers train the students in caring for the elephants. In the morning, they go to the forest together and lead the elephants to the center. They clean them and give them food. In the afternoon. They take the animals back into the forest for the night. Helping at the center is interesting and the young people learn a lot.

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    Having a teenager at home can be a real headache. Many teenagers smoke, drink and even fight. They often do something dangerous.

    Earlier studies have shown that teenagers are more likely (可能) to makeirrationaldecisions than people from any other age group, including children and adults. Is it that teenagers are too young to tell right from wrong? Not really. So what's the reason?

    According to Laurence, a teacher from a US university, the reason is that teenagers care a lot about how their peers (同龄人) view them—that is “peer influence”.

    As children enter their teenage years, they spend more time with their friends and classmates, and also they care more about what they think of them. This makes teenagers make decisions without thinking about the costs.

    In a test, a group of teenagers were asked to play a video driving game. When they played with their friends watching around them, they took more chances and drove more carelessly because that would increase their possibility of winning. But when they played alone, they drove more safely.

    Why do peers have such a big influence on teens' behavior?

As Laurence sees it, a teenager's brain is like a car with a good accelerator (油门) but a weak brake (刹车). The “accelerator” is fully developed by teenage years while the “brake” is still not fully developed. When teenagers are watched by their peers, they usually push hard on the accelerator. With their weak brake, it is likely that they are going to end up in an accident.

    But the good news is that a violent (暴力的)teenager doesn't necessarily become a violent adult. About two-thirds to three-quarters of violent youth grow out of it. “They get more self-controlled.”

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    I am walking through the winter park where the trees stand cold and bare (光秃秃的). The yellow leaves have fallen to the ground. Now, a group of women gather at the sides of a path. In the cold winter, they're moving their arms and legs to a rhythm (节奏). They are, of course, the dancing aunties.

    It seems that if you go to any public space around China, you're likely to see these dancing aunties. When I first came to China, it was one of the first things that annoyed me. That's because in Britain dancing in public is not a cultural habit. You won't see any age group swinging their arms and tapping their feet in a park. Usually, they just take a walk for exercise.

    Now and again the dancing aunties have hit the headlines (头条新闻). Some people find them annoying. But others respect their right to dance in public. Most of them are middle-aged. They finally have some free time to do whatever they like. There is no more work, and their kids have left.

    All in all, I like seeing these women enjoying themselves. They remind us of the importance of exercise as we get older. Besides, most of them have raised the whole families. Now it is their time to have fun and enjoy some peace.

The Dancing Aunties in the Cold Winter

What can you see in the cold winter?

The are bare and the are on the ground.

A group of women gather together

They're  and legs.

What can you see in any public space in China?

The  .

The writer's opinion about it.

They remind us exercise is  .

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