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浙江省新目标(Go for it)版2021年中考英语模拟卷(3)

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日期: 2024-11-27
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    When Matty Sallin, 34, was working on a degree in art and technology at New York University, he got interesting homework in electronic class. He decided to invent an alarm clock.

    "Everybody has to standitevery day, and it is really unpleasant!" he says. He asked different people what they would like to be woken up instead of a noisy alarm. A lot of them said, "The smell of bacon (培根肉)". So Sallin and two classmates invented a new kind of alarm clock: a wooden box with a pig face and a digital clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon instead of the sound to wake someone up. He explains, "There's no danger of burning, because I built it carefully. It uses halogen light bulbs (钨卤灯) instead of a fire for cooking and turns off automatically (自动地) after ten minutes. Yes, the clock itself can do it. Just a few easy steps are needed to set the alarm."

    "What you do is to put some frozen bacon in the night before and set the alarm," says Sallin.

    "If you set the alarm for 8:00, it will turn on at 7:50 and slowly cook for ten minutes under the halogen bulbs," he says. Then the bulbs turn off and a fan blows the smell out through the nose of the pig.

    "So instead of an alarm, you get a bacon smell awake," says Sallin. "Then you can open the door on the side and pull the bacon out and eat it."

    When Sallin was a kid, he spent a lot of time making drawings of inventions. "I wanted to make a lift in my backyard and a special tree house," he says. "But I never really thought I could be called an inventor!"

    Sallin got an A in the class and went on to other things — but people continue to hear about his invention and email him every day asking where they can buy his alarm clock.

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    Dark clouds appear over the River Mersey and a cold wind is blowing. A few raindrops are beginning to fall. We're in the famous city of Liverpool and we're going to spend this rainy day in the Williamson Tunnels, which were built by a man named Joseph Williamson.

    Joseph Williamson was born into a poor family in 1769. At the age of 11, he left home and went to work for a tobacco company. He began at the bottom and worked his way up to become head of the business.

    Williamson spent 30 years building these tunnels. From his death to this very day, these tunnels have remained a puzzle to researchers. Nobody knows why Williamson dug tunnels under most of Liverpool, but many think it was to create jobs. It is believed that about half of Liverpool's population worked for him.

    I go on a guided tour starting close to where his empire (集团) began in Edge Hill. In the tunnels, the steps leading from rooms below ground to those buildings, which no longer exist, seem particularly ghostly (幽灵似的).

    We go into the Double Tunnel. It's just been discovered that it's actually a triple tunnel – but nobody knows why the three tunnels were built on top of each other.

    We finish the tour and decide we'll have coffee in the Williamson Tunnels Cafe Bar. There, I notice lots of flyers (宣传单) for bands and theater groups that are coming to play there.   

    Apart from the obvious attractions like the football clubs, or anything to do with the Beatles, Liverpool has a lot to offer. You should definitely visit Liverpool.

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Don't be too quick to judge others

    A woman was at an airport waiting for her flight to start boarding. She still had a lot of time, so she went to a shop and bought a book to read. While she was in the shop, she decided to buy a bag of1as well.

    She arrived at her gate, sat down and started reading her book. She was so focused on her book2she didn't notice what was going on around her. 3she did see that a man had sat down next to her and4one of her cookies out of the bag.

    She pretended(假装)not to notice, 5she didn't want to make a scene(吵架). But then the man took more. He kept eating the cookies until there was just one 6. The man took the 7cookie and broke it in half. He tapped(拍)the woman on the shoulder and held out one 8 to her.

    The woman could not believe how much nerve this man had to steal all her cookies and then 9half a cookie in return. She10grabbed (抓) the half-cookie out of his hand and ate it.

    Finally, it was time for her to board. But as she went to the gate, she realized that her bag of cookies was 11in her purse. The man had been eating his own cookies the whole time and 12wanted to share the last one with her. The woman blushed. She sincerely wanted to apologize (道歉) to the man 13her rudeness.

    When we're not paying attention to the world around US, it can be easy to misunderstand14is happening or even become angry with others. It is better to keep our eyes open and think about every15when trying to understand a particular situation.

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