上海市2021年中考英语真题

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 —About 40 days.  

 —Sorry. The tickets are sold out.  

 Emily and I are twins. We love cooking healthy food together! Our parents have always cooked at home. They reallyus a lot.  

Working as sisters is interesting, as we have been through a large number of experiences. However, sometimes we'd like more space of our own in the kitchen. We try to be fair. If one person manages to a dish, the other person will write the process and take photos. Then we'll change jobs next time.

 Our dishes are so popular that we have been invited to befor the Food and Health section in our school newspaper.  

Sometimes not everything works out perfectly —and that's OK! For example, we don't know what the readers want, so it's quite hard to choose a widely accepted picture of the food. But we try our best to meet their. We discuss the work and help each other to improve. That's the best part about working together. We have been awarded "Best Campus Cook" several times for our.

We love making new dishes, taking pictures, and then posting them on our school newspaper. It's always good to try new things — with food! When you eat healthily, it makes you feel better, and it can be twice as delicious.

 My deskmateany books from the library at noon.  

  has the government spent improving the water quality? 

A lot of patients' livesby Doctor Wu Mengchao.

  John is wonderingkeep the balance between work and play.  

 Iin the ocean park the day before yesterday.  

 Linda asked meIvisited the National Book Expo.  

 What do you need for an invention to be a success? 

To begin with, good timing is very1 . You can have a good idea which the public doesn't want yet. Take Giovanni Caselli as an example. He invented the first fax machine in the 1860s. Though the quality was excellent, his invention quickly2 . The fax machine did not become a necessary piece of equipment in every office until the 1980s.

 Money also helps. The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born. Denis never had enough money to3 one.  

 You also need to be patient. It took scientists nearly eighty years to invent a light bulb.  

4 , you shouldn't be too slow. In the 1870s, Elisha Gray developed plans for a telephone. Gray saw it only as "a beautiful toy". When he finally sent details of his invention to the Patent Office ( 专 利 局 ) on February 14th, 1876, it was too5 . Almost the same designs had arrived just two hours earlier. The young man who sent them was Alexander Graham Bell. He is remembered as the inventor of the telephone.

Of course what you really need is a wonderful idea. If you haven't got one, a walk in the countryside and a careful look at6 can help. The Swiss scientist, George de Mestral, had the idea for Velcro (粘扣) when he found his clothes covered in sticky seed pods after a walk in the countryside.

 It's 5:00 a. m. ! A morning call wakes up Marco. He doesn't get up so e at home in Los Angeles. Well, maybe to eat breakfast once in a while but never to herd (放牧) cows and sheep! But Marco isn't at home. He is in Africa, on the grasslands of Kenya (肯亚) He is living with the herdsmen.  

"Life is very different in Kenya. People live a p life here on the grasslands. They can't afford TVs, cars or mobile phones. They make a living mainly by herding cows and sheep," Marco says.

Marco's trip to Africa isnt a h. It's part of the school project for biology course at Sunshine School. The school hopes the students will have more life experiences. They have never been to Africa. Kenya is a country which is cnew to the students from Los Angeles. When the students get there, they put on local clothing. Boys herd cows. Girls collect firewood and water. Families depend on their cows. As a result, the herdsmen and the students have to m from one area to another so that the cows have more grass to eat. Now in Los Angeles, Kenya is on the minds of the students at Sunshine School all year. Disasters have killed many cows in Kenya, so the students decide to raise money to cows for the local people. Each cow costs about$100. "One cow means more to the health of a family than money," says Marco. "Here we are really giving life. A cow will give a kid milk every day. "

 The school wants to give the students a different way of thinking. Helping the herdsmen in Kenya is just the first sNext, the students will try to discover ways to give a hand to those in Los Angeles who need help.  

Triathlon is a race in which each person swims, rides a bicycle and runs over very long distances. It has been held ten times in Hope Town. Sam, aged 20, finished nine races with his younger brother Luke. Every race was a victory for them. Luke can't walk, talk or feed himself because of a rare brain illness since birth. But Sam wants his brother to know what it feels like to be part of a sport instead of having to sit and watch. A local TV journalist interviewed Sam after he received the Town Hero Award.

 (J=Journalist, S=Sam) 

 J: How did you get the idea to include Luke in these events? 

 S: When I was ten, my mom showed me a video of two young men from another city doing triathlons. One of the men had a condition like Luke has. I got the idea from that.  

 J: What's it like having Luke along? 

S: I feel good and proud during the whole triathlon, for I'm giving something to Luke. He can experience things any other man would.

 J: What do you get from him? 

S: It's the smile on Luke's face. That smile brightens me. The feeling of knowing that I've done something for him is unbelievable.

 J: When you received the Town Hero Award, you talked about the importance of changing the way you see things. What did you mean? 

S: People see Luke very differently: "Oh, he can't do something like that. He's disabled. " But if you just change how you see things, you can see there are many possibilities where Luke can do swimming, biking or even triathlons, like we do.

 J: What do you want to share with other young men? 

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