浙江省绍兴市2018年中考英语试卷

    My son Daniel began surfing at the age of 13. After school each day he put on his wet suit and waited to be challenged by three-to-six-foot waves. Daniel's love for the ride was tested one 1 afternoon.

    "Your son's been in an accident," the lifeguard(救生员)reported to my 2 Mike over the phone hurriedly." 3 he came up to the top of the water, the point of the board was headed toward his eye."

    Mike rushed our son to the hospital. He 4 26 stitches(缝合)from the corner of his eye to the bridge of his nose.

    I was 5 home from a meeting while Daniel's eye was being stitched. Mike drove 6 to the airport after they left the doctor's office. He greeted 7 at the gate while Daniel was waiting in the car.

    "Daniel?" I questioned. I remember thinking the 8 must have been terrible that day.

    "He's been in an accident，but he's going to be fine." Mike comforted me.

    I ran to the car. My son reached out both arms, crying, "Oh, Mom, I'm so glad you're home."

    I sobbed(抽泣)in his arms, telling him how 9 I felt about not being there when the lifeguard called.

    "It's okay, Mom," he said. "I'll be fine. The doctor said I can go back in the water in eight days."

    Was he 10? I wanted to tell him that he wasn't allowed to go near water again until he was 35, but 11 I controlled myself.

    He kept asking me to let him go back on the 12 for the next seven days. One day after 13 "No" to him for the 100th time, he beat me at my own game.

    "Mom, you taught us never to 14 what we love."

    I gave in. Back then Daniel was just a boy with deep 15 for surfing. Now he is among the top 25 surfers in the world.

    17-year-old Brennan Agranoff, a colorblind boy, started his custom sock business in middle school, with a small loan(贷款)he got from his parents. Up till now, he has sold over $1 million worth of socks online in the last four years.

    Brennan thought of the idea for his custom sock company at just 13 years old. He was attending a high-school basketball game in his hometown of Sherwood, Oregon, and noticed that many kids his age were wearing the same white Nike sport socks. The boy told himself that if these white plain sacks were so popular with kids, then some cool custom designs would surely be an even greater hit.

    But the boy didn't tell his parents about the business idea immediately. He spent six months researching things like printing machines and technology and drawing up a business plan. Only when he had everything planned out did he ask his parents for a loan. "They thought the idea was a little out there," Brennan recently told CNN Money, but he kept pushing, and finally received a $3,000 loan to start his company. Then he began to work on his own designs. The fact that he was colorblind didn't stop him and he has created aver 200 designs now.

    Business was slow the first year, but then Brennan started pushing his HoopSwagg products heavily on the Internet. Orders soon started coming in in large numbers, and HoopSwagg became a popular brand among custom sock lovers. Right now, his designs can be found on HoopSwagg website, Amazon and eBay.

    Four years after starting his business, Brennan has achieved great success while balancing(平衡)school, house chores and his social life. And he says he loved every minute of it.

    Every night in Jinan University in Guangzhou, a group of students plays diabolo(空竹)as a crowd watches on in amazement.

    Chen Zhelun, 25, a Malaysian-Chinese started the diabolo club, which helps to increase the popularity of this traditional Chinese game, He is one of many students expressing their interest in the country's cultural heritage(通产)by starting clubs.

    The diabolo, which came from China, is popular among Chinese living in Malaysia.

    "We played diabolo from primary school onward. I thought I could find someone to play with in China, but only a few students knew about it. So I started a club to develop it," says Chen.

    To Chen's surprise, the old game has interested a huge crowd--more than 1,000 students have joined the club.

    "It keeps your body strong and it's fun," says Chen.

    But some prefer quieter activities. Every weekend, one classroom in Shenzhen University is always crowded, but it's unusually silent. The members of Lanting Calligraphy Club are writing Chinese characters with traditional brushes.

    Fan Dongling, 21，a student in Shenzhen university, says it's a shame that young people no longer enjoy the beauty of Chinese characters.

    Although her club is quiet. Fan says it keeps members healthy, mentally and physically.

    "Some students think traditional things are outdated. They like celebrating Western festivals like Christmas or Valentine's Day, but they seldom pay attention to traditional ones."says Kong Yanquan, 21，a student in Guangxi University.

    As head of the traditional Chinese local operas club. Kong plans to put modern elements(元素)into traditional culture to get students to join his club.

    "I think it's everyone's duty to save and develop China's traditional culture among young people," he says.

    Technology is everywhere. We see it any place we go and, in fact, almost all of us carry some piece of technology with us every time we leave the house. What I always forget, though, is just how useful and powerful technology can be when we want to help others.

    There is not a single room in my house that does not have some electronic devices(设备)lying around in it. Whenever I am at home, I am almost always using at least one electronic device. If you walked into my living room on any given day, you would find that, first, I have the television on. At the same time, I usually have my laptop resting on my knee, or I will be using my mobile phone. Even when I'm not at home I am always using my phone, and at work or in cafes, I sit down and connect to the local wireless network on my laptop.

    I must say that I waste a lot of time on the computer and the time I spend on it could be much better spent if I were to take up a little online volunteering.

    The technology we carry about everywhere can have a great power to do good for the world and to help others and recently I discovered just how much online volunteering there is to do in the world. From using your language skills to do translations, to developing and managing projects and helping with IT work, there is so much that so many people can do to help people in their own countries and across the world. The United Nations, in fact, has a huge page with "Volunteers Recruited" on its website.

    This work can support the poor and help charities who cannot pay for staff. Many organizations only require you to work an hour a week-some even less. And the support provided by online volunteers can really help make a difference to those in need.

    Curt Von Badinski is an engineer of a company in San Francisco. (然而)，his home is in Los Angeles, which is 770 (英里)away from his workplace, so he has to take a plane work and back.

    Every workday morning, von Badinski gets up at 5 a.m. for the 15-minute drive to the airport. After(停放)his car, he goes straight to take the plane. After a 90-minute flight, he (着陆)at Oakland Airport and drives to his company. The (整个的)trip takes him about 3 hours.

    Von Badinski pays the airline 2,300 dollars monthly so that he can fly (自由地)at any time to and from San Francisco.

    Flying to work every day is not (容易的)for von Badinski because he can only sleep five hours every night, but he believes (没有什么)could be more important to him than his family. He had thought about several ways to solve the problem， (包括)moving his family to San Francisco, but none of them worked.

    "The six-hour round trip shows that I have the (能力)to have all the things I want." he explains. "I am always excited to start a new day"

    This is "Tammela School, a primary school in Finland. The students are having a math class with their robot teacher.

    The "teacher" is small, blue machine about 25cm high, Reuters reported. Whenever students have problems, it helps them very (patient) and never gets bored.

    "The robot can make students (active) in class than usual. I see Elias as one of the (tool) to get different kinds of practice and activities into the classroom," a teacher told Reuters.

    So far the school (introduce) four robot teachers one of whom is a language teacher that can speak 23 languages and dance to music." necessary to encourage kids to come up new ways to make use of technology in school life." the head of the school (add) in the interview.

    The robot teachers are used (help) improve learning. This doesn't mean that human teachers will lose their jobs. The robots can teach well, they are not able to keep class in order. The school still needs human teachers.

Are You Ready For High School?

    If you can do these things by the time you go to high school, you'll get on well with others in high school.

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    A little respect(尊重)goes a long way. Don't help yourself to her personal things in the room, and let her know if you plan to treat friends there. If you don't feel like you're being treated fairly, have a talk face to face.

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    The first meeting with someone really does matter. To make an immediate connection, look a person in the eye and give a firm handshake, keep eye contact while you're chatting and mention the person's name when saying goodbye.

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    One study found that holding something in can make you feel lonely and sad. So for your health and friendships, write down the secret in a safe place instead of talking about others in public.

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    If someone did something nice for you--a gift, some help, now's the time to take out your pen! Sending the person a handwritten note card within 48 hours afterward is a sign that you really have it together.

⑸Please give one more suggestion on how to get on well with others. (回答不多于7个单词)

请你根据下表内容用英语写一篇短文进行交流，并说明你自己的方式及理由。

注意：①短文必须包括表中所有内容，可适当增加细节;②你的理由至少两条;③词数:80--100;④短文首句仅供选择使用，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：学伴 study partner     方便的  convenient

短文首句：I have recently done a survey about how students find study partners.