湖南省湘潭市2019年中考英语试卷

—It ____be Lisa, but I'm not sure.

—Of course, English.

—Yes, I went there last year.

—Sorry, dad. I'll do it right away.

—Guess what? Well I wrote a poem for my dad.

    The winter holiday is usually a good time to sleep in. But Gao Yuqi, a 14-year-old student from Xiangtan,  1 at 7: 00 a.m. to run at least 2 kilometers every day during the holiday. In fact, this exercise was part of his 2.

    Gao was not 3 Many schools across the country asked students to 4 during the winter holiday. Part of the reason is that physical education test scores are now worth more on the senior high school entrance examination(中考).In Xiangtan, the score is now worth up to 50 points.

    Because of this, Gao's school asked students to run on5 days and exercise indoors if the weather was bad. Students had to post exercise photos in 6 classes' QQ groups. At the Golden Apple Jincheng No I Secondary School in Chengdu, students have daily exercise plans. For example, they have to skip rope(跳绳)for two 7and do three sets of sit﹣ups each day. Their parents sign off on their plans after they finish exercising.

    This has been a big challenge for many students,8 it has also helped to make exercise become a bigger part of their daily lives. Huang Zhicheng, a 14﹣year﹣old student at the same school as Gao, used to9 running. But he is now able to run for half an hour every day." I have decided to keep doing this in the future," he said.

    Luo Zikun, a 12﹣year﹣old student at the Golden Apple School in Chengdu, fell in love with exercise during the holiday. He skips rope for more than 10 minutes every day. "I didn't exercise a lot in the past. Now it's time to 10 "he said.

    Look at the foods around you. From grapes and wainuts (核桃)to cucumbers and spinach(菠菜), they make our diets special. But did you know that none of the foods above are native to China？They came to China through the Silk Road hundreds of years ago. Are there any foods that are native to China？Of course there are. Rice, soy beans, chestnuts (栗子), Chinese cabbage and hawthorns(山植)were all grown in China first.

    Where are these foods from？

2019 Beijing International Horticultural Expo

    Time: April 29~October 7

    Theme: Live Green, Live Better.

    Many flowers and herbs from both home and abroad are on display at the expo.  There are also lots of wildflowers.

    Around 110 countries and international organizations take part in the expo.

    The expo has 4l outdoor display centers and about 2, 500 activities.

注: International Horticultural Expo世界园艺博览会

    It's late evening. Sun Tian is using her smartphone do her homework. The 15﹣year﹣old girl from Zhejiang uses an app to read English articles according to her teachers instructions.

    These days, it's normal for teachers to give homework on apps. For example, students are asked to practice English or do math exercises. Some teachers also use Wechat chat groups to give homework. Bu now, Zhejiang province is moving to ban(禁止)teachers from giving homework on mobile apps because they worry about students' eyesight. More than 70 percent of middle school students in China are found to be nearsighted, according to the World Health Organization. Using mobile phones for long periods of time is bad for our eyes.

    Do students like to do their homework on their phones？Zhang Hua, a 13﹣year﹣old boy from Fujian, said he doesn't. "Sometimes the apps can't recognize what I'm reading in English. I have to work on them for a long time to get a high score, "he said. He said his eyesight has gotten worse since he started using apps to do his homework.

    However, Wang Xidi, from Anhui, 15, enjoys doing homework on apps. "The apps have big databases(数据库)of math exercises！And I can revise(修改)my answers easily, "She said. "But the bad part is that I can't help playing with other apps while doing my homework."

    Zhou Tianyi, 12, from Sichuan, also thinks it's fun to do homework with apps. Her teachers ask their students to dub(配音)English videos and make their own short videos. "But if I have too much other homework to do, I feel like it's too much for me to finish, "she said.

    When he was nine years old, an American boy called Milo Cress had a question: How many plastic straws (吸管)do Americans use every day?

    He quickly learned there wasn't a simple answer. The boy tried to find it out himself. Through lots of research, Cress found out that Americans use about 500 million straws every day. In hopes of cutting down plastic waste, he founded the Be Straw Free project in 2011.

    Cress started the project in his hometown Burlington. Vermont. He asked a local restaurant to stop offering straws with every drink order. It was a simple change. However, it would save money. And by doing that, the restaurant would cut down on its straw use by 50 percent.

    For the year that followed, Cress tried to spread his project across the United States. More and more restaurants agreed to join. They stop providing the customer with a straw unless he or she asks for one. Last April, Seattle became the first American city to completely ban plastic straws.

    After his project became popular, Cress took his findings on the road. He has spoken to tens of thousands of students around the world. He wants to encourage more people to say no to plastic straws.

    "Focusing on straws is one simple step we all could take," Cress says. "And it makes me feel that I, as a kid, could make a difference, too."

    A man once visited a temple that was still being built. He saw a sculptor making a sculpture(雕塑).As he watched the man work on the sculpture, he noticed that there was a similar sculpture lying nearby.

    He felt very strange and asked the sculptor, "Why are you making two same sculptures? Do you need two to put in different places?"

    "No, "the man said without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one became damaged before I could finish it, so I'm making a new one."

    The visitor picked up the damaged sculpture and examined it. But he couldn't find anything wrong with it.

    "Where is the damage?" he asked.

    "There is a scratch(擦痕)on the sculpture's nose." the sculptor said while continuing his work.

    The man then asked, "Where are you going to place the sculpture?"

    The sculptor replied that it would be placed on a 20﹣foot﹣high platform(平台)."If the sculpture is up that high, who is going to notice that there is a scratch on the nose?" the man asked.

    The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the man and said, "I will know it".

    The sculptor chose to stick to a high standard of excellence in his work. Even if other people didn't notice it, it mattered to him that his work should be of the best quality. This is an attitude we should all work hard to keep.

    When I was a tiny baby crying all night, my mom sang to me and stayed by my side.

    ⑴When I was tired and hungry, she gave me food and warm arms to sleep in.

    When I was two running through the field, she made sure I was safe and kept me from danger.

    When I fell and hurt myself, ⑵给我一个拥抱并且把我举起.

    When I was seven coughing badly, she said no ice﹣cream for me.

    But I talked back loudly, ⑶I should be allowed to eat some！Give it to me now.

    When I was nine watching scary movies, she said it'd give me awful dreams. But I shouted back angrily. "I should be allowed to watch it! I'm not a baby!"

    When I was a teen going out with friends, she said, ⑷"请在十点之前回来".

    But I talked back again﹣"I should not be told what to do! I' m seventeen now!"

    Now I'm an adult, thinking back to those times.

    I coughed for days after eating that ice﹣cream and had scary dreams after watching that film.

    I was late for school from staying out past ten.

    ⑸I regret talking back, not listening to mom.

    Mom knows best, and for me she wanted only the best!

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