浙江省桐乡市、海宁市2020年中考英语联考一模试卷

    I like driving, But I didn't get a license(驾照)1I turned 27 years old. My husband and I only had a second-hand car, His work hours were different from2. I worked earlier. So he dropped me off first and waited until his work time. In the afternoons, I walked three miles to his3where I waited in our car.

    One day while waiting for my4, I noticed a beautiful Cadillac car pull in the carpark. It was the kind of car you5. I was looking at the car when I noticed the6. Honestly, she was the7woman I had ever seen.

    She parked beside our car and8at me. Her eyes were as blue as the sea. She was wearing a light blue shirt that just9her car. Minutes later, a nice-looking man came out the building entered the Cadillac, and then they10Sitting there in my jeans and shirt, I wanted to11How could some people have everything? The following month, I saw her12, about twice a week. She seemed13and always waved. My envy(嫉妒) was increasing

    Sitting in our14carpark, I saw that beautiful lady again. When the nice-looking man came over, she called him “brother". After a few words, he opened the car door, took her arm and15her get out of the car. I could see she was wearing a skirt. She slowly walked around to the passenger side with16And then I saw the most17thing a pair of false (假的) legs under her skirt.

    Tears were blinding me. For weeks I had envied her and her way of life,18I had been able to19three miles to our second-hand car! The lady I thought had everything, didn't. I realized how20I was to have the ability to walk through life.

    In the USA, you can only get a full-time job if you are 16 years old or older. But there are things that teenagers can do to earn(赚) some spending money. Here're a few ideas.

    Parents with young children sometimes want to go out for dinner or to the movies, but they don't want to leave their children alone. So, they ask a teenager to stay in the house, be a baby-sitter and look after their children while they're out. If the children go to bed early, you can do some of your homework!

    Some people have a dog, but they don't have time to take it for a walk. Dogs need a lot of exercise! So some teenagers work as dog walkers. It's a good idea - you earn money and you're outside in the fresh air. You get some exercise, too!

    Teenagers can work at home on their computers. Some companies pay teenagers to take online surveys. They want to know what teenagers are interested in. It's a fun and easy way to make money. You can also design web pages for friends or others. Do you have any old toys, books or CDs you don't use? Sell them online and make some money!

    Sometimes, some families pay teenagers to mow their lawns(草坪). It's a great job because you get fresh air and exercise. Mow a lawn carefully and people will want you to do it again. Then you have regular customers, because grass always grows.

    You can choose one of them to earn some money. Then you can spend it or save it! But don't forget it's important to always tell your parents where you're going. Be safe when you work.

    When he was 9 years old, Felix Finkbeiner was asked to give a speech in class on climate(气候) change. The young German spoke about depredation(砍伐森林) and its influences on the planet. At the end of his talk, he called on the people of his county to help by planting one milling trees. __________________. Before he was 20, however, Finkbeiner's hard work had resulted in the planting of more than 14,00000, 000 trees around the world.

    Finkbeiner and his classmates began the project - named "Plant – for – the - Planet" –by planting the first tree outside their school. Other schools followed the example, and news of the one-million project began to spread. As a result, Finkbeiner was even given an invitation to speak at the European Parliament. Other invitations soon followed, and when he was just 13, he spoke at a United Nations conference in New York. "We don't think that adults(成年人) alone will save our future," he said in the speech. "We have to take our future in our own hands."

    Finkbeiner is now in his twenties, and Plant-for-the- Planet has grown to be an organization with around 70,000 members. It works to teach people about climate change and to challenge them to plant more trees. Germany's one millionth tree was planted long ago. The goal now is to plant 1,000,000,000,000 trees - about 150 for every person on Earth.

    Finkbeiner continues to give talks on climate change to world leaders. "I don't think we can give up on this generation(一代人) of adults," he says, "and wait 20 or 30 years for our generation to come to power. We don't have that time. All we can do is push present world leaders in the right direction."

    Did the wind ever blow your hat away? Did you ever drop your notebook on a windy day? How many important pages did you lose? Wind is moving air. It can pick up light materials and carry them far away.

    Wind is a force of erosion(仗蚀). It can carry away small

martials such as dust particles(灰尘微粒) and sand particles from the earth's surface. However, wind itself does not cause much erosion. Most "wind" erosion is done by particles which are cried by wind. Wind is an important natural force of erosion in dry places.

    Wind can easily pick up sand particles. When they are blown against rocks, the sand particles hit the rocks in the wind. This happens over and over again. Little by lite, the rocks wear down.

    The particles which are carried by wind not only cause erosion, they also build up. What is carried away by the wind in one place will drop somewhere else.

    When wind slows down, it drops the materials that it is carrying. When sand is dropped, it builds up and becomes dunes(沙丘). Sand dunes are common in deserts and on beaches. Some dunes can be harmful. They can bury(埋) farms and homes, even whole towns.

    Wind carries dust particles higher and farther than it carries sand. Thick deposits of wind-blown dust may also build up. The wind-blown dust is called loess(黄土). Loess deposits are found in Washington State and Oregon State.

    Sometimes people plant grasses and trees to try to stop wind erosion. How does this help? The roots of plants help to hold down soil and other particles found on the ground.

    “Nothing will ever be the same again," Ally said to herself.

    Ally's father died last summer. It wasn't fair, Ally thought. Dad was young and had never been sick. Why had his heart suddenly stopped? Ally sank slowly into her father's favorite chair and looked at his picture on the bookcase. Ally smiled. "I miss you, Dad," she said softly.

    She felt a hand smoothing her hair and looked up. "" Why don't you come outside with me, Ally?" her mother asked. "The birds are nesting(筑巢) in the woods. By this time last year you'd already taken dozens of pictures."

    But her mother must know bird watching wouldn't be the same this year. How could it be? Ally wondered. Ever since she could remember she and Dad had been a team, searching the woods for the special wood warbler. "I'll be out in a while, I promise," she answered,

    After her mother left, Ally ranched for the photo album she and Dad had put together. On the cover was a photo of a tiny orange bird with blue-gray wings and black eyes. Dad cut it from a local newspaper, Ally smiled, remembering the excited look on Dad's face when he showed her the pretty bird,

    "I can't believe someone spotted(发现) this little guy way up here in New Jersey," he said. "Wood warblers are usually found in the south, not this far north. I bet if we search real hard, Ally, we'll see this little guy together someday."

    Ally closed her eyes. She loved thinking about the times she and Dad had spent searching the woods for the little bird. They'd never spotted the warbler, but her father had an amazing way of making each outing seem special. He was her best friend, and when they were together Ally felt comfortable, as she did when she had her favorite blue sweatshirt on…

    Roald Dahl was a successful writer of children's books. He sold millions of books all over the world. He's so famous that there is even a Roald Dahl Museum you can visit. Many of his books have been made into films.

    Roald was born in 1916 in Wales. His father was rich but he died when Roald was young, Roald's mother brought him up. He left school early. Roald went to Africa to look for his fortune(财富), and he spent two years working for an oil company. In 1939, Roald joined the Air Force as a pilot, but he had a bad accident in the desert. This made him limp(跛脚的) for the rest of his life. After this, Roald went to America where he wrote a story about his adventures as a pilot. It was good and was published in a magazine.

    Roald met and married an American film star named Patricia Neal, They bought a house in England and had five children.

    Between 1960 and 1965, three terrible things happened. Theo, one of his children, was hit by a taxi in New York and was badly hurt. Luckily, he got well soon. However, Olivia, one of Roald's daughters, died of an illness. Soon after this, his wife also had a serious illness. It took her two years to get completely better.

    Roald became more and more successful. He always did his writing in an old room at the back of his house. He always sat in the same old armchair. “One of the nice things about being a writer," he once said, "is that you just need what you've got in your head and a pencil and a bit of paper."

    In 1983, Roald won a big prize for his book The BFG (The Big Friendly Gian). During his life, Roald wrote many famous books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, and James and the Giant Peach.

    After his death in 1990, Roald left money to help children and adults with serious illnesses or with problems with reading and writing.

Dear Sir or Madame,

    I'm writing this letter to offer my advice for a better town for teenagers. l (相信) there are many things that we can do to make life in our town a lot better for teenagers.

    First of all, I think that our town needs more bicycle lanes(不道). A lot of teenagers in my town cycle (到处), but it's very dangerous because there is a lot of (交通，车辆). If there are more cycle lanes in future, it will be much ( 更交全的) for us. Also, I want to say that we need more places for teenagers to go. In my (观点), we need more clubs and other places where we can meet, Teenagers won't cause (麻烦) in the street if there are more places for us to go。

    In addition, teenagers here need more sports facilities(设施). There are places to play ball games like (网球) and football, but what about other sports, for (例子), skateboarding and rollerblading?

     (最后). I am sure that we'll make the town better if we don't drop (垃圾). Our town will be much better for everyone in the future, if we can all do something to help now.

John Adams from Berkley School

    If you have learnt some maths at school, you can quite quickly work that one eleventh is about 9%. But did you know that 9% is also the number of children are not at school? That's right—one in 11 children is not (study) and probably even cannot do the simple maths you just did so very (easy). They drop out of school their families are too poor and they have to work their parents.

    In 2013, millions of children and teenagers were out of school. Most of them live in poor countries, there are also some boys and girls who cannot go to school in rich countries. If you are one of the (luck) ones who can go to a junior high school, you should be (thank) for the chance. So the next time you feel like you do not want to do boring homework or go to class, think about the children who don't have the chance to get a good education. Make better use of your education and make the world a (good) place.

Learning happens outside schools, in Night Safari!

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