浙江省嘉兴市2020年中考英语试卷

    When you hear the word hero, you may think of someone like Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. But there are also "everyday" heroes 一 they may not be 1 to the public, but they do what they can to help 2 people's lives as well. Everyday heroes are normal people who are working to make the world a better place.  3 them is Robert Lee.

    Lee grew up in New York City. 4 his family was not rich, he learned from a young age the importance of 5 the waste of food. When in college, he was part of a student group that gave out leftover(剩余的)food to 6 people. This experience made him realize how 7 the problem of food wastage actually was.

    After he left university, Lee and a friend set up a(n)8 called Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC). Its purpose is to collect 9 food from restaurants and send it for free to shelters (收容所)and food kitchens. Volunteers 10 the food from restaurants around the city and hand it out to those in need.

    RLC operates 11. Using an app developed by Lee's team, restaurants 12 how much leftover food they have each day. Then volunteers are sent to fetch it. The 13 is usually short, so volunteers can just do their deliveries (递送)by14 from the restaurants to the shelters. Lee believes this is a quick way of delivery.

So far, Lee and his team have successfully 15 over 150,000 kilograms of food, serving almost 300,000 16 to people who need them. Lee has shown that a 17 action can help people around us greatly.18 may have a greater influence than we imagine. When Lee is asked 19 his next plan is, he says there's still a lot to do. It's just the 20. With more restaurants, who knows how much more we can do. "

    Is there a connection between music and language? According to recent studies, the answer is yes: Music helps develop certain language abilities in the brain.

    A study from Northwestern University shows that playing a musical instrument can improve a person's hearing ability. As a part of the study, two groups of people listened to a person talking in a noisy room. The people in the first group were musicians, while those in the second group had no musical training. The musicians were found to be able to hear the talking person more clearly.

    Musicians hear better, says study leader Nina Kraus, because they learn to pay attention to certain sounds. For example, when the violinists play in an orchestra（管弦乐队）, they must listen closely to what they are playing and ignore(忽视)the other sounds. In this way, musicians can hear certain sounds better, even in a room with lots of noise.

    Gotfried Schlaug, a doctor at Harvard Medical School, works with stroke(中风)patients.

    Because of their illness, these people cannot say their names, addresses, or other information normally. However, they can till sing. Dr. Schlaug was surprised to find singing words helped his patients finally speak. Why does this work? Schlaug isn't sure. Music seems to be able to make different parts of the brain active, including the bad parts. In some way, this helps patients use those parts of the brain again.

    So music is not only enjoyable, but also good for us in many other ways. Playing an instrument or singing, says Nina Kraus, can help us do better in school and keep our brain sharp as we get older.

    It's late evening in the middle of the winter. The snow is deep, but off I go into the wild.

    Suddenly, I hear it: the howl(嚎叫)of wolves. Excitedly, I walk faster in the direction of the howling.

    I've been working as a volunteer wolf tracker in Yellowstone National Park for over a year It's my job to follow wolves to record information about them. Like wolves, however, I don't work alone. I'm one of a team of people who have been in a project to help reintroduce wolves to the park.

    Humans have always feared wolves. From fairy tales to movies, the wolf is always the bad guy —a danger to humans and other animals. In the 1920s, the organizers of the park shared this view about wolves and made the decision to drive them away from the park. As a result, the number of elk (麋鹿)in the park increased. The elk started looking for food near river banks since they didn't have to worry about wolves. This, in turn, stopped trees from growing along the rivers, doing great harm to the environment there.

    The return of wolves has already made a big difference. To begin with, the elk soon learned to stay away from the rivers, so new trees have been able to grow there. The trees become home to new wildlife, such as birds, and provide food for more animals.

    The park is now becoming more and more popular with those who want to see wolves in their natural environment. It has also helped the local people make more money. Tourists visit the area, stay in the local hotels, and eat in the local restaurants.

    Looking at the wild animals and the beautiful sceneries around me, I am amazed at the changes the wolf has made to Yellowstone. And happily, it is playing a good guy in this story.

    Whenever Fm invited to somebody's house for the first time, I'll take a close look at their bookshelves. What they keep on their shelves, in my eyes, is a reflection (反映)of their personal tastes and interests. The books on a bookshelf tell the story of a life.

    My own shelves are a kind of roadmap through my life, telling a chronological tale. First up come my favorite childhood reads, like Watership Down and His Dark Materials. The collection then moves on to teenage things I read in school — Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale and A Clockwork Orange. Finally, we come out of full-time education and enter the real world, and this part is a reflection of my professional (职业的)life, from the first exciting days of work experience to the present.

    If you pointed to any book on my shelves, I could name the year I got it, where I was working, and probably where I was living at the time.

    __▲  It is an easy way to get to know about his hopes, dreams and interests. And a big part of that story is how we arrange (排列)our books, and get on with them. Ifs such a personal thing, different from each other. Some want to be with their books in every room, others have them on shelves, behind glass or simply lining their floors. Each home has a story to tell through the way they live with their books.

    It's often said that what we read says something about who we are. The way we fill our bookshelves might also send a message about ourselves. From the pile of books on your bedside table to your well-organized shelves, whether we notice it or not, our book collections are telling a story before a single page has been turned.

    It was last January, when I'd just finished a charity(慈善)and was on the train back home, that I put down my phone and started writing thank-you notes to people who had helped.

    When I got off the train, I felt amazingly good. The next day, I wrote more thank-yous and the same feeling of happiness hit me again. I suddenly had the idea: Why not keep on doing this for every day of the year?

    To keep on task, I decided to pick out a different theme for each month. January was charity.

    February would be neighbors, I decided. And I thought of a number of names right away: the owner of our local bookstore, who let me and my little son in before the store opened and offered to play his favorite songs; our babysitter, who dropped off a bag of old board games for our kids to play;….

    While wring the notes, I realized how often I had spent my time on the phone moving from app to app, appreciating(欣赏)other people's lives. Writing thank-you notes allowed me the time to do something different, paying more attention to my own life.

    In the following months, I wrote to my friends, doctors, teachers and parenting role models. In July, my "food" month, I wrote to Julie, who used to cook at my favorite restaurant. It went like this:

Dear. Julie,

    I've been finding myself missing you lately. Thank you for hosting and cooking beautiful and thoughtful food. Jake and I will never forget when you sent out biscuits shaped into the number VI for our sixth anniversary (周年纪念日). We talk about it every year.

    Thank you. We miss you.

Love,

Gina

    I was happy to receive a note back from her. Julie replied, "I don't think I've ever received such a touching letter before. I'm going through a hard time right now, and this helps. "

    On December 31, I wrote my last card—to Jake, my husband, and our two kids. And I took a picture of us, so I could remember the feeling welling up inside me. Gratitude.

    Hello, everybody. I'm Olivia. I'm glad to be here this afternoon. Do you have a friend with an interesting background? Today, I'd like to tell you about a (活泼的)girl. I'll tell you a bit about her, where she's from, and why we're good friends.

You know, I didn't use to do much exercise. A few years ago, I joined a  (运动)club. On my fist day there, I met Raquel. After the gym, we had coffee (一起)and soon became good friends. I think that's because we have a lot in common. We like to keep it and love to  (尝试)different food, especially spicy food. And we love the ocean. In summer, we like to hang out at the (海滩)ad go surfing at least once a month. Raquel was born in Mexico, but has been here since she was  (十)years old. Her mother is Mexican and her father is American, so she can speak (两者都)Spanish and English. That's something different about us. Although I (上学;参加)a class last year, my Spanish is still terrible! Another thing that's different is her background. Raquel's from two countries and has experience and (知识)of two cultures. I think that's really  (酷的).

    We might not live in the same city in the future, but I think we'll stay friends. Thanks for listening to me.

    My brother Claudio is one of the people I love most. He is wise and always helpful, taking care of me and  (we) young sister, Sarah. The day when he left home to go to college, I (teach) the importance of being a man.

    It was a  (rain) Saturday morning in August. We were woken up by the sound of Sarah playing the piano as usual. In the kitchen, there was  surprise for Claudio——his favorite pancakes.

    Mom gave us a big smile and told us  (sit)down for the breakfast. This was an important day for all of us!

    While we  (eat) breakfast, Claudio went upstairs to collect his things. I suddenly heard him calling my name. When I walked  the room we shared, I found Claudio sitting at my bedside. "It's time, brother," he said. I thought he was saying that it was time for him to leave the house, in fact he told me that I should take on a bigger role in the family from then on. He said I should do  (many) for Mom than before after he was gone.

    I thought about his words very  (careful) and then understood everything. That day I learned about family, love and duty.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

David

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短文首句：I have always been a good helper at home.