北京市密云区2020年九年级英语二模试卷

—No, you__________.

—He _____________ a meeting at the office now.

—He read a book.

—Haha! It's me! The picture _________________ten years ago.

—Next Friday.

    It's been nearly 40 years since I became a member of the navy (海军). You may be wondering how I have won so many honors as a commander-in-chief (最高统帅). In fact, it all began from the half a year's basic training, which I will never forget. The training included midnight swims in the cold water, days without 1 and long painful runs in the soft sand. I always felt cold, wet, hungry and painful.

    The training also needed to find those who could 2 in an environment of stress, mess, failure and hardships. To me, the basic training was a lifetime of challenges that lasted six months.

     And today, I'd like to talk about one little thing.

    Every morning in the training, my instructors (教官) would appear in our rooms. The first thing they did was to 3 our beds. The corners would be square if we did it right. The covers would be pulled tight, and the pillow would be centered just under the headboard.

    It was a difficult task. But every morning we were required to make our beds 4. It seemed a little funny, but the wisdom of this simple act has been proved to me many times over.

    If you make your bed every morning, you will have completed the first task of the day. It will bring you a small 5 of success, and it will encourage you to do another task, and another and another. And by the end of the day, one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.

    Making your bed will prove the fact. If you can't do the 6 things right, you will hardly be able to do the big things right.

    Changing the world can happen anywhere and anyone can do it. I can make sure that it doesn't matter whether I ever 7 a day in uniform (制服,军服). Even now, I still start my day with making the bed to perfection. So if you have an awful day by accident, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

In general, if you want to change the world, 8 off by making your bed. I hope all of you will have a brighter future!

    An English teacher has introduced a play to her class.

    Characters:

    Benny, student, 14 years old

    Jerry, student, 15 years old

    Susie, student, 14 years old

    Grace, student, 14 years old

    Time: One Sunday afternoon.

    Place: By the river near their houses.

     (The four teenagers have just finished the picnic. They are tidying up. )

    Benny: Wow! That was a great picnic. I'm so full that I can hardly move.

    Grace: That's no excuse for not tidying up, Benny. Come over here and help me pack (包装) up the leftover food. Jerry, can you put out the fire, please? And clean up the place.

    Jerry: (Speaking unhappily to himself.) How can I always get the dirty and difficult jobs? It's not fair.

     (Jerry throws a bit of water on the fire. Then he picks up the ashes (灰烬) with an old newspaper and wants to throw them into the long grass. )

    Susie: (Sounding surprised) What are you doing, Jerry? That's d….

    Jerry: Whoop …the paper has caught fie.

    Susie: And the grass…Benny, Grace, help! Help!

     (Benny and Grace come over quickly. They help put out the fire completely)

Jerry: Oh, no. Oh, no! What have I done?

    Grace: You know that we should do everything carefully, don't you?

    Jerry: (With his head in his hands.) Yes. What have I done? What have I done?

A Dream Chaser in a Wheelchair

    Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. That dream nearly ended in 2010 when Hill was in a car accident, which put the 17-year-old girl in hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed (瘫痪的) from the waist down. For most people, that would have destroyed any hope of a dancing career. But for Hill, it was the beginning. "I want to prove to everyone including myself that I'm still normal," she said, "whatever normal means."

    Normal for her meant dancing, so Hill did it in her wheelchair alongside her nondisabled high school dance team. Half of her body was taken away from her, so she had to move it with her hands.

    It took much learning and patience.

    After graduation from high school, Hill wanted to expand her dance network to include women like her. She met people online who were fighting for the dream of dancing against various spinal(脊柱的)injuries, and invited them to dance with her. To reach more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she called the Rolletes.

    Every year Hill holds a dance camp called the Rollettes Experience for wheelchair users to help them bring out their acting talent. In 2019,173 participants from ten countries attended. For many, it was the first time they'd felt they belonged. Edna Serrano said, "I didn't know I could do so many things that my fellow teammates had taught me. It's so powerful to have my teammates in my life, because they're my teachers. I have more confidence. "

    Chelsie Hill got what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She has been chasing her dream in the wheelchair. She's a dancer. The Rolletes have helped her find something else just as fulfilling.

    The Garbage (垃圾) Project started at the University of Arizona in 1973. Since then, the students and teachers in it have studied the modern garbage in different cities.

    To study the garbage, the students had to travel to landfills, the places where cities bury (填埋) their garbage. While the students were studying the garbage, they wore special clothes. Students were very careful when they opened bags of garbage.

    One important thing the students have learned from studying the garbage is that the garbage in landfills disappears very slowly. That was surprising to both the students and many scientists who had thought that about 70% of the garbage in landfills would disappear quickly. Even in cities where it rains a lot, the students found newspapers from 1948, 40-year-old hot dogs, and vegetables from 1970. And the students also found many more empty bottles of cola than they expected。

    As society develops, there is more and more waste produced in our daily life. How to dispose ofour garbage well depends on what kind of garbage it is: regular(普通的) garbage, dangerous materials, or recyclable materials, such as newspapers and glass bottles. Regular garbage goes to regular landfills. Dangerous materials are harmful to people's health and the environment. They shouldn't go into regular landfills. And people should try their best to reuse the resource and reduce the amount of using them. It is high time that people need to divide different kinds of waste and put them into different dustbins, which will be a great help to cleaning workers as well as the whole society.

    Homes are full of dangerous waste. One kind of the dangerous waste in homes is batteries (电池). When batteries are buried directly in a landfill, they often break open. The poison inside them moves through rain water to the bottom of the landfill. Then it can pollute the natural water in the ground.

    Another dangerous waste from homes is motor oil. When people pour old motor oil on the ground or throw it in the garbage, it pollutes the environment.

    Our garbage problem is not new, but as the world's population continues to grow, it will become a bigger and bigger problem.

    The Notre Dame (巴黎圣母院) fire has been put out, but its wooden roof has been largely damaged. The terrible accident caused a sudden sharp pain to people around the world, "What a pity that we cannot see the damaged parts of the wonder anymore."

    But the good news is that there is at least one way of seeing them, namely via a video game called Assassin's Creed: Unity. In this game, the player can travel to one city after another and enter the buildings exactly like what they are in reality, and see Notre Dame as it was before the fire.

    What's more, with VR technology, which is already quite mature, one can even look around the undamaged Notre Dame as if it is still there. Maybe digital technology could help to better protect architectural cultural heritage (建筑文化遗产).

    The idea of digitizing ancient buildings, making digital models of them so their data can be saved, dates back to the 1990s and the necessary technology has continued to advance since then.

    By scanning the ancient buildings with lasers, building 3D models with hundreds of images, as well as measuring (测量) everything exactly, engineers can make a copy as "same" as the real one.

    As computers and smartphones are hugely popular, the digital replica or digital copy has great practical value. First, it allows tourists to feel the cultural relics (文物) without touching them, which helps protect them. The virtual tour of Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province is a good example of this as tourists can view the paintings without standing near them. Furthermore, it can make the digitized cultural relics more famous by spreading awareness about them via the Internet. In 2000, a virtual tour of the Great Wall became very popular at the Hannover World Expo, which increased the number of foreign tourists visiting it in the following years. Above all, it saves all the information of the cultural relics. Even if the original ones are damaged one day, people can still know what they were like and can build a replica if desired.

    Time is the biggest problem to architectural heritage. Maybe we will have better technologies in the future, but the digital technology offers a practical way to protect architectural cultural heritage at the moment.

    Onthe level of everyday usage a myth is a false story or belief. A myth issomething that is not correct, but many people believe. There are a lot ofmyths about the human brain.

    Oneof the biggest myths is that we only use 10 percent of our brains. The nextpart of the myth is that if we can learn to use the rest of our brains, thenwe'll be much smarter. People say this all the time, but it's absolutely nottrue! The truth is that although we don't know everything about the humanbrain, we know that each part of it has an important function (功能). Modern scientists think the "10 percent myth" ridiculous(荒谬的).

    Theother most popular myth is about being "right brained" or "leftbrained". According to this myth, people who use the right side of theirbrains are more artistic and creative. People who use the left side of theirbrains are better at math and science. This is as popular as the 10 percentmyth, and it's also wrong. In 2013, a study at an American university examinedthe right brain and left brain myth. According to the study, we use both sidesof our brains equally (相等地).

It'strue that we use different parts of our brains for different things. We use ourleft side for language more, and our right side when we need to pay attention. Butthere is no evidence (证据) that creative people use theright side more, or that scientific people use the left side more.

    We'vetalked about myths, so let's look at a few interesting facts about the brain. Firstof all, the brain feels no pain. Second, about 75 percent of the brain is madeof water. It's also the fattest organ in your body. Here's another interestingfact about the brain. Around the time you turn 18 years old, it stops growing.

在京某大学的部分留学生将要来你校访问。学校英语社团正在招募志愿者承担接待工作。假如你是李华，请用英语给社团负责人Peter写一封申请信，介绍你的个人优势，以及你申请的理由。

提示词语:speak English well, help, get along well with, improve, bring

提示问题:

1）What are your strong points?

2）Why do you want to do the work?

垃圾分类我先行，保护环境靠大家。垃圾分类，人人有责，从我做起，从小事做起，从身边做起，从现在做起。

某英文网站正在开展以“垃圾分类 从我做起”为主题的征文活动。假如你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投稿，谈谈生活中你是怎么做的，以及你的感受。

提示词语:put, help, different bins, necessary

提示问题:

1）What do you do in your daily life?

2）How do you feel?