浙江省宁波市南三县2021年中考英语一模试卷

Ahmad was lying on his back under two coconut (椰子) trees. He was 1. "Boom!" A coconut fell onto his head, waking him up. As he got pain on his 2 he heard his mother calling out to him to pick up something for dinner.

3, he had a good idea. He picked up the coconut and 4 it home with a plan to cut it open for all its flesh (果肉). Ahmad was cooking 5 he heard a stranger speaking outside. Ahmad went to check and saw an old gentleman, who greeted 6 and explained he was looking for somewhere to stay when it rained. After serving tea to the guest, Ahmad 7 his food was boiling and quickly rushed back.

Ahmad's mom explained that her son was preparing dinner and he liked cooking ever since young. The old guy was 8 and asked to see what he was cooking. When they went to the kitchen, the old man was drawn by what Ahmad was doing. After a while, the dinner was ready, 9 Ahmad's mom invited the man to enjoy it with them.

After eating, the old man said it was the most 10 food he'd eaten. He told them his name and job. He was one of the famous cooks in Hong Kong and his purpose of visiting here was to 11 a person to help him win the competition called Iron Cook. The old man said Ahmad was 12 and could cook excellent dishes.

Ahmad didn't know that would be the turning point in his 13. The dishes he created helped the old man 14 the competition. From then on, Ahmad has been an important 15 in the old man's restaurant in Hong Kong. So if you want to succeed, try to find your talent and practice, because chance favors the prepared mind.

Thinking of My Brothers on Mountain Climbing Day

Alone, a lonely stranger in a foreign ________,

I doubly pine for kinsfolk on a holiday.

I know my brothers would, with dogwood (茱萸) spray in hand,

Climb the mountain and think of me so far away.

(Translated by Xu Yuanchong)

Wang Wei (701-761) was a Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet. He wrote about 400 poems. His most famous poems are about natural scenery and country life. But this poem is about the poet's own feelings. He was only 17 when he wrote it. The language in the poem is simple, but the feeling is strong. While he misses his relatives, he hopes they are missing him as well.

It was a rainy day, and I didn't want to drive up the mountain road to my daughter Carolyn's house. But she insisted that I come to see something at the top of the mountain. So here was, unwillingly making the two-hour journey through fog-the thick clouds. By the time I saw how thick it was near the top of the mountain, I'd gone too far to turn back. Nothing could be worth this, I thought.

"I'll stay for lunch, but I'm heading back down as soon as the fog lifts," I announced when I arrived.

"But I need you to drive me to the garage to pick up my car," Carolyn said, "Could we at least do that, Mum?"

I agreed. After ten minutes on the mountain road, we turned a corner and stopped. On the top of the mountain were many tulips (郁金香), for several acres. A series of questions filled my mind. Who created such beauty? Why? How?

As we were nearer, we saw a sign that read: "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking." The first answer was: "One Woman-Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain." The second was: "One at a Time." The third: "Started in 1958."

I was so moved by what we had seen. "She changed the world." I finally said, "One bulb（球茎）at a time. She started over 60 years ago, probably just the beginning of an idea, but she kept at it."

"Imagine," I said, "if I'd had an idea and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have achieved?" Carolyn looked at me, smiling. "Start tomorrow," she said. "better yet, start today."

You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead!

Of course he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks.

There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress (床垫). Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar! Although their work depends on trick of this kind, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman's success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is "blown up" in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.

Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get badly injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞) failed to open, and he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stuntwomen, too!

There are a lot of advantages of being tall besides being able to reach the top shelf without a step ladder. More cash? That's right: tall men earn more money, reports LiveScience. On the other hand, there is also a huge disadvantage. According to a new study from the University of California Riverside, tall people may be more likely to develop cancer.

Leonard Nunney, a researcher at UC Riverside, reviewed four large population studies about the height and cancer. Nunney studied more than 10,000 cases of cancer, and when he looked at the result given a person's height, he found that the cancer risk rises by 10 percent for every four inches above the average height a person is --average being 5'4'' for women and 5'9'' for men.

"If you were comparing a five-foot guy to a basketball player who's over seven feet tall, then that basketball player would have around twice the risk of cancer across the board," he said.

In the study, which was published in Proceedinds of the Royal Society B, Nunney explained that one possible reason why tall people have an increased risk of cancer may be because of the simple fact that they have more cells (细胞) in their bodies. The more cell division happens in you, the greater the chances that cells will lead to tumour (肿瘤) growth.

Nunney found that the connection between the height and cancer risk was nearly the same with 18 out of the 23 types of cancer he tracked. He also discovered that skin cancer risk had an unexpectedly strong relationship with the height. And taller women had an increased risk of thyroid (甲状腺) cancer, as well.

Ways to Cheer Someone up

Everybody gets sad from time to time. If you want to know how to cheer someone up, here are some easy steps to help you.

Those people aren't really looking for an answer. Most of the time they just want to be heard. Do you know why they're sad? Pull up a chair, offer a smile, and give them a shoulder to cry on.

After figuring out just what the problem is, take a little bit of time to think over how to deal with it. Let them know you have an idea of what they could do. If you don't, be honest to yourself and them. Take them to a person who has a better fix for the problem than you do.

Jokes and funny stories are always ice-breakers after you've talked about a problem for a long time. Don't be afraid to make fun of yourself. Talk about a time when you embarrassed yourself or did something stupid. Your friend will appreciate the humor. Can you remember the time when someone gave you a gift? How warm did you feel inside when it happened? In fact, the gesture of giving the gift is more important than the gift itself. It can brighten their whole day. The environment has a great influence on our feelings. If you need to get someone out of his or her sadness, get them out! Having a different set of environment will encourage new and better ways of thinking.

There is an English saying: "Laughter is the best medicine." Until , few people took the saying seriously. Now however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They find that it people's blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing. It works the stomach and even the feet. So laughter exercises the body and improves people's health.

As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they help to improve their patients' condition encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like , making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

I can't remember when I started collecting litter. But it was when I  (get) tired of seeing litter nearby and realized that no one else was going to pick it up.

I live near a forest Ohio, America. I can walk there in three minutes. I used to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was much litter that I became very unhappy. I (decide) I had to clean up the forest. I wanted to be happy going there again.

I made my (one) trip to clean the forest that afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes starting to pick up litter, my bag was full! It had cans, bottles, (break) glass and newspapers in it.

From then on, I went to the forest four (time) a year to pick up litter. I'm often there for three hours. It makes me feel great to do something for the environment.

After each trip, I look at all the litter that I've found. it is recyclable, I will keep it. I can't understand why people drop litter. But I will keep picking it up until they stop (drop) it. I know I am only doing a small bit to help the Earth, but I still think it is important.

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