浙江省宁波余姚市2022年初中学业水平考试适应性测试英语试题

Long long ago, in a small village, there was a man named Jacob. He thought he was the1man in the world. One day he sold his well to a farmer. When the farmer went to get the 2 from that well happily, Jacob didn't 3him to get the water from it. He said, "Though the water in the well is 4and clear. I sold you the well, not the water. "

The farmer became very sad but he could do 5. He had to come to the emperor's palace. He 6 everything to the emperor and asked him for help.

The emperor 7 Birbal and handed over this case to him. Birbal was a very young judge. He was rich in 8. He enjoyed thinking about ideas every day. He called up Jacob. Birbal asked. "Why don't you let the 9 use the water of the well? You have sold the well to him!" Jacob replied, "I 10 sold the well to him, not the water. He has no right to get the water. "

Then Birbal smiled and said, "Good, but look. 11you have sold the well to this farmer, you stick to 12that the water is yours, then you have no right to keep your water in the farmer's well. You have 13 choices. Either you pay rent (租) to the farmer to keep your water in his well, or you take 14 out of his well at once. "

Jacob understood that his 15 had failed. Birbal beat him perfectly.

Don't try to cheat. You will end up paying for it no matter how smart you think you are.

When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.

When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.

When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.

When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.

When you're feeling tired. dare to keep going.

When love hurts you, dare to love again.

When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.

When a friend falls, dare to be the first to reach out a hand.

When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.

When the day has ended, dare to feel as you've done your best.

Dare to be the best you can…

At all times, dare to be!

Have you even seen fireflies? Fireflies are small insects. You can't see them in any season except summer. The lights made by fireflies are probably one of the most magical things to see on a summer night. Do you wonder how fireflies make this light?

There is a part that can make light under a firefly's stomach. Fireflies take in air and use it to produce light with special cells (细胞). Different kinds have their own special flash patterns, just like humans have different languages. They use these flash patterns to find other members of their group.

Fireflies mainly use the light to get friends' attention. The males (雄性) fly around while turning their lights on and off, hoping to get the attention of a female. They try to flash very quickly, because the faster males flash, the more attention they can get from females. Fireflies also use the light to make their enemies scared.

If you haven't seen many fireflies lately, you are not alone. The number of fireflies may be dropping because of some reasons, such as light pollution and chemical medicine use. Another important reason is that fireflies' living places are destroyed by humans. Luckily, Chinese scientists recently found three new firefly kinds in Yunnan. Yunnan might have the right environment for these magical insects to live in.

On the third night of huger, nothing lived on that island of ice except Noni and his dog. When the ice broke up. Noni had lost everything. He had saved only Nimuk, his dog. Noni's love for Nimuk was real. It was as real as hunger and cold nights.

Nimuk watched him with the bright eyes. He told himself that Nimuk, when hungry enough, would begin to look for food." one of us will soon eat the other," Noni thought. "So."

He couldn't kill the dog with his hands. Nimuk was powerful and much less tired than be. He needed a knife. Noni took down the brace (支架) from his injured leg. It was made of two thin pieces of iron. He stuck one iron piece into the ice then began to rub the other piece against it. He kept working, trying not to remember why. The piece of iron began to take shape. He bad a knife!

____________, "Here, Nimuk!" Nimuk came closer. Noni could see hunger and fear in the animal's eyes. Noni's heart broke. He hated himself and fought against it. Closer Nimuk came, Noni clearly saw hunger and suffering in the animal's hard breathing and slow movements. Now! Now was the time to kill it! Noni stood with his knee, crying silently. He threw the knife far away from him. With empty bands. be walked to the dog slowly and fell.

The dog made terrible noise as it circled the boy's body. Noni was sick with fear. Without his knife, he couldn't protect himself. He was too weak to move. The dog was very hungry. It stepped behind him. Noni shut his eyes, he could feel the dog's feet against his leg, the hot rush of Nimuk's breath against his neck. Then he felt the dog's bot tongue licking his face. Noni's eyes opened, crying softly. He threw his arm and drew the dog's head down against his own. . .

An hour later. A young pilot found there was a boy and a dog. The boy lost his mind but alive. The dog was too weak to move.

COVID-9 is a strongly contagious (接触性传染的) coronavirus (冠状病标) that can cause many illnesses like a runny nose, a sore throat, coughs and fever, even it can lead to death. We know it has kept changing so far. We're growing what could be the most contagious coronavirus yet at a safe lab in Toronto, Canada, to study what danger Omicron actually brings. Scientists know Omicron has more mutations (突变) to the viruses than Alpha and Delta, but it will take very long time to find out what all those mutations mean.

We can't just look at one and say oh, because of the mutation at 501 we know this is going to happen, because it happened with Alpha or with Delta. So that's why we have to look at it in the whole thing, which is why we have to do all the work in highly safe labs.

Researchers are also studying the growing number of people testing positive for Omicron to answer three very important questions: Whether is it easier to make people sick? Does it lead to more serious illness? Is it easier to break through our immune (免疫) system, especially in vaccinated (接种疫苗的) people? We need to see many kinds of cases, we need to compare it to patients who have the other viruses such as Alpha and Delta to get some ideas. That will take a lot of time.

According to the latest data from South Africa, hospitals reported that they saw a rapidly growing number of mostly unvaccinated patients infected by Omicron. It suggested Omicron is more contagious, but it led to less serious illness compared to Alpha and Delta. The news made some people from all over the world filled with both hope and doubt. I keep my own opinion, because we've seen some news about mutations, but it isn't the fact.

For now, Delta is still driving the numbers, since 2021, a large number of people have died from COVID-19, most of them are unvaccinated.

The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. Lichun, the first solar term of the year, begins this year on Feb. 4th. "Li" means "start", the English of "Lichun" is Start of Spring. Start of Spring the curtain of spring slowly. After that. everything turns and daytime becomes longer and the weather gets warmer. There are many customs around the Start of Spring. In China, it is that an egg can be set upright on the first day of the Start of Spring, Spring Equinox (春分) day and Autumn Equinox day. It is believed that someone can make an egg stand on the Start of Spring day, they will have good luck in the future.

In China, most of the zoos have pandas. Now there are 1, 864 pandas (live) in the zoo. In fact, many people around the world love these black and white animals. cute and lovely they are! They mainly eat bamboos, and they also eat other food milk and meat. Pandas like climbing trees, the higher, the (good). They can enjoy all kinds of amusement facilities (设施) in the zoo. They are looked after very well. A zoo keeper (weigh) the animals every day to check they keep (health).

As symbol of China, the panda, of course is the favorite of the Olympics. There were five mascots (祥物) for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. They (name) Fuwa. One of them was the panda. It was a really lovely boy named Jingjing. It stood for forests and was the symbol of joy. Now as the mascot for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the panda is called Bing Dwen Dwen. is meaningful to have the name in Chinese—"bing" is the Chinese word for ice and "Dwen Dwen" means lively. Bing Dwen Dwen's mask on its face stands for the snow and ice of winter sports. Both Jingjing and Bing Dwen Dwen are popular with people of all (age).

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