吉林省·2023年中考英语冲刺大练习 08 综合型任务型阅读...

Does anyone in your life helps you achieve your goals? Does anyone encourage you, give you advice and ask you helpful questions? A person like this is a mentor （导顶帀）, and many people find out such mentors really helpful in their life.

The idea of mentorship （导师制）has been used in the business world. Some

companies pair new managers with more experienced ones. The more experienced manager can use his or her experience to help the new one. This not only helps the new manager but also is good for the company. That's because when managers do their job well, everyone wins.

Life coaching is a similar idea to mentorship. Life coaches are paid to help people set and achieve their goals. For many reasons people ask life coaches for help. Some people want help with their job, family or health. Others want to increase happiness. Life coaches can help with all of these situations.

Life coaches help people work out problems through many ways. They help

people think clearly about what they want in life by asking questions. Then they can help people give up those bad habits. Besides, they provide support and encouragement.

Both mentors and life coaches offer experience and wisdom that can help you make changes. They can encourage and guide you as you journey toward the things that are truly important.

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Sometimes it may seem difficult to improve our health. If so, the following health habits may help you.

   ①    Research shows that if you eat a meal in the morning you may not become too fat or cat too much during lunch. Eating breakfast can help people feel better through the day.

   ②    Poor sleep can influence our memory and learning. It can also cause traffic accidents! Studies show that people who don't get enough sleep seem to get into more accidents. So stay safe and get enough sleep!

   ③    Walking is an easy way to exercise. You'd better meet friends for a walk, not for a meal. As you walk, you will see the beautiful world around you. Once you try, you will find that addling a walk into your daily life is very easy.

   ④    Social groups can provide support. They might include sport teams, art or music groups. The people in the group can offer advice and can help each other in difficult times. Also, being in a group keeps your mind busy. An active mind is a healthy mind!

   ⑤    A hobby could be running, reading or making something with your hands. Hobbies help people to relax and rest. Hobbies bring us joy as well.

   ①   In ancient time, people had to use the sun and the moon to tell time. They got up when the sun came up and worked in the fields until the sun went down.

       ②    The sand clock is made of two glass balls joined by a narrow neck. The top ball was filled with sand. I he sand slowly moved through the neck into the bottom ball. People knew the time by watching how much sand fell to the bottom ball. People also made the water clock. They made a small hole near the bottom of a pot. When the water in the pot dripped(滴) out, marking(刻度) inside the pot showed how much time passed.

       ③    Animals don't need clocks to know time. They have their body clocks. Birds know when to fly to warmer places before winter. Some animals know when to keep more food for the winter. Some fish know when it's time to move up the river and lay eggs.

       ④    Plants have their own clocks to keep time. Plants know when to open flowers or when to drop their leaves.

       ⑤    People also have their own body clocks. When we get used to our lives, our body clocks can be very exact. It can tell us when it's time to wake up. It can also tell us when to eat or go to sleep.

①         We use passwords (密码) to keep our personal information secret and safe, but some passwords we use may not be as reliable (可靠地) as we think.

②         Splash Data, a computer security (安全) company, recently released (发布) a list of the 25 worst passwords. This list is based on the research of hackers' files (文件) containing stolen passwords. According to the list, "password" is the worst and most common password. Many others on the list are numbers in order either forward (for example, 1234) or backward. Letters on the keyboard in order, such as "qwerty" are also common, as well as some first names and animals. "Hackers can easily break into many accounts (账户) just by trying common passwords again and again, " said Morgan Slain, CEO of Splash Data.

③         How can you make a strong password? It should be eight characters or more, with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols. One way to create a long and easy-to-remember password is to separate short words with spaces or numbers. Having safe passwords is necessary for surfing the Internet safely. But it's not the only thing you must do to keep safety online.

④         Here are some other web safety tips: Never give out information that will allow someone to find you off line. That includes your full name, address and phone number. Don't include your real name as part of your online screen name. Never meet people you meet on the Internet in person. If you insist (坚持) on breaking this rule, meet in a very public place and consider taking an adult with you.

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⒈password   ⒉123456    ⒊12345678    ⒋qwerty    ⒌abc123

    I enjoy reading, which helps me improve my English a lot. If you want to do that like me, here are some suggestions for you.

    Firstly, it's important to choose a book which is the right level for you. If you are just starting out with English, don't try to read a 600—page classic novel!

    Secondly, although having a dictionary at hand to look up words is useful, you should try not to translate word by word, or you will soon get bored. Look up the words that you think are important to understand the text or follow the sentence. This will make it more likely that you will remember it in the future,

    Finally, perseverance（毅力） is the key. Although at first it may seem that reading has become a chore, you will soon get into the story and you will end up not being able to put the book down! The feeling of finishing a book in a different language is very satisfying. If you finish one, don't stop there! The more you read, the more vocabularies you will learn and the more you will become familiar with sentence structures and common phrases.

    I hope next time you pick up a book, it will be in English.

    For most of us, the days are divided into day and night. But for two months each winter in Northern Norway (挪威), it's dark for 20 hours a day. There is no sunrise or sunset because the sun never gets above the horizon (地平线) .

    Would you like to live in darkness for this long? It may seem difficult, but many people in Norway love the beautiful colors of these months.

    To the south are the red and gold colors of the horizon. To the north, the sky is a special blue. Even the moon and the stars look blue. In the towns, the lights in the streets shine like little yellow diamonds.

    People do need light to be healthy and happy. Since they don't have much daylight during this time of the year, they exercise and eat foods with vitamins (维生素) A and D, people usually get energy from being in the sun.

    And darkness doesn't stop people there from having a good time. Each winter, some people are skiing on hills and skating on ponds that are lit up. Others are going to film and music festivals And other people are spending time with friends in cafes and restaurants. Of course, not everyone is so active in the dark months. Many people are just going to sleep a little earlier until the sun returns in spring.

    Jason Queally is one of the fastest men in the world on a bicycle.

Every year, an important human-powered bicycle race is held in Nevada, the USA. The speed of the bike is measured for only 200 meters, but players take more than a kilometer to get their bikes going fast. Jason Queally's fastest speed for the 200-meterrase was 103.5 kilometers an hour.

    At this year's race, Jason failed to reach the finishing line. He was speeding along about seventy kilometers an hour when he began to lose control of his bike. When he tried to slow down, it began to smoke. Soon the inside of his bike was filled with smoke. He couldn't see, and he couldn't breathe. At seventy kilometers an hour, a crash could be very serious. Jason was frightened, but he managed to stop the bike safely. He would repair his bicycle and try again another time to be the world's fastest man on a bike. Better luck next time, Jason.

    Do you know Egypt? Let's go into ancient Egypt. In ancient Egypt. Women did not go out to work. They stayed and worked at home. Many Egyptian men were farmers. Some men were builders or fishermen. Other men worked as artists. Some other important people did not do any farming.

    The weather in Egypt was very hot. Ancient Egyptians did not wear many clothes. Men, women and children often wore simple robes(长袍)made of thin cloth. On their feet they wore light open shoes. People , including women, shaved(剃)hair from their heads to keep cool.

    Children in ancient Egypt grew up to do the same jobs as their parents. Girls stayed at home with their mothers. They learned to look after the family. Boys worked with their fathers. They learned to do the jobs their fathers did. They only went to school to learn to write if they wanted to become a writer.

    Many of the games played by ancient Egyptians are similar to the games we still play today. Children played racing and jumping games. They also played ball games and with wooden toys. Older children played a game like chess.

    The kings of Egypt (the pharaohs)(法老)had enough power to master their country. The people thought that the pharaoh was a god. He owned everything. Everyone had to do what he told them to do. The pharaohs built huge tombs(墓）. When a pharaoh died, he was buried in the tomb. The tombs were often in the shape of pyramids.

    When a pharaoh was buried, he was surrounded by treasure and by treasure and by things to help him in the next world, such as food, clothes, furniture and weapons.