江西省上饶市鄱阳县八校2023年英语中考一模试卷

—Yes. The countryside is more ________ than before.

—I ________ going in Bill's car.

—Oh, I ________ for a welcome party this Saturday evening. I am the organizer.

—Yes, I am. I think I must go home and change my clothes, or I ________ a cold.

—Yes, I stayed up ________ the soccer game on TV was over at 11:30 pm.

—Yes. It ________ by the city green club to protect the environment.

Volunteering in your community helps you give back. You'll feel great when you are volunteering your time for your community. If you want to start volunteering, find an organization that 1 you, and then decide what to help with.

Use a(n) 2 site to find a good match. Much 3 job search sites, you can use volunteer sites like VolunteerMatch or Serve.gov to help you find volunteering jobs in your area.

Talk to your friends and family. If you 4 can't decide where to volunteer, start asking people you know where they volunteer. You may find one of them to offer you a 5, and it can make it 6 to volunteer with someone you know for the first time. Volunteering with friends can make it more 7 because you are with people you know.

Pick an organization that will teach you 8 new. Volunteer opportunities (机会) can be 9 good for you. They can give you the experience you don't have. Some organizations will also give 10 training and career (职业) development. For example, volunteering at a 11 can teach you something about the healthcare system (医疗体制), 12 volunteering at a library can teach you about community programs and library organization. If you volunteer in the park system, you'll learn about 13 to run (经营) a park.

You could also choose organizations to develop the 14 you already have. 15, if you are good at another language, you could offer your skills as a translator to community organizations, improving your skills along the way.

Located in one of Beijing's most active art communities, the Loneliness (孤独) Museum is always very crowded. , everyone who visits the museum says that they are lonely. Divided into 13 parts including an office at night, the last subway and a hospital, the museum displays (展出) over 1000 lonely stories from  people. There are many notes with words of encouragement and ways  with solitude (孤独) on the walls and the stairs. They may feel  after seeing them.

One of the museum's owners Fang Fang says that people who come to work in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou may  lonely every now and then. So she wants to provide a  for them to relax. It  them that even though life is hard, there are lots of people like them. They are not alone.

 the development of technology, it is easier for people to get in touch with old friends and make new friends. However, young people are likely to feel lonely.

People may get used to loneliness as they get older  they experience important life events and life changes.

Luckily, our society is more tolerant (宽容的) towards this kind of young group, often encouraging them to face this crazy changing world . In a room of the museum, with three bicycles, strangers can  together to light up the lights on the wall, which forms a sentence— "Loneliness comes together with love".

Having successful surgery (手术) can help save people's life. A doctor's hands always play an important role when doing surgery. Therefore, scientists are always working hard to use new helpers—robots—to make them more precise (准确的) in surgery.

MicroPort MedBot, a company (公司) in Shanghai, made a surgical robot to help doctors do surgery in small space. The robot has four arms and the arms can do things like a doctor's hands. It can also give a 3D picture of the surgery. The robot won the "Super AI Leader" prize at the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference.

Du Qunjian from MicroPort MedBot, said that the robot would help more doctors to do many kinds of difficult surgeries. "There are only a few excellent doctors who are able to do some surgeries across the country," Du said. "But with the help of robots, we can solve the problem."

"Sometimes it takes long to do surgery. And doctors will feel tired easily. With the robot, doctors can see clearly what they're doing," Du said. "The robotic surgery could save sick people from the danger of infection (感染) and help them get well faster after the surgery."

In June, MicroPort MedBot finished two remote (远程的) robotic surgeries at hospitals in Jiangsu and Xinjiang. The company hopes to use 5G to help more people in poor places.

Now surgical robots are not popular in hospitals because of their high costs. But the market for them is expected to grow in China over the next few years. According to a report, the market size for surgical robots in China will grow from $400 million in 2020 to $3.8 billion in 2026.

The seahorse is a small fish with a curly tail. Its size is from as small as a peanut (花生) to as large as a tennis shoe. Seahorses come in many colors, and some even have the ability to change colors to match the environment where they make their homes.

________ They are the slowest swimmers among fish. Their only way to push themselves forward is by using a tiny fin on their back. Often, seahorses hold onto plants with their tails for a faster trip!

The seahorses' biggest danger comes from humans. Seahorses feed on tiny fish and plankton (浮游生物), but chemical (化学品) pollution from human activities harms the food. And human-caused climate change has led to warmer ocean temperatures, which put stress on seahorses' bodies by influencing their breathing and appetite (食欲). What's more, because seahorses are poor swimmers, they have trouble running away to a safe area when their usual living place is polluted.

However, these bad things are far less terrible than the seahorse trade. Over 20 million seahorses are caught and killed each year for use in traditional Chinese medicine. On top of this, hundreds of thousands of wild seahorses are sold to private aquarium (水族馆) owners every year.

As it continues, seahorses could disappear by around 2050, but there is still time to save them. Protecting seahorses means never buying them for home aquariums or taking medicine made with them. The whole world needs to protect oceans by cutting down on sea pollution.

Can you play soccer? Do you know a soccer player Sadio Mané? Mané was born in Africa in 1992. Now he is a popular soccer player in the world. He was also the 2019 African Footballer of the Year.

When Mané was only a kid, he showed great talent in soccer. At the age of 15, he started getting soccer training and then joined the national team. Day by day, he played better and better and joined some soccer clubs. In 2011, he joined FC Metz. Then he joined Southampton F. C. in 2014. Two years later, he joined Liverpool F. C.

Now he makes a lot of money a year. With a lot of money, Mané can enjoy a nice life. However, he doesn't let his fame or money go to his head. The news showed just how plain Mané was. It had a photo of him carrying a cracked (有裂纹的) phone.

Mané said, "Why would I want 10 sports cars, 20 expensive watches, or two planes? What will these things do for me and for the world?"

He also said, "In the past, I did not have a good education and many other things, but today with what I get thanks to football, I can help many people." Mané helped to build a school and a hospital in a village. He also often gives away food, clothes and money to the people there.

After soccer, helping people is the most important to Mané. He always wishes to spend his money on something meaningful. That's why his fans like him a lot.

Quilts keep people warm.

Quilts have a long history in different places. In Asia, the quilt appeared in the first century BC.  From then on, people in Europe wore quilted (夹层的) clothing under their heavy coats to keep warm.

Bed quilts had something to do with women in American history. When the earliest people in Europe came to America, there were few or no stores.  During the 1700s and 1800s, women made quilts. Quilting kept families from living in the cold environment. Women met at parties to help each other finish making quilts.

 Some stories said that slaves (奴隶) put information into their quilts to show other slaves the way to freedom (自由).

Quilts are also a form of art. Every quilt is a way for the artist to show himself or herself. Each one uses different designs (设计图样) and colors. Each one also uses different skills for sewing the pieces together.  Later, people added some pictures, such as birds or flowers.

So next time you climb into bed with a nice warm quilt, look at it carefully.

A. Quilting also played a role in helping some slaves.

B. However, you may not know well about quilts.

C. Quilts were not made of cotton in the first beginning.

D. In the 11th century, people in Europe brought quilting skills from the Middle East.

E. In the beginning, people just sewed the materials together.

F Quilts really have a long history of development.

G. Women cut up old clothes and used them to make new clothes.

(Amy and Bill are talking about their future jobs. Amy=A; Bill=B)

A: Hi, Bill!

B: Great. I am so thankful for this chance.

A: Glad to hear that.

B: Well, I'm not completely sure. My parents expect me to take over their business in my hometown. But I really like this factory in Shanghai.

A: Oh, you should make your own decision. And it won't be easy to ask your parents to change their minds.

B: I have to think about it. Have you decided what to do after college, Amy?

A: Not really. I'm playing with the idea of being a photographer (摄影师).

B: Wow!

A: I have been taking photography classes to improve my skills. I still have a lot to learn.

B:

A: Thanks for saying so.

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Dear Mike,

How's everything? I'm writing to invite you to take part in the Chinese Classics Sharing Activity.

Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua