浙江省温州市鹿城区2021年中考英语一模试卷

    A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know if she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one 1.

Her father, a cook, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots 2 water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the 3 he placed eggs, and in the last he placed coffee beans. He let them boil, without 4 a word.

The daughter waited impatiently, wondering 5 he was doing. In about twenty minutes, he 6 the burners and put the carrots, the eggs and the coffee into different bowls. He asked, “Darling, what do you see?" “Carrots, eggs, and coffee." she 7.

He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She noticed that they were 8. He then asked her to take an egg and break 9. After pulling off the shell, she observed (观察) the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to taste the coffee. She enjoyed it and smiled.

“What does it mean, Father?" she asked.

He explained that 10 of them had faced the same situation, boiling water, 11 each reacted (反应) differently. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak 12 being boiled. The fragile (脆弱的) eggs became hard after cooking. Coffee beans were the most 13 of the three. They turned the 14 into tasty coffee. “Which are you?" he asked his daughter.

When 15 knock on your door, how do you answer? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?

    Last year, Time chose 15-year-old scientist Gitanjali Rao as its Kid of the Year for 2020. Gitanjali was chosen from over 5,000 young kids.

Time has long been famous for its "Person of the Year". In 2020, it decided to honor young people in the US with its first ever Kid of the Year. Time worked with the TV channel Nickelodeon to look at kids between the ages of 8 and 16 who were really making a difference, no matter how small.

Gitanjali is one of them. When she was 11, she invented a system to test drinking water for lead (铅). It earned her the title of America's "Top Young Scientist" in the 2017 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. She also made an app called Kindly. She hopes the app can help cut down on online bullying (霸凌). "It gives you a chance to rethink what you're saying so that you know what to do next time," Gitanjali said.

Gitanjali worked with schools, museums and other groups around the world to teach young people how to come up with their own solutions to problems. "If I can do it," she told them, "you can do it, and anybody can do it."

    ①It is normal to feel a bit nervous about exams, especially if you're under pressure from school or family. Exam stress can cause you to feel nervous or depressed (沮丧的), and this might influence your sleeping or eating habits.

②If you have any of these feelings or are worried that exam pressure is taking over your life, you are not alone. Here are some things you can do.

③Firstly, let your trusted friends and family know if you're having a hard time, so they can be there to support you, encourage you and offer a listening ear. You don't have to go through this alone. Keeping it all in will only make things worse, so don't be afraid to open up.

④Secondly, think about all the practical support you need, and be honest with yourself about it. You are allowed to ask for help. Tell your teachers about your worries. They may have talked to lots of students who are going through similar things, so they can give you some helpful advice.

⑤One more thing you can do is to be kind to yourself. Think about all the things you have achieved so far. It can be helpful to write a list of all the things you like about yourself, and the things other people value about you, too. ________

⑥If you follow the things above, I'm sure you will never be worried about exams.

    Ten, nine, eight, seven … The fifth Long March 5 carrier rocket with the Chang'e 5 lunar probe (月球探测器) launched (发射) at 4:30 am on Nov. 24^th, 2020.

The Chang'e 5 lunar probe plans to return with samples (样品) of the moon. The whole mission (任务) will last about 23 days, according to the China National Space Administration. If this mission is successful, Chang'e 5 will be the first lunar sample-return spacecraft since 1976, when the former Soviet Union's unmanned Luna 24 brought 170.1 grams of lunar samples back.

As one of the most difficult missions, the Chang'e 5 mission aims to bring back a larger sample and explore a new area of the moon.

"The three unmanned lunar probes of the former Soviet Union—Lunar 16, Lunar 20 and Lunar 24—carried out three lunar samplings and return missions, and the lunar soil samples brought back were only about 330 grams, while Chang'e 5 plans to bring back 2 kilograms of lunar samples," Pang Zhihao, a space activity researcher and author in Beijing, told Science and Technology Daily. The great increase in sample weight can play a key role in Chang'e 5's lunar orbit unmanned docking program (月球轨道无人对接计划). With the program, the ascender (上升器) only requires a small amount of fuel (燃料), so even a heavier sampling will not influence the normal return of the spacecraft.

The best part of the journey is Chang'e 5's lunar landing site—the northwest part of Oceanus Procellarum, also known as the Ocean of Storms—on the near side of the moon, where no probes have visited before.

When you plan your week, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you to realize what is happening to your time.

Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television! When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject.

Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teachers say. If you listen well in class, you'll have less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.

When you get home from school, go over your notes. Review the important points that your teacher mentioned in class. Practice makes perfect! You will remember the knowledge longer.

The purpose of a test is not only to show what you have learned about a subject, but you can also use your new knowledge in other ways. So don't worry if you don't pass a test.