四川省德阳市2021年中考英语真题

Honesty is an important rule when you are with others. Never cheat your friends because that will make you lose them and you will feel1Don't tell lies to your parents, or you will2them. If you are a teacher or a parent, you'd better always tell the3to your students or children. That can make them believe you and respect you.

If you make a4, don't try to hide it. Face it and correct it. That makes people like you better than before because they think you are5.

Two years ago, I together with my wife, my son and my little daughter to a tip to Guangzhou. When we1our hotel, it was around 1a.m. My little daughter looked out at the lights of Canton Tower and said she wanted to go outside. I told her it was too late to go2,  but she kept looking out of the window and said, “Just for two minutes.”

My wife and I just looked at each other , smiled and said, “Two minutes!” We got dressed and walked to Canton Tower. When we got there, my daughter pointed at the lights and shouted3, “Dad, look !”And then she fell asleep. So we had to go back to the4.

It took us half an hour to get ready for the 20 seconds we5near the tower, but it made our daughter happy and that6 a lot to us. That night I learned a7about happiness. We sometimes have chances to8happy moments in our lives, but we often find an excuse to do something else.

Because of my9, I learned that I was the biggest enemy to my own happiness. Happiness is a door that is always10,  and we are the ones who have to decide if we are going to walk through the door.

Li Zixuan is a junior middle school student. He is now studying in Grade 9. He has had many dreams since he was little. But as time goes by, some new dreams have appeared and some old ones have disappeared. However, only one dream is still in his mind.

Li Zixuan says that when he was a child, he heard about rockets and spaceships. At first, he didn't know what they were. From his father, he knew that scientists make rockets to carry things into space, and spaceships are used to carry people through space. From then on, he has had a real interest in space. Every time he sees beautiful stars and the moon in the sky at night, he gets every excited. He is always dreaming that he can fly to space to look at the early one day. His mother knows about his dream and of the encourages him.

In school, Li Zixuan learned that the first man flew into space in 1961 and later, more astronauts succeeded in traveling into space. Some astronauts even landed on the moon. His teacher always encourages him to learn more. He knows not everyone has a chance to travel into space. More importantly, before he can fly to space, he must be trained specially.

Li Zixuan knows it's not easy to achieve his dream, but he decided to try his best. He says, “I've had this dream for many years. it has brought me a lot of joy and always gives me power. Even if it doesn't come true in the end, I won't be sorry.”

If your pencil box is broken, the batteries(电池)in your flashlights run out, or you have some leftover food, how will you deal with these things? You will probably throw them all into one rubbish bin. But actually, we need to sort(分类)all the rubbish separately. If you don't sort your rubbish, all of it will go to a special place where it is buried(埋藏)together. As a result, it will take up some fields. Some rubbish will pollute the groundwater. Some rubbish that can be reused will be wasted.

In recent years, some Chinese cities have been working hard on rubbish sorting.

Shanghai has called on all the people living in this city to sort their rubbish into four groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry. Wet waste is known as household waste. They are things you don't want but pigs can eat. Paper, metal, glass, plastic and other things that can be reused are recyclable waste. Harmful waste includes thins like medicine, batteries. Finally, any waste that is not wet, recyclable or harmful will go to the “dry waste” bin.

Many other Chinese cities are also using this way to sort their rubbish. For example, Deyang has been sorting its rubbish into the same four groups since several years ago. Students in Deyang have already received waste-sorting guidebooks. They have studied these books and known how to sort the rubbish.

China is now improving its waste-sorting efforts. There is still a long way to go. But it's never too late to learn how to sort your rubbish rightly. We should take an active part in it.

As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, do people remember less? if you know your computer will store information, why do you store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.

In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow made some experiments(实验). She and her research team wanted to know how the Internet is changing memory.

In the first experiment, they asked two groups of people to put 40 unimportant facts into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would store the information. The second group understood that the computer would not store it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.

In the second experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in an exact in an exact computer folder(文件夹). Surprisingly, people later remember where the folder is better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. However, they remember how to find it. This is called “transitive memory (交互记忆)”.

According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transitive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize a lot of information so that they are able to get it at a later date. This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less clever, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.

Problems between parents and children are common. If you need to improve your relationship with your parents, you are not alone. To develop a better relationship with your parents, you should change how you think and do things.

Act first. Don't wait for your parents to try to improve the relationship.

Be thankful to your parents. Think about everything that your parents have done for you. you are sure to feel thankful to them.Give them a nice gift or do some housework without being asked. They will be happy with you for these actions.

Talk to your parents about things that you care about and your feelings about these things. Often talk to them, and your parents can understand you better. If so, it's easy for them to discuss things that you are interested in and develop the relationship.

Accept that your parents are different. They grow up in a different situation with different technologies.Try to remind them of any problem in their relationships with their parents because of these differences. Use this information when you talk to your parents to improve your relationship with them.