广东省广州市2020年中考英语模拟试卷（三）

movie it was! I almost fell asleep.

    Last year I was lucky to have a week's holiday, so I wanted to spend1in the best hotel I could find. That was2I chose The Haven in a country park. I thought I would be able to escape problems and pressures of daily life. But, just 24 hours after arriving there, my wife and I3problems with the restaurant and security.

    We were ready to return to our room when we saw two policemen4closely at the building outside. One of them showed us how5in through the windows into our room. It seems that the hotel has no locks on the windows.6we were a little worried, our concerns were forgotten7When we saw a good-sized bed, a flat-screen, TV, a spa-bath which more suggested a comfortable stay.

    Things started to go from bad to worse the following morning when I found the restaurant only served low-fat meals: six days of rabbit food and only8meat and fruit. What had I let myself in for? Nobody had told us what the food9like before we booked. I ordered my breakfast10my will anyway, but I had waited forty-five minutes for it to arrive. This was not the service11I had expected.

    That afternoon, when we returned from a tour around12university nearby, we found that nearly £ 20013from our room. The Haven refused to pay back the money. They claimed that they14not be responsible for any loss if our window was not locked.

    My holiday was then a total failure. I thought a "haven" was sure to be a quiet and peaceful place. But in fact, I have experienced15stress and worry in that one day than I usually do working in the office for a week.

China's hot TV play, All is Well was considered as "a mirror of modern society". It spreads positive 1 to the audiences. With the popularity of the play, Alzheimer's disease (阿尔兹海默症), which is experienced by the main character—Su Daqiang in the play, becomes one of the hottest topics. In fact, there are a great many of 2 stories in our life.

    According to a recent report, an 84-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease came to a kindergarten (幼儿园) to pick up her daughter. But the fact was that her daughter had been away from the 3 for 30 years.

    4 with the help of a stick, the woman took a bus to the kindergarten. She could only 5 the guard at the gate of the school that she had come to pick up her daughter, who was called Bai. However, the guard couldn't find her daughter's 6 on the school's list of students and called the police. With the help of the police, the woman's daughter was found 7. When the daughter 8 the kindergarten, she asked her mother why she was there. "I came to pick you up," the mother smiled at her daughter.

    Many net users were 9 by the touching story. As the ending of the play All is Well suggests, parents' love is instinctual (本能的) and they are always the people who care about you the 10 in the world.

    Once upon a time, a hippo lived in a river next to a big tree.

    One day, a bird came and nested in the tree. The songs of the bird filled the hippo with so much envy(羡慕) that he couldn't think of anything else. Every day he would think why he wasn't born to be a bird even though the bird told him many times he was so lucky to be so big and such a good swimmer.

    Finally, the hippo made up his mind that he would come out of the river, climb the tree, and start singing. However, when he tried to climb the tree, it was very clear that the hippo didn't have wings, nor claws to climb with.

    Realizing that he would never climb up the tree, he angrily hit the tree until it came crashing on the ground. Then he stepped onto the leaves of the fallen tree, and began singing.

    Unfortunately, hippos can't sing, either. All that came from his mouth were terrible noises, and when the other animals heard this, they all came around to make fun of the hippo.

    He was so ashamed by this. He also felt bad about having knocked the tree over. He used all his strength to raise the tree back up again, and look after it until it completely recovered.

    Kobe Bryant born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 23, 1978, was a former professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers throughout his NBA career (1996-2016). He was famous as "Black Mamba" or "Little Flying Man". He was 198cm tall and weighed 100kg. He had a happy family with his wife and three daughters.

    He was also a famous NBA star. In his career, he got a great success and had lots of achievements, such as 15 times of all-NBA teams, once MVP in regular season, 4 times of all-star MVR 2 times of final MVP, 5 times of NBA championship and Two Olympic champions. The reasons for so many fans not just because he played basketball well but also for Kobe spirit called Mamba Mentality. Kobe was good at playing basketball. Most importantly, he played beautifully. Every match with Kobe was a wonderful and exciting performance. In the match, all the audience could feel his aggressiveness and the eager of victory. He improved himself by winning every game. As the leader of Lakers, Kobe never let people down. He was always calm and got the key score for the team at last just like what he said:" We do not retreat, we do not shrink, we do not run away, we insist, and then conquer our opponents?" It was famous Mamba Mentality. He never gave up even when he had ruptured his left Achilles tenden. What's more, Kobe was a famous and respected basketball player, and an approachable star as well.

    Therefore, on January 27, 2020, the news of the death of Kobe Bryant shocked all fans of Kobe Bryant around the world. It was reported that Kobe Bryant died because of a plane crash with 9 people including his second daughter. Kobe generation is over with Kobe's death, but I think his Mamba Mentality will last forever.

    China's two sessions, a key event on the country's political calendar, began on May 21 after having been postponed for more than two months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Apart from the delayed opening, this year's two sessions are "unusual" in many aspects, as China Daily noted.

    First and the most important, the world will "watch how China plans the course for a crucial year to build a moderately prosperous society (小康社会) in all respects and achieve its development goals, while effectively warding (防止) off coronavirus risks", reported Xinhua.

    In 2019, China achieved a GDP growth of 6.1 percent, meeting the target range of 6-6.5 percent. Analysts expect (分析人士预计) this year's target will continue to be a feasible (可行的) one, and with stronger boosting measures (更有力的促进措施下), China could achieve growth faster than that of all other major economies, Xinhua noted.

    In the two sessions, national lawmakers and political advisers will be discussing how to strive for (争取) good performances (业绩) in all areas of economic and social development while implementing regular epidemic prevention and control measures, according to Xinhua.

    Meanwhile, to ensure public health safety, some arrangements for the session have been adjusted (调整).

    According to Xinhua, the duration of the session has been shortened from two weeks to about one. There are fewer reporters covering (采访) the event, according to Global Times. Journalists who are overseas have not been invited to Beijing to report on the event this year. Meanwhile, news conferences (新闻发布会) and other interview activities are "appropriately streamlined and conducted in new forms (适当精简并以新形式进行), such as by video link," chairman of the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee, Zhang Yesui, told Xinhua.

    Because of the need for continued COVID-19 control, on May 13, the State Council's executive meeting (国务院常务会议) called for adopting (采纳) new ways for taking in views and suggestions of national legislators and political advisers, including via video-link, phone calls and the internet.

    Technology is playing a key role in bringing the nation's top political advisory body (国家最高政治咨询机构) closer to the people.

    The website of the CPPCC (全国政协) National Committee started to seek opinions and suggestions from netizens on May 8. It is a move that aims to help the national political advisers learn more about the opinions of the public before they gather in Beijing.

    "The new platform has helped the public share their ideas with CPPCC members on China's major political, economic and social issues at the annual meeting," according to China Daily.