陕西省宝鸡市凤翔县2021年中考一模英语试题

One winter morning, Jim fell from his bike. He 1 by a doctor. The doctor said he had to stay in bed for some time. Jim was sad at the doctor's 2 because Christmas was coming. He wanted to look at the shop windows full 3 Christmas gifts and see them lit up(被照亮) at night.

Jim's younger sister, Mary, wanted to help her brother. Every day, she went to the shop nearby after school to look at the windows 4. When she got home, she would tell Jim what there were in the windows.

There 5 Christmas trees in all windows. Every time Mary described the windows, Jim would close his eyes, imagining himself to be looking at the toys inside the shop. 6 there was one thing Mary didn't mention to Jim. It was a lovely wooden horse. She wanted to give it to Jim as a Christmas gift.

The day before Christmas Eve, Mary counted her pocket money and found that was not enough. So she asked Dad 7 offer her a job to make some money.

By helping her parents clean and decorate the house, Mary now got enough money and bought 8 wooden horse.

On Christmas morning, Jim saw a wooden horse by his bed. 9 a big surprise! How happy he was! Mary was happy, too. Mary was as happy as Jim because she made Jim happy.

Actually, the 10 people this Christmas were their parents because their daughter had learnt to give.

Have you ever been sad because you failed in something? If so, please remember, for often, achieving what you expect is not the most 1 thing.

One day, after watching a science program, a little boy 2 to dig a hole behind his house. As he was working, a couple of boys stopped by to watch. “What are you doing?” asked one of them. “I want to dig a hole all the way through the 3!” the boy answered excitedly. The older boys laughed and told him that it was 4 to do it. Then they left.

The little boy kept on digging and digging. Suddenly, a few small colorful stones caught his eyes. He 5 them and put them into a glass jar(罐子) patiently. The jar was full soon. Then the boy went to the older boys with the jar and said 6, “Maybe I can't finish digging all the way through the earth, but look at what I have found in the process(过程) of digging!”

The boy's goal was too difficult, but it caused him to 7, in other words, to cause us to keep working!

Not every goal will be 8. When you can't achieve your goal, maybe you can say, “Yes, but there are so many wonderful things that have come into my life 9 I tried to do something!” It is the unexpected joy on the journey that really has a 10. Just like the little boy, it is in the digging that life is lived.

What does it take to graduate from university? Some papers or high scores in exams? Well, these are not enough if you are a student at Tsinghua University.

According to a new rule of the university, students must prove (证明) themselves in the swimming pool. They need to pass a swimming test of at least 50 meters, and those who fail the test will be required to take a swimming course throughout their school years. By the time they graduate, they will have known how to swim; otherwise they can't graduate with their bachelor's degrees (学士学位).

The news made waves in Chinese social media (媒体). Some people praised the university for requiring a necessary skill that can save lives, and they also believed that the rule would help improve students' health. However, others questioned if it was fair to expect those who come from inland cities (内陆城市) to be able to swim.

In fact, this is not a new rule. Tsinghua University first made swimming a requirement in 1919 but later gave it up because the number of students became too large and there were not enough swimming pools in the school for them to learn swimming.

Anyway, it is still good news that Chinese students' health has become more and more valued. Why not just take this chance to learn one more life-saving ability?

A lot of animals travel from one place to another. We call this migration.

In Africa, large animals, like elephants and zebras, migrate to find food and water. They usually follow the same ways every year.

A lot of birds migrate to find food and better weather, too. They are usually birds that eat insects. They spend the summer in northern Europe, because there are lots of insects there. In the winter there aren't any insects, so the birds fly south to southern Europe and Africa.

Some insects migrate, too. In North America, millions of monarch butterflies fly south to spend the winter in Mexico, California and Florida, where it's warmer. They travel 50—65 km each day and they travel about 1.125 km.

Some fish migrate to breed(繁殖). Salmon(鲑鱼) can swim over 20,000 km in their life. They are born in rivers in Ireland, Scotland and other places in northern Europe. The young fish swim down the river to the sea and into the Atlantic Ocean. They live in the ocean until they are adults. Then they return to the river where they were born. They lay their eggs in the river and then they usually die. Salmon do this, because their eggs are safer in the river. Other fish can't eat them.

Arctic terns(北极燕鸥) travel the furthest when they migrate. They spend the summer in the Arctic, but when winter comes they fly to the Antarctic, because it's summer there. The next year they fly back to the Arctic again. In one year these small birds travel 36,000 km from one end of the earth to the other and back again.

When things get busy, we all have tasks we put off. If you always put off doing things to a later time, maybe you have procrastination(拖延症). Do you know how to overcome it?

Notice board

Notice board is considered to be the best way to excite you in difficult situations. This way you'll be able to see this set of plans hundred times a day.

Start doing smaller things

Sometimes we take up challenging jobs at the very beginning and feel upset if something is wrong. Not to get in such a difficult situation, start doing small things and then move to the next level and deal with more challenging ones.

Plan your day

As a result, they have a possibility to do more tasks making their common days more valuable. When having a plan, the main thing is to follow it and be sure that everything would be on your timetable. Try to focus directly on the task you need and don't let anything trouble you.

An early riser is sure to be in luck and it's usually so. If you have difficulties rising up early in the morning, you should cheer yourself up to do it by all kinds of ways. In 21 days you'll get used to such a timetable.

So always keep your most important tasks front-and-center where you can see and act on them now.

Learning to parents is a good quality that children should have.

No matter what time we are getting through, are always around us.

my father, I finished the housework on time.

I can find the meaning of the new words by in a dictionary.