广东省2021年初中学业水平检测联考（一轮）试卷

With the coming of New Year, eight foreign college students made a big special gift. They wanted to thank their teachers who helped them get over troubles in 2020.1special gift is Laba congee(腊八粥).

Laba Festival falls on 2 day of the 12th month on the Chinese lunar calendar(农历). It is traditional to cook congee on Laba Festival. People boil (煮沸) rice in water until it becomes thick. They also add other grains(谷物) in it. The congee 3 with family to welcome the new year.

"With the coming of Laba, we hope everyone will be safe and thank our teachers 4 they gave us much care during the hard time. They brought us things we needed and always encouraged us 5 difficulties bravely, "one student said.

In China, food and festivals are often connected. For many Chinese people, traditional food is as 6 as other celebration activities during festivals. The food carries good wishes. That could be the reason why today traditional food is still so popular 7 people of different ages. In order to cook delicious congee, these foreign students asked their Chinese friends 8 they could buy the best grains. At last, they 9 the grains online from Northeast China.

"We also want to thank our students for sharing congee with us. They may not speak Chinese, but I can feel 10 hearts. This is not only a bowl of congee but also a symbol of love for China," one of the teachers said.

Food waste is a world problem. In June 2020, the United Nations warned that the world is nearly in the worst food crisis(危机)in 50 years.

In China, many actions have been taken to1people to save food, such as the" Clear Your Plate" campaign (光盘行动). The campaign means we should finish our meals2. Now Liu Jichen, a 24-year-old student, is making a big difference with technology. He3a WeChat program called Clear Plate to help people fight food waste. After meals, users can open the program, share photos of4plates online. Then they can collect points and use them to buy gifts or give away meals to people5. He has succeeded in making people have the habit of clearing their plates through a more6way.

ln 2018, the program was put into use on October 16, World Food Day. The idea to develop such a program came from Liu's7. In 2017, he found that a restaurant would give customers who finished off their food a card and offer small gifts8they cleared their plates six times."It's a great idea, but cards are easy to9,so l thought of using Internet tools like AI," he said.

New laws are being considered to give clear10on avoiding food waste, and refusing food waste should be a lifestyle(生活方式)choice for everyone.

For thousands of years, people have trained and studied homing pigeons(鸽子). These birds choose a homing place by the time they are six weeks old. When released(被放开)from a place that they don't know, they have a special ability to return to their home.

On its journey home, any pigeon can fly over 500 miles in a single day. One pigeon was released from Africa and flew over 7, 000 miles to arrive safely at its home in England. In its journey, which took 55 days, it flew a surprisingly straight way home.

Homing pigeons have served people in different ways. Clever children have been known to train a pigeon to fly between their houses and send messages. Hospitals have used pigeons to take medicine, while workers in the ships have used them to give directions. In World War l, pilots brought these pigeons along as they flew tasks. If their plane could not work, one pilot would release the pigeon with a message stating his place and calling for help. It was believed that these pigeons had saved the lives of many brave pilots. Today, there are over four million trained homing pigeons around the world.

We found the homing pigeons' great ability to navigate, but scientists are still wondering how these birds can return home perfectly. Many scientists have believed that these birds use the Earth's magnetic field (磁场) to navigate. ln support of this, scientists discovered that something on a homing pigeon's mouth has iron particles (铁颗粒) which are lined with the North Pole(北极) that can show the bird directions.

Last winter holiday I was so crazy about watching videos on the Internet that I spent too much time on it. "Miriam, why don't you read books?" My mother , but I refused.

One day my mother said to me, "Miriam, you're in dancing. I know you learn to dance all by . Each dance needs perfecting moves and you make it. Could you please teach me to do one of the dances?" I agreed and we began to . We've been together for hours. At that time I was away my phone and losing myself in dancing with mother. I felt like she was a dancer and we both wanted to get this right. She shared the feelings filled me with such joy. I really felt the deep love from her.

The next day, we had a talk. I realized although a phone provided me with information and connection, long-time use of it is for my eyes and even my brain. To protect my eyes and make sure I can give more attention to my study, I should myself out of the screen. With my mother's , I spent more time dancing, reading and exercising with my family or friends.

It's very important for us to learn to control ourselves. Let's put down our phones and do what we need to do.

为鼓励学生积极参加劳动，学校校报英文版最近开设了"Join Us for the Labor Education"专栏，请你给专栏投稿。

内容包括：

1）劳动的好处；

2）你参与劳动的一次经历及感受；

3）号召全体同学一起参加劳动。

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Labor is important for us.