广东省汕头市潮阳区2022年中考一模英语试题

Last year, a group of elephants made a decision: go north! After months of travelling, they made it 500 kilometers away1their home in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.

It's not common to see Asian elephants travel such2long way. Scientists are not sure why3this. Some believe it's because they were looking for better food. According to Zhao Huaidong from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the number of Asian elephants4now because of human protection efforts. So their old homes might not have enough food for5. At the same time, elephants are quite6in the vegetables and fruit that people grow.

Another possibility, according to Chen, is that they have lost their way. Some7also believe that they were traveling because of migratory instinct (迁徙本能). Recent solar (太阳的) activity has changed earth's magnetic field (磁场). This might make the elephants think that they should migrate.

During their long journey, the 15 elephants have already damaged (破坏) 561,333 square meters of farmland,8we need to protect them. For the safety of both humans and the elephants, people fed them tons of food9them away from towns and cities. Seventy-six police cars and trucks10to keep an eye on the elephants.

Luckily, on August 8th, Xinhua News said that the elephants have come back to the living place where they used to live.

My name is Mike. I did shrink (缩小) myself!

Yes, it is true. It happened last night while I was working on my1experiment. I thought it would be2to make a shrinking ray to bring in the school on Monday. I never knew that I would shrink myself3! I had just completed the shrinking ray and was going to test it when it went off my hands. You see, the phone rang and it scared (惊吓) me, so I pushed the button (按钮). The ray bounced off (反弹) a mirror and4me.

Now I am5than a fly. In fact, I saw a fly only a moment ago. It seemed like a plane to me. The sound of its wings was so loud to my6. Pieces of dust (灰尘) are big enough to fit my hand. My sports shoes are like skyscrapers (摩天大楼), and my desk is as tall as a mountain.7is different now.

Right away I knew I needed help. I found a piece of paper on my floor. Then I began8a way to write a letter on it. Finally I found a tiny pencil on the floor. It feels very heavy to me and it has9me more than an hour to write this message. "Please help. I am in the corner of the room. Aim the ray at me and help return me to my proper10!"

What to Watch Between 2021 and 2022

As COVID-19 is still spreading in many countries, quickly finding people who have the virus is very important. But COVID-19 is not easy to detect. Many people who catch the virus clearly show signs of being ill, like having a fever or coughing. But many others show no signs at all. These people are "asymptomatic" and they can still pass the virus to others.

Now, scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a famous American college, have developed a method which can quickly detect whether a person has COVID-19 or not just from the way he or she coughs or speaks. The scientists turned to an AI method known as "deep learning".

In deep learning, computer programs collected a lot of information, analyzed（分析）it and built certain models. The information here was tens of thousands of recordings of coughing and speaking from people who had caught the virus. When the scientists tested their AI models, they found that they could detect 98.5% of the people who caught the virus, including 100% of the asymptomatic people.

Brian Subirana, one of the scientists, says, "We think this shows that the way one person produces sound changes when he or she has COVID-19, even if he or she is asymptomatic." The scientists now want to turn their models into an app that can run on mobile phones. If they are able to do that, it could allow people to quickly and easily check whether they have caught the virus.

Did you watch the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games? The of performers—about 15,000 in 2008—was down to 3,000, and the length of time was also cut down to 100 minutes because the cold weather and COVID-19.

Bing Dwen Dwen created by Cao Xue, a professor at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. The rings of color on face were inspired by the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, known as the "Ice Ribbon". These rings also represented 5G technology. Beisdes, the heart on its left palm meant China's friendliness kindness to all athletes (运动员). "It's ice shell is cold, but the image looks warm and lovely, I believe this kind of warmth can be something everybody feels," said Cao.

The opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games was very different. The Chinese people's wish for peace has changed. People could clearly see China's wish of building a world, and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games' motto (格言) of "Together for a Shared Future", it showed a vision (憧憬) for better life with hope and confidence. For China, it was not empty talk to host a simple, safe and fantastic opening ceremony. China overcame many difficulties to hold the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and it has a great job.

中国文化博大精深，吸引了许多国外友人。我们深深热爱自己的祖国，就如同歌曲《我和我的祖国》（My Motherland and Me）唱的"无论我走到哪里，都留下一首赞歌"；也如同歌曲《孤勇者》（Lonely Warrior）那样，为了祖国，对弈困难，甘愿做一名孤勇者。请以"My Motherland"为题，用英语写一篇短文，内容包括：

1）表达你对祖国的热爱之情；

2）你对祖国引以为豪的是什么？理由呢？

3） 你打算如何报效祖国？

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1）不能照抄原文；文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名称。

2）语句连贯，词数80个左右。作文题目已经给出，不计入总词数。

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