陕西省宝鸡市高新区2021年中考一模英语试题

The film Hi, Mom had already been on when I arrived there.

The government has made a lot of progress in .

Controlling the spread of COVID-19 was in China in 2020.

He said he regretted to his teacher in junior high school.

There will be less and less in Xi'an because of traffic restriction.

Every Friday, I do volunteer work at an old people's home. It usually takes me several hours 1 joy to the old people there. One Friday, as I 2 to leave the house, the telephone rang. I picked it up, and found the call was from my husband. "Sorry, dear. But I've got too much work to do now. I'm afraid that you will 3 pick up Taylor from school today. I 4 home as soon as I can." he said.

So, with the unexpected partner, my son Taylor, I went to 5 old people's home. That day, we were supposed to send flowers to each lady there. After we visited the third room, I noticed that my son would give the flowers to each lady and whisper(低语) something into the lady's ear. In return, I would always get a smile. I didn't ask him what 6 because I wanted to make sure that we had enough time 7 all the ladies.

After that evening, at dinner time, I 8 by my husband how my volunteer work worked out. "It was fun," I said. "Whatever Taylor said to the ladies, it surely made them 9 ."I stopped 10 at my son across the table. "What did you whisper back then?" I asked.

With a smile on his face, he answered, "All I said was 'I love you, Grandma. You look so beautiful today.' I wanted to make them feel good."

Mrs. Peng is a famous professor of music. She 1 a speech in English at the United Nations on September 26, 2020. She talked about education and 2 her Chinese dream with the world.

Mrs. Peng 3 her speech with a story of her father. Her father grew up in a small village in China. In those days, not many villagers could read, so her father opened a night school to teach them. 4 his help many people learned to write their names and read newspapers for the 5 time. And many women were able to teach their children 6 to read. Mrs. Peng's father's love for education influenced her 7 . She was 8 to have a good education. Later, she followed her father's footsteps and became a professor of music.

Education is important, but still some children in China can't go to school. Mrs. Peng hopes that all children can have a good education and that is her 9 and dream as a 10 .

You are going to high school, aren't you? Maybe you don't know what to do. Well, here's a list of the top six things to do when you are in high school. These things will give you ideas of what your high school life could be like.

Here you go!

Find your passion(激情) and what kind of person you are: Whether it's dance, basketball, or drawing, the important thing is that you have found something you are interested in.

Talk to people you wouldn't usually talk to: meet new people, find new friends and even talk to people you don't like. It will show what a great person you are. You never know what will happen after high school.

Take part in at least one contest(竞赛): This will give you tears of laughter, happiness and memories.

Get a job: This will help you see what it's like to have responsibility(责任). It can also help you make a little money to spend on yourself.

Take a trip with your friends: It doesn't matter where you go or what you do, the memories will happen on the way and go on till the final place.

Do your best at school: Don't ever get lazy; working hard now will help you in the future.

China has changed a lot in these years since I first moved here. One main development has been using cashless payment(无现金支付), which has changed the way we live and shop. China is hardly the first country to have cashless payment. I used a debit card(借记卡) to pay for things without cash for years in the US. But now I can use my phone instead, it is quite easy and convenient.

One of the things I like most is that I can send and receive money directly among my friends. Cashless payment makes it so much easier to split the bill when we eat out together. People can send money to the person who has paid the bill on his or her phone. And it makes it simple to make donations(捐赠) as well. For example, I often donate to a pet receiving agency. Their official WeChat has a QR code(二维码) that I can scan to give them a donation.

But like all technology, cashless payment has some problems as well. What happens if your phone gets lost or stolen? There are also times when your phone's mobile Internet connection, or the shop's Internet connection, might not work. Not long ago, I went to a nearby convenience shop to buy some snacks. But when I got there, I found that the shop's cashless payment didn't work and they could only accept cash. I didn't have any cash with me, so I had to give up and leave without any snacks.

So even though cashless payment is convenient, you should always carry a bit of cash in order to avoid any possible inconvenience.

If you look at the top of your phone, you'll usually see a little symbol that says 3G or 4G. The "G" stands for the "generation" of your mobile network. But the symbols will become things of the past after 5G networks fully arrive.

Shanghai vice-mayor Wu Qing made the first 5G video call on a Huawei Mate X Smartphone. Shanghai has also become the first city in China to start testing 5G networks. About 100 times faster than 4G networks, 5G will let people download and upload data faster than ever before. But 5G won't just bring faster mobile Internet. People can use it for many other things as well.

For example, 5G will help to make self-driving cars safer. Today's self-driving test cars have one problem-when they found something in front, that is too late to stop at once. When the car "sees" something in front, it sends this information to a data center and receives instructions. However, it will be some time before it sends and receives this information. With this kind of lag(滞后), the cars might crash because they don't receive instruction in time. With 5G, this lag will be greatly lowed, making the cars safer.

5G could also be used to power the Internet of Things(IOT), that is, a large online network that connects all things and people. Fast Internet speeds will be the key to developing this technology. The IOT could be used in a lot of ways. For example, with IOT, your refrigerator could automatically place an order online for eggs when it finds that there are no eggs left inside.