浙江省舟山市2019届中考英语模拟试卷（一）

    I'm Mike from New York. When I was a child, my mother often told me, "Don't run around, 1 bad uncles will catch you. And you will never 2 Mom and Dad again."

    "Why, Mom？Why would these 3 catch me？"I would ask." The city is a 4 place and we can't trust strangers, "she would reply. That might 5 the question of why my little brother never picks up calls from unknown people. It seems that he doesn't care 6 he misses an important call.

    Well, have we been protected by our 7？Perhaps. The adults' thoughts are 8 easy to understand. They don't 9 their kids to be cheated（欺骗）. And we kids meet the cheaters sometimes. Besides, we get some 10 about cheating in newspapers or on TV every day. That makes us 11 that we just cannot trust strangers.

    To be honest, it's necessary and important to look after 12 well. But such protection can sometimes stop us 13 making new friends. We 14 learn to tell who can be trusted and who can't be trusted.

    15, trust is like a mirror（镜子）. When we offer trust to others, they might just show us trust in return.

    Robert was a greedy（贪婪的）man. One day, he lost 30 gold coins. He went to his friend Mike's house and told him how he lost his gold coins. Mike was kind and decided to help him find them.

    The next day, Mike went to Robert's house and told him he found his 30 gold coins.

    After counting the gold coins, Robert said, "I had 40 gold coins. Ten of them are missing. You must have taken them. And you should pay me back."

    "No, I didn't take them, "said Mike.

    Robert went to court（法庭）and told the judge（法官）what had taken place between him and his friend.

    "How many gold coins did you find?" the judge asked Mike.

    "Thirty, "answered Mike.

    "How many gold coins did you lose?" the judge asked Robert.

    "Forty, "answered Robert.

    "Then those coins are not yours, "said the judge, "for you lost 40, while your friend found 30."

    Then the judge told Mike to take the 30 gold coins home.

    "If anybody reports that they have found 40 gold coins, I will send them to you, "the judge told Robert.

    Then Robert said that he didn't tell the truth and that he lost 30 gold coins, but the judge did not listen to him.

    Always be honest; dishonesty never pays.

    For one little boy, it was the coldest winter because his father had an accident and lost a leg. The whole family got into trouble.

    One night, while the boy was hanging out in a small shop, he saw some beautiful bags of coffee. Then he had an idea. He knew his father loved coffee and he also knew stealing wasn't good. But to make his father smile, the boy put a bag of coffee into his jacket and ran back home. His father smiled when he saw the coffee. But, unluckily, before his father could taste it, the shop assistant came and caught the boy. His father became so angry that he beat the boy.

    Years later, the boy became a successful businessman. One day, his mother called and said his father wanted to see him. The boy was busy, so he refused. Weeks later, he received the sad news that his father had died. When he checked his father's things, he found an old box. Inside it was the coffee that he had stolen from the shop. On the bag his father had written：

    "Dear son, I haven't been successful as a father. But I had a dream-to own a coffee shop. Then I could make cups of coffee for you. I'm sorry I didn't make my dream come true."

    The boy felt so sad. He felt guilty about not meeting his father for the last time, and decided to achieve his father's dream. After giving up his own business, he started a coffee business. The coffee business is now a huge success.

    The Oxford English Dictionary（OED）is thinking of adding the Chinese word tuhao to its 2014 edition（版本）. The word has become popular in China since 2013. It is used to describe rich people who spend money in extravagant（奢侈的）ways. The word has also become popular in Western countries, too.

    The word being used by people in foreign countries is an example of China's spreading influence in the world in not just economy（经济）, but also society and culture. People are paying attention to what is happening in China and are gradually picking up some Chinese words. These words express special Chinese ideas, but they cannot be easily translated into English.

    The OED is also thinking of adding hukou and dama to the 120 Chinese words that have been collected in its dictionary. Hukou means China's system（制度）that makes sure Chinese people can live in a certain place, and dama means middle-aged Chinese women who influence the global gold markets because of their gold-buying habits.

    The news that the OED will include these Chinese words has been criticized. Some people say the words can be embarrassing to some people in China, but others think that it's natural for words to spread and be used in other places. In fact, the word tuhao expresses the humor of China. It is easy to pronounce and it makes fun of rich people who have more money than taste.

    So, welcome to the English language, tuhao-let's be friends！

    According to the traditional Chinese calendar, 2014 is the Year of the Horse. The horse is one of Chinese people's favorite  (动物). Do you know what the horse represents in  (传统的)Chinese culture？

    In ancient China, horses were often associated(联系)with good luck. Horses (提供)safe and quick transportation for ancient Chinese. Sometimes a horse was more than a way to travel. Sitting on horseback at that time  (显示)that the person was from a rich family. What's more, ancient Chinese didn't let horses do farm work. This was because horses could help  (他们)win a war. Therefore, to Chinese people, the horse is not only a symbol of traveling, but also a symbol of  (成功).

    The horse also plays an important role in the Chinese traditional timing system(计时系统). The "Horse Hour", from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, is  (称作)wushi. During such a period of time in a day, the sun gives out lots of heat, which makes people have more  (精力). Therefore, the horse is always associated with warmth and passion(激情).

    Besides, Chinese people believe people born in the Year of the Horse are similar to the horse as an animal in some  (某方面). For example, horses are social animals, so people born in the Year of the Horse are said to be  (友善的). Also, horse racing is still common around the world, partly because horses like to compete with each other. And that's why people born in the Year of the Horse are sometimes competitive.

    Can you write down Chinese characters(汉字) that are read to you? It can be (difficult), especially when the Chinese characters are not included in most dictionaries.

    Lu Jialei, a student from Hangzhou Foreign Language School,  (win) the Chinese Character dictation(听写)Competition on Oct. 18, 2013.

During the competition, the host read Chinese characters to the student, (explain) their meanings and gave example sentences. The student was required to write down the Chinese characters.

    Winning the competition was a(n)  (surprise) to Lu. "I am not the smartest one," she said. "But I pay attention to details(细节)."

    To prepare  the competition, Lu and her teammates studied the Modern Chinese for 10days. She  had a secret wepon(武器).She studied how Chinese characters were formed.

    In the final round of the competiton, the host read wanluan to Lu and said it  (mean) graceful（优雅的）. "I had never heard that before!" said Lu. But she made a good guess. "Chinese characters meaning graceful often have '女' in  (they), while many Chinese characters pronouncing luan have '亦'. So I wrote it down: '婉娈' ."

    Lu has good reading habits. "When others pay attention to the main idea of a(n) (story), she looks at how the author uses words and sentences to express himself or herself," said Su Yunsheng, Lu's Chinese teacher.

    Su is happy  see students like Lu find the beauty of Chinese language. "Learning to write Chinese characters is an important part of inheriting(继承)culture," said Su.

    People who are scared of heights should try not to drive over a new bridge in Guizhou. The new bridge, called the Beipanjiang Bridge, is the highest one in the world. Located near Bijie in Guizhou Province, the bridge stands 565 meters above a deep river. It connects the mountainous provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan. Just how high is the new bridge? Think of a 200-storey(层) building.

    Guizhou Province is already home to seven of the ten highest bridges in China. The Beipanjiang Bridge has just overtaken (超过t ) the Sidu River Bridge in Hubei Province to become the world's highest。

    The building of the Beipanjiang Bridge started in 2012 and it was opened to traffic (通车) on December 29 ,2016. It cost about 100 million yuan.

    The Beipanjiang Bridge is part of a highway（高速公路) connecting Hangzhou City in Zhejiang Province and Ruili City in Yunnan Province. The bridge is 1, 341 4 meters long and it cuts the travel time from Liupanshui in Guizhou to Xuanwei in Yunnan from around five hours to just over an hour。

    China is no stranger to record-breaking bridges. The second- and third-highest bridges in the world are also locateed in the country. The Beipanjiang Bridge is five meters higher than the previous（先前的）record holder.

Where: the world's third-heighest bridge, .

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2)80-100词左右。电子邮件的格式和开头已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：tell a lie 说谎

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