浙江省湖州市2020年九年级英语中考仿真试卷（一）

    Brittany Amano wants to make sure every child in the US has enough to eat.

    Brittany Amano, now 18, knew how it felt to go hungry. Her mother tried to find a 1 in Honolulu, Hawaii to support the family. Her grandmother helped out as much as she could. But the family 2 had to depend on a local food bank to live on, and for that she was 3 .

    When they lost their home, Amano's family had to live in a friend's basement （地下室）. "I could feel how hunger and homelessness 4 my family. " Amano told a reporter from TFK. "The experience made me want to give 5  to others in the same situation. "

    In fourth grade, she and some of her friends started a good project. They6 $ 700 and collected 800 pounds of food. 7twelve, Amano set up the unprofit （非营利的）group Hawaii's Future Isn't Hungry. She hoped to raise $ 10,000 8 she finished high school. She ended up raising more than $ 500,000 in four years.

    With the 9 collected, the nonprofit group, now called The Future Isn't Hungry, can offer fresh fruits, vegetables, and other 10 foods to school kids on Fridays. This is to make sure that the kids and 11 families have enough food to get them 12 the weekend. So far, the effort has helped more than 750,000 people.

    In the fall of this year, Amano will 13 Duck University, in North Carolina on a full scholarship. After that, she plans to return to 14 the city that gave her so much. "It doesn't matter if you help one million people 15 just one person," she says. "The smallest action can make a huge difference. "

Some Fun and Interesting Facts

    There was a man named John Chapman who planted thousands of apple trees. But the apples on those trees were much more bitter(哭的) than the ones you'd find in the suppermarket today. John didn't expect has apples to be eaten whole, but rather made hard apple cider(苹果酒).

    Like most four-legged animals, cats have five toes on the front paws(爪), but their back paws only have four toes. Scientists think they four-toe back paws might help them run faster. Do you know any other fun fact about cats?

    Walt Disney might have been the first gloves on his characters, as the star Mickey Mouse in 1929's The Opry House（《奥普里之屋》）. Besides being easier to interest, there's another reason why Disney did so: "We didn't want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human. "Disney once said.

How Much Can We Afford to Forget?

    In 2018, Science magazine asked some young scientists what schools should teach students. Most said students should spend less time memorizing facts and have more space for creative activities. As the Internet grows more powerful, students can access(获得) knowledge easily. Why should they be required to carry so much of it around in their heads?

    Civilizations(文明) develop through forgetting life skills that were once necessary. In the Agricultural(农业的) Age, a farmer could afford to forget hunting skills. When societies industrialized, the knowledge of farming could be safe to forget. Nowadays, smart machines give us access to most human knowledge. It seems that we no longer need to remember most things. Does it matter?

    Researchers have recognized several problems that may happen. For one, human beings have biases(偏见), and smart machines are likely to increase our biases. Many people believe smart machines are necessarily correct and objective, but machines are trained through a repeated testing and scoring process. In the process, human beings still decide on the correct answers.

    Another problem relates to the ease of accessing information. When there were no computers, efforts were required to get knowledge from other people, or go to the library. We know what knowledge lies in other brains or books, and what lies in our heads. But today, the Internet gives us the information we need quickly. This can lead to the mistaken belief—the knowledge we found was part of what we knew all along.

    In a new civilization rich in machine intelligence, we have easy access to smart memory networks where information is stored. But dependency on a network suggests possibilities of being harmed easily. The collapse of any of the networks of relations our well-being(健康) depends upon, such as food and energy, would produce terrible results. Without food we get hungry; without energy we feel cold. And it is through widespread loss of memory that civilizations are at risk of falling into a dark age.

    We forget old ways to free up time and space for new skills. As long as the older forms of knowledge are stored somewhere in our networks, and can be found when we need them, perhaps they're not really forgotten. Still, as time goes on, we gradually but unquestionably become strangers to future people.

    A famous study was done in a school by a professor from a university. At the start of the school year, the teachers were given the names of five children. They were told that these five were the most excellent students in the class. But the fact was that these students were only average, and they were not the best students at all. Well, guess what? At the end of the year, all the five average students scored among the highest in the class.

    What made these average students change so much to become top students? The only difference was the change in their teachers' attitude. Because the teachers believed that these five kids were top students, they expected more from them. And so these five average students became to believe and expect more from themselves. So they worked harder to do as well as they could.

    Do you know? If you expect the best from people, they'll usually want to give you their best. A great leader said, "Treat a person just how he appears to be on the outside, and you'll make him even worse. But treat a person like he's already a success, and you'll help make him the best he can be. "

    Like the true story of 7-year-old Johnny, his teacher got so angry with him that one day she said, "Johnny, you're the naughtiest boy in this class. I'm sure you'll never change. " The next year Johnny had a new teacher. And on the first day of class, she met with Johnny after school and said, "Johnny, I've heard a lot about you! But do you know that I don't believe a word of it. " And every day after that, this new teacher treated Johnny as if he was one of the smartest students even when Johnny did naughty things. Later on, Johnny became a school leader, because that's the power of our belief and attitude towards children.

    The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league with 32 teams in. How does one choose which team to support? Some people choose the team of their hometown, or where they now live, or the team that their parents or their parents or their friends follow.

    A boy student from Oklahoma wrote a letter to each of the owners or presidents of the 32 NFL teams. He would see what answers he got, and then choose his team.

    Bill was home from school sick. It was the week before Christmas. He was "kind of bored" and needed something to do. So he asked his parents if he could write to every professional football team. Bill wrote the 32 letters by hand.

    "We weren't quite sure what we could get back. He didn't really have one team that he wanted to hear from," his mother said: "He just wanted to see what kind of reply he' d get. "

    A letter to the Carolina Panthers' owner Jerry Richardson was one of those posted. Bill wrote in his letter, "My family and I love football. They are fans of different teams. But I don't have a team to cheer for yet. I am ready to pick an NFL team to cheer on for lifetime!"

    A few weeks later, Bill's mother was pulling into her driveway when a delivery man arrived with a box from the Panthers. When Bill came home, he excitedly opened the box. Inside he found a signed Carolina Panthers helmet(头盔）as well as a handwritten not e from Jerry.

    The team owner had written to Bill, "We should be honored(光荣的）if our Carolina Panthers became your team. We would make you proud of your joining us. "

    Bill was overjoyed with what he got. He decided that from then on he would support the Panthers. He keeps the letter from Jerry in his bedroom. His mother says, "It's not the helmet they sent us. It's what they told us. " That is what mattered to Bill and why he chose to become a Panthers' fan.

    The Internet is a great place to meet new people and find information. However, it's important to pay attention to the p formation you share and the people you communicate with online.  

Think before you post(发帖).

    It's fun to share photos with your friends, but don't post photos of yourself where strangers can see them. Check your privacy settings(隐私设置).

Protect your personal information.

    We use passwords to enter a lot of websites. And we often need to register at those sites, using personal information. But be careful!

     So, make sure you don't share your passwords with anyone. What's more, choose passwords carefully and change them often.

Think twice before you communicate with strangers.

There are a lot of great people communicating on the Internet.

     If you receive e-mails from someone you don't know, think carefully before you reply. And if someone invites you to meet somewhere, tell your parents about it before you make a decision.

Be careful when you open attachments(附件).

    Someone you don't know might send you an e-mail with an attachment that has a computer virus . A virus can cause all kinds of trouble. It can stop your computer from working.  So never open a file or message from someone you don't know! Be safe by hitting "Delete" instead.

    So have fun when you use the Internet. But remember to stay safe!

My dear son,

    I think my life has been long enough now. And I won't be able to visit you any  （再）, but would it be too much to ask （是否）you could come and visit me once in a while? I miss you so much. I am so glad when I hear you are coming to the school for a meeting. But I have  （决定）not to go to the school because I am seriously  （虚弱的）.

    I'm sorry that I only have one eye, and I have been an embarrassment for you. But before I leave this world, I have to tell you one thing that has been hidden in my  （内心）for over twenty years. When you were very little, you got into an accident, and  （失去）your eye. As a mother, I couldn't stand watching you having to  （成长）up with only one eye. So I gave you （我的）. I was so proud you could see a whole new world for me. I was （从不）angry with you for anything you did. Sometimes when you were upset with me, I thought to myself, "It's because you love me. " I miss the time when you were still young around me.

    I miss you so much. I love you. You are the world to me. Wish you a safe trip.

    One of my most interesting experiences while traveling was in India. My sister and I were just (finish) a tour of northern India and had 5 hours before getting on a train back to New Delhi. We had been with our driver  the past 5 days so we had known him quite well. Since we had checked out of our hotel, had our last meal and seen all the sights we cared to see, we  (ask) the driver to just take us to the train station. He would not want to leave us  (alone) for 5 hours at the station. So he took us to his  (uncle) house. When we arrived, we saw that we were going into a Persian rug warehouse（波斯地毯货栈). We, thought we were going to be forced to buy expensive rugs.

    When we walked in, we were  (lead) to the back where the driver's two young and handsome cousins were waiting with tea and dominoes（多米诺骨牌）．They taught  (we) to play dominoes. We played mixed doubles, and we had a wonderful time. Later, they wanted to learn an American card game,   we taught them Rummy 500. They loved it. We had a happy afternoon!

    Later on the train, my sister and I discussed what we had taught our  (child) to do-to stay away from strangers. But that afternoon ended well. We had a great  time with (stranger)!

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    With the development of the Internet, some people think students just need to learn online instead of going to school every day. It's a hot topic and it has caused a heated discussion in our class.