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内蒙古赤峰市2019年中考英语试卷

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    The famous scientist and thinker, Charles Darwin, was born on February 12, 1809. His family lived not far from the River Severn, England.

    Darwin's father was a well-known doctor and the son of an still greater doctor and scientist. Darwin's father hoped that his son would also become a doctor.

    As a boy, Darwin liked to go for walks in the fields and forests. He watched nature, and compared what he saw with everything he had read in science books. He also liked collecting very much. He collected many things, birds, eggs, stones and leaves. His father did not like that, a Darwin not studying very well at school.

    At the age of sixteen, Darwin was sent to Edinburgh University to study in order that he could become a doctor. But he was interested in the history of nature.

    Then he was sent to study in Cambridge University. There he studied until 1831.

    Some time later he heard that the ship Beagle was going on a trip to South America and needed a centrist. His professor advised him to go. He said the trip would be just for Darwin, So when the ship left England in December 1831. Darwin was on it. He research lasted almost five years. The Beagle studied the waters in the sea near South America. It also visited New Zealand, Australia and islands in the Pacific. Darwin saw many new plants and animals. He collected all kinds of plants.

In 1842 Darwin went to live in Kent, where he continued his studies of changes in nature. Darwin understood that plants and animals are not always the same, and that they really change.

    By 1859 Darwin had finished his famous book "The origin of Spedes "(《物种起源〉). It made a great hit in the world of science. He was opposed by the church and even by some scientists. But later, more and more scientists agreed with him.

(1)、What did Charles Darwin's father do?
A、A worker. B、A doctor. C、A scientist D、A teacher.
(2)、Charles Darwin had so many hobbies except that______.
A、he liked to go for walks in the forests. B、he liked watching nature. C、he preferred collecting coins and stamps. D、he was fond of the history of nature.
(3)、When did Daiwin leave England for a trip to South America?
A、In 1831. B、In 1832. C、In 1842. D、In 1859.
(4)、The underlined word" opposed " means ______.
A、接受 B、开除 C、反对 D、尊重.
(5)、What can we learn from Charles Darwin?
A、Don't care what parents say to us. B、The trip can bring us wealth. C、We should ask teacher for help when meeting problems. D、Keep doing what we like and work hard, we'll succeed.
举一反三
A rabbit is running into his hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they ran, too. They know there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to his home. It can't tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
But animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for examples, when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs(发出呼噜呼噜的声音) when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have— a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for examples, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we don't know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we met a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.

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    Mick Polly,an owner of a toy store,lives with his teenage daughter Carolina in Kentucky.He is known as the Bike Man.Over the past five years,Mick has built hundreds of bikes for needy kids.

    One day in 2012,a 13﹣year﹣old boy with a broken bike walked by Mick's house."I was working in my garage(车库),and he asked if I could fix it,"says Mick,now 53.

    The boy's bike had a broken wheel.Mick sent a post(帖子) on Facebook,asking his friends if they had the needed part.One friend saw the post and gave away two used bikes.Mick took parts from each to build a new set of wheels for the boy.

    Soon after,Mick repaired a bike for the boy's brother and fixed one for his sister.Word spread,and during the year,he had fixed up lots of bikes for local kids whose parents were not able to afford new ones

    "People are throwing away bikes day and night,"says Mick.

    Mick puts the bikes and bike parts in his garage."I take off the good tires or the handlebars or the seats and use them,"he says.

    Up to now,the bike man has repaired hundreds of bikes and given away nearly 700newly repaired bikes.They're free,but the kids must agree to two things:They have to learn how to put waste things to good use and they have to try their best to study in school.

    If a kid's grades are low,Mick requires a teacher's note"saying that you're doing your best,"Mick says.Mick also hopes the bikes will get kids off the sofa."When I was growing up,we all rode our bikes,"he says."Hopefully these kids can get some exercise."

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    Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

    During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

    He reported the case to the police and then sat there,lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.

    Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband's name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶)that had been left out on the footpath.

    My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

    That family not only gave back the important documents to us that day but also gave back our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send them a warm wish.

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