题型：阅读选择 题类：常考题 难易度：普通
浙江省杭州市2017年中考英语模拟试卷（一）
When my brother and I were children, we spent a few weeks each summer in the countryside with our uncle. He was a geologist and loved to go on long walks to find stones to add to his collection at the university. More often than not, we followed him.
One day, we left early, and this time, our uncle gave us two backpacks. “ You can help me carry the samples(样本),” he explained.
Surely, why not? The whole day, we walked around the countryside, and every now and then, our uncle put stones in our bags. We were a bit surprised that sometimes he also took some stones out from our bags, but thought he had just found better samples.
We reached the house in the late afternoon. The backpacks were so heavy that we were really tired out when we put them on the ground. Yet our uncle's backpack was half-empty.
“Why did you give us so many stones?” we asked.
“I didn't. You did,” he said, waiting for a while before continuing. “ You did not know it, but I made you go through a little attitude(态度) test today.”
What do you mean an‘attitude test'?” we wanted to know.
“It is something someone once did to me. You see, I listened to every word you said. And whenever you complained(抱怨) about anyone or anything, I added a stone to your bags. And whenever you talked about something in an attitude of positive thinking, I took out a stone. And now look at your backpacks.”
We did. They were full.
“I hope you remember this little attitude test. You see, your negative thoughts are like stones. You carry them in your mind just like those stones and start paying attention to what you say and how you say things.”
This little lesson was one of the most important lessons I ever had. And I remember my uncle with great love for teaching us one of the most important lessons in life – the power of attitude.
An E-mail
From: Ben and Emma To: John, Susan, Peter, Lily Subject : pen pals |
Hi everybody , We see your names on the Pen Friends list. You want to get e-mails from English children. So here we are! We live near Oxford(牛津),in the UK. We are 11 years old (Emma )and 10 years old (Ben) . We goto school in Oxford. There are 400 boys and girls between 8 and 13in our school. We have lessons from 9:00 a.m. to lunchtime. After lunch, we usually have lessons or sports. We have English, math, science, history(历史), art, P.E. and other subjects. Emma's favorite subjects are math and science. Ben's favorite subjects are art and music. He doesn't like math. There are three terms(学期) in a year, and we do different sports in each term. Autumn term: rugby(橄榄球) for boys, tennis for girls Winter term: football and hockey(曲棍球) Summer term: cricket(板球), swimming, tennis, and gymnastics(体操) We like sports but we're not good at any of them! At home we like reading books, cycling (Emma) and taking photos (Ben). Write and tellus about you and your schools. Emma and Ben |
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