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浙江省杭州市2017年中考英语模拟试卷(七)

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      The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Grain Rain (谷雨), as the last term in spring, starts on April 19 and ends on May 4.

      Grain Rain comes from the old saying, “Rain brings up the growth of hundreds of grains”, which shows that this period of rainfall is very important for the growth of crops. Here's something that you may not know about the Grain Rain.

1 ________

Grain Rain falls between the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and the temperature rises much higher than it does in March. With dry soil and heavy winds, sandstorms may happen more often.

2 ________

There is an old custom in southern China that people drink tea on the day of Grain Rain. Spring tea during Grain Rain is good for the eyes. It is also said that drinking tea on this day would prevent bad luck.

3________

People in northern China have the tradition to eat the vegetable toona sinensis during Grain Rain. An old Chinese saying goes “toona sinensis before the rain is as tender as silk (嫩如丝)”. The vegetable is good for the stomach and skin.

4 ________

The Grain Rain Festival is celebrated by fishing villages in northern China. Grain Rain marks the start of the fishermen's first voyage (航行) of the year. The custom dates back to more than 2000 years ago.

(1)、When Grain Rain ends, ________ starts.   

A、spring B、summer C、autumn D、winter
(2)、The people in southern China ________ on the day of Grain Rain.   

A、drink tea B、eat toona sinensis C、start the first voyage D、get together 
(3)、We can infer that “toona sinensis” must be a kind of vegetable which ________.   

A、can bring good luck B、is delicious and healthy           C、prevent bad luck D、grows at the seaside            
(4)、The right order of the titles from 1 to 4 should be ________.

   a. Eating toona sinensis

   b. Sandstorms happen

   c. Grain Rain Festival

   d. Drinking tea

  

A、b-a-d-c B、b-c-a-d C、b-d-a-c D、d-b-a-c
举一反三
Almost all people like flowers. Some people like flowers because of their smells, shapes, colors and so on. Others like flowers because they think different flowers mean different things. Flowers have their own language. For example, red roses mean “love” and sunflowers mean “loyalty(忠诚)”. So people in more than 100 countries have chosen their own national flowers which say something about their countries' spirit. In 1994, China talked about choosing a national flower. Some people liked the peony(牡丹) but others liked the plum blossom(梅花). They couldn't agree with each other. So it has not been decided yet.
People like to buy different flowers in different seasons. Where do all the beautiful flowers in shops come from? They may come from far away, so their price is higher.
a. Farmers grow flowers in their fields.
b. Planes or trains or buses take the flowers to different places.
c. Flower shopkeepers buy flowers from the flower markets. They look after the flowers and throw away the broken or bad ones. They cut the flowers to make them more beautiful.
d. You go to buy the flowers in the shops. When you buy a flower, you're paying lots of people: the farmer, the driver of the plane or train or bus, the seller in the flower market and the flower shopkeeper.
So you'd better keep your flowers from far away for a long time. But how? Why not dry them? It's easy! Sand drying is a way. Dry, clean sand is one of the oldest things for drying flowers. And it's one of the cheapest.
·Fill a box half-way with sand.
·Put the flowers on top of the sand.
·Put the box in a warm, dry place.
·Leave the flowers there for one to three weeks.
·Take them out and they will be dry.

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①Love them or hate them, emojis (表 情 符 号 ) have become an important part of our twenty-first-century culture. Over 90% of the world's 4. 6 billion internet users send them every day. In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries chose Face With Tears of Joy as its Word of the Year. 

②However, some language experts are against this form of communication. They consider it a step back into the dark ages of illiteracy. Emojis, they say, are making us lose the ability to speak. People are depending on these "picture characters"rather than words to express their feelings. 

③I want to challenge this opinion. I'm afraid these experts have misunderstood how communication works. 

④Emojis aren't taking the place of language. Instead, they are making our messages more understandable. Here is an example. Without an emoji, what means by the following message would be puzzling (迷 惑 ):"Hey, I fell over and got my head hit on the kitchen cupboard. "My friend on the other side of the phone might have difficulty working out my true feelings. Should he laugh ("Ha-ha! You're so silly! ") or take pity on me ("Oh. Hope it doesn't hurt too badly")?However, using an emoji ( or ) will spell out the meaning behind my words. Emojis are to text messages what body language is to spoken communication. They allow us to communicate better. 

⑤So, as long as we don't overuse emojis, these lovely characters are helpful. 

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Do you know which social app is popular with Chinese young people now? "Short videos"are certainly the most popular. A large number of young people use Tik Tok(抖音) and Kuaishou. They think it is fun to share their lives by short videos, while others have other purposes as well.

A 12-year-old user named Elsa has about 2.7 million fans on Tik Tok. The girl has shared her dancing studies on Tik Tok since last July. One of the videos won her about one million fans."I feel really glad to share happiness with people by short videos, " said Elsa.

To some other young people, they use short videos to have a quick look at the hot programmes. "Because I don't like to spend many hours watching a whole programme, I hate waiting for a programme to end, and I prefer to watch short videos of wonderful parts of hot programmes, " said Wang Zhihao.

However, some young people feel bored with short videos."Killing time is the main reason for me to watch short videos, and many short videos are almost the same, so I think they are not so useful or interesting. What's more, I really don't like the videos about odd and dangerous things, " said Wen Nan, another college student.

Recently, something else has appeared. Some videos tell people what products are worth buying. Some short videos even sell bad products, and it is hard for customers to get their money back. So we should think twice before we want to buy the products by short videos.

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