题型:阅读选择 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
浙江省杭州市2017年中考英语模拟试卷(九)
Life is full of miracles. They surround us every day. One of these miracles happened to me recently. I was filling my car's tank at a local gas station. It was only 10 A.M. but I already felt tired. It was a cloudy, gloomy and rainy day and I hadn't slept well the night before. After I paid for the gas I turned my car towards the main road. I looked right and left then my brain sent the signal for my foot to push on the gas pedal but nothing happened. Shocked, I shook my head to clear it and gazed down at my foot.
Just as I did, though, a truck rushed past my car doing 60 mph. My weary eyes hadn't seen it when I had looked just 2 seconds earlier. If I had been pulling out when I should have been, my little green car would have been smashed and I would have most likely been killed. I sat there for a long time quietly thanking God for sparing my life before pulling out on the road and heading home. This time both my brain and foot worked perfectly.
As I looked back on that moment later I still couldn't understand it. Did God prevent my brain's signal from reaching my foot? Did an angel hold my toes to keep them from pressing on the gas? One question kept coming back into my mind as well: why? Why did I get this miracle? Why did God spare my life this day? Finally, I felt the answer forming deep within my heart and mind. I heard the words coming from my soul saying: “You still have more to do. Your work is not done yet!”
Richard Bach wrote: “Here is the test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: if you are alive it isn't.” Wake up each day then knowing that your mission isn't done yet. You have more love to share, more people to help, more kindness to give. You have one more day to be the miracle God meant for you to be.
Americans think a great deal about time. From childhood they learn to value (珍惜) time. As children,they are taught to be on time to go to school,to do work and to do everything. When they are having a good time,they say that time flies. When a person is dying,{#blank#}1{#/blank#}.
Time is money. Time is knowledge. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. A working American has to work hard for 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week. This is the working time. In his free time,he also works hard for more money. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. In the street you can hardly see a man who walks slowly. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. In fact,they are running.
They love time because time brings them money,comforts (舒服) and progress (进步). But sometimes they also dislike time. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.
A. Even Saturday and Sunday are full of activities and work B. Time is everything in America C. Because they feel they become servants of the clock D. They walk very fast E. they say he is living on borrowed time |
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