题型：阅读选择 题类：模拟题 难易度：普通
广东省广州市2020年中考英语模拟试卷（二）
Once upon a time, there was a young man who liked puppets (木偶) so much that he became an apprentice(学徒) to a master puppet-maker. Sadly, the young man was not so clever, and his teacher and the other apprentices were always telling him he had no talent for making puppets, and that he would achieve nothing in making puppets.
Even so, he was fond of it so much that he worked day after day to improve himself. Though he made every effort, they would always find something wrong with his puppets, and the poor puppets ended up being thrown out of the workshop.
The young man wasn't going to give up, so he decided that from then on he would spend all his time making just one kind of puppet. Whenever he found a fault in his puppet he would throw it away and start again. Years passed, and with each new attempt his puppet became a little bit better. By that time, his puppet was much better than anything that the other apprentices could make, but he kept making improvements. Living like that, the man wasn't making any money, and many people laughed at how poor he was.
By the time he was an old man, his puppet was truly wonderful. Finally, after so many years of work, he finished work on his puppet, and said, "I can't find anything wrong with it. This time it is perfect." And for the first time in all those years, instead of throwing his puppet away, he put it up on the shelf, feeling truly satisfied and cheerful.
It is well-known that the perfect puppet, Pinocchio, came to life after that, had a thousand adventures, and gave that old man –whose name was Geppetto—more joy than any other famous puppet—maker had ever got from any of their creations.
① Geppetto was already an old man
② Geppetto was satisfied with it
③ Geppetto was much happier
④ Geppetto planned to throw it away
What unusual habits do you have? | ||
Birdsong 11:38 a.m. reply |
| I live in Libya, Africa. It's REALLY hot all the time here. So I take a shower three times a day. I know, it's a lot. But it cools me off, and I like to feel clean! |
Racer XYZ 11:40 a.m. reply |
| I have a strange habit. I never touch doorknobs (球形门拉手). Sometimes I am stuck (被困) in a room, and I wait for someone to enter or leave to help me get out. I really like sliding doors (推拉门) because they don't have doorknobs. Lucky for me that I live in Tokyo, Japan. We have lots of sliding doors here. |
Snowflake 11:43 a.m. reply |
| My habits aren't really unusual. Well, there's one. I drink milk twice a day. But always with ICE. I can drink only really COLD milk. Our milk here in Hertfordshire, England, is delicious. |
Hatman22 11:44 a.m. reply |
| I wear a hat every day. I wear it to school. I wear it to bed. I even wear it in the shower! I guess that's pretty strange. But it's cold where I live — in Rio Grande, Argentina. |
ABC_ girl 11:49 a.m. reply |
| You guys don't have strange habits. Listen to this! I always put the books in my bookcase in alphabetical order (字母顺序). I check them every morning. If one is in the wrong place, I fix it. |
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