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贵州省安顺市2020年中考英语试卷(音频暂未更新)
How would you feel if moving to a new town meant losing track of your friends? What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that took ages to be delivered (递送)? This was how things worked not very long ago. Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed greatly.
Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with our friends. Social media tools (社交媒体工具) let us see what our friends are busy with and maintain friendships.
The digital (数字) age also enables us to find people who share our interests. Whatever our hobbies, the Internet can connect us with others who also enjoy doing them, even if they live on the other side of the world.
But when you friend people online, does this mean that they really are your friends? It depends.
If people always exchange true personal information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and meaningful. But we need to remember that what we see on social media is often not the whole truth about a person. Sometimes smiling photos can hide real problems. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. A young person could be old; a woman could be a man; we could even be sharing our information with criminals.
But this doesn't mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. Although technology has changed the way we acquire (获得)friends, the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same. As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods.
We sometimes call the lion “the king of the jungle” Because it is stronger and more dangerous than other animals.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}It is the highest animal in the land food chain.
In the sea, the shark is one of the animals at the top of the food chain. It can swim faster than most other sea animals{#blank#}2{#/blank#}
{#blank#}3{#/blank#}People are! We are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the cleverest. We could not run faster than cheetahs, so we invented cars and now we can move the fastest. We could not fight better than lions, so we invented guns. Now we can hunt the best. People's inventions are clever, but they can be dangerous, too. For example, people invented factories, and now they make the air and rivers dirty.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Dirty rivers kill fish. Then bears cannot eat the fish and die. If we kill one part of the food chain. Other parts also die. Remember that we are a part of the food chain, so we are in danger, too!{#blank#}5{#/blank#}We should and we could do something for the world!
A. Protecting animals is protecting ourselves! B. And it can use its big teeth to eat them. C. This can make terrible changes. D. What is at the top of the world's food chain? E. It can run faster than many animals and it can hunt the best. |
Four students were invited to an interview by the local English newspaper to share their opinions on after-class activities. The following is what they said in the interview. |
Mary: In our school, after-class activities are very popular. Students in our school enjoy many different kinds of after-class activities, such as the English corner, swimming, playing the piano and singing. I take part in the chess club. I play with other club members after class every day. |
Erin: I'm a member of the music club in our school. I can learn different kinds of music instruments, including the violin, the piano, the guitar and so on. I like playing the piano best. It's very interesting. |
John: I take part in the poem club after class. I have learned a lot from the activities which are held by the club. I can not only improve my skills of poem writing, but also make a lot of new friends who have the same hobbies. |
Peter: Some teachers think after-class activities take up too much time. In their opinions, we are already under great pressure with so much homework to do. But I think it's necessary for schools to provide us with a chance to develop our other skills besides what we are taught in class. What's more, after-class activities help us relax. |
Information Card
The number of after-class activities that are mentioned by Mary | {#blank#}1{#/blank#} |
Erin's favorite music instrument | {#blank#}2{#/blank#} |
The skills that John improves by taking part in after-class activities | {#blank#}3{#/blank#} |
The disadvantage of after-class activities that some teachers think | {#blank#}4{#/blank#} |
The reason why students are under great pressure | {#blank#}5{#/blank#} |
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