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浙江省温州市2021年中考英语真题试卷

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Newspapers are dying. Electronic devices like mobile phones pads, TVs and car radios can all be the killers. Most people believe in the long run, there is no reason• no practical reason for newspapers to survive. No matter what we do may only buy time.

Can anything save newspapers? I decided to have a try.

Many years ago, Bonnier, a Swedish publisher, set a newspaper in the former Soviet countries. After a few years, they had more newspapers in central and eastern Europe. However, these newspapers were run by a group of inexperienced people, and they didn't have enough money. In many places there were not even art directors.

I got a position in Bonnier's newspaper as an art director.

It was very difficult at first. I was really disappointed until one day, in London, when I saw performance by Cirque du Soleil. "These guys took some run-down entertainment, and put it to the highest possible level of performance art." Inspiration lighted me up, "Why can't we do the same with the newspapers. We started to redesign the newspapers, one by one.

We used our imagination. We treated the whole newspaper as one piece, one composition — like music.

Music has a rhythm, has ups and downs. Design is responsible for this experience. Flipping through pages was readers' experience, and I was responsible for this experience.

The front page became my personal channel to talk to the readers. My approach was simple and direct. I wanted to show my understanding of art, and of reality. I wanted to make posters, not newspapers. Not even magazines: posters.

We had determination, and we kept on trying. We experimented with type, with illustration, and with photos. We kept asking: Why do we do it? What's our goal?

Design was not only about the front page. It was a part of the process. To be good was not enough. The process we made was about improving the product completely.

We adjusted the content accordingly. We improved everything to what our readers thought it should be and how they liked reading it. We kept improving, and we had fun.

Soon in Poland , our pages were named "Covers of the Year" three times in a row. One year later, this newspaper, in the same country, they named it the "World's Best-Designed Newspaper". Two years later, the same award came to Estonia. The circulation of the newspapers kept going up. They became more and more popular.

Someone may think we are buying time, but our newspapers are alive, and growing.

(1)、According to the passage, most people think newspapers ___________.
A、will be replaced B、should be improved C、need to be saved D、may die immediately
(2)、Why did the writer go to work in Bonnier's newspaper?
A、Art director was a well-paid position. B、It would die and he was going to save it. C、He hoped to get more working experience. D、It was a big publishing company in Europe.
(3)、Which of the following is probably the writer's opinion?
A、Newspapers can be alive if they are designed as posters. B、The other newspapers can develop as quickly as Bonnier. C、We may only buy time no matter how we save newspapers. D、Newspapers won't survive unless we keep improving them.
(4)、What makes the writer s newspapers survive and grow?(请用约 40 词回答)
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Being home to the largest second-hand bookstore in the world, Hay-on-Wye is more than just a small town in Wales — it's a book heaven on the earth.

The history of Hay-on-Wye as the"town of books" began on the April Fool's Day of 1977.A man called Richard Booth jokingly called himself King of Hay and said the town was now a country! Since then, he has succeeded in building a healthy tourism industry about books. Today thousands of visitors come to Hay-on-Wye every year to look for whatever books they need.

Before Booth's great idea, Hay-on-Wye was a slowly dying town having less than 2, 000businesses. The king of Hay-on-Wye opened his first bookstore in 1961, and later encouraged his friends in the trade to come to Hay. After a few. years, he filled almost every building with books. Hay-on-Wye now has over thirty bookshops, many selling second-hand books, which has made the town pleasant for book collectors.

Hay-on-Wye has its special honour with over one million books sold here every year. Unlike other book dealers(交易商), Richard Booth doesn't centre on any one topic. He buys any type of books believing that every book is valuable and someone in the world wants it. Book lovers from all over the world come to Hay-on-Wye because a large number of books here are at low prices.

Since 1988, Hay-on-Wye has also been the place for a famous literary(文学) festival, now supported by The Guardian, which draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to see and hear big literary names from all over the world.

Once a dying small town, Hay-on-Wye is now a pleasant tourist town, with ten percent of its population working in the book business, and local businesses benefiting(得益于) from the waves of

tourists coming here in search of books.

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In a small town,there was a young boy named Ted. He was always curious about how things worked,and loved to take things apart(把……拆开)1 back together. Usually he succeeded,but sometimes he2 . Still,he enjoyed what he did. One day,while he3 his mother cook,he realized how hard it was to stir(搅拌) the sauce. He thought that there must be 4 way to do this,and he decided to think of a better way. 

Ted took out his tools and began to work. After a busy afternoon,he created a new invention. He took apart a broken wood mixer(搅拌器) and then connected a motor (电动机),it was able to stir things by itself 5 it got power from the motor. It was so convenient that anyone 6 stir the sauce easily and quickly. 

The next day,Ted showed his 7 to his mother. She was 8 and allowed him to spend more time improving it. He tried,failed and then tried again. Finally,he added some new ideas to make it even9 ,like a timer,so that the user could leave the tool on the table and not have to10 the sauce burning. 

11 mum's support,Ted decided to bring it to school and introduce it to his eight 12 schoolmates. Suddenly,Ted's invention became a big hit in his school. They used it 13 drinks or stir any kind of sauce at lunch,and it was also easy to clean and store. In School Science Festival,Ted even received 14 prize from the school principal for his creativity and intelligence. 

Perhaps not everyone can be an inventor. However,it is always meaningful to15 what you are really interested in and keep going like Ted. 

 下面的材料 A-F 是六座房子的介绍,请根据下面各题中人物的情况,帮他们选择适合他们的房子,并将其标号填入题前括号内。

{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Frank and Mary would like to be in a central area where they can enjoy views of the city center. They hope to see some musicals(音乐剧) often with their two kids. They don't have a pet.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Ben and Linda want a house from which they can easily drive to places outside London. They want to learn about how people used to live. They also want the house to have a swimming pool for their two sons.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}  Cindy and Tom have two kids and they want to travel around the countryside and central London. They don't have a car, so they will use other ways to get around.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Anne likes learning about the history of art and watching plays. She wants a home that is close to the city center and is safe and peaceful. She has pets, so she needs to find a place for her pets.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} Andy and Sam are roommates (室友). They want a two-bedroom house. They like to go dancing and try foods from different countries. They think it's important to exercise and keep active.

A. It is a nice house in the middle of the city. It has four bedrooms, a garden and a swimming pool. Living here, it's easy for you to visit old houses outside London by car.

B. It is a safe and comfortable flat with two bedrooms on the twelfth floor. There is a gym and a swimming pool that everyone can use. Lots of restaurants with foods from different countries are just around.

C.  It is a quiet and safe house with one bedroom in central London. It isn't far from the main cultural attractions, such as theaters and history museums. You can keep your pets there.

D. It is a big three-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor in the city center. It has a balcony (阳台) where you can enjoy city views (风景). Famous theaters are just nearby, but you can't keep pets there.

E. It is a big village house outside London, which is close to a large train station, so you can easily travel around the countryside and central London by train. It has a very large garden and you can relax there.

F. It is a top-floor flat on a busy street in the middle of London. It is very small with only one bedroom but very new. There are lots of little museums nearby. You can't keep pets there.

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