题型：阅读选择 题类：真题 难易度：普通
浙江省舟山市2018年中考英语试卷
When our son Bradley was ten, the new bicycle he had received earlier that year was stolen. Owning a bicycle was a big deal to our children when they were little. They spent hours and hours, day after day, on their bicycles, riding up and down the footpath, and at the front of the house. We also rode together as a family a lot. Bicycling was a great way to get the kids out of the house and into the fresh air without spending any money.
Bradley had discovered that his bicycle had been stolen from our backyard in Campbelltown, South Australia, when he and his sister went outside for a morning ride. He couldn't believe that someone would do this.
He got a large piece of cardboard, painted a sign begging for the bicycle to be returned, and tied the sign to the letterbox. The following morning, when I went out to collect the mail, I found a white envelope with the magical words, "Buy yourself a new bicycle". There was a $100 banknote inside.
We were very touched that someone had the heart to do this, We've never been able to thank the person but we suspect(猜想) that it may have been one of our wonderful neighbors. Bradley painted a big"______!"on the sign and we left it outside for a couple of weeks afterwards, hoping the kind stranger would drive down our street.
A delighted Bradley was able to buy a new bicycle. As the years went on, the bicycles became bigger and more expensive but remained just as important for those family bicycle rides. Now Bradley is 25. Sometimes I miss the days when receiving a bicycle was the best thing in the world to them.
All these years later we are still thankful for the stranger's kindness. We were a young family with three little children and it meant a lot to us. We still talk about it and, even now, wonder who the kind stranger was.
A Sunday afternoon | |
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Weather | Cool and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} |
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Recently, a video on Bilibili got lots of attention. About 1, 000 students across China talked about what they would want to be in the future. Some students wanted to be scientists because they thought that science was interesting. Other students would like to be teachers or doctors. They thought that their parents would be happy if they chose the jobs. When I was a young boy, my parents told me I could do what I liked. I usually laughed and thought this was a bit silly. However, I really thanked them for their advice and help with my learning. At the age of 18, I got the excellent advice from several teachers. They told me how important it was to have a dream. Then I volunteered（自愿）to work at a summer camp in Guangzhou. There I learned that making dreams come true is the biggest test in my life. All these experiences made me want to work as a teacher. I am looking for more ways to tell my students to keep their dreams alive. According to my favorite book, The Four Disciplines of Execution, there are four steps to reach what you want to do. Pay attention to your"important goals", develop steps to reach them, try to make progress（进步）and finally check your progress. |
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