2021年浙江省宁波市镇海区中考一模英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、完型填空 A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know if she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one 1 .Her father, a cook, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots 2 water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the 3 he placed eggs, and in the last he placed coffee beans. He let them boil, without 4 a word.The daughter waited impatiently, wondering 5 he was doing. In about twenty minutes, he 6 the burners and put the carrots, the eggs and the coffee into different bowls. He asked, “Darling, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs, and coffee.” she 7 .He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She noticed that they were 8 . He then asked her to take an egg and break 9 . After pulling off the shell, she observed (观察) the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to taste the coffee. She enjoyed it and smiled.“What does it mean, Father?” she asked.He explained that 10 of them had faced the same situation, boiling water, 11 each reacted (反应) differently. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak 12 being boiled. The fragile (脆弱的) eggs became hard after cooking. Coffee beans were the most 13 of the three. They turned the 14 into tasty coffee. “Which are you?” he asked his daughter.When 15 knock on your door, how do you answer? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?1AmissedBappearedCinventedDserved2AupBintoCofDwith3AanotherBfirstCsecondDthird4AspeakingBsayingCtalkingDtelling5AwhatBwhyChowDwhen6Aturned onBturned backCturned offDturned up7ApuzzledBamazedCquestionedDreplied8AhardBsoftCsweetDterrible9AoneBitCthemDones10AeachBbothCneitherDnone11AandBsoCbutDbecause12AuntilBunlessCafterDbefore13AcommonBspecialCdeliciousDhealthy14AeggBcarrotCbowlDwater15AshynessBdifficultiesCsuccessDdifferences二、阅读单选One DayOne day I counted your fingers and kissed each one.One day the first snowflakes fell, and I held you up and watched them melt on your baby skin.One day, we crossed the street, and you held my hand tight.Then, you were my baby, and now you are my child.Sometimes, when you sleep, I watch your dream, and I dream too.That someday you will dive into the cool, clear water of a lake.Someday you will walk into a deep wood.Someday you will run so fast and so far, your heart will feel like fire.Someday you will swing high, so high, higher than you ever dared to swing.Someday you will hear something so unhappy that you will fold up with sorrow.Someday you will call a song to the wind, and the wind will carry your song away.Someday I will stand on this porch and watch your arms waving to me until I no longer see you.Someday you will look at this house and wonder how something that feels so big can look so small.Someday I will watch you brushing your childs hair.Someday, a long time from now, your own hair will glow silver in the sun.And when that day comes, love, you will remember me.16From the poem, why did “you” hold “my” hand tight when crossing the street one day?ABecause “I” showed a great interest in fingers.BBecause “I” enjoyed holding peoples hands.CBecause “you” were not old enough at that time.DBecause “you” wanted to help “me” cross the street.17What does the underlined word sorrow mean?AAnger.BJoy.CSadness.DHope.18In which column of a magazine can you read this poem?AHealth.BFamily.CFood.DSports. Last year, Time chose 15-year-old scientist Gitanjali Rao as its Kid of the Year for 2020. Gitanjali was chosen from over 5,000 young kids.Time has long been famous for its “Person of the Year”. In 2020, it decided to honor young people in the US with its first ever Kid of the Year. Time worked with the TV channel Nickelodeon to look at kids between the ages of 8 and 16 who were really making a difference, no matter how small.Gitanjali is one of them. When she was 11, she invented a system to test drinking water for lead (铅). It earned her the title of Americas “Top Young Scientist” in the 2017 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. She also made an app called Kindly. She hopes the app can help cut down on online bullying (霸凌). “It gives you a chance to rethink what youre saying so that you know what to do next time,” Gitanjali said.Gitanjali worked with schools, museums and other groups around the world to teach young people how to come up with their own solutions to problems. “If I can do it,” she told them, “you can do it, and anybody can do it.”19What ti