原创中考首字母2012-5-18.docx

2012-5-18 中考首字母1. （选中首字母后空白，改为非白色即可看到答案）Many Chinese people like American country music, such as the songs of John Denver. But still some people dont know when country music began . Country music is from the folk music of the Appalachian Mountains in the east of America. There, people sang while playing the violin and guitar. They sang about everyd life, love and their problems. So the songs were sometimes a little sad. One of the most popular country music singers is John Denver, who is also quite famous to the Chinese. For Denver, music was a language that could bring the world together. He says music can bring people together. We will understand each other better through music. People are different in color and they may speak different languages, but people are the same in mind and body. All of them love music and can understand music. The world lost a great man when John Denver died in 1997. But his music and words will live 2.American people like to say “Thank you” when others help them or say something kind to them. People of many countries do so, too. It is a very good habit. You should say “Thank you” when someone passes you the salt on the table, when someone walking ahead of you keeps the door open for you, when someone says you have done your work well, or you have bought a nice thing, or your city is very beautiful. “Thank you” is used not only between friends, but also between parents and children, brothers and sisters.“Excuse me” is another short sentence they use. When you hear someone say so behind you, you know that somebody wants to walk past you without touching you. Its not polite to break others when they are talking. If you want to speak to one of them, say, “Excuse me” first, and then begin talking. You should also do so when you begin to cough or make any noise before others. Lets learn to say “Thank you” and “Excuse me”3.I am an e-mail user. When I first started to use the e-mail system I used to read all my e-mail. I didnt have much mail. I was very excited about receiving any e-mail. I gave my friends my e-mail address. Soon I had more mail than I wanted . Some of the mail was junk mail. I was worried. I didnt want my mail to control me.Ive tried some methods to help me get control of my mail. First, I check my mail at the same time every day. Also I try to allow myself only 15-20 minutes every day to process my e-mail. This doesnt always work, but I try . Sometimes I save the messages. Sometimes I just read them, maybe answer a few, and then delete them.Sometimes Im not at all interested in a message, so I dont even open it. I delete it right away. This is very much the way I go through the mail that the postal service delivers to my home.These methods are very simple. I have some friends who are very clever with computers. From time to time, they teach me new tricks for managing my e-mail. Ive also learned to transfer some messages to a disk so they dont fill up my mail file. Then I can read them later and maybe use them in my work. Im still amazed at what e-mail can do for me! Im still worried, however, about having too much to read. 4.Where is Love? How can we find Love?Once a little boy wanted to meet Love. He knew it was a long trip to where Love lived, so he got his things ready with some pizzas and drinks and started off. When he passed three streets, he saw an old woman sitting in the park and watching some birds. She looked very hungry. The boy gave her a pizza. She took it and smiled at him. The smile was so beautiful that he wanted to see it again, so he gave her a Coke. She smiled once again. The boy was very happy.They sat there all the afternoon, eating and smiling, but they said nothing. When it grew dark, the boy decided to leave. But before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug. The woman gave him her biggest smile ever .When the boy opened the door of his house, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face and asked what had made him so happy. “I had lunch with Love. She has got the most beautiful smile in the world.” At the same time, the old woman,s son was also surprised at his mother,s pleasure and asked why.“I ate a pizza in the park with Love,” she said, “and he is much younger than I expected.”If the world is full of love, we can enjoy a better life.5.Dick was born in a poor family. His father had a small boat and went fishing in the morning and sold the fish in the market in the afternoon. Then he bought some food for his family. When winter came, they were often hungry. One morning the hungry man fell into the river and wasnt found . Dicks mother left her three-year-old son without saying good-bye. His aunt had to look after him. Twenty years passed. Dick became a tall, strong man. He found work on a farm. He worked hard and wanted to get more money. He often went to see his aunt with some nice presents. The woman was very happy but one day she died in a traffic accident. The young man was very sad. After he buried her, he decided to buy a beautiful tombstone(墓碑)for her. He went to town and came in a shop, but all the tombstones were too expensive. He asked, “Do you sell an old tombstone, sir?” “Yes, we do, sir, ” answered the shopkeeper. “Is it as expensive as the new one?”“No, its much cheaper,” said the man. “But another name was engraved (刻) on it.” “It doesnt matter, ” said Dick. “My aunt couldnt read . ”6.Henry had studied in a university before he came back to his hometown. He thought he had lots of knowledge and he was supercilious(目中无人). At first he was easily given a job in a bank. But he couldnt get on well with his workmates and often made mistakes. And soon he was sent away. Then he found a job in a post office, but he still couldnt be competent(适任) at it and before long he had to leave. After he had lost the work, his life got worse and worse and he was often worried about food and clothes. When he hardly asked for some food in the street, a friend of his aunts felt pity for him and asked him to work in his restaurant . Of course he didnt like the work at all but it was much better than being hungry. He had to work there.One day a young beautiful woman came into the restaurant. She wanted two eggs, some chicken and a glass of milk. Henry thought she wore beautiful clothes but didnt have much knowledge. When he was taking the milk to her, he found there was a fly in the milk, but he still bring it to the woman. As soon as he left her table, he heard her crying behind.“Whats in my milk, waiter?”the woman shouted at him.“Havent you seen its a fly, madam?”asked Henry.“Its terrible !”the woman said angrily.“Dont be angry, madam,” Henry said quietly. “Its too small. It cant drink much of your milk!”7.One day Jacks wife was cleaning out a closet.“Look at all these umbrellas,” she said to Jack. “There are eight and they are all broken.”“Ill take them to the umbrella shop and have them mended ,” Jack said.Jack took the eight umbrellas to the shop and left them there. “Theyll be ready tomorrow,” the shopkeeper said.That evening Jack went home from the office by bus as usual. He sat next to an old woman. She had an umbrella on the floor near her.When the bus reached his stop, he picked up her umbrella and stood up. “Hey!” the woman said. “Thats my umbrella!”“Im sorry,” Jack said, and at the same time he gave the umbrella to her. “I wasnt thinkin. Please excuse me.”The next day he got back the umbrellas from the umbrella shop and got on the bus.As he sat down, a voice behind him said, “You certainly have a successful day!”He turned around and saw the woman whose umbrella had almost been taken by him the day before.8.2.26-meter-tall Yao Ming made his NBA debut on October23, 2002 and got 6 points for the Houston Rockets in the game. The next day, he got 13 points is another game.Most people think that Yao Ming is a born basket-ball player. But Yao said, “When you watch it on TV, it looks very easy. But when you are playing in the NBA, it is really not so easy.” He asked that joining the Houston Rockets was a new start and a new challenge. “I hope that through very hard work I can make everyone happy and help the Rockets win more games,” he said.Yao Ming speaks some English. Both he and his teammates can understand each other. They dont think there is a language problem. While Yao Ming faces this new challenge , the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yao Ming will bring new energy to the Rockets. The team has started having lessons to learn more about China, and many people who work for the Rockets have learned to speak some Chinese.9.Today there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700, London had no policemen at all. A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid.About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as much as possible.In 1750,Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen and were called “Bow Street Runners” because they worked near Bow Street.Fifty years later, there were 120 “Bow Street Runners”, but London had become very big and needed more policemen. So in 1829 , the first Metropolitan(or London)Police Force was started with 3,000 officers . Most of the men worked on foot, but a few rode horses. Until 1920 all the police in London were men .Today, London police are quite well paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses, the pay is even better than for the others.10.Jill lived with her grandma. The old woman was strong enough that she could do everything herself at home.As soon as Jill began to tidy the rooms or wash something, her grandma stopped her and told her to work hard at her lessons . Jill had to listen to her grandma and spent all her time on her study. So she went to collage at last.Now the girl has left college. She did well in all her subjects and easily found work in Mr Browns company. She was sure Mr Brown would put her in an important position.On the first day the boss gave her a broom and said, “Your first work is to sweep the offices.”“What?” the girl called out in surprise ,“Im a college student, you know.”“Im sorry I dont know that. Here, give me the broom and let me show you!”11.When we want to tell other people what we think , we can do it with the help of words. We can also do it in many other ways, too. Sometimes we move our heads up and down when we want to say “yes”, and we shake our heads when we want to say “no ”. Some people cant hear or speak. They talk with the help of gestures. People from other countries often have to do it if they dont know your language.Here is a story. An American was once having his holiday in Italy, but he could not speak Italian. One day he went to a restaurant and sat down at a table. When the waiter came , the American opened his mouth, put his fingers in it and took them out again. In this way he wanted to say “Bring me something to eat”. The waiter soon brought him a cup of tea. The American shook his head and the waiter understood that he didnt want tea. So he took it away and brought him a glass of milk. The American shook his head again. He was very hungry now and looked sad . He was just going to leave the restaurant when another man came in. When this man saw the waiter, he put his hands on his stomach . In a few minutes there was a large plate of bread and meat on the table in front of him.12.It was a quiet village in which there was a military camp.It was far from the towns and cities and there were some high mountains around. Of course it was a good place for training the new soldiers . But it was difficult for the young men to go outside. Mr White, an officer of forty, was strict with them and he hardly let them leave the camp.Once Mr White was ill in bed. He couldnt work and a young officer, Mr Hunt began to train the new soldiers instead of him. He knew the young men well and let nine soldiers go to the nearest town to have a holiday. But night fell and none came back to the camp. He was worried about it and stood at the gate. It was five to twelve when Mr Hunt decided to go to the town and see what was happening to the young men. He started the car quickly and set off. At that moment the nine soldiers came back. It seemed they drank wine. Of course they found the officer was angry.“Im sorry, sir,” said the first soldier. “I left the town on time. But something was wrong with my bus on my way here. I had to buy a horse and made it run fast. Bad luck ! It died and I had to run back.”And the other seven soldiers said they were late for the same reasons. It was the last soldiers turn. He said, “Im sorry, sir. I got on a bus on time, but”Having heard this, the officer became even angrier and stopped him at once. He called out, “If you say something was wrong with your bus, Ill punish you at once!”“No, no, sir,” said the young man. “My bus was all right, but the horse died!”13. The snow lasted until last Friday. I opened the window this morning and saw the sun but I felt much colder.“Youd better go to work on foot , dear,”said my husband,“It is dangerous for you to drive.”I thought him right and agreed. It would take me about forty minutes to go my hospital. There was about an hour left, so I started, with a bag of sandwich for breakfast. In the streets there was thick snow and ice and the traffic was less than before and people walked carefully. Suddenly I saw a car going fast. The driver tried to pass the crossing before the lights turned red. Maybe he did