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（2020-江苏无锡市中考真题）  Last month, the artist Christo opened his new art sculpture. It is made up of 7,506 colorful barrels （丰甬）floating on a lake in Hyde Park in London. Christo calls it The London Mastaba. It is his first major outdoor art sculpture in Great Britain. The artwork is in the shape of a mastaba. It looks somewhat like a pyramid with a fat top. The London Mastaba is about 65 feet high, 98 feet wide and 130 feet long, and it weighs about 1.3 million pounds. The metal barrels can be seen from hundreds of feet away, 35 Everyone who looks at it will see something different. Many will think the barrels are barrels of oil in the heart of one of London's oldest parks. They might wonder if Christo was making an announcement against pollution. Others will see a prism or giant pixels or simply a shape. However, everyone must decide for themselves, the 83-year-old artist said. Christo said he had nothing special in mind when he created The London Mastaba. 'There are no messages,' Christo said. 'There is something in it to discover yourself. I cannot direct you?5 “A Stairway To The Sky” 'It's created a giant invitation, like a stairway to the sky,' Christo said. The artist was standing on the banks of the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park where his artwork floats. Swans are swimming nearby. Some barrels are red with a white candy stripe on the sides. Others are colored blue, purple and red. Their colors will look different as the light changes, Christo said. Their reflection （侄。影）in the lake will be 1 汰e an abstract painting. Abstraction is an artistic style that does not always show something recognizable or realistic. “Not Really Sure How I Feel About If7 Many people walking in the park were surprised to see the artwork. 'It's very modern, but this place is nature and historical. I don't like it here/' said Yasmin KocOzcengel, who is a tourist from Turkey. Another person who took a look at the artwork was Anna Andronova. She called The London Mastaba very brave. If it weren't as brave, it wouldn't be as amazing, she said. Sheila Seffenson is an American living in London. 'Tm just not really sure how I feel about it,' Steffenson said. 'Maybe it's a message about pollution. Who knows?”
barrels. C. It is an abstract painting. D+ It is considered as different things.
A. An Announcement Against Pollution. B. An Announcement Against Pollution? C. A New Landmark Of The Oldest Park. D. A New Landmark Of The Oldest Park?
A, Romantic. B, Magical. C. Realistic. D. Mysterious.
A. To add some more colours to the old park. B. To bring his art career to a new height. C. To encourage people to discover and think. D. To remind people to care about nature. （2020-江苏徐州市·中考真题） Elsie Eiler is the head of Monowi, a tiny town in northern Nebraska, U.S.A, , and that isn't her only job. She is also the town secretary, the town treasurer, the librarian, and she works in the cafe. Why has she got a lot of different jobs? Because there7s nobody else to do them. Monowi has got a population of one 一 Elsie. Monowi is an unusual sight. There are about twelve old wooden houses there. They are all empty and are surrounded by a few trees, several old cars and lots of rubbish. The town is silent. An old yellow school bus, with no wheels or seats, stands next to the small school. The school closed 40 years ago. Opposite Elsie's cafe is an old building, filled with rubbish. It was a shop but it closed in the 1950s. The busiest time for Monowi was in the 1930s. Then, the population was 150, and was made up of mostly farmers and their families. There was a railway too. However, the farmers couldn't compete （竞争）with the large industrialized （工业化的）farms, and left the town to look for other work. In 1971, the railway closed and the town began to die. Three years ago, the last people that lived there, except Elsie's family, moved away. Then, Elsie's husband died, and then her son and daughter left to find work in bigger towns, leaving Elsie the only person in the town. Her food is good, her beer is cold, and farmers and truck drivers travel a long way to eat at her cafe. tcOne day Monowi will just be memories, and it will probably turn to dust,' she says. 'But I like it, and as long as I can take care of myself； I will stay here.,,
A. She is the only person living in Monowi. B. She has a good time living in Monowi. C. She can do different kinds of jobs. D. She will leave Monowi soon.
A. railway workers B. shopkeepers D. farmers C, truck drivers
A. what it looks like B. whether there is train there C. when people first lived there D. why people started to leave it
 （2020山东日照市呻考真题） Mobile phones are one of the most useful inventions of the last 50 years, but not everything that is said about them is good. Mobiles are often believed to be the cause of a number of things from poor eyesight and headaches to house fires. There's even one theory that mobile phones should be responsible for the disappearance of bees! The theory is that the radiation （辐射）given off by mobile phones does great harm to bees' navigation systems （导航系统）.Bees have built-in system a bit like GPS and this helps them find their way back to their hives. But recently, thousands of bees have failed to find their way home. It is believed they are dying far from their hives. The problem was first noticed by beekeepers in America and is a lot more serious than it at first seems. The important thing about bees is that most of the crops in many countries of the world are pollinated by them. Without bees, the crops can't continue to grow. Many beekeepers in Europe have reported losing between 50 and 70 percent of their bees. Jim Piper, London beekeeper, said to the reporter, 'My business is becoming worse. Twenty-nine of my forty hives are now empty.' Nobody knows for sure whether the theory is true or not, but it's a fact that bees are disappearing in very large numbers. And we can't manage without them. Einstein said that if all our bees disappeared, man would only live for four more years! If the mobile phone theory is correct, we need to do something about it right now—before it's too late.
A, Poor listening. B. The forest fires. C. The disappearance of bees. D. Terrible toothache. 10. What does the theory in the passage say? A. Bees have GPS inside their bodies. B. Mobiles have an influence on bees' hives. C. The radiation makes bees unable to fly. D. The radiation makes bees lose their way home. 11. The underlined word 'pollinate' probably means ' 'in Chinese. A.授粉 B.污染 C.啃食 D.催 12. What does Paragraph 3 mainly tell us? A. Crops will stop growing. B. Beekeepers' business is getting worse. C. Bees' disappearing is a serious problem. D. Beekeepers in Europe found the problem first. 13. The author wrote this passage to A. call on people to help beekeepers B. show how a bee's built-in system works C, ask people to stop using mobiles right away D. warn people of the possible harm mobiles do to bees （2020-山东日照市中考真题） Kids' Summer Jobs Camp Counselor （辅导员） We are looking for people to join us as a camp counselor at Cuya Outdoor School. We connect children to science through nature. Our camp counselors are energetic and supportive, and more importantly, caring team members. This is an eight-hour everyday job in the ten-day-long program during the summer. Hours: 9:00 a m.〜5:00 p.m.Pay: $10 per hour LEGO Engineering Instructor Do you enjoy taking things apart and then putting them back together? If so, then this may be your dream job! We are looking for smart and creative LEGO engineering instructors. Hours: 2:00 p.m.〜5:00 p.m. Pay: $15 per hour Teacher's Aide （助手） We are looking for part-time teacher's aides for our Inspire Kids Pre-school in Newburgh. Teacher's aides need to prepare materials, help children finish activities and create a safe environment. Hours: 8:00 a.m.〜11:00 a m.Pay: $100 per week Summer Care Giver I'm looking for someone careful and patient to watch my kids when I'm working from 11:00 a. m. to 3:00 p.m. I have a 7-year-old daughter, and a 5-year-old son. I am also asking you to prepare snacks and clean up the rooms. Pay: $150 per week 14. How much can a camp counselor make in total? A. $10. B. $100. C. $150, 15. A. caring B. creative C. energetic D. $800. To be a LEGO engineering instructor, one has to be D. patient
D. LEGO engineering instructor.
A. On a website. （2020·湖北中考真题）Hope Matters Reyes Guana, 42, grew up in a poor Mexican family. He has seven brothers and sisters. His parents always had two jobs to make ends meet. As a boy, Guana had a good relationship with the school cleaner. He called her 'Nike' because she wore Nike shoes. The boy liked how Nike made everything clean. He told her he wanted to be a cleaner, too. 'Well, it's good if you want to be a cleaner,' Nike told little Guana. 'But make sure you go to college.n Guana also looked up to the principal （校长）of his school. The school leader told the boy that his job was to help students and teachers. 'Wow, when I grow up, I want to do what you're doing/' Guana told him. 'Well, if you stick to your dream, you will,' the principal replied. And Guana really got there. But it was quite a long journey for him. Twenty-three years ago, he followed in Nike's footsteps and was cleaning schools. He worked at three schools to pay for his college education. He held that job for four years and then worked his way up to being a school safety monitor. After that, he worked as a teacher for a few years. Now, as a principal, Guana never forgets where he came from. He helps students from poor families and shows respect （尊重）for every school staff member He always invites everyone to school parties, including those who clean the floors and those who drive the school buses.
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C. as soon as he got enough money D. before he was named principal
C. realized one's dream D. became well-known 22 + According to the writer, .
23. What would be another title for this passage? A. From Cleaner to Leader B. Different Jobs C. From Failure to Success D. Relationship Works （2020-重庆） When Goldie Nejat began developing robots in 2005, she spent much of her time knocking on doors to let people know how her robots worked but few showed interest, 'But now, it's difterent,' Says Nejat, 'People calling from around the world ask when my robots are going to be ready.' Nejaf's robots are designed to fill an increasing need; care-giving for the old. The population of the people over age 80 will be 426 million in 2050, three times larger than that now. Such robots could be especially useful for patients with Alzheimer's disease （老年痴呆症 ）.They can help with everyday activities from preparing food to reminding（提酉星）the patients of taking their medicine. They can also play games with patients to keep them active. Some have worried that care-giving robots might reduce （减少 ）human interaction （互动）and cause more humans to lose their jobs. 'But the aim is to support human care, not to take the place of it' says Brian Scassellati. He has tested robots with different patients, and found that daily interaction with robots can help children with autism spectrum disorder（自 闭障碍症）improve social skills. As a field grows, scientists aim to understand human-robot relationships better. Do robots offer advantages because they don't have feelings and don't give opinions? Will patients lose interest? 'One thing is clear/' Scassellati says, 'Robots can provide care for the customers and the need for that will increase in the future.'
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