— In my opinion, these letters _______ people of care, friendship and love.
— I can’t agree more. They can also help people re-understand the meaning of time.
A.remain B.require C.remind D.realize
阅读快车系列答案科目：初中英语 来源：2020年上海市金山区中考二模英语试卷 题型：单选题
Zhang Wenhong ________ as a doctor in Huashan Hospital since he graduated from college.
A.works B.worked C.has worked D.is working
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If success is a gate, the road this gate must be made up of difficulties.
A. towards B. against C. opposite D. beyond
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A jigsaw is a power-driven saw (锯) used to cut sharp curves (急弯曲线) in pieces of wood.
A jigsaw is also a puzzle. It is made up of a large number of small, interlocking pieces. Each piece has a small part of a picture on it. A completed puzzle produces a picture or design.
Jigsaw puzzles were first created by producing a picture on a flat, rectangular (矩形) piece of wood, then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw – that’s where the name comes from!
Pictures found on jigsaw puzzles mainly include scenes from nature, city life and similar designs. Castles, mountains and water scenes are traditional subjects. However, any kind of picture can be used to make a jigsaw puzzle. Cartoon-styles are popular. There are companies that create puzzles from personal photographs. Completed puzzles can also be glued onto a piece of wood to make a wall hanging.
The first jigsaw puzzles were designed as geography teaching tools by John Spilsbury in 1767. His “jigsaw” was a map puzzle. It was a hand-painted map of England on a piece of wood. It was a successful teaching method. He went on to make over thirty other map puzzles. The pieces were not interlocking.
With the invention of power tools more than a century later, jigsaw puzzles with fully interlocking pieces came into being. The jigsaw machine could cut sharp curves. Then the name jigsaw puzzles came into being. Jigsaw puzzles became very popular in the United States in the early 1930s, when people had difficulty in finding jobs and making money.
Today puzzles of all sizes are a standard item in toy shops and supermarkets. However, they usually come in 300-piece, 500-piece, 750-piece, and 1,000-piece sizes. The largest one even has 24,000 pieces.
Some jigsaws are quite tricky. Try doing one with all pieces without pictures on it. A few puzzles are made double-sided, so they can be solved from either side. This increases the difficulty, because the puzzle solver cannot be certain which way up each piece goes. Some jigsaws do not have straight edges (边缘). The edge pieces could be any interlocking piece. Solving these jigsaws requires more effort than doing those straight-edged ones. Others designedly have a piece or two missing. Jigsaws are no longer educational toys but are used for entertainment or a hobby.
1.What can we learn about jigsaw puzzles?
A.Cartoon-style pictures are traditional subjects of jigsaw puzzles.
B.People can choose any photo they like to use in a jigsaw puzzle.
C.The smallest jigsaw puzzle in the world has three hundred pieces.
D.There are many small, interlocking pieces in all the jigsaw puzzles.
2.Which of the following can most probably be made by John Spilsbury?
A.
B.
C.
D.
3.Which of the following jigsaws is the most difficult to solve?
A.A double-sided jigsaw with straight edges.
B.A one-sided jigsaw with straight edges.
C.A double-sided jigsaw with curved edges.
D.A one-sided jigsaw with curved edges.
4.What can we infer (推断) from the passage?
A.Puzzles are cheap entertainment that can be replayed or passed on to others.
B.By 1767, students began to learn geography by putting the puzzles back together.
C.Spilsbury continued to build more puzzles with different area maps and sell them.
D.Early wooden puzzles had pictures printed to the front and lines for cutting on the back.
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— Are you going to take part in the speech competition?
— That’s for sure. It’s _______ a chance to miss.
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—_______ will the COVID-19 outbreak be over?
— No idea, but Mr Zhong Nanshan said, “There’s still the possibility that it could end in June.”
A.How long B.How soon C.How far D.How often
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As we all know, Wudang Mountain is the_______of Shiyan.
A.proud B.pride C.progress D.purpose
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Mozart is one of the greatest composers who ever lived. He was born in 1756. When Mozart was three years old. He learned to play 1. harpsichord, which is a kind of piano. Mozart began to compose his own music at the age of five, and his father took him all over Europe to perform for kings and queens when he was still a child.
Mozart could write down a piece of music 2. if he had only heard it once. One day he went to hear a group of people singing in a big church in Rome. The song was very special. It was 3. only once a year and only in the church. No one else was allowed to have the music. Mozart listened to the song. Although it was very difficult and long, Mozart went back home and wrote down the 4. piece from memory. The head of the church heard about this, 5. of being angry with Mozart, he gave him a prize.
When Mozart grew up, people were not as interested in him 6. before. He worked as a 7. and a pianist, he taught people how to play the harpsichord, but he did not make much money. In 1791, he died at the age of thirty-five. He was so poor that there was not enough money for him to have a proper grave. No one knows 8. he is buried.
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