《2025年5年中考3年模拟中考英语》

Passage 1
题源 2024山东菏泽 话题 人际交往 体裁 说明文 难度 ★★★ 建议用时 6min 正确率 _/5
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In our lives, we have to get on with the people around us. Being a decent(得体的) person will help us form healthy relationships. Here are some useful suggestions on how to be a decent person.
Let others trust you. Keep up with your promises. If you promise to be somewhere at a certain time, be there. If you say you'll do a favor, do it. Decent people follow through because they want others to feel safe. People need dependable friends and family members to have a sense of safety in their lives.
Avoid judgment. Remember, you cannot fully understand what it's like to be inside someone else's head. Therefore, avoid trying to pass judgment on a behavior or a decision. Everyone is different. So, it should not be surprising if another person's choice is different from yours. It's okay to put yourself in someone else's shoes and try to understand their decisions.
Provide support during bad times. Think about times in your life that were hard. You probably had friends, family members, and other loved ones helping you along the way. If you want to be a decent person, you should provide support in return. When people go through difficult times, put yourself out there and help.
Let go of anger. If you live with a lot of anger, you're more likely to be unfriendly to others. Becoming a decent person often means letting go of some anger. If you find yourself becoming angry, take physical means to cool down. For example, take a deep breath. Always remember to avoid taking things personally. This will help you away from your anger.

答案： your promises@@support@@a decent person@@Avoid judgment@@cool down

Passage 2
题源 2024四川成都 话题 科技改变生活 体裁 说明文 难度 ★★★ 建议用时 7min 正确率 _/5
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Humans have long tried to predict(预测) the weather. From the hunters of ancient times to today's pilots, predicting rain or shine can shape people's life and make a difference.
In 650 BC, the Babylonians tried to predict the weather based on the appearance of clouds. Around 340 BC, Aristotle, a famous Greek thinker and scientist, wrote Meteorologica. It introduced the types of weather, such as rain, cloud and lightning. Aristotle believed that there was water, air and fire around the Earth. It was almost 2,000 years before his ideas were replaced by new ones.
By 104 BC in China, a calendar divided the year into 24 solar terms gradually, each solar term related to a type of weather, like the Rain Water (the start of the spring rains), the Waking of Insects (the spring thunder awakens sleeping insects) and so on. That was useful for farmers to plan when to plant and harvest(收获).
People used lots of ways to predict the weather over the centuries. You might have heard the expressions like “Red sky at night, sailor's delight”, which suggests a red sky in the evening is followed by good weather. This has a basis in science, as does telling wind direction through smoke from the fire. On the other hand, some thought that if sheep crowded together, it meant rain. But there isn't any science behind it.
The science of weather prediction really took off in the 1800s with the invention of the telegraph. It sent messages over hundreds of thousands of miles, so weather maps were drawn up and storm systems were studied. The next big step came in the 1900s with the invention of the “radiosonde”, a balloon carrying weather instruments high above the ground to collect information. Experts took the information and built a picture of the weather over the following few days.
Today, supercomputers are used to take data(数据) from the world and process it very fast to work out the weather. For example, they once helped predict where Hurricane Lee, which hit the US and Canada, would land nine days in advance(提前).

答案： science@@farming@@partly@@use@@process