2022年牛津译林版中考英语模拟任务型阅读专项练习

牛津译林版中考模拟任务型阅读专项练习

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Baby panda says hello to world

Three years ago, Bing Dwen Dwen became the mascot（吉祥物）for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

The design comes from 5,816 works from 38 countries and areas. Cao Xue, the chief designer of Bing Dwen Dwen, said the idea first came from the traditional Chinese snack bingtanghulu. But a simple snack couldn’t stand for（代表）a country by itself. Cao’s team tried many animals and plants and finally decided on a panda.

However, there were already too many cartoon images of pandas. Cao first decided that it should be a baby panda instead of an adult one, so its body is as long as its head.

Cao’s team looked all over the world to collect all the panda designs they could find. They wanted to make sure their panda looked special. They visited the panda nature reserve in Wolong, Sichuan, to get ideas. They found that baby pandas are pigeon-toed（内八字）and often lean in while standing.

Now the panda in an ice shell is made into toys and models, as well as printed on notebooks, badges（徽章）and bags. People of all ages like them very much. “Design is like dancing with chains. I’m glad we performed（表演）a good dance.” Cao said.

(二)

Many people think stress is bad for health. It raises the risk of everything from the common cold to serious diseases. Usually, we turn stress into the enemy. However, a study has given us a whole new look at it.

In the study, if people with lots of stress don’t believe stress can harm them, they will have the lowest risk of dying, including people with a little stress.

Can changing how you think about stress make you healthier? Science says yes. When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body’s response (反应) to stress. People who consider the stress response as helpful for their life are less stressed, less worried and more confident. How you think and act can change your experience of stress. When you choose to think your stress response is helpful, you create the biology of courage. When you are stressed and choose to communicate with others, you can create resilience (韧性).

You can get away from the bad influences of stress on your health. The most amazing thing is that stress makes you social. Your stress response wants to make sure you notice others in trouble so that you can support each other. When life is hard, your stress response wants you to stay with people who care about you.

Also, stress is not useless. It helps us reach our hearts. Our kindness finds joy and meaning in contacting others. Your heart beats so fast to give you more strength and energy. You should think of stress in a new way. If so, you’re not just getting better at stress. You can trust yourself to deal with challenges and believe you don’t have to face them on your own.

How do you make a choice between a stressful life and life without stress? Stress lies in many meaningful things. So the best answer is to go after what creates meaning in your life.

Then trust yourself to deal with the stress that follows and make friends with it.

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Self-respect is a very important part of a great life. Self-respect is a feeling of being happy about one’s characters, abilities and beliefs.

Developing self-respect means developing self-confidence to deal with whatever life throws at us. The following are some ways we can improve our self-respect.

There is great stress from parents, work and society to become a certain person and to achieve certain goals. A real self-respect is very important and you should believe in your own values and remember what is important to you. Everyone needs to follow his or her own path.

Nobody likes criticism (批评). To keep a sense of self-respect, we need to learn how to deal with criticism. Don’t get sad by the things someone else says or does. Maybe it is completely untrue, so pay no attention to it. If there is some truth, we can use it to develop our characters.

Jealousy (嫉妒) of other people’s success will cause the loss of our happiness and self-respect. Jealousy is simply envy of other people’s success. The truth is that there will always be some people more successful than us. The method for lasting self-respect is to be happy with others’ success.

If you have no respect for others, how can you have self-respect? It isn’t right to feel better by putting others down. If we look for good qualities in other people, it is easier to remember the good qualities in ourselves.

Forgive others and yourself. Don’t live in the past, but move on from the past mistakes and difficult situations. If your mind is full of problems in the past, you will always feel sad. Self-respect comes when we get tolerant.

Sometimes we work with the best of motives (动机) only to be sorry for the result. It is the nature of life that things will not happen as we hoped, but it is a mistake to connect our sense of self-respect with the achievements.

How to develop respect for yourself

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Most of us have never thought about building an educational toy by ourselves. If we need a learning toy or something, we simply go to the nearest store and buy it. However, things are not as easy in third world countries. With families even having no food to put on the table, buying toys, especially the educational ones, is the last thing on the parents’ minds.

So how can one get these kids interested in science? This was a question that worried the Indian engineer Arvind Gupta so much that he decided to give up a good job and spend his life making toys from things that people no longer want or need!

Mr. Gupta began teaching in the 1970s. While still an engineering student at the Indian College of Technology, he volunteered to teach the children who could not afford to go to school. Upon graduation, he found a good job at India’s Tata Motors and spent the next five years designing cars.

But he soon realized that this was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a year’s training course and took part in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program whose aim was to make science fun and exciting for poor children using available materials.

Mr. Gupta found the whole project so satisfying that he decided to leave his high-paying job and focus his attention on designing educational toys that were not only cheap and easy to build, but are also full of scientific principles (科学原理), so that children could get interested in this interesting subject.

When the Internet started becoming a more widespread learning tool, Mr. Gupta created a Toys from Trash website and also recorded more than 250 YouTube videos.

Today, over 50, 000 children and teachers visit the website daily to download the videos for the toy creations based on cool science. Some young children have become so inspired (鼓舞) that they have even won international science competitions with the help of what he created.

Making ____1____ toys from rubbish

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We spend one third of our lives in bed! Everyone needs a relaxing sleeping environment. There is no doubt that the design of your bedroom is really important. But how? Here’re some golden rules to remember if you are decorating your bedroom.

Choose a proper color

Color is the key! Choosing the right color of your bedroom should be the first decision when designing the space. A general rule is to avoid using overly bright colors in it. You might be pleasantly surprised when you try out the colors that bring you peace.

Light it up

It is important to choose the correct lighting when designing a bedroom. Besides practical ceiling lighting, lamps and floor lamps can also make it easy for you to get into a sleepy state in the evening. So don’t forget to introduce smaller pockets of light around the room.

Create space to breathe

A tidy room helps you feel calmer. Please remember to reduce the unnecessary furniture and choose the one with doors to hide away the messy clothing shelves. The less furniture you have, the better your room will be, as you will open up floor space to allow the room to look bigger and less crowded.

Give it a soft touch

The material of bedding can bring you different sleep feelings. Something soft is always the first choice. For example, good quality pillows（枕头）will make you relaxed and suit almost all requirements. A well-chosen duvet（羽绒被）will keep you sleeping through the coldest winter nights, and it won’t be too hot or heavy during the summer.

In a word, the standard of designing your bedroom is to keep it comfortable.

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