根据汉语意思及括号内所给英文提示语，将下列句子翻译成英语。
1.昨天因为下大雪我们没外出。(because of)
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2.你应该去拍X光片。(should)
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3.那次事故之后，比尔(Bill)放弃了他的梦想。(give up)
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4.今天早上戴尔(Dale)打篮球时伤了左腿。(hurt)
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我们处在不断变化的时代，河南中考英语题型也有所变化。你准备好如何应对了吗？请根据以下要点和要求用英语写一篇短文。
要点：
1. 你对此变化有何感受；
2. 之前你是如何学习英语的；
3. 你今后将如何调整。
要求：
1. 文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；
2. 词数100左右。
Some changes have taken place in the English exam this year. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Most parents want us to be the best. Very often, they compare us to others. 1. doing this, they try to encourage us to do better. They mean well, but the message we often get is that we’re not good enough. We begin to believe that the only way we can be special is by being better than someone else, but we are often disappointed. 2.will always be someone who is better than we are at something. Plenty of people around may not be as smart 3.we are, but they are better at sports. Or they may not be as good-looking, but they have more money. It is impossible for us to be better than everyone else all the time.
We all want the things that make us better people. But we don’t realize we already have the most important things 4.we want inside us. These things make us different from others. When we are growing up , parents sometimes forget to tell us that we are special. Anyway, it’s up to us to remind them that each of us 5. special in our own way. What we are is enough.
There was a class of students who always caused kinds of trouble in class and made their teachers terribly angry. ______ of the teachers wanted to teach them in this school , so the headmaster called a teacher who had just left her job at a ______ school. He asked her if she would like to come in and ______ at the school for one term . She agreed.
The headmaster decided not to tell the teacher about the ______, afraid that she would be scared off. After the new teacher had been on the job for a ______, the headmaster sat in on the class to see how things were going. To ______ surprise, the students were well-behaved. They listened to the teacher carefully ad discussed actively in groups. When the headmaster saw them ______ on the books, his surprises doubled. After the class, the headmaster ______ the teacher because of her work. She thanked him for giving her such a well-behaved class to teach a month ago. But the headmaster said he ______ didn’t deserve（值得）any thanks.
She laughed and told him, “You see, I discovered your ______ on my first day her. I looked in the desk drawer and found a _______ of the students’ IQ scores. I knew that I had a challenging group of kids here - they’re so _______ that I would have to work very hard to make school interesting for them,. I hope they can _______ behaving very well at the end of the term.”
She opened the drawer and the headmaster saw a list with the students’ names and the numbers 136, 145, 127, 128...written ______ the names.
The headmaster laughed. Those weren’t their IQ scores, ______ Their locker（储物柜）numbers!
1.A.Some B.None C.Neither D.All
2.A.common B.central C.national D.different
3.A.live B.cook C.teach D.study
4.A.class B.rules C.news D.numbers
5.A.week B.month C.term D.year
6.A.his B.her C.our D.their
7.A.depending B.keeping C.questioning D.passing
8.A.congratulated B.praised C.encouraged D.mentioned
9.A.mostly B.generally C.deeply D.really
10.A.advantage B.method C.secret D.style
11.A.list B.set C.pair D.number
12.A.funny B.attractive C.understanding D.smart
13.A.give up B.stay up C.end up D.take up
14.A.next to B.in the front of C.at the top of D.in the middle of
15.A.and B.but C.or D.nor
Guess what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the United States president Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Arabella Kushner, have in common? 1. Although Chinese is known as one of the hardest languages to learn, a lot of people from different backgrounds are studying it.
On Novemeber 2, the 12th “Chinese Bridge” Competition was held in Zheng zhou, Henan . And more than 120 foreign students from 105 countries took part in it. 2. After it, the competitors also visited shaolin Temple, Longmen Grottoes（石窟）and other historical sites in Henan.
Although they have different reasons for learning Chinese, the competitors were all excited about the country’s rich culture and rapid development. Raissa, a 17-year-old girl, developed a strong emotional connection with China. 3. This led her to learn Chinese at a local Confucius Institute. Fascinated by Chinese culture, she has taken part in activities on traditional Chinese medicine and folk arts during her first trip to China. 4. For Fekete Marcell Zoltan, from Hungary, studying Chinese may offer him a better future job . “After graduation from high school, I would like to further my studies in China,” he said.
Since a bridge has been set up between the competitors and China , where will their journeys take them? Robert Davis, a director of a Chinese-language school in Chicago, may give you a reply. 5.
根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺、内容完整，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A. They all study Chinese as a second language.
B. Her dream is to study Chinese medicine to treat patients.
C. Her grandmother was cured by Chinese doctors three years ago.
D. Speech contests and talent shows were included in the competition.
E. He said Chinese would be the new international language in the future.
“What’s the name of the supermarket? I can’t remember right now.” Have you ever heard your grandparents ask questions like this sometimes? Usually, we think that older people’s memory becomes had because their brains get weak. But now a team of scientists at the University of Tubingen in Germany has a new idea. “The human brain works slower in old age,” says Michael Ramscar, the team’s lead scientist, “only because it has stored more information over time.” The findings are based on a series of computer tests related to learning and memory.
Scientists had the computers read a certain amount of words and learn new things each day. When the computer “read” a small amount of data（数据），its performance on cognitive（认知）tests was similar to that of a young adult . But if the computer took in larger amounts of data, its performance was similar to that of an older adult. Often it was slower, but not because its processing ability had dropped. Rather, increased “experience” had caused the computer’s database to grow, giving it more data to process-which takes more time. This is similar to how old people process information.
Imagine that one person knows just two people’s birthdays and can get them right each time he or she is asked. Another person knows the birthdays of 2,000 people , but can only match the right person to the right birthday 9 times out of 10. Can you say the first person has a better memory than the second person?
“The larger the library you have in your head , the longer it usually takes to find a particular word,” Benedict Carey, a science reporter for The New York Times, wrote in an article about the study.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1.Why is the poor memory of elderly people mentioned at the beginning?
A.To lead in the discussion of memory. B.To describe the way elderly people live.
C.To express his or her care about the elderly. D.To draw the public attention to elderly people
2.How did the scientists prove （论证）the new idea?
A.By telling stories. B.By doing experiments.
C.Be making surveys. D.By listing others’ opinions.
3.What does the underlined word “it” refer to?
A.The data. B.The brain. C.The computer. D.The information.
4.The example in Paragraph 3 shows ___________.
A.Memorizing birthdays is easy B.the first person has a better memory
C.Who has a better memory is uncertain D.the second person can memorize 10% birthdays
5.What does the text mainly tell us ?
A.How computers process data. B.How to improve the memory.
C.Old people can remember things easily. D.Much information makes the brain slower.
