1．Burns
　　Burns from fire or other sources of heat are different from mild (轻微的) to life threatening. Some burns can be treated at home. While others need emergency (紧急的) medical care.
　　What to do if you get burned
　　• First, check and decide if you can take care of the burn yourself. Go to the hospital immediately if the burn is serious.
　　• If you can't get to a hospital right away or must wait for an ambulance, follow these steps:
　　1. Remove clothing from the burned area. Do not remove clothing that is stuck to the skin and don't break any blisters (水泡).
　　2. Run cool (not cold) water over the burn until the pain becomes lighter. Do not put butter, oil, or ice on burns.
　　3. Lightly apply a bandage (绷带) over the burn.
　　4. Remove jewelry that's close to the burn.
　　Seek emergency medical care if:
　　The burn is serious.
　　The burned area is large (cover the area with a clean, soft cloth or towel).
　　The burn comes from a fire, electrical wire or chemicals.
　　The burn looks infected (被感染的).
　　Think prevention!
　　Be careful when using candles, heaters, and curling irons. Do not allow children to play in the kitchen while someone is cooking. Children can easily get burned in kitchens.
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2．　　I was born in Damyang, a beautiful place known for its bamboo forests in Korea. I spent much time in the forests painting pictures of the bamboo. Painting is one of my talents. I lived there until last year when my family moved to New York. My mother, a scientist, was asked to come to work here.
　　"There are no bamboo forests," I said, "There is nothing to paint in New York." "Don't worry, my dear daughter. You will find many things to see and paint there," said my mother. "I will miss home," I said. "Then you can paint pictures of your favorite places. They will make you feel at home," she said. So when we moved, I brought my forest paintings with me.
　　New York was not easy at first. I missed home a lot. Yet when I looked at my paintings of bamboo, I felt much better. I soon found friends at school too. They also like painting, and we now paint in a group after school.
　　Last month, we had a new neighbor, Varvara, an old lady who moved from Russia, to be closer to her daughter. She was sad to leave her home. My mother and I often visited her. She told us her homesickness and everything about her hometown Vyborg. I could picture her home in my head.
　　Varvara missed her home so much that she became ill. I worried about her and I wanted to do something for her. I had ever been in her situation before. At least, I had my forest paintings of home. However, she didn't even have that. Unless…
　　A few days later, I met Varvara on the stairs. She looked better but still sad. I gave her my gift: a painting of Vyborg. I had painted it from her memories.
　　She began to cry as she saw the painting. At first, I was worried that she didn't like it. Later, she told me that those were tears of joy. I knew just how she felt — wherever you go, hometown is always with you.
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3．　　"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 bad 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.
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4．　　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。
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.

5．　　There was a class of students who always caused kinds of trouble in class and made their teachers terribly angry. (1)       of the teachers wanted to teach them in this school, so the headmaster called a teacher who had just left her job at a (2)       school. He asked her if she would like to come in and (3)       at the school for one term. She agreed.
　　The headmaster decided not to tell the teacher about the (4)      , afraid that she would be scared off. After the new teacher had been on the job for a (5)      , the headmaster sat in on the class to see how things were going. To (6)       surprise, the students were well-behaved. They listened to the teacher carefully and discussed actively in groups. When the headmaster saw them (7)       on the books, his surprises doubled. After the class, the headmaster (8)       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 (9)       didn't deserve (值得) any thanks.
　　She laughed and told him, "You see, I discovered your (10)       on my first day. I looked in the desk drawer and found a (11)       of the students' IQ scores. I knew that I had a challenging group of kids here—they're so (12)       that I would have to work very hard to make school interesting for them. I hope they can (13)       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 (14)       the names.
　　The headmaster laughed. Those weren't their IQ scores, (15)       their locker (储物柜) numbers!

6．
　　Though it may sound like a boast (自夸), I've always been proud that I never litter. One day, when I saw the gate of my neighborhood, all my (1)             just disappeared.
　　A line of colorful bins recently (2)             at the gate, with different signs on each one of them. I suddenly realized that I could no longer drop rubbish into the dustbin without giving it a (3)             thought. To answer this call of garbage classification (垃圾分类), I found several cardboard boxes at home and used each of them to (4)             a certain kind of garbage, such as wastepaper, plastics, batteries and so on.
　　(5)            , this is a lot harder than it sounds. It took me many failed tries before I remembered the (6)             classification. But now, doing this makes me feel good (7)             it's my contribution to protecting our environment.
　　As much as we may be proud of our quick development, we haven't realized that the environment is changing (8)             the worse. With the quick growth of our population, people are putting huge pressure on the environment, and garbage pollution is one of the (9)             problems.
　　In this situation, garbage classification is necessary. It can prevent pollution, making the air and water cleaner. And (10)             can help us make the most use of the waste that would have just been thrown away before.

7．　　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.

8．A: Hey, Mom. Big news today!
B: What news?
A: My head teacher, Ms. Li, is going to have a second baby. So we will have a new head teacher.
B: (1)      ?
A: My PE teacher—Mr. Zhao.
B:What? How can your PE teacher work as a head teacher?
A: Why not? (2)      .
B: Maybe you are right, but I think he doesn't know the main subjects well. And he has no managing experience. (3)      ?
A: No, I don't think so. I believe my PE teacher will be a good head teacher.
B: It seems that things have changed. You are more open-minded. Well, I do wonder who had the idea to make Mr. Zhao your head teacher.
A: I am not sure. (4)      .
B: What you guess may be right. Anyway, I am still worried. Haven't you heard of the sentence "Is your math taught by a PE teacher?"
A: (5)      . Don't be too serious about it. It's just a joke.

9．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。
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