五指山2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测五年级英语

1、Governments of some countries see it as their responsibility ________ the amount and kind of risk their citizens are exposed to.

A.controls B.controlled C.has controlled D.to control

2、The government has taken some measures to solve the shortage of electricity , but it may be some time _________the situation improves.

A. since B. when

C. before D. unless

3、On a ________ morning the little girl was found ________ at the corner of the street.

A.freezing, freezing B.freezing, frozen C.frozen, frozen D.frozen, freezing

4、---Hi, Johnson, any idea where Susan is?

---It is class time, so she __________ in the classroom now.

A. can be B. must have been

C. might have been D. should be

5、Taking a close look at their respective (各自的) historical contexts, purposesand principles, huge differences can be ______ between the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路倡议) and the Marshall Plan (马歇尔计划).

A.condemned B.identified C.abused D.twisted

6、Japanese groups sent assistance supplies to China, _____  with ancient Chinese poetic lines: "Fear not the want of armor, for mine is also yours to wear", _____ a touching message of empathy(共鸣) from a close neighbor.

A.attached; conveying B.being attached; conveying

C.attaching; conveyed D.to attach; conveyed

7、The person who ________ advantage of the girl ________ a disadvantage didn’t gain an advantage ________ her.

A.made; in ; over B.took; at ; on C.took; at; over D.made; at; over

8、Many experts hold the view that teachers’ development is _______ the key to better education lies.

A.which B.what C.where D.how

9、She was on the point of going out _________ the telephone rang.

A. while B. when

C. as D. the moment

10、When the boss came in, the workers pretended ______ hard on their machines.

A. to work B. to be working

C. to have worked D. working

11、All the drivers must be ______ before they begin to drive on their own.

A.tested out B.examined C.looked into D.watched

12、A rift valley_____ an area _____ there is increased volcanic activity and thinned planetary crust.

A.is composed of, where B.consists of, which

C.made up of, where D.compose, when

13、Though a man may also feel like screaming as a woman________ in a crisis, he has a little bit more self-control than a woman and that makes the difference.

A.having B.has

C.doing D.does

14、You’ll pay_____ that remark!

A. off B. for

C. back D. out

15、---It’s a long time ______ I saw you last.

---Yes, and what a pity! It will be a long time _____ we see each other again.

A. when;when B. since;before C. before; since D. since;when

16、Maybe all Americans realize that _______ will be the next president will face masses of problems.

A．who

B．whoever

C．whomever

D．no matter who

17、They had made full preparations but somehow, the plan _________ badly.

A. was worked out B. worked out

C. was turned out D. turned out

18、I’m sorry; those jeans are not   in your colour and size.

A. together   B. patient

C. available   D. average

19、Ray is a new graduate, and ________ seems that he has difficulty in dealing with ________ problems arise.

A．what, whichever

B．what, whenever

C．it, whatever

D．it, wherever

20、Finally, my thanks go to my tutor, who has offered a lot of suggestions and comments on my paper and ________ every page of my draft.

A. approved   B. quoted   C. polished   D. folded

21、I walked up to the top of the hill with my feiend, we enjoyed a splendid view of the lake

A．which

B．where

C．who

D．that

22、The shocking news made me realize_______ terrible problems we would face.

A.what B.if C.how D.that

23、Only when the war, with all its unexpected consequences, is over ________.

A．that any political impacts will begin

B．will any political impacts begin

C．and any political impacts will begin

D．any political impacts will begin

24、Teachers are always showing special ___ the students who are diligent and active in class.

A. preference to B. favor to

C. preference for D. favor for

25、Henry would rather his mother________ in the school where he is studying.

A．not work  B．not worked

C．didn't work    D．not working

26、   Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated (躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.

In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely — a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “creative voice”.

“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”

Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book talks about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school to graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book and a short-story collection.

【1】What can we know about Cisneros in her childhood?

A．Her brothers disliked her.

B．She felt herself a nobody.

C．She was too shy to go to school.

D．She did not meet any good teachers.

【2】The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to ________.

A．run away from her family

B．develop her writing style

C．make a lot of friends

D．search for a husband

【3】According to Cisneros, what was the key factor in her success?

A．Her childhood experience.

B．Her training in the Workshop.

C．Her feeling of being different.

D．Her early years in college.

【4】What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?

A．It enjoys great popularity among students.

B．It is a book of poetry written by Cisneros.

C．It wasn’t a success as it was written in Spanish.

D．It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.

27、Directions：Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. 【1】 Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.

“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. 【2】 “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.

They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of inter-dependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems.

While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, 【3】 “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.

Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. 【4】 “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,”

A. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications.

B. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components.

C. There used to be few ways like this to study how insects fly.

D. There are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives humans on a day-to-day basis.

E. Thus, it might some day perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield.

F. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly.

28、The idea of turning recycled plastic bottles into clothing is not new. During the last five years, a large number of clothing companies, businesses and environmental organizations have started turning plastics into fabric to deal with plastic pollution. But there’s a problem with this method. Research now shows that microfibers could be the biggest source of plastic in the sea.

Dr. Mark Browne in Santa Barbara, California, has been studying plastic pollution and microfibers for 10 years now. He explains that every time synthetic clothes go into a washing machine, a large number of plastic fibers fall off. Most washing machines can’t collect these microfibers. So every time the water gets out of a washing machine, microfibers are entering the sewers and finally end up in the sea.

In 2011, Browne wrote a paper stating that a single piece of synthetic(合成的) clothing can produce more than 1, 900 fibers per wash. Browne collected samples from seawater and freshwater sites around the world, and used a special way to examine each sample. He discovered that every single water sample contained microfibers.

This is bad news for a number of reasons. Plastic can cause harm to sea life when eaten. Studies have also shown that plastic can absorb other pollutants.

Based on this evidence, it may seem surprising that companies and organizations have chosen to turn plastic waste into clothing as an environmental “solution.” Even though the science has been around for a while, Browne explains that he's had a difficult time getting companies to listen. When he asked well-known clothing companies to support Benign by Design-his research project that seeks to get clothes that have a bad effect on humans and the environment out of the market, Browne didn’t get a satisfying answer. Only one women’s clothing company, Eileen Fisher, offered Browne funding.

【1】What has happened during the past five years?

A．Fabric has become much stronger.

B．Plastic pollution has been less serious.

C．Many plastic bottles have been reused.

D．Microfibers have been greatly improved.

【2】What does Browne think of washing synthetic clothes?

A．It is adding microfibers to the clothes.

B．It is worsening environmental problems.

C．It is making synthetic clothes last longer.

D．It is doing great damage to washing machines.

【3】What can be inferred about Browne’s Benign by Design research project?

A．It has achieved great success.

B．It hasn’t got anything done.

C．It is known to very few people.

D．It is facing some difficulties.

【4】What’s the best title for the text?

A．It’s important to learn to recycle

B．It’s never easy to solve pollution problems

C．Recycled plastic clothing: solution or pollution?

D．Are human beings moving forward or backward?

29、   Britons are well known for the amount of tea that they drink. The average person in the UK consumes around 1.9 kg of tea annually. That's around 876 cups of tea. Tea is drunk by all sections of society.【1】The fast majority of tea is grown in India and China. So, how did it become an important part of British culture?

【2】At this time, British ships were exploring the world and came across the drink in China. It was not long before green tea was available to buy. However, this was only available to the richer sections of society.

At the beginning of the 1700s，the amount of tea arriving in Britain increased gradually. Black tea arrived at this time.【3】They soon discovered that it makes really well with a little milk and sugar, giving the drink a special British characteristic.

In the 1800s Tea was still a product enjoyed only by people with money.【4】This involves drinking tea with a snack around 4 p.m. to avoid feeling hungry between lunch and dinner. It is a tradition that is still going today, but has become less popular in recent times.

In the late 1800s, the price of tea decreased sharply as more tea began to arrive on ships from India and China. It was no longer a drink just for rich people. Tearooms---shops where you could buy and drink tea ---started to appear across the country.【5】At the start of the 20th century, Britons began to make tea in their homes whenever they felt like it. Kettles became essential in every kitchen.

A. At this time, they begin to have afternoon tea.

B. People in lower classes could not afford it.

C. Let’s have a look at its history.

D. People enjoy drinking tea and socializing in these places.

E. But tea does not grow in Britain.

F. Tea arrived in London in the 1600s.

G. At first, people drank this tea exactly as it was in China.

30、Mattew Shifrin has been building with Legos (乐高积木) since he was 5 with the help of his friends. When he turned 13, he got a _______ birthday present from his friend, Lilya Finkel. It was an 843-piece Middle Eastern Lego palace. And with it were_______that Finkel made specially for it. Finkel_______a unique name for every one of the more than 800 pieces in the   palace set. Then she spent countless hours_______ building instructions in Braille (盲文) that spelled out how to_______ them all together.

His mind was blown. As a_______person, Shifrin had never before been able to complete a Lego set_______. Shifrin knew immediately that he had to help other blind children find the same_______ . Shifrin says, 'For blind people, Lego sets act as small 3D_______for real-life buildings instead of two-dimensional photographs. Lego bricks ________ me to see things that are ________ to explore by touch.' For years after that incredible Lego________ , he together with Finkel created similar instructions for about 45 other Lego sets, all ________ on a website they created, 'Lego for the Blind.'

Shifrin began________the Lego company several years ago to discuss his work, but it was in 2017, when Finkel died of cancer, that he finally connected with the________person. His years-long efforts________ when the Lego company released its first audio and Braille building instructions. The project is a high-tech version of what Shifrin and Finkel did for their________. It couldn’t have been completed without Shifrin's________ – or without his determination.

He just ________ Finkel had been here to see it. 'I think she'd be very glad that we came this ________,' Shifrin said.

【1】

A．time-saving

B．life-changing

C．world-shaking

D．heart-breaking

【2】

A．instructions

B．rules

C．skills

D．requirements

【3】

A．invented

B．remembered

C．mentioned

D．knew

【4】

A．getting

B．practicing

C．ignoring

D．typing

【5】

A．mix

B．fix

C．mend

D．gather

【6】

A．blind

B．deaf

C．poor

D．rich

【7】

A．in his favour

B．in his turn

C．on his own

D．at his convenience

【8】

A．truth

B．connection

C．balance

D．independence

【9】

A．patterns

B．designs

C．replacements

D．arrangements

【10】

A．warn

B．allow

C．force

D．trouble

【11】

A．impossible

B．dangerous

C．easy

D．safe

【12】

A．experiment

B．performance

C．practice

D．experience

【13】

A．published

B．selected

C．identified

D．canceled

【14】

A．putting up with

B．catching up with

C．reaching out to

D．keeping away from

【15】

A．previous

B．missing

C．smart

D．right

【16】

A．spread out

B．blew up

C．faded away

D．paid off

【17】

A．company

B．website

C．buildings

D．children

【18】

A．encouragement

B．preparation

C．involvement

D．recommendation

【19】

A．predicted

B．wished

C．assumed

D．expected

【20】

A．long

B．far

C．deep

D．fast

31、Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are _________ in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experienced ill fortune. I _________ notices in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.

Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my _________ . Over the years I interviewed them, watched their lives and had them _________ various experiments.

I carried out a simple _________ to discover whether their differences in luck was due to differences in their ability to _________ opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had _________ placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $ 50.”

This _________ took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to _________ it and the lucky people tended to spot it.

Unlucky people are generally more __________ than lucky people, and this anxiety affects their ability to notice the__________. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to gatherings focused on finding their perfect partner and miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers __________to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.

Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there__________ just what they are looking for. My research eventually showed that lucky people create good fortune via four __________ . They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition(直觉), create self-fulfilling prophesies(预言) via positive expectations, and adopt a “never say die” attitude that __________ bad luck into good.

【1】

A．never

B．always

C．sometimes

D．seldom

【2】

A．placed

B．edited

C．created

D．read

【3】

A．game

B．adventure

C．research

D．contest

【4】

A．participate in

B．call off

C．look into

D．carry out

【5】

A．observation

B．experiment

C．competition

D．discussion

【6】

A．share

B．predict

C．decline

D．identify

【7】

A．hesitantly

B．carelessly

C．secretly

D．excitedly

【8】

A．copy

B．message

C．diagram

D．introduction

【9】

A．miss

B．pass

C．revise

D．misunderstand

【10】

A．nervous

B．careless

C．awkward

D．pitiful

【11】

A．unaffected

B．unexplained

C．unchanged

D．unexpected

【12】

A．confident

B．disappointed

C．determined

D．surprised

【13】

A．apart from

B．but for

C．regardless of

D．rather than

【14】

A．goals

B．preferences

C．principles

D．steps

【15】

A．throws

B．transforms

C．takes

D．forces

32、   In case of emergency, would you stick to traditional ideas or abandon them?

Before long, a father from Dubai made his own ______ .The father took the whole family out to enjoy the ______ in Dubai. While everyone was having fun, his 20-year old daughter ______ the deep waters and yelled for help in ______ . No one in the family was able to swim, so they could do ______ but watch the girl painfully ______ in the water. ______ , two lifeguards on the beach noticed her and  ______ to save the girl. However, the father stopped them and shouted: “Leave her______ !You are men. How can you touch my daughter? You will insult(侮辱) her if you save her.”

The two lifeguards tried every means to ______ the father but failed. Helplessly, they decided to ______ the father but ______ failed because the father was tall and strong. The father ______ losing his daughter instead of saving her. The ending ______ quite as he had expected. His daughter soon disappeared under water.

Is it the seawater or the father’s traditional ideas that killed her daughter? ______ , a delivery woman in Fengxian District, Shanghai remained ______ in a thick quilt without turning on the air-conditioner after giving birth in hot summer, which was ______ by her heatstroke (中暑) at home. Due to the ______ treatment her family adopted, she became seriously ill. After emergency treatment, she finally died and left her newborn baby behind.

We are often ______ by those so-called traditional ideas, which generally prove to be wrong. The most tragic part is not how miserable your life is , but you are the ______ of your ideas.

【1】A. distinction B. voice C. choice D. determination

【2】A. architecture B. beach C. waters D. sand

【3】A. headed to B. slipped into C. jumped into D. walked towards

【4】A. desperation B. amazement C. embarrassment D. depression

【5】A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing

【6】A. struggling B. swimming C. floating D. patting

【7】A. Otherwise B. Furthermore C. Meanwhile D. Besides

【8】A. jogged B. moved C. intended D. hurried

【9】A. out B. behind C. alone D. off

【10】A. persuade B. demand C. educate D. accuse

【11】A. warn B. ignore C. abandon D. blame

【12】A. even B. still C. almost D. ever

【13】A. agreed on B. resisted C. insisted on D. allowed

【14】A. turned out B. ran out C. turned over D. come over

【15】A. Differently B. Similarly C. Frequently D. Eventually

【16】A. tied B. wrapped C. sheltered D. trapped

【17】A. suggested B. drawn C. informed D. predicted

【18】A. careless B. rude C. considerate D. improper

【19】A. impressed B. inspired C. troubled D. restricted

【20】A. slave B. owner C. maker D. loser

33、   My name is Jane Eyre and my parents died when I was a baby. For ten years I lived a(n) _______ life with my aunt and cousins who treated me unfairly. My cousins laughed at me and my aunt never showed me any _______ . The only person who cared about me was the maid, Bessie. One day my cousin John shouted at me: “You should go and beg, not live with _______ folks like us!” After fighting with him I was locked in a room, where I _______ for hours crying.

Things _______ the same until a tall gentleman called Mr. Brockchurst came to visit. My aunt told me that I was going to a school owned by the gentleman. “Train her to be _______ and humble(谦卑的),” said Aunt. Two days later I _______ my home.

At first my _______ at Lowood School was hard. The food was bad and I was often cold but I made _______ and enjoyed studying. But after an illness killed several students, new owners ________ the school and my life improved. Six years later I ________ a teacher and was very happy. But eventually I felt that I should explore more of the world and found a job as a private teacher in a ________ .

Before I left Lowood, I was ________ by Bessie, who told me that seven years ago my father’s brother had come looking for me but left again to go abroad. “He looked like quite a gentleman,” said Bessie. I ________ if he would ever look for me again.

My new life ________ at Thornfield Hall, a large country house, ________ a little girl called Adele. She was the adopted daughter of the owner of the house, Mr. Rochester. He ________ stayed at Thornfield, ________ my time was mainly spent with Adele and the servants. My life was quite ________ now although there was something ________ about my new home. Often I heard odd sounds come from the top floor of the house.

【1】A.merry B.innocent C.unfortunate D.comfortable

【2】A.food B.love C.method D.schooling

【3】A.rich B.friendly C.troublesome D.wise

【4】A.hesitated B.stayed C.lived D.disguised

【5】A.appeared B.worked C.seemed D.remained

【6】A.beautiful B.aggressive C.obedient D.active

【7】A.restored B.reached C.left D.sold

【8】A.complaint B.life C.dream D.study

【9】A.noise B.friends C.mistakes D.comparison

【10】A.took over B.took up C.took off D.took away

【11】A.knew B.met C.became D.recognized

【12】A.school B.home C.library D.county

【13】A.overlooked B.visited C.brought D.required

【14】A.wondered B.thought C.questioned D.suspected

【15】A.stopped B.continued C.started D.faded

【16】A.showing B.teaching C.admiring D.bearing

【17】A.already B.never C.always D.hardly

【18】A.yet B.though C.still D.so

【19】A.happy B.hard C.extraordinary D.unsatisfying

【20】A.interesting B.memorable C.instructive D.strange

34、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

The Internet E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic age possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on 【1】 relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.

Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quiet 【2】.” They say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends-not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so 【3】 supporting.

The technological leader promised us that access would make life more convenient. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to 【4】 us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy 【5】.

If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast 【6】 land, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the 【7】 of all resources.

And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really 【8】 in the e-economy age. If this new technology 【9】 is only about super efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a(n) 【10】 human being.

35、Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the proper form of the words or expressions given in the frame. Each one can only be used once.

Why your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems?  Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 【1】 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.

When ten million passwords were leaked on to the internet，they appeared to 【2】that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.

While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”，there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to【3】. The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.

“Users are becoming slightly more 【4】what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”

But 【5】no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this and in 20 percent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.

Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to 【6】 their mobile phone with an account, having a single use passwords texted to it each time they want to log on.

Although the serviced is voluntary, Dylan Casey an executive at Yahoo!，said that it was “the first step to【7】passwords”. He said it was a(n)【8】that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.

It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than same people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or，“tran5p053d numb3r5 f0r 133tr3r5”.

“We are, for the most part，predictably【9】when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n) 【10】, and so do password crackers.

36、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.

The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.

It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.

Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often  【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.

Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.

37、

Rapidly advancing technology and its impact on education has been a subject of debate. How can schools equip students with the skills they need to succeed in a challenging job market?

Since technology is driving these changes, there is a theory that governments should keep focusing on STEM subjects. These are often referred to as “hard skills,” which are 【1】 in primary school and right through to university level. In the meantime, ‘soft skills’ are being 【2】.

This is a mistake. Much evidence suggests that soft skills are far more 【3】 to graduates in the long term. Research from Harvard University on the global job market has shown that STEM- related careers grew strongly between 1989 and 2000 but have slowed down since. In contrast, jobs in the creative industries----the sector probably most 【4】 with the need for soft skills---are growing rapidly. Soft skills are, in fact, increasingly in demand in the workplace: Google cites creativity, leadership 【5】 and communication skills as top requirements for both potential and current employees.

So why are soft skills so highly 【6】 for?

With the rapid evolution of technology, a focus on hard skills leaves students 【7】 to change, as these often have a short shelf life. According to research by World Economic Forum, more than one in four adults reports a mismatch between their skills and those needed for their job role. If soft skills are taught well, these skills should enable students to adapt to change more easily and progress further in their 【8】 career.

Of course, technical skills are important. But without the curriculum placing equal--- if not greater --- 【9】 on soft skills, our education systems are missing a huge trick. Hard skills may help a student get a job in a particular industry, but soft skills will help them disrupt it, achieving a wider 【10】 in their chosen field.

38、假如你是校学生会主席李华，学校计划请专家就皮肤烧伤的急救安排一活动，为此请你在校园网上用英语发一则书面通知呼吁同学们参加，内容包括：

1. 时间、地点和目的；

2. 活动的内容；

3. 你的呼吁。

注意： 

1、词数80左右；

2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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39、阅读下面材料,   根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,   使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Mai Lin wasn’t doing well enough at school, or at least she wasn’t satisfied with herself. She wished she could do better.

“Let’s review the material we learned in the last unit,” the history teacher said. “Who can tell us what caused the War of 1812?” Mai Lin sat at her desk, staring ahead. She hoped the teacher wouldn’t call her name. They hadn’t studied the War of 1812 at her old school and she didn’t know the answer.

“Alison?” the teacher asked instead. Oh, perfect, Mai Lin thought. Of course Alison would have the answer. She seemed to have all the answers. Alison was the most popular girl in school – always surrounded by millions of boyfriends, best friends, and others. She was like a brilliant sun.

Mai Lin hadn’t made one or two friends of her own so far. Her old school was small and low-key, but a shy person like Mai Lin had a chance there. This new school, however, seemed as big as an airport to Mai Lin, and it seemed very hard to get around in it. She still got lost sometimes in the school.

Mai Lin frowned (皱眉) as Alison answered the teacher’s question. Alison probably never got lost, Mai Lin thought to herself. You could probably put Alison down in the middle of a desert, and within five minutes she’d be able to tell you the best way to get home.

History class finally ended, and Mai Lin headed for the gym. The class had been playing basketball. Alison, who was as tall and thin and attractive as a tree, was very good at it. Beside her, Mai Lin felt like a very small and foolish ant. Today, however, the gym teacher pointed to a thick rope hanging from the ceiling and said, “Everybody! You’re going to climb this rope today.”

注意：

1.续写词数应为 150 左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Hearing the teacher’s words, Mai Lin smiled.

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Mai Lin stepped forward and got close to the rope.

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40、请阅读下面短文，然后按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

【写作内容】

1．用约30词概述上述文本的主要内容；

2．结合上述信息，用约120词发表你的看法，内容包括:

(1) 少儿编程教育流行起来的原因（至少两点）；

(2) 你对少儿编程教育的建议（至少两点）。

【写作要求】

1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2. 作文中不得提及有关考生个人身份的任何信息，如校名、人名等。

【评分标准】

内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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41、假定你是李华，你校举办了“中国诗歌文化研讨会”。请给你的英国笔友Lisa写一封邮件介绍有关情况，内容包括:

1. 时间和地点；

2. 活动的内容；

3. 活动的效果。

注意:

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇:

中国诗歌文化研讨会 the Forum on Chinese poetic Culture

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