株洲2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、________ is known to us, there is a close connection between smog and pollution.

A．It

B．Which

C．There

D．As

2、Fanny asked ________ made that odd ­looking little cat so popular.

A．what was it that

B．what was that

C．what it was that

D．what that was

3、___ regular exercise is very important, it’s never a good idea to exercise too close to bedtime.

A. It   B. As C. Although   D. Unless

4、As we all know,_______medical examination will help us find out health problems as early as possible.

A.normal B.general C.common D.regular

5、Not until_________ in the field ________ that he had done something wrong to them.

A. did all the crops die; did he realize B. all the crops died; did he realize

C. all the crops died; he had realized D. did all the crops die ; had he realized

6、__________, your article is of greater value than his.

A.All things considered B.All things considering

C.All things are considered D.All things are considering

7、______ surprised me most was ______ such a little boy of seven could play the violin so well.

A．That...what

B．What...that

C．That...which

D．What...which

8、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

9、He shouts when he gets angry, _________ is often the case.

A.which B.that C.when D.as

10、Bai women wear white and red costumes, _______ the men wear white shirts and long wide trousers.

A.while B.but C.because D.so

11、There can be no doubt ___ he is fit for the job .

A.whether B.that C.which D.on which

12、– Shall I call you at this time tomorrow afternoon?

– Sorry, I ______ an exam on DingTalk.

A．will be taking

B．will take

C．will have taken

D．am taking

13、—Can I help you, sir？

—Yes, I bought this radio here yesterday, but it________.

A.didn’t work B.won’t work

C.can’t work D.doesn’t work

14、—I think he is taking an active part in social work.

—I agree with you ______.

A.in a way B.in many ways C.on the way D.in the way

15、This article is too long.You should______the unimportant details to make it shorter.

A.find out B.pick out C.make out D.leave out

16、Last Friday, I helped my father ____ chemicals on apple trees to kill insects.

A. attach B. apply

C. spray D. spread

17、______himself to alcohol,the man seldom cared about his family.

A.Adjusting B.Approaching C.Abandoning D.Acknowledging

18、We encourage students to ____________ fully in the running of the college.

A. paint B. panic

C. participate D. point

19、Parents in Glasgow are reacting against the plan to _______ 25 primary schools.

A.slow down B.shut down C.set down D.settle down

20、More than half of the participants said that getting married was not an important___________ for becoming an adult.

A.tension B.restriction C.circulation D.criterion

21、The train began to move _________ I reached the platform.

A.the immediate B.direct C.the minutes D.instantly

22、The library needs _______, but it’ll have to wait until Sunday.

A. cleaning B. be cleaned

C. clean D. being cleaned

23、—— Hey, if you can’t enjoy that at a sensible volume, please use the earphone. I’m studying.

—— Oh, I’m sorry. I ________ realize it ________ you.

A. don’t; bothers B. didn’t; bothered

C. don’t; was bothering D. didn’t; was bothering

24、In the wake of terrorist attack in New Zealand, we _______ our deepest sympathies to the families who have to live each day with the loss of loved ones.

A．expanded

B．extended

C．explored

D．exposed

25、More than one person________ involved (参与) in the case.

A.is B.are C.has D.have

26、   By 11:00, Gopamma knew something was wrong. Her husband, Hanutha, should have returned from collecting firewood an hour before.Gopamma sent for her son, who gathered a search party and headed to Bandipur Tiger Reserve, a nearby national park in south-western India. Just inside the forest, they discovered Hanutha’s half-eaten remains. The tiger that killed him was still sitting next to the body.

In the face of her husband’s death, Gopamma struggled not only with grief but economic hardship. Her son had to drop out of university. “My life was much better when my husband was alive,” she says. “My older son could have studied, but now both of my sons have to work. I feel insecure and dependent.”

Despite all this, Gopamma feels no hate toward the tiger that killed her husband. Like many Hindus in India, she views humans and creatures, each with an equal right to existence. Her husband’s death, she says, has nothing to do with the fact that the government is trying to save tigers: “This was my fate.”

Rural Indians are unique in the world for their high tolerance for co-existing with potentially deadly wildlife. “You don’t find this in other cultures,” says Ullas, a biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society and a leading expert on tigers. “If this kind of thing happened in Montana or Brazil, they’d wipe out everything the next day.”

The country holds just 25% of total tiger habitat, but accounts for 70% of all remaining wild tigers, or around 3,000 animals today.Success does not come without cost, however.They still have a lot of difficulties with tigers breaking into human-dominated places in certain parts of India,livestock(牲畜) are killed and sometimes so are people.

Some animal activists think that there are too few tigers left in the wild ,so even one shouldn’t be killed.Tigers are treasures, we’d better live with them together.

【1】Which of the following words can replace the underlined word “remains” in the first paragraph?

A.ashes B.body C.rest D.flesh

【2】How was Gopamma’s life after her husband’s death?

A.She suffered financial difficulties.

B.Her life was much better than before.

C.She hated the tiger and was in deep sorrow.

D.She became independent and supported her sons with their studies.

【3】The sentence “You don’t find this in other cultures.” in the fourth paragraph implies ______.

A.Other cultures keep tigers as pets.

B.Other cultures can kill tigers casually.

C.Rural Indians can bear the killing caused by the tiger.

D.People wipe out the tigers once they see them in Montana or Brazil.

【4】What can we know from the article ?

A.Gopamma’s two sons used to study in the university.

B.Tigers often break into indians’ houses and kill the villagers.

C.Gopamma knew something was wrong in the early morning.

D.Hanutha was found killed in the forest in a national park.

27、Speaking in Clicks

Click sounds, such as those found in some languages in Africa, make perfectly good consonants. So why do they appear so rarely in most human speech? One culprit may be anatomy(骨骼).

Previous studies have suggested that in some speakers of click languages, the alveolar ridge(齿龈) the rounded bump between the upper teeth and the roof of the mouth-is small or even absent. In recent research, Scott Moisik of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Dan Dediu of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, built biomechanical models that simulated clicks in vocal tracts(声道) with alveolar ridges of varying sizes. Their results, published in January in the Journal of Language Evolution, showed a clear disadvantage for tracts with large edges. These allowed less air to be trapped in the mouth, requiring more muscular force to produce a click.

The authors interpret this finding as support for an anatomical bias against clicks. They believe the bias is probably weak at the individual level; people with large alveolar ridges can still learn click consonants or that their pronunciations may be wrong. Amplified over generations, this bias might explain why such consonants are so rarely found in language worldwide.

These results are not the first to challenge the traditional premise among linguists that language evolution is largely immune to external factors. Several other researchers have recently argued that geographical context, environmental conditions and genetics could all play a role. But Moisik and Dediu’s work goes a step further by singling out a single feature of human anatomy and quantifying its contribution to a particular type of speech sound.

Susanne Fuchs, senior researcher at the Leibniz Center of General Linguistics in Berlin, who was not involved in the work, says the study’s conclusions are valid. But she cautions that they may present a chicken-and-egg problem: “The palate( 味蕾) shape of an individual matures from early childhood to puberty and , may be affected by frequent productions of clicks,” Fuchs says, “Therefore, over the course of history, it may well be that vocal tract properties and click productions developed in parallel.

【1】The underlined word “one culprit” in Paragraph 1 means _____.

A.something that must cause suffering

B.something that may be the cause

C.something that could be concluded

D.something that never happened before.

【2】According to the findings by Moisik and Dediu, who can make click sounds easily?

A.People with a small or absent alveolar ridge.

B.People with strong muscles inside the mouth

C.People with a normal alveolar rid.

D.People with a large alveolar ridge.

【3】Which of the following statements is true?

A.People with large alveolar ridges cannot learn click language.

B.Having less air trapped in the mouth makes it easier to produce a click.

C.Both Moisik and Dediu believe that language evolution is largely independent of external factors.

D.Language evolution may be subject to geographical context, environmental conditions and genetics.

【4】What is Susanne Fuchs most likely to agree with?

A.The conclusions of the study by Moisik and Dediu are unreliable.

B.Vocal tract properties and click productions might evolve at the same time.

C.Frequent productions of clicks decide the palate shape of an individual.

D.The palate shape of an individual decides whether one can produce click sounds.

28、   Global finance is being changed as billionaires get richer and cut out the middlemen（中间商）by creating their own "family offices”，personal investment firms that look for opportunities in global markets. Largely unnoticed，family offices have become a force in investing，with up to S4 trillion of assets（资产）equal to 6%of the value of the world's stock markets. As they grow even bigger，family offices are sure to face uncomfortable questions about how they concentrate power and feed inequality.

These trends are unlikely to fade. The number of billionaires is still growing-199 newbies（新手）made the grade last year. Family offices' weight in the financial system，therefore，looks likely to rise further. As it does，some concerns about them will rise.

The first is that family offices could endanger the stability of the financial system. A $100 billion fund backed by the super-rich，blew up in 1998，almost bringing down Wall Street. Scores of wealthy people collapsed（崩溃）in 2008. Still，as things stand，family offices look like the next disaster waiting to happen. They have debt equal to 17%of their assets，making them among the least leveraged participants in global markets.

The second worry is that family offices could expand the power of the wealthy over the economy. This is possible: were Bill Gates to invest in Turkey，he would own 65%of its stock market. But a healthy economy's aim is usually to diversify risk，not concentrate power，by taking capital（资本）from the original family business and putting it into a widely spread field.

It is the third danger that has most bite: family offices might have privileged（有特权的）access to information，deals and tax schemes，allowing them to perform better than ordinary investors. So far there is little evidence for this. If all this did lead to an unfair advantage，the effect，when combined over decades，would make wealth inequality disastrously worse.

Most authorities are beginners when it comes to dealing with family offices，but they need to ensure that rules on trading and the equal servicing are observed. And they should require family offices with assets of over，say，$10 billion to publish accounts detailing their workings. In return，they should be free to operate undisturbed. They may even have something to teach asset managers serving ordinary investors, many of whom may look at their monthly fees and wish that they, too, could get away from the middlemen.

【1】What do we know about family offices in the first paragraph?

A.They made the global investments for billionaires.

B.Their influence on global markets will go unnoticed.

C.The rise of them contributes to equality in economy.

D.They contribute more to world economy than middlemen.

【2】"The least leveraged participants"(Paragraph 3) refer to the financers who.

A.make the successful investments B.easily fall into the financial crisis

C.work well with the super-rich class D.play a positive role in global markets

【3】What effects could family offices have according to the passage?

A.Their concentration of power brings potential risks to economy.

B.Their various privileges have greatly angered ordinary investors.

C.Their investments are beneficial to the stability of global markets.

D.Their workings could narrow the gap between the rich and the poor.

【4】What should the authorities pay attention to when monitoring the family offices?

A.The quality of their investments.

B.The freedom of their operation.

C.The equality in trading and servicing.

D.The interests of ordinary investors.

29、   John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.

Luckily, he had strong-willed (意志坚强的), caring mother. John remembers that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe. She told him not to be dependent on (依靠) others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” said she. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”

These words came from a woman less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son—then 15—to Chicago.

Chicago in1933 was not the promised land (乐土、希望之地) that black southerners were looking for, John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But there John could go to school, and there he learned the power of words—as editor of the newspaper and yearbook of Du Stable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.

While others discouraged (阻止、使气馁) him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn (典当) her furniture (家具) to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.

It is natural the difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind. “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary.”

Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America—worth $150 million.

【1】Why did John’s mother decide to move to Chicago? Because ________.

A.John’s father died in his hometown when he was very young

B.life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown, while life in Chicago would be better for blacks

C.there were no schools for blacks in their hometown

D.John needed more education and he could go to school there

【2】Which of the following is TRUE?

A.Chicago was the promised land for black southerners in 1933.

B.John’s mother worked hard as a writer to make their life better.

C.With the help of his mother, John got the money to start the Negro magazine.

D.Now John is the poorest man in America.

【3】What kind of woman was John’s mother? She was a ________.

A.woman with little school education but knew a lot about life

B.woman who would not do anything for her son

C.strong woman with much knowledge

D.woman who didn’t know how to encourage her son

【4】The underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph means ________.

A.if you try, you will succeed in the end

B.a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try

C.a try is always followed by failure

D.nothing but a try can help you out of failure

【5】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A.How John H. Johnson became somebody.

B.The mental support John’s mother gave him.

C.The importance of a good education.

D.The key to success for blacks.

30、One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by ________, because we had never seen geese there before. I wondered where they came from and why they’d ________ our pond. As the days passed, I couldn’t ________ getting a closer look and started talking to the geese. They craned their necks and raised their heads ________ but seemed to realize I was a friend and not an enemy. I felt ________ we were bonding.

One day as they were feeding in the grass near the driveway, I discovered the reason for their ________—the male had a broken left wing. He was ________ to fly, and his lifelong mate would not leave him behind. I marveled at the ________ between them.

I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should do. He explained that sometime a broken wing will heal by itself and suggested letting ________ take its course.

________ the first day of November, I was working in the vicinity (在……附近) of the geese with my tractor. I caught some ________ from the corner of my eye.

Both geese were running toward the pond, wings beating ________. The geese gained enough altitude to clear a neighbor’s house, then ________ back toward me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of sight.

I grew ________ them during their stay at our pond, and I miss them. I’ll never forget their ________ to each other. We could all learn a lesson or two from this pair.

【1】

A．anger

B．surprise

C．terror

D．sorrow

【2】

A．cleared

B．destroyed

C．chosen

D．disturbed

【3】

A．resist

B．imagine

C．escape

D．admit

【4】

A．naturally

B．happily

C．sadly

D．cautiously

【5】

A．whether

B．even if

C．how

D．as though

【6】

A．absence

B．delay

C．visit

D．departure

【7】

A．unable

B．curious

C．eager

D．afraid

【8】

A．bond

B．quarrel

C．conflict

D．competition

【9】

A．chance

B．nature

C．fate

D．knowledge

【10】

A．For

B．During

C．On

D．To

【11】

A．atmosphere

B．division

C．response

D．movement

【12】

A．wildly

B．occasionally

C．slowly

D．aimlessly

【13】

A．floated

B．circled

C．slid

D．skipped

【14】

A．angry with

B．fond of

C．tired of

D．grateful to

【15】

A．sympathy

B．objection

C．adjustment

D．devotion

31、   My first born son had been diagnosed with Autism(自闭症). His speech wasn’t developing_______

He would cry for a long time for no reason….

My daughter who had been born two years after him was developing normally, out-pacing her brother. My wife had  been_______ with  just  the two  of them but I’d  wanted another  son.  I wanted  a(n) ___________ son who  would be just like  me and  _________the  family name. The doctors had assured us that the _______were one in ten thousand that we would  have  another child with Autism. _______, a part of me was afraid. When we discovered my wife was pregnant with a boy again, I remember _______ , over and over and over.

As my third born child _________, however, it soon became  _________that the doctors had been wrong. While his brother had ____________learned to talk, read, and learn, my youngest son could say only a few words. His Autistic behaviors were  much more ____________. Life had said “No” to my prayer.

The journey that __________ has been a long and difficult one for my sons, my daughter, their mother, and me. It still goes on today.  It__________all of us down a path we didn’t want to go, __________ it was a path that led us all to greater love and kindness. In the end, my two boys became my greatest teachers on how to live and how to love. My oldest son now is a  __________ of kindness who gives out hugs happily. His younger brother still doesn’t__________much but has a laughter and innate joy that  __________my soul each and every day of my life.

Sometimes we don’t know why some of our wishes are __________ while others aren’t. All I know is that we are all loved. And we just have to trust ____________ we don’t know the answers. Live your life with love then ! Trust in life to lead you down the path you are__________to go.

【1】A.right B.true C.clever D.wrong

【2】A.strict B.content C.patient D.delighted

【3】A.excellent B.outstanding C.normal D.clever

【4】A.make up B.pick out C.set up D.carry on

【5】A.chances B.numbers C.dangers D.luck

【6】A.However B.Also C.Thus D.Still

【7】A.asking B.discussing C.praying D.consulting

【8】A.came up B.grew up C.turned up D.got up

【9】A.clear B.incredible C.confusing D.possible

【10】A.eventually B.exactly C.accidentally D.actually

【11】A.better B.nervous C.severe D.extreme

【12】A.started B.ended C.followed D.inspired

【13】A.forced B.forbade C.prevented D.encouraged

【14】A.but B.and C.so D.though

【15】A.resource B.fountain C.bit D.flood

【16】A.act B.write C.speak D.read

【17】A.cleans B.influences C.shapes D.brightens

【18】A.solved B.answered C.promised D.considered

【19】A.now that B.in case C.even if D.as if

【20】A.allowed B.requested C.advised D.meant

32、   Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to walk and her movement was _______ in other ways as well. The doctors did not _______ much hope of her ever recovering from this illness. They _______ she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They said that few, if any, were able to come back to _______ after getting this disease. The little girl was strong-minded. There, lying in her hospital bed, she would swear to anyone who’d _______ that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

Later, she was moved to a specialized hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. Whatever therapies(治疗) that could be _______ to her case were used. The therapists were impressed by her undefeatable _______. They taught her about imaging — about seeing herself walking. If it would do nothing else, it would _______ give her hope and something _______ to do in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in ________ therapy and in exercise sessions. Meanwhile, she worked just as hard ________ there faithfully doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving!

One day, as she was trying her best to ________ her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle happened: the ________ moved! It began to move around the room! She ________ out, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”

Of course, at this ________ moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming too and running for ________. People were screaming, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. You see, it was the recent San Francisco ________. But don’t tell that to Angela. She’s ________ that she did it. And now, only a few years later, she’s back in school. On her ________ legs. No wheelchair. You see, anyone who can ________ the earth can conquer a little disease, can’t they?

【1】A. recovered B. realized C. reformed D. restricted

【2】A. hold onto B. hold out C. hold back D. hold up

【3】A. predicted B. doubted C. opposed D. insisted

【4】A. life B. nature C. hospital D. normal

【5】A. listen B. laugh C. lie D. look

【6】A. attached B. referred C. applied D. meant

【7】A. spirit B. talent C. sickness D. symptom

【8】A. at first B. at last C. at most D. at least

【9】A. formal B. precious C. positive D. legal

【10】A. physical B. visual C. passive D. accurate

【11】A. wondering B. lying C. sitting D. living

【12】A. imagine B. consider C. practise D. resist

【13】A. leg B. body C. bed D. glass

【14】A. walked B. reached C. figured D. screamed

【15】A. first B. very C. extra D. last

【16】A. celebration B. access C. liberty D. shelter

【17】A. emergency B. adventure C. earthquake D. sandstorm

【18】A. determined B. convinced C. disappointed D. frightened

【19】A. broken B. last C. own D. proper

【20】A. rescue B. shake C. seize D. preserve

33、I was growing up in Minnesota, “Joe Versus the Volcano” was one of my favorite movies. I longed to be swept away to a tropical island. But as I _________ myself in La Palma reporting on the Cumbre Vieja (老昆布雷火山) eruption in the Spanish Canary Islands, I quickly realized that there’s nothing romantic about volcanoes — even on an island.

I had come prepared — an N95 mask, and a baseball cap my Spanish mother-in-law lent me. But nothing could _________me for the invasiveness (入侵) of the _________ ash. It fell from the sky like a rainstorm, lining streets, covering doorways, and filling the splits of my ears.

It wasn’t long before the airlines _________ all flights. When tourists began panic-buying all the boat tickets as I was _________ residents about their futures, I realized I had, indeed, missed the boat.

For two days, I wandered _________ streets awaiting the recovery of travel, carrying a backpack and feeling progressively stuck — and at times _________. And then I realized I was being given the chance for deeper _________. Here I was experiencing, although in much lesser _________ what the people were feeling:__________and frustration from living next to an erupting volcano with no end in __________

Like the people of La Palma, I __________ on others to get me through — from the English woman who gave me a bag of oranges from her garden to the minister of the church that let me use the bathroom after being __________ at the top of a mountain.

As I finally left — via boat — I realized how __________ I was to have experienced the humanity of the people in La Palma in the face of crisis. I know it’s what will pull them __________ it.

【1】

A．found

B．spotted

C．caught

D．discovered

【2】

A．protect

B．equip

C．hide

D．prepare

【3】

A．deadly

B．breathless

C．volcanic

D．potential

【4】

A．arranged

B．canceled

C．reserved

D．upgraded

【5】

A．informing

B．inquiring

C．consulting

D．interviewing

【6】

A．dusty

B．noisy

C．empty

D．clean

【7】

A．panicked

B．embarrassed

C．regretted

D．abandoned

【8】

A．anxiety

B．insight

C．sorrow

D．memory

【9】

A．space

B．time

C．effort

D．degree

【10】

A．exhaust

B．difficulty

C．uncertainty

D．inconvenience

【11】

A．sight

B．mind

C．action

D．state

【12】

A．fixed

B．decided

C．counted

D．agreed

【13】

A．spotted

B．rescued

C．treated

D．stuck

【14】

A．grateful

B．merciful

C．delightful

D．peaceful

【15】

A．over

B．through

C．under

D．from

34、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.

On a broiling afternoon when the men were away at work and all the women napped, I moved through majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn 【1】. Under these silences there was a / an orchestra of natural music playing notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary breeze blowing across my grandmother’s yard. As I 【2】 along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a 【3】splash told me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of the sun, and when I tired and came back to my grandmother’s house, I padded into her dark cool living room, lay 【4】 on the floor, and listened to the hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall ticking the meaningless hours away.

I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few 【5】. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty labor.

For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were 【6】, and wrung it out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.

They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their own chickens, baked bread and parties, grew and conned their won vegetables, patched the family’s clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, 【7】before the men to start the stove for breakfast and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the flowers that grew around every house. By the end of a summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like a serf.

At sundown the men drifted back from the fields exhausted and 【8】. They scrubbed themselves in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, climbed up onto the porch to watch the night arrive. Presently the women 【9】 them, and the twilight music of Morrisonville began.

The swing creaking , rocking chairs 【10】 on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”

35、阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

Wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic p【1】 the spread of the deadly virus. But it is also i【2】. For one, we can no longer unlock our phones using facial recognition since a good part of our face is c【3】.

F【4】, tech companies are working to solve the problem. Apple, for example, offered a new way to unlock your iPhone and iPad with its l【5】 software update, iOS13.5, w【6】 was released on May 20.

Even though the update still won’t recognize your masked face, it makes the whole process f【7】. While the old system wouldn’t allow access t【8】 the passcode screen before three failed face scan attempts, iOS13.5 will send you straight to the passcode screen when you swipe up.

It might only s【9】 you a few seconds, but those few seconds “benefit public health by eliminating the temptation for people to r【10】 their masks in order to unlock their device”.

36、I have a muscle disease but I don't look any different from other people. Sometimes, I was too weak【1】 go to school so my education suffered. Every time I returned after an【2】(absent), I felt stupid because I was behind the others.

My life is a lot easier at high school because few fellow students make me【3】(annoy). My ambition is to work for a firm【4】develops computer software when I grow up. Last year I invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it from me. I have a very busy life with no time to sit around【5】(feel) sorry for myself. As well as going to the movies and football matches with my friends. I spend a lot of time looking after my pets【6】(proper) but I find it worthwhile.

In many ways my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologically and become more【7】 (independence). I have to work hard to live a normal life but it has been worth it. If【8】(have) a chance to say one thing to healthy children, it would be this: having a disability does not mean your life is not satisfying. So don't feel sorry for the disabled or make fun【9】them, and don't ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are, and give them encouragement to live【10】rich and full a life as you do.

37、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.

38、假定你是李华，你的美国笔友John来信请你介绍中国传统节日清明节。请根据以下要点，用英语给他写封回信。

要点:1. 清明节是二十四节气之一;

2. 全国放假三天;

3. 扫墓祭祖踏青游玩、放风筝等。

注意:1. 词数100左右;

2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;

3. 开头和结尾已为你写好,但不计人总词数。

参考词汇:节气solar term   扫墓sweep the tomb

Dear John ,

Glad to hear from you. I'd like to tell you something about the Qingming Festival.

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Best wishes !

Yours ,

Li Hua

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。续写的词数应为150左右。

I always prided myself on being a wise shopper and having a good nose for bargains. So when I came across a sporting goods store with a sign “Going Out of Business Sale”, I marched into the crowded store. Up and down the aisles (通道), I wandered, humming to myself and enjoying the energy and excitement of a sale.

All of a sudden, there, at the back of the store sat a canoe(轻舟) exactly like my husband’s dream Supremo Numero-Uno, whose picture had been stuck on the bathroom mirror for years. My heart beat wildly. I pushed my way through the crowds, and nearly fell into the canoe looking for the price tag. There it was, with the manufacturer’s suggested price at $6,750 plus tax crossed out and a handwritten TO CLEAR $750 AS IS. Must be a mistake. $6000 off? Salesman. I had to talk to a salesman. I spotted a young fellow with a “Hi. I’m Mathew”. “Mathew. Tell me about this El Supremo canoe. What’s wrong with it? Why is it only $750?”

“Oh. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s brand new. We’re closing the store. It’s on clearance like everything else. I’ll go check.” A few minutes later he came back and said, “I’m sorry ma’am. Someone made a mistake on the sale tag. It should be $4,750 for the whole package.”

I felt tears well up in my eyes. “Oh well”, I said sadly. “Of course, it was too good to be true. This is exactly like my husband’s dreamboat. I guess I started to dream myself when I saw that price tag. He’s going to be 62 years old Friday. Had to retire early for his health. It’s been hard on just the pension but the stubborn old fool has been saving $10 every week for years to buy one just like this. I promise I won’t buy anything, but it’s just an old man’s silly dream, you know. Always said he wanted to fish in a canoe after he retired,” my voice lowered and I turned and walked away.

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I was already at the mall door when Mathew caught up with me. “Do you have $750 plus $25 for delivery, ma’am?”

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“Ma’am. There’s something you should know. This store was my Grandpa’s and the canoe had been ordered by him.

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40、假定你是李华， 请你为校刊“英语角”栏目写一篇题为“Taking Online Classes” 的英文稿件，介绍你们在新冠肺炎疫情期间上网课的情形，主要内容包括：1. 介绍一位授课老师的情况；

2.学生课上的反应；

3.你的感受。

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： 流行病 epidemic 直播 livestream 赞 like

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41、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。续写的词数应为150左右。

Ten-year-old Sami loved to visit his grandfather's house. The house was near the beautiful blue sea. At the seaside stood thick and tall palm trees with green coconuts hanging from them. When the coconuts fell down, Sami would break them open and drink the coconut water. Sami liked to play under the trees. It was always great fun to spend the holidays at Grandpa's place.

This winter vacation, Sami was surprised when he came to his grandfather's village. There were hardly any trees left. He saw houses built near the sea. People had cut down many palm trees and there was hardly any greenery left.

Grandpa's house was different. He never allowed his trees to be cut. He hugged each palm tree in his courtyard. He also named the two big trees near the front door--one was Petu, and the other Betu. He had planted them with his own hands and today they had become large, massive trees with thick trunks. They were tall and green and gave the sweetest, juiciest coconuts.

One night, Sami was awakened by a strange sound. He could not sleep. He tossed（辗转）and turned in bed.

Suddenly, the ground shook as if the earth was splitting. He sat up straight and then ran to Grandpa. He clung（附 着）to his grandpa tightly. Grandpa cried out, “It's an earthquake! It's an earthquake!" They ran outside the house. They thought that would be safe.

Suddenly, there was a loud sound; the earth was not splitting but the sea was roaring. People were shouting, screaming and crying, “The sea is rising! The sea is rising." The villagers started running away from the beach.

Sami watched dumbstruck（呆若木鸡）.

The waves were rising higher and higher. Sami thought, “How big the waves are!" He went into the house again and saw water coming in from all sides. He was scared.

Sami remembered his mother telling him long ago, “You must always get out of the house if the floods come too near." He ran outside the house with Grandpa. But the water came surging（汹涌） in.

Waves about twelve meters high came rushing in, drowning everything. Water was all around and everywhere.

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Grandpa held Sami's hand tightly but a huge wave separated them.

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“Sami, Sami!” Grandpa cried. “Don't be scared, little one, come to me, quickly.”

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