济宁2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、Joe is a good basketball player ______ being short and stout.

A. due to B. despite

C. considering D. concerning

2、President Xi Jinping says that the central government will make medical insurance _______ to every family.

A.constructive B.accessible C.portable D.suitable

3、Where is my pen？I ____it.

A.might lose B.would have lost

C.should have lost D.must have lost

4、In such dry weather, the flowers will have to be watered if they _______.

A. have survived B. are to survive

C. would survive D. will survive

5、_____ she was sick, I was expected to take his place greatly surprised me, for I didn’t have much work experience.

A.That if B.That C.If that D.If

6、—Remember the first time we met?

—Always in my mind! You ________ ‘A Red, Red Rose’ by Robert Burns.

A. recited B. had recited C. are reciting D. were reciting

7、He was a friendly and _____ man, who gave freely to the poor.

A.rigid B.generous C.shallow D.competent

8、They all sat together at table, laughing and ______ stories after many years’ separation.

A.swapping B.circulating C.spreading D.plotting

9、 As a film star she was a success, but as a wife she was ________ failure, so their marriage ended in ________ failure.

A．/; /

B．/; a

C．a; a

D．a; /

10、Mother was always scolding him for leaving things _____ , but to her satisfaction, he _____them ______today.

A. in order；put；in order B. on order； place； in order

C. out of order；put；in order D. by order；place；in order

11、 – Is John coming by train?

– He should, but he _______ not. He likes driving his car.

A．must

B．can

C．need

D．may

12、To everyone’s surprise, the fashionable young lady ____ to be a thief.

A. proved out B. made out

C. turned out D. found out

13、----How about your journey to Mount Emei?

----Everything was wonderful except that our car twice on the way.

A. slowed down   B. broke down

C. got down D. put down

14、--- Look at the sweat on her face.

--- She ________ the house since she got up this morning.

A．is cleaning    B．has been cleaned

C．was cleaning    D．has been cleaning

15、After checking the patient, the doctor ran out of the room, ____ a deep sigh.

A. let out B. letting out

C. to let out D. to be let out

16、Can you imagine yourself____on a deserted island?

A．staying

B．to stay

C．have stayed

D．being stayed

17、________of their bad habits, the boys changed from being dependent on their parents to ________for others.

A. Having rid; sacrificing B. To rid; sacrifice   ​

C. Rid; sacrificing ​ D. Having been rid; sacrifice

18、John invited about 40 people to his wedding, most of _______are family members.

A.who B.which C.whom D.what

19、Compared to English, Spanish is a _______ easy language to learn.

A.rapidly B.relatively C.regularly D.respectively

20、I have read the material several times but it doesn’t make any________to me.

A.meaning B.importance C.sense D.significance

21、Doctor Li Wenliang is reported to have been one of the first whistleblowers _______ the epidemic situation.

A.mentioning B.to mention C.mentioned D.mention

22、―Tom doesn't seem so enthusiastic as he was two years ago.

―Yes. He's really reached a point in his career _______ he has to decide what to do next.

A.that B.when C.where D.which

23、Our air-conditioners sell well, but decades of years ago no one could have imagined such a big share in the market that they ________ .

A. were to have B. were having

C. have had D. had had

24、Addicted to shopping, I found that the items I bought lost their appeal right around ________ a new item caught my eye.

A．the second when

B．a second when

C．the second

D．a second

25、Not only ______ me improve my Spanish, but Campero introduced me to her culture.

A.she helped B.did she help C.had she helped D.she had helped

26、In May 1987 the Golden Gate Bridge had a 50th birthday party. The bridge was closed to motor traffic so people could enjoy a walk across it. Organizers expected perhaps 50,000 people to show up. Instead, as many as 800, 000 crowded the roads to the bridge. By the time 250,000 were on the bridge, engineers noticed something terrible：the roadway was flattening under what turned out to be the heaviest load it had ever been asked to carry. Worse, it was beginning to sway（晃动）. The authorities closed access to the bridge and tens of thousands of people made their way back to land. A disaster was avoided.

The story is one of scores in To Forgive Design：Understanding Failure, a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean（赞歌）to its breakdowns. Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about disasters. In this book, he includes the loss of the space shuttles（航天飞机）Challenger and Columbia, and the sinking of the Titanic.

Though he acknowledges that engineering works can fail because the person who thought them up or engineered them simply got things wrong, in this book Dr. Petroski widens his view to consider the larger context in which such failures occur. Sometimes devices fail because a good design is constructed with low quality materials incompetently applied. Or perhaps a design works so well it is adopted elsewhere again and again, with seemingly harmless improvements, until, suddenly, it does not work at all anymore.

Readers will encounter not only stories they have heard before, but some new stories and a moving discussion of the responsibility of the engineer to the public and the ways young engineers can be helped to grasp them.

"Success is success but that is all that it is," Dr. Petroski writes. It is failure that brings improvement.

【1】What happened to the Golden Gate Bridge on its 50th birthday?

A．It carried more weight than it could.

B．It swayed violently in a strong wind

C．Its roadway was damaged by vehicles

D．Its access was blocked by many people.

【2】Which of the following is Dr. Petroski's idea according to paragraph 3?

A．No design is well received everywhere

B．Construction is more important than design.

C．Not all disasters are caused by engineering design

D．Improvements on engineering works are necessary.

【3】What does the last paragraph suggest?

A．Failure can lead to progress.

B．Success results in overconfidence

C．Failure should be avoided.

D．Success comes from joint efforts.

【4】What is the text?

A．A news report

B．A short story.

C．A book review

D．A research article.

27、Tiny water plants called phytoplankton (浮游植物) serve as food for many sea creatures, including whales, shrimp, jellyfish and snails.

Phytoplankton do well in cold water. But if water temperatures rise by only two degrees Celsius, the phytoplankton struggle. That is what happened in the last three or four years in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers say an unusual area of warm water spread throughout the Northern Pacific. Scientists called the warm water 'the blob', as if it were a character in an old science fiction movie. At its largest, the blob stretched 1,600 square kilometers and reached depths of 91 meters. This large mass of warm water had a damaging effect on the ocean food chain. Many fish that depend on phytoplankton swam away from the area. As a result, sea birds and sea lions that eat those fish starved.

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington have found that the warm ocean 'blob' caused a harmful algae bloom. That fast growth in algae hurt fishing grounds along the U.S. West Coast and Canada's British Columbia. The researchers recently published their study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. They looked at the algae, called P. australis. They found that the algae can grow much faster than normal if it is exposed to warm water. The higher levels of algae also produced more of a poisonous chemical that can cause problems for everything from shellfish to dolphins to sea lions. It also causes problems for humans if too much of the chemical builds up in their blood.

Researchers say algae blooms like this one will continue as ocean waters warm. The algae will hurt sea animals, birds, and fish. It may damage food resources for humans all over the world, the scientists say.

【1】The root cause of the starvation of sea birds or sea lions is_____.

A．the depths of the vase sea

B．the large mass of warm water

C．the large amount of polluted sea water

D．the increasingly reduced phytoplankton in the sea

【2】From the text, we can know that P. australis is the name of a(n) _____.

A．phytoplankton

B．fish

C．algae

D．bird

【3】The following statements are true EXCEPT_____.

A．Generally, the algae grow much faster than normal if exposed to cool water.

B．The phytoplankton is very sensitive to the rise of water temperature.

C．More algae can bring about a poisonous chemical which endangers sea creatures.

D．Algae blooms will affect not only the existence of sea creatures but also that of humans the world over.

【4】The text is most probably taken from_____.

A．a research paper

B．a geography textbook

C．a class presentation

D．a newspaper report

28、   In 2015,Gardiner and two other friends, founded an online publishing company called JKX Comics(漫画). At the time, the three were pursuing Doctor of Philosophy in different fields at the University of Wisconsin. They decided to use the easy-to-digest cartoon format and light humor to promote scientific knowledge. Their first comic book was published in 2016.The book describes how the common virus copies by telling a story about the virus going clubbing with friends inside a human cell.

“Having comics as a way of opening that door into what science is could hopefully inspire the next generation to pursue STEM(science, technology, engineering and math).”says Gardiner. And comics can make information more accessible by presenting it through both text and illustrations. In 2018,seven more scientists at UW–Madison joined the JKX Comics crew, bringing fields such as psychology, astronomy and microbiology to the table. Local artists were drafted to help illustrate the scientists’ research.

For the volunteer crew, the comics(are now offered online for free) have also given scientists a friendlier face. “We can show who the scientists are…that they are also just people,” says Gardiner, a cancer biologist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. “We’re not all geniuses with Einstein-like hair that are antisocial and just have Eureka moments all the time. And using comics is a nice way to tell their story. Their latest, Gilbert’s Glitch Switch, released March 2,sees a biochemist get involved in a video game where he has to test amino acid(氨基酸)combinations to get proteins to communicate effectively.

“There’s a lot of misinformation in our communities,” Montgomery says. “And it scares people away from science. If we could limit some of those misunderstandings when they’re kids or when their parents are reading with them, I think that would be a really good impact.”

【1】What can be inferred from Paragraph 1?

A.Gardiner’s book is about the virus basic structure.

B.Gardiner and her friends have graduated from university.

C.Gardiner’s book can explain scientific ideas in a simple way.

D.Gardiner and her friends got Doctor’s degree in the same field.

【2】What do we know about Gardiner and his friends’ work?

A.It is very complex and the pay is low. B.It doesn’t attract any other scientist.

C.It contains all about science and technology. D.It shows cooperation among scientists.

【3】Which of the following is suitable according to paragraph 3?

A.Scientists can tell stories by using comics.

B.Scientists are similar to Einstein in life style.

C.Scientists can use comics to explain their ideas.

D.Scientists can communicate effectively with each other.

【4】What did Montgomery think of their work?

A.Just so-so. B.Positive. C.Horrible. D.Boring.

29、   Before the earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province, 38-year-old Sarah Bexell was working to develop a new environmental consciousness(意识) among Chinese people and to encourage them to protect wildlife and habitat-in particular, that of the giant panda.

Bexell, an American who is the director of conservation education at the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding. Bexell has spent a lot of time teaching young people the value of protecting the environment.

“The younger generation in China can afford to care,” Bexell said before the earthquake. “They’re not starving. They have food, good jobs, and access to education.”

Now, Bexell worries about the people she has been working with and who are up in the mountains. She doesn’t know whether they and their families are safe. And she knows the work to which she is devoted has become more urgent during the immediate crisis.

Bexell and her Chinese colleagues have been trying to spread the message that the tourist boom, population growth, and pillaging (掠夺) of resources form terrible threats to the environment.

There are stories of pandas wandering out of the forest and into villages. This is a troubling sign for what should be a rare species.

To make matters worse, there are fears that with the earthquake and landslides, bamboo could massively die off. That’s the main food source for the giant pandas, whose habitat was already damaged.

In April, Bexell took Block way up a twisting mountain road into the Longxi-Hongkou National Nature Reserve. The reserve was set up in 1997 to protect the giant panda and its habitat. It was very near the epicenter(震中) of the earthquake, so this area suffered severe damage.

【1】Bexell is devoted to________ in Sichuan Province.

A.protecting giant pandas B.environment-protection education

C.research on people’s lives D.research on the environment after earthquakes

【2】The main threats to the wildlife and the environment are the following EXCEPT ________.

A.population growth B.tourist development

C.bamboo’s massive death because of bad weather D.the overuse of resources

【3】According to what Bexell says, ________.

A.we should care for animals since we have enough food and clothing

B.many young people in China are usually selfish

C.rich people should spend more on young people’s education

D.animal and environmental protection needs a lot of money and time

30、   On the Inspection Day one year, we were told an officer of education was coming to see how our school was _____. As usual, our teachers asked us to be ________. The top rankers were ________ seated, with some of them on the back benches. After all, there was every ________ of the inspector watching the class from the back and talking to them!

_____ all this, no inspector came. At the end of the day, Mrs Sushila Tragi, our Hindi （印度语）teacher told us the inspector had come and quietly ________ the class from the back door. He had also left an unfavorable _____! We were very shocked and disappointed. Would we now be punished for having ________ our teachers? There were no answers from Mrs Tragi. Instead, she wrote the Hindi word "dukh" on the ________. And then she did something I have never seen a teacher do in my ________ school life. She ________ to us.

"I'm sorry for having taught you something wrong. I ________ the dots between the letters 'du' and 'kh'. The _____ told me this in the staffroom. I hope you will not make this ________ in future." she said.

That admission had a(n)________ effect on me. If our teacher can say sorry to us when she is wrong, why can't I? The incident helped me ________ my two common ________ -ego（自负）and dishonesty.

Recently I went to ________ Mrs Tragi and told her how her ________, decades-long apology had transformed me for ________."It's tough being a teacher. But every once in a while, when an old student comes along and tells me that I did something right, it makes up for everything else." she said.

【1】A. located B. founded C. run D. distributed

【2】A. dismissed B. mature C. prepared D. considerate

【3】A. mercifully B. stably C. unconsciously D. strategically

【4】A. moment B. possibility C. time D. place

【5】A. Despite B. Ahead of C. On behalf of D. Besides

【6】A. attended B. given C. heard D. observed

【7】A. mark B. footprint C. order D. remark

【8】A. resisted B. failed C. cheated D. threatened

【9】A. notebook B. textbook C. blackboard D. desk

【10】A. entire B. foreign C. native D. local

【11】A. yelled B. apologized C. explained D. sacrificed

【12】A. added to B. missed out C. kept off D. looked down on

【13】A. headmaster B. owner C. inspector D. educator

【14】A. mistake B. comment C. fortune D. difference

【15】A. significant B. instant C. slight D. contrary

【16】A. answer for B. call on C. hand over D. break away from

【17】A. advantages B. strengths C. vices D. options

【18】A. appoint B. question C. contradict D. meet

【19】A. permanent B. small C. arbitrary D. negative

【20】A. good B. nothing C. all D. it

31、I woke up with only one thing on my mind: what to wear. A billion thoughts _______ through my brain as wooden hangers moved back and forth. It was my first day of high school in a new State; first _______ are everything, and it was necessary to impress the people who I'd spend the next four years with.

It wasn't insecurity that _______ me to madness but the fact that this was my third time being the new kid. _______ moving does something to a child's development. I _______ finding reliable friends. But this time dad's company _______ my starting and finishing high school in the same place. This time mattered, which made me nervous.

I emerged proudly in a patterned dress after riding (扫荡) my closet. I felt just as _______ as I stepped off the bus. But my jaw dropped to the floor when I found Mrs. Hutfilz, my English teacher, wearing the exact same _______ as I did. I kept my head down and tiptoed to my seat, but the first day meant _______ in front of the class, and ________ it was my turn. I made it through my minute speech, until Hutfilz stood up, ________ adding she liked my style. All the ________ that had accumulated throughout the morning surprisingly ________ . The students raised heads as I shared my story. My smile ________ as I giggled with my peers. After class, I stayed behind, sharing with Mrs. Hutfilz my previous understanding about coming into a new school and state. I was relieved to make a humorous and genuine ________ with my first teacher in the coming days.

This incident ________ me that these are the times to have fun, work hard, and make memories, not stress about the ________ details. Looking back, the ten minutes I spent ________ my speech were really not worth it. ________ my first period of high school may not have gone exactly the way I thought it would, Mrs. Hutfilz's great sense of ________ certainly made the day unforgettable in the best way.

【1】

A．raced

B．broke

C．forced

D．crashed

【2】

A．experiences

B．impressions

C．comments

D．expectations

【3】

A．related

B．attracted

C．drove

D．switched

【4】

A．Random

B．Permanent

C．Regular

D．Frequent

【5】

A．rejected

B．struggled

C．challenged

D．appreciated

【6】

A．ensured

B．admitted

C．reflected

D．deserved

【7】

A．nervous

B．doubtful

C．competent

D．confident

【8】

A．fashion

B．design

C．dress

D．uniform

【9】

A．introductions

B．performances

C．lectures

D．debates

【10】

A．on occasion

B．soon enough

C．no wonder

D．in fact

【11】

A．casually

B．seriously

C．honestly

D．jokingly

【12】

A．sympathy

B．thrill

C．anxiety

D．embarrassment

【13】

A．held up

B．melted away

C．passed down

D．carried on

【14】

A．froze

B．faded

C．grew

D．formed

【15】

A．connection

B．adjustment

C．commitment

D．negotiation

【16】

A．advocated

B．persuaded

C．informed

D．reminded

【17】

A．unimportant

B．complex

C．precise

D．chief

【18】

A．doubting

B．fearing

C．withdrawing

D．regretting

【19】

A．Until

B．Since

C．While

D．If

【20】

A．duty

B．honor

C．gratitude

D．style

32、   Events began to unfold on Saturday on the beach when Amy and her husband saw their two sons screaming for help in the sea. The couple tried to rescue the boys，____ they also became caught in the riptide（裂流区）. Several other family members，______ to save the struggling boys, became trapped as well.______ there was no lifeguard there. The ______ was getting more serious. The victims had been struggling to keep their heads ______ water for a while, and became ______ .

Beach goers started ______ the crowd of onlookers to form a human chain. Although several of them couldn't ______ swim themselves, they linked arms and ______ into the sea. Among the onlookers was Simmons, whose husband told the crowd to ______ a chain. As she watched the human chain ______ to the victims, she knew that she could help. “I am a(n) ______ swimmer,” Simmons said “I was ______ I could get them to the human chain.”

Simmons and her husband then ______ surfing boards and swam down the chain until they got close to the struggling swimmers. First, they helped the two boys ______ the human chain. Then, they went back for Amy, who was just starting to lose ______ . When the last ______ was brought back to the beach, the crowd cheered.

Over eighty onlookers formed a human chain to save nine people from a ______ riptide. This courageous rescue proves that anyone ______ be a hero. It is the onlookers' quick action and ______ that saved several lives.

【1】A. but B. and C. since D. while

【2】A. managing B. attempting C. failing D. refusing

【3】A. Eventually B. Fortunately C. Hopefully D. Unluckily

【4】A. atmosphere B. environment C. situation D. position

【5】A. above B. beneath C. into D. toward

【6】A. disappointed B. confused C. thrilled D. exhausted

【7】A. appealing for B. calling out C. taking on D. turning down

【8】A. also B. even C. still D. already

【9】A. jumped B. fled C. marched D. dived

【10】A. cast B. form C. elect D. apply

【11】A. stretch B. rush C. climb D. roll

【12】A. clumsy B. awful C. superb D. common

【13】A. persuaded B. convinced C. concerned D. informed

【14】A. ignored B. spotted C. abandoned D. grabbed

【15】A. reach B. separate C. fasten D. cut

【16】A. strength B. consciousness C. memory D. awareness

【17】A. onlooker B. lifeguard C. victim D. rider

【18】A. calm B. mil C. poisonous D. dangerous

【19】A. must B. should C. can D. shall

【20】A. caution. B. skill C. competence D. bravery

33、   I always come across random acts of kindness in my life. Many years ago, I was _______Costa Rica when I found myself in an _______situation: my credit cards and bank cards went out of _________ abroad, and I only had $5 to my ________.

I had no way to get money. I didn’t know anybody in this country. I only knew basic Spanish, and besides the cash the only ________I had was a return ticket to my country in almost two ________. Back then, there was no such thing as mobile phones, and________email was very limited. To find help, I decided to go to the countryside . With the only coins I had, I _________the bus terminal(终点站）and found a village, which ________almost the exact amount. About 4 hours later, I arrived at Santa Rosa Abajo at midnight.

I knocked door to door,________in my very poor Spanish that I was a foreigner travelling in Costa Rica with no money but I ________to stay here for over ten days. I begged them for a __________－such as cooking , cleaning and looking after their kids, anything like that. Everybody _________, “oh my, but so poor are we that we have no _______ food or space. Maybe you can try the next ________.” And they’d point me to another house.

________, I arrived at a Chinese restaurant. The owner of the restaurant was very _________. She gave me food and called the Red Cross to come to ________me. With the help of the Red Cross , I spent my_________days in Costa Rica.

This is one of the best trips I’ve ever had, because I realized that when you’re in a position to be able to _________, it actually makes you feel happy.

【1】A. circling B. entering C. visiting D. considering

【2】A. absurd B. impossible C. ordinary D. awkward

【3】A. date B. use C. range D. control

【4】A. name B. delight C. wonder D. advantage

【5】A. necessity B. memory C. impression D. possession

【6】A. months B. weeks C. days D. hours

【7】A. again B. thus C. yet D. even

【8】A. looked for B. stayed at C. headed to D. thought of

【9】A. cost B. saved C. earned D. created

【10】A. reminding B. explaining C. apologizing D. informing

【11】A. needed B. agreed C. failed D. hesitated

【12】A. conversation B. meal C. room D. job

【13】A. accepted B. nodded C. replied D. withdrew

【14】A. prepared B. wasted C. extra D. cheap

【15】A. family B. chance C. time D. restaurant

【16】A. Normally B. Naturally C. Finally D. Directly

【17】A. generous B. sensible C. wealthy D. outstanding

【18】A. comfort B. rescue C. interview D. encourage

【19】A. frightening B. training C. exciting D. remaining

【20】A. help B. receive C. succeed D. travel

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

A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo, a program developed by Google’s DeepMind unit, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea. Lee 【1】 after about three and a half hours, with 28 minutes and 28 seconds remaining on his clock. The series is the first time a professional 9-dan Go player has taken on a computer, and Lee is 【2】 for a $1 million prize.

“I was very surprised,”said Lee after the match.“I didn’t expect to lose. But I didn’t think AlphaGo would play the game in such a perfect manner.”DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis expressed“huge 【3】 for Lee Se-dol and his amazing skills.”calling the game“hugely exciting”and“very tense.”Team lead David Silver said it was an“amazing game of Go that really pushed AlphaGo to its 【4】.”

Go is an ancient Chinese board game that has long been considered one of the great 【5】faced by AI. While computer programs ow best the world’s leading human players of games like checkers and chess, the high level of intuition and 【6】required by Go has made it tough for computers to crack. DeepMind’s AlphaGo program is the most 【7】effort yet, using a complex system of deep neural networks and machine learning; it beat European champion Fan Hui last year, but Lee Se-dol is another 【8】 rival entirely.

“I don’t regret accepting this challenge,”said Lee.“I am in shock, I admit that, but what’s done is done. I enjoyed this game and look forward to the next. I think I failed on the opening layout so if I do a better job on the opening aspect I think I will be able to increase my 【9】 of winning.”Lee was surprised both by how strong AlphaGo’s opening was, and by some 【10】moves.

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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.

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The Sundance Film Festival 【1】 boycotts all Hollywood films, and we don’t foresee ever including them. The initial idea for our festival was 【2】 back in l978. when it was known as the Utah/US Film Festival. However, it was not well known until 1981. It was then that Robert Redford became its 【3】 and changed the focus to independent films, often made on very modest 【4】 It was given its new name-the Sundance Film Festival-in 1991. Redford has acted in and directed many big Hollywood films, but wanted to 【5】 the public to films made outside of the Hollywood system

38、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

You may know that vitamin C is important to your body，but do you know that vitamin D is important to your body as well? Vitamin D has a significant role in calcium homeostasis(钙稳态) and metabolism(新陈代谢). It is sometimes called the “sunshine vitamin” because it’s produced in your skin in response to sunlight.

Vitamin D can help bones and muscles grow strong and healthy. If a person is short of vitamin D，he or she may have problems like rickets(佝偻病) and osteoporosis．Rickets is mainly found in children. Osteoporosis，the thinning of bone，is a common problem as people get older. Studies in these years have found that vitamin D may also have other uses. If someone is short of vitamin D, he may have heart problems or die from some cancers.

The easiest way to get vitamin D is from sunlight. But many people worry about getting skin cancer and skin damage from the sun. Also, even skin color has an influence. Darker skinned people get less vitamin D than lighter skinned people. Older people get less vitamin D than younger people. You can also get it from foods. Some food such as cheese and egg yolks (蛋黄) have some vitamin D．But most of vitamin D in the American diet comes from food like milk with the vitamin added.

Now more doctors are testing for vitamin D in their patients. However, some doctors worry that if people take too much vitamin D, it might be bad for their body. At the same time, skin doctors tell people to be careful with strong sunlight.

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39、请认真阅读下面文字，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

A good book can expose readers to a weird (不可思议的) place — a place which you could call art or fiction. I call it wonder, for those moments where a story — no matter how strange — has some semblance (样子) of truth, and then you’re able to believe it. It’s not just kids who can get there. Adults can too, and we get there when we read. It’s why people will take the walking tour of Bloomsday and see everything that happened in Ulysses. Or people visit Baker Street to see Sherlock Holmes’ apartment. We know these characters aren’t real, but we have real feelings about them.

There is a word called metafiction (超小说) and that’s just stories about stories. And one metafictive technique is breaking the fourth wall. If I am going to break down the fourth wall, I want fiction to escape and come into the real world.  I want a book to be a secret door that opens and lets stories out into reality.

（写作内容）

1.用约30个单词概述上文的主要内容；

2.用约120个单词发表你对好书的看法，内容包括：

（1）好书的影响表现在哪些方面；

（2）就如何挑选一本好书，给出2-3个建议

（写作要求）

1.写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3.不必写标题

（评分标准）

内容完整，语言规范，语篇规范，词数适当

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40、假定你是李华,得知美国外教Peter最近经常头痛,西医疗效不佳。请你给他写一封电子邮件,推荐中医治疗,简介中医的优点(如副作用小、价格低等),愿意帮助,并期待他早日康复。

词汇提示:西医:Western medicine   中医:Chinese medicine   副作用:side effects

注意:

1.词数100左右;

2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

41、假如你是新华中学高二年15班学生李华，你校学生会文学部（Literature Department)招聘一名编辑，请你根据以下要点用英语给文学部Lucy写一封自荐信。内容包括：

1. 写信目的；2. 个人基本信息；3. 自荐理由（至少三点）。

注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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