玉溪2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测四年级英语

1、I have no idea____________ the book is __________ to your English study.

A. whether ;  of great value B. if  ; of great value

C. that  ; so value D. how ; very valuable

2、His suggestion  to see the exhibition interested every one of us.

A.that we go B.which we should go

C.that we would go D.when we should go

3、Scientists are hoping for a ____________ in the search for a cure for cancer.

A. reputation B. breakthrough

C. civilization D. sensation

4、We found ______ very important to keep the light out of a darkroom.

A.it’s B.that C.it D.不填

5、Try to discourage him ________ driving too fast, as it’s extremely dangerous.

A.from B.into C.to D.for

6、No child under 12 is allowed to go to the lake alone; any walk close to the lake ________by a parent.

A．must be accompanied

B．must accompany

C．can be accompanied

D．should accompany

7、I feel most angry about the way ______ I’ve been treated.

A. which B. where

C. that D. how

8、I’ve come to the point____I can’t stand her arguing any longer.

A．why

B．which

C．that

D．where

9、______ providing entertainment, the website also turns out to be a helpful learning tool.

A.Far from B.Apart from C.Instead of D.Regardless of

10、The whole nation responds to the call _______ everybody shall wear masks wherever they go.

A.which B.that C.when D.because

11、From her knowledge of Douglas's habits，she feels sure that the attacker last night ___________Douglas.

A. mustn't have been B. can't have been

C. shouldn't have been D. wouldn't have been

12、The restaurant ____ us 1000 yuan for the wine which is worth one tenth in a grocery store.

A. accused B. paid C. charged D. asked

13、My uncle is a(n) _____ man. If he promises to do something, he is sure to do it.

A. modest B. reliable C. aggressive D. punctual

14、The Allied forces then prepared to enter Germany, where they would ________ the Soviet military moving in from the east.

A．meet up with

B．come up with

C．put up with

D．catch up with

15、Mary was busy with her work， and it was only around four in the afternoon           she could finally lie down to rest for a while．

A.when B.which C.that D.whether

16、As you worked late last night, you __________ have come this morning.

A.may not B.can’t C.mustn’t D.needn’t

17、The other girls rushed ________ me. I felt ashamed as I fell farther and farther behind.

A.from behind B.ahead of C.next to D.close to

18、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

19、The medical staff of Leishenshan hospital in Wuhan   at the hospital square on April 4, 2020.

A.majored B.mentioned C.motivated D.mourned

20、The man could not go to work with his car _____.

A.to steal B.stolen C.stealing D.stole

21、The parents were shocked by______news that their son needed______operation on his knee.

A．A; /

B．the; /

C．the; an

D．a; an

22、In 2019, Chinese smartphone maker Huawei launched its product of the year — Mate X, _______ a folding screen and 5G technology.

A．featuring

B．to feature

C．features

D．having featured

23、The people in the village are so ________ that they are willing to help every visitor.

A．optimistic

B．energetic

C．enthusiastic

D．ambitious

24、All of us were________to hear that Lily, our company's most valued clerk, should say she would leave the company.

A.alarming B.alarmed C.terrified D.satisfied

25、He suggested we set off for the station immediately. _________ , we will miss the the train.

A.Therefore B.Meanwhile C.However D.Otherwise

26、An immigrant is a person who has come to live permanently in a foreign country.【1】.

Immigrants move to other countries for different reasons. Some people move because of war, political or economic problems, or natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.【2】, while others are looking for better living conditions.

Where are immigrants moving from? 【3】? One of the largest immigration flows is from Latin America and Asia to the United States. Another immigrant flow is from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Republics and North Africa to Western Europe. Many immigrants also move from Africa and Asia to the Middle East. In countries such as Saudi Arabia, 90%of the total population is now foreign born.

【4】, they often live in urban neighborhoods. As a result of immigration, many city neighborhoods change. Immigrants open new stores, restaurants and other businesses. For example, the historic Esquilino neighborhood in Rome is now the home of a large number of Chinese immigrants. There are also many new immigrants from Albanian, Moldova, Bulgaria and Ukraine. In some schools in Athens, 50% of the children are foreign born.【5】. In Los Angeles, 37% of the population is foreign born, and children in the public schools speak 82 different languages. In New York,40%of the population is foreign, and children speak 140 different languages in the schools.

A．And what countries are they moving to

B．When immigrants arrive in a new country

C．Immigrants have contributed to British culture in many ways

D．Some immigrants are reunited with their families or get married

E．More than 145 million immigrants live outside their native countries

F．Moreover, Los Angeles has a track record of successfully accepting immigrants

G．Los Angeles and New York are two cities in the US with very large immigrant populations

27、   If you’re single this Valentine's Day, don't settle for another night of being alone. Single ladies and dudes can celebrate, too. Below, five holidays from around the world to celebrate instead of Valentine's Day this year.

Singles Awareness Day

In the U.S., we have “Singles Awareness Day”--a humorous anti-Valentine's Day celebrated on February 14 or 15, depending on your preference. On these days, singles toast their uncoupled status.

Ystävänpäivä or Friendship Day

Finland has a more ideal take on Valentine's Day: February 14 is considered Ystävänpäivä or “Friendship Day”, which is marketed as a celebration of friends. (We'd recommend adopting this holiday if you're looking for an occasion to hang out with your best friends.)

Black Day

April 14 in Korea is known as Black Day, a holiday where singles gather in local restaurants and drown their sorrows in cheap, but delicious bowls of jajangmyeon--- a Chinese-Korean noodle dish swimming in chunky black bean sauce, and topped with pork and veggies. The holiday has been popular over the last decade, and we can't say we're surprised. It's hard to be sad about being single when you're dipping into a bowl of something that delicious.

Single's Day

November II marks Singles' Day in China, an unofficial holiday that started in the 1990s as a protest Valentine's Day and that's now a day where singles buy stuff--a lot of stuff- for themselves. In 2013, China's biggest online shopping company took in more than $5.75 billion in online payments on Single's Day-two and a half times the total American retailers（零售商） netted on Cyber Monday the same year.

International Quirkyalone Day

Another option for singles looking to get in on the celebratory action on February 14? International Quirkyalone Day, a “do-it-yourself celebration of romance, friendship, and independent spirit," according to the official site. The founder of the event swears her holiday is not an anti- Valentine's Day; instead, it's a celebration of all kinds of love: romantic, platonic, familial, and yes, self-love. "In other words, it's a day to do whatever you want, with whoever you want. We can get behind that and have a great time.

【1】Which of the following holidays would you like to celebrate if you like delicious food?

A.Singles Awareness Day. B.Ystävänpäivä.

C.Black Day. D.Single’s Day.

【2】What would Chinese people like to do on Single's Day?

A.Shopping online. B.Whatever they like.

C.Hanging out with families. D.Gathering in local restaurants.

【3】In which part of a website will the text be?

A.Business B.Opinion C.Lifestyle D.Culture

28、How intelligent can a computer be? May be you can get the answer after reading the following passage about a newly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child and the Internet.

If you ran into Smarter Child online, you would be surprised at this kid’s huge memory. It can recite many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season.

He knows every word in the dictionary and the weather in every major city areas across the US. However, if you ask Smarter Child other questions, you get strange answers. A question about Smarter Child’s age returns, “One year, 11 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, and 47 seconds!” Asking where he lives, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”

Smarter Child uses the huge information on the World Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, for instance, Smarter Child goes to American Heritage Dictionary online. For the weather, he visits www.intellicast.com.

Some scientists believe that by joining the many systems of the Internet, an artificial being with the combined knowledge of, say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However, if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-computer David in the movie A. I. Artificial Intelligence, he must solve two problems.

The first is that computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files are sorted in different ways. That’s why programmers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It would be a much more difficult task to let him find it himself.

Another problem is that while Smarter Child can deal with information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks(缺少) common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious(明显的) to any young child.

【1】From the text we can infer that www.intellicast.com is a website ______.

A．which is specially designed to help Smarter Child

B．which is about artificial intelligence

C．where people can find Smarter Child

D．where weather forecasts are made

【2】It is probably most difficult for Smarter Child to ______.

A．learn the ability to tell right behaviors from wrong ones.

B．tell us how the American government is run

C．provide us with a famous poem by Shakespeare

D．tell us how to spell a difficult word

【3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A．Smart Child has his own memory bank big enough for all kinds of information.

B．A. I. Artificial Intelligence is probably the name of a film about a boy-computer.

C．Smart Child can recognize different files and find information needed on his own.

D．We have similar product now which has the knowledge of Einstein, Nixon and Spears.

29、Steel Vengeance, a world-record-breaking hybrid roller coaster, recently made its first public appearance at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio.

The ride is constructed from both wood and steel (钢). A steel running track on a huge wooden base allows the ride to provide the types of twists (扭转) and turns that are not possible on wooden roller coasters.

Steel Vengeance breaks ten world records, including tallest, fastest, and longest hybrid roller coaster. “It is just a roller coaster that you want to ride again and again,” said Tony Clark, director of communications at Cedar Point. The 90-degree, 200-foot drop on the first hill takes your breath away.

At a recent event at Cedar Point, I experienced the excitement of the new ride first-hand. Thanks to my strong heart, I had a really cool time!

THE MAKING OF VENGEANCE

“The biggest part of making a roller coaster is planning it,” Clark said.

Jason McClure, general manager of Cedar Point, added: “We have to get a main idea of the basics of the coaster and then plan a budget.”

WOOD, STEEL, AND HARD WORK

Rocky Mountain Construction designed and built Steel Vengeance. About 1.2 million pounds of steel and 1.4 million boards of wood were used to build the ride.

Fred Grubb, co-founder of Rocky Mountain, noted that “people who design roller coasters for my company have to have first-hand experience building things with their hands, not just hold an engineering degree. When you have built things for yourself, you get it, and understand what will work.”

Clark was pleased with the results. “We at Cedar Point are so happy with how Steel Vengeance turned out,” he said.

McClure added: “What we put into this roller coaster was wood, steel, and a lot of hard work.”

【1】What can we learn about Steel Vengeance?

A．It is going through tests.

B．It belongs to Rocky Mountain.

C．It is made from both steel and wood.

D．It was mainly designed by Fred Grubb.

【2】What advantage does Steel Vengeance have over wooden roller coasters?

A．It will last longer.

B．It cost less money.

C．It took less time to build.

D．It offers more kinds of twists.

【3】How did the author feel on Steel Vengeance?

A．Worried.

B．Excited.

C．Frightened.

D．Shocked.

【4】People who design roller coasters for Rocky Mountain must _____.

A．hold an arts degree

B．be roller coaster lovers

C．be skillful at wood work

D．have built things themselves

30、A woman is volunteering in ashelter. It all started because she missed her own _________

Sandy was at a loss when her beloved Angus died last year — terribly lonely, yet not quite______for a new dog in her life. ________, she decided to volunteer at the local animal shelter and spend some quality time with furry friends who, like her, were ________ their old buddies (伙伴).

Remembering that her dog had loved being read to, she brought along a ________   there.

It's now been 18 months sinceSandy first began ________ her chair beside the dog house. Shelter workers say it really calms down the dogs, but Sandy says it does more ________ to her than it does to the dogs.

Sandy was ________ that photos of her reading to dogs were spreading on the Internet until the media started calling. Kathleen, a fellow shelter volunteer was so touched by the sight of her     ____ to an old dog that she took a photo and posted it on the Internet. She was so ______ with the dogs — I watched her read to several — and they just loved being ________ by her, "Kathleen said.

Inspired by Sandy's style of _________, the shelter has announced that a reading marathon is being ________ for next September. The plan is to get kids in the neighborhood ______ in reading to the animals, with the added benefit of reading practice for the two-leggers, along with plenty of friendly _______ for the four-leggers.

【1】

A．husband

B．kid

C．dog

D．animal

【2】

A．ready

B．free

C．sorry

D．grateful

【3】

A．However

B．Meanwhile

C．Besides

D．Therefore

【4】

A．comforting

B．admiring

C．missing

D．helping

【5】

A．toy

B．book

C．camera

D．photo

【6】

A．settling into

B．stealing into

C．heading for

D．looking for

【7】

A．duty

B．work

C．good

D．wrong

【8】

A．uneasy

B．unsure

C．unhappy

D．unaware

【9】

A．reading

B．attending

C．waving

D．whispering

【10】

A．content

B．patient

C．strict

D．careful

【11】

A．interviewed

B．trained

C．petted

D．photographed

【12】

A．teaching

B．living

C．thinking

D．volunteering

【13】

A．accepted

B．predicted

C．recorded

D．organized

【14】

A．involved

B．experienced

C．united

D．relaxed

【15】

A．competition

B．company

C．service

D．advice

31、   Several years ago, I went on a trip alone to Mozambique. Our bus broke down by the side of the road. There was certainly nothing in the way of _______ or campsites or any kind of place to sleep. I _______ I’d just have to bed down on the roadside like others. But I was pretty _______ at the idea. Most everyone else was traveling with their families or other _______, and here I was, a very young woman, alone, with pale white skin that just screamed out “I’m a foreigner and do not _______ here.” Besides I spoke Portuguese reasonably _______ but not any of the local dialects, which _______ my difficulty.

I was trying to work out what to do when I _______ one of the women passengers I’d been chatting with _______ to me. “Come with me,” she said. I was then taken to the nearby village, where she lived. She and her large family ________ me that night. We had chips and matapa, a delicious Mozambican dish. Her kids laughed and circled around and were ________ to have a visit from a real white person. I couldn’t ________ a lot of the conversation, because only the woman spoke Portuguese, but I felt so ________ despite my foreignness.

This kind-hearted woman ________ a stranger a night spent trembling in ________ and hunger by the side of the road.

【1】A.hospitals B.stores C.hotels D.colleges

【2】A.wished B.figured C.insisted D.argued

【3】A.terrified B.astonished C.excited D.annoyed

【4】A.guides B.villagers C.volunteers D.companions

【5】A.wait B.tour C.belong D.explore

【6】A.frequently B.poorly C.fluently D.eagerly

【7】A.added to B.got over C.declared D.anticipated

【8】A.felt B.spotted C.kept D.stopped

【9】A.explaining B.whispering C.complaining D.gesturing

【10】A.hosted B.interviewed C.charged D.comforted

【11】A.scared B.fascinated C.satisfied D.embarrassed

【12】A.hear B.remember C.follow D.interrupt

【13】A.awkward B.confused C.uncertain D.welcomed

【14】A.afforded B.spared C.accompanied D.accommodated

【15】A.relief B.regret C.doubt D.fear

32、   On Christmas morning, Abby, a teenager, went happily downstairs. She didn’t __________ what was under the Christmas tree. Nothing can __________ the gift she has already been given this year--the gift of life.

The teenager has been looking forward to her first __________ Christmas in six years. She was told she wouldn’t __________ 18 without the operation, and now she is enjoying her new life. This year there will be no 12 hours of dialysis (透析)on Christmas Eve and no sitting in her bedroom watching films while __________ to a machine. Additionally, she can go out and __________ with her friends.

But as __________ mounts, Abby realizes her future has come at a price for that of her donor’s(捐献者) family. She said, “I will take some time to silently appreciate the family of my donor, who will be __________ for the person they lost. I know how __________ my kidney (肾脏)is.”

Abby said, “Now I’m well. I’ve discovered there’s lots of kindness and support there. I hope to become a child psychologist to help those in need.” Mum Jo agreed. She said, “We’re astonished by the love we’ve had. Abby’s __________ shows she has reached a new level of humanity.”

【1】A.recognize B.care C.forget D.imagine

【2】A.remove B.value C.equal D.pack

【3】A.modern B.freezing C.innocent D.healthy

【4】A.live through B.stick to C.hold up D.begin with

【5】A.talking B.listening C.attached D.addicted

【6】A.discuss B.socialize C.compete D.quarrel

【7】A.sadness B.surprise C.excitement D.doubt

【8】A.mourning B.arguing C.waiting D.looking

【9】A.weak B.qualified C.dynamic D.precious

【10】A.ambition B.guess C.concern D.success

33、   In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The _________ is that countries around the world have growing mountains of _________ because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

How did we _________ a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to _________ an object than to spend time and money to repair it. _________ modern manufacturing and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and _________.

Another cause is our _________ of disposable（一次性的）products. As _________ people, we are always looking for _________ to save time and make our lives easier. Companies __________ thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and tissues, to name a few.

Our appetite（胃口）for new products also __________ to the problem. We are __________ buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that __________ is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we __________ useful possessions to make room for new ones.

All around the world, we can see the __________ of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To __________ the amount of rubbish and to protect the __________, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials. __________, this is not enough to solve our problem.

Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions __________ throwing them away. We also need to rethink cur attitudes about __________. Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best ways to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.

【1】A.key B.problem C.project D.reason

【2】A.debt B.gifts C.products D.rubbish

【3】A.become B.change C.face D.observe

【4】A.control B.hide C.replace D.withdraw

【5】A.As to B.Except C.Regardless of D.Thanks to

【6】A.cheap B.funny C.powerful D.safe

【7】A.division B.lack C.love D.prevention

【8】A.brave B.busy C.kind D.sensitive

【9】A.friends B.jobs C.places D.ways

【10】A.donate B.preserve C.produce D.receive

【11】A.adapts B.contributes C.responds D.returns

【12】A.ashamed for B.addicted to C.tired of D.worried about

【13】A.higher B.larger C.newer D.stronger

【14】A.hold onto B.pay for C.pick up D.throw away

【15】A.advantages B.consequences C.functions D.purposes

【16】A.decrease B.measure C.record D.show

【17】A.brands B.consumers C.environment D.technology

【18】A.However B.Meanwhile C.Otherwise D.Therefore

【19】A.in favor of B.instead of C.or rather D.other than

【20】A.advertising B.collecting C.repairing D.spending

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.

Expressions about water are almost as common as water itself. But many of the expressions using water have unpleasant meanings.

The expression “to be in hot water” is one of them. It is a very old expression, which can be 【1】 back to 500 years ago. The expression is used to mean being in trouble. One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies attacking a castle.

Being in “deep water” is almost the same as being in “hot water”. When you are in deep water, you are in a difficult 【2】. Imagine a person who cannot swim being thrown in water over his head. You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not have the ability to solve. The problem is too deep. You can be in deep water, for example, if you invest in stocks in complete 【3】 of the stock market.

"Water over the dam" is another expression about a past event. It is something that cannot be 【4】. The expression comes from the idea that water that has 【5】 a dam cannot be brought back again. When a friend is 【6】 by a mistake she has made, you might tell her to forget about it. You say it is water over the dam.

Another common expression, "to hold water," is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about. It probably comes from the way of testing the 【7】 of a container. If it can hold water, it is strong and has no holes in it. If your 【8】 can hold water, it is strong and does not have any holes. If it does not hold water, then it is weak and can not be 【9】.

"Throwing cold water" also is an expression that deals with an idea or 【10】. For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems. But you wife "throws cold water" on the idea, because she says a new car costs too much

35、阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Smell the flowers before you go to sleep and you may just end up with rosy dreams. Have a whiff of rotten(腐烂的)eggs during the night and your dreams may be【1】(pleasant). So says researcher Dr. Boris Stuck, 【2】invited sleeping volunteers to a rose vs. rotten egg test in the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany. The subjects didn’t dream about roses【3】eggs, but rather he found that what they smelt affected the emotions of【4】(they) dreams.

And if you think【5】(smell) have a say in dreams, wait for what TV tells us. A UK study reveals that people exposed【6】black-and-white film and TV in their youth are to have monochromic(单色的)dreams throughout their life more【7】(probable). Eva Murzyn from the University of Dundee tested two age groups— one half 【8】(age) over 55 and【9】other half under 25.

The result? Under 5% of the dreams of the under-25s were in black and white. 【10】(watch)color TV in childhood seems to be the reason why.

36、Directions: Fill in each blank to make the passage make sense and well connected in writing style. The initial letter of each word has been given. (please write each answer in a COMPLETE word on the answer card.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

In Congress, July 4, 1776

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should d【1】 the causes which impel them to the separation.

We h【2】 these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created e【3】, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable R【4】, that among these are life, L【5】, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, g 【6】 are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the P 【7】 to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, l【8】 its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such f【9】, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariable the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their d 【10】, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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.

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.”

38、假定你是李华，你的英国笔友David对中国传统文化很感兴趣，他想让你给他推荐一本关于这方面的书。请 你给他回一封邮件,向他推荐我国的四大名著之---《西游记》。内容包括：

1.《西游记》简介；

2.推荐理由。

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：徒弟 disciple,佛经 Buddhist scriptures

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39、在学校刚举办的科技创新设计大赛中，你设计的一款老人智能陪护机器人荣获一等奖。请以“My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly”为题写一篇英语短文，内容包括：

1.设计理由；

2.功能介绍；

3.你的期望。

注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

My Intelligent Robot for the Elderly

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40、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

The Possible Health Dangers of Air-conditioners

Although many of us may feel air-conditioners bring relief from hot, humid or polluted outside air, they pose many potential health hazards. Much research has looked at how the movement of air inside a closed environment—such as an office building—can spread disease or expose people in the building to harmful chemicals.

One of the more widely publicized dangers is that of Legionnaire’s disease, which was first recognized in the 1970s. This was found to have affected people in buildings with air-conditioning systems in which warm air pumped out of the system’ cooling towers was somehow sucked back into the air intake, in most cases due to poor design. The warm air, filled with bacteria, was combined with cooled, conditioned air and was then circulated around various parts of the building. Studies showed that even people outside such buildings were at risk if they walked past air exhaust pipes.

Large air-conditioning systems add water to the air they circulate by means of humidifiers. In older systems, the water used for this process is kept in special reservoirs, the bottoms of which provide breeding grounds for bacteria which can find their way into the ventilation system. The risk to human health from this situation has been highlighted by the fact that the immune systems of approximately half of workers in air-conditioned office buildings have developed the ability to fight off the organisms found at the bottom of system reservoirs. But chemicals called “biocides” are added to reservoirs to make them germ-free, and they are dangerous in their own right in sufficient quantities, as they often contain compounds strongly linked to cancers.

Finally, it should be pointed out that the artificial climatic environment created by air-conditioners can also affect us. In a natural environment, whether indoor or outdoor, there are small variations in temperature and humidity. Indeed, the human body has long been accustomed to these normal changes. In an air-conditioned living or working environment, however, body temperatures remain well under 37℃, our normal temperature. This leads to a weakened immune system and thus greater exposure to diseases such as colds and flu.

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41、Directions: Write an English composition in at least 120 words according to the instruction given below in Chinese.

最近，社会上的整形医院(plastic surgery hospital) 如雨后春笋般涌现出来，很多人，尤其是年轻人，热衷于整容手术(take cosmetic surgery)。请你谈谈自己对此现象的看法，并对自己的观点加以论证。

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