三明2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

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

A．optimistic

B．energetic

C．enthusiastic

D．ambitious

2、Few pleasures can _____ that of a cool drink on a hot day .

A. equip B. elect

C. encounter D. equal

3、I have to say ______ the boy that he actually didn’t break the school rule.

A. in honor of B. in defense of

C. in favor of D. in celebration of

4、________and excited, the doctors from all over the country took part in the battle against novel coronavirus.

A．Being honored

B．Honoring

C．Honored

D．To be honoring

5、I can’t believe that they _____ my debt card twice for something that was never shipped.

A. charged B. awarded

C. rewarded D. cost

6、________things had been tough at times when he was in school, he graduated from college with the highest honor.

A．If

B．While

C．Because

D．As

7、I hurried to the meeting hall, only______ that the meeting had been put off.

A.to tell B.to be told C.telling D.told

8、I can’t remember _____________ made the teacher give Mary the permission to leave the class earlier.

A．that it was what

B．what it was that

C．what was it that

D．that was it what

9、While books seem to be losing their popularity to some extent, good ones are still highly _______ today in that they give us answers to questions we haven’t had yet.

A．responsible

B．religious

C．representative

D．relevant

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

A.having B.has

C.doing D.does

11、______ a wrong bus, the travelers found themselves in a small remote village at last.

A. Having taken B. To take

C. Taken D. Took

12、Behind the US-China trade war   that China is trying to end the American era.

A.lies a growing fear B.a growing fear is living

C.does a growing fear lie D.is lying a growing fear

13、His studies on literature are very varied, ________ from Chinese literature to western literature.

A.ranges B.containing C.ranging D.covering

14、Lucy looked at Tom, tears __________ her eyes and shouted out the words __________ in her heart for months.

A.filling; hiding B.filled; hidden

C.filling; hidden D.filled; hiding

15、Writing stories and articles _____what I enjoy most.

A.is B.are C.was D.were

16、Don't be___________ by its terrible smell-Durian tastes delicious.

A.dropped off B.put off C.taken off D.broken out

17、Do you think climbing is _____ to our health?

A.beneficial B.invaluable C.advisable D.worthy

18、Only when you have been familiar with the plan ______.

A.then you’ll be able to carry it out

B.were you able to carry it out

C.and you will be able to carry out it

D.will you be able to carry it out

19、Can you imagine________the work in twelve hours?

A.he finishes B.him finishing C.him finish D.him to finish

20、If he____ to the teacher attentively, he____the answer to the problem now.

A.had listened, would have known B.listened, would know

C.listened, would have known D.had listened, would know

21、Only if you ________into ordinary people’s life, ________ find out why they are dissatisfied and understand the revolution threatening the country.

A.have gone … you will B.will go … may you

C.go … you may D.do go … you will

22、Sandra Oh, actress of “Killing Eve”, has the _______ of being the first Asian woman to pocket a Golden Globe Award.

A．distinction

B．discrimination

C．description

D．determination

23、The Marvel (漫威) Cinematic Universe or MCU for short is the shared place ________ all 22 films featuring the comic book characters are set.

A．which

B．that

C．when

D．where

24、Lucy has a great sense of humor and always keeps her colleagues with her stories.

A. amused     B. amusing

C. to amuse D. to be amused

25、He________ the wall and just looked at everybody in the room.

A.loaded with B.lined up C.held back D.leaned against

26、   Long time ago, there was an apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play with it every day. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples... He loved the tree and the tree loved him.

Time went by... the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day. One day, the boy came back to the tree. “Come and play with me,” the tree asked the boy. “I am no longer a kid; I don’t play around trees anymore.” The boy replied, “I want toys. I need money to buy them.” “Sorry, but I don’t have money. But you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money.” The boy was so excited. He picked all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad.

One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited. “Come and play with me,” the tree said. “I don’t have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?” “Sorry, but I don’t have a house. But you can cut off my branches to build your house.” So the boy cut all the branches off the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.

Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. “Sorry, my boy. But I don’t have anything for you anymore... the only thing left is my dying roots,” the tree said with tears.

“I don’t need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years.” The boy replied.

“Good! Old tree root is the best place to rest. Come, Come to sit down with me and rest.” The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears...

【1】Why did the tree feel sad?

A.Because her apples were eaten. B.Because the boy had grown up.

C.Because she lost all her branches. D.Because the boy never came back to see her.

【2】Which one is the most important for the tree?

A.The boy can play with him. B.The boy is happy.

C.The boy comes back to see him. D.A and C.

【3】What does the tree stand for in our real life?

A.Our friends. B.Our parents

C.Our teachers. D.Strangers.

【4】Who does the passage write for?

A.Children. B.Parents.

C.Builders. D.Everyone.

27、   Welcome to the Electronic Village to explore new ways of language teaching and learning.

【1】Nearpod can be used to ______.

A. help vocabulary learning B. teach listening on-line

C. offer grammar tests D. gain fluency in speaking

【2】If you want to improve your speaking skills, you can go to____________.

A. Room 501 B. Room 502

C. Room 601 D. Room 602

【3】Which of the following can assess your grammar learning?

A. Nearpod. B. Kahoot

C. TEO. D. Prezi.

【4】A teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by ______.

A. 9:00 am B. 10:30 am

C. 2:00 pm D. 3:30 pm

28、Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.

“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生),” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate(保守的估计).”

At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what was possible in the past. “There is a great effort so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”

However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.

Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”

【1】By saying“we are knocking at the door of immortality”,Michael Zey means_________.

A．they have got some ideas about living forever

B．they believe that there is no limit of living

C．they are able to make people live past the present life span

D．they are sure to find the truth about long living

【2】Donald Louria’s attitude towards long living is that________.

A．the human body is designed to last past about 120 years

B．it is possible for humans to live longer in the future

C．it is still doubtful how long humans can live

D．people can live from 120 to 180

【3】The underlined word“it”(in Paragraph 4)refers to________.

A．a great effort

B．the conservative estimate

C．the idea of living from 200 to 300 years

D．the idea of living beyond the present life span

【4】What would be the best title for this text?

A．No Limit for Human Life

B．Living Longer or not

C．Science,Technology and Long Living

D．Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living

29、   Computer scientists have hoped to give robots technical skills to help them recognize, process and react to humor. But these attempts have mostly failed. AI (人工智能) experts say that in many cases, attempts to make robots understand humor end up producing funny results, but not in the way they were supposed to.

Tristan Miller studied more than 10,000 puns (双关语) in one research project. The pun is a kind of joke that uses a word with two meanings. For example, you could say, “Balloons do not like pop music.” The word “pop” can be a way of saying popular music; or can mean the sound a balloon makes when it explodes. But a robot might not get the joke. Tristan Miller says that is because humor is a kind of creative language that is extremely difficult for computer intelligence to understand.

Allison Bishop is a computer scientist and she also performs stand-up comedy. She explained that machines are trained to look for patterns. Comedy, on the other hand, relies on things that stay dose to a pattern, kit not completely within it. To be funny, humor should also not be predictable, Bishop said. This sets a great obstacle for a machine to recognize and understand what is funny.

Bishop says since robots have great difficulty understanding humor, she feels like it gives her better job security as a comedy performer. It even made her parents happy when her brother decided to become a full-time comedy writer because it meant he wouldn’t be replaced by a machine, she added.

Despite the difficulties, Darmstadt University’s Miller says there are good reasons to keep trying to teach humor to robots. It could make machines more relatable, especially if they can learn to understand sarcasm (讽刺), he noted. Humans use sarcasm to say one thing but mean another. But Kiki Hempelmann thinks differently. “Teaching AI systems humor may make them find it where it isn’t, and they may use it where it’s inappropriate,” he said. “Maybe bad AI will start killing people because it thinks something is funny,” he added.

【1】What does the author most probably want to show in Paragraph 1?

A.Robots’ influence on the scientific development.

B.Robots’ challenges of making sense of humor.

C.Computer scientists’ devotion to technical skills.

D.Computer scientists’ concern about AI’s development.

【2】Examples mentioned in Paragraphs 2 and 3 are intended to ___________-.

A.prove robots do poorly in funny work

B.explain robots aren’t as intelligent as humans

C.describe language is complex and changeable

D.show language can’t be taught in a set pattern

【3】What does the underlined word “obstacle” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A.Barrier. B.Record.

C.Message. D.Possibility.

【4】What can we infer about teaching AI system humor from the last paragraph?

A.It will end up in vain.

B.It may be a double-edged sword.

C.It may help improve humans’ humor.

D.It will attract more computer scientists.

30、   In October 2015, Shah began picking up rubbish from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began_________others to join in. Word spread and with help from social media, more volunteers got_________.

Shah hasn't stopped since. He's now spent 209 weekends_________to this mission, inspiring more than 200,000_________to join him in what's been called the world's biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was_________clean and Shah's cleanups expanded to another_________as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

For Shah, the work has_________been a personal journey, but it has earned_________attention. After he was_________as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Bollywood celebrities and politicians__________his mission and joined in his cleanups.

Today, Shah is also working with coastal communities to__________plastic pollution at one of the sources. In areas lacking waste management systems, __________often end（s）up in streams and rivers that empty into the__________. Shah and his volunteers__________and assist villagers in reducing, managing and recycling their plastic waste.

"This world__________too much. I think you must talk less and do action__________," he said. “Every citizen on this __________must be in for a long pull. I feel the__________to do something for my planet, so this will__________for life. If each one could start, this journey could become__________Can we do it together?”

【1】A.asking B.ordering C.warning D.forcing

【2】A.challenged B.encouraged C.involved D.required

【3】A.compared B.adapted C.related D.devoted

【4】A.workers B.volunteers C.journalists D.clerks

【5】A.originally B.finally C.suddenly D.theoretically

【6】A.park B.bank C.beach D.market

【7】A.occasionally B.hardly C.already D.always

【8】A.global B.local C.national D.coastal

【9】A.described B.honored C.opposed D.elected

【10】A.simplified B.changed C.accepted D.finished

【11】A.make B.discuss C.throw D.handle

【12】A.trees B.materials C.rubbish D.tools

【13】A.ocean B.factory C.mountain D.forest

【14】A.protect B.control C.scold D.educate

【15】A.talks B.complains C.thinks D.argues

【16】A.earlier B.faster C.more D.better

【17】A.sea B.planet C.water D.sands

【18】A.pity B.need C.pain D.effect

【19】A.come on B.get on C.look on D.go on

【20】A.great B.complex C.complete D.difficult

31、I once coached volleyball for a group of kids for the Special Olympics. One particular Tuesday night, after warming up, the kids began their _______. Brian was sitting in the _______ by himself, as usual, _______ between watching the other kids and resting his head on his knees.

His family _______ greatly with what they referred to as his “condition.” _______, this caused him a lot of anger and sadness. With a _______ ability to fully understand and deal with the negativity in his life, Brian often _______ and wouldn't communicate with others. Working with Brian each week, I knew I had to be _______.

On this particular Tuesday night, as I had done so many times before, I simply told him that we'd love to have him _______us, and made my way over to the other kids.

As the volleyball lesson __________, I saw Brian come out of his corner and was moving closer, __________ in the fun the other kids were having. Hesitantly, he __________ me and asked if he could play. On this night, Brian had finally decided to move past his __________ and take part in the fun.

At the end of that Tuesday night, as I watched Brian and the other kids leave the volleyball court __________, I knew that I was making at least a small __________ in these kids’ lives.

【1】

A．discussions

B．studies

C．moves

D．preparations

【2】

A．chair

B．corner

C．darkness

D．crowds

【3】

A．exploring

B．comparing

C．emerging

D．alternating

【4】

A．struggled

B．competed

C．agreed

D．integrated

【5】

A．Naturally

B．Obviously

C．Literally

D．Unfortunately

【6】

A．limited

B．unique

C．remarkable

D．permanent

【7】

A．looked down

B．shut down

C．slowed down

D．calmed down

【8】

A．strict

B．accurate

C．patient

D．efficient

【9】

A．join

B．help

C．choose

D．support

【10】

A．ceased

B．started

C．suspended

D．progressed

【11】

A．hidden

B．engaged

C．interested

D．involved

【12】

A．excited

B．hugged

C．approached

D．encountered

【13】

A．anger

B．fear

C．pride

D．doubt

【14】

A．behind

B．together

C．fast

D．late

【15】

A．contribution

B．promise

C．chance

D．difference

32、   Almost everything was fantastic in the camp except for a girl, Elizabeth. When I saw her sitting alone in the hot sun at lunch, I asked her to eat with us under a ________ tree. However, Elizabeth refused my kind ________. When we invited her to play volleyball with us, Elizabeth ________ our invitation, too. After a few more ________ refusals like that, I decided to stay away from Elizabeth.

It ________ that we were going on a ________ and our instructor paired everyone up with a partner. Guess who my partner turned out to be. It was Elizabeth!

“What do you like to do ________?” I asked, trying to make small ________ as we started out. “I like to ________ in peace and quiet,” Elizabeth ________. So we had the quietest and most peaceful hike in the world ________ we saw a bird.” I think his wing is hurt. Poor little bird, Elizabeth said ________. “He might be taking a rest over there.” I said. Elizabeth nodded. Then she whispered, “But what if he’s in ________, like my granddad?” “Your granddad?” I said. “He ________ and broke his leg the day the camp started. He’s ________ in hospital and is in so much pain,” Elizabeth explained. I noticed she was crying. “I’m sorry for what I have done. For some reason, whenever I get really sad, I act rudely and want to be ________,” she added.

“I get it,” I said. “I don’t always know how to ________ it when I’m feeling down, either.” “Thanks,” she said, wiping off her ________.

After that, Elizabeth seemed to get along well with us, and I think she actually ________ the last few days of the camp.

Next time, if someone is unfriendly, give him a second ________. Maybe he’s going through a tough time and just doesn’t know how to deal with it.

【1】A. old B. warm C. shady D. pretty

【2】A. help B. invitation C. order D. symbol

【3】A. turned over B. turned off C. turned down D. turned out

【4】A. unfriendly B. unfair C. unfit D. uncertain

【5】A. happened B. seemed C. looked D. appeared

【6】A. discussion B. talk C. hike D. voyage

【7】A. for free B. for sure C. for ever D. for fun

【8】A. mistake B. promises C. talks D. exchanges

【9】A. jog B. walk C. live D. work

【10】A. shouted B. replied C. complained D. insisted

【11】A. until B. unless C. though D. since

【12】A. frequently B. luckily C. sadly D. coldly

【13】A. pain B. silence C. peace D. permission

【14】A. appreciated B. fell C. lay D. copied

【15】A. yet B. already C. still D. ever

【16】A. independent B. kind C. unique D. alone

【17】A. concentrate B. repair C. handle D. ruin

【18】A. tears B. sweat C. kisses D. face

【19】A. avoided B. enjoyed C. starved D. expanded

【20】A. method B. chance C. life D. approach

33、For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between ________ countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I ________ and what you do?

Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. ________, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for ________ it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their children’s complete ________. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except ________. Both feel trapped.             

In this article, I’ll describe three no-win ________ that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the ________. The first is quarrels over ________ things. Examples include the colour of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s ________ to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends.

Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the ________ is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the ________ of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered a(n) ________—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to command ________. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they ________ more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.

【1】

A．ancient

B．developing

C．independent

D．neighbouring

【2】

A．do

B．have

C．promise

D．control

【3】

A．In part

B．In short

C．In particular

D．In contrast

【4】

A．starting

B．preventing

C．stopping

D．handling

【5】

A．rudeness

B．impatience

C．unreasonableness

D．immatureness

【6】

A．vaguely

B．oppositely

C．hesitantly

D．unexpectedly

【7】

A．quarrels

B．occasions

C．situations

D．consequences

【8】

A．trap

B．hatred

C．competition

D．difficulty

【9】

A．simple

B．domestic

C．educational

D．unimportant

【10】

A．desire

B．failure

C．practice

D．lateness

【11】

A．goal

B．topic

C．regulation

D．argument

【12】

A．problem

B．point

C．issue

D．consequence

【13】

A．senior

B．leader

C．winner

D．authority

【14】

A．belief

B．reward

C．respect

D．apology

【15】

A．gain

B．regret

C．know

D．possess

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

Why Cold weather Causes So many Flight Cancellation?

Each year, about 60,000 flights get canceled because of bad winter weather, which costs airlines and airports an estimated $3 billion. But it’s not the freezing cold temperatures that cause problems for planes. After all, 【1】 jets fly 10 kilometers up, where temperatures hover around -50 degrees Celsius.

In fact, planes 【2】 in cold weather, since cold air is denser and leads to better thrust. Clearly, the real problem isn’t what’s going on up there. It’s what’s happening on the ground.

When a 【3】 polar vortex (极地涡旋) struck the Midwestern US in January 2019, temperatures dropped to -40 degrees Celsius and airline canceled 3,000 flights nationwide. In these situations, when temperatures start 【4】, everything slows down. Cargo doors can freeze up, along with the nozzles that pump fuel into planes, which delays the 【5】 process.

Even the plane itself can freeze over. Just a quarter-inch - thick layer of ice on a plane can disrupt the way air flows over its wings.

Les Westbrooks: The number one reason, I would say, that the reason flights get delayed in cold weather is going to be because there’s some kind of frozen precipitation, from frost to snow to a sheet of ice, adhering to the aircraft, adhering to the wings of the aircraft 【6】.

That’s Les Westbrooks, a retired airline pilot and an associate professor of aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He says that 【7】, these planes are “de-iced” - but this also delays takeoff. The crew can spray the plane with a special hot water/ glycol mixture. It can take around 40 minutes to de-ice large passenger airplanes, so planes often have to wait “their turn” for the de-icing station, which, of course, can trigger more delays.

And ice on the runway, of course, creates another set of 【8】. In 2014, a plane at JFK skidded off an icy runway and into a mound of snow, leading to an hours-long shutdown at the airport. And even though crews can remove ice from the runway, scraping it off the pavement can lead to potholes (坑洞) and other 【9】, which makes takeoffs and landings more dangerous. And of course, snow and freezing rain on the ground can affect visibility to the point where officials have to decide it’s not safe to fly at all.

But if ice and snow aren’t the problem in these extremely cold temperatures, it’s usually another factor: people.

Les Westbrooks: The airplane flies at high altitudes, -60 degrees. It’s made to do that. Humans are not made to be outside in -60 degrees weather. And so the human factor becomes a big, big factor, when it becomes extremely cold.

Baggage handlers, aircraft fuelers, and mechanics all have to stay warm. Some airports, like O’Hare in Chicago, set up heated shelters for their employees. Of course, with everyone taking breaks to warm up, not as much gets done, which leads to even more delays and cancellations. Passengers start missing their 【10】 flights, and that, along with passengers who can’t make it to the airport due to bad road conditions, leads to half-empty planes.

In fact, many airlines might preemptively cancel flights before bad weather even hits. So, in the end, you can still blame cold weather for cancelling your flight.

35、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.”

36、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

A

I have the【1】(great)job in the world. I travel to unusual places and work alongside people from all over the world. Sometimes using【2】(science)equipment and sometimes meeting local people and tourists, I am never【3】(bore).Although my job is occasionally dangerous, I don’t mind because danger excites me and makes me feel alive. However, the most important thing about my job is that I help protect ordinary people【4】 one of the most powerful forces on earth—the volcano.

B

Water is a precious resource. Every person needs it【5】 (survive),and we use it for cooking, drinking, growing our food and washing. However，it is scarce(缺乏的).Just 1% of water on Earth can【6】 (use)by humans. What’s more，treating water to make it clean and safe and pumping it to our homes uses up lots of energy. So, what can you do to help save water? One easy way is by【7】(turn)off the tap when you brush your teeth.

C

Robbie Phillips has become the first British person to complete one of the toughest challenges in rock climbing. 【8】(know)as the Alpine Trilogy(阿尔卑斯三部曲),the challenge consists of three climbs on mountains in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, 【9】Phillips completed in four years. Until now, only four other people【10】(conquer)all three of the extremely difficult climbs.

37、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.

38、假设你是李华，某中学学生杂志英语习作专栏正在开展主题为“Why should we learn English?”的征文活动。请你根据所给要点写一篇征文稿。

1）提高学习语言的能力；2）有助于了解异国文化；3）能够结识更多的朋友。

Why should we learn English?

English is an international language，so it is

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39、假定你是李华，你作为交换生在英国 Cambridge学习，在图书馆意外丢失书包，写一份寻物启事，以找回自己的书包。要点如下：

1. 丢失地点与时间；

2. 书包颜色与装的东西。

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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40、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

The World Health Organization, or WHO, estimates that more than 300,000 women die every year during pregnancy or childbirth. Each year, about 2.6 million babies are born dead and another 2.7 million babies die during the first 28 days of life, it said. Most of the deaths are taking place in South Asia and in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert.

Many of the deaths could have been avoided with quality health care, WHO officials said. Some stillbirths (births of dead babies), infant (new-born baby) deaths or deaths of mothers result from complications (并发症) during childbirth. Others may result from health problems with the mother. A poor diet or using drugs may also be to blame, the WHO added.

Another problem is that nearly all babies who are stillborn and half of all newborn deaths are never documented. Those deaths are not reported to or investigated by government health agencies. Traditions and beliefs often affect the collection of important records about infant deaths. In many countries, there is a belief that a stillbirth may not represent a lost life. Officials said this means the actual number of stillborn and newborn deaths is probably even higher than the WHO’s own current estimates. The United Nations agency says the lack of information makes it harder to find solutions. It is important for all births and deaths to be recorded so that health officials can make better decisions on how to prevent future deaths.

The WHO released three reports earlier this month to help health agencies do a better job collecting information.

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41、假如你叫李平，是一位成绩优秀的学生，你班班主任在安排座位时，让成绩好的学生和成绩差的学生作同桌，这在你们班成绩优秀的学生中引起了反响，班会课上大家就此进行了讨论。现在请你根据下表把讨论结果向班主任写一封信反映一下，并说出自己的观点。  

注意：1．词数：150字左右，短文的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。  

2．短文需包括表中所有要点，内容可适当发挥，以使行文连贯。  

3．参考词汇：成绩差的学生：a slower student   自信：self-confidence  

Dear Mr. Zhang,  

We have held a discussion about whether it is good or not for a top student to share a desk with a slower student.

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