襄阳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 reason for _____ he had the accident was _____ he was too careless when driving.

A.that; because B.which; because C.which; that D.that; that

2、In the future, you will be________ to more and more choice, not less.

A．symbolized

B．exposed

C．strengthened

D．abandoned

3、It was not until _____ that _____ to study English.

A.he came to Beijing; he began B.did he came to Beijing; he began

C.he came to Beijing; did he begin D.did he came to Beijing; did he began

4、He had known the matter before you told him, so you _________ have told it to him.

A.mustn't B.can't C.needn't D.shouldn't

5、— I’m still working on my project.

— Oh, you’ll miss the deadline. Time is _______.

A. running out B. coming out

C. using out D. going out

6、But for the fact that he ______ the truth, he ______ for a week's imprisonment.

A.didn't know; would be punished B.hadn't known; might have punished

C.didn't know; would have been punished D.hadn't known; could be punished

7、The fog has not gone, and ____ they put off the sports meet.

A.in fact B.at least C.as a result D.in addition

8、The result of his experiment led to the conclusion______ ice will decrease when it melts.

A./ B.what C.which D.that

9、His success doesn't ____________ his cleverness, and working hard ____________ his progress.

A. result in; leads to B. result from; lies in

C. lead to; lies in D. lie in; leads to

10、According to the ministry, the emergence of these new professions _______ the rapid development of high-tech industries, which have opened up new job markets.

A. contribute to B. subscribe to

C. owe to D. refer to

11、The Summer Palace, which we visited last summer, is one of Beijing's main tourist _____.

A.attractions B.dominations C.motivations D.conditions

12、I had just got up and was about to cook my breakfast______ the telephone rang loudly.

A. while B. when C. as D. before

13、Many Chinese brands, ______ their reputations over centuries, are _______ new challenges from the modern market.

A. having developed, facing B. being developed, faced

C. developed, faced D. developing, facing

14、Roses are quite _____ flowers in English gardens.

A．ordinary

B．common

C．usual

D．general

15、Allowing changes in the way of marriage and family life, in some seniors’ view, is a significant _______ from tradition.

A．departure

B．protection

C．relief

D．adaptation

16、______our part as a global citizen, we need to know what is happening in the world.

A.To do B.Doing C.Having done D.Done

17、Search engines search the Internet based on the key words you type in, and choose such web pages for you ________ contain the words you ask for.

A.where B.who C.which D.as

18、The _____ of the harmful chemicals on the world’s lakes and oceans has raised awareness of the public.

A. effect B. effort

C. donation D. distribution

19、The accident happened on such an evening with strong winds __________ by heavy rain.

A．appeared

B．happened

C．accompanied

D．mixed

20、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

21、It turned out that she won the first prize in the petition, which was beyond her   .

A. expectations   B. reputations

C. contributions D. celebrations

22、It's said that our mental abilities begin to _______ from the age 27 after reaching the highest level at 22.

A.differ B.depress C.distribute D.decline

23、In order to make greater progress in English, he attends extra classes ________.

A．every other days

B．every other day

C．each second days

D．each two days

24、The publishing house ______ his copyright, so he accused it.

A. abandoned B. condemned

C. invaded D. surrendered

25、With the top-down educational reform _______ many challenges in the classroom which deserve some serious thinking.

A．comes

B．is coming

C．are coming

D．come

26、   Ice volcanoes erupted on the shores of Lake Michigan last weekend, and an employee from National Weather Service ( NWS) caught sight of an astonishing scene on the spot. “You never know what you'll find at the lake until you go out there," the employee said, "Today it were volcanoes. ”

Despite their nickname, ice volcanoes aren't really volcanoes at all. They form at the edges of lakes, where thin sheets of ice form, and water shoots through holes in the ice, Water flows beneath the ice sheet and builds up enough pressure to push water to the surface. If the air above is cold enough, the released water freezes over the surrounding ground, forming a mini volcano of sorts.

Ice volcanoes can be very dangerous to climb on because they are empty inside and built over that hole in the ice. Although some frozen volcanoes were discovered a few years ago, it is still rare to witness one.

Ice volcanoes typically form near large bodies of water where freezing temperatures below allow an ice shelf to form over the water’s surface along the coastline. Meanwhile, waves beneath the shelf must be strong enough to crack the ice and push water out. For this reason, ice volcanoes tend to form along shorelines where winds blow up waves constantly.

For example, when the Oval Beach volcanoes were spotted, the wind was almost due west, which was perfect for pushing waves right into the shoreline at this location. Due to their superior size, the Great Lakes may be more likely to form ice volcanoes along their shores than smaller lakes.

So if you want to see an ice volcano in person, the Great Lakes may be your best choice—but be cautious where you step!

【1】What did the NWS employee discover in Paragraph 1?

A.The eruption of ice volcanoes. B.Volcanoes erupting on the mountain.

C.Frozen shores of Lake Michigan. D.An ordinary scene of Lake Michigan.

【2】What can we learn about ice volcanoes according to the passage?

A.They appear whenever it is freezing. B.They are real volcanoes in the ocean.

C.It is uncommon to see their eruptions. D.It takes years to form an ice volcano.

【3】Where do the ice volcanoes usually form?

A.Shorelines with suitable weather conditions.

B.Smaller lakes where wind direction is perfect.

C.Along shorelines where waves are not powerful.

D.In the center of the ocean or large bodies of water.

【4】What is this passage mainly about?

A.Dangers of ice volcanoes. B.Ice volcanoes and their formation.

C.Different kinds of volcanoes. D.The Great Lakes and ice volcanoes.

27、   Both honeybees and ants are social insects that live in groups called colonies. They survive by means of their collective intelligence. Their decision-making power is distributed throughout the group; that is, no one ant or bee makes decisions for the group. Instead, they work together. As Deborah M. Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University, says,” Ants aren't smart. Ant colonies are.”

The same is true for bee colonies. Although bees and ants are quite different physically, they have a lot in common in terms of their social behavior. Specifically, honeybees and ants have similar roles within the colony, both have communication systems, and both have the capacity for learning.

Ants communicate by using chemicals called pheromones, which can alert others to danger or to a food source. For example, when worker ants find a promising source, they let the rest of the colony know how to find it by leaving a trail of pheromones on the way back to the colony. The other ants pick up the message using their sense of smell. Bees, on the other hand, use movement to communicate with each other. Worker bees send messages to each other by means of a “dance”. Different speeds and movements send different messages. For example, when worker bees called scouts go out to find a new home for the colony, they return and do a dance for the other worker bees that indicates the location of the new home and how suitable it is. The faster the scouts dance, the better the new location is.

Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning. One Chinese study found that bees can be trained to learn and remember a route to a food source. The researchers also found that bees can be taught to recognize hidden objects and use the concepts of “sameness” and “difference” to accomplish certain tasks. Ants take this one step further. Recent American research has shown that ants not only have the ability to learn, but also can teach their foraging skills to other younger ants.

They observed that older ants accompany young ants in search of food and teach them the route and how to avoid obstacles.

As we can see, the social behavior of honeybees and ants is quite similar. Both coordinate(协调) complex actions and accomplish survival tasks by cooperating in groups consisting of many individuals. Unintelligent as they may be as individuals, as groups they often show amazing brilliance as they go about their everyday activities.

【1】What do ants and bees have in common?

A.They live in similar-sized colonies.

B.They make use of collective intelligence.

C.They have small leadership groups that make all decisions.

D.They use the same methods to communicate with each other.

【2】What does the speed of a bee's dance indicate?

A.The quality of a new colony location.

B.The distance to a neighboring colony.

C.The discovery of a new food source.

D.The direction to a potential food source.

【3】In paragraph 4, how does the author demonstrate the idea that Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning?

A.By using statistics.

B.By explaining reasons.

C.By referencing opinions.

D.By presenting study findings.

【4】What is the benefit of collective intelligence?

A.It allows the colony to reproduce more rapidly.

B.It improves work cooperation within the colony.

C.It reduces the division of labor among members.

D.It enables individuals to teach each other new skills.

28、

pine cone

In the past many studies placed too much emphasis on how animals are trained to learn. But recently more and more studies have focused on how animals equip themselves to learn.

One study started with a school field trip to a pine forest where many pine cones were discovered, stripped (剥壳) to the central core. So the investigation was directed at finding out what was eating the pine seeds and how they managed to get them out of the cones. The culprit proved to be the black rat, and the technique was to bite each cone from base to top, following the growth pattern of the cone.

Urban black rats were found to lack the skill. However, babies of urban mothers cross-fostered by stripper mothers acquired the skill, whereas babies of stripper mothers fostered by an urban mother could not. Clearly the skill had to be learned from the mother. In the case of rats, the youngsters take cones away from the mother when she is still eating them, allowing them to acquire the stripping skill.

Another study, Bird Behaviour, provides a different view of the adaptiveness of social learning. It concerns the seed caching (hiding) behaviour of Clark’s Nutcracker and the Mexican Jay. The former is a specialist, caching about 30,000 seeds in scattered locations that it will recover over the months of winter; the Mexican Jay will also cache food but is much less dependent on this than the Nutcracker. The two species also differ in their social structure: the Nutcracker prefers living alone while, the Jay, in social groups.

The experiment is to discover if a bird can remember where it hid a seed but also if it can remember where it saw another bird hide a seed. The design is funny with a cacher bird hiding food in a room, while watched by a caged observer bird. Two days later, cachers and observers are tested for their discovery rate against estimated random performance (预估随机表现). Both cachers performed above chance. More surprisingly, jay observers were as successful as jay cachers, whereas nutcracker observers did no better than chance. It seems that, whereas the Nutcracker is highly skilled at remembering where it hid its own seeds, the social living Mexican Jay is more adept at remembering, and so making use of, the caches of others.

【1】Urban black rats were able to learn to strip when ________.

A．living with stripper babies

B．fostered by urban mothers

C．fed by stripper mothers

D．eating cones by themselves

【2】In Bird Behavior Study, we can conclude that ________.

A．the Mexican Jay benefits from social living

B．the Clark’s Nutcraker has better learning skills

C．Nutcraker observers perform well in remembering

D．Jay cachers are only good at hiding food

【3】According to the passage, both studies show that ________.

A．skills are equipped in childhood

B．skills improve by practice

C．animals study through playing

D．animals learn by examples

29、   Darwin, the world-famous scientist, developed a habit in his later years that seldom changed, even when guests were present. The following shows his daily schedule during that time.

【1】According to Darwin, what was the best time to work?

A.8:00 a.m.—9:30 a.m. B.9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m.

C.10:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m. D.4:30 p.m.—5:30 p.m.

【2】How long did Darwin work in his study every day?

A.Four and a half hours. B.Three hours.

C.Two and a half hours. D.Two hours.

【3】What can we learn about Darwin from this passage?

A.He was very ill. B.He ate meals a day.

C.He disliked reading. D.He lived regular (有规律的) life.

30、Each day, 10-year-old Seth asked his mom for more and more lunch money. Yet he seemed ________ than ever and came home from school hungry. It   ________ that Seth was handing his lunch money to a fifth-grader, who was threatening to beat him up if he didn’t pay.

Kayla, 13, thought things were going well at her new school, _________ all the popular girls were being so nice to her. But then she found out that one of them had posted _________ rumors about her. Kayla cried herself to sleep that night and refused to go to school.

In national surveys, most kids and teens say that bullying happens at school. A bully can turn something like going to the wash room or recess (隐秘处) into a/an _________ for kids. Bullying can leave deep emotional scars. And in _________ situations, it can involve violent threats, property damage, or someone getting seriously hurt. Therefore, it’s necessary to help your child identify bullying and cope with it as well as _________ its lasting impact.

Most kids have been   _________ by a sibling or a friend at some point. And it’s not usually harmful when done in a playful, friendly, and mutual way, and both kids find it funny. But when it becomes hurtful, unkind, and constant, it _________ the line into bullying and needs to stop.

It’s important to take bullying   _________and not just brush it off as something that kids have to “tough out.” The effects can be serious and affect kids’ sense of safety and _________. In severe cases, bullying has _________ tragedies, such as suicides and school shootings.

If your child tells you about being bullied, listen _________ and offer comfort and support. Kids are often _________to tell adults about bullying because they feel embarrassed and ashamed that it’s happening. Therefore, praise your child for doing the right thing by talking to you about it. Let someone at school (the principal, school nurse, or a counselor or teacher) know about the situation. They are often _________ to monitor and take steps to prevent further problems.

【1】

A．stronger

B．happier

C．skinnier

D．slimmer

【2】

A．turned out

B．gave out

C．figured out

D．brought out

【3】

A．thus

B．while

C．though

D．since

【4】

A．friendly

B．incredible

C．mean

D．false

【5】

A．nightmare

B．fantasy

C．adventure

D．daydream

【6】

A．special

B．extreme

C．certain

D．crucial

【7】

A．lessen

B．remove

C．increase

D．decline

【8】

A．abused

B．struck

C．teased

D．annoyed

【9】

A．crossed

B．draws

C．holds

D．passes

【10】

A．well

B．easy

C．angrily

D．seriously

【11】

A．self-worth

B．self-discipline

C．self-awareness

D．self-control

【12】

A．resulted from

B．led by

C．contributed to

D．come to

【13】

A．anxiously

B．selectively

C．indifferently

D．calmly

【14】

A．keen

B．reluctant

C．unbearable

D．voluntary

【15】

A．in the office

B．out of position

C．out of office

D．in a position

31、A passenger told an air hostess that he needed a cup of water to take his medicine when the plane just took off. She told him that she would _______the water in ten minutes.

Thirty minutes later, when the passenger’s ring for _______ sounded, the air hostess realized it at once. She was kept so _______ that she forget to deliver him the _______ . As a result, the passenger was _______ to take his medicine. She hurried over to him _______ a cup of water, but to her surprise he _______ it.

In the following hours on the _______ , each time the air hostess passed by the _______ , she would ask him with a ________ whether he needed help or not. But the passenger ________ paid attention to her words.

When he was going to get ________ the plane, the passenger asked the air hostess to ________ him the passenger’s booklet(意见簿). She was very   ________ . She knew that he would write down ________ words, which might result in the loss of her job. ________ with a smile she handed it to him.

Off the plane, she ________ the booklet and cracked a smile, ________ the passenger put it, “On the flight, you asked me whether I needed help or not for twelve times ________ . How can I refuse your twelve sincere smiles?”

That’s ________ ! Who can refuse twelve sincere smiles from a person?

【1】

A．take

B．bring

C．carry

D．hold

【2】

A．food

B．drink

C．service

D．medicine

【3】

A．tired

B．silent

C．calm

D．busy

【4】

A．water

B．help

C．milk

D．warning

【5】

A．held on

B．held up

C．held out

D．held down

【6】

A．for

B．about

C．with

D．in

【7】

A．refused

B．accepted

C．liked

D．hated

【8】

A．seat

B．air

C．floor

D．flight

【9】

A．customer

B．passenger

C．guest

D．visitor

【10】

A．glance

B．look

C．smile

D．cry

【11】

A．never

B．often

C．always

D．seldom

【12】

A．on

B．to

C．off

D．from

【13】

A．hand

B．take

C．throw

D．lend

【14】

A．glad

B．angry

C．curious

D．sad

【15】

A．important

B．sharp

C．polite

D．nice

【16】

A．So

B．Because

C．And

D．But

【17】

A．hid

B．tore

C．opened

D．closed

【18】

A．if

B．for

C．after

D．when

【19】

A．in all

B．above all

C．or else

D．or so

【20】

A．wrong

B．wonderful

C．impossible

D．right

32、One summer day , a player sweated all alone in a gymnasium.He _________ footballs from the half court circle on the football court to a target hanging on the wall. No one in that community had ever seen a _________ do that before.

Weeks later , the same player _________ to local business owners at their places of business and _________ them a card which stated his school football team was going to win a state championship that year. This was a（n） _________ the school had never made. No one in that community had ever _________ a player do that before.

During the season， _________ noticed the same young man trying his best to play. Later , during the _________ game, the same young man played every single play of the game , never coming off the _________ . He was the only player who did this.On such a（n） __________ day , what made it more __________ was that he was wearing a pair of gloves that he couldn't __________ because they had become frozen to his hands. The team went on to __________ the first state championship in the school's history , thus making the __________ of the card come true.No one in that community had ever seen something like that before.

Years later , a call was made to the former player , "Your teammate has cancer , so we __________ you." On a Sunday afternoon ,the player stood in front of a（n） __________ banquet hall（宴会厅） with his old teammates. __________ , he spoke about courage.He spoke about teammates.He spoke about loyalty.He spoke about __________ . Very soon more than $ 80 ,000 was __________ that day for medical expenses. No one in that community had ever seen that before.

In your life do what no one has ever done before , and you can make a __________ !

【1】

A．kicked

B．pushed

C．passed

D．brought

【2】

A．teacher

B．coach

C．boss

D．player

【3】

A．gave in

B．walked up

C．got through

D．showed off

【4】

A．sold

B．drew

C．handed

D．threw

【5】

A．achievement

B．announcement

C．contribution

D．decision

【6】

A．seen

B．remembered

C．reported

D．left

【7】

A．customers

B．fans

C．friends

D．leaders

【8】

A．present

B．common

C．familiar

D．final

【9】

A．school

B．field

C．hall

D．seat

【10】

A．busy

B．unforgettable

C．cold

D．hard

【11】

A．terrible

B．believable

C．comfortable

D．remarkable

【12】

A．shake

B．pick

C．repair

D．remove

【13】

A．win

B．praise

C．evaluate

D．dream

【14】

A．production

B．prediction

C．decoration

D．attraction

【15】

A．know

B．miss

C．need

D．trust

【16】

A．old

B．empty

C．crowded

D．warm

【17】

A．Excitedly

B．Surprisingly

C．Quickly

D．Casually

【18】

A．pleasure

B．chance

C．love

D．patience

【19】

A．spent

B．lost

C．charged

D．raised

【20】

A．choice

B．difference

C．fortune

D．change

33、Crowdfunding (众筹) campaigns to help people with cancer pay for ineffective alternative treatments are becoming more common. They often come with six-figure targets to meet the cost of debatable therapies. ________, headlines are almost guaranteed.

The BMJ (British Medical Journal) reports ________ over this, based on information I gathered working for the charity Good Thinking. By sorting fundraising sites like JustGiving and GoFundMe, I identified appeals from people in the UK who sought money for unproven or disproven treatments, finding 400 in the past three years. Those have raised £7 million, the money destined for ________clinics.

Although the treatments, such as extreme diets, aren’t backed by scientific evidence, people who are desperate and vulnerable are often ________by remarkable testimonials(证明书) provided by the clinics themselves. However, for those who see such stories in the media, and who care about following good scientific evidence, the natural reaction is to try to ________people from possible physical, emotional and financial harm.

________ these appeals isn’t easy. People with cancer often view these therapies as ________, and their supporters don’t want to consider that their efforts to help may cause harm.

However, journalists must review the role they play in promoting the ________. Their influence is powerful. As I sorted through appeals and the heartbreaking stories of desperately ill people, I was ________ by just how many cited success stories they had read in newspapers as their reason for trusting questionable treatments.

Most concerning of all were the frequent cases where someone had died—sometimes just months after eye-catching ________of their treatment. While the uplifting story of a community helping fund someone’s “cure” is attractive, the subsequent reality when that hope proves fruitless seems far less ________.

This leaves the public with a ________ view of the effectiveness of such treatments, and serves as an advertising tool for clinics which, under UK law, wouldn’t be able to directly promote their therapies.

If journalists wish to avoid promoting ineffective treatments, they would do well to view such stories not just as human-interest ones, but as ________ and health stories. This means ________the evidence behind treatments, seeking expert opinion on their efficacy, and choosing not to run stories that fail such a careful examination.

I’m certain no journalist would want their work to be used as a recruitment tool for therapists whose treatments offer nothing but heartbreak and false hope, yet until reports of miraculous cancer cures in questionable clinics are approached with an appropriate level of skepticism(怀疑), I fear such places will continue to ________.

【1】

A．On the other hand

B．In addition

C．By contrast

D．As a result

【2】

A．attitudes

B．stands

C．concerns

D．prospects

【3】

A．private

B．foreign

C．local

D．illegal

【4】

A．tempted

B．questioned

C．awakened

D．frightened

【5】

A．prohibit

B．protect

C．discourage

D．distract

【6】

A．Launching

B．Issuing

C．Questioning

D．Considering

【7】

A．reference

B．interference

C．hope

D．implication

【8】

A．appeals

B．awareness

C．resources

D．sales

【9】

A．persuaded

B．alarmed

C．moved

D．encouraged

【10】

A．coverage

B．details

C．timing

D．course

【11】

A．newsworthy

B．time-worthy

C．effort-worthy

D．praise-worthy

【12】

A．general

B．moderate

C．extreme

D．twisted

【13】

A．survival

B．nutrition

C．science

D．emotion

【14】

A．classifying

B．examining

C．revising

D．enriching

【15】

A．contract

B．decay

C．bother

D．flourish

34、阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

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

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

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

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

35、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.

36、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.

37、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.

38、假定你是李华，在美国作交换生，得知当地为庆祝端午节要举办赛龙舟活动，你想邀请好友Louise一起报名参加，请给她写一封信，要点如下：

1. 写信目的；

2. 活动意义；

3. 赛前准备。

注意：1. 词数80左右。

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3. 龙舟节 the Dragon Boat Festival

为了纪念 in memory of

提前看视频 watch some videos in advance

分享经验 share experience

Dear Louise,

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Yours,

Li Hua

39、假定你是李华，是兰州一中学生会主席。得知目前在美国新冠肺炎(Corona Virus Disease 2019，COVID-19) 疫情比较严重。请你给我校在美国的友好学校校长Donald Obama写封信，内容包括：

1.提出防疫建议；2.介绍我校复学情况；3.咨询美国学生在线学习情况。

注意：1.字数100字左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

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40、假设你的同学Mike想要提高英语成绩，写信问你如何利用网络工具学习英语。现请你根据以下要点给他回信向他推荐一个学习英语的网站。

1. 网站名:沪江英语网。

2. 推荐理由:a. 资料丰富，寓教于乐；b. 满足不同人群的不同需求；c. 高质量的博客文章。

3. 可适当增加内容以使文章流畅。

4. 参考词汇:博客:blog。

5. 字数:80左右。

Dear Mike,

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Yours truly，

Li Ming

41、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文，续写的词数应为150左右。

Desiree, a 4-year-old girl, was sobbing quietly over her father, Ken, who had died nine months earlier. She was hugging a photograph of her father with her fingers running around his face. “Daddy”, she said softly, “Why won't you come back?”

Instead of gradually adjusting to her father's death, Desiree refused to accept it “Daddy will be home soon,” she'd tell her mother. “He's at work.” When she played with her toy telephone, she pretended she was chatting with her father “I miss you, Daddy,” she'd say. “When will you come back?” Desiree's situation made her mother worried.

Days later, it was Ken's birthday. “How will I send him a card?” Desiree asked her mother “How about if we tie a litter to a balloon.” her mother said, “and send it up to heaven?” Desiree's eyes immediately lit up.

Her mother took her to a store and Desiree picked out a balloon with HAPPY BIRTHDAY above a drawing of The Little Mermaid (美人鱼). Desire and her father had often watched it.

The child's eyes shone as they were on the way to Ken's grave. Then Desiree dictated (口述) a letter to her Dad. “Daddy, Happy birthday, I love you and miss you,” she rattled off (快速说). “I hope you get this and can write to me on my birthday in January.”

Her mother wrote the message and their address on a small piece of paper, which was then wrapped in plastic and tied to the end of the string on the balloon. Finally, Desiree let fly the balloon. For almost an hour, they watched the shining spot of silver grow smaller and smaller till disappear. “Now Dad's going to write back to me,” Desiree said confidently.

Every day since they'd flew the balloon, Desiree had asked her mother, “Do you think Daddy has my balloon yet?” Several weeks passed, and she stopped asking.

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One day, 3,000 miles away, Wade was on a duck hunt when suddenly something in the bush caught his eyes. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Desire's fifth birthday came and later on the afternoon, a package arrived.

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