银川2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、As everyone knows, oral exams _________ to test our communicative ability.

A．are being designed

B．designed

C．are designed

D．to be designed

2、With his finger ______ to the ______ window, the teacher asked: “Who did that?”

A. pointing; broken B. pointed; broken

C. pointing; breaking D. pointed; breaking

3、Something is wrong with his camera. It can’t be ________ to take photos in cloudy conditions.

A．adapted

B．adjusted

C．adopted

D．addicted

4、The discovery of new evidence led to ______________.

A. the thief having been caught B. the thief to be caught

C. catch the thief D. the thief being caught

5、If Helen says she will complete the job on time you can always ________ her to deliver the goods.

A.go on B.rely on C.look on D.put on

6、I was so familiar with her that I recognized her voice _______ picking up the phone.

A.the moment B.on C.before D.though

7、High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

A. discourage B. defeat

C. disturb D. depress

8、Happy birthday, Alice! So you have ________ twenty-one already.

A. become B. passed

C. grown D. turned

9、—Where will you start your work after graduation?

—Mum, it’s not been decided yet. I _________ continue my study for a higher degree.

A．need

B．must

C．can

D．may

10、In Beijing Marathon, I experienced what runners call “hitting the wall” at around the 36-kilometer point. A _______pain stabbed(刺) in my hip, my pace slowed down and every brain cell seemed to be screaming “Stop!”

A. aggressive B. specific

C. sharp D. diverse

11、______ it is to have a cool drink after an ______ game.

A. How fun; exhausting B. What fun; exhausted

C. What fun; exhausting D. How fun; exhausted

12、Neither believe nor reject anything because any other person has rejected or believed it. Which of the following differs from the statement in meaning?

A.Do not accept blindly other people’s likes or dislikes without careful independent thought.

B.One must think for oneself rather than simply seek agreement with others.

C.Don’t express your opinion hastily on anything others have commented on carefully.

D.We shouldn’t be influenced by others’ opinions easily while making our own judgement.

13、It was Tom as well as his friends that ________ for the serious accident.

A．was to be blamed

B．were to blame

C．was blaming

D．was to blame

14、——What a big letdown it is to have missed such a good opportunity!

——Don’t worry. Something better will ________ .

A．go by

B．take on

C．in need

D．come along

15、Shaw is the only one of the employees here ______ want to accept my advice.

A.that don’t B.who don’t C.who doesn’t D.which does

16、The city announced severe measures_____ to hold e-bike riders and restaurants that employ the riders responsible.

A.meaning B.to be meant C.meant D.be meant

17、The Cloud Bridge is located in the Yunyang Longgang Scenic Zone，___________ live many rare species.

A.which B.that C.where D.what

18、When we are acting as leaders, the act of apology is carried out not only at the level of the individual but also at the level of the institution, a performance ______ every expression matters and every word becomes part of a record.

A.which B.that C.where D.what

19、After he retired from office, Rogers painting for a while, but soon lost interest.

A．took up

B．saved up

C．kept up

D．drew up

20、Lily, though too young to go to school, _________ easily recite 2000 poems.

A.must B.can C.need D.should

21、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

22、—Do you think attending training courses is a great help when you look for a new job?

—Well, it all depends. Besides, it gives me ________ a chance to try.

A. more than B. more of

C. less than D. more or less

23、This is the largest clock in the world, ______ the minute hand is six meters long.

A. of which B. whose C. which D. of that

24、With our country entering an aging society, ______ the retirement age is probably unavoidable.

A.having delayed B.delaying C.being delayed D.to be delayed

25、We should consider students’ suggestion _________ the school library provide more books on popular science.

A．that

B．when

C．whether

D．why

26、Few people doubt the value of developing students' thinking skills. A focus on critical thinking is common in education. In the Australian Curriculum, critical thinking and creative thinking are known as “general capabilities”. The US has a similar focus through their “common core".

Many approaches to developing critical thinking are based on Philosophy for Children. One strategy that has a large impact on students' ability to analyse and evaluate arguments is argument mapping, in which a student's reasoning can be visually displayed by capturing the inferential pathway from assumption to conclusion. This type of argument-based intellectual engagement can show high outcomes in terms of the quality of thinking in any classroom. Research also shows deliberate attention to the practice of reasoning in the context of our everyday lives can be significantly improved through targeted teaching.

Teachers at one high school in Australia, who have much training in critical thinking teaching methods, developed a task that asked students to determine Australia's greatest sports person. Students needed to construct their own criteria for greatness. To do so, they had to analyze the Australian sporting context, create possible evaluative standards, explain and justify why some standards would be more acceptable than others and apply these to their candidates. They then needed to argue their case with their classmates to develop criteria that were solid, defensible, widely applicable and produced a choice that seized significant and relevant aspects of Australian sport.

Researchers looking at the gains made in a single term of teaching critical thinking with argument mapping said the critical thinking gains measured are close to those that could be expected to result from three years of undergraduate education. Students who are taught to think well also do better on subject-based exams and standardized tests than those who do not.

In terms of developing 21st century skills, which includes setting up students for lifelong learning, teaching critical thinking should be core business.

【1】Which of the following can explain the underlined word “capturing" in Paragraph 2?

A．Describing.

B．Attracting.

C．Designing.

D．Blocking.

【2】What’s the purpose of Paragraph 3?

A．To construct the criteria for being great.

B．To acknowledge the teachers' outcomes.

C．To present how to teach critical thinking.

D．To emphasize the importance of reasoning.

【3】What is the author's attitude toward teaching critical thinking?

A．Objective.

B．Supportive.

C．Doubtful.

D．Cautious.

【4】What does this text imply?

A．Teaching methods should vary among schools.

B．Research on education deserves more attention.

C．Critical thinking should be valued in education.

D．Concepts of critical thinking aren't well received.

27、   We tend to believe that older people are more positive and younger people are more sensitive to social cues（暗示）.

Recently scientists investigated this idea by testing 10,000 men and women. They wanted to see if age affected a person’s ability to identify subtle facial emotions, such as fear and anger.

The researchers used a Web-based platform to collect data. It showed the participants two headshots of random people. They were then asked to identify which subject was angrier, happier, or more fearful. The research found that younger people were able to better identify angry and fearful facial cues than older people.

“We know from studies that the everyday experiences of an adolescent are different from an older person, but we wanted to understand how these experiences might be linked with differences in basic emotion understanding,” wrote Laura Germine, the study’s senior author.

But what is it that makes young people more sensitive?

“This is the exact age when young people are most sensitive to forms of negative social cues, such as bullying（欺凌）,” Lauren Rutter, the study’s lead author, told Science Daily. “The normal development of anger sensitivity can contribute to some of the challenges that arise during this stage of development.”

On the contrary, across the whole 10,000-person survey, researchers found no decrease in the sense of happiness among older participants and these findings fit well with other researches, showing that older adults tend to have more positive emotions.

Now, the team is working toward a new study that examines how emotional sensitivity is related to different aspects of mental health, such as anxiety and depression.

【1】What can we know from the passage?

A.Older people are more allergic to social cues.

B.The researchers gained data from the Internet.

C.Older people are less likely to identify happiness in the research.

D.Adolescents’ sensitivity to negative social cues does harm to their development.

【2】How was the research carried out?

A.By assuming and analyzing.

B.By questioning and tracing.

C.By reasoning and concluding.

D.By surveying and collecting statistics.

【3】What section of a newspaper is the passage probably taken from?

A.Technology. B.Investigations.

C.Education. D.Lifestyle.

【4】What is the team planning to find out next?

A.The relationship between emotions and experiences.

B.The emotional differences between the young and the old.

C.The connection between sensitivity of emotions and mental health.

D.The different responses to social cues between the young and the old.

28、Imagine possessing something that you loved so much. Imagine what it would feel like if you lost it. While that item may be something as simple as a toy, you would still feel very upset, but you could replace it with a new one. Now imagine losing something that you depend on for survival and cannot be replaced. That is what it would be like if we lost the natural environment around us.

Firstly, I believe the environment should be protected because it supports human life. One of the largest examples is that we get all of our food and drinks from the environment. If the environment were to be destroyed beyond revival, then the human race would be over in months. Scientists have to find another planet with similar conditions to the Earth, and if it's found, we don’t have the technology to get to that planet in time.

Secondly, I believe that the environment serves as an amazing educational tool for students. When I was in second grade, I had an absolute interest in animals. When we had a field trip to the Daggerwing Nature Center, I was very excited. When we got there, I could hardly believe what I was seeing. There was a bridge to get to the main building, and under the bridge was a small swamp (沼泽) with turtles, fish, and my personal favorite, alligators. I was so surprised that I almost ran into the tour guide. We walked into the building and saw various animals in their habitats. I was so inspired by this visit. Six years later, I have taken an animal behavior class for three weeks. Meeting by chance with the environment can inspire people, and if preserved, it will continue to inspire people.

In conclusion, the environment is so valuable because it can't be replaced, keeps us alive, and serves as a great educational tool.

【1】The first paragraph leads to the theme of the text by________________.

A．describing a process.

B．presenting differences.

C．analyzing causes.

D．showing similarities.

【2】The underlined word “revival” in paragraph 2 refers to_________________.

A．health.

B．recovery.

C．range.

D．survival.

【3】What's the function of paragraph 3?

A．To express the writer’s absolute interest in animals.

B．To introduce the Daggerwing Nature Centers scenery.

C．To show the environment can inspire and educate people.

D．To prove the subject he has chosen is promising.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Why the Environment Is So Important?

B．Which Planet Can Replace the Earth?

C．How People Should Protect the Environment?

D．What People Can Do to Stop Pollution?

29、   It truly doesn't take much to encourage others and, best of all, it is very affordable and requires no special equipment. Here are some simple ways to encourage others.

Take an interest.

I believe this is one of the most practical ways of encouraging others.

Show that you're interested in what they're doing. 【1】People like to talk about themselves and once you get them talking, you fire up their enthusiasm.

Acknowledge a job well done.

Great achievements take time and effort. You can encourage others by acknowledging their efforts. A simple “well done" or “thank you" can be influential. 【2】

Lend a hand.

【3】 In fact, you can be the first one to lend a hand. If a person sees you are willing to spend your time and energy on their interests, they will be more encouraged to see it through and less likely to give up.

【4】

Thank someone when he/she does something for you. Thank your partner after he/ she cooks a nice meal. Thank a friend for lending you a book. A simple “thank you" lets others know what they have done is meaningful to you.

Give a call to your friend.

As you know, we're all busy, and in the age of emails and texts, phone calls seem ancient to many people.

【5】 Even if they miss the call they'll appreciate the effort and your message. Make an effort to do this just once a week for one person and see how your connections respond to the encouragement.

A.Get them talking.

B.Show your appreciation.

C.Do something unexpected.

D.But people love hearing from friends.

E.You don't have to wait for someone to ask you for advice.

F.Haven't you felt important when someone asked for your advice?

G.These words can make a difference between going on and giving up.

30、What do you do with your clothes that you can’t or don’t want to wear anymore? Through cutting, stitching and redesigning, Baxter Salzwedel has found a_______way to be environmentally friendly.

In March, 2022, recycling clothes_______the 17-year-old from Lakeside High School a finalist spot in the Young Entrepreneurs competition. The competition was hosted by Junior Achievement of Wisconsin, a nonprofit organisation. He won a scholarship of $10.000 for his_______clothing brand The Mad Patcher.

In the beginning, Baxter just worked with clothes for fun. He learned his_______skills from his grandmother at a young age. He then started to _______his old jeans to try and make cool new designs.

The fun hobby quickly turned into a_______for Baxter when his classmates started asking him to make customized clothing for them and they_______for it. “I can’t make so many clothes for free.” said Baxter.

In 2021, Baxter started his clothing_______. He now uses colorful pieces from other clothes to_______his patchwork (拼缝物) designs like jeans, shirts and jackets. He only uses donated or________materials to ensure maximum sustainability.

Baxter has earned thousands of dollars through selling his clothes and he has________25 percent of his profits to some nonprofit environment conservation organizations.

He was________ as a finalist out of dozens of applicants across the US. The finalist needs to have successful business experiences, growth potential, innovation and________involvement. “It was amazing to do that and meet all sorts of young people with similar ideas,” Baxter said________. For Baxter, The Mad Patcher is a life-time________worth working on.

【1】

A．complicated

B．traditional

C．fashionable

D．casual

【2】

A．earned

B．bought

C．left

D．made

【3】

A．sustainable

B．affordable

C．unforgettable

D．recognizable

【4】

A．painting

B．driving

C．cooking

D．sewing

【5】

A．put down

B．set down

C．tear up

D．make up

【6】

A．business

B．task

C．glory

D．duty

【7】

A．worked

B．paid

C．cheered

D．clapped

【8】

A．course

B．show

C．shop

D．brand

【9】

A．find

B．advertise

C．display

D．create

【10】

A．plastic

B．recycled

C．colorful

D．artificial

【11】

A．returmed

B．submitted

C．donated

D．lent

【12】

A．selected

B．regarded

C．described

D．interviewed

【13】

A．political

B．social

C．academic

D．scientific

【14】

A．calmly

B．nervously

C．excitedly

D．patiently

【15】

A．research

B．test

C．assignment

D．project

31、Last week, I drove to Joe’s Hardware to get a few items. Upon returning to my ________ , I noticed a cat underneath and bent down to investigate. At this point, my wallet fell off—but I didn’t notice it was ________ until about an hour later. I ________ my steps, asked around and tore my car inside out. Nothing. I lost my wallet.

After this fact sank in, I was about to call the bank and have them ________ me a new credit card when a little voice inside my head said, “Whoa! ________. Someone must have picked it up. An average citizen, just like you. What would she or he do?”

So I held back and I was going to give it a day. Then, early that evening, I was surfing the Internet for a new wallet when I heard a knock on the door. There was a man who I did not ________. Could it be?

After we exchanged greetings, he ________ me my wallet. He found it in the parking lot, thought of dropping it off at Joe’s Hardware but ________ to drive over and return it in person.

He told me his ________, but I was overcome with emotion and cannot be 100% sure. I think it was David. I offered him a cash reward but he refused. He was just a regular guy doing the right thing.

David, thank you so very much for returning my wallet and reinforcing my belief that there are some good and ________ people around.

【1】

A．car

B．home

C．bank

D．shop

【2】

A．broken

B．empty

C．stolen

D．missing

【3】

A．recovered

B．recorded

C．retraced

D．reduced

【4】

A．loan

B．send

C．show

D．pass

【5】

A．Come on

B．Cheer up

C．Slow down

D．Look out

【6】

A．doubt

B．recognize

C．admire

D．remember

【7】

A．awarded

B．found

C．brought

D．handed

【8】

A．happened

B．decided

C．intended

D．hesitated

【9】

A．age

B．hobby

C．name

D．job

【10】

A．decent

B．courageous

C．cautious

D．humble

32、   To unfamiliar passersby, Dobri Dobrev, 99, may come off as a poor beggar who depends on the _______ of strangers to get around in life. But, for the residents of 24 Sofia, Bulgaria, Dobrev is _______ of the sort. On the contrary, he has been called a “saint”.

Dobrev _______ most of his hearing during World War II. He lives more than 15 miles outside of Sofia, a distance he used to travel on foot, but he now _______ the bus, according to Saintdobry. com. He spends his days asking people for money, _______ he doesn’t keep a cent.

The _______ guy lives off of his monthly pension (养老金) of 80 euros (about $100) and gives all his _______ to institutions that are _______ to him: churches and orphanages (孤儿院).

Reddit user Nullvoid123 wrote on the site that he has met Dobrev a number of times and that the kind man said he once “did a bad thing,” and is now trying to _______ his past faults by ________ others.

Dobrev has made a number of donations throughout the years to churches. He has ________ been known to give money to orphanages to help them pay their bills.

“The good will is just and true. Everything in it is ________,” Dobrev said in the film “Mite,” which was ________ in 2000. “We must not ________, nor steal. We must ________ each other.”

【1】A.service B.kindness C.curiosity D.friendship

【2】A.nothing B.anything C.something D.everything

【3】A.needed B.lost C.found D.tested

【4】A.misses B.drives C.runs for D.relies on

【5】A.or B.so C.but D.and

【6】A.honest B.generous C.independent D.successful

【7】A.attention B.devotion C.donations D.solutions

【8】A.dearest B.closest C.most available D.most accessible

【9】A.get rid of B.look back to C.make up for D.take advantage of

【10】A.saving B.helping C.exciting D.amusing

【11】A.soon B.even C.again D.also

【12】A.easy B.good C.adorable D.clear

【13】A.covered B.praised C.accepted D.produced

【14】A.lie B.regret C.delay D.fear

【15】A.protect B.forgive C.love D.trust

33、   Last summer, we went to Hawaii for holiday. During my week-long trip with my husband, we spent most of our time _______during the day in the sea, and then enjoying walks along the beach in the evenings.

We didn’t take any _______because we had enough. We had visited the island many times _______. On our way to the _______we joked that other than our sun-burnt skin, we had no way to show that we had _______there!

As we stood in line at the check-in, we noticed the _______who had been on our plane the week before. _______, they all had tear-filled eyes this day. On the plane, we sat directly behind them: a mother and her four children without Dad’s attendance. We learned that the father had been _______in a jet-skiing accident that week, and his wife and children had to _______make their way home without him.

We watched the children become unworried while they were playing cards. But the mother stared at her knees, ________to believe her husband’s death. We could ________feel her pain as we realized that this could have happened to any of us. While we were laughing and playing in the water, this poor family had been ________the sufferings. The vacation they had dreamed about had ________the terrible dream they would never forget.

I suddenly ________that we had no pictures for this vacation together. I closed my eyes, hoping that my mind had recorded all the wonderful moments that I had ________with my husband that week. What a trip!

【1】A.flying B.travelling C.swimming D.walking

【2】A.action B.children C.photos D.friends

【3】A.before B.ago C.now D.yet

【4】A.sea B.airport C.destination D.station

【5】A.traveled B.left C.missed D.forgotten

【6】A.class B.parent C.passenger D.family

【7】A.Therefore B.Otherwise C.However D.Then

【8】A.hit B.discovered C.forbidden D.killed

【9】A.nervously B.bravely C.confidently D.proudly

【10】A.unable B.likely C.willing D.afraid

【11】A.never B.ever C.almost D.hardly

【12】A.feeling B.experiencing C.fighting D.ignoring

【13】A.wiped out B.eased off C.broken up D.turned into

【14】A.regretted B.decided C.remembered D.discovered

【15】A.created B.valued C.shared D.planned

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

The Internet E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic age possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on 【1】 relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.

Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quiet 【2】.” They say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends-not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so 【3】 supporting.

The technological leader promised us that access would make life more convenient. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to 【4】 us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy 【5】.

If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast 【6】 land, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the 【7】 of all resources.

And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really 【8】 in the e-economy age. If this new technology 【9】 is only about super efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a(n) 【10】 human being.

35、Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the proper form of the words or expressions given in the frame. Each one can only be used once.

Why your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems?  Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 【1】 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.

When ten million passwords were leaked on to the internet，they appeared to 【2】that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.

While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”，there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to【3】. The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.

“Users are becoming slightly more 【4】what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”

But 【5】no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this and in 20 percent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.

Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to 【6】 their mobile phone with an account, having a single use passwords texted to it each time they want to log on.

Although the serviced is voluntary, Dylan Casey an executive at Yahoo!，said that it was “the first step to【7】passwords”. He said it was a(n)【8】that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.

It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than same people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or，“tran5p053d numb3r5 f0r 133tr3r5”.

“We are, for the most part，predictably【9】when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n) 【10】, and so do password crackers.

36、A: Excuse me, do you know where the chemistry lab is?

B: Yes. It’s just on the fifth floor of this b【1】.

A: How often do you do c【2】experiments there?

B: Twice a week.

A: Can you go there without a t【3】?

B: No. That’s not allowed.

A: What does the teacher often tell you to do when you are doing an e【4】?

B: He often tells us to look c【5】and follow the i【6】.

A: What will you do when you finish the experiment?

B: We must put e【7】back in the cupboards and wash our hands.

A: Right. It is very i【8】to keep the lab clean.

B: Yes, safe as well. We must turn off the e【9】before l【10】the lab.

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、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成篇完整的短文。

Life is a series of choices and we can't always foresee the consequences.

Hary Saleem, an obese man with too much money and power, faced a choice. Outside his office waited his personal doctor, bringing him vital news about the only medicine that could save his life. On the other side of the world, one of his engineers waited for his decision on an important matter of business.

His secretary asked whether she could bring the doctor in. The billionaire businessman made his decision. “No, let the fool wait” shouted Saleem, angrily. “Business comes first.” Despite the health problem caused by his huge weight, he was still obsessed with making money. He raised a fat finger, and one of his staff hurried to switch on a large television set.

The screen flashed to life, and Saleem's engineer appeared. The man talked by satellite directly to his master although they were thousands of miles apart. “I's all ready to blow, Mr. Saleem,” he said. “Just say the word.”

His engineer was standing above Pakan Valley in South America. A few months ago, it had been a rainforest. Then Saleem's men had come, cutting down all the valuable plants and forcing the villagers to move out. Across the bottom of the valley, a dam had been built. This would provide power for the factories that Saleem planned to build in that area. The factories would bring him vast profits.

He saw no reason to delay. He ordered the engineer to press the button. And then a cloud of dust rose up, followed shortly by a dull explosion. A large river changed its course and water flooded into the doomed Pakan Valley.

“Good, that's that. Now, get that doctor in here,” he commanded. The doctor came in with a worried look and started to examine his wealthy patient. “You are doing very well, Mr. Saleem,” he said finally. “The new medicine is saving your life. The only difficulty is getting more of it.”

注意：1.所续写的短文词数应为150左右：

2.应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3.续写部分分为二段，每段的开头语已经为你写好；

4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1

“Can you get more? Money is no problem,” Saleem said.

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Paragraph 2

The doctor smile “Well, luckily for you, sir, this rare plan comes from the rainforest which you own.”

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39、假定你是李华，你的外国笔友Anno对成都正在推广的垃圾分类政策很感兴趣，他想了解一下相关情况，请你给他写封回信，内容包括：

1.成都已经在今年3月1日正式实行垃圾分类；

2.简要介绍垃圾分类（厨余垃圾，可回收垃圾，有害垃圾和其他垃圾）；

3.你对该政策的看法。

参考词汇：垃圾分类 trash/waste/garbage sorting

有害垃圾  hazardous waste

厨余垃圾  kitchen waste

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

40、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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41、假设你是李华，Harry是你的美国笔友。在来信中谈到他学校的图书馆。你常常去你校的图书馆。于是你回信向他介绍这个图书馆。内容包括：

1. 图书馆的建筑简介（如：面积、层高、位置等）

2. 藏书册数及图书种类。

3. 服务项目：图书的借阅；教师及学生阅览室。

注意：

1. 信的开头已为你写好；

2. 词数100左右。

3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Harry,

How are things going with you? Talking about libraries, I would like to introduce to you about our school library. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Best wishes,

Yours,

Li Hua