彰化2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Is it the driver or the passerby ________is________for the accident?

A．whom; to blame

B．who; to be blamed

C．that; to be blamed

D．that; to blame

2、The woman ______ I am sending an email is my business partner.

A．to whom

B．whom

C．who

D．whose

3、He has lived longer than the doctor expected. They didn’t think he would ________ to November.

A．make for

B．make it

C．make out

D．make up

4、Generally speaking, one’s mistakes in front of other people requires great courage.

A.admit B.being admitted C.admitting D.having admitted

5、A series of accidents caused by school buses will ______the pressure on the government.

A. come to B. turn to C. add to D. get to

6、In many countries in the world, breakfast is a snack ______ a meal, but the traditional English breakfast is a full meal.

A. less than B. more than

C. other than D. rather than

7、Jack is late again. It is ______ of him to keep others waiting.

A.normal B.ordinary C.typical D.common

8、I can’t say which one is best—— it’s________personal taste.

A.a lack of B.a means of C.a manner of D.a matter of

9、Bejing Daxing International Airport completed its first flight of passenger planes ___________four aircrafts landed safely on the runway Monday morning.

A.though B.as C.while D.before

10、Tom assured (向……保证) his boss that he would _____ all his energies in doing this new job.

A. call forth B. call at

C. call by D. call off

11、The young man is very excellent. Now he is the ______ of a big company.

A. top dog B. cold fish

C. white elephant D. black sheep

12、In contrast to Barbie’s fantasy figure and fashionable high heels, these dolls are ________ on girls from historical eras and come with storybooks about themselves.

A．modeled

B．synthesized

C．popularized

D．imposed

13、--- Will you lend me some money?

--- Sorry, mine _______.

A．were used up

B．has run out

C．have run out

D．has run out of

14、In the future, bacteria will be to cancer patients and could even feed on dirt. That sounds really good news.

A．beneficial

B．dangerous

C．familiar

D．powerful

15、The sun began to rise in the sky, ________ the mountain in golden light.

A.bathed B.bathing

C.to have bathed D.have bathed

16、He was _____ his daughter, because she came back too late.

A.annoyed B.satisfied with C.the same with D.different from

17、Although “all-round educational development” has been advocated in China for years, students are still________ mainly by their test scores.

A. evaluated B. determined C. educated D. instructed

18、It is ________ practice to bring a present to the hostess when one is invited to dinner.

A.common B.ordinary C.general D.usual

19、This is one of the best novels that____appeared this year.

A.have been B.has C.had been D.have

20、All of a sudden, the thief walking behind a young and beautiful woman ______ her handbag, ______ into the crowd.

A. seized; rushed B. seizing; rushed

C. seized; rushing D. seizing; rushing

21、We have _______ a campaign for better nursery and the school services.

A.invested B.issued C.launched D.leaked

22、A Chinese company has created a new facial recognition system that can identify people ______  they are wearing masks.

A.provided that B.in case C.as though D.even if

23、—Where did you knock into your old friend, LiHua?

—It was in the firm ______ his brother is working.

A. where B. that

C. which D. when

24、—Shall I check it now?

—_______. I’ll ask Vicky to check it when she leaves.

A．Don’t bother

B．Hurry up

C．Sounds good

D．It depends

25、The local shops have been marked in on this map so that people can choose a house in a ______ area.

A.ambitious B.suitable C.beneficial D.absent

26、The event happened to Hunter as if it were yesterday when he was working in a fancy French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.

Thirty years have passed, but Hunter can't get the memory out of his mind, nor the woman’s kind reaction. She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a kind voice, told the young Hunter, “It’s OK. It wasn't your fault.” When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO with a life lesson. You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

Hunter isn't the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It's hard to get a dozen CEOS to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the soul.

Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, “I could buy this place and fire you,” or “I know the owner and I could have you fired.” Those who say such things have shown more about their character than about their wealth and power.

The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a best-selling book called Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management.

“A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person,” Swanson says. “I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but turns rude to someone cleaning the tables.”

【1】What happened after Hunter dropped the ice cream onto the woman’s dress?

A．He was fired.

B．He was blamed.

C．The woman comforted him.

D．The woman left the restaurant at once.

【2】Hunter learned one of his life lessons from____________.

A．his experience as a waiter.

B．the advice given by the CEOS.

C．an article in Fortune.

D．an interesting best-selling book.

【3】Most CEOS have the same opinion about_________ depending on the text.

A．Fortune 500 companies.

B．the Management Rules.

C．Swanson’s book.

D．the Waiter Rule.

【4】From the text we can learn that________________.

A．one should be nicer to important people.

B．CEOS often show their power before others.

C．one should respect others no matter who they are.

D．CEOS often have meals in expensive restaurants.

27、Our favorite tech gifts of 2019

When it comes time for the holiday shopping season, we’re extra choosy about the countless technology products that we will buy and give to friends and family. Here’s what impressed editors, reporters and producers the most in 2019.

Lumos Matrix

I recently bought a Lumos Matrix helmet (头盔) ($229) with built-in lights to make riding my bike at night a lot safer and less stressful. It’s a regular pain point for bikers like me to make sure absent-minded drivers see you, especially when it’s dark. This definitely helps.

— Matt mcfarland, Writer

Goodreads app

Although this isn’t a gift, the free Goodreads app is a gamechanger. At the beginning of 2019, I promised myself I’d read at least one new book every month. I set a goal of 12 books on Goodreads and used it to track my progress, keep a list of books I’m interested in and check out what friends and others on the app were recommending. I read 35 books this year! (That’s up from five books last year.) Goodreads feels like one of the rare feel-good social networks.

— Kaya Yurieff, Tech Reporter

Ember coffee cup

I drink my coffee slowly so it has routinely cooled by the time I get halfway through it. For my birthday, my mum bought me a cup ($99), which keeps my coffee warm until I finish it without trips to the microwave for reheating. I can also set the specific temperature I want. It makes my mornings so much easier.

— Millie Dent, Intern

【1】What is the main advantage of Lumos Matrix helmet?

A.Helping drivers concentrate. B.Managing the bad weather.

C.Making night riding safer. D.Making bikers less painful.

【2】What does the writer mean by referring to the Goodreads app as “a gamechanger”?

A.It changes some readers’ reading rules.

B.It provides readers with free internet games.

C.It limits the number of books a reader can read.

D.It inspires readers to read more through interactions.

【3】Which of the following can best describe Ember coffee cup?

A.Eco-friendly. B.Convenient.

C.Expensive. D.Simple.

28、Special Morning Tours

Our volunteer-led morning tours are limited to a maximum of 20 places per tour to provide a unique visiting experience. The price includes a British Museum souvenir guidebook.

The tours begin at 09:00 and will last for 60 minutes including time at the end to take photographs. Please come to the Main entrance on Great Russell Street (WC1B 3DG) at 08:50 with your email confirmation.

Please note that wheeled cases and large items of luggage are not allowed on British Museum premises. Cloakroom facilities are not available on these tours.

An introduction to the British Museum

£30 per person

In Room 1 (Enlightenment) and Room 2 (Collecting the world) you will learn how Europeans understood the world in the 18th century, tracing the beginning of the British Museum and the development of the extraordinary collection.

An introduction to Ancient Egypt

£30 per person

In the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery (Room 3) you will see impressive statues of kings and gods, monumental tomb architecture and ancient tomb reliefs(浮雕) spanning three thousand years. These include the world-famous Rosetta Stone – key to deciphering hieroglyphs（象形文字）. You will learn the importance of large-scale sculpture in ancient Egyptian temples and tombs, and get the perfect introduction to this unmissable collection.

An introduction to China and South Asia

£30 per person

In the Gallery of China and South Asia (Room 4), you will gain an insight into the development of Chinese civilizations, from 5000 BC to the present day. In this beautifully decorated space, you will see from blue and white porcelain(陶瓷) of the Ming dynasty to superb Buddhist and Hindu sculptures.

【1】Which of the following descriptions about the special morning tours is NOT true?

A. Every visitor will be given a British Museum souvenir guidebook for free.

B. Volunteers will show the visitors around.

C. The 60-minute tour needs to be reserved online in advance.

D. Visitors are banned from taking wheeled cases into British Museum.

【2】What is the key to deciphering hieroglyphs?

A. Statues of kings and gods B. Monumental tomb architecture

C. World-famous Rosetta Stone D. Ancient tomb reliefs

【3】What will you learn about in Room 4?

A. The beginning of the British Museum.

B. The development of Chinese civilization.

C. The spread of Buddhism.

D. The decoration of Hindu sculptures

29、   Using technology in the classroom can produce unbelievable results. But for note-taking, it may pay to keep it old-school and stick with pen and paper. Students who take notes by hand appear to process information more deeply than those who take notes on a laptop or an iPad and other technological appliances, according to a study published this year.

Using the new fashionable method generally produces more raw notes. But students using laptops tend to do worse than note-takers by hand when answering conceptual questions about the material.

Researchers from Princeton and UCLA conducted several experiments with college students watching some video lectures. In one experiment, note-takers by hand wrote down fewer words than those typing on laptops. But the two groups performed about the same when answering factual questions about the lecture material, and students who wrote longhand did much better than laptop note-takers on conceptual questions .

What gives? Students using laptops tended to write what they heard word by word rather than processing the information; that resulted in a sort of “shallower” learning, the researchers say.

In a second experiment, students taking notes on laptops were told not to write down what they heard word by word. It didn't help in spite of the instructions. They still took notes word by word and they still did worse on conceptual questions than those taking notes by hand.

In a third experiment, students were able to briefly study their notes before answering questions asked a week after the lecture. Those reviewing their longhand notes did far better than students reviewing their typed notes.

A student named Jerry from the experiment said, “The study is right, and we have to think about what was said to take the notes because I could not write down every word. I even developed complex letter symbols to help. To study for tests, I went over and underlined key points to reinforce them. The process helped me understand the lectures better.”

【1】What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 probably mean？___

A.It is necessary to take notes on a laptop or an iPad.

B.It is not worthwhile to take notes with pen and paper.

C.It needs much money to go to schools with a long history.

D.It may bring good results to use the traditional note-taking style.

【2】What do the results have in common in the three experiments?

A.The students using laptops don’t understand the instructions.

B.The students using longhand write down all that they hear.

C.The students using laptops learn worse than those by hand.

D.The students using longhand don't process the information.

【3】What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A.Jerry is good at inventing letter symbols. B.It's very hard for Jerry to write down notes.

C.Notes guarantee good performance in tests. D.Jerry approves of the study and its result.

【4】Where is the text probably taken from?

A.An education column. B.A health magazine.

C.A travel guide. D.A biology textbook.

30、   A lady was waiting at an airport one night before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, ______ a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was absorbed in her book but happened to ______ that a man sitting beside her grabbed a cookie or two from the bag ______. She tried to ______ the annoying scene. So she munched(用力嚼) the cookies and watched the clock, as the ______ ate her cookies.

She was getting more ______ as the minutes ticked by, thinking, “If I weren’t so nice, I would blacken his eyes.” With each cookie she took, he took one too. When only one was ______, she wondered what he would do. With a ______ on his face, he took the ______ cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, as he ate the other.

She snatched(猛抓) it from him and thought this guy was too ______. Why he didn’t even show any ______! She had never been so angry and sighed with ______ when her flight was called. She gathered her ______ and headed for the gate, refusing to ____ back at the ingrate(忘恩负义的) thief.

She boarded the plane, and ______ in her seat. Then she sought her book, which was almost complete. As she ______ inside her baggage, ______, there was her bag of cookies, right in front of her eyes! “If mine are here,” she thought, “the others were his, and he tried to share. Too late to ______.” She realized with grief(难过) that she was the rude one, the thief.

How many times in our lives have we absolutely known that something was a certain way, only to discover ______ what we believed to be true … was not?

It is only when we ______ our life silently and quietly that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life shows to us.

【1】A.took B.brought C.stole D.bought

【2】A.know B.learn C.understand D.notice

【3】A.on time B.at all C.in between D.for sure

【4】A.ignore B.escape C.keep D.leave

【5】A.friend B.thief C.colleague D.staff

【6】A.comfortable B.friendly C.angry D.cheerful

【7】A.left B.eaten C.picked D.completed

【8】A.fear B.cry C.smile D.desire

【9】A.worst B.first C.best D.last

【10】A.polite B.rude C.mild D.mad

【11】A.attraction B.suggestion C.appreciation D.satisfaction

【12】A.concern B.relief C.burden D.care

【13】A.belongings B.materials C.cookies D.treasures

【14】A.put B.look C.go D.walk

【15】A.sank B.struggled C.jumped D.climbed

【16】A.reached B.arrived C.researched D.touched

【17】A.fortunately B.unexpectedly C.excitedly D.worriedly

【18】A.communicate B.complain C.congratulate D.apologize

【19】A.still B.later C.now D.recently

【20】A.care about B.worry about C.argue about D.think about

31、   Nancy and her husband were overnight in Atlanta as they waited to connect with a flight to South Africa. They are going there to meet her ________ and have a nice three-week vacation.

Unluckily, their luggage had already been ______. So they were wondering if they should get on that ______to South Africa. But their friends had put on a lot of efforts _______ their trip in South Africa including _______ for trips they would go on. So, Nancy ended up deciding to go without their ________ and hope for the best.

They were about to _______ in the hotel when the telephone rang. But it was not about their luggage. It was Nancy’s son _______ her that her 87-year-old mother was _______. She was in hospital. Her son said she’d better____ immediately. But Nancy was ________. They had been planning this trip for a long time but she wanted to ________ her mother too. Nancy wished she could talk to someone that can give her some ________ advice. When her husband went to sleep, she lay awake wrestling with her ________. Suddenly, she heard her mother’s voice, “Go. ________ your trip!” Nancy wondered if she had ________ it. Nancy felt as if her mother were there with her. The voice and message were so ________ and strong.

The next morning, Nancy’s husband asked what she decided. Before she could ________, there came a telephone ring. It was Nancy’s sister. She told Nancy she would take good care of their mother. Meanwhile, their luggage has been eventually ________.

Deeply touched, Nancy felt extremely fortunate living in such a harmonious family. Nancy and her husband headed for South Africa with ________ in time.

【1】A.mother B.relatives C.son D.friends

【2】A.lost B.checked C.delivered D.weighed

【3】A.ship B.flight C.train D.coach

【4】A.delaying B.changing C.planning D.canceling

【5】A.reservations B.trouble C.regulation D.excitement

【6】A.passports B.wallet C.cellphones D.luggage

【7】A.instruct B.wander C.sleep D.work

【8】A.warning B.informing C.predicting D.declaring

【9】A.nervous B.delighted C.exhausted D.sick

【10】A.escape B.respond C.return D.mourn

【11】A.calm B.encouraged C.relaxed D.torn

【12】A.attend to B.look for C.take in D.leave alone

【13】A.unreasonable B.practical C.dishonest D.selfish

【14】A.disease B.imagination C.decision D.promise

【15】A.Forget B.Enjoy C.Record D.Abandon

【16】A.imagined B.claimed C.rewarded D.expressed

【17】A.illegal B.strange C.clear D.rare

【18】A.repeat B.request C.regret D.reply

【19】A.signed B.found C.opened D.wrapped

【20】A.relief B.embarrassment C.disappointment D.anxiety

32、   A few years ago my wife and I took a trip to Costa Rica. Upon arrival we rented a car and _______ for our first destination a few hours away.  I had a map so I figured I'd be in great _______. About 20 minutes into the drive I found myself _______ in the unmarked streets and dirty roads. Upset, I turned to Siri, a virtual(虚拟的)assistant in my phone, for help.

I typed the _______ to the destination in my phone and instantly Siri had _______ the best route to get there and we were on our way.

The only _______ was that things didn't always go the way I thought they would.  With the streets not being well _______, I would sometimes miss a turn and head in the _______ direction. Luckily, Siri never got _______ with me.  Any time I missed a turn Siri would simply ________ and say, “Rerouting. ________ the route.” And within a few seconds, Siri would have a new route ________ to get us to our destination.

Sometimes the new route meant I had to ________ to the right turn and sometimes Siri found a different route that took my new location into ________. Eventually we made it to our hotel ________ and enjoyed some beautiful scenery along the way.

Most people make the ________ of thinking that success comes from setting a goal and then ________ straight towards it. The ________ is that there is no straight path to success. There isn’t even the ________ path.  There are many paths that can get you to your goals. You just have to be ________ to recalculate your route when you miss a turn or there is something in your way.

A．paid

B．headed

C．applied

D．allowed

A．detail

B．shape

C．condition

D．demand

A．lost

B．absorbed

C．surrounded

D．knocked

A．schedule

B．approach

C．number

D．address

A．polished

B．consulted

C．opened

D．discovered

A．link

B．difference

C．problem

D．answer

A．marked

B．built

C．arranged

D．expanded

A．wrong

B．new

C．clear

D．original

A．generous

B．mad

C．concerned

D．familiar

A．break down

B．turn on

C．cut in

D．go away

A．Changing

B．Cancelling

C．Targeting

D．Giving

A．checked

B．obeyed

C．planned

D．predicted

A．point

B．return

C．lead

D．deliver

A．order

B．effect

C．place

D．account

A．safely

B．frequently

C．steadily

D．gradually

A．excuse

B．accident

C．trouble

D．mistake

A．looking

B．escaping

C．marching

D．turning

A．pattern

B．truth

C．consequence

D．privilege

A．first

B．suitable

C．accurate

D．only

A．proud

B．willing

C．anxious

D．mild

33、   At two, most children are happy to play with stuffed toys. _______, for Freddie Bawden, life on the farm is not child’s play but a labour of _______.

Feddie likes nothing more than _______ his working suit to join his father James and mother Kayleigh as they _______ their animals. He helps feed the pigs, sheep and other animals._______ his young age, Freddie takes his duties very _______. He also helps make up their feed and gives the animals water before sweeping up and laying down ______ hay.

Freddie even has two battery-powered _______ of his own for carrying hay. Mr Bawden said, “He's really _______ actually. It's good for him to ______ up around animals. It gets him outside a lot and he absolutely loves it really.”

Like most children, of course Freddie goes to _______ one-and-a-half days a week, but he spends the rest of his time helping his parents, who also _______ a dog training centre on the farm. The youngster helps to _______ the dogs, as well as feed them and sweep the kennels (狗舍). He also likes to join in the special training sessions,_______ toys for the dogs to _______ after. Mr Bawden said some even _______ better to Freddie than they did to their adult owners who may “overthink” things.

Mr Bawden ______ most two-year-olds are more likely to be found watching TV or playing with _______. But he said, “If he wants to come with me, he can. If he doesn’t, he doesn’t have to. He’s really healthy, fit and strong. He eats well and ______ well because he’s doing so much. He loves _______ off, and he loves showing other people his pigs and sheep.”

【1】A. Therefore B. Besides C. However D. Instead

【2】A. love B. work C. adventure D. imagination

【3】A. focusing on B. putting on C. taking on D. holding on

【4】A. look for B. go through C. come across D. care for

【5】A. Owing to B. Instead of C. Despite D. Apart from

【6】A. differently B. jokingly C. similarly D. seriously

【7】A. fresh B. strange C. ordinary D. local

【8】A. bricks B. tractors C. engines D. helicopters

【9】A. stubborn B. grateful C. helpful D. mean

【10】A. grow B. stay C. look D. wind

【11】A. hospital B. woods C. nursery D. parks

【12】A. destroy B. desert C. sell D. run

【13】A. confuse B. terrify C. beat D. walk

【14】A. creating B. throwing C. producing D. finding

【15】A. feed B. chase C. exchange D. swallow

【16】A. responded B. returned C. ignored D. imitated

【17】A. denied B. permitted C. admitted D. promised

【18】A. toys B. animals C. vegetables D. neighbors

【19】A. dresses B. reads C. plays D. sleeps

【20】A. laying B. showing C. paying D. burning

34、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

My daughter

(A story told by a father, a famous actor)

My wife and I only had the one child. We had Amy.

I see her as my best friend. I think she’d always come to me first if she had a problem. We have the same sense of humor, and share interests. 【1】 I don’t mind animals, she’s completely fascinated with them, and she has always had dogs, cats, horses, and goldfish in her life.

We were 【2】 (close) when she was about four, which I think is a lovely age for a child. They know the parents best, and don’t have outside contacts. She must have grown up suddenly when she went to school, because I remember her growing away from her family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter comes across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to be an endless stream of strange young men 【3】 (come) through our house. By the time I learned their names they 【4】 (go) away and I had to start learning a new lot.

I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in 【5】 she was doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on her way. When she left a good school she decided she wanted to become an actress so I got her into drama school. It wasn’t to her liking so she joined a theatre group and began doing bits and pieces in films. She was doing well, but then gave it up. She probably found it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to work 【6】a designer and he became her husband. And that’s really the story of her life. She must be happy with him—they’re always together.

We have such similar tastes in books and music 【7】 I used to take her to see an opera, which is my big passion. However, I don’t think she likes it very much. She doesn’t come with me anymore.

I don’t think she’s a big television watcher. She knows when I’m on the television, and she 【8】 watch, but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she tells me.

We’re very grateful for Amy. She’s a good daughter as daughters go. We’re looking forward to being grandparents.

35、课文填空

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

36、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.

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，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the first interview and then the director did the last interview to make the last decision. The director discovered from the CV that the youth's academic achievements were excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research. Never did he have a year when he did not score.

The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarships in school?" The youth answered, "None."

The director asked, "Was it your father who paid for your school fees?" The youth answered, "My father passed away when I was one year old, so it was my mother who paid for all my school fees."

The director asked, "What did your mother do?" The youth answered, "My mother worked as a clothes cleaner." The director requested the youth to show his hands. The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.

The director asked, "Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?" The youth answered, "Never. My mother always wanted me to study and read more books. Furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me."

The director said, "I have a request. When you go back today, go and clean your mother's hands, and then see me back here tomorrow morning."

注意：

1.续写的词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Feeling his high chance of landing the job, when he went back home, the youth happily requested his mother to let him clean her hands.

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The director noticed the tears in the youth's eyes and asked, "What have you done and learned, young man?"

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39、假定你是李华，最近你校将举办以“榜样的力量”为主题的英语演讲比赛。请根据提示写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：

1. 活动的目的；

2. 榜样的故事；

3. 个人看法。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Good morning, everyone!

I’m Li Hua from Class 1, Senior 2. It’s my great honor to stand here to deliver my speech today.

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That’s all. Thanks for your listening.

40、假设你是李华，你班同学打算本周日骑行去游览长城。请你写一封电子邮件邀请你们的外教布鲁斯(Bruce)一同前往。要点包括：

1. 出发时间及地点；

2. 出行方式及需要携带的物品；

3. 希望得到回复。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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41、假如你是李华，请按如下提示给热爱阅读的朋友Peter写一封电子邮件，邀请对方来你校参加主题为“阅读的力量”的活动。主要内容包括：

1. 活动时间：下周三；活动地点：学校图书馆；

2. 活动内容：自拟（至少两项）。

注意：1. 词数80左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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