威海2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测四年级英语

1、That evening he ________what he had thought about the research.

A. set about ; letting down B. set about; to take hold of

C. set out ; making out D. set out; to set down

2、Roses are quite _____ flowers in English gardens.

A．ordinary

B．common

C．usual

D．general

3、The 1930s, when he was in his twenties, ________ the sufferings that the Chinese were bearing from the war.

A．observed

B．witnessed

C．proved

D．supplied

4、The writer was so _____ in her work that she didn't notice him enter the room.

A.concentrated B.focused C.absorbed D.centered

5、____________ China has made advances in 5G technology, there is still a long way to go for its popularity.

A．If

B．Because

C．Since

D．While

6、Reading materials for children entered schools to help them develop the habit of garbage sorting at a young age.

A.having intended B.having been intended

C.intended D.intending

7、We celebrate Mother’s Day________our mothers.

A.in favor of B.in case of C.in honor of D.in spite of

8、Drivers should be careful near schools in particular, ________ there are likely to be many children.

A.though B.but C.so D.because

9、What a woman! I just wonder how she manages to keep smiling after all that she has ______.

A. figured out B. made up

C. taken away D. gone through

10、Thanksgiving, an annual holiday in the US ______ hundreds of years ago, falls on the fourth Thursday in November.

A. dating back to B. dated back to

C. which date from D. dates from

11、He has decided to settle ____in France because he is fond of the romantic country.

A. temporary B. temporarily

C. permanent D. permanently

12、That they were wrong in these matters _____ now clear to us all.

A.is B.was C.are D.were

13、It is reported that many a new house ________ at present in the disaster area.

A．are being built

B．were being built

C．was being built

D．is being built

14、His idea of having weekly family meals together，which seemed difficult at first，has ______ many good changes in their lives.

A．got through

B．resulted from

C．turned into

D．brought about

15、I had hoped to take a holiday this year but I wasn’t able to ______.

A．get away

B．drop in

C．check out

D．hold on

16、James is afraid of ________by sharks.

A.attacking B.being attacked C.having attacked D.having been attacked

17、Tang said that at the beginning of the outbreak of the virus, there was a time ________ they had two or three deaths at the hospital every day, ________deeply worried medics.

A．that; that

B．which; when

C．when; which

D．which; which

18、The music also expressed the rising ____ in the movie as the characters were preparing for battle.

A. setting B. export

C. tension D. staff

19、____ I'm mistaken, I've seen that tall man at a party before.

A． If B． As

C． Unless D． When

20、______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

21、The president is committed to _______ the existing system of medical care.

A.reform B.reforming C.have reformed D.having reformed

22、—I got sick and tired of hotels and hotel food after the trip to Mexico.

—I can imagine. _________.

A.All’s well that ends well B.Every cloud has a silver lining

C.Honesty is the best policy D.East or west, home is the best

23、With the old man ___ the way, we had no trouble in ___ that cave.

A.leading; finding B.leads; find C.led; to find D.was leading; found

24、There is no point _________; it’s too late to mend.

A.arguing B.to argue C.argument D.argued

25、You ________ television. Why not do something more active?

A．always watch

B．are always watching

C．have always watched

D．always watched

26、Personal Robot

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sets off a silent warning alarm when parents or teachers are near

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【1】With help from a Mr. H, you can ________.

A．finish your homework on time

B．stop using batteries

C．remember your teacher's instructions

D．get your room tidied on your way home

【2】A PENGO WATCH CONTROL can help you to ________.

A．repair your TV

B．organize your homework

C．know what the weather is like

D．be a James Bond

【3】You can get your Mr. H for ________.

A．$299

B．$499

C．$199

D．$99

27、   In the 19th century, one of America's greatest writers, Walt Whitman, helped people learn to value poetry. Whitman created a new kind of poetry.

Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in New York City. During his long life, he watched America grow from a young nation to the strongest industrial power in the world. As a young man, Whitman worked as a school teacher, a printer and a newspaper reporter. He was 36 years old when he published his first book of poetry in 1855. He called it Leaves of Grass. It has only 12 poems. The poems are written in free verse. The lines do not follow any set form. Some lines are short. Some are long. The words at the end of each line do not have a similar sound. They do not rhyme.

One of America's greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of Leaves of Grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman’ s works. But most other poets and writers said nothing and even denounced it. Most readers also rejected Whitman’ s poems. The new form of his poetry surprised many people. Even his own brother told Whitman that he should stop writing poetry. But Whitman had many things to say. And he continued to say them. Readers began to understand that America had a great new poetic voice.

Walt Whitman’ s poems praise the United States and its democracy. The poet expressed his love for America and its people in many ways. Experts today praise Leaves of Grass as a major literary work. In 1873, Walt Whitman suffered a stroke. He spent the last years of his life in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman was poor and weak during the last years of his life. He died in 1892. Some critics say Walt Whitman was a spokesman for democracy. Others say he was not a spokesman for anything. Instead, they simply call him a great poet.

【1】What can we know about Whitman?

A.His poems have the same rhyme.

B.He is the first great poet in the USA.

C.He helped people to create new poems.

D.His poems show his love for his country.

【2】Why was Leaves of Grass refused at first?

A.The poems are quite short. B.The form of poetry is special.

C.Whitman wasn’ t famous then. D.There are only 12 poems in it.

【3】What does the underlined word “denounced” in paragraph 3 most probably mean?

A.Accused B.Downloaded C.Published D.Translated.

【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A.Walt Whitman---a great soldier

B.Walt Whitman---an unfortunate poet

C.Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass

D.The first and greatest poet in America

28、It was about five in the morning in Ontario, Canada, when Donna Strickland's phone rang. The Nobel Prize committee was on the line in Stockholm, calling to tell her she had won the prize in physics.

"I wondered if it was a joke," Strickland said in an interview with a Nobel official after the call. She had been asleep when the call arrived. "Something was wrong because it came so early in the morning. But then I knew it was the right day, and it would have been a cruel joke."

Strickland, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo, shares the honor with two other scientists for their work in the 1980s in transforming lasers(激光)into tiny tools that today have countless application. The prize money $1.4 million will he shared among the three. Half the prize went to Strickland and her cooperator Gerard Mourou, a professor at the Ecole Poly technique in France. The other half was awarded to Arthur Ashkin, a retired physicist who worked at the famous Bell Labs in the United States.

Strickland's win is historic in more than one way. It's been over 55 years since a woman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1903, Marie Curie became the first-ever woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. For the next 60 years, no women physicists were awarded. Maria Goeppert Mayer became the second woman physicist to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963.

Strickland herself was surprised to learn she was the third woman to receive the honor in physics. "Is that all, really? I thought there might have been more." she said at a press conference Tuesday. "We need to celebrate women physicists, because we're out there. Hopefully, in time, it will start to move forward at a faster rate."

【1】What was Donna's first reaction after she received the call?

A．She felt all efforts paid off.

B．She was too excited to say a word

C．She was doubtful about it.

D．She was annoyed at being waken up.

【2】How much was Donna rewarded for winning the Nobel Prize?

A．About $350,000.

B．About $2.8million.

C．About $700,000.

D．About $1.4 million.

【3】What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A．Strickland's achievements in physics.

B．The history of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

C．Strickland's struggle to win the Nobel Prize.

D．Three women winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in history.

【4】What does the underlined "it" in the last paragraph refer to?

A．The Nobel Prize in Physics.

B．The achievement of men physicists.

C．The celebration of the Nobel Prize winners.

D．Awarding women physicists the Nobel Prize in Physics.

29、School Field Trip Programs of National Cryptologic Museum

Picture Scavenger Hunt

Recommended for ages 9-11 (grades 4-6). Older elementary school students participate in a Scavenger Hunt. Each student receives a questionnaire with pictures of museum exhibits. The students must search the museum for the exhibit and answer the two accompanying questions. Students may work in small groups, but each is given the questionnaire to answer. The hunt is followed by an answer session in the museum classroom.

Program Length: approximately 2 hours

Class Size: 6-60

Questionnaire Seavenger Hunt

Recommended for ages 12 and older (grades 7-12). Middle school and high school students participate in a Questionnaire Scavenger Hunt. Each student receives a questionnaire concerning the museum exhibits. The students search the museum for answers. Students may work in small groups but each is given the questionnaire to answer. The hunt is followed by an answer session in the museum classroom.

Program length: Approximately 2 hours

Class size: 6-30

Guided Tours

Recommended for ages 15 and older (grades 10-college). Young adults receive a guided tour of the museum given by museum staff or volunteer docents. The tour covers cryptologic (密码学) history and its role in American/world history. Exhibits include: Civil War, wwⅠ, wwⅡ, Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, development of computers and American Information Assurance programs. Special emphasis can be placed on any of these areas upon request.

Program Length: 1-2 hours(teacher’s discretion)

Class size: 6-40:(30 or fewer is recommended)

Home Schools and Small Groups

Designed specifically for home schoolers ages 9-16, but available to other small groups as well, this program has students search the museum looking for specific exhibits. They then answer four questions regarding each artifact, person, or event. In the museum classroom, students, or teams of students, willl answer the questions in a game show format by buzzing in. The staff will provide additional historical information during a guided tour of the museum.

Program length: Approximately 3 hours

Class size: 6-15

【1】What is the age range required by Questionnaire Scavenger Hunt?

A．9-11

B．12-18.

C．Over 15.

D．9-16.

【2】Which program will those interested in cryptologic go to?

A．Picture Scavenger Hunt.

B．Questionnaire Scavenger Hunt

C．Guided Tours.

D．Home Schools and Small Groups.

【3】What do the four programs have in common?

A．Some questions need to be answered.

B．Students can search the museum alone.

C．Students can ask questions as they like.

D．The class size should be no less than six.

30、   It was in four decades of nursing that I'd had such a terrible problem with a colleague. Rita seemed to look down upon me and I had no idea why. Every _______ I expressed had the opposite effect. Our relationship was so impossibly _______ that I didn't even pray about it.

It is eight years since I _______ from nursing, and certainly retired from ever thinking about that _______ coworker. A pandemic (流行病) had _______ us all like a ton of bricks and even my town of Huntington had sold out of protective masks. I _______ for a box of hospital-grade masks I had left over. Well, I didn’t find the masks, _______ I found some old, unopened mail----a Christmas card ----I’d _______ placed near some reference materials a year ago. That kind of thing is always a _______ to find, but the return address was Florida and I couldn't ________ who I knew there.

I opened the envelope and read the card in ________ ----it was from Rita. 'Please ________ me for being such a mean person. ' she wrote. A ________ of love and forgiveness washed over me. I’m not really a(n) ________ because of a problem with my hands, but there at 11:30 p.m., I typed out an emotional message ________ her that there was no cause for concern, no need for forgiveness ________ there is only love and gratitude for the mercy and miracles of God. In a matter of seconds, I ________ a text back. Rita was over the moon with ________. She said that this reconciliation(和解) and my physical healing had been her ________ prayer. That was ________, I thought, but then again with God nothing is really ever that unexpected, is it?

【1】A.kindness B.quarrel C.apology D.interest

【2】A.special B.close C.bad D.casual

【3】A.hid B.retired C.suffered D.heard

【4】A.merciful B.elegant C.grateful D.troublesome

【5】A.hit B.violated C.guided D.teased

【6】A.made B.paid C.searched D.answered

【7】A.and B.so C.or D.but

【8】A.politely B.unconsciously C.directly D.annually

【9】A.treat B.conflict C.disaster D.reward

【10】A.agree on B.figure out C.look into D.deal with

【11】A.astonishment B.craziness C.disappointment D.sadness

【12】A.blame B.punish C.forgive D.applaud

【13】A.roll B.glance C.copy D.wave

【14】A.doctor B.editor C.texter D.educator

【15】A.convincing B.informing C.instructing D.warning

【16】A.unless B.while C.until D.because

【17】A.reviewed B.received C.rewrote D.recognized

【18】A.joy B.sorrow C.anxiety D.frustration

【19】A.initial B.absurd C.constant D.unique

【20】A.unaffected B.reliable C.ordinary D.unexpected

31、   During this May Day holiday, I was surprised to get an e-mail from a _______school classmate of mine. We hadn’t been in _______ with each other for such a long time that I nearly couldn’t _______ her name with her face.

In the e-mail, Xiao Yin _______ many memories with me. She told me that the class meeting that I held at Grade 5 _______ her life.

Xiao Yin’s words took me _______ to that class meeting. I remember the _______ was “Your Favorite Classmate”. I asked my classmates to _______ their favorite classmate’s name and the _______ for their choices. They should do it anonymously (匿名地). After a few minutes, I read out the slips (纸片) of paper to the class. As I got to the end of the slips, I saw Xiao Yin, one of the ________ girls in my class, sitting in the corner with her head __________. Her name hadn’t __________ on any slip of paper. All of a sudden, an idea __________ me. I __________ a piece of paper and read out: “My favorite classmate is Xiao Yin, because she is always working hard though she speaks little to others in class.” Xiao Yin looked up at me ________  and her ________ were full of excitement, doubt and even a few tears. After that, I forgot all about the meeting-that is, ________ I received Xiao Yin’s e-mail.

She said: “To this day I am still __________.” I’ve never thought that a ________ lie would change my classmate’s life. It taught me something about this other kind of lie, which is an act of __________.

【1】A.high B.primary C.middle D.graduate

【2】A.contact B.line C.agreement D.contract

【3】A.recognize B.exchange C.call D.match

【4】A.described B.told C.shared D.explained

【5】A.changed B.destroyed C.misled D.managed

【6】A.down B.in C.away D.back

【7】A.purpose B.theme C.saying D.question

【8】A.put down B.take on C.put off D.take up

【9】A.comments B.thoughts C.reasons D.causes

【10】A.prettiest B.tallest C.funniest D.shiest

【11】A.lowered B.covered C.folded D.switched

【12】A.listed B.mentioned C.appeared D.praised

【13】A.occurred B.struck C.discovered D.skipped

【14】A.picked up B.put away C.gave back D.turned in

【15】A.enthusiastically B.disappointedly C.fearfully D.surprisedly

【16】A.face B.cheek C.eyes D.fist

【17】A.after B.until C.when D.while

【18】A.grateful B.confused C.skeptical D.admirable

【19】A.black B.red C.blue D.white

【20】A.sympathy B.kindness C.generosity D.trust

32、Once, a rich man drove his expensive car with full speed. Listening to the music _________, he didn't pay attention to the traffic sign. Suddenly a bad car accident happened to him. He was _________ with blood all over. With the help of passers-by, he was admitted to the best _________ of the town.

When he opened his eyes, he couldn't move his body even an inch. The doctor came to his bed and asked “How are you feeling, sir?” He shook his head with much _________. The doctor softly comforted him that he would certainly _________ but it would take time because of his _________ and several other diseases.

Few days later, he could _________ to speak. When the doctor visited him again, he became too _________ and said, “Doctor, please do something so that I can be _________ the hospital. I would __________ as much money as you want.”

“Sir, I am trying my best but __________ the recovering process is __________,” the doctor continued, “While driving, you are supposed to __________ the traffic regulations. That you are wealthy doesn’t __________ you could spend the money as you pleased. Your unhealthy eating habits have brought you some __________, which put you into trouble.”

When the man __________ his past deeds, he regretted for his own acts. He __________ that money could do nothing but supply some temporary __________. Wealth is nothing before health! He felt ashamed of his __________! “Thank you for your guidance, doctor! Please __________ my ignorance!”

【1】

A．regularly

B．attentively

C．confidently

D．obviously

【2】

A．delighted

B．unconcerned

C．unconscious

D．thrilled

【3】

A．restaurant

B．company

C．organization

D．hospital

【4】

A．difficulty

B．satisfaction

C．courage

D．relief

【5】

A．succeed

B．survive

C．recover

D．harvest

【6】

A．attitudes

B．injuries

C．models

D．disabilities

【7】

A．prepare

B．happen

C．continue

D．manage

【8】

A．powerful

B．discouraged

C．embarrassed

D．impatient

【9】

A．released from

B．accustomed to

C．satisfied with

D．addicted to

【10】

A．borrow

B．collect

C．spend

D．earn

【11】

A．eventually

B．unfortunately

C．undoubtedly

D．unnecessarily

【12】

A．slow

B．practical

C．different

D．normal

【13】

A．explain

B．consider

C．observe

D．repeat

【14】

A．demand

B．mean

C．guarantee

D．prove

【15】

A．diseases

B．surprises

C．disadvantages

D．fears

【16】

A．compared

B．shared

C．discussed

D．recalled

【17】

A．wondered

B．expected

C．realized

D．pretended

【18】

A．curiosity

B．pleasure

C．freedom

D．stress

【19】

A．appearance

B．dishonesty

C．anxiety

D．pride

【20】

A．forgive

B．reconsider

C．criticize

D．punish

33、   Late one recent night, Carol Spale picked up the phone and heard quiet sobbing on the line. It was her _______, an old lady who had lived on her own across the street for many years.

Spale runs the local “Neighborhood Services” committee, so she’s _________ to receiving calls like this. The committee is_______ to those living in North Riverside, Illinois, where being good to neighbors is taken _________ by everyone in the small village. The commitee is the _________ of Mayor Richard N. Scheck’s 1992 call for community-building ideas. The committee _________ 90 “block captains”, each of whom looks over a street in North Riverside.

For people nearby, Spale is the guardian（监护人）. But why was the old lady _________? As the story goes, Spale called up the lady after _______ her garage was open later than usual. Spale became _______ when the lady called back in tears. Spale’s first ________ was that she was in trouble, but it turned out to be a lot ________ than that. “She was crying because my call let her know someone is ________ her. It made her feel good now that she’s __________.” Spale said.

Three times a year, the committee has  __________ where the locals come together to talk about the good-neighbor things they’ve __________. The speakers are often children, __________ by their parents to do good. At a recent gathering, one little girl __________ how she made a card for a neighboring old gentleman she made __________ with, who had had a heart __________.” It seems there’s no age difference between them,” Spale said.

These kindnesses are __________ in a book sold on Amazon called We Can Build Community with the money going to the locals in need.

【1】A.mother B.captain C.neighbor D.minister

【2】A.used B.reduced C.devoted D.limited

【3】A.equal B.simple C.similar D.familiar

【4】A.secretly B.recently C.seriously D.obviously

【5】A.choice B.product C.discover D.suggestion

【6】A.trains B.employs C.manages D.controls

【7】A.laughing B.crying C.singing D.shouting

【8】A.noticing B.admitting C.mentioning D.predicting

【9】A.sorry B.angry C.happy D.nervous

【10】A.memory B.thought C.impression D.recognition

【11】A.safer B.luckier C.better D.stronger

【12】A.seeking B.minding C.changing D.honoring

【13】A.alone B.stressed C.healthy D.energetic

【14】A.competitions B.debates C.congratulations D.meetings

【15】A.performed B.expected C.witnessed D.remembered

【16】A.reminded B.required C.persuaded D.encouraged

【17】A.showed B.shared C.explained D.confirmed

【18】A.bets B.promises C.friends D.decisions

【19】A.operation B.treatment C.application D.emergency

【20】A.taken B.printed C.written D.recorded

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

A

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

B

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

C

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

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

A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo, a program developed by Google’s DeepMind unit, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea. Lee 【1】 after about three and a half hours, with 28 minutes and 28 seconds remaining on his clock. The series is the first time a professional 9-dan Go player has taken on a computer, and Lee is 【2】 for a $1 million prize.

“I was very surprised,”said Lee after the match.“I didn’t expect to lose. But I didn’t think AlphaGo would play the game in such a perfect manner.”DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis expressed“huge 【3】 for Lee Se-dol and his amazing skills.”calling the game“hugely exciting”and“very tense.”Team lead David Silver said it was an“amazing game of Go that really pushed AlphaGo to its 【4】.”

Go is an ancient Chinese board game that has long been considered one of the great 【5】faced by AI. While computer programs ow best the world’s leading human players of games like checkers and chess, the high level of intuition and 【6】required by Go has made it tough for computers to crack. DeepMind’s AlphaGo program is the most 【7】effort yet, using a complex system of deep neural networks and machine learning; it beat European champion Fan Hui last year, but Lee Se-dol is another 【8】 rival entirely.

“I don’t regret accepting this challenge,”said Lee.“I am in shock, I admit that, but what’s done is done. I enjoyed this game and look forward to the next. I think I failed on the opening layout so if I do a better job on the opening aspect I think I will be able to increase my 【9】 of winning.”Lee was surprised both by how strong AlphaGo’s opening was, and by some 【10】moves.

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Yet, some people are【1】 They claim that surfing the Internet is a waste of time. They make the 【2】 that children spend too much time chatting and playing games instead of 【3】 on their school work. However, a recent survey conducted in the USA shows that 80 per cent of Internet users 【4】 it mostly to search for answers to questions. The second most common use of the Internet, for 79 per cent of Internet users, is to find out information about hobbies. These statistics prove that gathering information is the 【5】 use for the Internet.

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.

AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high【1】 — as Christie’s becomes the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm. This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind. It was created by an【2】 intelligence, an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses. And when it went under the【3】 in the Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s on 23-25 October, Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for an【4】 $432,500, signaling the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage.

From a distance, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy looks almost plausible. Up close, however, the paintwork becomes a grid of mechanical-looking dots, the man’s face a golden blur with black holes for eyes. Look into those eyes. They show no sign of feeling or life. Did a computer make this?

The answer is yes. The first artwork【5】 by AI to be sold at Christie’s, its【6】 price would seem to suggest that in future we will get computers to make art for us. Robot van Gogh will harmlessly cut its ear off and robot Picasso will be a genius.

Is this the future AI art visionaries such as the French collective Obvious, which programmed this “painter” by getting it to compare its own work with 15,000 pre-20th century portraits, have in mind? Or are they just, God forbid, making a fast buck from deceivable art collectors? Because believing the algorithm that knocked this up to be in any meaningful way an “artist” is like thinking your voice-interaction programme is out to get you. Dream on. Computers would need to replicate human consciousness before they could replicate the funny thing humans do called “art”.

Art is a way in which human 【7】 expresses itself, and is equally true of the earliest cave art, Rembrandt’s portraits and Duchamp’s urinal. And that is what is missing from Portrait of Edmond Bellamy. Art is a way humans communicate ideas, perceptions and feelings to each other. It has no 【8】 outside the human passion to communicate. So in what meaningful sense can an AI replica of certain【9】 traits of old master paintings be called art?

For a robot to really make art, it would need an autonomous mind that was emotional as well as【10】. No AI developer has yet claimed to be anywhere near achieving that and if they ever do, their creation will probably have better things to do than paint portraits — like destroy humanity.

Maybe afterwards robots will invent their own kind of art, but it won’t be some poor pastiche of human genius.

It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.

38、假设你是李华，你所在社区将举办利用暑假到希望小学义务为学生辅导英语的活动。你希望参加此活动。请根据提示用英语写一封申请信:

1. 对此活动的认识；

2. 个人优势；

3. 你的计划。

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。

Dear Sir/Madam,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

39、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Nowadays, more and more employers and employees work online either time or part-time, and that number is continuously growing. It's believed that flying around the world for face-to-face company meetings is a waste of time and money. An effective choice to get rid of it is to use Web meetings.

A large group of presentations, training classes and meetings are done online without losing the face-to-face experience. Web meetings are online meetings where an organizer invites attendees to listen to or watch an online presentation by presenters. Besides, Web meetings can be recorded for later use. Presenters can take real-time surveys to study how to hold a successful meeting. Some Web meeting software programs can monitor the users' desktop behavior to see if they become distracted from the presentation and begin working on other documents. If so, the program can tell presenters when the listeners lose their attention, and how long the distraction lasts. In this way, the presenters will know which parts of their meetings need improving.

Web meetings can work well because they're hosted on a server （服务器）.Images from the presenter's desktop are taken, uploaded to a server and then downloaded by people who have access to the server. Web meetings require a powerful server to deal with several images a second and "serve" them back to thousands of users at the same time. And companies have two choices when it comes to these servers. They can either buy a special Web meeting server to host their meetings on-site, or they can pay for a Web meeting service every time and let the offsite provider worry about hosting the meetings. The choice depends on how frequently the company holds Web meetings, the average number of people attending the meetings, and the quality of engineering and information technology.

Web meetings are an excellent example of how technology is changing the way we do business. With all the technologies today, the traditional office might soon be a thing of the past.

40、假如你叫李华，一名池州一中的学生，同时也是环境保护的志愿者。请根据以下内容为《池州日报》写一封英文倡议书，倡议池州市区中学生选择共享单车作为交通工具。倡议书内容：

1. 私家车、出租车和公交车的普及使用增加了道路负担，加剧环境污染；

2. 选择共享单车出行的好处；

3. 提出呼吁。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头已给出，但不计入总词数。

注：共享单车 a shared bike

Dear Fellow Students,

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua 

41、假如你是李华，请你代表学生会写一封邮件给本校交换生Chris，告知你们将组织一次校外劳动锻炼并邀请他参加。

内容包括：1. 活动目的；2. 活动安排；3. 表达期待。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Chris,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua