安庆2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、If  we improve its package, the product will surely ______ when introduced to the market.

A.get off B.come out C.catch on D.break away

2、The topics of the conversation should be ________ to the experiences and interests of the students.

A．associated

B．connected

C．relevant

D．remarkable

3、President Xi Jinping says that the central government will make medical insurance _______ to every family.

A.constructive B.accessible C.portable D.suitable

4、--- Are you finishing your task?

---________. We still need at least two days.

A．Far from it

B．Exactly

C．Not a little

D．No wonder

5、If ________ in danger, please calm down and shout for help immediately.

A．trapped

B．trapping

C．having trapped

D．to be trapped

6、__________, your article is of greater value than his.

A.All things considered B.All things considering

C.All things are considered D.All things are considering

7、It won’t be easy to defeat the novel coronavirus (新冠病毒), but if we ______, we will succeed in the end.

A.hang up B.hang about C.hang on D.hang out

8、We encourage students to ____________ fully in the running of the college.

A. paint B. panic

C. participate D. point

9、 everyone here，I wish you a pleasant journey back to your journey.

A．By means of

B．On behalf of

C．In search of

D．For fear of

10、Successful people always make _____ preparations for any potential setbacks.

A. final B. urgent

C. abrupt D. adequate

11、More and more people go jogging in the morning, _______ benefits for health arise from the air rich in oxygen.

A.which B.that C.whose D.who

12、--- Why do you suggest we buy a new machine?

--- Because the old one has been damaged ___________.

A．beyond reach

B．beyond repair

C．beyond control

D．beyond description

13、Balance in the body was said to be at the heart of _________ made traditional Chinese therapy so effective.

A.which B.that C.who D.what

14、 I used to drink a lot of tea but these days I________coffee.

A.prefer B.preferred C.have preferred D.am preferring

15、As a writer of several best-sellers, she has both style and humor _______.

A．at her mercy

B．at her command

C．in her defence

D．on her behalf

16、Mary and her friends _____ a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help the homeless people at the Christmas party.

A.came up with B.put up with C.caught up with D.kept up with

17、A hot cup of tea on such a cold night was a real ________ to me.

A.respect B.moment C.comfort D.fortune

18、There, ______Mrs Smith, showing her pupils how to put a logo onto the new torch.

A. was on a platform standing B. was standing on a platform

C. on a platform was standing D. standing on the platform was

19、High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

A. discourage B. defeat

C. disturb D. depress

20、There is a shortage of teachers in Western China, and it will fall on the 80s and 90s generations to this responsibility.

A. take on   B. step up

C. make up       D. apply for

21、The companies are working together to create _________ they hope will be the best means of transport in the 21st century.

A．which

B．that

C．one

D．what

22、---Is this the first time you ______Beijing.

---No. But the first time I ______ here, the city wasn’t so beautiful.

A. visited; have come B. visited; came

C. have visited; have come D. have visited; came

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

A． If B． As

C． Unless D． When

24、A household robot was going to be ______ by Larry’s wife, Claire.

A.carried out B.sorted out C.figured out D.tested out

25、— ______ is it that makes you so happy?

—The fact that our volleyball team has got into the final.

A.Which B.Why C.Who D.What

26、My aunt Cindy has her own cake shop. She can make nice cakes for special occasions, such as weddings. I spent a week last summer helping her in the shop. Making a nice cake is harder than I thought it would be.     

I practised for hours in Aunt Cindy’s shop. I made little colored dots (圆点) on a piece of wax paper (蜡纸). Unluckily, I could not get the dots to be the same shape or size.     

I decided to take a break from making the dots, so I helped move cakes. However, that was not easy for me, either. I dropped a cake when trying to take it out of the freezer (冰箱) by myself. Luckily one of Aunt Cindy’s assistants was there. He saved the cake from hitting the floor.     

It takes a whole team to make a huge cake. That’s one of the most important things I learned. Each person on the team has to be great at his or her job. Aunt Cindy designs the cakes on paper, Larry does the mixing and baking, and assistants carve and put frosting on the cakes. Aunt Cindy and Larry do most of the decorating while the assistants help make small parts like flowers and figures. Building a big cake is like playing a team sport. If one person doesn’t do his or her job well, the whole team pays for that.      

Even though I was not much help to my aunt, I’m glad I spent the week in Aunt Cindy’s shop. Designing cakes takes more than just baking skills. It takes art and painting skills too. Now when I see a really nice cake, I don’t think of eating it first. Instead, I look at it and wonder how many hours it took to make.

【1】Why did the writer take a break from putting colored dots on wax paper?

A．Because Aunt Cindy did not want her to make any more dots.

B．Because Aunt Cindy wanted her to help somewhere else.

C．Because she practised for hours and could make one perfectly.

D．Because she could not make the dots good enough for a cake.

【2】Who designs the cakes on paper?

A．Aunt Cindy.

B．Larry.

C．Assistants

D．The writer.

【3】Why was the writer glad to have spent a week in her aunt’s shop?

A．She learned how to make a nice cake.

B．She learned how to make good dots on wax paper.

C．She learned the importance of teamwork.

D．She learned art and painting skills.

27、   A Four-Year-Old Boy Convinced Father Is a Fool After 45th Hide-and-Seek Victory

GLENDALE, PENNSYLVANIA-Expressing embarrassment and disappointment over being the son of such a loser, local four-year-old Connor Heyward was convinced that his father, Craig Heyward, was a fool after losing 45 games of hide-and-seek. “God, this is bad. I’ve hidden behind that bush a dozen times, and he still can’t find me, “ said Connor, admitting that after finding his father crouched behind a chair half his size, he had started to worry he might grow up to be a “ complete idiot” just like his dad. “At first, I thought I might be really good at this game, but after succeeding in hiding underneath a clothes basket with visible holes, I realized the kind of game was not his cake. It’d be one thing if he were only bad at seeking, but so far, his best hiding spot was behind the back door. Who hides behind a door? There’s no strategy to it whatsoever. “

Reality of Fatherhood Never Truly Dawned on Man Until He Held Newborn Son’s Hospital Bill

MISSOULA, MONTANA-Describing how he suddenly found himself overwhelmed by a flood of intense emotions, local man Mike Bentzen told reporters the reality of fatherhood didn’t truly set in for him until the moment he held his newborn son’s hospital bill. “Wow, this is going to totally change my life,” said Bentzen as tears welled up in his eyes. “Some friends tell me about their experience, but you can’t understand what it feels like until you’re looking down at it in your own hands.” Bentzen reportedly started weeping softly as he sat down with his son’s hospital bill in his lap and began imagining how he would deal with this for the next 18 years.

【1】Which of the following best describes Craig Heyward as a father?

A.Foolish. B.Childish. C.Loving. D.Embarrassed.

【2】What made Mike Bentzen truly come to know the reality of fatherhood?

A.His plan for the future. B.His friends’ experience.

C.His overwhelming emotions. D.His newborn son’s hospital bill.

【3】Where is this text most likely from?

A.A joke collection. B.A loca A Four-Year-Old Boy Convinced l newspaper.

C.A speech selection. D.A child-breeding guidebook.

【4】What another story can be added to the text?

A.What to Read While Social Distancing

B.This Is What Your Dog’s Behaviors Really Mean

C.Police Chief Vows to Take Concrete Steps to Reduce Violence

D.Children’s Fondest Memories Times When Dad Trying to Make Up for Things

28、The Advertising Department of The Bangkok Post is looking for highly motivated advertising sales executives （销售主管） to sell advertising to prime targets in its wide range of promotional publications （宣传性出版物）. As part of our sales team, your primary responsibility will be to meet established and agreed sales targets. You will also need to know how to find potential new customers. In addition, you will be required to follow up your sales by sending copy and artwork and getting customer approval.

Qualifications:

Male/Female, aged 23-35 yrs.

Bachelor's degree in any related fields

Experience of selling print and online advertising or similar fields is preferred

Proactive and good interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to work well under pressure

Good command of written and spoken English

Computer skills

If this sounds like a challenge you'd like to consider seriously, then send an application letter together with your resume, details of your expected salary, and a recent photograph to:

Advertising Department

Bangkok Post Public Company Limited

136 Bangkok Post Building, Sunthorn Kosa Road, Klong Toey, Bangkok 10110

Email: display@bangkokpost.co.th

【1】The work duty of an advertising sales executive does not involve _______ .

A．meeting sales targets

B．sending application letters

C．selling advertising

D．looking for new customers

【2】Who is the most suitable for the job?

A．A Chinese, 27, with a high school certificate.

B．An Indian, 38, with a good command of English.

C．A Japanese, 30, with rich experience of advertising.

D．A Thai, 23, a college student majoring in advertising.

【3】Where will you probably find this article?

A．In a travel brochure.

B．In an advertising textbook.

C．In a market report.

D．In a local newspaper.

29、   In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related. A theory often involves an imaginary model that helps scientists picture the way an observed event could be produced. A good example of this is found in the kinetic molecular (分子运动) theory, in which gases are pictured as being made up of many small particles (微粒) that are in constant motion.

A useful theory, in addition to explaining past observations, helps to predict events that have not as yet been observed. After a theory has been publicized, scientists design experiments to test the theory. If observations confirm the scientists’ predictions, the theory is supported. If observations do not confirm the predictions, the scientists must search further. There the scientists must search further. There may be a fault in the experiment, or the theory may have to be revised or rejected.

Science involves imagination and creative thinking as well as collecting information and performing experiments. Facts by themselves are not science. As the mathematician Jules Henri Poincare said: “Science is built with facts just as a house is built with bricks, but a collection of facts cannot be called science any more than a pile of bricks can be called a house.”

Most scientists start an investigation by finding out what other scientists have learned about a particular problem. After known facts have been gathered, the scientist comes to the part of the investigation that requires considerable imagination. Possible solutions to the problem are formulated (制定). These possible solutions are called hypotheses (假设).

In a way, any hypothesis is a leap into the unknown. It extends the scientist’s thinking beyond the known facts. The scientist plans experiments, performs calculations, and makes observations to test hypotheses. For without hypotheses, further investigation lacks purpose and direction. When hypotheses are confirmed, they are incorporated (合并) into theories.

【1】According to paragraph 2, a useful theory is one that helps scientists to ________.

A.observe events. B.make predictions.

C.publicize new findings. D.find errors in past experiments.

【2】Which of the following statements is true according to paragraphs 3 and 4?

A.Science is more than a collection of facts.

B.Hypotheses are made before an observed event.

C.Hypotheses are facts that are not proven to be true.

D.A scientist’s most difficult task is collecting information.

【3】According to the last paragraph a major function of hypotheses is ________.

A.confirming known facts.

B.linking together different theories.

C.providing direction for scientific research.

D.communicating a scientist’s thoughts to others.

【4】What may be the best title of this passage?

A.Hypotheses B.Observations

C.Scientific Theories D.Creative Thinking

30、   “Just the man I was looking for,” said a voice at Winston’s back.

He turned round. It was his friend Syme, who worked in the Research Department. Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now ______ in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary.

“How is the dictionary ______?” asked Winston.

“Slowly,” said Syme. “I’m on the adjectives. It’s fascinating.”

He had ______ immediately at the mention of Newspeak.

“The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,” he said. We’re getting the language into its final shape --- the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re ______words --- scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the ______. The Eleventh Edition won’t ______ a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.”

His thin dark face had become animated and his eyes had grown almost dreamy.

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. It isn’t only the synonyms, there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words? A word contains its ______in itself. Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like good, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well --- better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good’, what sense is there in having a whole string of ______useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning, or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something ______ still. Of course we sue those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words --- in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Winston?”

A sort of vapid eagerness fitted across Winston’s face. Nevertheless Syme immediately detected a certain ______ of enthusiasm.

“You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,” he said almost sadly. “In your heart you’d prefer to ______ to Oldspeak with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year? Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to ______ the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly ______. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not ______ that point. But the process will still be continuing ______ you and I are dead. Every year fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”

【1】A.engaged B.dressed C.elected D.appointed

【2】A.getting on B.putting on C.carrying on D.taking on

【3】A.woken up B.brightened up C.put up D.lived up

【4】A.escaping B.inventing C.coining D.destroying

【5】A.skin B.flesh C.bone D.muscle

【6】A.involve B.hold C.contain D.include

【7】A.meaning B.similarity C.origin D.opposite

【8】A.random B.vague C.precise D.misery

【9】A.stronger B.better C.more D.less

【10】A.share B.margin C.lack D.ounce

【11】A.react B.object C.flee D.stick

【12】A.offer B.narrow C.widen D.shoot

【13】A.associated B.lost C.defined D.explained

【14】A.far from B.close to C.along with D.parallel to

【15】A.long after B.long before C.shortly after D.shortly before

31、A few days ago, I lost my dog while hiking with him on a mountain. It was like I was missing part of my soul.

Since then, a strange feeling _______ me back to the mountain. One morning, I stood at the_______ of the mountain and began my journey with this mysterious(神秘的) pull growing stronger. After making my way along paths I thought I knew well. I realized I was in an _______ place. I panicked a little, lost my footing,and _______. From out of nowhere, an elderly man came and helped me up. With his smiling face, I felt a sense of _______ and we decided to climb together.

Soon the path began to feel familiar again. I told him that my dog was a German shepherd. He once _______ briefly as a police dog but had to stop due to an injury. The man _______ a laugh saying he had been a police officer for a short time. He also had German _______ .We laughed at these _______.

“He had a tiny ________ on his collar. We came here and saw a bear. Sensing danger, he ________ the bear. I lost him after that.” As I was going on, the old man said, “Tomo would thank you. Mountains offer ________ experiences.” Tomo is my dog’s name. Did I tell him this?

Before I could ask anything, he moved on and disappeared. Suddenly, I found a small metal tag(标签) on the ground. Tomo it ________ . Rings came, and then what I saw caused me so many emotions.

I ________ the name tag to my old friend carefully and my soul felt very much ________.

【1】

A．looked

B．pulled

C．remembered

D．followed

【2】

A．top

B．valley

C．foot

D．gate

【3】

A．unattractive

B．unsafe

C．unfriendly

D．unfamiliar

【4】

A．escaped

B．screamed

C．prayed

D．slipped

【5】

A．ease

B．danger

C．humor

D．balance

【6】

A．served

B．retired

C．struck

D．barked

【7】

A．worked out

B．let out

C．picked out

D．broke out

【8】

A．presents

B．tastes

C．jobs

D．roots

【9】

A．countries

B．views

C．similarities

D．sufferings

【10】

A．scar

B．backpack

C．bell

D．spot

【11】

A．searched for

B．chased after

C．signaled to

D．negotiated with

【12】

A．magical

B．explicit

C．tiring

D．courageous

【13】

A．assumed

B．hung

C．said

D．recognized

【14】

A．adopted

B．adapted

C．attacked

D．attached

【15】

A．lost

B．complete

C．absurd

D．acid

32、   As the train picked up its speed, the passengers slowly settled down on their seats. A（n）_________lady occupied the front seat of mine. She must be in her eighties, I guessed. She smiled at me. Out of curiosity, I gave her_________. But both of us were_________.

It was 4:50 pm. So, bed time was still in a long way. I couldn’t_________myself any longer and asked, “Aunty！Where are you going?”

She_________me for a while and replied, “Army camp, dear.”

Suddenly my_________doubled to know the reason. I politely said, “Aunty, you are_________someone?”

She smiled and I continued to say: “Aunty, you must be feeling so_________to see your child and your grandchildren.”

Perhaps, this question_________her a little but she answered, “Oh, dear! You are so sweet!__________, I had only one son who joined the__________and was killed in a battle just a few days before. I had__________so many new clothes for him. So, I thought why not__________my son’s clothes to some other soldiers, so that I would control my__________and would be happy thinking that my own son has worn it. He was__________, so I don’t have any grand child.”

I was astonished at her heart breaking story! But I admired the old lady from the core of my heart.

【1】A.elderly B.famous C.stubborn D.smart

【2】A.response B.exploration C.research D.amazement

【3】A.dynamic B.calm C.silent D.positive

【4】A.resist B.forgive C.deserve D.demand

【5】A.cared about B.stared at C.attended to D.watched over

【6】A.anxiety B.embarrassment C.appreciation D.curiosity

【7】A.visiting B.charging C.sentencing D.reminding

【8】A.puzzled B.frightened C.astonished D.excited

【9】A.entertained B.attracted C.hurt D.impressed

【10】A.Besides B.Therefore C.Still D.Anyway

【11】A.club B.league C.party D.army

【12】A.shared B.counted C.bought D.buried

【13】A.sold B.donate C.connect D.expand

【14】A.sorrow B.shock C.sickness D.energy

【15】A.unbelievable B.unbearable C.unemployed D.unmarried

33、Face shape lets AI spot rare disorders

People with genetic syndromes (综合征) sometimes have revealing facial features, but using them to make a quick and cheap diagnosis can be _______given there are hundreds of possible conditions they may have. A new neural (神经系统) network that analyses photographs of faces can help doctors _______the possibilities.

Yaron Gurovich at biotechnology firm FDNA in Boston and his team built a neural network to look at the overall impression of faces and _______ a list of the 10 genetic syndromes a person is most likely to have.

They _______ the neural network, called DeepGestalt, on 17,000 images correctly labeled to match more than 200 genetic syndromes.The team then asked AI to _______potential genetic disorders from a further 502 photos of people with such conditions. It included the correct answer among its list of 10 responses 91 per cent of the time.

Gurovich and his team also_______the neural network's ability to distinguish between the different genetic mutations (父异) that can lead to the same syndrome.They used photographs of people with Noonan syndrome, which can result from mutations in any one of five genes.DeepGestalt correctly identified the genetic source of the physical appearance 64 per cent of the time. It’s clearly not _______, but it’s still much better than humans are at trying to do this.

As the system makes its assessments, the facial regions that are most helpful in the determination are_______and made available for doctors to view. This helps them to understand the relationships between genetic make-up and physical appearance.

The fact that the diagnosis is based on a simple photograph raises questions about_______. If faces can reveal details about genetics, then employers and insurance providers could, in principle,__________ use such techniques to__________ against people who have a high probability of having certain disorders.__________. Gurovich says the tool will only be __________for use by clinicians.

This technique could bring significant__________ for those who have genetic syndromes. The real value here is that for some of these ultra-rare diseases, the process of diagnosis can be many, many years. This kind of technology can help narrow down the search space and then be confirmed through checking genetic markers. For some diseases, it will cut down the time to diagnosis dramatically. For others, it could perhaps add means of finding other people with the disease and, __________, help find new treatments or cures.

【1】A.convincing B.practical C.reliable D.tricky

【2】A.narrow down B.result in C.bring about D.arise from

【3】A.wait B.return C.mail D.feed

【4】A.focused B.touched C.based D.trained

【5】A.adjust B.identify C.change D.cure

【6】A.recognized B.showed C.tested D.acquired

【7】A.perfect B.acceptable C.specific D.workable

【8】A.covered B.highlighted C.excluded D.monitored

【9】A.privacy B.accuracy C.reality D.objectivity

【10】A.legally B.regularly C.secretly D.efficiently

【11】A.vote B.fight C.argue D.discriminate

【12】A.Furthermore B.Similarly C.Otherwise D.However

【13】A.available B.impossible C.ready D.rare

【14】A.challenges B.damages C.benefits D.concerns

【15】A.by contrast B.on the contrary C.in addition D.in turn

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.

Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but 【1】 number of colleges and universities. About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the 【2】. Recent additions in the United States 【3】 projects at Yale, Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are 【4】 at the Apple iTunes store.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became an early 【5】 with its Open Course Ware project, first 【6】 in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers. Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These 【7】 from Physics to Political Science. Visitors can learn the same things as MIT students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not an MIT education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide 【8】 with teachers. Still, MIT says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada. Students and educators use the site, including students at MIT. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.

Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of 【9】 online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at MIT, is 【10】 popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures. MIT Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering.

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 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.”

37、阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

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

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

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

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

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。

That night, after a couple of restless hours, Dora woke up suddenly at midnight. She went to her bathroom. Stepping on the carpet she noticed it was damp. Looking out, she found that muddy water was inching up the wood-paneled walls! She ran to her father’s bedside. “Daddy, Daddy,” she cried, shaking him violently. “Wake up. There’s water in the house!”

Barefoot and wearing only shorts, Dykstra walked to the entrance and opened the door. What he saw shook him wide-awake. Duchess, their dog, was standing just outside the door, her feet in six inches of water. That meant the roadway, their only means of escape, was flooded. He hid his anxiety. They climbed up the ladder-like stairs to a loft (阁楼) above the living room. From there they could hear the water filling the room below, creeping (缓慢地行进) toward them. Suddenly the whole house trembled as if struck by an earthquake. The next instant they found themselves floating, and the wooden house being swept along the river! Terrified that the cabin would sink and take them down with it, Dykstra decided that they would have to get out. Wrapping his arms tightly round his daughter, he plunged (猛冲) into the icy water.

The house was behind them now, chasing them through the darkness. Before he could get out of its path, the house – pushed by the tremendous (巨大的) power of the water – pinned him at the trunk. His ribs (肋骨) were crushed. His left leg was broken. He lost consciousness. Then the house shifted, releasing him. Dora found herself drifting downstream, her unconscious father beside her. “Don’t die, Daddy!” she cried. “Please!”

Perhaps it was the cry of the little girl that stirred Dykstra to consciousness. In the pale moonlight, Dykstra spotted an island formed by some rubbish that had got caught in some treetops. Fighting against the current and his pain, he swam toward it. Dora climbed onto the small pile of timbers (木材) and pulled her father, who was fighting for breath, from the rushing water onto the timbers. Now, Dora realized, it was up to her to help him.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150词左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Just then she was astonished to see a figure appear out of nowhere.

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Suddenly a voice from somewhere on the distant hillside broke the darkness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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40、假设你是新华中学的高二学生李华，你校英语俱乐部将举办英语演讲比赛。请以Family Education Shapes Me为主题，写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：

1、良好家庭教育的重要性；

2、举例说明。

注意：

1、演讲稿格式；2、词数120左右；3、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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41、假定你是李华，疫情得到控制，现在你已经回校上课了。请你给你的外教Mrs. Smith写封感谢信，感谢疫情期间她对你的教导和帮助，内容包括：

1.感谢疫情期间老师对自己英语学习的帮助和信心上的鼓励；

2.表达对老师的想念以及衷心祝愿。

参考词汇：新冠病毒：the novel corona-virus.

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