2025-2026年福建南平初一下册期末英语试卷

1、Netflix acquired the rights to the masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, which marks the first time that writer’s family _______ the piece to be adapted for the screen.

A．has allowed

B．will have allowed

C．had allowed

D．allowed

2、The architect designed over forty projects home and abroad, twenty were award  winners.

A.where B.of which C.in which D.at which

3、 ---Did you go to the fashion show last week？

---I_________，but I was fully occupied the whole week．

A. must go B. must have gone

C. would go   D. would have gone

4、When the candidates came in, the interviewer made a ________ to them to take their seats at the desk. Which of the following is IMPROPER?

A.motion B.hint

C.sign D.signal

5、The G20 will take ____ lead in building _____ new approach to cooperation.

A.the; a B.the; / C./; the D.a; a

6、Do you think regular exercise ___________ good health?

A. benefit from B. reach for

C. make for D. go for

7、My camera can be________to take pictures in cloudy and sunny conditions.

A.adapted B.adjusted C.adopted D.admitted

8、---I didn’t expect that John would be absent from my last Sunday’s birthday party.

--- As far as I know, he ______ to see his parents in the countryside on Sundays.

A. goes B. went

C. has gone D. had gone

9、He is a(n) ________ person and always ready to start a fight.

A.punctual B.religious C.aggressive D.elegant

10、High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

A. discourage B. defeat

C. disturb D. depress

11、—May I speak to your manager at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon？

—I'm sorry. He ________ to Shanghai by then.

A.will have flown B.had flown

C.can have flown D.has flown

12、You should explore your talents so as to find out ____ your real interests lie.

A. what B. which C. where D. that

13、She showed the visitors around the park ________ had been built three years before.

A．who

B．whom

C．whose

D．which

14、______Jixi today is more beautiful now. Mr. Jackson said he would visit it______third time.

A.The;/ B.The;the C./;a D.The;a

15、The reason ________ he explained was________ he was ill and unable to go to school.

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

16、 I would appreciate ______, to be frank, if the goods could be delivered as soon as possible.

A.you B.this C.it D.myself

17、I wish to thank, _____________, all the people who have made this exhibition possible.

A. in particular B. in peace

C. in case D. in place

18、The manager told the assistants to _______ all the customers’ names and address.

A．set out

B．set about

C．set up

D．set down

19、The story ________ in New York on a cold night was written by O.Henry， a world-famous American writer．

A.setting B.to set C.set D.was set

20、_____ doesn’t really matter whether you win or lose. As long as you have tried your best, you won’t regret.

A.What B.This C.That D.It

21、It was President Xi Jinping ______ visited the navy troops on April 19 and advocated that naval force ______.

A. who; be strengthened B. that; would be strengthened

C. who; to be strengthened D. that; must be strengthened

22、Evidence obtained from observation and experiment is often used to ______ a scientific theory.

A.confirm B.conclude C.consult D.confuse

23、Word came ___ some American guests would visit our school .

A.whether B.that C.as D.how

24、She ________ the piano regularly for many years when she was young.

A．was playing

B．played

C．has played

D．had played

25、Teaching is not just a simple piece of work; it’s an art _____ a science.

A.is based on B.based with C.based on D.depended on

26、It’s fun to dream about vacationing in Europe, but international flights are not always particularly affordable. If you’re looking to experience a taste of European culture, however, there are many places in the US with a European heritage(传统).

St. Augustine Florida

Founded by Spanish settlers in 1565, St. Augustine is full of Spanish-inspired architecture, historical sites and other attractions. The Colonial Quarter is a popular tourist area, and there are many places to grab traditional Spanish food.

Holland, Michigan

Holland was settled in 1847 by Dutch Calvinist separatists, under the leadership of Dr Albertus van Raalte. Terrible economic conditions in the Netherlands forced them to emigrate(移居国外), while their desires for religious freedom led them to unite and settle together as a group. Much of the original architecture was destroyed in an 1871 fire, but the city still has many windmills, eateries, art and even an annual tulip festival and holiday market.

New Glarus, Wisconsin

More than 160 years after it was founded, New Glarus has maintained much of its Swiss heritage and old world traditions. New Glarus’ Swiss immigrant roots are proudly on display with its Alpine architecture, Swiss Historical Village Museum and Yodel Club. The Wisconsin village also puts on cultural events like the Heidi Folk Festival and Swiss Volksfest.

Solvang, California

Located near Santa Barbara, Solang is a charming California city with Danish roots.  A group of immigrates from Denmark founded Solvang just over 100 years ago to create a Danish home away from home. As such, the city is full of Danish architecture, restaurants, shops and even a copy of Copenhagen’s famous Little Mermaid statue.

【1】Which US city might have the longest European origin ?

A. St. Augustine B. Holland C. New Glarus D. Solvang

【2】Why did Dutch Calvinist separates decide to emigrate?

A. To reveal the dark side of their native place.

B. To pursue religious freedom and economic opportunities.

C. To found a Dutch community with united power.

D. To seek for a US state with better social welfare.

【3】Which of the following originates from Denmark?

A. Yodel Club. B. The Heidi Folk Festival.

C. The Colonial Quarter. D. The Little Mermaid statue.

27、Every person yawns. So do many other vertebrate (有脊椎的) animals, including snakes, dogs, cats, sharks, and chimpanzees. While yawning is contagious (会传染的), not everyone catches a yawn. Around 60-70% of people yawn if they see another person yawn in real life or in a photo or even read about yawning. Contagious yawning also occurs in animals, but it doesn’t necessarily work the same way as in people.

Scientists have proposed many theories for why we catch yawns. Probably the most popular theory is that yawning serves as a form of nonverbal communication. Catching a yawn shows you’re accustomed to a person’s emotions. Scientific evidence comes from a 2010 study at the University of Connecticut, which concluded yawning does not become contagious until a child is about four years old when empathy (共情) skills develop. In the study, children with autism, who may have impaired empathy development, caught yawns less often than their peers.

Studying contagious yawning in other animals may provide clues to how people catch yawns. Contagious yawning in animals may serve as a means of communication. Siamese fighting fish yawn when they see their mirror image or another fighting fish, generally just prior to an attack.

Contagious yawning is linked to temperature, in both animals and people. Most scientists speculate it is a thermoregulatory behavior, while some researchers believe it is used to communicate a potential threat or stressful situation. A 2010 study of budgerigars (虎皮鹦鹉) found that yawning increased as temperature was raised near body temperature.

People commonly yawn when tired or bored. Similar behavior is seen in animals. One study found the brain temperature in sleep deprived rats was higher than their core temperature. Yawning reduced brain temperature, possibly improving brain function. Researchers will do further study on this.

【1】What can we learn about yawning from Paragraph 1?

A．All animals yawn.

B．Reading about yawning may make a person yawn.

C．Only vertebrate animals yawn.

D．Yawning works the same for human and animals.

【2】Why does the author mention children with autism in Paragraph 2?

A．To prove a theory.

B．To define a concept

C．To develop the theme.

D．To provide the background.

【3】Siamese fighting fish yawn to ________.

A．show kindness.

B．find a partner.

C．give a threat.

D．escape from danger.

【4】What can be inferred from the passage?

A．More research in yawning will be carried out in the future.

B．Temperature is not a factor concerning yawning.

C．The secret to yawing has been worked out.

D．Yawning can improve brain function greatly.

28、You watch a sad film and get caught up in your emotions. You cry your eyes out at the dramatic plot—you feel sad for the characters if they suffer, or happy for them when they are successful. It is only when the movie is over that you realize that what you were watching is not real.

But why couldn’t you accept that when you were so absorbed in the movie? It was reported in Science Daily this week that scientists at Case Western Reserve University, US, discovered that people simply cannot think emotionally and logically at the same time.

It has long been known that something different goes on in our brain when we use logic, rather than responding to something emotionally. Thinking logically is a step-by-step process, in which people make decisions through reasoning and find answers rationally. When we think emotionally or empathize (有同感) we look at things from someone else’s point of view and try to feel their pain.

Now scientists have found that thinking logically and emotionally are like the two ends of a seesaw (跷跷板)—when we’re busy empathizing, the part of the brain used for cold-hard analysis is suppressed (抑制). And it’s also true the other way round.

To come to this conclusion, scientists gathered 45 people—men and women—to take brain scans as they solved different kinds of puzzles. Some of the puzzles were tough and involved math and physics and others were social problems that required participants to put themselves in other people’s shoes.

Scientists found that when participants were doing a math problem, the region in their brain that is associated with logical thinking lit up, and when asked to make emotional decisions, the region for emotional thinking lit up. But the most interesting part is that when asked to solve problems that required both logical and emotional responses, the participants always used one of the regions at a time while the other one went dark.

“Empathetic and analytic thinking are…mutually (相互之间地) exclusive (排斥的) in the brain,” said Anthony Jack, leader of the study. “You don’t have to favor one, but cycle efficiently between them, and employ the right network at the right time.”

However, people sometimes ended up using the wrong one. This explains why some people are good at solving complex math problems but have poor social skills. And why even the smartest people get taken in by fake but touching stories.

【1】Why does the author mention watching movies at the beginning of the article?

A．To show that we are easily moved by things that are not real.

B．To show that sometimes we only use emotional thinking.

C．To prove that emotional thinking is powerful.

D．To introduce the research based on this kind of experiences.

【2】Scientists at Case Western Reserve University proved through their recent tests that ______.

A．logical thinking works differently from emotional thinking

B．logical thinking and emotional thinking take turns to function independently

C．logical thinking is much more efficient than emotional thinking

D．logical thinking and emotional thinking could work together

【3】We can conclude from the last two paragraphs that ______.

A．people have to frequently switch between different types of thinking

B．adopting the wrong thinking mode could have bad results

C．people could only either have excellent logical thinking or emotional thinking

D．people who think logically could easily be manipulated (操纵)

【4】What is probably the best title?

A．Movies and Your Emotions

B．Math and Physics

C．Your Heart vs Your Mind

D．Logical Thinking

29、   The Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, which offers tips for reorganizing personal space and getting rid of untidiness, has inspired many to shrink their overstuffed closets. Charity shops have seen an increase in donations of used clothing, a phenomenon that’s been credited to the influence of the show.

But people have a popular method of dealing with unwanted clothing. They simply throw it in the trash. And that’s become a real problem.

According to Fast Company, people of New York City throw 200 million pounds of clothing into the garbage each year. The used clothing goes on to take up space in landfills for an unlimited period of time. The Environmental Protection Agency reported in 2015 that 10.5 million tons of clothing wound up in the trash that year. New York’s fashion leaders and the city’s sanitation (公共卫生) agencies have started an advertising campaign directing people to cover 1,000 drop-off points where unwanted clothes can be deposited for recycling or repurposing. But if you can’t find one of the collection points in your neighborhood, what can you do with your old clothes?

Selling is one option. Local clothes stores may offer only a modest price for your used clothing collections, but they’ll likely fall into other hands rather than a landfill. There are also online marketplaces like ThredUP and Material World that pay cash or offer store credit for designer or chain-store clothing that you mail in. To maximize their value, it’s best to present clothing folded, buttoned, and cleaned.

You can also try sites like Rehash Clothes to promote a clothing exchange with others who are looking to clear up their closet. If you want to throw clothing because it’s damaged, give some thought to repairing it instead. Things like loose or missing buttons can be simple fixes; stains can be covered by dyeing material (染料). All of these options can keep some of your clothing’s value.

Whatever you decide to do, it’s best to keep clothing on someone’s back in one form or another—not in the trash.

【1】What do we know from the passage?

A.New Yorkers give away lots of clothing annually.

B.Unwanted clothing has to be donated to charity shops.

C.The advertising campaign aims to promote the sales of used clothes.

D.Tidying Up with Marie Kondo encourages more people to donate used clothes.

【2】What does the underlined phrase “wound up” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A.backed up B.gave up

C.ended up D.took up

【3】Which of the following does the author suggest?

A.Throw seriously damaged clothing into the trash.

B.Fix the damaged clothing before it is donated.

C.Sell the used clothes online rather than in local stores.

D.Care about the details of used clothes when selling them online.

【4】What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A.To offer practical tips for clothing exchanges.

B.To present the problem with unwanted clothing.

C.To advocate dealing with old clothing effectively.

D.To raise public awareness of environmental protection.

30、   Alia Baker is a librarian in Iraq. Her library used to be a_______place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge. They discussed various matters all over the world. When the war was near, Alia was_______ that the fires of war would destroy the books,  which are more _______to her than mountains of gold. The books are in every language- new books, ancient books, even a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old.

She had asked the government for _______to move the books to a_______ place, but they refused. So Alia took matters into her own hands. _______, she brought books home every night, filling her car late after work. Her friends came to help her when the war broke out. Anis who owned a restaurant _______to hide some books. All through the night, Alia, Anis, his brothers and neighbours took the books from the library, _______ them over the seven foot wall and _______them in the restaurant. The books stayed hidden as the war ________. Then nine days later, a fire burned the ________ to the ground.

One day, the bombing stopped and the________ left. But the war was not over yet. Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be ________ again while the city was ________. So she hired a truck to, bring all the books to the houses of friends in the suburbs (郊区). Now Alia waited for the war to end and ________peace and a new library.

【1】A.meeting B.working C.personal D.religious

【2】A.worried B.angry C.doubtful D.curious

【3】A.practical B.precious C.reliable D.expensive

【4】A.permission B.confirmation C.explanation D.information

【5】A.large B.public C.distant D.safe

【6】A.Fortunately B.Surprisingly C.Seriously D.Secretly

【7】A.intended B.pretended C.happened D.agreed

【8】A.put B.opened C.passed D.threw

【9】A.hid B.exchanged C.burnt D.distributed

【10】A.approached B.erupted C.continued D.ended

【11】A.restaurant B.library C.city D.wall

【12】A.neighbors B.soldiers C.friends D.customers

【13】A.sold B.read C.saved D.moved

【14】A.occupied B.bombed C.quiet D.busy

【15】A.dreamed of B.believed in C.cared about D.looked for

31、   I stood in the front of the classroom like a specimen(标本） under examinations  of 23 pairs of eyes. I  began stuttering(结巴）and gave wrong answers to some questions.

In the summer of 2016, I worked as an assistant teacher at a children's day camp.Lacking in experience，I _______ to create weekly lesson plans.Kids shouted at each other in class.Sometimes，I had to pull apart kids who were _______ each other.The rare moments of_______ came only after my booming calls for attention. Every day was a _______ between  me  and these wild little creatures.

One day I suddenly _______ that I was supposed to teach them instead of being led by the nose. It was time to do something to change the _______. I was older, more knowledgeable, and most _______, I had more authority. The next day，I firmly_______into the classroom and stood in the front_______.The students studied me curiously. But I did not stutter this time. It________ me that the class went smoothly without being  ________ for the first time. From that day on，they gradually started to pay attention. Some ________started calling me “Ms. Amy”. Seeing a sign of respect in their wild eyes was like getting ________ for my achievements. I was finally acting as an authority figure. The ________ I received also increased my self一confidence. It made me believe that I had the________. to overcome difficulties.

One month after my summer job ________, I went back to visit the students. I saw the ________ kids running around in the classroom. ________，their playful shouts were a different kind of music to my ________now. Instead of the unpleasant sound I heard the first day，this was a________ song that played during my march to self—confidence.

【1】A.refused B.failed C.struggled D.hesitated

【2】A.calling on B.fighting with C.staring at D.learning from

【3】A.patience B.promise C.thought D.silence

【4】A.battle B.difference C.link D.joke

【5】A.hoped B.realized C.regretted D.remembered

【6】A.suggestion B.occasion C.situation D.decision

【7】A.importantly B.interestingly C.naturally D.hopefully

【8】A.burst B.slipped C.rushed D.stepped

【9】A.anxiously B.cautiously C.eagerly D.calmly

【10】A.surprised B.embarrassed C.disappointed D.amused

【11】A.puzzled B.encouraged C.disturbed D.observed

【12】A.just B.even C.ever D.still

【13】A.recognition B.information C.evaluation D.discussion

【14】A.trust B.sympathy C.pride D.respect

【15】A.chance B.right C.ability D.intention

【16】A.continued B.ended C.started D.returned

【17】A.same B.special C.poor D.normal

【18】A.Therefore B.However C.Besides D.Otherwise

【19】A.heart B.eyes C.ears D.soul

【20】A.popular B.complex C.strange D.unique

32、   My mother believed in magic. She believed things happened for a/an _______ . She was vocal about “happy accidents”.

“See this little box? It’s magic: inside _______ a bird that can sing.”

I carefully wound the tiny music box, and my sons were _______ attracted by the beautiful music, coming up and wondering what it was. Besides singing, the bird _______ flapped (拍打) its wings, and opened and closed its small beak (鸟喙).

“Please don’t touch it,” I _______. However, weeks later I noticed the bird no longer moved back fully. I was so angry that I _______ my sons.

“I pushed the lid down,” volunteered the 7-year-old cautiously. Obviously, he realized what a big mistake he had made. I was going to _______ him. However, another voice told me that I might find a skilled person to _______ the bird back to life first.

Unfortunately, I soon discovered that few people could _______ broken music boxes. It took me lots of ________ to find one. After lots of time and cost, I was delighted to witness the fragile bird sing once more. What I did not ________ was that the tiny bird would also spin (旋转).

“It spins!” I said, totally ________.

“It’s supposed to do that,” the man said with a heavy German accent. “I guess it is ________ that your son broke it, because now the bird does what it was ________ to do.”

A happy accident, ________.

【1】A.excuse B.result C.reason D.goal

【2】A.flies B.lives C.lays D.sees

【3】A.instantly B.eventually C.gradually D.accidentally

【4】A.merely B.still C.suddenly D.also

【5】A.requested B.declared C.warned D.repeated

【6】A.gathered B.seized C.dragged D.led

【7】A.comfort B.believe C.ignore D.punish

【8】A.carry B.take C.bring D.get

【9】A.discover B.make C.own D.repair

【10】A.fortune B.efforts C.chances D.risks

【11】A.observe B.expect C.realize D.feel

【12】A.sad B.moved C.satisfied D.amazed

【13】A.wrong B.reasonable C.good D.obvious

【14】A.trained B.asked C.allowed D.designed

【15】A.indeed B.though C.either D.instead

33、   The letter below is from Antoine Leiris, whose wife Helen died in the terror attack in Paris on November 11th. He wrote the letter to her killers. It was _______written as a Facebook post and has been _______thousands of times on social media.

On Friday night you _______the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the_______of my son, but you will not have my _______. I don't know who you are _______I don't want to know -- you are dead souls. I will not give you the gift of hating you. You have obviously _______it, but responding to it with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that has made you what you are. You want me to be _______, to cast a mistrusting eye on my fellow citizens, to _______my freedom for security. You __________. I saw her this morning, finally after nights and days of waiting. My wife was ________as beautiful as she was when she left on Friday evening, as beautiful as when I fell madly in love with her more than 12 ________ago. Of course, I am heart-broken with __________, but I know that she will join us every day and that we will find each other again in the paradise of free souls which you will never have ________to. We are only __________, my son and I, but we are more ________than all the world's armies. ________any case, I have no time to waste on you. I need to go back to Melvil, who is ________from his afternoon nap. He is just 17 months old. He will eat his snack like every day and we are going to play like we do every day. In every day of his life, the little boy will ________you with his ________and freedom, because you don't have his hatred either.

【1】A.occasionally B.accidentally C.originally D.frequently

【2】A.praised B.written C.printed D.shared

【3】A.came across B.argued with C.stole away D.turned into

【4】A.teacher B.mother C.sister D.friend

【5】A.anger B.hatred C.sympathy D.mercy

【6】A.and B.if C.once D.but

【7】A.hated B.sought C.abandoned D.found

【8】A.afraid B.brave C.concerned D.crazy

【9】A.value B.attach C.respect D.sacrifice

【10】A.won B.hesitated C.lost D.warned

【11】A.ever B.even C.just D.never

【12】A.days B.weeks C.months D.years

【13】A.sorrow B.depression C.enthusiasm D.passion

【14】A.desire B.companion C.devotion D.access

【15】A.none B.one C.two D.three

【16】A.successful B.powerful C.thankful D.merciful

【17】A.On B.With C.In D.Of

【18】A.waking up B.packing up C.sending up D.cheering up

【19】A.complain B.threaten C.control D.insult

【20】A.awareness B.sadness C.forgiveness D.happiness

34、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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

36、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.

Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.

The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.

It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.

Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often  【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.

Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.

37、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.

38、假定你是李华，你邀请网友Peter本周五在网络上观看你校主题为“我努力，我快乐”的英文演讲直播，请按以下要点给他发一封电子邮件：

1. 活动目的；

2. 直播时间；

3. 欢迎参与互动。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter,

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Yours,

Li Hua

39、假如你是你校学生会主席李华。介于春节期间于武汉爆发的新型冠状病毒传染病的严峻形势，为了配合国家联防联控的举措，你需要对你校师生拟出一份通知。内容如下：

1、简单介绍当前严峻形势；

2、防控该传染病应釆取的措施；

3、意义。

参考词汇：novel coronavirus新型冠状病毒；medical mask医用口罩

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40、假设你是李华, 你的美国笔友Amy来信询问你对网络教育(Online education)的看法, 请你用英文给她写一封回信, 内容包括：

1、网络教育的现状；

2、你的看法。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。

Dear Amy,

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Yours sincerely,

LiHua

41、假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。你的英国笔友Jim发邮件询问你这学期居家学习的状况。请给Jim回一封邮件，内容包括：1.你居家期间的主要学习活动；2.你对居家学习的感受。

注意：1.词数不少于50；2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。提示词：居家期间the quarantine period

Dear Jim,

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Yours,

Li Hua