2025年贵州安顺高考英语第一次质检试卷

1、Hibernating animals have stored ________ fat in their bodies during the summer and autumn.

A．a good many

B．supplies of

C．a large quantity of

D．a few

2、My good performance in the job interview left me         about my future and what I can do here.

A．puzzled

B．sensitive

C．optimistic

D．pessimistic

3、The criminal, as well as some ________ people, was arrested by the police yesterday.

A．relevant

B．skilled

C．released

D．lucky

4、As days go on，I think that Beijing will become ________ the whole world pay close attention to.

A.where B.what C.which D.that

5、Because of the pandemic（传染病）, days are gone _____ people go wherever they want.

A.if B.when C.which D.since

6、— Could you help me take care of my pet dog on the 19th?

— I’m afraid I’m not ____________ that day.

A. vacant B. sufficient C. available D. convenient

7、Mother was always scolding him for leaving things _____ , but to her satisfaction, he _____them ______today.

A. in order；put；in order B. on order； place； in order

C. out of order；put；in order D. by order；place；in order

8、I think you can ______ the first five chapters before the deadline.

A. live through B. put through

C. get through D. see through

9、______of all the staff,I would like to wish you a happy retirement.

A.In honour B.In place C.On behalf D.On account

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

A．trapped

B．trapping

C．having trapped

D．to be trapped

11、________ from heart trouble for years, Professor White has to take some medicine with him wherever he goes.

A．Suffered

B．Suffering

C．Having suffered

D．Being suffered

12、Multitasking reduces the quality of our work ______ it makes it hard for us to organize thoughts and remove irrelevant information.

A.though B.as C.while D.if

13、________ is often the case with children, Tom was better by the time the doctor arrived.

A.It B.That C.What D.As

14、He couldn’t make his voice ______ above the noise of the traffic.

A．to hear

B．hearing

C．heard

D．hear

15、We went to Canada to travel and my cousin _______as our guide.

A．played

B．showed

C．acted

D．performed

16、She looked in the direction of the window, but there was nothing in front _______ the deep darkness.

A.other than B.rather than C.or rather D.or else

17、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

18、China has got a good_________ for fighting against Covid-19 with its careful and smooth organizaton.

A.reputation B.influence C.impression D.knowledge

19、I can _______ Diana's thoughts from the changes in her facial expressions.

A.notice B.scan C.read D.print

20、Miss Green often said “God helps those who help themselves”, intending to _______ on us the significance of being independent.

A.base B.impress

C.focus D.rely

21、In recent centuries, trade, industrialization, the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory education, especially globalization and bettercommunications in the past few decades, all many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English, Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over.

A.cause B.caused C.have caused D.causing

22、The young man ____________ be slow, but at least he doesn't make any mistakes.

A.may B.can C.must D.should

23、At one point I made up my mind to talk to Uncle Sam. Then I changed my mind, ______ that he could do nothing to help.

A.to realize B.realized C.realizing D.being realized

24、—Why do the researchers sometimes have to climb so high?

—As far as I know, _____________on the top of the mountain is a certain wild plant said to have some medical value.

A.grown B.growing C.being grown D.having grown

25、____ many interruptions, he continued to finish his homework.

A. In case of B. Despite of

C. Regardless of D. On account of

26、   Daniel Lamplugh remembers going shopping with his dad on Black Friday." Waking up at 6 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving is what I grew up doing," says the University of New Orleans film student.

A lot has changed since those childhood days. Online retailers(零售商)have forced many chains out of business. Consumers are increasingly shopping with their smart-phones. But a funny thing happened on the way to the future: Most shoppers are not going all-digital. Surveys show they're eager for good experiences at retail stores.

This November and December, for the first time ever retailer websites will get more traffic from mobile users than computer users, predicts Adobe Digital In sights." We live our lives with a combination of the physical and the digital." says Kit Yarrow, author of book Decoding the New Consumer Mind. Retailers have to understand it's not a question of either/or. It's a question of combining the two.

Heather Howe, an MBA student, said," Consumers like shopping on their phones and online because it's more convenient and because there are more options. I went to the Vans store to try on shoes and then I actually purchased them online while I was in the store.

While mobile sales are growing, the widest use smart-phones in stores is researching products or looking up product information(58 percent), closely followed checking or comparing prices(54 percent), according to a survey.

"My phone plays a huge role in online shopping, because I am on the email list for all of my favorite brand. so I get many emails daily informing me of sales, "s Rachel Lynch, who works at a Boston public-relation agency." Also, a store has an app that allows me to chat with other users about the products, and read reviews Online reviews are one of the first things I look at when I am about to buy a new product.”

“Electronics and kitchen equipment are definitely online purchases for me, since they're heavy to get home on the subway and often cheaper online," says Michael Miller-Ernest, a manager in Brooklyn,N.Y.

【1】What do most shoppers tend to do now?

A.Do shopping all-digitally.

B.Use computers to do online shopping.

C.Do window shopping in shopping malls.

D.Go to physical stores with their smart-phones.

【2】What's Kit Yarrow's suggestion for retailers?

A.Reaching both online and offline consumers.

B.Focusing on either the physical or the digital.

C.Encouraging consumers to use smart-phones.

D.Providing more convenience for computer users.

【3】What does Heather Howe think of online stores?

A.They offer wider choices.

B.They sell high quality goods.

C.They will replace physical stores.

D.They are burning shoppers' patience.

【4】What can be inferred about Rachel Lynch's habits?

A.She buys heavy goods online.

B.She often writes users' reviews.

C.She is fond of sending producers emails.

D.She tries to learn about other users' experience. 

27、   Every country has its favorite food. Italians like to eat pizza. Indians like to eat hot food. Japanese like to eat fish. Often they don’t cook it.

In England, one of the most popular kinds of food is fish and chips. People usually buy it in a fish and chip shop. They put it in paper bags, and take it home, or to their workplace. Sometimes they eat it in the park or on the road. The world’s favorite food is American fast food. If you go to some important cities in the world, you can find people eating hamburgers and chips. Fish and chips, and Chinese take-away food are very popular in England. But they are less popular in the USA. The Americans eat take-away food, too, like chicken.

But the most popular kind of take-away food is the hamburger. It looks like bread with meat in it. Ham (火腿) is a kind of pork, but the hamburger does not have any pork in it. The hamburgers are also popular in England and Australia.

【1】Italians like to eat _______.

A.dumplings B.pizza C.hot food D.fish

【2】Fish and chips is very popular in _______.

A.England B.Australia C.the USA D.Canada

【3】In different countries people eat _______ food.

A.different B.the same C.delicious D.same

【4】The hamburger does not have any _______ in it.

A.beef B.pork C.fish D.vegetables

28、It seems we can’t get off the planet fast enough. Two thirds of NASA’s money is spent on manned space exploration, and that number will grow with the USA’s decision to send a man to Mars in 2037. We’ve seen all there is to see on Earth, right? Wrong. The final place is here, under the surface of the sea.

Heading down into the ocean, human limits are quickly reached. At 200 metres, the water is as black as a moonless night. Most nuclear submarines (核潜艇) would implode (内爆) before they reach 1 km down. At 3 km — still less than the average depth of the ocean — there’s a good chance that you’ll discover a new species. The deepest­diving whales go no further. At the very bottom, about 11 km down, lies the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. Eighteen humans have walked on the Moon, but only three have seen the Deep with their own eyes.

Yet things live down there. Big things. A very loud sound was once heard and scientists suggested that it was produced by an animal bigger than a blue whale, the largest creature known on the planet.

In the late 1990s, a deep­water submarine was dropped in the Southern Ocean, and passing 4,000 metres, it discovered something huge passing under it. Surprised? Don’t be. The ocean covers 70% of the planet’s surface and we’ve studied less than 5% of it. We know more about the dark side of the Moon than about the bottom of the sea.

One reason that we explore space is to find evidence of other life forms. The search for life outside of Earth is important, but robots can look under the dry rocks of Mars better than humans. They’re absolutely important for doing ocean research too, but they can’t look under the sea. The cost of exploration is rising, but the results would benefit all our lives. Understanding the oceans will help us find new sources of food, drugs and energy.

Perhaps now it's time to begin a new period of sea exploration. Manned exploration of space is science fiction (科幻小说). The adventure of the deep sea is science fact.

【1】What do the examples in Paragraph 2 suggest?

A．Sea exploration is no easy task.

B．Nuclear submarines need to be improved.

C．The ocean is far deeper than people expected.

D．The condition under the sea is similar to that on the Moon.

【2】What do we know about the Challenger Deep?

A．Blue whales live there.

B．No one has ever been there.

C．People are terrified by the sight of it.

D．It is the deepest known location on Earth.

【3】What does the author think of the discovery in the Southern Ocean?

A．It’s surprising.

B．It’s no wonder.

C．It’s worrying.

D．It’s no success.

【4】What does the author want to tell us?

A．Space exploration is of little value.

B．We spend too much money on space travel.

C．Humans’ success lies in how much they explore the sea.

D．The ocean is the place where we should make our efforts.

29、THE BRONTE FAMILY

Yorkshire in England was the setting for two great novels of the 19th century.These were Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.The youngest sister,Anne,was also a gifted novelist,and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters’．

Their father was Patrick Bronte，born in Ireland.He moved with his wife，Maria Bronte，and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after,Mrs Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care for the remaining three girls and a boy.

Charlotte was born in 1816.Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820.Their brother Branwell was born in 1817.Left to themselves,the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills.They grew up largely self­educated.Branwell showed a great interest in drawing.The girls were determined to earn money for his art education.They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.

As children they had all written many stories.Charlotte,as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books,each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting.Therefore, they turned to writing for income.By 1847,Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily had written Wuthering Heights;and Anne had written Agnes Grey.After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher,but there was no interest shown in Charlotte’s book.(It was not published until 1859.) However,one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her work.Jane Eyre was already started,and she hurriedly finished it.It was accepted at once;thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847.

Jane Eyre was immediately successful;the other two,however,did not do so well.People did not like Wuthering Heights.They said it was too wild,too animal­like.But gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English language.Emily lived only a short while after the publication of the book and Anne died in 1849.

Charlotte published Shirley in 1849,and Villette in 1853.In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls.But only a year later,she died of tuberculosis(肺结核) as her sisters had.

【1】What did the Bronte sisters want to do for Branwell?

A.Help him write stories. B.Help him get trained in art.

C.Teach him how to draw well. D.Teach him how to educate himself.

【2】We know from the text that ________．

A.Jane Eyre was published in 1847

B.Charlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in all

C.the Bronte sisters received a good education

D.Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their writings

【3】Which of the following was published after the death of its writer?

A.Shirley. B.Villette.

C.Agnes Grey. D.The Professor.

30、   Six years ago, something unforgettable happened. My wife, Liz, and I celebrated our 50th wedding ___ that year. It was a lovely event _________ by our sons for us. Many wonderful friends from the past surprised us with presents and ___.Our gift to each other was a driving trip out west. We drove from Ontario into Alberta, then southward into Glacier National Park in Montana, and ____ to Yellowstone National Park.

It was a __ spring day, and the Beartooth Highway had opened for the season just days before.

_______the road, there was still a great amount of snow __ . The scenery was so impressive that we made numerous stops to record memories with my camera. At __ the highest point of the highway, I stopped at a lookout to catch the ____ views, with my wife in the center of my camera lens.

There were not many vehicles on the road _____ cars with energetic young tourists ________ .And then we heard a motorcycle in the distance. The driver of the motorcycle, in rags, _____ behind our car. As he ____ us, his only words were, "Give me your camera and get over there with your wife. "  I must ___ I felt nervous that we might be robbed where we just created some beautiful memories. __ , he just took a picture of us, _____ my camera and rode off before we could express our _____ .The photo he took is one of the most cherished and prized of our trip.

I learned my lesson somewhere I least expected it. God judges us __ by our heart, so we should never judge a man by his _____. If the motorcycle driver reads this story and _____ the situation, we would like to say "thank you to him."

【1】A.ceremony B.anniversary C.tradition D.get-together

【2】A.discussed B.enjoyed C.hosted D.reported

【3】A.congratulations B.suggestions C.messages D.interests

【4】A.returned B.slid C.withdraw D.continued

【5】A.cold B.warm C.hot D.mild

【6】A.Below B.Alongside C.Beyond D.Above

【7】A.melting B.disappearing C.remaining D.rolling

【8】A.clearly B.certainly C.perfectly D.roughly

【9】A.plain B.amazing C.familiar D.boring

【10】A.Constantly B.Finally C.Occasionally D.Gradually

【11】A.ran away B.set off C.broke down D.passed by

【12】A.rushed B.parked C.circled D.tell

【13】A.approached B.protected C.warned D.welcomed

【14】A.forget B.agree C.admit D.refuse

【15】A.Happily B.Strangely C.Disappointingly D.Surprisingly

【16】A.handed back B.dropped off C.threw away D.picked out

【17】A.kindness B.fear C.gratitude D.regret

【18】A.just B.even C.still D.ever

【19】A.accent B.appearance C.experience D.intelligence

【20】A.imagines B.clarities C.appreciates D.remembers

31、How to Avoid the Coronavirus? Wash Your Hands

As a New York Times journalist in China, I covered the SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003, during which a novel coronavirus was first detected in Guangdong. My two children _______elementary school in Beijing throughout the outbreak.  

The International School of Beijing, _______ my children were students, was one of the_______in the capital that stayed _______throughout the SARS outbreak.  

The school instituted a bunch of simple precautionary (预防的) policies: a strict note to_______reminding them not to send a child to _______ who was sick and warning them that students would be screened for _______ with ear thermometers (耳温枪) at the school door. There was no _______ of food at lunch. The teacher led the kids in _______ hand washing throughout the day at classroom __________, while singing a prolonged “hand washing song” to __________ that they did more than a cursory (草率的) pass __________ the tap with water only.  

With those precautions __________, I observed something of a public __________ miracle (奇迹): Not only did no child get SARS, but __________ seemed that no student was sick with anything at all for __________on end.

The World Health Organization __________ the SARS outbreak controlled in July 2003. But, oh, those __________ continued. The best first-line defenses __________SARS or the novel coronavirus or most any virus at all are the ones that Grandma and common __________taught us, after all.

【1】A.attended B.left C.explored D.experienced

【2】A.which B.where C.as D.when

【3】A.many B.much C.few D.little

【4】A.closed B.open C.locked D.controlled

【5】A.patients B.students C.teachers D.parents

【6】A.hospital B.work C.school D.clinic

【7】A.colds B.coughs C.fevers D.headaches

【8】A.sharing B.wasting C.eating D.throwing

【9】A.fluent B.frequent C.occasional D.timely

【10】A.desks B.chairs C.pipes D.sinks

【11】A.suggest B.assume C.ensure D.require

【12】A.through B.above C.across D.under

【13】A.in place B.in reality C.in order D.in need

【14】A.behavior B.life C.study D.health

【15】A.it B.there C.they D.this

【16】A.months B.days C.years D.hours

【17】A.claimed B.declared C.reported D.announced

【18】A.hobbies B.interests C.characters D.habits

【19】A.on B.from C.against D.for

【20】A.ground B.sense C.practice D.people

32、   A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare art works. They had everything in their _________.

When the Vietnam War broke out, the son went to war. He was very _______ and died in battle while rescuing another soldier.

About a month later, there was a _______ at the door. A young man stood there with a large package in his hands. “Sir, I am the soldier for whom your _______ gave his life. He often talked about you. and your love for _______.”

The young man _______ his package and opened it. There was a portrait of his son, _________ by the young man. He stared at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was _______ to the eyes that his own eyes shined with _______.

The father hung the portrait on his wall. __________ visitors came to his home, he took them to __________the portrait before he showed them the other great works he had collected.

A few months later the man __________.There was to be a great auction (拍卖) of his paintings.

“We will ________ the bidding (出价) with this portrait of the son. Who will bid for it?” There was a __________for a long time. Then a voice shouted, “We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.” But __________the auctioneer continued, “The son! Who'll take the son?”

Finally, a __________ came from the back of the room. It was a gardener of the wealthy man. “I'll give $10 for the painting.” He being a poor man, it was all he could ____________. The auctioneer pounded the gavel (拍卖槌), “Going once, twice, SOLD for S 10!” The crowd was becoming __________. They wanted the other worthy collections. “Now let's get on with the collection!”

The auctioneer ________ his gavel. “I’m sorry, the auction is over. I was told of a secret paragraph in the will. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever __________ that painting would inherit(继承) the entire paintings. The man who took the son gets everything!”

【1】A.package B.library C.hall D.collection

【2】A.brave B.respectful C.sorrowful D.panic

【3】A.notice B.sign C.knock D.hole

【4】A.son B.father C.gardener D.visitor

【5】A.research B.donation C.freedom D.art

【6】A.put up B.put out C.held out D.held back

【7】A.painted B.taken C.caught D.fixed

【8】A.disappointed B.drawn C.amazed D.sent

【9】A.puzzles B.lights C.joys D.tears

【10】A.In the moment B.Every time C.Once in a while D.At one time

【11】A.see B.discuss C.touch D.check

【12】A.passed B.died C.laughed D.left

【13】A.choose B.decide C.start D.produce

【14】A.shock B.silence C.welcome D.sound

【15】A.still B.only C.then D.thus

【16】A.cough B.sigh C.song D.voice

【17】A.share B.afford C.admit D.receive

【18】A.friendly B.lovely C.hungry D.impatient

【19】A.picked up B.threw away C.laid down D.cut up

【20】A.sold B.borrowed C.bought D.showed

33、   Timmy and Sarah loved playing the piano. One day, their teacher had some exciting news. There was a _______ coming up and they both had the chance to play _______ for the first time. Timmy and Sarah were _______, looking at each other with a mix of excitement and _______.

Before the performance, they practiced harder and _______ their pieces. Then the big _______ arrived. As they sat in the audience, they were both extremely anxious. _______ Timmy’s name was announced. His mum looked at him with expectation, but he _______ in his seat. “Come on Timmy, it’s your turn,” she said _______. But he shook his head and ________ to go up. The mother looked up at the stage and signaled to the teacher, ________. Timmy wouldn’t be ________ today. The teacher moved to the next name on the ________, “Sarah will now play for us.” “Oh dear,” Sarah thought, terrified. She ________ and slowly made her way up to the piano on the stage. Her legs and fingers ________, she made a few small mistakes. She wanted to jump off the stage so quickly at the end that she almost forgot to ________. But she did it ________ fears!

Then after a few months, another opportunity came. Timmy, again, could not be drawn from his seat in the audience ________ Sarah walked up to the stage with slightly more confidence than last time.

If you allow fear to ________ you once, it will be more likely to have a hold over you. But if you have the ________ to take action, you will feel more and more confident.

【1】A.meeting B.case C.concert D.lecture

【2】A.with ease B.for fun C.on schedule D.in public

【3】A.wide-eyed B.long-faced C.absent-minded D.broken-hearted

【4】A.joy B.relief C.guilt D.horror

【5】A.copied B.produced C.perfected D.wrote

【6】A.order B.day C.feast D.party

【7】A.Finally B.Hopefully C.Gradually D.Actually

【8】A.lay B.sank C.smiled D.watched

【9】A.ashamedly B.disappointedly C.encouragingly D.understandingly

【10】A.hurried B.stopped C.planned D.refused

【11】A.cautious B.curious C.grateful D.helpless

【12】A.playing B.standing C.singing D.listening

【13】A.list B.wall C.stage D.poster

【14】A.danced B.jumped C.sighed D.yawned

【15】A.aching B.shaking C.relaxing D.swinging

【16】A.bow B.greet C.nod D.hug

【17】A.for lack of B.in spite of C.on account of D.by means of

【18】A.if B.once C.since D.while

【19】A.blame B.defeat C.cheat D.push

【20】A.courage B.chance C.freedom D.right

34、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.

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

My daughter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

On a broiling afternoon when the men were away at work and all the women napped, I moved through majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn 【1】. Under these silences there was a / an orchestra of natural music playing notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary breeze blowing across my grandmother’s yard. As I 【2】 along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a 【3】splash told me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of the sun, and when I tired and came back to my grandmother’s house, I padded into her dark cool living room, lay 【4】 on the floor, and listened to the hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall ticking the meaningless hours away.

I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few 【5】. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty labor.

For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were 【6】, and wrung it out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.

They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their own chickens, baked bread and parties, grew and conned their won vegetables, patched the family’s clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, 【7】before the men to start the stove for breakfast and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the flowers that grew around every house. By the end of a summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like a serf.

At sundown the men drifted back from the fields exhausted and 【8】. They scrubbed themselves in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, climbed up onto the porch to watch the night arrive. Presently the women 【9】 them, and the twilight music of Morrisonville began.

The swing creaking , rocking chairs 【10】 on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”

38、假如你是李华，正在美国交流学习。你的美国老师Amy邀请你下周五下午3点到她的班里为美国小学生上一节课，介绍中国传统艺术——国画。请给她回复一封电子邮件，要点如下：

1. 接受邀请，表示感谢；

2. 国画简介（题材：山水、人物、花鸟；工具材料：毛笔、墨等等）；

3. 课前学生需做的准备。

参考词汇：国画： Chinese ink painting

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

Li Hua

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。

It was eight o’clock on a May morning, and Micah, my 17-year-old daughter, was already in our spare room upstairs. It had been her temporary eleventh-grade classroom ever since schools had moved to remote learning due to the pandemic.

From the kitchen, I listened for the sound of her tapping on her laptop or her talking with her classmates in their discussion sessions. We’d barely left the house for 10 weeks straight.

“Mom, everyone is hanging out today!” Micah’s voice echoed from upstairs. “Why can’t I?” I stepped up the stairs. Micah was lying on the floor wearing her pajamas, her laptop, school iPad and cellphone in front of her.

“It’s not fair,” she said.“ I have no one I can be with. I can ‘t wait until I’m 18 and can do what I want.”

We’d had this conversation before. Still, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. I was sick of being alone too. Even though Micah and I were home together more than we had been in years, we might as well have been living in separate worlds.

“Wanna watch videos later?” I asked. “Bake some cookies?”

“No, thanks.” Micah shook her head, as if the idea of doing something together was impossible.

I closed the door. I was used to Micah’s rejection, but it still made me upset. Teenage independence is healthy, but I worried if I didn’t find a way to bond with my girl soon, I might never be close to her again. She’d be 18 in the fall and had already convinced herself she didn’t need me anymore. Maybe she was right. No matter what I did, I couldn’t seem to reach her.

That evening, I logged onto a social app and saw a friend’s children playing with their new kitten. My mind went back to when I was in high school and our family moved. It was hard making friends. Mom surprised me with an eight-week-old gray kitten that I named Miss Muffet. Having a kitten to love and train brightened my days and got me through that difficult, lonely time. Maybe Micah would like a kitten.

注意：

1．续写词数应为150左右;

2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I asked if she wanted a kitten.

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In the car, Micah put the kitten under her chin.

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40、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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41、假定你是李华,你的美国朋友Peter对你所在城市的博物馆很感兴趣,他写邮件向你询问相关情况。请你回复邮件,内容包括:

1.博物馆简介;

2.邀请他来参观

3.你将陪同讲解。

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 sincerely,

Li Hua