2024-2025年四川南充初一下册期末英语试卷

1、Accustomed to _______ the steep mountains, she had no difficulty reaching top.

A．climbing

B．climb

C．having climbed

D．have climbed

2、People with simple names enjoy quicker career advancement because names which are hard to pronounce inspire negative ________ from superiors.

A． considerations  B． consequences

C． expectations   D． reactions

3、The students enjoyed this new game, _________ was named after the school.

A.where B.whose C.which D.who

4、The man could not go to work with his car _____.

A.to steal B.stolen C.stealing D.stole

5、It’s vital that every piece of equipment ________ be checked before the experiment.

A. would B. could C. should D. might

6、_______ the rising costs of many products, fares in this city __________ unchanged.

A.Though; remained B.Despite; remained

C.Despite; was left D.Though; was remained

7、You'll have to pay one month's rent in ________，plus a ________ of $500.

A．advance；check

B．reservation；cash

C．advance；deposit

D．check；deposit

8、_____ many times, he finally understood it.

A.Told B.Telling C.Having told D.Having been told

9、6.I don’t like the newspaper __________ people’s love of scandal(丑行）

A.catering to B.catered to C.fitting in D.fitted in

10、Last year the well-known actress did all ________ help the poor children in that mountain village.

A. she could do B. she could to

C. what she could to D. that she could

11、But for her timely assistance，the prince___________ to death.

A.would be condemned B.will be condemned

C.would have been condemned D.will have been condemned

12、Michael had a serious fall in playing football and his under lip began to ______ up.

A. wind B. split

C. choke D. swell

13、Sorry, I’m late. I ______ have turned off the alarm clock and gone back to sleep again.

A. might B. should

C. can’t D. will

14、The reason for________ he failed in the exam was that he was too careless.

A．which

B．why

C．that

D．it

15、The boy was put into prison for being ________ of stealing a lot of knives.

A. blamed B. accused

C. charged D. suspect

16、____________ of 20 countries attended the G20 Conference, which would surely make a positive impact on world’s economic development.

A. Volunteers B. Astronauts

C. Delegates D. Athletes

17、The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 was ____ jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Twakkul Karman.

A. rewarded B. promoted

C. awarded D. praised

18、   the numbers in employment the hotel industry was the second largest Swiss industry in 1929.

A.Instead of B.In terms of C.In honor of D.In favor of

19、It's surprising that this innocent-looking person should have _____ such a crime.

A.committed B.acted C.made D.performed

20、________ to sunlight for so much time will do harm to your skin.

A．Exposed

B．Being exposed

C．Having exposed

D．Because being exposed

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

A． If B． As

C． Unless D． When

22、Fully _______ in looking after three small children, she cannot speak to you at the moment.

A.occupied B.being occupied C.occupying D.being occupying

23、Many adults agree that teenagers shouldn't live alone   they have their parents’ permission.

A.if B.unless C.in case D.now that

24、It was not until ___ that ____ taking and began to prepare for class.

A. did the teacher turn up; the students stopped

B. the teacher turned up; the students stopped

C. did the teacher turn up; did the students stop

D. the teacher turned up; did the students stop

25、It is likely that we may ________ great benefits from such releases of genetically engineered organisms into the environment — providing they do what we expect them to.

A．invalidate

B．derive

C．prohibit

D．reserve

26、   Microplastics, those lasting relics of modern times, have occupied seemingly every part of the planet today, including the most distant reaches.

The Arctic is far from clean, though it's remote and rarely stepped in by visitors. Melanie Bergmann, a marine ecologist with the Alfred Wegener Institute, and her colleagues had been studying plastics on the Arctic seafloor since 2002. Large amounts turned up everywhere they looked. In deep sea, they found about 6,000 particles（颗粒）in every 2.2 pounds of mud. Sea ice was even more loaded—as much as 12,000 pieces per 34 ounces of melted ice.

Scientists measured microplastics in snow from this distant location and found levels they conclude could only have caught rides on the wind. The study raises concerns about how much microplastics pollute the atmosphere, bringing a potential health risk to people and animals that breathe them in. But they are less worried about the threat that breathed-in pollutants have to wildlife than about polluted snow leaving its load into water. “From an ecosystem angle, our biggest concern is what happens when that snow melts as the climate warms up,” Bergmann says.

The science on the health effects of microplastics is still going on. “For human health, we currently know very little,” says microplastics researcher Chelsea Rochman. "There is a lot of concern because we know we are exposed…. For wildlife, we know that microplastics may go into every level of the food chain.” Laboratory studies find some physical and chemical effects from microplastics exposure, but the findings vary by the plastic type, shape and size. “There's much more we need to do to clearly understand the effects," he says. "And further experiments will be carried out soon with application for equipment and financial support approved.”

Even worse is the threat from airborne nanoplastics in the area—too small to be noticed and may actually enter cells. Research on that also has been conducted and it could be a bigger problem, according to Rochman.

【1】What is the data in paragraph 2 used to show?

A．Visitors rarely step into the Arctic.

B．Sea ice is more polluted than deep sea.

C．Microplastics are everywhere in the world.

D．The Arctic suffers serious microplastics pollution.

【2】What wories the scientists most?

A．Microplastics' entering the water ecosystem.

B．Human beings' breathing microplastics in.

C．Wildlife's being threatened by micropollutants.

D．Microplastics pollution's worsening global warming.

【3】What do Rochman's words suggest?

A．Their experiments lack financial support.

B．Effects of microplastics exposure are unknown.

C．Animals are in a more risky situation than man.

D．Microplastics' effects on health require more study.

【4】What will the following paragraphs talk about?

A．Damage of microplastics to health.

B．Appeals for environmental protection.

C．Findings about nanoplastics in the Arctic.

D．Measures to solve microplastics pollution.

27、   Sensitive children are these special, observant people. They notice when you’re sad, and they ask why. They’re often old souls with big hearts who want to make other people happy. 【1】 Why?

Because they’re creative. Sensitive kids typically have incredible imaginations. 【2】 Their creativity shines through in all they do, ideas just come to them. They show a great appreciation for the arts and they’re inspired by the beauty they find in the world. They notice that tiny little caterpillar (毛虫) crawling on the sidewalk and the puffy (松软洁白的) clouds in the sky.

Because they’re supportive. 【3】 They believe in people and want to see them do well. They want to make the people they love happy. Sensitive people are often great listeners-they want to know people and understand what they’re thinking and feeling. They want to be there for you when you need them.

【4】 They can often bring another viewpoint to the table because they tend to think differently. They’re insightful and reflective-they like to take the time to be alone and spend time with their thoughts. They appreciate calm and quiet moments.

Because they’re strategic. Psychologist Dr. Elaine Aron and author of The Highly Sensitive Child says highly sensitive children are, “【5】” Their attention to detail is impressive and they think things through.

A.They’re dreamers.

B.Because they’re independent thinker.

C.Because they are emotional.

D.They’re going to do big things in this world.

E.They try to build up those around them, not tear them down.

F.They want to celebrate with them if they’re happy and excited.

G.Quick to grasp tiny changes and prefer to reflect deeply before acting.

28、   Starting the day on an egg could keep your blood pressure(血压) under control, research suggests. Scientists have shown that eggs produce proteins with a function similar to that of powerful blood pressure­lowering drugs.

The research, from the University of Alberta in Canada, showed that when eggs come in contact with stomach enzymes(酶) they produce a protein that acts in the same way as ACE inhibitors, but more work is needed to show the effects outside a lab and in the human body.

Earlier this month, British researchers declared that, contrary to popular beliefs, it is healthy to go to work on an egg. They concluded that the type of cholesterol(胆固醇) found in eggs has little effect on increasing heart disease risks.

Researcher Professor Bruce Griffin, from the University of Surrey, said, “The wrong beliefs linking egg­eating to high blood cholesterol and heart disease must be corrected. The amount of fat in our diet has an effect on blood cholesterol that is several times greater than the relatively small amounts of cholesterol found in eggs. The UK public do not need to be limiting the number of eggs they eat. They can be encouraged to include them in a healthy diet as they are one of nature's most nutritious foods.”

The British Heart Foundation dropped its three­egg­a­week limit in 2005. However, almost half of Britons believe the limit still applies.

【1】From the text we know that “ACE inhibitors” are________.

A.a kind of medicine B.a kind of protein

C.a kind of illness D.a kind of food

【2】According to what Professor Bruce said, eggs ________.

A.are the most nutritious food B.have no effect on blood cholesterol

C.can be included in a healthy diet D.are forbidden to be eaten in the UK

【3】The text is meant ________.

A.to introduce scientific findings about eggs

B.to introduce a medicine made from eggs

C.to tell people how to lower their blood pressure

D.to advise people to eat as many eggs as possible

29、   It is every kid’s worst nightmare and six-year-old Jaden Hayes has lived it - twice. Firstly, he lost his dad when he was four and then last month his mom died unexpectedly in her sleep.

“I tried and I tried and I tried to get her awake - I couldn't,” said Jaden. Jaden was understandably heartbroken.

But there was another side to his grief. A side he first made public a few weeks ago when he told his aunt, and now guardian, Barbara DiCola, that he was sick and tired of seeing everyone sad all the time. And he had a plan to fix it.

“And that was the beginning of it,” said Barbara. “That’s where the adventure began.”

Jaden asked his aunt Barbara to buy a bunch of little toys and bring him to downtown Savannah, Georgia near where he lives, so he could give them away.

“I’m trying to make people smile,” said Jaden.

Jaden targeted people who weren’t already smiling and then turned their day around. He’d go out on four different occasions now and he was always successful. Even if sometimes he didn’t get exactly the reaction he was hoping for.

It was just so overwhelming to some people that a six-year-old orphan would give away a toy- expecting nothing in return - except a smile.

“I’m counting on it to be 33, 000,” said Jaden. When asked if he thought he could make that goal, he answered, “I think I can.”

【1】Why did Jaden give the toys to other people?

A.Because he wanted to fix the toys.

B.Because he wanted to see more people.

C.Because he wanted to give the toys away.

D.Because he wanted to make people happy.

【2】What can we learn from the passage?

A.Jaden lived with his aunt.

B.Jaden targeted people who were not happy.

C.Jaden got nothing he wanted all the time.

D.Jaden was sick and tired of seeing everyone.

【3】Which of the following words can best describe Jaden?

A.Helpful and impatient. B.Creative and tricky.

C.Optimistic and courageous. D.Ambitious and greedy.

30、   A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s _______, she said she would go. This _______ be the first time that his classmates and teacher _______ his mother and he felt _______ of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar(疤痕) that _______ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to _______ why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were _______ by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother _______ the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed and _______ himself from everyone. He did, however, get within ________ of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked ________,“How did you get the scar on your face?”The mother replied, “________ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was ________ afraid to go in because the fire was ________, so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked ________ but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She __________ the burned side of her face. “This scar will be ________, but to this day, I have never ________ what I did.”

At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great ________ of the sacrifice(牺牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand ________ for the rest of the day.

【1】A. enjoyment B. disappointment C. surprise D. excitement

【2】A. would B. could C. should D. must

【3】A. noticed B. greeted C. accepted D. met

【4】A. sick B. ashamed C. afraid D. tired

【5】A. included B. passed C. covered D. shaded

【6】A. talk about B. think about C. care about D. hear about

【7】A. impressed B. surprised C. excited D. comforted

【8】A. in sight of B. by means of C. by way of D. in spite of

【9】A. hid B. protected C. separated D. escaped

【10】A. understanding B. reminding C. hearing D. learning

【11】A. carefully B. seriously C. nervously D. anxiously

【12】A. Because B. When C. Since D. While

【13】A. so B. much C. quite D. too

【14】A. out of control B. under control C. in control D. over control

【15】A. helpless B. hopeless C. senseless D. useless

【16】A. pointed B. showed C. wiped D. touched

【17】A. ugly B. lasting C. serious D. frightening

【18】A. forgot B. recognized C. considered D. regretted

【19】A. honor B. sense C. happiness D. pride

【20】A. quietly B. slightly C. tightly D. suddenly

31、I’d love to have been a journalist, But I wasn’t _________ enough. I was always able to write a good letter - I just couldn’t stare at a blank sheet of paper and _________ a story. But I went into advertising after university and _________ fell in love with it.

I always had the _________ of speech. I was schooled at the dinner table. My father used to   _________ arguments, saying we needed to learn how to make our case. It could get pretty _________ , At school I ended IP being captain of lots of things, not because I Was the best player but because I could _________ people to do things. I learnt that you don’t have to be the most academically _________ , or even the most original thinker- _________ is a big part of the battle. No wonder I felt at home in advertising.

People __________ to stay in one company almost for life; 1 was always looking for the next __________ to learn. I got into the advertising industry at Ogilvy, then went .to Grey to __________ experience on the Procter: & Gamble account, and to Y&R to get creative experience. It __________ me. new-business director. Later I started my own business, HHCL, which was an amazing __________

My next move will be to __________ all my skills in pioneering work. I know there is no end to learning. I will live and learn,

【1】

A．brave

B．serious

C．creative

D．humble

【2】

A．listen to

B．refer to

C．put up with

D．come up with

【3】

A．blindly

B．merely

C．immediately

D．hardly

【4】

A．gift

B．habit

C．secret

D．style

【5】

A．start

B．avoid

C．evaluate

D．support

【6】

A．funny

B．heated

C．simple

D．boring

【7】

A．get

B．beg

C．force

D．allow

【8】

A．strict

B．dependent

C．precise

D．bright

【9】

A．ambition

B．responsibility

C．honesty

D．communication

【10】

A．failed

B．tended

C．learned

D．refused

【11】

A．turn

B．reason

C．method

D．chance

【12】

A．gain

B．share

C．present

D．exchange

【13】

A．showed

B．made

C．offered

D．brought

【14】

A．solution

B．discovery

C．success

D．schedule

【15】

A．quit

B．reflect

C．employ

D．change

32、   One small mistake changed Sonia’s life. Now she is ______and tries not to miss any opportunities that come to her way.

One day, Sonia walked ______ a little boy, who wanted to buy crayons(彩色蜡笔), but he couldn’t ______them. He looked sad when he saw the money in Sonia’s hand. ______she didn’t realize he was in ______of help at all. Sonia ignored him and ______on her way home.

After reaching home, she told everything to her brother Gur. Gur told Sonia, “God had given you a(n) ______to help a boy, but you _____it. There’s a possibility that God was _____ you; maybe today would have become your big day of your life.” Hearing Gur’s words, Sonia ______back to the shop to find the boy but time never _____for anyone. Sonia got disappointed and returned home, continuously ______at herself. Why didn’t it come into her mind what Gur had ______? “Chances are everywhere, and all you need to do is _____them because they don’t always show up,” said Gur. Now what Sonia has missed is a chance that she can only ______.

On that day Sonia learnt the biggest ______in her life. Actually not only Sonia, but many of us ignore the chance of helping in ______ways because we always run after bigger ones. However, big opportunities do come but not every day. Therefore, ______small ones so that you can’t miss big ones. Sonia also ______to wait for big opportunities, but now she knows that with small that with small opportunities she can make big ______in her life.

【1】A.optimistic B.attentive C.enthusiastic D.fortunate

【2】A.by B.through C.over D.up

【3】A.arrange B.offer C.afford D.gain

【4】A.Thus B.Besides C.But D.And

【5】A.need B.honor C.favor D.search

【6】A.remained B.hurried C.hesitated D.continued

【7】A.direction B.opportunity C.urge D.duty

【8】A.missed B.doubted C.passed D.mistook

【9】A.punishing B.saving C.refusing D.testing

【10】A.rushed B.moved C.jumped D.stepped

【11】A.longs B.answers C.waits D.allows

【12】A.crazy B.hard C.surprised D.angry

【13】A.considered B.realized C.ordered D.learnt

【14】A.strike B.grab C.enjoy D.find

【15】A.experience B.upset C.regret D.forget

【16】A.lesson B.chance C.wisdom D.problem

【17】A.precious B.small C.easy D.efficient

【18】A.add B.supply C.practice D.observe

【19】A.wanted B.wished C.accustomed D.used

【20】A.sense B.deals C.fortune D.changes

33、   Everyone back home told me that one of the nicest things about college is the people you meet. They all assured me that I would ________ friendships that could last a lifetime. I would always smile and agree. Frankly, before I ________ college. I really didn’t care.

I lived in the ________ where six guys lived in two small connecting rooms. All my roommates seemed to be good guys, but I didn’t really try to get to know them.

I have always been rather quiet and never been able to make friends ________. I would always forget names after I met people. When we ________ again and they called out my name, I would reply with an ________ wave and a weak hello. This was how things went for the first month or so. After a while, things started to ________. A couple of my roommates would try and keep me talking. Soon, these two roommates and I started becoming fairly ________. We began going to the cafeteria together, ________ together, and meeting in the library to study.

One night my roommates invited me to listen to a fellow roommate’s practice with one of our college choir. They drove me across campus where my roommate was to ________.

It so happened that this was my birthday, but I had kept quiet about it. So you can imagine my ________ when we entered the recital hall and the 120-member choir began to sing “Happy Birthday” to me. ________ at the dorm, my friends held a small party for me, complete with a card and cake.

I was completely shocked, and I felt ________ to be able to call them friends. It was then that I realized that college means ________ the piece of paper you receive at the end — It’s an ________ in both life and people.

In

【1】A. form B. follow C. approach D. introduce

【2】A. leave out B. leave behind C. leave for D. leave aside

【3】A. dorm B. hotel C. inn D. canteen

【4】A. deliberately B. easily C. greedily D. merely

【5】A. attended B. emerged C. passed D. proposed

【6】A. splendid B. unique C. embarrassed D. upset

【7】A. turn B. worsen C. arise D. change

【8】A. intangible B. aggressive C. tiresome D. close

【9】A. exercising B. dropping C. rising D. kicking

【10】A. preserve B. perform C. settle D. serve

【11】A. surprise B. dislike C. disappointment D. bonus

【12】A. Away B. Down C. Back D. Out

【13】A. aware B. afraid C. sure D. proud

【14】A. more than B. rather than C. less than D. other than

【15】A. culture B. tradition C. custom D. education

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At the time they were created, the Impressionist paintings were【1】, but today they are accepted as the beginning of【2】we call “modern art’. This is because the Impressionists 【3】artists to look at their environment in new ways. There are scores of modern art styles, but 【4】the Impressionists, many of these painting styles might not exist. On the one hand, some modern art is abstract; that is, the painter doesn’t 【5】to paint objects as we see them with our eyes, 【6】instead concentrates on certain qualities of the object, 【7】color, line and shape to represent them. On the【8】hand, some paintings of modern art are so 【9】 that they look photographs. These styles are so different. Who can【10】what painting styles there will be in the future?

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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.

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、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.

38、某英文网站正在举办一个关于“Food & Culure”的征文活动。请根据下表内容提示写一篇短文。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.短文题目和首句已为你写好。

Chinese Dumplings and culture

Chinese dumplings or jiaozi,

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39、假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的英国朋友Jim要来北京参加一个汉语夏令营，想给自己起个中文名字，同时也想了解中国人起名字的习惯。请给他写封信，内容包括：

1. 介绍中国人起名字的习惯；

2. 给他起一个中文名字；

3. 说明起此名字的理由。

注意：

1. 开头和结尾已给出。

2. 注意合理分段。

Dear Jim,

It’s great to know that you are coming to Beijing. I’m more than happy to tell you something about our naming practice as well as find a nice Chinese name for you.

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Do feel free to let me know if you don’t like this name. I have loads of other Chinese names for you to choose. Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Yours,

Li Hua

40、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Human beings are smart. However, it seems that people are gradually losing their smartness as smartphones become more and more important assistants in their lives, reported news website Record Japan on Oct. 22. As we rely too much on technology instead of our brains, many people have lost three basic abilities, said the website.

The first skill many people have lost is remembering phone numbers. Because phone numbers are stored in smart phone contacts, there's no need to dial a number or look at it again.

And some people may also have lost their sense of direction because navigation apps can guide people anywhere they want to go. These apps can even find shortest routes for you and avoid traffic jams. But the worst lost skills may be social ones, meaning that some people are becoming socially inept(无能的）. People often bury themselves in their smart phones. As we're too addicted to what's happening in the virtual world, some of us have lost conversational skills and sometimes can't even tell whether a person is happy or not.

In August, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied 51 students aged 11 and 12 who had over five hours' screen time every day. Their task was to tell the emotions of 48 pictures of faces that were happy, sad, angry or scared. The children made an average of 14.02 mistakes at the beginning. But after a five-day camp without electronic (电子的) products, they made only 9.41 mistakes on average. “If you’re not practicing face-to-face communication, you could be losing important social skills,” concluded professor Yalda Uhls from the research.

Luckily, people still have a chance to get these abilities back. You should try to keep your parents' numbers in mind for emergencies. You should also pay more attention to street signs and stores, which will help you to draw a mind map and stop you from getting lost. And the easiest solution to social skill loss is to take a break from electronic devices because we are social creatures. We need device-free time.

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41、假定你是李华。你的留学生朋友Tom以前成绩很优秀。但由于骄傲和懒惰，最近他的成绩一落千丈。就此请你用英语给他写一封电子邮件，内容包括：

1.进行安慰；

2.给出劝告(不要骄傲，不忘初心)；

3.具体建议(努力复习，制定学习计划)。

注意：1.总词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

I feel sorry to know your grades have been slipping down .Because of your pride and laziness. But …

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