扬州2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、‘’There is   among Chinese people that no country or individual can can protect itself without intellectual property（知识产权）protection’’ Liu Xin said.

A.commitment B.criterion C.consensus D.competence

2、Tom assured (向……保证) his boss that he would _____ all his energies in doing this new job.

A. call forth B. call at

C. call by D. call off

3、________makes this shop different is that it offers more personal services .

A．What

B．Whatever

C．Who

D．Whoever

4、She ________ to clean out the spare room last week, but it was much too occupied at that time.

A. had intended B. was intended C. intended D. was intending

5、I found it difficult to ___________ getting up so early before, but I did finally managed.

A. be tired of B. be convinced of

C. be accustomed to D. be obsessed with

6、Mrs. Milton says she would like to share everything she has with others ____ are too greedy.

A. except those who B. except for those

C. but for who D. but those that

7、We can’t make out his ______ of the article because there are too many technical terms in it.

A. fiction B. abstract

C. claim D. principle

8、______ the late 18th century did the British explorer James Cook cross the Antarctica Circle, ______he never saw land.

A.Until, while B.Since, and C.Not until, but D.Although, yet

9、Which of the following sentences is WRONG?

A.There was a time when I hated going to school.

B.It is the first time that the girl has seen such an animal.

C.It is high time that we took some measures to deal with it.

D.Every time when we stopped,everybody would stare at us.

10、The father as well as his three kids ________ skating on the cold river every Sunday afternoon in winter.

A. goes B. go C. is going D. are going

11、The old man could buy nothing ______ .

A. with his money to steal B. with his money having stolen

C. with his money stealing D. with his money stolen

12、Not when and where we should meet, I telephoned our monitor for detailed information.

A. know   B. knew C. known   D. knowing

13、I suspect_____ Facebook has done to invade our privacy is only the beginning, _____ is why I am considering cancelling my account.

A.that, which B.that whatever, which C.that what, that D./, that

14、People were to find that some species were going extinct, which was a ______ trend.

A．astonishing; disturbing

B．astonished; disturbed

C．astonishing; disturbed

D．astonished; disturbing

15、_____I had more money, I could buy a car.

A.Only if B.If ever C.If only D.Even if

16、----Are there any English story books for us students in the library?

----There’re only a few, .

A. if some   B. if any

C. if many D. if ever

17、She was given a $1,000 ticket for ____________ the speed limit and a $ 230 ticket for disobeying a red light.

A. fetching B. exceeding

C. adjusting D. obeying

18、______ in the training, Marbury couldn't play in the basketball season.

A. Injuring B. Injure

C. Injured  D. To injure

19、The reason ______ girls outperform boys at all levels of education is ______ girls mature faster than boys and are more disciplined and conscientious.

A.why, because B.how, that C.how, because D.why, that

20、As is known to all, the Tower of London was as a matter of fact _______used to be a prison _______ some famous victims were held in.

A.where; where B.which; where C.that; what D.what; that

21、A new study ____the marmoset’s reputation for admirable community values. Researchers report that these caregivers share their food more generously with little ones in private than when they are surrounded by the watchful eyes of other community members.

A.shines B.damages C.affects D.protects

22、--Does the young man _____ there have possession of the company?

--No, The company is _____ his father.

A. standing; in the possession of B. stood; in the possession of

C. standing; in possession of D. stand; in possession of

23、With the availability of modern media, conversation _______ the face-to-face exchange of thoughts exists is disappearing.

A．when

B．which

C．in which

D．from which

24、______that you are grown up;you should no longer depend on your parents.

A.Since B.Now C.As D.Because

25、If we a table earlier, we couldn’t be standing here in a queue.

A. have booked B. booked C. book   D. had booked

26、   As smog forced students to stay home, the online learning industry saw a sharp increase in consumers.

During the air pollution red alert from Dec. 8 to 10 last winter, the Beijing Commission of Education ordered all kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools to suspend classes (停课). But the commission urged that, "Teachers should guide students to make full use of digital materials and conduct online learning at home".

According to the China Education and Research Network, the number of new users of 17zuoye. com, an online homework platform, tripled (增至三倍) on Dec. 8 compared to the previous day.

Online courses companies also adopted special measures to meet students' demand for Internet learning during the red alert period. For example, New Oriental offered free online English classes for three days for school students as well as online question answering services.

Recent years have seen the popularity of online courses increase sharply in China. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC), for example, originated in the United States but have become widespread in China since 2013. Some Chinese universities, including Tsinghua University and Peking University, have started their own MOOC platforms. "MOOCs have enlarged the time and space of teaching, fired up learners' interest, helped more people benefit from high quality educational resources and accelerated reform in many aspects of teaching," an official at the Ministry of Education told China Daily.

【1】What were the teachers required to do during the red alert period?

A. Start MOOC platform.

B. Reform their way of teaching.

C. Guide students to learn via the Internet.

D. Work at home answering phones.

【2】Who offered free online courses during the red alert?

A. New Oriental. B. The Ministry of Education.

C. Tsinghua University. D. Peking University.

【3】The underlined words "fired up" in the last paragraph can be replaced by.

A. displayed B. inspired

C. explained D. destroyed

【4】What may be the best title for the text?

A. Teach Online Courses

B. Stay Home, Get Online to Learn

C. Take Measures, Stop Air Pollution

D. Speed up Education Reform

27、   Many cities and towns have laws that require people to recycle paper and plastics. Now some state and local governments have passed laws that require citizens to recycle their food waste as well. California and Vermont have statewide laws about recycling food waste that apply to businesses and homes. The process of recycling food waste and turning it into usable soil is called composting (堆制肥料).

Food waste that can be composted includes fruit and vegetable peels, coffee grounds, tea bags, and eggshells. Garden waste such as stems and leaves can also be composted. Meat, fish, and dairy food waste cannot be recycled.

According to environmental groups, composting reduces the amount of trash going into landfills, and composted waste holds a wide range of nutrients (营养物). When compost is added to the soil in gardens and fields, it helps crops grow. 

Reducing the amount of waste that goes into landfills is one reason why cities and states are passing food-waste recycling laws. “Our landfills are far from enough for the creation of new ones is shrinking.” Renee Crowley, a project manager at the Lower East Side Ecology Center in New York City, told TFK.

Officials in Seattle, Washington, say that food waste makes up 30% of the trash going into landfills, and they are looking to reduce that percentage. That city has a law requiring people to recycle food waste. It is banned from all garbage. There is a fine (罚款) for people who put it into regular garbage.

Those who are against food-recycling laws say that the composting process is costly. In addition, it can be difficult for people who live in apartments to store their waste because they don’t have access to outside storage bins. Patti Ferguson from Orange County, California, told her local newspaper that she thought an indoor container containing food waste would get smelly.

【1】What do we know about composting from the text?

A.Leaves can’t be reused. B.Not all food waste can be composted.

C.It is cheap to compost food waste. D.It is usually processed in empty landfills.

【2】What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A.Benefits of recycling food waste. B.Ways of keeping nutrients in the soil.

C.Ways of reducing the amount of trash. D.Examples of different useful nutrients.

【3】In Seattle, throwing food waste into garbage is _____.

A.acceptable B.shameful C.required D.illegal

【4】What’s Patti Ferguson’s attitude towards food-recycling laws probably?

A.Thankful. B.Negative. C.Uncaring. D.Supportive.

28、   Think “art”. What comes to your mind? Is it sculptures in the Louvre, or Chinese painting in the Palace Museum? Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a dancing pattern of lights?

The artworks by American artist Janet Echelman look like colorful floating clouds when lit up at night. Visitors can not only enjoy looking at them, they can also interact with them — literally.

【1】 Exhibits such as these are certainly new and exciting, but are they really art?

Whatever your opinion, people have been expressing their thoughts through art with various tools and technologies for thousands of years. Yet Michelangelo and others have been labelled as “artists” rather than “technicians”. 【2】

Today, however, technological advances have led to a combination of art and technology. As a result, the art world is changing greatly. 【3】 Take for example one of China’s most famous paintings, Along the River During the Qingming Festival. As this artwork is rarely on display, people have sometimes queued a long time for a chance to see it. Thanks to technology however, millions more people have been able to experience a digital version of it with 3D animation.

【4】 Not only can we interact with art, but also take part in its creation. With new technological tools at our fingertips, more and more people have created exciting new art forms, such as digital paintings and videos.

However, such developments are making the line between art and technology less distinct. Is the artist the creator of the art itself, or the maker of the technology behind it?

【5】 But one thing is for sure — with so many artists exploring new possibilities, we can definitely expect the unexpected.

A.Now art is more accessible to us than ever before.

B.Where technology will take art next is anyone’s guess.

C.It’s not important whether they are artists or technicians.

D.They do this by using their phones to change their colors and patterns.

E.They watch as the different scenes change from daylight into nighttime.

F.The art-tech combination is also changing our concepts of “art” and the “artist”.

G.This means that art and technology have always been seen as two very separate things.

29、Over half of Tokyo’s residents don’t think the postponed 2020 Olympics should be held in 2021, backing either a further delay or complete cancellation because of fears for the coronavirus, according to a poll(民意调查) published on Monday.

The survey carried out by two Japanese news organizations is only a single data point, but comes after health experts warned that even a year’s delay may not be enough to hold the Games safely.

The poll found 51.7 percent of respondents hope the Games in 2021 are postponed again or canceled, while 46.3 percent want to see the rescheduled Olympics go ahead. Among those opposed to the 2021 Games, 27.7 percent said they want them canceled altogether, while 24 percent would prefer a second postponement.

The telephone poll, conducted by Kyodo News and Tokyo MX television between Friday and Sunday, received 1,030 replies. Of those who said they want to see the Games held in 2021, 31.1 percent said the event should be on a smaller scale, while 15. 2 percent said they want to see fully developed Olympics.

Tokyo 2020 was postponed in March as the coronavirus spread across the globe, causing the worst disruption(中断) to the Olympics since two editions were canceled during World War II. The Games are now scheduled to begin on July 23, 2021, although they will still be known as the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Officials from Japan and the International Olympic Committee(IOC) have warned that it will not be possible to postpone them again, and even the year-long delay has created significant financial and logistical(后勤的) headaches.

Earlier in June, the mayor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike told AFP that the rescheduled Olympics will be safe despite the coronavirus pandemic, promising to make a “120-percent effort” to ensure the first-ever postponed Games can go ahead. Koike has been heavily involved in preparations for the Games, traveling to Rio for the handover ceremony after the last Summer Olympics.

【1】What can we learn about the poll from the text?

A．It lasted two days in total.

B．It was conducted by the IOC.

C．It was carried out on the phone.

D．It aimed to evaluate the safety of the Games.

【2】Which is one of the results of the survey?

A．About 533 respondents don’t want to see the Games held in 2021.

B．There are more respondents hoping to delay the event rather than cancel it.

C．Over half of the respondents would like to see the delayed Games go ahead.

D．Some respondents support delaying the event because they need full-scale Olympics.

【3】Why are the Games unlikely to be put off again according to the IOC?

A．The athletes are strongly opposed to it.

B．COVID-19 will be under control soon.

C．They have made full preparations for them.

D．It will be too costly to bear a second time.

【4】What is Yuriko Koike’s attitude towards the Tokyo Olympics in 2021?

A．Disappointed.

B．Optimistic.

C．Worried.

D．Indifferent.

30、   Kids who live a happy childhood dream about what they will be when they grow up. But less____kids, who live in poverty, sometimes wonder why they were bom in the first place.

Children like these ____ Lebanese director Nadine Labaki^s new film Capernau(《何以为家》),which arrived in Chinese mainland____ on April 29 , 2019.

In the slums (贫民窟)of Beirut, Lebanon's capital, Labaki saw kids selling gum or flowers or ____carrying heavy gas tanks. Some of them were alone on the street , unfed and __

One of these kids told her, "I don't know ____I was bom if no one is going to love me, if no one is going to ____ me before I go to sleep, or if Fm going to be beaten up every day. ”

This is how Capernaum begins: A 12-year-old boy named Zain9 who lives in one of Beirut's slums, charges his parents for giving ____ to him, even though, he says, they knew they couldn't ____ him.

Capernaum is fictional but ifs as ____ as it gets. There are no ____actors in this film. Zain, for example, is __ by a boy with the same name, a Syrian refugee (难民)called Zain Al Rafeea. He had never slept in a ____ before the film, or gone to schooL He didn't even have papers to ____ he was a human being --just like his character in the film.

By making the film, Labaki wanted to "become the voice of these kids",, according to The Guardian. The voice is being heard. It ran first at Cannes Film Festival in May, 2018, and ___ the Jury Prize. Soon after the festival, under the ___of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Zain and his family got the chance to resettle in Norway. They now live in a house by the sea, and Zain is going to schooL

When Labaki told The New York Times that she wanted the film "to go beyond the borders of just being a film” and be "a ____ for help" , she wasn't ____ how big an impact it would have. “I might never get anywhere, but ____ I want to try," she said.

But she has certainly gone somewhere indeed 一 to say the least, the real-life Zain isnow able to ____ his future.

【1】A. fortunate B. optimistic C. attractive D. desperate

【2】A. urged B. produced C. watched D. inspired

【3】A. audiences B. cinemas C. houses D. hearts

【4】A. ever B. more C. even D. otherwise

【5】A. ashamed B. violent C. hopeless D. independent

【6】A. why B. how C. where D. whether

【7】A. help B. call C. guide D. kiss

【8】A. poorness B. birth C. pressure D. unhappiness

【9】A. put up with B. care for C. look on D. pay attention to

【10】A. beneficial B. interesting C. true D. simple

【11】A. typical B. proper C. ambitious D. professional

【12】A. played B. moved C. encouraged D. selected

【13】A. bed B. village C. street D. tent

【14】A. write B. witness C. argue D. prove

【15】A. expected B. won C. deserved D. shared

【16】A. desire B. control C. support D. agreement

【17】A. sign B. love C. promise D. cry

【18】A. concerned B. sure C. aware D. doubtful

【19】A. at least B. now and then C. on the whole D. all in all

【20】A. decide on B. go through C. dream about D. keep up

31、As I sat motionless on the steps of the pool, watching everyone else swim back and forth, I realized that I had spent most of my life watching others enjoy themselves. It was then that I ____ a little girl staring at me with a look of confusion. I smiled at her, hoping to ______ the ice by talking to her. Unfortunately, my ______ failed and she just kept on staring. My ______ increased as a little boy swam up to me and said, “I feel sorry for you.”

After the ______ by chance, a thought struck me. I had to change ______ the world viewed me. Because it was children who stared at me the most, I decided to write a children’s book that taught them about ______ in a fun way. This is when KatGirl, a super hero in a ______ who helps children that are being bullied, came into my mind.

I quickly ______ inside my apartment and began creating the story. As I wrote each word, I could ______ my future as a world-famous author and public speaker. My excitement ______ like wildfire. Over the next two years, the story ______ many changes before it saw the world in the spring of 2011. My insistence ______ paid off.

One day I was invited to speak to the students at a neighboring school. I confidently wheeled into a classroom filled with students who ______ at me just like the little girl in the pool. “How do you feel when you see me?” I asked them. The kids bravely ______ , “ I feel sorry for you.”

I opened my book and started reading. Immediately I noticed the children’s stares turned to ____. “ How do you feel when you see me?” I asked again. Without ______ they replied, “ You are so cool! Does your ______ fly too?” I just smiled, “No, not yet, but maybe some day.” I knew in my heart that this was ______. The past two years had proven to me that with ______ anything is possible.

【1】A. suggested   B. watched   C. noticed   D. appreciated

【2】A. forget   B. break   C. remove   D. deliver

【3】A. attempt   B. project   C. anger   D. advice

【4】A. relief   B. confidence   C. encouragement   D. awkwardness

【5】A. meeting   B. competition   C. argument   D. interview

【6】A. what   B. when   C. why   D. how

【7】A. potentials   B. disabilities   C. paintings   D. manners

【8】A. wheelchair   B. pool   C. car   D. spaceship

【9】A. walked   B. wheeled   C. rushed   D. raced

【10】A. regard   B. realize   C. picture   D. consider

【11】A. spread   B. folded   C. recovered   D. declined

【12】A. went through   B. turned down   C. looked up   D. got around

【13】A. generally   B. carefully   C. separately   D. eventually

【14】A. called   B. glimpsed   C. laughed   D. stared

【15】A. greeted   B. responded   C. agreed   D. continued

【16】A. doubts   B. jokes   C. tears   D. smiles

【17】A. discussion   B. hesitation   C. intention   D. imagination

【18】A. body   B. dream   C. chair   D. book

【19】A. impossible   B. strange   C. true   D. false

【20】A. determination   B. generosity   C. popularity   D. harmony

32、Shamarr Allen was sleepy at home one evening last July when he was shocked awake by a TV news item. There had been a _____ among a group of children in the slum of New Orleans.

_____ from the city's slum, Allen is one of the most celebrated jazz trumpeters   in the city. After seeing the________ news that morning, it didn't take long for Allen to_________ a possible approach. He had a few spare _________lying around Maybe he could offer them to kids in exchange for their guns.

Allen named the____My Trumpet Is My Weapon—after all, it was something of a _____ to release personal emotions, that _____me and redirected my path was a trumpet and the music.' Allen says He met with the New Orleans mayor to figure out how to make children feel _____ handing over their guns to the police.

Allen has collected seven guns so far, a small but symbolically important _____. But he doesn't stop with the____of gun tor instrument. After the exchanges, Allen connects the children with local ______who give them tree virtual trumpet lessons.

More importantly, he has brought hope for his city and young people ____ a better life. "I just say, 'Look. I come from where you come from, and I can show you the ____ that got me out,' says Allen. "And ______ may not be the way for you, but it will at least open your mind to see what's out there.”

【1】

A．cheering

B．gathering

C．shooting

D．hunting

【2】

A．Surprisingly

B．Originally

C．Accidentally

D．Unfortunately

【3】

A．humorous

B．imaginary

C．comic

D．sad

【4】

A．hit on

B．insist on

C．count on

D．focus on

【5】

A．coins

B．carpets

C．toys

D．trumpets

【6】

A．experience

B．program

C．news

D．gun

【7】

A．dream

B．stage

C．channel

D．framework

【8】

A．shamed

B．praised

C．saved

D．ruined

【9】

A．safe

B．excited

C．awkward

D．depressed

【10】

A．start

B．conclusion

C．ceremony

D．memorial

【11】

A．sales

B．repairs

C．destructions

D．exchanges

【12】

A．composers

B．musicians

C．officials

D．instructors

【13】

A．scared of

B．confused about

C．looking for

D．bringing out

【14】

A．way

B．advice

C．warning

D．commitment

【15】

A．knowledge

B．music

C．wisdom

D．hope

33、   I was at the market at 5 pm, the worst time of day to shop, to pick up a few___________: cream for coffee, eggs for breakfast and Advil for my headache.

I had been___________all day doing jobs for people. I did not want to be shopping, to say the___________. But I told myself it was my last stop before going home to___________my feet. So I___________a parking place, grabbed a bag from the trunk and found a shopping cart.

The market was not as crowded as I had expected. I___________a package of linguini and some pesto. That's when I saw her. She was sitting in a shopping cart. She looked to be maybe 9 months old. Short blond curls, blue eyes. A white lace dress and shiny black shoes. I couldn't take my eyes off her. Then I did what I always do with children: I gave her my best___________. I may have looked a bit ________, but it came from my heart. That is a___________I formed long ago when I became a mother. It started with my first child, in that unforgettable, life-changing moment of her birth.

At times my smile would____________to a look of fear or____________, but it never left my face for long. It always came back, even through____________. I've learned that everyone needs a smile sometimes, young and old, friends and strangers, even strangers at the market in a rush to get home.

She took her____________deciding just what to____________my smile. But finally she____________. I laughed and waved goodbye. And she blew me a kiss. That put a smile on my face that got a smile____________from every shopper I passed. I was still smiling when I got home and realized I had forgotten to get Advil. Luckily, I didn't need it. My____________was gone. ____________in that simple exchange of smiles, this weary old world became a better place.

Want to change the world. Give smiling a____________. Someone will smile back at you. I____________it. If you're lucky, maybe they'll even blow you a kiss and make your headache go away.

【1】A.produces B.essentials C.items D.categories

【2】A.pushing B.rushing C.occupying D.engaging

【3】A.best B.most C.least D.last

【4】A.put down B.put up C.put away D.put forward

【5】A.navigated B.spotted C.rented D.scored

【6】A.grabbed B.seized C.grasped D.bought

【7】A.gesture B.smile C.expression D.gift

【8】A.mad B.scary C.cautious D.casual

【9】A.custom B.behavior C.habit D.practice

【10】A.change B.fade C.transform D.vanish

【11】A.amusement B.embarrassment C.worry D.astonishment

【12】A.tears B.triumphs C.effects D.struggle

【13】A.effort B.time C.trouble D.pain

【14】A.stand for B.account for C.make out D.make of

【15】A.lit up B.looked up C.cleared up D.came up

【16】A.in vain B.in exchange C.in return D.on purpose

【17】A.stress B.anxiety C.headache D.pressure

【18】A.Somehow B.Somewhat C.Anyway D.Anyhow

【19】A.necessity B.kiss C.shot D.permission

【20】A.acknowledge B.confirm C.value D.guarantee

34、Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Why Cold weather Causes So many Flight Cancellation?

Each year, about 60,000 flights get canceled because of bad winter weather, which costs airlines and airports an estimated $3 billion. But it’s not the freezing cold temperatures that cause problems for planes. After all, 【1】 jets fly 10 kilometers up, where temperatures hover around -50 degrees Celsius.

In fact, planes 【2】 in cold weather, since cold air is denser and leads to better thrust. Clearly, the real problem isn’t what’s going on up there. It’s what’s happening on the ground.

When a 【3】 polar vortex (极地涡旋) struck the Midwestern US in January 2019, temperatures dropped to -40 degrees Celsius and airline canceled 3,000 flights nationwide. In these situations, when temperatures start 【4】, everything slows down. Cargo doors can freeze up, along with the nozzles that pump fuel into planes, which delays the 【5】 process.

Even the plane itself can freeze over. Just a quarter-inch - thick layer of ice on a plane can disrupt the way air flows over its wings.

Les Westbrooks: The number one reason, I would say, that the reason flights get delayed in cold weather is going to be because there’s some kind of frozen precipitation, from frost to snow to a sheet of ice, adhering to the aircraft, adhering to the wings of the aircraft 【6】.

That’s Les Westbrooks, a retired airline pilot and an associate professor of aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He says that 【7】, these planes are “de-iced” - but this also delays takeoff. The crew can spray the plane with a special hot water/ glycol mixture. It can take around 40 minutes to de-ice large passenger airplanes, so planes often have to wait “their turn” for the de-icing station, which, of course, can trigger more delays.

And ice on the runway, of course, creates another set of 【8】. In 2014, a plane at JFK skidded off an icy runway and into a mound of snow, leading to an hours-long shutdown at the airport. And even though crews can remove ice from the runway, scraping it off the pavement can lead to potholes (坑洞) and other 【9】, which makes takeoffs and landings more dangerous. And of course, snow and freezing rain on the ground can affect visibility to the point where officials have to decide it’s not safe to fly at all.

But if ice and snow aren’t the problem in these extremely cold temperatures, it’s usually another factor: people.

Les Westbrooks: The airplane flies at high altitudes, -60 degrees. It’s made to do that. Humans are not made to be outside in -60 degrees weather. And so the human factor becomes a big, big factor, when it becomes extremely cold.

Baggage handlers, aircraft fuelers, and mechanics all have to stay warm. Some airports, like O’Hare in Chicago, set up heated shelters for their employees. Of course, with everyone taking breaks to warm up, not as much gets done, which leads to even more delays and cancellations. Passengers start missing their 【10】 flights, and that, along with passengers who can’t make it to the airport due to bad road conditions, leads to half-empty planes.

In fact, many airlines might preemptively cancel flights before bad weather even hits. So, in the end, you can still blame cold weather for cancelling your flight.

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

A

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

B

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

C

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

36、阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Everyone has their own unique fingerprint; 【1】 makes fingerprints an ideal way to unlock smartphones. However, this may be 【2】 (safe) than we think.

Scientists at New York University and Michigan State University in the US have developed a set of fake fingerprints. They say that the prints 【3】 unlock any fingerprint-enabled smartphone up to 65 percent of the time.

The artificial fingerprints 【4】 (create) by using many common features found in human prints. They work 【5】 taking advantage of the way smartphone scanners check a fingerprint.

The fingerprint scanners   【6】 (use) in smartphones are so small that they only read parts of fingerprints. So they have to take many scans of your finger or thumb (拇指) 【7】 they work properly. Smartphones also let users save several finger and thumbprints. Since a print only has to match one of the saved images 【8】 (unlock) the phone, the scanner is more likely to make mistakes.

Although the scientists have only tested their findings in computer simulations (模拟), 【9】 (worry) about the safety of using fingerprints are reasonable .They warn that the technology used to create artificial fingerprints is improving   【10】 (extreme) fast.

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、假如你是校学生会主席李华，学校计划请专家就皮肤烧伤的急救安排一活动，为此请你在校园网上用英语发一则书面通知呼吁同学们参加，内容包括：

1. 时间、地点和目的；

2. 活动的内容；

3. 你的呼吁。

注意： 

1、词数80左右；

2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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39、假定你是高三学生李华，你的澳大利亚朋友Lucy发邮件问你未来的职业规划。请你回复邮件，内容包括：

1.你的职业规划；

2.选择该规划的理由；

3.询问对方的意见。

注意：1.词数80词左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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40、请根据你对以下漫画的理解，以“The Effects of AI on Our Lives”为题，用英语写一篇150词左右的短文。

参考词汇：

AI（artificial intelligence 人工智能）efficiency （效率）

（写作内容）

1.   用约30个单词描述上述漫画的内容；

2.   结合实际谈谈人工智能对我们生活可能造成的影响（至少两点）；

3.   面对人工智能的发展，我们应该如何合理使用？（至少两点）

（写作要求）

1. 可参照图片适当发挥；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

The Effects of AI on Our Lives

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41、假如你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的英国朋友Jim得知你要参加CCTV《朗读者》节目的录制，来信询问相关情况。请你给Jim回信。内容包括：

1.你朗读的内容；

2.你选择上述内容的原因；

3.上述内容对你的影响。

注意：1.词数不少于50；

2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jim,

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Yours,

Li Hua