黄冈2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、_______ many of us today take the television for granted, it’s actually one of the greatest invention of the 20th century.

A. If B. Unless C. While D. Since

2、My new glasses cost me ______the last pair that I bought.

A．as much as three times

B．three times more than

C．three times as much as

D．as much three times as

3、With all of their work , the couple took a walk along the river, the beautiful scenery to relax.

A.accomplished; enjoyed B.accomplishing; enjoying

C.to accomplish; to enjoy D.accomplished; enjoying

4、If parents don’t teach their child how to ________himself，he will do anything at will.

A.behave B.believe C.help D.enjoy

5、The May Fourth Movement was launched in 1919 and its spirit ______ Chinese youth to make contributions to national rejuvenation ever since.

A. is motivating B. has been motivating

C. motivated D. was motivating

6、________ they are most interested in is ________ they can return to the campus life.

A．What； how

B．That； when

C．What； what

D．That； why

7、Some species of animals have died out because they could not _____ to a changing environment.

A．adopt

B．live

C．survive

D．adapt

8、Time should be made good use________our lessons well.

A．of learning

B．to learn

C．to learning

D．of to learn

9、It will not _____your notice that there have been some major changes in the company .

A. equip B. escape

C. enclose D. endanger

10、That dinner was the most expensive meal we       .

A.would have B.have had C.had never had D.had ever had

11、Had the governments and scientists not worked together , AIDS-related deaths _______ since their highest in 2005.

A. had not fallen B. would not fall

C. would not have fallen D. did not fall

12、It     to me that I might ask for help from my neighbour.

A.occurred B.occupied C.observed D.obsessed

13、—How come the front wheel of the truck has been ________？

—The load was too heavy.

A．in shape

B．out of shape

C．in work

D．out of work

14、The written record of our conversation doesn’t ______ what was actually said. There are a lot of mistakes.

A.correspond with B.relate to C.look into D.compare with

15、________vivid picture describes ________ very common phenomenon in our society.

A．The；/

B．The；a

C．A；the

D．A；/

16、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

17、In the _______ of proof, the police could not take action against the man.

A．lack

B．shortage

C．absence

D．failure

18、Please don't ________ these details to anyone else. Just keep them to yourself.

A.give out B.let out C.point out D.put out

19、Water covers 71% of Earth’s surface yet only 2% of it is_____ as a source of fresh water.

A.invaluable B.accessible C.valuable D.reasonable

20、We _____ for her because she never came.

A. mustn’t have waited B. shouldn’t have waited

C. mustn’t wait D. needn’t wait

21、He told us the news ___ our team had won the match .

A.which B.that C.why D.when

22、Nowadays many companies make it________for every job applicant to take a physical examination before they are employed.

A.incredible B.compulsory C.transparent D.controversial

23、The government   the diplomatic note from Japan for its unclear attitude to the trade between two countries.

A.denied B.refused C.rejected D.objected

24、On your way to New York William will keep you ________ if you don’t want to be lonely.

A．company

B．companion

C．safety

D．friend

25、Next after coffee, Americans are ______ to drink cola drinks, such as Coke or Pepsi, or other soft drinks.

A.possible B.likely C.probable D.truly

26、   Nowadays, we live in a strict and judgmental world where people are quick to point out the faults of others and yet seem to ignore their own ones. Some misguided souls believe they have a moral duty to help you be a better person telling you what a failure you really are.

If you're the one placing criticism upon others, please stop. Make a conscious decision, rather than focus on the negative aspect of a person's performance or attitudes, and you can offer helpful suggestions. If I'm painting a living room and making a mess in doing so, I'd have any husband say to me, "This is a tough job. Can I offer a suggestion that might make it easier for you?" rather than have him point out what a careless painter I am.

If you're on the receiving end of criticism, the "OK" response is a perfect solution. When someone comments negatively on a task you're doing, the natural response is to defend and attack. However, this approach is rarely effective as it puts both parties on the defensive. It diffuses a potentially explosive situation which might cause serious consequences. It's important to keep calm and listen without feeling, to be an objective observer. There is much that one can learn from a negative review. You can ask yourself: Could I have done better, and been more thoughtful? Did I give 100% of myself to the task at hand? Is there any truth in what the other person says? If so, how can I improve?

In any event, one should remember the saying, "Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning (指责) and you will not be condemned." One can learn to be "OK" with criticism and not allow it to negatively impact his or her relationship with the other party. Let it go and that will be "OK".

【1】According to the author, what would today's people like to do?

A.They ignore the mistakes of others.

B.They focus on how to handle mistakes.

C.They like to point out the mistakes of others.

D.They have a moral duty to help others with failure.

【2】What is the proper response to criticism in the author's opinion?

A.Paying no attention to it B.Learning something from it.

C.Making excuses for your mistakes. D.Defending and attacking.

【3】Which of the following best explains "diffuses" underlined in Paragraph 3?

A.spreads B.challenges C.reduces D.explains

【4】Which would be the best title for this passage?

A.Is criticism really necessaryin our relationships?

B.What can you learn from criticism?

C.What's the best way to voice criticism?

D.How to treat criticism as a giver and a receiver?

27、   What is the difference between a college and a university? This is a good question for students who want to attend a college or a university in the United States.

Colleges and universities have many things in common. Both provide a greater understanding of the world and its past. Both provide education in the arts and sciences. And both can help prepare young people to earn a living.

Students who complete their undergraduate studies either at a four-year college or a university receive a bachelor’s degree. One difference is that many colleges do not offer graduate studies.

Universities are generally bigger, offer more programs and do more research. Modern universities developed from those of the Middle Ages in Europe. The word “university” comes from the Latin “universitas”. This described a group of people organized for a common purpose. The word “college” comes from a Latin word with a similar meaning, “collegium”. In England, colleges were formed to provide students with places to live in. Usually each group of students was studying the same thing. So college came to mean an area of study. But a college can also be a part of a university. The first American universities divided their studies into a number of areas and called each one a college. This is still true.

Programs in higher learning may also be called schools. The University of Arizona in Tucson, for example, has 18 colleges and 10 schools. They include the colleges of pharmacy (制药学), education, engineering and law. They also include the schools of architecture, dance and public administration.

College is also used as a general term for higher education. A news report might talk about “college students” even if they include students at universities. Or someone might ask, “Where do you go to college?”

Today, most American colleges offer an area of study called liberal arts. These are subjects first developed and taught in ancient Greece. They include language, philosophy and mathematics. The purpose is to train a person’s mind instead of teaching job skills.

【1】The passage is probably written to ________.

A．persuade students to go to college instead of schools

B．tell students the differences between colleges and universities

C．help students make a better choice of what kind of colleges they should go to

D．inform students about how much they are going to spend in going to college

【2】According to the passage, which of the statements is TRUE?

A．Colleges and universities don’t have many similarities.

B．Colleges and universities are similar as students spend four years in both of them.

C．The word “college” comes from a Latin word meaning the students’ living places.

D．The words “universitas” and “collegium” both mean a group of people studying for a common purpose.

【3】When the term “college students” appears in a newspaper, it may refer to ________.

A．only students studying in colleges

B．students studying in colleges in the USA

C．only students studying in universities

D．students receiving higher education

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Both universities and colleges include different schools.

B．The purpose of liberal arts is to train a person’s job skill.

C．Both universities and colleges can help prepare students to make a living.

D．Most American universities have 18 colleges and 10 schools.

【5】The area of study called liberal arts is designed to ________.

A．get students ready to earn a living

B．teach students subjects from engineering to philosophy

C．help students achieve a stronger and clearer mind

D．encourage more students to begin the study of arts

28、The over 48,000 orange trees in Seville, Spain, not only fill the city’s air with the pleasant smell of orange blossoms in spring, but they also produce over 16,500 tons of fruit every winter. Though that makes the capital of southern Spain’s Andalusia region Europe’s top orange-producing city, the fruit is too sour to be consumed fresh. While some of the produce is used to make orange jam and an alcoholic drink, most of it ends up in Seville’s landfills (填埋场). However, that may change soon thanks to a clever idea to use the oranges to produce clean energy.

The trial program is being launched by the city’s council and park department in cooperation with Emasesa, Seville’s water supply and sanitation (卫生) division. Juice from 38. 6 tons of oranges will be left to ferment (发酵) in a specialized facility. The methane (甲烷) released from the fermented liquid will be captured and used to drive a generator to produce clean power. The officials estimate the test run will produce about 1,500 kWh of energy—enough to run one of Emasesa’s water purification plants. To ensure there is no waste, the orange skins, peels, and flesh will be used as fertilizer.

“It’s not just about saving money. The oranges are a problem for the city, and we’re producing added value from waste,” said Benigno Lopez, head of Emasesa’s environmental department.

If successful, by 2023, the city hopes to recycle all the oranges and add the electricity produced back into its power transmission network. In trial runs, one ton of oranges produced 50 kWh of clean energy—enough to cover the daily electricity needs of five homes. The project team estimates that if all the fruit is recycled, it will produce enough energy to power as many as 73,000 residences.

“This project will help us to reach our targets for reducing emissions, energy self-sufficiency, and the circular economy,” Juan Espadas Cejas, mayor of Seville, said in the press conference announcing the trial scheme.

【1】What do we know about oranges in Seville from the first paragraph？

A．They are usually picked in spring.

B．They are mostly used to make jams and juice.

C．They are not recommended to be eaten fresh.

D．They make Seville the world’s top orange-producing city.

【2】What is the second paragraph mainly about？

A．Different uses of oranges.

B．How to produce power from juice.

C．An introduction to the trial program.

D．Why the trial program was put forward.

【3】What can we infer from the passage？

A．Seville hasn’t carried out the trial program yet.

B．The electricity produced will be used to purify water.

C．The electricity produced will go to Seville’s power plants.

D．Seville may need to recycle 14,600 tons of oranges to power 73,000 homes.

【4】What is the best title for the text？

A．Seville Is Turning Waste into Wealth

B．Seville Is Seeking Market for Oranges

C．Seville Is Contributing to Global Warming

D．Seville Is Dealing with the Electricity Shortage

29、   Uggs(雪地靴) are certainly ugly, or at least inelegant. The shapeless boots, pulled on in a hurry, can make anyone look like a slob（懒惰的人）, which has made them the target of disrespect. It hasn’t been hard to find someone strongly condemning them. “Ugg boots are no sexy,” The Independent declared in 2003, “unless you’re Mrs. Bigfoot on a lone mission across Antarctic to find Mr. Bigfoot. When wearing the boots, a writer of The Gloss complained, “There’s nothing to indicate that you don’t have square, horrible shoeboxes in place of human feet.” In 2015, one coffee shop on Brick Lane in east London ever banned ugg-wearers.

And yet, over the years, plenty of strange and unattractive shoes have met with the approval of the fashion establishment. The problem with uggs wasn’t that they were ugly; it’s that they were common.

But a funny thing happened on the way to fashion’s tomb: the universal ugg has not gone anywhere. Uggs have quietly stayed here since their best time. Once you start paying attention, you’ll be shocked to discover how many people are still wearing them. They are worn by mothers in town and in the country, by teenagers on Saturday shopping trip and by people in fashion.

Perhaps the secret of uggs’s unstoppable success is that, if there is a dividing line between public appeal and private style，it might be a pair of cozy boots. They are certainly comfortable, soft and warm, as if your feet were in the hugging of someone who really loves you. At $150 a pair, they are neither cheap nor entirely out of range. They are casual and indulgent(纵容的）.

Somehow uggs, the boots that so many people hate, have managed to challenge the cruel logic of the fashion cycle and carry on whether you approve of them or not.

【1】What is the best title of the passage?

A.Uggs Refuse to Die

B.Uggs Have Existed So Long

C.Uggs Enter the Fashion Circle

D.Uggs Have Gone Somewhere

【2】Why does the author quote many media’s words in the first paragraph?

A.To prove uggs’ toughness

B.To prove uggs’s popularity

C.To prove people’s approval

D.To prove people’s condemning.

【3】What does the author think very strange?

A.Uggs are very common

B.Uggs are inelegant and ugly

C.Uggs are worn by teenagers

D.Uggs stay there regardless

【4】What is the secret to the success of uggs according to the passage?

A.They are very comfortable

B.They own private style

C.They have public appeal

D.They are very cheap

30、   Praveen and I had set off into the air at last. The______was just one part of our plan to fly around the world.

When we were flying over a mountain, our plane suddenly began to______and was in flames, but its body with both of us _____fell to the earth. Soon we found that it was an empty ____ with sea water around it.

We______to search a place for shelter since we ______knew when we could be rescued. We went up a hill and began to______a place with fresh water and some fruit trees nearby. Suddenly, we heard a(n) _____cry. I said to Praveen, “What ____ can be calling so strangely?” He said, “It might not be a bird. It may be a huge animal. Who______?” The cry was heard again and we saw a shadow coming closer. “Look out, Praveen!” I said. He was _____and shouted loudly like a ____ man. I was also afraid but I tried to catch the shadowy figure, To our______, it was a sheep. It almost frightened us to death.

We ______a place in between the fruit trees and the fresh water spring for_______a camp. We brought wood, dried grass and leaves from the nearby trees. In case of _____, we could go to the caves nearby. The cliffs could help us in ______the attention of any rescuing party.

Soon after two days, a helicopter _______us and we were rescued. This adventure was simply a brush with death but our _____, fearlessness and knowledge of islands kept us ____. We came to know that this island was called Topo.

【1】A.trip B.meeting C.task D.visit

【2】A.fly B.burn C.land D.turn

【3】A.safe B.asleep C.free D.strong

【4】A.village B.hill C.cave D.island

【5】A.promised B.happened C.needed D.continued

【6】A.never B.still C.always D.also

【7】A.depend on B.look for C.describe D.imagine

【8】A.warning B.small C.strange D.angry

【9】A.baby B.bird C.sheep D.rescuer

【10】A.cares B.hears C.wants D.knows

【11】A.quiet B.brave C.frightened D.worried

【12】A.stupid B.shy C.mad D.nervous

【13】A.surprise B.excitement C.sadness D.expectation

【14】A.shared B.chose C.saw    D.took

【15】A.showing off B.picking out C.giving out D.setting up

【16】A.danger B.injury C.sickness D.failure

【17】A.paying B.keeping C.attracting D.avoiding

【18】A.saved B.caught C.passed D.found

【19】A.chance B.help C.kindness D.courage

【20】A.awake B.busy C.alive D.lucky

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

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

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

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

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

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

【1】

A．looked

B．pulled

C．remembered

D．followed

【2】

A．top

B．valley

C．foot

D．gate

【3】

A．unattractive

B．unsafe

C．unfriendly

D．unfamiliar

【4】

A．escaped

B．screamed

C．prayed

D．slipped

【5】

A．ease

B．danger

C．humor

D．balance

【6】

A．served

B．retired

C．struck

D．barked

【7】

A．worked out

B．let out

C．picked out

D．broke out

【8】

A．presents

B．tastes

C．jobs

D．roots

【9】

A．countries

B．views

C．similarities

D．sufferings

【10】

A．scar

B．backpack

C．bell

D．spot

【11】

A．searched for

B．chased after

C．signaled to

D．negotiated with

【12】

A．magical

B．explicit

C．tiring

D．courageous

【13】

A．assumed

B．hung

C．said

D．recognized

【14】

A．adopted

B．adapted

C．attacked

D．attached

【15】

A．lost

B．complete

C．absurd

D．acid

32、   Some dreams take longer to come true than others, but with the help of 21st-century social media and her great-grandson, at the age of 110, one British woman is _________ hers at long last.  

At the end of World War I, Amy Hawkins was a 7-year-old child who loved nothing more than to _________. As a teen, Hawkins set her _________ on becoming an entertainer. Hawkins was on her way, touring the country with a dance troupe (歌舞团) — until her ambition was _________ by her mom, who didn’t see it as a respectable _________ for a young lady.

All these years later, the 110-year-old lady lives at home in Monmouth, South Wales, surrounded by her loved ones. The four-generation family unit includes her granddaughter, Hannah Freeman, and Freeman’s 14-year-old son, Sacha. Even though she’s no longer doing it _________, Hawkins has never stopped singing.

“She’s like a clock, once you wind her up she won’t stop,” Freeman said in an interview. “She just keeps asking, ‘Would you _________ another one?’.”

On Hawkins’ 110th birthday, Sacha _________ his great-gran singing one of her favorite WWI tunes. When Freeman jokingly suggested Sacha post it to TikTok, neither of them could have _________ the overwhelmingly positive response it would receive, reaching 100,000 views and a large number of emotional praises in just days.

Some journeys take longer than others. Sometimes, we’re detoured (绕路) along the way. Dreams can and do come true every day. While it’s been a long time coming, Amy Hawkins is ____________ a whole new generation of fans.

A．reflecting

B．realizing

C．recalling

D．researching

A．sing

B．study

C．paint

D．film

A．values

B．limits

C．sights

D．hands

A．cut back

B．cut in

C．cut through

D．cut short

A．method

B．grade

C．level

D．occupation

A．nervously

B．professionally

C．reasonably

D．secretly

A．bring

B．have

C．like

D．read

A．caught

B．videoed

C．reported

D．remembered

A．imagined

B．noticed

C．missed

D．suspected

A．entertaining

B．becoming

C．representing

D．inviting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

【12】A.just B.even C.ever D.still

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

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

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

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

【17】A.same B.special C.poor D.normal

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

【19】A.heart B.eyes C.ears D.soul

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

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

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.

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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.

AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high【1】 — as Christie’s becomes the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm. This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind. It was created by an【2】 intelligence, an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses. And when it went under the【3】 in the Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s on 23-25 October, Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for an【4】 $432,500, signaling the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage.

From a distance, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy looks almost plausible. Up close, however, the paintwork becomes a grid of mechanical-looking dots, the man’s face a golden blur with black holes for eyes. Look into those eyes. They show no sign of feeling or life. Did a computer make this?

The answer is yes. The first artwork【5】 by AI to be sold at Christie’s, its【6】 price would seem to suggest that in future we will get computers to make art for us. Robot van Gogh will harmlessly cut its ear off and robot Picasso will be a genius.

Is this the future AI art visionaries such as the French collective Obvious, which programmed this “painter” by getting it to compare its own work with 15,000 pre-20th century portraits, have in mind? Or are they just, God forbid, making a fast buck from deceivable art collectors? Because believing the algorithm that knocked this up to be in any meaningful way an “artist” is like thinking your voice-interaction programme is out to get you. Dream on. Computers would need to replicate human consciousness before they could replicate the funny thing humans do called “art”.

Art is a way in which human 【7】 expresses itself, and is equally true of the earliest cave art, Rembrandt’s portraits and Duchamp’s urinal. And that is what is missing from Portrait of Edmond Bellamy. Art is a way humans communicate ideas, perceptions and feelings to each other. It has no 【8】 outside the human passion to communicate. So in what meaningful sense can an AI replica of certain【9】 traits of old master paintings be called art?

For a robot to really make art, it would need an autonomous mind that was emotional as well as【10】. No AI developer has yet claimed to be anywhere near achieving that and if they ever do, their creation will probably have better things to do than paint portraits — like destroy humanity.

Maybe afterwards robots will invent their own kind of art, but it won’t be some poor pastiche of human genius.

It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.

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、假设你是李华，你喜爱的英语学习报Colorful English创刊五周年之际征集读者意见，请你根据以下内容给主编写封信，主要包括：

1. 说明你是该报的忠实读者

2. 说明该报优点：1）刊登国际新闻  2）提供音频二维码

3. 提出建议：增加外国文学欣赏

注意： 1. 词数100左右。

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：周年anniversary 二维码QR code

Dear Editor-in-Chief,

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39、假定你是校学生会主席李华。你校将于本周五组织全体学生参观中国科学技术馆( China Science and Technology Museum)。请代表学生会为校宣传栏写一则通知，内容包括：

1. 参观时间、目的；

2. 主要活动；

3. 其他事项。

注意：

1. 词数80左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Notice

To enrich our life, broaden our horizons and arouse our interest in science and technology,

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I have confidence that we will have a great time.

40、假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Alice在给你的邮件中提到最近在家里上网课，心理压力很大，很无聊而且苦恼，请回复邮件，内容包括：

1. 安慰对方；

2. 分析原因；

3. 给出建议。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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41、假定你是李华，美国笔友Dave为中国战胜新冠肺炎的壮举感叹万分！特地写信向你咨询如何在日常生活中预防新冠肺炎，请你以李华的名义给他写一封回信。包括要点如下：

1.对于国家战胜新冠肺炎后能胜利开学的感受。

2.就如何在日常生活中预防新冠肺炎给出你的建议。

参考词汇：新冠肺炎 COVD-19 口罩 The protective mask

注意：1.词数100左右。

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Dave,

Glad to hear from you!

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Yours

Li Hua