琼海2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、_________, I’ve never seen anyone who’s as capable as Kate.

A. As long as I have travelled B. Now that I have travelled so much

C. As I have travelled much D. Much as I have travelled

2、New technologies have make _______ possible to turn out new products faster and at a lower cost.

A.that B.this C.one D.it

3、After a long discussion, we finally ______ a plan that sounded practical.

A. came across B. came about

C. put up with D. came up with

4、Had I not got injured last week，I___________ the 2019 Yangzhou Jianzhen Half Marathon tomorrow.

A.would have run B.would run C.will have run D.will run

5、________ and out of breath, we reached the top of the mountains and stopped ________ the beautiful scenery.

A．Tiring; to admire

B．Tiring; admiring

C．Tired; admiring

D．Tired;to admire

6、Do you _______ to her pessimistic view of the state of the economy?

A.contribute B.subscribe C.appeal D.subject

7、She couldn't help _______ into tears when she heard the news.

A.burst B.bursting C.bursts D.to burst

8、His election campaigns were infamous for their cruelty — he often made sure that those who did not vote for him would never vote again — but the ________ of his involvement has never been clear.

A．vision

B．vulnerability

C．depth

D．misconception

9、You have to be accurate in this job, because a small mistake can make a big .

A. difference   B. difficulty C. trouble   D. change

10、Not until I went up further ________ that under the tree ________, obviously sound asleep.

A．that I saw; did a boy lie

B．I saw; lay a boy

C．did I see; did a boy lie

D．did I see; lay a boy

11、Hardly the papers on the desk when the door burst open.

A.did he collect B.he collected

C.had he collected D.he had collected

12、—Can I help you, sir？

—Yes, I bought this radio here yesterday, but it________.

A.didn’t work B.won’t work

C.can’t work D.doesn’t work

13、There can be no doubt ___ he is fit for the job .

A.whether B.that C.which D.on which

14、The park was ___ with lawns, trees, fountains and a big lake in the center.

A. laid off B. laid out

C. laid down D. laid aside

15、—What a shame! You missed my birthday party!

—I’m terribly sorry, dear. Believe me, if I could have afforded the time, I _________.

A.would B.should C.would have D.should have

16、When________ why he was sent there, he said he was sent there ________ for a space flight.

A．asking, being trained

B．asked, to be trained

C．to ask, trained

D．asked, training

17、To join the club, you have to ________ buy a minimum of six books a year.

A.undertake B.vote C.postpone D.evolve

18、It won’t be easy to defeat the novel coronavirus (新冠病毒), but if we ______, we will succeed in the end.

A.hang up B.hang about C.hang on D.hang out

19、It is a truth well known to all ______China has become one of the strongest countries in the world.

A.where B.which C.that D.who

20、He suggested we set off for the station immediately. _________ , we will miss the the train.

A.Therefore B.Meanwhile C.However D.Otherwise

21、Each application should be ______ by a stamped addressed envelope.

A.stored B.accompanied C.bought D.kept

22、The Sundance Film Festival boycotts Hollywood films and this can serve as an indicator of the sponsors values now and in the past.

A.that B.where C.how D.what

23、Neither believe nor reject anything because any other person has rejected or believed it. Which of the following differs from the statement in meaning?

A.Do not accept blindly other people’s likes or dislikes without careful independent thought.

B.One must think for oneself rather than simply seek agreement with others.

C.Don’t express your opinion hastily on anything others have commented on carefully.

D.We shouldn’t be influenced by others’ opinions easily while making our own judgement.

24、As a writer of several best-sellers, she has both style and humor _______.

A．at her mercy

B．at her command

C．in her defence

D．on her behalf

25、After the dinner party, most guests left, with only two of them _______ in the host family, ______ him clear up.

A. remaining; helped B. remaining; helping

C. remained; helped D. remained; helping

26、   Toni Morrison was an American writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her novels. Beloved, Song of Solomon and others explored the way African-Americans search for freedom and identity in a country obsessed with skin color. Morrison was nearly 40 when she published her first novel The Bluest Eye in 1970. The Nobel Prize committee described her writing as language itself, a language she wants to liberate from race. Her novels discussed America's past, focusing on black history and the effects of slavery and racism. She culled her characters “the unfree at the heart of the democratic experiment”.

In 1988, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, the story of a mother who kills her baby daughter rather than permit  her to be born  into slavery. It became a best-seller and was later made into a film with Oprah Winfrey. Many Americans admired her as the country's greatest living writer, including former President Barack Obama.

She was born in 1931. She attended Howard University, an all-black university in Washington, D. C. At Howard, she read African. British and American literature, including writers William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. After a short marriage, she became a single mother of two sons and worked as a book editor in New York.

Several publishers rejected her first book The Bluest Eye but it impressed The New York Times' book critic John Leonard, who believed Morrison was an important new voice. He said her writing was “so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”.

Morrison enjoyed her literary fame and was proud of her Nobel Prize.

【1】What are Toni Morrison's books mainly about?

A.Women's equality and rights. B.The development of America.

C.The literature of America. D.American history and racism.

【2】Which of the following helped Toni Morrison receive the Pulitzer Prize?

A.Beloved. B.Song of Solomon.

C.The Bluest Eye. D.The New York Times.

【3】Why is former President Barack Obama mentioned?

A.To show Barack Obama's support in literature.

B.To prove Toni Morrison' greatness as a writer.

C.To stress Toni Morrison' contribution to America.

D.To remind readers of the skin color of Barack Obama.

【4】What can we infer from John Leonard's words?

A.He thought highly of Morrison. B.He rejected the book The Bluest Eye.

C.The book The Bluest Eye made him painful. D.Toni Morrison's book was hard to understand.

27、It’s clear that COVID-19 conditions have affected people’s stress levels, sleep, and mental health. This, in turn, has led to our poorer performance on tasks that require attention, memory, or decision making. 【1】 Here are some steps you can take to clear the fog away.

Be more intentional about consuming news.

Nowadays we’re exposed to the ever-changing recommendations around COVID. Many social media make their money by grabbing our attention. 【2】 To reduce stress and keep sharp, you can cut down your media consumption and be more intentional about news.

Exercise regularly—outside, if you can.

【3】 When we exercise, we encourage blood flow through our bodies. If you have a park or open space nearby, try spending some time moving in green spaces. Research confirms that being out in more natural settings is helpful for our well-being and cognition.

【4】

The lack of socializing during COVID lockdowns may have been particularly hard on people’s cognition. A recent review of many studies confirms that socializing is important for keeping yourself cognitively fit. So, it’s a good idea to try to be with others to keep your brain functioning well.

Try new challenges.

While many of us have been tough during the pandemic years, we can do something good for our brains at any time: learn new things. 【5】 Whether there’s a pandemic on or not, using your brain in new, challenging ways is good for neural health. Including new things into your everyday routines could give your brain a fun workout.

A．Stay connected with others.

B．Look through the social websites.

C．But repeated exposure to crises does harm to our well-being.

D．Getting exercise, on the other hand, is often tied to better cognition.

E．Many of us are paying the cost of the pandemic in the form of “brain fog”.

F．One of the best tools for fighting depression and thinking more clearly is exercise.

G．Some people have learned to play a new instrument, write poems, or build furniture.

28、At Englands University of Plymouth, Professor Eduardo Miranda has been programming pairs of robots to compose music. Miranda's robots have simple “ vocal cords”(声带)and are programmed to sing and to listen to each other. The robots' unique warbling sounds (颤音) do not perfectly match the human voice, but each machine is exactly sharing music with the other in a new and unique way.

Each robot is equipped with speakers, software that mimics the human voice, a mouth that opens as it “sings,” a microphone for ears, and a camera for eyes. The robots also move. Miranda hopes that by studying his robot vocalists, he can discover something about how and why humans create, perform, and listen to music.

When the robots sing, first one robot makes six random sounds. Its partner responds with more sounds. The first robot analyzes the sounds to see if their sequences (序列)) are similar. If they are, it nods its head and commits the sounds to memory, and the second robot notices and “memorizes” the musical sequence, too. If the first robot thinks the sounds are too different, it shakes its head and both robots ignore the sounds. Then the process continues.

Miranda set up an experiment in which he left the two robots alone in his study for two weeks. When he returned, his little warblers had, by imitating each other, not only shared notes but combined them. The product of their cooperation was far from symphonic, but the robots had begun to combine the notes into their own self-developed “songs”.

With the help of his warbling robots, one of Miranda's goals is to create music that no human would ever compose. Miranda believes the robots are ideal for this purpose because they would not be influenced by any existing musical styles or rules.

【1】Which is closest in meaning to the underlined word “mimics” in Paragraph 2?

A．Substitutes.

B．Interrupts.

C．Controls.

D．Copies.

【2】What did the two robots do during Miranda's experiment?

A．They interacted with each other.

B．They ignored the unique sound.

C．They learned to sing better than humans.

D．They committed random sounds to memory.

【3】What does Miranda want his robots to do?

A．Sing as well as humans do.

B．Create new styles of music.

C．Memorize a variety of music.

D．Promote traditional musical forms.

【4】What is the text mainly about?

A．Future robots.

B．Special songs.

C．Music by robots.

D．Experiments by Miranda.

29、   Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!

In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled （Cowboy）, was sold for $ 1, 248, 000.

Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs”- a loose term given to everything from discarded（丢弃的） prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams； new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.

Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion （捍卫）found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper an angry note intended for someone else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such a poster discovered in our drawer.

The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such as Richard Prince, may raise endless possibilities. What was the cowboy in Prince’s Untitled doing? Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It’s anyone’s guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have grouped, we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?

In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.

【1】The first paragraph of the passage is used to________.

A.remind readers of found photographs

B.advise reader to start a new kind of business

C.ask readers to find photographs behind sofa

D.show readers the value of found photographs

【2】According to the passage, Joachim Schmid________.

A.is fond of collecting family life photographs

B.found a complaining note under his car wiper

C.is working for several self-published magazines

D.wondered at the artistic nature of found photographs

【3】By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate________.

A.memory of the past is very important to people

B.found photographs allow people to think freely

C.the back-story of found photographs is puzzling

D.the real value of found photographs is questionable

【4】The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as________.

A.critical B.doubtful C.optimistic D.satisfied

30、   I visited my mom in New York City—her job had taken her there for a year. Because of my birthday she had me fly there to spend a long weekend with her. No _________ with my mom would be complete without her _________ me to clothes shops. So it was no great _________ to find myself in a department store outside a _________ room.

At that time, a woman came out with a red sleeveless evening gown. She was a completely _________ woman, neither fat nor thin, who looked slightly _________ at the end of a long day.

As most women _________ to do, despite the fact that we were _________, I gave my opinion on the dress as she asked. The dress fitted her well and _________ her a nice shape, but she was worrying it showed too much of her upper arms. I __________ her that it was a comfortable formal dress __________ she looked wonderful on it. Just then her daughter and husband came. When they saw her, their eyes __________ with joy and her young daughter said she looked like a __________, completely overjoyed by how beautiful her mother was. However, she still wasn’t quite __________ it suited her. I asked her to look at her family __________ and asked if she could see how beautiful they thought she was. When she finally saw her daughter so excited and that her husband was __________ her, tears came to her eyes.

She gave me a __________ hug and whispered “Thank you” a few times before releasing me to go to hug her family and graciously __________ their compliments. She finally paid for the dress and they happily walked __________. I stood there lost in thought — One's genuine and good __________ can really make a difference.

A．party

B．way

C．trip

D．agreement

A．dragging

B．forcing

C．showing

D．taking

A．surprise

B．chance

C．choice

D．concern

A．resting

B．dining

C．dressing

D．working

A．graceful

B．wicked

C．single

D．normal

A．excited

B．tired

C．bored

D．depressed

A．wait

B．manage

C．tend

D．prepare

A．strangers

B．friends

C．partners

D．relatives

A．sent

B．throw

C．cut

D．gave

A．guided

B．warned

C．assured

D．encouraged

A．or

B．and

C．so

D．but

A．lit up

B．shut up

C．reflected on

D．spread on

A．lady

B．master

C．teacher

D．princess

A．asked

B．convinced

C．doubted

D．told

A．closely

B．bitterly

C．quietly

D．generally

A．persuading

B．urging

C．disturbing

D．appreciating

A．slow

B．tight

C．light

D．usual

A．keep

B．return

C．ignore

D．accept

A．up

B．away

C．forward

D．down

A．advice

B．gesture

C．figure

D．manner

31、   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

32、   At six feet, seven inches tall and weighing 253 pounds, Father was a quiet giant（巨人） who only roared when he was angry. He would work long days, often _________when I was already in bed. My two younger sisters and I both loved and feared him. Hearing the words, “Just wait until your father comes home,” would guarantee the three of us would start _________well immediately. I was seven years old the night the “giant” became a person, and my _________. All it took was the _________of a tiny, dirty kitten.

I _________ to the sounds of my father coming home from work. I slipped out of bed and moved quietly towards the living room in hopes of spending a few precious minutes _________ with my parents without my annoying sisters around.

I heard mum say, “We cannot _________ it.” What was the “it”? The giant saw me and _________ I should sit down near him. I was at a loss, although _________ might be a better word, for I had never seen or heard of a giant crying before. Unshed（满眶） tears __________up in his eyes. His cheeks were __________

The giant reached into a cardboard box and brought out a dirty young cat and __________ it on my lap. I was soon __________, as the giant shared a story with mum. As he spoke, with shaking shoulders caused by __________and at times sorrow, he transformed from a giant to a man who became my hero.

He __________ that he was on his way home when he heard two men laughing and talking. As he rounded the corner, he heard the most terrible scream of pain. He couldn’t __________ what he saw. The men had thrown a kitten into a furnace（火炉）. He yelled and ran up to them but it was too__________. He couldn’t save the kitten. The men had run away and he was about to run after them when he saw another kitten at his feet.

“We have to __________ it; we have to keep it!” said the giant.

“It needs a __________,” said mum.

“I can help, Mommy!”

Reminded of my presence, mum and my hero sent me off to bed. As I fell asleep, I heard mum running some water.

We named the kitten Cinder and it joined our family. I never saw “the giant” again; I only saw my hero and a man whose heart was __________ than he was.

【1】A.greeting B.chatting C.returning D.wandering

【2】A.waiting B.escaping C.preparing D.behaving

【3】A.model B.hero C.tutor D.friend

【4】A.visit B.story C.arrival D.life

【5】A.awoke B.listened C.rushed D.dreamed

【6】A.straight B.alone C.indoors D.gradually

【7】A.keep B.leave C.train D.clean

【8】A.appealed B.urged C.indicated D.forced

【9】A.regretful B.hopeless C.happy D.terrified

【10】A.built B.rolled C.blocked D.welled

【11】A.wet B.red C.bright D.fresh

【12】A.spread B.placed C.led D.dropped

【13】A.discovered B.forgotten C.convinced D.relieved

【14】A.fear B.surprise C.anxiety D.anger

【15】A.argued B.emphasized C.explained D.summarized

【16】A.believe B.prove C.guess D.judge

【17】A.bad B.late C.fast D.far

【18】A.help B.cure C.need D.buy

【19】A.meal B.rest C.bath D.lift

【20】A.lighter B.purer C.warmer D.larger

33、   School breaks are chances for me to get away from boring life. For the Thanksgiving break of 2018, I decided to visit my ___________ in Ithaca. It was a(n) ___________ journey from my home to Ithaca by bus—9 hours.

The first leg of the journey, to Scranton, needed about 6 hours. I had to ___________ buses in Scranton for the last leg of the journey. ___________, my first bus got delayed .Then I ___________ my second bus and had to wait for several hours until I could take the next ___________. It was 6 p.m. in Scranton when I waited for the bus. I called my cousin to tell him about the ___________ and mentioned that it might be ___________ when I arrived.

While I was on call, I didn't ___________ that there was a lady standing close by, listening to my ____________. When I got off the call the lady approached me and ____________ about my journey. When she learned that it had already been a long and ____________ day for me, she took out a big cake and ____________ it to me.

This was a kind act but I ____________ the lady because I had something in my backpack. As I ____________ my conversation with her, I ____________ learned she came from a poor family. She didn't have much money ____________ the cake was her dinner. I was ____________. And at this time, I realized how true and kind an act of ____________ was when one gave away what she also ____________.

A．teacher

B．doctor

C．friend

D．cousin

A．long

B．interesting

C．dangerous

D．comfortable

A．call

B．find

C．change

D．order

A．Natually

B．Unluckily

C．Generally

D．Surely

A．forgot

B．lost

C．noticed

D．missed

A．bus

B．plane

C．boat

D．train

A．crash

B．journey

C．delay

D．leg

A．cold

B．late

C．snowy

D．terrible

A．remember

B．believe

C．doubt

D．realize

A．speech

B．conversation

C．plan

D．advice

A．asked

B．told

C．set

D．heard

A．boring

B．busy

C．quiet

D．tiring

A．showed

B．offered

C．sent

D．sold

A．caught up

B．went on

C．turned down

D．cut in

A．continued

B．chose

C．finished

D．stopped

A．easily

B．suddenly

C．usually

D．finally

A．but

B．and

C．for

D．because

A．moved

B．excited

C．troubled

D．worried

A．asking

B．taking

C．giving

D．worrying

A．faced

B．wanted

C．needed

D．understood

34、Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the proper form of the words or expressions given in the frame. Each one can only be used once.

Why your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems?  Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 【1】 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.

When ten million passwords were leaked on to the internet，they appeared to 【2】that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.

While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”，there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to【3】. The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.

“Users are becoming slightly more 【4】what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”

But 【5】no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this and in 20 percent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.

Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to 【6】 their mobile phone with an account, having a single use passwords texted to it each time they want to log on.

Although the serviced is voluntary, Dylan Casey an executive at Yahoo!，said that it was “the first step to【7】passwords”. He said it was a(n)【8】that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.

It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than same people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or，“tran5p053d numb3r5 f0r 133tr3r5”.

“We are, for the most part，predictably【9】when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n) 【10】, and so do password crackers.

35、Directions: 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.

Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but 【1】 number of colleges and universities. About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the 【2】. Recent additions in the United States 【3】 projects at Yale, Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are 【4】 at the Apple iTunes store.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became an early 【5】 with its Open Course Ware project, first 【6】 in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers. Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These 【7】 from Physics to Political Science. Visitors can learn the same things as MIT students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not an MIT education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide 【8】 with teachers. Still, MIT says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada. Students and educators use the site, including students at MIT. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.

Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of 【9】 online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at MIT, is 【10】 popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures. MIT Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering.

36、Directions: Fill in each blank to make the passage make sense and well connected in writing style. The initial letter of each word has been given. (please write each answer in a COMPLETE word on the answer card.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

In Congress, July 4, 1776

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should d【1】 the causes which impel them to the separation.

We h【2】 these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created e【3】, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable R【4】, that among these are life, L【5】, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, g 【6】 are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the P 【7】 to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, l【8】 its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such f【9】, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariable the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their d 【10】, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

37、阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

Wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic p【1】 the spread of the deadly virus. But it is also i【2】. For one, we can no longer unlock our phones using facial recognition since a good part of our face is c【3】.

F【4】, tech companies are working to solve the problem. Apple, for example, offered a new way to unlock your iPhone and iPad with its l【5】 software update, iOS13.5, w【6】 was released on May 20.

Even though the update still won’t recognize your masked face, it makes the whole process f【7】. While the old system wouldn’t allow access t【8】 the passcode screen before three failed face scan attempts, iOS13.5 will send you straight to the passcode screen when you swipe up.

It might only s【9】 you a few seconds, but those few seconds “benefit public health by eliminating the temptation for people to r【10】 their masks in order to unlock their device”.

38、假定你是李华，得知现在正在招募亚运会志愿者，你有意应聘。请按下列要点给报社写一封自荐信。内容包括：

1. 表示感兴趣；

2. 说明优势（英语水平、合作精神、相关经历）；

3. 希望得到回复。

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、假定你是学生会主席李华，在高三毕业前夕邀请你们学校的外籍家长来校参加毕业典礼，请你写一封电子邮件，内容要点如下：

1. 毕业典礼时间地点；

2. 主要安排。

参考词汇：文凭：diploma

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Father/Mother,

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Yours,

Li Hua

40、假如你是张文，你的美国笔友Jack—家人要来扬州度暑假，特别来信询问特色旅游的情况。请你给他回复一封电子邮件。内容包括：

1. 推荐地点；

2. 推荐理由。

注意：1.词数80左右；2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

41、假如你是李华，你即将结束加拿大的旅程。离别之际，请你给在旅程中为你提供帮助的加拿大朋友Peter写一封感谢信。

内容包括：1. 表达感谢；2. 分享旅途收获；3.邀请他来中国做客。

注意：1.词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.信的开头和结尾已 为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Peter,

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Yours,

Li Hua