韶关2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Lydia really regrets____ out of high school. She has really had to struggle to make a living because of that decision.

A.drop B.to drop C.dropping D.dropped

2、He gave a lame excuse for ______ which made him very embarrassed.

A.been absence B.being absent C.to be absent D.absent

3、Mr Black announced ________ his friends his engagement ________  Miss White.

A./; to B.to; to C./; with D.to; with

4、The other girls rushed ________ me. I felt ashamed as I fell farther and farther behind.

A.from behind B.ahead of C.next to D.close to

5、If you were to have a few minutes free, I______ the opportunity to ask you one more question.

A．would appreciate

B．would have appreciated

C．were to appreciate

D．had appreciated

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

A. would B. could C. should D. might

7、Mable is very weak, so the doctor advised that not only ______ more flood, but she should also take more exercise.

A.should she have B.she should have C.she has D.has she

8、He has lived longer than the doctor expected. They didn’t think he would ________ to November.

A．make for

B．make it

C．make out

D．make up

9、You should apologize ____ him _____ your rude words.

A. to, since B. for, to

C. to，for D. towards, in

10、The good thing about children is that they _______ very easily to new environments.

A.apply B.adopt C.attach D.adapt

11、There are ten ______ men in wheelchairs listening to the stories.

A.disabled B.disability C.disable D.disabling

12、I grabbed Norms arm and ________ him around to face me.

A. pinned B. wrapped

C. spun D. sprayed

13、I feel both excited and nervous to speak before such a large audience, so I spent a lot of time _______ my lecture.

A.promoting B.releasing C.refreshing D.polishing

14、The Jiangsu TV station is very popular with many people in China, as it deals with ______ subjects such as music, entertainment and fashion.

A.precise B.diverse C.casual D.efficient

15、Yangzhou is a small city. Therefore, to ________ the flow of traffic, the government has decided to broaden some main streets.

A. speed up B. build up C. link up D. rise up

16、Cunningham would go out onto the streets of New York each and every day to photograph ordinary people ________ the weather.

A．instead of

B．regardless of

C．owing to

D．thanks to

17、Teachers are always showing special ___ the students who are diligent and active in class.

A. preference to B. favor to

C. preference for D. favor for

18、He________ the wall and just looked at everybody in the room.

A.loaded with B.lined up C.held back D.leaned against

19、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

20、The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain ____ as the plane was making a landing.

A. to be seated B. seating

C. to be seating D. seated

21、----Is your father a teacher now?

----No, but he   . He taught English for 10 years.

A. used to be B. used to

C. used to do   D. was used to

22、—________ makes your son feel depressed recently?

—Being rejected by all the universities he has applied to.

A. What it is that B. How is it that

C. What is it that D. How it is that

23、 ---Did you go to the fashion show last week？

---I_________，but I was fully occupied the whole week．

A. must go B. must have gone

C. would go   D. would have gone

24、_______is no need for you to come if you don’t want to.

A. It B. There

C. That D. This

25、The farmer said the PLA men came to rescue timely when they _____in the snowstorm.

A．were trapping

B．were being trapped

C．are trapping

D．are being trapped

26、Science Events from New Scientist

Space, Time and Motion with Sean Carroll

Online | October 20, 2023 | 18:00–19:00

“Where, when and how?” are some of the most fundamental questions we can ask, and knowledge of space, time and motion has been central to the biggest discoveries in physics. Join Sean Carroll, an expert in physics, as he explores deep questions about the nature of space, time and motion, and lays out the framework of classical physics from Galileo and Euclid to Newton and Einstein.

Big Thinkers Series 2023

Online | November 10, 2023

The 2023 Big Thinkers series from New Scientist events features eight online talks streamed throughout 2023, covering a wide range of topics all of which will be brought to you by world-class experts. If you are curious about your brain, your body, our planet or the universe, then this series is your place to hear the latest research.

Memory, the Brain and Who We Are

Online | November 15, 2023 | 18:00–19:00

Psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane will draw examples of the broken memories of psychosis (精神失常) to explain the complex human brain and offer you some expertise (专业知识). How do our brains store and then conjure up (浮现) past experiences to make us who we are? Are there such things as “true” and “false” memories? These examples will offer a new way of thinking about our own personal experiences.

Instant Expert: Understanding Your Brain

The British Library, London | November 19, 2023

At this event, six experts will guide you on a tour of the most attractive object in the known universe. On the way you’ll learn how our brains learn languages, how they store memories and why they need to sleep. Hosted by a New Scientist journalist, our one-day masterclass offers the chance to learn all about the brain directly from the experts.

【1】Which event focuses on discoveries in physics?

A．Big Thinkers Series 2023.

B．Memory, the Brain and Who We Are.

C．Instant Expert: Understanding Your Brain.

D．Space, Time and Motion with Sean Carroll.

【2】When can you attend lectures given by first-rate experts?

A．On October 20, 2023.

B．On November 19, 2023.

C．On November 10, 2023.

D．On November 15, 2023.

【3】What do the four events have in common?

A．They are held online.

B．They offer expert guidance.

C．They mainly focus on memory.

D．They each last for one hour.

27、It is quite reasonable to blame traffic jams, the cost of gas and the great speed of modern life, but manners on the road are becoming horrible. Everybody knows that the nicest men would become fierce tigers behind the wheel. It is all right to have a tiger in a cage, but to have one in the driver’s seat is another matter.

Road politeness is not only good manners, but good sense too. It takes the most cool-headed drivers great patience to give up the desire to beat back when forced to face rude driving．On the other hand, a little politeness goes a long way towards reducing the possibility of quarrelling and fighting. But such behaviors of politeness are by no means enough．Many drivers nowadays don’t even seem able to recognize politeness when they see it．

However, misplaced politeness can also be dangerous．Typical examples are the driver who waves a child crossing the street at a wrong place into the path of oncoming cars that may be not able to stop in time．The same goes for encouraging old ladies to cross the road wherever and whenever they want to.

An experienced driver, whose manners are faultless, told me it would help if drivers learnt to correctly join in traffic stream without causing total blockages that give rise to unpleasant feelings. Unfortunately, modern drivers can’t even learn to drive, let alone master the roadmanship. Years ago, experts warned us that the fast increase of the car ownership would demand more give-and-take from all road users．It is high time for all of us to take this message to heart．

【1】The passage mainly talks about _________.

A．road politeness

B．traffic jams

C．good manners

D．modern drivers

【2】Troubles on the road are often caused by _________.

A．traffic jams

B．the behavior of the drivers

C．great speed

D．terrible road conditions

【3】According to the writer, a good driver should _________.

A．beat back when forced to face rude driving

B．be able to recognize politeness when he sees it

C．encourage old ladies to cross the roads whenever they want to

D．join in traffic stream quickly however other people feel

【4】The following statements are right EXCEPT that _________.

A．some modern drivers are not good at driving

B．road politeness is good sense as well as good manners

C．it is also right to have a tiger in the driver’s seat

D．a friendly driver should nod or wave thanks in answer to an act of politeness

【5】It is not always right for drivers to _________.

A．master roadmanship

B．recognize politeness when they see it

C．wave a child crossing the street at a wrong place into the path

D．give a friendly nod in answer to an act of politeness

28、   In my high school English class in a small Mississippi town, Miss Denman tried to insert our sleepy heads that every novel had to do one of the three things: tell something; show something; prove something. She then read us one she considered a piece of perfect writing because it achieved all the three things: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, whose remaining stories and essays have now been published.

As Miss Denman began reading — “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blossoming(开花)freely and the grass was richly green” — we were calmed into “the square between the post office and the bank” of a small American town, where all 300 citizens are met. They’ve come to draw lots(抽签)for the lottery of each year that ends before noon. The person holding the paper with a black mark is then led to a clearing and stoned to death by all the town’s citizens.

When The Lottery first appeared in The New Yorker in 1948, the magazine was flooded with letters from angry readers demanding to know what it was about. Unlike those confused The New Yorker readers, Miss Denman’s students weren’t confused by a story in which foolish violence was passed down through the generations. Ours was a Gothic world and Shirley Jackson seemed to our ears like Flannery O’Connor without the Georgia accent.

Forty years passed before I read anything else by Shirley Jackson. Then I happened upon her final novel — We Have Always Lived in the Castle, published in 1962, three years before her death in 1965 — a true excellent work  whose young main female character, Merricat Blackwood, is as precocious(早熟的)and worth remembering as any young people in the 20th-century American novels. She describes: “I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and my uncle Julian, and the poisonous mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.” Six years ago Blackwood’s parents, an aunt, and a younger brother were murdered — poisoned with arsenic(砒霜).

Fifty years after her untimely death, Let Me Tell You, a new reminder of how excellent a writer Shirley Jackson came out. The stories, essays, and lectures in this brilliant new collection include some published before and some able to the public for the first time. The title comes from the book’s only unfinished story, about two 14-year-old friends, the spoiled daughters of rich fathers. Their snobbery(势利)performances counteract beliefs of classlessness in American: “My father is a lawyer. It’s important what your father is. Also it’s important to have a swimming pool, only not the biggest swimming pool of all and of course no one would dream of going near it.” The reader is eager to know what happens but even Jackson’s finished stories are rarely tied up with appropriate endings. She counted on the reader to make an effort.

Let Me Tell You feels like a direct communication from beyond the tomb with the writer. This is especially true of her essays on the skill of writing. With the publication of Let Me Tell You, Shirley Jackson can now enjoy a peace with a new world of readers. The woman of Gothic psychological novel can truly rest in peace.

【1】Miss Denman chose to read her students The Lottery mainly because ______.

A.it’s one of her favorite novels

B.it’s a good example to explain the features of novels

C.it has skillfully-arranged plots and beautiful statements

D.it’s a masterpiece of an American literary writer, Shirley Jackson

【2】What can we learn about The Lottery?

A.It has a beautiful beginning but a sad ending.

B.Whoever got the lottery in the story was a lucky dog.

C.Living in the Gothic world, its writer was good Gothic novels.

D.It confused The New Yorker readers as well as Denman’s students.

【3】According to Shirley Jackson’s final novel, ______.

A.Merricat was a quiet girl full of love for everything

B.only Merricat and her two sisters survived the murder

C.Merricat became as mature as her peers after the murder

D.altogether four people in the family died from being poisoned

【4】What does the underlined word “counteract” in Paragraph 5 most probably mean?

A.Act against. B.Make stronger.

C.Make clear. D.Throw doubt on

29、Ever wonder how your brain works when making decisions bigger than medium versus spicy salsa, like buying a car or accepting a job offer? Researchers from the University of Dundee in Scotland conducted a study that clarifies why you may want to have a small bite before making that big decision.

Benjamin Vincent from the University of Dundee’s Psychology department and his co-author Jordan Skyrnka tested 50 people two times: once when they followed their normal eating patterns and once when they did not eat anything during the day. Using three different types of rewards (food, money, and song downloads), the team discovered when presented with the choice of receiving the reward now versus double the award at some point in the future, participants would usually volunteer to wait for 35 days to earn a larger bounty, but when they were hungry, they said they would only wait three days.

“We wanted to know whether being in a state of hunger had a specific effect on how you make decisions only relating to food or if it had broader effects, and this research suggests decision-making gets more present-focused when people are hungry,” Vincent said in a story about the study on the university’s website. “You would predict that hunger would impact people’s preferences relating to food, but it is not yet clear why people get more present-focused for completely unrelated rewards. Hunger is so common that it is important to understand the non-obvious ways in which our preferences and decisions may be affected by it,” he said.

In an earlier study of the subject by a team at Cambridge University in England, the researchers noted that serotonin plays a major role in the decision-making process. “Since the raw material for making serotonin—an amino acid called tryptophan — only comes from diet, levels of the chemical decline between meals,” reports a piece in the Telegraph about the study. “This can lead to aggressiveness and impulsiveness,” say the team.

【1】How did Benjamin Vincent and Jordan Skyrnka carry out their research?

A．By analyzing reasons.

B．By making comparison.

C．By giving examples.

D．By filling questionnaires.

【2】The underlined word “bounty” in paragraph 2 can be best replaced by ________.

A．bonus.

B．quantity.

C．income.

D．fortune.

【3】What conclusion can we draw from Vincent’ study?

A．It’s common to make a wrong decision if you are hungry.

B．Make sure you are not hungry before making a big decision.

C．The more hungry you are, the quicker you will make a decision.

D．Being hungry drives you to make a decision connected with food.

【4】What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．What should be eaten to make a wise man.

B．How can we get enough serotonin from our diet.

C．What other factors will influence one’s decision-making.

D．How does a chemical function in the course of making a decision.

30、   For me, two of the loveliest words in English are “Life persists”.

I ________  them years ago as a college student, sitting in the library, ________, working on a paper. Out of nowhere, those words came ________ off the page in a quote, “In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of ________ truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”

Suddenly I wasn’t unhappy and impatient any more. Then I ________ my granddad. I loved to talk with him. And I was ________ to hear what he’d think of it. He had poor hearing, so I had to ________ it a few times, but once he ________ it, he laughed. “All I can say to that is totally ________,”he said on the phone. I told him how glad I was, after a long winter, to finally see spring and ________ to find that quote. “Why is that?” he asked. “Well, spring is a sure _________ that life persists. And it just makes me________. ”

He laughed again, and then ______ his lovely voice, he recited for me his________“spring time” words, “The desert shall rejoice(高兴) and blossom(开花) like the rose … even with_________ and singing.”

Many years later, ________ my husband and I drove across a desert with many wildflowers and blooming cactuses (仙人掌), I could _________ hear my granddad laughing, “The desert shall rejoice.”

Life persists, and so do we, in the silence of _________ and the blooming of cactuses; and in the dead of  _________  and the green of spring. Spring _________  us that we’re alive forever.

【1】A.looked for B.picked out C.came across D.made up

【2】A.worried B.bored C.tired D.confused

【3】A.running B.dancing C.rushing D.moving

【4】A.fear B.thrill C.anxiety D.lie

【5】A.called B.visited C.consulted D.informed

【6】A.desperate B.confident C.upset D.patient

【7】A.copy B.print C.repeat D.recite

【8】A.made B.got C.undertook D.managed

【9】A.puzzlement B.doubt C.agreement D.disapproval

【10】A.practically B.naturally C.obviously D.especially

【11】A.way B.sign C.remark D.evidence

【12】A.astonished B.energetic C.merry D.alive

【13】A.in B.with C.of D.beyond

【14】A.impressive B.extraordinary C.classic D.favorite

【15】A.joy B.sorrow C.sympathy D.adaptation

【16】A.after B.although C.until D.when

【17】A.hardly B.always C.mostly D.almost

【18】A.desert B.words C.world D.journeys

【19】A.spring B.winter C.summer D.autumn

【20】A.comforts B.guarantees C.reminds D.strikes

31、   On a trip to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a man, with a _____________beard and dirty hair, jumped up from a bench outside the restaurant and opened the door for us．Regardless of his_____________ , he greeted us in a friendly way．

Once inside, my daughters whispered, "Mom, he____________." After we ordered our lunch, I explained, telling the kids to look_____________the dirt．We then watched other customers approach the restaurant but many_____________him. Seeing this rudeness truly upset me. The day I became a mother, I had determined to set a good_____________to my children. Yet sometimes when things didnˈt go right, being a good example was_____________. When our meal arrived, I realized I had left the car-sick pills in the truck. With the windiest trip ahead, the kids needed them, so I _____________ myself from the meal and went to get them．

Just then, the "doorman" was opening the door for a couple. They rushed past him without even acknowledging his_____________.  Letting them in first, I said aloud "thank you" to him as I  _____________．

When I returned, we talked a bit．He said he was not allowed inside_____________he purchased food．I went back and told my family his_____________.Then I asked our waitress to add one soup and sandwich．

The kids looked_____________as we had already eaten, but when I said the order was for the "doorman", they smiled．When it was time to _____________our trip, I found the "doorman" enjoying his meal. Upon seeing me, he stood up and thanked me heartily. He then_____________out his hand for a handshake and I gratefully accepted. I suddenly noticed the tears in his eyes—tears of  _____________.What happened next drew great astonishment: I gave the " doorman" a______________. He ran away, with tears_____________down his face．

Back in truck, I fell into deep thought. While we canˈt choose many things in life, we can choose when to show gratitude. I said thanks to a man who had_____________opened a door for me, and also said thanks for that _____________ to teach my children by example．

【1】A. clean B. messy C. pretty D. bright

【2】A. service B. state C. appearance D. attitude

【3】A. smells B. smokes C. signs D. smiles

【4】A. around B. into C. over D. beyond

【5】A. refused B. ignored C. missed D. hated

【6】A. example B. target C. record D. rule

【7】A. accessible B. awkward C. tough D. stressful

【8】A. prevented B. refreshed C. helped D. excused

【9】A. company B. challenge C. presence D. attack

【10】A. exited B. approached C. marched D. quitted

【11】A. before B. unless C. though D. since

【12】A. desire B. deed C. story D. demand

【13】A. puzzled B. excited C. concerned D. bored

【14】A. make B. start C. take D. continue

【15】A. washed B. reached C. raised D. waved

【16】A. approval B. sympathy C. gratitude D. affection

【17】A. clap B. nod C. lift D. hug

【18】A. streaming B. rushing C. slipping D. breaking

【19】A. firmly B. simply C. constantly D. rudely

【20】A. journey B. opportunity C. wisdom D. community

32、As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation.____ you are in the habit of rushing through life, being on the go from morning till night, it is hard to ____ down. But relaxation is ____ for a healthy mind and body.

Stress is a ____ part of everyday life and there is no way to ____ it. In fact, it is not the bad thing that it is often supposed to be. A ____ amount of stress is important to provide motivation and give ____ to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control ____ it can lead to poor performance and ____ health.

The amount of stress a person can bear ____ very much on the individual. Some people arenot afraid of stress, and such ____ are obviously chief material for managerial.(管理的) responsibilities. Other people lose heart at first ____ of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress, in ____form , we react both physically and mentally. In fact we make a choice between “___ and fight”. And in more ancient days the choices made the ____ between life and death. The crisis we meet today are ____ to be so extreme, but however little the stress is, it requires the same response. It is when such a reaction ____ a long time, through continued exposure to stress, that health becomes ____ . Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart disease have established links with stress. ___ we cannot remove stress from our lives, we need to find ways to deal with it.

So what do you think of ____ ? What is your way to deal with it?

【1】

A．When

B．While

C．Once

D．As

【2】

A．slow

B．calm

C．get

D．turn

【3】

A．unnecessary

B．satisfied

C．useful

D．necessary

【4】

A．physical

B．natural

C．hard

D．terrible

【5】

A．tolerate

B．solve

C．avoid

D．accept

【6】

A．sure

B．certain

C．large

D．great

【7】

A．purpose

B．resource

C．influence

D．instruction

【8】

A．when

B．why

C．that

D．how

【9】

A．ill

B．good

C．strong

D．weak

【10】

A．insists

B．depends

C．calls

D．spends

【11】

A．patterns

B．personalities

C．situations

D．characters

【12】

A．glance

B．view

C．sight

D．impression

【13】

A．whichever

B．whatever

C．however

D．whenever

【14】

A．peace

B．fright

C．pressure

D．heaviness

【15】

A．decision

B．promise

C．difference

D．choice

【16】

A．unlikely

B．likely

C．necessary

D．probable

【17】

A．continues

B．lives

C．stands

D．lasts

【18】

A．balanced

B．injured

C．endangered

D．changeable

【19】

A．Unless

B．Since

C．Because

D．As

【20】

A．stress

B．relaxation

C．ways

D．exposure

33、The heaviest snow in a hundred years hit the south of China. It snowed __1___for half a month. Many people were __2___in railway stations, bus stations and airports. People did everything they could to fight the __3___; nobody was killed from cold and _4____. Gradually ,the trapped people all went back home_5___. While fighting the snow, people ___6__their animal friends until a moving story of a swallow couple appeared on the Internet.

The couple hadn’t eaten anything for several days __7___the snow. They tried to fly into people’s home to warm themselves, but every house was ___8___tightly. They got to a side of a balcony ( 阳台 ) where wind couldn’t reach. They jumped and flapped (拍打) their wings to _9___the attention of the people inside the house, who were __10____their own things. The wife’s body was __11___. She couldn’t move any longer. The husband came near and __12__her with his wings. The husband lost his heat soon because of his opened wings.

The next morning, the housemaster went to the balcony to __13__ his flowers and saw a dead swallow outside. __14__ it, he found they were two embracing（拥抱） together. Thinking of the __15___the snow had brought to people, he was moved to tears . He took them in for giving them some _16___they couldn’t feel any longer. He found a small box, __17__it with some hay （干草）and lay the couple in . He _18__them in the garden of the community.

In my hometown in the countryside, a swallow family live in the roof of my house . They __19__every spring to have babies. Then in autumn, when babies have __20___, they fly to the south, I wonder if they will come back this spring as they did.

【1】

A．beautifully

B．directly

C．gently

D．continuously

【2】

A．forbidden

B．rescued

C．trapped

D．covered

【3】

A．disaster

B．war

C．campaign

D．disease

【4】

A．anger

B．heat

C．hunger

D．poverty

【5】

A．sadly

B．safely

C．nervously

D．curiously

【6】

A．treasured

B．invited

C．accepted

D．forgot

【7】

A．because of

B．in case of

C．in spite of

D．instead of

【8】

A．controlled

B．fixed

C．, stretched

D．closed

【9】

A．admit

B．attract

C．turn

D．escape

【10】

A．busy with

B．born with

C．good for

D．famous for

【11】

A．burnt

B．watched

C．frozen

D．found

【12】

A．supplied

B．wrapped

C．folded

D．sorted

【13】

A．buy

B．send

C．sell

D．check

【14】

A．Feeding

B．Leaving

C．Touching

D．Greeting

【15】

A．hardship

B．childhood

C．cooperation

D．lesson

【16】

A．clothes

B．warmness

C．flowers

D．tension

【17】

A．made

B．played

C．associated

D．filled

【18】

A．buried

B．showed

C．fastened

D．enjoyed

【19】

A．put away

B．come back

C．fly away

D．hold back

【20】

A．dropped out

B．died out

C．grown up

D．stood up

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、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”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37、根据句意填空

In the USA, the Amish-a Christian group-are famous because they drive 【1】 instead of cars, do not use TVs or refrigerators, and do not have personal telephones. Many people assume the Amish must have 【2】 reasons for their many rules, but this is not true. In truth, whenever a new technology is introduced, the Amish meet and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. They then vote on whether they will accept it. The Amish 【3】 cars because they like having 【4】 communities where everyone lives close together. They have no TVs or refrigerators because their homes do not have electricity-they do not think it is necessary and 【5】 dealing with strangers, such as the people who work at the electric company.

38、假定你是李华。你班英语课学习了“世界读书日”的有关内容，老师要求以“Reading”为话题分 组讨论。请你根据如下提示，用英语写一篇发言稿，代表你组发言。

1. 阅读的好处；

2. 如何养成阅读的好习惯。

注意：1. 词数100左右；开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear classmates,

I’m glad to share our opinions about the topic “Reading”. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

That’s all. Thank you.

39、Directions: Write an English composition in 120—150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

班级同学就“Is natural food better than prepackaged food?”展开了激烈的讨论。请就该主题发表你的看法，并简要阐述原因。

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40、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为80左右。

A little boy selling magazines for school walked up to a house that people hardly visited. The house was very old and the owner hardly ever came out. When he did come out he would not say hello to neighbors or passers by but simply just glare(瞪眼看)at them.

The boy knocked on the door and waited, sweating from fear of the old man. The boy's parents told him to stay away from the house. A lot of the other neighborhood children were told the same from their parents.

As he was ready to walk away, the door slowly opened. " What do you want?" the old man said. The little boy was very afraid but he had a quota(份额) to meet for school with selling the magazines.

"Uh, sir, I uh am selling these magazines and uh I was wondering if you would like to buy one." The old man just stared at the boy. The boy could see inside the old man's house and saw that he had dog figurines(小狗雕像) on the wall. "Do you collect dogs?" the little boy asked. "Yes, I have many collections in my house. They are my family here. They are all I have." The boy then felt sorry for the man, as it seemed that he was a very lonely soul. "Well, I do have a magazine here for collectors. It is perfect for you. I also have one about dogs since you like dogs so much." The old man was ready to close the door on the boy and said, "No boy, I don't need any magazines of any kind, now goodbye."

The little boy was sad that he was not going to make his quota with the sale. He was also sad for the old man being so alone in the big house that he owned. The boy went home and then had an idea. He had a little dog figurine that he got some years ago from an aunt. The figurine did not mean nearly as much to him since he had a real live dog and a large family.

Paragraph 1: The boy headed back down to the old man's house with the figurine.

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Paragraph 2: From that day on something changed inside the old man.

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41、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友 Peter发来邮件，提到他们学校将开展与中国文化有关的兴趣活动，目前有中国国画和中华烹饪两门课程，但是他无法决定学习哪门课程，希望能听听你的建议。请你用英语给他回一封邮件，内容包括:

1.推荐一门课程

2.说明理由。

注意:1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。