南平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 loved playing computer games, but very little ______ from it.

A.did I learn B.I learnt C.learnt I D.I did learn

2、_______ the secret of nature, the young scientist has little time for entertainment.

A. Devoted to bring out     B. Devoted himself to bringing out 

C. Devoted to bringing out     D. Devoting to bring out

3、______ exceptionally heavily might railway services be temporarily dislocated (扰乱).

A. If only it snowed B. Only in case it snows

C. Only were it to snow D. Only when snow

4、________ from heart trouble for years, Professor White has to take some medicine with him wherever he goes.

A．Suffered

B．Suffering

C．Having suffered

D．Being suffered

5、It took us quite a long time to get here. It was ______journey.

A.three-hour B.a three hour C.a three-hour D.three hours

6、In only 10 years, our province has been _________ into an advanced industrial province.

A.transformed B.entered C.regarded D.issued

7、Lewin was interested in taking research beyond books and looking at how it could ______ real social change.

A.bring up B.bring about C.bring in D.bring out

8、In the wake of terrorist attack in New Zealand, we _______ our deepest sympathies to the families who have to live each day with the loss of loved ones.

A．expanded

B．extended

C．explored

D．exposed

9、Over the past few years, Clinton has spoken often of her approach ____ foreign policy.

A. of B. for C. about D. to

10、The expert says the farm helps reduce Beijing’s __________ on dirty energy that creates the capital’s heavy smog.

A.convenience B.confidence C.reliance D.importance

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

--No, The company is _____ his father.

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

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

12、It is important for children ______ more good books.

A. to expose to B. being exposed to

C. to be exposed to D. exposing to

13、While books seem to be losing their popularity to some extent, good ones are still highly _______ today in that they give us answers to questions we haven’t had yet.

A．responsible

B．religious

C．representative

D．relevant

14、There were lots of places of interest _______ in our city.

A．needs repairing

B．needing repaired

C．needed repairing

D．needing to be repaired

15、IPhone, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, said that over the first nine months of the year it ________ 23 million handsets in China, an increase of 77 percent ________ the same period a year ago.

A．had sold; compared to

B．has sold; compared to

C．sold; comparing with

D．had sold; comparing with

16、In Beijing Marathon, I experienced what runners call “hitting the wall” at around the 36-kilometer point. A _______pain stabbed(刺) in my hip, my pace slowed down and every brain cell seemed to be screaming “Stop!”

A. aggressive B. specific

C. sharp D. diverse

17、His remarks ________ me in my opinion that he was a very considerate boy.

A.concerned B.contacted

C.confirmed D.considered

18、The local government provided ________ for the homeless soon after the flood.

A.possessions B.accommodations C.souvenirs D.groceries

19、These Qing dynasty architectural marvels, along with many others ________ by members of the same family — the Lei family.

A．was all built

B．were all built

C．is built

D．has built

20、You have no idea how she finished the relay race with her foot ______ so much.

A.wounding B.wounded C.to wound D.having wounded

21、Will you take my previous experience into   when you fix my salary?

A. mind   B. though

C. reference     D. account

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

A. rewarded B. promoted

C. awarded D. praised

23、Rita loves her son so much that she ________ two hours every Sunday afternoon to spend with him.

A.set aside B.set back C.set out D.set off

24、We love such beautiful things as flowers, but beauty itself is _____.

A. abstract B. typical

C. generous D. stubborn

25、We had lots of good applicants for the job, but one _________ from the rest.

A.made out B.stood out C.picked out D.figured out

26、   Inventor, physicist, surveyor, astronomer, biologist, artist... Robert Hooke was all these and more. Some say he was the greatest experimental scientist of the seventeenth century. Once he worked with renowned men of science like Christian Huygens, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton and the great architect, Christopher Wren.

Hooke’s early education began at home, under the guidance of his father. He entered Westminster School at the age of thirteen, and from there he went to Oxford, where he came in contact with some of the best scientists in England. Hooke impressed them with his skill at designing experiments and devising instruments. In 1662, at the age of twenty-eight, he was named Curator of Experiments of the newly formed Royal Society of London. Hooke accepted the job, even though he knew that it had no money to pay him!

Watching living things through the microscope was one of his favorite occupations.

He devised a compound microscope for this purpose. One day while observing a cork (软木) under a microscope, he saw honeycomb-like structures. They were cells—the smallest units of life. In fact, it was Hooke who coined the term “cell” as the box like cells of the cork reminded him of the cells of a monastery (修道院).Perhaps because of his varied interests, Hooke often left experiments unfinished. Others took up where he left  off and then claimed sole (独占的) credit. This sometimes led to quarrels with colleagues. One work that he finished was his book MICRO GRAPHIA, a volume that reveals the immense potential of the microscope. The book also includes, among other things, ideas on gravity and light which may have helped scientists like Newton while they  were developing their own theories on these phenomena.

Hooke made valuable contributions to astronomy too. A crater (陨石坑) on the moon is named after him in appreciation of his services to this branch of science.

【1】From the first paragraph, we can know that Robert Hooke ________.

A.was famous because he worked with many scientists

B.liked making friends with the famous people

C.received a lot from other scientists

D.made contributions to many different fields

【2】Robert Hooke probably went to school in________.

A.1634 B.1647 C.1662 D.1640

【3】Robert Hooke made himself known to some of the best scientists in England by________.

A.learning by himself with his father's help

B.introducing himself to them

C.designing experiments and instruments

D.refusing any reward from Royal Society of London

【4】Robert Hooke couldn’t get along well with his colleagues because________.

A.he couldn’t finish his work on time sometimes

B.he had all kinds of interests in his daily life

C.he was too proud to look up to them

D.the other scientists took the fruits of his experiments

27、   I must have always known reading was very important because the first memories I have as a child deal with books. There was not one night that I don't remember mom reading me a storybook by my bedside. I was extremely inspired by the elegant way the words sounded.

I always wanted to know what my mom was reading. Hearing mom say," I can't believe what's printed in the newspaper this morning," made me want to grab it out of her hands and read it myself. I wanted to be like my mom and know all of the things she knew. So I carried around a book, and each night, just to be like her, I would pretend to be reading.

This is how everyone learned to read. We would start off with sentences, then paragraphs, and then stories. It seemed an unending journey, but even as a six-year-old girl I realized that knowing how to read could open many doors. When mom said," The C-A-N-D-Y is hidden on the top shelf," I knew where the candy was. My progress in reading raised my curiosity, and I wanted to know everything. I often found myself telling my mom to drive more slowly, so that I could read all of the road signs we passed.

Most of my reading through primary, middle and high school was factual reading. I read for knowledge, and to make A's on my tests. Occasionally, I would read a novel that was assigned, but I didn't enjoy this type of reading. I liked facts, things that are concrete. I thought anything abstract left too much room for argument.

Yet, now that I'm growing and the world I once knew as being so simple is becoming more complex, I find myself needing a way to escape. By opening a novel, I can leave behind my burdens and enter into a wonderful and mysterious world where I am now a new character. In these worlds I can become anyone. I don't have to write down what happened or what technique the author was using when he or she wrote this. I just read to relax.

We're taught to read because it's necessary for much of human understanding. Reading is a vital part of my life. Reading satisfies my desire to keep learning. And I've found that the possibilities that lie within books are limitless.

【1】According to Paragraph 3, the author's reading of road signs indicates___________

A.her unique way to locate herself B.her eagerness to develop her reading ability

C.her effort to remind mom to obey traffic rules D.her growing desire to know the world around her.

【2】What was the author's view on factual reading？

A.It would help her update test-taking skills.

B.It would allow much room for free thinking.

C.It would provide true and objective information.

D.It would help shape a realistic and serious attitude to life.

【3】The author takes novel reading as a way to___________.

A.explore a fantasy land B.develop a passion for leaning

C.learn about the adult community D.get away from a confusing world

【4】What could be the best title for the passage？

A.The Magic of Reading B.The Pleasure of Reading

C.Growing Up with Reading D.Reading Makes a Full Man

28、   A recent study conducted by researchers from Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University found that the snakes actively seek out socialization with their peers （同伴），but also they are extremely particular about who they spend time with. However, snakes used to be thought of as solitary animals. They are seldom seen hanging out in groups.

A team of researchers led by Morgan Skinner and Dr. Noam Miller selected 40 non-poisonous garter snakes （袜带蛇）. Ten were purchased from a snake keeper and the rest were caught in the wild. After marking each snake with a spot of color to allow for easy identification, the researchers placed ten snakes inside each of the four plastic shelters.

Skinner photographed each snake group twice a day before removing them from their shelters. After cleaning the areas thoroughly to rid them of any familiar smells, the reptiles were rearranged into different groups, and returned to the enclosure. A camera fixed over the shelters allowed the scientists to track the animals' movements for a total of eight days.

When Skinner and Miller analyzed the images, they found that regardless of where they were placed, the snakes always slipped back to their origin al "friends" forming groups of three or eight inside the small shelters. “They can tell others apart,” Miller said.

Gordon Burghardt, a biologist, says, "The study should help convince people that snakes have more social intelligence than most of us realize."

Miller believes the research could help with snake protection efforts. Endangered snake species relocated to safer habitats often leave these areas. Now, conservationists may be able to avoid that by transferring entire snake groups to the new location. Alternatively, they could also spray （喷洒）the new habitat with the species' smells to make transplants feel at “home."

【1】What does the underlined word "solitary" mean in paragraph 1?

A.Causing fear. B.Existing only in small numbers.

C.Causing death or illness. D.Enjoying being alone.

【2】What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.The findings can contribute to snake conservation.

B.Snakes like to spray smells on the trees.

C.Snakes are easy to adapt to new locations.

D.Snakes tend to stay in safer habitats.

【3】Which of the following proverbs can be used to describe the findings?

A.Barking dogs don't bite. B.The early bird catches worms.

C.Things of one kind come together. D.A friend in need is a friend in deed.

【4】In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?

A.Entertainment. B.Science.

C.Education. D.Health.

29、   Those who live in the Western world often feel as though their civilization is, and always was, the most technologically advanced in the world. However, that is not necessarily true. Many important inventions that we once used, or still use today, have come from the “East”, as the Europeans once called China. Here are some examples.

Printing

Do you know a German named Johannes Gutenberg? His printing machine helped shape the modern Europe, and the world. But the Chinese did it first, and they did it much earlier.

During the Tang Dynasty (AD 618—907), Chinese engineers began using wood blocks to print designs onto silk. They would soon begin producing short Buddhist texts so people could carry in their pockets. By AD 868, the first dated, printed book was published. It was a translated Indian Buddhist text called the Diamond Sutra.

By the way, Gutenberg was born around 1,400, nearly 540 years after the publishing of the Diamond Sutra.

Banknotes

Not long after coming up with an efficient printing press, the Chinese invented banknotes, pieces of colored paper that are given value by the very people who use them. Today, nearly all modern currency comes in the form of banknotes. Banknotes began to appear in China in the 700s and helped to replace those copper (铜), silver and gold coins with things like our “green Benjamins”.

Gunpowder

Here is an important weapon that Europeans love! By AD 300, Chinese scientists were putting in paper certain chemicals which, when mixed together and ignited (点火), would produce fireworks. By AD 800, the Chinese improved this powder to fire balls of iron at city walls and tightly gathered enemies. This is in contrast to the West, which only began describing gunpowder around AD 1,200.

Compass

While this is certainly not an invention we use every day, like the banknote, the compasses were also first invented in China during the Han Dynasty (206 BC—AD 220). The spoon-shaped things always point north. During the Tang Dynasty, they were refined (改进) into more familiar needles.

【1】When was the Diamond Sutra printed?

A.Around AD 540. B.Around AD 700.

C.Around AD 868. D.Around AD 1,400.

【2】What are the “green Benjamins” made of?

A.Copper. B.Silver. C.Gold. D.Paper.

【3】What do the last two inventions have in common?

A.Both were used to kill the enemies. B.Both were invented in the Han Dynasty.

C.Both were improved in the Tang Dynasty. D.Both were widely used in the daily life.

30、How to Avoid the Coronavirus? Wash Your Hands

As a New York Times journalist in China, I covered the SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003, during which a novel coronavirus was first detected in Guangdong. My two children _______elementary school in Beijing throughout the outbreak.  

The International School of Beijing, _______ my children were students, was one of the_______in the capital that stayed _______throughout the SARS outbreak.  

The school instituted a bunch of simple precautionary (预防的) policies: a strict note to_______reminding them not to send a child to _______ who was sick and warning them that students would be screened for _______ with ear thermometers (耳温枪) at the school door. There was no _______ of food at lunch. The teacher led the kids in _______ hand washing throughout the day at classroom __________, while singing a prolonged “hand washing song” to __________ that they did more than a cursory (草率的) pass __________ the tap with water only.  

With those precautions __________, I observed something of a public __________ miracle (奇迹): Not only did no child get SARS, but __________ seemed that no student was sick with anything at all for __________on end.

The World Health Organization __________ the SARS outbreak controlled in July 2003. But, oh, those __________ continued. The best first-line defenses __________SARS or the novel coronavirus or most any virus at all are the ones that Grandma and common __________taught us, after all.

【1】A.attended B.left C.explored D.experienced

【2】A.which B.where C.as D.when

【3】A.many B.much C.few D.little

【4】A.closed B.open C.locked D.controlled

【5】A.patients B.students C.teachers D.parents

【6】A.hospital B.work C.school D.clinic

【7】A.colds B.coughs C.fevers D.headaches

【8】A.sharing B.wasting C.eating D.throwing

【9】A.fluent B.frequent C.occasional D.timely

【10】A.desks B.chairs C.pipes D.sinks

【11】A.suggest B.assume C.ensure D.require

【12】A.through B.above C.across D.under

【13】A.in place B.in reality C.in order D.in need

【14】A.behavior B.life C.study D.health

【15】A.it B.there C.they D.this

【16】A.months B.days C.years D.hours

【17】A.claimed B.declared C.reported D.announced

【18】A.hobbies B.interests C.characters D.habits

【19】A.on B.from C.against D.for

【20】A.ground B.sense C.practice D.people

31、   “You are being put thousands of dollars into debt to learn things you will never even use. Wasting 4 years of your life to be stuck at a paycheck that grows slower than the rate of inflation (通货膨胀). Paying $200 for a $6 textbook.” Wilson said in his social network.

His story has produced a ________ debate in the comments online. Other young adults are wondering if ________ higher education is worth the time and money.

Wilson, who was on an Architectural Engineering undergraduate course told BBC Trending that the “cost of inflation is relatively small compared to the cost of college over the last 30 or so years. I mean, it really is ridiculous how the cost of college has ________.”

He’s supported by data. According to the US Department of Education the average annual increase in college tuition in the United States, between 1980-2014, grew by nearly 260% compared to the nearly 120% ________  in all consumer items.

In 1980, the average cost of tuition, room and board, and fees for a four-year course was over $9,000. That cost now is more than $23,000 for state colleges. If you want to go ________ it’s more than $30,000.

A similar increase in tuition fees has also been seen in England. In 2012, the government supported initiatives from some universities to ________ more than the 9,000 tuition fee limit.

Wilson also regarded higher education ________ as a reason to leave university and enter the workplace. Students in the United States are estimated to be in around over $1.2 trillion of loan debt with 7 million borrowers.

Wilson says that when he first told his parents that he was leaving university, they were “very ________” but are now supportive of his decision. His parents finally came round to his decision to ________ his studies. Others, like Blair Brown, who agreed with Wilson also pointed out that some professions do require a university degree.

“Being an engineer, scientist, or computer technician could be learned rather quickly through apprenticeships, independent study, and hands-on experience. Human nature is to learn by doing, not ________ to do. As for more professional careers such as medical doctors and lawyers, university study is ________ necessary,” Brown commented.

Wilson, who told Trending that he is currently ________ for a trade show sales team and his employers did Google him and they saw the funny side. He adds that he hopes enough work experience will ________ him to be employed by an architectural engineering team in the future.

He doesn’t think university will play any ________ in that future. “They would have to make a ________ change to the system before I would consider that and I don’t think they’ll do that while I’m still young enough to want to go.”

【1】A.troublesome B.vigorous C.open D.reliable

【2】A.pursuing B.paying C.accepting D.refusing

【3】A.stayed up B.paid up C.gone up D.grown up

【4】A.decline B.improvement C.amount D.increase

【5】A.private B.abroad C.public D.ahead

【6】A.charge B.collect C.pay D.exchange

【7】A.quality B.consumption C.debt D.quantity

【8】A.happy B.upset C.relieved D.crazy

【9】A.follow B.continue C.select D.abandon

【10】A.consuming B.working C.learning D.experiencing

【11】A.knowingly B.admittedly C.mentally D.academically

【12】A.employed B.acknowledged C.confirmed D.approved

【13】A.promote B.revise C.motivate D.allow

【14】A.joke B.impact C.part D.effect

【15】A.moderate B.big C.slight D.reverse

32、   It was a simple letter asking for a place to study at Scotland's oldest university which helped start a revolution in higher education. A 140-year-old letter ___by a lady calling for her to be allowed to study ___at St Andrews University has been discovered. Written by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1873, the seven-page document, which ___the university to allow women to study medicine at the institution, was ___yesterday on International Women's Day.

The document was discovered ___in the university archives (档案) by part-time history student Lis Smith, who is completing her PhD at St Andrews University. She said, "We knew that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their effort to ___university medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus(校评议委员会) ___to gain permission to attend classes there, ___we didn’t know documentary evidence existed. While ___the archives for information about the university’s higher certificate for women, I was astonished to ___what must be the very letter Jex-Blake wrote”.

In the letter, Sophia and her supporters offered to hire teachers or build suitable buildings for a medical school .Although her letter was not ___, it finally ___the establishment of the Ladies Literate in Arts at St Andrews, a distance-learning degree for women. The qualification gave women ___to university education in the days ___they were admitted as students. It was so popular that it ___long after women were admitted as ___students to St Andrews in 1892.

Ms Jex-Blake went on to help ___the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874. She was ___by the University of Berne, where she was awarded a medical degree in January 1877.

___, she moved back to Edinburgh and ___her own practice.

【1】A. told B. written C. selected D. stored

【2】A. medicine B. literature C. art D. history

【3】A. admitted B. prevented C. urged D. permitted

【4】A. obtained B. printed C. marked D. released

【5】A. broken B. burned C. buried D. taken

【6】A. open up B. come up C. put up D. keep up

【7】A. in vain B. in an attempt C. in addition D. in a sense

【8】A. but B. so C. therefore D. nevertheless

【9】A. protecting B. providing C. typing D. searching

【10】A. get through B. come across C. cast down D. apply for

【11】A. significant B. successful C. intelligent D. brilliant

【12】A. managed to B. happened to C. led to D. attached to

【13】A. authority B. justice C. expectation D. access

【14】A. until B. before C. since D. after

【15】A. survived B. relieved C. overlooked D. assumed

【16】A. compulsory B. dynamic C. full D. alternative

【17】A. establish B. visit C. donate D. form

【18】A. refused B. confirmed C. proved D. accepted

【19】A. Occasionally B. Apparently C. Eventually D. Currently

【20】A. employed B. invented C. decorated D. opened

33、   It was the first time in four years that my daughter Kate had been able to have a face-to-face chat with her Chinese grandfather through WeChat. Her grandfather ______ showed us his apples. Kate eagerly asked when she could eat them. Since her birth, we can’t ______ time to take her back to China. Year after year, her grandfather would save us a box of the ______ apples just in case we visited. They were kept in the cold store _____ and they must have been sweet. I vividly remember my first ______ of an apple picked straight from the orchard(果园), which enjoys a perfect setting for growing apples with a high altitude and striking temperature differences.

A few weeks after the ______, when new blossoms (花) began to appear on the trees, a/an _______ occurred to Kate’s grandfather. If we couldn’t take our ______ back this year, he would take the apples to us. He ______ the ladder (梯子), carefully examining blossoms. Those that ______ his examination were picked off the trees. When the blossoms ______ small apples, he covered each apple with a special ______ consisting of three layers, which would ______ the young apples from brown spots and also help them achieve a/an ______ coloring. Several weeks passed and the apples were almost ready. He spent ______ removing the outer layers of the bags. The inner red layers remained. If they were removed too early, the fruits would be damaged by the sunlight. Once they ______ the sun, he removed the final layers.

From his ______, he still kept one box of his finest apples but this time he was ______ to deliver them himself. ______ for his passport and visa approved, he delicately ______ his 2-kilogram bag of best apples—as fresh fruit is strictly restricted by the customs and headed for Scotland.

【1】A.carefully B.proudly C.secretly D.briefly

【2】A.devote B.cost C.spend D.afford

【3】A.biggest B.sourest C.ripest D.finest

【4】A.waiting B.expecting C.growing D.working

【5】A.touch B.sight C.bite D.purchase

【6】A.interview B.discussion C.chat D.appointment

【7】A.mind B.idea C.advice D.fact

【8】A.father B.mother C.son D.daughter

【9】A.climbed B.designed C.made D.fixed

【10】A.escaped B.passed C.failed D.lost

【11】A.burst into B.gave out C.grew into D.let out

【12】A.paper B.bag C.sheet D.package

【13】A.protect B.discourage C.hide D.cover

【14】A.dark B.even C.ever D.light

【15】A.minutes B.days C.months D.years

【16】A.adapted to B.appealed to C.adopted to D.responded to

【17】A.tree B.harvest C.experiment D.product

【18】A.accustomed B.advised C.engaged D.determined

【19】A.Instructions B.Recreations C.Applications D.Reservations

【20】A.packed B.filled C.emptied D.delivered

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

Why Cold weather Causes So many Flight Cancellation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

35、阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Smell the flowers before you go to sleep and you may just end up with rosy dreams. Have a whiff of rotten(腐烂的)eggs during the night and your dreams may be【1】(pleasant). So says researcher Dr. Boris Stuck, 【2】invited sleeping volunteers to a rose vs. rotten egg test in the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany. The subjects didn’t dream about roses【3】eggs, but rather he found that what they smelt affected the emotions of【4】(they) dreams.

And if you think【5】(smell) have a say in dreams, wait for what TV tells us. A UK study reveals that people exposed【6】black-and-white film and TV in their youth are to have monochromic(单色的)dreams throughout their life more【7】(probable). Eva Murzyn from the University of Dundee tested two age groups— one half 【8】(age) over 55 and【9】other half under 25.

The result? Under 5% of the dreams of the under-25s were in black and white. 【10】(watch)color TV in childhood seems to be the reason why.

36、课文填空

The Sundance Film Festival 【1】 boycotts all Hollywood films, and we don’t foresee ever including them. The initial idea for our festival was 【2】 back in l978. when it was known as the Utah/US Film Festival. However, it was not well known until 1981. It was then that Robert Redford became its 【3】 and changed the focus to independent films, often made on very modest 【4】 It was given its new name-the Sundance Film Festival-in 1991. Redford has acted in and directed many big Hollywood films, but wanted to 【5】 the public to films made outside of the Hollywood system

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、假定你是李华，你的美国好友Jane数学学得不好，对自己失去了信心，产生了厌学情绪。请你给她发一封电子邮件开导她，要点如下：

1. 没有必要过于伤心；

2. 要振作起来，尽量减少焦虑心理：

3. 和老师交流有助于你改善：

4. 探索适合自己的有效学习方式。

注意：l. 词数100左右：

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Jane，

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Yours,

Li Hua

39、疫情期间，学校都延期开学，老师通过建立QQ学习群来组织教学和管理。假如你是李华，你的美国朋友Jack来信询问QQ学习群对居家学习是否真的有帮助，请你回复。

回信内容包括：

1. QQ学习群的利

2. QQ学习群的弊

3. 你的观点

参考词汇：新型冠状病毒肺炎：COVID-19；：QQ学习群：QQ study group

注意事项：1. 词数100左右；

2.注意回信的开头和结尾，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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40、请阅读下面短文，然后按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

【写作内容】

1．用约30词概述上述文本的主要内容；

2．结合上述信息，用约120词发表你的看法，内容包括:

(1) 少儿编程教育流行起来的原因（至少两点）；

(2) 你对少儿编程教育的建议（至少两点）。

【写作要求】

1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2. 作文中不得提及有关考生个人身份的任何信息，如校名、人名等。

【评分标准】

内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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41、地震是一种难以预测的自然灾难，懂得必要的避震措施，可以最大程度减少地震对我们的危害。学校正门公告栏正在征集宣传文章，请根据以下提示写出一篇文章：

1.沉着冷静，遇事不惊

2.室内要找到遮蔽物，如：桌子下面

3.室外应远离建筑物，去到开阔的地方

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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