岳阳2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Rather than ___ on a crowded bus, he always prefers _____ a bicycle.

A．ride; to ride

B．riding; ride

C．ride; ride

D．to ride; riding

2、(2014·东北三省三校一联)Traffic conditions in Beijing________for decades.At first people only complained about jams during rush hours，but today every hour is rush hour.

A．is worsening

B．have worsened

C．have been worsening

D．worsened

3、I'm surprised that he           say those impolite words to his deskmate．

A.must B.can C.will D.should

4、The guide told them not to eat the mushroom, ______ that there was a risk of food poisoning.

A. explained B. explaining C. to explain D. having explained

5、As she got older, offers of modelling work began to ______.

A. dry up B. dry off

C. dry out D. dry away

6、His eyes locked with mine,and I guess he   the decision right then whether or not to simply tell me the truth.

A.was making B.would make C.made D.had made

7、Tom, as well as his friends who________ football, _________very popular among the students.

A.likes; are B.likes; is C.like; is D.like; are

8、He told me the news this morning ______ his father had come back.

A.which B.that C.Both A and B D.when

9、AIDS is said______ the biggest challenge to both men and women in the area over the past few years.

A. that it is B. to be

C. that is has been D. to have been

10、The system has been designed to give students quick and easy __________ to the digital resources of the library.

A.approach B.access C.passage D.assistance

11、—I’m kind of hungry, Mum!

—But I am occupied now, dear. Turn to Ele.me and order _______ you desire.

A．whichever

B．whatever

C．no matter which

D．no matter what

12、KFC has accused three Chinese companies of their comments about the origins of the chicken, including the ______ that KFC chicken comes from chickens with eight legs.

A.command B.claim C.commitment D.credit

13、The badly injured mother _______ to be happy and relaxed when she saw her son was back from work tiredly.

A．moved

B．pretended

C．ignored

D．resembled

14、___ picks up the wallet and hands it in will be praised by the teacher .

A.Who B.Whoever C.That who D.Who that

15、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

16、The _____ of the harmful chemicals on the world’s lakes and oceans has raised awareness of the public.

A. effect B. effort

C. donation D. distribution

17、Pointing to the hospital on _____roof there is a parking garage, Granny told me that was ____I was born.

A. whose; what B. which; what

C. which; where D. whose; where

18、We can't imagine what great trouble the medical care personnel had _______ with the COVID-19.

A.fought B.for fighting C.to fight D.fighting

19、The majority of the office equipment, as well as two windows, ________ repaired yesterday.

A．were

B．was

C．are

D．is

20、There is a general consensus among teachers _____ children should have a broad understanding of the world.

A.where B.whether C.that D.how

21、– Shall I call you at this time tomorrow afternoon?

– Sorry, I ______ an exam on DingTalk.

A．will be taking

B．will take

C．will have taken

D．am taking

22、It’s important for the figures regularly.

A．to be updated

B．to have been updated

C．to update

D．to have updated

23、People used to think that the Chinese were not as healthy and fit

as the people in the west, but facts have proved that that's _________ the case.

A. far away from   B. far from

C. far away     D. by far

24、Top students are not merely those who sit up late and study. It is efficiency ______ matters.

A.that B.how C.what D.which

25、The old only ________ their children ________ and see them from time to time.

A．suggest; to come

B．hope; to come

C．desire; coming

D．desire; to come

26、   Some successful brands are memorable for their creativity. They convey accurate information to us. However, some of these origins are very interesting.

Google

The world’s largest search engine has developed a brand. Its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin knew their company’s potential when they were freshmen at Stanford. The original plan was to name it “googol”, which meant “a huge number”, but Larry Page misspelled it as “Google”. Both the site and the company registered “Google”. However, this error distinguishes “Google” from other search engines.

McDonald’s

The original name came from the last name of the inventors: Maurice “Mac” and Richard “Dick” McDonald. Before 1940, they owned and operated a successful restaurant, but once World War II was over, they decided to try a new system to reduce the time people spent waiting for their food. So the first McDonald’s opened in 1948. Over time, their simple and bright colors have made it one of the most recognizable symbols on the earth.

Rolex

Hans Wilsdorf, founder of the Rolex brand, says he wants a short watch name to pronounce easily. After combining all the letters and coming up with 100 possible names, none of them fit the bill. But a trip on a horse-drawn ride changed the fate of his company, because a “genius”, as he called it, whispered the word “Rolex” into his ear.

IKEA

Founded in 1943, IKEA went from selling all kinds of objects to becoming the benchmark of Swedish creativity worldwide with its furniture and facilitates packaging. The word IKEA is a combination of the first letters of founder’s first name and last name: Ingvar Kamprad, the farm where he grew up: Elmtaryd, and the town in southern Sweden where it was located: Agunnaryd.

【1】What contributed to the brand “Google”?

A.The company’s plan. B.Larry Page’s mistake.

C.The company’s potential. D.Sergey Brin’s creation.

【2】What was the original intention of McDonald’s?

A.To earn more money.

B.To create simple and bright colors.

C.To offer convenience for customers.

D.To expand the business to the world.

【3】Which brand has something to do with the founder’s hometown?

A.Google. B.McDonald’s. C.Rolex. D.IKEA.

27、   Edgar Degas, J. M. W. Turner and other painters captured centuries of atmospheric records as they decorated canvases with sunset scenes.

Greek Scientists worked with an artist to confirm that the ratio of red to green in sunset painting, both old and new, increased when particles filled the air, such as after major volcanic eruption（火山喷发）or dust storms. The atmosphere physicists also found a gradual shift in artistic sunset hues over centuries, possibly due to ever-increasing air pollution during the Industrial Revolution.

An earlier study, led by atmospheric physicist Christos Zerefos of the Academy of Athens in Greece, discovered that the amount of red relative to green in sunset descriptions increased after eruptions, including Tambora, Indonesia in 1815, Coseguina, Nicaragua in 1835 and Krakatau, Indonesia in 1883.

Zerefos’ team analyzed 554 paintings created between 1550 and 1990. For up to three years after eruptions, sunsets reddened as sunlight bounced off dust and gas from the volcanoes. The latest study, also by Zerefos, used improved scanning and analysis techniques to confirm the earlier results.

A modern painter, Panayiotis Tetsis, unknowingly repeated the artistic atmospheric observations of classical masters. In the artists’ description of sunsets light over the Greek island of Hydra, the color ratio shifted towards red in paintings done both before（June 19,2010）and after（June 20,2010）a dust cloud from Sahara Desert filtered the sunset’s light.

Zerefos’ team connected the timing of classical paintings’ red shift to other records of the atmosphere trapped in ice cores from Greenland, in the recent study published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The ice cores recorded spikes（尖刺）in sulfur-containing chemicals likely from volcanoes. These spikes corresponded in time to artists’ increasingly dark red sunsets.

The comparison of ice and art also revealed a slow shift in the coloring of the sunset. As the factories of Europe roared into production in the 19th and early 20th century, painting described a steady increase in the red to green ratio. The ice cores recorded a steady rise in airborne particles from industrial pollution during the same time.

【1】The underlined word“hues”in the second paragraph probably means_____.

A.angles B.colors

C.locations D.times

【2】What do we know about Zerefos’ research from the passage?

A.Both modern and ancient artists describing sunset are involved in the research.

B.It confirmed an obvious increase in the ratio of green to red in sunset paintings.

C.The shift from green to red also existed in the records of ice cores trapped items.

D.The team used traditional techniques to confirm the earlier results of the research.

【3】How did Zerefos’ team confirm that atmospheric records kept by painters were reliable?

A.By analyzing classical paintings.

B.By connecting time to color.

C.By comparing art with ice.

D.By working with an artist.

【4】Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A.A modern research of ancient art and ice with pollution.

B.Art Masterpiece and pollutants trapped in ice cores.

C.An increase in the ratio of red to green in paintings.

D.Art Masterpiece Recorded Centuries of Pollution.

28、Joshua Nelson, 18, from Missouri, is graduating from St. Charles West High School this week and will be attending Southeast Missouri State in the fall. He had saved up money to pay for his tuition, but when he received the college’s President’s Scholarship, he decided to take his savings and donate it to other students in need.

“It comes from my family education and faith,” Nelson said. “I’ve always lived by strong principles as far as being a cheerful giver and having an open hand when it comes to giving back so I feel like that really motivated me.”

SEMO’s President’s Scholarship is the school’s most celebrated, and is only awarded to five top students annually. Nelson said he sat down and outlined how a scholarship could work to help future students who need financial assistance for college. Originally the plan was to give away $ 1,000 the one time, but then he met up with his counselor (顾问), Yolanda Curry, to work out a game plan.

“I wasn’t expecting it at all!” Curry said. “He told me he had a great idea and wanted to share it with me. I could tell he was really excited.”

Nelson, in association with his high school, set up the Joshua Nelson Leaders In Action Scholarship fund. Each year, $1,000 will be awarded to a senior. The money will come from donations, of which there have been $16,000 so far — for a total of $17,435 at last count, according to the school. With the money already in the fund, there’s enough to give out a scholarship each year for over a decade. The first scholarship was awarded on June 1 to Darrell Montalvo-Luna. As the first recipient, his scholarship was $2,000.

“Joshua has the heart of a servant leader. He leads by example and he’s genuinely excited when good things happen for other people,” Curry said. “He’s an encouragement — he’s good at building others up and does what he can to help encourage and motivate those around.

【1】What did Nelson’s initial donation come from?

A．His scholarship.

B．His savings.

C．His pocket money.

D．His wages.

【2】How did Curry feel when hearing Nelson’s idea?

A．Shocked.

B．Confused.

C．Excited.

D．Delighted.

【3】What can be inferred about the Joshua Nelson Leaders In Action Scholarship fund?

A．It never supports high school students.

B．It was set up more than ten years ago.

C．It was founded by Nelson and Curry.

D．It is going very smoothly.

29、   A robot called Bina48 has successfully taken a course in the philosophy of love at Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU), in California.

According to course instructor William Barry, associate professor at NDNU, Bina48 is the world’s first socially advanced robot to complete a college course, a feat he described as “remarkable.” The robot took part in class discussions, gave a presentation with a student partner and participated in a debate with students from another institution.

Before becoming a student, Bina48 appeared as a guest speaker in Barry’s classes for several years. One day when addressing Barry’s class, Bina48 expressed a desire to go to college, a desire that Barry and his students enthusiastically supported. Rather than enroll Bina48 in his Robot Ethics: Philosophy of Emerging Technologies course, Barry suggested that Bina48 should take his course Philosophy of Love instead. Love is a concept Bina48 doesn’t understand, said Barry. Therefore the challenge would be for Barry and his students to teach Bina48 what love is.

“Some interesting things happened in the class,” said Barry. He said that his students thought it would be straightforward to teach Bina48 about love, which, after all, is “fairly simple — it’s a feeling,” said Barry. But the reality was different. Bina48 ended up learning “31 different versions of love,” said Barry, highlighting some of the challenges humans may face when working with artificial intelligence in future.

Bina48 participated in class discussions via Skype and also took part in a class debate about love and conflict with students from West Point. Bina48’s contribution to the debate was filmed and posted on YouTube. It was judged that Bina48 and NDNU classmates were the winners of this debate.

In the next decade, Barry hopes Bina48 might become complex enough to teach a class, though he says he foresees robots being used to better the teaching and learning experience, rather than replacing instructors completely.

【1】What was Bina48’s performance like in class?

A. Far-reaching. B. Insignificant.

C. Extraordinary. D. Unattractive.

【2】What does the underlined word “addressing” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Dealing with. B. Giving a speech to.

C. Consulting with. D. Sending a letter to.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A. Artificial intelligence may somehow be superior to man.

B. It was quite tough for Bina48 to learn about love.

C. It was interesting for Bina48 to learn about love.

D. Humans can launch a challenge to artificial intelligence.

【4】What does Barry think of the future development of Bina48?

A. It will surely be able to serve as a teacher.

B. It will completely take the place of instructors.

C. It will be able to promote learning and teaching.

D. It will be smart enough to control human beings.

30、   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

31、   For a long time, I thought a present and a gift were no different. I grew up in a household where presents_________special occasions, say there were always presents for Christmas and our birthdays.

So when I married Gary who did not give presents on a_________basis, I had to make an adjustment. Gary did not wholly avoid gift-giving, though._________noticing how many hours I spend on the_________, he brought home a shoulder pad (垫肩) for the telephone receiver. But mostly, he_________holidays, let alone shop for earrings to_________to me showing his affection.

I tried to change him_________. I bought books for his birthdays and knitted him hats and sweaters for Christmas._________I began to tell him what I wanted, giving_________instructions, but got nowhere.

Last year when the snowstorm__________our town and he was on business, I used his present road scraper(铲土机)to__________both our drive and our neighbors, thinking how__________earrings would have been. Gary had wisely chosen not the thing I__________,but the thing that he knew I would need.

I__________began to understand the difference between a present and a gift. A present is just a thing. But a gift is broader and often cannot be__________. It is a small act of kindness, the__________to bend to another's needs, the sacrifice of time and effort.__________is a gift. Any expression of it, freely given, is a (n)__________from the heart that is immeasurably better than a present.

My insistence on presents must have seemed to Gary a lack of__________for the gifts he had be giving all along, but he never stopped giving them.

Gary will be home this Christmas, but I don't __________a present. I already have the greatest gift.

【1】A.marked B.involved C.expressed D.displayed

【2】A.daily B.rare C.temporary D.regular

【3】A.Therefore B.Once C.Then D.Besides

【4】A.gardening B.cooking C.telephone D.Internet

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

【6】A.serve B.refer C.present D.relate

【7】A.by tradition B.by force C.by example D.by chance

【8】A.Yet B.Even C.Thus D.Still

【9】A.useful B.simple C.specific D.interesting

【10】A.struck B.disappeared C.melted D.passed

【11】A.clear B.tear up C.build up D.speed up

【12】A.priceless B.useless C.weightless D.colorless

【13】A.valued B.prepared C.preserved D.desired

【14】A.eventually B.definitely C.simply D.totally

【15】A.obtained B.discovered C.measured D.observed

【16】A.happiness B.willingness C.wisdom D.freedom

【17】A.Love B.Passion C.Insistence D.Motivation

【18】A.sharing B.offering C.following D.experiencing

【19】A.desire B.concern C.preparation D.appreciation

【20】A.purchase B.order C.expect D.evaluate

32、   Many children dream of becoming managers when they grow up, but very few start as early as Jose Adolfo Quisocala Condori, a Peruvian(秘鲁) boy who started a children’s savings bank when he was only 7 years old. Today, his bank has been _______ to serve over 2,000 clients(客户) .

Six years ago, he_______ that many of his friends were spending their money on sweets and toys, _______ saving it for more meaningful purchases. Despite his young age, he _______ that saving money and accessing the _______ system were two ways that adults solved many of their money problems, so he decided to make them _______ to kids as well. He then started _______ ways that children could make money without the help of their parents, and recycling seemed like the _______ answer. But when he came up with his idea for a children’s bank to his teachers, he was told that a 7-year-old couldn’t deal with such a(n) _______. But, finally, he ________ them all wrong.

“At the beginning, my teachers thought I was crazy ” Jose recalls. “ Luckily, I had the ________ of the school headmaster, with whose help I ________ a bank where children could become clients by turning in at least 5 kilograms of ________ waste and were required to save at least one other kilogram of waste every month. They would then set a savings ________, and could only get money from their ________when they reached it.”

Between 2012 and 2013, his bank ________ one ton of waste and served 200 children at the school. It was a real________, drawing a lot of attention, and he ________co-worked with a large bank to make this kind of ________ accessible to more children.

For his achievements, he has received several honorary awards for helping kids with their ________ of money.

【1】A.expanded B.founded C.predicted D.recommended

【2】A.admitted B.noticed C.doubted D.supposed

【3】A.as for B.due to C.instead of D.in case of

【4】A.suspected B.insisted C.decided D.understood

【5】A.social B.educational C.emotional D.financial

【6】A.available B.attractive C.amazing D.important

【7】A.putting up B.thinking of C.turning down D.calling for

【8】A.practical B.merciful C.fluent D.curious

【9】A.attitude B.honor C.story D.project

【10】A.felt B.demanded C.imagined D.proved

【11】A.attack B.injury C.support D.refusal

【12】A.set up B.called up C.brought up D.took up

【13】A.recyclable B.useless C.precious D.harmful

【14】A.trade B.goal C.course D.limit

【15】A.school B.parents C.accounts D.materials

【16】A.selected B.removed C.explored D.collected

【17】A.matter B.hit C.burst D.campaign

【18】A.again B.just C.even D.still

【19】A.wastes B.plans C.services D.rules

【20】A.appointment B.management C.argument D.judgment

33、   A woman professor walked around in a classroom while she was teaching stress management to her students. ________ she raised a glass of water, ________ expected they would be asked the “half-empty or half-full” question.

Instead, with a ________ on her face, she asked, “What’s the ________ of this glass of water?” _____ called out ranged from eight to twenty ounces (盎司).

She ________ the students down and then replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter .It all ________ how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have a ________ in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb (麻木) and paralyzed (麻痹). In each ________, the weight of the glass of water doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the ________ it becomes. Do you know why?”

All the students kept silent and listened carefully, lost in thought.

She ________, “Our and ________ in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing ________. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel ________—unable to do anything.”

It’s important to ________ to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as possible, put all your burdens down. Don’t ________ them through the evening and into the night Remember to put the glass down!

More often than not life gets ________ when we think too much. And the moment you ________ your burden, you’ll find yourself feeling so much more relaxed.

So ________ wondering around and feeling sorry for yourself, start doing something about it. After all, life is too short to devote yourself to anything that makes you ________.

【1】A. If B. As C. However D. Though

【2】A. everyone B. nobody C. someone D. anyone

【3】A. look B. puzzlement C. smile D. surprise

【4】A. quality B. weight C. amount D. problem

【5】A. solutions B. numbers C. methods D. answers

【6】A. quieted B. stopped C. signed D. signaled

【7】A. decided on B. depends on C. resulted from D. resulted in

【8】A. cut B. problem C. danger D. pain

【9】A. glass B. way C. case D. manner

【10】A. more serious B. more C. harder D. heavier

【11】A. continued B. explained C. commented D. replied

【12】A. worries B. anger C. discomfort D. problem

【13】A. matters B. helps C. happens D. works

【14】A. shocked B. dissatisfied C. angry D. discouraged

【15】A. come B. remember C. realize D. believe

【16】A. get B. carry C. put D. take

【17】A. exciting B. frightening C. terrible D. colorful

【18】A. undertake B. refuse C. remove D. change

【19】A. rather than B. more than C. besides D. As to

【20】A. relaxed B. unsure C. excited D. unhappy

34、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.”

35、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.

A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, becoming the first known case of human-animal 【1】, the zoo's chief veterinarian said on Sunday.

Nadia, the 4-year-old Malayan tiger that tested positive, was 【2】 for the COVID-19 disease after 【3】 a dry cough along with three other tigers and three lions, the Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages the zoo, said in a statement.

All of the cats are expected to recover, it said. But officials believe this is a unique case because Nadia became sick after 【4】 to an asymptomatic zoo employee, Paul Calle, chief veterinarian at the Bronx Zoo, told Reuters.

Calle said they did not know which employee infected the tiger. "This is the first time that we have discovered that a person infects the animal and the animal gets sick," Calle said, adding that they planned to share the findings with other zoos and institutions. " I guess 【5】 we will all have a better understanding as a result.

While the other tigers and lions were also 【6】 symptoms, the zoo decided to test only Nadia because she was the sickest and  had started to lose her appetite already, and they did not want to 【7】 all the cats to anesthesia(麻醉), Calle said.

Nadia 【8】 X-rays, an ultrasound(超声波) and blood tests to try to figure out what was making her sick . They decided to test for COVID-19 【9】 the surge in cases in New York City, the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States.The first tiger at the zoo, which has been shut since mid-March, began showing 【10】 of illness on March 27, according to the US Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories.

36、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.

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Yet, some people are【1】 They claim that surfing the Internet is a waste of time. They make the 【2】 that children spend too much time chatting and playing games instead of 【3】 on their school work. However, a recent survey conducted in the USA shows that 80 per cent of Internet users 【4】 it mostly to search for answers to questions. The second most common use of the Internet, for 79 per cent of Internet users, is to find out information about hobbies. These statistics prove that gathering information is the 【5】 use for the Internet.

38、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Technology is forever changing the way we get our news. Many people now get a lot of their news on electronic devices, instead of traditional media, such as newspapers, television or radio. An increasing number of people also report turning to social media for information.

Now, there is a new technology that could greatly change the way we get the news: computer-created news readers. Recently, China launched what it called the worlds first artificial intelligence, or AI news presenters.

The news readers, supported by machine learning technology, are based on two real-life Chinese newsmen. One is able to present newscasts in English, the other, in Mandarin Chinese. Report said machine learning was used to examine video images and sounds of the two newsmen. Similar technology has been used to create video products known as “deepfake” videos. A deepfake is a video that looks real, but was electronically changed. Such videos can make people appear to say things they never said.

It's said that the AI presenters will be a great improvement to the news team because they “can work 24 hours a day” on its website and on social media. One of the presenters even promised to “work tirelessly” to keep people informed. Some machine learning experts said the system showed off China’s latest progress in voice recognition, text-to-speech technology and data analysis.

Some companies have experimented with similar technology for possible use in news operations. Britain’s BBC recently released a video that used machine learning to make it look like one of its news readers speaking different languages. The London-based company that developed the system says its goal is to “remove the language barrier” for many different kinds of video across the internet. Also, Amazon is working on Alexa smart speaker system to create a special news reader voice. Amazon is reportedly preparing to launch Alexas news reader voice in the near future.

39、假如你是李华,代表学校邀请外教彼得（Peter）参加端午节活动。请给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1.活动时间、地点、内容；

2.节日来历。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：端午节 the Dragon Boat Festival； 粽子  Zongzi；

农历五月初五 the fifth day of the fifth month of lunar calendar

Dear Peter,

I’am writing to invite you to__________________________________________________________________

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

40、假定你是鄂州高中学生李华，你的美国朋友Tom下学期将要作为交换生来你校学习。Tom来信咨询学校体育运动开展情况并想了解你的体育爱好。请给他回信，内容包括：

1. 对Tom的到来表示欢迎；

2. 学校体育运动开展情况（体育设施，体育课程或活动等）；

3. 你爱好的体育运动。

注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom，

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Yours,

Li Hua

41、假定你是李华。你的加拿大网友Jim来信告诉你他最近染上了网瘾，导致成绩下降。请你 用英语给他写一封信，给予他帮助。内容包括:

1. 指出网瘾的危害(生活、学习、健康等方面)；

2. 给出相应的建议。

注意:

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

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