珠海2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、He speaks English well indeed, but of course not ________ as a native speaker.

A. as fluent   B. more fluent   C. so fluently D. much fluently

2、That was not the first time he ____ us. I think it's high time we ____ strong actions against him.

A．betrayed, take

B．had betrayed, took

C．has betrayed, took

D．has betrayed, take

3、With fossil fuels such as coal and oil running out quickly, we have to find more ____________ energy sources.

A. vivid B. bureaucratic

C. alternative D. abnormal

4、—So you didn’t say hello to him last night?

—Well, I stopped and smiled when I saw him, but he ________ me and walked on with his head very high.

A.ignored B.refused C.recognized D.missed

5、If you want to know something about the details, please ______ the website.

A.purchase B.distribute C.click D.operate

6、I ________ you an apology for what I said this morning. Anyway, I meant no offence.

A.owe B.make C.demand D.accept

7、Last year he _____ $ 1,000 to cancer research to help develop the cure of the deadly disease.

A. distributed B. declared

C. defined D. donated

8、When he needs time alone, he ________ to his private space at a nearby art studio to paint.

A.dials B.chokes C.bothers D.withdraws

9、I can’t drive today. Can you give me a _______ back to town?

A. sail B. rise

C. ride D. return

10、_______with the research,he had no time to play with his son.

A.Occupied B.Occupying C.To occupy D.Having occupied

11、-Did you meet with your head teacher in the concert last night？

-Yes. It was in the interval___________ we met.

A.what B.that C.where D.when

12、We firmly believe that war never settles anything. It only ______ violence.

A.result from B.begins with C.leads to D.runs into

13、Learning English means more than memorizing a lot of words. It ________ a large amount of reading as well.

A.involves B.inspires C.motivates D.associates

14、---Hi, Johnson, any idea where Susan is?

---It is class time, so she __________ in the classroom now.

A. can be B. must have been

C. might have been D. should be

15、______our part as a global citizen, we need to know what is happening in the world.

A.To do B.Doing C.Having done D.Done

16、The question occurred to me ____ the book was worth reading.

A．what

B．whether

C．which

D．if

17、The problem ______ now is very important.

A. being discussed B. discussed

C. discussing D. to be discussed

18、Please tell me how the accident _____. I am still in the dark.

A.came out B.came by C.came across D.came about

19、_________ I understand what you say, I can’t agree with you.

A．What

B．While

C．How

D．Where

20、I have to say ______ the boy that he actually didn’t break the school rule.

A. in honor of B. in defense of

C. in favor of D. in celebration of

21、We were delayed at the airport. _________ we would have been here by lunch time.

A. However B. Instead

C. Probably D. Otherwise

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

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

23、_________is Virginia Woolf’s most autobiographical novel, which develops a series of thoughts rather than a plot, centering on themes like women’s role in society, death and change.

A.The Garden Party B.The Green Room C.To the Lighthouse D.Daisy Miller

24、He is________ know the result of the examination and even can't eat or sleep well for that.

A.leading to B.dying to C.addicted to D.accustomed to

25、Gradually, it faded away, ________ it was once such a great city.

A．even though

B．even

C．as if

D．as

26、   Scientists are working to stop a deadly virus that infects(感染)pigs. The virus is causing huge losses for farmers in China and other Asian countries. Many farmers have tried to contain African swine flu by quarantining(隔离)pigs and destroying infected animals. But the spread of the disease into East Asia has stepped up the search for other ways to deal with the problem.

The virus had not been considered a major concern for researchers until it appeared in China last year. Chinese farmers raise about half of the world's pigs. Some researchers think the virus might have come from infected animals in Eastern Europe or Russia. Since then, it has spread to China, Vietnam and other Asian countries. Millions of pigs have been destroyed.

Although swine flu does not sicken people, it is very infectious and deadly to pigs. "Today's situation, where you have this global danger, puts a lot more emphasis on this research,” said Doctor Luis Rodriguez. He spoke to The Associated Press. Rodriguez leads the United States government laboratory for foreign animal diseases at Plum Island , New York. As a deadly virus kills pigs across Asia, scientists are accelerating efforts to develop a vaccine (疫苗).

Vaccines often are developed by killing a virus before it is put into an animal. The disabled virus does not make the animal sick, but it activates the body's natural defenses against disease. The immune(免疫的)system is then able to identify the virus and produce antibodies against it.

However, this method is not effective with all viruses including the one that causes African swine flu. For swine flu, scientists have been working on a different kind of vaccine. It is made from a weakened virus, not a dead one. The problem for researchers has been how to change the virus so it can be safely used.

Vietnam's government reported a few weeks ago that it was testing vaccines, but provided few details of its programs. In China, the government said scientists are working on a vaccine that genetically changes the virus. That is similar to a method being used by scientists in the United States.

【1】Why did the virus cause the researchers' concern when appearing in China?

A.The virus may infect people.

B.The number of pigs raised in China is huge.

C.The virus may be completely out of control.

D.Chinese science and technology is not advanced.

【2】Where might the virus come from?

A.Eastern Europe or Russia. B.Vietnam.

C.African countries. D.America.

【3】What is the function of the disabled virus according to Rodriguez?

A.It makes people fall ill.

B.It destroys the immune system of animals.

C.It helps the body produce antibodies against disease.

D.It makes the body's natural defense against disease work.

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

A.The Emphasis of the Virus Research

B.Swine Flu Leads to the Deaths of Lots of Pigs

C.Scientists Hurry to Develop Vaccine for Swine Flu

D.New Results About Government Laboratory for Animal Diseases

27、It is found that American students spend less than 15% of their time in school. While there’s no doubt that school is important, a number of recent studies reminds us that parents are even more so. A study published earlier this month by researchers at North Carolina State University, for example, finds that parental involvement — checking homework, attending school meetings and events, discussing school activities at home — has a more powerful influence on students’ academic performance than anything about the school the students attend. Another study, published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, reports that the effort put forth by parents (reading stories aloud, meeting with teachers) has a bigger impact on their children’s educational achievement than the effort devoted by either teachers or the students themselves. And a third study concludes that schools would have to increase their spending by more than $1,000 per pupil in order to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement.

So parents matter. But it is also revealed in researches that parents, of all backgrounds, don’t need to buy expensive educational toys or digital devices for their kids in order to give them an advantage. They don’t need to drive their offspring (子孙，后代)to enrichment classes or test-preparation courses. What they need to do with their children is much simpler: talk.

But not just any talk. Recent research has indicated exactly what kinds of talk at home encourage children’s success at school. For example, a study conducted by researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health and published in the journal Pediatrics found that two-way adult-child conversations were six times as potent in promoting language development as the ones in which the adult did all the talking. Engaging in this reciprocal（双向的) back-and-forth gives children a chance to try out language for themselves, and also gives them the sense that their thoughts and opinions matter.

The content of parents’ conversations with kids matters, too. Children who hear talk about counting and numbers at home start school with much more extensive mathematical knowledge, report researchers from the University of Chicago. While the conversations parents have with their children change as kids grow older, the effect of these exchanges on academic achievement remains strong. Research finds that parents play an important role in what is called “academic socialization” — setting expectations and making connections between current behavior and future goals. Engaging in these sorts of conversations has a greater impact on educational accomplishment.

【1】Parents are even more important than schools because ______.

A. parental involvement makes up for what schools are not able to do

B. teachers and students themselves do not put in enough effort

C. parental involvement saves money for schools and the local government

D. students may well make greater achievements with parents' attention

【2】It can be inferred from the 2ndparagraph that ______.

A. educational toys are unaffordable nowadays

B. digital devices can give children an advantage

C. some parents believe in enrichment classes

D. talking with children is a very simple task

【3】The word "potent" is closest in meaning to ______.

A. powerful B. difficult C. necessary D. resistant

【4】Which of the following will more encourage children's success at school according to the passage?

A. Parents order their children to stop playing video games.

B. Parents discuss with their children the possible future career.

C. Parents lecture their children on getting too low marks on tests.

D. Parents introduce colleges around the US to their children.

28、   Called an “e-broom”, Toyota’s latest mobility platform looks like a futuristic broom that users can ride to get around. Apparently, quidditch (魁地奇) fans found the concept very attractive.

【1】, but it is capable of helping people moving on the ground, as long as they are wearing roller-skates. The e-broom is meant to be ridden like a witch’s broom, only instead of relying on magic to take its users towards the sky, it relies on an electrical motor and a wheel at the bottom to push its rider forward at a not-so-fast speed. It’s not as impressive as we’d like it to be, but at least it’s a step toward a real life quidditch broom.

【2】, we don’t have much information on the e-broom. We don’t know the capacity of the motor or the battery, maximum speed or even when or if it’s going to be on market. We do know that it has a transparent cat as decoration as its tip. 【3】.

“This mobility platform combines people and machines, and allows users to feel the enjoyment of mobility. 【4】!” a Toyota press release states. 【5】. And those of quidditch are in particular, very excited, but unless they plan to wear roller-skates in their games, they’ll have to wait a while for an improved ride.

A.Experience first-hand mobility of the future

B.However, we don’t even know what use it has

C.No one is sure how much it is for sale and where to buy it on the market

D.Unfortunately, Toyota’s e-broom isn’t yet able to make quidditch players fly

E.Many people, especially the young, are too astonished to believe the product

F.The announcement of a futuristic-looking witch’s broom gets Harry Potter fans crazy

G.Apart from some photos and a small show of how it works during the recent Tokyo Motor Show

29、Hot Technology Products at CES 2020

The consumer electronics show, or CES, presents new technology developments annually. Here are some latest products launched at CES 2020.

The Sero TV

Samsung introduced a TV that can be used to watch video designed for a smartphone. The Sero TV does this by turning itself from the normal TV position to an upright position that looks like the shape of a phone. The V can connect to mobile devices to play video directly from the phone.

Smart waste can

A company called TOWNEW presented; waste can designed for the home that does a lot of the dirty work on its own. When the can is full, the user touches a button to activate the machine's smart abilities. The device then completely closes off the waste bag inside, puts a new one in place, all by itself, and raises its top so the user can pick up and throw away the bag.

Invisible car hood(引擎盖)

Automobile industry company Continental showed off a new technology that seems to make the front end of a vehicle disappear. The technology, called "Transparent Hood," aims to make driving safer and easier. Cameras provide video of the area underneath the vehicle, permitting the driver to see objects and road conditions that might present danger.

Wearable air purifier

A company called Aō Air introduced a wearable air purifier. Designed to be a high-tech face covering to block pollution, the device pulls air through a filtration(过滤)system and then uses fans to create a small area of clean air at its front, allowing the air to be purified-without the need for a solid container.

【1】Which company's product will appeal to video-loving mobile users?

A.Samsung. B.TOWNEW. C.Continental. D.Aō Air.

【2】What's the main advantage of Smart waste can?

A.It saves users the bother of packing waste. B.It allows users to sort rubbish easily.

C.It breaks down waste automatically. D.It contains numerous waste bags.

【3】What is special about the air purifier?

A.Complex. B.Costly. C.Waterproof. D.Convenient.

30、The secret to a successful sequel(续集)—a secret

Keeping the entire cast and crew of a film a secret is hard. But when it’s a massive movie like Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, with some 700 people and 1,000 costumes—including 400 coats alone—it’s next to _________. All precautions are taken: characters are given code names, the smallest details are protected by nondisclosure agreements, and digital scripts are encoded and _________ after a certain amount of time in case of being copied and spread. It’s not quite magic, but it’s close.

The pressure to not reveal anything—even _________—is enough to give Eddie Redmayne a difficult time. “I’ve been sent this funny document which is _________ with double-caps, triple-underlined notes saying, YOU CAN’T TALK ABOUT THIS,” says the Oscar winner, who returns as wizard Newt Scamander in the sequel, which continues the story of the earlier _________. Does he ever tell anyone? He leans in and admits, a little _________, that he does: his wife, Hannah Bagshawe.

How have they successfully kept it a secret? It certainly helps that J. K. Rowling, the writer of the work, is the _________ of keeping secrets. She famously claims to have known crucial plot points from her best-selling book series’ endgame years in advance. Also, Johnny Depp’s _________ appearance in the movie—the actor has been accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife Amber Heard—as the dark wizard Grindelwald was kept under _________ until just two weeks before the first film came out in 2016.

Bearing this commitment to secrecy in mind, it’s no surprise that Rowling has ____________ the details to few people about how the ____________ three movies in the proposed five-part series will playout. Even producer Tim Lewis, who has worked on eight Harry Potter installments, is ____________. “We haven’t seen scripts for the next one,” he says. “I am assuming Rowling knows the whole plan, but I couldn’t say.”

The earnings are high enough: the first Fantastic Beasts movie reached $814 million. That’s a number most studios would ____________, but when it comes to Harry Potter, expectations start sky-high. In a world filled with universes based on existing intellectual property—Star Wars, Marvel—appreciation fatigue is always possible. But for now, the extreme enthusiasm shows no sign of____________: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a play based on an idea by Rowling, is a critical and commercial____________. For the Beasts sequel, analysts are already predicting an opening weekend of $65 million to $75 million.

【1】A.useless B.impossible C.successful D.critical

【2】A.recovered B.released C.deleted D.split

【3】A.in control B.by accident C.for reference D.in case

【4】A.covered B.compared C.armed D.furnished

【5】A.commercial B.adaptation C.imagination D.reputation

【6】A.sadly B.proudly C.angrily D.shyly

【7】A.suspect B.counsellor C.master D.pioneer

【8】A.awful B.debatable C.welcomed D.excellent

【9】A.protection B.wraps C.investigation D.discussion

【10】A.advertised B.justified C.highlighted D.revealed

【11】A.remaining B.enduring C.revealing D.threatening

【12】A.in the dark B.in the clear C.on the air D.on the scene

【13】A.suffer from B.watch for C.dream about D.look into

【14】A.speeding up B.giving off C.turning around D.dying down

【15】A.innovation B.smash C.promotion D.chance

31、   Several years ago, I went on a trip alone to Mozambique. Our bus broke down by the side of the road. There was certainly nothing in the way of _______ or campsites or any kind of place to sleep. I _______ I’d just have to bed down on the roadside like others. But I was pretty _______ at the idea. Most everyone else was traveling with their families or other _______, and here I was, a very young woman, alone, with pale white skin that just screamed out “I’m a foreigner and do not _______ here.” Besides I spoke Portuguese reasonably _______ but not any of the local dialects, which _______ my difficulty.

I was trying to work out what to do when I _______ one of the women passengers I’d been chatting with _______ to me. “Come with me,” she said. I was then taken to the nearby village, where she lived. She and her large family ________ me that night. We had chips and matapa, a delicious Mozambican dish. Her kids laughed and circled around and were ________ to have a visit from a real white person. I couldn’t ________ a lot of the conversation, because only the woman spoke Portuguese, but I felt so ________ despite my foreignness.

This kind-hearted woman ________ a stranger a night spent trembling in ________ and hunger by the side of the road.

【1】A.hospitals B.stores C.hotels D.colleges

【2】A.wished B.figured C.insisted D.argued

【3】A.terrified B.astonished C.excited D.annoyed

【4】A.guides B.villagers C.volunteers D.companions

【5】A.wait B.tour C.belong D.explore

【6】A.frequently B.poorly C.fluently D.eagerly

【7】A.added to B.got over C.declared D.anticipated

【8】A.felt B.spotted C.kept D.stopped

【9】A.explaining B.whispering C.complaining D.gesturing

【10】A.hosted B.interviewed C.charged D.comforted

【11】A.scared B.fascinated C.satisfied D.embarrassed

【12】A.hear B.remember C.follow D.interrupt

【13】A.awkward B.confused C.uncertain D.welcomed

【14】A.afforded B.spared C.accompanied D.accommodated

【15】A.relief B.regret C.doubt D.fear

32、   Everyone wants to find happiness in life. No matter what our circumstances are,the search for true contentment is at the _______of everyone's goals.

The question, then, is how? How are we _______to even begin looking for it? A group of people gathered in a room_________a seminar about life and happiness to learn to find happiness in their _______. They were being _______various skills and lessons about life. Suddenly, the speaker _______and started giving each person a balloon. He asked everyone to write their _______ on it using a pen. All the balloons were then _______and taken to another room.

Now, these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name _______, within 5 minutes. Everyone was________searching for their name, pushing, crashing with each other, and there was a ________. No one could find their ________within the given five-minute time and they all had to return to the other room with their hands __________.

Then they were told to go to the other room and randomly choose a balloon and give it to the________whose name was written on it. Within five minutes everyone was ____________ the balloon with their name on it.

The speaker began: This is__________happening in our lives. Everyone is hurriedly looking for happiness all around, not knowing ________it is. Our happiness ________the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your ________happiness. And this is the ________of human life.

【1】A.bottom B.heart C.draft D.distance

【2】A.forced B.used C.supposed D.aimed

【3】A.attending B.attempting C.accompanying D.abusing

【4】A.contributions B.lectures C.trips D.lives

【5】A.appointed B.taught C.guaranteed D.adjusted

【6】A.continued B.urged C.stopped D.resigned

【7】A.names B.addresses C.ideas D.essays

【8】A.separated B.exchanged C.divided D.collected

【9】A.announced B.declared C.recommended D.written

【10】A.eventually B.steadily C.wildly D.flexibly

【11】A.mess B.potential C.threat D.disability

【12】A.rooms B.balloons C.exits D.sections

【13】A.full B.blank C.empty D.dirty

【14】A.teacher B.speaker C.person D.agent

【15】A.pumping B.choosing C.distributing D.carrying

【16】A.simply B.exactly C.automatically D.nearly

【17】A.where B.who C.what D.which

【18】A.results in B.decides on C.dates from D.lies in

【19】A.temporary B.own C.annual D.awful

【20】A.purpose B.consequence C.search D.existence

33、When I was in Grade 6, I knew a girl. She____to point out my shortcomings and always said I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, and so on. I tried not to care what she said.____, I became very____in the end. I cried and ran to Daddy.

Daddy asked, “Are the things she says true or not? Lisa, didn’t you ever____what you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s____. Go and make a____of everything she said and____the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”

To my___, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t____(like being very thin), ____a good number I could and suddenly I____to change. For the first time I got a clear____of myself.

I brought the list back to Daddy. He____to take it. “That’s just for you,” he said. “You know better than anyone else the____about yourself. But you have to learn to ____. Don’t just close your ears in anger, feeling____. When something said about you is true, you’ll find it will be____to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t____your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you think is____.”

       In my life, this is the best____that Daddy has given me.

【1】

A．forgot

B．stopped

C．promised

D．liked

【2】

A．Besides

B．However

C．Instead

D．Also

【3】

A．happy

B．patient

C．proud

D．angry

【4】

A．accept

B．remember

C．wonder

D．persuade

【5】

A．opinion

B．trouble

C．dream

D．purpose

【6】

A．schedule

B．joke

C．list

D．plan

【7】

A．discuss

B．mark

C．win

D．destroy

【8】

A．joy

B．surprise

C．excitement

D．regret

【9】

A．ignore

B．recognize

C．develop

D．change

【10】

A．and

B．so

C．but

D．or

【11】

A．wanted

B．hated

C．feared

D．failed

【12】

A．view

B．picture

C．memory

D．feeling

【13】

A．agreed

B．learned

C．asked

D．refused

【14】

A．future

B．truth

C．ability

D．decision

【15】

A．study

B．work

C．listen

D．control

【16】

A．afraid

B．frightened

C．hurt

D．nervous

【17】

A．harmful

B．hopeful

C．peaceful

D．helpful

【18】

A．shut

B．kiss

C．point

D．touch

【19】

A．strange

B．extreme

C．right

D．difficult

【20】

A．news

B．advice

C．luck

D．information

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.

Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.

The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.

It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.

Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often  【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.

Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.

37、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

A

I have the【1】(great)job in the world. I travel to unusual places and work alongside people from all over the world. Sometimes using【2】(science)equipment and sometimes meeting local people and tourists, I am never【3】(bore).Although my job is occasionally dangerous, I don’t mind because danger excites me and makes me feel alive. However, the most important thing about my job is that I help protect ordinary people【4】 one of the most powerful forces on earth—the volcano.

B

Water is a precious resource. Every person needs it【5】 (survive),and we use it for cooking, drinking, growing our food and washing. However，it is scarce(缺乏的).Just 1% of water on Earth can【6】 (use)by humans. What’s more，treating water to make it clean and safe and pumping it to our homes uses up lots of energy. So, what can you do to help save water? One easy way is by【7】(turn)off the tap when you brush your teeth.

C

Robbie Phillips has become the first British person to complete one of the toughest challenges in rock climbing. 【8】(know)as the Alpine Trilogy(阿尔卑斯三部曲),the challenge consists of three climbs on mountains in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, 【9】Phillips completed in four years. Until now, only four other people【10】(conquer)all three of the extremely difficult climbs.

38、假如你是高二(1)班李华，你们班要举办一个联欢会(party), 请给外教Mike写一封E-mail邀请他来参加，并通知以下事宜:

1.举办时间:下周五下午6:00—8:30；

2.有游戏环节,建议Mike穿休闲装(casual clothes)；

3.希望Mike准备一首英文歌曲表演。

注意:1词数100左右，开头和结尾已给，不计入总词数。

2可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mike,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

39、假如你是李华，新华学校学生会主席，近日你校收到美国友好交流学校Roger Manverz School学生会主席John的邮件，希望你校捐赠一批传统文化书籍，供该校对此有兴趣的同学阅读，请你代表学校给John回复一封邮件，邮件中需要包含以下内容：

1.自我介绍；

2.捐赠图书的具体信息；

3.询问对方的收件地址和联系信息。

注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear John,

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours faithfully,

Li Hua

40、假设你是李华，你所在社区将举办利用暑假到希望小学义务为学生辅导英语的活动。你希望参加此活动。请根据提示用英语写一封申请信:

1. 对此活动的认识；

2. 个人优势；

3. 你的计划。

注意:1、词数100左右；

2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3、开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Sir/Madam,

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

41、假设你是某中学的学生李华，你校拟选拔一批优秀学生，利用暑假到某小学为学生辅导英语，你希望参加此活动。根据以下提示，请你用英语给校评选小组写一封申请信，要求如下：

1.此活动对自己，对辅导学生的好处；

2.个人优点，如性格、语言能力；

3.你的辅导计划。

注意：1.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

2.词数100左右（开头已经给出，但不计入总词数）。

Dear Sir or Madam，

I am Li Hua from Class One，Senior Two.

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Yours sincerely，

Li Hua