新竹2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、The architecture as well as all the art works of The Forbidden City is well ____________ by professional staff.

A. accustomed B. erupted

C. assumed D. preserved

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

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

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

A.where B.which C.that D.who

4、_____ a true story, the movie is very moving.

A. Be based on B. Basing on

C. Base on D. Based on

5、Whitney Houston’s sudden death suggests that drug abuse is such a serious problem ________ we should deal with it appropriately.

A. as B. that C. which D. where

6、A 13-year-old boy _____Sheng Yibo, was reported _____ toTsinghua Univeristy, ____ many people.

A.named; to have been admitted; which surprised

B.naming; being admitted; surprising

C.named; to be admitted; surprised

D.named; admitted; as surprised

7、The drug is said to have side effects and has been __________ from the market for further tests.

A. withdrawn B. cancelled

C. renewed D. appointed

8、Either side seems to have a(n) _________ position; there are still many uncertainties on this issue.

A．ambiguous

B．delicate

C．explicit

D．confidential

9、Fully _______ in looking after three small children, she cannot speak to you at the moment.

A.occupied B.being occupied C.occupying D.being occupying

10、______ the man isn’t very rich, he gives a large amount of money to the students every year.

A．Though

B．Since

C．Unless

D．If

11、In the developing world, one out of 300 women die __________ breast cancer every year.

A.as usual as B.as a consequence of

C.as for D.as to

12、It is wise of you to ________ well trained workers ________ untrained ones in the assembly line.

A．substitute; for

B．substitute; with

C．replace; by

D．replace; with

13、--What impresses you most when you visit the Acropolis?

-- ________ it is that has brought the grand palace into today’s terrible scene.

A. Where B. What

C. How D. When

14、The red umbrella is among the black ones.

A．distinct

B．delicate

C．diverse

D．desperate

15、What caused the accident and who was responsible for it________ a mystery to us.

A.remains B.remain C.is D.look like

16、The people in the village are so ________ that they are willing to help every visitor.

A．optimistic

B．energetic

C．enthusiastic

D．ambitious

17、I was scared ___ when I saw the tiger jumped out of the cage and ran to the little child.

A．to the death

B．of death

C．into the death

D．to death

18、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

19、There are many “forced riders”，who are suffering from the climate impacts_____ having scarcely contributed to the problem.

A.when B.though C.despite D.as

20、--- Tom has a good memory.

---So he does. He can remember every______ in great detail.

A. incident B. accident

C. affair D. event

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

A.that B.this C.one D.it

22、I am “one in a million” ______, there are not many people like me.

A.In other words B.In a word C.On the other hand D.For example

23、Heat the water. ___________, it will freeze.

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

24、It ________me  that I had forgotten his birthday.

A. occurred B. beat

C. hit D. knocked

25、Michael had a serious fall in playing football and his under lip began to ______ up.

A. wind B. split

C. choke D. swell

26、High School Course Requirements for College Admissions

While admissions standards vary greatly from one school to another, nearly all colleges and universities will be looking to see that applicants have completed a standard core (核心) curriculum. As you choose classes in high school, these core courses should always be the most important. Students without these classes may be automatically disqualified for admission. In general, a typical high school core curriculum looks something like this.

English: 4 years

Foreign Language: 2 to 3 years

Math: 3 years

Science: 2 to 3 years including lab science

Social Studies and History: 2 to 3 years

Art: 1 year

Keep in mind that the required courses for admission differ from the recommended courses. At selective colleges and universities, additional years of math, science and language will be necessary for you to be a competitive applicant.

When colleges calculate your Grade Point Average (GPA) for admissions purposes, they will often ignore the GPA on your transcript (成绩单) and focus only on your grades in these core subject areas. Grades for physical education, music performance and other non-core courses are not as useful for predicting your level of college readiness as these core courses. This doesn't mean that electives aren't important. Colleges do want to see that you have a large variety of interests and experiences, but they simply don't provide a good window into an applicant's  ability to handle strict college courses.

Core course requirements vary from state to state, and many of the more selective colleges will want to see a strong high school academic record that goes well beyond the core. Advanced Placement, IB and Honors courses are a must to be competitive at the most selective colleges. In most cases, the strongest applicants to highly selective colleges will have four years of math (including calculus), four years of science and four years of a foreign language.

【1】How many courses are included in a typical high school core curriculum?

A.Three. B.Six. C.Eight. D.Ten.

【2】What does your non-core courses mean when you apply to college?

A.Your intelligence level. B.Your academic standard.

C.Your talents and creativity. D.Your interests and experiences.

【3】Who will most probably be interested in the text?

A.High school students B.High school teachers

C.College students D.College teachers

27、Self—talk helps us all

Talking to yourself may seem a little shameful. If you've ever been overheard criticizing yourself for a foolish mistake or practicing a speech, you'll know the social problems it can cause. 【1】 Talking to ourselves, whether out loud or silently in our heads, is valuable. Far from being a sign of madness, self—talk allows us to plan what wea re going to do, manage our activities and control our emotions.

Psychologists call self—talk private speech—language that is spoken out loud but directed at yourself. We do a lot of it when we are young. As children, we use private speech to control our actions in the same way that we use public speech to control the behavior of others. 【2】

Psychological experiments have shown that dais so—called inner speech can improve our performance in tasks like telling what other people are thinking. One recent study suggests that self—talk is the most effective when we talk to ourselves in the second person: as "you" rather than "I".

We keep the private speech we use as children inside—but we never truly put away the out—loud version._ 【3】 You're sure to see an athlete shouting at himself or herself.

 【4】 Heating different points of view means our thoughts can end up in different places, leading to a solution to a problem, just like a regular dialogue, and might turn out to be one of the keys to human creativity.

Both kinds of self—talk—silent and out loud—seem to bring many different benefits to our thinking. 【5】

A．But there's no need for embarrassment.

B．If you want proof, turn on a sports channel.

C．As we grow older, we keep this system inside.

D．Take a trip to any preschool and watch a small child playing with toys.

E．Words to the self, spoken silently or aloud, are so much more than just chatter.

F．According to the well—known saying, talking to yourself is the first sign of madness.

G．Self—talk seems to be a very good way of solving problems and working through ideas.

28、I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the more wonderful thing in the world.

Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,” she’d said again, “it’s for Elizabeth.”

I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.

They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface”.

As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.

I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

My hope turned to disappointment, then little interest and, finally, peace— it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

Now the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside —a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded and refolded many times.

Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.

【1】The passage shows that ______.

A．mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter

B．mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done

C．mother cared much about her daughter in words

D．mother wrote to her daughter in careful words

【2】The word “gulf” in the passage means ______.

A．deep understanding between the old and the young

B．different ideas between the mother and the daughter

C．free talks between mother and daughter

D．part of the sea going far in land

【3】What did mother do with her daughter’s letter asking forgiveness?

A．She had never received the letter.

B．For years, she often talked about the letter.

C．She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in all her life.

D．She read the letter again and again till she died.

【4】What’s the best title of the passage?

A．My letter to Mother

B．Mother and Children

C．My mother’s Desk

D．Talks between Mother and Me

29、   At least 20 people died and hundreds were injured in a bridge collapse in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata Thursday. Witnesses said many people and vehicles, including two buses carrying more than 100 passengers, were under the bridge when it fell. They also said construction workers had set up camps near the bridge site where they would sleep and cook.

Before rescue teams arrived, local residents and firefighters used their bare hands to try to rescue people trapped under the debris. The collapsed bridge is in a busy commercial area of Kolkata. Its location has made it difficult for rescue operations. Access to the area is blocked on both sides by buildings, and the streets are blocked with heavy traffic.

Reuters (路透社) reports that the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, rushed to the scene of the collapse. She said that rescuing those trapped is her “top priority”. Banerjee said those responsible for the disaster will be punished. Yet she faces questions about the safety of the construction project. The Telegraph newspaper reported last November that Banerjee wanted the bridge — already five years overdue — to be completed by February. Project engineers said they were concerned over whether this would be possible, the newspaper said at the time. Construction workers had been on a strict schedule to complete the bridge. The disaster could affect the West Bengal election next month. An Indian company, IVRCL, was building the 2­kilometer bridge, its website said. IVRCL’s director of operations said the company was not sure of the cause of the disaster.

【1】Why were so many people killed or injured in the accident?

A.Many people were under or near the bridge.

B.The rescue work responded too slowly.

C.The bridge was under construction.

D.Construction workers had set up camps there.

【2】What does the underlined word “debris” probably mean?

A.Buildings. B.Ruins.

C.Vehicles. D.Disasters.

【3】What can we learn about the bridge?

A.It was designed by a company called IVRCL.

B.Project engineers were unwilling to cooperate.

C.It should have been completed five years ago.

D.The cause of the disaster has been discovered.

30、   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

31、My mum was a consultant psychiatrist at Lancaster Moor hospital. At five, I went with her to the _____________ on a Christmas afternoon. I didn't really want to be: there, knowing I had not yet opened all my _____________ at home. Mum gave me a big box of chocolates and told me to _____________ around the psychogeriatric ward.

Our household was the sort where treats were strictly _____________: only one packet of crisps a week. So being entrusted with a huge box of chocolates was _____________ indeed. I marched proudly around the ward, operating a “one for you, one for me” policy _____________ I went from bed to bed, wondering why no one I talked to _____________.

When you are _____________, so much of life is new and strange that you quickly accept even the strangest things as being _____________ normal. But I remember thinking it was ______________ that so many of these very old women were holding dollies and teddy bears tight.

On the way home, feeling slightly ______________ after all the chocolates, I asked Mum why the old ladies had dolls and why they had talked such nonsense. I can't remember her exact ______________, but I learned that most of them had no family, and received no ______________.

That Christmas taught me not to be afraid of people with ______________ illness. I wasn't even ______________ when my mother put me on the trolley in the corridor outside her office if she was busy in the ward.

【1】

A．hospital

B．school

C．grocery

D．restaurant

【2】

A．books

B．presents

C．suitcases

D．mailboxes

【3】

A．promote

B．taste

C．distribute

D．choose

【4】

A．examined

B．purchased

C．forbidden

D．controlled

【5】

A．exciting

B．upsetting

C．demanding

D．confusing

【6】

A．before

B．after

C．as

D．until

【7】

A．followed suit

B．took office

C．lost heart

D．made sense

【8】

A．alone

B．old

C．free

D．little

【9】

A．barely

B．bitterly

C．perfectly

D．hardly

【10】

A．odd

B．nice

C．right

D．certain

【11】

A．fortunate

B．energetic

C．unconscious

D．uncomfortable

【12】

A．reaction

B．explanation

C．instruction

D．motivation

【13】

A．consultants

B．visitors

C．honour

D．treatment

【14】

A．mental

B．deadly

C．common

D．infectious

【15】

A．satisfied

B．embarrassed

C．bothered

D．relieved

32、As our Earth’s temperature warms up because of climate change, it is having unexpected effects on our world’s forests. When temperatures rise, trees close their skins to ___________ the loss of water, and this, in turn, slows down the ___________ of photosynthesis(光合作用). As a result, these trees are shorter and grow slowly, as well as have a ___________ death rate.

Climate change also increases the ___________ of droughts and wildfires. After wildfires, it takes a while for the forest systems to ___________ , and in some cases, the forests are ___________ permanently. Trees that are stressed are also ___________ to attacks by bacteria(细菌). In tropical forests, vines that use the trees as ___________ can often choke the trees and rob them of nutrients. Finally, humans have ___________ the forest landscape through logging. When trees are replanted on the soil, they will never grow as large as the ____________ trees that were cut down.

As these forests disappear, species that once called them “home” are forced to change, ____________ the variety of those systems. ____________ , some endangered species are unable to ____________ and die. Old-growth forests are disappearing in all regions of our world. When forests die, younger forests that are reestablished in the same area grow back weaker and smaller ____________ poor vegetation. With trees dying increasingly and continuously, will future generations ____________ out on the wonders of forests?

【1】

A．protect

B．prevent

C．save

D．free

【2】

A．movement

B．situation

C．process

D．operation

【3】

A．higher

B．firmer

C．lighter

D．smaller

【4】

A．choice

B．measure

C．qualification

D．chance

【5】

A．grow

B．rescue

C．recover

D．decline

【6】

A．ignored

B．lost

C．hurt

D．left

【7】

A．accessible

B．enjoyable

C．acceptable

D．favorable

【8】

A．attention

B．command

C．trust

D．support

【9】

A．frightened

B．paid

C．ruined

D．wasted

【10】

A．common

B．original

C．distant

D．strong

【11】

A．affecting

B．improving

C．forgetting

D．reflecting

【12】

A．Besides

B．Surprisingly

C．Otherwise

D．Unfortunately

【13】

A．devote

B．keep

C．adapt

D．lead

【14】

A．due to

B．in addition to

C．instead of

D．in spite of

【15】

A．pass

B．miss

C．break

D．bring

33、   When your child is supposed to be doing homework, are they chatting with their friends on Facebook or playing games? Many studies have shown that multitasking doesn’t_______, _______your child is probably proudly claiming they can do ten things_______! Many people believe that they can_______two or more tasks at the same time, but Dr. Edward Hallowell says this is_______. The reality is that multitasking_______poor job performance.

New hand-held_______such as smartphones, iPads, games and social networking sites make it very easy to multitask and “attention_______” leading to difficulty focusing on the task_______, such as listening in the classroom or doing homework. “__________, the brain actually__________kids for multitasking even though when your child is supposed to doing homework performance on every task gets worse and worse. Kids don't know that they are doing__________because they feel better when they multitask,” says Dr Edward Hallowell.

__________the appearance of hand-held devices and social networking sites, teachers have noticed a difference in__________performance, critical thinking skills and how information is__________. “Multitasking prevents people from gaining a deep understanding of the information they are trying to learn,” says Dr Edward Hallowell. Kids have a difficult time sticking with a” difficult to understand" topic and__________to allow themselves to be distracted(分散的), to tune out and switch__________ to Facebook or using their cell phones__________working harder at understanding a difficult subject or problem. In the long__________, multitasking affects grades. One study showed that kids that use the Internet while in class did__________on tests resulting in lower grades.

【1】A.play B.understand C.use D.work

【2】A.only if B.even though C.so that D.no wonder

【3】A.at once B.right away C.in no time D.at random

【4】A.advocate B.deal C.perform D.prefer

【5】A.impossible B.important C.impatient D.impolite

【6】A.results in B.results from C.exists in D.exists from

【7】A.designs B.discoveries C.equipment D.evidence

【8】A.attract B.draw C.pay D.share

【9】A.at hand B.on time C.on schedule D.at times

【10】A.Uncertainly B.Unfortunately C.Universally D.Undoubtedly

【11】A.remains B.rewards C.regards D.reflects

【12】A.better B.well C.bad D.worse

【13】A.Since B.Before C.When D.While

【14】A.accidental B.accurate C.accessible D.academic

【15】A.produced B.processed C.possessed D.promoted

【16】A.tend B.attend C.intend D.pretend

【17】A.out B.on C.off D.over

【18】A.except for B.rather than C.more than D.apart from

【19】A.run B.walk C.journey D.distance

【20】A.hardly B.successfully C.poorly D.mildly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

In Congress, July 4, 1776

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37、阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Everyone has their own unique fingerprint; 【1】 makes fingerprints an ideal way to unlock smartphones. However, this may be 【2】 (safe) than we think.

Scientists at New York University and Michigan State University in the US have developed a set of fake fingerprints. They say that the prints 【3】 unlock any fingerprint-enabled smartphone up to 65 percent of the time.

The artificial fingerprints 【4】 (create) by using many common features found in human prints. They work 【5】 taking advantage of the way smartphone scanners check a fingerprint.

The fingerprint scanners   【6】 (use) in smartphones are so small that they only read parts of fingerprints. So they have to take many scans of your finger or thumb (拇指) 【7】 they work properly. Smartphones also let users save several finger and thumbprints. Since a print only has to match one of the saved images 【8】 (unlock) the phone, the scanner is more likely to make mistakes.

Although the scientists have only tested their findings in computer simulations (模拟), 【9】 (worry) about the safety of using fingerprints are reasonable .They warn that the technology used to create artificial fingerprints is improving   【10】 (extreme) fast.

38、假如你是学生会主席李华。最近你的好友Tom的发明在全国科技创新大赛中荣获一等奖并获取了专利。请你给他写一封信，向他表示祝贺并邀请他来你校作报告，内容包括：

1. 表示祝贺；

2. 邀请作报告；

3. 报告目的和时间。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3. 称呼语与结束语已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：创新innovation

39、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

—Tenneva Jordan

I knew I was not supposed to be quite so excited. I was too old for that. At age eleven, the oldest and my mom’s “grown up” girl, I had to keep my cool. I was in middle school after all. But every chance I got, when I was alone, I checked each present under the tree. I read every tag and felt every package, guessing at the contents within. I had examined each gift so often that I could tell which present went to which person without even looking at the tags.

It had been a tough year for my family. Whenever my mom looked over at the tree and scattered(撒) presents, she would sigh and warn us, “There won’t be as much for Christmas this year. Try not to be disappointed.” Christmas had traditionally been a time for my parents to spoil us. In years past, the presents would pile up and spill out from under the tree, taking over the living room. I had heard the phrase “giving is better than receiving,” but thought that whoever had said that must have been out of their mind. Getting presents was the whole point! It was the reason I couldn’t get to sleep on Christmas Eve.

On Christmas morning, we eagerly waited in the hallway until Dad told us everything was ready. We rushed into the living room and let the wrapping paper fly. We made weak attempts to wait and watch while other family members opened their presents, but as the time passed we lost our self-control.

“Here’s another one for you,” said Mom as she handed me a package. I looked at it, confused. Having spent so much time examining the presents before Christmas, I recognized this one. But it had not been mine. It was my mom’s. A new label had been put on it, with my name written in my mother’s handwriting.

“Mom, I can’t…”

注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

I was stopped by my mother’s eager, joyful look.

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Paragraph 2:

I have always remembered that Christmas fondly.

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40、假如你是李华，你校英国交换生Tom在邮件中说他被Oxford University录取了，邀请你本周六晚参加庆祝派对，但你那天要参加汉语诗词(poetry)比赛，不能参加派对。请用英语给他回复邮件。

注意：1．词数100左右；

          2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

41、假定你是李华,你校将举行“朗读者”(Readers)活动,请写封邮件邀请你的英国朋友Alice参加,内容包括:

1.时间、地点;

2.活动内容

3.表达期待。

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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