2025-2026年吉林四平高二下册期末英语试卷含解析

1、 can be done   been done.

A.All; have B.All that; have C.All; has D.All that; has

2、Many experts stick to the view ______ teacher development is the key to the education quality.

A.which B.what C.that D.where

3、Research universities have to keep up with the latest computer and scientific hardware ________ prices.

A．in terms of

B．in addition to

C．regardless of

D．on account of

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

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

5、—When did you first meet her?

—January 1 st, 2000, the first day of the new century, ________ I can never forget.

A．that

B．which

C．when

D．where

6、____ her leg the last time, Brenda decided not to go on the school skiing trip this year.

A. Breaking B. Broken

C. To break      D. Having broken

7、The topics of the conversation should be ________ to the experiences and interests of the students.

A．associated

B．connected

C．relevant

D．remarkable

8、A _______ attitude will never give you a positive life.

A.noisy B.normal C.negative D.native

9、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

10、Later ________ word came that Dolly ________ sheep had become seriously ill.

A．a; a

B．the; the

C．/; the

D．/; /

11、We have a ____ budget and every penny counts.

A. tight B. loose C. bad D. slight

12、What really upset him was ____ to his ideal university.

A. his not admitting B. having not admitted

C. his not being admitted D. his being not admitted

13、The medical staff of Leishenshan hospital in Wuhan   at the hospital square on April 4, 2020.

A.majored B.mentioned C.motivated D.mourned

14、South Korea is bringing in more foreigners to solve its labor problem—a(n)   shortage of blue collar workers.

A.regular B.acute C.flexible D.casual

15、Why didn’t you tell me there was no meeting today? I__________all the way here________the heavy snow.

A.needn’t have driven; through B.didn’t need to drive; through

C.mustn’t have driven; through D.couldn’t have driven; through

16、Today acupuncture has become popular around the world, ________ have other traditional Chinese medicines.

A. as B. so

C. while D. like

17、The criminal, as well as some ________ people, was arrested by the police yesterday.

A．relevant

B．skilled

C．released

D．lucky

18、—________ makes your son feel depressed recently?

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

A. What it is that B. How is it that

C. What is it that D. How it is that

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

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

20、To keep their innovation _______ the times, Internet-based companies are sparing no efforts in digging into more core technologies.

A．in tune with

B．in touch with

C．in exchange for

D．in reward for

21、Had I not got injured last week，I___________ the 2019 Yangzhou Jianzhen Half Marathon tomorrow.

A.would have run B.would run C.will have run D.will run

22、It was 1897 ____a European chemist called Dr. Felix Hoffman produced aspirin from this chemical.

A.that B.how C.when D.which

23、There is now an overwhelming scientific ____ that global warming is indeed happening and that humans are contributing to it.

A. fiction B. purpose

C. consensus D. schedule

24、His suggestion __________to see the art exhibition interested everyone of us.

A.that we go B.which we should go

C.that we would go D.we should go

25、In China, “mythical creatures” is used to describe troublesome schoolchildren ________ behaviors drive their parents crazy.

A．whose

B．when

C．who

D．of whom

26、In May 1987 the Golden Gate Bridge had a 50th birthday party. The bridge was closed to motor traffic so people could enjoy a walk across it. Organizers expected perhaps 50,000 people to show up. Instead, as many as 800, 000 crowded the roads to the bridge. By the time 250,000 were on the bridge, engineers noticed something terrible：the roadway was flattening under what turned out to be the heaviest load it had ever been asked to carry. Worse, it was beginning to sway（晃动）. The authorities closed access to the bridge and tens of thousands of people made their way back to land. A disaster was avoided.

The story is one of scores in To Forgive Design：Understanding Failure, a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean（赞歌）to its breakdowns. Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about disasters. In this book, he includes the loss of the space shuttles（航天飞机）Challenger and Columbia, and the sinking of the Titanic.

Though he acknowledges that engineering works can fail because the person who thought them up or engineered them simply got things wrong, in this book Dr. Petroski widens his view to consider the larger context in which such failures occur. Sometimes devices fail because a good design is constructed with low quality materials incompetently applied. Or perhaps a design works so well it is adopted elsewhere again and again, with seemingly harmless improvements, until, suddenly, it does not work at all anymore.

Readers will encounter not only stories they have heard before, but some new stories and a moving discussion of the responsibility of the engineer to the public and the ways young engineers can be helped to grasp them.

"Success is success but that is all that it is," Dr. Petroski writes. It is failure that brings improvement.

【1】What happened to the Golden Gate Bridge on its 50th birthday?

A．It carried more weight than it could.

B．It swayed violently in a strong wind

C．Its roadway was damaged by vehicles

D．Its access was blocked by many people.

【2】Which of the following is Dr. Petroski's idea according to paragraph 3?

A．No design is well received everywhere

B．Construction is more important than design.

C．Not all disasters are caused by engineering design

D．Improvements on engineering works are necessary.

【3】What does the last paragraph suggest?

A．Failure can lead to progress.

B．Success results in overconfidence

C．Failure should be avoided.

D．Success comes from joint efforts.

【4】What is the text?

A．A news report

B．A short story.

C．A book review

D．A research article.

27、Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Tickets

Lyric Theatre 214 West 43rd Street New York,NY 10036

Experience J.K.Rowling’s magical universe like never before.

This show is presented in two parts.

You may buy tickets for each part together or separately.

Show Information

GalaPro,a free app for on-demand captioning(说明文字)and audio description that you can use on your personal smartphone device.GalaPro makes theatre accessible for audience who are hearing or sight challenged,or just don’t want to miss a word of the show.

【1】What age range is the play intended for?

A.Ages 4 and up. B.Ages 10 and up. C.Ages 4 to 15. D.Ages 10 to 15.

【2】What can we learn from the passage?

A.The cursed child refers to J.K.Rowling.

B.The whole play lasts 5 hours and 35 mins.

C.Latecomers will not be admitted to the theater.

D.Audience might take different seats during the play.

【3】What is GalaPro according to the passage?

A.A special caption. B.A handy application. C.An audio description. D.A smartphone device.

28、Chandler Smith grew up being told that he would never accomplish his dream of being a Division 1 athlete. At 5'8" tall and 195 pounds, Chandler was on the small side to be one of the “greats”. Yet even as a high school athlete he decided to work nonstop to achieve his goals. After being accepted onto the University of Houston football team, Chandler continued to try to make a name for himself on the field.

Chandler sat on the bench for his entire freshman year in college. Sophomore year he saw more action. “I didn’t think I was going to play last year, but I had to always be ready,” he said. At the start of Chandler’s junior year the team’s management pulled him aside and dropped a life-changing, and career-confirming offer in his lap: After three years on the team as a walk-on running back, Smith was being given a full scholarship! “My heart dropped,” Smith said. “I didn't even know what to feel or what to think. It was a feeling of ‘wow’. This is really happening. All my hard work has paid off.”

Chandler called his mother Shawn to tell her the news, but when his father Richard wasn't available, he told her not to spill the beans. Later he went home, and chatted about the football season with his father. “I could be getting the first kickoff,” he told his dad. Without missing a beat, Chandler then slipped in the real news: “Something else dad, they told me they put me on a full scholarship.”

“What?” Richard yelled, jumping from the sofa and wrapping his son in a tight embrace. “Congratulations! Hard work.” Then he walked around the living room, clearly too excited to sit still. “Seeing his reaction, I just broke down in tears because I know this is something we have been talking about and expecting for a long time,” Chandler said. “To finally get it and see the benefits of your hard work felt really good.”

【1】How did Chandler make it to the University of Houston football team?

A．He showed his talent.

B．He had strong determination.

C．He earned his name.

D．He used physical strengths.

【2】What was Chandler's feeling on receiving the good news?

A．He was thrilled.

B．He was controlled.

C．He was confused.

D．He was satisfied.

【3】What do the underlined words “spill the beans” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Give away the secret.

B．Throw off the beans..

C．Prepare for the celebration.

D．Hold back the feelings.

【4】Which of the following best describes Richard as a father?

A．Humorous.

B．Ambitious.

C．Supportive.

D．Demanding.

29、Bradley McConachie, a 33-year-old Australian is actually a student in international relations completing his PhD through Griffith University. He came to Beijing for a cooperative research at Beijing University two years ago. Such an academic life was colorful with a chance offered by the cultural exchanges project, “I'm in China".

Bradley was lucky to win the most "likes" for his photo story about his life in China and became one of 20 winners to visit locations by the project this summer. All the winners’ experiences were filmed to produce a reality show, My Chinese Working Day, which will be broadcast by mid-September.

Bradley was chosen to work as a recreational manager for a Chinese wedding. The film crew took them to many “amazing sites" and the staff at the resort taught them a lot about how to incorporate modern Chinese features while still keeping traditional customs.

“I would have to say two things stick out as the most memorable： the helicopter ride and talking with the staff at the hotel about how they organize weddings here in China," he said. That was Bradley's first time to be in a helicopter, and he was too absorbed with the “stunning" view of the coastline.

“I think it is so important to show other Australians the different landscapes China has to offer. I think so many Australians, when they think about China, imagine the historical sites of Beijing and the exciting things to see in Shanghai but have no idea about other beautiful places, like Sanya or the many other places people have been taken to in this TV series. It was nice to experience these little touches. I was happy to be a part of that experience!” Bradley said.

【1】What made Bradley's life more colorful?

A．Obtaining his PhD.

B．The cultural exchanges project.

C．The research about Beijing University.

D．The interest in international relations.

【2】Why was Bradley given the chance?

A．He produced the reality show.

B．His life in China was interesting.

C．He was one of the top 20 winners.

D．He liked photo stories most.

【3】Which of the following best explains “stunning" in Paragraph 4?

A．Fantastic.

B．Confusing.

C．Agreeable.

D．Extreme.

【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．It's difficult to produce moving TV series.

B．Beijing and Shanghai are historical sites.

C．Sanya is worth visiting for foreigners.

D．Many Australians know little about China.

30、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

31、Cindy Deutsch has taught kindergarten in Wichita for more than three decades. Every year during the last half-hour of school, before her students _______ out of school, she will walk around her _______ and say “I love you” to every one of her students.

This year, 10 Wichita public school students were _______ as semifinalists (半决赛选手) for the National Merit Scholarship, one of the most important _______ a high school senior can receive. Two of them had Deutsch as their _______ teacher.

That’s a _______ percentage, I tell her —20 percent of Wichita’s National Merit scholars. She laughs, then throws the _______ back to the children and their _______. “Such great kids and awesome families,” she said.

Deutsch not only teaches reading, writing and math, but also teaches good _______ like trust, forgiveness and honesty. She ____________ her students to dream big. Then she writes those ____________ down and reads them aloud during an end-of-the-year ceremony.

____________ a school year ends, I think about people like Deutsch—including so many ____________ in my own children’s lives-who ____________ despite challenges and set the course for children’s lives. I ____________ Ms. Vialpando, my kindergarten teacher, who ____________ my lifelong love of reading, and Ms. Yeager, my 10th-grade English teacher, who____________ me to become a writer.

So it’s no ____________ that Emily Caro-Alcantar, Deutsch’s student, when asked what she wanted to be when she ____________, answered simply and specifically: “A teacher ____________ Mrs. Deutsch.”

【1】

A．drop

B．stay

C．rush

D．work

【2】

A．classroom

B．stadium

C．office

D．house

【3】

A．remembered

B．imagined

C．classified

D．named

【4】

A．honors

B．chances

C．gifts

D．suggestions

【5】

A．college

B．secondary

C．primary

D．kindergarten

【6】

A．remarkable

B．funny

C．small

D．fixed

【7】

A．duty

B．alternative

C．achievement

D．requirement

【8】

A．partners

B．parents

C．friends

D．instructors

【9】

A．relationships

B．skills

C．services

D．qualities

【10】

A．commands

B．illustrates

C．encourages

D．warns

【11】

A．needs

B．feelings

C．memories

D．dreams

【12】

A．Wherever

B．Whenever

C．However

D．Whatever

【13】

A．teachers

B．students

C．strangers

D．writers

【14】

A．show off

B．carry on

C．hold back

D．leave behind

【15】

A．believe in

B．think of

C．wait for

D．hear of

【16】

A．inspired

B．guided

C．treated

D．controlled

【17】

A．allowed

B．forced

C．urged

D．promised

【18】

A．wonder

B．secret

C．question

D．guarantee

【19】

A．gave up

B．opened up

C．turned up

D．grew up

【20】

A．like

B．between

C．from

D．as

32、   While volunteering in Tanzania, my wife and I got the idea of what we call a "street library” because children in our neighbourhood were able to read but had no _____at all.

We had an idea to make books ____to local children who wanted to read. We ____a famous international charity for collecting money. We ___ books in three book stores of the capital city. My wife Sue ___ all , 180 books with sticky-backed paper to keep them clean. A local man made some _____ to store the books. I made some a “library cards" and _____with a tailor called Saddiqi, who agreed to keep the boxes in his ____and to run the library. The library was ______to open!

Anyone could ____ with their name and their parent's mobile phone number, Saddiqi gave them a _____ with a number, with which they could read the books only in his shop. I decided it was better to do that than let readers ____ the books. There is no ____ to join the library. Within five days we had over 100 _____ and more were joining each day! Even though the books are ____ for children in different, grades of difficulty, ____ were using the library for free, too.

This side-project was, I think, one of the most ____ things we did in Tanzania. It was in some way a thank-you gift to our_____ for welcoming us so warmly into their lives，. The whole_____worked together on the street library and that's surely part of the reason it is still ____ after we left.

【1】A.interest B.chance C.business D.sense

【2】A.available B.precious C.cheap D.useful

【3】A.left B.contacted C.sold D.bought

【4】A.donated B.read C.wrote D.ordered

【5】A.copied B.mended C.printed D.covered

【6】A.cupboards B.counters C.boxes D.drawers

【7】A.quarreled B.debated C.consulted D.fought

【8】A.shop B.house C.garden D.courtyard

【9】A.necessary B.unlikely C.illegal D.ready

【10】A.sign up B.settle down C.see around D.drop in

【11】A.book B.card C.photo D.newspaper

【12】A.wait for B.learn from C.take away D.refer to

【13】A.way B.charge C.data D.need

【14】A.librarians B.workers C.members D.tailors

【15】A.even B.hardly C.never D.mainly

【16】A.babies B.adults C.youths D.foreigners

【17】A.rewarding B.boring C.worrying D.surprising

【18】A.relatives B.patients C.neighbours D.students

【19】A.school B.company C.country D.community

【20】A.open B.clean C.empty D.modern

33、   We’ve all been there before: You’re driving down the road when suddenly a pothole(凹坑) seems to appear out of nowhere and sends the ______ jumping. Most people think potholes are_____, but artist Jim Bachor sees them as a canvas(画布) for his artwork.

Bachor uses the ______ art form of mosaic(马赛克) to create eye-catching, colorful images of famous artists like Aretha Franklin or simple everyday ______ like food. He even makes less-appealing visuals of insects.

Bachor was a graphic designer for 20 years before he began his ____ in mosaic. He regards an incidental trip to Europe as his motivation to change careers. While ______ in Italy, Bachor fell in love with Pompeii, the preserved ancient Roman city. A tour guide pointed out a mosaic, made of mainly glass and marble, and told Bachor, “Glass and marble don’t ______. So, this looks essentially the way the artist intended.” Bachor says, “That kind of staying power just ______ me so much.”

A year later Bachor returned to attend a mosaic class in Ravenna, Italy, to learn the proper way to ______ the ancient technique. Years after that, he mastered the technique. He ______ that mosaics can be just as significant today as the art form over 1,000 years ago. “I just saw that there was a(n) ______ to bring it into the new age as a contemporary subject,” he says.

So, Bachor decided to make a special piece of ______ for that pothole. He has ____ mosaic pothole art around Chicago, Detroit, New York City and even in Finland.

While he may not be getting ______ from drivers or passengers, Bachor’s art is ______ a pleasant surprise to discover.

A．body

B．rock

C．car

D．sand

A．challenging

B．interesting

C．discouraging

D．annoying

A．modern

B．ancient

C．elegant

D．mysterious

A．objects

B．ideas

C．routines

D．projects

A．duty

B．career

C．belief

D．instruction

A．traveling

B．living

C．working

D．studying

A．last

B．connect

C．fade

D．resolve

A．reminded

B．confused

C．troubled

D．impressed

A．introduce

B．perform

C．promote

D．describe

A．argued

B．imagined

C．remembered

D．realized

A．link

B．time

C．opportunity

D．voice

A．artwork

B．machinery-work

C．code

D．literature

A．discovered

B．created

C．improved

D．taught

A．help

B．invitation

C．money

D．praise

A．nearly

B．merely

C．certainly

D．personally

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.

Expressions about water are almost as common as water itself. But many of the expressions using water have unpleasant meanings.

The expression “to be in hot water” is one of them. It is a very old expression, which can be 【1】 back to 500 years ago. The expression is used to mean being in trouble. One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies attacking a castle.

Being in “deep water” is almost the same as being in “hot water”. When you are in deep water, you are in a difficult 【2】. Imagine a person who cannot swim being thrown in water over his head. You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not have the ability to solve. The problem is too deep. You can be in deep water, for example, if you invest in stocks in complete 【3】 of the stock market.

"Water over the dam" is another expression about a past event. It is something that cannot be 【4】. The expression comes from the idea that water that has 【5】 a dam cannot be brought back again. When a friend is 【6】 by a mistake she has made, you might tell her to forget about it. You say it is water over the dam.

Another common expression, "to hold water," is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about. It probably comes from the way of testing the 【7】 of a container. If it can hold water, it is strong and has no holes in it. If your 【8】 can hold water, it is strong and does not have any holes. If it does not hold water, then it is weak and can not be 【9】.

"Throwing cold water" also is an expression that deals with an idea or 【10】. For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems. But you wife "throws cold water" on the idea, because she says a new car costs too much

35、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but 【1】 number of colleges and universities. About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the 【2】. Recent additions in the United States 【3】 projects at Yale, Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are 【4】 at the Apple iTunes store.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became an early 【5】 with its Open Course Ware project, first 【6】 in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers. Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These 【7】 from Physics to Political Science. Visitors can learn the same things as MIT students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not an MIT education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide 【8】 with teachers. Still, MIT says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada. Students and educators use the site, including students at MIT. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.

Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of 【9】 online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at MIT, is 【10】 popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures. MIT Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering.

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

Why Cold weather Causes So many Flight Cancellation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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、假设你是李华，你班同学打算本周日骑行去游览长城。请你写一封电子邮件邀请你们的外教布鲁斯(Bruce)一同前往。要点包括：

1. 出发时间及地点；

2. 出行方式及需要携带的物品；

3. 希望得到回复。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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39、假如你是李华，你的美国朋友Trevor对中国俗语很感兴趣，前些天给你发了一封邮件，向你请教“良言一句三冬暖，恶语伤人六月寒”的含义，请你结合以下要点给他回封邮件：

1.该俗语的含义;

2.你从中得到的启示。

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 Trevor,

Glad to receive your email and willing to explain to you the saying you mentioned in your email.

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Hope my explanation will be helpful to you.

Yours,

Li Hua

40、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友 Ben 来信询问中国学生做家务情况，并征求你对做家务的看法。请你根据所给要点，用英文给他回一封信。

提到目前，中国部分中学生不做家务，其原因有：

1. 有些父母认为学生首要任务是学习，而且学习负担重，所以不让学生做家务；

2. 有些中学生认为做家务是大人的事，不该由自己做，他们也不知道怎样做家务； 并谈谈自己对此现象的看法。

注意：1. 词数：120 左右；

2. 可根据内容要点适当增加细节，使文连贯。

Dear Ben,

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Yours，

Li Hua

41、假定你是李华。近一个世纪以来，中国故宫在今年元宵节首次在夜间对公众开放，六千张免费门票在网上几分钟内抢购一空。你的外国朋友Jessica很好奇，来信想了解相关情况。请给他回信主要介绍以下内容。

(1)故宫是中国著名的景点之一，中国古代皇帝居住在这里长达五个世纪。

(2)对公众的开放时间通常是上午9:00-下午5:00。按传统，在晚间谢绝任何人入内。

(3)为了庆祝元宵节，宫墙上挂满红色的灯笼，还有京剧表演，灯光秀等。

注意事项:

(1) 字数100字左右 (2) 适当增加情节，使行文流畅

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Dear Jessica,

I am more than thrilled to receiver your letter,

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I am looking forward to your visit.

Yours faithfully,

Li Hua