2025-2026学年广西玉林高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、Loud music can do harm to our ears, so when listening to a player, you shouldn’t ____too high.

A. move it up B. turn it up C. put it up D. make it up

2、They don't allow ______ here．That is to say，we are not allowed _____ here．

A.to smoke； to smoke B.smoking； smoking

C.to smoke； smoking D.smoking； to smoke

3、I know nothing about him ___ he is an Englishman .

A.except for B.except C.except that D.besides

4、____________ China has made advances in 5G technology, there is still a long way to go for its popularity.

A．If

B．Because

C．Since

D．While

5、Each star on the flag of the United States _______ a state of this nation.

A.stands by B.stands out C.stands for D.stands up

6、--David didn’t invite us to his wedding party.

-- _________? I don’t care. After all, we don’t get along quite well with him.

A．How come

B．So what

C．What for

D．What if

7、—How do you study English?

—I study English               talking with foreign students.

A.by B.on C.at D.up

8、The world’s first_____ egg went on sale in a California Whole Foods Wednesday, marking the potential start of an_____ shift in the reliance on corn and soy.

A.plant-based artificial, industry-wide B.artificial plant-basing, industry-wide

C.artificial plant-based, industry-widely D.plant-basing artificial, industry-widely

9、The Cloud Bridge is located in the Yunyang Longgang Scenic Zone，___________ live many rare species.

A.which B.that C.where D.what

10、In this article, you need to back up general statements with _______ examples.

A.shabby B.spicy C.specific D.stubborn

11、The Marvel (漫威) Cinematic Universe or MCU for short is the shared place ________ all 22 films featuring the comic book characters are set.

A．which

B．that

C．when

D．where

12、______that you are grown up;you should no longer depend on your parents.

A.Since B.Now C.As D.Because

13、The question whether college students should do part-time jobs is still ________ debate.

A.under B.in C.for D.with

14、This is the largest clock in the world, ______ the minute hand is six meters long.

A. of which B. whose C. which D. of that

15、The railway station is no place for a child to be _______.

A.run after B.left alone C.set aside D.put back

16、—— We shall take the condition _____you’ve attached to this project into careful consideration.

—— Thanks a lot.

A. where B. when C. which D. what

17、The new job is a real challenge for Helen, but difficult the situation she meets, I believe she’ll work it out.

A.however B.whenever C.whichever D.whatever

18、The writer was so _____ in her work that she didn't notice him enter the room.

A.concentrated B.focused C.absorbed D.centered

19、There was a lot of fun at yesterday’s party. You _____ have come, but why didn’t you?

A.must B.shouldn’t C.needn’t D.ought to

20、The level of __________ in the river was falling.

A. population B. prescription

C. presentation D. pollution

21、As it turned out to be a small house party, we ________so formally.

A．needn't dress up

B．shouldn't dress up

C．were not necessary to dress up

D．needn't have dressed up

22、If possible, _______ with the police office upon your arrival at the town so that it's possible to find you in case of emergency.

A.register B.negotiate C.propose D.schedule

23、He was left out when they ________ choosing a new manager, which came as a complete surprise to him.

A．set out

B．set about

C．set off

D．set aside

24、Because of the pandemic（传染病）, days are gone _____ people go wherever they want.

A.if B.when C.which D.since

25、The young couple wrote to Mr Grand to________his warm reception during their visit to his farm.

A.acknowledge B.update C.consult D.acquire

26、When you buy fresh-cut flowers, do you think about where they came from？You might think they were grown somewhere nearby. The reality, though, is that the cut flower trade is increasingly International. Today, thanks to airplanes and high-tech cooling systems, even the most delicate flower be exported and sold thousands of kilometers away from where it was grown.

The Netherlands handles about 60 percent of the world’s cut flowers. And its auction houses（拍卖行）are very large---Aalsmeer, near Amsterdam, is auction house in the sense that Tokyo is a city, or Everest a mountain. About 120 soccer fields would fill its main building. Nineteen million flowers are sold here on an average day.

The Netherlands is also a world leader in developing new flower varieties. Dutch companies and the government invest a great amount of money in flower research. Their scientists look for ways to lengthen a flower’s vase life, to strengthen flowers to prevent them from being damaged while traveling, and also to strengthen the natural fragrance of the flowers.

There are also many other places with a better climate for growing flowers, and the climate of Ecuador is almost perfect. With predictable rainy periods and 12 hours of sunlight each day, Ecuador’s roses are famous for their large heads and long, straight stems（茎）. Every year, Ecuador sells about 500 million flowers to the U.S. alone. The industry has brought employment opportunities and a stronger economy to the country. “My family has TV now. There are radios.” says Yolanda Quishpe, 20, who picked roses for four years.

To others, the increasingly international nature of the flower trade is very bad news. In recent years local growers in the U.S. faced huge competition from international flower companies, and many lost their businesses. Lina Hale, an independent rose grower said her father had predicted the situation in the 1980s. “I see a train coming down the track,” he warned her, “and it’s coming straight towards us.”

【1】What do we know about Aalsmeer?

A．It’s very large.

B．It’s as big as Tokyo.

C．19 million flowers are grown there.

D．60% of the Netherland’s flowers are sold there.

【2】What is one aspect of the Netherlands’ flower research?

A．How to increase flower production.

B．How to avoid climate’s effect on flowers.

C．How to speed up the process of flowering.

D．How to keep flowers fresh during transportation.

【3】What does the author want to show through Yolanda Quishpe’s words?

A．Flowers from Ecuador are beautiful.

B．Ecuador could grow even more flowers.

C．The flower trade in Ecuador benefits the local.

D．Rose-picking is a very popular job in Ecuador.

【4】What Lina Hale’s father said suggested that ______.

A．he was excited to see the train

B．he knew his business would be affected

C．he was sure customers wouldn’t want

D．he thought trains were a new way to deliver flowers

27、   Scientists believe the earth is 4.6 billion years old. However, the mountains, valleys, rivers, deserts and forests we see today are much younger than that. For example, Qomolangma is about 60 million years old and the Amazon Rainforest is about 55 million years old. The Baltic Sea, the youngest sea in the world, is only about 15,000 years old.

The earth is always changing because of volcanoes, earthquakes and, of course, wind and rain. Some of these changes are very slow and others are quick. Water and ice can make very big changes to the planet. For example, glaciers can cut through mountains and make deep valleys.

It’s normal for our planet to change. But at the moment scientists think it’s changing faster than usual. They don’t understand everything that is happening but they know that temperatures are rising. Besides, the weather is getting wetter in some places and drier in others, and there are more big storms. Now there is a growing awareness that climate change is definitely not confined to a certain region or country. However, it is a problem all countries are involved. What’s more, there is no denying t hat industrial emissions has been the main influence of climate change for the last 50 years, overwhelming natural forces.

However, these changes are not bad for everyone. Because the Arctic is getting warmer, farmers in Greenland now can grow and sell vegetables. That wasn’t possible 50 years ago. Farmers in Greenland like the warm weather and hope it will continue.

【1】Which of the following is the oldest?

A.The earth. B.Qomolangma.

C.The Amazon Rainforest. D.The Baltic Sea.

【2】All of these lead to the changes of the earth EXCEPT ________.

A.glaciers B.deep valleys

C.wind and rain D.volcanoes and earthquakes

【3】Why do farmers in Greenland like the warm weather?

A.They turned the impossible into possible.

B.The warm weather is good for the Arctic.

C.They now own businesses and become successful.

D.They benefit from the vegetable businesses that did not exist before.

【4】Which do you think is the best title?

A.Global Warming B.Beautiful Greenland

C.Our Changing Planet D.The Old Earth

28、   Vaping can be just as damaging to your health as smoking. But the minute you kick the habit, you’ll feel a difference.

Vaping is the use of electronic cigarettes — e-cigarettes. Vaping became mainstream in the United States in the late 2000s. When e-cigarettes first hit the market, people believed they were a safer choice to tobacco cigarettes. We now know, however, that vaping, like smoking cigarettes can be quite damaging to your health and equally addictive.

Kids and teenagers are especially attracted to vaping, thanks to attractive flavors. Vape use in high school students rose by 900 percent between 2011 and 2015. Quitting vaping can be difficult, just like trying to stop smoking. There are some immediate, though often temporary, negative effects. The positive ones soon outpace the negative, however.

In as little as 20 minutes, your heart rate returns to normal, your blood pressure drops, and your circulation starts to normalize. Your breathing may improve, too. Daily e-cigarette doubles a persons risk for a heart attack. If you quit, however, the risk begins to fall very quickly. Also, vaping, like cigarette smoking, can blunt your senses, reducing your ability to smell and taste. After just 48 hours without vaping, you may begin to notice your ability to taste and smell food has improved. Nicotine affects more than your brain: new research suggests nicotine can raise your blood sugar, too.

Smokers often have a troublesome cough or make a breathless sound when they breathe that many refer to as a smokers cough. Smoking even e-cigarettes can badly harm your lung health and make fighting off infections difficult. Quitting, however, will help your lungs recover. After one month, your lung capacity improves. There will come a day when the bad habit of vaping won’t have any lasting influence on your body and your health.

【1】What did Americans think of e-cigarettes?

A.They were cheaper. B.They were less harmful.

C.They were more fashionable. D.They were environment-friendly.

【2】What makes vaping popular among kids and teenagers?

A.Its colour. B.Its price. C.Its shape. D.Its taste.

【3】What does the underlined word “blunt” in paragraph 4 mean?

A.dull. B.sharp. C.improve. D.benefit.

【4】What does the author intend to do by writing the text?

A.Introduce the wide use of e-cigarettes. B.Point out how e-cigarettes harm the old.

C.Encourage people to refuse e-cigarettes. D.Compare e-cigarettes with traditional ones.

29、What is Small-sided Soccer?

Small-sided Soccer starts with games of 3-on-3 from the youngest participants and progresses to 4-on-4, 7-on-7, 11-on-11, in a graduated manner for the older groups. Our school’s training course will give kids a better chance to take part in the game and get excited about the game of soccer. The small-sided approach gives each child more individualized attention so they can each improve their skills. And, it’s FUN!

Some general practical information

·Cafeteria is open.

·We supply participants with soccer clothes and football boots.

·Please bring a water bottle for your child.

Soccer season training times

Costs

The cost is $70 per month for Tykes and PeeWees and $115 for all the other teams.

Volunteering

Can I coach?

Of course! Our training course is always looking for volunteer coaches. We will provide coaches with plans for activities and training, and help set up the small-sided fields. It’s a great opportunity to get involved with kids and help develop their love for sports.

How can I volunteer in other ways?

It’s your club and you are welcome to volunteer! There are volunteer opportunities with programs, fields, publicity, facilities, uniforms, website development and the board, to name a few. Let us know how you’d like to help—and we’ll put you to work!

Do parents stay?

Yes. Parents are strongly encouraged to stay and support their children and the club. The club is a volunteer-run organization. Parents and athletes are encouraged to help with clean-up and set-up activities.

If you have any questions about program specifics, please contact recreational soccer coordinator(协调者), Pablo Vercelli, at recreationalsoccer@abfsport.nl. Tel: 043-239-4409.

【1】What do you know about the training course?

A．It is a free training course for children.

B．It offers three meals a day for free.

C．It teaches students according to their interest.

D．It will make children get excited about soccer.

【2】What should participants take to the training course?

A．Soccer.

B．Soccer clothes.

C．A water bottle.

D．Football boots.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Both Tykes and BoysE&F have classes on Sunday.

B．Both Tykes and PeeWees have the same charging standard.

C．Pablo Vercelli was the founder of Small-sided Soccer.

D．Parents who help with clean-up don’t need to pay for the course.

【4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．There are two ways to contact the school.

B．Parents are not allowed to stay with their children.

C．All the coaches in the school are professional.

D．Children who are over 11 are not allowed to attend the course.

【5】Where do you probably read the article?

A．In a science fiction.

B．In a newspaper.

C．In a medical magazine.

D．In a guidebook.

30、   In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent, in fact, what I call  ______ and love.

I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did  ______  the water. Any kind of _______  ride seemed to give him pleasure. _______  he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.

But I never really liked being on the water the way my father did. I liked being  ____ the water, moving through it,  ____   it all around me. I was not a strong  ____ , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my  ____ . But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and  ____   those summer days with my father, who  ____   come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the  ____ person not in swimsuit.

After swimming, I would go  ____   his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me  ______  anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk  ____   he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his  ____ . But my father always  _____ and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s  ____ .” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get  ____ an ice cream…

A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is  ____ .” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but  ____ , in that childhood, look at us.

【1】A.desire B.joy C.anger D.worry

【2】A.avoid B.refuse C.praise D.love

【3】A.boat B.bus C.train D.bike

【4】A.But B.Then C.And D.Still

【5】A.on B.off C.by D.in

【6】A.having B.leaving C.making D.getting

【7】A.swimmer B.rider C.walker D.runner

【8】A.hopes B.faiths C.rights D.fears

【9】A.spending B.saving C.wasting D.ruining

【10】A.should B.would C.had to D.ought to

【11】A.next B.only C.other D.last

【12】A.away from B.out of C.by D.inside

【13】A.put up B.break down C.play with D.work out

【14】A.the moment B.the first time C.while D.before

【15】A.fishing net B.office things C.wooden chair D.lab equipment

【16】A.stood up B.set out C.showed up D.turned out

【17】A.fine B.strange C.terrible D.funny

【18】A.the student B.the assistant C.myself D.himself

【19】A.memory B.wealth C.experience D.practice

【20】A.which B.who C.what D.whose

31、For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between ________ countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I ________ and what you do?

Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. ________, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for ________ it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their children’s complete ________. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except ________. Both feel trapped.             

In this article, I’ll describe three no-win ________ that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the ________. The first is quarrels over ________ things. Examples include the colour of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s ________ to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends.

Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the ________ is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the ________ of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered a(n) ________—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to command ________. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they ________ more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.

【1】

A．ancient

B．developing

C．independent

D．neighbouring

【2】

A．do

B．have

C．promise

D．control

【3】

A．In part

B．In short

C．In particular

D．In contrast

【4】

A．starting

B．preventing

C．stopping

D．handling

【5】

A．rudeness

B．impatience

C．unreasonableness

D．immatureness

【6】

A．vaguely

B．oppositely

C．hesitantly

D．unexpectedly

【7】

A．quarrels

B．occasions

C．situations

D．consequences

【8】

A．trap

B．hatred

C．competition

D．difficulty

【9】

A．simple

B．domestic

C．educational

D．unimportant

【10】

A．desire

B．failure

C．practice

D．lateness

【11】

A．goal

B．topic

C．regulation

D．argument

【12】

A．problem

B．point

C．issue

D．consequence

【13】

A．senior

B．leader

C．winner

D．authority

【14】

A．belief

B．reward

C．respect

D．apology

【15】

A．gain

B．regret

C．know

D．possess

32、   When two sisters found themselves having difficulty finding a way to get to their aunt’s 100th birthday party, they were fortunately ____ by a stranger in a very unexpected way.

Last weekend, sisters Kerry Maggard and Deb Eggers  ____  to fly from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls to go to the party, but their flight was canceled ____ bad weather. They soon found that all other flights to South Dakota were ____,  and there were no taxis available, ____ they had no way to make the 200-mile journey themselves.

Feeling like they had no other  ____ , Kerry made a last-ditch(孤注一掷的) attempt to get to the party by calling Uber, and their ride was ____  by a man named Jesus Florentino.

“I was shocked that someone picked it up. It was kind of a last resort(最后一招)to ____  if anyone would consider it, ”Kerry recalled. “It was picked up at once and of course I got the  ____  on the phone which said ‘Jesus is 7 minutes away, ’which was quite a  ____ .”

Kerry called Jesus to make sure that he was  ____ to make the 400-mile round ____ , and much to her surprise, he said he was game for it! Jesus  ____ to get the sisters to their aunt’s house in time for her 6 pm party, and he quickly turned back around to make the four-hour trip back to Minneapolis.

Kerry said afterward that she____ Jesus $50 for the $216 trip, which is a(n) ____ price to pay for the quality time that she got to spend with her aunt. As for Jesus, he was just  ____ that the women got to be there for their aunt.

"I felt that they needed to ____ the birthday party and I enjoy ____ , so it worked out well, ” Jesus said. “It's a(n) ____ occasion, and if I was in their place I would ____ very much someone bringing me there when there was no other way.”

【1】A.affected B.interviewed C.helped D.followed

【2】A.planned B.continued C.happened D.refused

【3】A.due to B.as for C.according to D.apart from

【4】A.recorded B.offered C.organized D.booked

【5】A.showing B.meaning C.predicting D.reporting

【6】A.information B.questions C.reason D.choices

【7】A.picked up B.looked into C.put down D.held up

【8】A.imagine B.see C.recommend D.prove

【9】A.invitation B.number C.direction D.message

【10】A.mess. B.challenge C.shock D.struggle

【11】A.willing. B.afraid C.quick D.careful

【12】A.race B.trip C.corner D.flight

【13】A.learned B.managed C.pretended D.failed

【14】A.borrowed B.saved C.gave D.returned

【15】A.fair B.fixed C.average D.full

【16】A.grateful B.surprised C.confident D.happy

【17】A.remember B.attend C.expect D.change

【18】A.walking B.talking C.driving D.staying

【19】A.informal B.similar C.rare D.important

【20】A.miss B.consider C.appreciate D.regret

33、   Alia Baker is a librarian in Iraq. Her library used to be a_______place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge. They discussed various matters all over the world. When the war was near, Alia was_______ that the fires of war would destroy the books,  which are more _______to her than mountains of gold. The books are in every language- new books, ancient books, even a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old.

She had asked the government for _______to move the books to a_______ place, but they refused. So Alia took matters into her own hands. _______, she brought books home every night, filling her car late after work. Her friends came to help her when the war broke out. Anis who owned a restaurant _______to hide some books. All through the night, Alia, Anis, his brothers and neighbours took the books from the library, _______ them over the seven foot wall and _______them in the restaurant. The books stayed hidden as the war ________. Then nine days later, a fire burned the ________ to the ground.

One day, the bombing stopped and the________ left. But the war was not over yet. Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be ________ again while the city was ________. So she hired a truck to, bring all the books to the houses of friends in the suburbs (郊区). Now Alia waited for the war to end and ________peace and a new library.

【1】A.meeting B.working C.personal D.religious

【2】A.worried B.angry C.doubtful D.curious

【3】A.practical B.precious C.reliable D.expensive

【4】A.permission B.confirmation C.explanation D.information

【5】A.large B.public C.distant D.safe

【6】A.Fortunately B.Surprisingly C.Seriously D.Secretly

【7】A.intended B.pretended C.happened D.agreed

【8】A.put B.opened C.passed D.threw

【9】A.hid B.exchanged C.burnt D.distributed

【10】A.approached B.erupted C.continued D.ended

【11】A.restaurant B.library C.city D.wall

【12】A.neighbors B.soldiers C.friends D.customers

【13】A.sold B.read C.saved D.moved

【14】A.occupied B.bombed C.quiet D.busy

【15】A.dreamed of B.believed in C.cared about D.looked for

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: 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.”

36、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.

37、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.

38、假设你是李华，你的英国朋友Jerry在来信中提到对中国的唐诗很感兴趣，想让你给他介绍一位你最喜欢的唐代诗人。你决定向他介绍诗人李白，信的内容主要包括：

1. 诗人的基本情况；

2. 诗人的代表作品；

3. 你喜欢他的原因。

注意：1. 字数100词左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头语已经为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Jerry,

How are you?

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Yours,

Li Hua

39、假定你是李华，是你校模拟联合国社团主席。你校将举办第五次模联活动，请给你们的外教Smith老师写封信，邀请他担任指导老师(advisor)。信的内容包括:

1. 主题:全球气候；

2. 举办时间和地点；

时间: 5月10日-5月11日

地点:会议室一、二、三

3. 指导老师的任务。

(1)指导学生如何为模联做准备和如何写论文。

(2)指导学生如何提高口头英语和笔头英语。

注意:

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

模拟联合国大会: MUN

Dear Mr. Smith,

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Yours sincerely

Li Hua

40、假定你是学校英语俱乐部主席李华，你校要举办一场文艺演出，需要两个英语节目。请你写一个通知，征集节目，内容包括

1.节目形式（英文歌曲或者英文短剧）；

2.提供详细计划；

3.报名方式和截止时间。

注意：1.词数80左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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41、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要

Paperless office was first coined in 1975. Four decades later, we’re still chasing the paperless office dream. Take the financial industry for example—it is one of the slower industries to hug digital transformation. Many financial institutions today still send out trade conformations by mail. I can tell you from first-hand experience that going paperless is by no means impossible. The Centric Digital office is a paperless work environment where all the office operations go digital, which has amazed our business partners.

Actually companies need to stress the benefits of a digital culture for communications. Going paperless can save time and money. You could say goodbye to costly repairs, office supply orders, wasted employee time and so on. Besides, forbidding paper in the office forces information to be 100% digital, where you can make endless amounts of backups (备份), which easily increase transparency(透明). Not to mention, top talents want to work for digital companies.

You might think the secret to a paperless company is purely technology. Well, not really. Thanks to products like iPads, smart-phones and cloud services, the ability to go paperless is highly accessible. Yet, even with all this technology, companies continue to rely on paper. It's not because they don’t have access to the technology, but because they’re lacking the politics, organizational structure and strong desire to change. In order to go paperless, companies need to change the way they think and operate. The decision needs to be made and cried out and everyone needs to work together to make it.

Yes, the paperless office has been a very long time in the making but it no longer has to be. With numerous amounts of software, services, apps and technology available today, the only thing we need to do is to make the decision to go paperless and see it through.

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