新疆双河2025届高三英语下册二月考试题

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

A. vivid B. bureaucratic

C. alternative D. abnormal

2、______ in her most beautiful skirt, the girl tried to make herself _____ out at the party.

A.Dressed; stand B.Dressing; stand C.Dressed; stood D.Dressing; being stood

3、My telephone is out of order. Can you tell me the ____ news about the COVID-19 pandemic?

A．lately

B．latest

C．later

D．latter

4、People _______ hobbies which offer enjoyment, knowledge and relaxation.

A.bring up B.set up C.take up D.pick up

5、I wish to thank, _____________, all the people who have made this exhibition possible.

A. in particular B. in peace

C. in case D. in place

6、The exhibition tells us _____we should do something to stop air pollution.

A．where

B．why

C．what

D．which

7、--What did David demand in the meeting just now?

-- ________ an opportunity to join the Debating Club.

A. Being offerred B. To be offerred

C. Be offerred D. Having been offerred

8、I was so familiar with her that I recognized her voice _______ picking up the phone.

A.the moment B.on C.before D.though

9、The size of the generation gap seems to be spreading with ________ rapid changes in technology, in education in transportation and in communication that are taking place all over ________ globe.

A．the; the

B．the; /

C．/; /

D．/; the

10、A woman had a ________ escape yesterday when her car left the road.

A. necessary B. narrow

C. nervous D. neat

11、— Why don’t you throw this piece of junk away?

— Oh, you never know. This pocketknife may _______ some day.

A．serve me right

B．come into effect

C．come in handy

D．be the acid test

12、A lot of people _____the theory that acupuncture blocks pain signals from reaching the brain.

A.apply to B.submit to C.relate to D.subscribe to

13、The _____ of the trees in the water was very clear.

A．mirror

B．sight

C．reflection

D．shadow

14、He felt a sense of relief _______ he got his medical examination report.

A.as long as B.so that C.the moment D.as if

15、Well, if you insist on eating so much, you will have to suffer the ________.

A．consequences

B．exercises

C．evidence

D．exchanges

16、Her face _______ with pleasure when she heard the news that her son was admitted to Beijing University.

A.lit up B.let down C.came to life D.lived up to

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

A.Since B.Now C.As D.Because

18、Can it have been on the playground ________ you lost your watch?

A.that B.on which C.where D.in that

19、Most people said that pay was their main ______________ for working.

A. movement B. mention

C. method D. motivation

20、The actress is ________ of applause who has a strong desire for success.

A．precious

B．uncomplicated

C．ambitious

D．timeless

21、Experiments of this kind ___in both the U．S and Europe well before the Second World War．

A.had conducted B.have conducted

C.have been conducted D.had been conducted

22、In order to increase their vote, they _________ another candidate a traitor to the country.

A.announced B.declared C.thought D.conquered

23、Where is the window ____ glass is broken ?

A.which B.that C.whose D.its

24、— Would you like to give me some advice on what I talked about just now?

— Sorry. I _____ of something else.

A.am thinking B.has thought C.was thinking D.had thought

25、____________ should we prevent the students from exploring new ideas and technology.

A.In no case B.In case C.In case of D.In this case

26、   Can you believe your eyes? A recent experiment suggests that the answer to that question may depend on your age.

Martin Doherty, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland, led the team of scientists. In this experiment, Doherty and his team tested the perception(观察力) of some people, using pictures of some orange circles. The researchers showed the same pictures to two groups of people. The first group included 151 children aged 4 to 10, and the second group included 24 adults aged 18 to 25.

The first group of pictures showed two circles alone on a white background. One of the circles was larger than the other, and these people were asked to identify the larger one. Four-year-olds identified the correct circle 79 percent of the time. Adults identified the correct circle 95 percent of the time.

Next, both groups were shown a picture where the orange circles, again of different sizes, were surrounded by gray circles. Here's where the trick lies in. In some of the pictures, the smaller orange circle was surrounded by even smaller gray circles —making the orange circle appear larger than the other orange circle, which was the real larger one. And the larger orange circle was surrounded by even bigger gray circles—so it appeared to be smaller than the real smaller orange circle.

When young children aged 4 to 6 looked at these tricky pictures, they weren't fooled—they were still able to find the bigger circle with roughly the same accuracy as before. Older children and adults, on the other hand, did not do as well. Older children often identified the smaller circle as the larger one, and adults got it wrong most of the time.

As children get older, Doherty said, their brains may develop the ability to identify visual context. In other words, they will begin to process the whole picture at once: the tricky gray circles, as well as the orange circle in the middle. As a result, they're more likely to fall for this kind of visual trick.

【1】Doherty and his team of scientists did an experiment to evaluate_____________.

A.children's and adults' eye-sight B.people's ability to see accurately

C.children's and adults' brains D.the influence of people's age

【2】When asked to find the larger circle,_____________.

A.children at 6 got it wrong 79 % of the time with no gray ones around

B.only adults over 18 got it right 95% of the time with gray ones around

C.children at 4 got it right about 79 % of the time with gray ones around

D.adults got it right most of the time with gray ones around

【3】According to the passage, we can know that_____________.

A.a smaller orange circle appears bigger on a white background

B.an orange circle appears bigger than a gray one of the same size

C.a circle surrounded by other circles looks bigger than its real size

D.a circle surrounded by bigger ones looks smaller than its real size

27、When I was three years old, I couldn’t speak. It was a strange reality that none of the doctors I visited could understand.

One day, I was shadowing（跟随）my mother. She found herself looking in a mirror, and through it our eyes met. She began to speak to me through the reflection, and I slowly began to mimic（模仿）her mouth’s movements until I formed a word.

It turned out I’m deaf in my left ear, and have a slight problem in my right. Being hard of hearing has been difficult, but I’ve never lived in a state of self-hating sorrow.

Imagine being able to shut out all sound as you lay your head down to sleep by simply rolling over onto one side. That’s my reality when I sleep on my “good ear”, and it makes me feel like a superhero sometimes.

People call my deaf side my “bad ear”, but when I wear my hearing aid, I have access to a range of features that some other deaf people don’t. In cinemas, for example, with one click of a button I can enjoy a whole film as though it were whispered to me from the mouths of the actors.

Owning a hearing aid hasn’t always felt good, however. On the first day I got my aid, when I was eight, I took it to school for show-and-tell. As I explained how it worked to my classmates, a boy yelled out, “Aren’t those for old men?” At that moment, I felt different. It took me a long time to get over that sense of being so unlike my peers.

But it’s not just school kids who can make us deaf and hard-of-hearing people feel like burdens. Every video on social media that lacks subtitles（字幕）, for example, means an entire community of deaf people is unable to enjoy it. Completely deaf people are excluded from enjoying many movies too, as subtitles in cinemas are almost impossible to find.

And with hearing aids costing around $2,500 each, it can be hard for many people to afford to be able to listen to the things that others take for granted. As for me, I can listen to music, enjoy films, and catch conversations – I’m lucky. I’m deaf, but I can still hear everything. I’ve been blessed with wonderful life experiences, and I am human. And when it comes to sleeping, I’m even superhuman.

【1】How does the author view his hearing difficulty?

A．It’s a disaster and causes him a lot of trouble.

B．It gave him a chance to experience something special.

C．It made him feel embarrassed in front of his classmates.

D．It helped him to live in his own world without being interrupted.

【2】What can be inferred from the passage about the author?

A．He was born deaf.

B．He is optimistic and helpful.

C．The hearing aid brings convenience to his daily life.

D．His family and classmates have supported him a lot.

【3】What is the author’s attitude toward his life？

A．Excited.

B．Anxious.

C．Grateful.

D．Disappointed.

【4】What is the author’s main purpose in writing the article?

A．To give advice on life to disabled people.

B．To show how difficult life is for disabled people.

C．To show the convenience a hearing aid could bring.

D．To share his experience of treating a disadvantage with gratitude.

28、How to Average Results from a Student Survey

Student surveys provide a lot of information that school administrators can learn from. 【1】 The students’ attitude towards their programs and services can be measured by averaging the results from the survey. Here’s how to average these results.

【2】 The student survey must be purposeful and should acquire specific responses from students about specific school programs or services. If the survey is well designed to persuade honest answers from students, then the survey will achieve the best results.

After all the survey questionnaires have been filled and returned, the results can now be tabulated (制成表格). 【3】 To get the average from the student survey results, each answer must be added and the sum should be divided by the total number of student forms. This is the average number of respondents who answered a certain way.

On a survey question that provides levels of satisfaction, respondents can answer with numeric values (数值), from 1 to 10, according to how satisfied they are. If five forms were given and returned values of 2, 2, 5, 5 and 3, the sum would be 17 and then dividing that by 5 will get you an average satisfaction rating of 3.4. 【4】

【5】 In the above satisfaction level survey, answer choices can be represented with a tick on “Yes” or “No” . Out of fifty students who were given survey forms, about 45 students answered “No” , rating 90 per cent, and the remaining 5 answered “Yes”, rating 10 percent.

Using numeric values is a simple way for respondents to rate questions or statements and would be easier to average the results at the end of the survey.

A．Answer choices can be designed in many ways.

B．The goals for conducting a survey must be clear.

C．First of all, handout student survey questionnaires.

D．The average can also be expressed as a percentage.

E．Then an average for each question can be calculated.

F．It means students aren’t satisfied with the surveyed subject.

G．School managements can be improved through student feedback.

29、It's reported that nearly one in five school-aged children in Erin Castillo's country have struggled with a mental health disorder and countless more may be suffering silently.Post-it notes and the poster board may seem like nothing more than normal school supplies , but in Erin Castillo's hands they are a powerful mental health tool that isn't just changing the life of her students but helping children all over the world.

About once a week , the special education high school teacher, Erin Castillo, hangs up the"mental health check-in board " , depending on how things are feeling in her class. 'The board instructs students to write their names on the back of a sticky note and then stick it next to one of the six colored hearts.The hearts are labeled " I'm great", "I’m OK", "Tm meh（无所谓的）"，"I'm struggling", "I'm struggling and need a check-in",and "I’m in a dark place ", and allow the students a quick way to describe and share their feelings before class starts.

After a couple of weeks, many of her students kept telling her that they were having a bad week.While she was grateful that they were sharing , Erin Castillo needed more information to help them , so the board was born." l don't want to miss any student that might be struggling and this is away to easily survey how everyone is feeling,"she said.

One thing that has surprised her is that the students have started using the board to help each other and to ask for help from their friends. The board encourages them to open up about things they have been keeping inside , and is particularly helpful for those who might not know how to put their feelings into words.But it tells them , " You matter.Your feelings are important , and you have every right to feel this way. "

【1】What can we learn about Erin Castillo from Paragraph 1?

A．She mainly teaches disabled children.

B．She makes good use of the available resources.

C．She realizes many schools lack normal supplies.

D．She is devoted to helping worldwide children live better.

【2】What happens to the mental health check-in board?

A．It works slowly.

B．It changes easily.

C．It occurs accordingly.

D．It improves regularly.

【3】What do the students need most ?

A．Support and respect.

B．Information and knowledge.

C．Independence and confidence.

D．Encouragement and friendship.

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

A．Ways to Use the Board

B．New Ways to Design Post-it Notes

C．Paths to Getting on Well with the Students

D．A Method for Improving Children's Mental Health

30、   Lisa Meeks was in medical school at Harvard. However, she _______ a rare muscle disease and the _______ thing she expected was to be stopped from her goal. Unfortunately, then came the sad news that her _______ in the field was zero and she had no right to go into medicine. Lisa _______ from medical school but didn't end up becoming a practicing doctor. This was before the Disabilities Act passed in 1990, so she just didn't have the _______ to do so.

Doctors are often _______ as super humans who can create miracles of all kinds.

They're seen as fearless _______, not the ones who are also in need of care. However, an online campaign is now starting to _______ that view. “We believe it is _______ to respect medical professionals with disabilities and protect their right", says Lisa Meeks, the ________ of this project. “The ________ has successfully helped many doctors stand up____________,” she says.

Meeks had this thought earlier this year: “ If doctors with disabilities saw more people like themselves, would they be more confident and talk more____________ about their challenges?"  ______________, she decided to start an online movement called Docs With Disabilities. The goal was to find 20 disabled doctors who were ____________ to share their stories. Her mailbox was soon____________with personal stories from doctors with disabilities. And now another campaign, Nurses With Disabilities, has ______________, too.

“ I felt this was a really ____________ opportunity to introduce doctors with disabilities to the ____________，” she says. “To let more people know that there is not only one or two doctors with disabilities, but that there are a number of them and they never____________in their career.”

【1】A.developed B.noticed C.produced D.cured

【2】A.last B.best C.only D.next

【3】A.account B.number C.chance D.outcome

【4】A.resigned B.graduated C.escaped D.suffered

【5】A.wish B.patience C.ability D.right

【6】A.appointed B.elected C.considered D.employed

【7】A.directors B.members C.pirates D.heroes

【8】A.support B.express C.challenge D.spread

【9】A.common B.important C.awkward D.convenient

【10】A.founder B.operator C.doctor D.nurse

【11】A.medicine B.campaign C.miracle D.operation

【12】A.once B.still C.again D.only

【13】A.humorously B.openly C.cautiously D.quickly

【14】A.However B.Besides C.Instead D.Therefore

【15】A.willing B.modest C.calm D.free

【16】A.flooded B.equipped C.divided D.accompanied

【17】A.given up B.stepped aside C.won back D.joined in

【18】A.private B.simple C.traditional D.great

【19】A.community B.hospital C.public D.academy

【20】A.argue B.stop C.betray D.rest

31、   Around three years ago, I was at a stop sign when I heard slightly barking coming from in a car parked on the street near me. It was very _________ and the dog was trying to get some of the cooler fresh air outside the car. Without thinking I _________ my car and got out to help him.

There was no way to _________ the dog because the car was locked. Thinking of the irresponsible owner I became _________. I didn't know if I should _________ the window and take the dog or try to contact the owner. Just then, I _________ a police car on the opposite side of the street. I ran out to seek for help.

When the police officer helped open the door, the dog _________ both of us and ran quickly towards the garage the car was parked in front of. We _________ the dog to make sure he was OK. Then we saw _________ the dog had run: The dog’s owner was __________ in the middle of his garage.

Obviously the man had a condition that caused him to have a(n) __________. This one was particularly __________ and required medical attention. After the incident I learned that had I not __________, both the dog and the man would likely have died. I was overcome with __________ and my eyes swelled up. I realized how much of an effect you can have on other people's lives by doing the __________ thing. I was so quick to __________ assuming the dog’s owner ignored his pet. And if the police officer had not been around I might have just left a(n) __________ on the car after I took the dog.

I cannot __________ what I would feel if I knew that man had died because of any number of things that may have gone __________. It made me understand that things are not always as they __________, and there are always several sides to every story.

A．quite

B．dark

C．hot

D．dry

A．drove

B．parked

C．took

D．looked

A．save

B．find

C．walk

D．touch

A．sad

B．bored

C．puzzled

D．angry

A．open

B．break

C．clean

D．replace

A．hit

B．called

C．noticed

D．stopped

A．disappointed

B．frightened

C．excited

D．surprised

A．looked after

B．went after

C．shouted at

D．pointed at

A．why

B．how

C．when

D．where

A．working

B．sleeping

C．standing

D．lying

A．attack

B．rest

C．opportunity

D．fight

A．important

B．strange

C．bad

D．clear

A．known

B．continued

C．stayed

D．helped

A．uncertainty

B．anxiety

C．exhaustion

D．emotion

A．risky

B．hard

C．right

D．big

A．judge

B．act

C．blame

D．agree

A．address

B．note

C．mark

D．number

A．believe

B．face

C．imagine

D．remember

A．quickly

B．differently

C．perfectly

D．smoothly

A．seem

B．happen

C．expect

D．prefer

32、   In October 2015, Shah began picking up rubbish from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began_________others to join in. Word spread and with help from social media, more volunteers got_________.

Shah hasn't stopped since. He's now spent 209 weekends_________to this mission, inspiring more than 200,000_________to join him in what's been called the world's biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was_________clean and Shah's cleanups expanded to another_________as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

For Shah, the work has_________been a personal journey, but it has earned_________attention. After he was_________as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Bollywood celebrities and politicians__________his mission and joined in his cleanups.

Today, Shah is also working with coastal communities to__________plastic pollution at one of the sources. In areas lacking waste management systems, __________often end（s）up in streams and rivers that empty into the__________. Shah and his volunteers__________and assist villagers in reducing, managing and recycling their plastic waste.

"This world__________too much. I think you must talk less and do action__________," he said. “Every citizen on this __________must be in for a long pull. I feel the__________to do something for my planet, so this will__________for life. If each one could start, this journey could become__________Can we do it together?”

【1】A.asking B.ordering C.warning D.forcing

【2】A.challenged B.encouraged C.involved D.required

【3】A.compared B.adapted C.related D.devoted

【4】A.workers B.volunteers C.journalists D.clerks

【5】A.originally B.finally C.suddenly D.theoretically

【6】A.park B.bank C.beach D.market

【7】A.occasionally B.hardly C.already D.always

【8】A.global B.local C.national D.coastal

【9】A.described B.honored C.opposed D.elected

【10】A.simplified B.changed C.accepted D.finished

【11】A.make B.discuss C.throw D.handle

【12】A.trees B.materials C.rubbish D.tools

【13】A.ocean B.factory C.mountain D.forest

【14】A.protect B.control C.scold D.educate

【15】A.talks B.complains C.thinks D.argues

【16】A.earlier B.faster C.more D.better

【17】A.sea B.planet C.water D.sands

【18】A.pity B.need C.pain D.effect

【19】A.come on B.get on C.look on D.go on

【20】A.great B.complex C.complete D.difficult

33、   I went to India for a 2-week vacation to visit my relatives. We stopped on a red light, and as always, there were a lot of activities outside the cars near the _______ . People walked in between the cars_________ newspaper, water and a number of kids looked for a bit of charity from the car owners. It' s a familiar   ___________in most poor developing countries.

While we were_______for the red light to turn green, I noticed a man outside a couple of ___________  in front of ours trying to sell bottles of water. It's  _________  unusual at first. He was a man in his 40s with relatively ___________clothes. But he walked around in a strange way. He kind of _________ his way around the spaces. He was blind.

Carrying a couple of water bottles on one hand, he _________  got to the outside of our car. Out of____________, my mum decided to buy one water bottle. As she gave the man the money, the light turned green. The cars behind sounded loudly and ____________  , trying to get ahead of traffic. Seeing this, my mum kindly told the man to ____________the change. However, with his superior sense of touch, he quickly ______________ his shirt pocket and threw the money at my mum's__________________ . It was the exact change. The cars behind us were really getting out of control ____________we decided to go on our way.

I____________and even cried when I got home. Here's a blind man, born in____________trying to sell water bottles on the streets to make ends meet. He ____________ our sympathy. Life hasn't been   ______________ to him, yet he's giving it his best shot. I think that is what  ______________ is all about, facing life bravely.

【1】A.signs B.crossroads C.stations D.theatrer

【2】A.giving B.buying C.selling D.throwing

【3】A.scene B.play C.position D.street

【4】A.watching B.asking C.waiting D.changing

【5】A.blocks B.crossings C.turns D.cars

【6】A.everything B.something C.anything D.nothing

【7】A.expensive B.fashionable C.ragged D.splendid

【8】A.pushed B.drove C.cleared D.felt

【9】A.eventually B.quickly C.frequently D.happily

【10】A.curiosity B.sympathy C.thirst D.politeness

【11】A.impatiently B.casually C.naturally D.carefully

【12】A.keep B.return C.borrow D.count

【13】A.searched for B.went through C.turned over D.looked for

【14】A.hand B.arm  C.face D.lap

【15】A.still B.yet C.so D.but

【16】A.gave up B.set off C.held on D.broke down

【17】A.pain  B.poverty C.sadness D.loneliness

【18】A.refused B.enjoyed C.doubted D.cheated

【19】A.rich B.unfair C.kind D.bad

【20】A.kindness B.courage C.experience D.challenge

34、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.

Tablets are really useful devices, but their big screens always make them a burden to carry around without a bag. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a phone with the powers of a tablet that could be folded up and fit 【1】 into the hand?

Now something like a tablet-shaped but fold-able phone is about to become 【2】. In February, South Korean electronics company Samsung and China’s Huawei both unveiled fold-able phones Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X 【3】. Mobile phone use has entered the “fold-able future”, The Verge noted.

The technology could change our lives in significant ways. These devices, due to their 【4】 screens, give us the larger screens we want. Meanwhile, they still fit easily into the pocket. As USA Today noted, they’re “the 【5】 of a small tablets and smart-phone, all in a single device”.

The technology could 【6】 other devices too. For example, we could make TVs that stick to walls like posters, or fold up easily to hide away in drawers. In crowded modem cities, they will help us to 【7】 available space.

In a keynote address, Samsung’s senior vice president of mobile product marketing, Justin Denison, called the fold-able screen “the 【8】 for the smart-phone of tomorrow.” “It’s a balank canvas for us to do something beautiful together,” he said.

So is there nothing to stand in the way of the fold-able future?

According to tech news website Android authority, the necessary displays were difficult to produce. In 2012, nine out of every to OLED screens produced were 【9】. Today, that 10 percent rate has been improved to between 50 and 90 percent. However, at present these fold-able devices are expensive. For example, the price of Huawei Mate X is 17,500 RMB. That’s a price that may 【10】 the majority of people.

But if the fold-able device isn’t going to change the world overnight, there is no doubt that it is coming.

Patrick Moor-head, an industry analyst told The Verge, “Few are debating if fold-able or roll-able mobile displays are the future of smart-phones; the only question is when and by whom.”

35、阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Smell the flowers before you go to sleep and you may just end up with rosy dreams. Have a whiff of rotten(腐烂的)eggs during the night and your dreams may be【1】(pleasant). So says researcher Dr. Boris Stuck, 【2】invited sleeping volunteers to a rose vs. rotten egg test in the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany. The subjects didn’t dream about roses【3】eggs, but rather he found that what they smelt affected the emotions of【4】(they) dreams.

And if you think【5】(smell) have a say in dreams, wait for what TV tells us. A UK study reveals that people exposed【6】black-and-white film and TV in their youth are to have monochromic(单色的)dreams throughout their life more【7】(probable). Eva Murzyn from the University of Dundee tested two age groups— one half 【8】(age) over 55 and【9】other half under 25.

The result? Under 5% of the dreams of the under-25s were in black and white. 【10】(watch)color TV in childhood seems to be the reason why.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.

37、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.

38、假定你是李华，你的堂兄李国强在美国留学，后来去苹果公司实习，最后婉拒公司的挽留，决定去华为技术有限公司（Huawei Technologies Co. LTD）就职。请你根据下面提示给他写封邮件表示祝贺。

1.祝贺他学成回国；

2.华为在信息与通信技术（ICT）领域的地位；

3.你的感想。

Dear cousin,

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Yours sincerely,

Lihua

39、假定你是李华，你校计划在下周举办名为“中国文化周”的活动，就此请你用英语写封电子邮件给外教Steven，邀请他参加，内容包括：

1. 活动的时间和地点；

2. 活动的目的；

3. 活动的内容。

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 Steven,

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Yours,

Li Hua

40、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。

I could smell the turkey cooking, even in the attic where I was hiding out. I heard a laugh, too, and a bang from something being dropped. Our house was noisier since my new stepsister and step-mother moved in — Jen and Mom.

I called her Mom, but the word felt uncomfortable, like a pair of shoes that pinched (夹脚). I didn’t remember my own mother; she had died in an accident when I was a baby. It had always been just Dad and me. We were a team. Now, so much had changed, and sometimes I wished I had the magic to change it back.

I heard Dad’s footsteps upstairs. “Do you want to take Jen skating?” he asked.

“I guess.” I sighed, thinking about how Dad and I usually spent Thanksgiving Day building a big snowman. But this year, Dad was too busy helping Mom cook the turkey.

“Thanks,” Dad said and put his arm around my shoulders. “We’ll make that snowman later,” he promised.

“Yeah,” I agreed, not too sure we’d have time.

Mom handed us some homemade cookies with smiling faces as we grabbed our skates. I had to admit, Mom came up with good ideas sometimes. Even though I liked that, I still couldn’t help but feel as if she were changing everything.

“No, thanks. I’m not hungry,” I said, although I was, a little.

“Ready?” I asked Jen. She nodded, and we headed out the front door.

The snow crunched under our boots as we walked down the street. The silence was awkward. “Did you go skating a lot last year?” I asked, blurting out the first thing that came to my mind.

Jen shook her head and looked at me. Finally she said, “On Thanksgiving, Mom and I always went to visit some friends on a farm. I especially loved seeing their big turkeys.”

Until then, I’d never even thought about how Jen must be feeling. She not only had a new stepfather and stepbrother; she had a new town and home, too. Jen and her mom used to live near a lake, and she’d had to move up north with us. She’d had more changes than me.

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:

Suddenly, I didn’t feel quite so sorry for myself.

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Paragraph 2:

We were so busy making it that we didn’t hear our parents come outside.

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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。

A new study warns that about thirty percent of the world’s people may not have enough water by the year 2025.

A private American organization called Population Action International (PAI) did the new study. It says more than 335 million people lack enough water now. The people live in 28 countries. Most of the countries are in Africa or the Middle East.

PAI researcher Robert Engelman says by the year 2025, about 3,000 million people may lack water. At least 18 more countries are expected to have severe water problems. The demand for water keeps increasing. Yet the amount of water on the Earth stays the same.

Mr Engelman says the population in countries that lack water is growing faster than in other parts of the world. He says population growth in these countries will continue to increase.

The report says lack of water in the future may result in several problems. It may increase health problems. Lack of water often means drinking water is not safe. Mr Engelman says there are problems all over the world because of diseases, such as cholera which are carried in water.

Lack of water may also result in more international conflict. Countries may have to compete for water in the future. Some countries now get sixty percent of their fresh water from other countries. And the report says lack of water would affect the ability to improve their economies. This is because new industries often need large amounts of water when they are beginning.

The Population Action International study gives several solutions to the water problem. One way, it says, is to find ways to use water for more than one purpose. Another way is to teach people to be careful not to waste water. A third way is to use less water for agriculture. The report also says long-term solutions to the water problem must include controls on population growth.