四川凉山州2025届高二英语下册二月考试题

1、________ by the beauty of the piano music, the audience almost forgot to applaud when the pianist finally finished it.

A．Attract

B．To attract

C．Attracting

D．Attracted

2、We are trying to come to a(n)_______about who should pay the legal fee.

A. situation B. expectation

C. contribution D. arrangement

3、—Do you think attending training courses is a great help when you look for a new job?

—Well, it all depends. Besides, it gives me ________ a chance to try.

A. more than B. more of

C. less than D. more or less

4、Here in our supermarket fruit is sold by ____ kilogram, that is, by _____ weight.

A. the; 不填 B. the; the C. 不填 D. 不填; 不填

5、I have absolutely no ________ the students who get caught cheating in exams even though they were seriously punished.

A. impact on B. sympathy for

C. concern about D. complaint about

6、______ in the training, Marbury couldn't play in the basketball season.

A. Injuring B. Injure

C. Injured  D. To injure

7、----Is your father a teacher now?

----No, but he   . He taught English for 10 years.

A. used to be B. used to

C. used to do   D. was used to

8、The young man is very excellent. Now he is the ______ of a big company.

A. top dog B. cold fish

C. white elephant D. black sheep

9、The invention of telegram ________ the transmission of messages to any part of the world within a few seconds.

A．made possible

B．made it possible

C．made possibly

D．made it possibly

10、Tom never works hard at his lessons, so it’s not ______ to see a ______ look on his face after the exam.

A. surprised; disappointing B. surprised; disappointed

C. surprising; disappointed D. surprising; disappointing

11、A driver __________ his car when he makes it go faster or increases its speed.

A.advances B.develops C.accelerates D.stimulates

12、With the electric map ____ in the car____ the exact position, the driver can drive in the right direction of the destination.

A.fixing; showing B.fixed; shown C.fixed; showing D.fixing; show

13、_____ you may meet, you should face the challenge bravely.

A.However a serious problem B.What a serious problem

C.However serious a problem D.What serious a problem

14、Before China's Youth Day, Xi,______ secretary general of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made a statement to the young, _____________they find reasonable.

A.the; that B./; in which C.the; which D./; which

15、He learns ____ wealth does not buy happiness and _____ friends are more important than a fancy education.

A. that; / B. what; /

C. /; that D. /; what

16、If Helen says she will complete the job on time you can always ________ her to deliver the goods.

A.go on B.rely on C.look on D.put on

17、By the time he gets to the airport, I think we ____ for London.

A. have left B. will leave

C. will have left D. had left

18、Kathy _________ a lot of Spanish by playing with the native boys and girls.

A.picked up B.took up

C.made up D.turned up

19、I am very outgoing and have learned to ______ to my disability.

A.adopt B.adapt C.suit D.accustomed

20、Which of the following sentences is WRONG?

A.There was a time when I hated going to school.

B.It is the first time that the girl has seen such an animal.

C.It is high time that we took some measures to deal with it.

D.Every time when we stopped,everybody would stare at us.

21、It’s important for graduates to find a proper job, one in which they can bring their_______ into full play.

A.potential B.circumstance C.symptom D.insurance

22、Local governments can foster this sustainable activity by giving_____ to responsible operators, and even high-paying consumers.

A.preference B.substitute C.alternative D.selection

23、Wanting the question _____ once more, the little boy went to the teacher’s office after class.

A．explained

B．being explained

C．be explained

D．to explain

24、_____ the deaf children, the young lady has little time to care for her own daughter.

A. Devoted to teach B. Devoted herself to teaching

C. Devoting herself to teaching D. Devoting to teaching

25、A true gentleman won’t pretend to have those absurd manners which are necessary ______ we call the upper class.

A. who B. in which

C. in what D. which

26、   The study on facial recognition technology (FRT) began in the late 1960s. In the late 1990s, FRT began to enter the market gradually but its accuracy had a long way to go though it cost governments a lot, which made it unpopular at that time. FRT attracted wide attention after September，11, 2001 and it has been widely used now.

Recognizing the potential abuse in the use of FRT, Microsoft is asking the U. S. government to study facial recognition (FR) and keep a dose watch over its use. Personally, I hold this is a positive job that Microsoft is doing. FRT has grown to be so powerful. It can be used to identify people in photos, video feeds，and of course in person, without their permission.

Mr. Bradford Smith, Microsoft’s president, suggests that “governments around the world should examine commercial uses of FR.” The European Union (EU) is ahead of others in this aspect, thanks to its tough new data protection law, which forbids companies to gather the biometric (生物特征) data needed for facial recognition without first obtaining users, permission.

San Francisco has become the first city in the USA to forbid using facial recognition software. And Oakland discussed a similar rule last month. San Francisco has said that police and other public departments cannot use FRT. San Francisco already uses surveillance (监视) cameras for reading car number plates and police officers wear body cameras. San Francisco official Aaron Peskin said FRT was like “Big Brother” from the book 1984 by George Orwell. The phrase Big Brother is now used to describe attempts to increase surveillance and “spy” on citizens. Mr. Peskin said, “We can have good policing without being a police state.”

【1】Why was FRT unpopular in the 1990s?

A. It was inconvenient to use. B. It was expensive to produce.

C. Its accuracy needed improving. D. Its roles weren’t fully found out.

【2】What is the author’s attitude to Microsoft’s advice on the management of FRT?

A. He says yes to it. B. He is doubtful of it.

C. He feels worried about it. D. He can’t understand it.

【3】Who has done the most work to make people use FRT in a right way?

A. San Francisco. B. Microsoft.

C. Oakland. D. The EU.

【4】What would be the best title for the text?

A. Big Brother Technology B. Different Uses of FRT

C. Strong Protection of FRT D. FR Data’s Disadvantages

27、   Loneliness hurts. It is psychologically distressing and so physically unhealthy that being lonely increases the likelihood of an earlier death by 26 percent. But psychologists think it hurts so much because, like hunger and thirst, loneliness acts as a biological alarm bell.

On March 26, just as the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted a report on bioRxiv. It is the first study in humans to show that both loneliness and hunger share signals deep in a part of the brain that governs very basic impulses for reward and motivation. So, our need to connect is apparently as fundamental as our need to eat.

The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to compare brain responses to loneliness and hunger. 40 adult participants underwent a 10-hour session depriving (剥夺) them of food and another 10-hour session denying them social contact. Both sessions served as a control (对照) condition for each other.

The social-isolation condition was challenging to arrange. Some people are lonely in a crowd, while others enjoy solitude To induce(l t)not just objective isolation but subjective feelings of loneliness, the researchers had the participants spend their time from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M. in a room at the laboratory without phones, laptops or even novels in case fictional characters provided some social support. Puzzles were allowed, as was preapproved nonfiction reading or writing.

Researchers then focused on a midbrain region called “the substantia nigra”, a center of dopamine (多巴胺) release involved with motivation and desire. The dopaminergic response shows a strong wanting. In the scanner, participants saw images of their preferred forms of social interaction and of their favorite foods, as well as a control image of flowers. It was then found that the substantia nigra responded only to cues of what they had been deprived of. The magnitude of the response correlated with the subjects’ self-reports of how hungry or lonely they were, though the feelings of hunger were consistently stronger.

Finally, the researchers used machine learning to confirm their findings. A software classifier trained to recognize neural patterns during fasting (斋戒) proved able to recognize similar neural patterns from the social-isolation condition even though it had never “seen” them. So there seems to be an underlying shared neural signature between the two states.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, an obvious next question for the work was whether different forms of social media could satisfy the need for social connection. Those researchers were never able to get funding for such a study. But now it seems they will.

【1】The report posted on March 26 ________.

A.is based on the social-isolation condition during the pandemic

B.is the first study on the effect of loneliness on human beings

C.reflects the similarity between loneliness and hunger

D.shows human need for reward and motivation

【2】What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A.Why inducing feelings of loneliness was challenging

B.How loneliness was created among participants

C.Why participants were denied access to phones

D.How researchers compared brain responses

【3】We can infer that participants’ substantia nigra showed ________ response(s) to the image of flowers.

A.little B.various

C.strong D.consistent

【4】What does the underlined “it” in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A.The neural signature. B.Fasting.

C.Machine learning. D.The classifier.

28、   Could the device, smartphone or PC, which you are using affect the moral (道德的) decisions you make when using it? To test it, researchers presented multiple dilemmas to a sample set of 1,010 people. The participants were assigned a device at random.

One case of the questions participants were asked is the classic “trolley (有轨电车) problem”: A runaway trolley is headed towards five people tied up on a set of train tracks. You can do nothing, resulting in the deaths of five people, or push a man off a bridge, which will stop the trolley. The practical response is to kill one man to save five lives, which 33.5 percent of smartphone users chose, compared to 22.3 percent of PC users.

“What we round in our study is that when people used a smartphone to view classic moral problems, they were more likely to make more unemotional, reasonable decisions when presented with a highly emotional dilemma,” Dr Albert Barque-Duran, the lead author of the study, told City, University of London. “This could be due to the increased time pressure often present with smartphones and also the increased psychological distance which can occur when we use such devices compared to PCs.”

As for why the researchers started this study, Dr Barque-Duran noted, “Due to the fact that our social lives, work and even shopping take place online, it is important to think about how the contexts where we typically face moral decisions and are asked to engage in moral behavior have changed, and the impact this could have on the hundreds of millions of people who use such devices daily. “It’s clear that we need more research on how our devices affect our moral decision-making because we’re using screens at an ever increasing rate.”

【1】Why did the author mention the trolley problem?

A.To introduce a difficult problem to readers.

B.To introduce the aim of carrying out the study.

C.To show an example of the questions in the study.

D.To show the difficulty in dealing with dilemmas.

【2】How do the smartphone users of the study behave in dealing with emotional dilemmas?

A.Calmly. B.Cruelly.

C.Carelessly. D.Enthusiastically.

【3】Dr Albert believes that compared with PCs, smartphones   .

A.help people bear more pressure

B.help people make decisions quickly

C.make people feel more mentally distant

D.make people stay happier to solve problems

【4】What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

A.The importance of smartphones. B.The significance of the study.

C.How to make moral decisions. D.What affects people’s daily life.

29、Avebury is near the far more famous Stonehenge. What is interesting about it is that a village has grown up around the stones, unlike Stonehenge, which stands alone. Avebury and Stonehenge are just two of about 1, 300 stone circles all over the UK. Many of them are in fantastic locations, like Castlering in Cumbria, from which you can see England’s highest mountain; and the Ring of Brodgar in the beautiful Orkney Island, off Scotland’s northern coast.

Some of them are UNESCO World Heritage sites, and several have local stories connected to them. For example, the Merry Maidens in West Cornwall is a group of nineteen stones. According to the story, they were young women — maidens — who were turned into stone for dancing on a Sunday.

Early historians thought that the stone circles were temples for the people who arrived in the UK in about 500 BC. Later research has shown that they are far older than that, at least 4, 000 years old. Stonehenge could have been built 5, 000 years ago, but it’s still nowhere near as old as the nearby wooden circle built about 10, 000 years ago. Some experts believe they acted like calendars and have shown that some stones line up with sunrise or sunset on the longest and shortest days of the year. Others believe they were places for the dead bodies of the local rich and powerful.

We may never know why they were built, but each one leaves the visitor with a strong sense of the shotness of our existence in the sea of history. There are groups of stone circles and other prehistoric(史前的)monuments throughout the British Isles, so wherever you are staying you should include at least one in your tour.

【1】What can we learn about Avebury?

A．It stands alone.

B．It is a part of Stonehenge.

C．It has a village around it now.

D．It consists of a couple of Merry Maidens.

【2】What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Stone circles.

B．Mountains.

C．Temples.

D．Islands.

【3】What does the author focus on in Paragraph 3?

A．The local stories of stone circles.

B．The original purpose of stone circles.

C．The historic value of stone circles.

D．The time when stone circles were built.

【4】What does the author suggest in the last paragraph?

A．Building more monuments.

B．Protecting World Heritage sites.

C．Learning more about our history.

D．Visiting some of those stone circles.

30、   As a banker, Chip Paillex had never planted so much until he moved to rural Pittstown, New Jersey, seven years ago. ______by farms, he quickly became interested in growing and rented a 30-by-30-foot land. One weekend, he ______tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant—enough to feed his family for the summer.

He ended up with so much ______that he couldn’t give it away. Thus he founded a local food ______, and by the time he delivered his last______, he had ______120 pounds of fresh vegetables.

The following year, with a handful of ______from his church and a memorable name “America’s Grow-a-Row”, Paillex planted,______,and harvested 2,500 pounds of vegetables, all of which he donated to food banks. Later he had more volunteers, rented more land and donated more vegetables.

Paillex also ______ local school kids. On a ______Friday morning in May, 40 third and fifth graders trooped onto a freshly plowed field, each ______with a spade. Squatting or kneeling in teams of two , they loosened the dirt, then carefully______the plants .Several rows later, they eagerly lined up to seed corn under a hot mid-morning sun. Nobody ______.

“The ______makes kids know there are people ______, says Paillex, “and it plants the seed for giving back. When they become tomorrow’s ______, it will be much more possible for them to ______ their coworkers and employees to get ______ in something like this.

“Paillex makes people want to ______,” says Colleen Duerr, a mother of two who has signed on as an ______“Grow-a-Row” member. “And families love this. Pallex has given us a way to raise our kids with a giving heart.”

【1】A. Trapped B. Occupied C. Prevented D. Surrounded

【2】A. put aside B. planted out C. wrapped up D. got in

【3】A. advice B. produce C. cost D. equipment

【4】A. bank B. market C. shop D. room

【5】A. crop B. fruit C. harvest D. grain

【6】A. donated B. sold C. found D. stored

【7】A. neighbors B. employees C. volunteers D. tourists

【8】A. delivered B. stored C. bought D. tended

【9】A. refuses B. welcomes C. chooses D. pushes

【10】A. cloudless B. snowy C. foggy D. rainy

【11】A. compared B. combined C. filled D. armed

【12】A. cooked B. counted C. positioned D. pulled

【13】A. laughed B. complained C. worked D. competed

【14】A. programme B. example C. lesson D. thought

【15】A. at war B. in anger C. on business D. in need

【16】A. farmers B. workers C. leaders D. owners

【17】A. force B. encourage C. beg D. wait

【18】A. locked B. moved C. involved D. turned

【19】A. grow B. relax C. settle D. help

【20】A. unpaid B. unexpected C. unseen D. unknown

31、   It was the first time in four years that my daughter Kate had been able to have a face-to-face chat with her Chinese grandfather through WeChat. Her grandfather ______ showed us his apples. Kate eagerly asked when she could eat them. Since her birth, we can’t ______ time to take her back to China. Year after year, her grandfather would save us a box of the ______ apples just in case we visited. They were kept in the cold store _____ and they must have been sweet. I vividly remember my first ______ of an apple picked straight from the orchard(果园), which enjoys a perfect setting for growing apples with a high altitude and striking temperature differences.

A few weeks after the ______, when new blossoms (花) began to appear on the trees, a/an _______ occurred to Kate’s grandfather. If we couldn’t take our ______ back this year, he would take the apples to us. He ______ the ladder (梯子), carefully examining blossoms. Those that ______ his examination were picked off the trees. When the blossoms ______ small apples, he covered each apple with a special ______ consisting of three layers, which would ______ the young apples from brown spots and also help them achieve a/an ______ coloring. Several weeks passed and the apples were almost ready. He spent ______ removing the outer layers of the bags. The inner red layers remained. If they were removed too early, the fruits would be damaged by the sunlight. Once they ______ the sun, he removed the final layers.

From his ______, he still kept one box of his finest apples but this time he was ______ to deliver them himself. ______ for his passport and visa approved, he delicately ______ his 2-kilogram bag of best apples—as fresh fruit is strictly restricted by the customs and headed for Scotland.

【1】A.carefully B.proudly C.secretly D.briefly

【2】A.devote B.cost C.spend D.afford

【3】A.biggest B.sourest C.ripest D.finest

【4】A.waiting B.expecting C.growing D.working

【5】A.touch B.sight C.bite D.purchase

【6】A.interview B.discussion C.chat D.appointment

【7】A.mind B.idea C.advice D.fact

【8】A.father B.mother C.son D.daughter

【9】A.climbed B.designed C.made D.fixed

【10】A.escaped B.passed C.failed D.lost

【11】A.burst into B.gave out C.grew into D.let out

【12】A.paper B.bag C.sheet D.package

【13】A.protect B.discourage C.hide D.cover

【14】A.dark B.even C.ever D.light

【15】A.minutes B.days C.months D.years

【16】A.adapted to B.appealed to C.adopted to D.responded to

【17】A.tree B.harvest C.experiment D.product

【18】A.accustomed B.advised C.engaged D.determined

【19】A.Instructions B.Recreations C.Applications D.Reservations

【20】A.packed B.filled C.emptied D.delivered

32、   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

33、As I began 2021, I planned to give a gift a day for the entire year. I also intended to keep _______ of the gifts in a journal.

I wanted to be _______ with my giving. Some gifts would take time to prepare and _______, such as the quilt I _______ for months into a sleeping bag for a homeless person. Other gifts came about more _______, such as helping a man read a (n) _______ on an item at a store when he’d forgotten his reading glasses. I always tried to look for an opportunity to _______.

Many of my gifts in 2021 _______ reading to my two sons, especially at night. Good stories make great gifts, and reading aloud to my children _______ beautiful memories.

One of my most ________ gifts throughout the year involved letting other customers go ahead of me in line at the grocery store. When I ________ a person standing in line behind me with little shopping, I spotted a chance to put another’s ________ before my own. Throughout the year, my children enjoyed hearing my ________ about my gift-giving. Sometimes my boys would make ________ about my gift when we ________ for bedtime at night.

When my sons and I stood in line one day at the store, my older son ________ his little hand and whispered that we could let the man behind to check out first. ________ stretched across my face as I realized that my boy had shared the joy of ________.

Although this act of giving didn’t qualify as something ________ or surprising, it remains one of my favorite gifts of 2021, and all because I saw how my ________ to give had become part of my children’s lives as well.

【1】

A．touch

B．knowledge

C．track

D．control

【2】

A．satisfied

B．reasonable

C．ambitious

D．intentional

【3】

A．contribute

B．return

C．proceed

D．present

【4】

A．sprang

B．sewed

C．ironed

D．washed

【5】

A．randomly

B．exactly

C．particularly

D．firmly

【6】

A．plan

B．label

C．list

D．explanation

【7】

A．demand

B．acquire

C．observe

D．serve

【8】

A．combined

B．adopted

C．involved

D．assessed

【9】

A．honors

B．creates

C．reminds

D．monitors

【10】

A．responded

B．ignored

C．predicted

D．repeated

【11】

A．accepted

B．tolerated

C．noticed

D．heard

【12】

A．needs

B．qualifications

C．dreams

D．meanings

【13】

A．stories

B．explorations

C．studies

D．packets

【14】

A．decisions

B．arrangements

C．donations

D．comments

【15】

A．broke down

B．settled down

C．came up

D．made up

【16】

A．decorated

B．struck

C．cupped

D．combed

【17】

A．Sadness

B．Smile

C．Comfort

D．Anxiety

【18】

A．giving

B．admitting

C．advancing

D．surprising

【19】

A．traditional

B．multiple

C．unique

D．distant

【20】

A．choice

B．discovery

C．judgment

D．motion

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、

Rapidly advancing technology and its impact on education has been a subject of debate. How can schools equip students with the skills they need to succeed in a challenging job market?

Since technology is driving these changes, there is a theory that governments should keep focusing on STEM subjects. These are often referred to as “hard skills,” which are 【1】 in primary school and right through to university level. In the meantime, ‘soft skills’ are being 【2】.

This is a mistake. Much evidence suggests that soft skills are far more 【3】 to graduates in the long term. Research from Harvard University on the global job market has shown that STEM- related careers grew strongly between 1989 and 2000 but have slowed down since. In contrast, jobs in the creative industries----the sector probably most 【4】 with the need for soft skills---are growing rapidly. Soft skills are, in fact, increasingly in demand in the workplace: Google cites creativity, leadership 【5】 and communication skills as top requirements for both potential and current employees.

So why are soft skills so highly 【6】 for?

With the rapid evolution of technology, a focus on hard skills leaves students 【7】 to change, as these often have a short shelf life. According to research by World Economic Forum, more than one in four adults reports a mismatch between their skills and those needed for their job role. If soft skills are taught well, these skills should enable students to adapt to change more easily and progress further in their 【8】 career.

Of course, technical skills are important. But without the curriculum placing equal--- if not greater --- 【9】 on soft skills, our education systems are missing a huge trick. Hard skills may help a student get a job in a particular industry, but soft skills will help them disrupt it, achieving a wider 【10】 in their chosen field.

36、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.

The Internet E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic age possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on 【1】 relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.

Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quiet 【2】.” They say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends-not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so 【3】 supporting.

The technological leader promised us that access would make life more convenient. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to 【4】 us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy 【5】.

If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast 【6】 land, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the 【7】 of all resources.

And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really 【8】 in the e-economy age. If this new technology 【9】 is only about super efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a(n) 【10】 human being.

37、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.

38、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

We live in a technological society where most goods are mass-produced by unskilled labor. Because of this, most people think that craft (手艺) no longer exists. One of the ways these people wrongly support their view is by pointing to 100-year-old homes which are still solid, and arguing that it is the craftsmanship that is responsible for their durability (持久性). “Homes in those days were well-built,” they say. There is no doubt that these homes were well-built, but what these people have done is mix up the quality of material used in the house with the quality of the craftsmanship.

Homes today could be built to last just as long as those old homes if people were willing or able to pay the price. For example, more people can no longer afford solid oak stairways, although they were once fairly common in older homes. Nor can they afford the high labor cost of employing a carpenter to build the stairway. Yet if someone can pay the high cost, there are still plenty of carpenters around able to make those stairways. And not only would these carpenters know how to build them, they would probably do a better job than carpenters of old.

One thing the modern carpenter has which enables him to do a better job is much more advanced tools. Such tools as laser beams and power planes help them lay out a house better and make more precision cuts (精确切割) on the wood. Also, it is not uncommon any more to find carpenters with college degrees and carpenters with a solid knowledge of mathematics, which would enable them to deal with more difficult house designs.

The problem of modern quality, then, really boils down to the problem of material, for the modern carpenter is just as able to produce craftsmanship as the carpenter of fifty years ago, but only if given proper material.

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39、假如你是李华。你校交换生Nancy想学写中国毛笔字,请你给她推荐书法老师和书法课。请根据下面的写作要点给她写一封邮件。内容包括:

1.介绍老师的情况

2.授课时间和地点

3.课前准备事项

注意:

1.词数100左右;

2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

参考词汇: 写毛笔字brush writing (n.) ; 书法calligraphy(n.)

Dear Nancy,

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Yours,

Li Hua

40、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

When learning how to train your cat, you'll start with very basic first steps. But can you train a cat the same way you might train a dog? Yes and no. Because they're highly independent animals, cats might appear uninterested in following your commands. That doesn't mean you can't influence their behavior, though. If you're patient, your new cat or old cat can be trained in no time.

First, decide what you want your cat to learn, and then move towards your goals in small steps each day. Before you start training your cat, however, consider what commands you'll use and what types of behavioral actions you want her to learn. Think about what you may have wondered in the past: how to train your cat to use a litter box, bow to keep her calm during trips, and so on. How can you teach her to stop scratching your rugs or furniture?

Having determined which lessons you and your cat will master, it's time to get down to business. If you're excited about training, you may want to jump right in and teach your cat everything at once. However, your cat's attention span is shorter than yours; you can't expect her to stay interested every time you're ready to be the trainer. To be successful, though, it's a good idea to stick to one lesson at a time. Once your cat has mastered whatever you're working on, you can move on to the next training exercise.

When only you and your cat are at home, you don't have to worry too much about involving others in the training. Yet you still want your cat to learn to be social. Shortly after bringing your cat home, invite friends or family members over to socialize with your new pet. Just remind them not to be too forward with their introduction. If you're bringing a car into a larger family, it's even more important to involve everyone in the training. After all, she'll see these familiar faces every day!

41、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。

One Sunday morning, George Thomas, a baker in a small New England town was walking through town when he saw a young boy coming toward him, swinging(挥舞)a bid cage in the air. On the bottom of the cage, there were three little wild birds shaking with cold and fear. George Thomas stopped the boy and asked him what he got there.

The boy was happy and told him that there were just some old birds in the cage. When the baker asked him what he would do with the old birds. The boy said casually(漫不经心地)that he wanted to take the birds home and play with them. He would pull out their feathers to make them fight. He would have a really good time because he would enjoy watching these.

George Thomas was shocked by what the boy said. How could a boy be so rude to wild animals? So he continued to ask the boy what he would do to the birds when he got tired of them, because he was such a naughty and cruel boy that he was sure to be tired of them sooner or later. The boy laughed and said that he got a cat, which liked birds, so he would give the birds to his cat. The baker got more worried and decided to help set free the poor birds. So he asked, "“How much do you want for those birds, son? "

The boy looked at him in surprise, wondering if the baker really wanted to buy them. He laughed and reminded the man that they were just plain old field birds. They didn't sing they were not even pretty. However, the baker insisted and continued to ask him how much money he wanted for the birds.

The boy stared at the baker as if he were crazy and said, “$10? ”

注意:

1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2. 应使用5个以上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:

The baker reached in his pocket …

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Paragraph2:

The baker picked up the cage.

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