铁岭2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测三年级英语

1、At present, acupuncture has become popular round the world, ________ other traditional Chinese medicines.

A.so are B.as are C.so have D.as have

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

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

3、Every boy and every girl _________ to attend the evening party.

A.wish B.wishes C.hope D.are hoping

4、People are warned ________ in that city because there is some virus going around the city.

A. to not tour B. touring not

C. not to tour D. not touring

5、I decided to try _______ to rid my students of their fear and dislike of books.

A. in depth B. at any cost

C. around the corner D. to a degree

6、To keep pace with changes around the world, it is vital that teachers_____ students to use computer technology.

A.should be taught B.must teach C.teach D.are taught

7、My sister was against my suggestion while my brother was ___________it.

A.in honor of B.in favor of C.in search of D.in memory of

8、______ the heart attack, Monica brought her doctor a bunch of flowers to express her thanks.

A. Surviving     B. To survive

C. Survived  D. Having survived

9、Because the situation of that country________, all the foreigners are preparing to leave.

A.is getting worse B.got worse

C.was getting worse D.had got worse

10、There _____________. And here ________________ .

A.goes the phone; she comes. B.is the phone going; is she

C.does the phone go; does she come D.the phone goes; come she

11、So ______ to Coca-Cola that he can hardly go without it.

A. addicted is he B. is he addicted

C. addicted he is D. he is addicted

12、The old man could buy nothing ______ .

A. with his money to steal B. with his money having stolen

C. with his money stealing D. with his money stolen

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

A. as B. so

C. while D. like

14、They urged the government stick to the planned procedure.

A.would B.should C.could D.might

15、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

16、We were delayed at the airport. _________ we would have been here by lunch time.

A. However B. Instead

C. Probably D. Otherwise

17、Many nations have promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but are falling short of the ________ reduction of 25 to 40 percent of 1990 levels.

A.target B.option C.profit D.refund

18、The policemen hurried into the station ______ they heard the gunshot.

A. immediately B. at once C. since D. then

19、Have you bought the same book________ I referred to yesterday?

A.when B.which C.where D.as

20、But a change, no matter how ________ it is needed, doesn't just happen.

A. desperately B. frequently

C. universally D. violently

21、— I’m still working on my project.

— Oh, you’ll miss the deadline. Time is _______.

A. running out B. coming out

C. using out D. going out

22、The old street was so _________ that we had to stop our car and go to his house on foot.

A．attractive

B．ordinary

C．shallow

D．narrow

23、---Oh, help! The pan is on fire!

---_______. I can handle it.

A．Take it easy

B．Stop shouting

C．Help yourself

D．You bet

24、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

25、People used to think that the Chinese were not as healthy and fit

as the people in the west, but facts have proved that that's _________ the case.

A. far away from   B. far from

C. far away     D. by far

26、Violent Games: Fun or Harmful?

If you play lots of video games, you’ve probably blown a zombie(僵尸) into tiny bits. 【1】 Many adults worry that playing such games could make children act violently in real life. Is that true?

The American Academy of Pediatrics(儿科) says that violence in any kind of media --- from TV to music to video games --- presents a risk to kids’ health. A number of studies have shown a link between video games and aggression, including one published in JAMA Pediatrics in 2014, which found that kids who played violent video games showed an increase in aggressive thoughts and behaviors. 【2】

But not all studies agree that violent games cause kids to act out. Another study replaced violent deaths with evaporation(蒸发) in a game. 【3】 People who played the non-violent game without any training were more aggressive afterward than people who played the violent version but learned to control themselves first.

And here’s an even stranger fact: When violent video games are released, people carry out fewer violent crimes! Why? 【4】 Steve Levitt, coauthor of the book Freakonomics, said, “If you can make video games fun enough, then kids will stop watching TV, and they’ll stop going out and creating violent disorder on the street.”

What do you think? 【5】

A．One possible explanation: potential criminals are at home playing the new game.

B．Then, before playing the game, some people received training and others didn’t.

C．More than 3,000 kids answered survey questions during a two-year period.

D．For example, thinking it’s OK to hit someone you don’t like.

E．Have you ever played any violent video games?

F．Do violent video games cause bad behavior?

G．Some games even pile up dead bodies.

27、   If the lady in the Mona Lisa painting could talk, she could tell us why she was smiling for the pose, isn’t it? But, of course, that is not possible because she is just a painting.

However, recently, Samsung Labs in Moscow demonstrated an Al program that could create a video of a person talking just from one single profile picture. The result? A talking Mona Lisa, thanks to a technology, known as deepfake!

The word “deepfake” is a combination of the words “deep learning” and “fake”. Deep learning refers to the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to create images of human faces. The word was used first in 2017 when an anonymous person using the name “deepfake” began to post images of celebrities’ faces on other people’s bodies.

To start with, video recordings of a person are broken down into the smallest levels of detail that capture how their mouth and facial features move when they pronounce a sound like “oo” or “ah”. These, along with the 3-D model of the lower face, are then put together and the person can be made to say words he (or she) never did.

Deepfakes use a technology called generative adversarial networks (GAN). This system uses two separate artificial intelligence systems that are trained such that one generates the images and the other attempts to tell if they are fake. The machines continue to teach each other over and over again until one produces a video that the other cannot tell it is fake!

Fake news would easily go out of hand if people believed the fake videos as real and it could have political and social effect. There is a lesson here for each of us to be careful about what we post on the Internet. In the future, you might see a picture or video of yourself and may not be able to tell that it is fake! It all just goes to show that seeing is not always believing.

【1】How does the writer develop the third paragraph?

A.By defining a concept. B.By introducing an app.

C.By testing a scientific method. D.By providing different examples.

【2】What can we infer about GAN from the passage?

A.It needs to be trained. B.It can learn all by itself.

C.It produces perfect pictures. D.It is used to identify fake images.

【3】What is implied in the last paragraph?

A.People can use deepfakes to become famous.

B.The public aren’t easily cheated by deepfakes.

C.All of us may become a victim of deepfakes.

D.Deepfakes make what you have done known to all.

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

A.Mona Lisa：a Talking Picture

B.Fake Videos：Recording of a Person

C.AI Program：Creating a Video

D.Deepfakes：Believing or Not

28、   In a nation of schools typically named with sensible acronyms (首字母缩写词) or after the names of dead Frenchmen, 63 seems a strange title for an institution of higher learning. But then, Xavier Niel's new technology academy hardly aims to be conventional.

Niel, a friendly telecommunications manager with several billion euros to his name, set up the Paris campus this year to provide programming classes.

Its very name is something mysterious: In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the science-fiction novel by Douglas Adams, the number 63 is the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

There are no lectures—the college achieves its teaching goals by combining an extreme form of “student-to- student learning” with project-based learning. Students can only find “friendly organizers" wearing T-shirts instead of lecturers. No degree will be awarded, nor must incoming students, ages 18 to 30, be high school graduates. 63 is tuition-free and has sought to attract students from the country’s poorest neighborhoods.

The school breaks with the conventional methods, and Niel believes it will produce graduates who are more creative, more employable, more diverse and more useful to the weak French economy as a result.

There were 20,000 applicants this year to enter 63. In the end, just 900 were admitted to the three- year program.

The school will teach problem-solving, its creators say. Some educators call this unworkable. To provide students with “recipes” is hardly enough, said Pierre Baylet, an administrator at the Institute Mines Telecom, a telecommunications school. “You have to teach them to cook!” Baylet told the education magazine I' Etudiant.

Still, some public officials have welcomed it, especially those who are concerned with the state of the economy.

Similar methods are used by other private universities, including Epitech, the programming college formerly led by Nicolas Sadirac (63's director) and generally considered France's best. But annual tuition there and at similar institutions runs into several thousand euros.

Corentin Denos, 18, said he would need to find a “suitcase full of money” to afford that. He scored high, survived the month long camp in Paris and was admitted by 63. The academy might strike some as “a bit strange”, Denos said. “It fits me perfectly.”

【1】What do we learn about the name 63?

A.It honors a dead Frenchman. B.It was given by Douglas Adams.

C.It is from a traditional university. D.It comes from a number in a novel.

【2】Which of the following is an unusual feature of 63?

A.It is run by public officials. B.It has no teachers.

C.It gives students no assignments. D.It is hugely expensive.

【3】How did Pierre Baylet seem to look at 63?

A.It was creative. B.It forgot to teach cooking skills.

C.It wouldn't succeed. D.It shouldn't offer students recipes.

【4】What did Corentin Denos say about colleges like Epitech?

A.He considered their tuition fees too high. B.He didn't like their teaching methods.

C.He dreamed of going to such colleges. D.He thought they were a bit strange.

29、   The McDonnells lived in a small brick house in Larchmont, a suburb of New York City. Jim was foreman of mail carriers at the post office where he had worked for 25 years. Married in 1960, he and Anne were childless.

On the evening of the eleventh anniversary of their marriage, carrying out the garbage, Jim McDonnell slipped on ice-coated steps, and struck his head. A few days later, driving to work, he lost control of the car, hit a telephone pole, and banged his forehead against the windshield. The following day he fell off the stairs, and again he banged his head. Found unconscious, he was hospitalized for three days with a cerebral concussion(脑震荡). One day in the same month, Jim borrowed a friend’s station wagon and drove to Kennedy Airport to pick up Anne’s brother and family. When he returned the borrowed car at 10 p.m., he was unaware that the wallet containing his identification had slipped out of his pocket onto the floor of the station wagon. After that, he was never seen again.

So what really happened to Anne’s husband? During his walk home, Jim had indeed blacked out(昏厥), losing all ability to remember who he was and where he lived. What happened then is unclear. The next thing he knew was that he was in downtown Philadelphia, a city he had never visited before. Seeing signs advertising the services of a James Peters, a real estate broker, Jim adopted James Peters as his own name. He had no past; his only reality was the present. James Peters got a Social Security card, which could be obtained at that time without showing a birth certificate, and took a job in a health club. He next worked at a cancer research institute, cleaning out animal cages. He also got a nightshift job at the P&P luncheonette, where he became well known for his omelets, as well as his courtesy and good humor.

About a month before Christmas 1985, colleagues noticed that Jim had grown unusually quiet and depressed. Something seemed to be turning in his mind. On December 22, Jim had fallen and banged his head. The next day at work he seemed distracted, and late that afternoon he had fallen again, striking his head. On December 24, he awoke feeling confused, yet delighted. After almost 15 years, he knew who he was! He was James A. McDonnell, Jr., of Larchmont, New York. His wife’s name was Anne.

Anne had just returned home from Christmas Mass, where she lit candles and prayed for Jim. A light snow was falling, and she was in a hurry to leave for Christmas dinner at her sister’s before the roads grew slick. Then the doorbell rang. "Oh my," she thought, "this is not a good time for a visitor." Anne opened the door — and saw a man with a full white beard. Immediately she recognized Jim. She couldn’t speak.

To Jim, Anne looked a little older, but prettier too. His heart overflowed.

“Hello, Anne,” he said.

【1】In which year did James A. McDonnell get missing?

A.1960 B.1965 C.1971 D.1985

【2】Which CANNOT explain the sentence "He had no past" in Paragraph 3?

A.He had no Social Security Card before he got lost.

B.He lost his memory after his blacking out.

C.He lost his wallet containing his identification.

D.He went to a completely strange city.

【3】How did Jim feel on seeing his wife, Anne, 15 years later?

A.scared B.funny C.moved D.anxious

【4】What would be the best sentence following the last sentence of this passage?

A."Jim," her breath came in bursts, "Is it true?"

B."Yes," she seemed puzzled, "And you are looking for…"

C."Well, Jim," her voice in delight, "Long time."

D."Come on in," said Anne, "I'm expecting you."

30、When I search my mind for who has made an impact on my life, my father steps out first. To be honest, my father is not an_______ dad because he can be defined as a workaholic without_________ I had a memory that he has been_________like a machine for days and nights. As a famous teacher and the boss of a training institute, his schedule is filled up with_________to give and decisions to_________ on management. It was he who left me weeping alone_________ a locked door when I was 5 years old. In adolescent years, I rarely _______his words on anything. When I grew up, I still find it_________to communicate with him.

While I believe I won’t _______my dad in some parts, I deeply understand him and even feel________about him. He was ________for 7 years into high school because of the Cultural Revolution, but later his diligence and ________brought him a diploma of a key university, a job in a big city and his enterprise. His single-parent ________ and his childhood with his grandparents hold him back from taking the father’s ________in the best way and showing his love to his son.________ , I do know he loves me so much.

After I failed the college entrance exam, he________me to take it easy, and encouraged me to be confident and ________. In that summer, he got up early in spare mornings, took a walk with me in the park, telling me his story of fighting against________. During the Spring Festival when he stood at the window,________me lighting fireworks outside, smiling, I said to myself it was such a wonderful moment. It was the first time we had been so________to each other.

【1】

A．honored

B．energetic

C．ideal

D．outstanding

【2】

A．doubt

B．hesitation

C．freedom

D．permission

【3】

A．fighting

B．talking

C．training

D．operating

【4】

A．lectures

B．performances

C．instructions

D．invitation

【5】

A．take

B．make

C．practice

D．share

【6】

A．inside

B．behind

C．under

D．beneath

【7】

A．heard

B．believed

C．followed

D．received

【8】

A．interesting

B．tough

C．indifferent

D．smooth

【9】

A．forgive

B．accept

C．avoid

D．forget

【10】

A．confident

B．particular

C．passionate

D．sympathetic

【11】

A．delayed

B．opposed

C．admitted

D．refused

【12】

A．courage

B．wealth

C．perseverance

D．personality

【13】

A．poverty

B．reality

C．challenge

D．background

【14】

A．step

B．role

C．authority

D．advice

【15】

A．Therefore

B．Moreover

C．Otherwise

D．However

【16】

A．accompanied

B．ordered

C．advised

D．comforted

【17】

A．calm

B．content

C．optimistic

D．responsible

【18】

A．fate

B．examination

C．competition

D．outcome

【19】

A．catching

B．watching

C．keeping

D．picturing

【20】

A．devoted

B．attached

C．close

D．faithful

31、   “You can do anything you want to do as long as you set your mind to it and stick with it.” I remember hearing those words from my ______ ever since I was a little girl. Through the years I’ve grown up ______ them and using them to ______ me. You see, there is no one I ______more than my mother.

When I was four years old, my mother and father got divorced (离婚), although he didn’t ______ with us after I was two. At the time, my brother was only eight. Being a single parent is a ______ enough job in itself but my mother also worked full­time.

Most people who heard about this ______ probably thought that at least one of the children would ______ getting into some kind of ______ whether with the law or something else, but that never ______. My mother taught both of us about morals, goals and rules, along with many other things.

Although she ______all week, my mom always had ______ for us, whether it was to take us to our baseball and soccer games or if we just ______ someone to talk to. At one point I remember clearly that I had a speech problem, and that she made me ______every night over and over again until I got it ______.

All in all, I feel I can ______ with my mother about anything, with her acting more as a ______ than a parent. I realize not everyone has a mother like mine, which makes me ______her even more. After everything she has done for me, I want to make her ______ by being the first woman in my family to go to college and get a(n) ______.

【1】A.father B.mother C.brother D.teacher

【2】A.believing in B.looking into C.searching for D.thinking about

【3】A.describe B.speak C.encourage D.protect

【4】A.help B.understand C.miss D.admire

【5】A.play B.speak C.live D.travel

【6】A.bad B.sad C.rare D.hard

【7】A.news B.situation C.opinion D.rule

【8】A.end up B.worry about C.dream of D.start out

【9】A.danger B.trouble C.conversation D.war

【10】A.changed B.improved C.ended D.happened

【11】A.complained B.studied C.worked D.exercised

【12】A.advice B.surprise C.time D.prize

【13】A.called B.needed C.found D.welcomed

【14】A.practise B.look C.reply D.sing

【15】A.simple B.right C.useful D.wrong

【16】A.debate B.read C.talk D.learn

【17】A.friend B.volunteer C.classmate D.workmate

【18】A.pay B.reward C.expect D.appreciate

【19】A.popular B.confident C.proud D.shocked

【20】A.degree B.chance C.award D.advantage

32、I walked to Mrs. Windsor’s house and waited outside. She was working with another student, and I was not supposed to_________them by ringing the bell. I stood against the wall and_________what I’d rather be doing. I had been tutored enough to read, understand, and even write some musical compositions, but I just didn’t have a_________for it. Mrs. Windsor had offered to give me the lessons_________,so I felt it my duty to try.

The door opened and Wendy Barton came out. I walked in, sat down on the piano bench and began to_________my sheet music. Today Mrs. Windsor _________ her niece Pasha to teach me.

With a smile, Pasha sat beside me on the piano bench, opened my sheet music to the beginning page and asked me to play. I _________my fingers on the keys. Then I frowned and concentrated to make the notes on the page _________ the finger movements. I had to admit I was a rather _________pianist.

After about a page or two, Pasha gently put her hand on top of mine as if to__________my fingers. There was a long pause. “What are you hearing in the music?” I looked at her rather __________   and admitted I didn’t know what she meant, “Like a __________.Here, let me try and you listen,” Pasha advised.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, letting her fingers __________lightly over the keys. Then, she began to play. “See, it begins here beside some kind of river. Hear the water flowing beside you?” Her fingers__________and fell gently on the keys. “Now a princess appears and she’s picking flowers from the water’s__________,”A happy piece of music filled the air in time to Pasha’s dancing tinges.

【1】

A．scare

B．bother

C．inform

D．remind

【2】

A．daydreamed

B．predicted

C．decided

D．regretted

【3】

A．taste

B．desire

C．gift

D．memory

【4】

A．in advance

B．for free

C．as usual

D．as well

【5】

A．sort through

B．look over

C．go over

D．look through

【6】

A．introduced

B．begged

C．ordered

D．selected

【7】

A．rested

B．opened

C．arrange

D．covered

【8】

A．follow

B．match

C．equal

D．resemble

【9】

A．professional

B．skillful

C．stubborn

D．mechanical

【10】

A．touch

B．press

C．warm

D．calm

【11】

A．anxiously

B．strangely

C．sadly

D．gratefully

【12】

A．river

B．flower

C．story

D．princess

【13】

A．dance

B．flow

C．fly

D．jump

【14】

A．left

B．dropped

C．rose

D．departed

【15】

A．source

B．entrance

C．middle

D．edge

33、   “I have recently completed my college degree.” The project we were __ to do in the last class was called “Smile”. The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and record their __．

Soon, my husband and I went out to a McDonald’s for __. We were standing in line, waiting to be __, when everyone around us began to back away. __ I turned around, I smelled a __ “dirty body” smell, and there standing behind me were two __ homeless men.

As I looked down at the short gentleman, he was “smiling”. His blue eyes were __ of expectation as if in search of acceptance. The second man __ awkward. I realized the second man was mentally challenged.

The young lady at the __ asked him what they wanted. He said,“coffee is all, Miss,” because that was all they could __. If they wanted to sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy __. I realized that he just wanted to be __. It was too cold outside.

Then I really felt it—the compulsion(冲动) was so great that I almost reached out and embraced the short man. I noticed all the customers in the restaurant were __ at me, judging my every action. I smiled and __ two more breakfast meals for the two men. The short man looked up at me in __ with tears in his eyes.

I returned to the __ on the last evening of class with this story. I turned in“my project” and the teacher read it. Then she said,“Can I __ this？”

I nodded. She began to read __ while every student listened attentively.

In my own way I __ the people at McDonald’s, my teacher, and every student in the classroom. I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn: UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE.

【1】A.taught B.learned C.told D.expected

【2】A.reactions B.songs C.opinions D.stories

【3】A.advice B.help C.information D.breakfast

【4】A.checked B.called C.served D.found

【5】A.Because B.If C.As D.Though

【6】A.horrible B.pleasant C.common D.strange

【7】A.handsome B.powerful C.rich D.poor

【8】A.proud B.full C.aware D.afraid

【9】A.looked B.sounded C.smelled D.proved

【10】A.desk B.stage C.counter D.door

【11】A.discover B.save C.afford D.do

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

【13】A.warm B.alone C.clean D.quiet

【14】A.glaring B.staring C.glancing D.shouting

【15】A.sold B.prepared C.ordered D.searched

【16】A.surprise B.relief C.fear D.gratitude

【17】A.college B.home C.restaurant D.hospital

【18】A.keep B.copy C.share D.make

【19】A.silently B.sadly C.fully D.aloud

【20】A.persuaded B.touched C.shocked D.warned

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

38、假设你是李华，你的外国朋友 David准备来中国度假，他发邮件向你询问有关中国“红色文化”旅游的情况。请你回复邮件，内容包括:

1.推荐地点:江西北部的南昌市;

2.推荐理由:风景秀丽、红色文化资源丰富;

3.体验内容:参观八一起义纪念馆，了解革命历史等

八一起义纪念馆 Bayi Memorial  革命：revolution

39、假定你是李华，原计划今年三月去英国的姐妹学校交换学习一个月，现因为新型冠状病毒疫情的爆发而不得不取消计划。请给姐妹学校的联系老师 Jack写封邮件，内容包括：

1.表示歉意

2.说明原因

3.疫情期间学习和生活的状态

注意： 1.字数100字左右

2.可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯

参考词汇： 1.新型冠状病毒the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

2.流行传染病 epidemic

注意：1.词数100左右:

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Jack,

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Yours,

Li Hua

40、假定你是李华，下周你校将举办英语演讲比赛。请你围绕 “taking responsibility” 写一篇演讲稿参赛，内容包括：

1. 承担责任的重要性；

2. 应如何承担责任；

3. 你的呼吁。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear classmates,

I’m Li Hua.

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41、假定你是李华，你校最近正在网上选拔学生参加 2020 年中美青年大使线上交流项目，帮助美国青年使者更好地了解中国的历史文化。请写一封电子邮件申请参加该项目。内容包括：

1. 介绍自己的优势；

2. 参加意图；

3. 希望获准。

注意：词数 100 左右，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

中美青年大使线上交流项目 Sino-American Youth Ambassadors online Program

Dear Sir or Madam,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua