南平2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测三年级英语

1、Every minute was made full use of ________ for the performance at CCTV Spring Festival.

A．preparing

B．being prepared

C．to prepare

D．prepared

2、The secretary and manager ____very busy now.

A.is B.are C.was D.were

3、Many young people, most________ were well-received, headed for remote regions to chase their dreams.

A.of which B.of whom C.of them D.of those

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

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

5、Lisa was angry with Joe because she couldn’t _____ his disrespect to the kind man who had helped them out.

A. violate B. allocate C. relate D. tolerate

6、The manager __________the company’s accounts, looking for evidence of fraud(诈骗).

A.looked through B.got through C.break through D.went through

7、________ they are most interested in is ________ they can return to the campus life.

A．What； how

B．That； when

C．What； what

D．That； why

8、Dismissing small talk as unimportant is easy, but we can't forget that deep  relationships wouldn't even exist   it weren't for casual conversation.

A.although B.when C.if D.unless

9、I had hoped to take a holiday this year but I wasn’t able to ______.

A．get away

B．drop in

C．check out

D．hold on

10、_______is no need for you to come if you don’t want to.

A. It B. There

C. That D. This

11、I have a very busy life with no time to sit around ______ sorry for myself.

A.feel B.feeling C.to feel D.felt

12、As for his advantages, he has 20 years’ teaching experience to _______.

A.draw on B.draw back C.draw up D.draw in

13、He wanted to make sure________.

A.how we went there by bus

B.where did we go

C.what did we go there

D.when we went there

14、_____ is often the case, we have worked out the production plan.

A. Which   B. When   C. What   D. As

15、If Lincoln had lived, it________ be that his postwar policies would have brought criticism upon him that would________ his reputation.

A.might as well … have tarnished B.might well … have tarnished

C.might as well … tarnish D.might well … tarnish

16、The old only ________ their children ________ and see them from time to time.

A．suggest; to come

B．hope; to come

C．desire; coming

D．desire; to come

17、The government has taken some measures to solve the shortage of electricity , but it may be some time _________the situation improves.

A. since B. when

C. before D. unless

18、I hope I will not be called on in class as I'm not yet________prepared.

A.readily B.actively C.adequately D.attentively

19、Nowadays, it’s common for a child to ________some knowledge of the computer just by watching others working on it.

A. bring up B. pick up

C. look up D. set up

20、Lewin was interested in taking research beyond books and looking at how it could ______ real social change.

A.bring up B.bring about C.bring in D.bring out

21、He has decided to settle ____in France because he is fond of the romantic country.

A. temporary B. temporarily

C. permanent D. permanently

22、Accustomed to _______ the steep mountains, she had no difficulty reaching top.

A．climbing

B．climb

C．having climbed

D．have climbed

23、The teachers_______ themselves in planning out the work of the coming semester.

A.occupied B.operated C.arranged D.employed

24、Not when and where we should meet, I telephoned our monitor for detailed information.

A. know   B. knew C. known   D. knowing

25、Jim is absent from the party. That is ________ he was badly injured in the football game.

A.because B.why C.how D.when

26、Overhear any conversation or pay close attention to your own, and you will hear laughter. You will probably also notice that, more often than not, the laughter is in response to something that was not very funny—or was not funny at all. Take Hillary Clinton’s strategic laughter during heated exchanges with Donald Trump in the presidential debates.

In one research in my Vocal Communication Lab at UCLA, we played recorded laughs to listeners and asked them, “Is this laugh ‘real’ or ‘fake’?” Our recorded laughs were either taken from real conversations between friends in a laboratory setting, or produced by request, also in the lab. It turned out that about 70 per cent of the listeners were able to tell the “real” laughs from the “fake” ones. Quite a few fake laughs sound pretty good, but why are fake laughs not as convincing as we expect? We can detect part of a laugh that is hard to fake—and that part has to do with the control of our breath.

Laughs could essentially be broken up into two different vocalisation (发声) systems: speech and emotion. Although both kinds of laughs are vocalised as “ha-ha-ha,” the intermittent breaths a person takes in—between the sounds give away a fake laugh. Real laughs have a higher proportion of breathy parts in between. Think about every time you force a laugh. You have to actually say the “ha-ha-ha,” and probably never consider how you breathe while doing it.

A fake laugh is basically an imitation of a real laugh. If you slow down a real laugh about two and a half times, it sounds like an ape (猿). But a slowed fake laugh sounds more like human speech. We put this observation to the test with the slowed-down versions of the laughs used for our first experiment, and asked participants whether the recordings were from a human or an animal. Though they couldn’t tell the origin of the real laugh, they were able to tell that the fake laugh came from a human.

Real laughs are produced by an emotional vocal system that humans share with all primates (灵长目动物), whereas fake laughs are produced by a speech system that is unique to humans. Laughter in humans likely evolved from play vocalisations in our primate ancestors. If one animal bites another during a rough-and-tumble (小打小闹的) play, it could be taken as an attack. But if they signal while panting (喘气) that they are just playing, the play can continue without being interrupted by an unnecessary real fight. In this way, real laughter reveals our animal nature.

【1】Fake laughter is easy to detect because _________.

A．it is not in a real conversation

B．it responds to something that is not funny

C．its control of breath is different

D．it sounds too good to be true

【2】A fake laughter sounds more like _________.

A．human emotion

B．human speech

C．ape emotion

D．ape nature

【3】Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Fake laugh is an imitation of real laugh.

B．Real laugh demonstrates our animal nature.

C．Humans and apes share an emotional vocal system.

D．A speech vocal system is unique to primates.

27、   A storm hit Houston, Texas, on Tuesday. It brought heavy rains and rising flood-waters. By Tuesday night, some parts of the city had received 10 inches of rain. Police and firefighters helped people move to safe places. They also saved people from cars and buses that were stuck on roads.

Certain areas around Houston were hit really hard. In just four hours, more than seven inches of rain fell in Sugar Land in the southwest of Houston. Cars could not pass through any of the areas main roadways. On Twitter, Sugar Land city officials asked people to get to high ground.

Tuesday’s rain hit parts of Texas that Hurricane Harvey had already damaged almost two years ago. Hurricane Harvey in August, 2017 was the second most costly hurricane in US history. It caused $125 billion worth of damage in Texas. In the Houston area, 36 people died and about 150, 000 homes were flooded.

A spokesman for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management spoke with the Houston Chronicle. The spokesman said that this week’s rain is “not in any way a Harvey-level event.”

But the worst may not be over yet. People will have a break from the heavy rain on Wednesday. According to the National Weather Service, the Texas Gulf Coast will continue to experience heavy rain later in the week. "Today should be our quietest over the next few days for rainfall,” said Don Oettinger, a National Weather Service meteorologist (气象学家).

Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peia warned, “As there is too much water on the ground, these are perfect conditions for flash floods, so we hope people are careful of what they’re doing and encourage them to stay home. There’s no sense in putting yourself, firefighters or anybody in danger needlessly.”

【1】What are Paragraphs 1 and 2 mainly about?

A.Flood damage in Houston. B.Flood prevention in Houston.

C.Heavy floods hitting Houston. D.People fighting floods in Houston.

【2】What do we know about Hurricane Harvey?

A.It caused no deaths or injuries. B.It did a lot of damage to Texas.

C.It was less serious than this week’s rain. D.It was the biggest hurricane on record.

【3】What can we learn from the weather report of the National Weather Service?

A.Fine days are coming. B.It will rain a little non-stop.

C.A hurricane is unavoidable. D.Floods will continue.

【4】What did Samuel suggest local people do?

A.Stay indoors. B.Join firefighters.

C.Give up needless things. D.Comfort those who lost homes.

28、   There’s a lot of confusion around exercising and eating. What should you eat before you work out? What about after? How long should you wait to eat? How will all of this benefit your goal of losing more fat? Scientists have now answered one important question.

In a new study researchers had a group of overweight males walk for one hour on an empty stomach, and then had them walk again for 2 hours on another day after eating a good breakfast. The researchers collected their blood samples after eating or fasting (禁食) as well as after exercising. They also took fat samples directly before and directly following an hour of walking.

The results showed differences in gene expression of the fat tissue in the two tests. The two genes they looked at, PDK4 and HSL, increased as a result of the volunteers fasting and exercising, and decreased when they ate before exercising. The researchers believe that the rise in PDK4 likely shows that stored fat was used to fuel metabolism (新陈代谢) during exercise，and that HSL increased when the fat tissue used stored energy to benefit an increase in exercise.

According to Dylan Thompson, an author of the study, the results support the viewpoint that “fat tissue often faces competing challenges”. “For example,” he says, “after eating the body is busy responding to the meal, and a short period of exercise at this time will not cause the same beneficial changes in fat tissue.”

How long do you have to decline food to meet their definition of “fasting”? Thompson says, “The best advice would be to make sure that your last meal was 4 hours before exercise to get the effect that we reported.”

【1】What is the focus of the study?

A.How we can avoid getting fat.

B.When we can eat after exercising.

C.What we should eat to lose weight.

D.Whether we should eat before or after exercise

【2】What is the finding of the study?

A.Exercising before eating helps lose fat.

B.Eating a good breakfast helps us exercise better.

C.An hour of exercising is necessary for weight loss.

D.Fasting is better than exercising for burning off stored fat.

【3】What does Thompson mainly want to say in Paragrapoh4?

A.It’s very difficult to burn off stored fat.

B.Fat can easily get stored in our bodies.

C.We face many challenges when exercising.

D.Exercising after eating can't burn stored fat.

【4】What does the underlined word “decline” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A.Share. B.Store. C.Refuse. D.Prepare.

29、   The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review. More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles.

“It should be of huge concern to all of us, for insects are at the heart of every food web,  they pollinate the large majority of plant species, keep the soil healthy, recycle nutrients, control pests, and much more. Love them or loathe them, we humans cannot survive without insects, ” said Prof Dave Goulson at the University of Sussex in the UK.

The analysis, published in the journal Biological Conservation, says intensive agriculture is the main driver of the declines, particularly the heavy use of pesticides. Urbanization  and climate change are also significant factors.

One of the biggest impacts of insect loss is on the many birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish that eat insects. A small number of adaptable species are increasing in number, but not nearly enough to outweigh the big losses.

Matt Shardlow, at the conservation charity Buglife, said: “It is gravely sobering to see this collation of evidence that demonstrates the pitiful state of the world’s insect populations. It is increasingly obvious that the planet’s ecology is breaking and there is a need for an intense and global effort to stop and reverse these dreadful trends.”

【1】What does “are hurtling down ”underlined mean?

A. To climb very slow in a straight direction

B. To move very fast in a particular direction.

C. To become lower in value or level quickly

D. To speed up suddenly in a particular direction

【2】According to the passage what caused the declines of the insects EXCEPT?

A. Intensive agriculture

B. Urbanization

C. Climate change

D. Pests control.

【3】In paragraph 4, the author wants to stress the decline of insects

A. by giving the examples

B. by making the comparison

C. by giving the definition.

D. by making the explanation

【4】What is the main idea of the text?

A. Sharply decreasing insects numbers threaten damage of nature.

B. The impacts will be brought by the insect loss.

C. The effective measures are taken to stop the scary trends.

D. The leading factors cause insects decline

30、Minutes after the _________ ended yesterday at Plaza Theater, employees were busy _________ popcorns and gathering coke cups. It was a scene that had been repeated many times in the theater's _________ history. This time, however, the cleanup was a little _________. As one group of workers carried out the rubbish, another group began removing seats and other theater's equipment in preparation for the building's _________.

The film classic The Last Picture Show was the last movie shown in the _________ theater.

_________ the movie is 30 years old, most of the 250 seats were filled with teary-eyed audience wanting to _________ to the old building. _________ Ed Bradford said he chose the movie because it seemed appropriate. The movie is set in a small town ____________ the only movie theater is preparing to ____________.

Bradford said that large modern theaters in the city made it ____________ for the Plaza to compete. He added that theater's location（位置）was also a ____________. “This ____________ the centre of town,“ he said. “Now the area is mostly office buildings and warehouses.

Last week some city officials ____________ the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place. However, these plans were ____________ because of ____________ problems. Bradford sold the building and land to a local development firm, which ____________ to build a shopping complex on the land where the theater is located.

The theater audience said good-bye as Bradford ____________ for the last time. After 75 years the Plaza Theater had shown its last movie. The theater will be ____________.

【1】

A．music

B．opening ceremony

C．last movie

D．match

【2】

A．preparing for

B．sweeping up

C．stirring up

D．cleaning

【3】

A．only one time

B．a few times

C．many times

D．never before

【4】

A．different

B．easy

C．the same

D．difficult

【5】

A．new owner

B．end

C．new face

D．new seats

【6】

A．new

B．old

C．modern

D．dirty

【7】

A．Yet

B．Because

C．However

D．Though

【8】

A．buy

B．say good-bye to

C．change

D．remember

【9】

A．Mayor

B．Governor

C．Theater owner

D．Headmaster

【10】

A．that

B．what

C．where

D．there

【11】

A．open up

B．close down

C．run away

D．win new audience

【12】

A．impossible

B．possible

C．easy

D．interested

【13】

A．reward

B．choice

C．reason

D．matter

【14】

A．would be

B．used to be

C．might be

D．could be

【15】

A．ordered

B．wished

C．suggested

D．promised

【16】

A．favored

B．abandoned

C．made

D．carried out

【17】

A．finance

B．pollution

C．security

D．traffic

【18】

A．refuses

B．plans

C．proposes

D．opposes

【19】

A．opened the door

B．repaired the door

C．broke the door

D．locked the door

【20】

A．missed

B．forgotten

C．bought back

D．hated

31、   I was at the market at 5 pm, the worst time of day to shop, to pick up a few___________: cream for coffee, eggs for breakfast and Advil for my headache.

I had been___________all day doing jobs for people. I did not want to be shopping, to say the___________. But I told myself it was my last stop before going home to___________my feet. So I___________a parking place, grabbed a bag from the trunk and found a shopping cart.

The market was not as crowded as I had expected. I___________a package of linguini and some pesto. That's when I saw her. She was sitting in a shopping cart. She looked to be maybe 9 months old. Short blond curls, blue eyes. A white lace dress and shiny black shoes. I couldn't take my eyes off her. Then I did what I always do with children: I gave her my best___________. I may have looked a bit ________, but it came from my heart. That is a___________I formed long ago when I became a mother. It started with my first child, in that unforgettable, life-changing moment of her birth.

At times my smile would____________to a look of fear or____________, but it never left my face for long. It always came back, even through____________. I've learned that everyone needs a smile sometimes, young and old, friends and strangers, even strangers at the market in a rush to get home.

She took her____________deciding just what to____________my smile. But finally she____________. I laughed and waved goodbye. And she blew me a kiss. That put a smile on my face that got a smile____________from every shopper I passed. I was still smiling when I got home and realized I had forgotten to get Advil. Luckily, I didn't need it. My____________was gone. ____________in that simple exchange of smiles, this weary old world became a better place.

Want to change the world. Give smiling a____________. Someone will smile back at you. I____________it. If you're lucky, maybe they'll even blow you a kiss and make your headache go away.

【1】A.produces B.essentials C.items D.categories

【2】A.pushing B.rushing C.occupying D.engaging

【3】A.best B.most C.least D.last

【4】A.put down B.put up C.put away D.put forward

【5】A.navigated B.spotted C.rented D.scored

【6】A.grabbed B.seized C.grasped D.bought

【7】A.gesture B.smile C.expression D.gift

【8】A.mad B.scary C.cautious D.casual

【9】A.custom B.behavior C.habit D.practice

【10】A.change B.fade C.transform D.vanish

【11】A.amusement B.embarrassment C.worry D.astonishment

【12】A.tears B.triumphs C.effects D.struggle

【13】A.effort B.time C.trouble D.pain

【14】A.stand for B.account for C.make out D.make of

【15】A.lit up B.looked up C.cleared up D.came up

【16】A.in vain B.in exchange C.in return D.on purpose

【17】A.stress B.anxiety C.headache D.pressure

【18】A.Somehow B.Somewhat C.Anyway D.Anyhow

【19】A.necessity B.kiss C.shot D.permission

【20】A.acknowledge B.confirm C.value D.guarantee

32、When I first met Begay at Los Ninos Elementary on “King and Queen Day”, she was wearing a smile ear-to-ear.

This morning, though, Begay was______. The parent she had been trying to_____was a no-show again. Begay______needed to talk to her. Her boy was smart, but now about a year behind. She______there were problems at home. He was always late and had already missed too much school.

By 8 a.m. , kids were arriving, and Begay’s______quickly became a beehive（蜂窝）of activity. Forty-five minutes_______, the little boy finally walked in, shoulders sunk, head_______. Rather than______him in front of the class, Begay welcomed him warmly. He was testing Begay’s long-held_______that no child is a lost cause, no matter how______he seems. “It’s the unspoken       _____teachers start out with,” Begay said.

During lunch I sat down with Begay’s students and asked them what they liked about her.

“ She never gets angry, “ said one girl. A boy______:” She’s funny and likes telling jokes.”

Before we left the______, the shy, quiet girl next to me______,” She teaches me when I don’t want to learn.”

Her_______stayed with me. When I_______it with Begay, I told her that I felt it was a very       _____thing for a child to say. She agreed.

“They never______that to me.” said Begay, “But that’s what I_______. I want them to enjoy school. I want them to feel like someone_______them.”

【1】

A．sensitive

B．worried

C．thrilled

D．energetic

【2】

A．meet

B．investigate

C．enquire

D．praise

【3】

A．gradually

B．occasionally

C．abruptly

D．desperately

【4】

A．clarified

B．revealed

C．suspected

D．acknowledged

【5】

A．classroom

B．school

C．canteen

D．house

【6】

A．after

B．before

C．later

D．ago

【7】

A．rose

B．bowed

C．nodded

D．shook

【8】

A．disturbing

B．astonishing

C．capturing

D．embarrassing

【9】

A．conclusion

B．dream

C．belief

D．ambition

【10】

A．awesome

B．troubled

C．innocent

D．careless

【11】

A．commitment

B．assumption

C．proposal

D．regulation

【12】

A．rejected

B．declared

C．added

D．protested

【13】

A．office

B．kitchen

C．playground

D．table

【14】

A．shouted

B．whispered

C．cried

D．suggested

【15】

A．comment

B．adventure

C．experience

D．discovery

【16】

A．interpreted

B．promoted

C．shared

D．demonstrated

【17】

A．fancy

B．comprehensive

C．crucial

D．meaningful

【18】

A．do

B．express

C．guarantee

D．leave

【19】

A．acquire

B．secure

C．accomplish

D．pursue

【20】

A．believes in

B．stands by

C．tums against

D．fears for

33、As I entered womanhood，mom told me that no matter what happened and no matter what I did，I could always come home. Because of what those words meant to me，I said the same thing to my____

My childhood was filled with____—a lot of kisses，lots of hugs，and lots of spoken “I love you”．Because of what those meant to me，I____my sons the same things.

My mom came from a____family and had a difficult childhood，yet she never____about how unlucky she was____my mom，I saw love’s ability to forgive.

I saw my sweet mom love my Grandpa，____he had abandoned her and my Grandma and failed to____them with basic necessities；I never saw mom treat Grandpa any way but lovingly，even though he was far from____I learned how love behaves and forgives.

I watched my mom____my 100­year­old grandma who，in her blindness，deafness and feebleness(虚弱)，needed almost____care. When I was in her home，I heard what I’ve heard all my life，“I love you，mom.” They would____each other this at least five times a____—when mom got Grandma up，made her comfortable in bed，or prepared her____And I would hear love’s____when Grandma said，“And I love you too.”

Love forgives and____not focusing on what has happened____，love’s focus is on what needs to be done and on doing it the____we can.

My mom taught me to love；she told me to____it on to my children，and she____forgiveness herself.

【1】A. children   B. friends   C. classmates   D. neighbors

【2】A. confusion   B. imagination   C. happiness   D. attraction

【3】A. gave   B. ordered   C. paid   D. bought

【4】A. famous   B. peaceful   C. rich   D. broken

【5】A. thought   B. complained   C. learned   D. wondered

【6】A. With   B. Like   C. In   D. Before

【7】A. although   B. because   C. so   D. if

【8】A. prepare   B. run   C. hope   D. provide

【9】A. special   B. kind   C. normal   D. smart

【10】A. wait for   B. laugh at   C. turn to   D. look after

【11】A. little   B. free   C. early   D. total

【12】A. call   B. tell   C. ask   D. encourage

【13】A. year   B. month   C. day   D. second

【14】A. books   B. money   C. meal   D. travel

【15】A. response   B. question   C. solution   D. measure

【16】A. walks on   B. moves on   C. falls behind   D. runs away

【17】A. Besides   B. Therefore   C. Also   D. Instead

【18】A. quickest   B. least   C. best   D. longest

【19】A. look   B. pass   C. put   D. write

【20】A. showed   B. expected   C. remembered   D. doubted

34、根据句意填空

In the USA, the Amish-a Christian group-are famous because they drive 【1】 instead of cars, do not use TVs or refrigerators, and do not have personal telephones. Many people assume the Amish must have 【2】 reasons for their many rules, but this is not true. In truth, whenever a new technology is introduced, the Amish meet and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. They then vote on whether they will accept it. The Amish 【3】 cars because they like having 【4】 communities where everyone lives close together. They have no TVs or refrigerators because their homes do not have electricity-they do not think it is necessary and 【5】 dealing with strangers, such as the people who work at the electric company.

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.

Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.

The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.

It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.

Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often  【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.

Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.

36、Directions: Fill in each blank to make the passage make sense and well connected in writing style. The initial letter of each word has been given. (please write each answer in a COMPLETE word on the answer card.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

In Congress, July 4, 1776

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should d【1】 the causes which impel them to the separation.

We h【2】 these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created e【3】, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable R【4】, that among these are life, L【5】, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, g 【6】 are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the P 【7】 to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, l【8】 its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such f【9】, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariable the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their d 【10】, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

37、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.”

38、假定你是李华，是兰州一中学生会主席。得知目前在美国新冠肺炎(Corona Virus Disease 2019，COVID-19) 疫情比较严重。请你给我校在美国的友好学校校长Donald Obama写封信，内容包括：

1.提出防疫建议；2.介绍我校复学情况；3.咨询美国学生在线学习情况。

注意：1.字数100字左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

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39、假设你是李华，母亲节即将到来，你校学生会将举办摄影作品展（photography show）。请给你的英国朋友James写封信，请他提供作品参赛。信的内容包括：

1. 作品主题：《牵妈妈的手的》(Hold Mom’s Hand)；

2. 活动目的；

3. 投稿截止时间及作品展览时间和地点；

4. 投稿的邮箱：lovemother@smschool.com

注意：

1.词数100词左右

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear James,

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Yours,

Li Hua

40、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

41、第五部分 书面表达（满分20分）

阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Like many students, Ryan believes that the time and money spent on his education will pay off: he will eventually be able to get a good job and do well in the field he has chosen. Yet, in spite of all of the years spent in school preparing to enter the workplace, many recent graduates say that they struggle with the shift from classroom to career world and have difficulty adjusting to life on the job.

Writer and editor Joseph Lewis suggests one reason why this is the case.Lewis believes that most of our school experiences--from childhood through university-- are fairly predictable, while life in the working world is far more uncertain.In school,for example,the.pattern stays more or less the same from year to year. In the workplace, however, constant change is the norm, and one has to adapt quickly.

Another problem that graduates entering the workforce encounter is that they are unprepared to think analytically. In school, many students, including those in college, spend a lot of time memorizing facts and repeating what they“learned”on tests.But in the workplace employees“are often expected to think critically and make decisions about their work, not just follow a supervisor's instructions.” Less time needs to be spent in school on testing, says one recent report, and more on helping students to analyze and interpret information,solve problems,and communicate their ideas effectively--skills that will prepare them to succeed in today’s workplace.

Finally many recent graduates say that one of the biggest difficulties they face is adapting to teamwork on the job. In the workplace, employees must regularly interact with others and are often dependent on their co-workers for their success. In other words, if an employee has to work with others to complete a given project, that employee's success not only depends on his hard work and expertise(专业知识), but also on how well his colleagues perform.Knowing how to participate in teamwork--and deal with problems when they arise--is extremely important, and yet, it is also something many students didn’t get quite exposed to in a school setting.

How can we better prepare young adults for the workplace? Recent graduates, looking back on their educational experience, have some advice. Many think that all students should be required to do an internship(实习) while they are in school. Volunteering part time at a company, hospital, or government organization, for example, can help one gain experience and learn skills needed to succeed in the real world.Pairing this kind of practical work experience with classroom instruction, say the graduates, will help prepare students for the realities of the workplace and make the transition from school to career world less stressful.