清远2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测三年级英语

1、In a typhoon，winds ________ a speed greater than 120kilometers per hour.

A．assume

B．accomplish

C．attain

D．assemble

2、Either side seems to have a(n) _________ position; there are still many uncertainties on this issue.

A．ambiguous

B．delicate

C．explicit

D．confidential

3、—How I wish I __________ fly to the moon!

—Really? That would be great.

A.can B.may C.should D.could

4、_____ of the people here are immigrants and not accustomed to using the local _____.

A.Millions; equipments B.Million; equipment C.Millions; equipment D.Million; equipments

5、We were all surprised when he made it clear that he ____ office soon.

A. leaves B. would leave C. left D. had left

6、Generally speaking, one’s mistakes in front of other people requires great courage.

A.admit B.being admitted C.admitting D.having admitted

7、--- Look at the sweat on her face.

--- She ________ the house since she got up this morning.

A．is cleaning    B．has been cleaned

C．was cleaning    D．has been cleaning

8、When I came home last night, I saw my little kid _______ on the bed, with his whole attention _______upon the book about Harry Potter.

A. lying; fixing B. lay; fixed

C. sitting; to fix D. seated; fixed

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

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

10、You misunderstood me yesterday, Lucy. I wasn't _______ you when I blamed

someone for the accident.

A.referring to B.reacting to

C.responding to D.relating to

11、The sculpture, and the person who produced it, ________the young artist has never been able to find out.

A.that B./

C.which D.what

12、More and more people go jogging in the morning, _______ benefits for health arise from the air rich in oxygen.

A.which B.that C.whose D.who

13、This dictionary, which I bought yesterday, has been highly______by my professor.

A.acknowledged B.appealed C.recommended D.commanded

14、________and excited, the doctors from all over the country took part in the battle against novel coronavirus.

A．Being honored

B．Honoring

C．Honored

D．To be honoring

15、When you are in a conversation with a cynic, possibilities seem to have a way of disappearing. A mildly depressing sense of fatalism seems to ________ the conversation.

A. take up B. take over

C. turn up D. turn over

16、 Neither side is prepared to talk to ________ unless we can smooth things over between them.(2010·全国Ⅱ)

A．others

B．the other

C．another

D．one other

17、It remains________whether herd immunity that most of the Europeans countries have taken in response to the epidemic works.

A.to see B.to be seen C.seeing D.being seen

18、He couldn’t make his voice ______ above the noise of the traffic.

A．to hear

B．hearing

C．heard

D．hear

19、What would have happened _________, as far as the river bank?

A.if Bob has walked farther B.had Bob walked farther

C.if Bob should walk farther D.if Bob walked farther

20、—You called me up about 11:00 last night, didn’t you?

—No, I didn’t phone you. It someone else.

A.must be B.must have been C.could be D.could have been

21、After the dinner party, most guests left, with only two of them _______ in the host family, ______ him clear up.

A. remaining; helped B. remaining; helping

C. remained; helped D. remained; helping

22、To avoid on how to use the word, you’d better refer to a dictionary.

A．to get confused   B． getting confused

C．to get confusing D． getting confusing

23、Lucy looked at Tom, tears __________ her eyes and shouted out the words __________ in her heart for months.

A.filling; hiding B.filled; hidden

C.filling; hidden D.filled; hiding

24、________ to resemble a lotus flower, it appears ________above the waterfront promenade and the water that surrounds it.

A．To shape, floating

B．Being shaped, to float

C．Shaping, floating

D．Shaped, to float

25、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

26、In 1858, two men wanted to be elected United States Senator from Illinois. One was Stephen Douglas. The other was Abraham Lincoln. Douglas was already the Senator, but his term in office was up. Lincoln had once been a U.S. Representative but was then a lawyer in Illinois.

The men agreed to have seven public meetings, or debates, in seven different cities in Illinois. That way, voters all over the state would have a chance to hear what each man stood for.

The first debate was in Ottawa on August 21, 1858. The main thing the men disagreed on was slavery. Douglas believed that as new states joined the union, they should decide for themselves whether or not they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. Lincoln believed that slavery should not spread beyond the states that already had slaves. He said the United States could not survive as half-slave and half-free states.

The debates drew large crowds in all seven cities. People in the entire country were paying attention. Lincoln lost the Senate race. The debates did, however, make him well known everywhere.

In 1860, it was time to elect a new President. Lincoln won the Republican party’s nomination(提名). Douglas won the Democratic party’s nomination. The two men again faced each other to get the people’s votes. This time Lincoln won. He became the nation’s 16th President.

The slavery issue was still causing bad feelings between slave and non-slave states. By the time Lincoln took over as President on March 4, 1861, seven states had left the union. A month later, the Civil War began.

【1】Why did the two men have debates in seven cities?

A. To protect themselves.

B. To persuade each other.

C. To make their views known better.

D. To give the voters some advice.

【2】What view did Stephen Douglas stick to in the debate?

A. The new states should unite with other states.

B. The new states should separate from the Union.

C. The new states were free to keep slavery or not.

D. The new states should not keep slavery any more.

【3】What was the result of the debates?

A. The debates made Lincoln famous.

B. Voters strongly disagreed on slavery.

C. Lincoln failed in the president election

D. Douglas drew more attention in the country.

【4】Why did the civil war break out?

A. The Northern states rose up.

B. Lincoln was defeated in the election.

C. The Southern states still kept slaves.

D. There was conflict between slave and non-slave states.

27、   A new report suggests that young people are aware of their parents drinking and it may well have an impact on their relationship with alcohol. How much you drink, how often you say, 'Ah, that's nice,' while imbibing and whether you use alcohol as a reward can all encourage adolescents to drink, according to a report last week from the Institute of Alcohol Studies.

Parents often assume their children don’t notice their drinking, but they do Children can also tell the difference in levels of being drunk, and one in five said they had been embarrassed by their parents' drinking, while others said that parents had forgotten their bedtime or argued with them more than usual.

If you have a warm parenting style, but clear expectations for your children's behavior, this can protect your children from drinking. The report has clear guide-lines for parents: don't glamorize (美化) alcohol, always talk about its risks as part of a conversation about alcohol and don't talk about feeling sick because your children will then think it's normal to throw up and have a headache after a drinking session.

But according to Prof Ingeborg RosSow, who studied parental drinking three years ago, the evidence isn't strong enough for any sort of recommendation: 'Despite numerous research findings on this topic, there is rather little we know about causal effects of parental drinking and parenting behaviour on children's alcohol use. ' And that's the truth—it's an association, not evidence of proof (证据). Alcohol marketing, peer (同龄人) pressure and the genes that influence how much you drink are also in play. But, even so, parents who drink in front of their children could make their younger children feel unsafe and their older ones embarrassed. So treat parenting like driving—don't go over the limit.

【1】What does the underlined word 'imbibing' in Paragraph 2 mean?

A.Taking exercise. B.Writing a report.

C.Giving a reward. D.Drinking alcohol.

【2】What are parents advised to do according to the report?

A.Give up drinking alcohol.

B.Limit their children’s alcohol use.

C.Let their children know the danger of alcohol.

D.Avoid talking about alcohol with their children.

【3】What can be learned from RosSow's words?

A.Peer pressure is strong among children.

B.Alcohol marketing is going over the limit.

C.It is inspiring that more parents are giving up alcohol.

D.It is unclear whether parents drinking leads to children's alcohol use.

【4】From whom is the text intended?

A.Parents. B.Teachers. C.Teenagers. D.Researchers.

28、   Haw wondered why he had always thought that a change would lead to something worse.Now he realized that change could lead to something better.

“Why didn't I see this before?”he asked himself.

Then he raced through the Maze with greater strength and agility.Before long,he found a Cheese Station and became excited as he noticed little pieces of New Cheese near the entrance.

They were types of Cheeses he had never seen before,but they looked great.He tried them and found that they were delicious.He ate most of the New Cheese bits that were available and put a few in his pocket to have later and perhaps share with Hem.He began to regain his strength.

He entered the Cheese Station with great excitement.But,to his disappointment,he found it was empty.Someone had already been there and had left only the few bits of New Cheese.

He realized that if he had moved sooner,he would very likely have found a good deal of New Cheese here.

Haw decided to go back and see if Hem was ready to join him.

As he retraced his steps,he stopped and wrote on the wall:

The quicker you let go of old cheese,the sooner you find new cheese.

After a while,Haw made his way back to Cheese Station C and found Hem.He offered Hem bits of New Cheese,but was turned down.

Hem appreciated his friend's gesture but said,”I don't think I would like New Cheese.It's not what I'm used to.I want my own Cheese back and I'm not going to change until I get what I want.”

Haw just shook his head in disappointment and reluctantly went back out on his own.As he returned to the farthest point he had reached in the Maze,he missed his friend,but realized he liked what he was discovering.Even before he found what he hoped would be a great supply of New Cheese,if ever,he knew that what made him happy wasn't just having Cheese.

He was happy when he wasn't being run by his fear.He liked what he was doing now.

Knowing this,Haw didn't feel as weak as he did when he stayed in Cheese Station C with no Cheese.Just realizing he was not letting his fear stop him,and knowing that he had taken a new direction,nourished him and gave him strength.

Now he felt that it was just a question of time before he found what he needed.In fact,he sensed he had already found what he was looking for.

He smiled as he realized:

It Is Safer To Search In The Maze Than Remain In A Cheseless Station

Haw realized again,as he had once before,that what you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine.The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

He'd been so afraid of never finding New Cheese that he hadn't even wanted to start looking. But since starting his journey,he had found enough Cheese in the corridors to keep him going. Now he looked forward to finding more.Just looking ahead was becoming exciting

His old thinking had been clouded by his worries and fears.

But that had changed in the days since he had left Cheese Station C.

Now he realized it was natural for change to continually occur,whether you expect it or not change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it.

When he realized he had changed his beliefs,he paused to write on the wall:

Old Beliefs Do Not Lead You To The New Cheese

Haw hadn't found any Cheese yet,but,as he ran through the Maze,he thought about what he had already learned.

Haw now realized that his new beliefs were encouraging him to behave in a new way.He was behaving differently from the way he had when he had kept returning to the same cheeseless station.

He now knew that when you change what you believe,you change what you do.

You can believe that a change will harm you and resist it.Or you can believe that finding New Cheese will help you,and embrace the change.

It all depends on what you choose to believe.

He wrote on the wall:

When You See That You Can Find New Cheese,You Change Course

【1】From the first eight paragraphs,it can be concluded that

A.Haw was eager to eat up all Cheese bits.

B.Haw cared much more about himself than Hem.

C.Haw had been reluctant to change himself before.

D.Haw has been dreaming of himself enjoying Cheese.

【2】The sentences Haw wrote on the wall are intended to show

A.Haw would inspire others to make changes with him.

B.Haw had a strong desire to find New Cheese to share with Hem.

C.Haw wanted Hem to find him by following the tracks on the wall.

D.Haw has been changing his mind and action to reach his goal gradually.

【3】Which of the following can express the main idea of the passage?

A.Old habits die hard.

B.A diversity leads to prosperity.

C.Action speaks louder than words.

D.Someone barks up the wrong the tree.

【4】From the passage, which words can be used to describe Haw?

A.Stubborn but selfless.

B.Caring and ambitious.

C.Outgoing and humorous.

D.Persistent but indifferent.

29、The question of what children learn, and how they should learn, is continually being debated and redebated. Nobody dares any longer to defend the old system, the learning of lessons parrot­fashion, the grammar­with­a­whip system, which was good enough for our grandparents.The theories of modern psychology have stepped in to argue that we must understand the needs of children. Children are not just small adults; they are children who must be respected as much.

Well, you may say, this is as it should be, a good idea.But think further.What happens? “Education” becomes the responsibility not of teachers，but of psychologists.What happens then? Teachers worry too much about the psychological implications of their lessons, and forget about the subjects themselves. If a child dislikes a lesson, the teacher feels that it is his fault, not the child’s. So teachers worry whether history is “relevant” to modern young children. And do they dare to recount stories about violence? Or will this make the children themselves violent? Can they tell their classes about children of different races, or will this encourage racial hatred? Why teach children to write grammatical sentences? Verbal expression is better. Sums? Arithmetic? No, real­life mathematical situations are more understandable.

You see, you can go too far. Influenced by educational theorists, who have nothing better to do than to write books about their ideas, teachers leave their teacher­training colleges filled with grand, psychological ideas about children and their needs.They make elaborate (精心的), sophisticated (复杂的) preparations and try out their “modern methods” on the long­suffering children. Since one “modern method” rapidly replaces another, the poor kids will have had a good bellyful by the time they leave school. Frequently the modern methods are so sophisticated that they fail to be understood by the teachers, let alone the children; even more often, the relaxed discipline so essential for the “informal” feelings the class must have, prevents all but a handful of children from learning anything.

【1】People do not dare to defend the old system mainly because under the old system________.

A．too much grammar was taught to children

B．children were spoiled

C．children were treated as grown­ups

D．children were made to learn passively

【2】What view do the modern psychologists hold?

A．Children must be understood and respected.

B．Children are small adults and know what they need.

C．Children are better off without learning lessons.

D．Education of children is the responsibility of psychologists.

【3】What happens when teachers pay too much attention to the psychology of their lessons?

A．They find that the children dislike the lessons.

B．They tend to blame students for their failure.

C．They do not pay enough attention to the actual lessons.

D．They no longer want to teach children history.

【4】Grammatical sentences are regarded as unimportant because_____.

A．it is better to use verbal expression only

B．words are said out of natural feelings only

C．talking freely and naturally without sentences is a better form of expression

D．it is felt that formal grammar rules might cause unnatural expressions

【5】According to the passage, the modern methods are understood by________.

A．neither teachers nor pupils

B．only a handful of teachers and pupils

C．the more sophisticated teachers

D．everyone who enjoys the relaxed discipline of the informal classes

30、   Don and his 11-year-old son, Allen，love basketball very much. On Allen’s birthday，Don_______to drive him to Chicago，more than two hours’ distance，for the first game of the World Championships. They had no_______but hoped to buy two from other people.

After arriving，they_______in the streets for two hours carrying a_______which said，“We need two tickets._______the cheapest ticket was175 and they could not_______it. They were about to leave when a man_______ them. He pulled_______two tickets and handed them to Don.“How much do you want？” “_______！ No money is needed！” said the man.

When asked，the man________，“I am working for Joe，who hasn’t________a World Championships for 16 years.  But he is ill and can’t make it this time. So he told me to give the two tickets away. The only________he set is to give the tickets to people who I think will be deserving. A lot of people looked as if they might just take the tickets and________them right away. Then I saw you. You seemed very________and you make me________ my dad and myself when I was a child. I________wanted to go to see a World Championships game with my father at that time. But I never got the________.”

How important and________the game was to Don and his son! Here is________Don said，“It’s the most worth ________thing that happened to us. My boy and I must have turned to each other 30 times during the game. I can’t forget that night.”

【1】A.decided B.refused C.ordered D.happened

【2】A.cards B.tickets C.passes D.money

【3】A.rode B.ran C.walked D.cried

【4】A.book B.photo C.magazine D.sign

【5】A.But B.And C.Or D.So

【6】A.offer B.afford C.keep D.hold

【7】A.invited B.asked C.stopped D.beat

【8】A.out B.in C.through D.over

【9】A.Cheap B.Expensive C.Free D.Terrible

【10】A.explained B.agreed C.examined D.appeared

【11】A.delayed B.won C.lost D.missed

【12】A.record B.time C.rule D.point

【13】A.lend B.sell C.tear D.make

【14】A.boring B.interesting C.smart D.anxious

【15】A.think of B.care for C.give up D.belong to

【16】A.really B.very C.well D.nearly

【17】A.ability B.right C.chance D.dream

【18】A.unpleasant B.funny C.disappointing D.unforgettable

【19】A.what B.which C.that D.how

【20】A.hating B.discussing C.playing D.remembering

31、Any form of speech can be challenging, particularly if you are not used to talking in front of an audience. I am very _______ that I have been doing presentations and _______training programs for many years, _______ I have got used to the nervousness that always appears inside before I speak. The nervousness is always a(n) _______ thing for me as it allows me to channel my energy into what I want to say.

Just recently I had the pleasure of _______ at a conference about the key success factors (因素) in business and as usual in the days before my presentation I spent a lot of time _______ what I wanted to cover, as well as _______ the content.

I have always _______the level of success of my presentations by the applause (掌声) and _______that I receive from the audience. After the applause ended I had the __________ to personally speak to nearly all of the delegates (代表). The last delegate I spoke with __________ me by taking my hand, shaking it and saying how much she __________ my presentation, and that she had got a lot of __________ tips to use in her business. Usually I feel __________ after any presentation, and I know it is directly related to how much energy I put into what I do. __________, this time her praise gave me a great lift and recharged my batteries.

This __________at the end of my presentation also made me realize that what we __________ in life can come back to us and __________, we all need to value the praise when and where it is deserved. As I drove away from the __________ I reflected on how fortunate I had been to receive all those words of praise and __________that morning.

【1】

A．curious

B．fortunate

C．doubtful

D．amazed

【2】

A．copying

B．conducting

C．using

D．designing

【3】

A．but

B．though

C．so

D．because

【4】

A．impossible

B．natural

C．funny

D．good

【5】

A．performing

B．speaking

C．educating

D．learning

【6】

A．printing

B．reducing

C．researching

D．telling

【7】

A．imagining

B．protecting

C．describing

D．preparing

【8】

A．measured

B．changed

C．raised

D．adjusted

【9】

A．gifts

B．advice

C．comments

D．invitation

【10】

A．motivation

B．responsibility

C．plan

D．chance

【11】

A．greeted

B．blamed

C．confused

D．welcomed

【12】

A．explored

B．enjoyed

C．admired

D．expected

【13】

A．interesting

B．simple

C．helpful

D．free

【14】

A．excited

B．relaxed

C．embarrassed

D．tired

【15】

A．However

B．Moreover

C．Otherwise

D．Therefore

【16】

A．challenge

B．discovery

C．experience

D．accident

【17】

A．figure out

B．set up

C．dream of

D．give out

【18】

A．equally

B．differently

C．seriously

D．practically

【19】

A．party

B．conference

C．school

D．ceremony

【20】

A．achievement

B．comfort

C．trust

D．encouragement

32、   Timmy and Sarah loved playing the piano. One day, their teacher had some exciting news. There was a _______ coming up and they both had the chance to play _______ for the first time. Timmy and Sarah were _______, looking at each other with a mix of excitement and _______.

Before the performance, they practiced harder and _______ their pieces. Then the big _______ arrived. As they sat in the audience, they were both extremely anxious. _______ Timmy’s name was announced. His mum looked at him with expectation, but he _______ in his seat. “Come on Timmy, it’s your turn,” she said _______. But he shook his head and ________ to go up. The mother looked up at the stage and signaled to the teacher, ________. Timmy wouldn’t be ________ today. The teacher moved to the next name on the ________, “Sarah will now play for us.” “Oh dear,” Sarah thought, terrified. She ________ and slowly made her way up to the piano on the stage. Her legs and fingers ________, she made a few small mistakes. She wanted to jump off the stage so quickly at the end that she almost forgot to ________. But she did it ________ fears!

Then after a few months, another opportunity came. Timmy, again, could not be drawn from his seat in the audience ________ Sarah walked up to the stage with slightly more confidence than last time.

If you allow fear to ________ you once, it will be more likely to have a hold over you. But if you have the ________ to take action, you will feel more and more confident.

【1】A.meeting B.case C.concert D.lecture

【2】A.with ease B.for fun C.on schedule D.in public

【3】A.wide-eyed B.long-faced C.absent-minded D.broken-hearted

【4】A.joy B.relief C.guilt D.horror

【5】A.copied B.produced C.perfected D.wrote

【6】A.order B.day C.feast D.party

【7】A.Finally B.Hopefully C.Gradually D.Actually

【8】A.lay B.sank C.smiled D.watched

【9】A.ashamedly B.disappointedly C.encouragingly D.understandingly

【10】A.hurried B.stopped C.planned D.refused

【11】A.cautious B.curious C.grateful D.helpless

【12】A.playing B.standing C.singing D.listening

【13】A.list B.wall C.stage D.poster

【14】A.danced B.jumped C.sighed D.yawned

【15】A.aching B.shaking C.relaxing D.swinging

【16】A.bow B.greet C.nod D.hug

【17】A.for lack of B.in spite of C.on account of D.by means of

【18】A.if B.once C.since D.while

【19】A.blame B.defeat C.cheat D.push

【20】A.courage B.chance C.freedom D.right

33、   My first lesson is at a meeting. As we settle around the table I hear Meg, who is ____ a recent operation, talking to Judith, the manager of our project. “Thank you so much for ____ my daughters to their dance lessons last week.” “Don’t mention it,” Judith says, “It was nothing.”

Knowing how ____ Judith’s schedule is, with her work, kids and aging parents, I find her driving Meg’s children to lessons unbelievably ____. I am about to say more about this when Donna, another colleague, enters the room ____. She apologizes for being late, saying she just hosted a lunch for her friends who are over seventy. “That is so nice of you,” I say, ____ how busy she is, how she doesn’t like to cook and clean. “Oh,” she says, waving her hand, “It was nothing.” ____, I can still tell the ____ in her voice. She did gain a sense of satisfaction from the entertainment offered to her friends.

Seeing their ____ to help others selflessly, I start thinking about the concept of “nothing”, this peaceful and generous way of living--- had it really been nothing or are they simply saying that? It ____ to me that once I spent a whole afternoon after work helping a friend ____ a speech she was going to deliver. I ____ her to rearrange the sequence of the stories in the lecture to make it sound more ____. After the fifth try, she finally ____ it. She hugged me with ____, saying thanks to me. I smiled and said it was nothing.

Suddenly, I realized that helping someone was really something to me. I learned that giving from the heart doesn’t ____ mean sacrifice and hard work. The ____ is finding something we love to do and finding someone who ____ that something. Our generosity can benefit others ____ ourselves. Once you have a good ____ of it, it’s nothing. And it’s really something.

【1】A.going through B.adapting to C.recovering from D.rejoicing in

【2】A.guiding B.fetching C.dragging D.driving

【3】A.tight B.common C.strange D.practical

【4】A.ridiculous B.eccentric C.tiresome D.generous

【5】A.hurriedly B.angrily C.disappointedly D.unexpectedly

【6】A.ignoring B.forgetting C.knowing D.predicting

【7】A.Moreover B.Therefore C.Otherwise D.Somehow

【8】A.pleasure B.sadness C.surprise D.regret

【9】A.progress B.willingness C.promise D.ambition

【10】A.refers B.appears C.occurs D.seems

【11】A.prepare for B.put up C.give away D.deal with

【12】A.begged B.recommended C.invited D.sponsored

【13】A.confusing B.sensible C.sensitive D.typical

【14】A.made B.meant C.caught D.got

【15】A.concern B.worry C.gratitude D.apology

【16】A.normally B.accidentally C.necessarily D.possibly

【17】A.treat B.trick C.plot D.plan

【18】A.needs B.admires C.loves D.defends

【19】A.on account of B.as well as C.except for D.regardless of

【20】A.order B.glimpse C.impression D.command

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Yet, some people are【1】 They claim that surfing the Internet is a waste of time. They make the 【2】 that children spend too much time chatting and playing games instead of 【3】 on their school work. However, a recent survey conducted in the USA shows that 80 per cent of Internet users 【4】 it mostly to search for answers to questions. The second most common use of the Internet, for 79 per cent of Internet users, is to find out information about hobbies. These statistics prove that gathering information is the 【5】 use for the Internet.

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

Why Cold weather Causes So many Flight Cancellation?

Each year, about 60,000 flights get canceled because of bad winter weather, which costs airlines and airports an estimated $3 billion. But it’s not the freezing cold temperatures that cause problems for planes. After all, 【1】 jets fly 10 kilometers up, where temperatures hover around -50 degrees Celsius.

In fact, planes 【2】 in cold weather, since cold air is denser and leads to better thrust. Clearly, the real problem isn’t what’s going on up there. It’s what’s happening on the ground.

When a 【3】 polar vortex (极地涡旋) struck the Midwestern US in January 2019, temperatures dropped to -40 degrees Celsius and airline canceled 3,000 flights nationwide. In these situations, when temperatures start 【4】, everything slows down. Cargo doors can freeze up, along with the nozzles that pump fuel into planes, which delays the 【5】 process.

Even the plane itself can freeze over. Just a quarter-inch - thick layer of ice on a plane can disrupt the way air flows over its wings.

Les Westbrooks: The number one reason, I would say, that the reason flights get delayed in cold weather is going to be because there’s some kind of frozen precipitation, from frost to snow to a sheet of ice, adhering to the aircraft, adhering to the wings of the aircraft 【6】.

That’s Les Westbrooks, a retired airline pilot and an associate professor of aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He says that 【7】, these planes are “de-iced” - but this also delays takeoff. The crew can spray the plane with a special hot water/ glycol mixture. It can take around 40 minutes to de-ice large passenger airplanes, so planes often have to wait “their turn” for the de-icing station, which, of course, can trigger more delays.

And ice on the runway, of course, creates another set of 【8】. In 2014, a plane at JFK skidded off an icy runway and into a mound of snow, leading to an hours-long shutdown at the airport. And even though crews can remove ice from the runway, scraping it off the pavement can lead to potholes (坑洞) and other 【9】, which makes takeoffs and landings more dangerous. And of course, snow and freezing rain on the ground can affect visibility to the point where officials have to decide it’s not safe to fly at all.

But if ice and snow aren’t the problem in these extremely cold temperatures, it’s usually another factor: people.

Les Westbrooks: The airplane flies at high altitudes, -60 degrees. It’s made to do that. Humans are not made to be outside in -60 degrees weather. And so the human factor becomes a big, big factor, when it becomes extremely cold.

Baggage handlers, aircraft fuelers, and mechanics all have to stay warm. Some airports, like O’Hare in Chicago, set up heated shelters for their employees. Of course, with everyone taking breaks to warm up, not as much gets done, which leads to even more delays and cancellations. Passengers start missing their 【10】 flights, and that, along with passengers who can’t make it to the airport due to bad road conditions, leads to half-empty planes.

In fact, many airlines might preemptively cancel flights before bad weather even hits. So, in the end, you can still blame cold weather for cancelling your flight.

36、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

A

I have the【1】(great)job in the world. I travel to unusual places and work alongside people from all over the world. Sometimes using【2】(science)equipment and sometimes meeting local people and tourists, I am never【3】(bore).Although my job is occasionally dangerous, I don’t mind because danger excites me and makes me feel alive. However, the most important thing about my job is that I help protect ordinary people【4】 one of the most powerful forces on earth—the volcano.

B

Water is a precious resource. Every person needs it【5】 (survive),and we use it for cooking, drinking, growing our food and washing. However，it is scarce(缺乏的).Just 1% of water on Earth can【6】 (use)by humans. What’s more，treating water to make it clean and safe and pumping it to our homes uses up lots of energy. So, what can you do to help save water? One easy way is by【7】(turn)off the tap when you brush your teeth.

C

Robbie Phillips has become the first British person to complete one of the toughest challenges in rock climbing. 【8】(know)as the Alpine Trilogy(阿尔卑斯三部曲),the challenge consists of three climbs on mountains in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, 【9】Phillips completed in four years. Until now, only four other people【10】(conquer)all three of the extremely difficult climbs.

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、阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。

An urgent call came into Jim Green’s bar this past March. A newly married woman who had spent the afternoon at the beach bar, couldn’t find her wallet. She didn’t care about her ID, credit cards, or $150 in cash — but her wedding ring was inside.

Jim, 42, didn’t like the idea that a theft could have occurred at his place. So he set out to find the wallet. He spent hours checking the video tapes from 16 different surveillance cameras（监控摄像机）, watching the woman’s every step in the bar until she went to sit on a bench outside and left when her ride arrived. Within minutes, a young man approached the bench, quickly put something in his pocket, and walked off. Jim posted a clip on the bar’s Facebook page. “I just asked if anybody knew who the guy was,” Jim said.

Within hours, Jim got a text from 17-year-old Peter. Peter admitted to having taken the wallet and told Jim he’d done it because he hadn’t eaten in two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was fake, so he took the money and threw the wallet off the public docks into the ocean. Then he bought a sandwich.

Jim, unsure whether he believed Peter, told the teen to meet him at the docks. There, they got to talking, and Peter revealed that he wasn’t getting along with his family and had been living in the woods for a week. Jim, a father of two, looked closely at Peter — his small height, his ruddy cheeks — and saw him for what he was: more of a kid than a criminal.

But the risks were high. The police were already on the case, and because of the missing ring, Peter could be facing a serious crime charge. “I had to help him somehow,” Jim says.

The police wanted Jim to bring the teen down to the station. Instead, Jim called the police and told them, “He’s going to be at the docks with me tomorrow.”

Paragraph 1

Jim hired two local divers to search the waters where Peter had thrown the wallet.

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Paragraph 2

And then a diver popped up.

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39、《英语周报》针对一些学生在学习英语中存在的困难举行征文比赛。请根据所给提示写一篇短文，与大家分享一下你学习英语的方法。可适当发挥，不少于100个字数。

写作提示：

①众所周知，兴趣是最好的老师。因此，培养对英语的兴趣非常重要。

②记住尽可能多的单词和短语也是非常重要的。

③必须养成经常使用英语的好习惯。

④如果可能的话，与讲英语的当地人进行交流是非常好的。

⑤只有坚持以上几种方法，我们才能学习好英语。

My Ways of Learning English

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40、假定你是李华，你的美国笔友 Jeff 发来邮件，说他想在暑期来中国旅行，体验中国文化和饮食， 请你用英语给他回一封邮件。内容包括：

1. 推荐旅游城市；

2. 推荐原因；

3. 祝他旅途愉快。

注意：1. 词数 80 左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

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41、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 续写的词数应为150左右。

As a father, I was always seeking for opportunities to teach my son how to balance risk with freedom.

Last month, I bought four little chicks. I decided to make a beautiful coop (鸡笼) for them.

In the next few weeks, I, together with my son Gordon, spent all our spare time in the garage. Finally, the coop was finished.

While admiring his well-made handwork, Gordon suddenly raised his head and asked,

“Dad, shall we lock the chicks in the coop all the time? I am afraid they will be attacked by some fierce animals or become someone’s chicken soup?” Seeing his anxious look, I cracked a smile and asked, “Do you want to be trapped in a limited room or have the freedom to get around?” Hesitant for a while, he murmured, “Freedom, of course.” “Chicks will also think so.” Therefore, our chicks were often seen chasing around in the lawns (草坪), digging for bugs in the bushes and laying eggs in the yard.

Yesterday, we needed to go downtown to shop for food supply after lunch. Knowing that the chicks wouldn’t go very far, we left home with them running around the lawn. When we got back, the first thing Gordon did was to check on his chicks. There were only three chicks in the yard. Their feathers were no longer fair and smooth but dirty and tangled (乱糟糟的). Hearing our steps, they jumped to their feet and scattered in all directions, seeming to have just experienced a terrifying disaster. Worse still, Pecky, Gordon’s favourite chick was nowhere to be found.

We searched the yard inch by inch and found some feathers littering the yard. Seeing this, Gordon’s eyes got watery. I picked Gordon up and comforted him. As we began to accept the fact that we were now a three-chick family, we heard it---a soft clucking (咯咯声) sound under a bush.

Para 1: I put Gordon down and we looked under the bush.

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Para 2: The next day Gordon offered to have a talk with me.

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