西安2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测三年级英语

1、The reason ______ girls outperform boys at all levels of education is ______ girls mature faster than boys and are more disciplined and conscientious.

A.why, because B.how, that C.how, because D.why, that

2、____ is our belief that improvements in health care will lead to a stronger, more prosperous economy.

A．As

B．That

C．This

D．It

3、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

4、Which of the following sentences is WRONG?

A.It was sunny,and I suggested going to the beach.

B.Her expression suggested that she know the news.

C.All the evidence suggests that he stole the money.

D.She suggested that he book the tickets in advance.

5、----How about your journey to Mount Emei?

----Everything was wonderful except that our car twice on the way.

A. slowed down   B. broke down

C. got down D. put down

6、—— Have they made the final decision?

—— Yes, but it’s ________ likely that they will change their mind again tomorrow.

A. rather than B. other than C. less than D. or rather

7、Johnson was shocked to find out that his boss him the wrong information.

A.have given B.had given

C.will have given D.have been giving

8、His plan was ____, and the _____won him many _______glances.

A.approved,approve,approving

B.approving,approver, approved

C.approved,approval, approving

D.approving,approve,approved

9、________ from heart trouble for years, Professor White has to take some medicine with him wherever he goes.

A．Suffered

B．Suffering

C．Having suffered

D．Being suffered

10、Roger _______painting for a while, but soon lost interest.

A. took out B. took  in

C. took up D. took off

11、Everything he ___ away from him before he returned to his hometown.

A. took B. had been taken

C. had had been taken D. had taken

12、Mr. Hilton’s new house is almost ______ the one he used to live in.

A. twice the size of B. as twice big as

C. bigger twice than D. the twice size of

13、A student ______ read too many books, which helps broaden his horizons and enrich his mind.

A.needn't B.mustn't C.can't D.shouldn't

14、Modem TVs use many of the ________ first discovered by Farnsworth, who contributed a lot to the development of TV

A.platforms B.principles C.sources D.symptoms

15、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

16、With the old man ___ the way, we had no trouble in ___ that cave.

A.leading; finding B.leads; find C.led; to find D.was leading; found

17、The dress proved such a hit ________ the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line.

A．whenever

B．as

C．since

D．that

18、If parents don’t teach their child how to ________himself，he will do anything at will.

A.behave B.believe C.help D.enjoy

19、Writing stories and articles _____what I enjoy most.

A.is B.are C.was D.were

20、As everyone knows, oral exams _________ to test our communicative ability.

A．are being designed

B．designed

C．are designed

D．to be designed

21、_____ many times, he finally understood it.

A.Told B.Telling C.Having told D.Having been told

22、It is _____ he often breaks the schools rules _____ makes his teacher unsatisfied with him.

A. what; that B. that; what

C. that; that D. which; that

23、There were no tickets________for Friday's performance.

A．preferable

B．considerable

C．possible

D．available

24、Some teachers recommended that more books to satisfy the students’ needs.

A.are purchased B.have been purchased

C.were purchased D.be purchased

25、He’s quite reliable. You can depend on ___________you out.

A. that he will help B. it that helps

C. he helping D. him to help

26、Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a genius (天才)out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surrounding (环境). Thus the limits of person' s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supposed in a number of ways.

It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be intelligent. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely to be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.

Imagine now that we take two identical (完全相同的)twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the working is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this shows that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.

【1】Which of these sentences best describes the writer's point in Paragraph 1?

A．To some extent, intelligence is given at birth.

B．Intelligence is developed by the environment.

C．Some people are born clever and others born stupid.

D．Intelligence is fixed at birth, but is developed by the environment.

【2】It is suggested in this passage that_______.

A．unrelated people are not likely to have different intelligence

B．close relations usually have similar intelligence

C．the closer the blood relationship between people, the more different they are likely to be in intelligence

D．people who live in close contact with each other are not likely to have similar degrees of intelligence

【3】Brothers and sisters are likely to_______.

A．have similar intelligence

B．have different intelligence

C．go to the same university

D．go to the same factory

【4】The best title for this article would be_______.

A．On Intelligence

B．What Intelligence Means

C．We Are Born with Intelligence

D．Environment Plays a Part in Developing Intelligence

27、   You know the old phrase, “Practice makes perfect.” That may not always be true. According to a recent study published in Royal Society Open Science, there are other factors for reaching elite (最优秀的) levels of ability.

The researchers set out to replicate (复制) the process of a now-famous 1993 study of top-level violinists and pianists. On average, the earlier study found that top-ranked musicians had clocked over 10,000 hours of practice by the age of 20. It believed their success was due to the hours spent practicing, not because of natural talent, learning skills and other factors.

Author Malcolm Gladwell called 10,000 hours “the magic number of greatness”.

Questioning this conclusion, Brooke Macnamara and Megha Maitra, from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, US, sought volunteers to put the 10,000-hour rule to the test.

The pair organized violinists into three groups, based on whether their tutors rated them as the best players, good players, or average players. They were then told to record how long they practiced every week.

They found that the “average” players had around 6,000 hours of practice. However, there was little separating the good from the best musicians. Both groups had approximately 11,000 hours of practice by the age of 20.

“Once you get to the highly skilled groups, practice stops accounting for the difference,” Macnamara told the Guardian. “Smaller factors then determine who goes on to that super-elite level.”

“The factors depend on the skill being learned: in chess it could be intelligence or working memory, in sport it may be how efficiently a person uses oxygen,” she said. She also pointed out the factor of motivation and the interactions of different factors.

It should be said that neither side discounts the value of making an effort. Even if you aren’t destined (命中注定的) to be the world’s greatest violinist, practice will make you a little bit better than you were yesterday.

【1】What can we learn from the 1993 study?

A.The 10,000-hour rule applies to everything.

B.Practice is the key to mastering a skill.

C.Natural talent is particularly important for musicians.

D.It’s better to learn an instrument at a young age.

【2】What did the study by Macnamara and Maitra find?

A.The three groups of violinists varied a lot in their practice times.

B.The mastering of different skills required different hours of practice.

C.Motivation and talent determined whether one could become an elite violinist.

D.Practice time didn’t make much difference between “the best” and “good” violinists.

【3】The underlined word “discounts” probably means ______.

A.ignores B.proves

C.recognizes D.considers

28、   If your parents will retire soon, to live comfortably in retirement, you need to persuade them to save until it hurts. 【1】They may think they can't afford to save or fear losing money to had investments （投资）,but they have to overcome those fears, because a financially （财政上）secure future will be up to them.

They can start by saving as little as $10 a paycheck or putting away half their next rise. A small amount of money can produce massive amounts of wealth over time. 【2】

People used not to worry about saving for their later years because many had pensions, and they didn't live as long as people do now. But they can no longer count on their employers, partly because the employers might not he able to afford their pensions, and most people don't stay with one employer. 【3】 Consequently, they should depend on themselves for retirement.

【4】 You can advise them to start by contributing 1% of their pay. If the 1% contribution hurts, then they can slay at that level until it doesn't hurt any more. If it doesn't hurt, then increase their contribution（by another 1%.）Do that until it hurts.

【5】They just ask for a small cup of coffee instead of a large cup in the coffee house or they can try to skip drinking soda daily at lunch. In time they will benefit a lot from today's’ efforts when they retire.

A.They can start small.

B.The key is getting started.

C.But believe you can make it.

D.Many people change jobs every few years.

E.It's easy to cut a dollar a day from most budgets.

F.People give lots of excuses for not saving for retirement.

G.Some seniors are confident that they will be supported by their children.

29、   American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which had become one of London’s main tourist attractions.

Looking thinner and darker, 30 year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames and immediately sent to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process doctors said could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends.

Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed at getting a lot of attention.

In 1999, he was buried in a coffin (棺材) for one week and, in 2000, he spent 62 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on the top of a 25-meter pillar(柱子) in the center of New York for 35 hours before jumping into a pile of boxes.

“I think a lot of people are unable to accept that they’re able to do what they can do,” he said. “They don’t realize we can survive. The human being is an amazing creation.”

But he seemed to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste.

【1】It is ________ for David Blaine to eat food after such a long starvation.

A.pleasant B.delicious

C.dangerous D.important

【2】Having spent such a long time in the glass box, he suffered the following EXCEPT that ________.

A.he had become blind B.he had serious back pains

C.he lost his sense of taste D.he was in weak health

【3】Which of the following can best describe David Blaine?

A.Brave. B.Adventurous. C.Mad. D.Crazy.

【4】Which of the following is NOT true of David Blaine?

A.Blaine was immediately sent to hospital after he was taken out of his box because he was in dangerous condition.

B.Blaine was born and brought up in England.

C.In Blaine’s opinion, people can create a wonder.

D.Blaine didn’t have any food for 44 days.

30、   Throughout my high school career I've made a point of doing what many people fail to do on a daily basis：reflect and assess my life and decisions. I'm a（n）_______ and I analyze and contemplate （沉思）,sometimes too much, but always with the intention of _______ something new about myself. You might be _______ to learn that I do my best thinking not in the classroom, not in the bedroom, but in the bathroom.

The bathroom has always been a place where I can sit in _______. The closest thing to a（n）_______ is a polite knock on the door, and quiet is _______ maintained. Bathrooms are always kept clean, and _______are provided for sufficient self-inspection. _______, the bathroom is the ideal place for reflection.

My bathroom, which is situated a brief _______ down the hall from my bedroom, is a wonderful place where I can take comfort. ________a long day of hard work, I ________for my bathroom to reflect on the past day and the days ahead. I think about my friends and family, and what they ________ to me. I even realize the numerous ________ that I have recently made, and ________ to put them right.

The thinking I do in the bathroom — whether it is a ________ about my future as a rock star, or the realization that my mother was in fact correct - is important to me. Taking the time to think and reflect has ________ me to make good decisions. And then I will ________ what is important to me. Instead of living my life ________ , I've made a choice to think deeply and keep things in perspective.

To me, the bathroom is not a place to________ the challenges of reality, but rather a place to________  those challenges through the power of human intelligence.

A．doctor

B．thinker

C．observer

D．reader

A．learning

B．recording

C．mentioning

D．abandoning

A．worried

B．surprised

C．excited

D．disappointed

A．regret

B．patience

C．pride

D．peace

A．celebration

B．invitation

C．description

D．interruption

A．poorly

B．quickly

C．continually

D．occasionally

A．mirrors

B．pictures

C．cameras

D．towels

A．At present

B．On average

C．At last

D．In short

A．ride

B．walk

C．jump

D．roll

A．After

B．Until

C．Before

D．As

A．wait

B．prepare

C．head

D．stand

A．introduce

B．refer

C．give

D．mean

A．mistakes

B．promises

C．goals

D．challenges

A．afford

B．forget

C．attempt

D．refuse

A．duty

B．rule

C．fantasy

D．project

A．begged

B．allowed

C．ordered

D．forced

A．call on

B．rely on

C．focus on

D．live on

A．blindly

B．slowly

C．unluckily

D．painfully

A．accept

B．remember

C．delay

D．escape

A．avoid

B．conquer

C．meet

D．create

31、   I joined the army as an infantryman (步兵) instead of as a helicopter pilot because I only had the literacy (读写) level of an 11-year-old. I had no idea that I had a reading level that _______; I had just _______ words when I didn’t know them, and usually ended up getting them wrong.

It was just before I turned 19 that I _______ my very first book. I can vividly remember the sense of _______ and achievement I felt. It was meant for primary school children but I didn’t _______. I had read a whole book, and I was _______. From then on I read anything and everything I could get. I just wanted to get as much _______ as I could.

I learned in those days at the _______ education center. There are always people looking forward to helping you and _______ you stuff. But you are never going to ________ unless you keep learning. The unbelievable educational ________ that the army offers make it one of the few places that can help you climb up the ladder of social classes in the UK.

For me, improving my literacy level had another more surprising ________. When I left the army, I was asked to write a(n) ________ of the Bravo Two Zero Mission and that led to the unexpected career change of becoming a(n) ________.

I have spent quite a bit of time over the past few years ________ schools, and workplaces, as well as army bases and businesses, to talk about my past and ________ others to start reading and writing like me. The ________ I give to all the people that I chat to is that if I can do it, anyone can. If that is a message that even one of them accepts and ________, then it has been ________. My experience shows that the best soldier out there is the one with a ________ card.

【1】A.high B.new C.low D.senior

【2】A.gone over B.made up C.put down D.taken back

【3】A.wrote B.received C.bought D.read

【4】A.pride B.beauty C.duty D.security

【5】A.panic B.care C.doubt D.agree

【6】A.depressed B.puzzled C.trapped D.hooked

【7】A.wealth B.knowledge. C.support D.freedom

【8】A.community B.nursery C.army D.health

【9】A.showing B.selling C.lending D.teaching

【10】A.progress B.climb C.graduate D.manage

【11】A.expenses B.backgrounds C.opportunities D.requirements

【12】A.trouble B.burden C.outcome D.challenge

【13】A.email B.diary C.scheme D.report

【14】A.athlete B.typist C.author D.porter

【15】A.visiting B.attending C.constructing D.inspecting

【16】A.permitting B.encouraging C.commanding D.preferring

【17】A.message B.story C.impression D.influence

【18】A.changes B.uses C.questions D.ignores

【19】A.valuable B.useless C.ridiculous D.worthwhile

【20】A.library B.credit C.business D.fitness

32、   In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The _________ is that countries around the world have growing mountains of _________ because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

How did we _________ a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to _________ an object than to spend time and money to repair it. _________ modern manufacturing and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and _________.

Another cause is our _________ of disposable（一次性的）products. As _________ people, we are always looking for _________ to save time and make our lives easier. Companies __________ thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and tissues, to name a few.

Our appetite（胃口）for new products also __________ to the problem. We are __________ buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that __________ is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we __________ useful possessions to make room for new ones.

All around the world, we can see the __________ of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To __________ the amount of rubbish and to protect the __________, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials. __________, this is not enough to solve our problem.

Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions __________ throwing them away. We also need to rethink cur attitudes about __________. Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best ways to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.

【1】A.key B.problem C.project D.reason

【2】A.debt B.gifts C.products D.rubbish

【3】A.become B.change C.face D.observe

【4】A.control B.hide C.replace D.withdraw

【5】A.As to B.Except C.Regardless of D.Thanks to

【6】A.cheap B.funny C.powerful D.safe

【7】A.division B.lack C.love D.prevention

【8】A.brave B.busy C.kind D.sensitive

【9】A.friends B.jobs C.places D.ways

【10】A.donate B.preserve C.produce D.receive

【11】A.adapts B.contributes C.responds D.returns

【12】A.ashamed for B.addicted to C.tired of D.worried about

【13】A.higher B.larger C.newer D.stronger

【14】A.hold onto B.pay for C.pick up D.throw away

【15】A.advantages B.consequences C.functions D.purposes

【16】A.decrease B.measure C.record D.show

【17】A.brands B.consumers C.environment D.technology

【18】A.However B.Meanwhile C.Otherwise D.Therefore

【19】A.in favor of B.instead of C.or rather D.other than

【20】A.advertising B.collecting C.repairing D.spending

33、   Being brave enough, girls are free to explore in their learning and life. That exploration leads to the________of their talents, passions and drawbacks. On Saturday night we saw one of our students act so bravely that it took my________away.

One of the lead characters of our show, Blue Stockings, was played by a science teacher, Ben Walker._______, Ben broke his nose very badly playing football on Saturday and consequently couldn’t________. Ella Jones, a Year 1 student and part of the cast, who _______to rest on Saturday, was________to play Ben’s role.

Think about that. She had three hours' _____, playing a role of a man she had never played before, in front of a/an _____ audience, and if she couldn’t ______, she would reduce the impact of the whole play. Not the end of the world, but it would be disappointing for all _______

She would have run, but Ella _____to the challenge. She said, "I was astonished;_____, I figured the show must go on and I wanted to_____. I wasn’t scared _____I arrived at the theatre and realized how much there was to ______.It wasn’t just about lines, but it was the stagecraft(舞台表演技巧). I was___about the other actors because I know how _______it is to perform a role with someone who isn’t as invested, especially if it is an emotional scene.”

Asked how the show ___, Ella said, "It was amazing, and the audience seemed to love the male character I played for the first time." She added, "Being scared doesn’t mean you can't be ______. Anyway, I___."

【1】A.growth B.change C.discovery D.control

【2】A.pain B.faith C.breath D.feel

【3】A.Secretly B.Hopefully C.Unsurprisingly D.Unfortunately

【4】A.coach B.perform C.survive D.retire

【5】A.refused. B.decided C.happened D.promised

【6】A.asked B.forced C.trained D.reminded

【7】A.wait B.interval C.training D.judgment

【8】A.paid B.paying C.astonished D.astonishing

【9】A.take it away B.look it up C.make it out D.carry it off

【10】A.concerning B.regarding C.concerned D.referred

【11】A.faced B.encountered C.arose D.rose

【12】A.besides B.therefore C.however D.instead

【13】A.win B.help C.resist D.quit

【14】A.until B.unless C.so that D.the moment

【15】A.put away B.hand in C.work out D.take over

【16】A.doubtful B.confident C.curious D.worried

【17】A.easy B.tough C.embarrassing D.interesting

【18】A.sounded B.improved C.started D.went

【19】A.brave B.proud C.calm D.shy

【20】A.got it B.saw it C.made it D.did it

34、Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the proper form of the words or expressions given in the frame. Each one can only be used once.

Why your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems?  Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 【1】 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.

When ten million passwords were leaked on to the internet，they appeared to 【2】that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.

While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”，there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to【3】. The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.

“Users are becoming slightly more 【4】what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”

But 【5】no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this and in 20 percent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.

Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to 【6】 their mobile phone with an account, having a single use passwords texted to it each time they want to log on.

Although the serviced is voluntary, Dylan Casey an executive at Yahoo!，said that it was “the first step to【7】passwords”. He said it was a(n)【8】that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.

It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than same people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or，“tran5p053d numb3r5 f0r 133tr3r5”.

“We are, for the most part，predictably【9】when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n) 【10】, and so do password crackers.

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、阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

Wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic p【1】 the spread of the deadly virus. But it is also i【2】. For one, we can no longer unlock our phones using facial recognition since a good part of our face is c【3】.

F【4】, tech companies are working to solve the problem. Apple, for example, offered a new way to unlock your iPhone and iPad with its l【5】 software update, iOS13.5, w【6】 was released on May 20.

Even though the update still won’t recognize your masked face, it makes the whole process f【7】. While the old system wouldn’t allow access t【8】 the passcode screen before three failed face scan attempts, iOS13.5 will send you straight to the passcode screen when you swipe up.

It might only s【9】 you a few seconds, but those few seconds “benefit public health by eliminating the temptation for people to r【10】 their masks in order to unlock their device”.

37、A: Excuse me, do you know where the chemistry lab is?

B: Yes. It’s just on the fifth floor of this b【1】.

A: How often do you do c【2】experiments there?

B: Twice a week.

A: Can you go there without a t【3】?

B: No. That’s not allowed.

A: What does the teacher often tell you to do when you are doing an e【4】?

B: He often tells us to look c【5】and follow the i【6】.

A: What will you do when you finish the experiment?

B: We must put e【7】back in the cupboards and wash our hands.

A: Right. It is very i【8】to keep the lab clean.

B: Yes, safe as well. We must turn off the e【9】before l【10】the lab.

38、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Sara Savick remembers one special Easter when she was nine years old. Her parents gave her a baby duckling in a yellow basket.

“Mom said later that she bought the little duck because she felt sorry for it,” recalled Sara. The people at the pet store colored the feathers pink for Easter. Sara named the duck Pinky.

Sara’s mother really didn’t think the baby duck would survive very long. But to her surprise, Pinky grew and got stronger and stronger. Soon, the little duckling was a healthy, hungry duck with white feathers.

“We fed Pinky oatmeal, cooked and uncooked, and small pieces of vegetables,” said Sara. Pinky lived inside the house with Sara and her family. She specially fancied taking baths with Sara. Everyone treated Pinky as a family member.

But just when everything appeared to be perfect, the night of the “talk” came. Sara’s Mom and Dad sat her down, explaining that the best thing for Pinky was to live a normal duck life, with other ducks. It was not natural for ducks to live indoors with a family, her father told her. He added Pinky needed to swim in ponds and do all the same things that ducks in the wild do.

Sara started to cry, knowing what was going to happen. Sara’s parents decided to take Pinky to a park, which was two miles away. There was a pond with a lot of other ducks. Pinky would have the chance to live a natural life and Sara could still visit her.

The big day came, Sara and her parents put Pinky in a box and drove to the park. Sara said that Pinky did not look happy; maybe Pinky was convinced that she was a human, not a duck.

注意:

1. 所续写短文的词数应为l50左右；

2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1

Everyone was sad when they left Pinky at the pond, even Sara’s father.

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Paragraph 2

The next morning, when looking out of the kitchen window, Sara couldn’t believe her eyes!

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39、假定你是某国际高中的学生李华，得知学校正在为 2 位加拿大交换生征询寄宿家庭，你有意申请，请用英文给学校该项目负责人 Mr. Chen 写一封申请信。

内容包括：1.自我介绍；2. 家庭条件及个人优势。

注意：1. 词数 100 左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mr. Chen,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

40、假定你是李华，高考因受到疫情影响而推迟，你和美国网友Sam原定从今年6月30日开始的互助语言学习的计划受到影响。请你给他写一封邮件，说明相关情况。内容包括：

1. 表达歉意；

2. 说明原因；

3. 提出调整后的新方案。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：疫情 COVID-19 outbreak

Dear Sam,

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Yours

Li Hua

41、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一个完整的短文

It was late, about 10:15 p.m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport, New York, train station, jumped into her minivan and began the 20-minute drive home to her husband and seven-year-old son. She’s just returned from visiting her mother and had traveled the route so many times, she practically drove on autopilot: a left onto Station Road, then a left on Montauk Highway, and then ----wham! Out of nowhere on that awful night of October 10, 2017, a car hit Esposito's minivan, forcing her backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She sat in the minivan, injured but mostly just stunned(吓晕) by the impact and by the vehicle's airbags.

As it happened, Pete Dipinto was getting for bed. He'd just closed his book and was ready to sleep when he heard the loud noise of metal on metal and broken glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window. A volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, DiPinto, 64, never stopped to think. He grabbed a flashlight and, still in his pajamas(睡衣), ran out of the door. 'Any firefighter would have done what I did,' he said. 'We're always on duty.'

The first car he came upon, 2000 feet from his front yard, was the one that had hit Esposito. Once DiPinto concluded the driver was OK, he looked around and spotted Esposito's minivan straddling(横跨) the railroad tracks. And then he heard a shocking sound: the bells signaling an oncoming train.

'I see the headlight of the train. ' he said. DiPinto ran to Esposito's minivan and banged on the driver's side window. She just looked at him, her eyes unfocused. 'I don't know where I am,' she said. She seemed unhurt.

注意:

1、所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2、 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4、续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

'Honey, you're on the railroad tracks, and we have to get you off right now! ' DiPinto shouted.

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Paragraph 2:

Esposito was rushed to the nearest hospital and DiPinto kept her company until her family came.

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