澄迈2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测三年级英语

1、Snaking through the deserts, the Nile would flood almost _____ each year in June.

A.normally B.variably C.invariably D.increasingly

2、Climbing the mountain is a good way to keep fit.____,walking is helpful for your health.

A.Correctly B.Immediately C.Similarly D.Generally

3、________ to sunlight for so much time will do harm to your skin.

A．Exposed

B．Being exposed

C．Having exposed

D．Because being exposed

4、With fossil fuels such as coal and oil running out quickly, we have to find more ____________ energy sources.

A. vivid B. bureaucratic

C. alternative D. abnormal

5、Sadly, the child star became one of one-hit wonders that _______ occasionally, only to disappear without signs.

A．spring up

B．hang up

C．stay up

D．end up

6、As it turned out to be a small house party, we ________so formally.

A．needn't dress up

B．shouldn't dress up

C．were not necessary to dress up

D．needn't have dressed up

7、—Is it for two months they have stayed here?

—No, it is only three weeks they arrived here.

A.that; since B.that; when C.when; that D.since; before

8、__________ the bad weather , the delivery was put off.

A.As a result B.As a consequence of C.In consequence D.Owe to

9、I had to ________ myself to being an architect to my parents’ will.

A．resign

B．withdraw

C．reject

D．evaluate

10、Occasions are quite rare ____ I have the time to spend a day with my kids.

A. who   B. which   C. why   D. when

11、They told the injured driver to stay _______ until the emergency personnel arrived.

A.strict B.still C.swift D.social

12、_________, I’ve never seen anyone who’s as capable as Kate.

A. As long as I have travelled B. Now that I have travelled so much

C. As I have travelled much D. Much as I have travelled

13、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

14、The new job is a real challenge for Helen, but difficult the situation she meets, I believe she’ll work it out.

A.however B.whenever C.whichever D.whatever

15、I ______ a debt of gratitude to all my family.

A. devote B. contribute

C. owe D. attach

16、One advantage of playing the guitar is________it can give you much pleasure.

A．how

B．why

C．that

D．when

17、Henry hasn't missed a chance to _______ his muscles to others since being praised for his strong figure.

A.show off B.show up C.put off D.put up

18、Let the negative feelings go that we might have to tolerate ______.

A. though B. however

C. otherwise D. regardless

19、The British Prime Minister was forced to make an important decision. ___________many would refuse to accept.

A.that B.the one C.one D.those

20、E-commerce companies are helping small businesses in financial trouble obtain loans that they otherwise _______ to raise.

A．must struggle

B．can have struggled

C．could struggle

D．would have struggled

21、_______ many of us today take the television for granted, it’s actually one of the greatest invention of the 20th century.

A. If B. Unless C. While D. Since

22、Multitasking reduces the quality of our work ______ it makes it hard for us to organize thoughts and remove irrelevant information.

A.though B.as C.while D.if

23、Cancer has become the top killer ________ I think threatens the health of millions of people.

A.that B.of which C.不填 D.Both A and C

24、Although there are many _____ programs on TV, I think people should not be spending so much of their time in front of their TV sets.

A. worthwhile B. interesting

C. good D. worth

25、It was then ______ Claire realized that Tony had opened the curtains of the front window.

A.that B.when C.which D.who

26、   Many of us live with a roommate at some stage. Sometimes, there can be problems. Who hasn't had an argument about whose turn it is to take out the rubbish or who should be the one to clear up after dinner? 【1】

You know that there's always someone else around, which can help you feel safer. There is always someone to talk to, so you never feel lonely. 【2】 For example, we're actually more likely to eat healthier food when living with others.

Australian researchers found that people living alone tended to eat less fresh food, which can have a negative effect on their health. However, those living with others generally benefited from a more varied diet compared to those living alone.

【3】 The researchers believe food preparation may be one of the important factors. For example, those living with friends have someone else to go shopping with, and thus are likely to buy higher-quality fresh food regularly.

【4】 If people living alone find they do not have the knowledge required to prepare a particular dish or cook a certain food, they may fall back on ready-made, less healthy food. However, if they live with at least one other person, they may be able to ask for help.

In addition, people living alone can eat whatever they want at any time of the day or night. However, it's helpful to have someone around who questions your decision to eat frozen pizza at 3 a.m. 【5】

A.What could explain these findings?

B.Cooking skills may be another factor.

C.You can encourage one another to go on a diet.

D.Statistics show people living alone tend to be slimmer.

E.That is, roommates can warn you of unhealthy routines.

F.Besides these obvious benefits, there are some you may not notice.

G.However, living with another person also comes with many benefits.

27、   It's 3 o'clock and you've been hard at work. As you sit at your desk, a strong desire for chocolate overcomes you. You try to busy yourself to make it go away. But it doesn’t. Here is another situation .Perhaps you are not feeling well. The only thing you want to eat is a big bowl of chicken soup, like your mum used to make when you were sick as a child. Food cravings(嘴馋)are a strong desire for a specific type of food. And they are normal.

Scientists at the website How Stuff Works compare hunger and cravings this way. Hunger is a fairly simple connection between the stomach and the brain. They even call it simply"stomach hunger".When our stomachs burn up all of the food we have eaten, a hormone(激素)sends a message to one part of the brain for more food, which regulates our most basic body functions such as thirst, hunger and sleep. The brain then produces a chemical to start the appetite and you eat. Hunger is a function of survival.

A craving is more complex. It activates(刺激) brain areas related to emotion, memory and reward .These are the same areas of the brain activated during drug-craving studies. Because of this, some scientists call food cravings"mind hunger". People often crave foods that are high in fat and sugar. Foods that are high in fat or high in sugar produce chemicals in the brain. These chemicals give us feelings of pleasure.

In a 2007 study, researchers at Cambridge University found that dieting or restricted eating generally increases the possibility of food cravings. So, the more you deny yourself a food that you want ,the more you may crave it. However, fasting(禁食)is a bit different. They found that eating no food at all for a short period of time lessened food cravings.

So, the next time you crave something very specific, know that your brain may be more to blame than our stomach.

【1】What is the function of the first paragraph?

A.To deepen the understanding of hunger.

B.To lead to the topic of the whole passage.

C.To report the discovery of craving study.

D.To remind readers of their own special food.

【2】What do we learn about food cravings?

A.It means the stomach functions well.

B.It ensures a person survives hunger.

C.It shows food is linked to feelings.

D.It proves the brain decides your appetite.

【3】What's the likely result of dieting?

A.The increase of food desire.

B.The decrease of chemicals.

C.The refusal of fat and sugar.

D.The disappearance of appetite.

【4】What does the passage mainly discuss?

A.What dieting may bring us.

B.What hunger is all about.

C.The functions of brain areas.

D.The findings of food cravings.

28、   This activity will melt away the pounds, build your body and leave you on an emotional high. Yet the form of exercise, the fitness trend of the year, does not require gym membership or a personal trainer. All you need to do is walk.

“Walking is a refreshing alternative to complicated aerobic (氧) routines and overpriced gym membership,” says personal trainer Lucy Knight, author of a new book on the exercise. “It is free, enjoyable and already a part of everyday life. All you need to do is correct your technique, walk faster and for longer and you will lose weight.”

There is much evidence of the benefits of walking. Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh recently discovered that overweight people who walked briskly (快) for 30 to 60 minutes a day lost weight even if they didn’t change any other lifestyle habits. Another American study found that people who walked for at least four hours a week gained less weight than couch potatoes as they got older. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts medical school found that people who walked every day had 25 percent fewer colds than those who sat a lot. Best of all, walking makes you feel good about yourself. “For people suffering from depression, walking three to four times a week for 30 minutes has been shown to lift their mood,” says Knight.

But how to walk your way to weight loss and wellness? Health experts recommend that we should walk 10,000 steps a day to stay healthy. Actually you would probably need to walk at least 16,000 steps a day to lose weight. “Your workout plans depend on your level of fitness. You should aim to progress by increasing your walking time by five minutes every two weeks, and walk a bit faster. In just three months, the results should speak for themselves,” says Knight.

【1】What is the latest fitness trend according to the passage?

A.Brisk walking.

B.Losing weight.

C.Working out in a gym.

D.Exercising with a personal trainer.

【2】Studies and researches are mentioned in the passage to show walking _______.

A.is gaining increasing popularity

B.benefits people in different aspects

C.is an enjoyable way to lose weight

D.involves different groups of people

【3】It can be learned from the last paragraph that _______.

A.1600 steps a day is needed for weight losses

B.the effect of walking is noticeable over time

C.your fitness level depends on your health experts

D.changing the walking time every day is necessary

29、   "She is a pretty girl, but I don't know why George stays friendly with her." This is what Maria Osborne, George's sister, said to her younger sister, Jane, about Amelia.

"I can't agree more." Jane said.

One day Dobbin came to the Osborne house to visit George, but he was not at home.

"You are at the wrong house," laughed Maria, and pointed to the Sedley's house on the other side of the street. "That's where he is."

Dobbin smiled strangely and went away. He knew that George had not been there. Amelia was there alone, hoping that George would come to visit her. Day after day, she waited. Day after day, he didn't come. He was busy playing billiards with his friends in the army.

A lot of people thought that the army would soon join in the war against Napoleon. and Amelia was worried that her George would have to go and fight. Perhaps，he would be injured or killed！Then the war in Europe ended，and Amelia were very happy. However，George told her that he had to travel to some other parts of England with his troops. While he was away，he sometimes wrote her a short note. She wrote him very long letters every day.

George was tired of reading these long letters and sometimes used them to light his cigars. His friends Stubble and Spooney wondered who was sending all those long letters to Captain Osborne，but he would not tell them. Dobbin heard Stubble and Spooney speaking about it one day.

“She's probably an actress or singer and just wants his money，"said Spooney.

“Miss Sedley is one of the nicest young women that ever lived." said Dobbin，annoyed. "and Lieutenant Osborne has been engaged（订婚）to her for a long time. ”

Soon，everybody in the army knew about it，and George was angry with Dobbin. Then he remembered that Dobbin often helped him by giving him money. He did not want to lose such a good friend. Dobbin told him that he should write to Amelia and try to make her happier. The next day George decided to go to London and visit Amelia. He borrowed some money from Dobbin，so that he could buy her a present. When he arrived in London，he saw a lovely shirt in a shop and bought it for himself. He had no money left to buy a present for Amelia.

“Never mind，”he said to himself. “She doesn't care about presents. She just wants to see me. ”

She was，indeed，very happy to see him，and admired his new shirt. He talked to her about his plans to retire from the army because the war in Europe had ended and was going to live somewhere in the country with her. She was very happy.

“I will take you to visit your sisters-in-law，"said George. “I have some important business in the city，but I will be back in time for dinner. ”

George took her to the Osborne house，and then he went into the city and played billiards with his friends. He was late for dinner.

After dinner, his father talked to him about his plans. He wanted him to stop gambling and playing billiards with his friends, and George promised that he would.

"Can't you find another girl to marry?" asked Mr. Osborne suddenly.

"But she loves me, and you arranged it many years ago with Mr. Sedley,"replied George.

"Yes, I know. Sedley was my friend once and helped me in business. Now his business does not look good. I think he has lost a lot of money. I don't want a poor man's daughter in my family!"

George was not upset to hear this, and he did not tell Amelia what his father had said. He made Amelia very happy, and that night she wrote him another long letter. He read it and sighed.

"Poor Amelia,"he said. "She loves me so much! This wine has given me a headache!"

【1】What is the major theme of the passage?

A.Dobbin's support B.George's behaviors

C.Amelia's love D.Mr. Osborne's plan

【2】What can we learn from the dialogues in the passage?

A.Dobbin was the only enthusiastic supporter of Amelia and George's love.

B.Both of George's sisters didn't think George and Amelia a good match.

C.George still kept the engagement because he deeply loved Amelia.

D.Mr. Osborne broke the engagement mainly because of his son's gambling.

【3】The writer fully exposes Amelia's love for George by means of___________.

A.examples B.imagination

C.statistics D.comparison

【4】George dealt with Amelia's love by doing a EXCEPT__________.

A.writing short notes to answer her long letters

B.marrying another girl from a rich family

C.playing billiards with his friends，leaving her alone

D.buying himself a shirt with money borrowed for her preset

【5】According to the passage，which of the descriptions is true？

A.If Mr. Sedley hadn’t lost all money，Amelia would have been really favored by George

B.If it hadn't been for another girl，George would have devoted all himself Amelia

C.If the love hadn't been close to vanity fair but to fair play, it would be a happy story.

D.If George hadn't been a playboy, Amelia wouldn't have loved him in such a crazy way.

【6】From the underlined sentence in the last paragraph，we know that _______.

A.George drank too much wine at dinner，having a headache

B.George felt annoyed about Amelia's love and his father's plan

C.George was ashamed of his bad treatment of Amelia's love

D.George found Amelia poor to have been disfavored by his father

30、   I always come across random acts of kindness in my life. Many years ago, I was _______Costa Rica when I found myself in an _______situation: my credit cards and bank cards went out of _________ abroad, and I only had $5 to my ________.

I had no way to get money. I didn’t know anybody in this country. I only knew basic Spanish, and besides the cash the only ________I had was a return ticket to my country in almost two ________. Back then, there was no such thing as mobile phones, and________email was very limited. To find help, I decided to go to the countryside . With the only coins I had, I _________the bus terminal(终点站）and found a village, which ________almost the exact amount. About 4 hours later, I arrived at Santa Rosa Abajo at midnight.

I knocked door to door,________in my very poor Spanish that I was a foreigner travelling in Costa Rica with no money but I ________to stay here for over ten days. I begged them for a __________－such as cooking , cleaning and looking after their kids, anything like that. Everybody _________, “oh my, but so poor are we that we have no _______ food or space. Maybe you can try the next ________.” And they’d point me to another house.

________, I arrived at a Chinese restaurant. The owner of the restaurant was very _________. She gave me food and called the Red Cross to come to ________me. With the help of the Red Cross , I spent my_________days in Costa Rica.

This is one of the best trips I’ve ever had, because I realized that when you’re in a position to be able to _________, it actually makes you feel happy.

【1】A. circling B. entering C. visiting D. considering

【2】A. absurd B. impossible C. ordinary D. awkward

【3】A. date B. use C. range D. control

【4】A. name B. delight C. wonder D. advantage

【5】A. necessity B. memory C. impression D. possession

【6】A. months B. weeks C. days D. hours

【7】A. again B. thus C. yet D. even

【8】A. looked for B. stayed at C. headed to D. thought of

【9】A. cost B. saved C. earned D. created

【10】A. reminding B. explaining C. apologizing D. informing

【11】A. needed B. agreed C. failed D. hesitated

【12】A. conversation B. meal C. room D. job

【13】A. accepted B. nodded C. replied D. withdrew

【14】A. prepared B. wasted C. extra D. cheap

【15】A. family B. chance C. time D. restaurant

【16】A. Normally B. Naturally C. Finally D. Directly

【17】A. generous B. sensible C. wealthy D. outstanding

【18】A. comfort B. rescue C. interview D. encourage

【19】A. frightening B. training C. exciting D. remaining

【20】A. help B. receive C. succeed D. travel

31、   I opened the hotel curtains to find dark rainy streets. After training in nearly 100-degree weather in St. Louis, I wasn't _______ a rainy 55-degree day. However, it didn't _______because it was marathon day.

My group _______with ponchos (雨披) on. I took off the poncho around Mile 9 as the rain seemed less _______.

I was still energized at Mile 13, and supporters were still _______ us on. Not too long after Mile 20, I was feeling some _______ in my legs. I never stopped though. I just put my head up and _______ going. As Mile 22 passed, I _______ and I began to cry, but kept on moving. The view alongside was _______ and it kept my mind busy.

At the end of Mile 25, my body was beat. As I saw that finish line in the wind, I put all my__________into running for it. The__________said my name and made some careless Irish remarks that I can't remember, and I__________the line in total tiredness. Some staff__________me my marathon medal, bottled water, and helped me keep warm.

Traveling for my first marathon will be__________remembered. I could not have done this without the__________of my family, friends, Coach Rich, my teammates and my sister, who gave me the strength to__________. As Norman D. Vaughan, the surviving member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition said, “Dream big and be __________ to fail. ”

What will be the most impressive __________ for me? The __________ from Mile 20 to the end. No matter how much you read about how to prepare for the final few miles, it's a true __________ of your mental endurance (耐力).

【1】A.wasting B.arranging C.enjoying D.expecting

【2】A.fail B.lose C.matter D.work

【3】A.escaped B.started C.approved D.protested

【4】A.heavy B.mild C.slight D.bright

【5】A.touching B.cheering C.crying D.trying

【6】A.power B.anger C.pain D.relief

【7】A.practiced B.continued C.avoided D.imagined

【8】A.took off B.settled in C.broke down D.dressed up

【9】A.confusing B.usual C.simple D.inspiring

【10】A.energy B.pressure C.relaxation D.elegance

【11】A.volunteer B.editor C.interviewee D.announcer

【12】A.crossed B.drew C.swallowed D.burned

【13】A.showed B.bought C.handed D.lent

【14】A.mistakenly B.strangely C.luckily D.truly

【15】A.education B.support C.admiration D.treatment

【16】A.finish B.perform C.suffer D.assist

【17】A.brave B.guilty C.firm D.anxious

【18】A.wish B.exercise C.memory D.judgment

【19】A.suspect B.struggle C.cheat D.argument

【20】A.cause B.question C.favor D.test

32、   Sitting at a table in my school cafeteria, I looked around,slowly taking in everything. Student after student passed my____carrying that day’s lunch, but if you looked deeper,there was more to___.There was more than just theuniform they were wearing, or the way they had styled theirhair that day. There was a lot more hidden under the_______.

Catching the eye of a girl in my grade sitting at a nearbytable, I waved politely. She smiled___and then continuedto pick at the spaghetti in front of her. If I hadn't___recently that her mother was dying of leukemia, I would havenever___anything was wrong and I may not have been as_____and sympathetic, either. It suddenly____me thatwe judge others too quickly without knowing the whole story.

I have an incurable lung disease. No one at our schoolknows --- I don't show any noticeable____except for a fewcoughs here and there. I go about my day like any other kid,___with the realization that I have a___and terrifyingfuture.

Before that day when I decided to___the world witha new perspective, I__myself almost every day. Ithought only about myself and my heavy__.But I've now realized no one is______---- we just need to accept thewaywe are.

【1】A.order B.room C.table D.cafeteria

【2】A.imagine B.compare C.observe D.exchange

【3】A.uniform B.rules C.circumstances D.surface

【4】A.weakly B.casually C.happily D.impatiently

【5】A.found B.noticed C.heard D.decided

【6】A.remembered B.suspected C.predicted D.regretted

【7】A.willing B.outstanding C.understanding D.demanding

【8】A.escaped B.satisfied C.hit D.attracted

【9】A.diseases B.symptoms C.complaints D.weaknesses

【10】A.but B.and C.or D.so

【11】A.bright B.real C.serious D.dark

【12】A.tolerate B.create C.change D.view

【13】A.forgave B.pitied C.challenged D.encouraged

【14】A.debt B.reward C.burden D.workload

【15】A.changeable B.perfect C.unique D.different

33、Trent Johnson just celebrated his graduation from medical school in Ohio with a ceremony at his parents' home in Florida.

He________a couple weeks before his actual ceremony that the college was canceling it on account of the deadly coronavirus. He was absolutely_________ .

His friends________him to create a website so that all of his family flying into Columbus originally still could celebrate _______. They made the living room look as special as possible given the ________ of the ceremony. There's nothing that could have substituted that special _______ .

His twitter where the video immediately went _______ has almost half a million views. He was on the news and was _______ in the New York Times.

“I remember seeing my face on the newspaper and thinking wow I not only became a doctor, but I motivated people all over the world to _______ their dreams. That was truly a( n) _______ moment”.

Johnson was brought up in an underdeveloped area where people would have _______socioeconomic class and it was the type of the community that he wanted to________ . Now as a ________ at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, he _______ has an opportunity to do that.

As Johnson settles into his new surroundings, he will continue to spread his message of hope and _______ .

【1】

A．recognized

B．learned

C．anticipated

D．recalled

【2】

A．sorrowful

B．pitiful

C．awkward

D．guilty

【3】

A．permitted

B．begged

C．appointed

D．helped

【4】

A．consistently

B．virtually

C．casually

D．formally

【5】

A．standard

B．origin

C．popularity

D．atmosphere

【6】

A．memory

B．option

C．moment

D．design

【7】

A．viral

B．mad

C．wild

D．blank

【8】

A．evaluated

B．featured

C．engaged

D．promoted

【9】

A．change

B．start

C．sacrifice

D．follow

【10】

A．scary

B．awful

C．incredible

D．specific

【11】

A．low

B．powerful

C．rare

D．noble

【12】

A．heal

B．escape

C．reform

D．serve

【13】

A．pioneer

B．chemist

C．physician

D．professor

【14】

A．seldom

B．just

C．still

D．yet

【15】

A．admiration

B．innovation

C．cooperation

D．inspiration

34、课文填空

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 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.”

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

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.

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.

AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high【1】 — as Christie’s becomes the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm. This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind. It was created by an【2】 intelligence, an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses. And when it went under the【3】 in the Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s on 23-25 October, Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for an【4】 $432,500, signaling the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage.

From a distance, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy looks almost plausible. Up close, however, the paintwork becomes a grid of mechanical-looking dots, the man’s face a golden blur with black holes for eyes. Look into those eyes. They show no sign of feeling or life. Did a computer make this?

The answer is yes. The first artwork【5】 by AI to be sold at Christie’s, its【6】 price would seem to suggest that in future we will get computers to make art for us. Robot van Gogh will harmlessly cut its ear off and robot Picasso will be a genius.

Is this the future AI art visionaries such as the French collective Obvious, which programmed this “painter” by getting it to compare its own work with 15,000 pre-20th century portraits, have in mind? Or are they just, God forbid, making a fast buck from deceivable art collectors? Because believing the algorithm that knocked this up to be in any meaningful way an “artist” is like thinking your voice-interaction programme is out to get you. Dream on. Computers would need to replicate human consciousness before they could replicate the funny thing humans do called “art”.

Art is a way in which human 【7】 expresses itself, and is equally true of the earliest cave art, Rembrandt’s portraits and Duchamp’s urinal. And that is what is missing from Portrait of Edmond Bellamy. Art is a way humans communicate ideas, perceptions and feelings to each other. It has no 【8】 outside the human passion to communicate. So in what meaningful sense can an AI replica of certain【9】 traits of old master paintings be called art?

For a robot to really make art, it would need an autonomous mind that was emotional as well as【10】. No AI developer has yet claimed to be anywhere near achieving that and if they ever do, their creation will probably have better things to do than paint portraits — like destroy humanity.

Maybe afterwards robots will invent their own kind of art, but it won’t be some poor pastiche of human genius.

It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.

38、上周末，你和同学到附近一个村庄帮助遭受水灾的农民收割庄稼。请你为班级英语角写一篇短文，介绍这次支农活动。内容要点如下：

1．虽遭水灾(flood disaster)，丰收依然有希望；

2．村庄离校有半小时路程。一早出发，到达便参加劳动；

3．天黑归来，人累了，但心情愉快。

注意：1.词数：100左右；2.题目已为你写好。

A Good Harvest

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39、假设你是李华，你的英国朋友Jerry在来信中提到对中国的唐诗很感兴趣，想让你给他介绍一位你最喜欢的唐代诗人。你决定向他介绍诗人李白，信的内容主要包括：

1. 诗人的基本情况；

2. 诗人的代表作品；

3. 你喜欢他的原因。

注意：1. 字数100词左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头语已经为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Jerry,

How are you?

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Yours,

Li Hua

40、假定你是李华，你将参加下个月在上海举办的英语演讲比赛。你在资料搜集，语言运用和吸引观众的注意力等方面遇到了困难。请你根据以下内容给外国网友Jack写一封电子邮件，内容包括：

1. 询问他的学习情况；

2. 描述你的困难；

3. 请求他的帮助

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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