2025-2026年甘肃武威高二下册期末英语试卷(解析版)

1、You _________ me about it earlier, but you didn't.

A.should have told B.would have told

C.must have told D.should tell

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、I have a(n) ________to make to you——I opened your letter by mistake.

A．apology

B．disadvantage

C．fault

D．shortcoming

4、The theory he sticks to _______ to be of no use in his new work ______ he finds it hard to fit in.

A．is proved; where

B．proves; with which

C．proving; to which

D．prove; how

5、______that you are grown up;you should no longer depend on your parents.

A.Since B.Now C.As D.Because

6、----Is your father a teacher now?

----No, but he   . He taught English for 10 years.

A. used to be B. used to

C. used to do   D. was used to

7、---Did you see the new movie directed by that famous director? It’s said to be ______great success.

---No, I have been busy preparing all the office______ these days.

A. /; equipments B. the; equipment C. /; equipment D. a; equipment

8、As a writer of several best-sellers, she has both style and humor _______.

A．at her mercy

B．at her command

C．in her defence

D．on her behalf

9、I’ve come to the point____I can’t stand her arguing any longer.

A．why

B．which

C．that

D．where

10、-Did you meet with your head teacher in the concert last night？

-Yes. It was in the interval___________ we met.

A.what B.that C.where D.when

11、More than one passenger ________ injured in the air crash.

A.were B.is C.are D.was

12、It was a significant _______ that a Chinese search vessel, Haixun 01 picked up signals consistent with black box technology _______ the South Indian Ocean for the missing plane.

A.discovery, when sailing B.finding, when shipping

C.outcome, when searching for D.breakthrough, when combing through

13、I walked up to the top of the hill with my feiend, we enjoyed a splendid view of the lake

A．which

B．where

C．who

D．that

14、Do you think climbing is _____ to our health?

A.beneficial B.invaluable C.advisable D.worthy

15、It’s important for graduates to find a proper job, one in which they can bring their_______ into full play.

A.potential B.circumstance C.symptom D.insurance

16、With a lot of difficult problems ________, the manager felt worried all the time.

A.settled B.to be settled

C.settling D.to settle

17、Not until he retired from teaching three years ago ________ having a holiday abroad.

A.had he considered B.he had considered

C.he considered D.did he consider

18、What worried the child most was ______ to visit his brother n hospital.

A.his not being allowed B.his not allowing

C.his being not allowed D.having not been allowed

19、She was given a $1,000 ticket for ____________ the speed limit and a $ 230 ticket for disobeying a red light.

A. fetching B. exceeding

C. adjusting D. obeying

20、Friendship is like money, easier made than ______.

A. being kept B. to be kept

C. keeping D. kept

21、Evidence obtained from observation and experiment is often used to ______ a scientific theory.

A.confirm B.conclude C.consult D.confuse

22、 Kathy told me that all the doors and windows _______ when she arrived this morning.

A.have cleaned B.have been cleaned C.had cleaned D.had been cleaned

23、(2014·东北三省三校一联)Traffic conditions in Beijing________for decades.At first people only complained about jams during rush hours，but today every hour is rush hour.

A．is worsening

B．have worsened

C．have been worsening

D．worsened

24、Lucy has a great sense of humor and always keeps her colleagues with her stories.

A. amused     B. amusing

C. to amuse D. to be amused

25、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

26、   Scientists believe they could bring the likes of dodos(渡渡鸟)back from the dead through cloning experiments in the near future which could see the flightless birds revived from their extinction.

The big bird, which was about a metre tall and weighed up to 18 kilograms, was native to Mauritius but became extinct in the 1600s, shortly after humans discovered the island. However, 400 years later, scientists now believe that they could bring the dodo back to life through cloning of some of its closest living relatives.

Scientists recently published a paper which identified the overall genomic structure of dinosaurs. The team achieved this by tracing the ancestors (祖先)of birds — the dinosaurs closest living relatives — to create the genomic structure. Researchers involved in the study say it is an emphatic ‘no’ when it comes to the possibility of ever being able to clone dinosaurs, but they do say that more recently extinct birds like the carrier pigeon and the dodo could be brought back due to the fact that they have such close living relatives.

University of Kent scientists Darren Griffin and Rebecca O’Connor wrote in an article for The Conversation: “We discovered that birds and most flightless dinosaurs had a lot of chromosomes (packages of DNA). Having so many allows animals to generate variation, the driver of natural selection.”

“However, though it is a long shot, it may be possible in future to use Jurassic Park technology to help avoid some of the harm that humans have caused. Mankind has seen the extinction of well-known avian dinosaurs such as the dodo and the passenger pigeon.”

“Recovery(恢复)of DNA that is a only few hundred years old from these birds is a far more realistic way. It may also be that eggs from closely related living species might just be good enough. In the right conditions we may be able to use them to resurrect some of these species from extinction.”

【1】What can we learn about dodos?

A.They flew to Mauritius in the 1600s. B.They could be used to clone pigeons.

C.They would die out in the near future. D.They might be brought back to life soon.

【2】How do scientists revive dodos?

A.They clone dodos’ closest living relatives. B.They trace those endangered birds closely.

C.They look for dinosaurs’ living conditions. D.They identify genomic structure of pigeons.

【3】What does the underlined word “resurrect” in the last paragraph mean?

A.Learn. B.Protect.

C.Revive. D.Prevent.

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

A.Scientists Expect to Clone the Dodos. B.Scientists Find Close Living Relatives.

C.Dinosaurs Have Already Been Extinct. D.Some Species Have Been Discovered.

27、I went climbing with a millennial(千禧一代).She is younger, fitter, braver and more energetic. I am good at getting discouraged, having a rest and giving advice from the sidelines. She will cling(附着于)on to a wall like a small monkey trying to escape certain death, while I will get near the top, realize how high that is and lose my nerve. Together we could make an impressive（感人的；令人钦佩的） team, me at the bottom of the wall, going, "That's great, try using your feet one by one. Oh...What did you do that for?" And her going, "Shall we try that again so we've actually done it? Do you think we should have warmed up first?"

Climbing muscles, being the same as regular muscles, are use-it-or-lose-it. I climbed more often before I did the crazy running activity and used to think of the green runs at my local center as being for children, or for a warm-up. Now I find them extremely hard, and the purple is my top-of-the-tree, when in fact they are both for beginners, really. I suspect the millennial of avoiding the blue-with-red-spots just so as to not show me up.

It wasn't her first time climbing, but she wasn't registered at the center, so she had to go through a process that sounds threatening: watching a video and answering questions on it (the answers are always "I am responsible for my own safety in the center" and Holds may spin"). In an older person-me, for instance-any activity that starts with a reflection on your own death is a little low-energy, whereas she seemed quite excited by it.

We both laughed at each other's clothing: she accused me of having, a pink T-shirt which seemed too lovely for me, while she was dressed to be a labourer. The moral is that you can basically wear anything while you climb. It's not like running, where the ill-dressed are chased from the area by a thousand eyes.

【1】We learn from Paragraph 1 that the author and the millennial .

A．know each other very well

B．try to learn how to escape death

C．form a sharp contrast

D．make a team that beats others

【2】By “climbing muscles, being the same as regular muscles, are use-it-or-lose-it” the author means______.

A．climbing does good to muscles

B．climbing needs practicing regularly

C．climbing muscles are as useful as other muscles

D．climbing muscles won’t be lost even if not used

【3】The question the millennial was required to answer were admitted to .

A．let the climbers realize the climbing might be dangerous

B．give the climbers another approach to think of death

C．warn the climbers against loss of energy in the process

D．remind the climbers of the importance of registration

【4】According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A．Climbers need to wear special clothes.

B．Ill-dressed runners stand out improperly.

C．Climbers need to get a certificate before climbing.

D．The author and millennial like making fun of others.

28、I don’t remember the exact date I met Marty for the first time. Like a lot of people who want to get through a checkout line, I found my thoughts on speed, nothing more. The line I was standing in wasn’t moving as quickly as I wanted, and I glanced toward the cashier, who was receiving money from customers.

He was an old man in his sixties. I thought it probably took him a little longer to get the jobs done. For the next few minutes I watched him. He greeted every customer before he began scanning the goods they were purchasing. Sure, his words were the usual, “How’s it going?” But he did something different — he actually listened to people. Then he would respond to what they had said and talk with them briefly.

I thought it was strange, but I guessed I had grown used to people asking me how I was doing simply out of a conversation without thinking. Usually, after a while, you don’t give any thought to the question and just say something back quietly.

This old cashier seemed sincere about wanting to know how people were feeling. Meanwhile, the high-tech cash register (收银机) rang up their purchases and he announced how much they should pay. When customers handed money to him, he pushed the appropriate keys, the cash drawer opened, and he counted out their change.

Then magic happened.

He placed the change in his left hand, walked around the counter to the customers, and extended (伸出) his right hand in an act of friendship. As their hands met, the old cashier looked the customers in the eye. “I want to thank you for shopping here today,” he said. “You have a great day. Bye-bye.” The looks on the faces of the customers were priceless.

Now it was my turn. I glanced down at the name tag (标签) on his red waistcoat, the kind experienced Wal-Mart cashier wore. It read, “Marty.”

Marty told me how much I should pay and I handed him some money. The next thing I knew he was standing beside me, offering his right hand and holding my change in his left hand. His kind eyes locked onto mine. Smiling, and with a firm handshake ...

【1】While the author stood in the checkout line, how did she feel?

A．Comfortable.

B．Enthusiastic.

C．Impatient.

D．Embarrassed.

【2】In the opinion of the author, people tended to ______.

A．remain calm while having a talk

B．talk about unimportant topics

C．develop a mindless conversation

D．face communication problems

【3】Why did the author think Marty special?

A．Because he spent as much time as possible serving customers.

B．Because he was patient with all the questions from customers.

C．Because he showed particular interest in customers’ personal life.

D．Because he expressed his sincerity while giving back the change.

【4】When Marty shook hands with customers, ______.

A．he looked directly at them

B．he finished it as quickly as possible

C．most customers felt uneasy

D．he was unwilling to do it

29、   Students from the San Diego Jewish Academy in the US broke the Guinness World Record when they managed to make more than 800 sandwiches in three minutes on April 1.

However, the students were doing more than just setting a world record. They gave the sandwiches to the homeless and so learned a lesson about helping their community.

“We want our students to know it’s not enough to talk about changing the world,” said school principal Chaim Heller. “It’s not enough to raise money to change the world. You have to use your hands and feet.”

The world record for making the most sandwiches in three minutes had been 490. But the 550 students from kindergarten to 12th grade may have broken that record by making 868 sandwiches in the school gym.

The sandwiches were given to the Alpha Project, which served them later that day to homeless people and low-income residents around Alpha Square.

Students found 52 tables waiting for them in the school gym, each laid out with slices of bread, lettuce, sliced tomatoes and American cheese. Forty-five parent volunteers were on hand to help, and a note on each table told the students what to put in each sandwich – two slices of cheese, one slice of tomato and one piece of lettuce.

The gym’s scoreboard was set at three minutes. A countdown started, a bell rang and tables throughout the gym became a flurry of (一阵忙乱) fast-moving cheese and bread.

The youngest students made one sandwich each while older ones made two. Within two minutes, almost all of the students had stepped back from their table. They waved their gloved hands in the air to show that they had finished.

“These types of experiences not only bring together our school community, but help students learn that everyone can make a sandwich to help those in need,” said Heller. “We want our students to see themselves as leaders who can make a difference in people’s lives.”

【1】Why did students from the San Diego Jewish Academy make 868 sandwiches?

A.To set a Guinness World Record.

B.To raise money to help poor people.

C.To help their community through their action.

D.To put their cooking knowledge into practice

【2】What do we know about the sandwich-making event?

A.Students had to prepare the ingredients themselves.

B.The students were asked to make two sandwiches each.

C.Parents were not allowed to help their kids.

D.Most of the students finished their work ahead of time.

【3】What did Heller think of the activity?

A.It was a waste of study time.

B.It helped students to learn.

C.It failed to achieve its purpose.

D.It interested many students in cooking.

30、A wise man was passing through a city. While he was walking, he _________ a coin on the road. He picked it up. Despite his _________ life, he was satisfied and he had no use of that coin. So, he planned to _________ it. _________, throughout the day he didn’t find such a person. Finally, he reached the _________ area and spent a night there.

Next morning, he _________ up and was told that a king was going for his invasion of another state with his army. When the king saw the wise man, he _________ his army to stop. He came to the wise man and said, “I am going to beat another _________. Thus, my state can be _________. So __________ me to be victorious”.

After __________, the wise man gave the coin to the king! The king was confused with this because he is already one of the __________ kings! He __________ asked, “What’s the meaning?”

The wise man explained, “I found this coin yesterday in your __________. But I had no __________. So I had __________ that I would donate it. I walked around till the evening, but found no one such.

Everyone was living a __________ life. It seemed that they were satisfied with what they had. But today, the king of this state, still has the desire to __________ more and is not satisfied with what he already has. I feel you are __________ this coin.”

The king realized his __________ and gave up the planned war.

【1】

A．noticed

B．lost

C．spent

D．dropped

【2】

A．rich

B．simple

C．single

D．peaceful

【3】

A．throw

B．ignore

C．keep

D．donate

【4】

A．Thus

B．Besides

C．However

D．Therefore

【5】

A．dining

B．waiting

C．walking

D．resting

【6】

A．woke

B．looked

C．stayed

D．dressed

【7】

A．hoped

B．allowed

C．ordered

D．advised

【8】

A．tribe

B．state

C．city

D．king

【9】

A．expanded

B．respected

C．developed

D．blamed

【10】

A．help

B．wait

C．bless

D．promise

【11】

A．consulting

B．thinking

C．chatting

D．bargaining

【12】

A．strongest

B．luckiest

C．healthiest

D．richest

【13】

A．nervously

B．curiously

C．eagerly

D．angrily

【14】

A．city

B．palace

C．house

D．backyard

【15】

A．interest

B．pocket

C．use

D．plan

【16】

A．agreed

B．announced

C．informed

D．decided

【17】

A．happy

B．hard

C．convenient

D．different

【18】

A．defend

B．gain

C．earn

D．borrow

【19】

A．in possession of

B．in search of

C．in need of

D．in charge of

【20】

A．achievement

B．dream

C．existence

D．mistake

31、You can't imagine how crazy I was about football when I was young. For years my life followed a(n) ______: I slipped out of the house, played football until dark and instantly I was infected with malaria. Football was so appealing that I was willing to ______ anything —injuries, punishment, and even sickness—to play it. Soon enough, my mother would rush me to the Sijuwade Hospital. There, the doctor said I needed to be _____ .

My dad often spent the night with me in the hospital while my mother ______ my sister at home. Then came the happiest ______ when my father told me wonderful stories.

My father was a(n) ______ storyteller. In the hospital, he would tell me a story or two, or, sometimes, if he was not too tired, many in response to my request. He ______ bicycle sounds and the howl of the wind so vividly that the pictures would never ______ from my mind. So happy were these moments that I sometimes wished to     ____ my hospital stay.

Because of my mom's strict supervision, it became ______ difficult to steal out. No longer sick, no more stories. ______, I broke into my father's room one evening.

"Dad, you tell me stories only when I'm sick."

My father laughed, "You are already eight and can read by yourself!"

He ______ me a book and said, "Go and read that. It'll tell you stories."

I remember that night clearly. I opened the book and read what turned out to be the most ______ story that I had ever read.

What I discovered that night ______ my life. I became thirsty for books and became a voracious（求知欲强的）______ . I read in the mornings, at nights and in between. Through reading, I felt as though I were on the magical journey to the endless.

【1】

A．pattern

B．custom

C．method

D．aim

【2】

A．avoid

B．risk

C．welcome

D．expect

【3】

A．received

B．adopted

C．admitted

D．accepted

【4】

A．added to

B．led to

C．appealed to

D．tended to

【5】

A．moments

B．years

C．conditions

D．cases

【6】

A．impolite

B．determined

C．gifted

D．terrible

【7】

A．imitated

B．recorded

C．developed

D．selected

【8】

A．give away

B．break away

C．fade away

D．die away

【9】

A．widen

B．extend

C．expand

D．strengthen

【10】

A．extremely

B．hardly

C．directly

D．randomly

【11】

A．Satisfied

B．Shocked

C．Frustrated

D．Excited

【12】

A．posted

B．taught

C．owed

D．handed

【13】

A．fascinating

B．reasonable

C．energetic

D．disappointing

【14】

A．transported

B．transformed

C．substituted

D．accelerated

【15】

A．performer

B．interpreter

C．learner

D．reader

32、   In Germany， it's normal to wear your own clothes at school， since there are no rules about uniform． So why did a few schoolmates and I spend two days _______around the school in uniform？ In fact， during these two days， a rather _______event took place： our MUN （Model United Nations） Conference．

It is a conference _______for students from all German schools who want to see how the United Nations really works． They get an opportunity to _______a country， maybe one they don't know much about， and _______debate with other students from different _______on real problems the world is facing now． The aim is to write a  _______at the end， which will help deal with them．

The _______of our conference was "Transcend Borders： Discover Peace"， which _______that the students would be looking at what caused _______among countries and how to overcome it． "Transcend" is just a longer _______for "cross"．

However， the students _______breaking down not only physical national boundaries， but also those _______different nationalities． Of course， this included how to help others who are forced to flee their homeland， for the people _______all students．

Not only was the conference a _______of thinking about difficult global problems， but also everyone had to speak in English while using correct debating language too．_______job! But of course this was a brilliant _______for everyone there， and after a while， you couldn't even _______the students weren't speaking in their first language!

I'd really _______joining in a conference if you get the chance， and sharing your ______． It's the best way to meet new people and to think about how to make the world a better place．

【1】A. talking B. wandering C. thinking D. debating

【2】A. special B. absurd C. tough D. popular

【3】A. provided B. intended C. celebrated D. known

【4】A. visit B. manage C. represent D. defend

【5】A. softly B. secretly C. unexpectedly D. heatedly

【6】A. ages B. classes C. schools D. countries

【7】A. settlement B. report C. passage D. summary

【8】A. course B. purpose C. plan D. theme

【9】A. informs B. responds C. means D. guarantees

【10】A. disagreement B. discussion C. competition D. complaint

【11】A. process B. phrase C. time D. word

【12】A. gave up B. focused on C. brought up D. broke into

【13】A. beside B. beyond C. behind D. between

【14】A. concerned B. attracted C. changed D. bothered

【15】A. possibility B. challenge C. conversation D. chance

【16】A. Interesting B. Discouraging C. Awkward D. Useful

【17】A. show B. practice C. result D. example

【18】A. check B. guess C. tell D. hear

【19】A. recommend B. consider C. imagine D. avoid

【20】A. feelings B. troubles C. sufferings D. ideas

33、Sitting 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 the uniform they were wearing, or the way they had styled their hair. There was a lot more hidden under the _________.

Catching the eye of a girl in my grade sitting at a nearby table, I waved _________. She smiled weakly and then continued to pick at the spaghetti in front of her. If I hadn’t _________ recently that her mother was dying of leukemia, I would have never _________ anything was wrong and I may not have been as _________ and sympathetic, either. It suddenly _________ me that we judge others too quickly without knowing the whole story.

I have an incurable lung disease. No one at our school knows—I don’t show any noticeable _________ except for a few coughs. I go about my day like any other kid, __________ with the realization that I have a __________ and terrifying future.

Before that day when I decided to __________ the world with a new perspective, I __________ myself almost every day. I thought only about myself and my heavy __________. But I’ve now realized no one is __________—we just need to accept the way we 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．politely

B．wildly

C．coldly

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．schedule

【15】

A．changeable

B．perfect

C．unique

D．different

34、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

The Internet E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic age possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on 【1】 relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.

Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quiet 【2】.” They say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends-not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so 【3】 supporting.

The technological leader promised us that access would make life more convenient. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to 【4】 us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy 【5】.

If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast 【6】 land, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the 【7】 of all resources.

And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really 【8】 in the e-economy age. If this new technology 【9】 is only about super efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a(n) 【10】 human being.

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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.

36、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.

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.

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.

38、假定你是李华，你在你校举行的某一次国际冬令营中结交了一个英国中学生Tom。他了解到中国爆发的新冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)疫情，组织了他学校的中文合唱团(chorus)倾情演唱中文歌《让世界充满爱》(A world filled with love)，为武汉加油。你看了这个小视频非常感动，请给他写一封英文感谢信。要点如下：

1. 表达感动和感谢；

2. 告诉他你的现状；

3. 表达信心和愿望。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

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Yours,

Li Hua

39、假定你是王轩，在不久前的英国之行中得到了Green夫妇的帮助。请你给他们写一封邮件，内容主要包括：

1.简述他们对你的帮助；

2.表达感激之情；

3.邀请他们来中国。

注意：1.词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Green,

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Yours truly,

Wang Xuan

40、假定你是李华，想邀请外教Henry一起参观人工智能展览。请给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1．展览时间、地点（四月1~7日，科技馆）；

2．展览内容（如智能家用机器人、无人驾驶、人脸识别技术等）。

注意：1．词数100左右；可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Henry,

How is everything going?

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Yours,

LiHua

41、假设你是李华，得知你校将举办2020 “最美中国” (Amazing China)手机摄影大赛。请你写一封邮件，告诉你的朋友Peter这一消息。要点如下：

1. 作品内容：自然风光、文化遗迹等；

2. 作品要求：注明时间、地点和标题；

3. 投稿方式：10月15日前发至邮箱Liuying @ HHschoool. com。

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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