2025-2026年黑龙江双鸭山高二下册期末英语试卷含解析

1、His election campaigns were infamous for their cruelty — he often made sure that those who did not vote for him would never vote again — but the ________ of his involvement has never been clear.

A．vision

B．vulnerability

C．depth

D．misconception

2、It seems that houses________ like mushrooms almost in the night during the housing boom. Which of the following is IMPROPER?

A.pop up B.spring up

C.shoot up D.stick up

3、In order to make greater progress in English, he attends extra classes ________.

A．every other days

B．every other day

C．each second days

D．each two days

4、The noise gradually ______ and the whole city was in complete silence.

A. faded out B. gave out

C. ran out D. worked out

5、But a change, no matter how ________ it is needed, doesn't just happen.

A. desperately B. frequently

C. universally D. violently

6、The researchers were confident that their unusual technique could finally provide a （n）_________ to drugs in treating heart conditions.

A.alternative B.access C.witness D.application

7、All should be treated equally ________ social status.

A．because of

B．in favour of

C．in terms of

D．regardless of

8、---Some people showed little interest in the meeting and were absent from it.

---_________.

A. So it was with my friend B. So did my friend

C. So my friend did D. Nor it was with my friend

9、--- Will you lend me some money?

--- Sorry, mine _______.

A．were used up

B．has run out

C．have run out

D．has run out of

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

A. remaining; helped B. remaining; helping

C. remained; helped D. remained; helping

11、It is generally believed that teaching is _______ it is a science.

A. an art much as B. much an art as

C. as an art much as D. as much an art as

12、—Can I help you, sir？

—Yes, I bought this radio here yesterday, but it________.

A.didn’t work B.won’t work

C.can’t work D.doesn’t work

13、________ you have picked up, you must give it back to ________ it belongs to.

A. Whatever; whoever B. What; whoever

C. No matter what; no matter who D. Whatever; no matter who

14、—Has ISIS, the most shameful terrorist group, already been wiped off the earth?

—I guess not, but I think it ought to ______ .

A.be done B.have been C./ D.have

15、No sooner ________ home ________ I told him the exciting news.

A．had he got; when

B．had he got; than

C．he had got; when

D．he had got; than

16、The event has not only increased public________of world hunger, but raised a lot of money for the poor children.

A.direction B.contribution C.awareness D.loneliness

17、Only when he told me________what trouble he was in.

A．did I realize B．I realized

C．do I realize   D．I realize

18、The mother saw her baby fall to the ground, ________ brought her heart to her mouth.

A.it B.and that C.and which D.that

19、On a ________ morning the little girl was found ________ at the corner of the street.

A.freezing, freezing B.freezing, frozen C.frozen, frozen D.frozen, freezing

20、Jenny can’t ______ to buy that mobile phone as it is too expensive.

A.offer B.pay C.afford D.spend

21、Nearly 3,500 years ago, people chewed on leaves ________ a special chemical to reduce body pains and fever.

A. possessed B. to possess C. having possessed D. possessing

22、We _____ the disabled students so we will do all that we can to help them.

A.feel much sympathy for B.are out of sympathy with

C.win sympathy of D.expressing sympathy for

23、Considerable resources have been devoted to _____ him a liar.

A. prove B. proven

C. proving D. proved

24、—Mary is not equal to the job, and neither is Mike.

— I can’t agree more. You know, Mike is ______ competent than Mary.

A. not more B. no more

C. no less D. not less

25、A lot of people _____the theory that acupuncture blocks pain signals from reaching the brain.

A.apply to B.submit to C.relate to D.subscribe to

26、Special Morning Tours

Our volunteer-led morning tours are limited to a maximum of 20 places per tour to provide a unique visiting experience. The price includes a British Museum souvenir guidebook.

The tours begin at 09:00 and will last for 60 minutes including time at the end to take photographs. Please come to the Main entrance on Great Russell Street (WC1B 3DG) at 08:50 with your email confirmation.

Please note that wheeled cases and large items of luggage are not allowed on British Museum premises. Cloakroom facilities are not available on these tours.

An introduction to the British Museum

£30 per person

In Room 1 (Enlightenment) and Room 2 (Collecting the world) you will learn how Europeans understood the world in the 18th century, tracing the beginning of the British Museum and the development of the extraordinary collection.

An introduction to Ancient Egypt

£30 per person

In the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery (Room 3) you will see impressive statues of kings and gods, monumental tomb architecture and ancient tomb reliefs(浮雕) spanning three thousand years. These include the world-famous Rosetta Stone – key to deciphering hieroglyphs（象形文字）. You will learn the importance of large-scale sculpture in ancient Egyptian temples and tombs, and get the perfect introduction to this unmissable collection.

An introduction to China and South Asia

£30 per person

In the Gallery of China and South Asia (Room 4), you will gain an insight into the development of Chinese civilizations, from 5000 BC to the present day. In this beautifully decorated space, you will see from blue and white porcelain(陶瓷) of the Ming dynasty to superb Buddhist and Hindu sculptures.

【1】Which of the following descriptions about the special morning tours is NOT true?

A. Every visitor will be given a British Museum souvenir guidebook for free.

B. Volunteers will show the visitors around.

C. The 60-minute tour needs to be reserved online in advance.

D. Visitors are banned from taking wheeled cases into British Museum.

【2】What is the key to deciphering hieroglyphs?

A. Statues of kings and gods B. Monumental tomb architecture

C. World-famous Rosetta Stone D. Ancient tomb reliefs

【3】What will you learn about in Room 4?

A. The beginning of the British Museum.

B. The development of Chinese civilization.

C. The spread of Buddhism.

D. The decoration of Hindu sculptures

27、   When you think of friends，you tend to think of people who have been in your for a long time.But there’s another kind of friend— one that appears  at a particular moment.

The first such friend I remember is a Russian girl I met in London at the age four.That year, my mother had remarried and we'd be moving to the UK.Everything was changing to me. The Russian girl and I were the two oldest in our school.She spoke no English;I，no Russian. We communicated by trying to go beyond the other at drawing,at games, even at eating. Our contests gave me something I could control.And maybe I gave her the same.

In my eight，I grade, there was Jenny, who had a small horse named Red Wing. The eighth grade was a terrible year. We both knew it, but we didn’t talk about it. We spent most of our time with Red Wing. On cold winter days, we’d go out and take turns riding and walk. She left in  the ninth grade and I missed her.

To Julie，I'll be forever grateful. We met on the beach in New Jersey one afternoon. She was there with her twin boys，the only other children there，and they were about the same age as my daughter. Gradually，the children approached each other and soon were digging holes together. And we began to talk. She lived in the little beach town. I lived alone with my daughter in a big apartment a block from the beach. My husband had taken off for North Da- kota,leaving me to think about what to do next. Suddenly，there was someone I could talk to. For the next couple of weeks，we met at the beach with the children，and I would go home with her. Meeting Julie filled my despairing heart.

Such friends as these often arrive when your own life is off—balance，and will support you till the world settles on its axis(轴线）once again.

【1】How did the friendship between the author and the Russian girl develop?

A.They had many common interests.

B.They competed with each other.

C.They shared the same activities together.

D.They showed great concern for each other.

【2】What did the author get from Julie?

A.Great comfort. B.Deep wisdom.

C.Financial support. D.Patient care.

【3】What’s the similarity between the three friends mentioned in the text?

A.They appeared when the author was in trouble.

B.They stayed with the author for a long time.

C.They shared the same painful experience.

D.They were lifelong friends of the author.

【4】What does the author want to convey?

A.A friend in need is a friend indeed.

B.He is rich enough who has true friends.

C.A friend is a present which you give yourself.

D.Some friends are arranged in our lives for good reason.

28、WHAT are scientists? They are often described as gray-haired white-coated dull scholars.

But the world has changed. Young scientists are making their voices heard and releasing their powers on the world stage.

This is also true in China. Rising stars include new materials expert Gong Yongji, university professor Liu Mingzhen, and biologist Wang Ruixue. At the age of 28 in 2018, Wan Ruixue received the 2018 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists. This is a global prize to reward outstanding scientists at an early stage of their careers.

She focuses mainly on biomedicine(生物医学)and artificial intelligence(人工智能). "Both are cutting-edge(前沿)technologies at an early stage of development," she said.

"So, I think they have great potential to be developed. I think in the study of cutting-edge technologies, China and other leading countries in the world are standing on the same starting line. And in the study of structural biology, China is likely to become the leader."

She felt it was her fate to become a biologist. "I grew interested in the natural world, when I was very young," she said. In 2009, she entered Sun Yat-sen University.

In her third year at the university, she realized that she wanted to do something related to biomedicine. So she emailed China's top biologist Shi Yigong, hoping to join his lab at Tsinghua University.

Shi recognized her talent and welcomed her. Years of efforts at the lab have paid off. Her research on the high-definition 3D structure of spliceosome led to a scientific breakthrough.

Unlike-many of other young scientists who choose to pursue further study abroad, Wan currently has no plan to go overseas.

"The whole ecosystem for scientific research is continually improving in China," she said, adding the country has great science facilities.

【1】What does the underlined word "releasing" in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Giving out.

B．Getting over.

C．Finding out.

D．Taking over.

【2】What does Wan Ruixue feel about the study of cutting-edge technologies in China?

A．Anxious.

B．Confident.

C．Disappointed.

D．Satisfied.

【3】What can we learn about Wang Ruixue's journey of becoming a biologist?

A．Her teacher led her into the field.

B．She finds it's easier than she thought.

C．Her contribution has been recognized.

D．She thinks it's boring but worth trying.

【4】Which can be the best title of the text?

A．China's Breakthrough in Science

B．Rising Young Scientists in China

C．Wan Ruixue: A Successful Young Scientist

D．New Image of Chinese Scientists

29、   Like all big cities, Paris has a traffic problem: lots of cars, lots of traffic jams （阻塞）and lots of pollution from exhaust fumes （废气）.So the city began a scheme （计划）to improve the situation.

Under the Velib scheme （ “ Velib” comes from velo liberte, or “ bicycle freedom” ） people can take a bicycle, use it for as long as they want, and then leave it at the same or another bicycle station. The first half-hour on the bike is free, but if you do not return it after 30 minutes , you have to pay. it's only €1 a day or €29 a year! The bicycles are heavy（25 kg） , and they are all grey and have baskets. There are about 20,000 of them in the city, and around 1,450 bicycle stations. So there are a lot more Velib stations than the 298 subway stations!

Paris is not the first city to have a scheme like this. But not everybody thinks it is a great idea. One Parisian said, "These bicycles are only for short journeys. If people want to travel across the city, they wont use a bicycle - they'll still use their cars."

A city spokesman said, “The bicycle scheme will not settle all our traffic problems, of course. But it might help reduce air pollution. Traffic, together with factory fumes, is a big problem. There are not any simple answers to traffic problems and pollution in cities. But unless we do something now, there will be more traffic jams and temperatures will continue to rise, so the problems in our environment will get worse. The bikes might help people to lead a healthier life, too."

【1】What can we learn about the Velib scheme?

A.It owns more stations than the subway.

B.It aims to make traveling easier.

C.Its bikes are light and colorful.

D.Its bikes have no baskets.

【2】If you use a Velib for one hour, how much should you pay?

A.€30. B.€30.

C.€ 29. D.€1.

【3】Why do some people disagree with the Velib scheme?

A.The cost is rather high. ,

B.It is hard to find a Velib station.

C.It is not suitable for a long journey.

D.The distance between two Velib stations is long.

【4】What's the city spokesman's attitude towards the bicycle scheme?

A.Doubtful. B.Positive.

C.Uncaring. D.Worried.

30、   I finished my exams when I was 18 and decided to come back to school for a special one-week course. My school looked very different. Ramps（坡道）had been set up on the___________ in the classrooms. My schoolmates and I were _________by around 30 others mostly_____________people like us, but who seemed very _______________. Some were in _______________;one boy was blind; one spoke through a computer like the scientist Stephen Hawking. Others had mental_______, behaving like children or speaking in a_______ way.

My ___________  wasn’t about caring for disabled people like doctors and nurses; it was about ___________ and having fun with them. We went to museums and ______________ London; we held snakes when a mobile zoo visited the school; we worked together to__________ dances, artwork and music.

Everyone was __________ up with one or two disabled people and shared a bedroom with them. It wasn’t easy to ______________ everyone’s individual requirements. Most of us had never had to change a diaper（尿布）__________let alone the diaper of a disabled person.When I got home at the end of the ____________, I was exhausted. All my ____________  had been given to other people. But the thrill of making a difference for others was __________ where all that energy had come from. I had never________ that I could do so much.

I am still in __________  with my disabled friends. Dorcas is 65; she has written 10 books using a stick to________ the keyboard. Susie is 26; she carries a wand（魔杖）to  cast “happiness” on everyone she sees.

【1】A.blackboards B.walls C.platforms D.stairs

【2】A.joined B.pleased C.envied D.received

【3】A.normal B.young C.ordinary D.special

【4】A.sad B.different C.innocent D.happy

【5】A.armchairs B.uniform C.wheelchairs D.rags

【6】A.states B.activities C.treatments D.disabilities

【7】A.confused B.disgusting C.determined D.boring

【8】A.course B.interest C.holiday D.hobby

【9】A.living on B.staying up C.hanging out D.turning around

【10】A.built B.occupied C.explored D.defended

【11】A.create B.hold C.teach D.reform

【12】A.kept B.fed C.caught D.teamed

【13】A.meet B.ignore C.remove D.describe

【14】A.yet B.again C.then D.before

【15】A.day B.week C.month D.year

【16】A.money B.energy C.tasks D.presents

【17】A.mostly B.partly C.exactly D.hardly

【18】A.argued B.realized C.mentioned D.explained

【19】A.line B.trouble C.agreement D.touch

【20】A.clean B.break C.press D.connect

31、   Michael Evans was standing in line at the Treasurer's Office last August. _______, he heard a disturbing sound ahead of him.The elderly woman at the window was crying, and so was the cashier helping her.Then Evans _______ that the woman would lose her house because she could not _______the taxes.He was also _______ that the woman's daughter had recently_______.

Evans,a _______ who had just buried his father,couldn't _______ the idea of this woman losing her house right after losing her child. He _______ the window. “Sorry to interrupt,” he said to the cashier, “_______ if you can get her house back, I'll pay for her taxes.” The amount due: $5,000.

The two women were surprised. Their despair(绝望)turned to ________.The cashier left for a moment to ________ the amount and that it was ________ for Evans to pay it. Evans promised to go straight to the________to withdraw the money and come right back.And he did.

Why does Evans give so much to a ________?"Honestly,I don't like ________ money in the banks.Doing things with your money is better."________ paying the elderly woman's taxes,he says he did it"for no other reason but to ________ the lady was in her house.”

Michael Evans Sr.is nearing 60 and will________ soon. His son will carry on with his business. “I ________ my life after him,” Evans II says of his father. “When I have ________,I want them to look at me the way I look at my dad.”

【1】A.Fortunately B.Gradually C.Actually D.Suddenly

【2】A.hoped B.noticed C.learned D.remembered

【3】A.afford B.charge C.offer D.refuse

【4】A.worried B.shocked C.disappointed D.ashamed

【5】A.passed away B.hung around C.broken down D.set off

【6】A.businessman B.politician C.journalist D.detective

【7】A.receive B.bear C.share D.gain

【8】A.closed B.seized C.approached D.opened

【9】A.and B.so C.though D.but

【10】A.cheer B.satisfaction C.sorrow D.disbelief

【11】A.add B.confirm C.determine D.evaluate

【12】A.fair B.wise C.fine D.lucky

【13】A.bank B.home C.company D.office

【14】A.patient B.passer-by C.consumer D.stranger

【15】A.raising B.putting C.hiding D.wasting

【16】A.In spite of B.In terms of C.As for D.Apart from

【17】A.announce B.guarantee C.expect D.discover

【18】A.escape B.forget C.decline D.retire

【19】A.honor B.live C.model D.spend

【20】A.kids B.students C.employees D.companions

32、My parents were so proud of me, especially of something I accomplished. This is one of my happiest memories and, sadly, also the _______ I have of my parents. They _______ in one evening when some drunken men crashed their car into them.

From then on, I was _______. I missed them greatly, but_______surprisingly well on my own. If they were alive, they would be most _______ of the moment I met my best friend, Eliza Jones. I'm also most proud of that _______

It was a June evening. I was seventeen years old and sitting on a tree branch, listening to the music the water created under the bridge. Just then I noticed a(n) _______ appear on the bridge. Suddenly it stopped on the top of the bridge and _______ to the river.

I _______ up and launched myself at the falling figure. I had never swum at this ________. I had to catch it; ________ I would never forgive myself. I swam faster and faster and ________ the figure. I laid the person on the riverbank and found it was a girl, about my age. She asked me why I tried to ________ her. I said I couldn't just watch someone didn't ________ her life. Then we talked and I found we both liked to read about fairies.

She told me she was a writer who wanted to travel around the world and write amazing fantasy novels. I was glad she had a target for the future. I said, 'Tomorrow morning the sun will rise, bringing with it the ________ of another start. ' And she promised she would continue living well. After that I had a fond memory of the bridge.

【1】

A．easiest

B．longest

C．deepest

D．last

【2】

A．died

B．escaped

C．returned

D．married

【3】

A．stubborn

B．nervous

C．unaccompanied

D．impatient

【4】

A．travelled

B．played

C．changed

D．managed

【5】

A．frightened

B．proud

C．aware

D．confident

【6】

A．moment

B．advice

C．achievement

D．dream

【7】

A．accident

B．poster

C．pattern

D．figure

【8】

A．referred

B．jumped

C．turned

D．pointed

【9】

A．turned

B．spoke

C．shot

D．woke

【10】

A．atmosphere

B．speed

C．length

D．chance

【11】

A．otherwise

B．instead

C．however

D．besides

【12】

A．created

B．discovered

C．grasped

D．abandoned

【13】

A．rescue

B．remember

C．support

D．suspect

【14】

A．review

B．treasure

C．check

D．choose

【15】

A．background

B．operation

C．appointment

D．promise

33、I will never forget the year when I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be_______Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d_______?" Just when I started to_______that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women_______at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of_______that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t_______. Somebody had thought _______ of me to bring me a gift.

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my_______Christmas there special and memorable, I_______remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of__________for as many children as I could possibly reach.

So I__________a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans(孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, __________with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were__________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I__________them that they couldn’t open their presents__________every child had come forward. Finally the__________they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles__________up the room. The__________in the room was obvious, and__________wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling—the feeling I knew__________that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.

【1】

A．sending

B．receiving

C．making

D．exchanging

【2】

A．found

B．prepared

C．got

D．expected

【3】

A．doubt

B．hope

C．suggest

D．accept

【4】

A．broke in

B．settled down

C．turned up

D．showed off

【5】

A．relief

B．loss

C．achievement

D．justice

【6】

A．blamed

B．loved

C．forgotten

D．affected

【7】

A．highly

B．little

C．poorly

D．enough

【8】

A．present

B．first

C．recent

D．previous

【9】

A．hardly

B．immediately

C．regularly

D．occasionally

【10】

A．strength

B．independence

C．importance

D．safety

【11】

A．kept up with

B．caught up with

C．came up with

D．put up with

【12】

A．none

B．few

C．some

D．each

【13】

A．fine

B．special

C．helpful

D．normal

【14】

A．reminded

B．guaranteed

C．predicted

D．promised

【15】

A．after

B．until

C．when

D．since

【16】

A．chance

B．gift

C．moment

D．reward

【17】

A．lit

B．took

C．burned

D．cheered

【18】

A．atmosphere

B．sympathy

C．calmness

D．joy

【19】

A．it

B．such

C．something

D．everybody

【20】

A．by

B．till

C．for

D．from

34、阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Everyone has their own unique fingerprint; 【1】 makes fingerprints an ideal way to unlock smartphones. However, this may be 【2】 (safe) than we think.

Scientists at New York University and Michigan State University in the US have developed a set of fake fingerprints. They say that the prints 【3】 unlock any fingerprint-enabled smartphone up to 65 percent of the time.

The artificial fingerprints 【4】 (create) by using many common features found in human prints. They work 【5】 taking advantage of the way smartphone scanners check a fingerprint.

The fingerprint scanners   【6】 (use) in smartphones are so small that they only read parts of fingerprints. So they have to take many scans of your finger or thumb (拇指) 【7】 they work properly. Smartphones also let users save several finger and thumbprints. Since a print only has to match one of the saved images 【8】 (unlock) the phone, the scanner is more likely to make mistakes.

Although the scientists have only tested their findings in computer simulations (模拟), 【9】 (worry) about the safety of using fingerprints are reasonable .They warn that the technology used to create artificial fingerprints is improving   【10】 (extreme) fast.

35、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

My daughter

(A story told by a father, a famous actor)

My wife and I only had the one child. We had Amy.

I see her as my best friend. I think she’d always come to me first if she had a problem. We have the same sense of humor, and share interests. 【1】 I don’t mind animals, she’s completely fascinated with them, and she has always had dogs, cats, horses, and goldfish in her life.

We were 【2】 (close) when she was about four, which I think is a lovely age for a child. They know the parents best, and don’t have outside contacts. She must have grown up suddenly when she went to school, because I remember her growing away from her family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter comes across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to be an endless stream of strange young men 【3】 (come) through our house. By the time I learned their names they 【4】 (go) away and I had to start learning a new lot.

I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in 【5】 she was doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on her way. When she left a good school she decided she wanted to become an actress so I got her into drama school. It wasn’t to her liking so she joined a theatre group and began doing bits and pieces in films. She was doing well, but then gave it up. She probably found it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to work 【6】a designer and he became her husband. And that’s really the story of her life. She must be happy with him—they’re always together.

We have such similar tastes in books and music 【7】 I used to take her to see an opera, which is my big passion. However, I don’t think she likes it very much. She doesn’t come with me anymore.

I don’t think she’s a big television watcher. She knows when I’m on the television, and she 【8】 watch, but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she tells me.

We’re very grateful for Amy. She’s a good daughter as daughters go. We’re looking forward to being grandparents.

36、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.

37、阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Smell the flowers before you go to sleep and you may just end up with rosy dreams. Have a whiff of rotten(腐烂的)eggs during the night and your dreams may be【1】(pleasant). So says researcher Dr. Boris Stuck, 【2】invited sleeping volunteers to a rose vs. rotten egg test in the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany. The subjects didn’t dream about roses【3】eggs, but rather he found that what they smelt affected the emotions of【4】(they) dreams.

And if you think【5】(smell) have a say in dreams, wait for what TV tells us. A UK study reveals that people exposed【6】black-and-white film and TV in their youth are to have monochromic(单色的)dreams throughout their life more【7】(probable). Eva Murzyn from the University of Dundee tested two age groups— one half 【8】(age) over 55 and【9】other half under 25.

The result? Under 5% of the dreams of the under-25s were in black and white. 【10】(watch)color TV in childhood seems to be the reason why.

38、假如你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的英国朋友Jim得知你要参加CCTV《朗读者》节目的录制，来信询问相关情况。请你给Jim回信。内容包括：

1.你朗读的内容；

2.你选择上述内容的原因；

3.上述内容对你的影响。

注意：1.词数不少于50；

2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jim,

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Yours,

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39、假定你是李华。上周你阅读了一篇关于机器人的文章，收获颇丰。请你用英语给美国朋友Mendez写封邮件，和他谈谈此事。内容包括：

1. 机器人的作用；

2. 你对机器人的看法。

注意：1. 总词数80左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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40、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Reading a book and watching a film are two very different experiences, but it’s normal to have high expectations when a film of a favourite book is made. There are very many times I have been disappointed by a film of a book I love. The films can be adapted from classic novels, short stories, comic books and stage plays, as well as non-fictions, even those written by ghostwriters. All can work well, but why do many adaptations fail with both cinema audiences and critics?

A key question is obviously how close to the original the film is. Since a typical film is only around two hours long, it becomes a question for the screenwriters to decide what to leave out and how to write the dialogue. Sometimes there may be changes to the plot, additions, and even different endings. I, like many people, have often left the cinema feeling “the film is not like the book”.

Another problem is the cast. Finding actors acceptable to film audiences can mean the difference between success and failure. Readers have their imaginations about how characters look and sound. This is where I think many film adaptations fall down.

Some books are just too difficult to film for technical reasons, although movies like The Life of Pi are very successful. CGI (Computer Generated Image) technology has had a huge impact on the movie industry. It allowed the previously unfilmable to become a reality.

One may think that it is the book writer who is in the best position to do film adaptations. In fact, this can actually be a bad thing because they may be too close to the material and find it difficult to adapt. Also, some writers have been very unsatisfied with the film versions of their work. Roald Dahl and Stephen King are examples of this. For me, anyway, it is always a bad idea to watch a film of a book you love.

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41、英国某教育机构暑假期间在伦敦举办国际高中生交流活动(international high school students' exchange project)，现征集参加人员。假定你是高中生李华，对此很感兴趣，请你根据以下写作要点用英语给活动的负责人Mr. Smith写一封申请信。

要点如下：

1．表示对该活动的兴趣；

2．简要介绍你具备的能力。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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