2025-2026学年甘肃甘南州高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、It’s high time that we against spreading false information on the Internet.

A.will fight B.fought C.would fight D.fight

2、One of the secretary’s jobs is to ___________ letters and mails.

A.help out B.dry out C.sort out D.stick out

3、Taking a close look at their respective (各自的) historical contexts, purposesand principles, huge differences can be ______ between the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路倡议) and the Marshall Plan (马歇尔计划).

A.condemned B.identified C.abused D.twisted

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

A．how

B．why

C．that

D．when

5、Many young people in the west are expected to leave ________ could be life’s most important decision—marriage—almost entirely up to luck.

A．as   B．that   C．which D．What

6、That was not the first time he ____ us. I think it's high time we ____ strong actions against him.

A．betrayed, take

B．had betrayed, took

C．has betrayed, took

D．has betrayed, take

7、—Tom________Mary two years ago.

—You mean they have ________ for two years.

A.got married with；been married to B.got married to；been married

C.was married to；got married D.was married with；been married

8、The children’s activities out of classroom   from watching TV to playing chess.

A.rate B.range C.involve D.include

9、We love such beautiful things as flowers, but beauty itself is _____.

A. abstract B. typical

C. generous D. stubborn

10、 I want to tell you is the deep love and respect I have for my parents.

A．That

B．Which

C．Whether

D．What

11、-With American tech companies cutting ties with China's Huaiwei, US___________ the global economic recovery now.

-I can’t agree more. I believe more damage is on the way.

A.is damaging B.has damaged C.damaged D.had damaged

12、Japanese groups sent assistance supplies to China, _____  with ancient Chinese poetic lines: "Fear not the want of armor, for mine is also yours to wear", _____ a touching message of empathy(共鸣) from a close neighbor.

A.attached; conveying B.being attached; conveying

C.attaching; conveyed D.to attach; conveyed

13、Your promise is nothing unless it is ________.

A.figured out B.carried out C.dropped out D.stood out

14、Every time I look at the old photos, I am ________ back to my early childhood.

A. translated B. transferred

C. transported D. transformed

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

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

16、—You like the Lenovo Computer. Why not buy one?

—Well. I can’t afford ________ computer.

A.that expensive a B.a that expensive C.that an expensive D.an expensive that

17、It was ____________ from her face that she was really hopeless and upset.

A. severe B. superb

C. apparent D. significant

18、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

19、—Are you familiar with Chengdu?

—No, this is the first time my parents and I ______here.

A．was B．came

C．have been   D．are coming

20、You are doing it in a wrong way. It   this way.

A.used to do B.is used to doing C.used to be done D.is used to do

21、______ a wrong bus, the travelers found themselves in a small remote village at last.

A. Having taken B. To take

C. Taken D. Took

22、With the boy______ the way, we had no difficulty ______the village.

A．to lead; to find

B．leading; to find

C．leading; finding

D．to lead; finding

23、---Can you see the building clearly in the foggy day?                       

--- It makes no _______to me whether it’s foggy or not, for I’m blind.

A．sense

B．mistake

C．difference

D．meaning

24、Jack is late again. It is ______ of him to keep others waiting.

A.normal B.ordinary C.typical D.common

25、They both look as if they ______ ten years younger after a heart-to-heart talk.

A.are B.were C.have been D.had been

26、   Once an old man used to go out to jog every morning. One day he was running around a track that circled the high school football field while the football team was conducting their practice. When the players began running their races up and down the field, the man said to himself determinedly, “I'll just keep running if they don't stop.” So they ran and he ran. They kept on running and he kept on running.

Finally, totally exhausted, the old man had to stop. When he stopped, an equally exhausted football player walked over to him and said, “Sir, I'm glad you finally stopped. Our coach has told us that we have to keep running as long as you are jogging!

It seems to me that we can sometimes find ourselves in a similar kind of situation when it comes to conflicts—that is when we have different opinions about something with someone and get into an argument with him or her, our voices get raised. Neither side wants to be the first to give in, to stop speaking in anger. Everyone has the attitude, “I'll just keep on till he gives in.” So the other party stays mad. So we stay mad. And on we go, finally finding ourselves emotionally and even physically exhausted by the continuing animosity(敌意).

Let me challenge you to do something very difficult. The next time you get into an argument, be the first to give in. Be the first to stop the shouting and the name-calling. Be the first to say, “I'm sorry.” It's the quickest way to stop that. As a saying goes, “A soft answer turns away extreme anger, but a harsh(严厉的）word stirs up anger.”

【1】What happened to the old man that day?

A.He guided the students to practice running.

B.He joined the football team to play a game.

C.He asked the players to take care of the football field.

D.He decided to compete with the football players.

【2】Why did the football player come to the old man?

A.To show respect for his great courage.

B.To praise him for his good performance.

C.To express satisfaction with his stopping running.

D.To complain to him about his keeping running.

【3】What does the underlined word “conflicts” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A.Misunderstandings. B.Disagreements.

C.Misfortunes. D.Disappointments.

【4】What's the purpose of the last paragraph?

A.To provide the effective way to make an apology.

B.To show it is hard for us to take up the challenge.

C.To warn us to control our bad emotion properly.

D.To advise us to take active action when we disagree with others.

27、Ready to take a gap year？ A "Gap Year" is a period of time when a student takes a break before going to university. It is often spent travelling or working．【1】

Gap years are popular with European and Australian students, but remain less popular in America. However, in recent years, more and more American students are preparing for college by taking a gap year. The advantages of taking a gap year are as follows：

【2】

Although you don't have to go abroad to experience gap years, most gap year students catch the chance to travel abroad. You are able to work out who you are and what you are for. The experiences of different cultures offer you interesting lessons. You can learn more about the world and get to know yourself better．

Face challenges and have fun

A gap year is not only a time to take a vacation, but also a time to face challenges. Gap year students usually work, volunteer or take service projects. You have to learn how to get along in the real world. This process isn't always easy, but it is an important part of growing up．【3】

Save money and improve your college admission chances

There's a common thought that gap years are only for rich students, but it's not true. Actually, taking a gap year can save your money. Gap year students often take a part-time job. Besides, at the end of a gap year, students are much more likely to know what to study in college. 【4】

【5】Both of them are excellent and have high grades. However, one student has much practical experience or has volunteered in his vacation. Who do you think the admission officer will choose？

A．Learn about the world and yourself

B．Only in this way can you enjoy life and have fun．

C．Check out your gap year choices before making the right decision．

D．It can give young people useful learning experiences and new skills．

E．Imagine an admission officer trying to admit only one between two students．

F．More students than ever before are taking a gap year before going to university．

G．Clear learning goals can keep the students working hard instead of wasting time and money playing．

28、   Have you ever wanted to feel like you were in a western film? Or maybe you wanted to feel like you were a pioneer traveling the west? It is possible to experience such things during a Wild West vacation! Here are four of the best Wild West vacation locations available:

Walk the Lewis and Clark Trail

Walk some or all of the 3,700 miles trail that was traversed by Mariwether Lewis and William Clark, two of the world's greatest explorers. Though not all the trails are marked, there are various stops that have been preserved by various historic societies. There is also a coach (长途客车)that makes a 16-day trek following the trail. This begins in St. Louis, Missouri, and ends in Astoria, Oregon.

Venture Route 66

Take a tour or go to see it yourself-ride on the famous Route 66. The road is nearly 2, 500 miles long. Harley Davidson offers motorcycle tours that last two weeks. Route 66 will provide an experience that may only be found on the open road. The historic road is still well taken care of.

Visit the Grand Canyon

Visit the most immense (巨大的)canyon in the world, located in Northern Arizona. Raft down the Colorado River, or hike the various trails that run throughout the canyon. If walking is not your thing, there are donkey and horse riding adventures available. In addition, there are motorized boats that float down through the canyon in a week's time.

Visit Deadwood

Located in South Dakota, Deadwood is a historic landmark. It is the kind of town that comes to mind when one thinks of an old western film. Actors who act as gunslingers (杀手）will often be seen in the streets playing their roles. Winter activities are popular in this old town, and there is always something to do.

【1】What do we know from the passage?

A.None of the trails in the west are marked.

B.A number of historic stops aren't preserved well.

C.Western films are the most popular among Americans.

D.William Clark was a pioneer who explored the west.

【2】The underlined word "trek" in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by" .

A.long and hard journey B.traveling information

C.beautiful scenery D.pleasant holiday

【3】Which of the following riding adventures can tourists take on Route 66?

A.A horse riding adventure.

B.A coach riding adventure.

C.A motorcycle riding adventure.

D.A donkey riding adventure.

29、Buildings can become greener. They can use more recycled steel and can be built in off-site factories，greatly reducing lorry journeys. But no other building material has environmental credentials（认证）as exciting and overlooked as wood.

The energy required to produce a laminated（复合的）wooden beam is one-sixth of that required for a steel one of comparable strength. As trees take carbon out of the atmosphere when growing，wooden buildings contribute to negative emissions by storing the stuff. When a mature tree is cut down，a new one can be planted to replace it，capturing more carbon. After buildings are pulled down，old beams and panels are easy to recycle into new structures. And for improving older buildings to be more energy efficient，wood is a good insulator（绝缘体），A softwood window frame provides nearly 400 times as much insulation as a plain steel one of the same thickness and over a thousand times as much as an aluminium one.

A race is on to build the world's tallest fully wooden skyscraper. But such buildings are still uncommon. Industry disunity，cut-throat competition for contracts and low profit margins（差额）mean that most building firms have little money for greener construction methods beyond what regulation requires

Governments can help urge the industry to use more wood，particularly in the public section. That would help wood-building specialists achieve greater scale and lower costs. Zero-carbon building regulations should be changed to take account of the emissions that exist in materials. This would favour wood as well as novel ways of producing other materials.

Construction codes could be adjusted to make building with wood easier. Here the direction of travel is wrong. Britain，for instance，is banning the use of wood on the outside of tall buildings after 72 people died in a tower fire in London in 2017.That is a nonsense. Grenfell Tower was covered in aluminium and plastic，not wood. Modern cross-laminated wood panels perform better in fire tests than steel ones do.

Carpentry alone will not bring the environmental cost of the world's buildings into line.

【1】What's the text mainly about?

A．Wood is the first choice for green buildings.

B．The public section makes good use of wood.

C．Building companies cannot afford greener construction.

D．Steel can reduce the environmental costs of buildings.

【2】What does Paragraph 2 focus on?

A．Origins of wood structures.

B．Advantages of wood for building.

C．Reasons for green window frames.

D．Differences between steel and wood

【3】Which of the following will discourage greener construction?

A．The races of wooden skyscrapers.

B．Strict regulations on materials.

C．The push of the government.

D．Fierce industry competition.

【4】What can be inferred from the text?

A．Wood is to blame for a big building fire.

B．Britain will lift the ban of using wood on the outside wall.

C．Building with wood is facing an unfavorable situation.

D．The environmental costs of buildings rely on carpentry.

30、   Deep down in the sea there is the palace of the Sea King. It is said that once the Sea King had six daughters. The youngest was the most beautiful of them all. Though they were  beautiful, they had no _______, only a fish's tail. They were called mermaid.

_______ gave the youngest Princess greater pleasure than to hear about the world of human beings up above. One day the youngest Princess _______ up above the water. She saw so many beautiful things. She was most _______ in a big ship. There was a young and handsome Prince _______.

There was suddenly a _______ on the sea, and the ship sank. The Prince was _______ drowned. In order to save him the mermaid stayed with the Prince and carried him to the shore. She kissed the _______ Prince and sadly returned to her father's palace under the sea.

In order to win the love of the Prince, the mermaid wanted to _______ her fish's tail and to have a pair of legs. She went to the Sea Witch for help.

“It is very ________ of you.” said the witch. “But I will help you. Take the bottle of ________ with you, sit down on the shore and drink it. You will have legs, but it will hurt as if a sharp sword were ________ through you.”

“I'm willing to stand all the ________,” said the mermaid.

“But remember,” said the witch, “If you do not win the love of the Prince, and if he marries someone  ________, punishment will fall on you and you will become ________.”

“I am willing.” said the mermaid.

“But you have the most beautiful ________,” said the witch., “so I must have that in ________.” then the witch cut out the tongue of the little mermaid, who could not speak from then on.

The next morning, the mermaid did ________ the witch had told her to do. When the Prince saw her, he fell in love with her at once ________, before long, the Prince was going to a neighboring kingdom to  marry another princess. And the mermaid's heart seemed to be ________.

She decided to wish for the Prince's happy life with his beautiful wife. And she herself turned into foam on the sea .

【1】A.skin B.hair C.feet D.heart

【2】A.Nothing B.Something C.Anything D.Everything

【3】A.jumped B.stood C.flowed D.rose

【4】A.anxious B.eager C.interested D.longing

【5】A.on show B.on board C.on sale D.on holiday

【6】A.darkness B.lightning C.storm D.wind

【7】A.nearly B.suddenly C.immediately D.instantly

【8】A.unanswered B.untouched C.unconscious D.unspeakable

【9】A.get rid of B.live along with C.let alone of D.give up to

【10】A.determined B.brave C.foolish D.attractive

【11】A.pills B.medicine C.ash D.soup

【12】A.putting B.digging C.going D.cutting

【13】A.pain B.difficulty C.trouble D.sorrow

【14】A.beautiful B.better C.later D.else

【15】A.fish B.foam C.mermaid D.wave

【16】A.shape B.legs C.voice D.hair

【17】A.award B.exchange C.price D.cost

【18】A.what B.that C.which D.each

【19】A.Besides B.In addition C.Moreover D.However

【20】A.breaking B.beating C.burning D.sliding

31、   Each fall my wife and I go to visit our children. It isn't that they don't like us ___ their lifestyles and their work have _____them to the far corners of North America and we don't get to see them very ___. For several reasons it is ___ for us to visit them than for them to visit us so we get to ______Usually trip number one for the  ___ is the annual journey to Los Angeles to visit our younger son.

Last fall, when we ____Los Angeles, our son took us to a holiday center in Indio, about a two-hour drive east of the city. It was hot there and we spent most of our  ___ in the swimming pool. I liked warm weather but none of us liked it that  ___. The local people are convinced that the late fall  ___ is cool because it doesn't get much over 33 degrees. But it was____over 40 degrees when we stayed there.

After a week in Indio, we returned to Los Angeles to ____ the heat. As we drove and looked west across the city, we could ___  a layer of dirty brown haze (雾霾) trapped above the downtown area. That's what we would be_____ for the next few days.

I don't______Los Angeles. In fact, I wouldn't want to live anywhere in the US and Los Angeles, in particular, is not the place I would___ even if I had to live in the US. To be fair there are many  __  in Los Angeles such as Hollywood, Long Beach and some good restaurants.  __ , having air you can almost taste and traffic jams that can make the simplest trips a nightmare  (噩梦) does not, for me, make a  __  atmosphere in which I would want to spend my time. Nevertheless, because my son loves it, we'll still be_____next year.

【1】A. and B. but C. if D. so

【2】A. invited B. told C. taken D. welcomed

【3】A. well B. often C. actively D. happily

【4】A. earlier B. easier C. faster D. worse

【5】A. walk B. swim C. travel D. work

【6】A. fall B. memory C. state D. reason

【7】A. left B. passed C. called D. reached

【8】A. effort B. time C. money D. courage

【9】A. mild B. cool C. hot D. dry

【10】A. weather B. water C. holiday D. air

【11】A. finally B. luckily C. naturally D. obviously

【12】A. detect B. avoid C. follow D. imagine

【13】A. see B. hold C. hear D. touch

【14】A. testing B. collecting C. breathing D. enjoying

【15】A. forget B. recognize C. like D. understand

【16】A. give up B. settle in C. look for D. turn up

【17】A. lifestyles B. attitudes C. customs D. attractions

【18】A. Besides B. However C. Therefore D. Anyhow

【19】A. free B. heavy C. tense D. nice

【20】A. ahead B. out C. back D. around

32、   Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for scientific _________; I forgot what it was. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, said something, that caught my _________. “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.” _________ a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him. _________ wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking up the _________ of famous people and their discoveries, Ralph was right.

First I looked at some of the _________ discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different _________ fall at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that _________ to Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, _________ of that. Yet I __________ if those “best years” were true in other __________.

Then how about the field of __________? Surely it needs the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it __________, but look when these people __________ their career. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln __________ the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six.

But why __________ best years come after thirty? After thirty, I __________, most people do not want to take risks or try __________ ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty, while the latter was __________ trying new ways of painting when he was ninety years old!

Perhaps there is still __________ for me.

【1】A.invention B.discovery C.experience D.progress

【2】A.mind B.head C.attention D.name

【3】A.For B.Being C.However D.As

【4】A.Everybody B.Somebody C.Nobody D.Whoever

【5】A.names B.ages C.addresses D.education

【6】A.modern B.scientific C.last D.oldest

【7】A.heights B.sizes C.weights D.things

【8】A.led B.meant C.stuck D.referred

【9】A.plenty B.enough C.much D.none

【10】A.understood B.trusted C.wondered D.knew

【11】A.fields B.countries C.courses D.ages

【12】A.agriculture B.politics C.industry D.society

【13】A.is B.will C.has D.does

【14】A.finished B.went C.started D.failed

【15】A.started B.gave up C.began D.led

【16】A.don’t B.the C.can D.not

【17】A.believe B.know C.guess D.agree

【18】A.other B.new C.best D.their

【19】A.always B.still C.seldom D.enjoying

【20】A.discovery B.problem C.wish D.hope

33、   I grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on. With one wall in my bedroom entirely ______ with bookshelves, most of my childhood was ______ on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up thinking of reading as ______ as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in ______ perspectives (观点) by creating worlds we could step into, take part in and live in.

With this ______ belief, I, at fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became ________. Every writer starts off ______ that he has something to say, but being unable to find the _______ ways to say it. He has to find his own voice by reading widely and ______ which parts of the writers he agrees or disagrees with, or agrees with so strongly that it ______ his own world. He cannot write without loving to read, ______ only through reading other people’s writing can one discover what works, what doesn’t and, in the end, together with lots of practice, what voice he has.

Now I am in college, and have come to realize how ______ it is to read fiction (文学作品)．As a law student, my reading is in fact ______ to subject matter—the volume of what I have to read for classes every week ______ there is little time to read anything else. Such reading made it all the ______ to me that I live in a very small part in this great place called ______. Reading fiction ______ me that there is life beyond my own. It allows me to travel ______ the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the ______ of my own armchair, to experience, though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldn’t  ______ be able to have in my lifetime.

【1】A.packed B.lined C.filled D.crowded

【2】A.cost B.paid C.charged D.spent

【3】A.natural B.normal C.free D.difficult

【4】A.shaping B.creating C.building D.destroying

【5】A.unbelievable B.undeniable C.unshakable D.understandable

【6】A.funny B.useful C.useless D.meaningless

【7】A.thinking B.supposing C.doubting D.knowing

【8】A.safe B.real C.interesting D.right

【9】A.discussing B.disapproving C.discovering D.dismissing

【10】A.reshapes B.repeats C.recreates D.returns

【11】A.although B.because C.but D.when

【12】A.boring B.important C.difficult D.serious

【13】A.devoted B.connected C.linked D.limited

【14】A.proves B.infers C.means D.tells

【15】A.clearer B.prouder C.harder D.happier

【16】A.college B.heaven C.life D.journey

【17】A.warns B.reminds C.informs D.encourages

【18】A.through B.over C.across D.past

【19】A.comfort B.height C.handle D.length

【20】A.excitedly B.hopefully C.carefully D.necessarily

34、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.”

35、根据句意填空

In the USA, the Amish-a Christian group-are famous because they drive 【1】 instead of cars, do not use TVs or refrigerators, and do not have personal telephones. Many people assume the Amish must have 【2】 reasons for their many rules, but this is not true. In truth, whenever a new technology is introduced, the Amish meet and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. They then vote on whether they will accept it. The Amish 【3】 cars because they like having 【4】 communities where everyone lives close together. They have no TVs or refrigerators because their homes do not have electricity-they do not think it is necessary and 【5】 dealing with strangers, such as the people who work at the electric company.

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.

Expressions about water are almost as common as water itself. But many of the expressions using water have unpleasant meanings.

The expression “to be in hot water” is one of them. It is a very old expression, which can be 【1】 back to 500 years ago. The expression is used to mean being in trouble. One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies attacking a castle.

Being in “deep water” is almost the same as being in “hot water”. When you are in deep water, you are in a difficult 【2】. Imagine a person who cannot swim being thrown in water over his head. You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not have the ability to solve. The problem is too deep. You can be in deep water, for example, if you invest in stocks in complete 【3】 of the stock market.

"Water over the dam" is another expression about a past event. It is something that cannot be 【4】. The expression comes from the idea that water that has 【5】 a dam cannot be brought back again. When a friend is 【6】 by a mistake she has made, you might tell her to forget about it. You say it is water over the dam.

Another common expression, "to hold water," is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about. It probably comes from the way of testing the 【7】 of a container. If it can hold water, it is strong and has no holes in it. If your 【8】 can hold water, it is strong and does not have any holes. If it does not hold water, then it is weak and can not be 【9】.

"Throwing cold water" also is an expression that deals with an idea or 【10】. For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems. But you wife "throws cold water" on the idea, because she says a new car costs too much

37、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.

38、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Tom想了解你校最近举办的“健康每一天”活动，请你给他写一封电子邮件，介绍举办该活动的目的，你的看法以及三种活动形式：

1. 每天进行半小时的体育活动；

2. 每天做一次眼保健操；

3. 每周一次三公里的健步走。

注意：1.词数80左右；

2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;

3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

 Dear Tom,

Yours,

Li Hua

39、假定你是李华，你校将于下周六晚上举办校园艺术节（Campus Art Festival）演出活动，请你代表学校学生会给外籍教师John写封电子邮件，邀请他担任评委。邮件要点如下：

1、举办艺术节的目的；

2、演出的时间和地点；

3、演出的主要内容；

4、期待回复。

注意：1. 词数100左右，文章开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear John,

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Yours,

Li Hua

40、培养孩子的兴趣爱好是非常必要的，但现在有很多家长一味地追求子女的多才多艺，迫使孩子学习他们不感兴趣的东西，请你以大约120个词谈谈对这种现象的看法，内容包括：

(1)你是否赞同上述家长的做法；(2)以你或你朋友的经历说明你的观点；(3)呼吁家长们要尊重孩子的意愿。

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

When Dylan was just seven years old, he moved to the United States with his mother, Khadine, and his twin younger brothers. The family hoped that their new home would allow them to start over and find success. However, their dream didn’t work out exactly as they imagined it would.

Life as a single mother supporting three kids is incredibly difficult, but Khadine had a particularly difficult time after her twin sons had been diagnosed with serious heart conditions. As a result, the boys suffered from dangerous symptoms and required 24-hour care. As Khadine had to work three jobs to support her family financially, it became Dylan’s responsibility to look after his young brothers. To relieve Mom’s stress, Dylan also found a part-time job at a recreation center.

While Dylan never considered his family to be a burden to him, seeing his mother and brothers become vulnerable (脆弱的) made him determined to plan his future out correctly. He believed education was the only way out of their struggle, so he made a promise to his mother that he would be the first one in the family to go to college.

For that promise, Dylan made use of each and every minute to study while taking care of his brothers. He soon became an honor student at Henry High School and took several advanced classes to keep his grades up. The College of New Jersey was his top choice. He was determined to put that admission letter in his mother’s hands.

However, weeks before Dylan’s college entrance exam, both his family and his determination were tested again when Khadine fell ill and was unable to work for a while. Soon, the bills became unmanageable and the landlord evicted (驱逐) Dylan’s family after Khadine couldn’t pay the rent. The family had no choice but to live in the shelter. The place wasn’t an ideal place to study. It was often noisy and crowded, and the lights would go out at a certain time after 11 p.m.

注意：

1. 续写词数应为150 左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

But Dylan continued to follow his dream.

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Weeks after his application, an envelope carrying good news arrived.

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