宜宾2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高一英语

1、Reading aloud in the morning is _______ to learning a foreign language.

A.benefit B.used C.beneficial D.habit

2、Experts say ________ to sunlight for too much time will do harm to one’s skin.

A. exposed  B. having exposed

C. being exposed   D. exposing

3、--- Are you finishing your task?

---________. We still need at least two days.

A．Far from it

B．Exactly

C．Not a little

D．No wonder

4、____________ of 20 countries attended the G20 Conference, which would surely make a positive impact on world’s economic development.

A. Volunteers B. Astronauts

C. Delegates D. Athletes

5、If ________ in danger, please calm down and shout for help immediately.

A．trapped

B．trapping

C．having trapped

D．to be trapped

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

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

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

7、Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of __________ you learn to overcome them and use them to your advantage.

A.that B.what C.which D.how

8、 Neither side is prepared to talk to ________ unless we can smooth things over between them.(2010·全国Ⅱ)

A．others

B．the other

C．another

D．one other

9、There were lots of places of interest _______ in our city.

A．needs repairing

B．needing repaired

C．needed repairing

D．needing to be repaired

10、Since this accident has nothing to do with him, he seems no way ______.

A. to be blamed B. to blame

C. blamed for D. to blame for

11、In the future, you will be________ to more and more choice, not less.

A．symbolized

B．exposed

C．strengthened

D．abandoned

12、There, ______Mrs Smith, showing her pupils how to put a logo onto the new torch.

A. was on a platform standing B. was standing on a platform

C. on a platform was standing D. standing on the platform was

13、Dismissing small talk as unimportant is easy, but we can't forget that deep  relationships wouldn't even exist   it weren't for casual conversation.

A.although B.when C.if D.unless

14、In her book Becoming, former US first lady Michelle Obama invites readers to experience — in her own words — _______ has shaped her all these years.

A．where

B．which

C．what

D．that

15、The old couple ________for more man 40 years and never once have they quarreled with each other.

A．married

B．have married

C．have got married

D．have been married

16、The floods, which happened last month, swept the whole village, __________ countless people homeless.

A.to make B.making C.made D.have made

17、He began ___________ in magazines in 2001.

A.having articles publishing B.having articles publish

C.having articles published D.having articles to publish

18、—How about your journey to Mount Emei?

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

A．slowed down

B．broke down

C．got down

D．put down

19、It has been announced that all the students ________ put on masks before going to school in case they are infected with SARS virus.

A. shall B. will C. need D. may

20、“How could you treat me like that?” John asked his wife, eyeing her angrily from _______ the kitchen table.

A. at B. across C. through D. on

21、He added that state and local governments might have to ____ spending as a result of declining tax revenue.

A. cut back B. cut off

C. cut out D. cut in

22、It is reported that many a new house ________ at present in the disaster area.

A．are being built

B．were being built

C．was being built

D．is being built

23、The government has taken some measures to solve the shortage of electricity , but it may be some time _________the situation improves.

A. since B. when

C. before D. unless

24、--- Why do you suggest we buy a new machine?

--- Because the old one has been damaged ___________.

A．beyond reach

B．beyond repair

C．beyond control

D．beyond description

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

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

26、At first, Michael Surrell didn’t see the black smoke or flames shooting from the windows of his neighbors’ home. He and his wife had just parked the car when they got a call from one of his daughters: “The house next door is on fire!” He went to investigate.

“The baby’s still in!” one of the women cried. Though the fire department had been called, Surrell, aged 64, immediately ran inside. “The baby” was 8-year-old Tiara Roberts, the woman’s granddaughter. The thick smoke burned his eyes, and made it impossible to breathe. The conditions would have been harmful to anyone, but for Surrell, who has a lung disease, they were life-threatening.

After a few minutes in the smoke-filled house, he ran outside to catch his breath. “Where is Tiara?” he asked desperately.“The second floor.” her aunt shouted back. Taking a deep breath, he went in a second time. Still unable to see, Surrell fell to his knees on the hot wood floor, feeling around for any sign of the girl.

Finally, he got Tiara who wasn’t breathing. He fought through the smoke and ran blindly into the blackness. The next thing he knew, he was at the front door, then outside. Surrell put Tiara down and started CPR. Soon Tiara opened her eyes and took a breath on her own. Their eyes met. Surrell hugged her tight and said, “Uncle’s got you.” Soon after, his throat closed off.

Surrell woke up in the hospital a couple of days later, having suffered severe burns to his windpipe and the upper portion of his lungs. As a result, he took extra medication that helped open his airways. “It’s a small price to pay,” he said. “I’d do it again in no time and won’t give it a second thought.”

【1】When did Surrell first know his neighbor’s home was on fire?

A．When his daughter phoned him.

B．When he parked his car.

C．When he heard people calling for help.

D．When he saw the smoke.

【2】Why did the author say the conditions were deadly to Surrell?

A．Because the smoke was too thick.

B．Because the smoke burned his eyes.

C．Because the building would fall apart.

D．Because Surrell had a lung disease.

【3】What does the author think of Surrell?

A．enthusiastic

B．brave

C．energetic

D．aged

【4】What’s the best title of the passage?

A．A big fire in the neighborhood.

B．A baby stuck in the burning building.

C．A man risking his life to save a girl.

D．An unexpected accident.

27、   I’m sitting in my kitchen in London, trying to figure out a text message from my brother. He lives in our home country of Germany. We speak German to each other, a language that's rich in strange words, but I've never heard this one before: fremdschämen.

The experience gets me to consider: can we lose our mother language? Most immigrants (移民)know what it’s like to be not as good at their mother language as before. The process seems obvious: the longer you are away, the more your language suffers. But it’s not quite so straightforward. It turns out that how long you've been away doesn't always matter. Socializing with other native speakers abroad can worsen your own native skills. And emotional factors like trauma(精神创伤) can be the biggest factor of all.

In children, the phenomenon of language attrition (语言磨蚀)is somewhat easier to explain since their brains are generally more flexible and adaptable. Until the age of about 12, a person’s language skills are relatively easy to change. Studies on international adopters have found that even nine-year-olds can almost completely forget their first language when they are removed from their country of birth.

But in adults, the first language is unlikely to disappear entirely except in extreme circumstances. For example, Monika Schmid analyzed the German of elderly German-Jewish wartime refugees(难民) in the UK and the US. The main factor that influenced their language skills wasn't how long they had been abroad or how old they were when they left. It was how much trauma they had experienced as victims. Those who left Germany in the early days of Nazi occupation, before the worst violence, tended to speak better German – despite having been abroad the longest. Those who left later, tended to speak German with difficulty or not at all.

“It seemed very clearly a result of this trauma”, says Schmid. “Even though German was the language of childhood, home and family, it was also the language of painful memories”. The most traumatized refugees had held them back. As one of them said: “I feel that Germany betrayed me. America is my country, and English is my language.”

【1】What does the first paragraph serve as?

A.A comment B.A background

C.An explanation D.An introduction

【2】What do paragraph 4 and 5 mainly talk about?

A.How two languages coexist

B.The way to deal with adult’s trauma

C.The reasons behind adult’s language attrition.

D.Whether trauma leads to adult’s language attrition.

【3】Why does trauma cause a person's mother language to disappear?

A.Because he can’t remember his mother language.

B.Because his ability to communicate is affected.

C.Because his country is far from him .

D.Because he chooses to escape from bad experiences.

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

A.Where does your native language come from?

B.Will you lose your native language?

C.How does trauma affect your first language?

D.How far are you from your mother tongue

28、There are so many websites to help you plan trips and book trips and save money.

1. Dishtip.com

If I had to pick just one site to help with restaurant recommendations around the US, it would be Dishtip.com. Dishtip organizes the information of eating out in the United States in a whole new way: In other words, the site sorts through reviews across the web, such as the best dishes in Denver or the pizzas in Portland or the fried food in Phoenix.

2. Skypicker.com

Skypicker.com basically helps you figure out where you can fly within your budget. It’s sort of like the “explore” page of Kayak.com, but focuses mainly on Europe, and on very, very cheap flights.

3. Stay.com

I usually doubt the sites that claim (声称) they can plan your trip for you. But for a quick agenda with a few useful extras, Stay.com is not bad at all. Here’s what you do: Choose one of more than 100 destinations, from Provence to Marrakesh to Lake Tahoe. Then go through their listings of top attractions, museums, shopping, restaurants and something else, clicking on whatever appeals to you. Those choices magically turn into a personalized plan that you can either turn into a pdf file and print or send to your smart-phone, where with the Stay. com app you can use it, and the city map that comes with it, even when you’re offline.

4. Staydu.com

A neat site that matches hosts from around the world with travelers looking for unique local experiences. That can mean volunteering to teach English or doing farm work in exchange for staying and meals, or simply paying a small fee to move in with a local family.

【1】Which website can help you find the best restaurant in America?

A．Stay.com.

B．Staydu.com.

C．Dishtip.com.

D．Skypicker.com.

【2】How does the author tell readers Stay.com is a good web site?

A．Tell a story.

B．Give an example.

C．Give some figures.

D．Compare it with Kayak.com.

【3】What is the special part of Staydu.com?

A．It can help you save money.

B．It can help travelers experience local life.

C．It can send a personal trip plan to your smart-phone.

D．It can help you figure out where you can fly within your budget.

29、   Since the end of 2019, a terrible disease has been spreading all over the world. It’s caused by a virus that has not been found before in humans. 【1】.

What are the symptoms?

The virus is from a family called the corona viruses. The symptoms of this illness are pretty ordinary on the face of it: it’s dry cough, fever and then breathing problems. 【2】. However, as for the more severe cases, people have gone on to develop viral (病毒性的) pneumonia, and all the deaths have been among those people.

Who does this virus attack?

As we can see, older people are ending up in hospital with the virus. Most of the affected people are usually over 40 years old. 【3】 Basically their immune (免疫) systems are not very strong, and they’re going to find it very hard to fight off a virus.

【4】.

We’ve only just discovered that the new corona virus is actually spread from one person to another. It was hoped at first actually that it just came from animals as all corona viruses do. 【5】.

A.How is this virus spread?

B.It seems quite mild in lots of people.

C.Those who have died tend actually to have other diseases already.

D.People affected by viral pneumonia will die.

E.Signs of the virus may appear between 2 and 14 days after being near someone who is affected.

F.So the disease is called a "novel" or new virus.

G.Now it has been confirmed that it is actually passed from one person to another, however.

30、   Saddleworth Moor in the north of England is a bare place. It seemed almost wired to me, then, that anyone should _____ the building of seven wind turbines( 风力发电机) to produce clean, renewable energy. Surely this was the perfect place to situate them--- basically dull, unattractive to tourists and ----- _____ ---windy. Yet Saddleworth is becoming another battleground in an increasingly confusing _____ over wind farming and the future of the planet.

Typical of this confusion is hearing Professor David Bellamy _____ the fight against wind farms. I had always thought of Professor Bellamy as an environmentalist had made the _____ assumption that he would be a natural supporter of wind power. However, on reflection, Bellamy would be better described as a conservationist, whose main aim is to preserve natural habitats of plants and animals from destruction, rather than a(n) _____ on climate change. He has fought against other renewable energies that _____ wildlife and wildness, and has described the wind turbines as weapons of mass destruction killing birds and bats.

Bellamy, along with other opponents, has argued the wind farms are in fact _____, and are only commercially successfully because they are so heavily funded. This argument has been put forward by several newspaper commentators recently , who have then gone to _____ nuclear power. This doesn’t take into account years of _____ from Greens who claim that nuclear power is both expensive and dangerous. And yet nuclear energy has recently been _____ by a leading green scientist , Professor James Lovelock, who was one of the first to draw attention to the problem of climate change. He argues that renewable energy such as wind simply cannot provide sufficient electricity for our energy needs.

And so it goes on. There are so many _____ claims, each apparently fronted by some outstanding scientists and backed up by a lot of statics. So who’s actually right? What’s the right solution? What _____ me is that we will take so long in deciding that it will be too late. The damage will have been done. Yet what I also _____ is how convenient these conflicting arguments are. We can avoid making any changes to our personal lifestyles by just doing nothing. Global warming isn’t down to me going to Barcelona by air for the weekend or having a dishwasher or driving everywhere; no, it’s because those people in Saddleworth won’t let us build our _____!

【1】A.take over B.call for C.look into D.object to

【2】A.vice versa B.or rather C.above all D.to date

【3】A.debate B.concern C.advantage D.control

【4】A.leading B.reporting C.watching D.abandoning

【5】A.cautious B.basic C.common D.false

【6】A.expert B.campaigner C.commentator D.columnist

【7】A.exploited B.threatened C.restored D.attracted

【8】A.unaided B.unfriendly C.uneconomic D.unbalanced

【9】A.produce B.praise C.eliminate D.research

【10】A.intentions B.passions C.opinions D.protest

【11】A.advocated B.rejected C.proposed D.overlooked

【12】A.expected B.successful C.conflicting D.personal

【13】A.relieves B.amazes C.disappoints D.worries

【14】A.predict B.recognize C.question D.ski

【15】A.wind farms B.power plants C.animal habitats D.nuclear engines

31、   It’s not unusual to be caught in your life. When you get caught in a moment, you should remember that somewhere out there, someone always comes along with a pocket full of ________.

Yesterday I spent all my coins and dollar ________ on little deeds I had ________ breakfast because I got up late. Because of the mad rush, I forgot my ________.When I was on my way to ________ my lunch, a person in need asked me if I could ________ him some cash, so I decided to lend him first.

So, then later in the evening, I was heading home ________ waiting for dinner. However, I got a(n) ________ from my mum saying that she was to work ________ and wouldn't be able to prepare dinner for me. Even though there was no ________ in the house, I told my mum not to worry because I would ________ find myself something to cat.

While I was still ________ this sudden set of changes in my food options for the day, I passed a young man with a broad smile________ samples (样品) of cookies at a supermarket, he gave me a packet and said. “How about you ________ some more for school tomorrow?” ________ that, I returned a warm _______ to him and opened up my bag. He gladly filled it with 20 packets. I was ________ .

Whether you call it luck or fortune, I ________ wanted to say that somewhere out there somebody came along carrying a pocket of hope in his ________ and shared a piece of it with me! Somebody out there will one day do________ for you!

【1】A.hope B.chance C.luck D.food

【2】A.checks B.cash C.change D.bills

【3】A.had B.left C.skipped D.taken

【4】A.lunch B.keys C.purse D.bag

【5】A.serve B.cook C.prepare D.buy

【6】A.give B.pay C.spare D.show

【7】A.disappointedly B.gratefully C.willingly D.anxiously

【8】A.note B.call C.response D.announcement

【9】A.well B.hard C.late D.alone

【10】A.food B.electricity C.cookies D.money

【11】A.quickly B.surely C.hurriedly D.hardly

【12】A.introducing B.processing C.making D.seeking

【13】A.finding out B.putting up C.handing out D.giving off

【14】A.taking B.exchanging C.supplying D.adopting

【15】A.In response to B.Opposed to C.Owing to D.Contrary to

【16】A.welcome B.smile C.laughing D.affection

【17】A.confused B.worried C.puzzled D.excited

【18】A.simply B.nearly C.normally D.seriously

【19】A.coat B.mind C.packet D.heart

【20】A.a lot B.much C.the same D.some

32、   When I was in my twenties, I travelled alone through the UK. In order to_______locations that the public transportation couldn't get to, I bought a(n)_______car, drove it around for three months and sold it before I returned to Australia. The car cost most of my money, so I lived mainly on _______during that trip, it being cheap and filling. In Ireland, my_______was stolen, and it was impossible to get another. So for the rest of the trip I_______out in my car, being too poor to afford bed-and-breakfasts.

One morning, I_______in my old Skoda under a twisted tree on a remote lane in the Irish countryside, with no more than a_______ house in sight. I had a terrible desire for a_______cup of tea and some hot water to make porridge with_______I would not have to eat the cold leftovers from the previous day. My thermos (暖瓶)，had gone cold overnight so I knocked on the door of the house. A woman opened it. Hot water? She________let me get away with just that! I was invited indoors, seated at the breakfast table with the________and given a delicious breakfast, as much as I could eat. I was________to eat something more than porridge! I________being friends with the whole family.

That was only one of many acts of ________ strangers showed me when I was travelling alone in foreign regions. One London businessman rushing to work, seeing me________offered to pull my ridiculously heavy suitcase________several flights of stairs in the underground, After he'd done so, with a smile and a wave, he________into the crowd.

Kindness gets________.The other day, I was able to point out a rare parking spot to a young man who had been driving around the railway car park, looking________desperate. His grateful smile was all the________I needed as I dashed off to catch my train.

【1】A.reach B.search C.arrive D.choose

【2】A.modern B.intelligent C.special D.ancient

【3】A.bread B.rice C.porridge D.vegetable

【4】A.wallet B.backpack C.mobile D.car

【5】A.camped B.worked C.watched D.looked

【6】A.appeared B.awoke C.slept D.explored

【7】A.deserted B.separate C.single D.shabby

【8】A.typical B.measuring C.necessary D.steaming

【9】A.now that B.so that C.even if D.in case

【10】A.wouldn’t B.shouldn’t C.needn’t D.couldn’t

【11】A.couple B.woman C.adult D.family

【12】A.amazed B.ashamed C.delighted D.frustrated

【13】A.gave up B.end up C.kept up D.turn up

【14】A.sadness B.kindness C.happiness D.forgiveness

【15】A.working B.travelling C.crying D.struggling

【16】A.up B.around C.forward D.away

【17】A.fade away B.threw away C.put away D.tore away

【18】A.turn down B.handed out C.passed on D.started with

【19】A.immediately B.constantly C.directly D.increasingly

【20】A.dream B.memory C.reward D.intention

33、   For more than 25 years, Jan Karon has been delighting millions of readers with her bestselling Mitford series. At age 10 she knew_______she was bound to be a writer. But it wasn’t until her mid-forties that she began following her childhood dream.

“I kept a_______very faithfully for two years,” Karon said. “I_______all my fears, my high expectations, my determination to do things I wanted to do into the journal（日志）.”

It took years, but Karon was determined. She’d never_______a novel before. It took months of_______starts before she found Father Tim, the lead character in her series. She felt unqualified to write the character. So_______did she do it？

It was determination that kept her_______. Karon had her lead character and setting, but the _______was just beginning. She began writing Father Tim’s story in the local paper. At the end of two years, she had a novel. However, it took another two and a half years after that to_______a publisher. Karon’s first book was a surprise________. She went on to write 13 novels__________in the town of Mitford.

As her journey in Mitford__________an end, Karon is__________yet another career（事业）change. She’s not__________ about starting over. Her determination gives her confidence that it’s never too late to follow her dream. Age doesn’t __________.

【1】A.naturally B.certainly C.frequently D.normally

【2】A.diary B.book C.novel D.word

【3】A.turned B.burst C.broke D.put

【4】A.read B.written C.designed D.published

【5】A.harmless B.early C.false D.similar

【6】A.where B.when C.whether D.how

【7】A.walking B.going C.running D.marching

【8】A.journey B.discovery C.period D.program

【9】A.approach B.sponsor C.find D.welcome

【10】A.effect B.hit C.beat D.knock

【11】A.set B.absorbed C.lost D.caught

【12】A.gives off B.brings about C.comes to D.results in

【13】A.covering B.affording C.following D.offering

【14】A.delighted B.disappointed C.interested D.worried

【15】A.challenge B.matter C.exist D.disappear

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.

35、阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

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

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

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

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

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

Tablets are really useful devices, but their big screens always make them a burden to carry around without a bag. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a phone with the powers of a tablet that could be folded up and fit 【1】 into the hand?

Now something like a tablet-shaped but fold-able phone is about to become 【2】. In February, South Korean electronics company Samsung and China’s Huawei both unveiled fold-able phones Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X 【3】. Mobile phone use has entered the “fold-able future”, The Verge noted.

The technology could change our lives in significant ways. These devices, due to their 【4】 screens, give us the larger screens we want. Meanwhile, they still fit easily into the pocket. As USA Today noted, they’re “the 【5】 of a small tablets and smart-phone, all in a single device”.

The technology could 【6】 other devices too. For example, we could make TVs that stick to walls like posters, or fold up easily to hide away in drawers. In crowded modem cities, they will help us to 【7】 available space.

In a keynote address, Samsung’s senior vice president of mobile product marketing, Justin Denison, called the fold-able screen “the 【8】 for the smart-phone of tomorrow.” “It’s a balank canvas for us to do something beautiful together,” he said.

So is there nothing to stand in the way of the fold-able future?

According to tech news website Android authority, the necessary displays were difficult to produce. In 2012, nine out of every to OLED screens produced were 【9】. Today, that 10 percent rate has been improved to between 50 and 90 percent. However, at present these fold-able devices are expensive. For example, the price of Huawei Mate X is 17,500 RMB. That’s a price that may 【10】 the majority of people.

But if the fold-able device isn’t going to change the world overnight, there is no doubt that it is coming.

Patrick Moor-head, an industry analyst told The Verge, “Few are debating if fold-able or roll-able mobile displays are the future of smart-phones; the only question is when and by whom.”

37、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.

38、假设你是李华,你的家乡剪纸艺术负有盛名,你写了一篇英文宣传稿,想请外籍教师Mike帮助润色。请根据提示,用英语给Mike写一封求助信。内容包括:

1. 求助事由;

2. 求助内容;

3. 表达感激。

注意：1. 词数100左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mike,

I’m writing in the hope that you will be kind enough to do me a favor. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

39、假定你是李华，正在英国留学。为了让你的英国同学更好地了解中国文化，你希望可以成立一个中国文学社团(Chinese literature club)。请你参照以下要点提示，用英语给你校学生会负责人Mr. Green写一封信，申请成立该社团。

1、点明写信目的；

2、介绍该社团(成立目的、活动内容等)；

3、希望能得到批准。

注意：1.、词数不少于100左右；

2、开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

3、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mr. Green，

I am Li Hua, a Chinese student of this school. ___________________________________________________

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Yours sincerely，

Li Hua

40、假定你是李华，你作为交换生在英国 Cambridge学习，在图书馆意外丢失书包，写一份寻物启事，以找回自己的书包。要点如下：

1. 丢失地点与时间；

2. 书包颜色与装的东西。

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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41、假设你是李华，经常和美国朋友Tom通过网络交流，你的英语进步很大。在Tom髙中 毕业之际，请你给他写封邮件,内容包括：

1. 表示祝贺；

2.询问他的暑期计划；

3.感谢他的帮助。

注意：1.词数80左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

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Best wishes!

Yours

Li Hua