邯郸2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、In some parts of London, missing a bus means _______ for another hour.

A. waiting   B. being waited

C. to wait     D. to be waiting

2、The book is a complete introduction ________ all the best Indian films.

A.in B.on C.to D.about

3、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

4、The accident happened on such an evening with strong winds __________ by heavy rain.

A．appeared

B．happened

C．accompanied

D．mixed

5、I am interested in_________ you have improved your spoken English in such a short time.

A.how B.which C.when D.if

6、Peter, as well as my other classmates, _____ going to attend a lecture next Sunday.

A.was B.is C.are D.were

7、It is important that I _____ with Mr. Williams immediately.

A.speak B.spoke C.will speak D.to speak

8、She ________ to clean out the spare room last week, but it was much too occupied at that time.

A. had intended B. was intended C. intended D. was intending

9、High interest rates _____ people from borrowing money.

A. discourage B. defeat

C. disturb D. depress

10、James is afraid of ________by sharks.

A.attacking B.being attacked C.having attacked D.having been attacked

11、The Allied forces then prepared to enter Germany, where they would ________ the Soviet military moving in from the east.

A．meet up with

B．come up with

C．put up with

D．catch up with

12、—I saw Jim at the meeting yesterday.

—Did you? I think he ______ have attended, for he is an expert.

A.needn’t B.mustn’t C.shouldn’t D.couldn’t

13、At the end of the dinner party, the conclusion of the crisis________ bare the fact women have as much self-control as men.

A.lay B.laid

C.lined D.lied

14、___ the old man's sons wanted to know was ___ the gold had been hidden .

A.That ; what B.What ; where C.What ; that D.Whether ; if

15、_________  my heart still beats, I will go on working for the people.

A.As soon as B.As far as C.As long as D.As much as

16、I can’t believe that they _____ my debt card twice for something that was never shipped.

A. charged B. awarded

C. rewarded D. cost

17、 －It's getting dark. I must be off now.

－OK, please take care and ________ my best wishes to your family.

A．accomplish B．clarify   C．preserve D．Convey

18、It was not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them _______ the value of life lies.

A.when B.where C.that D.how

19、Throughout the last decade, more parks _____ with the goal of creating natural settings in urban environments.

A.linked up B.swelled up C.split up D.sprang up

20、A 13-year-old boy _____Sheng Yibo, was reported _____ toTsinghua Univeristy, ____ many people.

A.named; to have been admitted; which surprised

B.naming; being admitted; surprising

C.named; to be admitted; surprised

D.named; admitted; as surprised

21、He was busy writing a story, only ______ once in a while to smoke a cigarette.

A.to stop B.stopping C.to have stopped D.having stopped

22、I____________ go to a summer camp during the summer vacation, but I am not sure.

A．might

B．can

C．must

D．need

23、The system has been designed to give students quick and easy __________ to the digital resources of the library.

A.approach B.access C.passage D.assistance

24、It’s no use _________ without thinking.

A.learn B.to learn C.having learned D.learning

25、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

26、Vaccination（接种疫苗）is among the most effective ways to help us prevent diseases. For viruses that don't change too much-the measles virus（麻疹病毒）, for example—getting vaccinated is a once-and-for-all method to prevent you from becoming infected with the virus. If you had two measles vaccines when you were a child, you will be protected for life.

However, it's a different story when it comes to influenza（流行性感冒）, commonly known as "the flu", which generally peaks between December and February. Flu vaccines cannot protect us in the long term.

There is no long-term immunity（免疫）, according to Theodore Strange, associate medical director at Staten Island University Hospital in New York. "The virus essentially 'changes its coat'—HIN1, H2N3, and so on," he told the website Healthline.

Apart from a person's immune protection from flu vaccination declining over time, flu viruses are also constantly changing. So the vaccines are likely to be updated from one season to the next to protect against the viruses that research suggests may be the most common during the upcoming flu season.

Thus, to develop effective flu vaccines, over 100 national influenza centers around the world conduct year-round surveillance（监测）for influenza. Researchers will test thousands of influenza virus samples from patients, according to the official website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention（CDC）. The World Health Organization also suggests there are three or four influenza viruses that are most likely to spread among people during the upcoming flu season.

But even when a vaccine is developed, getting it can prove to be difficult, as it is in high demand and short supply. The timing of influenza vaccine production and distribution is unpredictable, thus the availability of the flu vaccine supply does not always coincide with（与……一致）peak demand.

So scientists prioritize（划分优先顺序）access to the vaccination. The CDC recommends key populations, such as medical staff, teachers, students, children and those aged 60 and above, receive flu vaccines.

This year the situation seems more complicated, as the upcoming flu season coincides with the COVID-19 pandemic. This could overwhelm hospitals, straining（过度使用）resources and healthcare workers' time.

【1】What do we know about influenza?

A．Influenza viruses are continuously changing.

B．It commonly peaks between November and December.

C．Getting two flu vaccines can protect people against the viruses.

D．HINI and H2N3 are the most easily infectious flu viruses.

【2】What do researchers do in order to develop effective flu vaccines?

A．They update vaccines once a year.

B．They monitor the flu throughout the year.

C．They focus on one or two viruses during a period.

D．Influenza centers worldwide share virus samples from patients.

【3】Why do scientists prioritize access to the vaccination?

A．Because not all people can afford it.

B．Because some people refuse to get vaccinated.

C．Because the vaccine is not safe for everyone.

D．Because the vaccine doesn't always meet the demand.

【4】What does the author think of the upcoming flu season?

A．It could be more challenging than ever for medical workers.

B．Enough resources have been prepared to cope with it.

C．Flu vaccines will be provided for the public in November.

D．The flu vaccines are expected to help prevent COVID-19.

27、Who are these people rushing by you in the street? More than 215 million people now call America “home”, but most of them can trace their families back to other parts of the world. If you look at the names on shop windows, you will see that Americans come from many different lands. The idea that these people, who once were strangers to the United States, have lost the customs and cultures of their original countries and have become “American” is really not true. In fact, what exists in America is more often a kind of “side-by-side” living in which groups of people from other countries often have kept many of their customs and habits. They join the general American society only in certain areas of their lives—such as in schools, business, and sports—but they keep many of their own native customs and manners socially and at home. This living “side-by-side” has both advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes it may cause disagreements to develop between groups whose ways of life are very different from one another. However, there are also great advantages that come from the variety of cultures brought by settlers from other lands. There is great freedom of choice among ideas and dress, food, and social customs in America. Everyone can find some part of his or her familiar world in the United States, in churches, music, food, national groups, or newspapers.

【1】More than 215 million people call America “home” because________.

A．they buy their houses there

B．they settle there now

C．they get married there

D．they were born there

【2】“Side-by-side” living style means ________.

A．making friends with native people

B．the groups of people who live nearby

C．keeping their own customs while sharing American ones in certain areas

D．that they get closer to American society

【3】According to the passage, people in the USA ________.

A．share American customs and culture

B．live in a kind of “side-by-side” society

C．keep their own customs and habits firmly

D．make no choice to accept American customs

【4】Which of the following statements is true?

A．They always stick to their own customs and habits.

B．“Side-by-side” living style is not suitable.

C．They face the society they are not familiar with.

D．The advantages coming from the variety of cultures make life in America colorful.

【5】Which title of the following can best take the place of “Different Cultures in America”?

A．Advantages and Disadvantages.

B．Different Customs and Habits.

C．Home for the People.

D．“Side-by-side” Living Style in America.

28、How to get by in a foreign country

Not knowing the local language is no reason not to travel. Here are some tips to get by from someone who does it all the time. Download a language translation app. Thanks to new inventions, traveling in foreign countries has become much easier.

【1】 . Find an app that works for you. It best to find one that specializes in the language you need to translate especially if the language uses a character set you're not familiar with, or is one you have difficulty pronouncing.

【2】 Body language is an easy way to communicate with locals. Gestures are almost all globally understood. 【3】. In many countries, for example, nodding means “no”, and shaking your head means “yes”. So, a quick web search for the country you're visiting and “gestures” or “body language” will turn up anything you need to be aware of before you go. Hire a local tour guide 【4】 You can always search the web for local tour guides before you go, or find a guide through your hotel or a travel agent(旅行社) .

Learn a few keywords

Try learning basic words and phrases like “hello”, “thank you” and “I'm sorry” .

【5】

A．Don't speak to strangers

B．There are exceptions, however

C．Speak with your hands and head

D．A guide can always help you with locals

E．Many foreign language apps translate words on the spot

F．It is a form of respect and will go along way to bring you closer to locals

G．Always try searching the internet when you meet some communication problems

29、   Do you sometimes put off doing your homework on a school night to watch TV？A new study says that middle school students who watch TV or play video games during the weekdays do worse in school.

The study also says that watching TV and playing video games on weekends don’t affect school performance that much.

“On weekdays, the more they watched, the worse they did,” said Dr. Iman Sharif of Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York. “They could watch a lot on weekends and it didn’t seem to connect with doing worse in school.”

The study appears in October issue of Pediatrics. Researchers drew their conclusions after surveying 4,500 students in New Hampshire and Vermont middle schools.

To reach their findings, researchers didn’t look at grades or test scores. Instead, they asked students to rate their own performance on a scale ranging from “excellent” to “below average”.

Other studies have found a connection between kids’ ability to learn and the amount of TV they watch. One study even found that kids with televisions in their bedrooms scored about eight points lower on math and language arts tests than kids without. What should a kid do?The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that kids watch TV no more than two hours and that televisions be kept out of children’s rooms. Weekends viewing should be kept to four hours at most each day.

【1】The passage mainly talks about the relationships between .

A.TV watching and students’ character training

B.TV watching and students’ school performance

C.students’ communicating skills and TV watching

D.kids’ mental development and TV watching

【2】What can be concluded from the passage?

A.Kids can watch TV as long as they wish on the weekends.

B.Kids can watch TV longer on the weekends than on weekdays.

C.Kids should not be allowed to watch TV on the weekends.

D.Kids can watch TV during the weekdays in their rooms for a long time.

【3】The purpose of keeping televisions out of children’s room is to .

A.protect the TV sets from being broken by kids B.prevent the kids from playing video games on TV

C.limit the time of TV the kids watch D.provide the kids with the quietness they need to study

【4】Who is likely to have excellent school performance according to the passage?

A.A student putting off doing homework on a school night to watch TV.

B.A student who watches TV 4 hours a day.

C.A kid who has TV set in his own room.

D.None of the above.

30、   There was a woman named Japan Atsuko Saeki living in the city of Fujisawa.When she was a teenager, she____of going to the United States.Most of what she knew about American____was from the textbooks she had read.“I had a____in mind: Daddy watching TV in the living-room, Mummy____cakes and their teenage daughter off to the cinema with her boyfriend.”Atsuko ___to attend college in California.When she arrived, however, she found it was not her____world.“People were struggling with problems and often seemed ___” she said.“I felt very alone.”One of her hardest____was physical education.“We played volleyball,” she said.“The other students were ___it, but I wasn’t.”

One afternoon, the instructor asked Atsuko to____the ball to her teammates so they could knock it____the net.No problem for most people, but it terrified Atsuko.She was afraid of losing face____she failed.

A young man on her team____what she was going through.“He walked up to me and ___‘Come on.You can do that.’”

“You will never understand how those words of____made me feel…Four words: You can do that.I felt like crying with happiness.”

She made it through the class.Perhaps she thanked the young man; she is not ___.Six years have passed.Atsuko is back in Japan, working as a salesclerk.“I have ___forgotten the words,” she said.“When things are not going so well, I think of them.”She is sure the young man had no idea how much his kindness____to her. “He probably doesn’t even remember it,” she said.That may be the lesson.Whenever you say something to a person cruel or kind—you have no idea how long the words will_____She’s all the way over in Japan, but still she hears those four____words: You can do that.

【1】A. learned B. dreamed C. spoken D. heard

【2】A. picture B. education C. life D. spirit

【3】A. photo B. painting C. way D. drawing

【4】A. frying B. baking C. steaming D. boiling

【5】A. hoped B. attempted C. liked D. arranged

【6】A. described B. created C. imagined D. discovered

【7】A. tense B. cheerful C. relaxed D. deserted

【8】A. classes B. questions C. times D. projects

【9】A. curious about B. nervous about C. slow at D. good at

【10】A. kick B. hit C. carry D. pass

【11】A. over B. into C. through D. past

【12】A. if B. after C. because D. until

【13】A. believed B. considered C. sensed D. wondered

【14】A. warned B. whispered C. ordered D. sighed

【15】A. excitement B. suggestion C. persuasion D. encouragement

【16】A. interested B. sure C. puzzled D. doubtful

【17】A. seldom B. already C. never D. almost

【18】A. happened B. applied C. meant D. seemed

【19】A. stay B. continue C. exist D. live

【20】A. merciful B. bitter C. easy D. simple

31、   It was Australia Day. We had spent the afternoon _______with friends. When we arrived home, the message bank on my mobile phone was flashing. It was our _______, Annabel, who had just been left at a boarding school over 500 kilometers away. Annabel’s _______ voice greeted us: “Hi, Mum and Dad, I’ve _______ my phone!” After just four days at school her main means of _______ had gone missing at an Australia Day celebration. We realized the chance of finding the phone were _______ for we hadn’t installed (安装) the Find My Phone app.

The next morning, my mobile beeped (发出哔哔声) loudly. When I replayed the _______ a kind voice announced that she had something that _______ my daughter and could I please call her back.

Annabel had _______ my number on the inside of her phone’s case — ________ thinking! “ I’ll take it to work ________ you see if anyone can pick it up,” she kindly offered after I ________ that my daughter was at boarding school and I lived a six-hour drive away.

After tracking the people I ________ who lived nearby, I was out of luck — no one was able to ________ the phone.

Later I decided to ask our angel (天使) to post the ________ to my daughter. But to my ________, this angel, who had already spent a busy day at work, was making a two-hour round trip on a Saturday night, especially to ________ a phone to a complete stranger.

I gave her ________ and she delivered the phone into the hands of my daughter. The only word of her explanation was: “I’ve got four ________ of my own. I know how a mother ________.”

【1】A. working B. training C. traveling D. celebrating

【2】A. daughter B. friend C. neighbor D. teacher

【3】A. tired B. excited C. relaxed D. concerned

【4】A. fixed B. lost C. damaged D. received

【5】A. escape B. transport C. expression D. communication

【6】A. slim B. fair C. unique D. important

【7】A. game B. video C. message D. conversation

【8】A. moved B. changed C. belonged to D. appealed to

【9】A. called B. written C. checked D. obtained

【10】A. good B. critical C. honest D. quick

【11】A. until B. since C. while D. unless

【12】A. suggested B. explained C. predicted D. promised

【13】A. know B. respect C. invite D. appreciate

【14】A. pay for B. give up C. pick up D. look for

【15】A. gift B. phone C. letter D. suitcase

【16】A. satisfaction B. relief C. disappointment D. surprise

【17】A. introduce B. mail C. return D. devote

【18】A. support B. directions C. permission D. rewards

【19】A. children B. students C. visitors D. passengers

【20】A. wishes B. angers C. regrets D. worries

32、   Brandon and Derek's mother, Beth Lash, shared a Facebook video on Dec. 25, 2017. It captured the moment when Brandon_________his card out loud. On Brandon Lash's 24th birthday, his little brother, Derek,_________him with a rather large card filled with an even bigger_______.

“I have always_______ you," Brandon reads from the front of the card, _______ by his brother.

"I love spending time with you... I'm so _______ I have you for my brother. You have always been there for me, even though I get on your nerves sometimes. You will always have a piece of my heart," Brandon continues, opening up the _______ .

"And now you will have my_______, too. We are a _______ match," Brandon reads,__________the card to the floor and breaking down into ________

Brandon has kidney disease and is currently in chronic(慢性的) failure and has extremely low kidney function. He receives__________three times a week, and was told that he had been recommended for the transplant list. Unfortunately, his parents are not a match, but__________his brother is.

“I can’t believe Derek would__________so much all this for me,” Brandon tells the publication. “He's giving me a__________to have a healthy life again. I__________can't believe it's happening.”

“I__________seeing him sick and knew something needed to be done to make him healthy again,” Derek adds. "Not only was it the__________thing to do, but the only thing to do. He's my brother... We didn't know__________he could be on the transplant list, and I knew I just wanted my__________brother back."

【1】A.read B.sang C.called D.shouted

【2】A.provided B.issued C.presented D.supplied

【3】A.claim B.award C.smile D.surprise

【4】A.taken charge of B.looked up to C.got hold of D.lived up to

【5】A.signed B.drawn C.written D.described

【6】A.thankful B.satisfied C.awkward D.confused

【7】A.paper B.card C.book D.cover

【8】A.nerves B.eyes C.kidney D.heart

【9】A.perfect B.possible C.equal D.friendly

【10】A.losing B.dropping C.throwing D.blowing

【11】A.screams B.worries C.laughs D.tears

【12】A.treatments B.experiments C.directions D.observations

【13】A.finally B.possibly C.luckily D.exactly

【14】A.advise B.experience C.allow D.sacrifice

【15】A.chance B.fortune C.accident D.occasion

【16】A.always B.already C.forever D.still

【17】A.regretted B.minded C.hated D.opposed

【18】A.fair B.right C.normal D.real

【19】A.when B.how long C.how much D.while

【20】A.lovely B.brave C.honest D.healthy

33、   My friend and I had just set off from Vancouver to do a five-day canoe (独木舟) trip in Bowron Lake Provincial park.

We’d been_______ the trip for quite a while — reservations at the park need to be_______ months in advance. I’d taken some time off work and my friend managed to spare some time for the_______.

We were _______to Bowron Lake when our car broke down. _______, we were just outside a small town which had a little motel (汽车旅馆), where we met a kind_______.

He gave us the  _______ of a mechanic (修理工) in town. We were going to call him, but as it was quite late, we _______ to leave repairing the car until the next morning and so booked into the motel.

It turned out our car _______ wasn’t a big deal to fix, but the mechanic needed to order a part that would take a few days to show up. At that point, we__________ our trip would have to be cancelled. If we were going to finish it in time, we had to leave immediately.

The __________  stranger insisted that we finish our __________  when we mentioned the change of plans. He offered to drive the two-hour round trip to drop us off at the lake, coordinate with (与……协调) the mechanic to __________ the car while we were gone, and then __________ my friend and me after we finished canoeing.

I remember as he dropped us off at the lake, he__________ us a bag of fresh, homemade cookies to take along. Everything he did to help us was__________.

It was a trip that never would have happened __________ he hadn’t done all he did, which __________us so much.

I’m very __________ for the stranger’s kindness; it’s people like him that make me want to go out of my way for others who are travelling and __________ help.

【1】A.enjoying B.imagining C.planning D.completing

【2】A.changed B.offered C.cancelled D.booked

【3】A.work B.adventure C.party D.task

【4】A.driving B.walking C.biking D.running

【5】A.Finally B.Surprisingly C.Certainly D.Luckily

【6】A.seller B.friend C.stranger D.guide

【7】A.address B.number C.introduction D.story

【8】A.decided B.started C.learned D.struggled

【9】A.accident B.parking C.Improvement D.problem

【10】A.figured B.promised C.remembered D.heard

【11】A.hard-working B.proud C.kind-hearted D.energetic

【12】A.meeting B.trip C.business D.competition

【13】A.fix up B.pull over C.get out D.put away

【14】A.pay for B.search for C.cheer up D.pick up

【15】A.awarded B.sent C.handed D.showed

【16】A.unavoidable B.unbelievable C.unrecognizable D.unacceptable

【17】A.though B.since C.before D.if

【18】A.helped B.served C.greeted D.trusted

【19】A.regretful B.prepared C.grateful D.thirsty

【20】A.fond of B.in need of C.used to D.in favor of

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.

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The Sundance Film Festival 【1】 boycotts all Hollywood films, and we don’t foresee ever including them. The initial idea for our festival was 【2】 back in l978. when it was known as the Utah/US Film Festival. However, it was not well known until 1981. It was then that Robert Redford became its 【3】 and changed the focus to independent films, often made on very modest 【4】 It was given its new name-the Sundance Film Festival-in 1991. Redford has acted in and directed many big Hollywood films, but wanted to 【5】 the public to films made outside of the Hollywood system

36、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.

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

Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.

The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.

It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.

Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often  【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.

Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.

38、Direction: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main file of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

The Queen’s speech was once a highlight of Christmas Day. However, according to a mathematical analysis of the festive messages, the speech is now one of the most repetitive and predictable television events. Of the 42,000 words the Queen has used, only 3,991 are distinct words which have never been repeated.

“Since she came to the throne (王位) in 1952, the Queen has given 63 Christmas broadcasts, only failing to appear once in 1969 when she issued a written message,” said Hannah Fry, a mathematician at University College London. “She could have said a lot in that time, but if you analyze the text, she has actually said very little and often repeated herself.”

Fry and his UCL colleague Thomas Léron Evans analyzed the speeches in the hope of “finding out what Christmas really means to Her Majesty (女王殿下).” Ignoring common words such as “the” and “of, ” they focused instead on nouns and phrases, looking at how often they were repeated. Almost predictably, they discovered that the Queen’s Christmas vocabulary was dominated by words such as “Commonwealth (英联邦),” “peoples,” “families” and “children,” and phrased such as “shining example,” “weak and innocent” and “tragic situation.”

“There are words about time, about society and some religious words… all very good and noble, of course, but also a bit dull and repetitive,” said Fry.

One clear tread the two mathematicians found in the Christmas messages was an increase in references to religion over the recent years. Jesus was hardly mentioned in the 1950s. From then to 1973, there was almost no reference to Christianity or religion. However, in recent years, religion has appeared frequently, peaking at 20 mentions 2000, with another dozen in 2011 and between five and ten mentions in most other recent years.

Fry and Evans have also designed a computer program that can take the Queen’s favorite words and phrases, and turn them back into a ready-made (现成的) speech.

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

1. 询问他的学习情况；

2. 描述你的困难；

3. 请求他的帮助

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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40、假设你是李华，你的英国朋友Tom来信说他最近玩手机上瘾难以自，请你给他回一封邮件，告诉他手机成瘾可能会导致的问题：影响学习和身心健康，疏远亲情、友情，并提出一些建议。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：手机上瘾cellphone addiction

Dear Tom,

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Yous,

Li Hua

41、假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Mike就读的学校要举办一年一度的“中华文化节”，他来信向你征求活动意见，请你写封回信，内容包括：

1. 写作目的；

2. 活动建议；

3. 表示祝愿。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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