齐齐哈尔2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、—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

2、The child was found ______down the streets alone.

A. wandering B. wondering

C. taking D. stepping

3、He is a selfish and dishonest man, and is _____ by others.

A.well thought B.ill thought of C.highly thought D.bad thought of

4、---Is this the first time you ______Beijing.

---No. But the first time I ______ here, the city wasn’t so beautiful.

A. visited; have come B. visited; came

C. have visited; have come D. have visited; came

5、As President, he appointed men to high government positions ________ he considered most capable, ________ some of them openly defied his authority.

A.which … as though B./ … though

C.which … even if D.whom … as though

6、The greatest discovery of our generation is _____ a human being can change his life by changing his attitudes.

A．that

B．which

C．what

D．how

7、It was Tom as well as his friends that ________ for the serious accident.

A．was to be blamed

B．were to blame

C．was blaming

D．was to blame

8、Much to the couple's comfort，their income is now double ________ it was five years ago.

A.that B.if C.which D.what

9、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

10、He suggested we set off for the station immediately. _________ , we will miss the the train.

A.Therefore B.Meanwhile C.However D.Otherwise

11、Inside the window hangs a _____ carved out of this piece of wood by the artist.

A.decoration B.destination C.departure D.discipline

12、Fully _______ in looking after three small children, she cannot speak to you at the moment.

A.occupied B.being occupied C.occupying D.being occupying

13、There were no tickets________for Friday's performance.

A．preferable

B．considerable

C．possible

D．available

14、All ____ can be done has been done .

A.that B.what C.which D.of which

15、It is wise of you to ________ well trained workers ________ untrained ones in the assembly line.

A．substitute; for

B．substitute; with

C．replace; by

D．replace; with

16、In the future, bacteria will be to cancer patients and could even feed on dirt. That sounds really good news.

A．beneficial

B．dangerous

C．familiar

D．powerful

17、As soon as she arrived home,she_____tidying up the room.

A.set about B.set out C.set down D.set off

18、—Is there a holiday recently?

—There_____ be. It has been informed that we will continue to study for another three weeks.

A.won’t B.mustn’t C.may not D.can’t

19、We didn’t get a hotel room because we ______ in advance.

A. hadn’t booked   B. haven’t booked

C. weren’t booking   D. wouldn’t book

20、She couldn't help _______ into tears when she heard the news.

A.burst B.bursting C.bursts D.to burst

21、I’m not sure whether I’ll succeed in persuading her to join us. ______, I’ll try my best to make it.

A. In addition B. Anyhow

C. If so D. Therefore

22、 can be done   been done.

A.All; have B.All that; have C.All; has D.All that; has

23、I’m so glad you’ve come here to ________ this matter in person.

A.lead to B.see to C.turn to D.refer to

24、Festival celebrations provide a(n) ____ to celebrate together, sharing warmth and good times.

A.pipe B.patent C.avenue D.antique

25、The publishing house ______ his copyright, so he accused it.

A. abandoned B. condemned

C. invaded D. surrendered

26、At just 40 years old,hip-hop star Kasseem Dean,more popularly known as Swizz Beatz,has amassed（积累）a track record,lifestyle and nearly$70 million net worth that would inspire most of us to retire early.So why does Dean continue to both work extremely hard and try projects that come with the risk of rejection?

During our interview for Uncommon Drive,a video series for USA&Main that seeks to find out the motivations and magic of world-class business people,Dean provided a memorable answer:“You only have so much time—once it’s gone you don’t get it back.Don’t focus on money;focus on building something greater than yourself.If you’re not making history,you’re wasting your time on Earth.”

When you look at his answer,you will learn two important lessons.The first is in“making history”.Doing so requires awareness.You must fully understand what has and has not been achieved in the market you’ve entered.Dean makes every effort with the goal of creating something important that has not been done before and will be remembered for its impact beyond his years.

The second part of his statement is just as powerful.In this interview,he never once said he is“trying”to make history.Instead,he has told himself that no matter what difficulty there is,it’s just going to happen.“I’m going to make history.”Dean said.

After talking to Dean for nearly 45 minutes,it was clear to me that he has removed all ego（自我）from a statement that might otherwise be misread as false pride.I believe it’s a brilliant hack—rather than focus on all the reasons why a project can’t be realized,he has convinced himself of the possibility.

【1】What is the function of the first paragraph?

A．To lead to the main topic.

B．To describe a star’s success.

C．To express admiration for a star.

D．To explain the meaning of success.

【2】What motivates Dean to continue to work hard?

A．His desire to be famous.

B．His wish to be wealthy.

C．His adventurous spirit and imagination.

D．His life goal to leave his mark on history.

【3】What can we learn about Dean in the interview?

A．He takes a pride in his work.

B．He can predict the possibility.

C．He always believes in himself.

D．He gets prepared for his career.

【4】What’s the title of the text?

A．How does Kasseem Dean face rejection?

B．What makes Kasseem Dean work hard?

C．How does Kasseem Dean make history?

D．Why doesn’t Kasseem Dean want to retire?

27、Why do Chinese people love hot pot so much? As the winter months are coining in, more and people are silting around a table, enjoying this kind of traditional meal. I find myself wondering what it U about this traditional meal, which has existed for more than 1,000 years. What makes it a Chinese food favorite? It seems that the answer lies beyond the dish itself.

Hot pot isn’t just designed to keep you warm during the cold months; it’s also a social experience. It’s a “theater” cooked food that turns a meal into an event. There is a lot of fun for everyone to have in adding some foods to the hot pot.

Hot pot is eaten over two to three hours. For this reason, it is often considered an evening’s entertainment, and a time to spend with friends and families. However, many westerners would be put off by the idea of other people sticking chopsticks in their food. When we come to eat at the table in the UK, we tend to have our own shares, although the experience is still a social one.

A similar experience to the hot pot can be found in Korean barbecue restaurants, which lei you cook your own meat. This allows people to have their meat done however they want.

For most westerners, the idea of going to a restaurant to cook their own food is very strange. But having a go, I find it’s now one of my favorite meals in Beijing. The steam from the pot left my clothes smelling of food when I got home, but perhaps this was also part of the experience. When the cold wind is blowing outside, I am sitting around with my good friends, eating and drinking. For me it’s like a dinner party where my taste buds and my appetite are equally satisfied in the warm company of friends.

【1】What is the main reason why hoi pot is popular in China?

A．It has a history of over 1,000 years.

B．It is a fun social experience.

C．It serves people with many kinds of foods.

D．It keeps people very warm in winter.

【2】We can conclude from the article that British people generally .

A．enjoy cooking their own food in restaurants

B．prefer a Korean barbecue to Chinese hot pot

C．don’t like sharing food with others in restaurants

D．don’t mind the smell of food staying on their clothes

【3】How long do people spend in enjoying the traditional meal?

A．More than four hours.

B．Over one hour.

C．About three hours.

D．All the evening.

【4】What is the author’s attitude to hot pot?

A．Serious.

B．Tired.

C．Humorous.

D．Appreciative.

28、Experts agree that good digestive health is important for absorbing nutrients from the food you eat. 【1】 Therefore, there are some tips for you.

【2】 Not only can these substances cause stomachaches in high quantities, but they slow digestion, causing constipation. They will also prevent you from being hungry for healthier foods, like high fiber foods.

Drink plenty of water. Water will increase the efficiency of your digestion by helping to soften and break down foods so your body can absorb the nutrients. It will also make regular bowel movements easier. 【3】 However, the amount you need will vary with your body weight, how active you are, and what climate you live in.

Eat many small meals rather than only a few large ones. 【4】 And eat these small meals at the same time every day so that your body can anticipate the meal and physiologically prepare.

Reduce stress in your life. Stress has been shown to cause weight gain, constipation, diarrhea and a lowered immune system. It will leave you to the bacteria that causes ulcers. 【5】 Regular exercise will also release certain chemicals and help you relax.

Seek medical advice if you have improved your diet and your lifestyle, but your digestive conditions remain.

A．Take low-calorie but high-fiber foods.

B．Eat less salty, sugary, and fatty foods.

C．Doctors sometimes recommend eight glasses per day.

D．If your body lacks water, you may get headaches and feel tired.

E．This will prevent you from getting extremely hungry and eating too much.

F．However, digestive problems can occur if your system isn’t running properly.

G．Meditation and other relaxation ways can help you to handle stress and help your digestion.

29、   If you have a chance to go to Finland, you will probably be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.

Take the taxi drivers for example. Taxis in Finland are mostly high-class Benz with a fare of two US dollars a kilometer. You can go anywhere in one, tell the driver to drop you at any place, say that you have some business to attend to, and then walk off without paying your fare. The driver would not show the least sign of anxiety.

The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their guests, but also serve outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so they naturally go to the free dining rooms to have their meals. The most they would do to show their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends to dine free of charge.

The Finnish workers are paid by the hour. They are very much on their own as soon as they have agreed with the boss on the rate. From then on they just say how many hours they have worked and they will be paid accordingly.

With so many loopholes in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take “petty advantages”. But the strange thing is, all the taxi passengers would always come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business; not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. And workers always give an honest account of the exact hours they put in. As the Finns always act on good faith in everything they do, living in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”.

【1】The underlined words in this passage means to ____.

A.be ready to help others

B.gain something at other's expense

C.be a little ahead of others

D.make good use of one's friends

【2】Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

A.While taking a taxi in Finland, you can get off without first paying your fare

B.In a big hotel in Finland, you can enjoy free meals if you' re living in the hotel

C.The workers are always honest with their working hours

D.The bosses in Finland pay the employees according to registration of their working hours

【3】Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A.A society with “Foolish” People B.Life in Finland

C.What a life D.Honest accounts of the Finns

30、When I was a little girl, Mercurochrome (红药水) had magic power. It was good for cuts, scratches (划痕), or other _________. My brother and I tested and_________the power of Mercurochrome many years ago.

It was summer and hot. Mama was not feeling well and became _________ tired. She told us that she was going to _________on the bed. Only a few minutes had passed when Ronnie _________a scratch on his knee that needed immediate _________. We tiptoed (踮着脚走) into Mama’s room and asked her if we could put Mercurochrome on Ronnie’s scratch._________ on her back, Mama had fallen into a deep sleep and made no answer.

We stole into the bathroom, took the Mercurochrome and _________Ronnie’s knee. Undoubtedly, he immediately began to feel better. _________, we tiptoed into Mama’s room to show her that we had taken care of our scratches without __________ her. But she was sound asleep. Then we whispered that __________ Mam didn’t feel well, perhaps Mercurochrome would make her feel __________.

Twenty minutes __________, we painted every scratch and every freckle (雀斑) on Mama’s skin. She had Mercurochrome __________her legs, arms and face. At Ronnie’s encouragement, we __________ tried to paint her fingernails and toenails.

When Mama screamed in __________, we knew that she was awake. With all the __________, it didn’t seem at first that she was feeling better, __________ she burst into laughter as she stared at her image in the mirror.

We laughed a lot the next few days. If anyone had asked us, we would have __________that Mama had been cured by the __________ of Mercurochrome.

【1】

A．matters

B．worries

C．troubles

D．wounds

【2】

A．marked

B．proved

C．collected

D．ignored

【3】

A．suddenly

B．gradually

C．hardly

D．extremely

【4】

A．lie down

B．settle down

C．go down

D．look down

【5】

A．doubted

B．learnt

C．noticed

D．recognized

【6】

A．service

B．attention

C．advice

D．study

【7】

A．Round

B．Tight

C．Wide

D．Flat

【8】

A．painted

B．designed

C．completed

D．decorated

【9】

A．Politely

B．Proudly

C．Carelessly

D．Properly

【10】

A．pleasing

B．bothering

C．exciting

D．worrying

【11】

A．before

B．unless

C．until

D．since

【12】

A．better

B．rarer

C．worse

D．stranger

【13】

A．earlier

B．ago

C．later

D．ahead

【14】

A．in

B．on

C．over

D．under

【15】

A．always

B．ever

C．even

D．only

【16】

A．disappointment

B．shame

C．horror

D．excitement

【17】

A．laughing

B．talking

C．screaming

D．joking

【18】

A．so

B．although

C．because

D．but

【19】

A．pretended

B．expected

C．insisted

D．accepted

【20】

A．story

B．reality

C．secret

D．magic

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、My most rewarding experience throughout the past two years was volunteering at the swimming competition for Special Olympics where a disabled friend of my community took part. This had special _________ for me because experiencing it helped improve my leadership skills, my character, and support my community.

First, my leadership skills developed when I _________ directed each swimmer where to line up at the platform and _________ each player when they needed to swim. I had to make sure that the swimmers were _________ and ready to perform. This kept me on my feet at all times and _________ of each event’s time and location. I learned each swimmer’s name, since many of them swam in more than one _________.

Secondly, my _________ was greatly improved when I saw the swimmers get their awards for winning each swimming event. I was _________ that most swimmers could swim better than I. It astonished me by their _________ attitudes, whether they won or lost. This also expanded my horizons, offering me the opportunity to ____________ people I would normally not come across. I went out of my ____________ zone and did whatever was needed to be done. It was especially ____________ when I saw the cheerful faces of the players.

Lastly, I was of ____________ to my community by lending a hand to this organization in need of ____________. To be a ____________ of it gave me a chance to improve my community and become ____________ with the people living in this area.

As Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give. The ____________ should be done throughout our life.” ____________ , through the many opportunities my community has offered, I was privileged to be ____________ in this exciting and important event in these players’ lives. I ____________ to be an assistant at this event and do more for it in years to come.

【1】

A．purpose

B．meaning

C．background

D．regulation

【2】

A．equally

B．amazingly

C．strictly

D．independently

【3】

A．taught

B．informed

C．awarded

D．compared

【4】

A．positioned

B．preserved

C．valued

D．evaluated

【5】

A．proud

B．certain

C．aware

D．cautious

【6】

A．decision

B．application

C．country

D．event

【7】

A．figure

B．ability

C．character

D．memory

【8】

A．blamed

B．impressed

C．reminded

D．concerned

【9】

A．changeable

B．critical

C．various

D．positive

【10】

A．meet

B．gather

C．introduce

D．recommend

【11】

A．imagination

B．availability

C．comfort

D．development

【12】

A．embarrassing

B．rewarding

C．outstanding

D．relaxing

【13】

A．service

B．courage

C．wisdom

D．importance

【14】

A．help

B．money

C．sympathy

D．attention

【15】

A．player

B．witness

C．plot

D．part

【16】

A．familiar

B．friendly

C．popular

D．obvious

【17】

A．traveling

B．consulting

C．volunteering

D．cooperating

【18】

A．Eventually

B．Generally

C．Gradually

D．Fortunately

【19】

A．desired

B．educated

C．involved

D．influenced

【20】

A．demand

B．hope

C．agree

D．promise

33、   I met my wife at a party when I just finished my master's degree.A friend introduced me to her and we had a(n)_______talk at the party.I was quite_______that she had written a novel.I said,“I always admire those who are good at_______novels but I'm just_______.”To my surprise,she replied,“How can you know it if you don't have a_______?”

We kept in touch after the party and she_______me to try my hand,_______all I had ever written were scientific papers and articles on butterflies.I was_______Alexander the Great,but there were already some wonderful novels about the man.I did not feel I could_______with those,so I took a side step.I invented a junior officer in his army,had him wounded in Scythia and left behind as the________headed east,out of which came my book Lion of Scythia!My wife corrected my first________.There was more________on the page than black.________,I didn't give up and sent the book to the same publisher that my wife used to send her books to.Many days passed by and I didn't________anything back.So I completely forgot it and got back to my________on butterflies.However,the life-changing day came,18 months after I had started writing,I got an email saying that my book had been________and was to be published.

That was twenty years ago.I'm________writing and I'm about to start my 37th novel(29 published so far).It is now a part of my life.I can't let one single day go________writing and I set myself a goal of at least 1,000 words a day.I push the________forward,even if I write rubbish.I can always go________and rewrite or edit,but I have never suffered from writer's block.

A．hard

B．great

C．empty

D．secret

A．moved

B．worried

C．impressed

D．frightened

A．writing

B．reading

C．editing

D．reviewing

A．hopeless

B．harmless

C．careless

D．endless

A．break

B．try

C．name

D．call

A．permitted

B．forbade

C．encouraged

D．promised

A．because

B．unless

C．if

D．though

A．sure of

B．proud of

C．worried about

D．interested in

A．protect

B．talk

C．compete

D．play

A．community

B．committee

C．army

D．family

A．work

B．report

C．magazine

D．diary

A．red

B．yellow

C．brown

D．blue

A．Therefore

B．However

C．So far

D．In all

A．pay

B．teach

C．hear

D．send

A．news

B．opinion

C．dependence

D．research

A．discussed

B．inspired

C．challenged

D．accepted

A．still

B．even

C．ever

D．also

A．into

B．without

C．for

D．after

A．theory

B．story

C．business

D．speech

A．away

B．off

C．out

D．back

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

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

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

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

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

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

35、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.”

36、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.

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.

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.

38、假定你是学生会主席李华，下周你所在学校要接待来自英国的交换生。请你代表学校写一篇欢迎辞，要点如下:

1.表示欢迎: 2.介绍活动安排: 3.表达愿望。

注意:1.词数80左右:2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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39、假如你是李华。现在中央电视台电视节目《经典咏流传》(Everlasting Classic)风靡你校，深受师生们欢迎。你们学校也打算于近期举行《经典咏流传》活动。请给你的外教Edward写一封邮件，邀请他一起参加该活动。内容包括:

1.时间和地点；

2.内容:演唱诗歌；

3.活动意义。

注意:

1.词数100左右；

2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Edward,

How time flies!!

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I’m looking forward to your coming.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

40、假定你是星光中学学生会主席李华，你校组织了一场关于抗击冠状病毒的校园安全讲座， 请你就此写一则通知。内容包括：

1．讲座的时间、地点；

2．讲座的主要内容；

3．其他注意事项。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3.参考词汇：新冠病毒COVID-19；传播transmission（n.）

41、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

How to Deal with Pressures at School

As a high school student, if you are feeling stressed out or frustrated by teachers, classmates,or schoolwork，it is important to know that you aren't the only one． Believe it or not，everyone has these feelings at some point， and everyone should learn how to deal with them properly．

First of all， you need to keep a positive attitude and not take things to heart． That someone got a better grade than you doesn't mean that they are smarter—perhaps they studied longer or knew the material more． It's easy to become frustrated if you are not doing as well as your friends， but being optimistic will help you deal with future similar situations．

Secondly， if students at school are bullying you， know when to stand up for yourself． Don't let other classmates make you feel that you are not good enough． They are simply insecure and do not know how to deal with the pressures of school． They are just trying to make others feel bad， so they can feel better about themselves．

Lastly， it is necessary to keep things correctly． For any situation that is stressful， take a second look from a different point of view． When I look back to the frustrations of my high school days， I notice that many of them seem very unimportant to me now．

It's not easy to be confident when there are so many students who seem like they "have it all"，but try to realize that you, too, are good enough. It’s not a competition about who is smarter, more beautiful—everyone is different—so believe your individuality.

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