石嘴山2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Maybe all Americans realize that _______ will be the next president will face masses of problems.

A．who

B．whoever

C．whomever

D．no matter who

2、—How I wish I __________ fly to the moon!

—Really? That would be great.

A.can B.may C.should D.could

3、We may think we’re a culture that gets rid of our worn technology the first sight of something shiny and new, but a new study shows that we keep using our old devices well after they go out of style.

A.with B.of C.in D.at

4、Don’t get that ink on your shirt ,for it   .

A.isn’t washing out B.won’t be washing out

C.won’t wash out D.doesn’t wash away

5、To ______ the cost of hiring a bus, each student will have to pay $10 each time.

A. correct B. deliver

C. cover D. demand

6、—How do you study English?

—I study English               talking with foreign students.

A.by B.on C.at D.up

7、It depends on ___ we have enough time .

A.if B.which C.if or not D.whether

8、When the student wanted to have a go, the teacher gave him a nod of ________.

A.support B.promise C.approval D.suggestion

9、The library needs _______, but it’ll have to wait until Sunday.

A. cleaning B. be cleaned

C. clean D. being cleaned

10、Determined to be yourself, move forward, and free of shame, you will surely succeed _______ you once failed.

A．where

B．until

C．unless

D．when

11、I wish to thank, _____________, all the people who have made this exhibition possible.

A. in particular B. in peace

C. in case D. in place

12、The reason ___ he was late was ___ he got up late.

A.why, why B.why, because C.why, that D.why, as

13、What worried the child most was ______ to visit his brother n hospital.

A.his not being allowed B.his not allowing

C.his being not allowed D.having not been allowed

14、 The education program ________combining brain work with manual labor is being widely spread throughout the country.

A．to aim at      B．aims at

C．having aimed at  D．aimed at

15、It is necessary that a child’s first eye exam _____ at the age of six months old.

A.was B.were C.be D.is

16、In the _______ of proof, the police could not take action against the man.

A．lack

B．shortage

C．absence

D．failure

17、The city announced severe measures_____ to hold e-bike riders and restaurants that employ the riders responsible.

A.meaning B.to be meant C.meant D.be meant

18、The Marvel (漫威) Cinematic Universe or MCU for short is the shared place ________ all 22 films featuring the comic book characters are set.

A．which

B．that

C．when

D．where

19、Hardly _________ the knock when I opened the door.

A.have I heard B.had I heard C.did I hear D.do I hear

20、Running a marathon in Yancheng is a fantastic experience, _______ will be fresh in your memory for ever.

A．one

B．it

C．the one

D．one that

21、You ________ television. Why not do something more active?

A．always watch

B．are always watching

C．have always watched

D．always watched

22、The young man ____________ be slow, but at least he doesn't make any mistakes.

A.may B.can C.must D.should

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

A.in B.on C.to D.about

24、This is the doctor without _______ help my father couldn’t have defeated the virus.

A.which B.whose C.that D.what

25、At present, acupuncture has become popular round the world, ________ other traditional Chinese medicines.

A.so are B.as are C.so have D.as have

26、   This year some twenty-three hundred teenagers（young people aged from 13—19）from all over the world will spend about ten months in U. S. homes. They will attend U.S. schools, meet U.S. teenagers, and form impressions of the real America. At the same time, about thirteen hundred American teenagers will go to other countries to learn new languages and gain a new understanding of the rest of the world.

Here is a two-way student exchange in action. Fred nineteen, spent last year in Germany with George’s family. In turn, George’s son Mike spent a year in Fred’s home in America.

Fred, a lively young man, knew little German when he arrived, but after two months’ study, the language began to come to him. The school was completely different from what he had expected-much harder. Students rose respectfully when the teacher entered the room. They took fourteen subjects instead of the six that are usual in the United States. There were almost no outside activities.

Family life, too, was different. The father’s word was law, and all activities were around the family rather than the individual. Fred found the food too simple at first. Also, he missed having a car.

“Back home, you pick up some friends in a car and go out and have a good time. In Germany, you walk, but you soon learn to like it.”

At the same time, in America, Mike, a friendly German boy, was also forming his idea.“I suppose I should criticize American schools,”he says.“It is far too easy by our level. But I have to say that I like it very much. In Germany we do nothing but study. Here we take part in many outside activities. I think that maybe your schools are better in training for citizens. There ought to be some middle ground between the two.”

【1】This year   teenagers will take part in the exchange programme between America and other countries.

A.twenty three hundred B.thirteen hundred

C.over three thousand D.less than two thousand

【2】The whole exchange programme is mainly to .

A.help teenagers in other countries know the real America

B.let students learn something about other countries

C.send students in America to travel in Germany

D.have teenagers learn new languages

【3】After experiencing the Amercian school life, Mike thought .

A.a better education should include something good from both American and Germany

B.German schools trained students to be better citizens

C.American schools were not as good as German schools

D.the easy life in the American school was more helpful to students

【4】The underlined word “criticize” in the last paragraph can be replaced by “ ”.

A.praise B.regret

C.ignore D.accuse

27、   There is an English saying: “Laughter is best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health.

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercises. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing. It also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated(忍受) the pain for the longest time was the groups which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both stress and pain.

As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial(有益的) effects similar to those who are caused by laughter.

【1】The main idea of the passage is ________.

A.laughter and physical exercises have similar effects.

B.smile can produce the same effects as laughter

C.pain can be reduced by laughter

D.laughter is best medicine

【2】The underlined word “diminish” is similar to ________.

A.test B.stop C.decrease D.increase

【3】Doctors hold laughter clinics ________.

A.to give better condition to their patients

B.in order to improve patients’ health

C.to make patients smile all the time

D.to prove smile and laughter have the same effect

28、   After Bernini broke his neck and lost all movements below his shoulders when he was 18, his brain still told his hands how to move - - but the message couldn't get through the injured part that connects his brain to other parts of his body. Now, thanks to recent advances in electrical stimulation (刺激) technology. Bernini can once again grasp, pour, and even play Guitar Hero. To do so, he uses a micro-electrode array (MEA) that reads his brain's signals and sends them through wires to something like a sleeve on his arm that electronically stimulates his muscles.

In the past years, researchers have used several approaches to guide patients like Bernini to move their hands. In some systems, researchers implanted (植人)sensors in shoulder muscles that patients could still control, allowing them to move one hand by contracting muscles in the opposite shoulder. Other systems use brain implants similar to those in the new study, but to control robotic arms, rather than the patient’s own muscles. But never before has a patient been able to precisely move his hand using the same neural (神经的)signals that controlled his hand before his injury.

After implanting the MEA in Bernini 's brain, researchers connected it to a computer. Bernini trained the system to connect patterns of neural signals to specific movements by repeatedly mirroring the movements of an imaginary hand on a computer screen. Soon, Bernini could hold large objects like glasses and lift small objects like straws. He could also move each finger on his own just by thinking about it, which previous systems had never achieved. And it was absolutely an amazing moment.

【1】How is Bernini now?

A.He does well in playing the guitar.

B.He has recovered from his neck injury.

C.His thoughts can control his hand movements.

D.His shoulder muscles guide his hand movement.

【2】What did researchers want to do through brain implants in the past?

A.Control the patients' hands.

B.Guide robots to help patients.

C.Help patients' own muscles contract.

D.Repair patients' injured neural signals.

【3】What's the breakthrough in Bernini 's case compared with previous studies?

A.He can hold and lift objects.

B.He can move each finger independently.

C.He can recognize his specific movements.

D.He can use neural signals for hand moving.

【4】Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A.Moving Hands by Contracting Muscles.

B.Using New Systems for Muscle Injuries.

C.Sending Neural Signals by Wires.

D.Linking thoughts to Movements.

29、   A week ago at Compton Elementary School, Georgia, something wonderful happened. Band students from Hillgrove High School arrived to hang out with and talk to the little guys. They wanted to make sure the school's youngest had food in their homes that week.

The thing that thrilled people was that this generous idea came from 17-year-old Nathan Jones, not an adult. Jones is a good trumpet (小号)player with the Hillgrove Hawks band. The idea, he said, came to him two years ago during a discussion about community service in a freshman leadership class. Serving the community was nothing new to Jones. For years, he and his family, who recently moved from Orlando, Florida, had been active community volunteers.

Last year, Jones thought it was a good idea to get the school band involved in community service, only for the young kids in the schooL Band director Patrick

Erwin agreed but decided they had neither the time nor the resources to do it. "It got put on the back burner," Jones said. “This year, I decided to try again. ” This time, Erwin encouraged Jones to take charge and he did.

Back in August, Jones challenged the band to raise $ 5,000 to help with the cost of packing the meals. Within two weeks, they'd collected $6,000 in donations, enough to provide 2,500 family meals, including bags of rice, soy protein, vitamins and vegetables. By the end of the month, when poor families are struggling, a bag of food can mean the difference between a full stomach and an empty one for many of those students.

But HiHgrove's effort isn't just about feeding the body. It's about feeding souls, too.

Early on, the band's goal was to direct students' focus from getting "likes" on social media to building relationships with the people around them. So the band decided on the message, "What the world needs now is love, not likes” for its half-time show.

That means actually going into the community and actually showing love,” Jones said. “ We're going out and doing what weVe telling people to do. ”

【1】Why did the band students go to Compton Elementary School?

A. To share their music with the kids.

B. To provide food for poor young kids.

C. To give students advice on healthy eating.

D. To help children who had trouble making friends.

【2】Where did Jones get his idea?

A. A news report about Compton.

B. A discussion in a leadership class.

C. His volunteer experience in Orlando.

D. His parents who loved community service.

【3】The underlined part “put on the back burner” in Paragraph 3 probably means

A. put aside B. started C. changed over D. occupied

【4】What can we learn about the Hillgrove band?

A. They couldn’t raise enough money.

B. They were going to help more schools.

C. Their work meant a lot to the young kids.

D. They had been helping Compton for two years.

30、Dancing brings me the best of my life.

For several months, I kept learning skills just for a _________. It sounds _________, I know. I had to prepare everything as well as I could in order to get the best result and try to avoid bringing _________ on myself.

I started to learn Latin dance three months ago at my school’s dance sport club. The _________ idea was just to help me to exercise, but the activity gradually became one of my _________.

When I was asked if I would like to compete with dancers from other local schools at the upcoming Orange Blossom Ball (舞会), I _________ immediately. I didn’t believe a (n) _________ could take part in a dancing competition. But then a second thought _________ me. I would not dance to compete, but to _________ what it felt like to dance with people watching me. I also thought it would encourage me to __________ more. __________, I put my name down on the sign-up table for rumba (伦巴).

The competition began on a sunny Saturday morning. After watching several rounds, I finally understood the __________ of the game: since there were many groups of __________ in the competition, the judge randomly (随机) __________ groups to dance. The best would go into the next round.

When we were called, we got on the floor with the other couples and got into __________, ready for our round. When the music __________, I, too nervous, hesitated to start and had to eye my __________ for help. He quickly understood and __________ to help me count the steps. I slowly calmed down and began to focused on dance __________ like the walk, the spin (旋转) and the turn, my brain __________ and I forgot about everything else. Thanks to him, we finished the dance smoothly. We came fourth in the competition.

【1】A. school B. club C. competition D. life

【2】A. reasonable B. crazy C. fantastic D. good

【3】A. shame B. success C. homework D. extra work

【4】A. fixed B. central C. bright D. initial

【5】A. courses B. choices C. hobbies D. faiths

【6】A. hesitated B. refused C. accepted D. quitted

【7】A. amateur B. student C. beginner D. master

【8】A. hit B. considered C. scared D. troubled

【9】A. understand B. experience C. compete D. wonder

【10】A. attract B. win C. concentrate D. practice

【11】A. Eventually B. After all C. However D. Further more

【12】A. interest B. fun C. rules D. law

【13】A. coaches B. audience C. judges D. dancers

【14】A. called on B. put up C. gave out D. passed by

【15】A. touch B. trouble C. dance D. position

【16】A. sounded B. stopped C. lasted D. interrupted

【17】A. teacher B. partner C. classmate D. father

【18】A. sang B. shouted C. laughed D. whispered

【19】A. gestures B. party C. music D. exercise

【20】A. ached B. blanked C. cleared D. screamed

31、   Haze Mabry has been working as a cleaner at Pike County Elementary School for 13 years. Students and teachers in this school decided to do something extra special last week to _______ Mabry, or “Mr. Haze” as he's known at the school, for his 80th _______.

Reading teacher Lori Gilreath who has worked with Mabry for 10 years said they _______ the celebration for weeks and that keeping the plans _______ was a challenge since Mabry works from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. They _______ a “birthday throne” for him on the school's stage and lined the walls _______ photos of Mabry with the kids and other decorations with the _______ “80 years loved, 80 years blessed”. The students also _______ 80 reasons why they loved Mr. Haze. On the day before the _______  , they turned Gilreath's classroom into a secret art center to finish the ________. Mabry said he ________  her moving some tables around in the lunchroom, but he didn't give it much ________.

Next morning, they led Mabry on a parade through the school and the more than 750 students, ________ and staff members lined the halls, shouting ________ “Mr. Haze! Mr. Haze!”

“It really surprises me and I feel ________. All little kids are giving me cards, ________ and hugging me. It's ________ else, you know,” Mabry said. “It's a/an ________ experience.”

Aged 80, Mabry said he likes to keep a busy ________  and loves the kids. “________ I'm able to work,” he said, “I think I'll work.”

【1】A.excite B.surprise C.frighten D.shock

【2】A.event B.festival C.birthday D.workday

【3】A.worked on B.called on C.reflected on D.came on

【4】A.special B.practical C.secret D.necessary

【5】A.grasped B.indicated C.expected D.made

【6】A.with B.on C.for D.under

【7】A.mark B.content C.concept D.theme

【8】A.answered B.listed C.developed D.confirmed

【9】A.competition B.graduation C.celebration D.tradition

【10】A.agenda B.preparations C.principle D.dream

【11】A.observed B.noticed C.ignored D.admitted

【12】A.option B.idea C.opinion D.thought

【13】A.managers B.visitors C.teachers D.parents

【14】A.amazingly B.positively C.cheerfully D.sadly

【15】A.touched B.interested C.relaxed D.convinced

【16】A.running up B.running into C.running after D.running out

【17】A.anything B.something C.nothing D.everything

【18】A.recognizable B.unforgettable C.respectable D.admirable

【19】A.coincidence B.commitment C.schedule D.recovery

【20】A.As long as B.As for C.As far as D.As to

32、About five years ago, when the first generation of wearable fitness trackers became popular, they were announced as the _______of a revolution. Health experts and business people alike said that giving people _______ to real-time calorie-burning and step-count data would inspire them to lose weight, eat better and most importantly _______more. But even as the U.S. market for _______ devices hits $7 billion this year, there’s evidence that their promise isn’t quite paying off.

The U.S. has an exercise problem, _______ 28% of Americans aged 50 and over considered wholly _______. That means 31 million adults move no more than is necessary to perform the most basic functions of daily life. Wearables, experts_______, were going to change that. But limited academic research has been done to figure out whether wearables _______people’s behavior in the long term. The research that does exist isn’t _______. For a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers wanted to see whether activity trackers would help overweight people lose more weight over two years than if they just did a weight-loss intervention alone. They didn’t. “We found that just giving people a device doesn’t mean it’s going to ________ something that you think it’s going to lead to,” says John Jakicic, the author of the study, from the University of Pittsburgh. “These activity trackers don’t engage people in strategies that make a ________ in terms of long-term change”

Another new study ________ a different challenge: user ________. By the end of a yearlong study of 800 people, just 10% of participants were still wearing the trackers, according to, Eric Finkelstein, a professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. “We didn’t find that Fitbits really have much of an effect,” he says. This may well be because people expect trackers to do something they’re not designed to do—________, force them to change their behaviors. “There’s __________among people about their function, a measurement tool and an intervention,” Finkelstein says. A scale counts pounds, for example, ________it won’t teach you how to eat less. “When people put these devices on, they might interact with the app for the first few weeks, maybe the first few months, but there comes a point where that starts to fall off,” says Finkelstein.

To be ________, some of the costlier and higher-tech wearables have features baked into them ________ encourage users to move more, says Shelten Yuen, Fitbit’s vice president of research. Among them are: shaking sensors, movement reminders and social-media combination, all designed to ________ users to make better health choices every day. But more research will be needed to determine whether or not these features or others like them— could ________ improve people’s health and fitness levels.

【1】

A．consequence

B．dawn

C．dusk

D．process

【2】

A．access

B．assistance

C．material

D．tendency

【3】

A．consume

B．purchase

C．exercise

D．perform

【4】

A．wearable

B．electronic

C．appropriate

D．conventional

【5】

A．among

B．with

C．for

D．by

【6】

A．outspoken

B．inactive

C．discouraged

D．ridiculous

【7】

A．announced

B．determined

C．hoped

D．convinced

【8】

A．limit

B．comprehend

C．interpret

D．change

【9】

A．encouraging

B．interesting

C．pioneering

D．challenging

【10】

A．benefit from

B．result in

C．add to

D．focus on

【11】

A．consequence

B．movement

C．profit

D．difference

【12】

A．imitated

B．arranged

C．highlighted

D．informed

【13】

A．reduction

B．participation

C．creation

D．expectation

【14】

A．shortly

B．therefore

C．deliberately

D．namely

【15】

A．evaluation

B．popularity

C．confusion

D．interaction

【16】

A．but

B．and

C．or

D．so

【17】

A．casual

B．fair

C．accessible

D．technical

【18】

A．what

B．why

C．that

D．how

【19】

A．persuade

B．advocate

C．follow

D．motivate

【20】

A．frequently

B．automatically

C．faithfully

D．measurably

33、A woman is volunteering in ashelter. It all started because she missed her own _________

Sandy was at a loss when her beloved Angus died last year — terribly lonely, yet not quite______for a new dog in her life. ________, she decided to volunteer at the local animal shelter and spend some quality time with furry friends who, like her, were ________ their old buddies (伙伴).

Remembering that her dog had loved being read to, she brought along a ________   there.

It's now been 18 months sinceSandy first began ________ her chair beside the dog house. Shelter workers say it really calms down the dogs, but Sandy says it does more ________ to her than it does to the dogs.

Sandy was ________ that photos of her reading to dogs were spreading on the Internet until the media started calling. Kathleen, a fellow shelter volunteer was so touched by the sight of her     ____ to an old dog that she took a photo and posted it on the Internet. She was so ______ with the dogs — I watched her read to several — and they just loved being ________ by her, "Kathleen said.

Inspired by Sandy's style of _________, the shelter has announced that a reading marathon is being ________ for next September. The plan is to get kids in the neighborhood ______ in reading to the animals, with the added benefit of reading practice for the two-leggers, along with plenty of friendly _______ for the four-leggers.

【1】

A．husband

B．kid

C．dog

D．animal

【2】

A．ready

B．free

C．sorry

D．grateful

【3】

A．However

B．Meanwhile

C．Besides

D．Therefore

【4】

A．comforting

B．admiring

C．missing

D．helping

【5】

A．toy

B．book

C．camera

D．photo

【6】

A．settling into

B．stealing into

C．heading for

D．looking for

【7】

A．duty

B．work

C．good

D．wrong

【8】

A．uneasy

B．unsure

C．unhappy

D．unaware

【9】

A．reading

B．attending

C．waving

D．whispering

【10】

A．content

B．patient

C．strict

D．careful

【11】

A．interviewed

B．trained

C．petted

D．photographed

【12】

A．teaching

B．living

C．thinking

D．volunteering

【13】

A．accepted

B．predicted

C．recorded

D．organized

【14】

A．involved

B．experienced

C．united

D．relaxed

【15】

A．competition

B．company

C．service

D．advice

34、A: Excuse me, do you know where the chemistry lab is?

B: Yes. It’s just on the fifth floor of this b【1】.

A: How often do you do c【2】experiments there?

B: Twice a week.

A: Can you go there without a t【3】?

B: No. That’s not allowed.

A: What does the teacher often tell you to do when you are doing an e【4】?

B: He often tells us to look c【5】and follow the i【6】.

A: What will you do when you finish the experiment?

B: We must put e【7】back in the cupboards and wash our hands.

A: Right. It is very i【8】to keep the lab clean.

B: Yes, safe as well. We must turn off the e【9】before l【10】the lab.

35、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.

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 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、假设你是李华，得知你的笔友Jack和他的好友Mike最近关系很紧张，他很沮丧，请你给Jack回封信，内容包括：1.表示安慰2. 建议朋友相处之道。

注意：1.词数80个左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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39、假如你叫李华，你的美国笔友 Wilson决定暑假来中国学习汉语，了解中国传统文化，时间一个月。他向你询问附近大学开设培训班的情况，请你按照下列要点给他回一封信，内容包括：

1.报名、班额、价格；

2.住宿、吃饭、交通；

3.交友

注意：1.开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数

2.词数100左右

3.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

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40、Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

描写一下你的房间。如果有可能的话，你会在哪些方面做一些改变，使其更加温馨、舒适和美丽。

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

I am a proud mother of three children, my last little one being delivered in the middle of this pandemic. She was born in August and her name is Aida.

Shortly after having Aida, my mother-in-law Ann showed me something she learned from her friend’s mother in an art class she attended weekly. She had showed me how to knit (编织) a scarf. She showed me stitches (针) and gave me her half done project.

I spent a lot of time breastfeeding my sweet little girl, so I had some extra time to do something with my hands throughout the day. I enjoyed making the scarf so I purchased tons of yarn (线) since it was winter. I wanted to make scarves for my three children as Christmas gifts.

There was a new family that moved in down the street. The only daughter of the family was Jane, a shy girl, aged 14, the same age of my oldest son David. It seemed that she came from a financially disadvantaged family, for she always wore old clothes. Worse sill, in such cold days, she had no more clothes to wear and trembled with cold.

Due to the pandemic, society was thrown into crisis mode. Schools were closed, food supplies and deliveries were suspended and children were stuck at home. In such discouraging times, however, they became good companions, talking and playing at home or around the houses.

It was dreadfully cold this winter. Every time David came back from outside, with red face, he always cried, “Mum, it is freezing outside!” Then, he came over to see whether I finished the scarf. I could tell how impatient he was to wear my scarf sooner! I had to speed the project to satisfy his expectation. But David comforted me saying he could wait a few days. What a kind and considerate boy he was ! Then my great art project finally was accomplished on the morning ahead of Christmas.

注意：

1. 续写词数应为150左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I wrapped the scarf around David’s neck.

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Later that day David came back saying Jane also deserved a scarf.

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