石家庄2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高一英语

1、 into English , the sentence was found to have an entirely different word order.

A. Translating B. Translated

C. To translate D. Having translated

2、—I think he is taking an active part in social work.

—I agree with you ______.

A.in a way B.in many ways C.on the way D.in the way

3、The party will be held in the garden, weather   .

A. permitting B. to permit

C. permitted     D. permit

4、The May Fourth Movement was launched in 1919 and its spirit ______ Chinese youth to make contributions to national rejuvenation ever since.

A. is motivating B. has been motivating

C. motivated D. was motivating

5、Millions of pounds' worth of damage   by a storm which swept across the north of England last night.

A.will be caused B.had been caused

C.has been caused D.will have been caused

6、---Did you have any trouble catching the professor’s lecture?

---No. He spoke very slowly and clearly to make it easy _____.

A. to understand B. understand

C. understanding D. understood

7、I am ________ the government as well as to the general public for just treatment ________ peasant-workers，who have made great contributions to the improvement of city life.

A．asking；on behalf of

B．applying；in the name of

C．demanding；in the name of

D．appealing to；on behalf of

8、When you go to a foreign country, you must try to   the customs there in order to recover from the culture shock quickly.

A. deal with   B. adapt to

C. focus on D.  take over

9、I have had my bike ________, and I’m going to get somebody ________ my radio tomorrow.

A．repair; to repair

B．repairing; to be repaired

C．repaired; to repair

D．to repair; repairing

10、John as well as the other children who ______ no parents ______ good care of in the centre at present.

A.has; is taken B.have; are taken C.have; is taken D.has; are taken

11、We must _____ a new teacher at once to the mountain school.

A.appreciate B.appoint C.arrange D.name

12、What do you ________the film called Avengers: Endgame?

A. think up B. think over

C. think highly of D. think of

13、——Do you have anything more_______,sir?

——No, you can have a rest or do something else.

A．typing

B．to be typed

C．typed

D．to type

14、We ________ be seen by AI as a small inconvenience that is in the way of the solution to a bigger problem.

A．could

B．should

C．need

D．dare

15、As everyone knows, oral exams _________ to test our communicative ability.

A．are being designed

B．designed

C．are designed

D．to be designed

16、--- Look at the sweat on her face.

--- She ________ the house since she got up this morning.

A．is cleaning    B．has been cleaned

C．was cleaning    D．has been cleaning

17、The doctor ______ a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope.

A.cut out B.cut across C.cut in D.cut up

18、It is time that the government _____ measures to protect the valuable heritage.

A.takes B.to take C.take D.took

19、—Can you see the sign on the door?

—Yes, it ________ “No Entry”.

A. reads B. writes

C. speaks D. reports

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

A. cut back B. cut off

C. cut out D. cut in

21、In those days, our _______ concern was to provide people who were stopped by the snow storm with food and health care.

A. careful B. private

C. permanent D. primary

22、Yesterday, the storm delayed us. ________ the storm we would have been here in time.

A．If it were not for

B．But for

C．Unless

D．But that

23、The speaker thought it hard to make himself ___ .

A.understand B.understanding C.to understand D.understood

24、His plan was ____, and the _____won him many _______glances.

A.approved,approve,approving

B.approving,approver, approved

C.approved,approval, approving

D.approving,approve,approved

25、________ to make his parents to live a better life, he went abroad, working to make more money.

A．Determined

B．Determining

C．To determine

D．Having determined

26、   Recently, my husband and three kids were playing in the Mediterranean, swimming and floating in the perfect sea. It was ridiculously beautiful in Majorca, Spain. The way the sun danced across the water and how the blue horizon was dotted with sailboats were such beautiful scenes. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes.

My husband and I always dreamed about taking our kids on a trip around the world. It was something we always wanted to do one day. It was one of the things we finally talked about when we imagined our life with our children.

Fourteen years later, we had three boys who were growing up faster by the day. It was time to make good on those plans. We spent dozens of hours discussing, researching and planning. We had to learn how to “road school” our kids and arrange time off from work. We renewed our passports and then packed our bags. We showed our kids the world. It was about experiencing dozens of flights, trains and taxis together. We showed them how wonderful, diverse and fascinating the world is. We wanted them to learn all we had learned ourselves through our own travels as young adults.

But there was something more than that. What we really wanted was to slow down time. We wanted the days to last a bit longer and the weeks to take their time. The years with our children are going too fast. We wanted to put brakes on our busy lives for a year and just be with our kids. We wanted a break from the daily morning routine of making lunches, eating breakfast and rushing out of the door in time for school. We needed a family time-out.

It was a wonderful two-month trip in Europe, full of unbelievable moments. And when we look back at our lives, I know we’ll be glad we did it. I know we’ll be happy that this is a chapter of the story of our family.

【1】What was the author’s attitude to the trip when she planned it?

A.Positive. B.Casual. C.Doubtful. D.Flexible.

【2】What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A.Making preparations for their vacation.

B.Having fun in the perfect Mediterranean.

C.Learning to study during trips as young adults.

D.Experiencing a different and wonderful world.

【3】What was the author’s main purpose in taking this trip?

A.To educate her kids to value their life.

B.To promise her children to see the world.

C.To enjoy a family break away from their busy life.

D.To teach her kids what they cannot learn in school.

【4】How did the author feel after her two-month trip in Europe?

A.Confident. B.Exhausted. C.Anxious. D.Satisfied.

27、   The American dream is the faith held by many people in the United States of America that through hard work, courage, creativity and determination, they can achieve a better life for themselves. More specifically, they agree on how to get ahead in America: get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy their own house. But do Americans still believe in that path, and if they do, is it attainable?

The most recent National Journal poll (民意测验，投票) asked participants about the American dream, what it takes to achieve their goal, and whether or not they felt the control over their ability to be successful. Obviously, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream and what it takes to achieve it looks quite different from it did in the late 20th century. On the whole, people felt that their actions and hard work — not outside forces — were the deciding factors in how their lives turned out. But the participants had definitely mixed feelings about what actions make for a better life in the current economy.

In the last seven years, Americans have grown more pessimistic about the power of education to lead to success. Even though they see going to college as a fairly achievable goal, a majority 52 percent think that young people do not need a 4-year college education in order to be successful.

Miguel Maeda, 42, who has a master’s degree and works in public health, was the first in his family to go to college, which has allowed him to achieve a sense of financial stability his parents and grandparents never did. While some, like Maeda, emphasized the value of a degree rather than the education itself, others still see college as a way to gain new viewpoints and life experiences. Sixty-year-old Will Fendley, who had a successful career in the military and never earned a college degree, think “personal drive” is far more important than just go to college. To Fendley, a sense of drive and purpose, as well as an effective high-school education, and basic life skills, like balancing a checkbook (支票簿), are the necessary elements for a successful life in America.

【1】What’s the findings of the lastest National Journal survey in terms of American dream?

A.More and more Americans are finding it hard to realize.

B.It remains alive among the majority of American people.

C.Americans’ idea of it has changed over the past few decades.

D.An increasing number of young Americans are abandoning it.

【2】Some Americans now have a pessimistic view that college education ________.

A.is a goal difficult to achieve

B.still remains open to debate.

C.is necessary to achieve success

D.is no longer as important as it used to be

【3】What does the last paragraph mainly discuss?

A.Which person has realized his American dream

B.Who has a better view about the American dream

C.Basic life skills are necessary for success in America

D.Views about the role of college education in achieving success

【4】What’s the author’s attitude as the passage's topic is concerned?

A.Indifferent. B.optimistic. C.Pessimistic. D.Objective.

28、   The brain, like any other body part, gets old. However, not all brains age the same way. For example, women's brains may age more slowly than men's. That is the finding of a U.S. study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

Researchers there wanted to find out how the brain uses sugar. To do that, they studied just over 200 brains of men and women aged 20 to 80. They used PET scans to look at the flow of oxygen and sugar in the brains. The researchers found that the brains of women looked nearly four years younger than the brains of men who were bomb in the same year. Their findings suggest that the brains of men and women may use sugar differently as they age. But the researchers do not know why. Some scientists suggest that hormones（荷尔蒙）could play a part. And how the brain uses fuel, might help us understand some of the differences we see between men and women as they age.

On its website, the National Institute on Aging describes an aging brain. Parts of the brain get smaller, "especially those important to learning and other complex mental activities." Communication between neutrons（神经元）may decrease. Blood flow may lessen and inflammation（炎症）may increase. All these changes slow our recognitive abilities. We have trouble remembering things, finishing complex tasks or paying attention, just as Alzheimer's patients. It slowly destroys memory, thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks.

Considering what scientists already know about aging, the recent study about sex differences in the brain has raised some questions. For one, if women's brains age more slowly than men's, why do more women get Alzheimer's disease? Alzheimer's does not have a cure. However, doctors say that between 50 to 60 percent of Alzheimer's cases can be prevented by simple lifestyle changes. Whether you are a man or a woman, there are always some things you can do to keep your brain young and healthy.

【1】What's the purpose of the research performed by the U.S. scientists?

A.To know why women live longer.

B.To figure out how the brain uses sugar.

C.To study the structure of the brain.

D.To find out the cause of Alzheimer's disease.

【2】Why do women's brains age more slowly than men's according to the study?

A.Women cat more sugar than men.

B.The flow of oxygen in their brains differs.

C.Women's brains use sugar differently.

D.The amount of sugar in women's brains is larger.

【3】What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A.What happens as the brain ages.

B.Why a person suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

C.What makes Alzheimer' disease incurable.

D.How the changes improve the recognitive abilities.

【4】What will the passage probably continue to talk about?

A.Some other incurable diseases. B.The ways to keep your brain young.

C.The research on Alzheimer's. D.The other parts of the body.

29、As prices drop and their functionality expands, you can expect to see humanoid(类人的)robots in more places, including schools, airports, and hospitals. Will they influence human behavior?

In a study published recently, scientists found that mean robots can help people concentrate. The experiment, published in Science Robotics, was based on something called the Stroop Task, which is widely used in psychology and described as the "gold standard" of attentional tests. It challenges participants to name the colors of words and ignore their meanings while calculating reaction time.

The researchers put a modern twist on the task, though-this time, there was a robot in the room. The goal was to see if the presence of a robot would affect cognition, and the researchers found it did, but only when the robot was mean.

How do you make a robot mean? In this case, a meter-tall toy robot called a Meccanoid G15KS was made to respond to seven questions. The good robots told jokes, spoke about friendship, and described test subjects as nice. The bad robots replied to questions with passive aggressive comebacks, such as "I enjoy doing analysis programs but you would not understand" and statements like "I do not value friendship."Then the participants rated the robots."The more participants thought the robot made them uncomfortable, the greater the improvement of their Stroop performance was," the researchers wrote."Not surprisingly, the bad robot was rated as less warm, friendly and pleasant than the good robot."

The study authors argue that robots are crossing the line in some situations from machines to social agents. That will change how humans interact with and behave around them.

“Similar to a human's presence, the presence of a robot might not be neutral(无倾向性的) in situations like school or in the office when you are working." Nicolas Spatola, one of the study authors said in an email, "So before your boss decides to introduce a robot in your office, it could be a good idea to evaluate how you feel about it and how it can positively or negatively impact your work, how comfortable you may feel with it or if you feel it to be a threat."

Just 58 students from University Clermont Auvergne in France participated in the experiment but the researchers found an increase in the speed of correct answers among those in the presence of a mean robot when compared to those who were with a nice robot or alone.

In the future, robots will almost certainly become more and more common in nursing homes, hotel check-in desks, behind the wheel, and elsewhere. “If we want to improve the use of robots in our daily life, there seems to be a need to first understand how Human Robot Interaction can impact human psychology,” Spatola said.

【1】What was the finding of the new study?

A．The use of robots is rising.

B．Humanoid robots can be mean.

C．Unkind robots can sharpen our focus.

D．Robots are becoming more functional.,.

【2】According to the passage, how did the participants judge the robots?

A．By their words.

B．By their actions.

C．By their appearance.

D．By the Stroop Task.

【3】Which of the following might Nicolas Spatola agree with?

A．Be careful about using robots.

B．Leave the robot if it presents a threat.

C．Robots will have a good impact on offices.

D．Robots may replace humans in the workplace.

【4】What was the drawback of the study?

A．The participants were too young.

B．The study method wasn't scientific.

C．There was a slight difference in speed.

D．The number of the participants was too small.

【5】What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Scientists have already developed humanoid robots.

B．Humanoid robots have already found its way into our daily life.

C．Humanoid robots will certainly come into our daily life sooner or later.

D．There is no difficulty we'll meet with before humanoid robots are widely used.

30、   It was rush hour in San Angelo. Heather Santé was driving her Mazda with her nine-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son in the back. Suddenly, a red pickup truck ________ them off. Santé turned the wheel hard to the right, sending the Mazda ________ off the road and down an embankment (筑堤) that ended in a drop-off after about 50 feet. If the car didn’t ________, it would fall onto the road some 20 feet below. Then a bit of ________: As the car raced toward the edge, its undercarriage got ________ on the concrete lip of the embankment, stopping it ________.

The occupants, however, were far from safe. The car had come to rest on top of a wall, literally (确实地) on the edge of ________. One sudden move by anyone inside could send it over.

Jacob Rodriguez watched the ________ unfold from the company where he works. Then he and four other men ran to the car. They ________ onto the trunk to balance the weight as the ________ kids in the back seat watched.

_____, Julio Vasquez and his nephew, Marco Vasquez, were driving to their jobs nearby. Julio jumped out of the car to help ________ Marco went to the shop, ________ a heavy-duty belt, and returned to the ________ car. He tied the Mazda to a truck that had been driven over by one of the other rescuers. With the car ________, the group carefully opened the ________ doors and helped the children out.

But their departure changed the car’s ________, causing it to tip forward. The men, still on the trunk, ________ Santé to jump into the back seat to re-balance the weight. She did and then inched out the back door. Finally, the men carefully ________ the car. Everyone was safe. Another foot, Rodriguez told USA Today, “and this would be a different ________.”

【1】A.cut B.saw C.set D.took

【2】A.leaving B.jumping C.sliding D.diving

【3】A.move B.end C.stop D.lose

【4】A.wisdom B.luck C.choice D.consideration

【5】A.hurt B.change C.separated D.stuck

【6】A.casually B.suddenly C.deliberately D.closely

【7】A.adventure B.disaster C.shock D.regret

【8】A.scene B.plot C.scenery D.view

【9】A.leaped B.escaped C.flowed D.slipped

【10】A.amazed B.inspire C.annoyed D.terrified

【11】A.Still B.Therefore C.However D.Meanwhile

【12】A.while B.until C.unless D.even if

【13】A.shook B.grashped C.followed D.threw

【14】A.floating B.broken C.swinging D.stolen

【15】A.repaired B.secure C.cleaned D.deserted

【16】A.thick B.narrow C.front D.back

【17】A.energy B.form C.weight D.function

【18】A.informed B.ordered C.challenged D.directed

【19】A.got off B.turned off C.set up D.turned up

【20】A.chance B.trip C.story D.deal

31、   Deng couldn’t sleep. Tomorrow was English class. Everyone was ______ to talk about their most precious possession. He’d heard the other kids talking. Everyone ______ something special, something expensive.

Deng had ______. His family had lost everything. Their last money was used to get a place on the boat to Canada. But no one knew that. Deng was too ______ to tell anyone the truth. He didn’t want anyone to laugh at him. He didn’t want anyone’ s ______. He pretended his family was rich. ______, now everyone would find out.

Perhaps he could be sick. But he knew his mother wouldn’t ______ that. She would make him go to school. His parents were proud of him. They thought he was happy at school. He didn’t want to ______ them.

Suddenly he had an idea! Mr. Petrovski’s gold watch. ______ he would lend it to Deng just for one day. He was always pleased when Deng cleared his snow or went to the store for him. He could ______ the watch was his.

The next day, Deng found something on the back of the watch. It was almost ______. He looked closely. There was one word — “friendship.”

It was Deng’s ______. “My family’s very poor. We don’t own anything ______ any more. So I asked my friend to ______ me this. It’s his most ______ possession.” Then he ______ the watch. “I was going to pretend it was mine. But it’s not. He lent it to me ______ I’ m his friend. And that’s what I have. A friend.”

There was ______ in the class. Then Deng heard a sound. Slowly, his classmates started to ______ their hands. One by one they came to the front of the classroom and gathered round Deng. “You’re right,” one said.“______ is more important than anything. And you have a lot of friends.”

【1】A.said B.forced C.supposed D.advised

【2】A.had B.made C.brought D.borrowed

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

【4】A.afraid B.serious C.nervous D.proud

【5】A.admiration B.pity C.doubt D.respect

【6】A.Instead B.Besides C.Otherwise D.However

【7】A.teach B.mind C.allow D.award

【8】A.disappoint B.disturb C.follow D.satisfy

【9】A.Surely B.Gradually C.Truly D.Strangely

【10】A.agree B.pretend C.promise D.dream

【11】A.given away B.thrown away C.hidden away D.worn away

【12】A.secret B.message C.turn D.pleasure

【13】A.interesting B.useful C.valuable D.personal

【14】A.lend B.buy C.leave D.show

【15】A.beautiful B.basic C.familiar D.precious

【16】A.put on B.held up C.repaired D.checked

【17】A.because B.though C.unless D.until

【18】A.noise B.panic C.silence D.warmth

【19】A.shake B.wave C.clap D.raise

【20】A.Honesty B.Bravery C.Family D.Friendship

32、Mark Roswell returned to his house in Milan, Italy, from visiting his parents-in-law in Beijing. No sooner had he _______ the plane than he put himself straight into quarantine (隔离) in his bedroom for 14 days, _______ from his families and relatives. “Having learned about the COVID-19 disease, we knew what was happening currently in our _______ and we were afraid for ourselves, our families and friends,” said the 48-year-old Italian.

14 days later, he walked outside into the street, _______ a mask and gloves. His Italian friends _______ looked at him, laughing at him about his behavior. “I tried my best to _______ that I should wear them in order to avoid communicating the _______ to others, but no one understood,” Roswell said.

Back from China, many Italians were fully aware what was coming and _______ the word: stay at home. So as most Italians enjoyed themselves in the get-together or _______ into cafes and bars as ________, the Chinese residents of Milan had seemingly ________.

In late February and early March, there was a sudden ________ in Italian infections with the epidemic (流行病). Some families, who keep Chinese citizenship, even began to send children to relatives in China, ________ at the attitude and ________ of Italians around them.

Soon enough the epidemic took away many lives and perhaps it was then that the locals came to realize how ________ the Chinese were behaving.

【1】

A．got off

B．got on

C．pull off

D．took off

【2】

A．appointed

B．kept

C．interrupted

D．separated

【3】

A．office

B．homeland

C．hospital

D．company

【4】

A．buying

B．selling

C．wearing

D．choosing

【5】

A．strangely

B．excitedly

C．angrily

D．delightedly

【6】

A．whisper

B．apologize

C．scream

D．explain

【7】

A．genes

B．means

C．virus

D．criteria

【8】

A．forgot

B．spread

C．clicked

D．complained

【9】

A．hurried

B．sank

C．crowded

D．divided

【10】

A．far

B．constant

C．necessary

D．usual

【11】

A．disappeared

B．forgave

C．suffered

D．arisen

【12】

A．decrease

B．increase

C．memorial

D．expectation

【13】

A．alarmed

B．amazed

C．fired

D．determined

【14】

A．welfare

B．innocence

C．behavior

D．concern

【15】

A．roughly

B．casually

C．differently

D．wisely

33、Face shape lets AI spot rare disorders

People with genetic syndromes (综合征) sometimes have revealing facial features, but using them to make a quick and cheap diagnosis can be _______given there are hundreds of possible conditions they may have. A new neural (神经系统) network that analyses photographs of faces can help doctors _______the possibilities.

Yaron Gurovich at biotechnology firm FDNA in Boston and his team built a neural network to look at the overall impression of faces and _______ a list of the 10 genetic syndromes a person is most likely to have.

They _______ the neural network, called DeepGestalt, on 17,000 images correctly labeled to match more than 200 genetic syndromes.The team then asked AI to _______potential genetic disorders from a further 502 photos of people with such conditions. It included the correct answer among its list of 10 responses 91 per cent of the time.

Gurovich and his team also_______the neural network's ability to distinguish between the different genetic mutations (父异) that can lead to the same syndrome.They used photographs of people with Noonan syndrome, which can result from mutations in any one of five genes.DeepGestalt correctly identified the genetic source of the physical appearance 64 per cent of the time. It’s clearly not _______, but it’s still much better than humans are at trying to do this.

As the system makes its assessments, the facial regions that are most helpful in the determination are_______and made available for doctors to view. This helps them to understand the relationships between genetic make-up and physical appearance.

The fact that the diagnosis is based on a simple photograph raises questions about_______. If faces can reveal details about genetics, then employers and insurance providers could, in principle,__________ use such techniques to__________ against people who have a high probability of having certain disorders.__________. Gurovich says the tool will only be __________for use by clinicians.

This technique could bring significant__________ for those who have genetic syndromes. The real value here is that for some of these ultra-rare diseases, the process of diagnosis can be many, many years. This kind of technology can help narrow down the search space and then be confirmed through checking genetic markers. For some diseases, it will cut down the time to diagnosis dramatically. For others, it could perhaps add means of finding other people with the disease and, __________, help find new treatments or cures.

【1】A.convincing B.practical C.reliable D.tricky

【2】A.narrow down B.result in C.bring about D.arise from

【3】A.wait B.return C.mail D.feed

【4】A.focused B.touched C.based D.trained

【5】A.adjust B.identify C.change D.cure

【6】A.recognized B.showed C.tested D.acquired

【7】A.perfect B.acceptable C.specific D.workable

【8】A.covered B.highlighted C.excluded D.monitored

【9】A.privacy B.accuracy C.reality D.objectivity

【10】A.legally B.regularly C.secretly D.efficiently

【11】A.vote B.fight C.argue D.discriminate

【12】A.Furthermore B.Similarly C.Otherwise D.However

【13】A.available B.impossible C.ready D.rare

【14】A.challenges B.damages C.benefits D.concerns

【15】A.by contrast B.on the contrary C.in addition D.in turn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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、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.

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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

38、假定你叫李华，你的英国朋友Tom 想体验中国的高铁 (high-speed railway)，于是请你帮他预订从重庆到成都的高铁票。请根据以下提示回一封邮件：

要点包括：1.  对他的到来表示欢迎；

2.  简单介绍中国的高铁；

3.  请对方提前将护照信息发至你的电子邮箱；

4.  当他到重庆时，凭护照在火车站取票。

注意事项：1. 词数100 左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom，

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Yours

Li Hua

39、假定你是李华，你收到外国朋友Peter的邮件，他想了解你校在新冠疫情（COVID﹣19 epidemic）期间线上教学的情况。请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：

1．课程与时间；

2．你的学习状态；

3．你的期待。

注意：

1．词数100左右；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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40、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

The day of the balloon festival, I felt as light as a hot-air balloon. This year I wouldn’t just be watching. I’d be riding in Mr. J’s truck, following the flight of the balloon and meeting it when it came down.

It was a perfect day. Dad and I drove down the road, circled along the lake and turned into the field that was being used as a parking area. Dad pointed to the lake. “That’s where the balloon festival will take place.” he said. We came to a stop and I got out of the car. And then I saw it, a white bird with black stripes, brown head, and skinny legs. It screamed and beat its wings in the dirt in front of the cars that were driving downhills. Its wings looked broken. Suddenly it cried bitterly and flew off.

“Dad,” I called, but my father was watching the balloons.

“It’s a killdeer(北美喧鹆).” A silver-haired old woman said to me, adding that there must have been a nest here somewhere. “In the parking area?” I asked. She nodded firmly. “It was a nesting place before it became a parking area. No one told the killdeer about the balloon festival!”

“Jack!” Dad called “Isn’t it time you went down to meet Mr. J?”

“I have got to go.” I said to the woman but she pointed with her walking stick. There, on the ground was a perfect nest of eggs, looking like pebbles(卵石). They were almost in the path of cars, trucks and motorbikes.

Suddenly, the parent bird was back to its nest and its wings both twisted again. “Jack!” Dad called again. “The balloons are ready to fly.”

“Dad! I am…” A truck roared over the hill. Brakes(刹车) screamed and dust flew. “What’s the matter?” asked Dad angrily from the truck.

注意:

1.所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右；

2.至少使用 5 个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

“Dad, I am not going,” I said.

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Paragraph 2:

Soon a number of vehicles surrounded the nest.

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41、假定你是李华.你所在的黑龙江省实验中学要征集〜封英文感谢信.以致敬奋战在抗击新型冠状病 毒第一线的医护人员。清你写一封感谢信参与投稿.内容包括：

1.表达谢意；

2.个人感受；

3.表达信心。

注意：

1.词数100左右：

2.可以适当增加细节.以使行文连贯：

参考词汇：

传染病epidemic

新型冠状病毒novel coronavirus

黑龙江省实验 Heilongjang Provincial Experimental High School

Dear medical workers.

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua