湖州2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高一英语

一、单项选择（共25题，共 125分）

1、There is now an overwhelming scientific ____ that global warming is indeed happening and that humans are contributing to it.

A. fiction B. purpose

C. consensus D. schedule

2、Later ________ word came that Dolly ________ sheep had become seriously ill.

A．a; a

B．the; the

C．/; the

D．/; /

3、Bobby secretly decided to _______for the track team with the purpose of being the winner, and his roommate instantly showed his disapproval.

A.let out B.try out C.work out D.drop out

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

A.which B.whose C.that D.what

5、The five mascots（吉祥物）, Beibei ,Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying and Nini ,meaning in English “Welcome to Beijing”, a message of friendship to people all over the world.

A.communicate B.represent C.leave D.stand

6、He _____himself_____ this cause for many years,and achieved what he had expected .

A. cured ... of B. devoted... to .

C. equipped ... with D. entitled ...to

7、This restaurant has an inviting, homelike atmosphere ______ many others are short of.

A.where B.when C.which D.what

8、A woman had a ________ escape yesterday when her car left the road.

A. necessary B. narrow

C. nervous D. neat

9、Protective clothing must be worn when the machine is in _________.

A. order B. operation

C. line D. public

10、----Is your father a teacher now?

----No, but he . He taught English for 10 years.

A. used to be B. used to

C. used to do D. was used to

11、Nobody believed the reason ________ he was absent from the class was ________ he had to meet his uncle in the airport.

A．why; why

B．that; that

C．why; that

D．which; that

12、________of their bad habits, the boys changed from being dependent on their parents to ________for others.

A. Having rid; sacrificing B. To rid; sacrifice

C. Rid; sacrificing D. Having been rid; sacrifice

13、The police ______ the stolen jewellery and returned it to the owner.

A.searched B.hunted C.invented D.recovered

14、Einstein liked Bose’s paper so much that he ________ his own work and translated in into German.

A．turned around

B．turned down

C．took over

D．set aside

15、--- This dress looks too old-fashioned.

--- No. It’s ____ old. It suits you well.

A. far from B. free from

C. absent from D. apart from

16、It is not how much you read but ________ you read ________ really counts

A.that… what B.what… that

C.that… that D.what… what

17、There was a time _______, if a lady got onto a crowded bus or train, a gentleman would immediately stand up and offer her his seat.

A.while B.as C.when D.unless

18、Climate change is projected to have far-reaching____ — including sea level rise flooding cities and shifting weather patterns causing long-term declines in agricultural production.

A.contributions B.confusions C.consequences D.feedbacks

19、Can it have been on the playground ________ you lost your watch?

A.that B.on which C.where D.in that

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

A．symbolized

B．exposed

C．strengthened

D．abandoned

21、It’s not what we do once in a while ______ shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

A.which B.that C.how D.when

22、_______ is known to us all that the old scientist, for _______ life was hard in the past, still works hard in his eighties.

A. As; whose B. It; who C. As; whom D. It; whom

23、I recommended ________ an English-Chinese dictionary, ________ I thought would be of great help to his studies.

A．buying; that

B．to buy; that

C．buying; which

D．to buy; which

24、Had I known about this computer program, a huge amount of time and energy .

A．would have been saved

B．had been saved

C．will be saved

D．was saved

25、Someone who_____ you to something you are not comfortable doing will stress you out.

A.asks B.pressures C.strains D.stresses

二、阅读理解（共4题，共 20分）

26、 If you are traveling abroad, whether for business or pleasure, sooner or later you will find yourself in a local restaurant. The following dos and don’ts may help you behave properly in different countries.

France

“People don’t only insist on outstanding food and fine wine--they also set great store by good manners for eating at least in up-market restaurants,”. says Stephane Calmeyn. The French are old-fashioned about paying the bill to. “Women are often given a menu with no topics.” says Calmeyn.

Brazil

“In many restaurants, the bill is already equally divided by the number of people in your party.” Brazilian people traditionally keep track of how much they owe. “You collect your empty bottles under or next to the table, so that you can simply count them up at the end of the night” says Zampil.

Norway

In Norway it is perfectly acceptable to lean across someone to get the salt, pepper or butter “We call it Norwegian arms. The custom means you aren’t constantly troubling other guests to pass you this or that.” explains Carina Mælen. Another thing you are allowed to do is toast with an empty glass. “Because a toast is considered a symbolic action, and there is no need to always wait until every last person has filled their glass.” says Mælen.

Argentina

You won’t catch people sharing a table with strangers in an Argentinian restaurant, “They expect to be free from strangers’ attention.” says Daniel Weigandt. Invited to a friend’s home for dinner? “Whatever you do, don’t be early or even punctual. Ideally you should get there 10 to 15 minutes late!”

【1】What is traditional about dining in France?

A.The bill is often equally divided. B.Gentlemen usually settle the bill.

C.Customers collet their empty bottles. D.People make a toast with empty glasses.

【2】Why do people have Norwegian arms at table?

A.They prefer not to bother others. B.They consider it as a symbolic action.

C.They can’t wait to fill their gasses. D.They would like someone to pass the sauce.

【3】Which of the following countries values privacy most?

A.Brazil. B.France. C.Norway. D.Argentina.

【4】What is the purpose of the text?

A.To offer travelling tips to visitors. B.To introduce different table manners.

C.To encourage people to eat heathy food. D.To recommend restaurants in some countries.

27、 Many of us know about Russia’s Take Baikal from our textbook, or by listening to Chinese singer Li Jian’s hit song, Lie Baikal. But over the years, the world’s deepest freshwater lake has been in the spotlight for an extreme sport.

Each March, about 150 people from around the world sign up for the Baikal Ice Marathon. The 26-mile（41, 84 kilometers）journey starts on the lake’s eastern shore. In March, the ice is a meter thick and iron-hard. Runners cross this frozen surface, finishing on the western side of the lake.

It’s believed that Lake Baikal’s beauty is incomparable. Known as the “blue eye of Siberia”, Lake Baikal has particularly clear waters. This means that its ice is almost perfectly transparent（透明的）. Seen from above, a runner on the ice looks as if he or she were jogging through space.

The scenery might be beautiful, but strong winds blast（侵袭）acorns the lake and forcible can occur within half an hour. Runners say the cold climate is what draws them and that running in such condition is a test of their limits.

“When you are in such an environment, you don’t have cars around and don’t have the noise around. I think these extreme races push you to be alone” Alicia Badalona, a 64-year-old runner from the US said.

The place offers some strange and unique characteristics for this marathon The finishing line is visible（可见的）from the start, but the endless while offers no progress markers. Tourists crowding the ice are mostly addicted to snapping sallies（自拍）and just ignore the runners.

For runners, the absence of spectators（观众）makes the race more challenging, because it’s lonely. They must fight with themselves. “You are alone on Baikal. It is your race. You are alone with yourself. All you need to do is to defeat yourself.” Veronique Messina. a French runner, told the Telegraph.

【1】What has kept lake Baikal being a focus over the years？

A.A famous Chinese singer. B.A popular song in Russian.

C.The Baikal ice marathon. D.The coldness of Lake Baikal.

【2】What does the underlined word “This” in paragraph 3 refer to？

A.The fact that the waters of Lake Baikal are clear.

B.The belief that Lake Baikal is known for its waters.

C.The reason why Lake Baikal is popular with runners.

D.The popularity that clear waters in Lake Baikal enjoy.

【3】Why do runners sign up for the Baikal Ice Marathon？

A.They prefer to get close to nature.

B.They like competition with others.

C.They want to draw much attention.

D.They intend to test their own limits.

【4】Why is Veronique Messina mentioned at last?

A.To prove the power of the runners for the Baikal Ice Marathon.

B.To show that runners must fight against themselves in the Marathon.

C.To explain that independence is important for marathon runners.

D.To indieato the necessity of paying attention co marathon runners.

28、 We have a tendency to think highly of mankind’s impressive complex inventions. But sometimes, it’s the simple technologies that truly change the world. These little-known inventions maybe don’t appear incredibly complex at first glance, but they improved the lives of countless people.

A smokeless solar cooker for developing countries

The problem: Cooking in the developing world often requires large amounts of costly fuel and creates harmful smoke.

The solution: The Infinity Bakery and other similar solar ovens aim to reduce disease and save energy by offering an affordable, sun-powered cooker to developing communities. The oven, which concentrates the sun’s rays, is made from recycled oil drums, wood, bamboo and clay, so it can be produced locally and quickly.

Water pipes that monitor their own leaks

The problem: We lose between $12.5 million and $92 million worth of clean drinking water every year in the U.S. due to leaking pipes, according to a 2005 study by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The solution: “Smart Pipe” technology, which is still in development, would use sensors to monitor leaks in public water systems, making our water use more efficient. If brought to scale, this type of innovation could help communities detect leaks when they occur, and fix them early.

A shower that reuses its own water

The problem: Showers waste a tremendous amount of water and require a huge amount of energy. Every year, 1.2 trillion gallons of water are used to shower in the U.S. alone, according to the EPA.

The solution: The OrbSys shower promises to reduce water use by 90 percent and energy use by 80 percent. The OrbSys recycles shower water by pumping it through a filter in a closed-loop system, and the clean water that comes out of the filter only needs to be reheated minimally. The device could result in dramatic water and energy savings if used on a large scale.

【1】Why is the Infinity Bakery fit for developing countries?

A.This kind of oven can be easily made and costs little.

B.There is much more sunlight in developing countries.

C.It can produce more food without giving off smoke.

D.Developing world is rich in the materials to make it.

【2】What can we know about the Smart Pipe?

A.It is used in developing countries. B.It saves water by recycling.

C.It has not been put into practice. D.It can fix the leaks by itself.

【3】What is the similarity of the three inventions in the text?

A.Energy-saving. B.Sun-powered. C.Water-based. D.Environment-friendly.

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

A.New Ways Found to Protect Environment

B.Simple Inventions to Change the World

C.Developing World Benefits from New Inventions

D.Modern Technology Improves Living Condition

29、The 3D-printing industry is accelerating its efforts to help fight the new coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.

On Tuesday, HP announced it’s working with those who bought its 3D printers to make medical face shields, hands-free door openers and an adjuster for face masks for medical staff who often must wear them for hours. It’s also testing “hospital-grade” face masks meeting the higher-end FFP3 (过滤式面罩) standard and parts for simple emergency ventilators (呼吸机) and it’s looking into nasal swabs to test for COVID-19 infection. HP also is offering free downloads of its 3D-printed medical equipment designs.

Carbon, whose 3D printers are used to make everything from bicycle seats to teeth straighteners, said it plans to send face shield designs to its network of customers who’ve bought its 3D printers. Carbon co-founder and Executive Chairman Joseph DeSimone said on Monday the company expects to send the designs by early Tuesday.

3D-printcr makers typically sell their products to others that actually do the 3D printing. One such customer, Ford, said Tuesday that it’s made 1,000 face shields and shipped them to Michigan hospitals, with plans to make 100,000 face shields a week. It is also working with 3M and General Electric on respirator masks and ventilator designs.

The effort is one of several to apply 3D-printing technology to the fight against coronavirus. 3D printing isn’t as fast at churning out products as conventional mass production methods. But 3D printers are flexible and able to make many different parts anywhere there’s a printer and raw materials like the plastic resins Carbon printers use.

Some 3D-printing efforts have focused on ventilators, which expected to be in short supply with a surge of COVID-19 patients suffering from respiratory (呼吸器官) problems. Also in short supply are N95 masks that can be useful in reducing the likelihood a wearer will spread COVID-19 to others.

Carbon’s DeSimone is cautious about the enthusiasm, though, saying that regulatory approval is important and that 3D-printcr enthusiasts shouldn’t be making components not intended for close human contact that might release unhealthy gases.

【1】What is the passage mainly about?

A．An introduction about 3D-printing.

B．The 3D-printing industry’s efforts to help fight COVID-19.

C．The products that 3D-printing makers sell.

D．How 3D-printing makers produce medical equipment.

【2】HP announced to help its customers to make the following products except for_____________.

A．medical face shields

B．hands-free door openers

C．an adjuster for face masks

D．emergency ventilators

【3】Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Carbon’s company will finish its design after Tuesday.

B．Ford has made 1,000 face shields end plans to make 10,000 more in a week.

C．3D printers are more flexible than traditional mass production methods.

D．Most 3D-printings focus on making ventilators and N95 because of their short supply.

【4】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．3D-printing may release unhealthy gases.

B．DeSimone is cautious about 3D-printing.

C．Carbon’s company didn’t gain regulatory approval of making medical equipment.

D．3D printers aren’t enthusiastic about making components designed for close human contact.

三、完形填空（共4题，共 20分）

30、 Alia Baker is a librarian in Iraq. Her library used to be a_______place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge. They discussed various matters all over the world. When the war was near, Alia was_______ that the fires of war would destroy the books, which are more _______to her than mountains of gold. The books are in every language- new books, ancient books, even a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old.

She had asked the government for _______to move the books to a_______ place, but they refused. So Alia took matters into her own hands. _______, she brought books home every night, filling her car late after work. Her friends came to help her when the war broke out. Anis who owned a restaurant _______to hide some books. All through the night, Alia, Anis, his brothers and neighbours took the books from the library, _______ them over the seven foot wall and _______them in the restaurant. The books stayed hidden as the war ________. Then nine days later, a fire burned the ________ to the ground.

One day, the bombing stopped and the________ left. But the war was not over yet. Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be ________ again while the city was ________. So she hired a truck to, bring all the books to the houses of friends in the suburbs (郊区). Now Alia waited for the war to end and ________peace and a new library.

【1】A.meeting B.working C.personal D.religious

【2】A.worried B.angry C.doubtful D.curious

【3】A.practical B.precious C.reliable D.expensive

【4】A.permission B.confirmation C.explanation D.information

【5】A.large B.public C.distant D.safe

【6】A.Fortunately B.Surprisingly C.Seriously D.Secretly

【7】A.intended B.pretended C.happened D.agreed

【8】A.put B.opened C.passed D.threw

【9】A.hid B.exchanged C.burnt D.distributed

【10】A.approached B.erupted C.continued D.ended

【11】A.restaurant B.library C.city D.wall

【12】A.neighbors B.soldiers C.friends D.customers

【13】A.sold B.read C.saved D.moved

【14】A.occupied B.bombed C.quiet D.busy

【15】A.dreamed of B.believed in C.cared about D.looked for

31、When I was a boy, I spent much time playing alone. I didn’t _________ too much, though. I lived outside town, next to a forest where oaks (橡树) were my _________. I would sit in their shade and enjoy their peace.

Therefore it was so _________ for me when I was in _________ in a wood processing factory. It wasn’t just the back-breaking work, long _________, and low pay. It was also seeing trees being cut. The red oak tree were _________ affected because they made the prettiest hardwood flooring.

One afternoon after a long day’s work, I decide to take a walk in the _________. As I wandered, I was filled with _________ for childhood days. Feeling so down, I dropped my head and that was when I _________ it: a red oak acorn (橡子) that had somehow ______________ hungry animals all winter long. Something I’d read once ______________ me at that moment “An acorn ______________ a forest eventually if it wants!” I smiled, and carefully ______________ that little acorn. Then I headed home, no longer______________, for I also realized in our life we all ______________ as an acorn, but whether our future is a forest or not is up to us.

【1】

A．demand

B．change

C．mind

D．notice

【2】

A．shelters

B．hopes

C．favorites

D．companions

【3】

A．surprising

B．tough

C．impressive

D．vital

【4】

A．trouble

B．business

C．employment

D．luck

【5】

A．hours

B．meetings

C．breaks

D．flights

【6】

A．equally

B．heavily

C．rarely

D．suddenly

【7】

A．factory

B．woods

C．mountains

D．town

【8】

A．longing

B．concern

C．regret

D．struggle

【9】

A．received

B．remembered

C．recognized

D．spotted

【10】

A．encountered

B．left

C．survived

D．fed

【11】

A．found

B．disappointed

C．guided

D．struck

【12】

A．becomes

B．preserves

C．reflects

D．represents

【13】

A．collected

B．picked

C．planted

D．examined

【14】

A．fearful

B．hesitant

C．worried

D．depressed

【15】

A．fight back

B．start out

C．step forward

D．break through

32、 Everyone wants to find happiness in life. No matter what our circumstances are,the search for true contentment is at the _______of everyone's goals.

The question, then, is how? How are we _______to even begin looking for it? A group of people gathered in a room_________a seminar about life and happiness to learn to find happiness in their _______. They were being _______various skills and lessons about life. Suddenly, the speaker _______and started giving each person a balloon. He asked everyone to write their _______ on it using a pen. All the balloons were then _______and taken to another room.

Now, these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name _______, within 5 minutes. Everyone was________searching for their name, pushing, crashing with each other, and there was a ________. No one could find their ________within the given five-minute time and they all had to return to the other room with their hands __________.

Then they were told to go to the other room and randomly choose a balloon and give it to the________whose name was written on it. Within five minutes everyone was ____________ the balloon with their name on it.

The speaker began: This is__________happening in our lives. Everyone is hurriedly looking for happiness all around, not knowing ________it is. Our happiness ________the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your ________happiness. And this is the ________of human life.

【1】A.bottom B.heart C.draft D.distance

【2】A.forced B.used C.supposed D.aimed

【3】A.attending B.attempting C.accompanying D.abusing

【4】A.contributions B.lectures C.trips D.lives

【5】A.appointed B.taught C.guaranteed D.adjusted

【6】A.continued B.urged C.stopped D.resigned

【7】A.names B.addresses C.ideas D.essays

【8】A.separated B.exchanged C.divided D.collected

【9】A.announced B.declared C.recommended D.written

【10】A.eventually B.steadily C.wildly D.flexibly

【11】A.mess B.potential C.threat D.disability

【12】A.rooms B.balloons C.exits D.sections

【13】A.full B.blank C.empty D.dirty

【14】A.teacher B.speaker C.person D.agent

【15】A.pumping B.choosing C.distributing D.carrying

【16】A.simply B.exactly C.automatically D.nearly

【17】A.where B.who C.what D.which

【18】A.results in B.decides on C.dates from D.lies in

【19】A.temporary B.own C.annual D.awful

【20】A.purpose B.consequence C.search D.existence

33、The True Story of Treasure Island

It was always thought that the adventure（冒险）novel Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson’s imagination. _______, recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.

Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived _______ for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a _______. With him were his American wife Fanny and his son _______.

Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a _______ over the hills. They had been _______ this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days _______. To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some _______.

One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island, Robert _______ that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of ________. “What's that?" he asked. "That's the________ treasure," said the boy. Robert suddenly________something of an adventure story in the boy's________. While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the________a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate (海盗)？

Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the________ of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to ________ such a man in a story. ________, Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was ________.

So, thanks to a ________ September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest ________ stories in the English language.

【1】A.Besides B.Therefore C.However D.Finally

【2】A.alone B.next door C.abroad D.at home

【3】A.meeting B.holiday C.story D.job

【4】A.John B.Robert C.Henley D.Lloyd

【5】A.walk B.rest C.talk D.game

【6】A.attempting B.enjoying C.planning D.missing

【7】A.quiet B.busy C.dull D.cold

【8】A.cleaning B.writing C.exercising D.drawing

【9】A.doubted B.noticed C.decided D.recognized

【10】A.the island B.the house C.the sea D.Scotland

【11】A.abandoned B.discovered C.buried D.unexpected

【12】A.learned B.drew C.made D.saw

【13】A.book B.reply C.mind D.picture

【14】A.star B.hero C.writer D.child

【15】A.help B.problem C.use D.bottom

【16】A.praise B.observe C.accept D.include

【17】A.Still B.Thus C.Also D.But

【18】A.born B.read C.hired D.written

【19】A.rainy B.sunny C.cool D.windy

【20】A.news B.love C.adventure D.real-life

四、短文填空（共4题，共 20分）

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.

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.”

35、课文填空

Yet, some people are【1】 They claim that surfing the Internet is a waste of time. They make the 【2】 that children spend too much time chatting and playing games instead of 【3】 on their school work. However, a recent survey conducted in the USA shows that 80 per cent of Internet users 【4】 it mostly to search for answers to questions. The second most common use of the Internet, for 79 per cent of Internet users, is to find out information about hobbies. These statistics prove that gathering information is the 【5】 use for the Internet.

36、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

My daughter

(A story told by a father, a famous actor)

My wife and I only had the one child. We had Amy.

I see her as my best friend. I think she’d always come to me first if she had a problem. We have the same sense of humor, and share interests. 【1】 I don’t mind animals, she’s completely fascinated with them, and she has always had dogs, cats, horses, and goldfish in her life.

We were 【2】 (close) when she was about four, which I think is a lovely age for a child. They know the parents best, and don’t have outside contacts. She must have grown up suddenly when she went to school, because I remember her growing away from her family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter comes across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to be an endless stream of strange young men 【3】 (come) through our house. By the time I learned their names they 【4】 (go) away and I had to start learning a new lot.

I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in 【5】 she was doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on her way. When she left a good school she decided she wanted to become an actress so I got her into drama school. It wasn’t to her liking so she joined a theatre group and began doing bits and pieces in films. She was doing well, but then gave it up. She probably found it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to work 【6】a designer and he became her husband. And that’s really the story of her life. She must be happy with him—they’re always together.

We have such similar tastes in books and music 【7】 I used to take her to see an opera, which is my big passion. However, I don’t think she likes it very much. She doesn’t come with me anymore.

I don’t think she’s a big television watcher. She knows when I’m on the television, and she 【8】 watch, but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she tells me.

We’re very grateful for Amy. She’s a good daughter as daughters go. We’re looking forward to being grandparents.

37、Directions: 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.

Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but 【1】 number of colleges and universities. About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the 【2】. Recent additions in the United States 【3】 projects at Yale, Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are 【4】 at the Apple iTunes store.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became an early 【5】 with its Open Course Ware project, first 【6】 in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers. Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These 【7】 from Physics to Political Science. Visitors can learn the same things as MIT students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not an MIT education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide 【8】 with teachers. Still, MIT says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada. Students and educators use the site, including students at MIT. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.

Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of 【9】 online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at MIT, is 【10】 popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures. MIT Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering.

五、书面表达（共4题，共 20分）

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

1. 丢失地点与时间；

2. 书包颜色与装的东西。

注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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39、假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Peter 一周前给你发电子邮件，询问你暑假的打算，但是因你准备期末考试，未能及时回复。请根据以下要点用英语给他回复邮件：

1.未能及时回信的原因；

2.你假期的打算（如做兼职、旅行、做志愿者等）。

注意：1. 词数：100词左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 信的开头已给出，不计入词总数

Dear Peter,

I’m sorry for answering your letter so late, ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours truly,

Li Hua

40、假如你叫李华，在英国学习期间，住在一户英国人家里，现在马上就要学成回国，临走前你给你的房东Mrs. Jones写封感谢信，感谢她三个月来的悉心照顾。内容包括：

（1）房东一家和蔼可亲，总是想办法让你快乐。

（2）饭菜很合口。

（3）利用周末带你聚会，野餐，玩得很开心。

（4）经常与你交流，让你的口语表达取得很大进步。

注意：字数100以上

Dear Mrs. Jones,

I am writing to express my thanks for

Best wishes

Yours,

Li Hua

41、假定你是李华，是兰州一中学生会主席。得知目前在美国新冠肺炎(Corona Virus Disease 2019，COVID-19) 疫情比较严重。请你给我校在美国的友好学校校长Donald Obama写封信，内容包括：

1.提出防疫建议；2.介绍我校复学情况；3.咨询美国学生在线学习情况。

注意：1.字数100字左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；