松原2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

一、单项选择（共25题，共 125分）

1、I’ve come to the point____I can’t stand her arguing any longer.

A．why

B．which

C．that

D．where

2、Such a film ___________ was shown in the cinema yesterday is not suitable for children.

A.as B.that C.which D./

3、________we know, Zhang Wenhong is such a good doctor________ we all like.

A．As long as；whom

B．As long as；who

C．As far as；that

D．As far as；as

4、The players _____ found the right pace to play so they eventually won the game.

A.gradually B.disgustingly C.disturbingly D.greedily

5、We must do something to_______factories________waste water into the river before it is cleaned.

A.stop; pouring B.prevent; to pour

C.keep; pouring D.stop; to pour

6、The economist argues that no society can surely be flourishing and happy, ________ of the members are poor and miserable.

A．of which the far greater part

B．of which far greater part

C．of whom the far greater part

D．of whom far greater part

7、We love such beautiful things as flowers, but beauty itself is _____.

A. abstract B. typical

C. generous D. stubborn

8、We can’t make out his ______ of the article because there are too many technical terms in it.

A. fiction B. abstract

C. claim D. principle

9、He's been informed that he wasn't _______ tor the scholarship because of his academic background.

A.occupied B.specialized C.qualified D.restrictive

10、Time should be made good use________our lessons well.

A．of learning

B．to learn

C．to learning

D．of to learn

11、The shocking news made me realize_______ terrible problems we would face.

A.what B.if C.how D.that

12、It is _____ he often breaks the schools rules _____ makes his teacher unsatisfied with him.

A. what; that B. that; what

C. that; that D. which; that

13、Researching findings show we spend about two hours dreaming every night, no matter what we ________ during the day.

A．would have done

B．should have done

C．may have done

D．must have done

14、The exact date hasn't been decided. We'll have to wait for_________ week.

A.other B.others C.the other D.another

15、In our country every boy and every girl______the right to education.

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

16、—Would you please____________ that book on the floor?

—OK!

A．pick up

B．make up

C．take up

D．turn up

17、Roger _______painting for a while, but soon lost interest.

A. took out B. took in

C. took up D. took off

18、Most consumers are by the high price of the 3D printers despite keen interest in them.

A.put off B.put on C.put through D.put up

19、The new couple spent some money for the ______ of the furniture necessary for their new house.

A.distribution B.manufacture C.donation D.purchase

20、You have no idea how she finished the relay race with her foot ______ so much.

A.wounding B.wounded C.to wound D.having wounded

21、I think you can ______ the first five chapters before the deadline.

A. live through B. put through

C. get through D. see through

22、 the occasional visit, what else does Alan do for his kids?

A．Except B．In spite of

C．Apart from D．Beside

23、I have absolutely no ________ the students who get caught cheating in exams even though they were seriously punished.

A. impact on B. sympathy for

C. concern about D. complaint about

24、_________ that Tom got inside the room to see what was going on.

A．So strangely did he feel

B．So strangely he felt

C．So strange did he feel

D．So strange he felt

25、There can be no doubt ___ he is fit for the job .

A.whether B.that C.which D.on which

二、阅读理解（共4题，共 20分）

26、 2020 is a leap year, and as we all know leap years happen every four years, right? Wrong. That extra day in February is designed to keep the earth in sync (同步的) with the seasonal year. But, what you might not realize is that the maths isn’t that simple and occasionally we have to wait eight years.

The method behind calculating when leap years occur might be a bit more complicated than you think. Way back in 1582 the calendar we now use was first applied. The Gregorian calendar was named after the authority at the time, Gregory XIV. The people who created it realized it wasn’t perfect to just add an extra day every four years.

Here’s where the maths comes in. A day, of course, is measured by the amount of time it takes for the earth to complete one full cycle on its axis (轴). A year is the number of days it takes the earth to orbit the sun, which most people assume is 365. However, the earth actually takes just under 365 and a quarter days to complete one full revolve (旋转) around the sun.

So, every four years we get an extra day, which falls on the 29th February. However, as mentioned earlier, it is in fact just under a quarter of a day. So, by rounding it up (四舍五入), we put the calendar out of sync again—which means that after a while we have too many days.

That imbalance has to be dealt with again, otherwise after 400 years you’d end up with three extra days. So back in 1582, they realized that every turn of a century should skip their extra day to remove those three extra days. This is why the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 weren’t leap years. But wait, there’s more. The year 2000, the millennium, was a leap year. That’s because over a period of four hundred years we only need to remove three days. So, every 400 years the turn of the century is a leap year.

The next time you hear someone saying “leap years happen every four years”, you can tell them why they’re wrong.

【1】What can we know from the first two paragraphs?

A.Leap years happen every four years.

B.Gregory XIV created the Gregorian calendar.

C.Sometimes we have to wait eight years for a leap year.

D.It was perfect to add an extra day every four years.

【2】What can be inferred from the text?

A.The concept of the current calendar was not known by people before 1582.

B.A day is the time that the earth takes to complete one full circle.

C.A year is the time that the earth takes to obit the sun.

D.The earth takes 365 and a quarter days to orbit the sun.

【3】Which of the following is a leap year?

A.2100. B.2200. C.2300. D.2400.

【4】What is the text mainly about?

A.The definition of a leap year.

B.The purpose of designing leap years.

C.The time when the leap year was first applied.

D.The reason why not all leap years are every 4 years.

27、When a chunk of ice fell from a collapsing glacier(冰川)on the Swiss Alps’ Mount Eiger in 2017, part of the long deep sound it produced was too low for human ears to detect. But these vibrations held a key to calculating the ice avalanche’s(崩塌)critical characteristics.

Low-frequency sound waves called infrasound that travel great distances through the atmosphere are already used to monitor active volcanoes from afar. Now some researchers in this field have switched focus from fire to ice: dangerous blocks snapping off glaciers. Previous work has analyzed infrasound from snow avalanches but never ice, says Boise State University geophysicist Jeffrey Johnson. “This was different,” Johnson says. “A signature of a new material has been detected with infrasound.”

Usually glaciers move far too slowly to generate an infrasound signal, which researchers pick up using detectors that track slight changes in air pressure. But a collapse—a sudden, rapid breaking of ice from the glacier’s main body—is a prolific infrasound producer. Glacial collapses drive ice avalanches, which pose an increasing threat to people in mountainous regions as rising temperatures weaken large fields of ice. A glacier “can become detached from the ground due to melting, causing bigger break— offs,” says University of Florence geologist Emanuele Marchetti, lead author of the new study. As the threat grows, scientists seek new ways to monitor and detect such collapses.

Researchers often use radar to track ice avalanches, which is precise but expensive and can monitor only one specific location and neighboring avalanche paths. Infrasound, Marchetti says, is cheaper and can detect break—off events around a much broader area as well as multiple avalanches across a mountain. It is challenging, however, to separate a signal into its components (such as traffic noises, individual avalanches and nearby earthquakes) without additional measurements, says ETH Zurich glaciologist Malgorzata Chmiel. “The model used by Marchetti is a first approximation for this,” she says. Isolating the relevant signal helps the researchers monitor an ice avalanche’s speed, path and volume from afar using infrasound.

Marchetti and his colleagues are now working to improve their detectors to pick up more signals across at-risk regions in Europe, and they have set up collaborations around the continent to better understand signals that collapsing glaciers produce. They are also refining their mathematical analysis to figure out each ice cascade’s physical details.

【1】What can we learn from Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3?

A．Infrasound has a major role to play in discovering new materials.

B．Ice avalanches are a bigger threat to people than volcanic eruptions.

C．Researchers are trying to use infrasound in detecting ice avalanches.

D．Scientists employ infrasound more in mountain areas than in other places.

【2】Which is an advantage of infrasound over radar?

A．The combination with other relevant signals.

B．The accuracy in locating a certain avalanche.

C．The ability in picking up signals in wider areas.

D．The sensitivity in tracking air pressure changes.

【3】The underlined word “this” in Paragraph 4 refers to________.

A．distinguishing different components of a signal

B．detecting multiple avalanches at the same time

C．calculating the speed and path of ice avalanches

D．monitoring the specific location of ice break—offs

【4】Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．From Fire to Ice

B．Glacier Whispers

C．Nature is Warning

D．Secret of Ice Avalanches

28、A mobile phone game will be used to help international students deal with “culture shock” and university life in Britain.

The game—called C-Shock—is the idea of University of Portsmouth games technology expert Nipan Maniar who, himself , arrived in the UK from India five years ago as an international student.Nipan said the game would act as a “mobile mummy” for new students . “ I found some parts of British culture very different to what I was used to in my own culture in India,”Nipan said. “ I thought it would be great to have a learning tool to help people deal with the culture shock because if you have not experienced such things before , it’s hard to know how to act properly.”

The game follows an international student arriving in the UK for the first time .The aim of the game is to reduce the character’s “culture shock” by performing a series of tasks that introduce things and pictures that are related to culture shock.

The game’s beginning is a student’s first day at university in the UK .The student is shown a map of the university and is given tasks to find certain locations.Clicking on（点击）pictures along the way warns the student about what to expect in terms of culture shock —for example, it is acceptable for students to drink alcohol.

“ C-Shock could be used to guide students through events such as course registration and help them with basic information like getting to a bank .You could put a whole city guide into the game so the new student can settle into a new city very quickly ,”Nipan said.

The game is in the final stage of development and is expected to be download from the University of Portsmouth website later this year.

【1】What caused Nipan to develop C-Shock ?

A．new student’s story.

B．The university’s support.

C．His personal experience .

D．His friends’ encouragement .

【2】What can be learned about the character in the game ?

A．He’s a “mobile mummy”.

B．He’s a student from India.

C．He visits the UK very often.

D．He needs to complete some task.

【3】What information can C-Shock users get ?

A．Maps of city roads .

B．Different types of alcohol.

C．Where to get a tourist guide .

D．How to register for a course.

【4】How is Nipan’s game going ?

A．It’s nearly ready.

B．It’s in the first stage.

C．It’s free to download online.

D．It’s been put on the market.

29、 The ability to predict the future is a rare talent. American author Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest science-fiction writers of his age, had such a talent. Back in 1983, he was asked to predict how the world would look like in 2019. Now that we’re here, let’s see what he got right.

On the role that computing would play in the future, he was amazingly accurate. Asimov thought computers would cause a revolution comparable to the industrial revolution of the 19th century. Specifically, he said that “mobile computerized objects” would be an important part of everyday life. Here, he clearly foresaw our world of smartphones, tablets and other devices. He also had a great deal to say about space exploration. The International Space Station proves his prediction that we would not simply visit space but seek to stay there.

How did Asimov develop his special sense of future developments? As a precocious boy, Asimov taught himself to read at the age of five. He read the newspapers and magazines sold in his parents’ candy store. His scientific interests gained sharper focus at Columbia University in New York. Asimov went to study chemistry, but became bored with pure laboratory science. Instead, he thought hard about the social significance of science. He wanted to communicate his ideas to the public. As an author, his books would feature the theme of social change caused by technology.

Asimov had his finger on the pulse of both scientific and social change. He had a clear sight of what was coming around the corner for humanity in his works like the Galactic Empire series.

“His predictions are absolutely fascinating,” Calum Chase, an English writer, told BBC News. “He was a genius.”

【1】Which of the following has Asimov made a prediction about?

①computers②environment③tablets④space⑤pollution⑥smartphones

A.②⑤⑥ B.①③④

C.②③④ D.①⑤⑥

【2】What do we know about Asimov?

A.Asimov had great interest in pure lab science.

B.Asimov kept pace with scientific and social change.

C.Asimov cared less about the social significance of science.

D.Asimov would read in his neighbor’s candy store in his childhood.

【3】What does the underlined word “precocious” in the third paragraph probably mean?

A.Talented. B.Naughty.

C.Considerate. D.Optimistic.

【4】What will be the best title of the passage?

A.The Focus on Social Change

B.A Great Science-fiction Writer

C.The Ability to Predict the Future

D.The Man Who Could See the Future

三、完形填空（共4题，共 20分）

30、 For me, two of the loveliest words in English are “Life persists”.

I ________ them years ago as a college student, sitting in the library, ________, working on a paper. Out of nowhere, those words came ________ off the page in a quote, “In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of ________ truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”

Suddenly I wasn’t unhappy and impatient any more. Then I ________ my granddad. I loved to talk with him. And I was ________ to hear what he’d think of it. He had poor hearing, so I had to ________ it a few times, but once he ________ it, he laughed. “All I can say to that is totally ________,”he said on the phone. I told him how glad I was, after a long winter, to finally see spring and ________ to find that quote. “Why is that?” he asked. “Well, spring is a sure _________ that life persists. And it just makes me________. ”

He laughed again, and then ______ his lovely voice, he recited for me his________“spring time” words, “The desert shall rejoice(高兴) and blossom(开花) like the rose … even with_________ and singing.”

Many years later, ________ my husband and I drove across a desert with many wildflowers and blooming cactuses (仙人掌), I could _________ hear my granddad laughing, “The desert shall rejoice.”

Life persists, and so do we, in the silence of _________ and the blooming of cactuses; and in the dead of _________ and the green of spring. Spring _________ us that we’re alive forever.

【1】A.looked for B.picked out C.came across D.made up

【2】A.worried B.bored C.tired D.confused

【3】A.running B.dancing C.rushing D.moving

【4】A.fear B.thrill C.anxiety D.lie

【5】A.called B.visited C.consulted D.informed

【6】A.desperate B.confident C.upset D.patient

【7】A.copy B.print C.repeat D.recite

【8】A.made B.got C.undertook D.managed

【9】A.puzzlement B.doubt C.agreement D.disapproval

【10】A.practically B.naturally C.obviously D.especially

【11】A.way B.sign C.remark D.evidence

【12】A.astonished B.energetic C.merry D.alive

【13】A.in B.with C.of D.beyond

【14】A.impressive B.extraordinary C.classic D.favorite

【15】A.joy B.sorrow C.sympathy D.adaptation

【16】A.after B.although C.until D.when

【17】A.hardly B.always C.mostly D.almost

【18】A.desert B.words C.world D.journeys

【19】A.spring B.winter C.summer D.autumn

【20】A.comforts B.guarantees C.reminds D.strikes

31、 Mike a mountain climber was famous for his attempts to climb the big snowy mountain. He had tried it at least thirty times, but had always failed halfway.

For the sake of ________ Mike to try again, Jack, the town optician, who witnessed his ________, presented him with a pair of ________ sunglasses. "If it starts clouding over or if your feet start hurting, put on these glasses. They’ll help you.” Mike accepted the ________ without giving it much mind, but when his feet started ________ again he remembered his words and put on the glasses. Then ________ came as usual in the form of cloud cover, but seemingly not so thick this time. So Mike ________climbing, leaving the clouds behind, forgetting his ________, and finally arriving at the summit. It was ________ worth it. His feeling of triumph was ________, almost as magnificent as that wonderful ________. Splendid in its silence, the mountain below was surrounded by a dense sea of clouds. Mike didn’t remember the clouds being as _______ as that, so he looked more closely at the sunglasses, and _______ everything.

Jack had carved a light ________ on the lenses (镜片), in the form of the snow-covered summit. It was made in such a way that you could only ________ it if you looked upwards. Jack had understood that whenever Mike lost sight of his ________, he would similarly lose sight of his dream, and his ________ to continue would weaken.

Mike realised that the only obstacle to reaching the summit had been his own ________. When he could no longer see the top of the mountain, the problems _______. He thanked Jack for using that little ________ to help him see that his aims were not impossible, and that they were still there, where they had always been.

【1】A.convincing B.educating C.entertaining D.inspiring

【2】A.practice B.failure C.disadvantage D.growth

【3】A.beautiful B.fancy C.particular D.expensive

【4】A.challenge B.award C.gift D.request

【5】A.aching B.breaking C.damaging D.swelling

【6】A.danger B.misfortune C.adventure D.pressure

【7】A.quitted B.accomplished C.kept D.abandoned

【8】A.problem B.injury C.anxiety D.pain

【9】A.certainly B.normally C.practically D.exactly

【10】A.invisible B.undesirable C.incomparable D.unmeasurable

【11】A.experience B.view C.attempt D.present

【12】A.white B.thick C.thin D.dark

【13】A.recognized B.believed C.acknowledged D.grasped

【14】A.image B.photo C.spot D.message

【15】A.see B.move C.feel D.change

【16】A.power B.success C.objective D.journey

【17】A.preference B.competence C.concentration D.will

【18】A.discouragement B.mistake C.prejudice D.ignorance

【19】A.set off B.set in C.cut in D.showed off

【20】A.technology B.tool C.mark D.trick

32、From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital _____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I _____ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) _________about build self-confidence and working toward a ________.

So it was with really great______that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ______my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt ______rising to play the piano in his very first recital.

My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t _________lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, _______too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t ________there. When he retired three years ago, he _____ his church music director to take him as a student.

For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he ______stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ______? I worried, remembering those split seconds______ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would _______. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the _____fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I______he had been doing what music teachers always stress:___ _____the music and pretend the others aren’t there.

“I’m ________of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.

“Yeah, and doing it so______,” Jeff added.

With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.

【1】

A．reflected

B．explained

C．meant

D．proved

【2】

A．would

B．could

C．might

D．should

【3】

A．nothing

B．everything

C．anything

D．something

【4】

A．goal

B．stage

C．journey

D．chance

【5】

A．trouble

B．satisfaction

C．strength

D．disappointment

【6】

A．kept

B．sent

C．watched

D．felt

【7】

A．through

B．from

C．against

D．before

【8】

A．miss

B．afford

C．select

D．understand

【9】

A．as

B．once

C．if

D．while

【10】

A．educated

B．protected

C．stuck

D．spoilt

【11】

A．allowed

B．invited

C．inspired

D．persuaded

【12】

A．roughly

B．simply

C．merrily

D．curiously

【13】

A．words

B．videos

C．notes

D．lessons

【14】

A．decades

B．weeks

C．hours

D．moments

【15】

A．play

B．freeze

C．click

D．adjust

【16】

A．same

B．warm

C．different

D．dirty

【17】

A．predicted

B．realized

C．imagined

D．insisted

【18】

A．pass over

B．turn up

C．bring in

D．concentrate on

【19】

A．ashamed

B．aware

C．tired

D．proud

【20】

A．casually

B．anxiously

C．nicely

D．frequently

33、 I have eyes that are said to be “cow brown, ” and my long fair hair is my best feature (特征) .I'm not overweight, but I'm not too _______ either. I'm relatively happy with my _______, but where did I get it?

Do I share the same features as some unknown stranger? _______ while walking down the street, I tried to _______ that stranger, imagining that one of the women I passed _______ possibly be my biological mother(生母) .

For along time I wondered what life would be like with _______. I was never _______ with my life. I just never _______ wondering what it would be like to have been raised by my biological mother. And the none day, I _______ a poem which compared adoption(收养) ____________ a seed that was planted by one person and then taken care of by another. The second person had ____________ the seed and made it grow to be tall and beautiful. I found that it compared perfectly to my ____________

Gradually I ____________ that my mom had made me who I am today. She did my hair for my first dance. She was there for my first heartbreak... She'd been there for ____________ that ever mattered. And I started to notice that we had the same silly ____________, the same attitude to life, and the same way of treating people.

Sometimes when we're out somewhere, people comment on ____________ we look alike, and we turn to each other and laugh, ____________ that she wasn't the one who gave birth to me.

____________ I may not know why I look the way I do, I know why I am who I am. The mom I have now is the ____________ one I ever could have hoped for, not only because she holds a huge amount of unconditional(无条件的) love, but because she has ____________ who I am today

【1】A.thin B.fat C.strong D.weak

【2】A.eyes B.hair C.weight D.appearance

【3】A.Still B.Even C.Again D.Often

【4】A.pick out B.run after C.bring back D.turn down

【5】A.should B.would C.could D.must

【6】A.the biologist B.my birthmother C.The stranger D.my adoptive mother

【7】A.dissatisfied B.content C.angry D.pleased

【8】A.enjoyed B.stopped C.escaped D.allowed

【9】A.wrote down B.put up C.handed out D.came across

【10】A.with B.for C.to D.as

【11】A.watered B.harvested C.planted D.buried

【12】A.thought B.seed C.situation D.history

【13】A.realized B.guessed C.hated D.expected

【14】A.something B.everyone C.everything D.someone

【15】A.problem B.illness C.adoption D.personality

【16】A.how much B.how far C.where D.why

【17】A.proving B.noticing C.remembering D.forgetting

【18】A.As B.Though C.Unless D.Until

【19】A.happiest B.best C.prettiest D.wisest

【20】A.saved B.regretted C.shaped D.declared

四、短文填空（共4题，共 20分）

34、Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the proper form of the words or expressions given in the frame. Each one can only be used once.

Why your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems? Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 【1】 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.

When ten million passwords were leaked on to the internet，they appeared to 【2】that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.

While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”，there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to【3】. The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.

“Users are becoming slightly more 【4】what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”

But 【5】no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this and in 20 percent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.

Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to 【6】 their mobile phone with an account, having a single use passwords texted to it each time they want to log on.

Although the serviced is voluntary, Dylan Casey an executive at Yahoo!，said that it was “the first step to【7】passwords”. He said it was a(n)【8】that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.

It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than same people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or，“tran5p053d numb3r5 f0r 133tr3r5”.

“We are, for the most part，predictably【9】when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n) 【10】, and so do password crackers.

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.

AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high【1】 — as Christie’s becomes the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm. This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind. It was created by an【2】 intelligence, an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses. And when it went under the【3】 in the Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s on 23-25 October, Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for an【4】 $432,500, signaling the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage.

From a distance, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy looks almost plausible. Up close, however, the paintwork becomes a grid of mechanical-looking dots, the man’s face a golden blur with black holes for eyes. Look into those eyes. They show no sign of feeling or life. Did a computer make this?

The answer is yes. The first artwork【5】 by AI to be sold at Christie’s, its【6】 price would seem to suggest that in future we will get computers to make art for us. Robot van Gogh will harmlessly cut its ear off and robot Picasso will be a genius.

Is this the future AI art visionaries such as the French collective Obvious, which programmed this “painter” by getting it to compare its own work with 15,000 pre-20th century portraits, have in mind? Or are they just, God forbid, making a fast buck from deceivable art collectors? Because believing the algorithm that knocked this up to be in any meaningful way an “artist” is like thinking your voice-interaction programme is out to get you. Dream on. Computers would need to replicate human consciousness before they could replicate the funny thing humans do called “art”.

Art is a way in which human 【7】 expresses itself, and is equally true of the earliest cave art, Rembrandt’s portraits and Duchamp’s urinal. And that is what is missing from Portrait of Edmond Bellamy. Art is a way humans communicate ideas, perceptions and feelings to each other. It has no 【8】 outside the human passion to communicate. So in what meaningful sense can an AI replica of certain【9】 traits of old master paintings be called art?

For a robot to really make art, it would need an autonomous mind that was emotional as well as【10】. No AI developer has yet claimed to be anywhere near achieving that and if they ever do, their creation will probably have better things to do than paint portraits — like destroy humanity.

Maybe afterwards robots will invent their own kind of art, but it won’t be some poor pastiche of human genius.

It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.

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、阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

Wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic p【1】 the spread of the deadly virus. But it is also i【2】. For one, we can no longer unlock our phones using facial recognition since a good part of our face is c【3】.

F【4】, tech companies are working to solve the problem. Apple, for example, offered a new way to unlock your iPhone and iPad with its l【5】 software update, iOS13.5, w【6】 was released on May 20.

Even though the update still won’t recognize your masked face, it makes the whole process f【7】. While the old system wouldn’t allow access t【8】 the passcode screen before three failed face scan attempts, iOS13.5 will send you straight to the passcode screen when you swipe up.

It might only s【9】 you a few seconds, but those few seconds “benefit public health by eliminating the temptation for people to r【10】 their masks in order to unlock their device”.

五、书面表达（共4题，共 20分）

38、假设你是李华, 请根据你对下面一幅图片的观察, 给一家知名报社专栏“Voice Your Opinion”写一封信，谈谈你的观点与看法。

注意:1. 自选角度和内容;

2. 字数100 左右;

3. 信的开头和结尾已写好(不计入总词数)。

Dear editor,

In Chinese tradition, family reunion always plays a very important part in communication.

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Best wishes!

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

39、假如你是李华，你的美国笔友Mark本学期选修了汉语课程。最近，他来信询问你如何学好汉语。请你根据如下提示给与他一些建议。

1认真听讲，积极练习

2 广泛阅读

3 欣赏影视作品

注意：可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

词数：不少于100词

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40、假定你是李华，你的美国笔友Tim给你发来邮件，询问有关中国传统中医药的有关信息，请你根据以下内容给他回一封邮件。

内容包括：

中医药概况(历史悠久，疗效好)，特别是中医药相对西药的突出优点(如价格便宜，副作用小)。

提示：

1)副作用side effect；

2)中医药Chinese medicine；

3)西药western medicine

注意：

1.词数80个左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头语和结束语已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Tim,

Yours,

Li Hua

41、假如你叫李华，是一名即将进入高三的学生，最近你的美国笔友Paul来信询问你新学期的打算。内容包括：1.目前的心情；2.新学期的打算；3.征求建议。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。