石家庄2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

一、单项选择（共25题，共 125分）

1、The policeman said it was his careless driving that ________ the accident.

A．looked down upon

B．referred to

C．focused on

D．led to

2、Observation, reason and experiment make up ______ we call the scientific method.

A. which B. how

C. that D. what

3、It’s quite warm here; we __________turn the heating on yet.

A．couldn’t

B．mustn’t

C．needn’t

D．wouldn’t

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

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

C.won’t wash out D.doesn’t wash away

5、It’s reported that a UFO stopped over a mountain village for a while and then vanished in the direction ________it had come.

A．from which

B．in which

C．of which

D．by which

6、There is clear evidence ________ the Fishing Islands belong to China.

A．which

B．that

C．where

D．whether

7、—You called me up about 11:00 last night, didn’t you?

—No, I didn’t phone you. It someone else.

A.must be B.must have been C.could be D.could have been

8、The book is ________ help the English beginners.

A.impressed with B.intended to C.indicated to D.involved in

9、There were no tickets________for Friday's performance.

A．preferable

B．considerable

C．possible

D．available

10、Fanny asked ________ made that odd looking little cat so popular.

A．what was it that

B．what was that

C．what it was that

D．what that was

11、Some teachers recommended that more books to satisfy the students’ needs.

A.are purchased B.have been purchased

C.were purchased D.be purchased

12、The consumption of high street fashion has increased by 62%. , the rest of the fashion styles only experience a growth of 17%.

A.In contrast B.On average C.By accident D.At length

13、______ I saw it, I knew I had seen it before.

A. At the moment B. Immediately

C. For the first time D. The minutes

14、The Defence Minister will _________ the journalists this afternoon.

A.address B.arrange C.appoint D.applaud

15、---I know the furniture expensive but it will last for years.

---___________hope so too.

A.can B.may C.must D.should

16、---Hi, Johnson, any idea where Susan is?

---It is class time, so she __________ in the classroom now.

A. can be B. must have been

C. might have been D. should be

17、Neither believe nor reject anything because any other person has rejected or believed it. Which of the following differs from the statement in meaning?

A.Do not accept blindly other people’s likes or dislikes without careful independent thought.

B.One must think for oneself rather than simply seek agreement with others.

C.Don’t express your opinion hastily on anything others have commented on carefully.

D.We shouldn’t be influenced by others’ opinions easily while making our own judgement.

18、It is said that there are ten foreign students in our school. One is from America, _______ is from Australia and all ______ students are from England.

A. another; the others B. one; another C. another; the other D. one; other’s

19、There was a lot of fun at yesterday’s party. You _____ have come, but why didn’t you?

A.must B.shouldn’t C.needn’t D.ought to

20、More than one passenger ________ injured in the air crash.

A.were B.is C.are D.was

21、The judge reminded the witness that he had to ____ the truth of what he had said.

A.prepare for B.answer for C.search for D.vote for

22、Having been ill in bed for nearly a month, he had a hard time __ the exam.

A. pass B. to pass

C. passed D. passing

23、I was scared ___ when I saw the tiger jumped out of the cage and ran to the little child.

A．to the death

B．of death

C．into the death

D．to death

24、Whitney Houston’s sudden death suggests that drug abuse is such a serious problem ________ we should deal with it appropriately.

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

25、______ in the training, Marbury couldn't play in the basketball season.

A. Injuring B. Injure

C. Injured D. To injure

二、阅读理解（共4题，共 20分）

26、From my earlier memory of Mother it somehow seemed quite natural to think of her as different, nor of everyday things as Father was. In those days he was a young-looking man. He did not hesitate to make friends with children as soon as they were able to talk to him and laugh at his stories. Mother was older than he was. She must have been a woman of nearly forty, but she seemed even older. She changed little for a long time, showing no indication of growing old at all until, towards the end of her life, she suddenly became an old lady.

I was always inquisitive about Mother’s age. She never had birthdays like other people, nor did anyone else in our family. No candles were ever lit or cakes made or presents given in our house. To my friends in the street who talked delightfully about their birthday parties, I would repeat my mother’s words that such celebrations were only foolish.

“Nothing but deception,” she would say. “As though life can be marked by birthdays. It’s deeds, not years, that matter.”

Although I often repeated her words and even prided myself on not having birthdays, I once could not help asking Mother when she was born.

“I was born. I’m alive as you can see, so what more do you want to know?” she replied, so sharply that I never asked her about her age again.

In so many other ways Mother was different. Whereas all the rest of the women I knew in the neighboring hoses took pride in their housewifely abilities, their new furniture, the neat appearance of their homes, Mother regarded all those things as of little importance. Our house always looked as if we had just moved in or were about to move out.

【1】 How did Father impress the author?

A. He liked writing stories. B. He loved making friends.

C. He was a very young man. D. He was popular with children.

【2】Before the end of her life, Mother ___________.

A. looked quite young

B. looked like an old lady

C. looked younger than she was

D. looked like a forty-year-old woman

【3】What does the word “inquisitive” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A. Certain B. Curious. C. Cautious. D. Confident.

【4】What do we learn about Mother?

A. She was lazy. B. She was strict.

C. She was proud. D. She was special

27、 Suppose that we lined up our roughly 14 million United States businesses in order of size, starting with the smallest, along an imaginary road from San Francisco to New York. There will be 4,500 businesses to the mile, or a little less than one per foot. Suppose further that we planted a flag each business. The height of the flag pole represents the yearly volume of sales (销量) , each $ 10, 000 in sales in shown by one foot of pole.

The line of flagpoles is a very interesting sight. From San Francisco to about Reno, it is almost unnoticeable, a row of poles about a foot high. From Reno eastward the poles increase in height until, near Columbus, Ohio - about four - fifths of the way across the nation - flags fly about 10 feet in the air.

But as we approach the eastern terminus (终点) , the poles suddenly begin to mount (升高) . There are about 300, 000 firms in the country with sales over $ 500, 000. These firms take up the last 75 miles of the 3,000 - mile road. There are 200, 000 firms with sales over $ 1 million. They take up the last 50 miles. Then there are 1, 000 firms with sales of $ 50, 000, 000 or more. They take up the last quarter of a mile before the city limits, flags flying at cloud height, 5 , 000 feet up .

At the very gate of New York, on the last 100 feet of the last mile , we find the 100 largest industrial firms . They have sales of at least $ 1.5 billion, so that their flags are already miles high. Along the last 10 feet of road , there are 10 largest companies . Their sales are roughly $ 10 billion and up : their flags fly 190 miles in the air , almost in the stratosphere (平流层) .

【1】What is the author’s main purpose in this passage?

A.To tell the reason why the largest firms are in New York.

B.To show the geographical distribution (分布) of the United States businesses.

C.To provide a general idea of the size of businesses in the United States.

D.To tell us how the United States businesses are arranged.

【2】What’s the correct order of the following places from east to west?

A.San Francisco, Reno, New York, Columbus.

B.San Francisco, Reno, Columbus, New York.

C.New York, Columbus, Reno, San Francisco

D.New York, Reno, Columbus, San Francisco

【3】Among the four parts of the imaginary road , which part , considering all the firms in it , has the largest total volume of sales ?

A.The last 75 miles. B.The last 50 miles.

C.The last 100 feet of the last mile. D.The last quarter of a mile

【4】Which of the following diagrams (图表) shows the right order of size of the US businesses , according to the text ?

S =" San" Francisco R =" Reno" C =" Columbus" N =" New" York H =" height" F = feet

A. B. C. D.

28、 Halloween is a holiday for all ages, but trick-or-treating is something traditionally done by kids. But, it’s a fun activity that anyone can experience. And at 91 years old, Mary “Baba” Spaeth was able to experience trick-or-treating for the very first time.

On October 28, Spaeth’s daughter Christine Spaeth Richardson noticed that her mom seemed to be sad on the day. Richardson knew how much her mother loves to see her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and knew Halloween was coming up, so she decided to use the opportunity to take her mom trick-or-treating, too.

The experience was new for Baba. She came to the United States in the 1940s from Croatia as a teenager, where trick-or-treating wasn’t a tradition. Her family participated in American holidays, such as Halloween, but the great-grandma never had the chance to go trick-or-treating herself until now. This time, she went around to friends’ and family’s houses for an early trick-or-treating period. It wasn’t a totally traditional trick-or-treating experience. Besides not taking place on October 31, Baba actually brought the treats. She gave out candy to the kids, and pizza and wine to the grown-ups. It took a couple of houses before Baba remembered to start off the conversation with “trick-or-treat.”

She had a blast! She got so many hugs and kisses and pictures, too! She just couldn’t stop talking about tricking all her great grand babies! All the hugs and kisses from all her grandkids and great grandbabies made her so warm and happy! Never underestimate the power of a hug, a smile, a kiss. Most of all, a big tight feeling from a family group hug now is a TREAT! She’ll talk about it for a long time.

【1】What was Christine’s purpose of taking Baba trick-or-treating?

A.To meet Christine’s wish of trick-or-treating.

B.To help Baba know the tradition.

C.To cheer her mother up.

D.To satisfy Baba’s grandchildren’s requirement.

【2】Why had Baba never played trick-or-treating?

A.Her motherland had no such a holiday.

B.She left the U. S. at an early age.

C.She hated the U. S. holidays like Halloween.

D.She spent her adulthood without Halloween.

【3】What can we know about Baba’s trick-or-treating?

A.It was just a joke to her families and friends.

B.It was not a real trick-or-treating in strict sense.

C.Baba completely obeyed the game rules of trick-or-treating.

D.Trick-or-treating was too boring for an old woman like Baba.

【4】What does the underlined word “blast” in paragraph 4 mean?

A.Sweet risk. B.Tiring time.

C.Big shock. D.Happy experience.

29、 How do you feel about socks? Depending on how you view them, they can either be a necessity — in which case black, blue or grey will do — or they are a window to the way you can show off your personality and attitudes different from others’. Sounds too dramatic and crazy? Well, a new study has found the crazy socks you choose not only say a lot about you, but also say a lot about how people see you.

Despite our traditional attitudes, the study published in The Journal of Consumer Research confirmed the theory that people who are nonconformists (不墨守成规的人) can potentially be viewed as having higher status and more competent (能干的) than those who obey social rules. So what does this say about your choice of wearing bright neon or rainbow-striped socks?

Well, it found people who have shown to deliberately (故意地) choose to wear strange socks, are seen as having increased status and competency in the eyes of others.

“We believed that, under certain conditions, nonconforming behaviors can be more beneficial to someone than simply trying to fit in. In other words, when it looks deliberate, a person can appear to have higher status and a sense of competency,” stated authors of the study, Silvia and Francesca Gino from Harvard University.

Dr. Adam, a social psychologist from the Northwestern University, conducted a study that showed what we wear affects the way we think, feel and act. And this includes our socks. When we put on our silly and crazy socks, we are, in part, showing off our uniqueness and our confidence. It’s this belief that helps us to skillfully achieve more success without lack of bravery or confidence.

So, if you’re a lover of fun and unusual socks, then go out into the world and embrace them. Not only will you give people an insight into your nonconforming, unique personality, but they will hold you in good status as a result!

【1】What is the study published in The Journal of Consumer Research mainly about?

A.The function of socks. B.The different characters of people.

C.The influence of wearing crazy socks. D.The reason why people achieve success.

【2】How do people view those who wear unusual socks?

A.They hate social rules. B.They appear silly and crazy.

C.They are much wealthier. D.They are more outstanding and talented.

【3】What does the author advise people to do?

A.Wear the socks they like. B.Have fun and enjoy the life.

C.Hold good status in the world. D.Let people have their own personality.

【4】What can be inferred from the passage?

A.Trying to fit in will help you have higher status. B.Unusual socks are fashionable in society.

C.People should avoid wearing silly socks. D.What we wear may affect who we are.

三、完形填空（共4题，共 20分）

30、In the doorway of my home, I looked closely at my 23-year-old son, Daniel. In a few hours he would be flying to France to_______a different life. It was a transitional time in Daniel's life. I wanted to_______ him some words of significance. But nothing came from my lips, and this was not the_______time I had let such moments pass.

When Daniel was five, I took him to the bus stop on his first day of kindergarten. He asked, “What is it going to be like, Dad? Can I do it?” Then he walked _______the steps of the bus and disappeared inside. The bus drove away and I said nothing. A decade later, a similar _______played itself out. I drove him to college. As I started to leave, I tried to think of something to say to give him_______ and confidence as he started this new stage of life. Again, words_______ me.

Now, as I stood before him, I thought of those_______ opportunities. How many times have I let such moments_______? I don't find a quiet moment to tell him what they have ________to me or what he might________ to face in the years ahead. Maybe I thought it was not necessary to say anything.

What does it matter in the course of a lifetime if a father never tells a son what he really thinks of him？________as I stood before Daniel, I knew that it did matter. My father and I loved each other. Yet, I always________ never hearing him put his________into words. Now I could feel my palms sweat and my throat tighten. Why is it so________to tell a son something from the heart?

My mouth turned dry, and I knew I would be able to get out only a few words clearly. "Daniel," I said, "if I could have picked, I would have picked you." That's all I could say. He hugged me. For a moment, the world________, and there were just Daniel and me. He was saying something, but tears filled my eyes, and I couldn't understand what he was saying. All I was________ of was the stubble(短须) on his chin as his face pressed________mine. What I had said to Daniel was________. It was nothing. However, it was________.

【1】

A．experience

B．spend

C．enjoy

D．shape

【2】

A．show

B．send

C．leave

D．instruct

【3】

A．last

B．first

C．very

D．next

【4】

A．upward

B．into

C．down

D．up

【5】

A．sign

B．scene

C．scenery

D．sight

【6】

A．interest

B．instruction

C．courage

D．direction

【7】

A．failed

B．discouraged

C．struck

D．troubled

【8】

A．future

B．embarrassing

C．obvious

D．lost

【9】

A．last

B．pass

C．fly

D．remain

【10】

A．counted

B．meant

C．valued

D．eared

【11】

A．think

B．want

C．expect

D．wish

【12】

A．But

B．And

C．Instead

D．So

【13】

A．wondered

B．regretted

C．minded

D．tried

【14】

A．views

B．actions

C．feelings

D．attitudes

【15】

A．important

B．necessary

C．hard

D．basic

【16】

A．disappeared

B．changed

C．progressed

D．advanced

【17】

A．afraid

B．convinced

C．aware

D．tired

【18】

A．by

B．against

C．on

D．with

【19】

A．simple

B．gentle

C．meaningful

D．moving

【20】

A．none

B．nobody

C．anything

D．everything

31、With his love for video games and petty arguments with his older sister, Jack Rico might seem like any other l3-year-old. But Rico is_________ but average: the teenager just graduated with four degrees and he did it in just two years.

Rico_________ from Fullerton College in California last weekend, making him the _________ student to achieve that feat (壮举) in the school’s 107-year-old history.

Majoring in one study is_______ enough, but the baby facing teen earned degrees in_________,human expression, social behavior and social science .

“I just love learning new things,” Rico said. “I_________ knowing more about the world and all the different things we could study.”

The community college has about 21,000_________students from various backgrounds and walks of life. But Fullerton College President Greg Schulz said Rico surely_________ from the crowd.

“It is not typical to have such a young student take classes, so Jack is pretty well_________on the Fullerton College campus,” Schulz told CNN. “Jack is wise beyond his years, and I’m so__________ that he found a home and place to be outstanding at Fullerton College.”

If you’re eager to know the secret__________ to his great achievements, Rico said there isn’t one. Just good old time management and listening to your__________, he said.

Rico’s mother said she knew her son was__________ ever since he was a young boy. Having been home schooled before attending Fullerton, Rico’s__________ official graduation was his college one.

But as a result of the coronavirus pandemic (新冠疫情) , his in-person graduation ceremony was__________.

He was a little sad and disappointed because he never had a graduation. So __________, his family and friends will help him__________ by holding a drive-by graduation parade (游行) on Wednesday.

The next step for Rico is to continue studying history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he received a full ride.

While he may be several steps ahead of his age group, he said he’s still just __________.

“I’m 13 right now so I don’t really have the whole life thing __________ ,” Rico said, when asked what he wants to be when he grows up. “I’m still trying to__________ my interests and learn what I want to do in life.”

【1】

A．something

B．anything

C．nothing

D．everything

【2】

A．suffered

B．survived

C．graduated

D．arose

【3】

A．youngest

B．most determined

C．tastiest

D．most delighted

【4】

A．vast

B．cautious

C．difficult

D．brief

【5】

A．history

B．politics

C．physics

D．business

【6】

A．concern

B．dislike

C．demand

D．love

【7】

A．many

B．other

C．another

D．all

【8】

A．dropped out

B．stood out

C．put out

D．gave out

【9】

A．motivated

B．spoken

C．harmed

D．known

【10】

A．puzzled

B．ashamed

C．pleased

D．annoyed

【11】

A．method

B．manners

C．behavior

D．education

【12】

A．schoolmates

B．citizens

C．instructors

D．hosts

【13】

A．special

B．painful

C．willing

D．innocent

【14】

A．legally

B．last

C．curiously

D．first

【15】

A．commented

B．conducted

C．canceled

D．replaced

【16】

A．anyhow

B．somehow

C．moreover

D．instead

【17】

A．celebrate

B．absorb

C．owe

D．blame

【18】

A．a twin

B．a kid

C．a graduate

D．a student

【19】

A．given away

B．taken out

C．put off

D．figured out

【20】

A．earn

B．explore

C．exchange

D．explode

32、 When it comes to the changes in our life, I always memorize my skating. I______ that no matter how much we enjoy doing something, at some point the one we enjoy comes to a _____ and we move on to our next life phase.

When I was a young boy growing up in New York, I enjoyed____ skating on the local ponds free of charge. Later, I ____ to enter a roller rink(溜冰场). As my years of roller skating began to ____ , I discovered that quite often I would be the oldest skater. That, however, never_____ me because I figured that somebody had to be the youngest and somebody had to be the oldest. I just _____to be the oldest.

About a year ago I was skating with a group of middle school students. But this time it was ____. For the first time I was having trouble keeping my_____ and almost fell several times. My years of skating were_____ over! I felt as if I had just lost my favourite _____. That was when I was aware that there was more to roller skating than just the skating. I ____ to hand out skates to the students. If they were having a(n) _______time trying to skate, I helped them with a smile and words of ________. “The next time we come to skate I ____ that you will do much better because you have already______the poorly part of skating.”

Surprisingly, I don’t miss skating. It’s time to move on to another phase of it— the ________phase. I have_____ those years on skating for joy. I’m smiling and laughing a lot _____ now. On the faces of others, I now get to see the ______ that I once had for roller skating.

【1】A.complain B.suspect C.realize D.predict

【2】A.failure B.close C.hardship D.barrier

【3】A.roller B.figure C.ski D.ice

【4】A.paid B.regretted C.begged D.agreed

【5】A.reduce B.disappear C.pass D.accumulate

【6】A.bothered B.scared C.thrilled D.satisfied

【7】A.hated B.claimed C.happened D.appeared

【8】A.competitive B.rewarding C.challenging D.different

【9】A.distance B.balance C.promise D.figure

【10】A.gradually B.eventually C.accidentally D.originally

【11】A.audience B.admirer C.companion D.coach

【12】A.deserved B.pretended C.afforded D.volunteered

【13】A.free B.adequate C.tough D.extra

【14】A.encouragement B.expectation C.approval D.attention

【15】A.command B.guarantee C.analyze D.instruct

【16】A.substituted B.avoided C.simplified D.accomplished

【17】A.performing B.watching C.learning D.governing

【18】A.traded B.excused C.compensated D.mistook

【19】A.longer B.fewer C.more D.less

【20】A.joy B.bravery C.ambition D.sympathy

33、 The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

----Thomas Macaulay About thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs Nanette O’Neill gave a maths ______ to our class. When the papers were ______ she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the ______ mistakes throughout the test.

There is nothing really new about _______ in exams. Perhaps that was ______Mrs O’Neill didn’t even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to ______after class. I was one of the twelve.

Mrs O’Neill asked______questions, and she didn’t _____us either. Instead, she wrote on the blackboard the ______ words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to copy these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.

I don’t know about the other eleven boys. Speaking for ______ I can say it was the most important single ______ of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay’s words, they ______ seem to me the best yardstick (准绳), because they give us a _______ to measure ourselves rather than others.

_____ of us are asked to make ______ decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called _____ daily to make a great many personal decisions. Should the wallet, ______ in the street, be put into a pocket or ______ to the policeman? Should the ______ change received at the store be forgotten or ______ ? Nobody will know except you. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect.

【1】A.paper B.question C.test D.problem

【2】A.marked B.completed C.examined D.answered

【3】A.easy B.same C.funny D.serious

【4】A.lying B.discussing C.guessing D.cheating

【5】A.because B.when C.why D.how

【6】A.remain B.apologize C.come D.leave

【7】A.many B.certain C.no D.more

【8】A.excuse B.reject C.help D.scold

【9】A.above B.common C.following D.unusual

【10】A.herself B.ourselves C.themselves D.myself

【11】A.chance B.incident C.lesson D.memory

【12】A.still B.even C.always D.almost

【13】A.reason B.sentence C.choice D.way

【14】A.All B.Few C.Some D.None

【15】A.quick B.wise C.great D.personal

【16】A.upon B.out C.for D.up

【17】A.finding B.found C.find D.founded

【18】A.turned up B.turned on C.turned over D.turned back

【19】A.small B.extra C.some D.necessary

【20】A.paid B.remembered C.shared D.returned

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.

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.

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.

A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, becoming the first known case of human-animal 【1】, the zoo's chief veterinarian said on Sunday.

Nadia, the 4-year-old Malayan tiger that tested positive, was 【2】 for the COVID-19 disease after 【3】 a dry cough along with three other tigers and three lions, the Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages the zoo, said in a statement.

All of the cats are expected to recover, it said. But officials believe this is a unique case because Nadia became sick after 【4】 to an asymptomatic zoo employee, Paul Calle, chief veterinarian at the Bronx Zoo, told Reuters.

Calle said they did not know which employee infected the tiger. "This is the first time that we have discovered that a person infects the animal and the animal gets sick," Calle said, adding that they planned to share the findings with other zoos and institutions. " I guess 【5】 we will all have a better understanding as a result.

While the other tigers and lions were also 【6】 symptoms, the zoo decided to test only Nadia because she was the sickest and had started to lose her appetite already, and they did not want to 【7】 all the cats to anesthesia(麻醉), Calle said.

Nadia 【8】 X-rays, an ultrasound(超声波) and blood tests to try to figure out what was making her sick . They decided to test for COVID-19 【9】 the surge in cases in New York City, the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States.The first tiger at the zoo, which has been shut since mid-March, began showing 【10】 of illness on March 27, according to the US Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories.

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

Driving an electric car 【1】 to the protection of environment, or so the marketing departments of their makers would have you believe. Yet a report which analyzes car emissions presents a rather different picture. A battery-powered car recharged with 【2】 generated by coal-fired power stations, it found, is likely to be more harmful. It could cause more than three times as many deaths from pollution as a 【3】 petrol-driven vehicle.

The study was carried out by the University of Minnesota. The researchers estimated how levels of fine particulate matter (细颗粒物) and ground-level ozone — two important 【4】 of air pollution — would change when a car is powered by different ways.

It was no surprise that electric cars whose batteries were recharged with power from wind, solar or hydro-electric sources came out to be virtually free from harmful 【5】. They were estimated to cause 231 deaths over the course of a year, compared with 878 for petrol cars. Electric cars recharged with power from natural gas-fired stations were also a lot less harmful than petrol-driven ones, with 439 deaths. But if those same electric cars were recharged 【6】 by coal, they would be responsible for over 3,000 deaths.

Biofuels also caused more health problems than petrol. But diesel, which often 【7】 concern about pollution, is slightly cleaner than petrol. This is because the study assumes for all cars that emission-control technologies will be more widely used, especially particulate filters which have a remarkable effect on cleaning diesel 【8】. Diesel cars are also more 【9】 of fuel than petrol-driven ones.

Overall, the study shows that electric cars are cleaner than those traditional vehicles only if the power used to charge then is also clean. That is hardly a surprise, but the 【10】 of the difference is. How green electric cars really are, then, will depend mainly on where they are driven. In France, which obtains more than half of its power from nuclear station, electric cars look like a good bet. In China and some other developing countries, where a large amount of electricity is produced from coal, they may not be so environment- friendly as they are marketed.

37、阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Smell the flowers before you go to sleep and you may just end up with rosy dreams. Have a whiff of rotten(腐烂的)eggs during the night and your dreams may be【1】(pleasant). So says researcher Dr. Boris Stuck, 【2】invited sleeping volunteers to a rose vs. rotten egg test in the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany. The subjects didn’t dream about roses【3】eggs, but rather he found that what they smelt affected the emotions of【4】(they) dreams.

And if you think【5】(smell) have a say in dreams, wait for what TV tells us. A UK study reveals that people exposed【6】black-and-white film and TV in their youth are to have monochromic(单色的)dreams throughout their life more【7】(probable). Eva Murzyn from the University of Dundee tested two age groups— one half 【8】(age) over 55 and【9】other half under 25.

The result? Under 5% of the dreams of the under-25s were in black and white. 【10】(watch)color TV in childhood seems to be the reason why.

五、书面表达（共4题，共 20分）

38、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一个完整的短文

It was late, about 10:15 p.m., when Janice Esposito arrived at the Bellport, New York, train station, jumped into her minivan and began the 20-minute drive home to her husband and seven-year-old son. She’s just returned from visiting her mother and had traveled the route so many times, she practically drove on autopilot: a left onto Station Road, then a left on Montauk Highway, and then ----wham! Out of nowhere on that awful night of October 10, 2017, a car hit Esposito's minivan, forcing her backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks. She sat in the minivan, injured but mostly just stunned(吓晕) by the impact and by the vehicle's airbags.

As it happened, Pete Dipinto was getting for bed. He'd just closed his book and was ready to sleep when he heard the loud noise of metal on metal and broken glass coming from not far outside his bedroom window. A volunteer firefighter and retired teacher, DiPinto, 64, never stopped to think. He grabbed a flashlight and, still in his pajamas(睡衣), ran out of the door. 'Any firefighter would have done what I did,' he said. 'We're always on duty.'

The first car he came upon, 2000 feet from his front yard, was the one that had hit Esposito. Once DiPinto concluded the driver was OK, he looked around and spotted Esposito's minivan straddling(横跨) the railroad tracks. And then he heard a shocking sound: the bells signaling an oncoming train.

'I see the headlight of the train. ' he said. DiPinto ran to Esposito's minivan and banged on the driver's side window. She just looked at him, her eyes unfocused. 'I don't know where I am,' she said. She seemed unhurt.

注意:

1、所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2、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:

'Honey, you're on the railroad tracks, and we have to get you off right now! ' DiPinto shouted.

Paragraph 2:

Esposito was rushed to the nearest hospital and DiPinto kept her company until her family came.

39、请认真阅读下面文字及图表，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

There has been a rise in road traffic accidents from the beginning of this year until Friday, the Traffic Police (TP) said in a statement on Saturday. TP recorded 36 deadly accidents which resulted in 38 deaths, or an increase of three severe accidents and four deaths, respectively, compared with the same period last year. The rise was due mainly to victims who were motorcyclists and vehicle passengers. The top causes of deadly accidents since the beginning of this year were failing to keep a proper lookout, failing to have proper control of the vehicle, and pedestrians crossing roads without paying attention to traffic. ( May 31, 2019)

（写作内容）

1. 用约30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；

2. 结合上述信息，简要分析导致道路交通事故的主要原因；

3. 根据你的分析，就如何降低道路交通事故的发生率，提出你的建议（不少于两条）。

（写作要求）

1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3. 不必写标题。

（评分标准）

内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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40、假设你是李华，在你校就读的英国交换生Tom因脚部受伤住院，你准备和同学们前去探望。请用英语给他写一封邮件，内容包括：

1. 表示关心；2. 告知探望时间及参加人员；3. 询问有何需求。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

41、假定你是李华，2020年4月，你的好友Peter听说新冠疫情（COVID﹣19 epidemic）在中国已得到有效控制，请你谈谈你所在的城市，如何有序地投入复工复产。

1. 复工的意义和重要性；

2. 复工的举措：扫健康码（scan a health QR code）、保持社交距离、作好个人防护等。

注意：1. 词数80左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。