承德2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Kathy _________ a lot of Spanish by playing with the native boys and girls.

A.picked up B.took up

C.made up D.turned up

2、Would you rather I _____ buying a new bike?

A.decided against B.will decide against

C.have decided D.shall decide against

3、We should do what we can ______ people’s hard work pays off.

A. be sure B. being sure

C. making sure     D. to make sure

4、________ is known to us, there is a close connection between smog and pollution.

A．It

B．Which

C．There

D．As

5、I have no idea____________ the book is __________ to your English study.

A. whether ;  of great value B. if  ; of great value

C. that  ; so value D. how ; very valuable

6、Many nations have promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but are falling short of the ________ reduction of 25 to 40 percent of 1990 levels.

A.target B.option C.profit D.refund

7、We have entered an age _________ dreams have the best chance of coming true.

A.which B.that C.when D.how

8、Jim is absent from the party. That is ________ he was badly injured in the football game.

A.because B.why C.how D.when

9、_____I had more money, I could buy a car.

A.Only if B.If ever C.If only D.Even if

10、I grabbed Norms arm and ________ him around to face me.

A. pinned B. wrapped

C. spun D. sprayed

11、The boy is _____ to win the match to be held next week.

A. possible B. likely

C. probable D. possibly

12、The local government provided ________ for the homeless soon after the flood.

A.possessions B.accommodations C.souvenirs D.groceries

13、________ is often the case with children, Tom was better by the time the doctor arrived.

A.It B.That C.What D.As

14、Although he is only a little boy, he knows world ______ well.

A.matters B.affairs C.things D.incidents

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

A．symbolized

B．exposed

C．strengthened

D．abandoned

16、Most of them were ___________ my opinion while David was against it.

A.in honor of B.in favor of C.in search of D.in memory of

17、In his inspiring book Spontaneous Healing, Andrew Weil recommends: “Make a list of friends and acquaintances ______ company you feel more alive, happier, more optimistic”

A. with whom B. of whom

C. in whose D. under whose

18、—— Hey, if you can’t enjoy that at a sensible volume, please use the earphone. I’m studying.

—— Oh, I’m sorry. I ________ realize it ________ you.

A. don’t; bothers B. didn’t; bothered

C. don’t; was bothering D. didn’t; was bothering

19、Learning a foreign language is not easy， and           it comes to speaking， it can be more difficult．

A.when B.unless C.once D.while

20、Solar power is power energy from the sun.

A.producing used B.produced using

C.produced used D.producing using

21、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

22、Time should be made good use________our lessons well.

A．of learning

B．to learn

C．to learning

D．of to learn

23、I had hoped to take a holiday this year but I wasn’t able to ______.

A．get away

B．drop in

C．check out

D．hold on

24、Though a man may also feel like screaming as a woman________ in a crisis, he has a little bit more self-control than a woman and that makes the difference.

A.having B.has

C.doing D.does

25、The Cloud Bridge is located in the Yunyang Longgang Scenic Zone，___________ live many rare species.

A.which B.that C.where D.what

26、   Shopping can indeed improve a bad mood，a study published in the journal of Psychology and Marketing showed. In fact，in a survey of over 1，000 American adults，96%said they had bought something to make themselves feel better. However，the benefits of retail therapy（购物疗法）are often fugitive and can give way to long-term side effects.

Negative emotions and sadness can lead to a loss of self-worth and this often is what drives people to turn to shopping when they feel down. The result：those same negative emotions can come back with regret and guilt，if we spend more than we should or had planned to. "What we're doing with retail therapy is that we're trying desperately to regulate our emotions，"says Joanne Corrigan，a clinical psychologist specializing in compassion focused therapy-a type of psychotherapy aimed at helping people with mental-health issues related to shame and self-criticism. "We don't like uncomfortable emotions. So we'll do short-lived things that make us feel good in the moment. "

When we feel down or anxious，our ability to control ourselves is reduced，making us tend to make bad decisions. Sadness，it seems，leads to more impatient thoughts，and a desire for immediate reward at the expense of greater future gains. This phenomenon was termed “myopic misery（近视苦难）” by Jennifer Lerner，professor of psychology at Harvard University and her colleagues Ye Li and Elke Weber of Columbia University in their research paper on the issue.

According to Cormell University economist Robert Frank，the key to fighting the impulse （冲动）to shop when we feel down is self-control. He points to the work of Walter Michel，who conducted the Stanford Marshmallow test，an experiment in child psychology and delayed satisfaction，which sought to examine self-control among children by offering them a choice between one small reward provided immediately or two small rewards if they waited for a short period. Follow-up studies found that children who were willing to wait longer for rewards tended to have better scores in later life when it came to measurements including SAT scores，educational attainment and body mass index（BMI）.

“For a lasting sense of well-being，we need to overcome the impulse for immediate satisfaction. "Frank says. "You ought to take a longer view of what counts，but that's where people have consistent difficulty: giving sufficient weight to things that occur not now but in the future. ”

【1】Which word is closest in meaning to the underlined word “fugitive” in Paragraph1？

A.Potential. B.Temporary.

C.Predictable. D.Thorough.

【2】People suffering from "myopic misery" tend to focus more on_________.

A.self-control B.patient thoughts

C.future gains D.immediate satisfaction

【3】What message is conveyed in Walter Michel's test in Paragraph 4?

A.Patience is not something worth taking seriously.

B.Self-control is helpful to build long-term success.

C.Children unwilling to wait longer have achieved higher scores.

D.Immediate satisfaction is as valuable as delayed satisfaction.

【4】Which of the following can best serve as the title of this passage?

A.How can we fight the impulse to shop?

B.How can we deal with myopic misery?

C.Is retail therapy a cure for the bad mood?

D.Is immediate satisfaction worth considering?

27、   Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said, “The British are the only people who like to be told how bad things are.” This is definitely true of British comedy. Most people think humor is about happy things, but for the British, the opposite is true. We love to use our sense of humor to complain and be negative.

British comedy, for example, draws a fine line between comedy and tragedy. BBC’s The Office is a TV show，famous for its dry humor. The main character, David Brent, is a foolish man, and the show's comedy comes from his delusions. For example, he often tells himself that he is loved by everyone but the viewer can see that everyone hates him.

Stupid characters for the audience to laugh at are an old tradition in Britain. In Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, the character Malvolio is an old man whom people play tricks on. The audience will laugh away, although the reality is that this man is a truly tragic individual.

This side of British humor is reflected in friendships as well. At university, my friends and I would always laugh at one another. I had an American friend who actually found this sarcasm(挖苦)quite upsetting. She didn't realize that in Britain, the better friends you are with someone, the more you laugh at them. This approach—laughing at everything—may sound rather depressing, but our strange humor played a big part in British history. In the second World War, along with a stiff upper lip,  the British got through it by laughing. What else was there to do?

There is a saying in English: “Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.”  If you are ever on the receiving end of British sarcasm, you may feel like crying, but it's best to just laugh it off!

【1】How is British comedy different from other types?

A. It is often surprising and boring   .

B. It often laughs at human nature.

C. It is often about the bad things in life   .

D. It often makes people feel depressed.

【2】What does the underlined word “delusion” in paragraph 2 mean?

A. strong abilities B. fun characters

C. wrong beliefs D. deep doubt

【3】Why is Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night mentioned in the article?

A. To show one of the best examples of British comedy.

B. To explain how Shakespeare's comedy is different from others'.

C. To show how difficult it is to make people accept British comedy.

D. To prove Britain has a long tradition of laughing at stupid characters.

【4】How does the author advise people to react to British sarcasm?

A. Learn from it. B. Don't take it seriously.

C. Forget about the upsetting things. D. Be careful not to make stupid mistakes.

28、The Guardian Holidays

【1】Which tour will you choose if you are interested in country music?

A.Elvis Presley’s Memphis & Nashville. B.East Coast Extravaganza.

C.New England in the Fall. D.America’s Golden West.

【2】What do New England in the Fall and East Coast Extravaganza have in common?

A.They both include a visit to Boston. B.They both last for nine days.

C.They both start in October. D.They both cost the same.

【3】Where will tourists go during the America’s Golden West tour?

A.Tupelo and San Francisco. B.Montgomery and San Diego.

C.Monterey and Las Vegas. D.Los Angeles and Plymouth.

29、   A tall, artistic structure called Vessel stands at the heart of Hudson Yards, a real-estate (房地产) development in New York City that includes offices, residences (住房) and stores. Hudson Yards is currently the largest private development in the U.S. and is built over the top of an active rail yard. 

Vessel is a network of staircases and platforms that offers views of New York City from a variety of perspectives. The structure is meant to be a meeting point at the center of the area as well as an attraction for tourists. It won’t be called Vessel for long, however. There will soon be a competition to choose a permanent title. 

The structure is currently called “Vessel” because of its shape: narrow at its base and then expanding up and out. To get to the structure’s highest point on foot, visitors must climb 2,500 steps and cross 80 platforms. According to the developer, it’s a one-mile climb. 

To explore Vessel, visitors need free tickets that allow them to enter the structure at a set time of the day. The purpose of the set times on the tickets is to keep the number of people on Vessel within a safe limit at all times. 

Since Vessel opened to the public, it has been applauded by some visitors and criticized by others. Some have made fun of its shape, comparing it to a pineapple or waste paper basket. Others have criticized its lack of benches. Since resting on the stairs is not allowed, there is no place to sit. Despite these issues, Vessel attracts many locals and tourists every day.

【1】What information about Vessel does this article provide?

A.Its estimated weight.

B.Its grand opening date.

C.The attractive lighting.

D.The distance to the top.

【2】What is true about the structure’s current official name?

A.It’s universally praised.

B.It’s only temporary.

C.It’s been copied elsewhere.

D.Its meaning is unknown.

【3】According to the article, why are tickets only available for set times?

A.To encourage people to stay on Vessel longer.

B.To increase the amount of income earned by Vessel.

C.To prevent Vessel from becoming too crowded.

D.To keep littering on Vessel to the absolute minimum.

【4】What does the article imply about people who visit Vessel?

A.Their opinions about it vary quite a bit.

B.Their primary interest lies in shopping.

C.They return to it on multiple occasions.

D.Some are asked to pay a small entrance fee.

30、A group of patients at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta （CHOA） were in for a special treat when they had the opportunity to visit Father Christmas at the "North Pole".

With the help of Delta Air Lines, 43 kids, ____ childhood cancers and blood disorders at the Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center of CHOA, "flew” to the "North Pole" for a magical ______.A couple of policemen __ the patients to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where Delta pilots and "elves（精灵）” _____ greeted them and helped them "check in".

Tickets in hand, the kids boarded a _____ flight to the "North Pole". The plane moved slowly around the tarmac（停机坪）for about 45 minutes to ____ the illusion（错觉）of long-distance travel, after which the patients _____ the plane and were greeted by even more Delta employees _____ as elves.

At the “North Pole, the kids danced, made crafts and _____ Father Christmas himself. There was even a ______— indoor snowfall. **lt is very much a part of the culture at Delta to _____ the communities where we live and work. And with Atlanta being our hometown, we greatly _____ our partnership with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and look forward to ____ the North Pole event every year；" Delta employee and “Head Elf' volunteer Alice Mcnulty said. "It truly is an unforgettable holiday for many of us, ____ our volunteers get all dressed up in their elf clothes to make this a magical _____ for these children and their families；" she added.

【1】

A．attacking

B．spreading

C．battling

D．studying

【2】

A．event

B．treatment

C．destination

D．power

【3】

A．introduced

B．led

C．invited

D．followed

【4】

A．seriously

B．anxiously

C．carefully

D．warmly

【5】

A．modem

B．comfortable

C．strange

D．special

【6】

A．create

B．prevent

C．practice

D．adjust

【7】

A．appreciated

B．exited

C．changed

D．approached

【8】

A．known

B．considered

C．remembered

D．dressed

【9】

A．recognized

B．met

C．played

D．described

【10】

A．surprise

B．dream

C．secret

D．pity

【11】

A．put up with

B．get away from

C．give back to

D．drop in at

【12】

A．recommend

B．miss

C．value

D．improve

【13】

A．celebrating

B．advertising

C．inventing

D．hosting

【14】

A．until

B．as

C．if

D．although

【15】

A．experience

B．adventure

C．lesson

D．opportunity

31、   If your home were on fire, what would you try to save? Our area was just a few miles from the largest wildfire in Colorado’s history. On getting the call to evacuate(疏散), we had to consider what we couldn’t live without, ________ whatever we could save and leaving immediately.

We ________ suitcases with necessary clothes. We took the ________ financial records ---- who wants to _______ himself with the government over _______ documents? Now, what else? We seized the valuable family ________ from the walls, which couldn’t be replaced.

Then we took a hard look at all that ________. A lamp that ________ my great grandmother. A ________ my wife learned to play as a kid. A large tent we spent months ________ money for camping. Bedroom furniture we wanted to pass down to our ________ some day. The gifts that decorated our house from our treasured friends. These things ________ our love as a family and friends. It was ________ to move everything from our home. ________ at all that we might lose, I found it difficult to say goodbye. But ________, I felt warm.

We were ________ with memories as we ________ at these items. Each had stories to tell just like the photos. They told about where we’d been, where we ________ were and where we were going. They were ________ of those people we had loved and who loved us. Now I didn’t think my “things” meant that much to me. Indeed, the spirit of them was all that truly ________.

【1】A. covering B. removing C. collecting D. spotting

【2】A. carried B. piled C. supplied D. packed

【3】A. cars B. computers C. books D. food

【4】A. enjoy B. entertain C. bother D. force

【5】A. extra B. regular C. useless D. missing

【6】A. pictures B. televisions C. decorations D. chargers

【7】A. abandoned B. remained C. burned D. kept

【8】A. belonged to B. adapted to C. related to D. appealed to

【9】A. doll B. ball C. sport D. piano

【10】A. borrowing B. saving C. paying D. lending

【11】A. children B. friends C. colleagues D. relatives

【12】A. inspired B. measured C. represented D. expressed

【13】A. unbelievable B. impractical C. inconvenient D. unnecessary

【14】A. Looking up B. Looking around C. Looking forward D. Looking out

【15】A. roughly B. casually C. strangely D. curiously

【16】A. flooded B. impressed C. surrounded D. satisfied

【17】A. wondered B. glanced C. glared D. stared

【18】A. normally B. frequently C. suddenly D. presently

【19】A. signals B. signs C. symbols D. lessons

【20】A. mattered B. proved C. lasted D. changed

32、It was December 2018. I was _________my PhD in the UK and a professor invited me to interview for a postdoc position in Japan. The online interview, during my visit to my family in Spain, went well and I was sure 2019 would be a _________year.

Then, in April, my mother told me about some _________feelings she was experiencing. But I was focused on my paper, I brushed away my _________.

Later, the doctors had a(n) _________: It was lung cancer. I spent the next two months _________between my research and my family. I made three _________visits home. However, my _________for myself pulled me back to lab. In the meantime, the cancer had _________.

Yet I was set to attend a conference in New Zealand in early July, where I would __________my paper. But on my way to the airport, I __________. Instead of New Zealand, I flew back to Madrid.

I __________my PhD defense. Meanwhile, my mother's prognosis (预测病情) changed from 1 year to months, weeks, then days. I'd thought I had more time with her, but I didn't. Cancer __________my mother at the end of July.

I defended my paper in mid-September and moved to Tokyo to start my ________life.

Please remember life is what happens while you are making plans. If your loved ones __________you, be there for them.

【1】

A．applying for

B．finishing up

C．preparing for

D．giving up

【2】

A．tougher

B．longer

C．busier

D．better

【3】

A．strange

B．humble

C．lonely

D．guilty

【4】

A．excitement

B．concerns

C．pressure

D．commitments

【5】

A．appointment

B．promise

C．update

D．friction

【6】

A．torn

B．distributed

C．hesitating

D．complaining

【7】

A．official

B．formal

C．brief

D．regular

【8】

A．regrets

B．expectations

C．assumptions

D．satisfactions

【9】

A．occurred

B．withdrawn

C．spread

D．improved

【10】

A．polish

B．publish

C．purchase

D．present

【11】

A．fell apart

B．fell behind

C．held out

D．held on

【12】

A．abandoned

B．conducted

C．arranged

D．postponed

【13】

A．challenged

B．beat

C．attacked

D．rejected

【14】

A．common

B．random

C．new

D．simple

【15】

A．need

B．adore

C．order

D．suspect

33、Last semester in my final year of high school, I had Mr. Smith as my teacher, a teacher that I can never forget.

I was not necessarily the best student when it came to taking__________ While I_________learning, I had to work extra hard to get good_________. Anyways, this class that I truly enjoyed still had me_________to do well on my exams. Mr. Smith _________helped me and was always ready to answer my questions, which I greatly_________.

I remember the day of taking my final exam, I was the last one still writing and_________my exam paper as always, while everyone else had_________and left the exam room. Having_________my exam paper, I had thought to leave,__________I decided to turn around and say what I intended to say.

What I did right then was that I went over,__________to Mr. Smith and thanked him for everything. What I said to him lastly apparently__________a lot more to him than I thought it would –"I really enjoyed this class." I did not think much about it. I was just being__________with him, but the look of surprise and__________on his face was remarkable. He seemed deeply__________and thanked me for my simple__________, just knowing that one of his students had truly enjoyed his class. That is what I call a simple, yet very meaningful act of kindness to__________a teacher's day, because they work so hard for us and truly__________us to learn.

I firmly believe such a simple compliment(赞美)can make somebody else's day extra__________. So always give acts of kindness a____________even a teenager can do it!

【1】

A．tests

B．exercise

C．notes

D．chances

【2】

A．forgot

B．enjoyed

C．permitted

D．hated

【3】

A．approaches

B．marks

C．attention

D．advice

【4】

A．struggling

B．pretending

C．offering

D．hesitating

【5】

A．calmly

B．curiously

C．willingly

D．proudly

【6】

A．advocated

B．appreciated

C．regretted

D．ignored

【7】

A．designing

B．reciting

C．reviewing

D．grading

【8】

A．finished

B．copied

C．succeeded

D．repeated

【9】

A．put away

B．turned in

C．longed for

D．given up

【10】

A．because

B．though

C．but

D．so

【11】

A．waved

B．signed

C．pointed

D．bowed

【12】

A．meant

B．showed

C．took

D．explained

【13】

A．patient

B．honest

C．popular

D．strict

【14】

A．interest

B．admiration

C．doubt

D．joy

【15】

A．amused

B．touched

C．concerned

D．confused

【16】

A．wish

B．report

C．tip

D．remark

【17】

A．lengthen

B．record

C．brighten

D．schedule

【18】

A．force

B．motivate

C．command

D．promise

【19】

A．special

B．lucky

C．short

D．smooth

【20】

A．smile

B．gift

C．look

D．try

34、阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Everyone has their own unique fingerprint; 【1】 makes fingerprints an ideal way to unlock smartphones. However, this may be 【2】 (safe) than we think.

Scientists at New York University and Michigan State University in the US have developed a set of fake fingerprints. They say that the prints 【3】 unlock any fingerprint-enabled smartphone up to 65 percent of the time.

The artificial fingerprints 【4】 (create) by using many common features found in human prints. They work 【5】 taking advantage of the way smartphone scanners check a fingerprint.

The fingerprint scanners   【6】 (use) in smartphones are so small that they only read parts of fingerprints. So they have to take many scans of your finger or thumb (拇指) 【7】 they work properly. Smartphones also let users save several finger and thumbprints. Since a print only has to match one of the saved images 【8】 (unlock) the phone, the scanner is more likely to make mistakes.

Although the scientists have only tested their findings in computer simulations (模拟), 【9】 (worry) about the safety of using fingerprints are reasonable .They warn that the technology used to create artificial fingerprints is improving   【10】 (extreme) fast.

35、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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

38、请阅读下面文字及图表，并按照要求用英语写一篇120词左右的文章。

In a recent survey of 300 Chinese born after 1990, 54 percent of the respondents said they had hair loss, 51 percent had poorer eyesight, 45 percent gained weight and 35 percent had weakened immunity. At the same time, about 65 percent said they always stayed up late. Meanwhile, 56.7 percent of interviewees said they didn’t know how to live a healthy life.

Wu Feng, who works at a private company in Beijing, was warned in this year’s physical examination report about hyperlipemia, a condition which he ascribed (归因于) to his diet and the fast pace of his life and work.

“At work, I usually sit in the office for hours without moving my body. And when I eat at the canteen, the food is quite oily. What’s more, I like to order fast food, such as fried chicken, at night when I work extra hours,” Wu said.

A post-90s programmer Wang Ke has been seeing abnormal parameters in his medical report in the past few years. He knew he had some bad habits, but it was not easy for him to change. “I know drinking too much milk tea is unhealthy, but I couldn’t stop myself,” he said.

（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，简要分析不健康的生活方式的危害；

（3）根据你的实际情况，谈谈如何拥有健康的生活方式。

（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。

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39、假如你是校学生会主席李华，学校计划请专家就皮肤烧伤的急救安排一活动，为此请你在校园网上用英语发一则书面通知呼吁同学们参加，内容包括：

1. 时间、地点和目的；

2. 活动的内容；

3. 你的呼吁。

注意： 

1、词数80左右；

2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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40、假设你是李华，目前，随着全球新型冠状病毒肺炎确诊病例数量不断攀升，你的英国笔友Jack发来邮件询问你在家抗“疫”和学习的注意事项，请你给他回信，内容包括：

1. 表达关心

2. 介绍经验

3. 分享感受

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

提示词：新冠肺炎疫情the novel coronavirus pneumonia 或 COVID-19 pandemic

Dear Jack,

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Yours,

Li Hua

41、假定你是李华，暑假在伦敦学习，得知当地举办的中国文化艺术节招募志愿者。请给组委会写一封邮件，表达你想成为志愿者的意愿。

注意: 1.词数100左右。 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。