2025-2026年浙江宁波高二下册期末英语试卷及答案

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

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

2、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

3、Your parents seem very much opposed ________ abroad. What will you do about it?

A.your going B.you to go C.to your going D.your to go

4、Cancer has become the top killer ________ I think threatens the health of millions of people.

A.that B.of which C.不填 D.Both A and C

5、I’m so glad you’ve come here to ________ this matter in person.

A.lead to B.see to C.turn to D.refer to

6、________ to speak, I’ll start making preparations tomorrow.

A．To have been invited

B．To be invited

C．Having been invited

D．Having invited

7、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

8、Those who continuously acquire new knowledge that they can ________ their work are more likely to succeed.

A.contribute to B.correspond to C.subscribe to D.apply to

9、—Do you know where Tony is?

—He _________ in the living room. I saw him there just now.

A．shall be

B．should have been

C．might have been

D．must be

10、The new teacher was so well-organized that she began ________ we stopped yesterday so that no point was left out.

A．when

B．in which

C．how

D．where

11、The school dining room ______ as a meeting place for teachers and students.

A.treats B.admits C.uses D.functions

12、E-commerce companies are helping small businesses in financial trouble obtain loans that they otherwise _______ to raise.

A．must struggle

B．can have struggled

C．could struggle

D．would have struggled

13、After the dinner, I looked at the bill and found that it was 200 yuan   , including the wine.

A. after all B. at all C. in all D. above all

14、His success ________ a craze for choosing economy as the major.

A.set in motion B.put into operation C.set in action D.put in practice

15、If parents don’t teach their child how to ________himself，he will do anything at will.

A.behave B.believe C.help D.enjoy

16、There have been several new events _____ to the program.

A.add B.to add C.adding D.added

17、These eighteen-century oil paintings are _______ so well that the visitors are greatly amazed.

A.preserved B.protested C.purchased D.punished

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

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

19、It was a significant _______ that a Chinese search vessel, Haixun 01 picked up signals consistent with black box technology _______ the South Indian Ocean for the missing plane.

A.discovery, when sailing B.finding, when shipping

C.outcome, when searching for D.breakthrough, when combing through

20、The superhero movie Avengers: Endgame topped Chinese mainland box office，Capernaum ___________ the second place.

A.took B.taken C.having taken D.taking

21、The old man asked Lucy to move to another chair__________he wanted to sit next to his wife.

A.although B.unless C.because D.if

22、He ______ his first wife who was considerate to him and soon married a girl who was 20 years junior_____ him.

A.divorced; to B.divorced from; to C.separated; with D.separated from; for

23、I’m sorry; those jeans are not   in your colour and size.

A. together   B. patient

C. available   D. average

24、Pointing to the hospital on _____roof there is a parking garage, Granny told me that was ____I was born.

A. whose; what B. which; what

C. which; where D. whose; where

25、You’ll pay_____ that remark!

A. off B. for

C. back D. out

26、   Two years ago this month, a 19-year-old American shot and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Fourteen of the victims were students； the other three were teachers. The gunman was a former student at the high school.

On this anniversary, as with other anniversaries of school shootings, Americans continue debating how to make sure students are safe in schools.

To increase preparedness for such an event, many schools now hold shooter drills for students and their teachers. A report released by Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit organization, notes the possible harmful effects of such exercises. It urges school administrators to look for better ways to make schools safe and to prepare children for an active shooter.

One problem with the way schools carry out shooter drills is how much they frighten students. When a school fails to inform parents and students about plans for a drill, the children may think that the attack is real. In some communities, the report says, schools deploy individuals who are told to act like “masked gunmen”. Students as young as three or four years old may be told to stay quiet in a small space for a long period of time. Experts on mental health say these experiences can have both short- and long-term effects on how well the children behave in school, as well as on their physical and mental health.

Melissa Reeves, former president of the National Association of School Psychologists, said the drills may “trigger either past trauma or trigger such a similar reaction that it actually ends up scaring the individuals instead of better preparing them to respond in these kinds of situations.”

In 2007, one study found it better to prepare students for an “intruder”, rather than a shooter. Another study noted the value of announcing drills in advance and following them with discussion. Students in that situation felt better prepared to handle possible violence.

【1】What is the problem with the shooter drills?

A.Students only suffer short-term damage.

B.Students' physical health cannot be affected.

C.Students may think they are real and get scared.

D.Too young children may not understand what is happening.

【2】What does "trigger" in Paragraph 5 most probably mean?

A.Limit. B.Cause. C.Reduce. D.Regulate.

【3】What is Melissa Reeves' attitude toward the shooter drills?

A.Critical. B.Favorable. C.Indifferent. D.Unclear.

【4】How can students be better prepared to handle possible shooter drills?

A.The schools give them a surprise.

B.They only prepare for shooters.

C.The masked “attacker” carries a toy gun.

D.Drills are announced beforehand and discussed afterwards.

27、Recognized as "the goddess scientist"，Ning Yan（or Nieng Yan），42，is a leading biology researcher at Princeton University in the US. On April 30，she was included among 100 new members and 25 foreign associates into The National Academy of Sciences，a famous scientific institution that aims to recognize outstanding research in the US.

Yan is a rising star in the science world and her resume（履历）is impressive. After graduating from Tsinghua University and Princeton，she was invited to set up her own laboratory at Tsinghua in 2007. At age 30，she became one of China's youngest-ever female professors.

It was a long road to get where she is now. She told People magazine that she always believes that scientists need to have a pure mind and determination.

Yan likes to work at night，because she can focus when the outside is quiet. She also works at least 14 hours a day，but she's energetic，because research is the most "comfortable” job for her，according to an interview with People magazine.

This devotion to her work probably helped Yan in her research to identify the structures of proteins in cells' plasma membranes，which puzzled scientists for half a century. Her achievements got her listed among the journal Nature's Science Stars of China in 2016.

Yan also enjoys TV dramas and classic novels. Surprisingly，the novel Journey to the West inspired her to become a structural biologist. In the book，the Monkey King turns into other animals. She wondered what it would be like to change herself. Luckily. Yan now lives in that world every day，exploring how proteins work at the level of atoms. “It was almost destined（命中注定的）that I would become a structural biologist，"she said in an interview with Nature.

As she realizes her own dreams，Yan tries to encourage more women to follow careers（职业）in science. In her eyes，there is no difference between men and women in the scientific fields.

“Women can work as excellently as men and live the way they choose to，"she said in a public interview.

【1】What made Ning Yan become a member of the National Academy of Sciences？

A．Her social background.

B．Her impressive wisdom.

C．Her first-class education.

D．Her outstanding research.

【2】Which of the following played a role in Yan becoming a structural biologist？

A．People magazine.

B．Journey to the West.

C．The journal Nature.

D．Science Stars of China.

【3】Ning Yan would probably agree that_________

A．scientists can win success by working at night

B．women can match men in scientific achievements

C．more women should be allowed to take up science

D．scientists should enjoy TV dramas and classic novels

【4】What can we learn from Ning Yan's story?

A．It is never too late to learn.

B．Many hands make light work.

C．Actions speak louder than words.

D．Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.

28、   During the outbreak of novel coronavirus, cities are locked down and borders are closed. Science, on the contrary, is becoming more open. And this “open science” is already making a difference.

Soon after the epidemic started in China, a research team from Fudan University in Shanghai successfully sequenced (测定序列)the DNA of the virus. But they didn’t keep the information to themselves. Instead, they placed the sequences on GenBank, an open-access data platform, so researchers around the world could download them for free and start studying the virus.

Due to this openness, pharmaceutical (制药的) companies across the globe are now able to work simultaneously (同时地)to develop a vaccine. “There may be room for multiple different vaccines for different purposes and different age groups,” Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security in the US, told Al Jazeera. “The   bigger menu we have of vaccines, the more resilient (有适应力的) we’ll be against coronavirus outbreaks in the future.”

Major drug companies around the world are also sharing their study results. Remdesivir, a drug originally developed by US company Gilead Sciences to treat Ebola, is found to be promising in fighting against the novel coronavirus. Currently, two trials of the drug are already underway in China, and the results might be available as soon as April, according to The Verge.

This openness in science is going to be even more critical in the future. “With climate change, increasing globalization, and population shifts, epidemics will not go away, and might even become more frequent,” Dan Barouch, a Harvard Medical School professor, told Harvard Magazine.

He said, “No one group can do everything. It has to be a coordinated (合作的) approach. But I do think that the world has a greater sense of readiness this time to develop knowledge, drugs, and therapeutics (疗法) very rapidly.”

Every epidemic is indeed a crisis, but it can also be a learning opportunity. One redeeming (补偿的) factor of the COVID-19 outbreak is that it is helping science adapt for the better.

【1】What does the article mainly talk about?

A.Coordinated efforts to fight the epidemic.

B.Something positive we’ve learned from the epidemic.

C.The significance of openness and sharing of scientific knowledge.

D.What needs to be done to prevent future epidemics.

【2】What is the positive effect of the research team from Fudan University placing the genetic sequence of the virus onto GenBank?

A.They alerted the world to the danger of the virus.

B.They helped remove people’s fear of the virus.

C.They showed the world how to produce a vaccine.

D.They invited collective efforts worldwide to develop a vaccine.

【3】What is the author’s purpose of mentioning remdesivir in the text?

A.To introduce a possible cure for the epidemic.

B.To compare the treatment of Ebola and the novel coronavirus.

C.To prove that many drug companies readily share their discoveries.

D.To show that the novel coronavirus will soon be contained.

【4】What does the underlined word “critical” in paragraph 5 probably mean?

A.expressing disapproval.

B.extremely important.

C.serious, uncertain and possibly dangerous.

D.making fair, careful judgments.

【5】Which of the following would Dan Barouch probably disagree with?

A.Epidemics will be less frequent thanks to scientific development.

B.The world is becoming better prepared to deal with epidemics.

C.No single group can fight against the epidemics independently.

D.The increase in globalization may worsen future epidemics.

29、   About 30 years ago, two art thieves dressed as police officers made their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole multiple artworks, including a Vermeer painting that was one of only 36 by the artist. With an estimated value of over $200 million, “The Concert” remains one of the most expensive missing items on the FBI's list of stolen art. With the rest of Vermeer's masterpieces spread across 17 collections in seven countries, people have never had the opportunity to see all of Vermeer's works in one place. And since some of his works are now too fragile to travel, they'll have to remain where they are forever.

But now, you can experience all of Vermeer's known artworks in one place for the first time. They're available in Pocket Gallery, a brand new function on the Google Arts & Culture app. You can pull out your phone and step into a virtual exhibition space to see all of his 36 works — including the missing masterpiece and the famous “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”

The Art Camera was set up in several galleries around the world, creating the highest-ever resolution (分辨率) pictures of eight of Vermeer's masterpieces. You can also dive into “in painting tours” and explore expert opinions that shed light on Vermeer's art or mysterious life — you can hear from Tracy Chevalier, author of the bestseller “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and read essays on the artist's life and art.

Visit g.co/meetvermeer, join the conversation with MeetVermeer or download the app on either iOS or Android to try out Pocket Gallery.

【1】What do we know about Vermeer?

A.He was a productive artist. B.He used to work in a museum.

C.His hobby was listening to concerts. D.His works are collected in different places.

【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A.“The Concert” was stolen by two well-dressed police officers about 30 years ago.

B.Now we can experience all of Vermeer's known artworks in one place in person.

C.The Art Camera creates the highest-ever resolution pictures of all Vermeer's masterpieces.

D.Some of Vermeer's artworks have to stay where they are in case they are broken or damaged.

【3】What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?

A.Summarize the previous paragraphs. B.Provide some advice for the readers.

C.Add some background information. D.Introduce a new topic for discussion.

【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A.Vermeer’s Gallery on the Phone B.The Art Camera in Galleries

C.Google: A Know-It-All App D.Vermeer: A Great Artist

30、   My name is Jane Eyre and my parents died when I was a baby. For ten years I lived a(n) _______ life with my aunt and cousins who treated me unfairly. My cousins laughed at me and my aunt never showed me any _______ . The only person who cared about me was the maid, Bessie. One day my cousin John shouted at me: “You should go and beg, not live with _______ folks like us!” After fighting with him I was locked in a room, where I _______ for hours crying.

Things _______ the same until a tall gentleman called Mr. Brockchurst came to visit. My aunt told me that I was going to a school owned by the gentleman. “Train her to be _______ and humble(谦卑的),” said Aunt. Two days later I _______ my home.

At first my _______ at Lowood School was hard. The food was bad and I was often cold but I made _______ and enjoyed studying. But after an illness killed several students, new owners ________ the school and my life improved. Six years later I ________ a teacher and was very happy. But eventually I felt that I should explore more of the world and found a job as a private teacher in a ________ .

Before I left Lowood, I was ________ by Bessie, who told me that seven years ago my father’s brother had come looking for me but left again to go abroad. “He looked like quite a gentleman,” said Bessie. I ________ if he would ever look for me again.

My new life ________ at Thornfield Hall, a large country house, ________ a little girl called Adele. She was the adopted daughter of the owner of the house, Mr. Rochester. He ________ stayed at Thornfield, ________ my time was mainly spent with Adele and the servants. My life was quite ________ now although there was something ________ about my new home. Often I heard odd sounds come from the top floor of the house.

【1】A.merry B.innocent C.unfortunate D.comfortable

【2】A.food B.love C.method D.schooling

【3】A.rich B.friendly C.troublesome D.wise

【4】A.hesitated B.stayed C.lived D.disguised

【5】A.appeared B.worked C.seemed D.remained

【6】A.beautiful B.aggressive C.obedient D.active

【7】A.restored B.reached C.left D.sold

【8】A.complaint B.life C.dream D.study

【9】A.noise B.friends C.mistakes D.comparison

【10】A.took over B.took up C.took off D.took away

【11】A.knew B.met C.became D.recognized

【12】A.school B.home C.library D.county

【13】A.overlooked B.visited C.brought D.required

【14】A.wondered B.thought C.questioned D.suspected

【15】A.stopped B.continued C.started D.faded

【16】A.showing B.teaching C.admiring D.bearing

【17】A.already B.never C.always D.hardly

【18】A.yet B.though C.still D.so

【19】A.happy B.hard C.extraordinary D.unsatisfying

【20】A.interesting B.memorable C.instructive D.strange

31、The best and most amazing thing about life is that no matter what happens or how hard it may get, or how useless you feel, stay _______.

All you need to _______ is doing good, even if it may be the smallest thing, like greeting someone with a smile. It can _______ someone’s day, and you will have made the smallest _______ biggest difference to their life. It all starts with your small but sincere smile!

I learned patience the hard _______. I have been trying to rush through life rapidly, always   _______ myself to my friends and family and wondering when my life would change. I was too busy trying to speed things up, but things just weren’t _______ , so I finally gave up. However, when I continued to help people and do little things I could every day to make a difference, life _______me back. Therefore, keep your _______ realistic, no matter how unjust people are towards you. I believe you will be successful, ________ everything has its own special time when everything goes well, and yours is definitely coming. You just need to ________ a little longer.

I ________ met someone worth it all, so kind and sweet, always trying to surprise me in the most ________ ways. Now, every day is something bigger and better, and that ________ is amazing, and then you realize it’s because of all the good things you keep doing in your life.

Even if you have been doing bad things up until now, you can change it all and make it all better. Believe me, it always gets better. It’s not easy, but it will. I know, because I have been ________ with it and I finally feel better.

【1】

A．curious

B．patient

C．serious

D．generous

【2】

A．reflect on

B．set about

C．take up

D．focus on

【3】

A．speed up

B．light up

C．brighten up

D．turn up

【4】

A．yet

B．and

C．or

D．so

【5】

A．way

B．time

C．point

D．problem

【6】

A．adapting

B．adjusting

C．comparing

D．applying

【7】

A．speeding

B．changing

C．moving

D．succeeding

【8】

A．gives

B．pays

C．get

D．brings

【9】

A．intentions

B．minds

C．hearts

D．feelings

【10】

A．if

B．when

C．until

D．because

【11】

A．work

B．wait

C．operate

D．stay

【12】

A．eventually

B．occasionally

C．abruptly

D．instantly

【13】

A．normal

B．unusual

C．common

D．unexpected

【14】

A．thought

B．view

C．feeling

D．idea

【15】

A．hunting

B．struggling

C．searching

D．exploring

32、As I entered womanhood，mom told me that no matter what happened and no matter what I did，I could always come home. Because of what those words meant to me，I said the same thing to my____

My childhood was filled with____—a lot of kisses，lots of hugs，and lots of spoken “I love you”．Because of what those meant to me，I____my sons the same things.

My mom came from a____family and had a difficult childhood，yet she never____about how unlucky she was____my mom，I saw love’s ability to forgive.

I saw my sweet mom love my Grandpa，____he had abandoned her and my Grandma and failed to____them with basic necessities；I never saw mom treat Grandpa any way but lovingly，even though he was far from____I learned how love behaves and forgives.

I watched my mom____my 100­year­old grandma who，in her blindness，deafness and feebleness(虚弱)，needed almost____care. When I was in her home，I heard what I’ve heard all my life，“I love you，mom.” They would____each other this at least five times a____—when mom got Grandma up，made her comfortable in bed，or prepared her____And I would hear love’s____when Grandma said，“And I love you too.”

Love forgives and____not focusing on what has happened____，love’s focus is on what needs to be done and on doing it the____we can.

My mom taught me to love；she told me to____it on to my children，and she____forgiveness herself.

【1】A. children   B. friends   C. classmates   D. neighbors

【2】A. confusion   B. imagination   C. happiness   D. attraction

【3】A. gave   B. ordered   C. paid   D. bought

【4】A. famous   B. peaceful   C. rich   D. broken

【5】A. thought   B. complained   C. learned   D. wondered

【6】A. With   B. Like   C. In   D. Before

【7】A. although   B. because   C. so   D. if

【8】A. prepare   B. run   C. hope   D. provide

【9】A. special   B. kind   C. normal   D. smart

【10】A. wait for   B. laugh at   C. turn to   D. look after

【11】A. little   B. free   C. early   D. total

【12】A. call   B. tell   C. ask   D. encourage

【13】A. year   B. month   C. day   D. second

【14】A. books   B. money   C. meal   D. travel

【15】A. response   B. question   C. solution   D. measure

【16】A. walks on   B. moves on   C. falls behind   D. runs away

【17】A. Besides   B. Therefore   C. Also   D. Instead

【18】A. quickest   B. least   C. best   D. longest

【19】A. look   B. pass   C. put   D. write

【20】A. showed   B. expected   C. remembered   D. doubted

33、   Once there was a little boy who enjoyed reading books, especially comic-strips (连环漫画). His uncle called him “Sparky", after a comic-strip horse named Spark Plug. But it was _______ for Sparky to feel happy at school because he failed every subject in the eighth grade. Though he did manage to enter the school's golf team and tried very hard, he still _______ the only important match of the season.

Throughout his youth, Sparky was shy and felt _______with strangers. It wasn’t that the other students disliked him. It’s just that no one really _______all that much. In fact, Sparky was _______ if a classmate said hello to him after class. Sparky was a loser. His classmates knew it, so he learned to _______ it.

But Sparky was fond of drawing. He was _______ of his artwork. No one else appreciated it. But that didn’t seem to _______ to him. In his high school, he sent some cartoons to the yearbook. The editors _______ his ideas. Despite that, Sparky was ________ of his ability. He even decided to become a(n) ________.

So, after completing high school, Sparky wrote to Walt Disney Studios. Despite ________preparation, it wasn’t accepted, which ________ that he was a loser again.

But Sparky still didn’t ________; he decided to tell his own life in cartoons. The main character was a little boy who always lost and failed. Because Sparky’s cartoon character went on to become a kind of cultural phenomenon, people ________ identified with(认同) this “lovable loser”. He ________ people of the painful and ________ moments to walk from their own past, of their pain and their shared humanity. The character soon became famous worldwide. And Sparky, the boy whose many ________ never kept him from trying, whose work was not accepted again and again, is the highly ________ cartoonist Charles Schultz. His cartoon strip Peanuts continues to ________ us, even the losers, to find a way in our life.

【1】A.uncertain B.imperfect C.impossible D.unnecessary

【2】A.attended B.lost C.watched D.covered

【3】A.patient B.selfish C.innocent D.nervous

【4】A.cared B.needed C.paid D.understood

【5】A.motivated B.guilty C.astonished D.curious

【6】A.live with B.learn about C.depend on D.find out

【7】A.afraid B.proud C.tired D.confident

【8】A.happen B.belong C.occur D.matter

【9】A.accepted B.ignored C.rejected D.changed

【10】A.sure B.aware C.ashamed D.tired

【11】A.scientist B.artist C.editor D.headmaster

【12】A.special B.busy C.hurried D.careful

【13】A.seemed B.grew C.proved D.designed

【14】A.give up B.turn up C.show off D.worry about

【15】A.cautiously B.willingly C.suddenly D.hopelessly

【16】A.warned B.promised C.informed D.reminded

【17】A.exciting B.surprising C.embarrassing D.amusing

【18】A.failures B.experiences C.sufferings D.chances

【19】A.cheerful B.successful C.powerful D.thoughtful

【20】A.please B.disturb C.satisfy D.inspire

34、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.

Why Cold weather Causes So many Flight Cancellation?

Each year, about 60,000 flights get canceled because of bad winter weather, which costs airlines and airports an estimated $3 billion. But it’s not the freezing cold temperatures that cause problems for planes. After all, 【1】 jets fly 10 kilometers up, where temperatures hover around -50 degrees Celsius.

In fact, planes 【2】 in cold weather, since cold air is denser and leads to better thrust. Clearly, the real problem isn’t what’s going on up there. It’s what’s happening on the ground.

When a 【3】 polar vortex (极地涡旋) struck the Midwestern US in January 2019, temperatures dropped to -40 degrees Celsius and airline canceled 3,000 flights nationwide. In these situations, when temperatures start 【4】, everything slows down. Cargo doors can freeze up, along with the nozzles that pump fuel into planes, which delays the 【5】 process.

Even the plane itself can freeze over. Just a quarter-inch - thick layer of ice on a plane can disrupt the way air flows over its wings.

Les Westbrooks: The number one reason, I would say, that the reason flights get delayed in cold weather is going to be because there’s some kind of frozen precipitation, from frost to snow to a sheet of ice, adhering to the aircraft, adhering to the wings of the aircraft 【6】.

That’s Les Westbrooks, a retired airline pilot and an associate professor of aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He says that 【7】, these planes are “de-iced” - but this also delays takeoff. The crew can spray the plane with a special hot water/ glycol mixture. It can take around 40 minutes to de-ice large passenger airplanes, so planes often have to wait “their turn” for the de-icing station, which, of course, can trigger more delays.

And ice on the runway, of course, creates another set of 【8】. In 2014, a plane at JFK skidded off an icy runway and into a mound of snow, leading to an hours-long shutdown at the airport. And even though crews can remove ice from the runway, scraping it off the pavement can lead to potholes (坑洞) and other 【9】, which makes takeoffs and landings more dangerous. And of course, snow and freezing rain on the ground can affect visibility to the point where officials have to decide it’s not safe to fly at all.

But if ice and snow aren’t the problem in these extremely cold temperatures, it’s usually another factor: people.

Les Westbrooks: The airplane flies at high altitudes, -60 degrees. It’s made to do that. Humans are not made to be outside in -60 degrees weather. And so the human factor becomes a big, big factor, when it becomes extremely cold.

Baggage handlers, aircraft fuelers, and mechanics all have to stay warm. Some airports, like O’Hare in Chicago, set up heated shelters for their employees. Of course, with everyone taking breaks to warm up, not as much gets done, which leads to even more delays and cancellations. Passengers start missing their 【10】 flights, and that, along with passengers who can’t make it to the airport due to bad road conditions, leads to half-empty planes.

In fact, many airlines might preemptively cancel flights before bad weather even hits. So, in the end, you can still blame cold weather for cancelling your flight.

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

My daughter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

36、按照课文内容填空

At the time they were created, the Impressionist paintings were【1】, but today they are accepted as the beginning of【2】we call “modern art’. This is because the Impressionists 【3】artists to look at their environment in new ways. There are scores of modern art styles, but 【4】the Impressionists, many of these painting styles might not exist. On the one hand, some modern art is abstract; that is, the painter doesn’t 【5】to paint objects as we see them with our eyes, 【6】instead concentrates on certain qualities of the object, 【7】color, line and shape to represent them. On the【8】hand, some paintings of modern art are so 【9】 that they look photographs. These styles are so different. Who can【10】what painting styles there will be in the future?

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.

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.

38、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

There is nothing unusual about a single language dying. Communities have come and gone throughout history, and with them their language. But what is happening today is extraordinary, judged by the early standards. According to the best estimates(估计), about half of the total 6,000 languages are going to die out in the next century. On average, there is a language dying out somewhere in the world every two weeks or so.

It is too late to do anything to help many languages, where the speakers are too few or too old, and where the community is too busy just trying to survive to care about their language. But many languages are not in such a serious position. Often, where languages are seriously endangered, there are things that can be done to give new life to them.

There are some famous cases showing what can be done — Welsh alone among the Celtic languages, is not only stopping its steady decline towards extinction(灭绝) but showing signs of real growth. Two Language Acts protect the status of Welsh, and its presence is increasingly in evidence wherever you travel in Wales. Maori in New Zealand has been maintained by a system of so-called "language nest", which provides children under five with a setting in which they are frequently exposed to the language. The hope is that the children will in turn become role models to a new generation of young children as they grow older. If good descriptions and materials are available, even extinct languages can be saved. Kaurna from South Australia, is an example. This language had been extinct for about a century, but had been quite well documented. So, when a strong movement grew for its revival(复活), it was possible to bring it back from death.

It is too soon to predict the future of these revived languages, but in some parts of the world they are attracting the very range of positive attitudes and grass roots support. In such unexpected but heart-warming ways we might see the grand total of languages slightly increased.

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39、假定你是某国际学校学生会主席李华，在世界环境日（6月5日）到来之际，请你代表学生会向全校学生发出倡议，要点如下：

1. 环境现状；

2. 具体措施；

3. 发出倡议。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear schoolmates,

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The Students' Union

June 1, 2020

40、Summary Writing

Blowing a Few Tops

Ever stopped to consider the upside of volcanic eruptions? It’s not all deaths, destruction and hot lava---scientists have a plan to cool the planet by simulating one. It would probably work, but it could have devastating consequence, and there is nothing to stop any country or company from deploying the technology.

Solar geo-engineering(气候工程) involves simulating an erupting volcano by spraying aerosols (气溶胶) into the atmosphere. When they combine with oxygen, droplets of acid form. These droplets reflect sunlight away from Earth, cooling the planet. All good in theory, but the consequences are largely unknown and a few could be disastrous. In a study recently published, researchers led by Anthony Jones, a climate scientist from the University of Exeter, found that using this technology in the Northern hemisphere could reduce the number of tropical cyclones hitting the U.S. and Caribbean. But there’s a worrying problem: more cyclones in the Southern hemisphere and a drought across the Sahel region of Africa. That’s because the entries climate system is linked--- disrupting one region will invariably affect another. How would a nation react if another was causing its weather to get much worse? Would that be an act of war?

There is, however, a case for using solar geo-engineering on a global case. Jones says it could be used to “take the edge of “the temperature increases scientists are predicting. It could be used while the world searches for more effective strategies.

The study also highlights a far bigger problem with solar geo-engineering: its complete lack of regulation. “There is nothing that could stop one country just doing it,” Jones says. “It’s deeply disturbing that we have this technology that could have such a massive influence in the climate, yet there’s just no regulation to stop countries or even organizations from doing it.”

Jones cautions that there is much about the climate system we do not understand, as well as more work that will need to be done before solar geo-engineering is deemed safe—or too dangerous to even discuss.

41、假定你是李华，你校将举办一场英语演讲比赛，与你一起搭档的主持人因病退出，请你写一封电子邮件邀请你校外教John做你的搭档。内容包括：

1.时间：7月10日上午9点；

2.地点：学校会议室；

3.注意事项：提前到场；穿正装。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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