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1、—What a shame! You missed my birthday party!
—I’m terribly sorry, dear. Believe me, if I could have afforded the time, I _________.
A.would B.should C.would have D.should have
2、We have _______ a campaign for better nursery and the school services.
A.invested B.issued C.launched D.leaked
3、New technologies have make _______ possible to turn out new products faster and at a lower cost.
A.that B.this C.one D.it
4、Lucy looked at Tom, tears __________ her eyes and shouted out the words __________ in her heart for months.
A.filling; hiding B.filled; hidden
C.filling; hidden D.filled; hiding
5、Teachers are always showing special ___ the students who are diligent and active in class.
A. preference to B. favor to
C. preference for D. favor for
6、The electrical fan she__________in town yesterday works well again.
A.repaired B.had repaired C.has repaired D.had had repaired
7、They urged the government stick to the planned procedure.
A.would B.should C.could D.might
8、Seldom________ in summer, nor________ in winter in dry areas.
A.it rains；it often snows
B.does it rain；does it often snow
C.it rains；does it snow
D.does it rain；it often snows
9、Accustomed to _______ the steep mountains, she had no difficulty reaching top.
A．climbing
B．climb
C．having climbed
D．have climbed
10、“How could you treat me like that?” John asked his wife, eyeing her angrily from _______ the kitchen table.
A. at B. across C. through D. on
11、—How is the result, doctor?
—Well, your health is ________ good, but you do have a few minor problems.
A.normally B.frequently C.generally D.regularly
12、The city announced severe measures_____ to hold e-bike riders and restaurants that employ the riders responsible.
A.meaning B.to be meant C.meant D.be meant
13、Where is my pen？I ____it.
A.might lose B.would have lost
C.should have lost D.must have lost
14、There is a shortage of teachers in Western China, and it will fall on the 80s and 90s generations to this responsibility.
A. take on B. step up
C. make up D. apply for
15、“We pray for the firefighters who their best to deal with this desperate situation now," the spokesman said immediately he heard about the big fire.
A.are trying B.have tried C.had tried D.will try
16、He gave a lame excuse for ______ which made him very embarrassed.
A.been absence B.being absent C.to be absent D.absent
17、________all the staff, I would like to wish you good grades in the end of the term.
A．In place of
B．On account of
C．On behalf of
D．In honour of
18、—Has ISIS, the most shameful terrorist group, already been wiped off the earth?
—I guess not, but I think it ought to ______ .
A.be done B.have been C./ D.have
19、In ancient China lived an artist _________ paintings were almost lifelike. The artist’s reputation had made him proud.
A．whose
B．that
C．which
D．whom
20、When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as if it _______.
A. breaks B. has broken
C. were broken D. had been broken
21、This dictionary, which I bought yesterday, has been highly______by my professor.
A.acknowledged B.appealed C.recommended D.commanded
22、Do you _______ to her pessimistic view of the state of the economy?
A.contribute B.subscribe C.appeal D.subject
23、It’s not doing the things we like, but liking the things we have to do______ makes life happy.
A. that B. which
C. what D. who
24、I found it difficult to ___________ getting up so early before, but I did finally managed.
A. be tired of B. be convinced of
C. be accustomed to D. be obsessed with
25、Observation, reason and experiment make up ______ we call the scientific method.
A. which B. how
C. that D. what
26、 Why can people speaking the same language have such different accents? The short answer： new accents begin to develop when isolated(隔绝的) groups of speakers start making nearly unnoticeable changes to the way they pronounce words.
“Accent development is the first step in language change. Fifteen hundred years ago, languages like English, Dutch and Swedish were actually all dialects of the same language, but of course then they changed overtime.” Jonathan Harrington, a linguist(语言学家) in University of Munich, is interested in how accents first get started. But because of global communication, most communities are no longer linguistically isolated, and recording equipment didn't exist back when more of them were.
So how to capture the early stages of accent formation today? Harrington and his team turned to members of the British Antarctic Survey, who speak with a variety of English accents. “When you are in Antarctica during the winter period, there is no way in and no way out. So they were isolated together and they had to communicate and cooperate with each other.” Harrington's team recorded the winterers reciting a list of words before they left for Antarctica. Then, while there, the winterers recorded themselves saying the same words four more times. The linguists then analyzed the recordings.
Even during their short time in Antarctica, the way the winterers produced certain vowels (元音) began to converge. For example, at the beginning of the study, some people produced the /u/ in “food” at the front of the mouth while others used the back of the mouth. But they began to sound more similar overtime.
Harrington says the research isn't just relevant for understanding Earth's colonial past. He thinks there's every reason to expect long isolation will cause astronauts on Mars missions to end up with an out﹣of﹣this world accent.
【1】What makes it hard to know how accents first started?
A.The lack of recordings in the past.
B.The isolation of most communities.
C.The fast development of new accents.
D.The big number of dialects of the same language.
【2】What does the underlined word “converge” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A.Become simpler.
B.Become similar.
C.Get worse.
D.Get improved.
【3】What may happen to astronauts returning from the Mars after a long stay there?
A.They feel much lonelier than ever before.
B.They can't understand their mother tongue.
C.They speak with accents quite different from the locals'.
D.They don't have any difficulty adjusting to the life on Earth.
【4】Where is text probably from?
A.A guide book.
B.A news report.
C.A magazine.
D.A history book.
27、Everyone is born with the ability to learn. There are normally two types of learning in our daily life and study — active learning and passive (被动的) learning. 【1】 This will help you develop a habit of active learning gradually.
【2】 I bet that no one sits down to read with the purpose of not getting the contents. But I’m sure that some of you have been in a situation, probably more than once, where you read an assignment, closed the book and thought “what the word was about”. 【3】 Active readers, on the other hand, set goals and check their understanding as they read. When they finish, they can explain the main points and know that they’ve seen what they have read.
Active learners think about information deeply and critically. Being thoughtful is an important part of active learning, because it means that you are analyzing and absorbing the information. 【4】 For instance, you may make connections between the new information and what you already know, identify concepts that you may not understand very well, or evaluate the importance of what you are reading. An active learner considers constantly in this way. In contrast, passive learners may read the text and listen to lectures and even understand most of what is read and heard. 【5】
All in all, behavior of an active learner and a passive one varies greatly. Equipping yourself with study strategies (策略) of active learners may eventually help you become one of them
A．Passive learners won’t be strict with themselves.
B．You need to know some differences between them.
C．In other words, you are processing what you read.
D．However, that important step of reflecting on it is not taken.
E．Active learners accept much of the responsibility for learning.
F．When interacting with the text in this way, you are doing passively.
G．Active learners study with the purpose of grasping and memorizing information.
28、Organic food is very popular. It is also expensive. Some organic food costs twice as much as non-organic food, but new parents and pet owners are willing to pay up to 200% more for organic food. However, there are people who think it is a waste of money.
There is one main difference between organic and non-organic food. Organic farms do not use agricultural chemicals, such as pesticides. In many countries organic foods have special labels. These guarantee that the products are natural.
Some people think organic means locally grown. Originally this was true. Over time organic farming became more difficult. The demand for organic food grew larger than the supply. Small companies had to sell out to large companies. There weren't enough organic ingredients, such as grain and cattle. This made it difficult for many organic companies to stay in business. Today, many large companies have an organic line of products.
Is organic food more nutritious? This is part of the debate. Many farmers and consumers believe it is. They think agricultural chemicals cause health problems such as cancer. Many health professionals disagree. Few studies prove that organic foods prevent health problems. Health specialists worry more about bacteria, such as E.coli and salmonella. These can get into contact with organic and non- organic food. Doctors recommend washing produce very carefully. Handling meat carefully is important too.
Most people agree that naturally grown food tastes better. Is tastier food worth the extra money? This is a matter of opinion. Whether it is healthier or not may require more research. However, organic consumers argue it is better to be safe than sorry.
【1】What is probably the major concern of organic food consumers?
A．Price.
B．Safety.
C．Freshness.
D．Variety.
【2】What is the doctors’ suggestion?
A．Grow your own food.
B．Reduce the use of pesticides.
C．Make sure the food is clean.
D．Buy large companies’ products.
【3】Which of the following do most people agree on organic food?
A．It tastes better.
B．It is easier to grow.
C．It contains more fat.
D．It is more nutritious.
【4】Where does this text probably come from?
A．A recipe book.
B．A chemistry paper.
C．A medical report.
D．A health magazine.
29、Running is the best way to get fit.
There’s no best method to get fit. You have to enjoy your exercise or you will find reasons to quit. Nobody can get fit or lose weight or build a muscle in an instant. Fitness requires time and patience, and you get rewards as you go along. If you are looking only at running or at instant success, you are looking for trouble!
If you don’t exercise an hour a day, six days a week, you do nothing.
Don’t believe in this all-or-nothing way. Even if you exercise as little as three times a week for half an hour you will benefit from it. However, if you want to get fit for sport, you may have to work out five to six days a week.
Warming up before working out isn’t necessary if you’re careful.
Warming up is a must before you exercise. Warming up and stretching not only help you avoid injuries but also prepare your heart and body to accept the shock of an increased workload.
No pain, no gain.
Pain means that the body is showing that there is something wrong. If you feel painful when exercising, either slow down or stop the exercise. To gain from exercise, you may have to make do with a bit of discomfort, but pain is different. If you continue exercising with pain you may damage a muscle or tendon forever.
Taping (用绷带包扎) an injury prevents further damage.
If you are injured and you tape it for support, chances are that you will aggravate the injury further. What’s more, you may injure other joints because of the limited flexibility (灵活性) that the taped knee or ankle allows.
【1】The underlined sentence in the text may suggest _____________.
A.getting fit quickly may cause trouble for you
B.you will be in trouble if running
C.you can’t expect to get fit at once
D.running can make you get fit immediately
【2】According to the text, you should _________ to take exercise.
A.take sports five to six days a week
B.do the warm-up first
C.suffer a lot of pain
D.tape an injury to prevent further damage
【3】You should stop exercising after __________.
A.you feel painful somewhere in your body
B.you feel a bit uncomfortable physically
C.you feel warm when taking exercise
D.you exercise an hour a day
30、 “You are the kind of person who will become a great doctor someday.” My mother whispered these last words of ______ as I approached the front door to go to school. The subject of my future, bound to be in the ______ profession, seemed to always come up whenever I came into contact with her. I ______ the idea of becoming a doctor because of the amount of work, effort and time you had to invest. The idea of ______ in biology and attending graduate school just did not seem to ______ me. Stepping out of the house, I replied perfunctorily (敷衍地), “______.Mother”
The day began like any other school day, ______ students trying to get to their lockers and talking about the exams they would take.______, with all my strength, I was able to squeeze my way through to get to my biology class and take my usual ______.We listened to the teacher’s lecture and ______ all the necessary notes from the whiteboard.
After several minutes, I looked up from my ______. As I gave out my loud, daily ______, my teacher decided to do something different. She ______ us to a middle-aged gentleman, who was a doctor. She told us he was going to lecture on his accomplishments. I felt excited about the opportunity to ______ someone else for a change. I tried my best to ______ what he was saying. “Firstly, I had no idea what I wanted to study in college. I never thought I would choose to become a doctor ______ I met this guy in my senior year. He talked to me...” His ______ began building small blocks of interest within me. I listened ______, gathering every bit of information.
Now here I was, deciding what major I wanted to study. Without any ______, I chose to major in biology. This time, no one was ______ me. This was all voluntary.
【1】A.congratulation B.persuasion C.goodbye D.warning
【2】A.cultural B.historical C.political D.medical
【3】A.hated B.forgot C.supported D.preferred
【4】A.trading B.majoring C.growing D.wandering
【5】A.interest B.protect C.improved D.reward
【6】A.As usual B.Of course C.No way D.Right away
【7】A.tired B.heartbroken C.disappointed D.crowded
【8】A.Similarly B.Obviously C.Finally D.Regularly
【9】A.way B.order C.meal D.seat
【10】A.collected B.borrowed C.copied D.separated
【11】A.notes B.maps C.chair D.dictionary
【12】A.greeting B.sigh C.reply D.demand
【13】A.introduced B.carried C.pulled D.compared
【14】A.talk about B.listen to C.hear from D.care for
【15】A.doubt B.consider C.explain D.follow
【16】A.since B.while C.until D.because
【17】A.plans B.conclusion C.suggestions D.stories
【18】A.gratefully B.firmly C.closely D.politely
【19】A.hesitation B.chance C.mistakes D.problems
【20】A.begging B.forcing C.instructing D.stopping
31、 Mike a mountain climber was famous for his attempts to climb the big snowy mountain. He had tried it at least thirty times, but had always failed halfway.
For the sake of ________ Mike to try again, Jack, the town optician, who witnessed his ________, presented him with a pair of ________ sunglasses. "If it starts clouding over or if your feet start hurting, put on these glasses. They’ll help you.” Mike accepted the ________ without giving it much mind, but when his feet started ________ again he remembered his words and put on the glasses. Then ________ came as usual in the form of cloud cover, but seemingly not so thick this time. So Mike ________climbing, leaving the clouds behind, forgetting his ________, and finally arriving at the summit. It was ________ worth it. His feeling of triumph was ________, almost as magnificent as that wonderful ________. Splendid in its silence, the mountain below was surrounded by a dense sea of clouds. Mike didn’t remember the clouds being as _______ as that, so he looked more closely at the sunglasses, and _______ everything.
Jack had carved a light ________ on the lenses (镜片), in the form of the snow-covered summit. It was made in such a way that you could only ________ it if you looked upwards. Jack had understood that whenever Mike lost sight of his ________, he would similarly lose sight of his dream, and his ________ to continue would weaken.
Mike realised that the only obstacle to reaching the summit had been his own ________. When he could no longer see the top of the mountain, the problems _______. He thanked Jack for using that little ________ to help him see that his aims were not impossible, and that they were still there, where they had always been.
【1】A.convincing B.educating C.entertaining D.inspiring
【2】A.practice B.failure C.disadvantage D.growth
【3】A.beautiful B.fancy C.particular D.expensive
【4】A.challenge B.award C.gift D.request
【5】A.aching B.breaking C.damaging D.swelling
【6】A.danger B.misfortune C.adventure D.pressure
【7】A.quitted B.accomplished C.kept D.abandoned
【8】A.problem B.injury C.anxiety D.pain
【9】A.certainly B.normally C.practically D.exactly
【10】A.invisible B.undesirable C.incomparable D.unmeasurable
【11】A.experience B.view C.attempt D.present
【12】A.white B.thick C.thin D.dark
【13】A.recognized B.believed C.acknowledged D.grasped
【14】A.image B.photo C.spot D.message
【15】A.see B.move C.feel D.change
【16】A.power B.success C.objective D.journey
【17】A.preference B.competence C.concentration D.will
【18】A.discouragement B.mistake C.prejudice D.ignorance
【19】A.set off B.set in C.cut in D.showed off
【20】A.technology B.tool C.mark D.trick
32、 As a music teacher, I found that children have many levels of musical ability. However, I've also had my_______of what I call"_______challenged pupils”. Robby was 11 years old when his mother_______him off for his first piano lesson.
He told me it had always been his mother’s _______to hear him play the piano. So I_______him as a student From the beginning, I thought he was _______.As much as Robby tried, he lacked the sense of basic rhythm (韵律)_______.Over the months he tried_______.He always said, “My mom's going to hear me play someday." But, it seemed no hope. He Just did not have any inborn _______.
Then one day Robby________coming to our lessons. I thought about calling him, but thought, because of his lack of ability, that he had ________to do something else. Several weeks later I got a call from Robby. To my ________he asked me if he could be in the recital (独奏会).I told him that the recital was for________pupils and because he had dropped out he really couldn't________it. He said that his mom had been very ________and unable to take him to piano lessons,________he was still practicing. I ________agreed.
At the recital Robby________ Mozart’s Concerto #21 in C Major, which made me surprised I was not________ for what I heard next. After six and a half minutes he ended and everyone was on their________in wild applause.
【1】A. idea B. share C. impression D. imagination
【2】A. musically B. spiritually C. personally D. physically
【3】A. sent B. saw C. dropped D. moved
【4】A. reality B. dream C. plan D. suggestion
【5】A. put B. made C. took D. met
【6】A. hopeless B. nervous C. fortunate D. learned
【7】A. showed B. lasted C. spent D. needed
【8】A. more B. again C. hard D. anyhow
【9】A. sense B. ability C. attempt D. effort
【10】A. continued B. considered C. intended D. stopped
【11】A. decided B. meant C. encouraged D. guaranteed
【12】A. delight B. satisfaction C. surprise D. disappointment
【13】A. clever B. present C. potential D. pretty
【14】A. provide B. reach C. demand D. attend
【15】A. abroad B. sick C. curious D. special
【16】A. but B. so C. and D. or
【17】A. partly B. personally C. eventually D. certainly
【18】A. chose B. created C. picked D. formed
【19】A. glad B. painful C. regular D. prepared
【20】A. seat B. base C. stand D. feet
33、 One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited_______ for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became_______. When he saw a photograph booth（照相亭）nearby, he had a(n) _______. He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage, which was not _______in that situation. In a few moments, he was holding four small prints that_______even him. He wrote his wife's name on the back of the photos and handed them to a _______behind the desk in the booth." _______ you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression,obviously_______someone, would you please give her this？" he said. He then_______his office in Morrison Building, ________that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good ________! He sat down with a smile. His wife ________those pictures. She carries them in her purse now and shows them to anyone who asks if she is married.
How are you with ________？ One person calls it "wait training." It seems that there is always something we are ________. We wait on traffic and we wait in lines. We wait to hear about a new job. We wait to complete school. We wait for someone to change his or her mind.Patience is an important ________of a happy and rewarding life. ________, some things are worth waiting for. ________presents many opportunities for waiting training. We can hate waiting, ________it or even get good at it! But one thing is ________--we cannot avoid it. How is your ________coming along？
【1】A.proudly B.respectfully C.patiently D.curiously
【2】A.angry B.hungry C.frightened D.thirsty
【3】A. question B.reason C.opinion D. idea
【4】A.serious B.difficult C.regular D.convenient
【5】A.hurt B.encouraged C.attracted D.shocked
【6】A.clerk B.secretary C.passer-by D.friend
【7】A.Since B.Before C.As D.If
【8】A.looking for B.working for C.sending for D.paying for
【9】A.called up B.returned to C.visited D.left
【10】A.worried B.disappointed C.satisfied D.surprised
【11】A.production B.preparation C.excuse D.lecture
【12】A.tore B.saved C.developed D.destroyed
【13】A.your wife B.your family C.patience D.determination
【14】A.hoping for B.waiting for C.ready for D.fit for
【15】A.lesson B.experience C.purpose D.quality
【16】A.For example B.After all C.Right now D.So far
【17】A.Every age B.Every shop C.Every day D.Every office
【18】A.accept B.control C.exchange D.reduce
【19】A.certain B.interesting C.precious D.easy
【20】A.photo taking B.job hunting C.decision making D.wait training
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.
Tablets are really useful devices, but their big screens always make them a burden to carry around without a bag. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a phone with the powers of a tablet that could be folded up and fit 【1】 into the hand?
Now something like a tablet-shaped but fold-able phone is about to become 【2】. In February, South Korean electronics company Samsung and China’s Huawei both unveiled fold-able phones Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X 【3】. Mobile phone use has entered the “fold-able future”, The Verge noted.
The technology could change our lives in significant ways. These devices, due to their 【4】 screens, give us the larger screens we want. Meanwhile, they still fit easily into the pocket. As USA Today noted, they’re “the 【5】 of a small tablets and smart-phone, all in a single device”.
The technology could 【6】 other devices too. For example, we could make TVs that stick to walls like posters, or fold up easily to hide away in drawers. In crowded modem cities, they will help us to 【7】 available space.
In a keynote address, Samsung’s senior vice president of mobile product marketing, Justin Denison, called the fold-able screen “the 【8】 for the smart-phone of tomorrow.” “It’s a balank canvas for us to do something beautiful together,” he said.
So is there nothing to stand in the way of the fold-able future?
According to tech news website Android authority, the necessary displays were difficult to produce. In 2012, nine out of every to OLED screens produced were 【9】. Today, that 10 percent rate has been improved to between 50 and 90 percent. However, at present these fold-able devices are expensive. For example, the price of Huawei Mate X is 17,500 RMB. That’s a price that may 【10】 the majority of people.
But if the fold-able device isn’t going to change the world overnight, there is no doubt that it is coming.
Patrick Moor-head, an industry analyst told The Verge, “Few are debating if fold-able or roll-able mobile displays are the future of smart-phones; the only question is when and by whom.”
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.
Expressions about water are almost as common as water itself. But many of the expressions using water have unpleasant meanings.
The expression “to be in hot water” is one of them. It is a very old expression, which can be 【1】 back to 500 years ago. The expression is used to mean being in trouble. One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies attacking a castle.
Being in “deep water” is almost the same as being in “hot water”. When you are in deep water, you are in a difficult 【2】. Imagine a person who cannot swim being thrown in water over his head. You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not have the ability to solve. The problem is too deep. You can be in deep water, for example, if you invest in stocks in complete 【3】 of the stock market.
"Water over the dam" is another expression about a past event. It is something that cannot be 【4】. The expression comes from the idea that water that has 【5】 a dam cannot be brought back again. When a friend is 【6】 by a mistake she has made, you might tell her to forget about it. You say it is water over the dam.
Another common expression, "to hold water," is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about. It probably comes from the way of testing the 【7】 of a container. If it can hold water, it is strong and has no holes in it. If your 【8】 can hold water, it is strong and does not have any holes. If it does not hold water, then it is weak and can not be 【9】.
"Throwing cold water" also is an expression that deals with an idea or 【10】. For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems. But you wife "throws cold water" on the idea, because she says a new car costs too much
36、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
My daughter
(A story told by a father, a famous actor)
My wife and I only had the one child. We had Amy.
I see her as my best friend. I think she’d always come to me first if she had a problem. We have the same sense of humor, and share interests. 【1】 I don’t mind animals, she’s completely fascinated with them, and she has always had dogs, cats, horses, and goldfish in her life.
We were 【2】 (close) when she was about four, which I think is a lovely age for a child. They know the parents best, and don’t have outside contacts. She must have grown up suddenly when she went to school, because I remember her growing away from her family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter comes across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to be an endless stream of strange young men 【3】 (come) through our house. By the time I learned their names they 【4】 (go) away and I had to start learning a new lot.
I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in 【5】 she was doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on her way. When she left a good school she decided she wanted to become an actress so I got her into drama school. It wasn’t to her liking so she joined a theatre group and began doing bits and pieces in films. She was doing well, but then gave it up. She probably found it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to work 【6】a designer and he became her husband. And that’s really the story of her life. She must be happy with him—they’re always together.
We have such similar tastes in books and music 【7】 I used to take her to see an opera, which is my big passion. However, I don’t think she likes it very much. She doesn’t come with me anymore.
I don’t think she’s a big television watcher. She knows when I’m on the television, and she 【8】 watch, but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she tells me.
We’re very grateful for Amy. She’s a good daughter as daughters go. We’re looking forward to being grandparents.
37、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.
38、假设你是李华。五一小长假即将到来，你和同学们约定去鸣翠湖国家湿地公园春游。现在邀请你校外教Eric一起去春游。主要内容如下：
1.活动的时间和地点；
2.活动内容（骑行，划船，垂钓，烧烤等）；
注意：1．词数为100词左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
提示词：鸣翠湖国家湿地公园 Ming Cui Lake National Wetland Park
Dear Eric,
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Yours,
Li Hua
39、假设你是李华，你的美国朋友John对福建茶文化感兴趣，请你为他做简要介绍。
内容:
1. 福建是中国茶文化的发源地之一，有着悠久的历史；
2. 不同种类的茶造就了福建丰富的茶文化；
3. 喝茶已成为福建人增近亲情友情风俗习惯。
注意:
1. 词数100词左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾语已给出，不计入总词数.
Dear John，
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Best wishes.
Yours ,
Li Hua
40、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
We live in a technological society where most goods are mass-produced by unskilled labor. Because of this, most people think that craft (手艺) no longer exists. One of the ways these people wrongly support their view is by pointing to 100-year-old homes which are still solid, and arguing that it is the craftsmanship that is responsible for their durability (持久性). “Homes in those days were well-built,” they say. There is no doubt that these homes were well-built, but what these people have done is mix up the quality of material used in the house with the quality of the craftsmanship.
Homes today could be built to last just as long as those old homes if people were willing or able to pay the price. For example, more people can no longer afford solid oak stairways, although they were once fairly common in older homes. Nor can they afford the high labor cost of employing a carpenter to build the stairway. Yet if someone can pay the high cost, there are still plenty of carpenters around able to make those stairways. And not only would these carpenters know how to build them, they would probably do a better job than carpenters of old.
One thing the modern carpenter has which enables him to do a better job is much more advanced tools. Such tools as laser beams and power planes help them lay out a house better and make more precision cuts (精确切割) on the wood. Also, it is not uncommon any more to find carpenters with college degrees and carpenters with a solid knowledge of mathematics, which would enable them to deal with more difficult house designs.
The problem of modern quality, then, really boils down to the problem of material, for the modern carpenter is just as able to produce craftsmanship as the carpenter of fifty years ago, but only if given proper material.
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41、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When Jayce Crowder was in kindergarten, he began noticing that he looked different from his classmates. They had two hands. But he had only one.
It started when one boy teased him. Jayce was in a bad mood. He’d return home in Des Moines, Iowa, with questions: Why am I different? Why me? Why? “He actually told us that he was mad at looking so different from others,” said his mother, Cortney Lewis. “That really hurt him.” Lewis admitted she didn’t know what to do at that point. How could she provide answers to her son’s questions when she had never found those answers herself ?
A few weeks later, Lewis came home from her job and turned on the TV to a news story about Trashaun Willis, an eighth-grader from Washington middle school, Iowa. The boy, then 14, had become an Internet star after posting videos of his slam dunk (扣篮), and, like Jayce, he was missing most of his left arm. Lewis called Jayce in to see Trashaun on TV, too.
He was shocked, staring at one dunk after another. He was shocked, staring at one dunk after another.
“Cool,” Jayce remembered thinking with excitement. “ I saw him dunking on TV.”
Willis’ story blew up last winter. The Des Moines Register wrote about him. NBC Nightly News flew to Iowa to interview him. Just recently, Sports Illustrated named him one of its Sports Kid of the Year finalists.
At the time, it seemed that watching Trashaun would simply be an inspiring moment for Jayce—he’d see a shining role model with a seemingly similar born disability. And had it stayed just that, Lewis would have been happy. But little did she know that a family friend had already reached out to the Des Moines Register, asking the newspaper to help set up a meeting with Trashaun to encourage Jayce and build his confidence. A few days later, the good news that Trashaun accepted the invitation to meet Jayce came.
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。
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Finally, the boys met at Washington Middle School on a Saturday afternoon several months later.
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After the meeting, Jayce learned to accept his disability.
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