长春2025届高三毕业班第三次质量检测英语试题

1、Later ________ word came that Dolly ________ sheep had become seriously ill.

A．a; a

B．the; the

C．/; the

D．/; /

2、He bought a CD card _______ a flower in the super market.

A.but B.except C.except for D.as well as

3、You can take anything from the shelf and read, but please______ the books when you’ve finished with them.

A.put on B.put down

C.put back D.put off

4、The film was so moving that we all burst into tears. Never before   seen a film like that.

A. had I   B. I had C. have I   D. I have

5、We hope the teammates will catch some fire from Yao Ming, and Rockets will be _______ to succeed this year.

A.praised B.asked C.bound D.blamed

6、Multitasking reduces the quality of our work ______ it makes it hard for us to organize thoughts and remove irrelevant information.

A.though B.as C.while D.if

7、Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents burst into tears of ______.

A. pain B. shock

C. sorrow D. relief

8、Many things we benefit from now wouldn't be around _______ Albert Einstein.

A.aside from B.thanks to C.but for D.regardless of

9、“We trust that today’s talks will help create _________ on the Belt and Road Initiative as part of the efforts to build a global community of a shared future,” said Zhou Shuchun.

A.consensus B.consequence C.compromise D.competence

10、When heated, material of this kind ______ plastic in quality will soften.

A. resembled B. resemble

C. to resemble D. resembling

11、He suggested we set off for the station immediately. _________ , we will miss the the train.

A.Therefore B.Meanwhile C.However D.Otherwise

12、It is acknowledged that he is too busily occupied ________ to the show tomorrow.

A．to go

B．going

C．with going

D．in going

13、South Korea is bringing in more foreigners to solve its labor problem—a(n)   shortage of blue collar workers.

A.regular B.acute C.flexible D.casual

14、Jack failed to finish his project on time. If he me about it, I would have given him a hand.

A. tell   B. told

C. had told D. would tell

15、According to the driver’s explanation, it was not his carelessness but the bad road conditions that _________ for the accident.

A. was to blame  B. was to be blamed

C. were to be blamed   D. were to blame

16、I’m not sure whether I’ll succeed in persuading her to join us. ______, I’ll try my best to make it.

A. In addition B. Anyhow

C. If so D. Therefore

17、—What about the meeting?

—The two sides were unable to reach an agreement，______，they lost the chance of working together.

A.In all B.In other words C.On the contrary D.After all

18、The topics of the conversation should be ________ to the experiences and interests of the students.

A．associated

B．connected

C．relevant

D．remarkable

19、Every minute was made full use of ________ for the performance at CCTV Spring Festival.

A．preparing

B．being prepared

C．to prepare

D．prepared

20、—Tom________Mary two years ago.

—You mean they have ________ for two years.

A.got married with；been married to B.got married to；been married

C.was married to；got married D.was married with；been married

21、Much to the couple's comfort，their income is now double ________ it was five years ago.

A.that B.if C.which D.what

22、Rice doesn’t grow well ________ there is not enough water.

A.where B.in which C.on which D.so

23、Jack has a large ____ of books while Tom has a large ________of money.

A. amount; number B. number; amount

C. plenty; amount D. amount; lot

24、The majority of people __________the view that students should develop in an all-round way.

A.subscribe to B.make out C.approve D.set aside

25、Can’t you see the old-fashioned gas lamp ______ from the ceiling?

A. hung   B. hangs   C. hanging   D. hanged

26、   Selfie Drone

Drone X Pro is a shining star on the drone(无人机) market. Here's why it's gone viral.

How does Drone X Pro work?

Start by installing the Drone app to your smartphone(Android or iOS). It takes just minutes. After that, just place the battery in your drone and launch the app. You're now ready to fly your Drone X Pro!

Why is this drone so special?

The drone is about the size of a large screen smartphone. It's so small that it fits into any pocket or handbag!

Here's the best part: flying is extremely easy. There's no experience required to fly this drone. You can easily control and fly this drone, even if you've never flown a drone in your life. Flying the drone is smooth and natural as riding a bike. Our friend's son came over to the office, and he figured out how to fly the drone in just minutes. You can't imagine how stable and smooth his controls are!

Once you own this drone, you can enjoy amazing HD pictures of nature, friends, and families. It's a blast!

How much does it cost?

Now, Drone X Pro sells for $150 each online and two at a discount of 80%. It's a great deal! If you're not satisfied, return it and you can get your money back.

Because of the easy use, portability, low price, and small size, it's absolutely worth it! Just imagine amazing pictures and videos you'll be taking with your new Drone X Pro. If you've never flown a drone before, this is the time to start!

Call now! 400-800-7832 or order yours from the official website www. Drone X Pro. com.

【1】What makes Drone X Pro different from the other drones?

A.It isn’t hard to control. B.It is of high quality.

C.It needs no power to drive. D.It is unnecessary to install.

【2】How does the ad prove flying Drone X Pro easy?

A.By giving a specific example. B.By sharing some experience.

C.By stating its operating steps. D.By telling an unforgettable story.

【3】How much should you pay to purchase two such drones online?

A.$120. B.$150. C.$240. D.$300.

27、Art, Culture & Performances in Arizona

Art on the Wild Side

Three of Arizona’s favorite painters will exhibit their latest works inspired by the natural world in their unique styles. Through this exhibit, guests can in the Zoo’s mission to care for the natural world.

Date: February 1-April 31, 2020

Location: 455 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008

Price: $90

Always... Patsy Cline

Always... Patsy Cline is a musical play, complete with country humor, true emotion, and even some audience participation, includes many of Patsy’s unforgettable hits such as “Crazy” “I Fall to Pieces”, “Sweet Dreams”, and “Walking After Midnight”... 27 songs in all!

Date: June 14-21, 2020

Location: Hale Theater, 50 West Page Avenue, Gilbert, AZ 85233

Price: $65

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Best friends Valentine and Proteus choose different paths in life only to run into each other again when they both fall in love with the same woman. The Two Gentlemen of Verona is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, his first comedy and also one of the most rarely performed plays in the canon.

Date: July 18-25, 2020

Location: Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre, 7014 E Camelback Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251

Price: $28

Mandy Moore

Mandy Moore is giving a concert in our city! She is touring to support her upcoming album. Mandy's seventh studio work Silver Landings set to be released on September 6.

Date: September 27-October 3, 2020

Location: 111 N 3rd St Phoenix, AZ 85004

Price: $42

【1】When can you go to an exhibition of paintings?

A．In March.

B．In June.

C．In July.

D．In September.

【2】Where can you go if you are interested in Shakespeare’s plays?

A．Art on the Wild Side.

B．Always... Patsy Cline.

C．The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

D．Mandy Moore.

【3】How much will you pay if you want to enjoy a concert?

A．$28.

B．$42.

C．$65.

D．$90.

28、Lifesaving heart operation

When Tal Golesworthy was told he needed lifesaving heart operation in 1993, he said no. Golesworthy has Marfan syndrome （马凡氏综合症）.

Back in 1993, when he was living in the west of England, his doctor told him that the aorta（主动脉）in his heart was so enlarged that it would unavoidable burst unless he underwent major operation.

“They talked through the options,” says Golesworthy, “and I was not interested. The operation really didn’t look attractive.” What he particularly didn't like was having to be on blood thinners after the operation, something that would prevent blood clots（血栓）but presented its own risks: “I was riding motorbikes then, and skiing, so my whole lifestyle would have been affected.” By 2000, however, his condition had worsened. Realizing something had to be done. Golesworthy put his years of experience as research — and — development engineer to good use. He decided he would fix himself. “Learning new stuff and developing new ideas, that was my job,” Golesworthy says.

The aorta, he thought, needed support on the outside. And wrapping something around the outside of the aorta would require a special operation. So Golesworthy subjected himself to 30 hours in an MRI scanner; used 3D printing to create a physical exact copy of the part of his heart. “Luckily, I’d done a lot of work with technical materials,” he says.

Strong determination coupled with an original yet practical solution won him the support of two leading surgeons and helped him raise the money to develop his idea. In May 2004, at the age of 47, he became the guinea pig for his own invention. The operation was a success.

【1】Why did Tai Golesworthy refuse the operation at first?

A．A better solution was on the way.

B．He was afraid of life being affected.

C．The risk of operation tended to cause death.

D．He would like to be operated in his own way.

【2】What helped Golesworthy to fix himself?

A．His creative spirit.

B．Regular exercise.

C．Doctors' suggestions.

D．His similar experience.

【3】What do the underlined words in the last paragraph “the guinea pig” refer to?

A．The lovely pet.

B．The important assistant.

C．The experimental subject.

D．The person to raise money.

【4】Which words can best describe Tai Golesworthy?

A．Creative and kind.

B．Strong and imaginary.

C．Devoted and generous.

D．Determined and brave.

29、   It’s shocking that countless species become extinct every year and such extinction means forever. To change the situation, scientists are now on their way to bringing back extinct species.

DNA is the chemical that carries the structure of a living thing, which is needed by researchers to bring back a species. Dinosaurs have been gone too long for any of their DNA to remain in fossils. However it seems possible to bring back more recently extinct species such as Ice Age animal, the woolly mammoth. In 2015, a team of Spanish and French scientists re-created the Pyrenean ibex, which had gone extinct three years earlier. The new animal didn’t survive long, but scientific advances should improve the success rate. In January, Australian scientists announced that they were trying to restore the brooding frog.

That we can bring species back doesn’t mean that we should. There may be benefits to bring back a species. But there’s no way to know how it will turn out. For example, would a passenger pigeon fit into its old habitat? Or might it crowd out existing species?

Environmentalists worry that our ability to bring species back might cut down support for the hard work of traditional conservation. Why bother to preserve a wild life habitat or fight poachers(偷猎者) if we know we can make up for our mistakes?

But those extinctions are our mistakes to correct. As environmentalist Stewart Brand put it, “Humans have the ability to repair some of that damage.”

We would do well to remember the lesson of Jurassic Park: Continue with caution.

【1】What can we know from Para 2?

A. Scientists have successfully brought back some dinosaurs.

B. It’s likely for scientists to bring back recently extinct animals.

C. Scientists have discovered DNA of all Ice Age species in fossils.

D. Ice Age animals live longer than before after being brought back to life

【2】Paragraph 3 mainly shows that bringing back extinct species is ________.

A. harmful B. realistic

C. helpful D. double-edged

【3】What makes environmentalists worried according to the passage?

A. Scientists cannot make up for the mistakes they made in DNA research

B. Scientists still lack technical support to bring back extinct species to life.

C. Traditional conservation seems useless when restoring species is available.

D. Species that will be brought back to life after distinction will not survive long.

【4】What is the probable attitude of Stewart Brand toward bringing extinct species back to life?

A. Critical B. Worried.

C. Disapproving. D. Supportive.

30、   It was the first time in four years that my daughter Kate had been able to have a face-to-face chat with her Chinese grandfather through WeChat. Her grandfather ______ showed us his apples. Kate eagerly asked when she could eat them. Since her birth, we can’t ______ time to take her back to China. Year after year, her grandfather would save us a box of the ______ apples just in case we visited. They were kept in the cold store _____ and they must have been sweet. I vividly remember my first ______ of an apple picked straight from the orchard(果园), which enjoys a perfect setting for growing apples with a high altitude and striking temperature differences.

A few weeks after the ______, when new blossoms (花) began to appear on the trees, a/an _______ occurred to Kate’s grandfather. If we couldn’t take our ______ back this year, he would take the apples to us. He ______ the ladder (梯子), carefully examining blossoms. Those that ______ his examination were picked off the trees. When the blossoms ______ small apples, he covered each apple with a special ______ consisting of three layers, which would ______ the young apples from brown spots and also help them achieve a/an ______ coloring. Several weeks passed and the apples were almost ready. He spent ______ removing the outer layers of the bags. The inner red layers remained. If they were removed too early, the fruits would be damaged by the sunlight. Once they ______ the sun, he removed the final layers.

From his ______, he still kept one box of his finest apples but this time he was ______ to deliver them himself. ______ for his passport and visa approved, he delicately ______ his 2-kilogram bag of best apples—as fresh fruit is strictly restricted by the customs and headed for Scotland.

【1】A.carefully B.proudly C.secretly D.briefly

【2】A.devote B.cost C.spend D.afford

【3】A.biggest B.sourest C.ripest D.finest

【4】A.waiting B.expecting C.growing D.working

【5】A.touch B.sight C.bite D.purchase

【6】A.interview B.discussion C.chat D.appointment

【7】A.mind B.idea C.advice D.fact

【8】A.father B.mother C.son D.daughter

【9】A.climbed B.designed C.made D.fixed

【10】A.escaped B.passed C.failed D.lost

【11】A.burst into B.gave out C.grew into D.let out

【12】A.paper B.bag C.sheet D.package

【13】A.protect B.discourage C.hide D.cover

【14】A.dark B.even C.ever D.light

【15】A.minutes B.days C.months D.years

【16】A.adapted to B.appealed to C.adopted to D.responded to

【17】A.tree B.harvest C.experiment D.product

【18】A.accustomed B.advised C.engaged D.determined

【19】A.Instructions B.Recreations C.Applications D.Reservations

【20】A.packed B.filled C.emptied D.delivered

31、A passenger told an air hostess that he needed a cup of water to take his medicine when the plane just took off. She told him that she would _______the water in ten minutes.

Thirty minutes later, when the passenger’s ring for _______ sounded, the air hostess realized it at once. She was kept so _______ that she forget to deliver him the _______ . As a result, the passenger was _______ to take his medicine. She hurried over to him _______ a cup of water, but to her surprise he _______ it.

In the following hours on the _______ , each time the air hostess passed by the _______ , she would ask him with a ________ whether he needed help or not. But the passenger ________ paid attention to her words.

When he was going to get ________ the plane, the passenger asked the air hostess to ________ him the passenger’s booklet(意见簿). She was very   ________ . She knew that he would write down ________ words, which might result in the loss of her job. ________ with a smile she handed it to him.

Off the plane, she ________ the booklet and cracked a smile, ________ the passenger put it, “On the flight, you asked me whether I needed help or not for twelve times ________ . How can I refuse your twelve sincere smiles?”

That’s ________ ! Who can refuse twelve sincere smiles from a person?

【1】

A．take

B．bring

C．carry

D．hold

【2】

A．food

B．drink

C．service

D．medicine

【3】

A．tired

B．silent

C．calm

D．busy

【4】

A．water

B．help

C．milk

D．warning

【5】

A．held on

B．held up

C．held out

D．held down

【6】

A．for

B．about

C．with

D．in

【7】

A．refused

B．accepted

C．liked

D．hated

【8】

A．seat

B．air

C．floor

D．flight

【9】

A．customer

B．passenger

C．guest

D．visitor

【10】

A．glance

B．look

C．smile

D．cry

【11】

A．never

B．often

C．always

D．seldom

【12】

A．on

B．to

C．off

D．from

【13】

A．hand

B．take

C．throw

D．lend

【14】

A．glad

B．angry

C．curious

D．sad

【15】

A．important

B．sharp

C．polite

D．nice

【16】

A．So

B．Because

C．And

D．But

【17】

A．hid

B．tore

C．opened

D．closed

【18】

A．if

B．for

C．after

D．when

【19】

A．in all

B．above all

C．or else

D．or so

【20】

A．wrong

B．wonderful

C．impossible

D．right

32、My fiance (未婚夫）and I were excited about shopping for our first home. But our funds (资金) were _______, and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.

One agent (代理人)_______ a house in particular. Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was _______ our range, so we declined (拒绝). But she kept urging (催促) us to have a look _______.

We finally did and it was _______ at first sight. It was Our Home, small and charming, overlooking a quiet lake. Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and _______ of the marriage within that home. As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us. But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of _______ it would be like to live there.

Days later, we made a(n)_______ —far below the asking price. Surprisingly, they didn’t _______ us. They renewed their offer ________. It was also much more than we could afford but far ________ than the original asking price.

The next day, we got a ________ message that another buyer had offered a much higher price. Even so, we decided to talk with the ________ directly. We made our final offer, which ________ was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid. We knew it,________ we had to try.

“Sold!” said the owner. Then he ________: He’d seen us sitting by the lake all those times; he knew how much we loved the place and that we’d ________ the years of work they had put into their home; he realized he would take a ________ by selling it to us, but it was worthwhile; we were the people they wanted to live there. He told us to consider the ________ in the price as “an early wedding present.”

That’s how we found our home and how I learned that when people are ________ they are not strangers, only friends we haven’t yet met.

【1】

A．needed

B．limited

C．enough

D．large

【2】

A．recommended (推荐)

B．decorated

C．sold

D．rented

【3】

A．below

B．within

C．beyond

D．between

【4】

A．at least

B．at most

C．at times

D．at band

【5】

A．relief

B．concern

C．love

D．curiosity

【6】

A．pride

B．happiness

C．challenge

D．desire

【7】

A．which

B．why

C．that

D．what

【8】

A．effort

B．offer

C．promise

D．profit

【9】

A．come across

B．look after

C．depend on

D．laugh at

【10】

A．instead

B．indeed

C．aside

D．apart

【11】

A．worse

B．better

C．less

D．higher

【12】

A．relaxing

B．disappointing

C．pleasant

D．regular

【13】

A．agents

B．buyers

C．managers

D．owners

【14】

A．already

B．still

C．generally

D．ever

【15】

A．so

B．or

C．for

D．but

【16】

A．apologized

B．complained

C．criticized

D．explained

【17】

A．check

B．analyze

C．appreciate

D．ignore

【18】

A．loss

B．risk

C．chance

D．lead

【19】

A．increase

B．difference

C．interest

D．average

【20】

A．kind

B．polite

C．smart

D．energetic

33、   Wheeling her red chair and scissors around the city, Katie gives out—of—luck strangers the gift of visibility.

Last summer, Katie saw a man sitting with a _________ asking for help. She asked, “Hey! I’m giving _________ haircuts. Do you want one?”

The man, named Edward, was in his 60s. “_________,” he said, “I have a funeral to go. I was really _________ to get a haircut.” After Katie was done, Edward looked in a mirror. “I look _________!”

“It’s more than a haircut. I want it to _________ value and respect.” Katie knows that a haircut can _________ a life. As a teen, she _________ a disease that was so severe that her hair thinned seriously. Seeing this, her mother _________ for Katie’s first haircut. “To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness helped me feel cared about and less __________.” she says.

Katie wanted to help people __________ the same way. In 2009, she began her Red Chair Project, reaching out to people on the streets. Katie listens to peopled stories of loss, addiction, and __________ to get back on their feet. The attention __________ works.

It all began with a belief in simple acts of __________, such as a free haircut. “The way you show up in the world __________,” says Katie. “You have no idea what people will do with the kindness that you give them.”

【1】A.mask B.chair C.sign D.minor

【2】A.perfect B.regular C.special D.free

【3】A.Naturally B.Luckily C.Actually D.Eventually

【4】A.exploring B.hoping C.begging D.moving

【5】A.good B.brave C.healthy D.satisfied

【6】A.prove B.show C.appreciate D.combine

【7】A.establish B.complete C.change D.reflect

【8】A.suffered from B.got through C.put up with D.adapted to

【9】A.charged B.applied C.sought D.arranged

【10】A.worthwhile B.serious C.alone D.innocent

【11】A.feel B.follow C.accomplish D.select

【12】A.struggle B.escape C.relief D.performance

【13】A.extremely B.apparently C.merely D.hardly

【14】A.joy B.honesty C.pride D.kindness

【15】A.occurs B.continues C.remains D.matters

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

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.”

35、根据句意填空

In the USA, the Amish-a Christian group-are famous because they drive 【1】 instead of cars, do not use TVs or refrigerators, and do not have personal telephones. Many people assume the Amish must have 【2】 reasons for their many rules, but this is not true. In truth, whenever a new technology is introduced, the Amish meet and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. They then vote on whether they will accept it. The Amish 【3】 cars because they like having 【4】 communities where everyone lives close together. They have no TVs or refrigerators because their homes do not have electricity-they do not think it is necessary and 【5】 dealing with strangers, such as the people who work at the electric company.

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

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.

37、Directions: Fill in each blank to make the passage make sense and well connected in writing style. The initial letter of each word has been given. (please write each answer in a COMPLETE word on the answer card.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

In Congress, July 4, 1776

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should d【1】 the causes which impel them to the separation.

We h【2】 these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created e【3】, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable R【4】, that among these are life, L【5】, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, g 【6】 are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the P 【7】 to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, l【8】 its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such f【9】, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariable the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their d 【10】, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

38、假定你是李华，计划本周末和同学们一起去河边植树。请你给外教Nancy写一封邮件，邀请她一同前往。内容主要包括：

1. 集合时间及地点；  

2. 活动安排；

3.午餐及返程时间。

要求: 1. 100字左右。

2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

3. 可适当增加细节使内容连贯。

Dear Nancy,

How are you doing these days?

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Looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

39、假定你是李华，你校计划在下周举办名为“中国文化周”的活动，就此请你用英语写封电子邮件给外教Steven，邀请他参加，内容包括：

1. 活动的时间和地点；

2. 活动的目的；

3. 活动的内容。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Steven,

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Yours,

Li Hua

40、假定你是李华，你校举行了以“国风古韵（National Style and Ancient Charm）”为主题的校运动会开幕式，你写了一封电子邮件与外国笔友Jack分享参与活动的过程和感受。要点如下：

1.活动时间、地点等；

2.开幕式中的特色节目(汉服表演、武术表演等)；

3.你的感受。

注意：

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：汉服Hanfu；武术martial arts

Dear Jack,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

41、2013年5月13日一19日是我国第22个“全国节约用水宣传周”。为配合此项活动，你校学生会发起活动宣传，组织了一系列活动，增强节水意识。

*全国节约用水宣传周：the National Water Saving Propaganda Week;

*自来水厂waterworks

*倡导 advocate

【写作内容】

根据以上内容给某英文报写一篇活动介绍。

1．活动背景和主题：

2．活动内容和意义。

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