吉林省通化市梅河口市第五中学2022-2023学年高三上学期2月期末英语试题

梅河口市第五中学2022～2023学年度上学期期末考试
高三英语试题
说明：本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，第Ⅰ卷1至11页，第Ⅱ卷11至12页，共12页。

满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第Ⅰ 卷（选择题，共95分）
注意事项：
1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡上并将条形码粘贴在粘贴处。

2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。

回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。

写在本试卷上无效。

3．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1.What can we learn from the conversation?
A. Mr. Robinson didn’t miss the first bus.
B. Mr. Robinson has been late at least twice.
C. The woman is a secretary.
2.How did the director like John’s report?
A. Very good.
B. Ordinary.
C. Very bad.
3.Why does the man like the country better?
A. Because it is quiet and tidy.
B. Because it is less crowded.
C. Because it is full of trees.
4.What does the man mean?
A. Mary likes beef.
B. Mary dislikes beef.
C. The woman speaker doesn’t like beef.
5.What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Friends.
B. Neighbors.
C. Strangers.
第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作
答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。

6.Why do the speakers want to go somewhere?
A. Because they haven’t gone out for a long time.
B. Because they want to have a romantic evening.
C. Because they have a long vacation.
7.What’s the woman’s favorite?
A. The film.
B. The play.
C. The concert.
听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。

8.What is the man going to do?
A. Take a flight to Japan.
B. Meet a guest at the airport.
C. Drive the woman to the hotel.
9.Where will Mr. Black stay after his arrival?
A. At a hotel.
B. At the man’s house.
C. At the woman’s house.
10.Which activity will be held in the evening?
A. Mr. Black’s arrival.
B. A welcoming reception.
C. A business meeting.
听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13三个小题。

11.Why is the woman trying to find a new job?
A. She is fired.
B. Her salary is low.
C. The present job makes her tired.
12.What position is being advertised in the paper?
A. A German teacher.
B.A translator.
C.A French teacher.
13.What are the key factors that determine the salary of the new position?
A. A lively mind.
B. Communication skills.
C. Education and experience.
听下面一段对话，回答第14至第16三个小题。

14.What is the man going to do?
A. To visit a German friend.
B. To see Jackie Chan’s film.
C. To take a long walk with the woman.
15.Where does the man probably come from?
A. England.
B. Germany.
C. America.
16.How should the man go at the end of the road?
A. Turn right.
B. Turn left.
C. Keep walking along the street.听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。

17.What is the speaker’s opinion on her husband’s shopping?
A. He likes shopping.
B. He is not good enough at shopping.
C. He doesn’t spend much time shopping.
18.What attitude does the speaker hold towards shopping?
A. A routine of daily life.
B. An affair full of pleasure.
C. Time-wasting and unpleasant.
19.What kind of things can not interest the speaker?
A. Bargains.
B. Good items.
C. Expensive items.
20.Why does Bob never go shopping with his wife?
A. They don’t have the time suitable for both.
B. Their shopping methods differ too much.
C. They haven’t found a better chance yet.
第一部分阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2.5分。

满分37.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C 和D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A
21．The first email is basically an email of ________.
A．apology B．sympathy C．appreciation D．complaint
22．What is the “spray” used for according to the passage?
A．To repair the damaged boots.B．To protect the soles from heat.
C．To prevent the crew from danger.D．To protect the boots from concrete. 23．According to the president of The Shoe People, John Trimbald ________.
A．can exchange the damaged boots with new ones at any time
B．must return the damaged boots to any of the retail stores
C．will get new pairs of boots and a free year’s supply of spray
D．can return the damaged boots and spray for a full refund now
B
Alejandro Buxton’s candle business started with a headache. The 12-year-old’s mom suffers from allergies, and something in their house was causing her head to hurt. After going to the hospital, they discovered the cause of the headache: the candles. His mom had no choice but to get rid of the scented (有香味的) items.
However, he knew his mother really loved candles. To lift her spirits, he set up a lab in the family’s kitchen in the fall of 2019 and made a candle using only natural ingredients, such as soy and coconut waxes (蜡) and essential oils. Chemicals in her old candles were causing the headaches. He named his first product Jurassic Orange, which is similar to the fruit in color and smell. Jurassic Orange was a hit
with his mom, whose headaches disappeared. But Alejandro wasn’t done experimenting. Within a few months, he had about six scents, including Chunky Sweaters and Cozy Socks, which smells like a fruit drink mixed with a pine forest.
In September 2020, he put his first collection of candles on Etsy, the online marketplace that specializes in handmade goods. He also sold candles at seasonal markets, such as the one in downtown D．C．where the vice president was shopping for holiday gifts last year. He recommended two candles to the vice president. She took some of his advice.
Jesse Benites, general manager of a big shopping mall, said the vice president’s visit “skyrocketed” Alejandro’s fame. A senior manager contacted Alejandro and invited him to rent one of the 12 retail carts at the mall. On September 1,2022, Smell of Love Candles opened on the second level of the shopping center. Alejandro is the mall’s youngest business owner. Inside the mall, Alejandro turned a large room into his production facility, where he and his staff make 600 to 700 candles a week. There were altogether 25 scents on the shelf. He continued to make new scents and wanted to see all his candles in every single household and love and joy come into the houses.
Alejandro’s candle business makes a good profit, but for him, the money he earned is not just for his own college fund but for local charities.
24．Alejandro started his business because he wanted to________.
A．solve his mother’s problem
B．earn some money for the family
C．make more people love candles
D．change the way candles are made
25．What do we know about Smell of Love Candles?
A．It was visited by the vice president.
B．It mainly sells candles on the Internet.
C．It teaches people how to make candles.
D．It will offer new scents of the candles.
26．The money Alejandro made will be used to____.
A．open more chain stores
B．help more people in need
C．invent new scents of the candles
D．promote his candles to more families
27．According to the passage, which words can best describe Alejandro?
A．Organized and loving.B．Smart and outgoing.
C．Caring and creative.D．Generous and honest.
C
Commercial airlines alone contribute around 3 percent of total global carbon emissions. But the industry is actively looking for green solutions in the form of sustainable (可持续发展的) airline fuel, and in one case, that fuel may have had a previous life as your household food waste. In a study released this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers detail a method of transforming food waste into sustainable airline fuel.
Biomass (生物质), such as animal and food waste, can be transformed into biofuels, which are renewable liquid fuels made from organic matter. Derek Vardon, a senior research engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), says that their fuel worked as a mixture of 90 percent conventional petrol airline fuel and 10 percent alternative airline fuel required by the industry currently. They also show they could push it to a 70/30 mixture with more time and testing available.
Major companies are eager to participate in sustainable airline fuel because some sustainable solutions, such as battery-operated commercial planes, just aren’t possible yet with current battery technology. A battery-powered plane would be too heavy to fly long distances, so fuel that works in the same way as the fuel we have is a simpler way to trade out emission-heavy fossil fuels.
Vardon says that because the wet waste used in the process would normally go to a landfill (垃圾填埋场) and break down to release greenhouse gases, the process of making and using sustainable airline fuel could actually have a negative carbon footprint when scaled up.
Commercial airlines are also on board to find an affordable and sustainable solution to the carbon-intensive process of air travel. Airlines are looking to hit aggressive sustainability goals by 2050, including decreasing net carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent.
28．Which of the following is used for sustainable airline power?
A．Biomass.B．Liquid fuel
C．Battery power.D．Fossil fuel.
29．Why are commercial planes still fuel-powered?
A．Biofuel proves less costly and easier to produce.
B．It’s convenient to create the proper fuel mixture.
C．Biofuel is environmentally friendly and sustainable.
D．Fuel-powered planes are likely to travel lighter and farther.
30．What does the underlined phrase “on board” in the last paragraph refer to?
A．Taking off.B．Participating in.
C．Holding a meeting.D．Appearing on stage.
31．Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Alternative Energy to Fossil Fuel.
B．How to Get Fossil Fuel Sustainable.
C．Changing Food Waste into Airplane Fuel.
D．How to Decrease Carbon Dioxide Emissions.
D
Research has shown that behavioral signaling is largely universal — not only across cultures, but across species. Based on this knowledge, Cogito Corp has created an artificial intelligence (AI) technology to analyze behavioral and vocal cues to provide in-the-moment guidance during conversations, making individuals more emotionally intelligent.
“Artificial intelligence continues to have a transformational effect across industries. One area we see specific accelerated advancement in with this technology, is machine learning,” said Dr. John Kane of Cogito. “Much of the advancement in machine learning is due to the fact that it’s not far removed from our daily lives. Take Amazon’s Alexa as a household example: Alexa can recognize and respond to whispered speech for voice commands, made possible through machine learning advancement,” Kane continued. He also pointed out that “media has built unrealistic expectations in the minds of the general public when it comes to AI, where in fact, machine learning algorithms are still generally developed for narrowly defined purposes.”
Cogito was founded with the mission of helping humans communicate with more emotional intelligence. Presently, it helps individuals across enterprise-level organizations, mainly in the insurance, healthcare and financial service industries, create stronger customer service outcomes with the help of the Cogito AI coach. “Our goal is to provide in-the-moment guidance to individuals within enterprise call centers so they can adjust their behavior and improve customer experiences,” Kane said.
Cogito’s AI technology aims to offer a win-win-win model for companies — improving agent performance so that employees are more occupied with their work, customers are more satisfied and the company is more productive. Cogito’s in-the-moment guidance identifies patterns and cues that may be easily overlooked, giving consistent recommendations to agents in real time. This focused level of analysis helps managers coach high-performing agents to be more consistent and low-performing agents to identify areas for improvement — positively impacting companies.
Looking to the future, Cogito’s CEO and co-founder, Joshua Feast, sees an opportunity to own the AI coaching space. AI coaches guide humans to improve their individual and team performance, resulting in a more productive, emotionally intelligent and successful workforce.
32．What’s the main reason for machine learning’s advancement?
A．Its connections with our daily lives.
B．Its being a basic area of AI technology.
C．An increasing demand for the technology.
D．Media’s efforts to promote the technology.
33．What do you know about AI from Kane’s words?
A．It has wider uses than expected.
B．What it can do now may be overestimated.
C．It is far from familiar to the public.
D．Most advanced AI technologies remain unknown to the public.
34．Why was Cogito established?
A．To bring greater advancement in machine learning.
B．To reveal the behavioral differences between humans.
C．To make humans more emotionally intelligent in conversations.
D．To help companies monitor and measure employees’ work performance.
35．What can be inferred about Cogito’s AI technology?
A．It faces a lot of challenges.
B．It seems to have a bright future.
C．It may replace the human workforce sooner or later.
D．It is disadvantageous to low-performing employees.
第二节(共5小题; 每小题2.5分，满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

In 2015, the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned the world in a TED speech that highly infectious viruses would kill millions of people in the future. It remained unnoticed until recently. The video has been watched over 43 million times online so far. ____36____
Based on his beliefs, Gates writes a new book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic. ____37____ ____38____ He suggests that scientists, data analysts and policy experts across the world work together as a team to prepare for quick response at the future outbreaks of pandemics in different countries and regions. Schedule the arrangements before people shift their attention to other things, he says in the book.
Moreover, research and development should be further strengthened. They are to secure that lifesaving tools, effective vaccines of long-term protection, effective treatments and highly sensitive diagnostic techniques can benefit all people at a faster speed. It requires not only investment but also bigger production capacity. ____39____
Lastly, people need to improve health immunization system and early warning systems, especially in low-and-middle-income countries. ____40____ With early warning systems tracing any outbreak of infectious diseases, people can sequence the genes of viruses as soon as possible to tell how to handle them before they spread.
A．To start with, plans should be made.
B．Routine immunization should be improved.
C．It is about the causes and spread of COVID-19.
D．Firstly, more people are encouraged to watch the speech video.
E．As a consequence, when the next crisis arrives, people can be ready.
F．He believes that people can learn a lot from the COVID-19 pandemic.
G．95 percent viewings happened after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

About a month ago I noticed something really amazing, which I must call a garden miracle(奇迹). It so happened that when I ___41___ the double doors of a small storage area in the back of my house where I ___42___my garden supplies during the long, severe New England winter, I found, in one of the dirt-filled pots, a living, growing plant, topped with two of the most unlikely pink ___43___you’ve ever seen.
How was this ___44___? The unheated space had been closed all winter, and it was still cold outside. Once I caught my breath, I ___45___and discovered something approaching a reasonable explanation—there was a small glass window at the top of the double doors, and it was possible that a ray of sun fell directly on that pot, giving the plant just enough light and warmth to___46___ it to grow in its own personal greenhouse.
I can’t help feeling___47___ at the lessons this wonderful plant has to teach.
For one thing, I am moved by the happenstance(巧合) of the whole thing. If I had ___48___my pot six inches to the left or right of that spot, the plant might not have gotten that___49___ray of light. If I had ___50___ the roots of the plant in late fall, there would have been nothing but dirt in that pot.
But there’s something else that___51___me about this—just how little light and___52___it took for this plant to grow and flower. I’m not___53___ we should be mean with love and kindness and all the other warming things we___54___for others and for ourselves. But isn’t it comforting to think that just a drop of___55___can brighten a day, a place, a life?
When it comes to positivity, a little goes a long way. Just ask my little miracle plant. 41．A．approached B．shut C．opened D．knocked
42．A．need B．provide C．receive D．keep
43．A．sticks B．branches C．roots D．flowers
44．A．essential B．possible C．significant D．different
45．A．stepped asideB．stepped away C．looked down D．looked around 46．A．request B．enable C．instruct D．intend
47．A．excited B．puzzled C．amazed D．amused
48．A．put B．found C．measured D．missed
49．A．broad B．soft C．strong D．narrow
50．A．pulled out B．cared for C．thought about D．brought in
51．A．requires B．cheers C．inspires D．changes
52．A．attention B．warmth C．time D．effort
53．A．expecting B．imagining C．doubting D．saying
54．A．experience B．do C．accept D．remember
55．A．water B．encouragement C．sunshine D．support
第Ⅱ 卷（非选择题，共55分）
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
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。

It’s said that the Chinese characters were invented by Cangjie. They were deciphered (破译) in the Song Dynasty ____56____ whether these are the correct answers is still debatable.
In his life Cangjie observed mountains and rivers, footprints of birds and beasts, as well as shapes of plants and objects. Inspired by these, Cangjie invented various symbols ____57____ (base) on the shapes and ____58____ (appear) of different things and named them zi (character). These most ancient Chinese pictographs (象形文字) have ended the time ____59____ people tied knots to record their lives.
According to the Han Dynasty’s Chinese dictionary Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Cangjie wrote two scrolls, which ____60____ (lose) during wars in the Sui Dynasty.
Scholars in contemporary times tend ____61____ (believe) it is probably a beautiful tale that Cangjie invented the Chinese characters alone. Many Chinese characters actually came into being before Cangjie. He is more like the one who ____62____ (collect) Chinese characters. Chinese ancestors accumulated and developed the Chinese characters, updating them through hundreds of years, during which time the Chinese characters evolved from oracle bone script ____63____ bronze script, seal script, clerical script, and ____64____ (final) to standard script. Nowadays Chinese people commonly use the standard script, whose ____65____ (tradition) version was gradually simplified and modernized.
第三部分写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节（满分15分）
假定你校正在举办主题为“文明习惯满校园”的倡议书征文活动，请你写一份倡议书投稿，内容包括：
1. 发出倡议的背景；
2. 倡议内容与理由。

注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear schoolmates,
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第二节(满分25分)
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。

“Yeah, a BATTLE!” said William, pulling my arm. “You see that, John?”
I looked up from my desk to see Ms. Chow writing on the board, “Battle of the Books!” She smiled and then said, “Are you ready to go into the battle? Get prepared for it next week!”
“Is it a reading contest?” I was so excited that I forgot to raise my hand first.
“Good question, John!” said Ms. Chow. “It is not a race and you are not going to beat each other. We are not going to see who can read the fastest or the most books, but you are going to form a team of three and then set a reading goal for your team. If your team meet your goal by the end of this month, you will get a prize!”
Even though the prize was something silly, that still sounded pretty good to me. I turned towards William immediately, saying, “Shall we be teammates?”
“Yes, for sure!” he said. William and I liked a lot of the same books, so we could set a goal together.
The bell rang before Ms. Chow could explain any more rules. William and I were about to begin our discussion when Lily passed my desk and said “Teammates?” to William and me. Lily was a girl from Spain and she could read super-fast in both English and Spanish! If we set a goal like reading books by authors from different countries, she could help the team for sure.
“Yeah, of course!” William and I nodded. I had my team! The three of us settled down and started a discussion immediately, trying to figure out what we needed to do to get the prize. Just then, I saw my best friend Tom running towards my desk. I could clearly see the expectation shining in his eyes.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。

“John, let’s be teammates!” Tom said to me excitedly.
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梅河口市第五中学高三年级2022-2023上学期期末考试
英语学科参考答案：
听力：1~5 BCABC 6~10 ACBAB 11~15 CBCBB 16~20 AACAB
阅读理解：
A篇21．D22．B23．C
【导语】本文是应用文。

文章主要内容是关于顾客对所买鞋子的质量问题投诉和卖家对此做出的答复和解决措施。

21．推理判断题。

根据第一封邮件的最后一句话“Please respond as soon as possible with instructions on how I can return the boots and receive a refund. (请尽快回复，说明如何退还靴子并获得退款。

)”可知，这是封投诉信。

故选D。

22．推理判断题。

根据第二封邮件“In our retail stores, this spray is always recommended to buyers who work on heated floors. (在我们的零售店，这种喷雾总是推荐给在加热地板上工作的买家。

)”可知，spray的用途是保护鞋底不受热。

故选B。

23．细节理解题。

根据第二封邮件的第二段“Along with five new pairs of workboots for your crew (we included one extra pair), we have enclosed a free year's supply of sole protector spray. (随函附上五双新的工作鞋（我们额外增加了一双），我们还提供了一年免费的鞋底保护喷雾。

)”可知，John Trimbald将会得到五双新的工作鞋和一年免费的鞋底保护喷雾。

故选C。

B篇24．A25．D26．B27．C
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。

文章主要讲述了12岁的少年亚历杭德罗·巴克斯顿做蜡烛生意的原因以及经历。

24．细节理解题。

根据文章第二段前两句“However, he knew his mother really loved candles. To lift her spirits, he set up a lab in the family’s kitchen in the fall of 2019 and made a candle using only natural ingredients, such as soy and coconut waxes (蜡) and essential oils.（然而，他知道他的母亲真的很喜欢蜡烛。

为了让她振作起来，2019年秋天，他在家里的厨房里建立了一个实验室，只用大豆、椰子蜡和精油等天然原料制作了一支蜡烛。

）”可知，亚历杭德罗开始做蜡烛生意是因为他想解决他妈妈的问题。

故选A项。

25．细节理解题。

根据文章倒数第二段最后两句“There were altogether 25 scents on the shelf. He continued to
make new scents and wanted to see all his candles in every single household and love and joy come into the houses.（架子上总共有25种香味。

他继续制作新的香味，并希望看到他所有的蜡烛进入每一个家庭，爱和喜悦进入每一个家庭。

）”结合上文可知，Smell of Love Candles将提供新的蜡烛香味。

故选D项。

26．细节理解题。

根据文章最后一段“Alejandro’s candle business makes a good profit, but for him, the money he earned is not just for his own college fund but for local charities.（亚历杭德罗的蜡烛生意利润颇丰，但对他来说，他赚的钱不仅用于自己的大学基金，还用于当地的慈善机构。

）”可知，亚历杭德罗赚的钱会被用来帮助更多需要帮助的人。

故选B项。

27．推理判断题。

根据文章第二段的最后一句“Within a few months, he had about six scents, including Chunky Sweaters and Cozy Socks, which smells like a fruit drink mixed with a pine forest.（几个月内，他就有了大约六种气味，包括厚实的毛衣和舒适的袜子，闻起来像混合了松林的水果饮料。

）”结合上文可推知，亚历杭德罗是一个极具创造力的人。

再根据文章最后一段“Alejandro’s candle business makes a good profit, but for him, the money he earned is not just for his own college fund but for local charities.（亚历杭德罗的蜡烛生意利润颇丰，但对他来说，他赚的钱不仅用于自己的大学基金，还用于当地的慈善机构。

）”可推知，他还是一个有爱心的人。

故选C项。

C篇28．A29．D30．B31．C
【导语】这是一篇说明文。

文章主要介绍了在本周发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上的一项研究：将食物垃圾转化为可持续航空燃料，该燃料有望给未来客机带来动力。

28．细节理解题。

根据第一段最后一句“In a study released this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers detail a method of transforming food waste into sustainable airline fuel.( 在本周发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上的一项研究中，研究人员详细介绍了一种将食物垃圾转化为可持续航空燃料的方法。

)”和第二段第一句“Biomass(生物质), such as animal and food waste, can be transformed into biofuels, which are renewable liquid fuels made from organic matter. (生物质，如动物和食物垃圾，可以转化为生物燃料，这是一种由有机物制成的可再生液体燃料。

)”可知，生物质可以被转化为航空燃料。

故选A 项。

29．推理判断题。

根据第三段最后一句“A battery-powered plane would be too heavy to fly long distances, so fuel that works in the same way as the fuel we have is a simpler way to trade out emission-heavy fossil fuels.( 电池驱动的飞机太重，无法飞很远的距离，因此，与我们现有的燃料工作原理相同的燃料，是一种更简单的方式，可以取代高排放的化石燃料。

)”可知目前飞机仍然是燃料驱动的原因是，与电池驱动相比，燃料驱动的飞机更加轻便、飞得更远。

故选D项。

30．词义猜测题。

根据最后一段最后一句“ Airlines are looking to hit aggressive sustainability goals by 2050, including decreasing net carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent.(航空公司希望在2050年前达到积极的可持续发展目标，包括将二氧化碳净排放量减少50%。

)”可知划线单词意为“（商业航空公司也）参与（寻找一种负担得、可起的持续的解决方案）”，on board意为“参与”。

故选B项。

31．主旨大意题。

根据第一段最后一句“In a study released this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers detail a method of transforming food waste into sustainable airline fuel.(在本周发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上的一项研究中，研究人员详细介绍了一种将食物垃圾转化为可持续航空燃料的方法。

)”结合全文可知，文章主要讲述了研究人员正在努力将食物垃圾转化为可持续的航空燃料。

所以C项“Changing Food Waste into Airplane Fuel.(把食物垃圾变成飞机燃料)”作标题能概括全文主旨。

故选C项。

D篇32．A33．B34．C35．B
【导语】这是一篇说明文。

主要介绍了Cogito Corp开发了一种人工智能技术，可以分析行为和声音线索，在对话中提供即时指导，使个人的情商更高，以及Cogito人工智能技术未来的前景。

32．细节理解题。

根据第二段中“Much of the advancement in machine learning is due to the fact that it’s not far removed from our daily lives.”（机器学习的进步很大程度上是因为它离我们的日常生活不远。

）可知，机器学习进步的主要原因是它与我们日常生活的联系紧密。

故选A项。

33．细节理解题。

根据第二段中“He also pointed out that “media has built unrealistic expectations in the minds of the general public when it comes to AI, where in fact, machine learning algorithms are still generally developed for narrowly defined purposes.””（他还指出，“在谈到人工智能时，媒体在公众心中建立了不切实际的期望，事实上，机器学习算法通常仍是为狭隘的目的而开发的。

”）可知，从凯恩的话中，人工智能现在的能力可能被高估了。

故选B项。

34．细节理解题。

根据第三段中“Cogito was founded with the mission of helping humans communicate with more emotional intelligence.”（Cogito成立的宗旨是帮助人们以更高的情商交流。

）可知，Cogito成立是为了让人类在对话中更有情商。

故选C项。

35．推理判断题。

根据最后一段“Looking to the future, Cogito’s CEO and co-founder, Joshua Feast, sees an opportunity to own the AI coaching space. AI coaches guide humans to improve their individual and team performance, resulting in a more productive, emotionally intelligent and successful workforce.”（展望未来，Cogito的首席执行官兼联合创始人Joshua·Feast看到了拥有人工智能教练领域的机会。

人工智能教练指导人类提高个人和团队表现，从而形成更高效、情商更高、更成功的员工队伍。

）可知，关于Cogito的人工
智能技术，我们可以推断出它似乎有一个光明的未来。

故选B项。

七选五：36．G37．F38．A39．E40．B
【导语】本文是一篇说明文。

介绍的是微软的创始人Bill Gates关于高传染性病毒的警告在的视频引起人们的关注，基于对此的信念，Bill Gates写了一本新书，在书中给人们提了关于如何阻止下一次疫情爆发的建议。

36．根据该段讲述的为Bill Gates在TED演讲中的关于高传染性病毒的相关情况，所以该空内容依旧是围绕该主题论述。

G选项“95 percent viewings happened after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.(95% 的观看发生在COVID-19 大流行爆发之后。

)”的内容中的viewing和上一句video，watched为同范畴词呼应。

故选G项。

37．分析文章结构可知，此处的内容与接下来的三段内容是“总一分”关系。

所以该空应该是起到一个承上启下的作用，F选项“He believes that people can learn a lot from the COVID-19 pandemic.(他认为人们可以从COVID-19 大流行中学到很多东西。

)” 中的learn a lot from the COVID-19 pandemic.与下文三段内容相符。

故选F项。

38．根据空格所处的位置可知，此空为段落的中心句，且为Bill Gates在新书中所提到的第一个建议，A 选项“To start with, plans should be made.(首先，应该制定计划。

)”中的To start with与第四段中Moreover的和第五段Lastly衔接合理。

故选A项。

39．根据空格位于段尾可知，很可能对该段的内容进行概括总结。

E选项“As a consequence, when the next crisis arrives, people can be ready.(因此，当下一次危机到来时，人们可以做好准备。

)”中的As a consequence 可知，此选项对该段进行了总结，结合本段的主题句“Moreover, research and development should be further strengthened.(此外，应进一步加强研究和开发。

)”可知，E选项与该内容吻合。

故选E项。

40．根据最后一段中的主题句“Lastly, people need to improve health immunization system and early warning systems, especially in low-and-middle-income countries.(最后，人们需要改善卫生免疫系统和预警系统，特别是在低收入和中等收入国家。

)”可知，该空讲述的内容是改善卫生免疫系统，B选项“Routine immunization should be improved.(应改进常规免疫接种。

)”的Routine immunization和前文immunization关键词呼应。

故选B项。

完形填空：
41．C42．D43．D44．B45．D
46．B47．C48．A49．D50．A。