广东省四校2024-2025学年高三上学期期末联考英语试题（无答案）

2025届高三四校联考英语
第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Journals Make Thoughtful Holiday Gifts
Journals specifically aimed at self-care, wellness practices and gratitude make beautiful, thoughtful and caring gifts for your loved ones this holiday season. Here are some journals worth wrapping up.
The 6-Minute Diary
The 6-Minute Diary($28)features daily pages where you can take three minutes to reflect on the start of your day, and three minutes to reflect at the end. You'll focus on three things you're grateful for, how to make today great, a good deed you did that day, how you'll improve, and three things you appreciated that day. There are also weekly and monthly self-reflections.
Papier Joy Gratitude Journal
With its eye-poping front cover, this journal($35)is making us feel significantly peppier. The book is filled with five months worth of entries and prompt:, all geared to helping users to seek out and appreciate more mindful moments within their day-to-day lives.
Papier's Wellness Journal
Papier's Wellness Journal($33)starts off with a kind andgentle reminder that practicing mindfulness is about practice-not perfection. The 12-week journal is filled with sections used for outlining"feel-good goals"and your progress toward them, sections to write down healthy meals and reflection pages.
Self-Care Journal
This 90-day hardcover journal($31)will inspire you to commit to your self care routine, while encouraging healthy habits like sleeping well, eating nourishing food, getting in the habit of daily movement, and more. Plus, it promotes the habitual practice of doing other enriching things that simply bring you joy such as socializing, journaling, meditating, and expressing gratitude.
21. What should you do at the end of the day while using The 6Minute Diary
A. Answer some inspiring questions. B. Spend six minutes appreciating the day.
C. Reorganize your routine for the next day. D. Use three minutes to look back on the day.
22. Which journal emphasizes forming healthy lifestyle habits
A. Self-Care Journal B. The 6-Minute Diary
C. Papier's Wellness Journal D. Papier Joy Gratitude Journal
23. What do the four journals have in common
A. They focus on long-term goal setting. B. They help users track their physical fitness.
C. They include daily or weekly reflection prompts. D. They encourage users to record their healthy meals.
B
My wife and I haven't had much time to ourselves. At the end of a day's parenting, there's often so little time left that even 35 minutes of our favourite TV show feels pointless. Especially since several times this year, we've managed to time it right as a show gets cancelled.
Bedtime is the real time-suck. Since our kids now share a room, our project has been putting them down at the same time. But this is tough. At six, our son insists on staying up later than a two-year-old. The problem is, I agree with him.
I've been conditioned by my childhood. With 10 siblings, different bedtimes were strictly enforced as a tiny symbolic separation. Bedtimes came in rigid deadlines, informally attached to the popular soap operas. The youngest reported themselves abed once Neighbours finished. Over-12s had to retire once Home and Away ended at 7 p. m. But the true milestone for emotional maturity was one where its characters had nose rings and disliked school.
To stay up past that point, you had to be old enough, and such elders governed those below like marines. I was the ninth of 11, so I still associate the credits of these soaps with the tuning of heads from eight elders, who scanned the room for those avoiding bedtime. It's strange that what was once debatable now appears unquestionable. This, it seems, is the song of a bird that has come to love its cage. I just can't help thinking my son needs a bedtime separate from a young child, not least one who takes 45 minutes to sleep in a fully darkened room.
So, we make compromises. We put them down together in their respective beds at 7:15 pm. Story time is directed at my daughter, while my son is given two books. As slowly as we can, we steal away from the room, once there's only soft breathing and light reading. Trembling, we tiptoe downstairs to become reacquainted with ourselves and, joy of joys, to watch a full hour of some show that has inevitably been canceled by the time you're reading this.
24. What makes watching TV shows meaningless for the couple
A. The tiring workload of a full day of parenting duties.
B. The argument between their two kids about bedtime.
C. The unfortunate cancellation of their favourite shows.
D. The brief time available after their caring for the kids.
25. What can we learn about the bedtimes in the author's childhood
A. They symbolized the differing levels of growth.
B. They reflected the power play among all siblings.
C. They showed the parents' preference for older kids.
D. They marked the Importance of order in the family.
26. Why does the author mention "the song of a bird"in paragraph 4
A. To highlight his former resistance to bedtime rules.
B. To show his conflicted attitude to old bedtime rules.
C. To emphasize the contrast between songs and cages.
D. To compare childhood rules with their compromises.
27. What is the author's tone in the passage
A. Critical and casual. B. Reflective and playful
C. Humorous and tolerant. D. Serious and sympathetic.
C
Since the first astronauts spent time in space, scientists have known that space travel affects the human body in strange ways. Muscle and bone mass decrease and the risk of conditions usually associated with old age, such as cancers and cataracts(白内障), ticks up.
Why the human body should decline faster in space is still largely a mystery, but one that researchers are dealing with increasing urgency as civilian space travel becomes more feasible. In a recent study that involved sending muscle samples to the International Space Station, some 250 miles above Earth, researchers from Stanford Medicine found that the lack of gravity in space impairs the normal regenerative ability of muscle.
The samples were grown from muscle cells donated by healthy volunteers to resemble the bundled structure of muscle fibres. They spent seven days growing in space, then frozen until their return to Earth.
The researchers found notable similarities between muscle that had spent a week in microgravity (gravity aboard the International Space Station is about 0.1%of gravity on Earth)and muscle in older adults with sarcopenia( 肌肉减少症) , a muscle-wasting condition that develops over decades. Both indicated a shift toward more fatty acid metabolism(脂肪酸代谢)and a greater tendency toward cell death The impaired regeneration could contribute to why astronauts' muscles weaken even with regular exercise.
“Microgravity is almost like an accelerated disease-forming platform and environment, ”said Ngan Huang, PhD, senior author of the study published recently in Stem Cell Reports. “It's important to understand how microgravity is affecting different tissues in the body, with muscle being one of the most essential ones because of how much of it we have in our bodies. ”
Huang's team also tested drugs that partially prevented these impairments in the muscle samples, which could benefit space travellers and Earth-bound seniors --perhaps even senior space travellers - alike.
Ultimately, Huang, who is also a principal investigator at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System hopes to find ways to enhance muscle regeneration to heal severe muscle injuries, like those many Soldiers injured during wars.
28. Which of the following best describes the meaning of the underlined word in paragraph 2
A. Difficult to complete. B. Lawful to conduct.
C. Expensive to attempt. D. Possible to achieve.
29. What can we learn about the muscle samples in the recent study
A. They developed sarcopenia after a week in space.
B. They were collected directly from volunteers' muscles.
C. They may fail to function properly after returning from space.
D. They were frozen due to the freezing temperatures in microgravity.
30. Why is microgravity described as an"accelerated disease-forming platform"
A. It stops muscle from recovering after injury.
B. It reproduces long-term conditions in a shorter time.
C. It affects astronauts with pre-existing conditions only.
D. It speeds up cancer and cataracts development in astronauts.
31. What is Huang likely to focus on in future research
A. Proving space travel advances aging in astronauts.
B. Investigating microgravity's impact on muscle structure.
C. Creating ways to boost muscle regeneration in critical injuries.
D. Designing exercises to prevent muscle loss during space travel.
D
In a stimulating interview with the philosopher Daniel Dennett in Living on Earth, Dannet shared that Charles Darwin and Alan Turing might make the same discovery. Darwin showed how you can get the appearance of purpose and design out of blind processes of natural selection. And Turing said that any computable problem can be computed by a machine without understanding.
The host then voiced a concern: as Al advances, machines will come to lord over us. Dennett acknowledges there's a takeover risk but claims it's misunderstood. The risk is not that machines will become autonomous rulers but that we will depend too much on machines.
The main issue with AI is not intelligence but autonomy. At the end of the day, even the smartest computers are our tools, and their intentions are ours. Or, to the extent that we can speak of their intentions at all. The intention of a self-driving car to avoid an obstacle, for example, is what it's designed for.
Our growing dependence on technologies doesn't mean we are losing our natural autonomy in quite this sense. Our needs remain. But it is a loss of autonomy. Even auto mechanics these days rely on computers and, in the era of self-driving cars, will any of us still know how to drive Think what would happen if we lost electricity We'd be thrown back into the 19th century, as Dennett says. But things would be worse as we lack know-how that made it possible for our ancestors to live well in the olden days.
The truth is, we've been technological since our dawn as a species. We first found ourselves in the archaeological record where we saw a great exposition of tools, technologies, art-making and language. In a sense, being human means being like a cyborg, which is a technological extension of our natural selves. This suggests that at any time in our development, a large-scale breakdown in the technological system would spell not exactly our doom, but our complete reorganization.
Perhaps what makes our current dilemma unprecedented(史无前例的)is the fact that we are so closely networked. When the library of Alexandria burned down, books and knowledge were lost. But in a world where libraries are replaced by their online versions, it isn't unimaginable that every library could be sinply deleted.
What happens to us then
32. Which of the following statements might Dennet most likely agree with
A. AI might be overly relied on. B. AI doesn't have comprehension.
C. AI's development is bounded. D. AI's evolution resembles natural selection
33. Which of the following examples best matches the idea of“know-how”in paragraph 4
A. A scholar studies the theory of natural selection.
B. A nobleman hires servants to do all the housework.
C. A farmer builds a table by hand using traditional tools.
D A worker operates a machine following preset instructions.
34. Why did the author mention libraries in paragraph 67
A To show the technological stability. B. To prove the technological safeguard.
C. To emphasize the technological weakness. D. To illustrate the technological transformation.
35. What would be the best title for the passage
A. Is the Concern Artificial Intelligence or Autonomy
B. How will Technology Breakdown Change Our Lives
C. Will Artificial Autonomy Threaten Humanity's Existence
D. How does the Human-Technology Relationship Develop
第二节(共5小题；每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑， 选项中有两项为多余选项。
On July 4, 1972, a pair of young newlyweds named Tony and Maureen were on the driveway of a family home in the south of England. ____36____ . Or somewhere. They had a trunk full of food, cooking equipment and some sleeping bags. They believed that their journey across Asia would be nothing more than a little adventure before they settled down to a steady, middle-class life in England.
And it turned out to be just the kind of adventure the couple longed for. They got caught in a snowstorm in the Italian Alps;bumped into a motorcycle in Iran;then sold their car. From there, it was a bus to Pakistan, then on to India. The couple hitchhiked south across Thailand and on through Malaysia and Singapore.____37____.
Tony and Maureen each lost more than ten pounds in the five and a half months it took them to get from England to Australia._____38____. And by the time they made it to Sydney they had precisely twenty-seven cents left to sustain them.
____39____. The bookshops they could have visited back in England in 1972 would have had precious little to offer in the way of practical advice for their route.
But that's not to say that Tony and Maureen had nothing to guide them. As they would discover soon, their single best source of information was the other travelers they'd encounter on the road. ____40____. And these notes would ate prove to be a very valuable resource for the book Across Asia on the Cheap, beginning of their Lonely Planet guidebooks—the gospel(真理)of adventure travel for tens of millions of readers.
A. They would also exchange information.
B. They once wanted to stop their journey.
C. They'd covered over ten thousand miles.
D. Tony took very careful notes of the information every day.
E. They set out on the final leg of the trip-Western Australia.
F. What did the young couple have to guide them in all of this
G. They were driving a used minivan and their goal was to get to India.
第三部分语言知识运用(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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Last year, my 9-year-old son Leopold and I went on a ski trip to Keystone, Colorado. We made(a)n ____41____ :say yes to everything, especially new experiences. Leopold is a picky eater and can____42____to try new things, so I wanted to ____43____ him without turning to old-fashioned advice like “You'll never know if you like it unless you try. "
When we arrived in Keystone, we started by trying new foods and ____44____. I tasted a vegan meatball, and Leopold ____45____ hash browns—an American potato dish. Neither of us loved it, but we both ____46____ it as “not bad.” The next day, Leopold faced his fear of ____47____ to ride a chairlift for snowboarding. I also ____48____ myself for a ski on an advanced slope. Later, we even ____49____ the coldness by trying an outdoor hot tub. It was freezing, but the experience was ____50____.
We continued saying yes on our spring break trip to St. Augustine, Florida, whose moonlit ghost tour gave us a thrill of pleasure and ____51____. Then in Yellowstone, we went line dancing at a country-western bar, swinging our waists ____52____.
Our family____53____ continued through the whole summer, ____54____memories we'll never forget. The whole experience ____55____ a reminder:to step out of comfort zone and live life to the fullest.
41. A. agreement B. appointment C. difference D. effort
42. A. manage B. resolve C. expect D. hesitate
43. A. remind B. encourage C. promise D. force
44. A. approaches B. tricks C. games D. activities
45. A. sampled B. prepared C. served D. processed
46. A. explained B. pictured C. rated D. celebrated
47. A. ambition B. judgment C. height D. commitment
48. A. treated B.challenged C. justified D. prepared
49. A. survived B. braved C. skipped D. pursued
50. A. refreshing B. familiar C. reliable D. admirable
51. A. anticipation B. excitement C. gratitude D. curiosity
52. A. wildly B. gently C. peacefully D. skillfully
53. A. history B. tradition C. entertainment D.adventure
54. A. preserving B. recalling C. creating D. regaining
55. A. called for B. accounted for C. passed down to D. came down to
第二节(共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分)
Peru is an underrated culinary powerhouse. Its long coastline, vast Andes mountains, and tropical rain forests have given rise to its rich food and culinary culture. Beyond local flavors, Peruvian cuisine also blends influences from Asia, Africa, and Europe. And the fusion of cooking styles has created ____56____ (incredible) delicious results.
A must-try dish from ____57____world-renowned melting pot is lomo saltado —marinated(腌制的) strips of steak stir-fry with soy sauce, chopped red onions, tomatoes, crispy French fries and the unmissable ají amarillo chili pepper (黄辣椒), ____58____ (serve)with rice on the side. Very flavorful, yet not spicy, lomo saltado never fails to impress____59____(dine) in Peru and beyond.
Lomo saltado is almost like a metaphor for modern-day culture:key ingredients from different corners of the world____60____ combine to create something new and characteristic —ají amarillo and potato from Peru, beef from Spain. Spaniards are also believed____61____(introduce) rice to Peru in the early years of the colony. The last key player in the recipe: China. Thousands of Cantonese____62____ (immigrate) to Peru in the mid-nineteenth century, introducing the wok, soy sauce and the concept of stir-frying. We can guess that____63____some point in the early twentieth century, a bold cook used his or her creativity to take the above foods and stir fry____64____in a wok. Voila, a culinary superstar was born. And it is ____65____a culinary journey to South America should start with.
第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分) 第一节(满分15分)
假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Jasper对你在“Guangzhou International Marathon”活动中担任志愿者的经历很感兴趣，希望了解更多。请你写一封邮件回复，内容包括：
1. 描述主要职责；
2. 分享活动收获。
注 意 ：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Jasper,
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Yours, Li Hua
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。
Growing up, the first day of school was always exciting—new clothes, supplies, and classes. But at twenty-three, the first day of school had me in a panic. I was the new teacher.
I had just celebrated my birthday, the new year, and my divorce. Unloved and unneeded, the rejection of a failed marriage still hurt. I had graduated in December, and a school more than sixty miles from my apartment had hired me to teach a class of twenty-two fifth graders.
As the principal Mrs. Bright walked me to my classroom, I asked, “What happened to the last teacher ” She answered, “She left just a week after the school year started. There have been thirteen replacement teachers since then. You are the fourteenth one, Sylvia. "
As I entered the classroom, I said with a sweet smile, "I'm your teacher for the rest of the year. "The kids were excited to meet me, but they quickly became restless. Some sat wherever they wanted, while others talked or passed notes. One girl called Tracy crawled under her desk, and a boy named Kyle began crying for no reason. The rest of the day was chaotic-fights broke out, and some kids refused to talk to me. As the final bell rang, I collapsed into my chair, exhausted.
Later, during my conference period, Mrs. Bright told me, “Tracy can't read and doesn't pay attention. Just leave her alone, and make up a grade. "I was shocked. “What about Kyle "I asked. "He'll be fine. He is just lonely. His mom is a single mother working around the clock. ”
Through our exchange, I came to understand that most of these kids had been kicked out of other schools. No one came to their rescue. They were the ones no one else wanted. These kids, like me, were
used to rejection. The pain of my own divorce made me realize how much they deserved better. 注意 ：
1 . 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1: I decided to do something for these rejected kids.
Paragraph 2: Gradually, the students realized that I cared for them.