2025-2026学年广东韶关高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、_______ the website of the Fire Department in your city, and you will learn a lot about Firefighting.

A．Having searched

B．To search

C．Searching

D．Search

2、—Do you have ______ ready for the spring outing?

—No, I still have to buy some fruit.

A. everything   B. anything   C. something   D. nothing

3、We live in a beautiful cottage with a yard, which ______ 20 feet from side to side.

A. measures   B. is measured

C. measured D. has been measured

4、 The joy of living comes from ______ we put into living.

A. what   B. that C. where D. How

5、In the office I never seem to have time until after 5:30 p.m.， many people have gone home.

A.whose time B.that

C.on which D.by which time

6、—Gosh, I feel I have messed up my whole life.

—Cheer up. Things will _______.

A．hold out

B．work out

C．stand out

D．set out

7、 _____I had time to check what I had written in the exam, the bell rang.

A. If B. Before C. Until   D. Since

8、Teenage girls sometimes ask me for advice about what they should be doing ______ they want a career like mine one day.

A.even though B.as though C.provided that D.now that

9、Many netizens are impressed with the excuse given by a teacher for quitting her job ______ she owes the world a visit.

A. because   B. that   C. where D. why

10、A Chinese student’s print-like handwriting caused controversy among British Internet users, _____ both praise and questions about individuality.

A. having drawn   B. drawing     C. to draw   D. drew

11、— What do you suggest he do to get rid of the financial trouble?

— As is often the case in the business world, he should ______ the dangerous situation he is in now.

A. look up to   B. wake up to   C. live up to   D. stand up to

12、For breakfast Lisa only drinks juice from fresh fruit ______ on their own farm.

A．being grown

B．grown

C．to be grown

D．to grow

13、I ______ to visit him in the hospital, but I was fully occupied the whole of last week.

A.had gone B.might go C.must have gone D.would have gone

14、The system has been designed to give students quick and easy ______ to the digital resources of the library.

A. access   B. passage   C. way      D. approach

15、Our village is making efforts to _________its development pattern to promote green growth.

A.squeeze B.compromise C.transform D.differentiate

16、Whenever you ______ a present, you’d better think about it from the receiver’s preference.

A. bought   B. buy C. will buy   D. have bought

17、We are determined that our raining should ______the current development in education.

A. keep pace with B. take possession of

C. make room for D. give birth to

18、 ______ smiling and one day life will get tired of upsetting you.

A. To keep B. Keeping  C. Keep  D. Having kept

19、The man ________ the fake news that 18 firefighters lost their lives in the explosion was arrested.

A. having circulating B. to circulate

C. circulating D. to have circulated

20、You could get into a situation_________you have to decide immediately.

A.what B.which C.where D.that

21、The Comfortable Kitchen: 105 Laid-Back, Healthy, and Wholesome Recipes

Here are healthy meals the whole family can enjoy, night after night.

What does comfort mean in The Comfortable Kitchen? For Alex Snodgrass, New York Times best-selling author of The Defined Dish, bringing her family around the table to share a home-cooked meal is a favorite way to show love. Her recipes are designed to bring joy into that display of affection, from your own comfort cooking for your loved ones' delight at the delicious flavors, to knowing that you are caring for your family 's nutrition with each bite.

There are plenty of recipes with simple, flexible ingredients for a meal when desired — perfect for people who are enjoying their “food freedom” stage of their health journey. And for those who have diet restrictions, Alex clearly marks each recipe as gluten-free (无麸质), dairy-free and grain-free, as appropriate.

Alex brings back the joy of being in the kitchen for those at all levels of cooking skills and provides food for every occasion, with soups, salads, pasta, vegetarian and non-vegetarian, ranging from one-pot meals to not-so-junky junk food — and even cocktails and desserts — with recipes including:

▲Cajun Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

▲Green Curry Poached Halibut with Herbs

▲Texas Style Brisket Tacos

▲Herby Green Olive Pasta with Feta

▲Sheet Pan Honey Sesame Cauliflower

▲Clayton's Margarita

▲7-Ingredient Almond Butter Cookies

With 105 approachable and nutritious recipes for real, busy life, The Comfortable Kitchen is a must-have cookbook for those who care about what they eat and what they make.

【1】What is The Comfortable Kitchen mainly about?

A．Cooking.

B．Affection.

C．Kitchen facilities.

D．Family parties.

【2】What can be learnt about The Comfortable Kitchen?

A．It contains many recipes.

B．It receives many complaints.

C．It can only be bought online.

D．It is published by New York Times.

【3】Who are most likely to be interested in the text?

A．Environmentalists.

B．Dieticians.

C．Businessmen.

D．Publishers.

22、   The beloved childrens author Tomie depaola, who was born in Connecticut on September15, 1934 and whose imaginative and warm-hearted works crossed generations and continents died Monday at age 85. His death was announced, without details, on social media by his assistant. Bob Hechtel.

Depaola’s works covered many areas of his imagination, from a magical tale centered on a kind and caring Calabrian grandmother--strega Nona, which won the Caldecott Honor Award in 1976--to retelling the inspiring Comanche story of The Legend of the Bluebonnet. In 2000 he won a Newbery Honor for his book 26 Fairmount Avenue, which described his early childhood. Quiet, published in 1980s, is one of his bestselling books. By dePaola’s own count, he worked on some 270 books--the first in 1965, and the most recent published last year.

In 2011, he won a lifetime prize, the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, which praised his “considerable and lasting contribution to literature for children.” In all, nearly 25 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.

Along with his work as an author, dePaola taught art and theater at various colleges in California, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. For many years, he made his home in New London. N H.

In 1998, dePaola told a radio reporter that he hoped to recognize children for all their natural abilities. “As a grown-up,” he said, “I want to give children the credit for everything I can: their courage, their humor, their love, their intellectual abilities, their abilities to be fair, their abilities to be unfair. But I do wish that we grown-ups would give children lots of credit for these temporary kinds of qualities that they have.”

【1】Which of the following best describes all dePaola’s works?

A.Inspiring. B.Magic.

C.Adventurous. D.Imaginative

【2】Which of the following books reflects dePaola’s own life?

A.Quiet. B.Strega Nona.

C.26 Fairmount Avenue. D.The Legend of the Bluebonnet.

【3】What did dePaola think children needed?

A.Adults approval. B.Various abilities.

C.Major improvement. D.Superior qualities.

【4】What’s the purpose of writing the text?

A.To announce bad news. B.To praise a great artist.

C.To introduce some books. D.To mourn a distinguished man.

23、If you plan to learn a foreign language, you might think it’s going to be really challenging. You’ve probably heard a lot of talks about how it’s easier to learn languages as a young child, and that learning as an adult can be difficult. You might even know friends or family members who have tried to learn a foreign tongue and failed. That’s because they are surrounded by the failure. We’re here to cheer you up with some good news and inspire you to get started.

The amazing adult brain: whether you can learn languages at any age? Scientists are always learning about the human brain. Decades ago, experts believed that the brain developed during childhood and then retained that way for life. However, modern studies have shown us that the brain has the ability to continually form new neural (神经的) connections throughout adulthood. A 2010 Swedish study tested two groups of people, one in the range of age 21 through 30 and another between 65 and 80. Remarkably, they found no significant differences in Neuroplasticity (神经可塑性). In other words, this suggests that it’s possible for you to learn new things at any age.

Besides being possible to learn languages, research also suggests that it improves the adult brain in general. In a 2012 Chinese study, experts looked at a group of adults who were learning Mandarin (普通话) over a nine-month period. They found that these adults showed improved integrity in their white matter, the part of the brain that allows neural cells to communicate. The better your neural cells communicate, the easier it will be for you to learn new things.

Why may adults have an easier time learning? Children might be blessed with a naturally high degree of neuroplasticity, but that doesn’t mean learning is necessarily easier for them. In fact, adult brains have a number of great qualities that might actually make learning easier, especially if you take advantage of free language learning apps like Mondly.

【1】Why do some adults fail in the language learning?

A．Because they are too old to learn a new language.

B．Because languages are too difficult for adults to learn

C．Because they are influenced by the adults who failed.

D．Because they have no plans for new language learning.

【2】What does the underlined word “retained” mean in Paragraph 2?

A．improved

B．remained

C．changed

D．strengthened

【3】What is the author trying to do in the second paragraph?

A．To tell the difference between children and adults in language learning.

B．To state the difference between children and adults in brain development.

C．To show that there is no difference between children and adults in learning.

D．To prove the former theory about brain development by some experts wrong.

【4】What is the passage mainly about?

A．Brain development and new language learning.

B．Analysis about children learning a new language.

C．Information about adults learning a new language.

D．Some good news for adults to learn a new language

24、   The world is too big to take in all at once. To make sense and beauty of it, you have to look at a small part at a time.

In using a camera, you choose a small part through he view finder. You move the camera, “framing” pictures until you see one that pleases you. Then-click! If you make a good choice, your picture will please others, as well as yourself.

“Wherever you are,” says photographer Ernst Haas, “you are surrounded by pictures. The trick is to recognize them.” His photograph of a twist of barbed wire shows what he means.

Mr. Haas tells us of ways to practice seeing. Make a simple frame of black cardboard. Take it out of the doors and look through it at everyday things, large or small, far away or near.

At first you may see nothing to interest you. But soon pictures seem to leap (跳) at you through the frame. Oil floating on water makes a picture in rainbow colors. Three people on the steps of an old house form a picture that seems to tells a story.

Did you notice such things before you used the frame? Perhaps not. But, with practice, you soon do not need its help. You see things as artists do. Everywhere, shapes and colors catch your eye. Your mind takes “snapshots (快照)” of their patterns. Then, if you wish, you can share what you see by taking a photograph or by making a drawing or a painting.

Sometimes it’s fun to “see small”. Did you ever notice the design of the seeds in sliced bananas? Have you looked deep inside a lily? Or seen the starburst in the center of a wet ice cube?

Do you see colors as they really are? When you paint tree trunks, you would make them brown or black. But tree trunks are really gray, purple, yellow-green—almost any color except brown or black!

Do you notice detail? Doing so can be in many ways. Remembering what you see is often useful, too. Practice can help you.

A trick for helping you to remember detail is the double take. Look—don’t look—then look again.

【1】What does the underlined word “trick” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. joke B. magic

C. habit D. skill

【2】What does the author want to tell us?

A. The better you learn to see, the more alive you are.

B. Walking in the country, you should look closely at the trunks.

C. A branch with a few leaves fills the frame with a beautiful design.

D. Close your eyes and try to remember how it looks.

【3】Which of the fallowing is true according to the text?

A. When you paint trees, you would make them gray.

B. Glance at a bill and you remember how it looked.

C. Seeing is one way of living.

D. Give a second look and you remember all the detail.

【4】What is the main idea of the text?

A. The world is too big to travel around.

B. Look around—and see!

C. Wherever you are, a camera is important.

D. A good way to see is to carry a camera

25、Emily Bhatnagar, a 17-year-old-girl, developed serious health issues — depression and anxiety. However, she found a way to _________ that negative feelings into something good. Books were her _________, so maybe, she thought, she could help others who were _________ challenges also escape into the pages of a book.

This summer, she decided to start collecting new or lightly used _________ for children of all ages, with the _________ of distributing them to health-care services. When she initially wrote a _________ asking for books on the neighborhood networking site Nextdoor, “I was only _________ two to three responses,” she said. To her delight, hundreds of neighbors _________ offered to support her book drive (捐书活动), and before long, “there were boxes of books just piled up at my front door,” Bhatnagar said.

On Oct. 5, Bhatnagar with her parents, _________ 2, 215 books to the Children’s National Hospital in D. C. “Kids treated here will stay in the hospital for extended periods of time. Reading helps to ______________ them from the boring and fearful course and makes the time ______________   quicker,” said Allie Slocum, doctor at the Children’s National Hospital. Likewise, staff at lnova Health System in Virginia are thrilled about the 1, 400 ______________ books Bhatnagar dropped off on Sunday. “A book is super ______________. It is a small thing that can have a big ______________,” said Fadi Saadeh, senior director at the Inova Cares Clinic for Families.

The ______________ Bhatnagar gets from collecting and donating books is, “Brilliant,” She said, adding that she also buys books to contribute to the initiative, using ______________ she earns while working at her family’s bread shop. “The book drive gives me a sense of ____________.” Since the start of her book gathering, “she has come ______________ her shell so much, I feel so ______________ of her, and I am sure all those kids are enjoying those books as well,” said her mother. “It’s like she found her voice, and it’s so beautiful to see her using it to ______________ joy.”

【1】

A．impress

B．channel

C．inform

D．narrow

【2】

A．company

B．wisdom

C．imagination

D．achievement

【3】

A．providing

B．evaluating

C．encountering

D．enjoying

【4】

A．novels

B．books

C．magazines

D．surveys

【5】

A．aim

B．love

C．help

D．wonder

【6】

A．mail

B．post

C．paper

D．story

【7】

A．requiring

B．complaining

C．expecting

D．replying

【8】

A．worriedly

B．apparently

C．hesitantly

D．eagerly

【9】

A．introduced

B．delivered

C．compared

D．returned

【10】

A．attract

B．disappoint

C．beat

D．distract

【11】

A．give out

B．fall on

C．go by

D．use up

【12】

A．donated

B．broken

C．virtual

D．dramatic

【13】

A．luxury

B．valuable

C．limited

D．friendly

【14】

A．mouth

B．chance

C．impact

D．question

【15】

A．feeling

B．report

C．fame

D．stuff

【16】

A．burden

B．praise

C．options

D．tips

【17】

A．safety

B．purpose

C．reality

D．humor

【18】

A．out of

B．into

C．over

D．down

【19】

A．certain

B．proud

C．aware

D．capable

【20】

A．express

B．spread

C．keep

D．decrease

26、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。续写的词数应为150左右。

I discovered my love for writing while working on my undergraduate degree in English. I fell in love with children's literature and knew that was what I wanted to do with my life: write for children. So I wanted to learn how to write. But life kept me busy, and my dream stopped.

Two decades later, I wanted to sign up for a university's writing program for adults to accept the education of writing. 1 hoped to greatly improve my writing skills and then start my writing journey. So I applied to a university for such a writing program.

But after several days of taking the courses, I found the learning tasks were too heavy in light of my busy family life, so I dropped out of the program.

Over the next few years, I applied to several universities’ writing programs again. However, still due to the busy family life, I gave up after only a few days of taking the courses. And I knew I would never apply to a school again. I had closed that door.

Two years ago, my husband got a new job, requiring us to move from our home in Texas to Washington, D.C. it wasn't an easy move. The family part was the problem. No one would be moving with us. All our children had grown up. So when we sat down for dinner in our new home-the big, empty and quiet house, only my husband and me, I didn't know how to deal with the quiet life.

One morning, I woke up from a dream. In my dream, I had contacted the last university's writing department, asked to rejoin their writing program for adults, and was allowed. The dream had shaken me. So, before I got out of bed or changed my mind, I picked up my phone and sent an e-mail asking what I would need to do to reapply.

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:

Hours passed and there was no reply.

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Paragraph 2:

Then a few weeks later, I began my courses.

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