2025-2026年广东清远高三上册期末英语试卷(解析版)

1、There is no doubt that _________ a goal, one needs not only knowledge but also good personalities.

A. achieve   B. achieving

C. to achieve   D. achieved

2、Our government has tried every means to make children enjoy the equal right to receive education, ________ their financial situation.

A. in terms of       B. on behalf of

C. regardless of      D. in view of

3、_______ is part of children’s nature. They always insist on getting to the bottom of everything.

A. Motivation B. Imitation

C. Generosity D. Curiosity

4、Going out is __________good means of relaxation. Would you like to go to __________park with me in the afternoon?

A. the ;the B. the; a   C. a; the   D. 不填；a

5、He got himself into a difficult situation ________he must make a final decision all by himself.

A. which   B. what   C. when   D. where

6、How long do you think the car factory launches a new model?

A.will it be until B.it will be before

C.will it be when D.it will be that

7、 Dale and her husband have ideas on how to spend a vacation. She wants to sleep on the beach for a week, but he prefers visiting museums.

A. reasonable B. brilliant

C. relevant D. Contrary

8、As far as I know, education is about learning． The more you learn, _______.

A.the better for life are you prepared B.the better you are prepared for life

C.the better life are you prepared for D.you are prepared the better for life

9、His uncle went abroad in 2010, and ________since．

A．has not been heard of   B．had not been heard of

C．had not heard of D．has not heard of

10、New York State has passed a law requiring that all legal contracts _____ in simple, understandable English.

A. be written  B. written   C. to be written   D. write

11、Is this hotel ________ you said we were to stay in your letter?

A. in which B. what   C. that   D. Where

12、During Voldemort’s time in power, people live in fear that they will be killed, either for having impure (不纯的) blood or for having pity for those who do.

A.constant B.chief C.available D.artificial

13、Thanks to the comfortable climate for business creation, many enterprises started by college graduates have taken _____.

A.in B.up C.off D.away

14、The ancient Silk Road ________ China and Europe has become an ideal place for studying and traveling.

A. among   B. along   C. across     D. between

15、I _____ to my cousin’s birthday party last night, but I was not available.

A. went   B. had gone

C. would have gone D. would go

16、He told me about the   news in a   voice.

A．amazing; surprising

B．amazed; surprised

C．amazing; surprised

D．amazed; surprising

17、You are really   ! I heard marvelous news that you set a new world record.

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

18、Science and technology have ______ in important ways to the improvement of agricultural production.

A.attached B.assisted C.contributed D.committed

19、Time magazine has chosen “The Guardians”，a group of journalists who____ for their work, as Person of the Year, for taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths.

A. will target   B. have targeted

C. will be targeted   D. have been targeted

20、______ will be in charge of the meeting has not been decided yet.

A.What B.Which C.That D.Who

21、Finding a mask which offers you a high protection level to filtering（过滤）out any particles（颗粒）for a long time is important. However, after a few hours of wearing, the mask becomes contaminated（污染）by the particles and you can replace it with a new one. See, you can’t miss to have a mask offering active protection in addition to passive filtration.

The first rule of a mask offering you any kind of protection is that it needs to fit well. The mask also needs to be comfortable and allow you to breathe easily for you to be able to keep it on for as many hours as needed.

During long hours of wearing, food and dirt may remain on the inside of your mask. All the hours spent in a place with less-than-ideal conditions for proper human health are wonderful news for bacteria（细菌）to grow on food particles and muck（污物）left behind on the inside of your mask causing a bad smell. So you’d better have a kind that kills off the smell-causing bacteria leaving your mask smelling fresh without any bad smell.

You should look for cloth masks that have multiple layers of breathable fabric that is tightly woven, include a robust（结实的）nose wire for you to adjust the mask to the shapes of your face and prevent the air escaping from around your nose, do not have gaps around the nose or sides of the face and that block out the light if you hold the mask up to a bright light source. It comes with your choice of either head straps（线绳）or ear straps, both adjustable. It is good if the products also offer 4 sizes ranging from kids to adults to ensure everyone stays protected.

【1】What is most important about a mask according to the first paragraph?

A．Offering passive filtration.

B．Offering active protection.

C．Offering to work for long hours.

D．Offering to filter out any particles.

【2】Why should a mask have a robust nose wire?

A．To shape your face.

B．To block out the light.

C．To offer 4 sizes ranging from kids to adults.

D．To adjust the shape to prevent the air escaping.

【3】Which of the following can’t be adjusted?

A．The size.

B．The ear strap.

C．The nose wire.

D．The head strap.

【4】Whom is the passage intended for?

A．The kids.

B．The doctors.

C．The citizens.

D．The mask makers.

22、   In addition to seeing wonderful films, one of the joys of coming to the Quad Cinema is to hang out in the area. The Quad Cinema is located right in the heart of Greenwich Village, perhaps the most charming and interesting neighborhood in the city. Here are some attractions we recommend, all within a comfortable walk from the Quad Cinema:

Washington Square Park

As one of the best-known of New York City's 1,900 public parks, it is a landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. Come on a Sunday when it's most lively and festive.

New York University

It surrounds Washington Square. See the impressive st.Bob Library and visit the amazing bookstores. NYU is now considered one of the most powerful universities in the world.

Judson Memorial Church

Located in the south of Washington Square between Thompson Street and Sullivan Street, opposite Washington Square Park, this beautiful church was completed in 1892. The Judson Memorial Church is most famous for its vocal participation in social events.

Washington Mews

It is a hidden, private street in New York City between Fifth Avenue and University Place, just north of Washington Square Park. It was first developed as a mews(马厩街) that serviced horses from homes in the area. Since the 1950s, the former stables have served as housing, offices and other facilities for New York University.

Jefferson Market Courthouse

Built in 1833 as a market, it was later changed to a courthouse, and in the 1950s it was emptied and close to being destroyed. It was saved and turned into a library. Many consider it to be the most beautiful building in the village.

【1】What is the author's purpose of writing this passage?

A.To introduce some attractions around the Quad Cinema.

B.To suggest the Quad Cinema is the best place.

C.To imply the Quad Cinema attracts a lot of customers.

D.To tell readers to enjoy their life fully.

【2】Why does the author mention Washington Square Park ?

A.Because it is in the center of Greenwich Village.

B.Because it has a history of more than 100 years.

C.Because it is a landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood.

D.Because it has witnessed so many political incidents.

【3】Where is the Judson Memorial Church?

A.In the south of Washington Square. B.Behind Washington Square Park.

C.Opposite Thompson Street. D.Close to New York University.

23、   The OECD is a global economic forum working with 38 member countries (including UK, US, Canada, Australia, Belgium, etc.) and more than 100 emerging and developing economies to make better policies for better lives. Our mission is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. We provide a unique forum in which governments work together to share experiences on what drives economic, social and environmental changes, seeking solutions to common problems.

We aim to improve our efficiency and effectiveness; staff members are encouraged to actively contribute to this goal.

What do Young Professionals do?

The Young Professionals Program (YPP) brings talented young professionals into the OECD to work and develop their career with the guidance of senior colleagues.

The Program lasts two years during which our Young Professionals (YPs) work with experienced and enthusiastic people, representatives of a rich diversity of cultures, languages and professional backgrounds.

They work with senior national policy makers who participate in the OECD's technical and policy meetings each year.

Are you an ideal candidate for this Program?

First, to be qualified, you must satisfy these 2 criteria:

• be born on or after 30 September 1989 (exceptions will be made for nationals of OECD

member countries which have compulsory military service）

• have an OECD member country nationality

Then you should have:

• an advanced academic degree in a subject of relevance to the OECD's work

• a minimum of two years’ full time professional experience in related fields for candidates with Master's degree（s）

• strong quantitative and analytical skills demonstrated by academic achievement

• knowledge of country policies and institutions and an understanding of political and reform processes

For more information, please contact us at www. oecd. org/social-media.

【1】What is special about OECD?

A.It's a website working for 38 countries.

B.It establishes some policies beneficial to economy.

C.It is aimed at improving the economic situations globally.

D.It offers more job opportunities to those loving sharing experiences.

【2】What can we learn about Young Professionals?

A.They're young and really smart.

B.They're talented and rich experienced.

C.They're skilled people in a certain area.

D.They're gifted young people in a specific field.

【3】Who is qualified to apply for YPP?

A.A 26-year-old American accountant.

B.A 34-year-old Canadian doctor.

C.A 31-year-old economics PHD.

D.A 35-year-old Australian teacher.

24、People solve some new problems readily without any special training or practice by comparing them to familiar problems and extending the solutions to the new problems. That process, known as analogical reasoning (类比推理), has long been thought to be an ability only humans have. But now people might have to make room for a new kid on the block.

Psychologists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) claim that, astonishingly, the artificial intelligence (AI) language model GPT-3 performs about as well as college undergraduates when asked to solve the sort of reasoning problems that typically appear on intelligence tests and standardized tests.

But the psychologists raise the question: Is GPT-3 copying human reasoning as a by-product of its massive language training data set or using a fundamentally new kind of cognitive (认知的) process? They also say that although GPT-3 performs far better than they expected at some reasoning tasks, the popular AI tool still fails completely at others. “It can do analogical reasoning, but it can’t do things that are very easy for people, such as using tools to solve a physical task,” says Taylor Webb, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher in psychology.

Webb and his colleagues tested GPT-3’s ability to solve a set of problems inspired by a test known as Raven’s Progressive Matrices, which ask the subject to predict the next image in a complicated arrangement of shapes. To enable GPT-3 to “see” the shapes, and make sure that the AI tool had never met the questions before, Webb transformed the images into a text format that GPT-3 could process.

The psychologists asked 40 UCLA undergraduate students to solve the same problems. Surprisingly, not only did GPT-3 do about as well as humans but it made similar mistakes as well. GPT-3 solved 80% of the problems correctly — well above the human subjects’ average score of just below 60%, but within the range of the highest human scores.

【1】What is analogical reasoning usually considered?

A．A simple learning skill.

B．A unique human ability.

C．A vital thinking process.

D．A solution to any problem.

【2】What did Webb want to stress about GPT-3’s performance at other tasks?

A．Its system has some limitations.

B．Its application hasn’t been popular.

C．It needs to be trained for these tasks.

D．It is good at copying human reasoning.

【3】Why were the shapes changed to a text format?

A．To add difficulty to the questions.

B．To enable GPT-3 to see the results.

C．To guarantee the foreignness of the tasks.

D．To test GPT-3’s ability to identify text.

【4】What might the psychologists conclude about GPT-3 from their tests?

A．It will replace humans in some cases.

B．It rarely makes mistakes like humans.

C．It is able to do things very easy for people.

D．It runs undergraduates close in reasoning.

25、   A true reality of retirement planning is that your future is riding on the quality of your assumptions. Humble ______ can be dangerous.

For example, eight years into this bull market, expecting stocks to deliver as strong returns over the next decade is an uncertain proposition many are nonetheless ______.

Another potential ______ assumption is that you will be able to keep working past 65. Yet the recently released 2017 Retirement Confidence Survey by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute finds that more than half of workers say they expect to still be on the clock past age 65. ______, less than 15 percent of today's retirees kept working that long.

"If you plan on working longer as a way to get by in retirement, you are going to be in trouble," says Craig Copeland, senior research associate at EBRI. "It should be a ______ to a solid savings and spending plan, not the foundation."

It's simply too ______ to assume you will indeed be able to work longer. A survey by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found that nearly two-thirds of retirees left the workforce earlier than expected because they were laid off, reorganized out of a position, or due to general unhappiness with a job. Only 16 percent of retirees who ______ the work force earlier than they expected did so because they felt they could ______ afford to.

______, a new report from Prudential puts a dollar value on why your current employer may not be inclined (倾向于) to do back flips to keep an older you happy and engaged. The estimated one-year cost to a firm when an employee ______ retirement: $50,000.

Prudential estimates that on a company-wide level, delayed retirement can ______  overall workforce costs by 1 percent to 1.5 percent. That's not nothing. And it goes a long way in explaining why employers may be more inclined to focus on "financial wellness" strategies to get workers ready to retire ______ than programs to help workers delay retirement.

Fewer than one-third of employees surveyed by TCRS report their employer has some sort of "transition" program such as flexible work schedules, reduced hours or ______ to a different role.

"Workers' vision of retirement is changing faster than employers' business ______," said Catherine Collinson, president of TCRS. That makes it ever more crucial for pre-retirees to take the steps today that will increase the ______ they can continue to work longer, if that's part of the plan.

【1】A.pessimism B.optimism C.concern D.consideration

【2】A.relying on B.holding back C.accounting for D.turning down

【3】A.reliable B.possible C.flawed D.firm

【4】A.As a result B.In addition C.Needless to say D.By comparison

【5】A.complement B.composition C.compliment D.comprehension

【6】A.ridiculous B.sensible C.risky D.logical

【7】A.extended B.exited C.existed D.remained

【8】A.economically B.mentally C.financially D.physically

【9】A.However B.Therefore C.Instead D.Moreover

【10】A.delays B.expects C.gets D.decides

【11】A.influence B.decrease C.increase D.transform

【12】A.later B.sooner C.faster D.slower

【13】A.shifting B.altering C.ranging D.functioning

【14】A.deals B.practices C.customs D.operations

【15】A.prospect B.capabilities C.odds D.outputs

26、书面表达（共1小题）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的作文。

A young man was slapped in the face until he bled because he didn’t offer his seat to a woman with a baby on a bus in downtown Hangzhou．Later he was proved to be a disabled person.

In a series of cases nationwide, we see people being beaten for refusing to give up their seats on public transport, which seems to be a moral problem about correct behavior and self-sacrifice.

People without morals (who don’t give up their seats to deserving people) can be condemned, but they don’t deserve to be treated with violence because they offend moral values and not laws．In comparison, the attackers behave worse.

The attackers regard relying on violence as their only choice if people ignore their appeals to give up their seats．It seems they start a shout or a fight for the sake of justice, but can they still think of their personal intention when they call violent justice?

This “violent justice” can confuse many people and encourage them to do the same, especially when we are overpowered by illogical mood.

If cruel and rude acts are rooted in children’s hearts, society will never step into civilization．The practice violates common values, neither solving problems nor safeguarding civilized society.

1．以约30个词概括短文的要点。

2．以约120个词谈谈你对这一事件的看法,内容包括:

(1) 读完这则新闻,你有什么感受?

(2) 假如你是车上的一名乘客,你会怎样做?

(3) 就如何创建和谐社会提出你的建议。

注意：

1．你可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子。

2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。