2025-2026学年广东汕尾高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、Jack was working in the lab __________ the power cut occurred.

A.suddenly B.which C.while D.when

2、Take an active part in programs you enjoy______you can meet various kinds of people.

A.what B.when C.that D.where

3、The newly-built subway is always crowded with passengers going home from market, most of them _____ heavy bags and baskets full of fruit and vegetables.

A. carried B. to be carried

C. to carry   D. carrying

4、—How can you know so much about the incident?

—It took place only 50 yards from ______ I was standing.

A.which B.that C.where D.what

5、My friend came around for a cup of tea and we________ having a big meal together.

A．put up

B．ended up

C．took up

D．brought up

6、Sales director is a position________ communication ability is just as important as sales.

A．which

B．where

C．when

D．why

7、—What’s up? You look worried.

—Well, I ______ on the problem for 5 hours but I haven’t got a single clue.

A. have worked B. worked

C. will work D. have been working

8、________ being famous might sound like a dream come true, today’s star, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine.

A. If   B. Since   C. Until   D. Although

9、A man’s worth lies not _______ much in ______ he has as in ______ he is.

A. that; that; what   B. that; that   C. so; what; what   D. as; what; that

10、You are subject to punishment if you fail to ________ to the customs when carrying the prohibited articles listed above.

A. state   B. declare

C. announce   D. communicate

11、Mr. Zhang gave the textbooks to all the pupils except_____ who had already taken them.

A．the ones

B．ones

C．some

D．the others

12、－ There is still a copy of the book in the library. Will you go and borrow_______?

－ No, I'd rather buy ________ in the bookstore.

A. one; one   B. it; one

C. one; it   D. it; it

13、Evidence has been found through years of study_____children's early sleeping problem is likely to continue when they grow up.

A. why B. how C. whether D. that

14、China has accelerated crucial transformations in the role of government, _______the market to play a decisive role.

A．to allow

B．allowed

C．having allowed

D．allowing

15、How long do you suppose it is ______ he arrived there?

A.when B.before

C.after D.since

16、Those ______ achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off.

A．what

B．who

C．which

D．whom

17、Each spring the apple tree in my garden blossoms so________that the air becomes filled with the sweet of apple.

A.abundantly B.approximately C.apparently D.automatically

18、It came as a great ________ to the parents that their son finally came back safe and sound.

A. relief B. sense

C. relaxion D. favor

19、Even though the way Lin Daiyu expresses her feelings may be ________  to a modern audience, it is rooted in her character and makes who she is.

A. allergic   B. foreign

C. sensitive   D. fundamental

20、When everyone came into the house, he was found ________ on the floor.

A．lain

B．lying

C．being lain

D．lie

21、   'How lucky you are to be a doctor...' Anyone who's a doctor is right out of luck, I thought. Anyone who's studying medicine should have his head examined.

You may think I want to change my job. Well, at the moment I do. As one of my friends says—even doctors have a few friends——it's all experience. Experience! I don't need such experience. I need a warm, comfortable, undisturbed bed all my own. I need it badly. I need all telephones to be thrown down the nearest well, that's what I need.

All these thoughts fly round my head as I drive my Mini through the foggy streets of East London at 3:45 a.m. on a December morning. I am a ministering angel（救死扶伤的天使）in a Mini with a heavy coat and a bag of medicines. As I speed down Lea Bridge in the dark at this horrible morning hour, the heater first blowing hot then cold, my back aching from the car-seat, I do not feel like a ministering angel I wish I were on the beach in southern France. Call me a bad doctor if you like. Call me what you will. But don't call me at half past three on a December morning for an ear-ache that you have had for two weeks.

Of course, being a doctor isn't really all bad. We do have our moments. Once in a while people are ill, once in a while you can help, once in a while you get given a cup of tea and rock-hard cake at two o'clock in the morning- then you worry if you have done everything. But all too often 'everything? is a repetitious（重复的）rule: look, listen, feel, tap. Pills, infection（注射），phone, ambulance（救护车），away to the next.

And then there is always the cool, warm voice of the girl on the switchboard of the emergency bed service who will get your patient into hospital for you—the pleasant voice that comes to you as you stand in the cold, dark, smelly, dirty telephone box somewhere in a dangerous section of town. Oh, it has its moments, this life does.

【1】By saying "Anyone who's studying medicine should have his head examined," in the first paragraph, the writher wants to tell us________.

A．those who want to be doctors are crazy

B．a doctor must be mentally strong so that he can meet any difficult situation

C．a medical student should have a very good memory

D．to be a doctor is a challenge for people's mental health

【2】Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．The writer wishes he could have a quiet, undisturbed night in bed at home.

B．One of his friends says that being a doctor helps one gain experience.

C．He hates the telephone as a modem means of communication.

D．He is not happy with the small and uncomfortable car he is driving.

【3】The underlined sentence "We do have our moments" could best be replaced by"__________".

A．we doctors are called at a moment's notice to see people who need medical treatment

B．usually we are glad that we can do something to help the sick

C．sometimes we find people are thankful for our help

D．there are chances that doctors find their work rewarding and satisfying

【4】From the whole passage we know that the writer________.

A．is a bad doctor, unwilling to make a house call during the night-time

B．is so dissatisfied with his job that he wishes to find a new one

C．is satisfied with his job but he hates to be called out unnecessarily

D．thinks a doctor can enjoy certain special rights whether he felt lucky or not

【5】How does the writer show the doctors work is very tiring and hard?

A．By analyzing some facts that the patients are hard to deal with.

B．By offering some facts of working time and conditions.

C．By comparing the job of being a doctor with other jobs.

D．By drawing a conclusion that being a doctor is unwise.

22、Though the facts that too many people on earth and a too rapid increase in the number added each year are not in argument, we always begin the discussion of "population as global issue" with what most persons mean like this. It was quite right to compare demographic growth to "a long, thin powder fuse(导火线)that bums steadily and hesitatingly until it finally reaches the charge and explodes".

To understand the current situation, which is characterized by rapid increases in population, it is necessary to understand the history of population trends. Rapid growth is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Looking back at the 8,000 years of demographic history, we find that populations have been virtually stable or growing very slightly for most of human history. For most of our ancestors, life was hard, often nasty, and very short. There was high fertility(生育)in most places, but this was usually balanced by high mortality. For most of human history, it was seldom the case that one in ten persons would live past forty, while infancy and childhood were especially risky periods. Often, societies were in clear danger of extinction because death rates could exceed their birthrates. Thus, the population problem throughout most of history was how to prevent extinction of the human race.

This pattern is important to notice. Not only does it put the current problems of demographic growth into a historical perspective, but it suggests that the cause of rapid increase in population in recent years is not a sudden

enthusiasm for more children, but an improvement in the conditions that traditionally have caused high mortality.

Demographic history can be divided into two major periods: a time of long, slow growth which extended from about 8000 B.C. till approximately 1650 A.D. In the first period of some 9,600 years, the population increased from some 8 million to 500 million in 1650. Between 1650 and 1975, the population has increased from 500 million to more than 4 billion. And the population reached 6.2 billion throughout the world by the year 2000, One way to appreciate this dramatic difference in such abstract numbers is to reduce the time frame to something that is more manageable. Between 8000 B.C. and 1650, an average of only 50,000 persons was being added annually to the world's population, At present, this number is added every six hours. The increase is about 800000,000 persons annually.

【1】The underlined word "demographic" in Paragraph l means .

A. extinction of human

B. statistics of human population

C. death rate of human

D. development of human population

【2】Which of the following demographic growth patterns is most similar to the long thin powder fuse?

A. A slow growth for a long time and then a period of rapid, dramatic increase.

B. Too many people on earth and a few rapid increases in the number added each year.

C. A virtually stable or slightly decreasing period and then a sudden explosion of population.

D. A long period when death rates exceed birthrates and then a short period with higher fertility and lower mortality.

【3】 During the first period of demographic history, societies were often in danger of extinction because .

A. only one in ten persons could live past 40.

B. our ancestors had little enthusiasm for more children

C. there was higher mortality than fertility in most places

D. it was too dangerous to have babies due to the poor conditions

【4】The author of the passage intends to .

A. warn people against the population explosion in the near future

B. find out the cause of rapid increase in population in recent years

C. present us a brief and clear picture of the demographic growth

D. compare the demographic growth pattern in the past with that after 1650

23、   Because the commercial internet has been developed with so little regard for privacy, tech companies have been able to turn personal data into considerable profits, raising billions of dollars off their ability to collect and sell information about anyone who has wandered within shouting distance of their software. This week, Google announced a step in the right direction-but not a huge step, nor one that will stop Google from continuing to collect immense amounts of personal data.

At issue is how online companies track internet users as they browse (浏览) from site to site online, typically through cookies (information that a website leaves in your computer so that the website will recognize you when you use it again). The most harmful version, “third-party” cookies, is the web alternative of a company posting security guards across the internet to monitor what you do, even when you’re on other companies’ sites.

Google declared in a blog post Wednesday that it would no longer use or support third-party cookies, nor would it create or use any other technology that tracks individual users across the web. Given that Google is a main supplier of online advertising technology, its change in approach will impact far and wide.

That’s welcome news, although with huge amounts of warning. As Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation noted, third-party cookies were already on the retreat, with Apple and other makers of popular web browsers moving to block them. Meanwhile, Google, Facebook and other Big Tech companies continue to collect personal information in large quantities from people who use their sites and services through first-party cookies and similar techniques.

The concerns about personal data collection are the same whether it’s being collected through first-party or third-party techniques, said Michelle Richardson of the Center for Democracy and Technology. “Companies may use the information to discriminate among internet users, offering different goods, services and even prices to different users.”

Instead of helping advertisers track individuals, Google says, it is improving a technology that assigns users namelessly to large groups with common interests. That’s an improvement, even though it too may be at risk of abuse. But why do any form of tracking at all? Privacy advocates say pitches (兜售) can be targeted effectively by basing them on where the user is at the moment, not where he or she has browsed previously online.

Ultimately, lawmakers are going to have to lay down regulations giving people far more control over whether and how personal information is used online. Ideally the federal (联邦的) government will set a strong floor under online privacy protections, but until then it will be up to state lawmakers or voters to act, as this state has done with its groundbreaking online privacy laws. It’s good to see Google move the ball forward, but there’s much farther to go.

【1】What does the underlined phrase “on the retreat” in Para 4 most probably mean?

A．Exposed.

B．Removed.

C．Emerging.

D．Fading.

【2】It can be learned from the declaration that Google         .

A．is developing new technologies to stop data collection

B．refuses to work with companies tracking privacy

C．intends to abandon its advertising technologies

D．resolves to stop the use of third-party cookies

【3】From the passage we can know that first-party cookies         .

A．are still collecting personal information

B．are blocked by big companies like Apple

C．are mainly used by advertising companies

D．are less concerning than third-party cookies

【4】What is the writer’s attitude towards Google’s new move?

A．It is less satisfactory than expected.

B．It needs to be more forceful to be effective.

C．It will accelerate the disappearance of cookies.

D．It has driven lawmakers to make new regulations.

24、At least 3 million people, or around 6% of the adult population in England aged over 16, say they feel isolated “often or always,” according to Government figures, with those aged between 16 to 24 especially vulnerable(易受影响的). When it comes to our emotional wellbeing, feeling lonely is a risk factor for several mental disorders including schizophrenia and major depression, and also makes us more fearful and anxious.

【1】 What is perhaps less obvious is one answer to the problem: the healing power of poetry to make us feel more connected to others. 【2】 We’re not alone in our despair or delight. When we have a poem by our side, whether tucked into a bag or on a bedside table, it feels like we’re being accompanied by a friend: an authorial arm is wrapped around our shoulders.

I remember one woman starting to cry as she read Derek Walcott’s poem Love After Love during a workshop held at my local hospital in West London. 【3】 Everyone in the room knew just what she meant. She had, in Walcott’s phrase, struggled to “love again the stranger who was yourself”. The poet’s invitation to “Sit. Feast on your life” was what she needed, in language which spoke to her, to imagine loving herself in a way she had always found hard. 【4】

I am not alone in believing in that poems can aid our mental health. A 2021 study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that a group of 44 hospitalized children who were encouraged to read and write poetry saw reductions in fear, sadness, anger, worry and fatigue, Poetry was a welcome distraction from stress and an opportunity for self-reflection, the researchers concluded. 【5】

A．Fighting through tears, she eventually said that she felt understood.

B．I hope there will be more clinical studies on poetry’s therapeutic power.

C．Indeed, loneliness is now widely recognized as a major public health problem.

D．Poetry lets us connect with other people who have experienced similar feelings.

E．Unfortunately, an increasing number of people have no idea of emotional well-being.

F．Poetry had worked its magic, unlocking a feeling of inner connection to all of us there.

G．I am hopeful that more studies and evidence will emerge, given my own experience of how poems can help us feel less isolated.

25、Years of living with a lisp (口齿不清) had taught me it was better not to say anything than to speak and risk embarrassment. As a result of my ______, I felt distanced from most of my peers (同龄人). “Kathy? Oh, she’s quiet.” That’s what most people would say when they ____ me, as if “Quiet” were part of my ____. I was okay with that. I didn’t need to be ____.

Last September, however, that all ____. I started my creative writing class with Ms. Haist. Every day we would be given a different writing task and, if we wished, we could ____ what we had written. I ____ listening to others read their work and thinking: “That will never be me. I’ll never have the ____ to do that.”

One day, I was really ____ with what I had written and wanted to share. My heart was beating wildly as I raised my hand. Those ____ little voices were ringing in my ear, “You have a lisp, remember? ____, your writing isn’t that good. Be quiet.” I was about to ____ my hand when I met Ms. Haist’s encouraging eyes.

I swallowed the voices down and let my real voice ___. I could hear it ___as I read, and I could hear every stutter (结巴) and mistake. I finished reading, waiting to be laughed at. ____, I heard claps from the class and praise from Ms. Haist.

The next day, I did it ____. Soon I was reading out loud nearly every day. Gradually, I realized that ____ my lisp, the class and the teacher always appreciated my writing. Now I may still not be the most ____, social person, but I’ve become better at oral presentations. I ____ read my poetry out loud at a reading club.

Every time those little voices try to tell me to be quiet, I think of all the encouragement I received in class and I know that I ____ to be heard.

【1】

A．embarrassment

B．excitement

C．humor

D．silence

【2】

A．heard from

B．talked of

C．called on

D．looked for

【3】

A．name

B．opinion

C．duty

D．business

【4】

A．seen

B．heard

C．followed

D．protected

【5】

A．disappeared

B．returned

C．developed

D．changed

【6】

A．examine

B．practice

C．share

D．copy

【7】

A．regret

B．consider

C．imagine

D．remember

【8】

A．time

B．courage

C．patience

D．evidence

【9】

A．busy

B．strict

C．pleased

D．disappointed

【10】

A．tired

B．urgent

C．funny

D．cheerful

【11】

A．Besides

B．Otherwise

C．Therefore

D．Normally

【12】

A．touch

B．wave

C．extend

D．withdraw

【13】

A．go down

B．die away

C．come out

D．calm down

【14】

A．shaking

B．singing

C．shouting

D．deepening

【15】

A．Sadly

B．Hopefully

C．Honestly

D．Unexpectedly

【16】

A．again

B．alone

C．already

D．anyway

【17】

A．thanks to

B．instead of

C．despite

D．except

【18】

A．serious

B．outgoing

C．nervous

D．hardworking

【19】

A．even

B．still

C．only

D．seldom

【20】

A．fear

B．agree

C．deserve

D．pretend

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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