广东省清远市清新区四校2024-2025学年高三上学期期末联考试题 英语 Word版含解析

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清新区 2024-2025 学年高三上学期 12 月期末四校联考
英语试题
满分 130 分，考试用时 120 分钟。
注意事项：
1.答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号填写在试卷和答题卡
上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。
2.非选择题的作答：用黑色签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在
试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。
第二部分 阅读（共 20 题，每题 2.5 分，共 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.
A
The world continues to inspire travel writers. Standout books for the year ahead are to
please all types of our readers.
A Search for Nearby Nature and Wilderness
World explorer Alastair Humphries spent a year examining every square metre of a 12-mile
radius (半径) around his home in London and found wonder close to hand. A former Adventurer
of the Year, Humphries has cycled around the globe and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. His
latest book, though, is a celebration of slowing things down and discovering a small wild world
right on your doorstep. It’s also a cry to revitalize London’s neglected natural places in urban areas
and our right to wander in them. £12.99, Eye Books.
My Adventures in Travel and Publishing
Travel publisher, Hilary Bradt’s guidebook company celebrates its 50th anniversary this
year. The first Bradt Travel Guide was born in1974: Backpacking Along Ancient Ways Peru &
Bolivia which included some of the very first descriptions of the Inca Trail. Since then, Bradt has
published many guidebooks about the farthest parts of the planet — Mongolia and Madagascar
among them. Pioneering backpacking travels before the concept was widespread, he presents this
book looking back at a lifetime of trials and stimulation in the wild. £20.00, Bradt.
True Stories of Nature, Adventure & Connection
Environmental writer Laurie King has gathered a collection of original non-fiction stories,
illustrations, and poems examining the human connection with nature. He takes a walk across the
desert and discovers how hermits ( 隐 士 ) survived in a South American forest. These exciting
stories aim to inspire you to find your wild animal soul and rethink your relationship with nature.
£14.99, Watkins Publishing.
Writers Walk the World
From the streets of London to the paths of Japan, the jungles of Ghana and beyond, Duncan
Minshull collects the works of more than fifty walker-writers who have traveled the world’s seven
continents on foot. From the 1500s to the present day comes a memorable band of explorers and
adventurers, scientists and craftsmen, pleasure-seekers and literary drifters sharing their
experiences and asking themselves a question — why travel this way in the first place? £15.99,
Notting Hill Editions.
1．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Humphries’s book describes sceneries he saw when cycling around the globe.
B．Hilary Bradt is among the forerunners of backpacking tours
C．Laurie King’s book describes his contact with wild animals.
D．Duncan Minshull’s book compares modern cities with rural areas.
2．The book which collects experiences from people of different identities is ________.
A．A Search for Nearby Nature and Wilderness
B．My Adventures in Travel and Publishing
C．True Stories of Nature, Adventure & Connection
D．Writers Walk the World
3．The book ________ is focused on natural attractions in a city.
A．A Search for Nearby Nature and Wilderness
B．My Adventures in Travel and Publishing
C．True Stories of Nature, Adventure & Connection
D．Writers Walk the World
B
Dave McNee met Claudia Mandekic 14 years ago. When she told McNee how hard it could
be to get students excited about math, her favourite discipline, he made a surprising suggestion:
“Why not throw in something they enjoy, like sports?” The idea of mixing basketball and
mathematics got its first shot in 2011, when the now colleagues — who had launched a tutoring
non-profit — were invited to run a summer-school program for kids who’d failed Grade 9 math at
Georges Secondary School.
When the students showed up for their first day, they weren’t exactly excited. Over the next
few hours, Mandekic and McNee gave the kids techniques to improve their shooting while also
helping them calculate their field-goal percentage — which, in turn, taught them about fractions
and decimal ( 分数和小数) points. At the end of the game, the winning team was determined
based on which group had the highest total percentage and had done the most efficient math.
“When the bell rang, they were so fixated on collecting their data and figuring out which team
won that they didn’t leave,” says Mandekic. “I realized we might be onto something.”
The classes, later named BallMatics, soon spread to other schools. “I was terrible at math,”
says Douglas, who enrolled in a fast-track summer program. “But once I started BallMatics and
realized the sport I loved was directly tied to math, it made me a lot better at it. Every time I
played basketball, I was thinking about math.”
Almost any math problem, McNee and Mandekic realized, can be taught on the court. Kids
can learn how to navigate an X-Y grid to find their next shooting spot or absorb the basic
principles of trigonometry based on the angle at which they release the ball. In 2019, McNec and
Mandekic established a private high school called Uchenna Academy. At the school, kids with top
basketball skills can study all subjects, train at their sport and work part-time helping out with the
BallMatics afterschool programs.
Douglas, now 20 and earning a degree in education believes the school’s commitment to
academics is the key reason it’s been a winner. “If we didn’t do our work, we weren’t playing at
the game,” he says, adding that coaches would bench kids who didn’t keep up in class. “At
Uchenna, we were student athletes, not athlete students.”
4．The first two paragraphs are intended to tell the readers ______.
A．the origin of BallMatics B．the challenges facing BallMatics
C．the start of a lifelong friendship D．the dedication of the young teachers
5．What made Mandekic and McNee realize that they “might be onto something”?
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