广东省佛山市南海区南执高级中学2024-2025学年高三10月阶段考试英语试题

南执高级中学2025届高三上学期10月阶段测试

英语试题

全卷共10页，满分150分，考试时间120分钟

第一部分  阅读（共两节，满分32分）

第一节（共11小题；每题2分，满分22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

Rowan Atkinson was born in a middle-class family. He had a speaking disability right from his childhood. This gave him a tough time in his childhood and at the start of his career. He was constantly bullied and laughed at because of his look and his speaking disability. This made him very shy and quiet. He didn’t have a lot of friends and the several rejections left him feel lonely. Rowan was very much interested in science. And he decided to pursue a career in this field.

After he completed his Master’s degree, he realized acting was something he really wanted to pursue. He auditioned for several TV shows but faced back-to-back rejections, because he didn’t have a good face and grand body in addition to his stammering (口吃的) problem as well. Rowan kept his passion alive and worked hard towards reaching his dreams. He aimed at making people laugh and with persistent efforts over the years he has successfully established this.

After the several rejections he started creating original comedy sketches. Interestingly he realized that whenever he played some characters, he spoke fluently. He used it as an inspiration for his acting. This is exactly where Rowan’s life changed.

Rowan continued pursuing his dreams, despite all the hardships and rejections he had faced because of his looks and disorder. He had a major breakthrough when he started his own show Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean was “strange, surreal and non-speaking character”. He proved that even without a Hollywood face or a heroic body, you can become one of the most loved and respected actors in the world.

Life always rewards those who are willing to keep moving forward. He teaches us that for success all you really need is hard work. Never let your fears and disabilities stop your life. Walk past these and make yourself better. Your hard work and efforts are sure to pay off one day.

1. What can we know about Rowan when he was young?

A. He liked bullying his classmates. B. He had a few friends and felt lonely.

C. He showed little interest in science. D. He recovered from his speaking disability.

2. Why did Rowan want to act?

A. He wanted to become popular. B. He enjoyed staying in the stage.

C. He intended to make people happy. D. He was eager to overcome his drawback.

3. What made Rowan’s life change?

A. That he was respected by the audience.

B. That he could speak fluently in some characters.

C That he got a Hollywood face and a herbic body.

D. That he received a. Master’s degree in science.

4 What contributed to Rowan’s success according to the text?

A. His wisdom B. His independence. C. His honesty. D. His willpower.

B

In 2013, Deegan was trying to take control of her life after winning the fight against drinking. She did quit, but she was having difficulty reconnecting with people. Even looking someone in the eyes proved to be difficult. “I was sort of like a shell of a person and just didn’t really have many life skills or self-confidence,” Deegan said.

However, baking was something that always brought her joy as a child. One day while helping out in the neighborhood, Deegan picked up a handheld mixer and started baking. “My life was just out of control, but baking is such a controlled thing, where if you take the right steps and follow the directions, you’ll get a pretty exact result,” she said.

Deegan started bringing her homemade baked cookies to people’s homes, which helped her reconnect with people. “Feeding people is such a universal love language,” she said. However, she was still trying to figure out how to find a career at 27 years old. She had no real work experience and she couldn’t put “quit drinking” on her resume(简历).

Deegan’s life shifted in 2015. Encouraged by her friends, she challenged herself to see if she could sell just one pie. She sold dozens! She began baking out of her tiny apartment and eventually launched an official business in 2017．She spent four years developing a pie crust(面包皮) cookie recipe, which has since become the bread and butter of her business.“ People have been walking, running and lining up to get cookies, and it’s just been so magical seeing that,” she said.

When she needs more help, Deegan says she looks for anyone who is just excited to work, even if they don’t

have any experience. After her own struggle, she realized that the desire to work was better than having a certain skill set. And she became a second- chance employer, hiring women out of prison or the shelter system. “You just have to walk through the door and be ready, willing and able and excited to show up and work and you’ve got a job,” Deegan told the reporter.

5. What was Deegan mainly struggling with in 2013?

A. Emotion management. B. Interpersonal relationship.

C. Work-life balance. D. Alcohol addiction.

6. What prepared Deegan for her bakery business?

A. Working previously in the baking industry. B. Seeing people running to get cookies.

C. Wanting desperately to gain total control. D. Offering baked food out of goodwill.

7. According to paragraph 5, what is special about Deegan and her business?

A. She achieved success through baking. B. She was ambitious about her business.

C. She has an open- door employment policy. D. She only hired inexperienced workers.

C

Although we all experience failure in our lives, we don’t all react to it in the same way. An interesting research has emphasized the notion that there are some people who embrace challenges and disappointments as opportunities to re-focus their thinking. These are people with a growth mindset. Then, there are other people who see failure as a complete failure. They believe that they never had the talent anyway, and they probably never will. These are people with a fixed mindset.

Psychologist Dweck has studied these mindsets and provided evidence that most people intentionally place themselves in one of those two groups. The group to which you assign yourself frequently determines how you react to challenges. If you experience failure and give up, you have conveniently assigned yourself to the fixed group. If you experience failure and regard it as a stepping stone, then you have placed yourself into the growth group.

According to the research, people in the growth group tend to generate more creative ideas than those in the fixed group. To illustrate, consider Thomas Edison. In the 19th century, Edison attempted to improve the light bulb and experimented with numerous materials. Over a thousand trials, he managed to discover an element sustaining light. A reporter once asked him,“It seems as though you’ve tried many times and continue to fail each time. Why is that?”Edison answered,“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10, 000 ways that won’t work.”

In studies of creative people, psychologists discovered that a distinguishing feature separating them from the