广东省汕头市潮阳实验学校2024-2025学年高三3月模拟测试英语试题

汕头市潮阳实验学校2025届高三3月模拟测试卷

英  语

 全卷共8页，满分120分，考试时间120分钟

 

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第二部分  阅读（共两节，满分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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2024

The Novel Fair is an annual competition initiated by the Irish Writers Centre (IWC). Described by The Irish Times as “A Dragons’ Cave for writers” , each year the Fair aims to introduce up-and-coming writers to top publishers and literary agents.

The Prize

The twelve winners will have the opportunity to present the summary of their novel directly to industry professionals. Leading publishers and agents will be invited by the IWC to meet these writers in person or through a series of online meetings. To get fully prepared for the meeting with publishers and agents, the winners will receive a place in a workshop on “How to Promote Your Novel”, two weeks in advance. Also, applicants who are longlisted (初选) but do not make it to the shortlist of twelve will have their works evaluated and criticized by the judging panel.

How to Enter

Entry fee for application is £55 (Members of IWC can enter for a discounted fee of £45). This competition only accepts manuscripts (原稿) for novels. Applicants are required to send a summary within 300 words and up to five chapters of their novel, which should be 10,000 words (+/-10％). Manuscripts should be submitted online. There is a limit of one entry per applicant.

Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world. Before entering the competition, please ensure that you have read the Novel Fair Terms & Conditions 2024 very carefully as the Fair is open to only novelists who have never published work previously. If you have any questions about the application process, please email novelfair@irishwriterscentre.ie.

21. What’s the purpose of the Fair?

A. To advertise local stories.    B. To encourage literary reading.

C. To serve as a platform for writers.  D. To arouse enthusiasm for writing.

22. What can the workshop help the winners do?

A. Deal with the judging panel.   B. Improve their writing skills.

C. Learn about publishing process.   D. Present their novels attractively.

23. Which of the following meets the requirement of the Fair?

A. A summary of 200 words.    B. A novel published in 2023.

C. A paper manuscript by post.   D. A submission of seven chapters.

B

UPS driver RYAN ARENS was making his rounds near a pond in Bozeman, Montana, when he heard an unearthly sound. “ Like a cry for help,” he told thedodo.com, a website for animal lovers. It was December 2018, and about 15 feet from the frozen banks was the source of that cry—a half-submerged brown-and-white wirehaired hound, struggling to cling to a thin layer of ice. How she got there no one knows, but an elderly man was already on the scene, determined to save her. He’d entered the pond in a rowboat and was hacking away at the ice with a rock to create a path to the dog. It was slow going, and Arens, 44, thought he stood a better chance.

“Animals are my weakness,” he told the Great Falls Tribune, explaining why he stripped down to his boxers and socks, even though the temperature was in the 30s, and commandeered the rowboat.

His heart thumping, Arens slid closer to the dog and used the other man’s rock to smash away at the ice. He gave one strong heave too many and slipped off the boat, crashing into 16 feet of freezing water.

He resurfaced in time to see the dog going under. Using nervous energy to keep warm, he swam about five feet toward her, grabbed hold of her collar, and pulled her to the ice. He then boosted the dog into the boat and slid it back to the shore, where anxious bystanders carried the dog to the home of the rowboat owner, a retired veterinarian. Once in the house himself, Arens jumped into a warm shower with the dog until they both defrosted. A few more minutes in the pond, the vet told Arens, and she would have likely suffered cardiac arrest.

The next day, Arens was back working the same neighborhood when the dog’s owner came over to thank him for saving Sadie. “ Would you like to meet her?” he asked.

He opened the door to his pickup, and Sadie bolted out. She made a beeline for Arens, leaping on him and bathing him in wet kisses. That special delivery, says Arens, “ was the high- light of my UPS career.” 

24. How did the elderly man try to save the dog at first?

A. He swam to the dog directly.

B. He called Ryan Arens for help.

C. He used a stick to reach the dog.

D. He entered hacked at the ice with a rock.

25. What does the underlined word “commandeered” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A. borrowed    B. took control of    C. repaired    D. sold

26. What can we infer from the passage?

A. The dog’s owner lived far away from the pond.

B. Ryan Arens often saved animals in his daily life.

C. Sadie recognized and was grateful to Ryan Arens.

D. The temperature in Bozeman, Montana was very high then.

27. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. A retired veterinarian helped take care of a rescued dog.

B. A dog owner thanked a UPS driver for returning his lost dog.

C. An elderly man tried to save a dog in a frozen pond but failed.

D. A UPS driver risked his life to save a drowning dog in a frozen pond.

 

C

When planning my wedding, I was determined not to get caught up in the “perfect day” , but to have a relaxed, informal celebration. My husband and I ended up having a lovely time.

“Pursuit of perfection is a prison,” says Moya Sarner, an NHS psychotherapist. Many of us are driven by the unconscious wish that if we could just have the perfect body, the perfect job and the perfect family, then we would be happy. For that reason, it can be one of the most significant barriers to happiness in life.

The psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott wrote about the importance of the “good enough mother” who meets her baby’s needs timely, but is not perfect. He said perfect is harmful. To meet every desire immediately, to pass the toy straight away whenever it is demanded slows down a baby’s growth, robbing them of the opportunity to feel frustrated and learn to crawl to get the toy for themselves.

Winnicott believed that while perfection is not a virtue, tolerance of imperfection is. If we cannot develop the capacity to tolerate imperfection in ourselves and in those around us, we can have no self-confidence, no sustainable relationships and no fulfilling career. If we’re always trying to build something called a perfect life, we aren’t really living the one we’re in.

How do I know all this? I am a perfectionist in recovery. I’ve started to recognize my intolerance of imperfection -- my need for certain things to be exactly as I would like them to be, from the way my husband chops his onions to my terror of being late -- and it has made a huge difference to my relationship and my parenting. How can you be a good partner if you expect everyone else to fit your own narrow expectations? How can your child grow if they sense that they always need to color precisely inside the lines you’ve drawn out for them?

We need to go further than tolerating imperfections. We need to learn to appreciate their humanity and beauty. Imperfections are why people will pay a calligrapher to handwrite invitations when a computer can produce a flawless version of the same script for less money and in less time. So for a more delicious life, and ultimately a better one, I choose