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广东省深圳市中荟中学B部2026届高三英语周测10
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Although travelling alone may sound discouraging, solo travel is continuing to rise in popularity. There may be numerous reasons why someone is travelling independently. Here are our top reasons to travel by yourself.
Time for you
Some people say solo travel is the comfort and relaxation of having your very own. However, for those looking for some more adventurous “me-time,” solo tours also typically offer plenty of free time to go it alone. During your time at leisure, you have the freedom to do your own exploration, see the sights you want to see or simply relax and take it easy. With no-one to compromise with, it’s totally up to you.
Meet like-minded people
Solo travel doesn’t mean you have to travel alone. Solo travelers come from all walks of life, but they usually all share the same passion — a desire to see the world! It’s often the people you meet on holiday that are the max highlight of the entire trip and, even though you’re travelling alone, you’ll have amazing memories of the shared experiences you had together with people in your group. Take plenty of pictures to remember forever.
You’ll never be alone
Group travel is ideal for solo travelers as it offers the opportunity to a group of like-minded people, each interested in their chosen destination. Being part of a group provides extra security (especially key for independent female travelers who may feel anxious about being on their own) and for everyone there is the benefit of an expert local guide who is keen to share their knowledge. The guides also accompany you on tours and can offer suggestions on what to see and do in your leisure time to ensure you have an authentic and enjoyable experience.
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21.What is the best part of the entire solo trip?
A.The beautiful scenery on the way. B.The freedom to choose your destination.
C.The people you meet during the trip. D.The pictures you take along the way.
22.What can a local guide offer?
A.Protection and security measures. B.Company and personalized suggestions.
C.Knowledge and leisure activities. D.Freedom and enjoyable experience.
23.What is the purpose of the text?
A.To educate. B.To explain. C.To advertise. D.To instruct.
B
One of the problems damaging our planet is the number of things we throw away. Rubbish of all kinds is piling up in landfill and polluting our rivers and oceans. A more recent addition to the list of things we throw away is e-waste — electronic items that are broken and not recycled. Now solutions are being found to give this stuff a new life.
A UN report claims the 50 million tonnes of e-waste generated every year will more than double to 110 million tonnes by 2050 and that’s partly because it’s cheaper to replace them than fix them, but also because we lack the skills to repair them.
However, there’s a growing trend for repair events and clubs which could be part of a solution to the growing amount of electrical and electronic junk. The BBC visited a Restart Project in London. One of its volunteers, Francesco Calo, said that “this project allows you to reduce waste, extend the life of objects, and it helps people who cannot afford to get rid of items that have gone wrong.”
As many electrical items contain valuable metals, another idea is e-waste mining. An experiment at the University of New South Wales involves extracting (提取) these materials from electronic gadgets (部件). It’s thought that doing this could be more profitable than traditional mining. With phones typically containing as many as 60 elements, this could be part of the solution to our appetite for new technology.
These projects make total sense — collections of e-waste for recycling are “not growing or even decreasing” according to Ruediger Kuehr, a professor of the United Nations University. And in countries where there is no relevant laws much of it just gets dumped. However, the European Union, for example, is trying to tackle the problem by insisting manufacturers have to make appliances longer-lasting and will have to supply spare parts for machines for up to 10 years.
24.What does the underlined part “this stuff” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A.Our planet B.E-waste C.Recycling system D.Rubbish
25.How does Restart Project in London help with e-waste?
A.By offering high prices to recycle e-waste.
B.By training volunteers to promote e-waste
C.By creating long-lasting items to avoid e-waste.
D.By fixing electrical items to reduce e-waste.
26.Why is traditional mining mentioned in paragraph 4?
A.To emphasize the value of e-waste mining.
B.To suggest a way for people to earn a living.
C.To explain the process of e-waste mining.
D.To provide a way of dealing with rubbish.
27.What is the passage mainly about?
A.Why our planet is getting worse. B.What can be done to manage e-waste.
C.Why technology is not a good thing. D.How we can protect the environment.
C
Being an opinion writer and journalist, I was demanded that I make a public statement about hot issues online. The voices yelling at me and anyone else who failed to post seemed to believe that not making a statement was itself a statement — and an immoral one, at that.
On social media, people take a position that results in positive comments but reduces complex issues to a simple yes or no. Taking simplistic stands can also lead to twisting words. This kind of simple thinking is deeply unserious and further fuels hatred (敌意), changing personal opinions into extremism and mistaking the expressions of anger for brave action in the face of horror.
These loud, reductive declarations reflect genuine fear about horrors that lie beyond words. . Simple binaries (二元对立) imply simple solutions. And it’s much more pleasant to tell yourself you stand on the side of good, against evil, than to question whether the lines of boundaries were drawn correctly.
Sitting with uncertainty is hard, especially when social media has urged us to expect perfect real-time information during unfortunate events and immediate answers and resolution. Moral certainty is a point we stand on when factual certainty is not possible. And the faster we express it, the more certain we appear.
Such thoughtless posts are not what bother me most, though. Instead, it’s the idea that not posting is wrong somehow — that everyone needs to speak, all the time. It discourages shutting up and listening and letting the voices that matter the most be heard over the noise. It suggests that having any doubts about what’s happening or forming moral conclusions that don’t make sense to share on social media is unacceptable.
I do have opinions, of course, but they don’t fit on social media. While I’ve regretted posting half-formed thoughts too quickly, I’ve never regretted waiting until I was less angry or not posting at all.
28.What does the author think of people’s quick posts on hot issues?
A.Positive. B.Irresponsible. C.Uncaring. D.Unkind.
29.What do paragraphs 3 and 4 try to explain?
A.Reasons why people rush to post opinions.
B.Ways people use to express ideas.
C.Means by which people solve difficult problems.
D.Facts on which people base their judgement.
30.What upsets the author most?
A.Too many posts online. B.Too much false information.
C.People’s judgement on not posting. D.People’s unawareness of current issues.
31.What message does the author really convey?
A.It’s useless to post ideas on social media.
B.It’s better to keep silent than blindly follow suit.
C.Everyone has the right to voice his opinion.
D.Everyone must guard network security.
D
In the face of technological change, creativity is often held up as a unique human quality.
Today however, AI applications such as Chat GPT and Midjourney seem to threaten to upend this special status. These new AI models learn from huge database and user feedback, and can produce new contents in the form of text, images, and sounds. As such, jobs focused on delivering contents — writing, creating images, coding, and other jobs — now seem likely to be uniquely affected by AI. The situation seems more concerning when most of these applications are so easy to use that even children with elementary-level skills in their natural language can use them to create contents right now.
This isn’t a necessary threat to people who do creative work, though. Rather than putting many creators out of work, AI allows them to do it with greater speed and efficiency and reduces the time and effort required to come up with new ideas. Of course, humans will still have to devote time to possibly correcting and editing the information AI produces, but, overall, creative projects should be able to move forward more quickly.
But what we can’t ignore is that AI produces contents cheaply and fast. So there’s always a trend that human writers, producers, and creators practice less and less new human intellectual thoughts and gradually rely on AI design totally. In this way there’s a real risk that innovation will slow down over time and thus significantly change the present structure for creative work.
Creativity has always been of great importance to innovation process and hence competitiveness. So, we need to understand the threats and challenges AI brings. And once we understand what is to change and how, we can adopt AI to create greater value and it is quite hopeful that we see further liberation for creativity.
32.Why do new AI models seem to threaten human creativity?
A.Because they collect huge information.
B.Because they do creative work.
C.Because they disturb humans judgement.
D.Because they offer easy access.
33.How can AI help people who do creative work?
A.By bettering the creating process. B.By sorting out information into groups.
C.By helping correct creator’s mistakes. D.By reducing the producing cost.
34.What is the real risk AI may bring?
A.AI drives humans out of work. B.It is hard to discover AI’s mistakes.
C.Humans rely on AI too much. D.No innovation is in AI’s design.
35.What is the proper title for this text?
A.Who Changes the Structure of Creative Work?
B.Creativity: Unique Human Quality at Last
C.AI Is Destroying the Field of Creativity
D.Could AI Threaten Human Creativity?
二、七选五
Performing First-Aid During a Nose Bleed
Nose bleeds are common and can occur naturally. Nose bleeds occur when the inner lining of one’s nose is hurt or dry. 36 . Almost all nose bleeds originate from blood vessels (血管) in the front part of the nasal septum, which is the inside middle tissue separating both nostrils (鼻孔). With that knowledge, you can manage your own nose bleeds.
Position your body. To begin, sit down, since it is more comfortable than standing. 37 . Raise head slightly forward so that the blood flows slower and smaller gradually through the nostrils. A towel can be held under your nose to collect the blood.
Pinch (捏) the nose. With a finger and thumb, pinch the lower fleshy end of the nose, completely blocking the nostrils. Pinching at this point directly applies pressure at the region where the blood vessels are damaged. 38 . Keep pinching the nose for 10 minutes, then release. While you do this, breathe through the mouth.
39 . Lowering your body temperature can help reduce the blood flow to your nose. To do this, place ice cubes in your mouth. This helps achieve a lower temperature sooner than cooling the external part of the nose. It also will help you keep the lower temperature for longer.
Wash your nose and rest. After bleeding has stopped, you can clean the area around your nose with warm water. After you have cleaned your face, you should rest for a while. 40 . You can lie down while resting.
A.Cool yourself down.
B.Watch your body reaction.
C.It will help stop the flow of blood.
D.A hospital check is then quite necessary.
E.This is to help to prevent further bleeding again.
F.Do not lie down as this can cause blood to pass down the throat.
G.The resulting damage to small blood vessels in the nose causes bleeding.
三、完形填空
In January 2008, Rachel Lapierre, a full-time nurse and part-time volunteer aid worker, made a life-changing decision. After an exhausting day at work she 41 a $4 lottery ticket (彩票) at a local store. At that moment, Rachel made a (n) 42 — if she struck it lucky with the lottery, she would 43 her nursing career. Because humanitarian (人道主义的) work was what she had longed to 44 her life to. When Rachel scratched the ticket, she discovered she had won a big 45 — $675,000.
True to her word, Lapierre spent all her life through her 46 project, Le Book Humanitaire. It began as a humble 47 of good deeds in a simple notebook, which she used to keep track of what she had done to 48 those living in the small communities around her. To her, they were just small acts of 49 — buying clothes for newly arrived immigrants, or delivering 50 to lonely seniors. But 51 started spreading, and a Facebook page she created for the project became a(n) 52 way to answer requests from those in need.
Over the years, Le Book has 53 a remarkable team of 80 volunteers. This non-profit 54 has become a hope for the community. The notebook itself has since been replaced by dozens more, 55 millions of deeds. In 2022 alone, it 56 nearly 450,000 acts of service, 57 the lives of countless individuals.
Le Book Humanitaire, born from Rachel’s lottery win, continues to be a source of 58 for the community. “When you do a good deed, it has a butterfly effect,” says Lapierre. “One good deed can 59 10 people. So if we all do a good deed? That can 60 the world.”
41.A.booked B.bought C.noticed D.delivered
42.A.agreement B.choice C.wish D.deal
43.A.quit B.earn C.fund D.improve
44.A.adapt B.ease C.devote D.compare
45.A.prize B.competition C.game D.profit
46.A.team B.research C.nursing D.charity
47.A.comment B.plan C.survey D.record
48.A.pay B.help C.treat D.attract
49.A.encouragement B.bravery C.generosity D.kindness
50.A.orders B.messages C.meals D.speeches
51.A.word B.money C.dream D.career
52.A.valuable B.unusual C.efficient D.positive
53.A.worked with B.developed into C.accounted for D.focused on
54.A.research B.organization C.firm D.hospital
55.A.representing B.imitating C.predicting D.recommending
56.A.designed B.completed C.invested D.introduced
57.A.rescuing B.deciding C.protecting D.touching
58.A.inspiration B.enthusiasm C.relief D.fantasy
59.A.assist B.shape C.affect D.liberate
60.A.explore B.satisfy C.rule D.save
四、语法填空
The Qiaoxi Historical and Cultural Block in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is perfect for visitors 61 (experience) China’s rich culture. The area is known 62 “Qiaoxi,” which means to the west of a bridge. Because its 63 (locate) is on the western side of Hangzhou’s famous Gongchen Bridge, an ancient structure 64 (lay) across the Grand Canal.
Once a busy market for local trade in ancient times and 65 industrial area in modern times, the Qiaoxi Block has now become a tourism district. Visitors can enjoy Chinese culture up close through a blend (混合) of 66 (tradition) business trade, scenic spots and residential areas. It is also a place 67 several museums meet together, including the China Knives, Scissors and Swords Museum, the China Umbrella Museum, and the China Fan Museum and so on.
68 (walk) along the street, visitors can encounter street performances featuring local folk arts, or take their children to a Chinese medicine workshop, 69 try their hand at gaining cultural heritage skills at the Handicraft Dynamic Museum.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal 70 (list) on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014, where the two heritage sites of the Gongchen Bridge and the Qiaoxi Historical and Cultural Block were included in the project as well.
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