广东东山中学2025-2026学年度高三第二学期第三次适应性考试英语试题

东山中学2026届高三第三次适应性考试（英语试卷） 2026-05 命题人：第二小组 审核人： 总分：120分 总时长：120分钟 第一部分 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ABCD四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Our photography exhibition is back for its sixtieth year to reveal more of nature’s stories. It’ll take you on a visual adventure through different environments and give you a window into the wildlife that calls them home. ·see first-hand how our activities, both good and bad, are shaping the natural world ·explore breathtaking images, from fierce predators on the hunt to stunning compositions ·witness powerful stories of survival, weakness and the delicate balance of life Every photograph is a reminder of the wonder of the natural world. Alongside the stunning photography, you’ll discover through soundscapes (音景), films and expert insights the diversity and beauty of life on Earth and what we can do together to protect it. Time: 11 October 2024 to 29 June 2025 Address: East Pavilion Gallery, South Kensington, London Peak ticket prices Weekends, school holidays and bank holidays. Adult (17-59): £18 Child (4-16): £10.95 Family (2 adults, 1 child): £37.50 Family (2 adults, 2 children): £46 Family (2 adults, 3 children): £54.95 Off-peak ticket prices Monday to Friday, excluding school holidays and bank holidays. Adult (17-59): £15.50 Child (4-16): £9.25 Family (2 adults, 1 child): £32.25 Family (2 adults, 2 children): £39.50 Family (2 adults, 3 children): £47 1. What can visitors expect of the exhibition? A. Story-composing workshops. B. Lectures on photography. C. A virtual reality tour. D. A feast for the eyes and ears. 2. How much will a family with two children pay for the exhibition on a school holiday? A. £37.50. B. £39.50. C. £46. D. £49.50. 3. What is the main purpose of the exhibition? A. To raise awareness of the natural world. B. To present its history and significance. C. To select the best wildlife photographer. D. To collect funds for wildlife conservation. B Who needs culinary (烹饪的) school when you have the Internet and an unstoppable passion for cooking? Braxton Harst, a 12-year-old from Magee, Mississippi, is living proof that a determined kid can become a master cake baker all by himself. A couple of years ago, Braxton came across cake decorating videos online and was fascinated. He had never baked before, but he was hungry to learn. So, he searched online after homework, and spent hours watching videos. He learned how to make cakes flat and smooth, and how to decorate them. The first cake he attempted was flatter than a pancake. But Braxton wasn’t discouraged. He changed the recipe, tried again, and soon was making tasty and pretty cakes. Fast forward to now: this seventh-grader is turning out excellent cakes that wouldn’t look out of place in a bakery window. One of his most impressive creations was featured at the school bake sale and sold out in minutes. Braxton says his favorite part is the creativity: “Baking is like science and art mixed together. I can experiment and express myself. And it’s delicious!” His mom admits the kitchen often looks like a “flour storm” hit it, but she couldn’t be prouder. Braxton has even started a small side hustle (副业), selling custom cakes to family friends, with all earnings saved for his dream of attending a real culinary institute one day. But for now, he’s content to inspire others — he’s gained a local following on social media where he shares baking tips with fellow teens. Braxton’s journey shows that with curiosity, patience, and an Internet connection, a kid can transform an ordinary kitchen into a springboard for exceptional abilities. His advice to other young people: “Find something you love, learn everything about it, and don’t be afraid to mess up.” This is sweet wisdom coming from a rising star baker. 4. What initially inspired Braxton Harst to start baking cakes? A. Online cake decorating videos. B. His interest in science and art. C. His mother’s encouragement. D. The school bake sale. 5. What do we know about Braxton’s first attempt at making a cake? A. The cake tasted delicious. B. The cake was not so successful. C. The cake was decorated simply. D. The cake sold out in no time. 6. What does Braxton think is the most enjoyable part of baking? A. Making money from selling cakes. B. Following the recipes strictly. C. The process of hands-on experimentation. D. The innovation involved in it. 7. Which of the following is the best title for the text? A. Start a Business as a Chef: Baking Cakes B. The Importance of Culinary School C. From Zero to Hero: A Boy’s Baking Journey D. The Science and Art of Baking Cakes C People often grumble that plastics are too durable. Water bottles, shopping bags, and other trash litter the planet because plastics are everywhere and don’t break down easily. But some plastic materials change over time. They crack and melt into sludge (烂泥), all of which creates huge headaches for institutions, such as museums, trying to preserve culturally important objects. Until recently, museums only have to worry about traditional materials. “We know how to approach the restoration of paintings, books, and materials like wood, metals, and glass,” says Anna Laganà, a research specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute. “But for plastics, our knowledge is still limited.” Tonkin, now a doctoral researcher in fashion conservation at Nottingham Trent University, agrees. “We’re now trying to figure out how to preserve plastics,” she says. Nearly every museum in the world has plastic items, and even well-cared-for objects can fall apart alarmingly quickly. Museums are doing everything they can to save culturally important items from similar fates. But preservation of plastics will likely get harder. Old objects continue to decline. Worse, biodegradable plastics, designed to fall apart easily, are increasingly common. We now live in an age of plastic, and what we decide to collect today, and what we decide to preserve, will have a strong impact on how we’ll be seen in the future. Future archaeologists looking at what’s left from the 21st century will probably find lots of poisonous waste, along with plenty of plastic trash. But if museum preservation efforts succeed, maybe those scholars will also see that plastic items today can be culturally meaningful — and even cherished. 8. What is the main challenge for museums mentioned in the first paragraph? A. Collecting water bottles and shopping bags. B. Handling the extremely durable plastic trash. C. Preserving plastic objects that degrade easily. D. Restoring traditional materials like wood and glass. 9. What can we know about the preservation of plastics from the text? A. It faces increasing difficulties in the future. B. It has been completely mastered by researchers. C. It is easier than restoring traditional paintings. D. It mainly focuses on biodegradable plastic items. 10. What does the last paragraph mainly want to convey? A. Future archaeologists will only see plastic trash from the 21st century. B. Museums’ efforts on plastics may shape how future generations view us. C. Plastic items today are widely considered meaningful objects. D. Poisonous waste will prevent museums from preserving plastic objects. 11. Where can this passage be found? A. In a history textbook. B. In a fashion magazine. C. In a science report. D. In a science fiction book. D Shaped like a soup can with a rounded body, the robot stands on a wearer’s shoulder like a parrot. It can speak fluent Anishinaabemowin, an Indigenous (土著的) language spoken by the Anishinaabe nation of North America. Danielle Boyer, a 24-year-old Anishinaabe roboticist, created the “Skobot” to communicate in endangered Indigenous languages. By enabling young speakers to practice with an engaging partner, she aims to keep these languages alive despite the growing dominance of English. New AI technologies are revolutionizing the way we approach language preservation. Most AI translation systems require vast training data for accuracy, and models for high-resource languages like English and Spanish are typically trained on millions of parallel sentence pairs. However, Indigenous languages often have little public data, posing significant challenges for standard translation methods. To address this, Jared Coleman, a computer scientist at Loyola Marymount University, developed a tool that instructs a large language model in the grammar and vocabulary of a target language, ensuring grammatical accuracy in the output sentences. Since different communities have different cultural traditions, training AI models on material in Indigenous languages, particularly ancestral stories and folk tales, can lead to unintended consequences. As Coleman explained, certain stories are traditionally told only during the wintertime in his community. “How do you maintain that tradition if it’s available online?” he says. In other words, AI models do not understand cultural nuance (细微差别). If they are not trained appropriately, they can mishandle sensitive cultural information. Indigenous researchers are undertaking AI language preservation initiatives to promote greater accessibility and diversity at the forefront of technological innovation. As researchers Uma Pradhan and Joyeeta Dey have explained, AI language preservation helps address historical injustice for communities previously discouraged or even prohibited from speaking their native tongues. These initiatives not only support language revitalization (复兴) by increasing the number of speakers but also emphasize the cultural significance of these languages within technological spaces long dominated by English, Mandarin Chinese and a handful of other global languages. 12. Why was “Skobot” created? A. To provide real-time language translation. B. To assist in learning endangered languages. C. To help Indigenous people acquire new languages. D. To improve the efficiency of practicing oral English. 13. What makes Indigenous languages difficult for AI translation systems to deal with? A. Limited vocabulary. B. Insufficient training data. C. Complex grammatical rules. D. Considerable regional differences. 14. What is a problem of AI models in handling Indigenous stories according to Coleman? A. They dismiss important details. B. They confuse historical timelines. C. They misinterpret traditional customs. D. They fail to fully grasp cultural contexts. 15. What is the last paragraph mainly about? A. The significance of AI in language preservation. B. The key role of AI in promoting global languages. C. The impact of communication on community culture. D. Indigenous researchers’ efforts to revitalize languages. 第二节：七选五（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。 Achieving success is not merely a matter of luck or talent. 16 Here are some basic principles that people of achievement live by and you can apply them starting today. People of achievement create an environment that breeds (孕育) success. That means that you shouldn’t keep company with negative people, read information made for the masses, eat unhealthy food, or the like. 17 Instead, communicate with those with similar goals, read biographies of successful people, go to places that increase your energy, and take care of your health. All that is part of the person you’re trying to become. People of achievement don’t listen to naysayers (反对者). There will be at least a few people in your surroundings that will tell you that your goal is not worth pursuing, that what you’re doing is crazy, and that your idea is impossible. 18 Successful people maintain an unwavering belief in their abilities and direction, even when faced with doubt or criticism from others. 19 If you avoid learning new stuff, you’re only getting further from success. But prosperous people, hard-working entrepreneurs, high achievers and outstanding artists all constantly learn new things. They learn from others, from the past, reading, and travelling and get to know themselves more. That helps them go beyond themselves every day. People of achievement work smarter. The average person wastes a lot of time daily doing meaningless things like overthinking, feeling sorry for himself, being lazy and more. Highly productive individuals get better at time management, eliminate anything that’s not productive, wake up earlier, stop multitasking, delegate (把……委托给) and automate what they can and have more time to do what matters. 20 A. It’s rooted in intentional choices in life. B. People of achievement don’t make excuses. C. People of achievement are all students of life. D. They appreciate what’s around them right now. E. It’s about doing the right things, not just doing more. F. Your job is to ignore that and focus on your vision instead. G. All those affect your judgment, energy levels, health, and success. 第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节：完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 The River Don in Mike’s hometown is a well-known local dumping ground (垃圾倾倒地). Whenever Mike passed the river, the rubbish 21 him, so he decided to take 22 into his own hands. One day, he took three black bags, went down to the 23 and started picking up litter. A passer-by 24 him and asked him what he was doing. Mike explained that he was litter picking and the man 25 to help. They ended up spending the next couple of hours picking up litter together and having the most open and honest 26 about anything and everything. Before Mike 27 home, he told the man that he was going to found a litter-picking group. 28 to his word, Mike set up the Community Clean Up Group and invited people to 29 weekly to beautify the land around the river. Only six people 30 for the first cleanup, but they 31 over 300 kg of litter in just a few hours. The following weekend, ten people joined and they 32 the amount. Soon, they saw otters (水獭) swim upstream for the first time in 40 years. As a 33 , they transformed that whole area. Mike and his partner Nikki now have a database of over 100 34 locals. However, Mike hopes to reduce the amount of people littering in the first place. It’s a (n) 35 goal but Mike is determined to do his best. 21. A. amused B. relieved C. annoyed D. changed 22. A. steps B. matters C. visitors D. holidays 23. A. riverside B. hilltop C. downtown D. seashore 24. A. attacked B. admired C. remembered D. stopped 25. A. pretended B. happened C. offered D. failed 26. A. reports B. chats C. choices D. lessons 27. A. left B. stayed C. headed D. reached 28. A. True B. Equal C. Close D. Deaf 29. A. wait B. call C. pay D. gather 30. A. passed by B. showed up C. fell behind D. ran away 31. A. noticed B. sold C. recycled D. collected 32. A. analyzed B. doubled C. limited D. calculated 33. A. community B. family C. crowd D. committee 34. A. energy-saving B. food-wasting C. litter-hating D. sports-loving 35. A. challenging B. shocking C. confusing D. embarrassing 第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 Chinese people have appreciated the beauty of lanterns for centuries. 36 a beacon (灯塔) that lights up the way home, it is a custom 37 (admire) the charm of lanterns during Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, two festivals that celebrate reunion. When we mention Chinese lanterns, it would not be complete without referring to Zigong, a city in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, often 38 (recognize) as the City of Lanterns. The custom of enjoying lanterns on festivals 39 (begin) in Zigong as early as the Tang Dynasty. Most Chinese lanterns are made with wire structures and fabric coverings. To add to its beauty, Zigong craftsmen also use 40 (variety) of materials, such as silk, paper, bamboo, straw, and even porcelain. Lantern production is now a driving force for the local economy, as most of large-scale lanterns used in festive shows 41 (produce) in Zigong. The annual Zigong Lantern Show is also 42 major draw for the city’s tourism. Visitors flock to Zigong to enjoy lanterns, as well as many other 43 (recreation) activities. The skilful hands of Zigong craftsmen have also taken this national intangible heritage abroad, 44 (stage) impressive performances of color and delight at lantern shows in more than 70 countries and regions worldwide. Zigong lanterns are now a name card for their hometown, as well as their motherland. For the Chinese, lanterns have not only lit up the night but also the hearts 45 long for home. 第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 假定你是李华。你参加了学校组织的“师生共读一本书”活动。请你给英国朋友Mark写一封邮件分享这次经历，内容包括： 1．你们读的书； 2．你的感想。 注意： 1．写作词数应为80个左右； 2．请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。 Dear Mark, Best regards, Li Hua 第二节（满分25分） 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。 Leo had been dreaming about this night for months. Ever since he saw a poster at the local library announcing the “Great August Meteor Shower (流星雨)”, he had been fascinated. But he didn’t just want to watch the meteors; he wanted to see them through his own telescope. In the corner of the garage, Leo worked on his project every day. It was a telescope kit he had found in his grandfather’s garage. Though old and a bit worn, it meant a lot to him. He carefully cleaned the mirrors and followed the instructions in the worn guidebook. His grandfather often sat nearby, quietly watching him. “You’re doing a great job,” Grandpa said with a smile. “A telescope helps, of course. But in the end, it’s how you look at the sky that really matters.” Leo nodded, though his attention soon returned to the small, shining pieces in his hands. By Friday, the telescope was finally ready. Leo named it the Sky-Scanner. Though it looked a little unsteady on its wooden stand, it worked well enough. When he tested it on a distant chimney (烟囱), the image appeared clear. A wave of excitement ran through him-he was ready. That evening, Leo set up everything in the backyard. The air was cool, and the smell of fresh grass filled the air. With a small red flashlight, he checked his star map and adjusted the telescope toward the horizon (地平线). One by one, stars began to appear in the darkening sky. Just as he leaned forward to make a final adjustment, his foot caught on a garden water pipe. He was trapped and hit the stand. With a sharp sound, the eyepiece fell off and disappeared into the grass. Leo dropped to his knees and searched desperately, but the yard was too dark. “No,” he whispered, his voice shaking. “I’ve ruined everything.” The meteor shower was supposed to peak in thirty minutes, and without that tiny piece of glass, the stars would seem like distant, unclear dots. 注意： （1）续写词数应为150个左右； （2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Just then, Grandpa came over, holding a lantern. Moments later, Leo lay on the grass, quieter now, staring at the sky. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $