2023届广东省茂名市高三二模英语试题学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
一、阅读理解
World Book Day author A．M. Dassu shares some tips
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While helping out at her children’s swimming lessons, author A．M. Dassu noticed that one boy always put on his socks too soon afterwards. He inspired her to write a picture book that she called Soggy Socks.
Today, many years later, Dassu has published lots of children’s books. Every day, after taking her children to school, Dassu goes to her desk to write. “I leave my phone upstairs so I don’t get distracted, and try to write 800 words every day,” she says. Dassu believes that the key to being a successful writer is not necessarily talent but “getting your bottom on the at”.kuli
The cyclist with far to go
After 527 days, Liam Garner has completed an amazing achievement. He has cycled almost 20,000 miles from Alaska, in the very north of the US, to Ushuaia-the world’s southernmost city-in the South A
merican country of Argentina. Garner, who was17 years old when he t off, said his trip was inspired by a book he read about a similar journey.
Garner always wanted to have a “big adventure”. During his trip, Garner travelled through 14 countries. He camped outside, stayed in hostels or was hosted by local families. He faced some challenges, including an accident that meant he had to take some time off. However, he recovered and finally reached his goal of being the youngest person ever to cycle from Alaska to Argentina.
来成语接龙
A plastic-waste warrior
Licypriya Kangujam won an international award which celebrates people who spark global change. Licypriya, who is 11 and from India, won it for her Plastic Money Shop, where people can trade in their single-u plastic waste for uful items such as stationery, rice or young trees to plant.
1．What is the key to being a successful writer according to Dassu?
A．Talent.B．Experience.C．Education.D．Effort. 2．What made Liam Garner’s bicycle trip unique?
A．The distance he covered.B．The challenges he faced.
C．The age when he completed the trip.D．The means of transportation he cho.
3．Which area does Licypriya’s award probably belong to?
A．Business.B．Environment.C．Finance.D．Economy.
Growing up in the Philippines,construction worker Johnny Manlugay combs the beaches each night for the eggs of a turtles. He knows exactly what to look for,as he was trained as a child by his grandfather on how to locate the animals and their eggs. Back then,his family traded or ate them. It wasn’t about getting rich as much as it was just a part of life.
Manlugay has since turned over a new leaf. Instead,he us his tracking skills to protect the a turtles that visit the beaches he lives by.
“I’ve learned to love this work,”Manlugay acknowledged in an interview.“We didn’t know poaching(偷猎)was illegal and that we should not eat turtle eggs and meat.”
Manlugay delicately transferred each egg into a bucket he brought with him,as well as some sand from the turtle nests,to be handed over to Coastal Underwater Resource Management Actions(CURMA)，the group leading the conrvation program on the beaches.
Established in 2009,the CURMA conrvation effort has gradually transformed a turtle poachers into valuable allies(盟友). They manage this by offering training to ultimately save thousands of turtles and keep their eggs from ending up everywhere but their nests.
“We talked to the poachers,and it turned out poaching was just another means for them to earn a living,”explained Carlos Tamayo,the director of operations.“They had no choice.”
On average,a turtles lay 100 eggs in a nest. The number of nests in the area ranges between 35and 40 each ason,which runs from October to February. Tamayo noted that the figures had doubled during the first year of the COVID pandemic.“Last ason alone,for example,we had 75 nests and we relead clo to 9,000 hatching,”he shared.
Once collected,the eggs are then transferred to CURMA’s hatchery(孵化场)to be reburied in protected areas. Another former poacher,Jessie Cabagbag,grew up eating turtle meat and eggs like many people there.“I stopped poaching when we underwent training and were taught that what we have been doing was illegal and that the species of turtles are endangered,”he explained. Now,he admits,“I am truly proud. I am happy that I get to contribute to the conrvation of the turtles.”
4．Why did Johnny Manlugay hunt turtles as a child?
A．To make a living.B．To make a fortune.C．To protect them.D．To locate them. 5．How does Johnny Manlugayc deal with the turtle eggs nowadays?
A．To ll them.以礼相待
B．To hatch them.
C．To hand them over to a conrvation organization.
D．To bury them under some sand near the turtle nests.
6．On average,how many a turtle eggs are laid in the area asonally?
A．About 7500.B．Clo to 9.000.
C．From 3500 to 4000.D．Between 3500 and 10000. 7．What’s the best title for this passage?
A．Sea Turtles are Well Protected in the Philippines.
B．Local People in the Philippines Search the Beaches for Sea Turtle Eggs.
C．The Conrvation Program Aims to Save Endangered Turtles.
D．Former Turtle Egg Poachers in the Philippines Turn Protectors.
Do you often compare yourlf to other people? Comparisons can help to make decisions and motivate you but they can also pull you into a comparison trap.
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Whether it’s the number of goals you’ve scored at football or how many books you’ve read, it’s easy to compare yourlf to someone el. Scientists say it’s a natural behaviour that helps humans learn from each other, live happily together and achieve more. Although comparing can be good for you, it’s not always helpful and you can find yourlf stuck in a comparison trap. This is when you always measure yourlf against others and ba your feelings on how well they em to be doing.
Becky Goddard-Hill is a child therapist (someone who helps children understand their feelings) and author of Create Your Own Confidence. She says that comparisons can make us feel good and bad about ourlves. “Comparing up” means eing someone doing better than you and using that to inspire yourlf to aim higher and try harder. However, Goddard-Hill says, “Sometimes it can make you feel rubbish about yourlf and knock your confidence.” “Comparing down” is when you e someone who ems like they’re not doing as well as you. This might make you feel you’re doing well, says Goddard-Hill,but it can also stop you wanting to improve.
If your feelings depend on what other people are doing, “Surround yourlf with cheerleaders,” suggests Goddard-Hill. Notice how people make you feel and spend time with friends who celebrate your strengths rather than compare themlves to you. If you follow
social media accounts that make you feel you are failing in any way, unfollow them. “Find ones that make you laugh or show you lovely places instead,” she says. Finally, focus on your own achievements and how you can improve. “The best person you can compete with is yourlf,” says Goddard-Hill.
8．How does a comparison trap affect us?
A．It makes us focus on our own behaviour.
B．It stops us from learning from each other.
C．It prevents us from living happily together.
D．It bas our feelings on others’ achievements.
9．What’s true about “Comparing up” and “Comparing down”?
A．Both of them usually enhance our confidence.
B．Both of them have advantages and disadvantages.
C．The former is positive while the latter is negative.
D．The former makes us feel good while the latter makes us feel bad.
10．What does Goddard-Hill suggest?
A．Aiming to be our best.B．Trying to be the best.
C．Trying to be a cheerleader.D．Valuing someone el’s achievements. 11．In which ction of the magazine can you find the passage?
A．Achievement.B．Entertainment.C．Health.D．Politics.
表达思念的成语
Holding the large and heavy “brick” cellphone he’s credited with inventing 50 years ago,Martin Cooper talks about the future.
Little did he know when he made the first call on a New York City street from a heavy Motorola protot
ype(原型)that our world would come to be encapsulated on a sleek glass sheath where we arch，connect,like and buy.
Cooper says he is an optimist. He believes that advances in mobile technology will continue to transform lives but he is worried about risks smartphones po to privacy and young people.
“My most negative opinion is we don’t have any privacy anymore becau everything about us is now recorded someplace and accessible to somebody who has enough inten desire to get it,” the 94-year-old said in an interview in Barcelona at MWC, the Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest wireless trade show, where he was getting a lifetime award.
Cooper es a dark side to the advances, including the risk to children. One idea, he said, is to have“various Internets intended for different audiences.”
Cooper made the first public call from a handheld portable telephone on a Manhattan street on April 3,1973,using a prototype device his team at Motorola had started designing just five months earlier.
Cooper ud the Dyna-TAC phone to famously call his opponent at Bell Labs, owned by AT&T. It was literally the world’s first brick phone,weighing 2.5 pounds and measuring 11 inches.
Cooper spent the best part of the next decade working to bring a commercial version of the device to market.
The call helped kick-start the cellphone revolution (革命).
Cooper said he’s “not crazy” about the shape of modern smartphones. He thinks they will develop so that they’ll be “distributed on your body,” possibly as nsors“measuring your health at all times.”
Batteries, he said, might be replaced by human energy.The body makes energy from food,he argues, so it could possibly also power a phone.Instead of holding the phone in the hand, for example, the device could be placed under the skin.
卡卡为什么废了12．What does the underlined part “a sleek glass sheath” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A．A smartphone.B．A Motorola prototype.
C．A “brick” cellphone.D．An original cellphone.
儿童增强抵抗力
13．What is Cooper’s attitude about the future of the mobile phone?
A．Most negative.B．Very subjective.
C．Doubtful and Disapproving.D．Optimistic but also concerned. 14．What can be inferred about children from paragraph 5?
A．They should be provided with a different Internet from adults.
B．They should have easy access to various Internets.
C．They should be introduced to different audiences.
D．They should u various Internets for learning materials.
15．According to Cooper, how might smartphones be powered in the future?
A．By body nsors.B．By human body.
C．By solar energy.D．By advanced batteries.
