深圳高级中学（集团）2025届高三第三次诊断考英语试题（含答案）.docx

深圳高级中学（集团）2024－2025 学年高三第三次诊断考试
英语
满分 120 分，考试用时 120 分钟
命题人：高三英语备课组
审题人：高三英语备课组
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 和 D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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These days, streaming is more straightforward than ever. If you have a newer TV, all you have to do is
select one of the built-in apps and sign up to start watching. You have more options with devices such as an Apple
TV, Netflix or Hulu, and you don’t have to be a tech expert to operate them.
Netflix
The granddaddy of streaming built a dynasty on engaging shows with established fan bases, like Friends
and Grey’ s Anatomy. Then Netflix went all in on award-winning and fan-favorite originals such as House of
Cards. Now it’s also the go-to for comedy specials with the likes of Jim Gaffigan and more, making it vital for
stand-up fans.
Hulu
Once little more than Netflix’s replacement, Hulu is coming for top billing. Since Disney purchased the
streamer in 2019, it has turned Hulu into a giant: a basic subscription includes original Hulu shows Only Murders
in the Building. Go for Hulu’s Live TV and you’ll get 95-plus channels including the big networks, ABC, NBC,
CBS and Fox.
Apple TV+
Apple TV+ is the only major service with original programming and no ads. That means no list of old
shows to binge-watch, only the new cutting-edge series and films produced by Apple Studios that tend to cap
best-of year-end roundups, including Ted Lasso.
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Apps
Prices
$
$
$
6.99/month with ads
Netflix
15.49/month ad-free
7.99/month with ads
Hulu
$17.99/month ad-free
$
26.99/month for Live TV
$9.99/month
Apple TV+
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1．What’s the total price for a quarter of ad-free Netflix and Hulu’s Live TV?
A．$42.48. B．$46.47. C．$127.44.
D．$169.92.
2．What is special about Apple TV+?
A．It is cheaper than the other two apps.
C．It is one of the oldest streaming apps.
3．What is the purpose of the passage?
A．To promote some engaging TV shows.
B．It is exclusively available on Apple devices.
D．It is a service with original ad-free programming.
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B．To compare features of some TV shows.
C．To provide information on some streaming apps. D．To list the charges of some streaming apps.
B
I often wake up to my alarm after a short night and step out of bed to a day I’ve fought through countless
times. I rush my morning routine and run to my car. My radio switches to my favorite song, but I have to listen to
an audible (可听的) book for an assignment due tomorrow.
When I get to school, I start with Spanish, my hardest class. Despite being around all year, I have no clue
what’s going on. I then walk to my English class, in which I am stuck in the language rules. The assignments take
so much energy that my perfectionist nature makes me unable to take them on in school. Therefore I save them for
later, most probably late at night.
This is my reality as a student with dyslexia, a learning disorder in reading and spelling: assignments that
take three times as long as they’re meant to, late nights and early mornings to even slightly keep up with my
classes.
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I was told that Advanced Placement U. S. History would be my hardest class. But here, I am in my element.
Despite being three assignments behind, I’m actively engaged. Yes, my passion for history heightens my focus,
but my teacher’s willingness to work with me is what allows me to fly high.
Teachers need to offer alternative structures that make learning more accessible. I’ve had teachers who
teach lecture-based classes where students are expected to take notes and listen. As a student with dyslexia, this
doesn’t work. A fix for that is as simple as providing alternative resources: a slide show students can go back to
after class, or perhaps even an activity that further plays with the concepts.
Now, many schools are shifting to approaches that meet the needs of all kids. However, advocacy work can
still be done to support students with dyslexia. If school systems are willing to provide support and education by
creating an accessible class structure from the start, students won’t be stuck into academic tracks that don’t push
them to their full potential.
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4．Why does the author have to do his homework late at night?
A．He is assigned extra homework.
B．He fails to manage his spare time.
D．He dislikes tasks related to languages.
C．He needs time to do it well enough.
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5．What does the underlined part “in my element” in paragraph 4 mean?
A．Burning the midnight oil.
B．Feeling like a fish in water.
D．Having butterflies in my stomach.
C．Biting off more than I can chew.
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6．What does the author think of lecture-based classes?
A．Satisfying. B．Inspiring. C．Rewarding.
7．What does the author advise schools to do for students?
D．Demanding.
A．Offer classes with alternatives.
B．Ask educational experts to give lectures.
C．Advocate out-of-class activities.
D．Get teachers trained in special education.
C
Honeybees have a difficult task. First, they have to find food. Then they have to return to the hive to tell
other bees where to find it. The bees have to fly back and forth between the hive and their food over and over
again. Also they need to deal with whatever obstacles lie along their flight paths.
“
Honeybees face a lot of challenges in choosing efficient ways through dense environments and we
basically want to study how they choose the safest and least energy-consuming routes.” said Marielle Ong, a
researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia.
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To track the insects’ navigation, she and her team set up tiny obstacle courses for more than a hundred
honeybees. Along the way, the bees were forced to fly through one or the other of two openings of different sizes.
As a group, the bees usually flew through the wider opening, which makes sense — fewer chances of slamming
their tiny bee bodies into a wall.
But things got more interesting when Ong looked at the decisions made by individual bees, one by one.
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We found that 55 percent had no biases, and the rest of the 45 percent was a split between left-handed bees and
right-handed bees."
In other words, some honeybees have a sidedness. They obviously don’t have hands, but let’s say they’re
either right-handed or left-handed. So, for example, a right-handed bee would prefer to navigate the overcrowded
right-side opening in the obstacle than go through the left-side hole, even though it was larger and safer.
Sometimes, bees with a sidedness would even land and walk through the smaller opening so that they could use
their preferred side.
These biases apparently help the members of large swarms (群) navigate through a complex environment
without crashing into each other. If all bees were right-handed, it would take a long time for the entire group to
pass through a small opening, such as a hive entrance. But by having a range of side biases, the entire swarm can
move more quickly when it encounters an obstacle.
Ong thinks that one day engineers could apply this finding. They could design robotic drone swarms to pass
obstacles more efficiently. They could even program self-driving cars to operate less like a chaotic group of
humans and more like an orderly group of honeybees.
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8. What method did researchers use to study honeybee navigation?
A. Observing bees in natural hives
C. Tracking bees using GPS devices
B. Creating small challenge routes
D. Analyzing bee communication dances
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9. What did researchers discover about individual honeybees’ preferences?
A. Bees preferred larger and safer openings.
B. Bees landed and walked through obstacles.
C. Bees displayed left- or right-side preferences.
D. Bees avoided flying through small openings altogether.
0. What is the benefit of sidedness in honeybee swarms?
A. Bees navigate without colliding with one another.
B. Bees choose larger openings when facing obstacles.
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C. Bees take more time passing through small openings.
D. Bees slow down and land to pass through smaller holes.
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1. What does the author imply in the last paragraph?
A. Robotic systems are already as orderly as honeybee swarms.
B. Side biases in bees prevent swarm movement through small openings.
C. Engineers could use honeybee behaviors to design chaotic swarm systems.
D. Honeybee navigation strategies could improve drone and vehicle efficiency.
D
The way different languages sound may depend on the geography of the landscape on which they’re spoken,
new research suggests.
A study of more than 550 languages around the world found that tongues spoken in high-altitude regions
contain more sounds called “ejective consonants”, sounds made with a burst of air, than languages closer to sea
level.
Ejectives may be more common in these regions because the sounds are easier to produce there, or possibly
because they minimize water loss from the mouth in dry, high-altitude environments, said study author Caleb
Everett, an anthropological (人类学的) linguist (语言学家) at the University of Miami.
Traditionally, linguists have assumed that geography doesn’t play a role in shaping languages, with the
exception of vocabulary specific to certain environments or wildlife. A handful of small studies have suggested
that languages in warm climates use more vowels than languages in cold climates, but the findings are
controversial.
Everett set out to investigate how other aspects of geography, namely altitude, might be linked to certain
sounds in a language — specifically, ejectives. Everett suspected that ejectives might be more common at high
altitudes, where the lower air pressure would make them easier to produce.
To test this hypothesis (假说), Everett analyzed phoneme (音素) data on 567 languages from the World
Atlas of Linguistic Structures Online. He compared the data to the altitudes where the languages were spoken,
obtained using geographic mapping software. Languages containing ejective sounds were found to occur at or
near five of the six major inhabited high-altitude regions, including in North and South America, southern Africa
and Eurasia, Everett found.
He theorized that languages at high altitudes may have evolved to have ejective sounds because less effort
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is required to produce these bursts of air in thinner atmospheres. Alternatively, speaking in ejectives might expel
( 排 出 ) less water vapor from the mouth, allowing water to be conserved in typically dry high-altitude
environments. Everett’s findings were based on basic calculations of the air pressure needed to make these sounds.
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2．What did Everett’s study focus on?
A．The evolution of ejective consonants.
C．The impact of high altitudes on human speech.
B．The effects of warm climates on language.
D．The link between geography and language sounds.
3．What might be the reasons for more ejective consonants in languages spoken in high-altitude regions?
A． They are easier to hear in thin air.
C．They are related to certain wildlife.
4．What is paragraph 6 mainly about?
A．The distribution of ejective sounds.
C．The scientific basis for Everett’s research.
5．Where is the text most probably taken from?
A．A linguistic journal.
B．They help reduce water loss in the mouth.
D．They are easier to produce in thick atmospheres.
B．The research methods and findings.
D．The controversy surrounding Everett’s hypothesis.
B．A cultural brochure.
C．An experiment report.
D．A geography textbook.
第二节（共 5 小题;每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多
余选项。
Glaciers are melting; children are facing violence; hatred is spreading. At times, it feels as if the world is
reaching the bottom.
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. It’s one of the most powerful and essential human mindsets, and possible to
achieve even when it feels out of reach. Chan Hellman, a psychologist, emphasizes that hope is a teachable and
attainable mindset, not an inherent trait. How can we stay hopeful—even when it feels unattainable?
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As children, we were often warned against getting our hopes up. However, David Feldman, a professor
studying hope, notes, “The truth is, whether or not we allow ourselves to hope, at some point we’re going to be
disappointed. I think the solution is allowing ourselves to feel hopeful.”
Set at least one meaningful goal
In the mid-1980s, the psychologist Charles Snyder identified three crucial factors forming the basis of Hope
Theory, a model researchers still rely on today: First, people must think in a goal-centered way. More on the other
two elements — “pathways” and “agency”. Make it a point to always be working toward at least one goal that’s
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meaningful by nature, Feldman advises.
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.
Brainstorm solutions
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. Feldman explains it as having clear and feasible strategies for goal attainment. If you’ve set a
goal that’s meaningful to you, but you can’t figure out a way to achieve it, you’ll probably feel pretty hopeless.
People who are high in hope, meanwhile, tend to have an alternative at the ready.
Call your support team
According to Snyder’s research, people who are hopeful tend to have a lot of “agency”, which means the
motivation to actually achieve their goals. Getting a good night’s rest, following a healthy diet, and meditating can
all promote “agency”, Feldman says.
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. However, sometimes the strongest source of agency is other
people. When Feldman is feeling low, he calls his father, who’s his biggest cheerleader.
A. Seek for hope in loneliness
B. Give yourself permission to be hopeful
C. The cure for any despair might be hope
D. Surround yourself with supportive people
E. So can tapping into our own positive beliefs about ourselves
F. Another key element of Snyder’s Hope Theory is “pathways”
G. It shouldn’t be something you have to do but something you want to do
第三部分 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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的
最佳选项。
I knew my life was easier than that of most single mothers. I was fortunate enough to have the basics (基本
需求)
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for my daughters and me, but it was the unexpected costs that
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at night.
Sometimes, when I saw the sunrise in the morning, I took a deep breath and encouraged myself to count it a day
as long as I