2025年广东湛江高考二模试卷英语

1、—Where will the peace talk be held?

—It is in the hotel __________ we stayed last time we went to Beijing.

A. where   B. which C. that   D. when

2、A Tales of Two Cities is ________ a novel. It helps us understand the history of England and French of that time.

A．more than

B．not more than

C．no more than

D．less than

3、____________ should we prevent the students from exploring new ideas and technology.

A.In no case B.In case C.In case of D.In this case

4、You may go on to work on the second. ________ , you have worked out the first problem .

A．All in all

B．In all

C．After all

D．At all

5、— Tom is an honest boy and he works really hard!

— It is the same ______ you.

A. as   B. with   C. about   D. to

6、After five hours’ drive, they reached _______ they thought was the place they had been dreaming of.

A．that

B．where

C．which

D．what

7、I ________ a few words of Greek when I was there last year.

A．took up

B．picked up

C．looked up

D．set up

8、The man felt rather   as he was the only person that wore sportswear at the party.

A. in place   B. out of place

C. by the way D. in the way

9、Even great minds ________, so we don’t need to underestimate ourselves.

A. are the apple of their eye

B. have their feet of clay

C. are in the red

D. are green with envy

10、— Do you enjoy your present job?

— ______. I just do it for a living.

A．Of course

B．Not likely

C．Quite right

D．I hope not

11、A small plane crashed into a hillside five miles east of the city, ________ all six people on board.

A．killed

B．killing

C．kills

D．to kill

12、-What color is______ orange？

-It's ______orange.

A．an，an

B．an，the

C．an，/

D．/，an

13、Go for a walk in the countryside, you can enjoy the beautiful views and a peaceful atmosphere.

A.why B.where C.that D.which

14、You’ll never speak English well________you often practice it.

A．unless

B．if

C．or

D．otherwise

15、He studied hard and later became a well-known writer, which was ______ his father had expected.

A.why B.how C.that D.what

16、Whatever cultural background you are from, becoming a member of a society means ________ its values rather than being an outsider.

A. adapting   B. arguing

C. favoring   D. adopting

17、In much of the animal world, night is the time for sleep-pure and simple, just like human world.

A．brought up

B．held out

C．set aside

D．laid off

18、To save trouble, you may as well ________ the product online before you place an order.

A. predict   B. polish   C. promote     D. preview

19、Peter kept a little notebook, in which_________ the names and addresses of his friends.

A．wrote

B．was writing

C．was written

D．were written

20、He looked as if he ________ ill for a long time.

A．was

B．were

C．has been

D．had been

21、Life and Health Insurance Risk Manager Wanted

Our company has partnered with an international insurer and is looking for a full-time risk manager with responsibility for the UK Life and Health Insurance business. The role is in a small risk team and is suited to a high-performing individual.

Responsibilities

*Support the chief risk officer;

*Oversee the reporting of health and life risks;

*Deliver advice and cooperate with some stakeholders(利益相关者);

*Assess relevant risks of technical pricing and reinsurance;

*Continuously contribute to the capital requirements, internal model review and data model processes.

Key requirements

The individual will be a qualified life or health manager who has experience in risk management or consulting. You must work in the UK---these rules have changed recently, so when applying, please state your qualification to work in the UK. (E.g. British passport, Irish passport, ILR, settled-status, etc.)

Salary

￡70,000-￡90,000 per year and performance-based salary.

Contact information

The deadline for applications is 14th May, 2021.

If you are interested, please apply here or contact the associate consultant Abi Logeswaran at HFG Insurance Recruitment(招聘). Sign in to apply instantly.

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【1】What do we know about the job?

A．It hunts for a chief risk officer.

B．It is a part-time job.

C．It is related to insurance business.

D．It involves a high-risk team.

【2】Which of the following is a must for applicants?

A．A professional certificate.

B．The ability to change working rules.

C．An Irish passport.

D．Relevant experience.

【3】What do we have to do when applying for the job?

A．Hand in our applications before May.

B．Accept the company's privacy policy.

C．Offer our bank account details.

D．Give our information to third parties.

22、Recently, a study was carried out to determine who was the greatest American president．Sixty-five presidential historians took part in it, and they judged the past forty-two American leaders based on ten leadership qualities, including public persuasiveness(信服), crisis leadership, management of the economy, moral leadership, and conduct of international relations．The historians also looked at administrative ability (管理能力), relations with Congress, ability to set goals, and the pursuit of equal justice for all．Finally, the experts took into consideration the historical period in which the president lived．

The historians chose Abraham Lincoln as American’s greatest president．He had also been named best president in a similar study in 2000．Abraham Lincoln was the president who led the nation through the Civil War in the 1860s, and was able to unite it in the end．He also took the first steps to abolish slavery in America．

Edna Medford, a professor of history at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was an adviser on this study and the earlier one．She says Abraham Lincoln is seen to represent the values the nation most honors, such as truthfulness, moderation, and respect for human rights．

The historians put American’s first president, George Washington, second on the list, while Franklin D．Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman follow in that order．John   F．Kennedy, the country’s first Roman Catholic president, is sixth on the list．Like Lincoln, Kennedy was murdered while in office．

Among recent presidents, Ronald Reagan was named the tenth best and Bill Clinton rated fifteenth, while the historians put former president George W．Bush at number thirty-six．His father, George H.W．Bush, did much better, being placed at number eighteen．

【1】We learn from the text that ___________．

A．this is the second time that Abraham Lincoln has been chosen as America’s greatest president

B．Edna Medford didn’t take part in the study conducted in 2000．

C．George H.W．Bush was thought to have done worse in office than George W．Bush

D．Harry Truman was rated the fourth-best president by the study

【2】Which of the following belong to the ten leadership qualities considered?

a．Being able to persuade the public

b．Taking effective measures during a financial crisis．

c．Balancing home life and career．

d．Pursuing equal justice for all．

A．a,b,c   B．b,c,d   C．a,b,d   D．a,c,d

【3】Who is rated worst among the following four presidents?

A．John F．Kennedy B．George Washington

C．Bill Clinton D．George W．Bush

【4】The text is mainly about ________．

A．the ten qualities a great president needs

B．a study of American presidents

C．the values the American nation honors most

D．how Abraham Lincoln improved the country

23、There is a constant struggle between talent and hard work. The topic of “hard work vs talent” has been researched by many scientists and even they do not have the only right conclusion.

Ericsson, Krampe, and Tech-Romer have pointed out that talent is irrelevant in distant 1993 yet. They connected success with a deliberate practice that lasts for over 10 thousand hours. Moreover, it must be goal-oriented, intensive and thoughtful for better results.

However, recent studies support another viewpoint. Both Malcolm Gladwell（2008）and David Brooks（2011）agree that there is no guarantee that a person with a higher IQ level will be more successful in life. At the same time, talent means nothing without hard work and this thought was formulated(阐述)by Stephen King several dozen years ago.

Why is talent important?

It goes without saying that there are no equal people in the world. Even siblings(兄弟姐妹) may look absolutely the same but be different in character and preferences. That means that their inborn talents are various as well.

For example, if you gather 10 children in one classroom and teach them the same information using a single approach, the results of this studying will be very different. Not only talent will play a significant role in that but also attention, desire, and even upbringing(家庭教育). Of course, it has been confirmed that intelligence is inherited but upbringing is not less important. Some parents work with their kids from the first day of pregnancy and these children will show better results than ones left on their own.

If you wish to become best of the best like an Olympic Games champion, talent appears to be a necessity here. But if you desire to get promotion and win the competition among young colleagues, hard work and desire are your keys to success even if you are not lucky to have been born talented.

【1】What is Ericsson’s view on talent?

A．It’s harmful.

B．It’s unimportant.

C．It’s essential.

D．It’s helpful.

【2】Which one can best describe David Brooks’ idea?

A．Talent is of no use without effort.

B．Talent is useless without a desire for success.

C．People should attach more importance to effort.

D．Smart people are not necessarily more successful.

【3】What does the author want to express by mentioning parents and children?

A．Upbringing is as important as talent.

B．Talent is more significant than desire.

C．Children with a good upbringing perform better.

D．Children from the same family have different IQ levels.

【4】What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．Talent can make a world champion.

B．Talent is the decisive factor in success.

C．Essential factors for success vary with goals.

D．Hard work is enough for promotion in the workplace.

24、Smarter ways to learn from failure

Many of us were told from an early age that, at school or in life, “you learn from your mistakes.” 【1】   

The short answer is “yes” — failure can be a teachable moment. But learning from our mistakes is, in reality, very hard because we don’t like to fail. 【2】 So we react to failure in emotional ways, like giving up on a task easily, telling ourselves we don’t care whether we succeed, or finding fault with the task itself. This is self-protective, according to Hallgeir Sjastad, a professor of psychology and leadership at the Norwegian School of Economics. “Most of us want to think of ourselves as capable”, he says, “so when we fail, it causes a serious threat to our self-image”.

Fortunately, there is a research to suggest that there are some strategies to help us overcome the emotional barriers around failure. 【3】 Instead of asking “Why did I fail?”, we could ask “Why did Sam fail?”, for example. Multiple studies by psychologist Ethan Kross at the University of Michigan show that adopting a third-person perspective helps to soften our negative emotional reactions, allowing us to look at failure more objectively.

A second strategy involves offering advice to others who may be in the same position as us. 【4】 The group of adults and children were asked to give advice based on their own failures. Professors Eskreis-Winkler, Fishbach and Duckworth found that the satisfaction of helping others “forces people to connect with their experience and what they have learned”. 

【5】 But it now seems that we should be saying: “fail again, fail smarter”. Failure is an unavoidable part of life, but by learning to overcome the emotional barriers around it, we may find the road to success is a little easier to find.

A．It doesn’t feel good.

B．But is this actually true?

C．Here are some reasons why we think so.

D．But how to overcome them is a question.

E．One of them is to adopt a third-person view.

F．The writer Samuel Beckett once said: “fail again, fail better.”

G．It led to better levels of motivation and academic success in the test groups.

25、How Running Changed My Life

Running has truly changed my life, but I never understood running as a form of exercise.

During the first two weeks this year, my grandmother passed away and I started to_____my job because of office politics. My life felt stuck. So I decided to run. It was my natural_____. I just wanted to get away. I started running—by the time I came back, I felt tired and_____at the same time. I knew I was on to something.

Once in a  while,  I would  get  excited about  running.  However,  I always  picked  up running for the____ reasons. I used running as a reason to buy new fashionable sports clothes. Or I decided to run to lose weight or become healthier. My running never lasted longer than 2–3 weeks. I would lose interest in running. I just didn’t _____ it. Why would anyone go through the ________  of running? Especially when the weather is bad. Who does that? I’d rather go to the gym with my friends, talk, and pick up some weights.

But I found that pain is __________  the reason I started to run again. When my life was not what I wanted it to be, I was upset. I decided to run when I arrived home one day after work. It was a cold January day, and I only ran for 3 miles in a time that I am too_______ to mention.  But  my time is not what’s important—during that run I finally got it.

My stamina(毅力、耐力) was nearly the same as my life at the time—it was bad, but I knew it would be better if I ________ running.  If I would  fight against the wind, rain, cold, and my  thoughts  of _________, I would eventually improve my stamina and be a better runner.

My life has improved at the same rate that my running pace and stamina has improved. But running has the most___ on my productivity, mood, creativity, and overall livelihood.

Every time life became difficult I would give up. Now, when life is difficult, my response is _______—I love the pain and struggle instead of shying away from it. My life is moving forward and I’m doing well in my job again. I owe this to running.

And the best thing about running is that it is easy to start. You just go. You decide when, where, and how fast.

【1】A.accept B.change C.dislike D.challenge

【2】A.personality B.feature C.response D.ability

【3】A.energized B.exhausted C.awkward D.depressed

【4】A.opposite B.obvious C.particular D.wrong

【5】A.treasure B.understand C.realize D.achieve

【6】A.pain B.result C.benefit D.effect

【7】A.normally B.thankfully C.exactly D.regularly

【8】A.ashamed B.surprised C.happy D.eager

【9】A.quit B.started C.risked D.kept

【10】A.turning up B.giving up C.going up D.standing up

【11】A.focus B.impact C.impression D.pressure

【12】A.natural B.normal C.direct D.different

26、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。

It was 11:30 a.m, and the fishing so far had been fruitless. Not another boat in sight. Andrew Sherman spotted a speck (斑点) on the horizon. As the speck approached, it started to look like a boat. “Jack,” he yelled to his son. “A boat headed straight at us!” Unbelievable. Miles of open ocean, and this boat was on course to T-bone them.

The Shermans stared at the interloper (闯入者) in surprise. Four fishing lines out, music blaring, except there wasn’t a soul in sight. The captain must have gone below, leaving his boat sailing along at 10 mph.

“Follow it, Jack,” Andrew said.

Jack hit the gas. “Hey! Hey!” the Shermans shouted. Nothing. A horrifying new thought took shape: The captain had gone below, all right—and suffered a heart attack.

Father and son switched places, and Andrew drove their boat alongside the other while Jack jumped onto the other boat’s deck, bringing the boat to a stop. Then he ventured down into the cabin. He came back up a moment later. “Empty,” he said.

“It’s a ghost boat!” said father and son nearly at the same time.

Andrew called the Coast Guard. “Man overboard,” he told them. The two men could have left it, but they were curious: What happened to the captain? The boat’s GPS system told them the missing captain had marked points along his route indicating good fishing spots. Then the points suddenly stopped a few miles back.

With Andrew driving the ghost boat and Jack driving their own craft, they headed for that last point. They were searching for what they feared would be a body.

What they didn’t know was that the ghost boat’s owner was alive in the water and growing worn out.

Two hours earlier, Sascha Scheller had been fishing when nature called. He leaned over to relieve himself, zipped up, turned back toward the helm (舵柄), and slipped.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Suddenly he was in the water.

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Only when the boat approached did it dawn on Scheller: “That’s my boat!”

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