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清新区2024-2025学年高三上学期12月期末四校联考英语试题满分130分，考试用时120分钟注意事项：1.答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号填写在试卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置2.非选择题的作答：用黑色签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效第二部分 阅读（共20题，每题2.5分，共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.AThe world continues to inspire travel writers. Standout books for the year ahead are to please all types of our readers.A Search for Nearby Nature and WildernessWorld explorer Alastair Humphries spent a year examining every square metre of a 12-mile radius (半径) around his home in London and found wonder close to hand. A former Adventurer of the Year, Humphries has cycled around the globe and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. His latest book, though, is a celebration of slowing things down and discovering a small wild world right on your doorstep. It’s also a cry to revitalize London’s neglected natural places in urban areas and our right to wander in them. £12.99, Eye Books.My Adventures in Travel and PublishingTravel publisher, Hilary Bradt’s guidebook company celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The first Bradt Travel Guide was born in1974: Backpacking Along Ancient Ways Peru & Bolivia which included some of the very first descriptions of the Inca Trail. Since then, Bradt has published many guidebooks about the farthest parts of the planet — Mongolia and Madagascar among them. Pioneering backpacking travels before the concept was widespread, he presents this book looking back at a lifetime of trials and stimulation in the wild. £20.00, Bradt.True Stories of Nature, Adventure & ConnectionEnvironmental writer Laurie King has gathered a collection of original non-fiction stories, illustrations, and poems examining the human connection with nature. He takes a walk across the desert and discovers how hermits (隐士) survived in a South American forest. These exciting stories aim to inspire you to find your wild animal soul and rethink your relationship with nature. £14.99, Watkins Publishing.Writers Walk the WorldFrom the streets of London to the paths of Japan, the jungles of Ghana and beyond, Duncan Minshull collects the works of more than fifty walker-writers who have traveled the world’s seven continents on foot. From the 1500s to the present day comes a memorable band of explorers and adventurers, scientists and craftsmen, pleasure-seekers and literary drifters sharing their experiences and asking themselves a question — why travel this way in the first place? £15.99, Notting Hill Editions.1．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A．Humphries’s book describes sceneries he saw when cycling around the globe.B．Hilary Bradt is among the forerunners of backpacking toursC．Laurie King’s book describes his contact with wild animals.D．Duncan Minshull’s book compares modern cities with rural areas.2．The book which collects experiences from people of different identities is ________.A．A Search for Nearby Nature and WildernessB．My Adventures in Travel and PublishingC．True Stories of Nature, Adventure & ConnectionD．Writers Walk the World3．The book ________ is focused on natural attractions in a city.A．A Search for Nearby Nature and WildernessB．My Adventures in Travel and PublishingC．True Stories of Nature, Adventure & ConnectionD．Writers Walk the WorldBDave McNee met Claudia Mandekic 14 years ago. When she told McNee how hard it could be to get students excited about math, her favourite discipline, he made a surprising suggestion: “Why not throw in something they enjoy, like sports?” The idea of mixing basketball and mathematics got its first shot in 2011, when the now colleagues — who had launched a tutoring non-profit — were invited to run a summer-school program for kids who’d failed Grade 9 math at Georges Secondary School.When the students showed up for their first day, they weren’t exactly excited. Over the next few hours, Mandekic and McNee gave the kids techniques to improve their shooting while also helping them calculate their field-goal percentage — which, in turn, taught them about fractions and decimal (分数和小数) points. At the end of the game, the winning team was determined based on which group had the highest total percentage and had done the most efficient math. “When the bell rang, they were so fixated on collecting their data and figuring out which team won that they didn’t leave,” says Mandekic. “I realized we might be onto something.”The classes, later named BallMatics, soon spread to other schools. “I was terrible at math,” says Douglas, who enrolled in a fast-track summer program. “But once I started BallMatics and realized the sport I loved was directly tied to math, it made me a lot better at it. Every time I played basketball, I was thinking about math.”Almost any math problem, McNee and Mandekic realized, can be taught on the court. Kids can learn how to navigate an X-Y grid to find their next shooting spot or absorb the basic princip。