河北省“五个一”名校联盟2025届高三第一次联考英语试题

    “It had been a huge life goal, over a decade of my life, and then when I finished that I was aimless and had no idea what to do next,” he said. “I started eating badly, drinking too much, putting on weight and I ignored my business.”
    Ward decided that the best way to overcome this was to challenge himself again. He began running ultramarathons (超级马拉松) and climbing mountains, and soon found that with extreme purpose and direction, he was back to loving life again.
    So where will Ward go next? Space? The bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point of the ocean? “All good things come after suffering, and I want to share that with people. So that’s the next plan,” he said.
    24．What did Johnny Ward achieve in early January 2024?
    A．He climbed to the highest peak in Antarctica.
    B．He set a new record for traveling in Antarctica.
    C．He became the first person to visit the South Pole.
    D．He became the first Irish person to visit every country.
    25．What does the underlined word “resilience” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
    A．The ability to bounce back from difficulties.   B．The quality of being strong and honest.
    C．The skill of achieving goals quickly.    D．The power to control one’ s emotions.
    26．How did Johnny Ward feel after achieving his life goal in 2017?
    A．Relaxed.    B．Satisfied.    C．Lost.    D．Excited.
    27．Which of the following can best describe Johnny Ward?
    A．Helpful and motivated.       B．Athletic and generous.
    C．Proud and self-centered.       D．Determined and strong-willed.
    C
    Myopia, also known as nearsightedness, has become a lot more common in recent decades. Some even consider myopia an epidemic (流行病). But what causes myopia and what reduces it?
    While having two myopic parents does mean you’re more likely to be nearsighted, there’s no single myopia gene. That means the causes of myopia are more behavioral than genetic.
    Scientists have learned a great deal about the progression of myopia by studying visual development in baby chickens. They do so by putting little hats on baby chickens. Lenses (镜片) on the face of the hats cover the chicks’ eyes and are adjusted to affect how much they see.
    Just like in humans, if visual input is wrong, a chick’s eyes grow too large, resulting in myopia. And it’s progressive. Blur (模糊) leads to eye growth, which causes more blur, which makes the eye grow even larger, and so on.
    Two recent studies featuring extensive surveys of children and their parents provide strong support for the idea that an important driver of the increase in myopia is that people are spending more time focusing on objects immediately in front of our eyes, whether a screen, a book or a drawing pad.
    Other research has shown that this unnatural eye growth can be interrupted by sunlight. A 2022 study, for example, found that myopia rates were more than four times greater for children who didn’t spend much time outdoors—say, once or twice a week—compared with those who were outside daily. At the same time, kids who spent more than three hours a day while not at school reading or looking at a screen close-up were four times more likely to have myopia than those who spent an hour or less doing so.
    Fortunately, just a few minutes a day with glasses that correct blur stops the progression of myopia, which is why early vision testing and vision correction are important to limit the development of myopia.
    28．What can we learn from the study on baby chickens?
    A．Myopia in chicks is not progressive.    B．Myopia is mainly caused by genetic factors.
    C．Visual input affects the growth of a chick’s eyes.  D．Lenses can prevent chicks from developing myopia.
    29．What might be the main cause of myopia according to the text?
    A．Absence of enough sleeping hours.     B．Too much screen time.
    C．Poor and unbalanced diet.      D．Lack of high-intense activities.
    30．What’s the main idea of paragraph 6?
    A．Outdoor light helps prevent myopia.    B．Reading is the direct cause of myopia.
    C．Researchers have found a cure for myopia.   D．Children should play outdoors twice a week at least.
    31．What is the author’s attitude towards early vision testing?
    A．Unclear.    B．Approving.   C．Doubtful.    D．Dismissive.