广东省六校2022届高三上学期12月第三次联考英语试题

What is PayQwiq?

PayQwiq is a fast and secure payment service that helps you go quickly through the Tesco checkout. It lets you add your credit or debit card details to the app so you can use your smart phone to pay for your shopping with just one scan. Not only that but it collects your Clubcard points automatically. This means you can now go wallet-free in all UK Tesco stores. So why not give it a go? It only takes a moment to download and you will receive these benefits.

●Collect your Clubcard points automatically

●Pay for your weekly shop up to £250

●Use PayQwiq offline, even with no signal

●Track your spending in Tesco

Sign up to PayQwiq and collect 100 extra Clubcard points for each week you pay with the app, for up to 5 weeks—that's up to 500 extra points.

Available to new customers who sign up by 3 September 2020 and make all payment by 31 October 2020. One offer per customer. Only one qualifying deal per week will collect the extra points. Additional payments in the same week will not receive extra points. Clubcard points will be added to a future Clubcard statement.

How does it work?

Head to the App Store or Google Play to download the PayQwiq app.

As soon as you've added your card details, you'll be ready to shop using just your phone.

And there's no need to worry about your bank details being stored on your phone—they're all securely protected in our data centers. So not only is it quicker and easier, it's safer too.

17-year-old Dasia Taylor was named one of 40 finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), the nation's most famous Science and math competition for high school seniors.

Dasia's sutures (缝合线) work by changing color if the patients' pH level changes, indicating an infection. pH is one of the most common parts of wound healing, Dasia said. It changes very quickly, so it's one of the fastest ways to recognize infection.

So, she started experimenting with root vegetables. "I found that beet changed color at the perfect pH point," says Taylor. "That's perfect for an infected wound. And so, I was like, 'Oh, okay. So beet is where it's at'." Beet provided the perfect dye for her invention, changing from bright red to dark purple when a surgical wound becomes infected. After more than a year of research, Taylor is working on getting her sutures patented.

She imagines these sutures being used in developing countries where they can save lives and money. "The goal of my project is to reduce the number of deadly surgical site infections in developing countries because developing countries suffer from the most number of deaths due to surgical site infections," she said. "I was like there is no way that that should be happening. The equity part of my brain and all the work that I do around equity was like 'That shouldn't be happening. They should have the resources to save their citizens in their country.' So, my goal is to work on that and make sure that it can actually discover those types of infections and stuff." After graduation, Dasia hopes to attend Howard University, study political science and finally become a lawyer.

There's something so wonderfully easy about reading this column in a physical newspaper. You turned the page, and here it is, with few annoyances or distractions, in an ultra-high-definition (超高清的) typeface which was custom-designed with pleasurable reading in mind. Or-wait-are you reading this on a phone? Did you follow a link from Twitter or Facebook? Or maybe you're on a train, or a plane, or you're trying to use your laptop on your cousin's crappy Wi-Fi connection out in the countryside somewhere. In which case, there's a pretty good chance that even getting this far is some kind of minor miracle.

When talking about the economics of online publishing, the first thing to remember is that job No. 1 isn't to get the news to you. Rather, it is to monetise you, by selling you off, in real time, to the highest bidder. This happens every time you click on a link, before the page has even started to load on your phone. Once upon a time, if you and I both visited the same web page at the same time using the same web browser, we would end up seeing the same thing. Today, however, an almost unthinkably enormous ecosystem of scripts and cookies and auctions and often astonishingly personal information is used to show you a set of brand messages and sales pitches which are tailored almost uniquely to you.

That ecosystem raises important questions about privacy and just general creepiness－the way that the minute you look at a pair of shoes online, for instance, they then start following you around every other website you visit for weeks. But whether or not you value your privacy, you are damaged, daily, by the sheer weight of all that technology.

Online ads have never got less annoying over time, and you can be sure that mobile ads are going to get more annoying as well, once Silicon Valley has worked out how to better identify who you are. The move to greater privacy protections might help slow the pace with which such technologies are adopted. But there's no realistic hope that websites will actually improve from here. If you want to avoid the dreadful experience of the mobile web, you'll only have one choice－which is to start reading your articles natively, in the Facebook or Apple News app. But it won't be Facebook and Apple who killed the news brands. It'll be ad tech.

While the arts can't stop the COVID-19 virus or the social unrest we see in the world today, they can give us insight into the choices we make when moving through crises and chaos. The arts invite everyone to think in new ways.

We often experience works of art as something that's pleasing to our senses without a full understanding of the creative effort. Great art often shows us contradictions and crises, and we can learn a great deal from their resolutions. Through our understanding of art, we can gain a deeper understanding of how we might overcome our own challenges. In understanding extremes of contrast, we can see the beauty in art with themes that are not simply pleasing for their magnificent features or qualities.

Beethoven offers a wonderful example of moving artfully through crises and chaos. He composed his Symphony No. 9 as his hearing loss became more and more pronounced. The opening of the symphony seems to come out of nowhere, from near silence in the opening to a full expression of what many consider to be the joy of freedom and universal brotherhood with Schiller's Ode to joy (欢乐颂). Beethoven appears to have created a work of art that not only freed him from his personal struggles, but one that also speaks to the joy of living together in peace and harmony.

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference—a oneness of the two opposing forces. The arts offer many lessons that can help us gain the knowledge we need to move more confidently in today's competitive and uncertain environment. An openness to arts-based solutions will give you more control over your future.

The brain drain is characterized as the emigration of highly skilled laborers to other countries.  In the EU countries such as Poland, Italy and Portugal are especially affected by the brain drain, while other countries such as Sweden, Ireland and Denmark notice the opposite effect, namely brain gain.

There are both push and pull factors affecting the brain drain. Pull factors include higher employment rates, higher salary and an increase in quality of life, while the push factors are high youth unemployment and high enterprise death rates.

These effects include a reduction in human capital, limited capacity to innovate, reduced economic growth, and a higher cost of public goods. There are positive side effects as well, such as return migration and incentives (动机) for investment in education.

This calls for a territorial approach. The European Committee of the Regions, therefore, suggests that local and regional authorities develop instruments and promote measures to increase the attractiveness of the regions facing the brain drain. They should also set up local alliances (联盟).  

The brain drain's negative effects have been key concerns of the EU. As current economic and social differences between European regions are the main cause of the brain drain, the need for a strong association between Europe's cohesion (凝聚) policies has been stressed.  This will also help in adopting the measures expected to fight against the problem of the brain drain including investing in education and employment in European regions.

A study launched by an organization of the EU analyzed several programs across Europe. These are steps like understanding the need for skilled workers, creating mechanisms for cooperation between governments, corporations and universities, removing structural barriers, etc.

A. It is a problem faced by many parts of Europe.

B. These can help in drafting and carrying out local policies.

C. The brain drain can have a negative impact on the sending region.

D. Brain waste happens in the meantime in most European countries.

E. Two of the key objectives are also necessary to reduce the brain drain.

F. It came up with a list of best practices for fighting against the brain drain.

G. Such a policy should help in promoting an even development across the regions of Europe.

On a Sunday morning, Tim Abernathy walked off the dance floor at the Barn Dance and sat down in a chair to rest with his wife, Rachel. Then something felt wrong. His 1 got tight, then tighter. He grabbed Rachel's hand, then 2 to the floor.

"His eyes had 3 back," said Rachel. "His lips were getting darker." The band stopped playing. People started yelling, but nobody 4 to act.

Someone 5 did. It was Johnny "Digger" Tucker. He swiped (挥动) his fingers through Tim's mouth, thinking he could be choking. He started beating on Tim's chest and began mouth-to-mouth. More 6. More mouth-to-mouth. Then finally, Tim 7 a breath. The paramedics (护理人员) came, and Johnny quietly left.

"If Johnny hadn't been there, I would be 8 my husband now, "said Rachel. Folks say Johnny Tucker is the type of man you'd call at 2 a. m. Maybe it's because he knows more than most how 9 life is. Every day, he faces 10.

Johnny is a gravedigger. He has dug the final resting places for about 20, 000 people, each grave   11 a half feet deep in 12, frozen ground. "I treat everybody as if it were my family I'm burying," he said. He is so respected that funeral directors arrange their schedules around his 13.

So maybe it's not 14 that Johnny often finds himself in a position to lend a hand. That night Johnny and his wife were 15 when the band played an old song. They turned around for one more slow dance. Minutes later, the gravedigger saved a life.

The official medals of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games were displayed on October 26^th. The organizing committee introduced the medals—called tong xin,  means togetherness that day.

The medals are inspired by yu bi, a Chinese jade artifact  (date) back 5,000 years. A total of five of this kind of jade  (unearth) from a tomb up to now.

Each medal has carvings of the Olympic rings on one side. The rings represent the pursuit of unity and harmony, and they also represent the Olympic  (value) of solidarity and inclusiveness. Carvings of cloud patterns,  element used on the torch of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, snowflakes and ice markings fill the outer rings. The  side of the medals has the Beijing 2022 emblem at the center.  (visual), it looks quite plain at first glance, while details such as the carving of clouds and snowflake patterns as well as the uneven surface have made it  (special) than expected, according to the committee.

Gaining  (inspire) from jade for a second time honors the Chinese capital's unique position as the first city (host) the Summer and Winter Olympics.

1）活动的目的和意义。

2）提出倡议。

注意：

1）写作词数应为 80左右；

2）请在答题卡的相应位置作答。

注意：

1）词数80左右；

2）请在答题卡相应位置作答。

As a sixth grader, I began noticing how other kids were separating into different groups in the class. There were the geeks, the jocks (小丑), and the popular cool kids. I wasn't sure where I belonged. And I think that was a problem.

Our teacher had assigned "secret friends" for the coming week. The purpose of this assignment was to do nice things for your friend without letting them know who was doing it. We could leave encouraging notes on their desk or mysteriously leave a card in their backpack or book. Our teacher wrote each kid's name on a piece of paper and threw them into a bucket, then we each closed our eyes and drew the name of the classmate who we were to secretly befriend and support over the next five school days.

Everyone was excited to get involved, including Rochelle. By the middle of the week, we had turned this assignment into a contest to see whose secret friend could leave the best gift. Instead of encouraging notes, we left stationary sets on our friend's desk. Instead of giving compliments, we were giving bubble gum, lollipops and even money. It seemed that everyone was getting cool presents from their friends. Everyone except me, that is.

My secret friend followed our teacher's directions without a fault. I received handmade cards, notes with nice thoughts and countless smiley face pictures saying that I was one of the nicest girls in the class. This friend seemed to think highly of me from the notes that were left, but the lack of gifts kept me wondering what was up with whoever had pulled my name.

On the last morning of our assignment, I walked into my classroom and noticed a package on my desk. At last, my secret friend had grasped the idea that a gift was what I really needed. I quickly ripped open the gift paper, only to find a small doll inside. The pink wool-knit doll seemed not new but delicate. But the girls sitting near me giggled and gossiped about the "little girl" gift I had received.

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。