2024届青海省西宁市高考二模英语试卷

2024届青海省西宁市高考二模英语试卷
一、阅读理解
There are many podcasts (播客) that teach English and you can listen to them anytime. Here is a list of some of the best podcasts that you must see.
Learn English Podcast
This podcast has three levels.The first is for beginners, the second is for intermediates (中级学生) and the third is for upper intermediates. If a person wants to learn Business English,then episodes are also made for him.Every podcast is short but very informative. Worksheets and vocabulary tasks are also included.
Speaking Broadly
This podcast is made for advanced learners. Explained through discussion and interviews, each episode has non-native English speakers and every recording also has expert feedback. You will see some common mistakes made by English learners and you can improve your English by learning from those mistakes.
The English We Speak
This podcast airs one episode daily and every episode is only three to four minutes, which talks about phrases and idioms.There are two people in each episode who communicate with each other. Whatever level you are,you will find it rewarding
Elementary Podcast
This podcast is mainly for beginners and intermediate level learners. The length of a podcast is around 25 minutes but you can pause it anytime and continue whenever you want. The hosts of each episode are different.
1．Which podcast provides exercises going with it?
A．Learn English Podcast.B．Speaking Broadly.
C．The English We Speak D．Elementary Podcast.
2．What do we know about Speaking Broadly?
A．It records just expert speakers.B．It aims at beginners.
C．It presents some typical mistakes.D．It provides feedback from listeners.
3．What do The English We Speak and Elementary Podcast have in common?
A．They have the same length.B．They are both interactive.
C．They share the same contents.D．They are suitable for beginners.
Chris Smith looked like any other young boy in his class: thick hair, a wide smile, and playing sports. By all appearances, life for Chris was the same as it was for a hundred other boys in the small town where he grew up, except for the constant evictions (驱赶), and eventually being homeless.
Chris’ father was reckless (鲁莽的) with finances and dishonest in business. His mother tried her best to run the home until Chris’ little brother drowned (溺亡), then his father went to prison, and finally the family fell apart.
“My mom shut down emotionally. Everything got worse,” Chris remembers. Then she was gone and ran away from home without telling Chris. He did the best he could, sleeping on his newly married sister’s sofa. “They didn’t have much money, and I know it was a burden to take me in at 17 years old, I was going to drop out from high school and make it on my own.”
But Chris’ history teacher had different ideas. When Chris’ study began to go down, she cornered him. “You’re the smartest kid in the class,” she told him. “If you don’t graduate, you’re going to regret it.”
“School was my safe place,” Chris says. School also offered him heat and food. It became the closest thing to home he could find, compared to his father’s old truck that became his bed and his study space. He remembers his hair freezing onto the window in the winter.
When graduation came, Chris earned a full scholarship to college and graduated in the top 10 of his class. When it’s time to apply for medical residencies, Chris set his sights high. He applied for residencies around the country and included the No. 1 program in the nation: Johns Hopkins. And then the letter came. Chris was in.
“I didn’t really think I had a chance. But I had learned to give everything my best shot. Life is never fair. But if you don’t give up, you will give yourself a better chance to make it,” Chris says.
4．Why did Chris’ mother leave home?
A．Because of failure in business.B．Because of financial restrictions.
C．Because of her husband’s dishonesty.D．Because of heartbroken family events. 5．How’s Chris’ life and study during senior high school?
A．Lazy and average.B．Comfortable and carefree.
C．Tough and hardworking.D．Happy and undemanding.
6．What s Chris’ philosophy?
A．Never lose heart.B．Always be well-prepared.
C．Never judge a book by its cover.D．Always be humble and cautious. 7．Which of the following can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Doing Is Better than Saying B．There Is No End to Learning
C．From Homeless to Medical Resident D．Great Hopes Make Great Man
Traditionally, people have been forced to reduce complex choices to a small handful of options that don’t do justice to their true desires. For example, in a restaurant, the limitations of the kitchen, the way supplies have to be ordered and the realities of restaurant cooking make you get a menu of a few dozen standardized options, with the possibility of some modifications (修改) around the edges. We are so used to these bottlenecks that we don’t even notice them. And when we do, we tend to assume they are the unavoidable cost of scale (规模) and efficiency. And they are. Or, at least, they were.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to overcome this limitation. By storing rich representations of people’s preferences and histories on the demand side, along with equally rich representations of capabilities, costs and creative possibilities on the supply side, AI systems enable complex customization at large scale and low cost. Imagine walking into a restaurant and knowing that the kitchen has already started working on a meal optimized (优化) for your tastes, or being presented with a personalized list of choices.
There have been some early attempts at this. People have used ChatGPT to design meals based on dietary restrictions and what they have in the fridge. It’s still early days for these technologies, but once they get working, the possibilities are nearly endless.
Recommendation systems for digital media have reduced their reliance on traditional intermediaries. Radio stations are like menu items: Regardless of how nuanced (微妙) your taste in music is, you have to pick from a handful of options. Early digital platforms were only a little
better: “This person likes jazz, so we’ll suggest more Jazz.” Today’s streaming platforms use listener histories and a broad set of characters describing each track to provide each user with personalized music recommendations.
A world without artificial bottlenecks comes with risks — loss of jobs in the bottlenecks, for example — but italso has the potential to free people from the straightjackets that have long limited large-scale human decision-’making. In some cases — restaurants, for example — the effect on most people might be minor. But in others, likepolitics and hiring, the effects could be great.
8．What does the underlined word “bottlenecks” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A．Facing too many choices.B．Choosing from limited options.
C．Avoiding the cost of choosing.D．Having too many desires to satisfy. 9．How can AI meet everyone’s needs?
A．By meeting both ends of supply and demand.
B．By decreasing representations on the supply side.
C．By disconnecting the sides of supply and demand.
D．By reducing people’s preferences on the demand side.
10．What’s the similarity between radio stations and menu items?
A．They are a necessary part in people’s life.B．They offer limited choices.
C．They depend on digital platforms.D．They provide reasonable suggestions. 11．What does the text mainly talk about?
A．The variety of human’s choices.B．Standardized optrarts in daily life.
C．AI settlements to the option bottlenecks.D．Recommendation systems for digital media.
For Caribbean box jellyfish (水母), learning is literally a no-brainer.
In a new experiment, these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles (障碍物) despite having no central brain, researchers report in Current Biology. This is the first evidence that jellyfish can make mental connections between events and change their behavior accordingly. “Maybe learning doesn’t need a very complex nervous system, but rather, learning is an essential part of nerve cells,” says Jan Bielecki, a neuroethologist at Kiel University in Germany. If so, the new finding could help trace how learning evolved in animals.
Bielecki and his colleagues wondered if Caribbean box jellyfish could learn that low-contrast objects, which might at first seem distant, were actually close by. The team put 12 jellyfish into a round tank surrounded by low-contrast, gray and white stripes. A camera filmed the animals’ behavior for about seven minutes.
At first, the jellyfish seemed to interpret the gray stripes as distant roots and swam into the tank wall. But those collisions (碰撞) seemed to lead the jellyfish to treat the gray stripes more like close roots in dirty water, and the animals started avoiding them. The jellies’ average distance from the tank wall increased from about 2.5 centimeters in the first couple of minutes to about 3.6 centimeters in the final couple of minutes. Their average collisions into the wall dropped from 1.8 per minute to 0.78 per minute.
“I found that really amazing,” says Nagayasu Nakanishi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, who has studied jellyfish nervous systems but was not involved in the new work. “I never thought jellyfish could really learn.”
Neurobiologist Björn Brembs views the results more cautiously, noting the small number of jellyfish tested and the variability in their performance. “I want this to be true, as it would be very cool,” says Brembs. Experiments with more jellyfish could convince him that the animals really do learn.
12．What can we know about the jellyfish in paragraph 2?
A．They can avoid obstacles with a central brain.
B．They can change their behaviour after evolution.
C．They may have learning abilities with nerve cells.
D．They may develop a very complex nervous system.
13．What change in behavior did the jellyfish show in the experiment?
A．They completely ignored the gray stripes.
B．They gradually started avoiding the gray stripes.
C．They could avoid collisions if given enough time.
D．They increased their collisions with the tank wall.
14．What conclusion can be drawn from the experiment?
A．Jellyfish preferred the gray stripes over other things.
B．Jellyfish were unable to learn from their environment.
C．Jellyfish relied on the distant objects to change their behavior.
D．Jellyfish showed a learning process and adjusted their behavior.
15．What does Brembs imply in the last paragraph?
A．He believes more testing is needed to confirm the results.
B．He is excited by the potential implications of the findings.
C．He dismisses the findings as irrelevant to jellyfish behavior.
D．He is doubtful due to the consistent performance of the jellyfish.
Finding the words to explain how you feel isn’t always easy. This is why young people’s mental health charity has made “My V oice Matters” the theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week. 16
Do you have trouble sharing your thoughts or worry no one will listen if you do? Making your voice heard means understanding that your words matter and your opinions count. Dr Julia Clements, a psychologist, says that it means expressing your views, thoughts and feelings, not bottling them all up, and being open to hearing the thoughts, feelings and views of others too.
17 In fact you don’t have to use your voice at all. “You can express what you like and don’t like or what you want for the future by writing or drawing instead,” says Clements. “It’s about finding ways to share what matters to you,” she explains. Why is it important?
18 Scientists have discovered that sharing your feelings produces a feel-good chemical in your brain that makes you feel relaxed and calm. Your voice can make a big difference to other people too, including friends and families. Clements says, “You can spread kindness and happiness simply by speaking. With a few kind words, you could help someone feel good about themselves or let them know they are supported.” 19 How can you find your voice?
Clements suggests practising conversations with friends, parents or carers on the way home from school and seeing if you have different opinions about something. If you’re struggling to explain your feelings, find a way that feels right for you, whether it’s talking face-to-face or writing it down. 20 When you’re ready, “Take a deep breath and believe in yourself,” says Clements. “Know that your opinion matters.”
A．What does speaking up mean?
B．What are the benefits of speaking up?
C．Making yourself heard isn’t about shouting the loudest.
D．Don’t be afraid to ask questions if you are confused about something.
E．Everyone has their own unique way of processing and sharing their feelings.
F．Sharing your feelings with a person you trust will help you make sense of them.
G．Words have the power to uplift someone’s spirits and make a positive impact on their day.
二、完形填空
Nine years ago when I went to an English corner for the first time, nobody tried to talk to me. However, I have now become a(n) 21 participant at the English corner. I always give a(n) 22 smile to new comers.
There have been times when I feel unable to 23 those who have an excellent command of English. But as long as I remember the 24 I received nine years ago, I feel better 25 for the challenge, for I 26 there is no point in being sorry for my own inability and the only 27 way forward is to start again from the very beginning with full 28 .
The determination to start again indicates your 29 of the many opportunities ahead. You’ve all 30 read the novel Gone with the Wind, and are 31 by Scarlett, the heroine, who brings herself and the family through the 32 years of the Civil War and Reconstruction and regains her footing in Atlanta. At the end of the book, she says 33 , “After all, tomorrow is another day.” Scarlett’s persistence (坚持) and self-confidence in face of difficulty probably 34 the ever-appealing attraction of the character, and the everlasting popularity of the novel.
It is true that the age in which we live is not 35 . There are a lot of hardships and barriers ahead. But, if we 36 that we always have tomorrow before us, we will not be that 37 with everything around us now. Tomorrow will be a new day. This is the 38 on which we rely. With this faith, we will 39 all that was disagreeable yesterday and discover golden opportunities to achieve that which we’ve never before 40 . 21．A．rude B．anxious C．careless D．active 22．A．grateful B．encouraging C．familiar D．winning
23．A．keep up with B．take pride in C．get rid of D．make fun of 24．A．advice B．training C．treatment D．protection 25．A．allowed B．prepared C．blamed D．supported 26．A．suspect B．know C．promise D．remember 27．A．serious B．awkward C．proper D．bearable 28．A．schedule B．determination C．curiosity D．puzzlement 29．A．share B．experience C．memory D．awareness 30．A．probably B．gradually C．obviously D．frequently 31．A．impressed B．annoyed C．scared D．confused 32．A．recent B．golden C．romantic D．bitter 33．A．casually B．wrongly C．hopefully D．naturally 34．A．admit B．explain C．predict D．reduce 35．A．perfect B．reasonable C．meaningful D．difficult 36．A．declare B．forget C．realize D．doubt 37．A．patient B．busy C．connected D．dissatisfied 38．A．pride B．reality C．faith D．benefit 39．A．throw away B．show up C．seek for D．depend on 40．A．analyzed B．accepted C．designed D．obtained
三、语法填空
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chinese comedienne and actress Jia Ling, known for her bubbly persona and her bright smile, 41 (be) pretty low-key (低调的) in the past year-and-a-half. The plus-sized star recently revealed that she was losing weight for 42 upcoming role during her gap time.
Jia Ling has lost 100 kilograms for her new movie YOLO (You Only Live Once) . From the
exposed photos, Jia Ling looks like a 43 (whole) different person. In the early teasers for YOLO, 44 follows a complete homebody who takes up boxing, audience caught glimpses of Jia Ling’s dedication 45 her role as a boxer. However, it wasn’t until the movie’s release 46 viewers truly got to witness the extent of her transformation.
This version of Jia Ling is both familiar and unfamiliar. She still has that familiar dimple smile, but now she possesses strength and resilience that she has never had before. Her defined abdominal muscles are clear and beautiful, making 47 hard to imagine that this is the same Jia Ling we once knew.
48 (slim) down from 100kg to 50k can’t be achieved overnight. Jia Ling has proven through her actions that if you can’t bear the pain to discipline, you will have to accept the mediocrity (平庸) of yourself. She is unwilling to settle for mediocrity and has chosen to challenge herself, 49 (determine) to exchange sweat and effort for her glamorous transformation today. Her path to success has been filled with hardships and challenges, but she has never given up on her demands and pursuits for herself.
She shows us through her actions that regardless of the circumstances, as long as you have determination and perseverance, you can definitely achieve 50 (succeed). She not only brings us laughter and touches our hearts but also conveys a positive and uplifting energy.
四、改错
51．假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加个漏字符号（∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：
1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last week, a group of foreign students come to our school to experience tea culture, which turned out to be great success.
Upon arrival, they couldn’t wait to visit the tea house, that a lot of tea sets were on display. Then, I made a vividly presentation on how to make tea, arouse their interest greatly. Under my guidance, they began to make tea by their own. Although they didn’t do good as expected, but they felt pleased with what they'd done. The activity ended in a happy atmosphere. In memory of it, none of us took photos, feeling satisfied and happy. It hit me that traditional tea culture was of great valuable.
五、书信写作
52．假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Jack 在邮件中告知你他想来中国当英语外教，请你回复邮件给他一些应聘的建议。

内容包括：
查找网上相关信息；
了解中国文化；
展示教学能力。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jack ,
How are you doing ?
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L i Hua
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