2024届河南省信阳重点中学高三下学期复读班高考模拟考试(一)英语试题

2024届高三年级高考模拟卷（一）
英语试题
第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

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In September, thousands of monuments, civic buildings and private homes throw open their doors to offer a rare glimpse of normally of-limits spaces. Here are some less-known treasures around the UK.
Guided tour of Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden
Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden will be running special tours as part of the Open Doors-Wales festival. It was built as a memorial to prime minister Wiliam Gladstope. Take a tour of beautiful Reading Rooms housing 150,000 books. September 16, 10 am-2 pm, booking required.
Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, Glasgow
The atmospheric Britannia Panopticon will be showing off its collection of theatrical relics, props and costumes. Sample Victorian items at the world’s oldest surviving music hall without booking.
September 15 and 16, 11 am-5 pm and September 17, 12 pm-5 pm
Gothic Temple, Stowe Gardens
Visitors to Stowe Gardens will be offered a rare chance to see inside the 18th century Gothic Temple. Though it’s normally rented as a holiday let, its circular rooms and mosaic ceilings will be open to prebooked visitors for one weekend.
September 16 and 17, 10: 30 am-4: 30 pm, free of charge
Appleton Tower: School of Informatics, Edinburgh University
As part of Scotland’s Doors Open Days festival, Edinburgh University’s Appleton Tower will be offering tours of the world-leading School, including a visit to the study suite on Level 9 which offers far-reaching views of the Edinburgh skyline.
September 23, 11 am-2 pm, booking in advance.
21. What can visitors do at Britannia Panopticon Music Hall?
A. They can appreciate theatre-related items.
B. They can listen to the oldest surviving music.
C. They can visit a study room with far-reaching scenery.
D. They can read in Reading Rooms with 150,000 books in store.
22. Which of the following will appeal to architecture fans?
A. Gothic Temple, Stowe Gardens
B. Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, Glasgow.
C. Guided tour of Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden
D. Appleton Tower: School of Informatics, Edinburgh University
23. What do Guided tour of Gladstone’s Library and Appleton Tower have in common?
A. They both last for four hours. C. They both honor world famous figures
B. They both require early reservations D. They both offer special views to visitors.
B
The first time a tortoise walked through my hut at Middle Camp on Aldabra Atoll, I was amazed. I grabbed my camera and carefully positioned myself to take this wildlife encounter. The second time: same thing. The third time: I picked up my phone and took a snapshot. By the fourth or fifth time, I didn’t even look when I felt something bump into me. I knew what it was.
I was there to shoot a story about island restoration in the Seychelles, far off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. Until roughly the middle of the past century, the small island nation showed signs of real environmental killing — local vegetation cleared to make way for coconut plantations, foreign rats and mice running uncontrolled, native sea turtles and giant tortoises being exploited. Biodiversity seemed destroyed. But then the country experienced a shift in conservation awareness — and the giant Aldabra tortoises are among its most visible signs.
Every morning when I woke up and walked outside the hut, I had to remind myself that I hadn’t traveled back in time. I could see flightless Aldabra rails, coconut crabs the size of dinner plates, and giant tortoises — roughly four feet long and weighing up to 550 pounds — just wandering around. The number of sharks in the bay was crazy. Frigatebirds and boobies (鲣鸟) nested in the mangroves (a kind of tree). When we left our hut doors open, which we often did to let in air, the tortoises would walk right through.
In the late afternoon or early evening, whenever they’d finished eating, the tortoises would drop themselves down and fall asleep with their heads outstretched. That made nighttime trips to the outhouse perilous. To get there, we’d have to go 200 feet into the mangroves, negotiating what I called the tortoise slalom trail.
It was a track without a pattern, because of course they picked different places to sleep every night. Avoiding them was important: Falling headfirst over a tortoise onto the sharp coral rock could lead to serious injury on an island far from medical facilities. Nothing was easy on Aldabra, and much of it was insanely difficult. Yet living among the tortoises in this primordial place, in one of the last spots where reptiles still rule, was one of the happiest times of my life.
24. How did the author feel about his final meeting with the tortoise in his room?
A. Calm
B. Excited
C. Concerned
D. Disturbed
25. What made the wildlife on the island suffer during the last century?
A. Introducing foreign species.
B. Killing too many rats and mice.
C. Planting lots of coconut trees.
D. Repairing the building on the island.
26. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 3?
A. To stress the importance of their work.
B. To introduce how large the tortoises are.
C. To present his daily routine on the island.
D. To show how the wildlife is diverse on the island.
27. What might be the suitable title for this passage?
A. Island fills with curious tourists.
B. Aldabra calls for wildlife protection.
C. Tortoises rule on this isolated island again.
D. Efforts are made to protect the environment.
C
Laughing together is an important way for people to connect and bond. Though the causes of laughter can vary widely across individuals and groups, the sound of a laugh is usually recognizable between people belonging to different cultures. In humans, laughter can express a range of emotions from positive feelings like enjoyment to negative ones such as disgust. But what about animals other than humans? Do they “laugh”, and are the causes of their laughter similar to those of human laughter?
Many animals produce sounds during play that are unique to that pleasant social interaction. Researchers consider such sounds to be an analogue of human laughter. Recently, scientists investigated play sound to see how common it was among animals. The team identified 65 species that “laughed” while playing; most were mammals (哺乳动物), but a few bird species demonstrated playful laughter too. This new analysis could help scientists to trace the evolutionary origins of human laughter, according to a new study.
When Sasha Winkler, a doctoral candidate of biological anthropology at the University of California. Los Angeles (UCLA), previously worked with rhesus macaques (恒河猴), she had noticed that the monkeys panted (喘气) quietly while playing. Many other primates (灵长类动物) are also known to sound during play. However, reports of playful laughter were notably absent in studies describing fish, amphibians and reptiles, perhaps because there is some question as to whether or not play exists at all in those animal groups.
Laughter in humans is thought to have originated during play, a hypothesis supported by the play-related panting laughter of many primate species. “Human laughter may have evolved from a similar panting sound that over evolutionary time became the sounded ‘ha ha ha’ that we use today. People still laugh during play, but we also involve laughter in language and non-play behaviors,” Winkler said.
“It’s really fascinating that so many animals have a similar function of sound during play,” Winkle told the Live Science, a science news website. “But we do have these unique parts of human laughter that are also an important area for future study.”
28. What do we know about human laughter?
A. It is not shared among strangers.
B. It is created out of the same reason.
C. It may appear when people hate something.
D. It sounds different between European and Asian.
29. What does the underlined word “analogue” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Something common.
B. Something similar.
C. Something symbolic.
D. Something attractive.
30. Why is there a lack of reports in laughter of some animal groups?
A. Because they are not well evolved and emotionless
B. Because play is not a definite behavior among them.
C. Because they are not as interesting as other animals.
D. Because only mammals and primates are able to laugh.
31. What is probably the focus of future study on laughter?
A. Distinctive features of human laughter.
B. Different functions of animal laughter.
C. The origin and development of human laughter.
D. The relationship between animal laughter and intelligence.
D
Landslides of ash, gas and rock that flow out downhill during volcanic eruptions may be even more dangerous than scientists had realized.
Laboratory and field measurements show pulses of high pressure (高压脉冲) form within these slides, known as pyroclastic (火山碎屑的) flows. Those pressures can be far stronger, and more destructive, than disaster evaluations typically assume. “It’s not a small difference,” says Cert Lube, a volcanologist at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Conventional disaster evaluations might suggest a certain flow will only burst windows, but he says, “When actually, the pressures are so strong, they knock down the walls of the building.”
Pyroclastic flows are the deadliest volcanic disaster, in part because of the pressures they cause. Due to their violent nature, researchers often have to evaluate average pressures in the flows using computer simulations (模拟) based on measurements of geologic deposits left by past flows.
At Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, researchers freed mixtures of hot rock, ash and gas down a channel to copy volcanic landslides known as pyroclastic flows. These pyroclastic flows have an inner rhythm (节奏) that makes them especially destructive. To directly study the inner workings of these forces of nature, Lube and colleagues reproduced smaller versions of the flows in experiments, measuring the destructive power. That let the team calculate the pressures inside the flows. The researchers also analyzed the first measurements of pressures in natural flows, collected in 2019, when pyroclastic flows burst from the Whakaari volcano and swallowed a set of sensors.
To the researchers’ surprise, pressures in the flows shook rhythmically. These pressure pulses would successively （连续地，接连地）damage barriers like blows from an electric drill, Lube says. The pulses sometimes smashed more than three times as hard as the average pressure evaluates typically suggested by conventional simulations.
32. Why do researchers use computers to simulate pyroclastic flows?
A. To find out their inner rhythm.
B. To evaluate their violent nature.
C. To figure out their average pressures.
D. To copy the scene of volcanic landslides.
33. What does the fourth paragraph focus on?
A. How to prepare simulation experiment.
B. How to carry out the simulation experiment.
C. Why to conduct the simulation experiment.
D. Why to measure the inner rhythm of pyroclastic flows.
34. What docs the underlined word “smashed” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. Crashed.
B. Bombed.
C. Conflicted.
D. Increased.
35. What’s the most suitable title for the text?
A. A Well-known Landslide
B. The Deadliest V olcanic Disaster
C. More Destructive Pyroclastic Flows
D. A Pyroclastic Flows Simulation Experiment
第二节(共5小题：每小题2.5分，满分12.5分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

Does this situation seem familiar to you? Your English is progressing well, the grammar is now familiar, the reading comprehension is no problem, and you are speaking quite fluently. 36
First of all, remember that you are not alone. Listening is probably the most difficult job for almost all learners of English as a foreign language. The most important thing is to listen as often as possible. 37 The Internet is really a useful tool for English students. You can download the RealPlayer. The RealPlayer allows you to use the Internet like a radio station.
Once you have begun to listen on a regular basis, you might still be frustrated by limited understanding. 38 Here is some of the advice I give my students:
●Accept the fact that you are not going to understand everything.
●Stay relaxed when you do not understand, and try listening to the material for more times.
●Do not translate everything into your native language.
●39 Don’t concentrate on details before you have understood the main ideas.
●Listen to something you enjoy.
I remember the problems I had in understanding spoken German when I first went to Germany. In the beginning, when I didn’t understand a word, I insisted on translating it in my mind. This method usually resulted in confusion. 40 Firstly, translating creates a barrier between the listener and the speaker. Secondly, most people repeat themselves constantly. By remaining calm, I noticed that even if I did not pay much attention I could usually understand what the speaker had said.
A. What should you do?
B. Listen for the general idea of the conversation.
C. But you can’t follow a native English speaker at all!
D. But listening is a problem for most of the beginners!
E. So, what you need to do is to find listening resources.
F. However, after several weeks, I got used to the new environment in Germany.
G. Then, after the first six months, I discovered two extremely important facts.
第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳
选项。

I’ve loved taking pictures since my parents gave me my first camera at age 10. When I was 14, my friend Sandi taught me how to be a 41 . Thirty years later, I 42 2005, the retina (视网膜) in my right eye detached (脱离). Even after a(n) 43 a problem. In, my vision in that eye was 44 . Fortunately, with my “good” left eye, I could still take photos for fun. I retired in 2012, excited at last to dive into photography in a big way. I
45 magazines and wanted to have one of my photos published.
In 2014, Sandi passed away. Her death reminded me that life is 46 and made me even more motivated in my photography. However, a storm may 47 from a clear sky. The year before last, the retina in my left eye
also detached and I had a(n) 48 surgery. I was terrified that I would end up nearly blind. 49 , when the eye blindfold came off, I could still see.
The six-month 50 finally came to an end. I picked up my camera again and captured the hidden 51 with sharper eyes. I even learned to 52 my photos with editing software. On Father’s Day, I 53 my dad a photo I created. He was 54 . Even better, the photo was 55 in a magazine! My dream has come true at last!
41. A. photographer B. designer C. surgeon D. director
42. A. tackled B. encountered C. discussed D. explained
43. A. consultation B. introduction C. surgery D. examination
44. A. unusual B. abnormal C. ideal D. clear
45. A. subscribed to B. cooperated with C. approached to D. handed in
46. A. potential B. perfect C. precious D. worthwhile
47. A. disappear B. arise C. spread D. result
48. A. emergency B. alternative C. correction D. plastic
49. A. Strangely B. Clearly C. Expectedly D. Luckily
50. A. operation B. recovery C. experiment D. exploration
51. A. secret B. value C. treasure D. beauty
52. A. polish B. advertise C. track D. upload
53. A. awarded B. brought C. presented D. recommended
54. A. shocked B. ashamed C. worried D. satisfied
55. A. recorded B. collected C. published D. evaluated
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
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。

Britain’s record 40℃temperatures will be normal within 30 years, according to new research. The study warns that extreme heatwaves will increase 56 more than 30 percent in the coming years. They 57 (fuel) by the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities, according to scientists. Tuesday was the hottest ever recorded in the UK, which serves as an early preview of 58 climate forecasters believe will be typical summer weather in 2050.
Wildfires have swept the US, where more than a 59 (three) of the country is under heat warnings. Now 60 analysis of atmospheric circulation patterns and greenhouse gases suggests the crisis is 61 (bad) than feared. It is based on data from just over a year ago when nearly 1,500 people 62 (die) as average temperatures in the US and Canada more than doubled.
“An extraordinary and 63 (expect) heatwave swept western North America in late June of 2021. It resulted in hundreds of deaths and a massive die-off of sea 64 (creature)off the coast as well as horrible wildfires,” say scientists. Computer data found greenhouse gases are the main reason for increased temperatures in the past and will be likely 65 (become) the main contributing factor.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Peter询问你高三的学习情况及准备选择的大学专业，请就此给他回复一封邮件。

注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Peter,
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Yours,
Li Hua 第二节（满分25分）
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。

In 1989, I was away from my home in Malaysia (马来西亚) attending the University of Kansas in the USA. I found an advertisement for a summer job as a programmer at Ulm in what was then West Germany. I submitted my application and got an interview. What made me pleased was that I was offered the job after the interview. I thought it was a good opportunity to see part of a new continent.
Both Malaysia and the USA emerged from Britain, so we have common standards for the way many things are done. Naturally, I expected things at Ulm would be different-big things, like language and culture-but I never expected small cultural differences would affect me. For example, I was surprised that little things like how doors fit into doorframes were different. The bread was also very different. While it was fun at first to eat the various kinds of food, after some time I longed for the white, square and soft bread I was used to. And the big things were not that bad: the folks in the city of Ulm mostly didn’t speak English well but were very friendly and helpful.
One of these small differences, however, tripped me up early in my stay. The first few days, my employer put me up in a bed-and-breakfast hotel. Then I found a small studio apartment to rent. It was evening by the time I got settled in. Since there were all-night grocery stores in the US and grocery stores in Malaysia were open late at night, I made a habit of going out to buy some food and other necessities like soap for the shower. But to my surprise and horror, every single shop was closed! I was alone with no food or any other kind of necessary items. I wandered around hopelessly in the street for a while.
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。

Then I saw a university student with whom I talked about my experience.
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