2024届广东省大亚湾区普通高中毕业高三第一次联合模拟考试（一）英语试卷

★启用前注意保密 2024届大湾区普通高中毕业年级联合模拟考试（一） 英语 本卷共8页, 分三部分, 满分120分。考试时间120分钟。 注意事项： 1. 答卷前, 考生务必将自己的学校、班级、姓名、考场号、座位号和准考证号填写在答题卡上, 将条形码横贴在答题卡“条形码粘贴处”。 2. 作答选择题时, 选出每小题答案后, 用2B铅笔在答题卡上将对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动, 用橡皮擦干净后, 再选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试卷上。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答, 答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动, 先划掉原来的答案, 然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效。 4. 考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后, 将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第二部分阅读（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。 A Critics’ choice: The year’s best novels. . . 1 The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers （Harper, $29） The novel from a celebrated poet, this 800-page work is many things at once: a moving coming- of-age story, an examination of race, and an exploration of American history. Out of curiosity about the secrets in her family, Ailey uncovers stories that trace back to her Native American, Scottish, and enslaved African-American ancestors. 2 Matrix by Lauren Groff （Knopf, $28） If Matrix were written by anyone else, it would be a hard sell. But Lauren Groff has reimagined the life of 12th-century poet Marie de France so that we can’t help but stay with this royal castoff as she’s sent away, at 17, to run a poor church, which she eventually changes into a shelter for women and a challenge to the male-dominated world. 3 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro （Knopf, $28） A robot that has been programmed to be a sickly teenager’s ＂Artificial Friend, ＂Klara serves as our eyes on a troubling near future in which technological progress is pushing moral boundaries. But her outsider view allows the author of Remains of the Day, now a Nobel Prize winner, to explore what makes people irreplaceable. 4 Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr （Scribner, $30） Doerr's first novel since 2014 covers several hundred years-from 1453 Constantinople to a 22nd-century spaceship escaping from Earth. The book runs 640 pages, but without a wasted word. As engaging as a great bedtime story and as readable as Harry Potter, it's above all a celebration