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. 大湾区联考 高三英语试卷 第 1页 ( 共 8 页 ) 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 of the human spir