2024届广东省湛江市普通高考第一次模拟考试英语试卷

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湛江市2024年普通高考测试(一)

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第一部分 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

Top Coffee-producing Countries

Brazil

Back in the 18th century, Brazil started growing coffee. Now, around 300,000 coffee farmers in Brazil produce about 40% of the world’s coffee. Arabica (阿拉比卡咖啡) takes up 70% of the coffee beans grown in the country. In Brazil, 3% of export income is from coffee beans. Brazilians are wild about drinking their coffee and consume it all day long.

Vietnam

Coffee found its way to Vietnam in the 1800s. Now coffee industry employs almost 3 million people. Most of Vietnam’s coffee production is the less appreciated Robusta (罗布斯塔咖啡) variety. Because of that, most coffee beans grown in Vietnam are for instant coffee. Despite coffee’s popularity as an export crop, the Vietnamese still prefer tea. They also make a famous Cappuccino (卡布奇诺咖啡) not found elsewhere—famous because it gets a dose of raw egg if that’s to your liking.

Colombia

Coffee was introduced into Colombia in the early 1700s. In Colombia, about 2.3 million acres of land are planted with coffee. Coffee is the most important agricultural export. There are around 555,000 coffee growers in Colombia.

The majority of Colombian coffee plantations are owned by families. Colombians typically start their morning with a tinto. It’s a small cup of black coffee that’s sweetened with sugar. They may add cinnamon or other spices to jazz it up.

Indonesia

Indonesia has a long coffee history that goes back to the 1600s, which has its share of ups and downs. In the late 19th century, the terrible coffee rust disease caused death to many of the high-quality coffee plants. To prevent this from happening again, Indonesia replanted with the disease-resistant Robusta coffee. Arabica beans still play a part in the Indonesian coffee market, representing about 25% of coffee beans grown there.

1. Which of the four countries started growing coffee earliest?

A. Brazil. B. Vietnam. C. Colombia. D. Indonesia.

2. What is special about Vietnam?

A. A unique kind of coffee drink is made there.

B High-quality coffee beans are produced there.

C. Coffee was produced for the home market there.

D. Coffee planting met with problems in the 1990s there.

3 What do Brazil and Colombia have in common?

A. Coffee exports are growing in both countries.

B. They both have a coffee-loving population.

C. They share the same number of coffee growers.

D. Coffee farms are owned by families in both countries.

B

As a doctoral student, I served as a hostess for famous authors and illustrators when they came to participate in the Ohio State University Children’s Literature Conference. I hosted such beloved creators of children’s books as Nikki Grimes, Jerry Pinkney and James Ransome. I would stand at the airport, holding one of their books and waiting to pick them up and then drive them around town to places they needed to go and assist them during autograph sessions. After graduating from my university and accepting a position at Clemson University in 2003, I kept in touch with James Ransome.

In 2005 I received a grant from the government to conduct a family-literacy program. I wanted to see what would happen when I exposed ten African American families with children to books by and about African

Americans. I provided each of the families with copies of seven books, five of which were illustrated by James.

The families participated in a series of five monthly workshops, and the final event was a presentation by James and an autograph session with him. I believed this event would be a meaningful way to end the program, by having a famous illustrator of children’s literature come and talk about his work, especially because the families and I had read and responded to several of his books over the course of the five workshops.

James’s visit was informative and enlightening for the families. A parent, Ashley, told me that she sent a note to her son’s teacher about having participated in the program and loaned her son’s autographed copies of James’s books for the class to read. Looking back over my career, this family-literacy program is one of the accomplishments of which I am the proudest, and I am especially pleased that James was part of it.

4. How did the author come into contact with James?

A. The author met him by accident at the airport.

B. The author went to him to ask for an autograph.

C. The author hosted him when he attended a conference.

D. The author was introduced to him by a university professor.

5. What can be learned about James?

A. He ran monthly workshops. B. He is an African American.

C. He has written seven books. D. He graduated from Clemson University.

6. What did James do for the family-literacy program?

A. He gave a talk to the families.

B. He loaned his books to the families.

C He responded to the questions raised by the families.

D. He asked the government to give financial support to the families.

7. What is Ashley’s attitude towards James?

A. Doubtful. B. Caring. C. Tolerant. D. Appreciative.

C

The Robbers Cave Experiment was part of a series of studies conducted by social psychologist Muzafer Sherif and his workmates in the 1940s and 1950s. The researchers divided boys at a summer camp into two groups, and they studied how conflict developed between them. They also investigated what did and didn’t work to reduce group conflict. The boys were left in the dark about the experiment.