2024届广东省汕头市高三下学期一模英语试题

2024年汕头市普通高考第一次模拟考试

英语

本试卷共8页，满分120分。考试用时120分。

注意事项：1.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。

2.作答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑; 如需要改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案。答案不能答在试卷上。试题序号从“21”开始。

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，然后再写上新的答案;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

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1. What is Steeple Chasing about?

A. Exploring history behind London’s churches.

B. Spreading knowledge of church construction.

C. Showing beautiful photography of great cathedrals.

D. Sharing experience of being an award-winning writer.

2. What do The Art Of Home and Sort Your Life Out have in common?

A. They have the same prices. B. They are both adapted from a show.

C. They share the similar focus. D. They both guide readers in three steps.

3. Which of the following meets the concept of Never Too Small?

A. Less is more. B. Live smaller but better.

C. The smaller, the better. D. Enlarge your space, enlarge your life.

B

Here we are wrapping up 2023 in a red bow like one of the holiday presents in a TV commercial. It was a year full of poetic discoveries for our editorial team and especially for me. I encountered so many new-to-me poets. Diana Solís from the December 2022 issue and Joyce Mansour from the June 2023 issue are examples of this: poets with whom I was unfamiliar and who have now become part of my daily conversation. Living in Chicago, I might have encountered Diana Solís some other way. She is an icon of revolutionary poetry and photography. What a gift to learn, to be enthusiastic about new poetics like I’m still in the front row of the classroom, trying to do my best.

Two truths I’ve learned about Chicago since moving here: Chicago is a city that holds things close and doesn’t need to show off about its riches. And there are riches everywhere —great music all over the place, the best pizza, an embarrassment of architectures, and, of course, poetry on every corner. Nelson Algren said every great writer must spend time in Chicago.

The final version of 2023 is from a distinguished Chicagoan, the poet and journalist Frank Marshall Davis. When I read his work for the first time, I was struck by the truth of the poems, his clear-eyed critique(批评). He was a truth teller when no one wanted to listen. This issue also includes poems of another Chicago great, Li-Young Lee. His poems taught me how to think about romance as an engine for a poem. Multiple generations of poets have been using the man’s gestures in their love poems, often without realizing it, because even their teachers were borrowing from Li-Young Lee too.

So maybe that is why this issue has me in my holiday feels. Poems can be for the poet and the community concurrently, an offering of the self that indicates the care of the giver.

4. What is the occupation of the author?

A. A magazine editor. B. A news reporter.

C. A blog writer. D. A Chicagoan poet.

5. What does the author think of the year 2023?

A. Everything was new in this year. B. It was a year of poetry revolutionary.

C. New poets led the way in this year. D. It was a year of discovery and learning.

6. What impresses the author most about Chicago?

A. The great art everywhere. B. Its multicultural atmosphere.

C. The economic development. D. Its hidden music and poems.

7. Why does the author mention poets Frank Marshall Davis and Li-Young Lee?

A. To set examples for young poets.

B. To show the great impact of poems.

C. To promote their unique writing technique.

D. To emphasize the importance of poetry reading.

C

A wild African bird that will lead people to trees with honeycomb (蜂巢) seems to somehow learn the distinct whistles and calls of the human foragers (觅食者) who live near them.

This bird species has far more information about what the bees are doing than humans ever could. In Tanzania, Hadza foragers can use a special whistle to attract this bird, which will then fly down and start leading them to honey. With its noisy chattering sound, the bird is very conspicuous. Once the bird arrives at a tree with honey inside, it will rest near the beehive silently, seemingly not to disturb the bees. “That’s the signal to the Hadza to really start searching,” says Brian Wood, an anthropologist at University of California, Los Angeles. Pretty soon, the foragers will locate the hive and cut open the tree trunk.