2026届江苏省南京市鼓楼区名校联盟高三一模英语试题

2026年高考模拟试卷（一模）

命题人：高文博 审题人：郭天宇

一、阅读理解（每题2.5分，共50分）

A

Read Smart: Tween Book Club

● $80 for 4 classes

●1 class per week, 50 minutes, 3-8 learners per class

Class Experience

As a professional author, I love talking about books with students, and I especially love urging them to dig deep and think about books beyond a simple “I liked it” or “I didn’t like it”. This class seeks to engage students in meaningful discussions about books while also touching on literary devices like symbolism, foreshadowing, tone and voice. The books selected for this course are modern reads that are less likely to strike students as “required reading”. There is so much to be learned from reading outside our “comfort zone”.

Students need to independently purchase or borrow the selected book, and should have read approximately 1/4 before our first meeting.Arrangement

January: The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty

February: Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

March: Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

April: The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

May: The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor

June: The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands

July: A Night Divided by Jennifer A．Nielsen

August: The Van Gogh Deception by Deron R. Hicks

September: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

October: Ghost by Jason Reynolds

November: Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

December: My Jasper June by Laurel SnyderGuidance

●To ensure an engaging and social experience, students are required to have microphones and videos for the entirety of this class.

●Students are asked not to use filters or virtual backgrounds.

●Students will be asked to introduce themselves by sharing their name and a favorite book.

●The Zoom text chat is set to “host only”, meaning students can chat with me, but not to one another or the entire classroom.

1．What is stressed during the class?

A．Monthly reading. B．Retelling the content.

C．Interactive reading. D．Having face-to-face discussions.

2．What are students required to do before the first class?

A．Have a talk with the teacher.

B．Download the selected book.

C．Read about a quarter of the selected book.

D．Introduce the main idea of the selected book.

3．What is forbidden in class?

A．Using microphones. B．Sharing a favorite book.

C．Chatting with the teacher. D．Presenting virtual backgrounds.

B

I started walking backward for no apparent reason. I was simply waving goodbye to my daughters when it hit me to take a few steps backward. Since I’d already started, I thought I could walk all the way home that way. After all, the contradiction of moving forward by going backward seemed engaging and worth exploring.

The first problem was practical. Snow is a pain even for regular walking, so my pace slowed down considerably. At this different pace, life itself felt rushed in comparison. How silly it is that we’re always in such a hurry to get somewhere. For example, I often arrive at places long after my body gets there. Sometimes I reach my daughters’ school, but my mind is still at home, wondering whether I unplugged my wife’s hair dryer. Walking backward, however, forced me to adjust the pace of my body to my mind.

The next thing had to do with vision. In regular walking, the path ahead is always visible. Here, you use other senses: you hear the car approaching, you sense the unevenness of the ground, and you notice the change in the firmness of the snow. You activate an entire set of skills we usually don’t use because of our dependence on sight. This way, the familiar path I walked every

day suddenly felt like a grand adventure, a discovery I hadn’t anticipated.

Because of my addiction to foolish ideas, I decided to continue my backward walking for the rest of the day. And I quickly realized something obvious: the path I enjoyed most was the one I had already travelled. And it struck me that this was the right way to look at life: moving toward a destination without ever forgetting where you’ve been, or how far you’ve come. Looking back is always good for self-value. There’s no way to look at yesterday and not feel better: for the illness that didn’t kill you, or the happy childhood days that still make you smile.

4．What interested the author in the first paragraph?

A．Finding a new route back home.

B．Engaging himself in deep thinking.

C．Moving forward in a different manner.

D．Seeing his daughters off every morning.

5．What did the author realize on the way back home?

A．We need to stay focused at work.

B．We don’t need to live a rushed life.

C．We should spend more time with family.

D．We shouldn’t compare ourselves to others.

6．How did the author overcome the vision problem?

A．He studied a set of new skills. B．He depended on his memory.

C．He followed his sense of direction. D．He made full use of other senses.

7．What message does the author seem to deliver in the last paragraph?

A．Childhood is the best part in life. B．It’s inspiring to reflect on the past.

C．It’s important to find your self-value. D．One ought to learn to forgive himself.

C

These days it’s quite easy to strike up a conversation with artificial intelligence (AI). Ask some chatbots a question, and they’ll even provide an engaging response verbally. You can chat with them across multiple languages and request a reply in a particular dialect or accent.

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