1、【新高考卷】2024年高考英语模拟练习试卷2（考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分）第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)第一节 (共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1.Where did the man go yesterday?A.To a library.B.To a museum.C.To a tennis court.2.Who is the woman talking to?A.A neighbor.B He
2、r sonCA deliveryman.3.Why is George late?A.He missed the bus.B.His bike broke down.C.He had to change clothes.4.How did the man feel after watching the video?A.Excited.B.Moved.C.Surprised.5.Whats the matter with Laura?A.She is under work pressure.B.She pressed the wrong button.C.She broke the printi
3、ng machine.第二节 (共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6.What are the kids doing?A.Putting up a poster.B.Cleaning up the road.C.Emptying the trash can.7.What is the man like?A.Careless.B.Helpful.
4、C.Confident.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8.What is the possible relationship between the speakers?A.Schoolmates.B.Teacher and student.C.Brother and sister.9.What subject is Alice weak in?A.English.B.HistoryC.Math.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.What is Nigels course?A.Literature,B.Computer.C.Business.11.What project is Nigel
5、 working on with Jenny?A.Starting a company.B.Surveying students interest.C.Setting up a food shop.12.What does the woman advise Nigel to do?A.Help the poor students.B.Think about the project carefully.C.Avoid selling things to students.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.What should one do to enter the competition
6、?A.Write a story.B.Go on a holiday.C. Write a poem.14.When will the winners be announced?A.On 8th,March.B.On 18th,March.C.On 10th,March.15.Where is the office of Travel Light?A.At Green Road.B.At Jessie Street.C.At 10 Kings Street.16.How long will the winners travel around the Rocky Mountains?A.Two
7、weeksB.One week.C.A month.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.Who might the speaker be?A.A teacher.B.A graduateC.A renter,18.What is advised to do as soon as possible?A.Apply for a meal card in the cafeteria.B.Move into the student dorms.C.Fill in application forms.19.What can we learn about the student dorms?A.Tw
8、o students share a room.B.Students can cook in the dorm.C.The sports facilities are in the dorm.20.Which type of housing or dorms is not available?A.The Swedish house.B.The student house.C.The Spanish house.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。ABased on 2023s
9、new book releases,we have a feeling that well be reading all year long.Below,we re highlighting just a few of the new books coming out in 2023 that you may want to check out.The People Who Report More StressBy Alejandro Valero$24.18Alejandros first novel The Town of Babylon came out in 2022,and this
10、 forthcoming short story collection,full of memorable personalities,explores similar themes: community, relationships, modern incredible life,racism and parenthood.When Trying to Return Home By Jennifer Maritza McCauley$25.11Spanning(跨越)between Puerto Rico,Pittsburgh,Louisiana and Miami,this short s
11、tory collection explores the complexities of belonging and the true meaning of home. Each individual story and the themes mentioned are written through the Black American and Afro-Latino experiences.The Last Tale of the Flower BrideBy Roshani Chokshi$43.70Roshani Chokshis first surprising novel for
12、adults is a fairy tale-filled story about marriage and the secrets couples keep from each other.That,and an enchanted(施过魔法的) house off the coast of Washington and hotel fortune.I Have Some Questions for YouBy Rebecca Makkai$27.90Imagine if your life was the stuff of a true crime documentary.Bodie Ka
13、ne has tried to move on past the 1995 murder of her boarding school roommate.When she returns to the boarding school as an adult,Bodie realizes there are still mysteries about how the case was wrapped up and justice was served.21.What do we know about The People Who Report More Stress?A.Its the seco
14、nd expensive of the four.B.Its Alejandro Valeros first novel.C.It consists of some short stories.D.It deals with several different themes.22.What is special about When Trying to Return Home?A.It explores community,relationships and so on.B.It tells the true meaning of home by experiences.C.It tells
15、an enchanted house off the coast of Washington.D.It describes how a Black American returns to his home.23.Which of the following books best suits a detective story lover?A.The People Who Report More StressB.When Trying to Return HomeC.The Last Tale of the Flower BrideD.I Have Some Questions for YouB
16、As founder of the Global Water Policy Project and lead expert for National Geographics Freshwater Initiative,Sandras goal is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of the Earths freshwater resources.Sandra says she grew up in New York as a Long Island beach kid.She was always a ware of the“
17、comfort,peace,and balance”offered by the natural world,especially the environments of wetlands and rivers.Before starting work on a project,Sandra considers an areasgeography of water:the amount of water in the areas basin,the population,and the agricultural use of water.The geography of water helps
18、 Sandra determine an areas water stress.Water stress is the situation where a community is using more water than nature made available.Sandra first became aware of the concept of water stress after reading Swedish hydrologist Malin Falkenmarks book Water for a Starving World.This groundbreaking work
19、 linked water use,food and population.As Sandra began to understand water stress,she realized it affects everything,from a communitys development to its political security.So many great civilizations developed alongside rivers and lakes,she says, pointing to the ancient civilizations of Ur (between
20、the Tigris and Euphrates rivers),Egypt(which developed on the Nile), and the Indus River Valley.Today,Sandra points out,more than 200 rivers are shared between two or more nations. Dams and other river management techniques implemented(实施)by nations upstream have a huge impact on nations downstream.
21、The Tigris and Euphrates rivers have their sources in Turkey, for example,but their basins are in Iraq,Kuwait,Saudi Arabia,and Syria.River management from Turkey would impact the freshwater available to these countries for drinking, hygiene(卫生),industry,and transportation.Water management has become
22、 part of many nations foreign policy.Sandra points to the Mekong River Commission.The headwaters of the Mekong River are in China,although the basin is nearly 800,000 square kilometers and includes the nations of Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos,Thailand,and Vietnam.Many governments are members of the Mekong
23、 River Commission, which promotes sustainable development of the water supply.24.What did water mean to Sandra as a child?A.It represented a kind of spirit.B.It caused stress to her life.C.It brought many obstacles to her.D.It offered a way for transportation.25.What can we learn from paragraph 3?A.
24、Water stress was perfectly settled.B.Water contributed much to the world culture.C.Water had no impact on the steadiness of a nation.D.Water crisis was recognized before Malins book.26.What inspiration can we get from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?A.Upstream countries have priorities.B.Every count
25、ry has its policy for rivers.C.Rivers across countries are decreasing.D.Source governance of rivers is critical.27.Whats the purpose of the author taking the Mekong River as an example?A.To show its importance to the locals.B.To emphasize its great volume of flow.C.To show the power of cooperation.D
26、.To tell its challenges to related nations.CUnder a midday summer sun in Californias Sacramento Valley, rice farmer Peter Rystrom walks across a dusty and bare plot of land, dry soil crunching (碎裂) beneath each step. In a typical year, hed be walking across green rice fields in inches of water. But
27、today the soil is dry and baking in the 35 heat. It hasnt rained for 4 weeks in a row.“Climate change is expected to worsen the states extreme swings in rainfall,” researchers reported in Nature Climate Change in 2018. Low water levels in rivers have forced farmers like Rystrom, whose family has bee
28、n growing rice on this land for four generations, to reduce their water use.“If we lose our rice crops we have to deal with severe food crisis. Climate change is already threatening rice-growing regions around the world. This is not a future problem. This is happening now,” says plant geneticist Pam
29、ela Ronald of the University of California, Davis, who identifies genes in rice that help the plant stand up to dryness, disease, flood, etc.To save and even boost production, rice growers, engineers and researchers have turned to water-saving irrigation (灌溉) routines. Building canal systems and res
30、ervoirs (水库) can help farmers dampen their fields. But for some, the solution to rices climate-related problems lies in enhancing the plant itself. They hold that establishing rice gene banks that store hundreds of thousands of rice varieties ready to be bred into new, dryness-tolerant varieties is
31、more practical and effective. Solutions may be hidden in the DNA of those older breeds.Three decades have passed since its initial development, and some researchers are looking beyond the genetic variability preserved in rice gene banks, searching instead for useful genes from other species, includi
32、ng plants and bacteria. But picking genes from one species and putting them into another, or genetic recombination, remains debatable. The most famous example of genetically changed rice is Golden Rice (GR). “Looking ahead, it will be crucial for countries to embrace GR rice. But it will take time,”
33、 says Ismail, principal scientist at IRRI,28. What problem does Rystrom have to deal with?A. Thirst.B. Drought.C. Hot sun.D. Dusty weather.29. What can be inferred from Para. 3?A. Downtrend of rice-growing areas is severe now.B. Climate change is a threatening factor in the future.C. Humans will fac
34、e starvation if crop failure happens.D. Food crisis is a common occurrence around the world.30. Whats the purpose of setting up gene banks?A. To store as many seeds as possible.B. To cultivate climate-adapted varieties.C. To improve the efficiency of breeding.D. To show the technology of gene mappin
35、g.31. Whats Ismails opinion about GR?A. Favourable.B. Impractical.C. Disapproving.D. Insecure.DThe measurement of blood pressure goes back almost three centuries, leading to the procedure that we all know and that our family doctor performs when we have checkups: A cuff (袖口) goes around our arm, whi
36、ch is first inflated (膨胀), and then deflated (放气), in a controlled manner, to determine our maximum and minimum blood pressure.But the use of inflatable-cuff blood pressure monitors has some disadvantages. For one thing, unless people have home monitors, they must go to a chemistry shop, doctors off
37、ice or health center to learn what their blood pressure is. Another barrier is that repeated inflation and deflation of the cuff can cause difficulties when, for example, a patient is in the hospital and needs frequent blood pressure monitoring. And the last one is that since cuffs dont allow contin
38、uous measurement of blood pressure, theyre only providing a measurement at a specific moment.Today, a new generation of blood pressure devices have been developed and their aim is to make it easier to judge high blood pressure. Unlike traditional devices, they do without the arm cuff and offer blood
39、 pressure values on demand. Users just press their finger on a sensor on a watch and ring.The various cuffless measuring devices are based on methods that, instead of directly determining blood pressure, use sensors to capture various indirect signals. These signals are processed by different sets o
40、f mathematical procedures to obtain the blood pressure values. It is like inferring fever by measuring an increase in heart beat and sweating instead of using a thermometer (体温表), or divining the result of a soccer match from outside the stadium by listening to the screams of the soccer fans.The dev
41、elopment of devices for measuring blood pressure without a blood pressure cuff is progressing rapidly, but that doesnt mean they are ready used to make diagnostic and treatment decisions. “The road to clinical application may be some day in the near future, but not now,” Avolio says.32. How many dra
42、wbacks of inflatable-cuff blood pressure monitors are there in the text?A. Two.B. Three.C. Four.D. Five.33. Which word can replace the underline word in Para. 4?A. changing.B. describing.C. guessing.D. remembering.34. Whats the fourth paragraph mainly about?A. The working principle of cuffless measu
43、ring devices.B. The different methods for setting mathematical procedures.C. The way of cuffless measuring devices to measure indirect signals.D. The connection between inferring fever and measuring blood pressure.35. What will the writer most probably talk about on cuffless measuring devices next?A
44、. The issue of mass-producing them.B. The processing techniques of them.C. The competitive intensity among their producers.D. The reasons for them not being used in the medical world currently.第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Summarizing, or writing a summary, means
45、giving a brief overview of a texts main points in your own words. For example, when youre writing an academic text like an essay, a research paper, or a dissertation (学位论文), youll integrate sources in a variety of ways. _36_ But its often appropriate to sum up a whole article or chapter if it is esp
46、ecially relevant to your own research. Here are some key steps that can help you to do it:Step 1: Read the text.You should read the article more than once to make sure youve thoroughly understood it. Its often effective to read in three stages: _37_ Read the article carefully, highlighting important
47、 points and taking notes as you read. Skim the article again to confirm youve understood the key points, and reread any particularly important or difficult passages.Step 2: Break the text down into sections._38_ If the text is a scientific paper, it is probably already organized into clearly marked
48、sections, usually including an introduction, methods, results, and discussion. But most articles and essays will be structured around a series of sub-points or themes.Step 3: Identify the key points in each section.Now its time to go through each section and pick out its most important points. Keep in mind that a summary does not involve paraphrasing (改述) every single paragraph of the article. _3
