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　　2024年高考沖刺卷（4）（新課標Ⅱ卷）

　　英語試卷

　　注意事項：

　　1．本試卷分第Ⅰ卷（選擇題）和第Ⅱ卷（非選擇題）兩部分。滿分150分，考試時間120分鐘。

　　2．答題前考生務必用0.5毫米黑色墨水簽字筆填寫好自己的姓名、班級、考號等信息。

　　3．考試作答時，請將答案正確地填寫在答題卡上。第I卷每小題選出答案后，用2B鉛筆把答題卡上對應題目的答案標號涂黑；第Ⅱ卷請用直徑0.5毫米的黑色墨水簽字筆在答題卡上各題的答題區域內作答，超出答題區域書寫的答案無效，在試題卷、草稿紙上作答無效。

　　第I卷

　　第一部分

　　聽力（共兩節，滿分30分）

　　做題時，先將答案標在試卷上。錄音內容結束后，你將有兩分鐘的時間將試卷上的答案轉涂到答題卡上。

　　第一節（共5個小題；每小題1.5分，滿分7.5分）

　　聽下面5段對話。每段對話后有一個小題，從每題所給的A、B、C三個選項中選出最佳選項，并標在試卷的相應位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有10秒鐘的時間來回答有關小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍。

　　例：How much is the shirt?

　　A. ￡19.15.

　　B. ￡9.18.

　　C. ￡9.15.

　　答案是C。

　　1. What will the man do?

　　A. Go to the Office.

　　B. See his boss off.

　　C. Stay at home. 

　　2. What does the woman mean?

　　A. The man should buy a typewriter.

　　B. The man can have her typewriter. 

　　C. She wants to borrow a typewriter.

　　3. What was the weather like yesterday?

　　A. Cloudy

　　B. Rainy.

　　C. Sunny. 

　　4. Why does Mary ignore the man according to the woman speaker?

　　A. She isn't fond of him.

　　B. She is still angry with him.

　　C. She is having trouble with work. 

　　5. Where does the conversation probably take place?

　　A. At the airport.

　　B. In the cafeteria.

　　C. At the hotel.

　　第二節(共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分)

　　聽下面5段對話或獨白。每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的A、B、C三個選

　　項中選出最佳選項，并標在試卷的相應位置。聽每段對話或獨白前，你將有時間閱讀各個小題，

　　每小題5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話或獨白讀兩遍。

　　聽第6段材料，回答第6至8題。

　　6. Where are the two speakers?

　　A. In a store.

　　B. In a bakery.

　　C. On a farm.

　　7. What has the woman bought in the end?

　　A. Bananas and oranges.

　　B. Oranges and moon cakes.

　　C. Bananas and moon cakes.

　　8. How much change should the man give the woman?

　　A. 3 yuan.

　　B. 7 yuan.

　　C. 10 yuan.

　　聽第7段材料，回答第9至11題。

　　9. What makes the woman look terrible?

　　A. The busy preparation for the test.

　　B. The less time for her parttime job. 

　　C. The bad result of the examination. 

　　10.What is the man trying to persuade the woman to do?

　　A. To take the examination tomorrow.

　　B. To give up the idea of dropping out. 

　　C. To quit the present parttime job. 

　　11. Why does the woman have to do the parttime job?

　　A. Because her mother is out of work now.

　　B. Because her father is between jobs now. 

　　C. Because she wants to gain work experience. 

　　聽第8段材料，回答第12至14題。

　　12. What job is the woman applying for?

　　A. Pilot.

　　B. Air hostess.

　　C. Nurse.

　　13. Which is unnecessary for the job?

　　A. A little English.

　　B. Good health.

　　C. Flying experience.

　　14.Where is the woman working?

　　A. In a travel agency.

　　B. In a hospital.

　　C. On a plane.

　　聽第9段材料，回答第15至17題。

　　15. Why does the woman choose to run in the gym?

　　A. It is cold outside.

　　B. She has a cold.

　　C. She needs guidance.

　　16. What does the man like doing?

　　A. Buying gym clothes.

　　B. Drinking beer.

　　C. Taking a lift.

　　17. How does the woman feel about the mans lifting weights?

　　A. Surprised.

　　B. Ashamed.

　　C. Relieved.

　　聽第10段材料，回答第18至20題。

　　18. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

　　A. House rules for lazy kids.

　　B. Ways of making kids creative. 

　　C. Kids health and intellectual development.

　　19. What should parents encourage their kids to do?

　　A. Read more books.

　　B. Keep the house tidy.

　　C. Take a short break.

　　20.Why does the speaker suggest limiting the amount of TV and video games?

　　A. To make kids finish their homework ahead of time. 

　　B. To keep kids away from the violent programming. 

　　C. To make kids participate in more active activities. 

　　第二部分 閱讀理解（共兩節，滿分40分）

　　第一節（共15小題：每小題2分，滿分30分）

　　閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

　　A

　　My father was always a good gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled（翻耕的）soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.

　　As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden, I remember Dad pushing the tiller（耕作機）ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow com, and our favorite --- red tomatoes.

　　As I grew into a teenager, I didn't get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of multicolored vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.

　　For the first few years after he died, I couldn't even bear to look at anyone's garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the comer of my eye and I had to smile, It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.

　　21. Why did the author like the garden when he was a child?

　　A. The garden was planted with colorful flowers.

　　B. The garden was just freshly tilled by his father.

　　C. He loved what his father grew in the garden.

　　D. He enjoyed being in the garden with his father.

　　22. When all the kids started their own families, the author's father

　　.

　　A. stopped his gardening

　　B. turned to other hobbies

　　C. devoted more to gardening

　　D. focused on planting tomatoes

　　23. What happened to the garden when the author's father was seriously ill?

　　A. The author's son took charge of it.

　　B. No plant grew in the garden at all.

　　C. The garden was almost deserted.

　　D. It brought the author a great harvest.

　　24. We can infer from the last paragraph that

　　.

　　A. the author's son played happily in the garden

　　B. the author's son reminded him of his own father

　　C. the author's son was very glad to help the author

　　D. the author's son will continue gardening as well

　　B

　　Banks view online banking as a powerful “value-added” tool to attract and keep new customers while helping to eliminate costly paper handling or teller（出納員）interactions in an increasingly competitive banking environment.

　　Today, most large national banks, many local banks and credit unions offer some form of online banking, variously known as PC banking, home banking, electronic banking or Internet banking. Online banks are sometimes referred to as “brick-to-click” banks, both to tell them from “brick-to-mortar” banks that haven’t yet offered online banking, as well as from “virtual”（虛擬）banks that have no physical branches or tellers whatsoever.

　　The challenge for the banking industry has been to design this new service channel in such a way that its customers will readily learn to use and trust it. Most of the large banks can now offer fully safe , fully functional（功能的）online banking for free or for a small cost. As more banks succeed online and more customers use their sites, fully functional online banking will likely become as commonplace as automated teller machines (ATM).

　　Online banking has a lot of advantages. Unlike your corner bank, online banking sites never close; they’re at hand 24 hours a day, seven days a week and they’re a mouse click away. If you’re out of state or even out of the country when a money problem appears, you can log on instantly to your online bank and take care of business. Online bank sites generally carry out and confirm deals at or quicker than ATM processing speeds. Many online banking sites now offer fashionable tools to help you manage all of your valuable items more effectively.

　　25. The underlined word “eliminate” in the first paragraph probably means “

　　”.

　　A. keep B. remove

　　C. raise

　　D. improve

　　26. What is the challenge for the online banking industry according to the text?

　　A. To make online banking attractive.

　　B. To open new services all over the world.

　　C. To offer online banking for free.

　　D. To take care of business 24 hours a day.

　　27. From the text we can conclude that _______.

　　A. “brick-to-click” banks are in fact another kind of physical banks

　　B. the function of a “brick-to-click” bank is as common as that of an ATM

　　C. a “brick-to-mortar” bank is no better than a virtual one

　　D. customers can deal with their banking by a mouse click

　　28. What would be the best title for this text?

　　A. Banking of Various Forms

　　B. Improvement of Banking Industry

　　C. Development of Online Banking

　　D. Functions of the “Brick-to-Click” Bank

　　C

　　Modern smart phones are fast becoming the must-have item. But what’s in store for the next generation of smart phones?

　　Tired of carrying around that heavy wallet? Soon you won’t need to! The next generation of smart phones will have NFC technology, which lets you pay for things with your smart phones. All you do is enter your credit card information into your phone. Then, when you are in a shop that allows NFC payments, you just wave your phone over a special instrument at the checkout. The purchase is instantly charged to your credit card.

　　Ever seen someone wearing something and wished you knew where to get it? Soon it will be easy with PicCommerce, new technology that uses image-recognition software. Here’s how it works. If you see something you like, simply take a photo of it with your smart phone. Then, your phone will send the image to a special server, which will respond with information about where you can buy it and how much it will cost.

　　Sick of your smart phone battery going flat? With so many applications draining (消耗) the battery, the latest phones need to be charged every day. But next generation smart phones will come with built-in chips that can connect to an antenna (天線) in your home. And as long as your phone is within range of the antenna, you will be able to charge your smartphone wirelessly, even if it is in your pocket.

　　Worried about getting your smart phones wet in the rain? A company called Hz0 has invented WaterBlock, new technology that makes your phone completely waterproof. And it’s so effective that your phone will even work underwater.

　　Fed up with carrying a heavy phone around? Soon, you will be able to get a PaperPhone! “Flexible phones are the future,” said scientist Roel Vertegaal. So, what are the benefits of flexible phones? Well, it means that instead of carrying your phone in your pocket, you could wear it wrapped around your wrist, for example.

　　Of course, there is just the problem: with so much new smart phone technology around, you will soon need to buy a new phone!

　　29. We can learn from the 4th paragraph that the next generation of smart phones ________.

　　A. will have chips instead of batteries

　　B. may consume less power

　　C. needn’t be charged frequently

　　D. will be charged easily

　　30. Which feature of future smart phones does Paragraph 6 show?

　　A. They will be easier to carry.

　　B. They will be cheaper.

　　C. They will be smaller.

　　D. They will be easier to operate.

　　31. What can be the best title for the text?

　　A. Basic Functions of Smart phones

　　B. The Future of Smart phones

　　C. Advantages of Modern Smart phones

　　D. The Development of Phone Technology

　　D

　　With brown curly hair and a pair of glasses, 19-year-old Nicholas Allegra from New York state, US, looks like a real-life Harry Potter. However, rather than waving a wand, Nicholas is a "wizard " at "jailbreaking ". This is probably why he ended up with an internship at Apple, a job many of his fellow Brown University students dream of.

　　Jailbreaking is the process of removing the limitations set by Apple on devices with the iOS operating system. These devices include the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. It allows users to gain full access to the operating system and download additional

　　materials that are unavailable through the official Apple App Store. However, it is estimated that Apple loses $100 million (640million yuan) from jailbreaking each year.

　　Nicholas, with a famous nickname "Comex", is the teenage hacker behind the jail-breaking site JailbreakMe. com. The site tells users how to unlock their iPhones using software that is not approved by Apple. The jailbreaking software he made has been downloaded millions of times by users around the world.

　　Then Forbes magazine suggested in an article that Apple's security team might need him as a new intern. It seems that they do. Little more than a day after Steve jobs stepped down as CEO, Apple welcomed Nicholas Allegra. Nicholas wrote on his Twitter on August 26 that " It's been really, really fun, but it's also been a while and I've been getting bored. So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple.