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2024届山西省晋城市城区晋城市第一中学校模拟预测高中英语试题
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一、阅读理解
Home to students from all over the world, IH London offers a truly international learning environment with English courses available for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners. If you want to advance your English, there is a wide range of courses that you can choose from.
One-to-One English
English level: Minimum A1
Course content:
This course is perfect for complete beginners and advanced learners alike because everything is tailored for your needs. You will define your learning outcomes with your teachers and they will create lessons based on your learning goals.
General English for over 30’s
English level: A1 and above
Course content:
This course is designed for international adults aged 30 and over who want to learn or improve their English while exploring London and making new friends from all over the world. Lessons are based on a range of relevant and motivating materials. London is used as a resource with learners putting their language into practice regularly while exploring London.
General English 20 Lessons
English level: A2 and above
Course content:
This is an intensive course for all levels to improve your English with extra focus on speaking. Students will work together to explore and review grammar in context through role plays, discussions and presentations. Topics, language areas and materials will reflect the interests and needs of the class.
English for Future Learners
English level: B2 and above
Course content:
This course encourages students to explore contemporary leadership skills such as debating, critical thinking and teamwork. Students work in groups with a mix of nationalities and will be split into project management groups to work through seminars and business challenges. If you would like to know more information, please contact us at sales@.
1．What is special about One-to-One English?
A．Learners can decide what to learn based on their learning goals.
B．Learners are encouraged to put their language skills into practice.
C．Learners will work together to review some grammatical rules in class.
D．Learners will work in groups to explore contemporary leadership skills.
2．Which course involves the exploration for critical thinking?
A．One-to-One English B．General English for over 30’s
C．General English 20 Lessons D．English for Future Learners
3．Who are the courses intended for?
A．Travelers with the hope of making new friends.
B．Native speakers with an extra focus on speaking.
C．International students of various English levels.
D．Complete beginners with no language background.

It’s been 20 years since a cookbook changed my life. Before reading every page in Nigella Lawson’s Feast, I didn’t give much thought lo what I ate. Cooking was a boring task I wasn’t particularly good at. Moreover, fear of calories and not being able to fit into my jeans left little room for enjoying things like “chocolate cake”. Nigella, the author of Nigella Lawson’s Feast transformed my relationship with food, changing it from a source of panic to one of limitless pleasure. Leafing through the pages of Feast, I began to think of the women who shaped my cooking. They not only influenced me strongly with their words, recipes and passion for the art of eating, but they also left their mark on the culinary (烹饪的) world.
Take Eugénie Brazier, for example, who grew up with barely enough to eat yet with plenty of determination to achieve great things. After years of hard work on farms and later as a humble cook, she used the little savings she had to open La Mère Brazier, a restaurant that would attract the likes of celebrities. A second location followed, and in 1933, she became the first chef ever to hold six Michelin stars simultaneously (同时地). Known as the mother of modern French cooking, Brazier’s simple yet elegant food changed the way Britain ate.
What Brazier did for the UK, the passionate Julia Child did for America. At a time when TV dinners and tinned foods were gaining popularity, she inspired home cooks to try elegant recipes, teaching them about the use of quality ingredients in an approachable way.
While Julia Child tempted us with her recipes, it was the American author Fisher who enlightened us with her fine cooking prose (散文). In her brilliant essays, she praised the pleasures of the table and explored connections between food and culture. One of my favorite books is Love in a Dish, a charming collection of culinary experiences that transport you to French villages and even describe how the love of food can potentially save a marriage!
4．How does the author introduce the topic?
A．By giving examples. B．By raising a question.
C．By describing his experience. D．By offering facts.
5．Which words can best describe Brazier?
A．Friendly and determined. B．Considerate and brave.
C．Generous and intelligent. D．Ambitious and successful.
6．What do Fisher’s works focus on?
A．The ingredients of food. B．The story behind food.
C．The significance of food. D．The origin of food.
7．What’s the author’s purpose of writing this passage?
A．To motivate readers to cook at home. B．To market high-quality cooking books.
C．To honor some exceptional women cooks. D．To share his passion for cooking.

Bee protection is a big issue these days in America, with people planting native pollinator gardens, setting up bee houses, and taking part in scientific activities to monitor local bee populations. And this is for good reason — in North America, a quarter of native bee species are at risk of extinction. Bees pollinate 35percent of our global food supply and many of the wild plants our ecosystems depend on.
No Mow May, a movement that began in the U. K., is now rapidly spreading throughout the U. S. Its popularity lies in its being simple: Just give bees a little help during the crucial springtime by removing a chore from your list and letting your lawn grow for the month of May. This lets “lawn flowers” such as dandelions grow at a time when bee food is rare.
Dandelions, despite being pretty and useful, are non-native. Then why do we promote a movement that encourages their growth? Here’s the basic answer — don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of “good”. Sure, it would be great to turn your entire neighborhood into a bee kingdom of native plants, but that can take lots of time and money.
While dandelions have become the poster child for No Mow May, other plants, including native species, may also appear in your lawn. “Besides dandelions, there are many other plants that are going to be there,” says Dr. Claudio Gratton at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In Massachusetts, scientists found 63 species of plants in lawns, 30 percent of which were native to the state. Most Americans probably loved dandelions as children but have tended to hate them as adults because of American lawn culture, which allows no flowers. “No Mow May forces us to think about our relationship with nature. We should reflect on the way we have made nature suit our needs, and realize flowers play really important roles,” says Dr. Claudio Gratton.
8．What is the background to No Mow May in the U. S.?
A．Native bee species are increasing. B．There is a tendency to protect bees.
C．Bees mainly depend on garden plants. D．More people have no time to cut lawns.
9．What do we know about No Mow May?
A．It needs almost no cost. B．Few Americans support it.
C．It is aimed at planting dandelions. D．It appeals for careful attention to the lawns.
10．What does the underlined part “poster child” in paragraph 4 probably mean?
A．General principle. B．Rare exception.
C．Typical example. D．Difficult problem.
11．Which of the following agrees with American lawn culture?
A．A bee-friendly lawn. B．A regularly cut lawn.
C．A lawn growing naturally. D．A lawn with native flowers.

Some people worry that there’s too much technology in our lives. And they may have a point, given how countless people now carry the internet around in their pocket and use it as a primary form of communication. It’s practically difficult to shun technology in our world. There are computer microchips (微芯片) in our watches, our cars, light switches, even our pets! Where will it end?
Well, if certain people have their way, it’ll go even further. We’ll have microchips implanted into our brains that call interact with the computers by thought alone. It may sound like something from the science fiction, but in many ways, things look quite promising. Thanks to the ability to send and receive information remotely via computers, microchips and other related devices have long been put into brains.
For example, electrodes have been implanted in the brains of epilepsy patients to better record and even predict the abnormal neurological (神经病学的) activity. Similarly, deep-brain stimulation, through implanted devices that cause activity in key brain regions, is an established treatment for things like-Parkinson’s disease, and is even being looked into for illnesses like depression.
However, it’s another thing to place such devices in health y individuals. There are the practical concerns, not least of which is what these chips will be made of. The inside of the brain is a mass of highly reactive chemicals and electrical activity. Implants would need to be inert (静止的) enough to not upset the delicate processes by their presence, but also sensitive enough to read and process the activity around them. Current technology has made impressive progress with this, but if it were to be rolled out to millions of people, we’d need to be 100 per cent certain that it’s safe.
How many people will actually want to have technology literally put into their brain? A surprising 60 per cent of Americans say they’d be okay with it, but that’s when it’s purely theoretical. In reality, the possibility of having strangers stick chips in your brain is likely to prove unattractive, especially for a population where millions get mad at fictional microchips in vaccines (疫苗), and even more are frightened of dentists.
Ultimately, the technology of computer-brain interface (接口) implants is still far away from us.
12．What’s the function of the first paragraph?
A．A summary of the article. B．An introduction to the main topic.
C．An overview of the whole article. D．An argument over the main topic.
13．What does the underlined word “implanted” mean in paragraph 2?
A．To put something into someone’s body by an operation.
B．To design something new over a period of time.
C．To prevent something from changing rapidly.
D．To get rid of something steadily.
14．What does the author want to tell us by the examples in paragraph 3?
A．The process of human-computer interaction.
B．The possible treatment for particular diseases.
C．The future of microchips and devices alike.
D．The existing application of microchip implants.
15．Which word can best describe the technology of computer-brain interface implants?
A．Imaginary. B．Practical. C．Unfulfilled. D．Impossible.

First-time writers may find it easier to get a short story published in a magazine or in an anthology of short stories than to get a novel accepted. Yet, even though it sounds easier to write a short story, a new writer can easily write a bad short story. 16
Read other short stories to study how the author has plotted her story. Take notice of the story genre, the theme and how conflict is plotted in a short story. Prepare background information for your short story by making notes on characters, theme and your storyline.
Create a plot chart to help plot your short story. Draw a horizontal line on a sheet of paper and mark significant events along the line which occur in your story. 17 Detail the rising action by listing all significant events which occur as a result of the problem in the story to a moment of climax. Focus on a single plot and don’t be tempted to incorporate subplots as a short story does not allow the length to develop them.
Hook in the reader with an intriguing opening and introduce the conflict early. Introduce your main character immediately and don’t spend too long setting the scene, as brevity is the key to short story writing. 18 Write about a problem he has to overcome.
Adhere to a single theme which helps to drive the plot of the short story forward. Focus on moments of conflict and how the protagonist deals with each problem. Don’t forget to incorporate suspense into your plot to keep the reader interested. 19 Never reveal any de tail in your story too soon, as you don’t want to give your ending away. Create suspense to be able to initiate surprises in your plot and to avoid predictable storytelling.
20 Remember that by the end of your short story, your protagonist needs to haveundergone some kind of change.
A．A plot is the soul of the story.
B．It takes practice to write a story.
C．Write about a specific time in a person’s life.
D．Record what happened in your life all the time.
E．Hold information back until it is the right moment to reveal it.
F．Conclude your story in a positive or negative way.
G．Describe briefly how the story opens at the beginning.

二、完形填空
This was the big game. The boys were 21 and excited. It was a clear night, and my son Andy’s baseball team, which had 22 all year, had shocked the better teams by making it to this championship game. The atmosphere was 23 : the other team’s slugger (强击手),a big kid, was like a snake, dangerous and ready to 24 .
Nervously, I looked out Andy’s way. I was 25 to see Andy looking straight up at the night sky! Obviously he wasn’t 26 on the game. I was horrified that he wouldn’t even know the ball was coming.
“Come on, Andy. 27 out there,” I said to myself.
Thank goodness the big kid made a mistake. We (Andy and I) had been 28 , and our team still led by one run.
Andy ran up to me at the 29 . I was about to 30 him when he said loudly, “Did you see that shooting star?”
Andy’s eyes were glowing (发光) with 31 . I paused.
“Yes,” I said. “Well, one inning (局) to go. Hit a home run (全垒打)!”
“Okay!” said Andy, and he ran back to his 32 .
I suddenly realized it was nice my son would take time out to 33 the wonder and beauty in life. You might be surprised by the beauty you can find when you least 34 it. Andy hit a triple in that last inning. But I still wish I had 35 that shooting star, too.
21．A．nervous B．puzzled C．curious D．ashamed
22．A．won B．struggled C．prayed D．run
23．A．electric B．friendly C．casual D．romantic
24．A．flee B．climb C．jump D．strike
25．A．amused B．thrilled C．shocked D．satisfied
26．A．carrying B．reflecting C．commenting D．focusing
27．A．Settle down B．Stand up C．Wake up D．Lie down
28．A．informed B．punished C．warned D．spared
29．A．meeting B．break C．corner D．entrance
30．A．blame B．comfort C．