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湖北高中名校联盟2027届高三上学期一模英语试题

B

My teacher was one of the people I most wanted to see whenever I visited New York City. Usually I’d call her as soon as I was settled, and it was thrilling to hear her voice and then to arrange a meeting time. But in 2024, when I turned 75 and she was 96, I put off making the call. Each time I thought about phoning her, I feared that when I said my name, she would say, “Who?”

I first met Lore Segal in 1975, when I took her writing class at Columbia University. Back then, all I knew about her was that she’d recently lost her husband. I hadn’t known that when she was a little girl, her family went through a series of ups and downs and that at 10 years old, she was even transported alone all the way to England, where she drifted between different temporary homes.

Small and self-confident, Lore had a pale face and curly hair. She was particular, her whole manner changing when someone expressed something pompous (言辞浮夸的) or emotional. She said firmly that no one ever again needed to describe someone drinking coffee or getting into and out of a car. She also stated that for a reader to remember a particular detail, you had to write it one and a half times, a rule both impossible to follow and true. When she leaned toward a text, I saw the obvious pleasure she took in sharing a passage and felt the pleasure welling up in me.

Lore held student conferences at her apartment near school. When it was my turn, we sat beside each other and she went page by page through my novel-in-progress manuscript. No one had ever before read my work so closely or seen anything special in me. And now came this extraordinary moment: my teacher was reading my words and laughing.

24. Why did the author delay calling Lore in 2024?

A. Lore refused to meet him.

B. He was fully occupied with work.

C. He lost interest in meeting her.

D. He worried she might forget him.

25. What do we know about Lore’s childhood?

A. She travelled a lot alone.

B. She weathered bitter blows.

C. She lived in a fixed house.

D. She taught writing in England.

26. What can we infer about Lore’s attitude towards writing?

A. She thought short articles work best.

B. She hated all daily scene descriptions.

C. She ignored students’ writing faults.

D. She prized plain and meaningful writing.

27. How did the author feel during one-on-one talks?

A. Inspired and valued.

B. Shy and awkward.

C. Calm and indifferent.

D. Nervous and uneasy.

24. D   25. B    26. D    27. A

湖北武汉市部分高中2026-2027学年上学期收心考高三英语试卷

B

When I was twelve, my grandmother gave me an unusual task: to water her garden not with a hose (水管), but with a small, bent tin cup. “The hose is too fast,” she said, adjusting her straw hat. “It doesn’t know when to stop. The cup makes you look at every leaf.”

I grumbled, naturally. It took an hour to water what could have been done in ten minutes. I marched back and forth to the rain bucket, splashing water onto the thirsty soil. But as the weeks passed, the forced slowness began to change things. I started noticing the small dramas of the garden: the determined climb of a ladybug, the slight droop of a begonia (秋海棠) that needed extra care, the way the soil darkened when it had truly had enough to drink.

One afternoon, I found a cocoon (茧) attached to a tomato vine. If I had been blasting away with the hose, I would have knocked it off. Instead, I sat and watched. Over the next few days, I saw the miracle of transformation. When the butterfly finally emerged, drying its wings in the sun, I felt a sense of ownership. I hadn’t just watered a plant; I had protected a life.

Years later, working as a high-speed data analyst, I often felt overwhelmed by the constant flow of information. It was like the hose — too fast, too much, blindly covering everything. One day, stressed and burnt out, I remembered the tin cup. I turned off my monitors and printed out just one complex dataset. I sat with it, pencil in hand, looking at every “leaf” of data.

My boss was skeptical of my slow pace, until I found a critical error that the automated algorithms had missed. “How did you spot that?” he asked. I smiled, thinking of the tomato vine. “I stopped using the hose,” I said.

24. Why did the grandmother ask the author to water the garden with a tin cup?

A. To save water during a drought.

B. To punish the author for laziness.

C. To encourage the author’s patience.

D. To replace the broken hose.

25. What does “the small dramas of the garden” refer to in the second paragraph?

A. The conflicts between different plants.

B. The subtle and lively details of nature.

C. The fascinating behaviors of garden creatures.

D. The plays performed in the garden.

26. How did the author’s childhood experience influence his career?

A. It made him focused and detailed.

B. It directly inspired his career choice.

C. It inspired him to take up gardening.

D. It taught him to appreciate physical work.

27. Which is a suitable title for the text?

A. The Joy of Slow Living

B. A Lesson from the Tin Cup

C. The Challenge of Data Analysis

D. The Way of Watering the Garden

24. C   25. B    26. A    27. B