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【赢在高考·黄金8卷】备战2024年高考英语模拟卷（上海专用）
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（考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：140分）
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I.Listening Comprehension （第1-10题, 每题1分；第11-20题，每题1.5分；共25分）
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each
conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken
only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper,
and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. $30. B. $27. C. $20. D. $10.
2. A. He may feel better soon. B. He doesn’t like to take pills.
C. He may not be able to wake up on time. D. He may want to take the pills without food.
3. A. Post her the paper after the deadline. B. Hand in a handwritten draft of the paper.
C. Attend a conference with her two weeks later. D. Complete the course without handing in the paper.
4. A. Lose some weight. B. Shop for new clothes.
C. Have his jeans altered. D. Wear clothes that fit better.
5. A. Sharpen the man’s pencil. B. Ask the model to move his arm.
C. Give the man a new sheet of paper. D. Show the man a drawing technique.
6. A. Disappointed. B. Curious. C. Satisfied. D. Casual.
7. A. He’d like some help at the baggage counter.
B. He doesn’t know the woman ahead of him.
C. He was permitted to carry one extra bag.
D. He is carrying someone else’s suitcase.
8. A. Some of her colleagues may not take part in the program.
B. A few of them are allowed to participate in the training.C. All her colleagues have agreed to go for the program.
D. Employees are all required to receive the training.
9. A. She would rather take a direct train.
B. It doesn’t take long to get to Chongqing.
C. She doesn’t care how long the trip takes.
D. Taking an airplane might be more practical.
10. A. If he has more than a dollar.
B. If he makes a phone call first.
C. If he finds the change machine.
D. If he buys something from her.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked
several questions on each of the short passages and the longer conversation. The short passages and the longer
conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the
four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage
11. A. The origin of shopping malls. B. The location of shopping malls.
C. The inventor of shopping malls. D. The prospect of shopping malls.
12. A. They were roofless buildings.
B. They mainly housed specialty shops.
C. They had a certain kind of landscape.
D. They provided indoor parking service.
13. A. People loved wandering from shop to shop.
B. The shops didn’t need to keep out bad weather.
C. Shoppers were more comfortable in such shops.
D. Malls could contain much more than just shops.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. How the London Underground system developed.
B. What the London Underground Drawing office did.
C. What the London Underground platforms were like.
D. How the London Underground map came into being.15. A. Accurate information about distance. B. Time of the first and the last trains.
C. The number of station entrances. D. Locations of the stations.
16. A. Original and clear. B. Simple but advanced.
C. Attractive but misleading. D. Old-fashioned and complex.
Questions 17 through 20 are bused on the following conversation.
17. A. To fight against violent action.
B. To explore new ways of studying animals.
C. To stop animal being used for medical research.
D. To highlight the protection of endangered animals.
18. A. It might be the most efficient way to free animals
B. The damage done in this case might not be so terrible.
C. It might not be such a serious crime in the eyes of the law
D. The cost of setting up the lab might discourage the firm from doing so.
19. A. Evidence was found that no actual animal cruelty did happen
B. Evidence was found that the scientists didn’t obey certain rules.
C. The scientists couldn’t afford to find animals again for the research
D. The scientists were believed to have been involved in illegal action.
20. A. It is not their original intention.
B. It does bring them much trouble.
C. It has made their life difficult.
D. It is what they apologise for.
II.Grammar and Vocabulary （每题1分；共20分）
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically
correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other
blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Wikipedia has come a long way since it started in 2001. With around 70, 000 volunteers editing in over 100
languages, it is by far the world’s 2 1 (popular)reference site. However, its future is uncertain.
One of the biggest threats it faces is the rise of smartphones 2 2 the dominant personal computing
device. Wikipedia has always depended on contributors (撰稿人) who hunch over keyboards 23 (search) forreferences, discussing changes and writing articles with a special code. It’s simply too hard to use complex code on
a tiny screen. The pool of potential Wikipedia editors 2 4 dry up as the number of mobile users keeps
growing. The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, 2 5 oversees Wikipedia’s operations, 2 6 (look)
for solutions for a while. For instance, the development of touch-screen tools allows editors to sift through (筛
选)information and share content from their phones.
The tension runs through the community. Last year, the foundation took unprecedented steps of forcing the
installation of new software on the German-language Wikipedia. The German editors 2 7 (show) their
independence by resisting an earlier update to the site’s user interface(界面). 2 8 the wishes of these
experienced editors, the foundation installed a new method for viewing multimedia content and then set up a
“superprotect” feature 2 9 (prevent) stubborn administrators from changing it back.
Could the pressure from mobile users, and the internal tension, tear Wikipedia apart? A world without it seems
unimaginable, but consider the fate of other online communities. Blogging, celebrated a decade ago as pioneering
an exciting new form of personal writing, has decreased significantly in the social-media age.
These are challenges, but they can still 3 0 (solve). There is no other significant alternative to
Wikipedia, and good will toward the project could hardly be higher. In an age of internet giants, the selflessness of
websites is worth saving.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once.
Note that there is one word more than you need.
A．stem B．dot C． attributable D．exceeded E. overlook F. exposed
G. drainage H. emerging I. sinking J. access K. established
The Mega-City Environment
Mega-cities suffer from a catalog of environmental ills. A World Health Organization(WHO)/United Nations
Environment Program(UNEP)study found that seven of the cities-Mexico City, Beijing, Cairo, Jakarta, Los
Angeles, Sao Paulo and Moscow-had three or more pollutants that 3 1 the WHO health protection
guidelines. All 20 of the cities studied by WHO/UNEP had at least one major pollutant that went beyond 3 2
health limits.
According to the World Resources Institute, “Millions of children living in the world’s largest cities,
particularly in developing countries, are 3 3 to life-threatening air pollution two to eight times above themaximum based on WHO guidelines. Indeed, more than 80 percent of all deaths in developing countries 3 4
to air pollution-induced lung infections are among children under five.” In the big Asian mega-cities such as New
Delhi, Beijing and Jakarta, approximately 20 to 30 percent of all respiratory diseases 3 5 from air
pollution.
Almost all of the mega-cities face major fresh water challenges. Johannesburg, South Africa, is forced to draw
water from highlands 370 miles away. In Bangkok, saltwater is invading aquifers(地下蓄水层). Mexico City has a
serious 3 6 problem because of excessive groundwater withdrawal.
More than a billion people, 20 percent of the world’s population, live without regular 3 7 to clean
running water. While poor people are forced to pay high fees for private water, many cities squander their resources
through leakages and illegal 3 8 . “With the population of cities expected to increase to five billion by
2025,” says Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the UNEP, “the urban demand for water is set to increase rapidly.
This means that any solution to the water crisis is closely linked to the governance of cities.“
Mega-city residents, crowded into unsanitary slums, are also subject to serious disease outbreaks. Lima,
Peru(with population estimated at 9.4 million by 2015)suffered a cholera outbreak in the late 1990s partly because,
as the New York Times reported, ”rural people new to Lima...live in houses without running water and use the
outhouses(屋外厕所)that 3 9 the hillsides above.“
It’s worth looking at some of these 4 0 mega-cities in detail, because daily life there is likely to be
the pattern for a majority of the world’s population. Most are already experiencing severe environmental problems
that will only be worsened by rapid population increases.
III.Reading Comprehension (共45分。 41-45每题1分；56-70每题2分)
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A. B.C and D.
Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context
Human beings have somehow managed to engineer the night to receive us by filling it with light. This kind of
control is no different from the feat ( 壮 举 ) of damming a river. Its benefits come with 4 1 — called
light pollution — whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of
bad lighting design. 4 2 lighting washes out the darkness of night, altering light levels and light rhythms
to which many forms of life, including ourselves, have 4 3 . Wherever man-made light spills into thenatural world, some aspects of life-migration, reproduction, feeding-is affected.
For most human history, the phrase “light pollution” would have 4 4 . Imagine walking towards
London on a moonlit night around 1800, when it was Earth’s most populous city. Nearly a million people lived
there, 4 5 candles, torches and lanterns, as they always had. Only a few houses were lit by gas, and there
would be no public gaslights in the streets or squares for another seven years. From a few miles away, you would
have been more likely to 4 6 London than to see its dim collective glow.
We’ve lit up the night as if it were a(n) 4 7 country. As a matter of fact, among mammals alone, the
number of species active at night is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as
a magnet attracting them to it. The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being 4 8
by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms, circling and circling in the thousands
until they drop.
It was once thought that light pollution only affected astronomers, who need to see the night sky in all its
glorious clarity. Unlike astronomers, most of us may not need a 4 9 view of the night sky for our work.
5 0 , like most other creatures, we do need darkness. 5 1 darkness is pointless. It is as essential to
maintaining our biological welfare as 5 2 itself; the price of modifying our internal clockwork means it
doesn’t operate as it should, causing various physical discomforts. So fundamental are the regular rhythms of
waking and sleep to our being that 5 3 them is similar to altering our center of gravity.
In a very real sense, light pollution causes us to 5 4 our true place in the universe, to forget the
scale of our being, which is best 5 5 against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way — the
edge of our galaxy — arching overhead.
41. A．consequences B．achievements C．agreements D．circumstances
42. A．Randomly-designed B．Well-designed
C．Poorly-designed D．Economically-designed
43. A．appealed B．adapted C．objected D．amounted
44. A．come under criticism B．made no difference
C．come into effect D．made no sense
45. A．making do with B．fed up with
C．identifying with D．overflowing with
46. A．visit B．greet C．feel D．smell
47. A．independent B．disconnected C．unoccupied D．excluded
48. A．exposed B．captured C．dismissed D．frustrated49. A．clear B．comprehensive C．traditional D．critical
50. A．Subsequently B．However C．Therefore D．Similarly
51. A．Reviewing B．Embracing C．Denying D．Regulating
52. A．light B．rhythm C．status D．dawn
53. A．emerging from B．withdrawing from C．messing with D．coinciding with
54. A．keep track of B．lose sight of C．catch hold of D．let go of
55. A．measured B．neutralized C．undergone D．supervised
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished
statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according
to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
As a boy, when Jonny Kinkead wasn’t making things using the tools in his dad’s garage, he was messing about
with a guitar. And the two pre-occupations have been his living for the past four decades: building steel-string
guitars by hand. “The guitar still appeals to me,” he says. “Making a sound out of wood—it’s amazing what you
can do.”
Jonny learned to play his brother’s guitar when he was eleven. Then, when he was sixteen, he wanted to learn
the bass guitar. “Some people would have got a holiday job and saved up and bought one,” he says. “But I was of a
mindset that if you wanted something, you made it.”
Although the bass was the first instrument Jonny built from nothing, he and his brothers had long been doing
essentially the same thing with other items. “I made model boats and aeroplanes as a child, so I was familiar with
that process. My father had taught me and my brothers how to use tools, and we had free materials in the garage.”
Jonny had also been customizing and repairing instruments for his mates.
Jonny’s bass guitar turned out well, but the idea of a career building guitars had yet to cross his mind. “My
ambition then was to be a sculptor,” he says. His interests evolved further and on finishing school, he chose to
study architecture at university. Halfway through the course, however, he dropped out, but left with a clearer idea of
what he wanted to do and started to think seriously about guitar making. “I was still interested in painting and
sculpture but I realized that when you are building guitars, you’re actually sculpting sound.” In addition, he
explains, “I thought this might be more reliable than being an artist as it’s craft-based.”
Ever since then, Jonny has made guitars for a living. For the first ten years, he added to his income by cleaningwindows part-time. The first guitars he sold only went for the cost of the materials, but as he developed a reputation
as one of the best guitar-makers around, he was able to charge a little more. But even now, almost forty years later,
Jonny describes what he does as “still scratching a living”. He admits he can never actually turn out more than ten
guitars a year, which inevitably restricts his earnings.
56．Why did Jonny choose to make a bass guitar for himself in his teens?
A．He regarded it as the natural thing to do.
B．He feared that he would not be able to afford one.
C．He saw it as good practice for making other guitars.
D．He thought he could ensure it was in the style he wanted.
57．In paragraph 3, “that process” refers to _____.
A．doing some favours for friends B．cooperating with his brothers
C．creating something from nothing D．getting tools and materials ready
58．What does Jonny say about the architecture course he attended?
A．It gave him the chance to explore different types of art.
B．It helped him become financially independent.
C．It provided him with ideas for guitar design.
D．It enabled him to decide on a career path.
59．Jonny suggests that the main reason for his low income is _____.
A．the high cost of the materials he makes guitars with
B．the small number of guitars that he produces
C．the limited demand for hand-made guitars
D．the competition between guitar-makers
(B)
What is PayQwiq?
PayQwiq is a fast and secure payment service that helps you go quickly through the Tesco checkout. It lets you
add your credit or debit card details to the app so you can use your smartphone to pay for your shopping with just
one scan. Not only that but it collects your Clubcard points automatically. This means you can now go wallet-free
in all UK Tesco stores. So why not give it a go? It only takes a moment to download and you will receive these
benefits:
Collect your Clubcard points automatically
Pay for your weekly shop up to £250Use payQwiq offline, even with no signal
Track your spending in Tesco
Sign up to PayQwiq and collect 100 extra Clubcard points for each week you pay with the app, for up to 5
weeks—that’s up to 500 extra points.
Available to new customers who sign up by 3 September 2018 and make all payments by 31 October 2018.
One offer per customer. Only one qualifying deal per week will collect the extra points. Additional payments in the
same week will not receive extra points. Clubcard points will be added to a future Clubcard statement.
How does it work?
Head to the App Store or Google Play to download the PayQwiq app.
As soon as you’ve added your card details, you’ll be ready to shop using just your phone.
And there’s no need to worry about your bank details being stored on your phone—they’re all securely
protected in our data centers. So not only it is quicker and easier, it’s safer too.
60．If customers use PayQwiq in UK Tesco stores, they can _______.
A．get Clubcard points automatically B．pay for their weekly shop without limit
C．budget their everyday spending D．win 500 extra points at a time
61．From the passage we can learn that _______.
A．users must sign up by 3 September 2018
B．users needn’t add their payment card information
C．PayQwiq can guarantee both convenience and safety
D．PayQwiq can be downloaded only from the App Store
62．What is the purpose of this passage?
A．To stress the importance of PayQwiq. B．To popularize the use of PayQwiq.
C．To describe the feasibility of PayQwiq. D．To ensure the safety of PayQwiq.
(C)
On June 22, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew into Dayton, Ohio of the US, for dinner at Orville Wright’s house.
It had been just a month since the young aviator (飞行家) completed the first ever solo nonstop crossing of the
Atlantic, and he felt he ought to pay his respects to the celebrated pioneer of flight.
Forty-two years later, on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong was allowed to bring a personal
guest to the Kennedy Space Center to witness the launch of NASA’s towering Saturn V rocket. Armstrong invited
his hero, Charles Lindbergh.
One man, Lindbergh, could be the living link between the pilot of the first powered flight and the commanderof the first mission to another world.
In our century, for better or worse, progress isn’t what it used to be. Northwestern University economist
Robert Gordon argues that by 1970, all the key technologies of modern life were in place: electricity, mechanized
agriculture, highways, air travel, telecommunications, and the like. After that, innovation and economic growth
simply couldn’t keep going at the breakneck pace set over the previous 100 years—a period Gordon calls “the
special century.”
Since 1970 the only notable creation has been the ever-growing increase in computing power in the form of
the Internet and our mobile devices. But in most other ways, Gordon argues, the lives of people in developed
nations look and feel the same in 2019 as they did in 1979 or 1989.
Consider consumer robotics. There’s enormous potential for robots to help us with housework, education,
entertainment and medical care. But home robotics companies seem to keep folding. So far, the only commercially
successful home robot, the Roomba vacuum cleaner, hit the market in 2002.
Or consider access to space. In 2007 the XPRIZE Foundation offered $30 million in prizes to commercial
teams that would compete to land a robotic rover on the moon by 2018. Although five teams had built rovers, all
had trouble raising enough money to buy launch contracts.
Meanwhile the list of potentially world-changing technologies that get lots of press ink but remain stubbornly
in the prototype (雏形) phase is very long. Self-driving cars, flying cars, gene therapy, nuclear fusion. Need I
continue?
Granted, these are all hard problems. But historically, solving the really big problems—rural electrification,
for example—has required sustained, large-scale investments, often with private markets and taxpayers splitting the
burden. In this century, we urgently need to undo some of the consequences of the last great boom by developing
affordable zero-and negative-emissions technologies. That’s another hard problem—and to solve it, we’ll need to
recapture some of what made the “special century” so special.
63．In the beginning of the passage, the author used the story Charles Lindberg to _____.
A．explain technology advanced fast in the past 100 years
B．infer most aviators are likely to know each other well
C．prove this man was a key historic figure of the past century
D．point out we should be grateful to such a pioneering inventor
64．Why does Robert Gordon call the past 100 years “the special century”?
A．Computing power keeps growing at a high speed.
B．New things keep coming up to make life easier.C．Human life has become highly mechanized.
D．People have been trained to be more creative.
65．What can be inferred from the example of access to space in paragraph 7?
A．Big innovations can’t be achieved without constant financial support.
B．Technological development can’t be gained if it is not applied practically.
C．Scientific projects are not considered valuable unless commercially successful.
D．New creations are not worth making unless significantly improving people’s lives.
66．Which of the following best summarizes the passage?
A．Sustained and large-scale investments are harder to get now than before.
B．People are facing a time with more difficult problems than it used to be.
C．Major technological shifts are fewer and farther between than they were.
D．Solutions to the really big problems are fewer than we could expect.
Section C
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences in the box Each sentence can only be used
once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need.
A. Your furry companion obtains comfort and security from enclosed spaces.
B. Others prefer shoes, bowls, shopping bags, coffee mugs, empty egg cartons, and other small, enclosed
spaces.
C. She found a significant difference in stress levels between cats that had the boxes and those that didn’t.
D. A box, in this sense, can often represent a safe zone, a place where sources of anxiety, hostility (恶意), and
unwanted attention simply disappear.
E. So rather than work things out, cats tend to simply run away from their problems or avoid them altogether.
F. Thankfully, behavioral biologists and veterinarians have come up with a few interesting explanations.
Why Do Cats Love Boxes So Much?
There is an object that’s pretty much guaranteed to arouse your cat’s interest. That object, as the Internet has so
thoroughly documented, is a box. Any box, really. Like many other really strange things cats do, science hasn’t
fully cracked this particular feline (猫科的) mystery.
____67____ In fact, when you look at all the evidence together, it could be that your cat may not just like
boxes, he may need them.
The box-and-whisker plot
Understanding the feline mind is extremely difficult. Still, there’s a sizable amount of behavioral research oncats who are, well, used for other kinds of research. These studies have been taking place for more than 50 years
and they make one thing quite clear: ____68____
This is likely true for a number of reasons, but for cats in stressful situations, a box or some other type of
separate enclosure can have a strong impact on both their behavior and physiology.
Ethologist Claudia Vinke of Utrecht University in the Netherlands is one of the latest researchers to study
stress levels in shelter cats. Working with domestic cats in a Dutch animal shelter, Vinke provided hiding boxes for
a group of newly arrived cats while keeping another group from them entirely. ____69____ In effect, the cats with
boxes got used to their new surroundings faster, were far less stressed early on, and were more interested in
interacting with humans.
The ‘If it fits, I sits’ principle
Some feline observers will note that in addition to boxes, many cats seem to pick other odd places to relax.
Some curl up in a bathroom sink. ____70____ This brings us to the other reason why your cat may like
particularly small boxes: It’s really cold out.
So there you have it: Boxes are insulating, stress-relieving, comfort zones—places where cats can hide, relax,
sleep, and occasionally launch a surprise attack against the huge, unpredictable apes they live with.
IV.Summary Writing (共10分）
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point( s)of the passage in no more
than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Multi-tasking
Are you a multitasker? Do you watch TV and cook dinner at the same time? Do you often interrupt your work
to check your email? Do you talk on your phone while you’re driving? If you do these or similar things, then you
are one of many multitaskers. According to a survey by the magazine Scientific American MIND, 90 percent of
American adults multitask regularly.
Most people say they multitask because they are too busy, and multitasking saves time. Popular electronic
devices like tablets and smart phones make it convenient to do several tasks at once, so people feel like they are
getting more done. Melissa Brown of Evanston, Illinois, says she has no trouble listening to music, surfing the
Internet, and sending text messages to friends while she does her homework.
Recent studies, however, show that Melissa and others like her are perhaps getting less done than they think
they are. That’s because with multitasking, there are actually many “microinterruptions” in which people stop one
task, start another, and eventually return to the first one. These stops and starts make it difficult to concentrate, andso multitaskers actually waste time, according to a study at Microsoft Corporation. In the study, workers who
interrupted their work to answer an email or text message took an average of 15 minutes to return to the work they
were doing before the interruption.
Some psychologists say that the human brain just isn’t good at concentrating on two things at the same time.
This doesn’t matter if you’re only preparing a salad and listening to the radio, they say. But if you’re doing a
difficult task that requires thinking, like writing a report, then multitasking can slow you down and cause mistakes.
It can even be dangerous, as in the case of people who talk on the phone, eat, or even apply makeup while driving.
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V.Translation (共15分。第1小题和第2小题,每题3分;第3题4分;第4题5分。)
Directions:Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets
72.建议家长们尽量多花点时间陪伴孩子。 (accompany)
73．显而易见，照片上的形象与我眼前的这个人一点不像。（look）
74．过去的三年里，这个曾经无人问津的小村庄吸引了大量游客。(attract)
75. 这座公园设施陈旧，疏于管理，荒草丛生，经改造后，却让人眼前一亮。(absence)
VI.Guided Writing (共25分)
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese
假设你是明启中学高三学生李华，学校即将举办运动会，各班为自己的班级准备班服，需设计班服“T恤
logo或图案”，请撰写一篇文章，介绍自己设计的T恤logo或图案，供班级同学阅读。内容须包括：
1)对该logo或图案的简要描述;
2)你设计该logo或图案的原因。
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