【灿烂六月·高考金8 卷】
备战2026 年高考英语模拟卷（北京卷01）
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第一部分知识运用（共两节,满分30 分）
第一节完形填空（共10 小题;每小题1.5 分,共15 分）
阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项
涂黑。
When I was in High School, our gym class focused on swimming. I was happy to be a fish in the 1
area of the pool although I would sometimes venture to a middle area that reached my nose.
One day, the gym teacher 2 the class. “Anyone with courage could try to swim across to the short
side of the pool. Give it a try!” I was encouraged. Then the teacher 3 and along with the others I dived into
the water, pushing myself forward. Suddenly, my swimming motions stopped and I began to 4 . Pushing
madly against the pool bottom launched my body upwards, and in second my head 5 the water surface to
take a mouthful of air. I needed more air but was still far from the pool’s edge. I was sinking again. One classmate
jumped into the water and 6 for my arms. With great effort he pulled me back and helped me out of the
water. I never returned to that swim class again.
When I was teaching a university speech class, one student, who 7 to have been a lifeguard for
years, volunteered to share her experience. Standing in the room, she illustrated the basic breathing techniques and
made swimming seem so easy that all of us were 8 . The emphasis on relaxation of the body, and short
practices of specific techniques, were points driven home.
I hurried to the local swimming pool. Learning to relax while practicing inhaling (吸气) and exhaling, I knew
how to trust myself. Finally, I was able to swim several laps non-stop and my 9 grew to the point where I
could add four different strokes (游泳姿势) to my swimming
Learning to swim has become a(n) 10 hobby as swimming skills have afforded me opportunities for
fun and adventures. It is more than simply “playing” in water.
1．A．deep
B．empty
C．remote
D．shallow
2．A．instructed
B．reminded
C．challenged
D．commanded
3．A．nodded
B．smiled
C．cheered
D．signaled
4．A．sink down
B．roll down
C．fall down
D．lie down
5．A．approached
B．broke
C．struck
D．touched
6．A．pushed
B．called
C．ran
D．reached
7．A．claimed
B．promised
C．pretended
D．remembered
8．A．moved
B．amused
C．impressed
D．shocked
9．A．devotion
B．happiness
C．patience
D．confidence
10．A．amusing
B．demanding
C．rewarding
D．convincing
第二节语法填空（共10 小题;每小题1.5 分,共15 分）
A
阅读下面短文，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1 个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正
确形式填空。
With nations preparing to spend billions to redesign their cities with a new focus on cycling, it’s worth
remembering 11 the invention of the bicycle transformed the world. When the first safety bicycles, or
modern-day bicycles, were invented in the late 19th century, a bicycle boom 12 (flood) the nation. The
bicycle became the must-have transportation, which was lightweight, affordable and fast. With a bicycle, anything
seemed possible, and ordinary people set off on many extraordinary 13 (journey). Also, as women
deserted their burdensome skirts, bicycles gave them newfound freedom of movement.
B
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1 个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处
用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
The skin of a small fish from Thailand is almost completely clear. As it swims, its muscles move, 14
(result) in reflections of many colors. After shining different kinds of light and lasers onto the fish in a laboratory,
researchers made a 15 (discover) that the small structures in its muscles are what turns light into rainbow
colors. Other creatures can also create the rainbow effect when colors change. Usually, they have outer surfaces 16
reflect the light, like a butterfly’s wings.
C
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1 个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处
用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
As one of China’s ten 17 (famous) teas, Longjing tea is characterized by its green color, delicate
smell, rich taste and beautiful shape. The beautiful forms of a bud ( 嫩芽) 18 one leaf or two leaves are
acknowledged as quality tea. The picking work of such tea leaves demands a high accuracy and 19 (depend)
largely on hand labor. To improve efficiency, a tea-picking robot was made and it is in trial operation now. It can
position 20 the target bud and leaf are and cut them precisely.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节, 38 分）
第一节（共14 小题; 每小题2 分, 共28 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, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
THE OLYMPIC STUDIES CENTRE
YOUR SOURCE OF REFERENCE FOR OLYMPIC KNOWLEDGE
The IOC Olympic Studies Centre is the world source of reference for Olympic knowledge. Our mission is to
share this knowledge with professionals and researchers through providing information, giving access to our unique
collections, enabling research and stimulating intellectual exchange.
As part of the IOC, we are uniquely placed to collect and share the most up-to-date and accurate information
on Olympism. Our collections include the IOC archives ( 档案), the official publications of the IOC and the
Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games as well as books, articles and journals.
HERE TO HELP
Whatever your interest in the Olympic Movement—academic or professional—we will help you find the
information you need, quickly and easily. We’re here to:
Answer your questions: share factual and historical information, Games results and statistics
Give personalized guidance: help you find what you need in our extensive library and archives
Lend you books and publications, even internationally
Give you online access: to our electronic documents
Award research grants: to PhD students and established researchers
Connect you to our network: of academic experts in Olympic studies
Join the academic community interested in Olympic studies
One of our key roles is to facilitate communication and cooperation between the IOC and the international
academic community in order to promote research and stimulate intellectual exchange.
This worldwide community is mainly composed of over 40 Olympic Studies Centers and hundreds of
individual scholars and university students working on academic projects related to the field of Olympic studies.
Thanks to this regular exchange and the work conducted by the academics, we enrich the world’s Olympic
knowledge, share new analysis on key topics related to the Olympic Movement and can provide guidance to
universities wishing to launch initiatives on Olympic studies.
Join our academic mailing list
University professors and researchers are invited to join our academic mailing list to be informed about our
future activities and other updates concerning Olympic studies initiatives. To join, email us with a brief description
of your academic status and your full contact details.
VISIT US
You’ll find us next door to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. We’re open Monday to Friday,
9am to 5pm, except on public holidays and on Christmas. You don’t need an appointment to use the library and the
study rooms. If you would like to see the historical archives or need personal guidance to find your way around our
collections, please fill out our visitor request form.
21．The Olympic Studies Center mainly aims to ________.
A．give personalized guidance
B．provide resources on the Olympics
C．receive Olympic fans across the world
D．update information on Olympism for officials
22．What can be learned about the academic community?
A．It is organized by Olympic officials.
B．It launches projects at universities.
C．It promotes academic exchanges.
D．It provides electronic documents.
23．If you want to visit the center, you have to ________.
A．fill out a visitor request form
B．enter the Olympic Museum
C．make an appointment
D．arrive on workdays
B
In a small town located between rolling hills, there lived a girl named Lily, passionate about painting. From a
young age, she found comfort in the strokes of her brush, creating vibrant landscapes and amusing creatures. Yet, her
fear of judgment kept her art hidden; she painted in secret, each piece a beautiful treasure waiting for the light of day.
One rainy afternoon, while seeking shelter, Lily stepped into a local art exhibit at a gallery. The atmosphere
was filled with excitement, and the walls displayed colorful pieces that told stories. Despite her anxiety, she felt
urged to enter. As she wandered, she overheard the curator(馆长) discussing the power of being honest in art. “Art is
not about perfection; it’s about connection,” he said, emphasizing that revealing who we are — flaws and all — is
essential. His words struck a chord within her, sparking hope.
That night, Lily considered her journey and decided to display her artwork at the upcoming local fair. As the
date approached, she poured her heart into preparation, selecting pieces that represented her growth. On the day of
the fair, as she set up her booth, excitement mixed with fear. Doubts whispered in her mind, but she knew she had to
take this leap.
As people wandered by, some paused to admire her work. A stranger was attracted by a sunset painting, and
they struck up a conversation. For the first time, Lily felt warmth spreading through her as she shared the story
behind the piece. Suddenly, she realized her art resonated with someone else, connecting her experiences to another
person.
Lily began to embrace her imperfections, viewing honesty as strength. Each conversation grew her
confidence, and she no longer feared judgment. Instead, she welcomed it as part of the creative process. Now, as a
thriving artist in her community, Lily encourages others to share their voices. She holds workshops, guiding aspiring
creators to find joy in their unique expressions. “Art is not about perfection; it’s about connection,” she tells them,
echoing the curator’s words. Through her journey, she reminds everyone that our stories, no matter how imperfect,
deserve to be shared with the world, as they make us human and truly alive.
24．What prevented Lily from sharing her artwork at first?
A．Passion for painting in secret.
B．Anxiety about others’ opinions.
C．Disinterest in others’ judgment.
D．Fear of failure in public display.
25．How did the comment of the curator influence Lily?
A．It discouraged her from showing her artwork.
B．It made her doubt her ability to create perfect art.
C．It convinced her that only perfect pieces deserve to be shown.
D．It inspired her to accept flaws and share her artwork.
26．After Lily displayed her artwork, she felt more ______.
A．depressed.
B．hesitant.
C．secure.
D．annoyed.
27．What can we learn from the passage?
A．Rome wasn’t built in a day.
B．Don’t cry over spilled milk.
C．The pen is mightier than the sword.
D．Stay true to who you are.
C
When music comes on, some people are toe-lappers or head-bobbers, others shake their hips，and then there
are those who let the rhythm move them to a full-body boogie (布吉舞) . But, whatever it is, the way we dance to a
beat is so noticeable to an individual that a computer can now identify us by our unique dancing “fingerprint”.
Researchers at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research at Finland's University of Jyv skyl have been
using motion capture (动作捕捉) technology to study what a person's dance moves say about his or her mood,
personality, and ability to sympathize. They recently made an accidental discovery while trying to see if an ML
machine, a form of artificial intelligence, would be able to identify which kind of music was playing based on how
the participants of the study were dancing. In their study, the researchers motion captured 73 participants with the AI
technology while they danced to eight different music genres: electronica, jazz, metal, pop, rap, reggae, country, and
blues. The only instruction the dancers were given was to move in a way that felt natural.
But what it could do was more shocking. The computer was able to correctly identify which music one of the
participants was dancing to 94 percent of the time, regardless of what kind of music was playing, based on the
pattern of a person's dance style. It was the movement of participants’ heads, shoulders and knees that were
important markers in distinguishing between individual. “It seems as though a person’s dance movements a kind of
fingerprint. Each person has a unique movement signature that stays the same no matter what kind of music is
playing,” said Pasi Saari, a co-author of the study, in a class.
It’s possible that dance-recognition software could become something similar to face-recognition software but
it doesn’t seem as practical. For now, researchers say that they are not as interested in possible surveillance (监视)
uses of this technology, but rather what the results of this study say about how humans respond to music. So don’t
worry about being identified at nightclub by an AI via your signature dance moves yet.
28．What did the researchers expect to do with the ML machine?
A．Test the dancers’ flexibility.
B．Make dancers accustomed to the beat.
C．Identify the music using dancers' moves.D．Check the accuracy of motion capture technology.
29．What might not help the AI technology determine a dancer’s identity?
A．Head movement.
B．Foot movement.
C．Knee movement.
D．Shoulder
movement.
30．What do researchers want to use the results for?
A．Putting it on the application market.
B．Programming it to work at nightclub.
C．Learning about the human response to music. D．Developing a software like face-recognition.
31．What can be the best title of the text?
A．A music style matters less than its beat.
B．New AI can generate your next dance move.
C．A dance-recognition software will become more popular.
D．New AI can identify you by your dancing “fingerprint”.
D
When to Trust Your Gut
Humans have been practicing over millions of years of evolution to respond to certain situations without
thinking too hard. If your ancestors spotted movement in the wild forest, they would run first and ask questions later.
At the same time, the capacity to analyse and to plan is part of what distinguishes people from other animals. The
question of when to trust your gut and when to test your assumptions whether to think fast or slow, in the language
of Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist matters in the office as much as it does in the flat grassland.
Deliberative thinking is the feature of a well-managed workplace. Strategic maintenance and budget
discussions are built on rounds of meetings, memos, formulas and presentations. Processes are increasingly designed
to rule out instinctive responses. From blind screening of job applicants to using “red-teaming” techniques to pick
apart a firm’s plans, deliberation beats instinct.
Yet instinct also has its place. Some decisions are more connected to emotional responses and inherently less
tractable to analysis. Does a marketing campaign capture the essence of your company, say, or would this person
work well with other people in a team? In tricky customer-service situations, intuition is often a better guide to how
to behave than a script.
Gut instincts can also be improved (call it “probiotic management”). Plenty of research has shown that
intuition becomes more accurate with experience. In one well-known experiment, conducted in 2012, volunteers
were asked to assess whether a selection of designer handbags were counterfeit or real. Some were instructed to
operate on instinct and others to deliberate over their decision. Intuition worked better for those who owned at least
three designer handbags; indeed, it outperformed analysis. The more expert you become, the better your instincts
tend to be.
However, the real reason to embrace fast thinking is that it is, well, fast. Instinctive decision-making is often
the only way to get through the day. Researchers at Cornell University once estimated that people make over 200
decisions a day about food alone. The workplace is nothing but a succession of choices, a few big and many small:
what to prioritize, when to intervene, whom to avoid in the lifts and, now, where to work each day.
When to use intuition in the workplace rests on its own form of pattern recognition. Does the decision-maker
have real expertise in this area? Is this a field in which emotion matters more than reasoning? Above all, is it worth
delaying the decision? Slow thinking is needed to get the big calls right. But fast thinking is the way to stop
deliberation turning to hesitation.
32．What’s the function of the second paragraph?
A．To clearly state the main idea of the article.
B．To introduce examples to support the main idea.
C．To critically include the other side of viewpoint.
D．To support the main idea from the opposite perspective.
33．In which situation may people trust their gut?
A．The working mechanism is perfectly organized.
B．The time window for making decision is limited.
C．The reasoning process matters more than emotion.
D．The decision is critical to the survival of a company.
34．What can be implied from the passage?
A．The ability to trust your gut matters more nowadays.
B．Experience plays a vital role in cultivating gut instincts.
C．Gut instincts are more advisable in screening job applicants.
D．Gut instincts can be improved by owning designer products.
第二节(共5 小题;每小题2 分，共10 分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中
有两项为多余选项。
Sometimes in our life we face this problem: loved ones as well as strangers annoying us. At home, we’ve had
to put up with children screaming during online meetings, and family members on the computer all the time. 35
Kindness seems like a distant memory. The ability to live peacefully with annoying housemates or neighbors
seems more difficult than ever. 36 If we take kindness as a skill, making it a daily practice, it will come
easier over time.
37 Loving Kindness Meditation (默想) (LKM), which dates back to the time of its roots to early
Buddhism, helps us find sympathy for one another even during trying times. The meditation asks us to send thoughts
of loving kindness to loved ones, then to acquaintances (people you don’t know very well) and finally to challenging
people. Over time, our unkind thoughts are replaced with more open, accepting ones. Anger is replaced by love, or at
least kindness.
Donald Altman, a psychotherapist from Portland, Oregon, says LKM helps us recognize we are all weak and
have been hurt. 38
So how? To begin with, Altman suggests finding a quiet place to sit. He says to then imagine a favorite family
member or friend sending you the words, “May you be well, happy and at peace.” After a few minutes, direct the
words at yourself, “May I be well, happy and at peace.” 39 Replace the “I” with the name of a teacher or
coach, then a family member or friend, then an acquaintance, and finally an unfriendly person in your life. End the
meditation by spreading the blessing to all living beings.
Indeed, we should find our own way toward LKM — but only if we are prepared to access its benefits and
extend them to anyone who may need them.
A．The good news is that it isn’t lost.
B．Luckily, we can look to ancient disciplines for guidance.
C．At work, we’ve had to face the added pressure these demanding jobs create.
D．Then, extend the blessing to other people, in order of decreasing fondness.
E．For that reason, we could all benefit from love’s warm and comforting blessing.
F．You can combine the words with breathing, repeating a phrase of love for yourself.
G．Outside, we’ve encountered drivers speeding on busy roads and passengers talking loudly on the subway.
第三部分 书面表达(共两节，32 分)
第一节(共4 小题;第40、41 题各2 分，第42 题3 分，第43 题5 分，共12 分)
阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。
We Need to Talk... and Write
A recent survey conducted by UNESCO reveals a significant decline in the ability of young people to express
their thoughts and ideas. Half of the 1,333 participants admitted to having poor verbal skills, while 40% struggled
with written expressions.
Poor education could be a cause of poor communication skills, but that may not explain everything. Most of
the participants were well-educated individuals in their 20s and 30s, with over 60% holding a bachelor’s degree or
higher. The problem more likely resulted from the rise of digital communication, with young people now preferring
texting short messages, which may limit their ability to engage in meaningful conversations and write complete
sentences.
Effective verbal and written communication skills are essential both in school and in the workplace. Warren
Buffett, a famous investor, always urges young people to learn public speaking. It may be scary to speak in front of a
group, but it boosts confidence. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is known for valuing the written word. He
replaces PowerPoint presentations in meetings with “six-page, narratively-structured (叙事结构)” memos. Meetings
start with each attendee sitting and silently reading a memo for the first 30 minutes.
The decline in communication skills is a worldwide problem. In America, there is a movement among
“homeschoolers” to. try to solve the problem by returning to ancient educational wisdom, the “Trivium”, which
dates back to medieval times in Europe. The word comes from Latin and means “where three roads meet.” The
subjects — the “three roads” — are grammar, rhetoric and logic. Grammar means learning how to write a complete
and accurate sentence. Rhetoric is the use of similes (明喻), metaphors (暗喻) and other grammatical devices. And
logic is the use of reason to discover what is true or not true, or what can be proved or disproved. Whether such
classical education can help with the decline in communication skills remains to be seen, but it offers a glimmer of
hope in this challenging situation.
40．What does the survey conducted by UNESCO reveal?
41．What is the main reason for young people’s poor communication skills?
42．Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
▶Ancient educational wisdom is applied to address today’s communication decline in America, and it has
already helped students improve expressive skills.
43．Besides the methods mentioned in the passage, what other ways would you use to improve your writing skills?
(In about 40 words)
第二节(20 分)
44．假如你是红星中学高中生李华，你所在的校英语戏剧社团（English drama club）正在招募新成员。
在你校就读的英国交换生Jim 是戏剧爱好者，请你用英语给他写封信，邀请他加入。内容如下：
1．社团的常规活动；
2．报名方式和截止日期。
注意：1．词数100 左右；
2．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
