郑州市2024年高中毕业年级第二次质量预测
英语试题卷
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第B卷（非选择题）两部分。第I卷包括第一、二部分和第 三部分的第一节，第II卷包括第三部分的第二节和第四部分。考试时间120分钟，满分150 分（听力成绩算作参考分）。考生应首先阅读答题卡上的文字信息，然后在答题卡上作答， 在试题卷上作答无效。交卷时只交答题卡。 第I卷
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案 转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1 ．5分，满分7．5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A,B、C三个选项中选出最佳 选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟学优网gkstk168的时间来回答有关小题和
阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1 ．What sport does the woman like? A. Tennis. B. Skating. C. Swimming. 2. How much will the man pay for the tickets? A.＄16. B.＄32. C.＄60.
3．What do we know about the speakers？ A. The woman refuses the man's offer. B. They want to have a cup of coffee. C. The man will start out early tomorrow. 4. What will the weather be like tomorrow？ A. Rainy. B. Cold. C. Windy.
5 ．What is the woman thinking about?
A. Getting an extra job. B. Doing better in her job. C. Changing her job. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1 ．5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A,B,C三个选 项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小 题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。学优网gkstk168
6. What will the woman do this evening?
A. Attend a party. B. Visit her grandma. C. Do some shopping. 7 ．What does the man advise the woman to do?
A. Make a skirt. B. Wear a necklace. C. Buy a handbag. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8 ．What does the man think of the little village？
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A. It's too crowded. B. It's far from his factory. C. It's very nice. 9．Why couldn't the woman sleep well? A. She was afiaid of the bird. B. She wasn't used to the silence. C. She was too tired to fall asleep.
10. What's the possible relationship between the two speakers? A. Husband and wife. B. Friends. C. Boss and clerk. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11．From whom did Tom get the idea of becoming a businessman?
A. His college friends. B. His high school teachers. C. His friends' parents. 12. How much does Tom own of the company he works for? A. 6%．B. 8%．C. 50%，
13 ．What mistake did Tom and his company make in the past? A. Producing simple things. B. Wasting lots of materials. C. Making products themselves.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。 14．What are the two speakers discussing? A. Where they should go for a holiday. B. Whether they should go on holiday.
C. How they could save money for a holiday. 15．Why doesn't the man want to go to Florida? A. It is cold. B. It is far away. C. It is hot.
16. Where does the man prefer to go for the holiday？ A. Sweden. B. Hawaii. C. Scotland.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17 ．Where did the speaker go with Mary？ A. A dance. B. A shop. C. A cinema. 18．Who was Mick?
A. Mary's best friend. B. Mary's workmate.
C. The speaker's dancing partner.
19．Why did the speaker's parents tell ahem to wait? A. They didn't．like Mick. B.They didn’t agree with Mary.
C. They thought they were too young. 20. What does Maryalways say?
A. You mustn't just sit there all the time. B. You must go out and make things happen. C. You must sit and wait for things to happen.
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分4D分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上 将该项涂黑。
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In April 2024，the world's oldest known message in a bottle was discovered floating in the Baltic Sea. It had spent 101 years lost in the ocean！The message was finally sent to the author's granddaughter.
A German fisherman named Konrad Fischer found the brown bottle near Kiel，Germany. He said he nearly threw the bottle back into the water after pulling it out of a fishing net. Then he noticed something inside.
The bottle in good condition contained a Danish postcard with two German stamps，dated May 17，1913. Although dampness had made most of the writing illegible（字迹模糊的），the readable part of the message asked whoever found it to return it to an address in Berlin. It even contained two stamps to pay for postage.
From the address，researchers found that the postcard was written by a man named Richard Platz，who was 20 years old when he wrote the message. While he was hiking on the Baltic coast with a nature appreciation group，he threw the bottle into the sea. Then the researchers began a search for any living relatives of his. Sure enough，they were able to find his 62-year-old granddaughter，Angela Erdmann，who still lives in Berlin. “It was almost unbelievable，”Erdmann said upon being presented with her grandfather's bottle and message.“That was a pretty moving moment. Tears rolled down my face.\
Erdmann never knew her grandfather，who died in 1946，but says that the discovery of the bottle has made her want to learn more about him.
The bottle remained on display at the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg until May 1 ．After that，the researchers examined the postcard and tried to figure out the meaning of the rest of the message.
Previously，the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2024，according to Guinness World Records.
21 ．When Konrad Fischer picked up the bottle from the sea， ． A. he thought it would bring him good luck B. he noticed the postcard inside immediately C. he decided to uncover the secret of the bottle D. he wanted to throw it back into the sea at first
22. Why did Richard Platz throw the bottle with the message into the sea? A. He expected his granddaughter could find the postcard. B. He wished the finder would send the postcard to his home. C. He believed his postcard would be kept secret at sea forever. D. He thought he could make friends with the finder of the bottle. 23．What can be the best title for this passage？ A. The finding of a floating bottle at the sea B. A one-century-old letter to a granddaughter C. The world's oldest message in a floating bottle D. The oldest Danish postcard in a floating bottle
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When I began planning to move to Auckland to study，my mother was a little worried about the uncertainty of living in a place that was so different from India，where we lived. She worried particularly about the lack of jobs，the cultural differences and the chance that I would face racism.
Despite these worries，I came to New Zealand in July 2009. I have found the place and
people very nice and supportive. Soon after I arrived，I realized the importance of getting a job to supply my living expenses.
Determined to do this on my own ，I spent a whole day going from door to door asking for a job. However，I received little or no response. This became my routine every day after college for a few weeks.
One afternoon，I walked into a building to ask if there were any job opportunities. The people there were very surprised，and advised me not to continue my job search in that manner. As I was about to leave，a clerk in the building，who had been listening to what the others had said, approached me and asked if I would wait outside. Fifteen minutes later，he returned. He asked me what my plans were and encouraged me to stay confident. He then offered to take me to the Royal Oak area to search for a job.
I was a little surprised，but had a good feeling about him，so I went along. Along the way， I realized that I had run out of copies of my resume（简历）．The man stopped at his business partner's office to make me 15 extra copies. He also gave me tips on dressing and speaking，and added that I should give him, a call if I ever needed anything. I handed out my resumes and went home feeling very satisfied. The following day，I received：call from。store in Royal Oak offering me a job.
It seems that the world always gives back to you when you need it. And this time，it was a complete stranger who turned out to be a real blessing. 24. What wasn't the author's mother worried about? A. People might look down on the author.
B. The author couldn't speak the local language. C. The author wasn't familiar with local customs. D. It might be difficult for the author to find a job.
25．After staying in New Zealand for a short time, the author A. decided to go back to his own country B. felt the local people were not very friendly C. had to find a job to cover his living expenses D. wanted to get a job that needed practical skills
26. When the author went into a building to look for a job， · A. a clerk gave him encouragement and advice B. he was confident that he would find a good one
C. he found many college students like him already there D. a clerk recommended him to the company he worked for 27 ．What is the story mainly about?
A. How a stranger offered the author a job.
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B. How a stranger turned out to be a real blessing. C. How the author adapted himself to a new situation.
D. How the author was helped to get a job by a stranger.
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The year of 2024 saw smart people always busy inventing useful things，which have helped to make the world better，smarter and a little more fun. Now，let's take a look at some of the inventions.
Super banana
Australian biogeneticist（生物遗传学家）James Dale
visited Uganda，a poor African country，in the early 2000s， where he found that 15％-30% of children under 5 were at the risk of going blind because they didn't get enough vitamin A. Dale also learned that people there love bananas. They eat 3 to 11 bananas a day. So hecame up with an idea to
plant bananas containing added nutrition in order to improve Ugandans' health ．With the help of Bill Gates' foundation，Dale developed
the“super banana，’·He added a gene to the fruit，making it rich in vitamin A.
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河南省郑州市2024年高中毕业年级第二次质量预测英语试题
