2024年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（北京卷）
英语试题
第一部分：知识运用（共两节，45分）
第一节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下列短文，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。
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Oliver is a host of a TV programme on food. He says food 1 plays/has played/is playing/has been playing (play) a big role in his life. “My mum was a great cook, and she’d sometimes let me have a try,” he said. The first dish Oliver prepared for his family was fried chicken wings. He made it with his mum’s help. Oliver says if you’re 2 lucky (luck) enough to have someone close to you who enjoys cooking, ask them 3 if/whether join in when it’s possible.
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Single-use plastic bags are used at most a few times before they 4 are thrown (throw) away. It takes them hundreds of years 5 to break (break) down. Many of these bags end up in the ocean where larger ones can trap sea creatures, such as turtles and dolphins. Over time, the bags fall apart 6 into/to countless tiny pieces, and fish can accidentally eat some of them. Now, lots of 7 countries (country) and regions are taking action to ban the sale of such bags to stop people using them.
C
A piece of stone 8 found (find) on a Dutch beach suggests that our extinct human relatives, known as Neanderthals, were cleverer than previously thought. The Neanderthals 9 lived/had lived/had been living (live) alongside human ancestors in Europe for tens of thousands of years, before dying out about 40,000 years ago. They were much stronger than modern humans, but it’s long been assumed that human ancestors were 10 smarter (smart) than the Neanderthals. However, the stone tool made by Neanderthals suggests otherwise. 第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30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。
My faith in human nature has never been so great as it was last weekend after our family get-together in the town of Vail.
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On Saturday, we all went to the market right in the middle of the town. Near the end, we all 11 at the fountain near the bridge, and the kids waded (蹚水) around in the fountain until we 12 . This is one of the busiest walking streets.
After we returned to the hotel late in the afternoon, my 7-year-old son Ponder 13 that nowhere could he find his backpack, which 14 his Gameboy and his watch. After a thorough 15 , we determined that he must have left it at the fountain. Ponder has never 16 anything. So we just take for granted that he needs no supervision (指导) for managing his 17 .
He was upset, not about the Gameboy, but about the watch. “But Dad,” he said, through massive 18 , “they don’t make that kind of watch anymore.” We were all very 19 . Our dinner reservation was at a restaurant just on the other side of the bridge, so I 20 him that we would not only search the area around the fountain when we went back for dinner, but we would also find the police and ask them if the backpack had been 21 . As we exited from the parking garage, we could see the fountain as we walked down the long staircase. I saw something black 22 there, but it was right next to a woman standing by the fountain, so I could not 23 what it was or if it was hers. “See it, Dad?” Ponder shouted. “Don’t get too 24 because that may not be it,” I said. But that was it. It had been five or six hours since we left the fountain, and it was 25 there. There was no ID in it, and it looked like someone had looked through it and then set it right out where all could 26 it. I literally 27 when we reached it and it was his! Everyone in our party was blown away by this “miracle (奇迹)” . In my wildest 28 , I would never have imagined that this could happen nowadays.
What a charmed life, eh? I believe this was a perfect 29 for a child in losing something important … to lose it and feel the full 30 of that loss, and then to miraculously get it back. （C）11．A．drove （B）12．A．landed
B．hiked B．left
C．met C．settled
D．united D．slept D．recalled D．covered D．search D．deserted D．stuff
（C）13．A．responded B．recognised （A）14．A．contained
B．combined
C．realised C．comprised C．revision C．sought C．money
（D）15．A．preparation B．checkup （B）16．A．wasted （D）17．A．emotion
B．lost B．time
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（A）18．A．tears （C）19．A．hesitant （A）20．A．promised （D）21．A．worn out （B）22．A．hiding （C）23．A．assess （A）24．A．excited （D）25．A．already （B）26．A．take （D）27．A．panicked （A）28．A．dreams （B）29．A．mode （C）30．A．range
B．fists B．curious
C．reliefs C．sad C．warned
D．outbreaks D．eager D．taught D．turned in D．flowing D．predict D．amused D．still D．protect D．cried D．passions D．plot D．harvest
B．informed B．caught up B．sitting B．declare
C．put away C．swinging C．tell
B．puzzled B．even B．see
C．relaxed C．almost C．touch
B．exploded B．claims B．lesson
C．collapsed C．efforts C．option C．weight
B．pressure
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30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。
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2024年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(北京卷) 英语试题及答案(教师版)
