浙江省宁波市2024届高三适应性考试 (二模)
英语试题
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
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. Where will the boy probably go next?
A. To his bedroom. B. To the classroom. 2. When was Janet supposed to give her presentation?
A. On Tuesday. B. On Wednesday. 3. What is Chase's hobby?
4. What does the man want to know?
A.Where the sign-up sheet is. B.When he can take the field trip.
C.Whether the woman will go on the field trip. 5. What does the woman think of Facebook?
A. It isn’t very reliable. B. It is a respectable news source. C. It tries to provide too much news. 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。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。
6. According to the woman, what do most people forget about Coke?
A. It has caffeine. B. It’s full of sugar. 7. What was the original function of Coke? 听第7段材料, 回答第8至10题。 8. Where are the speakers going to sleep? 9. Who introduced the man to the location?
A. His father. B. His uncle. 10. How will the speakers get water?
A. From the other guys. B. From the car. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. Why is the man so nervous? 12. Who is the Man probably talking to?
A. His mother. B. His classmate.
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C. To the bathroom C. On Thursday. C. Collecting stamps.
A. Writing books. B. Skiing outside.
C. It makes them thirsty. C. Treating headache.
A. Helping digestion. B. Replacing tea.
C. At the meeting point. C. His brother. C. From the river.
A. In a cabin. B. By the water.
C. He will be driving for the first time. C. His driving coach.
A. He will take a driver’s test. B. He will drive a different route.
13. What is so difficult about Blue Mountain Road?
A. It’s a narrow mountain road. B. The speed limit changes here. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Why does Vivian turn up the music so loud?
A. It helps her study. B. She feels a bit down.
C. The sound outside is hard to tolerate. C. She plugs in her headphones.
15. What does Vivian do at first when her father asks about the loud music?
A. She turns it off. B. She turns down the volume. 16. Why does Vivian’s father want her to be careful about the volume?
A. He can’t concentrate on his work. B. He thinks it is bad for her hearing.
C. It will be better to listen to music with a hearing aid. 17. How does Vivian feel about her father’s warnings in the end?
A. Annoyed. B. Amused. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. According to the talk, what is the Great Wall Marathon known for?
A. Its difficulty. B. Its long distance. A. One kilometer. B. Four kilometers. 20. What should runners be very careful about?
A. Fast runners. B. Cars on the road.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节（共10个小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡将该选项涂黑。
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Do you have a job? If you do, you’ll know the world of work can be tough --- long hours, boring tasks and stress. But it can bring benefits too, such as a regular salary. Maybe that’s why more of us are now taking on a side hustle --- another name for a second job.
For some having two jobs is a necessity --- a way to make ends meet and provide extra income. But it now seems that more people want to put their skills and passions into practice to make money. These tend to be entrepreneurial young people who want to work on their own projects alongside their main source of income.
According to Henley Business School, around one in four workers run at least one side hustle business, half of which were started in the past two years. Those aged 25 to 34 are most likely to be involved, with 37 percent thought to run a sideline of some kind. It calculates that the average side hustler makes about 20 percent of their income through their second job.
But what’s interesting is that many millennials (千禧一代) are turning their hand to new jobs not just for money and security. Research has found that almost three-quarters of people are following a passion or exploring a new challenge. Becci Mai Ford, who works some of the time for a telecommunications company to pay the bills, spends the rest of her time developing her craft company. She says going full-time is “not financially worth it right now but it fuels my creative soul and makes me happy”.
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C. The entire road is a school zone.
C. Surprised.
C. Its endless scenery. C. Eight kilometers. C. Getting too thirsty.
19. How far must a half marathon runner go before the first water station?
Of course having a side hustle means you are self-employed, which can give you flexibility to work when you like, but it can be risky. You sometime work on a zero-hours contract and may not get offered enough work. Or what was originally your passion may become more of a chore. However, this could be the best way to try out a new career or follow a passion while not giving up the day job.
21. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the reason for people to take on a side hustle?
A. To make money.
C. To have the flexibility to work.
B. To obtain job satisfaction.
D. To enjoy a risky lifestyle. B. making a comparison D. analyzing cause and effect C. Neutral. B
With Chinese consumers hit by quarantine (隔离期) and travel restrictions as well as just cautious about going out to the shops due to the coronavirus epidemic (流行病), companies in China are experimenting with new tricks to make sales.
Oil giant Sinopec --- keen to get customers back in their cars and help farmers due to roadblocks --- launched a new project last month called “zero-touch” vegetable sales at its 6,000 gas stations in 147 Chinese cities. Consumers place and pay for orders on the app and when they drive up, gas station employees put the vegetables into their car trunk, eliminating any need for human-to-human contact.
“The coronavirus outbreak has made it difficult for people to shop as before,” said Li Hong, vice president of Sinopec’s convenience store sales division. “Travel demand has been falling, but demand for food is pretty rigid.”
Mengniu Dairy, China’s dairy producer, is racing to add more vending machines to the 10,000 it currently has, saying the epidemic has driven unexpectedly strong demand for the sales channel. Its system allows customers to order products like milk and yogurt online which can then be picked up from their local vending machine. “The virus outbreak has decreased consumption for dairy products as people are unwilling to go to the supermarket,” said Meng Fanjie, head of the company’s Communist Party committee.
Luckin Coffee, a competitive rival to Starbucks, now also offers the sanitizer (消毒) products (e.g. hand soap) besides coffee. Liu Xingliang, an independent retail analyst, said, however, that Luckin’s strategy would have only a modest impact. “At best some users will place an order when they buy coffee, but nobody is deliberately choosing the Luckin app just to buy sanitizer”
A. Citizens were not allowed to go out.
B. The demand for travel and food declined sharply. C. The coronavirus epidemic changed people’s way of life. D. Companies desired to grasp the chance to defeat their competitors.
25. What does the underlined word “eliminating” in Paragraph 2 most probably refer to?
A. meeting B. removing
C. decreasing
D. limiting
26. The passage is written mainly to .
A. illustrate the difficulty caused by the coronavirus epidemic B. explain the changes made by some companies in the epidemic
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22. The author explains the study from Henley Business School by .
A. describing the process C. presenting research findings
23. What is the author’s attitude towards having a second job?
A. Critical. B. Indifferent.
D. Favorable.
24. According to the passage, why did some companies adopt new selling methods?
C. describe the challenges some companies met during the epidemic D. reveal the intelligence people showed in the coronavirus epidemic
C
People may set an alarm on the phone or clock that sounds like this: beep beep beep. That hard, unpleasant sound may be making it harder to shake off the sleepy feeling in the morning known as grogginess. So, is there a better way to wake up? A recent study says yes. The answer is music.
The study, carried out by researchers in Australia, involved 50 people. The researchers found that people who wake up to musical alarms reported feeling more awake and alert. Stuart McFarlane, a lead writer of the study stated, “We are very surprised by these findings as one might expect a harsh beeping sound to be more successful,” at waking up a person.
Sleep inertia is another term for grogginess. It means a person has a heavy feeling when waking up, and has trouble getting moving again after sleeping. McFarlane said people need to better understand sleep inertia’s harmful effects on human performance later in the day.
Not everyone will experience the full effect. But for those who do, “care should be taken” when performing duties that require a top performance within this period, he said. This includes “dangerous tasks like driving or riding our bikes” shortly after waking up. The same is true for people who work in dangerous situations shortly after they wake, including firefighters and pilots.
So, what makes musical alarms better for waking up? The researchers think the music may be more successful in reducing sleep inertia because it has several tones, compared to the single tone of a “beeping” alarm. McFarlane said that the changes over time between the music tones may help increase a person’s attention when waking from sleep.
And is there a kind of music that is best to wake up to? There may be, McFarlane said. “We could suggest alarm sounds that are tune full and easy to hum or sing along with. The current sounds I have been using include ‘Close to me’ by the Cure and ‘Borderline’ by Madonna.”
No matter how you wake up, experts say, the amount of sleep you get also matters --- a lot. 27. Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A. What is grogginess? C. Which music is the best?
B. Why are musical alarms better? D. How can we overcome grogginess?
28. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Sleep inertia is another cause for grogginess. B. How long a person sleeps is of great importance.
C. The ‘beeping’ alarm is not effective mainly because of its noisy tone. D. It is dangerous for everyone to drive or ride bicycles shortly after waking up. 29. The paragraph following this passage is likely to focus on .
A. examples of good musical alarms B. more findings of the application of music C. explanations about why music is more helpful
D. suggestions on how to sleep well and feel fresh each morning 30. In which section of a magazine may you find the passage?
A. Health. B. Fiction.
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
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C. Technology. D. Entertainment.
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
There are hundreds of publishers across the world and millions of books get printed every year. Moreover, a book can be printed by several polishers. 31
To overcome the problem of identifying books, publishers have come up with a unique numbering system. For instance, if 50,000 copies of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are printed by a publisher at one time (called an edition), all of them are identified by one number code. 32 Your address begins with your house number, street, locality, state and ends with a statement of the country where you live. An ISBN book number achieves a similar aim of identifying and tracing a book
If you pick up any book, turn it around you will see a number which looks something like this --- ISBN 90-70002-34-5. This is called the ISBN number. ISBN stands for International Standard Book Numbering. 33 The ISBN number is divided into four groups that are separated by a space or a hyphen.
The first part of the ISBN identifies the country and is called the Group Identifier. 34 The second part is called the Publisher Prefix. The Publisher Prefix is used to identify the publisher of the book. The publisher prefix may contain up to seven digits.
The third part identifies the title and the edition of the book and so is called the Title Identifier, which may consist of up to six digits. 35 Since you can have the same book from the same publisher but with different editions, the Title Identifier helps to differentiate between them.
The fourth and the final part is called the Check digit, a single digit (from 0 to 9) used to check whether the given ISBN number is correct or wrong. If an ISBN number is incorrect, this means that the book is a version printed illegally.
A. It may consist of up to five digits. B. So what can the ISBN number do for you?
C. This makes the task of identifying a book very difficult. D. It is a numbering system that is used to describe the book.
E. Book publishers often come out with newer and updated versions of earlier books.
E. The number Code is your home address that can only be shared by your parents and siblings.
G. The ISBN numbering system helps book stores and book publishers to handle, categorize, store and identify books easily.
第二部分 语言运用 (共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When it comes to parenting his three children, the Microsoft mogul, Bill Gates admits his wife has done more than her share of raising the kids. “My wife does 80%, Gates told a 36 of Harvard students. He said they have been quite deliberate about the model they’ve used to 37 their children.
The couple followed a 1970s “Love and Logic” parenting model. The idea of their philosophy is 38 the idea that using emotional control, essentially minimizing 39 reactions like shouting or scolding kids.
“One of the greatest 40 of applying Love and Logic is that it helps us learn how to keep a tighter leash (缰绳) on our emotions and on our 41 ,” co-founder Charles Fay wrote in a blog post about his model.
42 controlling hot-blooded parent tempers, the love and logic model also 43 the importance of not leaning into rewards for kids, 44 instead demonstrating unconditional love and 45 kids for who they are,
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浙江省宁波市2024届高三适应性考试(二模)英语试题及参考答案
