湖南省常寧市2024高考英語閱讀理解和信息匹配選練（5）

　　根據對話內容，從對話后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。選項中有兩項多余選項。

　　What seems to be the problem?

　　51

　　How long have you been like this?

　　Since Saturday night.

　　____ 52

　　Yes, I also feel lighthearted.

　　Can you think of anything you ate Saturday that might have caused it?

　　All I can think of is the fish I had. It didn’t taste quite right.

　　____ 53

　　Now I’ll give you some medicine. Take it and you should be feeling better soon.

　　____ 54

　　I also suggest that you follow a special diet.

　　____ 55

　　You should stick to eating lighter foods.

　　What’s that?

　　That might be it.

　　Thank you, doctor.

　　Any other problems?

　　I have a running nose.

　　Have you seen a doctor?

　　I have a terrible stomachache.

　　【參考答案】51-55 GDBCA

　　【四川省宜賓市李莊中學2024高考英語仿真模擬試題】

　　閱讀表達（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）

　　閱讀短文，并按照題目要求用英語回答問題。

　　Born in 1949, Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High School swimming champion. Like many young athletes, she had Olympic dreams, but a serious illness kept her from competing in the Games. The disappointment didn’t stop her from going forward. Instead, she became interested in marathon swimming. A brilliant athlete, she was well-conditioned for spending long periods of time in the water. As a long-distance swimmer, she would compete against herself and the obstacles presented by distance, danger, cold, and exhaustion.

　　For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the world’s best long-distance swimmers. In 1970, she swam a ten-mile marathon in Lake Ontario, setting the women’s record for the course. In 1972 she set another record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record when swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.

　　Nyad attempted to swim the distance between Florida and Cuba in 1978. Though the span of water is less than 100 miles wide, it is rough and dangerous. After battling the water for two days, she had to give for the sake of her own health and safety. Even so, she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to succeed. For Nyad her strength of purpose was just as important as reading Cuba. That is how she defined success. It did not matter that her swim came up short; she believed she had touched the other shore.

　　When Nyad ended her career as a swimmer, she continued to try new things---travelling the world as a reporter, writing books and giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to inspire others, just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.

　　56. What prevented Nyad from taking part in the Olympic Games? (No more than 5 words)

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　　57. What does the underlined word “obstacles” mean? (1 word)

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　　58. What achievement did Nyad make in 1970? (No more than 10 words.)

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　　59. Why did Nyad believe that she had touched the other shore? (No more than 10 words)

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　　60. Please explain how you are inspired by Nyad. (No more than 20 words)

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　　【參考答案】閱讀表達

　　56. A serious illness (did).

　　57. Difficulties/Problems/Troubles/Challenges.

　　58. She swam a ten-mile marathon and set women’s record.

　　Or: She swam a ten-mile marathon, setting the women’s record.

　　Or: She set the women’s record for a ten-mile marathon swimming.

　　59. Because she had tried her best (to fulfill the task).

　　Or: Her strength of purpose was as important as reaching Cuba.

　　60. I am encouraged by her determination and strong will.

　　Or: I am inspired by her courage and strong desire to succeed.

　　Or: From her I learned that once we set a goal, we should try hard to achieve it.

　　Or: We should never give up in the face of difficulty/failure.

　　Or: We should never stop trying new things and we may achieve success in different fields.

　　閱讀下列四篇短文，從每小題后所給的A,B,C或D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。

　　The latest research suggests that the key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not I. Q. , a generally bad predictor of success. Instead, it’s purposeful practice. Top performers spend more hours practising their craft. If you wanted to picture how a typical genius might develop, you’d take a girl who possessed a slightly above average language ability. It wouldn’t have to be a big talent, just enough so that she might gain some sense of distinction. Then you would want her to meet, say, a novelist, who coincidentally shared some similar qualities. Maybe the writer was from the same town, had the same family background, or, shared the same birthday.

　　This contact would give the girl a vision of her future self. It would give her some idea of a fascinating circle she might someday join. It would also help if one of her parents died when she was 12, giving her a strong sense of insecurity and fuelling a desperate need for success. Armed with this ambition, she would read novels and life stories of writers without end. This would give her a primary know-ledge of her field. She’d be able to see new writing in deeper ways and quickly understand its inner workings.

　　Then she would practise writing. Her practice would be slow, painstaking and error-focused. By practising in this way, she delays the automatizing process. Her mind wants to turn conscious, newly learned skills into unconscious, automatically performed skills. By practising slowly, by breaking skills down into tiny parts and repeating, she forces the brain to internalize a better pattern of performance. Then she would find an adviser who would provide a constant stream of feedback, viewing her performance from the outside, correcting the smallest errors, pushing her to take on tougher challenges. By now she is redoing problems—how do I get characters into a room—dozens and dozens of times. She is establishing habits of thought she can call upon in order to understand or solve future problems.

　　The primary quality our young writer possesses is not some mysterious genius. It’s the ability to develop a purposeful, laborious and boring practice routine. The latest research takes some of the magic out of great achievement. But it underlines a fact that is often neglected. Public discussion is affected by genetics and what we’re “hard-wired” to do. And it’s true that genes play a role in our capabilities. But the brain is also very plastic. We construct ourselves through behaviour.

　　1. The passage mainly deals with　.　

　　A. the function of I. Q. in cultivating a writer

　　B. the relationship between genius and success

　　C. the decisive factor in making a genius

　　D. the way of gaining some sense of distinction

　　2. By reading novels and writers’ stories, the girl could　.　

　　A. come to understand the inner structure of writing

　　B. join a fascinating circle of writers someday

　　C. share with a novelist her likes and dislikes

　　D. learn from the living examples to establish a sense of security

　　3. In the girl’s long painstaking training process, 　.　

　　A. her adviser forms a primary challenging force to her success

　　B. her writing turns into an automatic pattern of performance

　　C. she acquires the magic of some great achievements

　　D. she comes to realize she is “hard-wired” to write

　　4. What can be concluded from the passage?

　　A. A fuelling ambition plays a leading role in one’s success.

　　B. A responsible adviser is more important than the knowledge of writing.

　　C. As to the growth of a genius, I. Q. doesn’t matter, but just his/her efforts.

　　D. What really matters is what you do rather than who you are.

　　【參考答案】1—4、CABD

　　閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項 。

　　In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, and English—and all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at US’s Carnegie Mellon University(CMU)and Germany’s University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be a reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other.

　　One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme.

　　Another prototype (雛形機)can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what language they speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you,”Waibel said.

　　Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe (轉錄) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal (液晶) display(LCD)screen.

　　Then there’s the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted in a person’s face, according to researchers.

　　During a demonstration held last Thursday in CMU’s Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Sang Jun had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthed—without speaking aloud—a few words in Mandarin (普通話) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our new prototype.”

　　This particular gadget (器具), when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, “to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The idea behind the university’s prototypes is to create‘good enough’ bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world,”Waibel said.

　　With spontaneous (自發的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio, tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreters there.

　　1. Which of the following statements is not true?

　　A. A lecture translation can translate what you said into other languages easily.

　　B. Muscle Translators can translate what you think into speech if you just move your mouth.

　　C. There is no Muscle Translator in the world now.

　　D. The spontaneous translators will help us a lot.

　　2. What kind of equipment is NOT mentioned in this passage?

　　A. Lecture Translation.　 B. Multiple Translator.

　　C. Muscle Translator. D. Translation Prototype.

　　3. What’s the final destination of inventing the language translators?

　　A. To make cultural exchanges between different countries easier.

　　B. To help students learn foreign languages more easily.

　　C. To make people live in foreign countries more comfortably.

　　D. To help people learn more foreign languages in the future.

　　4. What can be inferred from the seventh paragraph?

　　A. The translator is so good that it can translate any language into the very language you need.

　　B. The translator is becoming more and more common in the world as a bridge.

　　C. With the help of the translator, you only need to open your mouth when you want to say something without saying the exact words at all.

　　D. The translator needs to be improved before being put into market.

　　5. Where can this passage probably be excerpted from?

　　A. A newspaper. B. A magazine on science.

　　C. A fairy tale.　D. A scientific fantasy book.

　　【參考答案】1—5、CBADB

　　請認真閱讀下列短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。

　　This is an open letter to the three people who stole my handbag from the department store I am employed as a shop assistant.

　　When you took my bag, I don’t know what you thought you were going to get. With my wages, there's not much left on a Tuesday. I hope the ￡5 was useful to you . I have informed the social security office so you won’t be able to cash the child benefit next week. I hope that won't leave you too short. But if you really need a couple of pounds, I suppose you could always cash one of the two checks left in my check book. Of course, I phoned the bank right away and the check-casing card is no longer valid, so it won’t be much use to you.

　　Actually I don’t mind about the money too much. We single parents who work to support our families understand only too well what it means to be short of cash. However, I don’t suppose it went very far among the three of you. Sorry about that!

　　I wish you had left the bag behind and just taken the wallet and check book. There were all kinds of papers in it, and notes and things that I really need. I really think that was very inconsiderate of you. I mean, how would you like something like that to happen to you?

　　Well, perhaps the bag will turn up. It wasn’t even an expensive one, just a plain, old brown leather shoulder bag. You probably dumped it in the nearest rubbish bin or threw it into the bushes. We've looked around, of course, but no one saw which way you went after you left the shop.

　　I'm not really angry with you. I know how the pressures of modern living can affect us, but I am sad at the loss of my personal things. I feel violated and helpless. The police were very icy, and they just shrugged their shoulders. “It happens all the time,” they told me. Some small comfort, I suppose. But I’ve lost just a little more faith in human nature．And as my young son said when

　　told him what had happened, “Why? Mummy, why us?” I couldn't answer that question. I wonder if you can.

　　1. In writing Paragraph 2, the writer wants to

　　.

　　A. describe the contents of the bag in detail.

　　B. give some suggestions to the three thieves

　　C. state the fact that she was careless with the money

　　D. tell the thieves hardly any money was available

　　2. Which of the following is the most valuable to the writer?

　　A. The cash in her bag. B. The handbag itself.

　　C. The papers and notes in the bag. D. The check books in the bag.

　　3. What can we conclude about the police?

　　A. They think the case quite common. B. They show sympathy for the woman.

　　C. They have doubts about human nature. D. They are unable to find the thieves.

　　4. Why does the author write the letter?

　　A. To give the thieves a serious warning.