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2026届高考考前模拟英语试题
第二部分 阅读
第一节 阅读理解
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Chinatown Dragon Boat Festival 2025 Highlights
Stage Performances Along Smith Street
One of the main highlights of the weekend is the brilliant stage performances happening along Smith Street. There will be the deafening beats of a festival drum performance by students from Chung Cheng High School, and the dramatic talent of a face-changing show. Audiences can also enjoy a Chinese traditional dance performance and a Teochew opera performance by Er Woo Amateur Musical & Dramatic Association.
Lion Dance Performance
Adding to the exciting atmosphere at the Chinatown Dragon Boat Festival 2025, there will be Lion and Dragon Dance by the award-winning troupe Tian Eng Dragon and Lion Dance Centre.
The Lion Dance takes place on
●31 May, 1 pm to 1:30 pm
●1 June, 1 pm to 1:20 pm
Dragon Boat Rowing Race
The Dragon Boat Rowing Race is also going to make its return. This brings together teams and individuals in a spirit of friendly competition and community bonding. In this land-based race, participants compete on dragon-inspired rowing machines in one-minute rounds, with the highest number of strokes (划) winning a prize. This takes place on Killiney Street on
●31 May, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
●1 June, 2:20 pm to 2:45 pm
Art Corner
Head over to the Art Corner, a quiet space within the busy Smith Street, where visitors are invited to stop, reflect, and learn more about the Dragon Boat Festival.
Visitors can look through a thoughtfully chosen collection of books on seasonal traditions, pen their thoughts or well-wishes in the Festival Reflections Journal, and explore symbolic items such as mugwort (艾蒿) bundles, festive bookmarks, and greeting cards.
1. Where can you enjoy performances by students
A．At the Art Corner.
B．On Smith Street.
C．At Lion Dance Centre.
D．On Killiney Street.
2. What plays the key role in winning the Dragon Boat Rowing Race
A．Creativity.
B．Distance.
C．Speed.
D．Teamwork.
3. What can the participants do at the Art Corner
A．Give blessings by writing.
B．Learn face-changing skills.
C．Attend various art classes.
D．Watch lion dance performances.
B
We’ve all been there: in a line with a basket of a few items for payment, cash or credit cards prepared, perhaps with only one or two customers ahead of us.
And so it was today for me at a shop a mile or so from my home. I had three items. A woman with her teenage boys ahead of me had twice as many items as mine. The customer at the register, a white-haired woman, had already begun to bag her items and was holding out cash to pay for them.
Then came the problem. Sometimes it’s a customer who forgot to weigh a piece of fruit, or someone searching for exact change. Fair enough. One waits. But today, it was something else. For whatever reason, this white-haired woman didn’t have enough money. And so she began choosing which items to keep and which to hand back. She looked at each one for a long time before keeping or giving it up.
We waited. Longer lines rushed ahead. The wait went on and on. Outside, my bus came and went. Finally in the black, the woman turned back to us as she left, with her face turning red. We waved off her discomfiture. It could happen to anyone. We were honestly understanding.
But I had no idea just how understanding the family ahead of me were until their turn came. The woman with the teenagers asked the cashier to add all the items the white-haired woman had left to her list as quickly as possible. The cashier did as told. Then the two boys rushed to the white-haired woman with the small bag of items. When they returned, it was clear their task had been completed.
All it took to witness this act of kindness was waiting a little longer in a checkout line. I could have caught the next bus. But I felt so light on my feet that I walked home instead.
4. How does the author start the text
A．By introducing a way of payment.
B．By describing a situation in a shop.
C．By comparing customers’ behaviours.
D．By showing the preparation for shopping.
5. What problem did the white-haired woman have
A．She couldn’t afford all the goods she chose.
B．She didn’t have some of the goods weighed.
C．She didn’t know how to return the goods.
D．She couldn’t find the accurate change.
6. What does the underlined word “discomfiture” in paragraph 4 probably mean
A．Confusion.
B．Anger.
C．Tiredness.
D．Awkwardness.
7. What was the two teenagers’ task
A．Putting the items into the small bags.
B．Helping the cashier to add up the items.
C．Sending the white-haired woman her unpaid items.
D．Placing the white-haired woman’s items on the shelf.
C
Being bilingual (双语的) means learning to deal with two different ways of naming and perceiving reality. That requires the bilingual brain to learn to think in both languages and to switch between them effortlessly, a process known as code switching. Some researchers believe this process gives multilingual people an edge.
Historically, the scientific community held the belief that second language acquisition could slow down a child’s academic progress. However, contemporary understanding firmly acknowledges the cognitive (认知的) benefits bilingual children possess. Dr Fraser Lauchlan, an honorary lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, noted that faulty research from the 1930s to 1950s, since discredited, had caused the misperception that bilingualism could be harmful to a child’s academic achievements. Subsequent studies, especially the landmark research by Peal and Lambert in 1962, have clearly demonstrated that bilingualism brings no disadvantages and, in fact, offers advantages in specific language and cognitive areas: selective attention, metalinguistic awareness, creative and flexible thinking (including problem-solving), and short-term memory.
In a study headed by Lauchlan, involving primary school students from Scotland (learning Gaelic and English concurrently) and Sardinia (exposed to Italian and Sardinian), the cognitive differences between monolingual (单语的) and bilingual children were measured. Of the 121 participants, 62 were bilingual and exhibited superior task-completion capabilities. Notably, Gaelic-speaking children outperformed their Sardinian counterparts. Lauchlan put this down to the former’s formal education in Gaelic, while Sardinian was mostly an oral language lacking standardized form.
Ellen Bialystok of York University in Toronto has conducted extensive research, concluding that bilingualism promotes a child’s development. Lauchlan advises that for the best bilingualism, children should start learning a second language alongside their first, or at least as early as possible. Research indicates that bilinguals have an easier time acquiring further languages and display greater cultural receptivity (接受度).
Moreover, in the globalized era, bilingualism also offers practical advantages in career prospects. Multinational corporations often seek employees with multilingual abilities to facilitate international business operations. A bilingual marketing professional can better understand and target diverse consumer groups, bridging cultural gaps and enhancing market share. Thus, developing bilingual capabilities from an early age can open doors to a broader range of opportunities in the future.
8. What is a misconception of bilingualism’s impact
A．Bilingualism does harm to children’s creative thinking.
B．Bilingualism is of little academic benefit to children.
C．Bilingual children tend to develop short-term memory.
D．Bilingual children are less likely to achieve success in career.
9. What can we infer from the study led by Lauchlan
A．Bilingual children perform better in all aspects.
B．Children from Scotland are more intelligent than those from Sardinia.
C．The more languages a child learns, the better their cognitive abilities.
D．Formal education in a second language contributes to bilingual children’s better performance.
10. Why is a bilingual marketing professional mentioned in the last paragraph
A．To explain why learning marketing skills is necessary for bilinguals.
B．To prove that marketing is the most suitable career for bilinguals.
C．To display that bilinguals can get higher salaries in the marketing field.
D．To illustrate how bilingualism brings benefits in international business.
11. What is the main idea of the text
A．The cognitive and practical advantages of being bilingual.
B．The history of bilingual education and its future development.
C．The comparison between different bilingual learning methods.
D．The challenges children face when learning a second language.
D
Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities at Columbia University since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. This development puzzled Dames until a first-year student shared how challenging she had found the early assignments. The student said that at her public high school, she was only assigned passages, but not entire books. “My jaw dropped,” Dames told me. This helped explain the change: It’s not that they don’t want to read. It’s that they don’t know how.
Failing to complete a 14-line poem without giving in to distraction (干扰) suggests one familiar explanation for the decrease in reading ability: smartphones. Teenagers are constantly drawn by their devices. Reading books, even for pleasure, can’t compete with TikTok. In 1976, about 40 percent of high-school seniors said they had read at least six books for fun in the previous year, compared with 11.5 percent who hadn’t read any. By 2022, those percentages had flipped.
But high school kids appear to be encountering fewer and fewer books in the classroom as well. Since the ability to read an entire book is difficult to assess, teachers focus on skills that are easier to measure. They have shifted from books to short passages, followed by questions about the author’s main idea, just as standardized reading-comprehension tests do.
Faced with this situation, many college professors feel they have no choice but to assign less reading and lower their expectations. This means students will miss out on the mental development that comes from reading entire books. Reading enlarges your sympathies. Deep reading — sustained focus on a text — encourages a number of valuable mental habits, including critical thinking and self-reflection, in ways that skimming or reading in short passages does not.
I can imagine worse preparations for the trials, and thrills, of Literature Humanities. But we’ve never forgotten the originals. To understand the human condition, and to appreciate humankind’s greatest achievements, you still need to read The Iliad — all of it.
12. What does the underlined word “bewildered” mean in paragraph 1
A．Delighted. B．Confused. C．Satisfied. D．Relieved.
13. Why does the author list numbers in paragraph 2
A．To highlight the rise of social media.
B．To clarify the problems of smartphones.
C．To illustrate the change in reading methods.
D．To demonstrate the decline in book reading.
14. What is a result of professors assigning less reading
A．The shortage of learning motivation.
B．The reduction of genuine sympathies.
C．The loss of cognitive growth opportunities.
D．The restriction of personal academic progress.
15. What is the author’s attitude towards reading originals
A．Supportive. B．Doubtful. C．Cautious. D．Indifferent.
第二节 七选五
Talking over text is a convenient way to get to know someone new or catch up with old friends, but sometimes it can be hard to figure out what to say next. ____16____.
Ask open-ended questions. Open-ended questions require more thoughtful and detailed responses. ____17____. If the other person just told you something about themselves, ask them to elaborate on that, or come up with your own open-ended question. This gives the other person an opportunity to talk about their interests in-depth.
____18____. Ask the other person to tell you about something. To have a good conversation, both people should be asking and answering questions. If you feel like you’ve mainly been talking about yourself, redirect the conversation to the other person.
Avoid dry, short answers. ____19____. Remember, conversations are a two-way street, so make sure you put in the effort to respond to the person you’re texting. If someone asks you a question and you give them a one-word answer, you’re forcing them to do all the work to keep the conversation flowing.
Ask follow-up questions. Let the other person elaborate on their responses. Instead of moving on with the conversation, ask follow-up questions about what the other person just said. ____20____ and making an effort to engage with them.
A．Find the shared interest
B．Shift the focus to the other person
C．It’s better to give the other person something to work with
D．Luckily, there are a ton of ways you can keep things interesting
E．This means that you are avoiding getting involved in a boring topic
F．This shows them that you’re paying attention to what they’ re saying
G．They encourage the other person to answer with more than “yes” or “no”
第三部分 语言运用
第一节 完形填空
Sometime around 1974, long before Steve Jobs coined the phrase “Think Different”, my dad and I were walking on Hope Street. Suddenly, I ____21____ a lottery (彩票) store and asked my father excitedly, “Daddy, can we ____22____ the lottery Maybe we can make money!”
Without hesitation he replied, “We just did. We ____23____ a dollar every time we pass the store without buying a ____24____.”
Daddy’s ____25____ led me to think of money, investing and opportunity cost in “____26____” ways. For instance, when I was at the University of Pennsylvania, the cost of each hour of class time was extremely expensive — about $140 for each hour of instruction. Thus, I never ____27____ a class. Similarly, when I was in credit card debt at a 20% interest rate, every time I spent $20 I ____28____ thought of it as a $24 purchase to ____29____ myself to pay off the debt faster.
So if there is a(n) ____30____ force that has guided my life, it was born from my father believing that he won $1 every time he didn’t buy a lottery ticket. This different way of thinking ____31____ my overall view of everything that most people consider to be “____32____.”
Like everything else, thinking differently has its advantages and disadvantages. I have lived such an ____33____ life that it has caused me to be separated from most people whose minds are used to following ____34____ patterns. However, I still believe that the greatest breakthroughs come when you break free from the ____35____ of your own mind.
21. A．got involved in B．heard of C．caught sight of D．looked forward to
22. A．play B．consider C．check D．compete
23. A．lose B．create C．win D．drop
24. A．magazine B．ticket C．snack D．drink
25. A．words B．resistance C．memory D．prediction
26. A．practical B．similar C．different D．strange
27. A．prepared B．enjoyed C．missed D．recorded
28. A．hardly B．gradually C．frequently D．actually
29. A．manage B．motivate C．appeal D．promise
30. A．embarrassing B．driving C．outgoing D．confusing
31. A．shaped B．rated C．interrupted D．replaced
32. A．normal B．minor C．difficult D．interesting
33. A．organized B．unconventional C．important D．active
34. A．subjective B．loose C．special D．familiar
35. A．goals B．lessons C．assumptions D．limits
第二节 语法填空
阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Representing wisdom, power, and wealth, dragons are respected and honored in Chinese culture, which are said ____36____ (scare) away evil spirits and bad luck. In ancient times, when there was no rain for a long time, people not only prayed ____37____ rain with a dragon dance, ____38____ prayed against insect attacks after planting.
If you’ve seen a Chinese New Year parade (庆祝游行), you’ve probably seen a colorful dragon ____39____ (wind) its way down the street. The dragon dance, ____40____ time-honored traditional folk activity in Chinese culture dating back to the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago, ____41____ (observe) during festive celebrations much like the lion dance. Dragon dances can be performed in different ways with dragon costumes of different colors. ____42____ (specific), as many as 9 to 15 dancers use long poles to guide the dragon’s head and snakelike body, the tricks of ____43____ are often jumps or moves that make the dragon turn in ____44____ (variety) of ways.
The culture of dragon and lion dances has spread beyond China to southeast Asia, and even to some regions with significant Chinese communities in Europe, America, Australia, and New Zealand. It has become a ____45____ (substance) symbol of Chinese culture.
第四部分 写作
第一节 应用文（15分）
46. 假定你是李华，你的英国好友Jim正在准备主题为“保护野生动物”的演讲稿，发来邮件咨询相关信息，请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：
1.野生动物的生存现状；
2.保护野生动物的措施。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Jim,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节 读后续写（25分）
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Our church in Toronto had a special way of helping those in financial difficulties. Money was placed into an offering box with only the recipient’s name on the envelope, ensuring the giver remained anonymous (匿名的). This thoughtful practice protected the dignity of those receiving help.
There was a time when my husband and I didn’t have enough money. We didn’t tell anyone about our problem, not even our children. We had to stop buying many things. Our children probably knew we were worried, but we hoped they didn’t know how serious it was. We didn’t want to make them sad with a problem they couldn’t fix.
As our situation failed to improve, despair began to creep in. Just when we felt we had exhausted all options, a glimmer of hope appeared. Our church handed us an envelope from the offering box. To our immense relief and joy, it contained a substantial amount of money—enough to see us through that desperate time. We were overwhelmed with gratitude, constantly wondering who our secret benefactor could be.
A year passed, and life moved forward. Our seventeen-year-old son began applying for university. He needed to use the money he had saved from his part- time job. But then we found out something shocking: his savings account was almost empty. We were very upset and worried. We thought he had been saving his money for school.
I confronted him, my voice tight with concern and disappointment. “Where has all your money gone ” I asked. He avoided my eyes, refusing to answer. His silence only fueled (增加了) my anxiety and frustration. I couldn’t let it go; I pressed him repeatedly, determined to uncover the truth.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Finally, under my persistent questioning, my son broke down in tears.
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Hearing his confession (忏悔), I was completely speechless.
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参考答案
阅读理解1-15
1.B 2.C 3.A 4.B 5.A 6.D 7.C 8.B 9.D 10.D 11.A 12.B 13.D 14.C 15.A
七选五16-20
16.D 17.G 18.B 19.C 20.F
完形填空21-35
21.C 22.A 23.C 24.B 25.A 26.C 27.C 28.D 29.B 30.B 31.A 32.A 33.B 34.D 35.D
语法填空36-45
36.to scare 37.for 38.but 39.winding 40.a
41.is observed 42.Specifically 43.which 44.varieties 45.substantial
写作范文
46 邮件范文
Dear Jim,
I’m glad to receive your email. Now I’m writing to offer you some information about wildlife protection.
Nowadays many wild animals are losing their habitats and facing extinction due to illegal hunting and pollution. To change this situation, our government has built nature reserves and made strict laws to ban illegal hunting. Besides, we students can raise public awareness by giving speeches and posting posters.
I hope the information will be helpful to your speech. Wish you good luck.
Yours,
Li Hua
47 读后续写范文
Finally, under my persistent questioning, my son broke down in tears. He told me that he had noticed our hard days one year ago. Knowing the church’s anonymous donation rule, he emptied all his savings and put the money into the offering box, hoping it could pull us through the hard time. He kept it a secret because he didn’t want us to feel guilty or thankful. All he wanted was to ease our stress quietly.
Hearing his confession, I was completely speechless. Warm tears rolled down my face. I pulled my son into a tight hug, full of shock and pride. I realized the mysterious benefactor who helped us was our own boy. That day, I truly understood the power of silent kindness. Later we went to the church together, planning to pass on this warm love and help more people in need anonymously just as our son did.

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