1、2023年高考英语模拟试卷考生请注意：1答题前请将考场、试室号、座位号、考生号、姓名写在试卷密封线内，不得在试卷上作任何标记。2第一部分选择题每小题选出答案后，需将答案写在试卷指定的括号内，第二部分非选择题答案写在试卷题目指定的位置上。3考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1Despite the fact that his scores were good, they were hardly as excellent as a student with his intelligence .AachievedBh
2、ad achievedCwould achieveDshould have achieved2- I prefer a computer made in your company, but I may need some more information about the product.- _.AThank youBIts a pleasureCYou are welcomeDAt your service3 How would you like your tea? _.AVeryquickly BAsitcomes,please CVerymuch DIdontliketea4He is
3、 eager to try something he has never tried before.Oh, I see. Thats _ hes different from others.Awhen Bwhere Chow Dwhat5Richard saved up his money _ he might go abroad for his summer holiday.Ain case Bnow thatCas if Dso that6On the surface of the water _, which spoiled the beautiful scenery of the pa
4、rk.Asome dead leaves did floatBsome dead leaves floatedCfloated some dead leavesDdid some dead leaves float7What do you think of Putin?He is an outstanding leader who _his reputation.Alooks out for Bcomes up withClives up to Dlooks forward to8You seem to be familiar with this city.I _ here for three
5、 years. Its so great to be back.Alived Bhad livedChave lived Dlive9Why did you let _ kids off this time?I just want to give them _ second chanceA/; theBthe;/Cthe; theDthe; a10 Did you catch the first bus this morning?No. It had left the stop _ I got there.A. in the timeBat the timeCby the timeDdurin
6、g the time11Anyway, were here now, so lets _ some serious work.Acome up withBget down toCdo away withDlive up to12There are many famous cultural relics in our country, many _ thousands of years ago.Adating back toBdate back toCdated back toDwere dated back to13_ property, were among the richest peop
7、le in this cityAIn search ofBIn spite ofCIn place ofDIn terms of14Dad is used to smoking and drinking. Theres no chance _ Im able to talk him into .Awhether ; giving it up Bof whether; giving them upCthat; getting rid of them Dwhich; stopping it15Some experts think, _ genes, intelligence also depend
8、s on an adequate diet, a good education and a nice home environment.Ainstead ofBexcept forCapart fromDfar from16Now the worlds attention _ the stocking markets, as they have great influence on the worlds economy.Ais fixing on Bis being fixed onChas fixed on Dhad been fixed on17How about going sights
9、eeing this Saturday afternoon? Sorry, I _ my research report the whole weekend.Awill have writtenBwill be writingChave writtenDhave been writing18Dont refer to the dictionary every time you come across a new word as sometimes its meaning may be _ clearly in a given context.Apicked outBruled outCbrou
10、ght outDtaken out19People who drink and drive are _ danger both to themselves and to others. They are in _ danger of losing their lives.Athe; theBa; aCa; /D/; /20_ the deadline, the workers had to work overtime to get the job finished.AGivingBGivenCHaving givenDTo give第二部分 阅读理解（满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、
11、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。21（6分）Traceys husband told her. “If you build it, they will come.” So Tracey built a dance studio four years ago, and he was right.Tracey built Revere Dance Studio in an old large church in Cincinnati, Ohio. It may seem like an odd place to run a dance studio, but this church was d
12、isability accessible and thats just what Tracey was looking for. Tracey needed a new home for her wheelchair dance students after the studio that was hosting the classes closed.Now Tracey has been teaching free dance classes to students in wheelchairs for over four years. This season, her class is m
13、ade up of six boys and girls ranging in age from 6 to 11 who attend dance rehearsals (排练) twice a month. Tracey says these classes are about more than the dancing. “For any child to get out on stage is an accomplishment,” Tracey said. Tracey has always considered the students in her “Wonders on Whee
14、ls” class to be talented, but this week she got to share their talents with the world. On Sunday, the WOW class debuted(初次登台) a dance routine theyve been working on since October.Last October, one week before the dance class reunited for a new season, one of the WOW children, Katie, passed away unex
15、pectedly. Her teammates were heartbroken. They decided to honor their friend by giving this seasons dance to her. Everyone knew how much Katie loved Celine Dion, so the group chose the song My Heart Will Go On for the dance routine.The six WOW dancers, dressed in white, were surrounded by fourteen d
16、ancers dressed in black. These “shadows” are high school girls who volunteer to dance alongside the children in wheelchairs, helping them move across the dance floor. As the song came to an end, a huge round of applause erupted from the audience.1、Why did Tracey build the dance studio in the church?
17、AIt is free of charge. BIt is near her home.CIts easy for the disabled to use. DIt is big enough to hold dancers.2、Tracey offered her dance class .Afor free Btwice a weekConly to girls in wheelchairs Dwith the help of volunteers3、What can best describe Tracey?ABrave and determined. BTalented and str
18、ict.CDevoted and hopeful. DGenerous and kind.4、What could be the best title for the passage?ATracey and her Dancing CareerBA Wonderful Dance PerformanceCChildren in Wheelchairs Struggle in the Dance StudioDchildren in Wheelchairs Realize Dancing Dreams22（8分）Late last spring,a student worked late int
19、o the night,and as she painted,her chemistry took on a life of its own, transforming into a comic book.Veronica Berns,28,was working on her Ph.Din chemistry.Berns quickly concluded that she would be best able to describe the difficult concepts with illustrations.Theyre not very well-polished illustr
20、ationsthats on purpose,Berns said.In the beginning,it was on the back of an envelope or on a napkin that she doodled（涂鸦）the chemical bonds to better explain her parents what she was working on in the lab.Jody Berns,Veronicas mother,said their family has a history of doodling and has shared comics fo
21、r years.Veronica Berns surprised her family with her comic book Atomic Size Matters at her graduation last year.The book typical shows cartoons of Berns wearing various costumes and uses humor as well as simple comparisons to describe simple chemistry.Were just really proud that she can take somethi
22、ng so complex and put it into an amusing visual（视觉的）explanation that everyone can enjoy,Jody Berns said.Veronica Berns teacher said Berns was the first of his students to construct her knowledge in an artistic way and he acknowledged that it is difficult for scientists to explain what they do with p
23、roper context.“If its worth doing, we should be able to explain it,”Fredrickson said.Fredrickson said she hopes other scientists will learn to find ways to illustrate what theyre doing in the lab.Berns now lives in Chicago as a chemist and also writes a blog in which she uses comics to explain the w
24、ork of Nobel Prize winning scientists.Berns started a fundraising campaign on the Internet to finance printing the books.She said she wanted to raise $5,965 to cover the costs of professional printing and the website says she has raised more than $14,000.1、What led Berns to paint something about che
25、mistry?ATo decorate the envelopes.BTo show something clearly.CTo observe family traditions.DTo design a present to his parents.2、Which can best describe Bernss paintings in her comic books?AFunny and vivid. BClassical and lively.CAmusing and shiny. DCreative and skilled.3、How does Fredrickson take B
26、ernss paintings?AThey are difficult to understand.BThey are rewarding and inspiring.CThey should be done in more detail.DThey will help Berns get the Noble Prize.4、The passage is most likely to appear a(n) .Atechnology review Bcourse advertisementCtextbook guide Dnews report23（8分）Ever since his appl
27、auded first novel, Kazuo Ishiguro, now 60, has managed to maintain a steady literary drive, a steady amount of creative space, and a steady success rate. The Buried Giant, Ishiguros seventh novel, and his first in a decade, is as risky as it is attractive. It is a sort historical fantasy novel fille
28、d with dragons and knights (骑士）丨It is a sort of the surface, but it is also deeply human, rooted in themes fundamental to the human experience: love, history, and the ability to remember it all.JANE GAYDUK: How would you cope with the idea of memorya huge theme in The Buried Giant if you were to set
29、 a story like that in the age where everything is online?KAZUO ISHIGURO: One of the questions that attract me right nowI suppose these are questions that arose in my mind as I was writing The Buried Giant, but there was no room in the book itself for exploring themwould be, where do the memory banks
30、 in a modem society exist? And I think that question has gotten really complicated now. Maybe in simpler societies such as the one I describe in The Buried Giant I dont think those societies were simple but perhaps they were simpler in terms of this particular questionyou could point to your living
31、memory, what the oldest people still remember about what happened, literally what is handed down.JANE GAYDUK: Do you think this changes the nature of history? It used to be written down by a select few people who bad the power to shape stories, but now its almost like every individual participates i
32、n shaping history and thought.KAZUO ISHIGURO: If you leave the official account of a nations history, a communitys history, to just a handful of people, I think thats a more dangerous situation. Particularly if its a handful of people, who are usually the upper levels, who could write the history bo
33、oks and then have those history books taught in schools. Of course skilled, disciplined, and talented historians have always been vital to a society, and I think theyll continue to be vital to a society, but in some ways I feel encouraged by the fact that so many ordinary people now have the ability
34、 to put down their impressions; at least theres the potential that their voices will be assessed and heard.Just as an example, when I was researching The Remains of the Day, which is about an English butler (管家），I assumed Id find a lot of accounts by people who had worked in service because thats wh
35、at an enormous proportion of people in Britain did between the First and Second World War. And I was amazed to find almost . There were scholarly books written by academics about the history of boilers, hut actual personal accounts written by people like that were almost zero. I guess its because pe
36、ople of that class didnt feel it was their place to write things down, and they probably didnt have the tools or the time, or perhaps the education even to write things down, and so considerable human experience disappeared. I think there is something encouraging about people being able to record th
37、ings everywhere, but with such a massive amount of data, there need to be very complicated means of controlling it and deciding which becomes the things that determine the way we remember what we experienced.JANE GAYDUK: On the topic of finishing books, did you write past the official ending of The
38、Buried Giant or was that your natural end? I felt the conclusion was kind of a cliffhanger.KAZUO ISHICURO: I dont really think of the ending as a cliffhanger, but maybe its more ambiguous than I intended. That is the ending I always wanted, though. With all my books, Im aiming for a certain emotion
39、to come over with the book as a whole and usually that is the emotion ending should deliver. I cant deliver that emotion in an earned, proper way unless the rest of the book has worked, so Im always very aware that the ending is not something I add when the story is finished. For me, the ending for
40、all my books is the arrival point; its what Ive been aiming at all along.1、Ishiguro didnt discuss “the memory banks” in his novel because .Ahe wrote the novel in the digital eraBthe novel is not centered on memoryCthere is no space to talk about it in the bookDhe doesnt think the society in the nove
41、l is simple2、Why does Kazuo admire ordinary individuals participation in shaping history?ABecause their recorded history will be taught in schools.BBecause they can make up their own history.CBecause ordinary people are important to society.DBecause history can be viewed from various angles.3、Which
42、expression can be put in the gap in paragraph 4?Asomething interesting Bhistorical detailsCsome famous figures Da complete blank4、The underlined word “cliffhanger probably refers to a(n) _ ending.Aabrupt BnormalCunfinished. Dloose5、It can be inferred from the last paragraph that .AIshguro doesnt lik
43、e the ending of The Buried GiantBIshguro has a clear goal before writing the endingCIshguro adds an emotional ending on purposeDIshguro doesnt care about the ending at all24（8分）Could the device, smartphone or PC, which you re using affect the moral decisions you make when using it? To test it, resea
44、rchers presented multiple dilemmas to a sample set of 1,010 people. The participants were assigned a device at random.One case of the questions participants were asked is the classic “trolley(有轨电车) problem”: A runaway trolley is headed towards five people tied up on a-set of train tracks. You can do
45、 nothing, resulting in the deaths of five people, or push a man off a bridge, which will stop the trolley. The practical response is to kill one man to save five lives, which 33. 5 percent of smartphone users chose, compared to 22.3 percent of PC users.“What we round in our study is that when people
46、 used a smartphone to view classic moral problems, they were more likely to make more unemotional, reasonable decisions when presented with a highly emotional dilemma, “Dr Albert Barque-Duran, the lead author of the study, told City, University of London. “This could be due to the increased time pre
47、ssure often present with smartphones and also the increased psychological distance which can occur when we use such devices compared to PCs.”As for why the researchers started this study, Dr Barque-Duran noted, “Due to the fact that our social lives, work and even shopping take place online, it is important to think about how the contexts where we typically face moral decisions and are as
