1、2023年高考英语模拟试卷注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3考试结束后，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）1We should bear in mind that social development and balance of nature should go in .AcompanyBsympathyCassociationDharmony
2、2Mr. White, who _ in Shanghai for seven years, is a manager of a company in Beijing.Awas workingBworkedChad workedDhas worked3A new _ bus service to Tianjin Airport started to operate two months ago.AcommonBusualCregularDordinary4 Sorry, sir. I _ follow you. Would you please speak slower? Ok.AcantBm
3、ustntCshouldntDneednt5Nowadays, more and more young ladies, figures most are fine enough, are going on a diet.AwhoBwhoseCof whoseDof whom6Newly-built wooden cottages line the street，_ the old town into a dreamland.AturnedBturningCto turnDhaving turned7There a slight decrease in his weight but he eat
4、s too much.AwasBcould have beenChad beenDcould be8Do you know our town at all?Surely, this is the third time I _ here.Acame Bcome Chave come Dam coming9After class, the teacher couldnt leave, by the students.AsurroundedBto surroundCwas surroundedDsurrounding10I really dont know _ she gets by on such
5、 a modest salary.Awhat BwhyChow Dthat11- I have heard Mr. Morgan will be here at 4:00 pm. next Thursday.- No, he _ at that time.Awas boardingBwould be boardingCwill be boardingDis boarding12Perhaps you _ stop playing computer games now. Your boss may be turning up in the office at any moment.AwillBm
6、ustCshouldDcan13The emoticons _ when we want to stop a conversation, sparing us the embarrassment.Acome around Bcome in handyCcome about Dcome by14In many homes in the UK, the first person _ has to make tea for the family.Awaking upBto wake upCwoke upDwoken up15Patrick waited _ all the luggage was c
7、leared, but his never appeared.AuntilBbeforeCwhenDwhile16It was warm and nice that evening. I stayed awake until eleven in order to have a good look at the moon by myself.Aon average Bon purposeCon business Don time17Only after he was brought to the police station did the boy _ he had stolen some pu
8、rses from other passengers.AparticipateBacknowledgeCrealizeDsummarize18The desks in our classroom are so close together that there is not enough room to move themAbetweenBinCacrossDover19It came as a great _ to the parents that their son finally came back safe and sound.AreliefBsenseCrelaxionDfavor2
9、0When you are absorbed in a book or simply trying to rest, it seems that the phone _ continuously, destroying your momentary peace.AringsBhas been ringingCrangDis ringing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、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。21（6分）Given the recent interest in green buildings in the media, lets think diffe
10、rently. Instead of focusing on increasing the supply of energy, what if we focus on reducing demand?Can we start with ending the open-door practice of street-front shops? While cool air from these shops is refreshing to pedestrians, it carries a cost. Energy is used in the air conditioning process.S
11、o it must be possible to look for changes in regulations that would encourage more energy-saving designs. For instance, if we fix ceiling fans, air-conditioning homes could surely be avoided for part of the year. Ceiling fans use far less energy. They were in a year air conditioners could stay if ce
12、iling fans were fixed.In homes built under the small-house policy in New Territories, the ceiling may be too low for ceiling fans. If the 9-meter maximum building height regulation were relaxed, ceiling fans could be fixed to reduce energy use. Current thinking in sustainable building design and ope
13、ration involves integrated(协调统一的) design, that is, bring together all parties to create a building with better performance that achieves energy reduction.For integrated design to succeed, all parties must come together and think beyond each persons circle of influence. Better solutions are impossibl
14、e to avoid with integrated design. Buildings would no longer be engineered after the basic architecture was built. Positive project outcomes may include reduced air-conditioning load, reduced power use for electric lighting, and a reduction in the amount of materials used.We need to ask if we are re
15、ady to look beyond our own small circles and seek an improved approach to building design. By that I mean an integrated design resulting in more sustainable buildings.1、Whats the authors attitude towards the open-door practice of the street shops?ASupportive.BDisapproving.COptimistic.DUncaring.2、Why
16、 does the author suggest fixing ceiling fans?ATo follow an old practice.BTo help reduce energy use.CTo completely replace air conditioners.DTo help cut down on daily expenses.3、Whats the key to making sustainable buildings a reality?AAll parties should get started at the same time.BThe basic archite
17、cture should be finished first.CProper design and performance to achieve energy reduction.DSeeking the small-house policy and some successful architects.4、What would be the best title for the text?AWaste less, live betterBGoodbye, air conditioningCHow to reduce the energy costDGreen buildings call f
18、or integrated design22（8分） Cruz Genet, 11, and Anthony Skopick, 10, couldnt agree. Were the birds on the ice ducks or geese? There was only one way to find out. So on a cold January evening, the two friends risked onto the frozen pond near their house in Frankfort, Illinois, to get a better look. Fi
19、rst they threw a small stone to test it. Then they stepped on it. Believing the ice would hold their weight, Anthony took a few steps, then. He fell through the seemingly frozen ice.Cruz rushed to help his frightened friendthe pond “ate” him too. Gruz managed to lift himself out of the water and ont
20、o a more reliable part. He then carefully made his way to Anthony. But the ice didnt hold, and he fell in again. This time he couldnt get out. The boys quickly lost feeling in their arms and legs. Cruz was sure he was going to die.Anthonys older sister had seen the boys fall through the ice and star
21、ted screaming for help. John Lavin, a neighbor driving nearby on his way to the grocery store, heard her. He quickly pulled over. Seeing the boys, he kicked off his shoes, and run into the freezing water. Lavin made his way to Cruz and Anthony and saved them back to land. They were taken to the hosp
22、ital, where doctors discovered that their five-minute stay in the water had lowered their body temperature nearly ten degrees.Fortunately, the boys have fully recovered, though they are still moved by their fearless neighbor. “Just to think,” says Gruz, “if he wasnt there, I could have died.”1、Why d
23、id Gruz and Anthony step on the ice?ATo go skating.BTo trap some birds.CTo settle a disagreement.DTo test the strength of the ice.2、How did Cruz feel when caught in the water?AHopeless.BPuzzled.CShocked.DCalm.3、What basically saved the two boys lives?AScreaming of an older sister.BBetter care of doc
24、tors.Clowering of their body temperature.DBrave act of a neighbor.4、What is the best title for the text?ATwo Boys Falling in the WaterBA Heroic Man to the RescueCDuck or Geese, It Is a QuestionDCuriosity Kills the Cat23（8分）Mrs. Jones was my first patient when I started medical schooland I owe her a
25、lot.She was under my care for the first two years of my medical training, yet I knew very little about her, except that she was thin, perhaps in her mid 70s. It might seem rather negligent not to know the basic facts of my patient, but I had a valid reasonMrs. Jones was dead, and had been dead for a
26、bout three years before I made a patient of her. Mrs. Jones was the dead body that I dissected（解剖）over the first two years of my medical training.Of course, her name wasnt really Mrs. Jones, but it seemed a little impolite to be conducting research into someones body without even knowing its name, s
27、o out of courtesy, I thought she should have one. “Me and Mrs. Jones, weve got a thing going on,” went the song coming out of the radio as I unzipped the bag of her on my first day and so she was christened.As the months passed, I soon forgot that Mrs. Jones had, in fact, once been alive. One day, t
28、hough, she suddenly became very human again. Id been dissecting Mrs. Jones a good 18 months before I got around to the uterus（子宫）. After Id removed it, the professor came up to me, “If you look at the opening carefully, youll see that the angle indicates that this woman has had several children, pro
29、bably three.” I stared at it, and I suddenly felt very strange. This woman, who had given me something incredibly precious that Id begun to take for granted, wasnt a dead body. She was a person, a mother, in fact.At my graduation, the same professor came over to congratulate me. I explained the stor
30、y about Mrs. Jones to him, and recalled what hed told me about her having children and how that had affected me all those years ago.“Well,” he said, “at the beginning of your training you had a dead body and managed to turn it into a person. Now youre a doctor, the trick is to have a person and not
31、turn them into a dead body,” and he laughed, shook my hand and walked away.1、Why didnt the author know much about Mrs. Jones?ABecause he was irresponsible for his patients.BBecause he wasnt allowed to ask for her privacy.CBecause he didnt know her until she passed away.DBecause he was too careless w
32、hile dissecting her.2、How did Mrs. Jones get her name?AIt was passed down from the seniors of my school.BIt came from a song being played when we first met.CShe was named after a well-known singer I liked best.DIt just occurred to me when I opened the bag of her.3、What could be the authors feeling f
33、or Mrs. Jones now?AGrateful. BPitiless.CHateful. DGuilty.4、What did the professor imply by his words in the last paragraph?AMedical students are able to bring the dead back to life.BBeing a doctor has nothing to do with the medical training.CGood doctors never fail to save their patients from dying.
34、DMedical staff ought to have respect for life and humanity.24（8分）What makes a family? How do family memembers get along with each other? Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda tries to answer these questions in his films.His laterst film, Shoplifters, is about his favrite topic family relations. With th
35、is film, Koreeda won this years Palme dOr (金棕榈奖), the Cannes Film Festivals top honor.Shoplifters tells the story of a poor family living in Tokyo. Three generations living under the same roof survive by stealing from local shops.Obviously, what they are doing is wrong. But the director focuses more
36、 on the heartwarming details of the familys daily life, according to The Playist. Koreeda shows how the family memebers love and support each other. For example, the family plans a beach trip for the youngest sister. They carefully pick out swimwear for the girl. At the beach, they play happily. The
37、 girl draws a picture to help her remember their time together.This causes viewers to forget about their moral judgments(道德审判).This is another feature of Koreedas filming style. He is good at presenting ordinary life. Its slow and full of small details sometimes its even boring. But there is tension
38、(冲突) present as well. In Shoplifters, the surprise is that the family memembers dont actually have blood ties to each other, but they are still closer than a real family. They all have their own stories.In Japan and most other Asian countries, blood ties are what defines (定义) family. But Koreeda que
39、stions that by looking at different kinds of relations.1、How does the family in the Shoplifters make a living?ABy drawing pictures. BBy working in local shops.CBy begging from neighbors. DBy stealing from the local stores.2、What is the feature of Koreedas filming style?ANo tension present at all.BBe
40、ing full of small boring details.CFocusing on the hard time of poor families.DShowing ordinary life through the details of daily life.3、What does Koreeda want to show us in the movie?AThe meaning of a family.BHow to get long with our families.CThe ordinary life in a Japanese family.DThe different re
41、lationship in a poor family.4、This passage is mainly about _.Afamily relations Ba film directed by KoreedaCa famous Japanese director Dfeatures of Koreedas films25（10分） In the space of just two years, the app Douyin, created by Beijing-based company ByteDance, has gathered more than half a billion u
42、sersaround 40 of them outside Chinawho share short videos of themselves lip-syncing （假唱）, cooking, dancing or just being silly. What sets ByteDance apart is its success in the social media category, which is controlled by Facebook, Twitter and Snapall Western companies.ByteDance calls itself an arti
43、ficial intelligence company. It uses machine learning and algorithms （算法） to figure out what people like most and give them more of what they want to see. On Douyin, people can edit and beautify 15-second videos before posting them online. The app has even made a phrase to describe people glued to t
44、heir customized feeds: “shua Douyin” or “scrolling through Douyin”. Last year, the company released TikTok, the overseas version of Douyin. ByteDances growing video empire has made it the worlds fifth biggest app maker. ByteDance says TikTok and Douyin together have more than 500 million monthly act
45、ive users.Investors like ByteDance because its hundreds of millions of users attract a lot of advertising money. The video apps are lucrative because they attract a lot of users in their teens and 20s, who are more generous with the money. ByteDance also makes money through income sharing deals. Peo
46、ple on TikTok, for example, can buy digital coins to give to other people on the applike throwing money in a performers tip jar. ByteDance takes a cut of those earnings.ByteDances founder and CEO is Zhang Yiming, a 35-year-old former Microsoft employee. People who have worked with Zhang describe him
47、 as someone who thinks deeply about technology and spends much of his free time writing code.Like Facebook and Twitter, ByteDance is also battling fake news and inappropriate content. ByteDance promises to add thousands more employees to review the content on Douyin.1、What makes ByteDance so special?AIts app challenges similar companies rule in Western world.BIt invented the social media app initial
