1、2023年高考英语模拟试卷注意事项1考生要认真填写考场号和座位序号。2试题所有答案必须填涂或书写在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。第一部分必须用2B 铅笔作答；第二部分必须用黑色字迹的签字笔作答。3考试结束后，考生须将试卷和答题卡放在桌面上，待监考员收回。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1_ to success cant defeat us. Instead, they can only make us stronger.AAttemptsBBarriersCContributionsDAccess2Time is pressingYou cannot start your
2、task _ soonAtooBveryCsoDas3For many days I have been trying to _ what it is that makes Jack so annoyed.Acarry outBfigure outCwatch outDstand out4But for the metal cage to pull the miners to safety, the miners in Chile _ in less than twenty-four hours.Awould not be rescuedBwould not have been rescued
3、Cwould be rescuedDwould have been rescued5For a third-culture kid,it is often easier to a new foreign country than to their home country.Amoving Bto move Cmove Dmoved6He _ in a university for five years, but now he runs a company of his own.Ahas taughtBhad taughtCtaughtDhas been teaching7The silence
4、 of the library is sometimes broken by a sudden cough or the sound of pages _.AturningBturnedCbeing turnedDhaving turned8Dont make a special journey to pick up the laundry for me.Its OK. I _ to the shop anyway.Awas going Bwill have goneChave gone Dwill be going9We can not afford limited progress. We
5、 need rapid progress, Ban said at the Third World Climate Conference in Geneva, by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).AorganizedBbeing organizedCorganizingDwas organized10Much to my _, my vocabulary has expanded a great deal.AdelightingBdelightedCdelight11_ the woman with the baby come over
6、? We have a seat here.Thank you, sir. Actually I do have my seat here. But my baby likes to look out of the window.AWouldBShallCMustDMay12Not having worked out the program, _ leave the office. Aso he was forbidden to Band he didnt want toChis little son couldnt make him Dbe couldnt free himself to13
7、What a pity! _joined in the party, I would have met my old friendAlf I have BHad I CI had DHave I14Usually Beijing Roast Duck _ together with special pancakes, green onions and sweet sauce.Awas served Bwill serveCis served Dserved15In my opinion, parents and teachers are supposed to set an example o
8、f good behavior to children _ they are role models to them.AalthoughBeven ifCunlessDas16Did Tom go back late last night? No. It was just nine oclock he arrived home.Awhen Bafter Cuntil Dthat17The toughest thing about success is _ you have to keep on being a success.AwhyBwhenCwhatDthat18Many thought
9、that after starring in the immensely popular drama, Nirvana in Fire, Hu Ge would _ and actively seek new roles.Amake a mountain out of a molehillBhave too many irons in the fireCstrike while the iron is hotDDput the cart before the horse19After _ had happened he could not continue to work there.Awhi
10、chBhowCwhatDhaving20I got beaten in the first round in the contest. I am feeling depressed.Cheer up! You have to _ yourself _ to have the last laugh.Aopen; up Bpick; up Cknock; up Ddo; up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）2017 TFK Poetry ContestCalling all poets! TIME For Kids ha
11、s a challenge for you: Write a funny, rhyming poem. It must be an original poem that does not copy another poets work. Enter it in the TIME For Kids Poetry Contest. As fewer and fewer children are interested in writing poetry of their own, TIME For Kids decides to organize and sponsor such a contest
12、 to change the situation.Contest Rules1. How to enter: This contest begins 12:01 am on March 6, 2014 and ends 11:59 pm on July 24, 2014. To enter, mail the following information to 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 32nd Floor, New York, New York 10020: (a) an original and previously unpublished poem that
13、 is humorous and has a rhymescheme(韵律); (b)Entrants first name only and a parents mail address. Limit one entry per person. By entering, Entrant promises that the entry (1) is original, (2) has not been published in any medium and (3) has not won an award.2. Judging: All entries will be judged by po
14、et Kenn Nesbitt, based on the following criteria: creativity and originality (50), use of language and rhyme (25) and appropriateness to the theme of the contest (25). The length of the entry will not be taken into consideration.3.Prizes: Our judge will select four semifinalists(半决赛选手)from which one
15、 grand-prize winner and three finalists will be chosen. The one grand-prize winner will receive an online class visit from Childrens Poet Kenn Nesbitt and a signed copy of his newest book of poetry,The Armpitof Doom: Funny Poems for Kids, approximately value: $275. The three finalists will each get
16、a signed copy of Nesbitts newest book of poetry, The Armpit of Doom:Funny Poems for Kids, and both their poems and that of the grand-prize winner will be published at.4.Eligibility(参赛资格): Open to legal citizens of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are primary school students and
17、are 8 to 13 years old at time of entry.5. Winners list: For names of the winner and finalists, visit(after August 1, 2017, available for a period of 10 days).1、The purpose of the contest is to_.Aencourage children to learn from other poetsBhelp children realize the dream of poetry writingCencourage
18、childrens interest in poetry writingDencourage children to read more original poems2、Which of the following characteristics of a poem is valued most in judging?ABeing creative and originalBUsing a proper number of wordsCUsing proper language and rhymeDBeing appropriate to the contest theme3、Accordin
19、g to the contest rules,_.Apoems can be sent to the organizers by e-mailBall children have the right to take part in the contestCthe number of poems to enter the contest is not limitedDthe result of the contest will be unknown before August, 201722（8分）They may be teenagers, but 17-year-old Brittany B
20、ull and 16-year-old Sesam Mngqengqiswa have grand ambitions(雄心) to launch Africas first private satellite (卫星) into space. They are part of a team of high school girls from Cape Town, South Africa, who have designed and built equipment for a satellite that will orbit over the earths poles scanning A
21、fricas surface.Once in space, the satellite will collect information on agriculture, and food security within the continent. Using the data/we can try to determine and predict (预测) the problems Africa will be facing in the future”, explains Bull, a student at Pelican Park High School.“Where our food
22、 is growing, where we can plant more trees and vegetation and also how we can monitor remote areas,” she says. “We have a lot of forest fires and floods but we dont always get out there in time. Information received twice a day will go towards disaster prevention.Its part of a project by South Afric
23、as Meta Economic Development Organization (MEDO) working with Morehead State University in the US.The girls (14 in total) are being trained by satellite engineers from Cape Peninsula University of Technology, in an effort to encourage more African women into STEM (science, technology, engineering, m
24、athematics).Scheduled to launch in May 2017, if successful, it will make MEDO the first private company in Africa to build a satellite and send it into orbit.Mngqengqiswa comes from a single parent household. Her mother is a domestic worker. By becoming a space engineer or astronaut, the teenager ho
25、pes to make her mother proud. “Discovering space and seeing the Earths atmosphere, its not something many black Africans have been able to do, or get the opportunity to look at I want to see and experience these things for myself,” says Mngqengqiswa.Her team mate Bull agrees, “I want to show to fell
26、ow girls that we dont need to sit around or limit ourselves. Any career is possible-even aerospace.”1、What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?AInformation provided by the satellite.BThe benefits brought by the satellite.CProblems African agriculture faces.DThe way the satellite collects information.
27、2、Why are the experts teaching the girls satellite technology?ATo turn them into good farmers.BTo help African women to live better.CTo train employees for a private company.DTo attract more African women to sci-tech fields.3、What do you think of the girls in the text?AAmbitious and pioneering. BGen
28、erous and strict.CIndependent and modest. DBrave and serious.23（8分） A new study has shown how computers and robots powered by artificial intelligence can read human eye movements to read human personalities.The eyes, they say, are the windows to the soul. And if that is true, computers and robots po
29、wered by sophisticated（复杂的）artificial intelligence algorithms（算法）may soon have the ability to peer into your soul. That is the result of a new study on the connection between eye movements and personality, conducted by neuroscience researchers based at the University of South Australia and Published
30、 in the scientific Journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.Eye movements during an everyday task predict aspects of our personality, wrote the researchers, led by University of South Australia neuroscientist Tobias Loetscher, whose team follows 42 study subjects around the university campus recording thei
31、r eye movements, then determines their personality traits（特点）with well-established questionnaires for determining personality type, according to a summary of the study published by the site Science Daily.The researchers fed the data into their Al algorithms and found that computers running the algor
32、ithms were able to record human eye movements and immediately determine a persons major personality traits, such as neuroticism, extraversion（外向），agreeableness, conscientiousness, as well as perceptual（感知的）curiosity, the scientists wrote.The new findings could improve the way human beings interact w
33、ith their computers and other high-tech devices, even robots, allowing for more natural and realistic social interactions with machines, Loetscher said.People are always looking for improved, personalized services. Todays robots and computers are not socially aware so they cannot adapt to non-verbal
34、 information, Loetscher said in a statement quoted by Indian Express. This research provides opportunities to develop robots and computers so that they can become more natural, and better at interpreting human social signals.The study revealed previously undiscovered relations between specific perso
35、nality characteristics and specific eye movement tendencies, according to a summary in Britains Daily Mail newspaper.1、What do the underlined words peer into in Paragraph 2 probably mean?AunderstandBstare atCsearch forDconcern about2、How did the researchers conduct the research?AIt was carried out i
36、n a lab.B42 subjects eye movements were recorded.CThe students daily movements were tracked.DIts subjects personalities were determined by computer.3、According to Tobias Loetscher, what can we know?ARobots and computers are socially conscious.BPeople care less about improved, personalized services.C
37、Todays robots and computers can accustom to non-verbal information.DThe discovery will improve the interaction between human beings and machines.4、What can be a suitable title for the text?AHuman Personality TraitsBWhat Human Eye Movements AreCTell Personalities by Eye Movements.DHow Humans and Mach
38、ines Interact24（8分） In 2011，Amy Chua put out the book，Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother，which is her memoir（回忆录）about the challenges of being a parent and trying to keep to the strict upbringing（养）she knew as a child. Controversy over the book arose because many readers did not get the impression that
39、 Chua was trying to be humorous about her parenting methods. There was also miscommunication about the purpose of the book. Many received it as a guide for other parents on how to use strict methods to punish and motivate their children. However，Chua has always claimed the aim of her book was only t
40、o share her successes and failures as a parent in a culturally diverse world.In the book，Chua compares Western and Chinese beliefs and methods of parenting. In general，Chinese parents believe a childs academic success is directly linked to parenting skills. It is common for such parents to take seve
41、re measures to make their children do exactly what they say. In contrast，Western parents worry more about their childrens self-esteem（自尊），which drives their parenting methods. As a result，parenting methods have become less strict and children are not held to the high standards they were in the past.
42、Interestingly，in the West，many people agree that Western parenting methods could use improvement. Some even say that the laid-back Western methods can be just as damaging as the overly strict ones Chua connects with Chinese culture because more and more children are not learning how to face and over
43、come challenges. However，experts also say that being too strict with children can cause rebellion（反叛），low self-esteem and poor parent-child relationships.What everyone can agree on is that there is no perfect way to parent. Whats more a method that works with one child will not necessarily work with
44、 another. Parents are challenged with finding the best method that helps each child learn to be a responsible and confident person.1、What do we know about Amy Chuas book?AIt amused readers greatly.BIt caused a serious debate.CIts about a tiger and its mother.DIts popular with both parents and kids.2
45、、Why did Amy Chua write the book?ATo share her experience as a mom.BTo tell interesting stories to children.CTo introduce her research on parenting.DTo help other parents educate their children.3、Whats the maid idea of Paragraph 2?AWhat is most important for children.BHow to help children to succeed
46、 in school.CThe importance of mastering parenting skills.DDifferences between upbringing in China and the West.4、What result might the Western parenting method bring about?AChildrens academic success.BMore positive attitudes toward life.CBad relationships between parents and children.DChildrens lack
47、 of experience in dealing with difficulties.5、Which of the following may the author agree on?AOne parenting method doesnt work with all children.BA perfect way to parent is easy to find as long as parents work hard.CWestern parenting methods are better than those in China.DChinese parents are more w
