1、2023屆高考英語模擬試卷注意事項(xiàng)：1 答題前，考生先將自己的姓名、準(zhǔn)考證號填寫清楚，將條形碼準(zhǔn)確粘貼在考生信息條形碼粘貼區(qū)。2選擇題必須使用2B鉛筆填涂；非選擇題必須使用05毫米黑色字跡的簽字筆書寫，字體工整、筆跡清楚。3請按照題號順序在各題目的答題區(qū)域內(nèi)作答，超出答題區(qū)域書寫的答案無效；在草稿紙、試題卷上答題無效。4保持卡面清潔，不要折疊，不要弄破、弄皺，不準(zhǔn)使用涂改液、修正帶、刮紙刀。第一部分 （共20小題，每小題1.5分，滿分30分）1The problem _he will have his college education at home or abroad remains un

2、touched.Ahow Bwhether Cthat Dwhen2I dont think she visited the exhibition this morning, _ she was with me at that time.Athough Bor Cbut Dfor3(2013天津，9)No one_ be more generous；he has a heart of gold.Acould Bmust Cdare Dneed4We came to the station _ all the way, only _ the train had just left.Arunnin

3、g, toldBto run, tellingCto run, to be toldDrunning, to be told5This project _ considered thoroughly, and Im sure it _ finished on time.Amust be; may beBshould be; can beCmay be; must beDcan be; should be6_ your generous help, I do believe I have a better understanding of your country and culture.ABu

4、t forBOut ofCThanks toDAs to7For the final _ of our journey，we decided to take the coach.Aleg BroundCdistance Dpath8Any information of the oral test paper are regarded as strictly _ before it is open.AconventionalBanalyticalCcontroversialDconfidential9 Have you watched the film “Avatar”? Not yet. Bu

5、t I the film is worth watching.Aam toldBwas toldChave toldDhave been told10I _up my mind what I was going to say in the seminar, but it was cancelled.Ahave made Bhad madeCwas making Dwould make11Maybe he really should do more exercises from now on. _, I hope he could get over soon.ASomehowBSomewhatC

6、AnywayDAnywhere12_ terrible, the medicine was thrown away by the child.ATastedBTastingCTo tasteDBeing tasted13I am putting on weight again! Maybe I should start doing yoga.You _ that the whole morning!Aare saying Bhave said Chave been saying Dwere saying14Going to watch the Womens Volleyball Match o

7、n Wednesday?_! Will you go with me?AYou betBYou got meCYou thereDYou know better15World AIDS Day is also important in reminding us that HIV has not gone away, and there are many things still to be done.AwhichBwhatCthatD/16Listening to language recording in bed seems like an easy way to _ some new vo

8、cabulary.But does this learning method actually work?Apolish up Bmake upCpick up Dbuild up17Not until I went up further _ that under the tree _, obviously sound asleep.Athat I saw; did a boy lieBI saw; lay a boyCdid I see; did a boy lieDdid I see; lay a boy18OK， here _.Thank you for your lift. See y

9、ou later.Aare we Bis itCwe are Dcomes it19I_ a flu when I was on a spring outing with my classmate.Acaught upBpicked upCtook upDbrought up20I wouldnt have missed the train if I _ up earlier.AgotBhad gotCwill getDhave got第二部分 閱讀理解（滿分40分）閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。21（6分）The hottest cities in the

10、 worldThe locations below are the hottest and also travel destinations on the planetBangkokAccording to the data， Bangkok is the hottest city on the planet not because of any particularly impressive high temperatures， but because it is consistently hot all the year round The city has an average annu

11、al temperature of 29， coupled with high dampness and an average of 128rainy days per year； while the highest temperature on record is 40Timbuktu， MaliLocated on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert， the African city of Timbuktu is similar to everything remote Its also one of the hottest cities in

12、the world， with a hot， dry climate offering record highs of 49 Throughout April， May and June， average maximum temperatures are beyond 40 Modernday Timbuktu is slowly being swallowed by the desert and is certainly a shadow of the trade center that it once wasAhvaz， IranBuilt on the bank of the Karun

13、 River， Ahvaz is an industrial city with average highs of around 46 during July， its warmest month The citys record high is 54， making it one of the worlds hottest cities during the summer Frequent sand and dust storms and an absence of rain from July to September mix with its skyhigh temperaturesKu

14、wait CityThe wealthy capital of Kuwait is another competitor for the title of the worlds hottest summertime city with average highs of over 45 from June to August Nightfall brings little respite（緩解）， with afterdark low temperatures often over 30 during the summer months Kuwait Citys record high is 5

15、2， while it rains on an average of just 19 days per year1、What is the Bangkok famous for in climate？AThe highest temperatureBThe hot weather all year roundCThe highest annual temperatureDThe lack of rainfall all year round2、Why is Timbuktu no longer a trade center？AThe small population of MaliBThe w

16、ar lasting for many yearsCThe influence of the SaharaDIts location of the center of a desert3、Which city holds the record of the highest temperature？AAhvazBBangkokCTimbuktuDKuwait City22（8分） With more than 100,000 people aged 100 or over, Spain is the country with the greatest life expectancy after

17、Japan. How do you live to 100? Here 4 of the countrys centenarians (百歲老人) give their advice on staying youthful.Francisco Nunez, 112He is from Bienvenida, Badajoz, southern Spain. Nunez lives with his daughter. He says he doesnt like the pensioners (領(lǐng)養(yǎng)老金的人) daycare center because its full of old peo

18、ple, whose negative attitude towards life affects him deeply sometimes. Despite his old age. he has always maintained (保持) a youthful outlook, and that is what has kept him going on.Pedro Rodriguez, 106He lives in Cangas de Onis, Asturias, northern Spain. Rodriguez plays the piano every day in the l

19、iving room of the flat where he lives with his wife who is nearly 20 years younger than him. Their daughters visit them often. His hobby is something that he feels has kept him young. “The nuns (修女) taught me how to play the piano as a child,” he says.Maximino San Miguel, 102He lives in Leon, northe

20、rn Spain. San Miguel discovered his passion (酷愛) for amateur dramatics at the age of 80 and has participated in many local productions. He didnt go to school as a child because he was sent to work as a shepherd (牧羊人). He prefers reading books about drawing and travelling. Now this hobby, he said, ha

21、s kept him full of energy.Pilar Fernandez, 101She lives with her daughter Pili, granddaughters Flori and Ana in Ambas, Asturias, northern Spain. Fernandez suffered hunger and hardship during the war years alongside her nine brothers and sisters. To avoid history repeating itself, she limited herself

22、 to just one child. “From pure fear, I didnt have anymore,” says Fernandez. One of the best things for her health, she says, is tending livestock (家畜) and a vegetable garden.299、Why does Francisco Nunez dislike living with other old people?AThey may depend on his help.BHe is sensitive to his old age

23、.CThey may affect his attitude to life.DHe has more kids to look after at home.1、What benefits her health according to Pilar Fernandez?ADoing gardening.BLearning history.CLiving with kids.DHaving more children.2、What can we infer about the four old people from the text?AThey are fond of exercising r

24、egularly.BThey led a hard life when they were young.CThey have the same hobbies in their free time.DThey have their own method of staying youthful.23（8分）Three divers enter a hole leading to a water-filled cave on Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula. They swim for an hour. Finally, they reach a large room 60 f

25、eet underground and about the size of two basketball courts. Here, they discover an upside-down human skull (the bones of a persons head). Other bones lay nearby.The team came across the skull in 2007. The divers then told the Mexican government about the finding. Soon the government formed a team o

26、f scientists to look into it. The group, which included archaeologist (考古學(xué)家) Dominique Rissolo, believed that the skull belonged to someone who lived in the last ice age. At the ice ages height some twenty thousand years ago, sea levels dropped and new land appeared. Over time, rain and wind ate hol

27、es into some of the land.“The person may have died after entering the cave,” Rissolo says. Then, when the ice age ended some ten thousand years ago, sea levels rose. Water flooded the cave, covering the remains.Worrying that moving the skull might destroy it, scientists decided to examine it at its

28、watery resting place. They collected information about the skull and other pieces of bones. They found that the bones belonged to a 15- to 17-year-old girl who lived at least twelve thousand years ago. The team named her Naia after some sea creatures in Greek myths.Naia is the oldest nearly complete

29、 human skeleton (骨架) ever found in the Americas. DNA tests showed that shes a direct ancestor of present-day Native Americans. Naias DNA also matches with people native to Siberia, a part of Russia. Scientists have long thought that ancient people from this area arrived in Alaska during the last ice

30、 age. They were the first humans to live in the Americas. And Naia proves how far south they went. (Mexico is a country to the south of the US.)In 2014 the scientists decided to bring up Naias skull from the cave to protect it from curious divers. So it was taken to a lab, where it remains today.1、W

31、hat do we learn about the skull?AIt was left alone in the cave.BIt lay under a basketball court.CIt drew the governments attention.DIt was discovered by three scientists.2、When did Naia probably live?AAfter the last ice age ended.BBefore the last ice age ended.CBefore the last ice age started.DAt th

32、e beginning of the last ice age.3、Why was the skull studied in the cave for several years?AScientists tried to protect it.BThe temperature was fine in there.CIt was against the law to take it out.DIt would help scientists study the cave,4、Who were Naias distant ancestors?AEarly humans in Greece.BEar

33、ly humans in Siberia.CEarly humans in Alaska.DEarly humans in Mexico.24（8分）I look around and cant recognize where I am. It seems familiar but distant. I see my friends gathered by a stage where music is playing and I run over. As I begin running towards them, they become further and further away. I

34、keep calling for them, but no one hears me. I start hearing a distant alarm-like sound and I am transported away. I woke up in a daze (茫然) sitting in my bed.“Oh, it was only a dream,” I said to myself. I have always had vivid and intense dreams. Sometimes, it feels like I havent even slept because I

35、 have been living out my dreams during my sleep.Today, dreaming is being studied even more than ever. Some say that dreams are how your receptors (受體) make sense of random thoughts while you sleep. Some say that you cant dream of a face you have never seen before, so everyone you see in your dreams

36、you have at least laid eyes on at one time or another.Other people think dreams are ways of expressing stress or internal feelings you may be experiencing. A lot of people say that they have dreams about being chased (追逐).A common interpretation of the “being chased” dream is that you are feeling th

37、reatened. Some dream interpretation sites say you should try to reflect on what or who is chasing you to get a better idea of what is making you feel this way.Another dream that is often experienced is flying. This dream has a much more positive interpretation, which is that you are feeling free or

38、have broken out of a bad situation such as a relationship turned sour or a job you hate.Unfortunately, if you even remember your dreams at all, you forget half of your dream within five minutes of waking up and within 10 minutes, you usually forget 90 percent of it.Dreamologists, people who devote t

39、ime to the study and interpretation of dreams, suggest if you want to try to remember and study your dreams you should keep a journal beside your bed and jot down what you dreamt as soon as you wake up so you can reflect on it later.1、Dreams of “being chased” occur because _.Ayou are feeling threate

40、nedByou just quit a job you hateCyour friends are far away from you when in needDyour receptors is always thinking while you sleep2、Why should we keep a journal beside your bed to reflect on dreams?AWe need to chase those people who appeared in our dreams.BWe usually forget 90 percent of dreams with

41、in 10 minutes.CIt can help us get out of the intense dreams.DIt can help us sleep well without dreams.3、Where can we read this article?AIn a poster. BIn a physics book.CIn a traveling magazine. DIn a science newspaper.4、What is the best title for the passage?AWhy am I Always Dreaming BHow Is My Drea

42、m CreatedCWhat do My Dreams Mean DHow to Avoid Dreams25（10分）“Auld Lang Syne” is a song that everyone drunkenly sings, which marks the start to a brand new year. No one ever seems to know the words (something about forgetting old acquaintances?) or what they mean (why would we want to forget people?)

43、, but, in America, its as much a part of New Years tradition as wine. But why?The lyrics (歌詞) to the song come from a poem written by the great Scottish poet Robert Bums in 1788. Its title is believed to be an old Scottish way of saying “a long time ago.” Phrases like “In the days of auld lang syne”

44、 also appear in other Scottish fairytales and poems, usually as a way of saying “Once Upon a Time.”While it still causes confusion, it is believed that the opening lines of the song are meant to be rhetorical (夸張的); “Should auld acquaintance be forgotten, and never brought to mind? Should auld acqua

45、intance be forgotten, and auld lang syne?” therefore means we should have a drink in honor of whatever is passing, and remember old friends.When the Scots immigrated to America in the 19th century, they brought the song with them. But its great popularity can be largely due to the Canadian bandleade

46、r Guy Lombardo.In 1965, he explained how he himself came to associate the song with the end of the year to Life Magazine:“Auld Lang Syne is our theme songand was long before anyone ever heard us on the radio. In our particular part of western Ontario, where theres a large Scottish population, it was

47、 traditional for bands to end every dance with Auld Lang Syne. We didnt think it was known here.If you want to see the singer in action, check out his final performance on the eve of 1977, after performing for 48 years in a row.1、How might people feel when first hearing the song Auld Lang Syne?AConf

48、used. BMoved.CEnergetic. DComfortable.2、Why do people sing Auld Lang Syne when New Year is coming?ATo hope for good luck. BTo celebrate the New Year.CIn honor of Robert Bums. DIn memory of the past.3、Why is Guy Lombardo mentioned in the text?AHe created the song Auld Lang Syne.BHe made the song Auld

49、 Lang Syne more popular.CHe brought the song Auld Lang Syne to America.DHe was the first to sing the song Auld Lang Syne.4、What might be the best title for the text?AWhat does Auld Lang Syne Mean?BWho Makes Auld Lang Syne Popular?CHow does Auld Lang Syne Come into Being?DWhy do People Sing Auld Lang

50、 Syne on New Year Eve?第三部分 語言知識(shí)運(yùn)用（共兩節(jié)）第一節(jié)（每小題1.5分，滿分30分）閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C和D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)26（30分）When Julie was a child, she was a very big fan of animals. As a result, 1 she ever heard growing up was “Julie, you should be a vet. Youre going to be a great vet. Thats what you should do.” 2 w

51、hen she got to the Ohio State University, she started studying to be a vet.A scholarship allowed her to spend her 3 year studying abroad in Manchester, England. Away from the family 4 back home, she found herself one day sitting at her desk, surrounded by biology books and staring out the window, wh

52、en it suddenly hit her: “Im in total 5 I dont want to be a vet!” 6 she thought back over all the things shed done in her life and what had made her happy. And then it hit herit was all of the youth leadership conferences that she had volunteered 7 , and the communications and leadership courses she

53、had taken as elective courses back at Ohio State. “How could I have been so 8 ? Here I am in my fourth year at school and just finally realizing Im on the 9 path. I just never took the time to 10 it until now, ” she thought.Inspired by her new 11 , Julie spent the rest of her year in England taking

54、courses in communications and media studies. When 12 to Ohio State, she was eventually able to 13 the administration to let her create her own program in “l(fā)eadership studies”, 14 it took her 2 years longer to finally graduate. She 15 to become a senior management consultant in leadership training an

55、d development for the Pentagon. She 16 founded a drug-prevention organization that 17 the message “Lead your own life with the skill and the 18 to say no.”So, never live someone elses 19 If you limit your 20 only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want.

56、1、AwhichBallCthatDwhere2、ASoBButCOrDFor3、AfinalBusualCnextDpast4、AroutinesBwarningsCcomplaintsDpressures5、AconfidenceBsilenceCmiseryDsurprise6、APerhapsBInsteadCThenDOften7、AofBwithConDat8、AinternalBinnocentCintellectualDintelligent9、AclearBwrongCshortDwide10、AacknowledgeBaccomplishCincludeDcriticize

57、11、AdiscoveryBinformationCunderstandingDresearch12、AreturningBreferringCrelatingDresponding13、AprepareBconvinceCforbidDforce14、AasBifConceDthough15、AhesitatedBfailedCretiredDcontinued16、AstillBagainCalsoDonly17、AleavesBpromotesCconfirmsDacquires18、AwillBchanceCfactDpride19、ApromisesBdecisionsCsucces

58、sesDdreams20、AchoicesBreasonsCsmilesDmistakes第二節(jié)（每小題1.5分，滿分15分）閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入1個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。27（15分）The university I attend has about 3500 students. One early afternoon, I 1 (walk) around the campus when I found a female student sitting on the walkway with tears on her face. Everyone just walked b

59、y her, so I decided to stop 2 (give) her a hand. I dropped my books and sat down beside her. 3 turned out that she injured her ankle (腳踝) and was 4 (able) to walk. So I told her that I would sit with her 5 she was ready to get up. It only took a few minutes for her to calm down. Then I took her 6the

60、 hand and got her to the nearest hospital.She thanked me so much for just stopping! Since then, when we run into each other 7 (occasional) on campus, she would smile and thank me again. And we have become good friends now. I am amazed that just my sitting there, 8 (offer) support and comfort to a to