1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷注意事项：1 答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在考生信息条形码粘贴区。2选择题必须使用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题必须使用05毫米黑色字迹的签字笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。3请按照题号顺序在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。4保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1Although she did not know Boston well, she made her way _ to the Home Circ
2、le Building.Aeasy enoughBenough easyCeasily enoughDenough easily2The meeting planned next Monday is very important.Ato be held BheldCbeing held Dholding3More competitive high-tech enterprises are investing in Nantong Central Innovation District, which will result in _ economic growth.AsustainableBad
3、aptableCrecyclableDchangeable4What do you do, Rita？Im a clerk in a foreign company nowBut I _ English in a high school for 10 yearsAteachBhave taughtCtaughtDam teaching5Computers can do nothingBut once _what to do, they show extraordinary power to do a great dealAto programBbeing programmedCprogramm
4、edDhaving programmed6It gives us great delight _ Chinese science fictions are becoming increasingly popular.AhowBwhatCthatDwhy7_ amazed us greatly was that Linda could speak five languages.AThatBWhatCWhichDWhy8It was John who broke the window. Why are you talking to me as if I it?Ahad doneBhave done
5、CdidDam doing9We should bear in mind that social development and balance of nature should go in .AcompanyBsympathyCassociationDharmony10You are subject to punishment if you fail to _ to the customs when carrying the prohibited articles listed above.Astate BdeclareCannounce Dcommunicate11The governme
6、nt spokesman has to _ his words before responding to reporters.ApassBweighCcoverDexpress12His strong sense of humor was make everyone in the room burst out laughing.Aso as to Bsuch as toCso that Dsuch that13Janes pale face suggested that she _ ill and her parents suggested that she _ a medical exam.
7、Abe; should haveBwas; haveCshould be; hadDwas; had14Its true that the old road is less direct and a bit longer. We wont take the new one, _, because we dont feel as safe on it.AsomehowBthoughCthereforeDotherwise15Oh, Hannah just told me that she was unable to translate the report into English._？She
8、once spent 10 years living in London.AGuess whatBWhy notCSo whatDHow come16No matter how carefully you plan your finances, no one can _ when the unexpected will happen.AproveBimplyCdemandDpredict17Air pollution, together with littering, _ many problems in our large industrial cities today.AcausesBca
9、useCcausedDcausing18Large quantities of time _ for practising guided writings. Awas neededBare neededC needsDis needed19How about going sightseeing this Saturday afternoon? Sorry, I _ my research report the whole weekend.Awill have writtenBwill be writingChave writtenDhave been writing20Whats wrong
10、with you?Oh, I am sick. I _ so much ice cream just now.Ashouldnt eatBmustnt eatCcouldnt have eatenDshouldnt have eaten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）Discoverys astronauts arrived to an exciting celebration Wednesday as nearly 700 people crowded an airplane storage place, wavi
11、ng flags and holding signs that read: “Welcome Home, Astronauts!”The seven-person team returned to Earth on Tuesday after being the first to take a space shuttle into orbit since the Columbia disaster(灾难) of 2003.“In the last two and a half years, we have been through the very worst that manned spac
12、e flight can bring us, and over the past two weeks we have seen the very best,” NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told the astronauts and their families and fans Wednesday.The crowd waved American flags for the U.S. astronauts and Japanese flags for crew member Soichi Noguchi, one of the spacewalke
13、rs.“As a rookie（新手）astronaut, I could not ask for more,” Noguchi said, “We had three spacewalks, two extra days in space and one great team.”While the homecoming has been filled with excitement for what mission controllers declared a “truly spectacular test flight”, uncertainty remains for the futur
14、e of the shuttle program.Shortly after Discovery rose up into space July 26, a nearly 1-pound large piece of foam insulation（泡沫绝缘材料） fell from the fuel tankthe very thing that was supposed to have been fixed after Columbia exploded. The foam missed Discovery, but NASA grounded all shuttle flights un
15、til engineers fix the problem.NASA ground crews examined Discovery after its return from orbit and found it in good condition, an official said Wednesday at NASAs Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.Technicians counted 101 dings and divots, including 20 that were larger than 1 inch. Schaaf
