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、准考证号码填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在条形码区域内。2答题时请按要求用笔。3请按照题号顺序在答题卡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、试卷上答题无效。4作图可先使用铅笔画出，确定后必须用黑色字迹的签字笔描黑。5保持卡面清洁，不要折暴、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）1The little girl _ a foreign language fairly quickly.Apicked upBgot upCstepped upDmad
2、e up2Look! Here s a photo _ in my classroom at primary school. Can you recognize me in it?AtakenBtakingCto takeDbeing taken3He is good at a lot of things but it doesnt mean he is perfect. _ Actually no one is.AWhats going on?BLets get going.CThank goodness.DIm with you on that.4Well build a power st
3、ation _ water resources are plentiful.AwhereBin whichCwhichDthat5(2013福建) _ basic first-aid techniques will help you respond quickly to emergencies.AKnownBHaving knownCKnowingDBeing known6The lack of eco-friendly habits among the public is thought to be a major _ of global climate change.AResultBcau
4、seCwarningDreflection7The only problem was _ we kept getting lost! But people in Tianjin are very friendly and helpful.AwhyBwhetherCthatDhow8My teacher often says that success in making money is not always a good _ of success in life.Abelief Belement Ccriterion Dinstance9Good morning. May I help you
5、?No, thank you. Im just looking around._AIts up to you.BHow are you feeling today?CThanks for coming to see me.DTake your time then.10-.We didnt find the Blacks during the lecture. - No one had told them about _ a lecture. Athere to be Bthere being Cthere be Dthere was11I really dont know how to exp
6、ress my thanks to Mr. Li, my high school English teacher, without whose help I_ to college that year.Awerent to goBhadnt been able to goCcouldnt goDcouldnt have gone12Pele had bags of natural talent, but he _ without the determination to deal with all the problems life threw in his path.Awould never
7、 succeedBnever succeededCwould never have succeededDhave never succeeded13Difficulties strengthen the mind, _ labour does the body.AifBasCforDso14 volleyball is her main focus, she is also great at basketball.ASinceBOnceCUnlessDWhile15Thanks to Mrs Smith, the father and the son eventually _after ten
8、 years cold relationship between them.Atook upBpicked upCmade upDturned up16I have got a headache.No wonder.You_in front of that computer too long.AworkBare workingChave been workingDworked17 , he talks a lot about his favorite singers after class.AA quiet student as he mayBQuiet student as he may b
9、eCBe a quiet student as he mayDQuiet as he may be a student18Hard work and lack of sleep have _ her beauty and youth in recent years.Aworn outBtried outCmade outDsent out19We Chinese are drinking _ milk per person today as we did in 1995.Amore than twiceBtwice as muchCtwice as many asDtwice as much
10、as20Faced with the dilemma, the company committee _ a public statement, appointing the capable man to be its new global chief financial officer.Apulled out Bput outCreached out Ddrew out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） A new study from brain researchers helps explain how the h
11、uman brain evolved, or changed over time, to permit people to speak and write.Michael Ullman, the lead researcher, a professor at Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, DC, has been studying language learning for more than 20 years.Ullman says his research shows that the human brain doe
12、s not have a special area or system for making language. Over time we have simply reused or co-opted(指派) parts of our brain for language. And those parts, he says, are ancient-older even than humans themselves.This study examines the theoretical framework(准则) that language is learned, stored and pro
13、cessed in two ancient learning and memory systems in the brain.Ullman, Hamrick and the rest of the team looked at data from 16 other studies on language. They found that people learn language using two memory systems: declarative and procedural. Memorizing vocabulary, for example, is a declarative m
14、emory process. But learning grammar is, mostly, a procedural memory process.Declarative memory, in humans at least, is what we think of as learning memory, such as, Oh, remember what you said last night or things like that. And procedural motor memory is what we often call motor memory such as how you learn to ride a bicycle. Or, Ullman adds, These procedural memory skills become so deeply leaned that we are no longer aware that we are doing them.However, Ullman explains that the two long-term memory systems can share tasks. And, he ads, the adult brain uses the systems to learn language a
