1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷考生请注意：1答题前请将考场、试室号、座位号、考生号、姓名写在试卷密封线内，不得在试卷上作任何标记。2第一部分选择题每小题选出答案后，需将答案写在试卷指定的括号内，第二部分非选择题答案写在试卷题目指定的位置上。3考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，请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）1 Which driver was to blame?- Why, _! It was the childs fault, clear and simple. He suddenly came out between two parked
2、 cars.AbothBeachCeitherDneither2Mike was usually so careful, this time he made a small mistake.AyetBstillCevenDthus3Martin Luther King, Jr. put it that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means _we arrive at that goal.AthatBwhereCby whichDwith which4Its _ me why Alice gave up her
3、job and got married.AunderBaboveCoverDbeyond5 The room looks bigger! We _ the furniture.Ahave changedBhad changedCchangedDare changing6A scientists attempt to produce the worlds first gene-edited babies _ are immune to HIV has sparked controversy in academia and the public.AasBwhoCwhomDwhose7Please
4、_ your ashes before it fails on the carpet.Acut offBknock offCget offDdrop off8Chinas BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, whose positioning _ will reach 2.5 meters by 2020, will soon provide services for more countries.AaccuracyBcategoryCfunctionDreference9 Tell me something about his match in Sydne
5、y. Well，he got the championship， we had expected.He made it at last.AasBwhatCwhyDhow10What was it that caused the party to be put off?_ the invitations.ABecause Tom delayed sendingBTom delayed to sendCThat Tom delayed sendingDTom delayed sending11If you can do what youre weakest _, you can handle an
6、y challenge.Afor BatCwith Dto12The real winners in sport are those who know how to persevere and to behave with _whether they win or lose a game.Acertainty BcautionCdignity Dindependence13After seven hours drive, they reached _ they thought was the place they had been dreaming of.AthatBwhatCwhereDwh
7、ich14Many universities throughout the world provide scholarships for students _ financial aid.Ain favour ofBin need ofCin face ofDin honour of15At that time, the movie “Shaolin Temple”, _Li Lianjie plays the starring role, drew the worlds attention to Chinese Kungfu.AwhereBwhenCthatDwhich16It is not
8、 only blind men who make such stupid mistakes. People who can see sometimes act_.Ajust foolishly Bless foolishly Cas foolishly Dso foolishly17Excuse me, sir, didnt you see the red light?Sorry, my mind _ somewhere else.Ahas been wanderingBwas wanderedCwas wanderingDhas been wandered18Della turned all
9、 of her pockets inside out only to find $ 1.87 buy Jim a present for Christmas.Awith what toBwith that she canCin which toDwith which to19_ the oil under the sea, the company has raised ample funds to develop petroleum exploration equipment.AExploiting BHaving exploitedCTo exploit DExploited20_ is w
10、illing to volunteer in the 2023 Beijing Winter Olympics is welcome to join us.AWhatever BWhoeverCWhenever DWherever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）Ancient Fish Returns to Illinois WatersThe Illinois Department of Natural Resources is returning a fish called the alligator gar t
11、o the states rivers.Some people call the fish a “living fossil.” Experts believe the fish first appeared during the Early Cretaceous period more than 100 million years ago.Randy Sauer is an Illinois state fisheries biologist. He says the fish disappeared from the states rivers in the 1990s, although
12、 they have continued to do well in southern states. Sauer says biologists want to bring the fish back to northern rivers “because it is important to have top predators to balance the species below them,” he said.Sport fishermen like to try to catch the alligator gar. Alligator gar are the second-lar
13、gest freshwater fish in North America. They can grow as large as 2.7 meters and weigh more than 136 kilograms. Sauer says their large size is one reason they disappeared in the 1990s. Experts say alligator gars are “opportunistic feeders.” This means they will eat almost anything - including small t
14、urtles or ducks. They also eat invasive species such as Asian and silver carp. Sauer hopes the re-introduction of the alligator gar will help the states efforts to control the carp. Because gar can live up to 60 years, the program will continue to increase for many years.Sauer notes that female alli
15、gator gars do “not sexually mature until 11 years, and the male not till 6 or 7 years.”That means the biologists will try to raise and release a lot of fish early in the program to re-introduce them.“Were probably going to stock more heavily than 10 or 20 years down the road when hopefully these fish will find each other and start doing
