1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷考生须知：1全卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，全部在答题纸上作答。选择题必须用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题的答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔写在“答题纸”相应位置上。2请用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔在“答题纸”上先填写姓名和准考证号。3保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1While interacting with people in India, I was _ to a way of life completely different from my own.Areduced Bexpos
2、ed Ccommitted Dtransferred2All the students are required to check they have made some spelling errors in their compositions.Awhether Bwhat Cthat Dwhich3After looking at many new cars, I found _ which I would accept just as suitable.AitBthisCthatDone4 Can you tell me something about _ science. OK. _
3、Nobel Prize in Chemistry is usually awarded to Americans.Athe; TheB/; TheCa; /Dthe; /5Children exposed to air pollution are more to suffering from different diseases.ApossibleBprobableClikelyDcertainly6Did Linda see the traffic accident?No, no sooner _ than it happened.Ahad she goneBshe had goneChas
4、 she goneDshe has gone7The online word “selfie” is gaining _ and more and more people tend to use it nowadays.Aaccess BadmissionCcontrol Dcurrency8The Oxford English Dictionary is necessary for learning English，so youd better buy _AthisBthatCitDone9As John Lennon once said, life is _ happens to you
5、while you are busy making other plans.AWhichBthatCwhatDwhere10Andrew lives alone and enjoys the company of a pet cat _ hes grown so fond.AwhichBin whichCof whichDwhen11- What caused the party to be put off? - _ the invitations.ATom delayed sendingBToms delaying sendingCTom delaying to sendDTom delay
6、ed to send12We must _ the time that youve wasted this afternoon by working late to-night.Amake up forBmake outCdo upDmake up to13Please _ your ashes before it fails on the carpet.Acut offBknock offCget offDdrop off14I _ able to catch the first flight home, but my watch betrayed me.AwereBhad beenCwou
7、ld beDwould have been15Why are some brands more popular than others _ the products are of similar quality?Aas thoughBeven ifCso thatDin case16What I love most about reading novels is _ the authors vividly describe the characters.AwhatBwhyChowDwhom17Lets go and have dinner this evening._. Have you co
8、me out first in the exam?AThanks a lot. BWhy not?CWhat for? DYes, Id like to.18The boss_the employees a rise in salary for ages, but nothing has occurred yet.Apromised Bhad promised Cwould promise Dpromises19What does the sign over there read?No person_ smoke or carry a lighted cigarette, cigar or p
9、ipe in this areaAshallBmayCmustDWill20The house caught fire last week, with little of the original building _.Aremain Bremained Cremains Dremaining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）In my very first job with some archaeologists, I wasnt digging objects out of the ground, instead
10、I was employed as an artist, drawing what they found. However, I was soon more interested in the stories behind the objects than in drawing them and thats how my career in archaeology started. I still draw what I find in my work as a specialist on the Silk Road, the old trade route running from Egyp
11、t to Mongolia, and I also work on some underwater projects too.In archaeology, my all-time hero is an American called Raphael Pumpelly. I first heard about him when I was a student on a trip to Turkmenistan, a country right in the heart of Asia. To get around the country, I had to learn Russian so t
12、hat I could speak to the local people. When I got there I thought, “Wow! Im one of the first Americans here!” Then an old man told me about an American archaeologist, Raphael Pumpelly, who was there doing the same thing over 100 years ago.Archaeologys in my family. My wifes in the same profession, a
13、nd, although our two boys arent interested in the future in archaeology themselves, weve been on some great digs together and they love what we do because they get to travel with us. Last summer, we took them to Lake Titicaca in South America, in the high areas of the Andes mountain range. My best e
14、xperience was when I was digging on the Egyptian Red Sea coast. Theres very little rain and its so dry that everything is kept as it was. In an old house, where the owner used to store goods from the ships that came in, I picked up a 700-year-old mat in front of the house and there, under it, after
15、all that time, was the house key with the owners name carved on it. It felt like he could be on his way home any minute! And I thought, “Hey, I do just that. This mans not much different to me!”1、While working in Egypt, what did the writer find so interesting?AThat people from different centuries can be so similar.BTh
