1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号和座位号填写在试题卷和答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（B）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码粘贴在答题卡右上角条形码粘贴处。2作答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试题卷上。3非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效。4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
2、交回。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1Lets go to the cinema this Sunday morning.Id love to，but I _ as a volunteer in my community then.Awill workBhave workedCwill be workingDwas working2Why does she always drive to work _ she could easily take the train?AunlessBuntilCbeforeDwhen3You can use a large plastics
3、 bottle, _ cut off, as a plot to grow flowers in.Awith its topBthe top of whichCwhose topDits top is4Im _Chinese and I do feel _Chinese language is _most beautiful language .A/, the, aBa, /, theCa, the, /Da, /, a5I was unaware of the critical points involved, so my choice was quite _.Aarbitrary Brea
4、sonable Cmechanical Dconventional6While watching television, _.Athe doorbell rangBwe heard the doorbell ringCthere was someone knocking at the doorDthe doorbell was ringing7一Would you be so kind as to take this heavy box upstairs for me?一 AIts my pleasure BHelp yourself CSure，with pleasure DTake you
5、r time 8Decades ago, scientists believed that how the brain develops when you are a kid _ determines your brain structure for the rest of your life.Asooner or laterBmore or lessCto and fromDup and down9If we_ a table in advance, we wouldnt be standing here in the long queue.AreserveBreservedChave re
6、servedDhad reserved10_ many Chinese holidays are directed towards services remembering ancestors, the Ching Ming Festival is beyond doubt the largest.AUnlessBSinceCOnceDWhile11If it _ for her great help then, I would not study English so well now.Ahasnt beenBwasntChadnt beenDisnt12From his expressio
7、n, I dont think he could have finished his homework last night, _?Acouldnt heBdo ICdid heDhasnt he13- Excuse me, where can I get my car filled up?- There are gas stations at_end of the blockAbothBneitherCeitherDall14 Cathy, in my opinion, is very _. Absolutely! She prefers home life to going out.Ado
8、mesticBenergeticCdynamicDenthusiastic15_ a high percentage of Australians may be people who watch sports rather than do them, as far as most of its population is concerned, it is indeed a great sporting nation.AWhileBasCIfDWhether16Some schools, including ours, will have to make _ in agreement with
9、the national soccer reform.Aamusements BadjustmentsCappointments Dachievements17The world is not always _we wish it to be.AthatBwhichCwhatDwhere18If I can help , I dont like working late into the night.AsoBthatCthemDit19John once worked in a remote mountain village school, which is _ only on foot.Aa
10、ccessibleBacceptableCavailableDappropriate20So _ sometimes in trying to accomplish something big _ we fail to notice the little things that give life its magic.Awe get caught up; as Bdo we get caught up; thatCcaught up get we; as Dcaught up do we get; that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
11、最佳选项。21（6分） When Huang Lizhi took her first class in African sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in February, her professor asked her and her classmates what impresses them most when it comes to Africa.Unexpectedly, Huang, 31, found that words like “poverty” and “safari”
12、 negative words that were often associated with the continent in media reports were the kind of terms her African classmates didnt want to hear. Instead, they preferred to hear the question answered in this way: “Africa is the cradle of humankind” and “Africans are passionate and generous”.Apparentl
13、y, there are some misunderstandings between us. Its true that with incidents like the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa and the emergence (出现) of pirates off the coast of Somalia hitting the news, its easy for us to keep forgetting that Africa has one of the worlds oldest civilizations Egypt, born by
14、 the worlds longest river, the Nile. The proof is in the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza, which are both popular among tourists. And the tombs of ancient Egypt have also become endless sources for the literature and film industries.When it comes to the natural environment of Afric
15、a, our misunderstandings are only bigger. But the truth is that instead of being extremely hot all year and covered by desert, the continent has large areas of savannas (稀树草原) where lions, giraffes and zebras live, the snowcapped Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa and even thick forest on the island of
