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）1- Im afraid the company will not hire me. - Come on, Bill, relax! You have a lot of
2、experience and fine references and your college work is ideal background for them. _ AItll be no sweat. BAll good things come to an end. CWords pay no debts. DDont give me any jaw. 2Kunming is called “Spring City”, but it _ snow in winter.AshallBcanCmustDmight3Will Uncle Peterson come to my birthday
3、 party tomorrow?Pity he _ to Zimbabwe as a volunteer teacher.Awas sent Bhas been sentChad been sent Dwould be sent4When Paul _ for the final game of the basketball season, his fans let out shouts of cry.Amade up Bshowed upCcaught up Dheld up5Ensuring every child equal rights to education is _the key
4、 to the elimination of inequality across the world lies.AthatBwhatCwhetherDwhere6Each party _ respect the articles of this contract, or a double-sized financial punishment is a must.AwillBcouldCshallDshould7Passengers _ talk to the driver while the bus is moving, because it will take his focus off t
5、he road.Awould notBmust notCmay notDneed not8The reason why he adapted to the new situations quickly is that he had a _ attitude.Achangeable Bstable Cmovable Dflexible9He liked the lovely dog so much that he _ his book and played with it immediately.Agave offBset asideCtook overDturned down10What di
6、d you say you were reluctant to risk just now?_ to high levels of radiation.ABeing exposedBHaving been exposedCTo be exposedDExposed11_ themselves in the community services, students can gain experience for growth.AInvolvedBTo involveCHaving been involvedDInvolving12I am wondering _ makes you study
7、so hard?To go to my dream university.Awhat is it thatBthat is whatCwhat is thatDwhat it is that13The new machines have arrived and are being tested in the workshop.Im glad we _ them in the years ahead.Awill be operating Bhave been operatingCwould be operating Dhad been operating14Did you have diffic
8、ulty finding Annhouse?Not really.She_us clear directions and we were able to find it.easily?Awas to giveBhad givenCwas givingDwould give15Not far from the club was there a garden, _ owner seated in it playing bridge with his children every afternoon.AwhoseBitsCwhichDthat16The draft regulation on the
9、 online protection of minors, _ for public opinions by the cyberspace authorities, has drawn wide public concern.Areleasing Bhaving releasedCto release Dreleased17Which do you prefer, the former option or the latter one?I think the former one is no better than the latter one. So Ill choose _.Athe fo
10、rmer one Bthe latter oneCeither of them Dneither of them18Many people complained about the stones lying on a road, but _ did anything about getting the stones out of the way.AbothBno oneCnoneDall19Without your help, I _ the first prize in the English Speaking Contest.Awont getBdidnt getCwouldnt getD
11、wouldnt have got20The worlds attention _ Chinas Belt and Road Initiative，as it has great influence on the worlds economy.Ais to fix onBwas fixed onChas fixed onDis being fixed on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）According to Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, reading aloud wa
12、s a common practice in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Readers were “listeners attentive to a reading voice,” and “the text addressed to the ear as much as to the eye.” The significance of reading aloud continued well into the nineteenth ce
13、ntury.Using Charles Dickenss nineteenth century as a point of departure, it would be useful to look at the familial and social uses of reading aloud and reflect on the functional change of the practice. Dickens habitually read his work to a domestic audience or friends. In his later years he also re
14、ad to a broader public crowd Chapters of reading aloud also abound in Dickenss own literary works. More importantly, he took into consideration the Victorian practice when composing his prose, so much so that his writing is meant to be heard, not only read on the page.Performing a literary text orally in a Victorian family is well documented. Apart from promoting a pleasant family relationship, reading aloud was also a means of protecting young people from the danger of solitary (孤独的) reading. Reading aloud was a tool for parental guidance. By means of reading aloud, paren
