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、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3考试结束后，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）1Distinguished guests and friends, welcome to our school, _the ceremony of the 50th Anniversary this morning are our al
2、umni （校友） from home and abroad.AAttendBTo attendCAttendingDHaving attended2Many universities throughout the world provide scholarships for students _ financial aid.Ain favour ofBin need ofCin face ofDin honour of3What has made him in such high spirits recently?_ by his teacher for succeeding passing
3、 the exam.ABeing praised BPraisedCHaving praised DTo praise4If it had not been for the heroes contributions and sacrifices, we _such a happy life.Awouldnt have ledBwouldnt be leadingChavent ledDare not leading5Never turn down a job because you think its too small. You dont know _ it can lead.Ahow Bw
4、hereCwhether Dwhat6Mother told me in a phone call that she had written to me a week before, but I havent received_.AoneBitCsomethingDanything7To work from home, which one could hardly imagine, has been made with the development of computer technology.ApossibleBit possibleCpossiblyDto be possible8Wit
5、hout your help, I _ the first prize in the English Speaking Contest.Awont getBdidnt getCwouldnt getDwouldnt have got9The news of the newly-elected presidents coming to China for a visit was _ on the radio just now.Agiven awayBgiven inCgiven offDgiven out10The monitor said that the learning method he
6、 used improved his maths.AgreatlyBnearlyCnormallyDseriously11We all agree that it is good to help those in need, but when _ comes to giving away our money, things become strange.AthatBthisCitDone12The new means of transport _ in this city, so whether it will work out remains to be seen.Ahave never t
7、ried Bhas never tried Chave never been tried Dhas never been tried13The doctors dilemma was _ he should tell the patient the truth.AwhetherBwhichCthatDwhat14I admire my English teacher. I can remember very few occasions _ she stoppedworking because of ill health.AthatBwhenCwhereDwhich15The witness a
8、n important detail when describing the accident.Abrought outBkept offCleft outDran into16The house caught fire last week, with little of the original building _.Aremain Bremained Cremains Dremaining17What you said doesnt _ what the police have told us, so we have to find more evidence.Aagree withBma
9、ke upCcontribute toDshow off18Most people quit _ any results appear; they give up too soon and a quitter never wins.Awhile Buntil Csince Dbefore19Due to the reform and openingup, our living conditions, undoubtedly, have improved _ over the past decades.AconsideratelyBapproximatelyCappropriatelyDcons
10、iderably20 Catherine, will you visit us this weekend?I planned to, but something unexpected .Ahas come upBwas coming upChad come upDwould come up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）Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful,theres a natural impulse to catch and own itwhich
11、means, in this day and age,that we cant help reaching for our phones to take a picture when seeing beautiful things.Though this would seem to be a wonderful solution,there are two big problems about taking pictures.Firstly, were likely to be so busy taking the pictures that we forget to look at the
12、world whose beauty and interest inspire us to take a photograph in the first place.And secondly,because we feel the pictures are safely stored in our phones,we never get around to look at them.These problems would seem to be very much of today,a consequence of the tiny phones in our pockets.But they
13、 were noticed right at the beginning of the history of photography,when the average camera was the size of a grandfather clock.The first person who noticed them was the English art critic,John Ruskin.He was a travelling lover who realized that most tourists failed to notice or remember the beautiful
14、 things they saw.He argued that humans have a born tendency（倾向）to respond to beauty and desire to keep it,but that there are bad expressions of this desire.At worst,we get into buying souvenirs or taking photographs.But,in Ruskins eyes, theres one thing we should do and that is attempting to draw th
15、e interesting things we see,and it doesnt matter whether we happen to have any talent for doing so.Before the invention of photography,people used to draw far more than they do today.It was an active necessity. But in the mid-19th century,photography killed drawing.It became something only artists would ever do,so Ruskin spent four years on a campaign t
