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）1By the side of the teaching building of our school _, which was completed in 2009. A
2、there standing the library Bdoes the library stand Cthe library stands Dstands the library2You mean the position is still vacant?Yes, but you must know our job is very demanding._.AWith pleasure BI dont mind CDont mention it DThats all right3 worries the public that air pollution is becoming more an
3、d more serious these days.AItBThatCWhatDThis4According to a recent study, the high school graduation rate for black men has fallen by 43 percent, while _ of black women has risen by 56 percent.AthatBwhatConeDwhich5 Thank you very much for giving me a hand when I was in trouble. Dont mention it. I on
4、ly did what anyone else _ in my place.Amust doBcould have doneCwould doDcan have done6Got your driving license?No. I too busy to have enough practice, so I didnt take the driving test last week.Awas BamChave been Dhad been7What did she want to know, Tom?She wondered we could complete the experimentA
5、when was it thatBit was when thatCit was whenDwhen it was that8The art historians tried to figure out how the temple _ when built around 15 BCAmight lookBmight have lookedCmust lookDmust have looked9John once worked in a remote mountain village school, which is _ only on foot.AaccessibleBacceptableC
6、availableDappropriate10We all know that good results _ for you when you start doing things you love.Aare waiting Bhave waitedChave been waiting Dwill be waiting11If it had not been for the heroes contributions and sacrifices, we _such a happy life.Awouldnt have ledBwouldnt be leadingChavent ledDare
7、not leading12We have strong _ for believing that the newly-invented material is not only popular but also a monument to the eco-friendly lifestyle.AgroundsBreasonsCcausesDpurposes13The boy was waving his stick in the street and it _ missed the child standing nearby.AcloselyBnarrowlyCnearlyDhardly14N
8、owadays, the Internet is a popular _ for the public to access information and voice their opinions.AtrackBtrendCchannelDlane15Instead of making choices for their children, liberal parents usually say, “Go where you _ .”AwillBshouldCcanDmust16-Where is my Chinese book? I remember I put it here yester
9、day.-You _ it in the wrong place.Amust putBshould have putCmight have putDmight put17Hes quite _, but I cant imagine him as president of such a large listed company.Aenthusiastic BgenerousCcompetent Dsympathetic18The government is to _ the technologies to the full in the structural transformation of
10、 the economy.Aadapt BexposeCexploit Dattach19They intended to have the school better equipped， the local government was not able to get enough money to do so.Aunless Bwhile Calthough Donce20Throughout history, China never colonized any nation. _ this peaceful tradition, it is committed to building a
11、 community with a shared future for mankind.AIn line with BIn regard toCIn harmony with DIn addition to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） Babies have an astonishing talent that adults entirely lose. By the age of one, they can recognise the significant noises around them and gro
12、up them into a language. When we have lost this capacity as adults, it becomes enormously difficult to distinguish between sounds that are glaringly different to a native speaker. It all sounds Greek to us. This is because the range of possible sounds that humans use to convey meaning may be as high
13、 as 2,000, but few languages use more than 100 and even then the significant noisesthe phonemes (音素) of a languageeach cover a range of sounds and so vague distinctions which would change the meaning of a word in other languages.But where do these phonemes come from and why do they shift over time?
14、New research suggests that the apparently arbitrary distribution of some sounds around the world may be partially explained by diet. This is unexpected. Wed rather think of language as product of our thought, rather than of the arrangement of our teeth. In reality, though, any given language must be both.Hunter gatherer languages very seldom use the sounds known as labiodentals (唇齿音)those such as f and vthat are made by touching the lower lip with the upper teeth. Only two of the hundreds of Australian aboriginal languages use them, for example. But in cultures that have dis
