1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷注意事项1考生要认真填写考场号和座位序号。2试题所有答案必须填涂或书写在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。第一部分必须用2B 铅笔作答；第二部分必须用黑色字迹的签字笔作答。3考试结束后，考生须将试卷和答题卡放在桌面上，待监考员收回。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1Ken, _, but your radio is going too loud.Oh, Im sorry. Ill turn it down right now.AI hate to say itBIt doesnt hurt to askCI m really tired of itD
2、Im crazy about it2One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem _ it becomes an emergency.AwhenBbeforeCafterDunless3Efforts will be made to_ new teaching models to exploit the students potential.Aaccelerate BinnovateCdifferentiate Dcompile4This restaurant has an inviting,
3、 homelike atmosphere _ many others are short of.AwhereBwhenCthatDwhat5During _ afternoon, the rain became smaller, but towards_ evening, there was a sudden landslide that buried the village.A/; theBthe; /Cthe; theDan; the6(2013福建) _ basic first-aid techniques will help you respond quickly to emergen
4、cies.AKnownBHaving knownCKnowingDBeing known7You look beautiful in this dress and there is only one of this kind left here. I wonder if you would buy _.AitBoneCsomeDany8_ the difference between the two findings is one of the worst mistakes youve made.AIgnored BIgnoringCTo ignore DHaving ignored9If h
5、e _ his teachers suggestion, he would have won the English Speech Contest.Ahad followedBshould followCwas to followDfollowed10The rising house price and the high income tax rate have become the biggest _ of the ordinary people in China todayA. concern B. influence C. involvement D. occupation11Mark
6、drives his car too fast and, whats more, very carelessly, worries his mother.A asAwhatBitCwhich12Professor Wang _in our school till next SundayAwill have stayedBhas stayedCis stayingDstayed13Where is Peter? I cant find him anywhere.He went to the library after breakfast and _ his essay there ever si
7、nce.AwroteBhad writtenChas been writingDis writing14Did you watch the basketball match yesterday?Yes，I did.You know，my brother _ in the match.Ais playing Bwas playingChas played Dhad played15Beijings new international airport into operation in 2019 will serve 72 million passengers annually.Abeing pu
8、t Bto be putCput Dto put16Though our football boys are faced with four goals behind, they are still struggling hard in the field to _.Aface the musicBsave faceCcost their arm and legDland on their feet17The new playground to be built next year will be _ the old one.Aas three times big as Bthree time
9、s as big asCas big as three times Das big three times as18I am sorry I am very busy now. If I time, I would certainly go to the movies with you.AhaveBhadChave hadDhad had19As often happens after long sleeplessness, he was _ by an unreasoning panic.Aseized BfascinatedCimpressed Dembarrassed20The youn
10、g man has _ experience. He probably cant do that job.AfewBlittleCsomeDany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） “At almost any given age，most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others，”Joshua Hartshorne，an MIT cognitive(认知的)science researcher and the lead author of
11、 a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age，told Business Insider.His team quizzed thousands of people aged 1090 on their ability to do things like remembering lists of words，recognizing faces，learning names，and doing math.Their results suggest that no matter your age，theres almost always
12、 a new peak on the horizon.The human brain has a remarkable capacity to recognize and identify faces，and scientists are just beginning to learn why.On average，we know that our ability to learn and remember new faces appears to peak shortly after our 30th birthday.Having trouble focusing? The study s
13、uggests that our ability to maintain attention improves with age，reaching its peak around age 43.While younger adults may excel in the speed and flexibility of information processing，adults approaching their mid-years may have the greatest capacity to remain focused.Dating is tough.One of the reason
14、s could be that were generally bad at reading other peoples emotions until we reach our late 40s.Thats according to one component of Hartshornes study，which involved showing thousands of people images of faces cropped tightly around the eye area.Participants were asked to describe the emotion the pe
15、rson in the photo was feeling.Performance peaked for people aged around 48.Many people believe that their math skills decline after they leave school and stop practicing arithmetic.But the next time you try to split up a check，keep this in mind:your ability to do basic subtraction and division doesn
