1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷考生须知：1全卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，全部在答题纸上作答。选择题必须用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题的答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔写在“答题纸”相应位置上。2请用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔在“答题纸”上先填写姓名和准考证号。3保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1What is your impression of your former colleague Nick?Hes helpful, and he _ give us a hand at work.AmustBwouldCma
2、yDshould2They didnt take measures in time, otherwise the explosions _some experts saidAwouldnt happenBdidnt happenCwouldnt have happenedDmustnt have happened3She doesnt speak our language, _ she seems to understand what we sayAforBandCyetDor4Without your help, I _ the first prize in the English Spea
3、king Contest.Awont getBdidnt getCwouldnt getDwouldnt have got5When faced with a big challenge _ potential failure seems to hide at every corner, maybe youve heard this advice before: “Be more confident.”AwhereBwhoseCwhichDof which6-Could you pass me the sugar, please?-OK, _Anever mind Bsounds greatC
4、here you go Dthere it is7The enquiry_ new facts, the judge had to postpone the trial again.Ato developBdevelopedChaving developedDbeing developed8She was such a proud person that she would die she would admit she was wrong.Asince BwhenCunless Dbefore9Everyone in the village hoped that he would _ aft
5、er a few days treatment.Apick upBcome upCkeep upDmake up10- Its raining hard and we cant go picnicking today.-If only the weather _ fine!AisBwereChad beenDwould be11The only problem was _ we kept getting lost! But people in Tianjin are very friendly and helpful.AwhyBwhetherCthatDhow12_ with so much
6、trouble, we failed to complete the task on timeATo faceBFacedCFaceDfacing13In this movie going season, women are driving ticket sales to a degree ,if ever, seen before.AreallyBfrequentlyCrarelyDnever14You didnt let me drive. If we _ by turns, you _ so tired.Adrove; didnt getBdrove; wouldnt getCwere
7、driving; wouldnt getDhad driven; wouldnt have got15One of our rules is that every student _ wear school uniform while at school.AmightBcouldCshallDwill16(2013福建) _ basic first-aid techniques will help you respond quickly to emergencies.AKnownBHaving knownCKnowingDBeing known17In the virtual laborato
8、ry environment created in the VR app, students can _ a particular experiment before doing them in a real lab.Areveal BreserveCpreview Dprovide18The customs officers were insisting that suitcases should be opened and their contents _ for closer inspection.Alaid outBgiven outCsent outDpicked out19Pare
9、nts often tell their children that they _ take candy from strangers.AneedntBwouldntCshouldntDdarent20It is not like her to be so impolite; she you when you greeted her.Amight not have heardBshould not have heardCmustnt hearDshouldnt hear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）There mi
10、ght be as many as 10 million species of complex life on this planet today a huge number. But add up all of the complex species that ever lived and some biologists think the grand total would be about five billion. The estimate leads to an astonishing conclusion: a staggering 99% of species are not a
11、round any more. They have been driven to extinction.More species are joining the ranks of the extinct every year. Many scientists believe we are living through an episode of remarkably rapid extinction, on a scale that has been seen only five times in the last half a billion years.They call this cur
12、rent episode the sixth mass extinction a large, global decline in a wide variety of species over a relatively short period of time. And they tend to agree that humans are the main cause.Over-hunting, overfishing, and human-driven habitat loss are pushing many species to the brink. In fact, we have c
13、hanged the planet so much that some geologists are now suggesting that we have entered a new phase in Earths history; an epoch they call the Anthropocene. By 2100, it is expected that humans will have caused the extinction of up to half of the worlds current species.Because we are living through thi
14、s extinction, it is relatively easy for us to study the driving forces behind it. But how do we determine what caused other mass die-offs that happened long ago? To do so we have to look at what archaeologists, palaeontologists, geologists and other scientists have concluded from the evidence they h
15、ave gathered.The trouble is, those scientists do not always agree with one another even about the most recent extinction event. As well as the five-or six- mass extinctions, there have also been many smaller extinctions.One of these mini extinction events happened towards the end of the Pleistocene, a few tens of thousa
