1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷请考生注意：1请用2B铅笔将选择题答案涂填在答题纸相应位置上，请用05毫米及以上黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将主观题的答案写在答题纸相应的答题区内。写在试题卷、草稿纸上均无效。2答题前，认真阅读答题纸上的注意事项，按规定答题。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1Good morning. May I help you?No, thank you. Im just looking around._AIts up to you.BHow are you feeling today?CThanks for coming to see me.DTake you
2、r time then.2In order to make my composition clearer and smoother, my teacher asked me to _ the unnecessary words and sentences.Aleave aloneBleave behindCleave offDleave out3I wonder _ the equipment will be available in ten days.AthatBwhenCwhetherDwhere4That student admitted in the math exam, that h
3、e would never do that again in the future.Ato have cheated, promisingBcheating, promisedCto cheating, promisedDhaving cheated, promising5Well build a power station _ water resources are plentiful.AwhereBin whichCwhichDthat6- Ill take the blue one. This is twenty dollars.- Heres the change. .ABest wi
4、shesBMy pleasureCHave a nice dayDLets call it a day7When the questions got personal during the talk show, the actress _ in tears as she opened up about the wounds she suffered.Abroke upBbroke downCbroke outDbroke through8When I was twenty, I had to_ before graduation and work in a clothes shop to he
5、lp support my family.Acome outBstay outCleave outDdrop out9 I wonder what chance there is of me passing by the old places without thinking of you. _. Time cures all wounds.AMy pleasureBDont mention itCI cant agree moreDNever mind10This car is important to our family. We would repair it at our expens
6、e _ it break down within the first year.AcouldBwouldCmightDshould11Todays homework was easy _so I finished it quickly and went out to playAto be done Bdone Cdoing Dto do12Do you really plan to drop out of the football team?_ Its time for me to concentrate on my study.AIm just kidding.BDefinitely not
7、.CI mean itDWhat a pity!13Anyway, were here now, so lets _ some serious work.Acome up withBget down toCdo away withDlive up to14 What about the protection of these new machines? Lets keep the surface _ dust by putting a cover over them.Afar from Bapart fromCfree from Daway from15-.We didnt find the
8、Blacks during the lecture. - No one had told them about _ a lecture. Athere to be Bthere being Cthere be Dthere was16Our bedrooms are all on the sixth floor, with its own bathroom.AallBeveryCeitherDeach17Creating an atmosphere _ employees feel part of a team is a big challenge.AwhereBwhoseCthatDwhic
9、h18There are lots of examples of English idioms _ animals are used.AwhichBwhenCwhoseDwhere19_ 62% of all luxury consumer sales in Europe in 2015, shoppers from the Chinese mainland spent $7.2 billion overseas during the Spring Festival.AAccounting forBAdding toCConsisting ofDMaking up20Yesterday is
10、history, tomorrow is a mystery, only today is a gift, and that is _ we call it present.AhowBwhenCwhyDwhere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） A new study suggests climate conditions in the Sahara Desert, one of hottest, driest and most deserted areas in the world, have changed fr
11、om wet to dry a about every 20,000 years.But previous evidence has suggested the Sahara did not always experience such extreme heat and dry conditions. At times, the Sahara Ranged to a very wet climate. This permitted plants and animals to develop and grow and led to the creation of human settlement
12、s. Now, they have discovered more evidence, which, the lead researcher David Mc Gee says, supports the idea that the Saharas climate kept changing between wet and dry about every 20,000,years.McGee reported these climate changes were mainly driven by changes in the Earths(地轴)as the planet travels ro
13、und the sun .This process affects the amount of sunlight between seasons. Every 20,000 years the Earth receives more strong summer sunlight. When the Earths axis changes again, the amount of sunlight is reduced. This season change happened continuously every 20,000 years. The other part of the seaso
14、n produced rainy conditions, resulting in a wetter, greener, plant-rich environment. When the rainy activity weakens, the climate becomes hot and dry, like the Sahara remains today.The scientists based their research on dust collected from ocean sediment(沉积物)in the Atlantic Ocean bottom off the coast of West Africa. The dust contained layers (层)of ancient sediment built up over millions of years. Each layer could contain traces of Saharan dust as well as the remains of life forms. This information was used to assess over what time period the dust had built up. This led to the overall finding
