1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷考生请注意：1答题前请将考场、试室号、座位号、考生号、姓名写在试卷密封线内，不得在试卷上作任何标记。2第一部分选择题每小题选出答案后，需将答案写在试卷指定的括号内，第二部分非选择题答案写在试卷题目指定的位置上。3考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，请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）1Mary nearly missed the flight doing too much shopping.Ain need ofBon top ofCin front ofDas a result of2The Tang Dynasty
2、 is generally regarded as a golden chapter by people worldwide, _ the Chinese civilization influenced many neighboring countries.AwhereBwhenCwhichDwho3Different cultural features of ethnic groups are _ one another and work out a melodyAin tune withBin parallel withCin contrast toDin response to4Not
3、until the bus disappeared in the distance _ her school bag was gone.ATina had foundBhad Tina foundCdid Tina findDTina found5Fred let _ that he was prepared to leave company when the new manager took office.Asecret BslipCpromise Dstandard6He let me write down his instructions sure that I would know w
4、hat was after he went away.Amaking; doing Bmaking; to doCto make; to do Dto make; to be done7_the effect of culture shock, he is trying to read a lot about it before going to France for further study.ATo reduce BReducedCReducing DHaving reduced8She was in a _ condition after the heart transplant ope
5、ration when her body rejected the foreign organ.AskepticalBcriticalCtheoreticalDpractical9What did she want to know, Tom?She wondered _ we could complete the experiment.Awhen was itBit was when thatCit was whenDwhen it was that10_ theyve managed to get everything finished so quickly is not clear to
6、us.AWhich BWhatCThat DHow11Hardly ever _ so many choices for young people entering the workforce as there are today.Athere areBthere have beenChave there beenDare there12Where on earth have they gone?I have no idea, but I wish I .AknowBknewCwould knowDwould have known13_ you are familiar with the au
7、thors ideas, try reading all the sections as quickly as you possible can.ANow that BEver sinceCSo that DIn case14I have no doubt that Anna will _ it, but I wonder whether she is really ready enough.Adig Bhit Cmake Dlift15It was in the remote mountain areas _ I spent the gap year _ I learned how to w
8、ork with a group of strangers and how to look after myself.Awhere; thatBwhen; thatCwhere; whenDthat; where16_ the students were hearing the exciting news!AHow happilyBWhat a funCWhat pleasureDHow pleased 17Last year I applied to Princeton UniversityI _ they would say yesbut they did, and now here I
9、amAnever thinkBam never thinkingChave never thoughtDnever thought18By serving others, a person focuses on someone other than himself or herself, _ can be very eye-opening and rewarding.AwhoBwhichCwhatDthat19What about the services in this hotel?They are at least as good as, if not superior to, _ in
10、yours.AitBthoseCthatDthe one20When the old man woke up, he found someone his TV in the living room.AstoleBstealCstealingDstolen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）Until recently, voice cloning or voice banking, as it was then known was a customized industry which served those at r
11、isk of losing the power of speech to cancer or surgery. Synthesizing（合成） a voice was a long and expensive process. It meant recording many phrases, each spoken many times, with different the history of the KidPass blog emotional emphase（s重音）and in different contexts (statement, question, command and
12、 so forth), in order to the tips on writing good articles online cover all possible pronunciations.Not any more. Software exists that can store pieces of recorded speech which is merely five milliseconds long, each marked with a precise pitch（音高）. These can be put together to make new words, and adj
13、usted individually so that they fit harmoniously into their new sonic homes. This is much cheaper than conventional voice banking, and permits novel uses to be developed.This year Vivo Text plans to release an app that lets users select the emphasis, speed and level of happiness or sadness with whic
14、h individual words and phrases are produced. Mr. Silbert refers to the emotive quality of the human voice as “the ultimate instrument”. Yet this power also troubles him. Vivo Text licenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings. Hasbro is aware,
15、 Mr. Silbert notes, that without safeguards a naughty child might, for example, type impolite words on his mothers smartphone in order to see a younger sibling burst into tears on hearing them spoken by a toy using mums voice.More troubling, when tested against voice-biometrics software like that used by many banks
