1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷注意事项1考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回2答题前，请务必将自己的姓名、准考证号用05毫米黑色墨水的签字笔填写在试卷及答题卡的规定位置3请认真核对监考员在答题卡上所粘贴的条形码上的姓名、准考证号与本人是否相符4作答选择题，必须用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应选项的方框涂满、涂黑；如需改动，请用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案作答非选择题，必须用05毫米黑色墨水的签字笔在答题卡上的指定位置作答，在其他位置作答一律无效5如需作图，须用2B铅笔绘、写清楚，线条、符号等须加黑、加粗第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1The church which is ea
2、sily _ from my home is being rebuilt.Aaccessible BavailableCacceptable Dresponsible2From his expression, I dont think he could have finished his homework last night, _?Acouldnt heBdo ICdid heDhasnt he3With WeChat Pay coming into widespread use, our household bills are convenient _.ApayingBpaidCto pa
3、yDto be paid4The draft regulation on the online protection of minors, _ for public opinions by the cyberspace authorities, has drawn wide public concern.Areleasing Bhaving releasedCto release Dreleased5-We found a buyer for our house, but then the sale _.- Why not promote it by posting an advertisem
4、ent online?Afell through Bgot throughCcleared up Dlooked up6 carefully for long time,the opening ceremony won a great success.AHaving prepared BTo be prepared CBeing prepared DHaving been prepared7This kind of gel pen which _ smoothly is quite popular with students.Ais written Bis writing Cwrote Dwr
5、ites8 Mum, little Ray broke his toys again!It doesnt matter. You see, accidents _happen.AshallBshouldCmustDwill9Thatsfarmore thanthenumberthathaveactually_in recent years.Acometolight Bcome to life Ccome across10Todays homework was easy _so I finished it quickly and went out to playAto be done Bdone
6、 Cdoing Dto do11The worlds leading thinkers and policymakers examine whats come apart in the past year, and what will define the year ahead,Aevaluate BinnovateCanticipate Dregulate12We have more than 80 flats in this building, each _ solar heatersAis equipped withBequipped withCis equipped byDequipp
7、ed by13_ clear goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily doings until we become slaves of them.AOn top of BIn the silence ofCOn account of DIn the absence of14At the end of the historic area，Wilmington displayed its _ as a working port city：large warehouses and a few other dated office bu
8、ildingsAachievementBreputationCcharacterDstandard15There are lots of examples of English idioms _ animals are used.AwhichBwhenCwhoseDwhere16He isnt such a man _ he used to be.AwhoBwhomCthatDas17 Which classical Chinese poem do you like best?Dont laugh if we lay drunken on the battleground; how many
9、soldiers ever came back_.Aold and youngBup and downCsafe and soundDright and wrong18Was it from the lake _ he often went fishing _ he saved the drowning girl?Athat; that Bwhere; whereCwhere; that Dthat; where19Linda realized she was in the wrong and promised to _ a new leaf.Atake over Bturn over Cge
10、t over Dgo over20I believed him to be honest but his actions showed that he had _.Athe top dog Bthe feet of clayChis cup of tea Dthe apple of his eye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 nerve-zapping（电击神经）headset caused people to get rid of fat in a small preliminary study. Six p
11、eople who had received the stimulation（刺激）lost on average about 8 percent of the fat on their trunks in four months, scientists reported at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience,The headset stimulated the vestibular nerve（前庭神经）, which runs just behind the ears. That nerve sends signals
12、to the hypothalamus, a brain structure thought to control the bodys fat storage. By stimulating the nerve with an electrical current, the technique shifts the body away from storing fat toward burning it.Six overweight and obese people received the treatment, consisting of up to four one-hour-long s
13、essions of stimulation a week. Because it activated the vestibular system, the stimulation created the sensation of gently rocking on a boat or floating in a pool, said the studys co-author Jason McKeown of the University of California, San Diego.After four months, body scans measured the trunk fat
14、for the six people receiving the treatment and three people who received unreal stimulation. All six in the treatment group lost some trunk fat, despite not having changed their activity or diet. In contrast, those in the unreal group gained some fat. Researchers suspect that changes in the set of life-sustaining chemical transformations within human cells are behind the difference. “The results were a lot better than we thought theyd be,” McKeown said.Earlier studies found that vestibular nerve stimulation causes mice to drop fat and pack on muscle, resulting in what McKeown c
