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）1Sometimes it seems to bother the teacher _ all the students are being too quiet.AhowBwhatCthatDwhere2With people paying
2、 attention to fitness, self-service mini-gyms, each covering about 5 square meters, _ in Chinas major cities these years.Ahave sprung upBsprang upChad sprung upDspring up3Abraham set himself up in front of his daughter, hands _ her hair, and was close to tears, reluctant to tear himself from her.Ato
3、 toy withBtoyed withCtoying withDbeing toyed with4The two brothers look so much alike that it is difficult to _.Atell them fromBtell from themCtell apart themDtell them apart5Cathy is not coming to your birthday party tonight.But she _!Apromised BpromisesCwill promise Dhad promised6Jane realized her
4、 _ to become the first woman to run the 10,000 metres within 30 minutes.Aachievement BcommitmentCcompetition Dambition7The store_ I bought my textbooks is having a sale this week.AthatBwhereCwhichDwhy8Agatha didnt tell me _ she would pick up her son from school.Awhich BwhenCwhere Dwhat9Last year I a
5、pplied to Princeton UniversityI _ they would say yesbut they did, and now here I amAnever thinkBam never thinkingChave never thoughtDnever thought10How I wish I _ my mouth before I shouted at my mum!AshutBhave shutChad shutDwould shut11Its impossible for all the people to get jobs because _of them i
6、s not fit for them.Aevery oneBallCnot allDnone12_ of danger in the street at night, the girl doesnt dare to go out without someone _ her.AWarned; accompanied BWarned; accompanyingCWarning; accompanied DWarning; accompanying13What did she want to know, Tom?She wondered we could complete the experimen
7、tAwhen was it thatBit was when thatCit was whenDwhen it was that14As he works in a remote area, he visits his parents only _Aanxiously BoccasionallyCpractically Durgently15Thanks to Chinese peoples hard work and wisdom, China has _ into the second largest economy.AevolvedBslippedCextendedDshaped16Yo
8、u look sleepy today._ not to miss the flight, I didnt dare to close my eyes the whole night.ARemindedBBeing remindedCRemindingDHaving reminded17语音知识(共5小题；每小题l分，满分5分) 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。18The event that _ in my memory happened one morning in 1983 when I was 14 years ol
9、d. It has never escaped.Astood out Bstands outCwould stand out Dhas stood out19The new supermarket has announced that the first to purchase goods on the opening day _ get a big prize.AmustBshallCwouldDcould20 What about the protection of these new machines? Lets keep the surface _ dust by putting a
10、cover over them.Afar from Bapart fromCfree from Daway from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）From childhood, Moira loved to write. Throughout school she enjoyed writing, but pursuing it professionally was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse. “Medicine
11、 was a fairly safe choice,” Moira says, “and writing was a career where it wasnt a certainty that youd have high income.”She became a doctor but still wanted to write something. However, being a doctor was so demanding that she didnt take up writing until her thirties. She produced a novela fictiona
12、lized version of her travel in China after university. She got excellent reviews. Moira sent it off to as many agents as she could find, and found one who wanted to represent her. Suddenly, it seemed she was on her way as an author.“I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we went through a
13、ll possible areas that she thought needed polishing. I worked on those and sent it back to her but didnt hear anything.” It wasnt long before Moira found another agent who was interested if she was willing to rewrite it from the first person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off
14、 again. “I got back a really brief letter: Thank you, Im no longer interested. It was really disappointing.”A decade went by, and Moira found herself eager to write again, this time purely for her own enjoyment. She set herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her
15、setting.As she was writing just for herself, something surprising began to happen. “The characters took on a life of their own; they started doing things I hadnt thought about. It just flew.” One day, an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel, Cicada, was published in March.“Even if it had
