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）1What an amazing picture!The little boy _the soldiers, and I caught them in an unguarded moment.Awas salutingBsalutedCha
2、d salutedDwould salute2Why cant you give me another chance?_, but I dont think you are good at management.ANo offence BNo worries CNo need DNo wonder3He _ whether to set aside the minor differences，then he didAdebatedBpredictedCplottedDcalculated4We _back in the hotel now if you didnt lose the mapAa
3、reBwereCwould beDwill be5Peterson, a great archaeologist, said: “Archaeologists have been extremely patient because we were led to believe that the ministry was _ this problem, but we feel that we cant wait any longer.”Alooking outBbringing outCcarrying outDsorting out6He was forced to spend another
4、 night at the airport _ for his plane.Awaiting Bbeing waited Cwaited Dto be waited7Life the like _ ocean; Only _strong-willed can reach the other shore.Aan; theBthe; aCthe ;/D/ ; a8This is a very interesting book. Ill buy it, _.Ahowever much it may costBno matter how it may costChow much may it cost
5、Dhowever many it may cost9The high-anxiety focus on reading score may have narrowed student_to knowledge about the world that can improve their reading.Aidea Baid Cbelief Daccess10-Mr. Johnson has been chosen as the manager of the sales department.-_ he was so excited this morning.ANo chanceBNo wayC
6、Not possibleDNo wonder11The T-shirt I received is not the same as is shown online._？But I promise you well look into it right away.AWho saysBHow comeCWhat forDWhy worry12What he liked to do was to take an idea and _ it by finding every possible consequence.AsqueezeBwrestleCswitchDshrink13No driving
7、after drinking is a rule that every driver _ obey in our country.AwillBshallCmayDcan14When he goes out, he often wears sunglasses _nobody can recognize himAso thatBnow thatCin caseDas though15Chinas BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, whose positioning _ will reach 2.5 meters by 2020, will soon prov
8、ide services for more countries.AaccuracyBcategoryCfunctionDreference16 Congratulations on your promotion. Go out for dinner, OK? Good! _, just you and me.AFollow me BMy treatCMy pleasure DAllow me17Although Jane agrees with me on most points, there was one on which she was unwilling to _.Agive outB
9、give inCgive awayDgive off18The boy was waving his stick in the street and it _ missed the child standing nearby.AcloselyBnarrowlyCnearlyDhardly19Im very grateful to my high school teachers，without _help I wouldnt be so excellent.AtheirBwhomCwhoseDwhich20There is a popular view_in city strangers are
10、 less likely to help an elderly person.AthatBwhetherCwhyDhow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）Robots make me nervousespecially the ones which seem to think for themselves. I was embarrassed to admit this till I heard that Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, felt the same way.G
11、ates said in an interview with the social networking and news website Reddit: “I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligentThat should be positive if we manage well. A few decades after that, though, the int
12、elligence is strong enough to be a concern.”Well, maybe I dont have to worry about my computer and kitchen equipment yet. After I use them I can always pull the plug. But in the future, machines might find a way to prevent us from switching them off. Theres a terrible thought!Maybe the problem with
13、computers too clever for us is not that they are evil like some weve seen in sci-fi movies. What could put us in danger is that they might be too efficient. Thats what philosopher Nick Bostrom from Oxford University believes. He says that machines are indifferent to humans and in pursuit of their ow
14、n goals，the destruction of people might be just additional damage. Bostrom gives us an example: A machine which might have its only goal to produce as many paperclips as possible might look at human bodies as extra material for paperclips and go after you. Because it is, well, a machine, it would not take pity on you.Its a good thing that American writer Isaac Asimov thought about how far robots can go and left us his three rules of robotics. They state that a robot may not hurt a human being or allow the human being to come to harm.Im glad my machines at home are “dumb”. All my cleaner want
