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）1- Alison, Im sorry. I cant come to the wedding with you tomorrow morning. - _? - My grandma was severely ill, so I have to stay in the hospital to l
2、ook after her. AHow is it BHow come CSo what DWhats the problem 2I was on a business trip then, otherwise I _ to the hospital for tests.AwentBhad goneCwould have goneDwould go3He was greatly shocked at Donald Trumps taking office. Never did he expect that the voters _ be so unreasonable.Ashould Bcou
3、ldCwould Dmight4It came as a great _ to the parents that their son finally came back safe and sound.AreliefBsenseCrelaxionDfavor5Do you _ ready for the spring outing?No,I still have to buy some fruit.AeverythingBanythingCsomethingDnothing6Simply raise your hand，and a taxi appears _Aat no time Bat on
4、e timeCin no time Dfor the time being7There are various things on sale, so you can choose _ interests you.AwhoeverBno matter whoCwhateverDno matter what8I think you could complain, _, of course, you are happy with the way thing s are.AunlessBthatCwhichDwhere9Think carefully before you answer questio
5、ns online. You may be _ into giving away very important personal information.AcaughtBaddictedCseizedDtrapped10Thats why I help brighten peoples days. If you _, whos to say that another person will?AdidntBdontCwerentDhavent11 Dimash appeared on the stage of Singer 2017,his voice instantly won hearts
6、of Chinese audience.AAs long as BAs soon as CNow that DEver since12Some tourists visiting Tian anmen Square during the holiday left a _ of litter everywhere they went.AtrailBdotCchainDtrack13Advertising is different from other forms of communication in that the advertiser pays for the message .Ato d
7、eliverBdeliveredCto be deliveredDdelivering14As a doctor, I spend most of the time with my patients, and thats _ it is in my day.Ahow Bwhen Cwhy Dwhere15This book is said to be the special one, which _ many events that cannot be found in other history books.AcoversBwritesCprintsDreads16World Food Da
8、y is held each year to underline the progress that _ against hunger and that still needs to be made.Ais madeBwas madeChas been madeDwill be made17A grand banquet was held by Elizabeth II _ President Xis current state visit to the UK.Ain terms of Bin honor ofCin favor of Din memory of18_ which univer
9、sity to attend, the girl asked her teacher for advice.ANot knowingBKnowing notCNot knownDKnown not19Sympathy for the rebels, the government claimed, is beginning to _because of more and more harm they did to common people.AfadeBdeclineCfailDcollapse20His advice made me happy, but _others angry.Amaki
10、ngBto makeC/Dmake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） Fashions have a lot of rules. Most of them, however, are just wrong. But theres one rule that goes beyond tradition and into the field of scientific study of the brain: Black garments are slimming. It all comes down to how your
11、 visual system processes the light. The below holes in each square are the same in size, yet the white hole looks bigger than the black hole.In the 1500s, Galileo Galilei noticed that some of the planets looked larger when viewed with the naked eye (肉眼) than they did when viewed through a telescope,
12、 making the white light of Venus (金星) appear eight to ten times larger than Jupiter (木星) in the night sky. He knew something strange must be going on with his vision to cause this illusion, but he wasnt sure what it was. Luckily, scientists never stopped wondering, and in 2014, they figured it out.O
13、ur visual system operates via two main channels: “on” neurons (神经元) that are sensitive to light things and “off” neurons that are sensitive to dark things. When it came to the dark “off” neurons, the researchers found that they responded predictably to dark shapes on a light background the greater t
14、he contrast between the two, the more active these neurons were. But the light “on” neurons behaved unpredictably. Even with the same amount of contrast, light objects on a dark background caused a greater response in these neurons.This makes some sense, evolutionarily speaking. In the dark of night
15、, youd want to be able to take in every bit of light you can get, so a visual system that enlarges light objects on a dark background could be very useful. However, its not that hard to see dark objects in the light of day. It has some effects in the colors of your clothes and in the appearance of the planets the brighter appea
