1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3考试结束后，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）1The Japanese people keep up cheerful spirits _ the world that they can get over the crisis caused by the terrible tsun
2、ami（海啸）.Abeing convincedBconvincedCto convinceDhaving convinced2Many people may be surprised by the number of chemicals that they are _ to through everyday household products.AdevotedBaddictedCexposedDapplied3When the admission letter from Harvard University arrived, Bens parents were and threw a bi
3、g party.Ain the red Btickled pinkCas white as a sheet Din a blue mood4In the moon garden onboard the Change 4, the shoots of cotton marked the first live matter ever _ on the moon.Ahaving grown Bto be grownCbeing grown Dgrown5 Are you still thinking about the email Tony sent you yesterday？ Oh，to tel
4、l the truth,thats makes me feel excited.AWhat Bhow Cthat Dwhy6This house is almost _ to the one where I lived as a child.AidenticalBmanualCchillyDenthusiastic7Many people complained about the stones lying on a road, but _ did anything about getting the stones out of the way.AbothBno oneCnoneDall8The
5、 picture looks good _ the white wall.AwithBtoCagainstDbeyond9Whether the buildings in this area should be pulled down has remained _；people are still looking for other possible solutions.AunchallengedBrelevantCcontroversialDcontradictory10 Im terribly sorry. Im late because . Thats OK. You are here
6、and thats what _.AdoesBworksCfunctionsDcounts11You will have to stay at home all day _ you finish all your homework. Aif Bunless Cwhether Dbecause12Different cultural features of ethnic groups are _ one another and work out a melodyAin tune withBin parallel withCin contrast toDin response to13Its al
7、ways a good idea to have a second key somewhere_ you lose the first one.Ain caseBnow thatCeven thoughDas long as14When I was twenty, I had to_ before graduation and work in a clothes shop to help support my family.Acome outBstay outCleave outDdrop out15The beautiful mountain village we spent our hol
8、iday last year is located in is now part of Guangxi.Awhich; whereBwhere; whatCthat; whatDwhen; which16Could I speak to_ is in charge of International Sales please?AwhoBwhatCwhoeverDwhatever17The man _ the fake news that 18 firefighters lost their lives in the explosion was arrested.Ahaving circulati
9、ngBto circulateCcirculatingDto have circulated18Going to watch the Womens Volleyball Match on Wednesday?_! Will you go with me?AYou betBYou got meCYou thereDYou know better19Breaking up is the business of the two lovers, _ no other person should be involved.AwhichBin thatCthatDin which20My father in
10、sisted that every minute_ made full use of _the work well.Abe, to doBhas been, doingCbe, doingDhas been, to do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）Happy Birthday to Me (and My Mom)Forty-three years ago my mother went into labour for the second time. It was either very late New Year
11、s Day or very early on the second day of 1969 depending on how you looked at it but either way, it was a full week past her due date when my mom woke up knowing it was time to wake my dad up, get dressed, pack up the car and head to the hospital. Her regular doctor was on vacation and when they reac
12、hed the hospital they planned to deliver in were told that the doctor was on his way to another hospital so they should head there, in a neighbouring city. Most surprising to me now is that she felt well enough to attend a New Years party the previous night and stayed long enough to toast in the new
13、 year!My mom and her family had immigrated to the United States just twenty years earlier from El Salvador. And that was a lucky thing for me. Not only did my mom gain access to a better education and career options here in the US for herself, each of her three daughters would also enjoy her access
14、to quality maternity (孕产妇的) care. While the US is hardly the world leader in maternal health or birth outcomes, these days a woman faces a 1 in 2,100 risk of dying during her life and in El Salvador, its 1 in 350-6 times worse. In 1969, that difference was even greater.However, I was pregnant with m
15、y second child in El Salvador six years ago when I realized how very different my life might have turned out if Id lived there when I delivered my first child. I travelled down there with CARE, the humanitarian relief organization, whose efforts my mom had long supported, to see some of their principal programmes in action. Among the
