1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷考生须知：1全卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，全部在答题纸上作答。选择题必须用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题的答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔写在“答题纸”相应位置上。2请用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔在“答题纸”上先填写姓名和准考证号。3保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1But for the metal cage to pull the miners to safety, the miners in Chile _ in less than twenty-four hours.Awould
2、not be rescuedBwould not have been rescuedCwould be rescuedDwould have been rescued2If we use the new recycling method, a large number of trees .Aare savedBwill saveCwill be savedDhave saved3Some drunken drivers think that they may be lucky to_a fine, which may cost their own lives.Aget throughBget
3、along withCget down toDget away with4Did Linda see the traffic accident?No, no sooner _ than it happened.Ahad she goneBshe had goneChas she goneDshe has gone5When was _ you last met Jennifer? I havent seen her for ages. Ait that Bit Cit what Dwhat6Both men have been _to life imprisonment because of
4、robbery.AchokedBcondemnedCconsistedDconvinced7Although Jane agrees with me on most points, there was one on which she was unwilling to _.Agive outBgive inCgive awayDgive off8The problem lies in_ were now giving him a fish, not teaching him how to fish.AwhatBthatCwhichDif9Since you are my daughters c
5、lassmate, wed like to _ you _ tonight.Aput ; downBput ; inCput ; offDput ; up10Think carefully before you answer questions online. You may be _ into giving away very important personal information.AcaughtBaddictedCseizedDtrapped11 , he talks a lot about his favorite singers after class.AA quiet stud
6、ent as he mayBQuiet student as he may beCBe a quiet student as he mayDQuiet as he may be a student12During the 2008 financial crisis，the French president Nicolas Sarkozy agreed to provide millions of emergency fund aid to help unemploymentAreleaseBresembleCrelieveDrecommend13_ the students from thei
7、r endless homework the school has decided to take a series of measures.AFreedBTo freeCFreeingDHaving freed14Meizhou Island is such a beautiful place of interest_ everyone likes to visit.AasBthatCwhichDwhere15They came back from their long walk and went into bed, .Atiredly but relaxingBtired but rela
8、xingCtiredly but relaxedDtired but relaxed16Daddy, would you please buy me an iPhoneX?If you can pass this midterm examination, you _ have one as a reward.AmustBneedCwouldDshall17Ive got something weighing on my mind. Could you give me some advice?_. Tell me all about it and Ill do what I can.ADont
9、mention itBNo wonderCMy pleasureDNo problem18Faced with economic slowdown, some companies are planning to use robots to _ human workers to reduce their labor costs.AcompensateBsubstituteCsymbolizeDdiscriminate19What a consequence!Yes. I _ him about it, but without success.Awill remind Bwould remindC
10、was reminding Dhad reminded20To make extra-class education run on the right track, China is tightening _ of after-school training institutions.Aapplication BregulationCadaptation Dcooperation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） “Be afraid. Be very afraid,” says a character in The
11、Fly, a horror film about a man who turns into an enormous insect. It captures the unease and disgust people often feel for the kingdom of cockroaches, Zika-carrying mosquitoes and creepy crawlies of all kinds. However, ecologists increasingly see the insect world as something to be frightened for, n
12、ot frightened of. In the past two years, scores of scientific studies have suggested that trillions of murmuring, droning, honeybees, butterflies and beetles are dying off. “If all mankind were to disappear”, wrote E.O.Wilson, a respectable entomologist, “the world would regenerate If insects were t
13、o vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”Most of the studies describe declines of 50% and more over decades in different measures of insect health. The immediate reaction is shock. Insects enable plants to reproduce, through pollination (授粉), and are food for other animals, so a collapse
14、 in their numbers would be catastrophic.But a second look leads to a different assessment. Rather than causing a panic, the studies should act as a timely warning and a reason to take precautions. That is because the worst fears are unproven. There are no studies at all of wild insect numbers in mos
15、t of the world. Reliable data are too scarce to declare a global emergency.Moreover, where the evidence does show a collapsein Europe and Americaagricultural and rural ecosystems are holding up. Farm production still remains high. As some insect species die out, others seem to be moving into the niches (生态位) they have left, keepi
