1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷注意事项1考生要认真填写考场号和座位序号。2试题所有答案必须填涂或书写在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。第一部分必须用2B 铅笔作答；第二部分必须用黑色字迹的签字笔作答。3考试结束后，考生须将试卷和答题卡放在桌面上，待监考员收回。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1Many gases in the atmosphere actually heat energy that escapes from the Earths surface back to the earth.Afinding; reflectingBfound; reflectedCfo
2、und; to reflectDfound; reflect2The case shocked the public, a hot debate over human nature on the Intemet.AcausesBcausedCcausingDto cause3I will pick you up at 7 oclock tomorrow morning. Is that all right?_. See you then.AId love to.BThats settled.CIts up to youDMy pleasure4 How did you find your tr
3、ip to Water Park in the summer of 2016?I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was _ than I expected.Aeven much interestingBfar more interestingCso far interestingDfar from interesting5The worlds leading thinkers and policymakers examine whats come apart in the past year, and what will define the year ahead,Aev
4、aluate BinnovateCanticipate Dregulate6We _back in the hotel now if you didnt lose the mapAareBwereCwould beDwill be7The biggest problem for most plants, which _just get up and run away when threatened, is that animals like to eat them.Ashall notBcantCneedntDmustnt8Was it from the lake _ he often wen
5、t fishing _ he saved the drowning girl?Athat; that Bwhere; whereCwhere; that Dthat; where9Are you ready to leave?Almost, Ill be ready to go just as soon as I _ putting the clean dishes away.Aget throughBgive upCcarry outDset about10An old lady came to the bus stop only the bus had gone.Ato run ; to
6、findBrunning;to findCand ran ; findingDrunning; finding11_ clear goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily doings until we become slaves of them.AOn top of BIn the silence ofCOn account of DIn the absence of12All the photographs in this book, stated otherwise, date from the 1950s.AunlessB
7、untilConceDif13I would not be seeing the film Green Book now _ me up in time.Awere Kathy not to pickBhad Kathy not pickedCif Kathy hasnt pickedDif Kathy did not pick14I heard Mr. Morgan would be here at 4:00 pm. next Thursday.No, he _ at that time.Awas boarding Bwould be boardingCwill be boarding Di
8、s boarding15As you can see, the number of cars on our roads _ rising these days.Awas keepingBkeepCkeepsDwere keeping16Dont touch your eyes, nose and mouth, because they arent covered by skin and can _ the virus more easily.Atake upBpick upCmake upDset up17Tom finally decided to _ and give himself up
9、 to the police, which allowed him to get away with only a small fine.Akill the fatted calfBface the musicCsee the handwriting on the wallDbe a black sheep18Tom is proud and _, never admitting he is wrong and always looking for someone else to blame.AstrictBstubbornCsympatheticDsensitive19 Can I lie
10、about seeing a text because I was too busy or lazy to respond to it? Receiving a text does not necessarily mean you have to respondWhy waste a perfectly good lie _ the truth will serve?AunlessBuntilCwhenDwhile20Criticized as online games are, they never fail to _ a large number of teenagersAappeal t
11、oBobject toCrefer toDturn to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） If we want to find out what kind of technology people used in the past, we normally have to rely on archaeologists to find ruined buildings and parts of tools or instruments or machines. Archaeologists then try to re
12、construct, sometimes with the help of computer technology, what these ancient buildings and objects must have looked like, and how they might have been made. Sometimes historians are lucky and find an ancient document with a written description of these ancient buildings and objects.We can understan
13、d, then, why Chinese historians were so excited when they found cave paintings which show ancient science. They found these paintings in the world-renowned Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City, in Northwest Chinas Gansu Province. There are 500 man-made caves and they have survived for at least 1,600 year
14、s. Almost all of these caves have paintings on their ceilings or walls and they date from the 4th to 14th centuries. Wang Jinyu is an expert on these cave paintings (also called frescoes) and he says: “We discovered frescoes containing scientific and technological content in almost all of the caves
15、which have frescoes.” What is remarkable about these cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipm
