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）1Could you possilby take to the railway station tomorrow?ANo way BNever mind CNot at all DNo problem2You can ask anyone
2、 for help. here is willing to lend you a hand.AOneBNo oneCEveryoneDSomeone *3The young man has _ experience. He probably cant do that job.AfewBlittleCsomeDany4He asked _ for the computer.Adid I pay how muchBI paid how muchChow much did I payDhow much I paid5Did you enjoy your journey to Beijing last
3、 weekend? . We had driven more than 3 hours before we found the right way.AAbsolutely BNo way CNot at all DWith pleasure6_ he was 12, Einstein had learned advanced mathematics by himself.AThe first time BAt the timeCBy the time DDuring the time7Todays homework was easy _so I finished it quickly and
4、went out to playAto be done Bdone Cdoing Dto do8.-How did you French? - I lived in Paris for two years before I came to England, so I got lots of practice.Ago throughBpick upCset upDturn up9It is difficult for any of us to eat better, exercise more, and sleep enough,_ we know we should.AbecauseBeven
5、 ifCunlessDbefore10He always keeps an eye on shortcomings of his brothers _ refusing to admit his own mistakes.Abut BwhileCalthough Dthough11Much to my _, my vocabulary has expanded a great deal.AdelightingBdelightedCdelight12He would be in better health now _ with too much work when young.Ahad he n
6、ot burdened himselfBif he was not burdenedCwere he not burdenedDhad he not been burdened himself13The mother goes mad every time she washes the T-shirt_ her son wipes his dirty hands.AthatBwhereCwhichDwhen14Could you tell me the_ of making such tasty cakes? Well, I just follow the directons in the c
7、ookbook.AfeatureBplanCcostDtrick15Theres another way to survive this competition - a way no one ever seems to tell you about, _ you have to learn for yourself.AoneBitCthatDanother16My daughter, _ all kinds of meat, would not like to eat any vegetable, which worries me a lot.Adevoted toBaddicted toCa
8、ccustomed toDexposed to17If he _hard, he would have passed the exam.A were to work B had workedC should work D was to work18Are you free now? I have something important to tell you.OK, _ you make it short. I will have to finish this report before noon.Anow that Bas soon asCevery time Das long as19A
9、lot of suggestions were put forward at the meeting, but _ was practical.Anothing BnoneCneither Dno one20Didnt you go fishing with your friends last Sunday?No. I _ to the nursing home as usual.AwentBgoChave goneDhad gone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） Hawking was perhaps the m
10、ost famous scientist in the world when he died in 2018 at age 76.His 1988 book，A Brief History of Time，sold ten million copies and made him an unlikely superstar even to people who sweated through high school science.Humor was always a big part of Hawkings effort to bring physics to the masses.In hi
11、s 2010 book，The Grand Design，for instance，he recounts how，in 1277，the Catholic Church declared scientific laws such as gravity to be wrong，since they seemed against Gods idea.“Interestingly，”the text adds jokingly，“Pope John was killed by the effects of the law of gravity a few months later when the
12、 roof of his palace fell in on him.”Hawking was only 21 when he was diagnosed with the disease ALS.For most people，the condition would have been a disaster.But Hawking rolled over hardship as if it were just a pebble under his wheelchair.“Life would be tragic，”he once said，“if it werent funny.”He ke
13、pt smiling even though he spent more than 4 years in a wheelchair.“He loved adventure and fun，”says Mlodinow，who once took Hawking on a punt-boat trip down the fiver Cam in Cambridge，England，despite the obvious danger of the boat turning over.“You know about when he went on the Vomit Comet? Its a pl
14、ane that flies in a parabolic(抛物线的)path so you are weightless，like you are in space.A lot of people vomit，but he loved that sort of thing.”And he was 65 at the time.Hawkings greatest hit，humor-wise，was probably the cocktail party he threw in 2009.It was a“welcome reception for future time travelers，”he said，so naturally，he sent out the invitations the day after the party.No one showed up yet.“Maybe one day someone living in the future will find the information and use a wormhole time machine to come back to my party，proving that time travel will one day be possible，”Hawking explain
