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）1Its really stupid of you _ him the news yesterday so that it has been disturbing him all the timeAhaving toldBtellingC
2、to tellDto have told2As he works in a remote area, he visits his parents only _Aanxiously BoccasionallyCpractically Durgently3_ makes our school famous is _ more than 90% of the students have been admitted to universities.AWhat; thatBThat; becauseCThat; whatDWhat; because4Which do you prefer, the fo
3、rmer option or the latter one?I think the former one is no better than the latter one. So Ill choose _.Athe former one Bthe latter oneCeither of them Dneither of them5_the fierce competition in job seeking, many university graduates have no choice but to reduce their own demand for the salary.AFaced
4、 BFacingCTo face DHaving faced6The infrastructure project has consumed so much money that we cant find any financial support and have to _.Apull outBpull throughCcatch upDcatch on7-Mum, can you tell me why some parents send their children to study abroad at a very young age?-_, darling. I have never
5、 thought about it.AYou have got me there BTake your timeCYou bet DDont be silly8Not until he went abroad to further his study_ the importance of English.Ahas he found B he has found Cdid he find D he had found9Many writers are drawn to building a world, _ readers are somewhat familiar with but also
6、feel distant from our normal lives.AitBoneCthatDthe one10.-Would you have told him the answer had it been possible? .-I would have, but I _ so busy then. Ahad been Bwere Cwas Dwould be11She doesnt speak our language, _ she seems to understand what we sayAforBandCyetDor12It is almost five years since
7、 Jimmy taught high school students and he _ as an interpreter in a foreign enterprise.Aserved Bhad servedCis serving Dwould serve138 students and 2 teachers at Santa Fe High School by a 17-year-student armed with a shotgun and a pistol. This is one of the many gun-related tragedies that have happene
8、d in the last 2 years.Akilled Bwere killedChave killed Dhave been killed14 There are no relative articles on the Internet.What shall we do? My God！There are always not any useful articles when you want .AoneBitCthatDany15The explosion in the chemical plant _ avoided had the county authorities, aimin
9、g too much at short-term interests, performed their duties from the beginning.Ashould beBmight beCmust have beenDcould have been16The same boiling water softens the potato and hardens the egg. Its about _youre made of, not the circumstances.AthatBwhatChowDwho17When they first came to the city, my pa
10、rents often went to neighbors for a talk, just as they _ in the countryside.Awill doBhad doneChave doneDwere doing18They carry out _ checks on milk products to make sure that they are of high quality.Acommon BnaturalCordinary Dregular19What is your main reason for choosing one restaurant another?Aov
11、er BofCfrom Dfor20. Jenny was sad over the loss of the photos she shot in Canada, _ this was a memory she especially treasured.AifBwhenCasDwhere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）American women who work as computer programmers, chefs and dentists earn 28 percent less than men doi
12、ng the same jobs. Those are the jobs with the biggest wage differences between men and women, according to a new study.Overall, the study found that women earn 5. 4 percent less than men for doing the same job, in the same location and for the same employer. The wage differences between women and me
13、n were similar in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and France.5.4 percent is a big difference in pay between men and women because it cannot be explained by women and men taking the same kinds of jobs. It can only be explained by bias(倔见)against women, or other causes, such as women not being
14、good at asking for pay.Research suggests that women do not negotiate(交涉)as well as men when it comes to pay.And women are generally more uncomfortable asking fellow employees how much they make, sothey can see if they are being paid fairly.According to the study, women earned at least 15 percent less than men in these job categories:psychologists,pharmacists,physicians,opticians,pilots and game artists.But in the fields of social work, selling merchandise, research assistants and physician advisors, women earn more than men. In social work, women earn