1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷请考生注意：1请用2B铅笔将选择题答案涂填在答题纸相应位置上，请用05毫米及以上黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将主观题的答案写在答题纸相应的答题区内。写在试题卷、草稿纸上均无效。2答题前，认真阅读答题纸上的注意事项，按规定答题。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1One of the most important questions they had to consider was _ of public health.Awhat Bthat Cthis Dwhich2The old bank, _ appearance is not a pretty
2、sight, is extremely beautiful on the inside.AwhoseBwhereCwhenDwhich3Adding to their happiness, he says,_ some similarities between the two test papers.AisBareChasDhave4My mom once worked in a very small village school, which is_only on foot.AacceptableBadequateCaccessibleDappropriate5A study suggest
3、s reducing energy demand in the future may _ urban areas.Thats true. Cities need more energy than small towns or other rural areas.Acatch on Bact onChang on Dcenter on6This is the first time that we _a film in the cinema together as a family .AseeBhad seenCsawDhave seen7Im sorry you have been waitin
4、g so long, but it will still be some time _ you can get your passport.AsinceBtillCafterDbefore8Sorry, Mum! I failed the job interview again.Oh, its too bad. You_ have made full preparations.AmustBcanCwouldDshould9I am searching one online shopping site after another for a computer.So _I before I dec
5、ided to buy a new camera.AhadBhaveCamDwould10The affairs of each country should be by its own people.Aelected BsettledCdeveloped Dcontained11Every classroom in this modern school is _ with a new TV set on the wall and a computer on the teachers desk.Aequipped BdecoratedCfixed Dplaced12Life is a jour
6、ney _with hardships, joys and special moments.AfilledBto fillCfillingDhaving filled13US slang is hugely _ thanks to the many different ethnic groups that have settled in the country.AdelicateBdynamicCdiverseDdesperate14 Hi, Mary. Im coming, but its snowing and traffic is moving slowly. _, Jack. Well
7、 wait for you. Then we can have dinner together.ATake your timeBDont be seriousCWhat a dayDYou are kidding15_ 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 of16After talking with her teache
8、r for about an hour, she felt relieved and began to know how to this kind of situation.Ahandle Braise Cexplore Dstrengthen17If you have any question, please _ free to contact me at sue_smith.Ato feel Bfeeling Cfeel Dfelt18The young man, _ in heavy traffic on the way, got home an hour later than usua
9、l.AcatchingBcaught.Chaving caughtDto be caught19After nine years working to protect Siberian tigers, Yang Jun _ his efforts recognized at the annual award ceremony in Beijing where he was named a wildlife protector.AhadBhad hadChas hadDhas20Mum, I am worrying about my pet dog while we are away.Boy,
10、you _. Our neighbor has offered to help us.Acant Bwouldnt Cneednt Dmustnt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）Rich as a KingWilliam 1, who conquered England some 930 years ago, had wealth, power and an army. Yet although William was very rich by the standard of his time, he had not
11、hing like a flush toilet (抽水马桶), paper towels, or riding lawn mower (除草机). How did he get by?History books are filled with wealthy people who were poor compared to me. I have storm windows, Croesus did not. Entire nations trembled before Alexander the Great, but he couldnt buy cat food. Czar Nichola
12、s lacked an electric saw.Given how much better off I am than so many famous dead people, youd think Id be content. The trouble is that, like most people, I compare my wealth with that of living person: neighbors, school classmates, famous TV people. The greed I feel toward my friend Howards new kitc
13、hen is not reduced by the fact that no kings ever had a refrigerator with glass doors,There is really no rising or falling standard of living. Over the centuries people simply find different things to feel sad about. Youd think that simply not having disease would put us in a good mood, but no we wa
14、nt a hot bath too.Of course, one way to achieve happiness would be to realize that even by todays standards the things I own are pretty nice. My house is smaller than the houses of many investment bankers, but even so it has a lot more rooms than my wife and I can keep clean.Besides, to people looking back at our era from a century or two in the future, these bankers fancy counter tops and my awn worn Formica will seem equally shabby, I cant keep up with my neighbors right now. But just wait.1、What docs the underlined phrase “get by” in the first paragraph mean?ASucceed as a k