1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷注意事项:1答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在条形码区域内。2答题时请按要求用笔。3请按照题号顺序在答题卡各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试卷上答题无效。4作图可先使用铅笔画出，确定后必须用黑色字迹的签字笔描黑。5保持卡面清洁，不要折暴、不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1- Im afraid the company will not hire me. - Come on, Bill, relax! You have a lot of
2、experience and fine references and your college work is ideal background for them. _ AItll be no sweat. BAll good things come to an end. CWords pay no debts. DDont give me any jaw. 2_ you sing and dance at this late hour of the night?Sorry, I will stop right now.AMayBShallCWillDMust3In the forest, s
3、ound is the best means of communication over distance _ in comparison with light, it wont be blocked by trees when travelling.Awhile BbecauseCwhen Dthough4Only when _hard _ make your dream come true.Ado you work; you canByou work; you canCdo you work; can youDyou work; can you5I was ill that day, ot
4、herwise I _the sports meet.Atook part inBwould have taken part inChad taken part inDwould take part in6The farmers are in bad need of rain,but a (an) large amount of rainfall will cause Floods.AEventuallyBconstantlyCgraduallyDextremely7At that time, the movie “Shaolin Temple”, _Li Lianjie plays the
5、starring role, drew the worlds attention to Chinese Kungfu.AwhereBwhenCthatDwhich8Jess was sad and her friend helped her _ the first awful weeks after her husband Bill died.Abreak throughBbreak downCget throughDget rid of9We all sighed with _ relief when _ plane finally landed safely.Aa; /B/; theCa;
6、 aDa; the10Ted has never been so rude!He _something he shouldnt have, but I guess he didnt mean that.Ahas saidBhad saidCsaidDwas saying11Your argument is .I will not let you pass.-Are you kidding?AsoundBrationalCliberalDplain12- Hi, Mark. How was the musical evening? - Excellent! Ales and Andy perfo
7、rmed _ and they won the firs prize.AskillfullyBcommonlyCwillinglyDnervously13The main issue at the APEC meeting was a climate-change plan _ by Australias Howard and backed by Bush.Aput outBput offCput awayDput forward14The financial damage is nothing compared to what _ if there had been children in
8、the classroom in time of the fire.Awould happenBhappenedCwould have happenedDshould have happened15More competitive high-tech enterprises are investing in Nantong Central Innovation District, which will result in _ economic growth.AsustainableBadaptableCrecyclableDchangeable16 Helen,are you going Io
9、 the airport to pick up Jack the day after tomorrow? _ tomorrow night.I would go.AWere he to come backBIf he was about to come backCHad he come backDIf he would come back17The new supermarket has announced that the first to purchase goods on the opening day _ get a big prize.AmustBcouldCwouldDshall1
10、8The expert points out the phenomenon that cream goes bad faster than butter_ its structure rather than its chemical composition.Alives up toBgets down toCcomes down toDstands up to19- Catherine, I have cleaned the room for you.-Thanks. You _ it. I could manage it myself.Aneednt doBshouldnt have don
11、eCmustnt doDneednt have done20After I left _ Linchuan No.2 Middle School, I began college classes in _ September 2010.Aa; theB不填; theCthe; theD不填；不填第二部分 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）Legend has it that the performing arts began when a Greek singer named Thespis invented tragedy.I
12、n 534 BC, Thespis was performing a hymn（赞美诗）to the god Dionysius.Such hymns,called dithyrambs,were usually sung by a lead singer and a chorus.Thespis added a speaking actor.Performances at the annual Dionysian festival soon included plays with three actors as well as the standard hymns.By 449 BC,the
13、 Greeks were giving prizes to the best actor and the best playwright at the festival.A modern word for actorthespian recognizes the debt todays drama owes to Thespis.Performing in a Greek play required physical strength.Because each play had only three actors,performers had to play several roles.Cho
14、rus members both sang and danced.Being in the chorus for the many performances given at a festival was said to be as demanding as competing in the Olympic Games.The Theater of Dionysius in Athens could hold 20,000 people.Even those in the front rows were quite a distance from the actors.Performers used grand gestures and wore masks so that they could be seen by everyone in their huge audience.Tragic（悲剧的）actors wore long clothes and masks.Comic actors wore short costumes that let them move freely and masks designed to make them look ugly or silly.Sometimes th