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）1Cambridge gave a positive answer inquiries on whether it recognizes gaokao scores.Ai
2、n favor ofBin response toCin salute toDin consequence of2一Which Tshirt do you like best?一 They are both out of fashion and expensiveANoneBNeitherCAnyDBoth3Highspeed trains which travel through my hometown _ up to 250 km per hour make it a small world.AwithBagainstCatDover4 Joe, what about going to B
3、elgium for our coming holiday? Sorry, honey, I _ on the newly discovered dinosaur site in ArgentinaThere are remains of what is thought to be the largest creature ever to walk the earth.Awas workingBworkCwill be workingDworked5Why do you turn to me for help _ you can easily work out the problem inde
4、pendently?Auntil BwhenCafter Dunless6As a teacher, you have to _ your method to suit the needs of slower children.AdisplayBtestCadjustDtransfer7In some countries, people eat with chopsticks, while in _, knives and forks.AanotherBotherCothersDthe other8Faced with the dilemma, the company committee _
5、a public statement, appointing the capable man to be its new global chief financial officer.Apulled out Bput outCreached out Ddrew out9 I got that job I wanted at the public library. _! Thats good news.AGo aheadBCheersCCongratulationsDCome on10 I want to tell you is the deep love and respect I have
6、for my parents.AThatBWhichCWhetherDWhat11Governments around the world increasingly _ artificial intelligence to help promote economic growth.Aput out Broll out Cmake out Dreach out12This book is said to be a special one, as it _ many events not found in other history books.AwritesBprintsCcoversDread
7、s13Alice, why arent you at work today?I a day offAhave givenBhave been givenCgaveDwas given14They were abroad during the months when we were carrying out the investigation, or they _to our help.Awould have comeBcould comeChave comeDhad come15Dont let the child who is _ go to schoolAso young as toBno
8、t old enough toCnot old enoughDtoo young to16The reds and golds _ into each other as the sun sank. What a beautiful sight!AbumpedBpressedCmeltedDturned17Around this point _, which is humorous and full of a strong local flavor.Athe story developsBdoes the story developCdevelops the storyDthe story de
9、veloped18The case shocked the public, a hot debate over human nature on the Intemet.AcausesBcausedCcausingDto cause19 I want to learn tennis. Would you like to help me? . But learning tennis is no walk in the park.ANo kidding BNo wonder CNo problem DNo way20I dont like fish, so I eat it unless I was
10、 extremely hungry.AneedntBshouldntCcantDwounldnt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 it were up to me, Id write this piece next week or even later. Let the dust settle a bit. But I have my fathers insistent voice in my head: the story is now, so you write it now. No one wants t
11、o read last weeks news.My father Michael was a journalist. He started at age 16 on his local paper, the Luton News, and after nine years there, he went on to a six-decade career that saw him write more than 40 biographies of Hollywood stars and spend a quarter-century presenting a weekly radio show.
12、From him I learned about deadlines and accuracy, and absorbed his rule about professional clothing, one he had been taught by his first boss. Even when he was working at home, my father would follow that rule: shirt and tie, every day.There were other less obvious lessons. The first is about being m
13、anly. Driven and competitive, he wasnt present for the birth of any of his three children, but he was the very model of being loving and faithful. My father never took me to the football or taught me to change a tyre. In a pub, he might manage some drinks, but his main focus would usually be the foo
14、d menu. He was a model of a different kind of maleness.But perhaps the biggest lesson I learned from him was about resilience (恢复). He got deep blows, losing both his wife and firstborn child, my sister Fiona, within two years of each other. And yet, somehow, he got back up again. He taught himself
15、to cook and continued to dress neatly, picking out a bright jacket that ensured he stood out in a room. He would meet editors and write stories with the same hunger he had 65 years earlier. Younger colleagues keep using the same word about him: appealing.I hope I learned his resilience, the way I learned about being a jo