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、考场号和座位号填写在试题卷和答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（B）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码粘贴在答题卡右上角条形码粘贴处。2作答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试题卷上。3非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效。4考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并
2、交回。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1- My God! I havent prepared the files for the new project yet!- _. The boss wont need it until next Friday.ATheres no doubt BTheres no panic CGood luck DSounds good2Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, _ anyone can start now and make a new ending.Afor BandCbut
3、Dso3The people succeeded because they understood that you cant let your failures _ you you have to let your failures teach you.Adefine BdeclineCqualify Dsimplify4Teachers in primary schools _ influence the kids fall under should be role models.AwhoseBwhoCwhereDwhich5The guidance teacher was their ad
4、viser, offering them suggestions and solutions when they _ difficulties.Aarose BencounteredCemerged Devaluated6Mike was usually so careful, this time he made a small mistake.AyetBstillCevenDthus7The government has taken some measures to solve the shortage of electricity, but it will be some time_ th
5、e situation improves.AsinceBwhenCunlessDbefore8The climate conference was attended by 11,000 people, it the largest UN gathering ever held.AmakingBto makeCmadeDto be making9Afghans used to hold big weddings, costing thousands of dollars, in a county _ the average annual income is less than $400. Awh
6、ich Bwhose Cwhere Dwhat10The desks in our classroom are so close together that there is not enough room to move themAbetweenBinCacrossDover11Wild animals in nature reserves need to develop their survival skills and their wild nature.AdisplayBpossessCmaintainDmonitor12The young man, _ in heavy traffi
7、c on the way, got home an hour later than usual.AcatchingBcaught.Chaving caughtDto be caught13The new product is beyond all praise and has quickly taken over the market _ its superior quality.Ain terms ofBon account ofCon behalf ofDon top of14A survey of the opinions of experts _ that three hours of
8、 outdoor exercise a week _ good for ones health.Ashow; areBshows; isCshow; isDshows; are15Since it was getting late, we decided to find a small inn to _ for the night.Aput offBput outCput away .Dput up16The witness an important detail when describing the accident.Abrought outBkept offCleft outDran i
9、nto17The new hotel is reported to be built it used to be a wasteland.AwhichBwhereCin whichDwhat18_will I give up. I believe I can manage it.AAt once BAt no time CRight now DThe instant19Would you mind moving over a little? I have to pass here._ Id like to help.ANot in the slightest.BDont mention it.
10、CNever mind.DAt your service.20Some analysts suspected that the rebellion was _ and financed by a western country.Alaunched Bbacked Cevaluated Dcrushed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）About 15 years ago, I taught A Problem from Hell, a book on genocides (大屠杀), to a group of 18-
11、 and 19-year-olds in a mid-west university in the US. In my class there was a young man who had spent his boyhood in Bosnia as NATO bombed his hometown. My other students, amazed by his connection to the genocide in the textbook, asked him what it was like to grow up in a war-zone. “A pretty normal
12、childhood as you had here,” he said. “We played cards inside a lot, and when there was no bombing we kicked a ball in the street.”In the past few years, the world has seen a rapid increase in refugees (难民), with the number hitting 60 million. Viet Thanh Nguyens story collection The Refugees reminds
13、us that literature is news that stays news. Set in the Vietnamese communities in California as well as in Vietnam, the stories do not aim to surprise us with new twists or shock us with wonderful details, as war and refugee stories could easily choose to do. Rather, like the young man from Bosnia, N
14、guyens characters tell these stories because they are the only ones known to them.Included in the collection are two of the most touching pieces, both about siblings (兄弟或姊妹) separated by geography and history. In “Black-Eyed Women”, the narrator (讲述人), a young Vietnamese woman, is visited by the ghost of her elder brother, who died young on the boat when the family took flight from the war. The tale of love and loss, violence and violation, may not be unfamiliar to the reader, but the determination of the brothers ghost (he has taken decades to swim across the Pacific to reach America) and th