1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷注意事项1考生要认真填写考场号和座位序号。2试题所有答案必须填涂或书写在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。第一部分必须用2B 铅笔作答；第二部分必须用黑色字迹的签字笔作答。3考试结束后，考生须将试卷和答题卡放在桌面上，待监考员收回。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1A good government is not to pick technologies, but to establish conditions _ innovation is supported and encouraged into the marketplace.AwhenBth
2、atCasDwhere2- Ill take the blue one. This is twenty dollars.- Heres the change. .ABest wishesBMy pleasureCHave a nice dayDLets call it a day3The two girls are getting on very well and share _ with each other.AlittleBmuchCsomeDnone4-Mr. Johnson has been chosen as the manager of the sales department.-
3、_ he was so excited this morning.ANo chanceBNo wayCNot possibleDNo wonder5Im sorry for breaking the cup.Oh, _. Ive got plenty.Ahelp yourselfBforget itCmy pleasureDpardon me6At the end of the historic area，Wilmington displayed its _ as a working port city：large warehouses and a few other dated office
4、 buildingsAachievementBreputationCcharacterDstandard7-Kingsman: The Secret Service is a spy action comedy film. Wants to come with me?-Id love to, but my best friend is getting married, and I wont _ it for anything.AoverlookBtradeCmissDforget8No student _ go out of school to have lunch without permi
5、ssion of the headteacher.AmightBmustCshallDcould9The real winners in sport are those who know how to persevere and to behave with _whether they win or lose a game.Acertainty BcautionCdignity Dindependence10Fred let _ that he was prepared to leave company when the new manager took office.Asecret Bsli
6、pCpromise Dstandard11I wish I _ photography then. If so, I could give you a hand at present.AstudiedBhad studiedChave studiedDwill study12My TV set doesnt work, the water tap is dripping and my car is still under repair!You sure _ bad luck these days.AhadBwill haveChad hadDare having13_ you are supp
7、osed to do _ you dont like a thing is _ it. Dontcomplain.AThat; what; changeBWhen; that; to changeCWhat; when; changeDWhat; that; changing14What happened to the young trees we planted last week?The trees _ well, but I didnt water them.Amight growBneednt have grownCwould have grownDwould grow15Take t
8、he note as a reminder _ you forgot to buy some sweets for the kids while shopping there.AhowBthatCin caseDeven if16Perhaps you _ stop playing computer games now. Your boss may be turning up in the office at any moment.AwillBmustCshouldDcan17This was returned because the person _ this letter was addr
9、essed had died three years ago.Ato whomBto whichCwhichDwhom18More and more college graduates, the survey shows, feel it hard to find a satisfactory job.AwhatBwhoCasDthat19- How did you like the concert last night? - I enjoyed it very much, but the dancers _ a better job.Acould have doneBcouldnt have
10、 doneCcould doDhad done20- She will finish the project within three days! - _! I could do it in three hours. AYou are right BIm stuck COh, come on DDont mention it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）US student Vanessa Tahay stands out from the other teenagers in her school. Her sk
11、in is dark, her accent is thick, and if you ask her, she will tell you these are the things she is proudest of. Tahay is a poet, and at 18 she was considered among the best in Los Angeles.When she is on the stage, audiences often go silent. They also laugh, shout and cry. But this doesnt come easily
12、 for someone who comes from a village that sits at the base of a huge mountain range in Central America. When she first appeared at school, she was teased by others for being short and different. She never spoke, so they called her “mouse”.“How do I defend myself?” Tahay thought. “I dont know how.”“
13、Keep going,” her mother would tell her. “At some point, youll learn.”She spent hours after school and on weekends watching the same DVDs: English without Barriers.Tahays elder brother, Elmer, persuaded her to go to the after-school poetry club. In the last six years, her English teacher Laurie Kurni
14、ck has turned Cleveland Charter High Schools poetry program into one of the most respected in the city. Her team draws from the likes of DH. Laurence, Pat Mora and Kendrick Lamar to create poems about their own lives. The poems focus on many things some funny, some painful.The first time Tahay read the groups poems, chills went up her spine (脊柱). “I wish I could write like that,” she thought. “I want to say something.”She wrote her first poem about her first year in America. She called it Invisible. The day her turn came to recite in front of the team, she broke down crying. She cried