1、2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷注意事项1考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回2答题前，请务必将自己的姓名、准考证号用05毫米黑色墨水的签字笔填写在试卷及答题卡的规定位置3请认真核对监考员在答题卡上所粘贴的条形码上的姓名、准考证号与本人是否相符4作答选择题，必须用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应选项的方框涂满、涂黑；如需改动，请用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案作答非选择题，必须用05毫米黑色墨水的签字笔在答题卡上的指定位置作答，在其他位置作答一律无效5如需作图，须用2B铅笔绘、写清楚，线条、符号等须加黑、加粗第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1 The rent of our flat
2、will see a 20% rise this year? Yes. Thats _ I have compromised with the flat owner.Awhat BwhereChow Dwhen2Mary liked to look back on her highschool days， she thought were the happiest in her lifeAthatBwhatCwhichDwhen3One is expected to behave _ on some special occasions.AaccuratelyBpreciselyCappropr
3、iatelyDrightly4Will it cost a lot to be an exchange student?_, but you can apply for scholarship and student loan.AI would imagine so BYouve got me thereCBy all means DIm with you on that5I have been decorating the apartment recently, so can you lend me some money?Sorry, all my money has gone to the
4、 stock market. _.AId rather not.BI am in the black.CI wouldnt bet on it.DI am a little shy.6At the end of the historic area，Wilmington displayed its _ as a working port city：large warehouses and a few other dated office buildingsAachievementBreputationCcharacterDstandard7If you want to see Mr. Johns
5、on on Friday morning, make sure he is _ ahead of time.AapproachableBaccessibleCavailableDconvenient8- Hi, Maria! I got the first place in the exam.- _ ! Everyone knows you cheated and you just copied Tonys.ACongratulations BCome on CGood luck DCheer up.9-It took me eight years to build up my busines
6、s, and it almost killed me.-Well, you know what they say. .AThere is no smoke without fire BNo pains, no gainsCAll roads lead to Rome DPractice makes perfect10All the students are required to check they have made some spelling errors in their compositions.Awhether Bwhat Cthat Dwhich11How are you get
7、ting along with your German, Kate？Oh, MrBlack, Im so tired of itMaybe I should drop out _ it kills meAwhenBafterCwhileDbefore12We all Chinese people are called on to learn from Lei Feng, _ we think set a good example to all of us.AwhoseBwhoCthatDwhom13I ve heard that preparations_for the coming fest
8、ival. Lets give them a hand.Aare being madeBhave been madeCare makingDhave made14Having battled with their _ over whether to offer help to an aged man or woman who has fallen over, most people choose to help.AcompromiseBcontradictionCconscienceDcompetence15The young man has _ experience. He probably
9、 cant do that job.AfewBlittleCsomeDany16The wide spread of super hybrid rice around the world _ the lives of millions and millions of people suffering from hunger to a great level.Ahas improvedBis improvingCimprovedDhas been improving17How about going sightseeing this Saturday afternoon? Sorry, I _
10、my research report the whole weekend.Awill have writtenBwill be writingChave writtenDhave been writing18The old woman who _ in the deserted house alone for ten years has been settled in a nursing home now.AlivedBhas livedChad livedDhas been living19At the news of the earthquake, the soldiers did wha
11、t they could the victims.AhelpBto helpCto helpingDhelping20Both men have been _to life imprisonment because of robbery.AchokedBcondemnedCconsistedDconvinced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）That people often experience trouble sleeping in a different bed in unfamiliar surroundin
12、gs is a phenomenon known as the 4Tirst-nighf, effect. If a person stays in the same room the following night they tend to sleep more soundly. Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University set out to investigate the origins of this effect.Dr. Sasaki knew the first-night effect probably has somet
13、hing to do with how humans evolved.The puzzle was what benefit would be gained from it when performance might be affected the following day. She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while rem
14、aining alert enough to avoid predators (捕食者). This led her to wonder if people might be doing the same thing. To take a closer look, her team studied 35 healthy people as they slept in the unfamiliar environment of the universitys Department of Psychological Sciences. The participants each slept in
15、the department for two nights and were carefully monitored with techniques that looked at the activity of their brains. Dr. Sasaki found, as expected, the participants slept less well on their first night than they did on their second, taking more than twice as long to fall asleep and sleeping less overall. During deep sleep