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）1Amazing! You wear slippers at work.Dont you know its a fashion?AmustBshouldCcanDmay2The professor _about how to protect the endangered animal in
2、the conference at this time tomorrow.Atalked Btalks Chas been talking Dwill be talking3You should set a goal and see _ you can achieve it in the coming exam.AwhichBwhatCwhetherDwhen4A fireworks display was organized _ the Queens birthday.Ato mark BmarkedChaving marked Dbeing marked5 Why didnt you tr
3、y to finish the composition? I tried to, but _ I could, the bell ran announcing the end of the examination.AuntilBwhenCafterDbefore6A storm buried Illinois under several inches of snow on Tuesday,_at least 100 people dead in traffic accidents.Ato leaveBleaveCleftDleaving7The man was in a _ condition
4、 with severe injuries to his legs after being attacked by a shark in far north Queensland.Askeptical BcriticalCpractical Dphysical8It was a difficult job for him. He had tried everything but it made little _.AuseBgoodCdifferenceDresult9Linda _ to her mother for so long that she figures out almost ev
5、ery gesture of her mothers.AattendedBhad attendedCwould attendDhas attended10Peter survived in the accident when he fell overboard yesterday. He _ escaped drowning.AnearlyBslightlyCnarrowlyDhardly11As you go through this book, you _ that each of the millions of people who lived through World War II
6、had a different experience.Awill findBfoundChad foundDhave found12We packed all the books in the wooden boxes_ they wouldnt get damaged.Aas long as Bas ifCin case Dso that13What it be?It be a man, for it is not moving. It be a dustbin, I think.Acan; may; mustBcan; cant; mustCcan; must; canDmay; may
7、not; could14Hard work and lack of sleep have _ her beauty and youth in recent years.Aworn outBtried outCmade outDsent out15The police recognized the criminal from his typical facial _. a scar on the forehead.Aexpression BfeatureCoutline Dgesture16Dont refer to the dictionary every time you come acro
8、ss a new word as sometimes its meaning may be _ clearly in a given context.Apicked outBruled outCbrought outDtaken out17_enough money, the young man was unable to buy his girlfriend expensive jewelry.ANot to saveBNot savingCNot having savedDNot saved18Reporters asked him to _hisposition on welfare r
9、eform.Aclarify Bdivide Cinstruct19Their products enjoy 30 percent _ of the market in this country because both the quality and their service are fine.Afeatures Bshares Cinterests Dsales20This book is said to be a special one, as it _ many events not found in other history books.AwritesBprintsCcovers
10、Dreads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）When asked how technology might improve the lives of people with vision impairments (视力障碍), Joann Becker presented a misleadingly simple challenge. “Well,” the vision impairments tech specialist recalls saying. “Id like to be able to find
11、my bus slop through Be My Eyes”.Be My Eyes, which went live in 2015, establishes a direct video connection between visually impaired users and sighted volunteers. The assumption is simple: Many people who are blind dont need any actual assistance in completing their daily tasks, but merely need a li
12、ttle help.A sighted volunteer might be asked to help identify which of two cans contains tomatoes. In this case, the visually impaired user can cook a meal just fine on his/her own-all he/she needs is a quick confirmation that he/she has the correct can. The model appears to be working; more than 54
13、0,000 volunteers and nearly 40,000 people with low vision are registered on the app.“An elderly woman can now help a visually impaired technician set up his computer,” says founder Hans Wiberg, who has very low vision. “She doesnt need to know a thing about computers. She only needs to read what is
14、presented on the screen. Then he can do the rest.”Early assistive technology centered on dedicated devices (专用设备), because of the niche market (缝隙市场), which sold for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. But the smartphone, multipurpose and near-universal, has completely changed the economy of scal
15、e.“There are larger market forces driving high-powered computation, high-quality engineering and high-quality battery management in the smartphone market than those in a specialty product,” says Aaron Steinfeld, a research professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.“The reality is, most sighted peo