1、云南省曲靖市第二中学2023年届高三英语第一次模拟考试试题(满分120分，考试用时100分钟)注意事项：1. 答题前，考生在答题卡上务必用直径 0 . 5 毫米黑色墨水签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚。请认真核准条形码上的准考证号、姓名和科目。2. 每小题选出答案后，用 2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。在试题卷上作答无效。第I卷（选择题，共70分）第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分，略)第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选
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11、inessD. attract users to pay for the membershipBMy best friend and I made our first trip to Ireland less than a year ago. I wasnt very excited about it at the very beginning. But my uncle wanted me to go and offered to pay for my trip. Then I did. All of the words “magical, enchanted, memorable, mes
12、merizing” dont even touch what Ireland is. Our favorites were Kilkenny, Cobh, and Killarney. We did a self-drive tour, which was NOT as hard as people made it sound. We stayed in a castle in Dublin for two days, where my ancestors came from. The town we thought we might be bored with was Kilkenny, b
13、ut we loved every minute we were there. There were so many places to explore and the pictures we took were beautiful.Seeing the tiny little village of Cobh and knowing it was the last stop for the Titanic was so touching. We loved the visitors center there and the little shops. We never got any bad
14、food there, it was so mouth-watering, so tasty, at every stop! And when we stayed in Westmeath and looked out of our window to see the Trim Castle and found scenes from “Braveheart” were filmed there, we were so impressed. Again, more beautiful pictures in that tiny little town.We love the country,
15、the people, the food, and the magic! We would go back very soon, I was so indebted to my uncle who had given me the chance to be here. The one piece of advice I would offer is to bring your own washcloths. Only one of our hotels supplied them. I have no words to describe our trip properly. Go, explo
16、re the small villages, eat, enjoy! I still look at my pictures and cant believe I was actually there.24. What did the writer think of Kilkenny?A. It was extremely boring.B. It was also a wonderful place.C. It had no places to explore for tourists.D. It was not worth staying for a long time.25.What does the underlined word “indebted” in paragraph 4 most pr