2023学年贵州省盘州市第一中学高三3月份第一次模拟考试英语试卷（含解析）.doc

2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷 注意事项: 1．答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在条形码区域内。 2．答题时请按要求用笔。 3．请按照题号顺序在答题卡各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试卷上答题无效。 4．作图可先使用铅笔画出，确定后必须用黑色字迹的签字笔描黑。 5．保持卡面清洁，不要折暴、不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。 第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 1．My mobile phone is missing. Who it? A．must have taken B．must take C．could have taken D．could take 2．– She will finish the project within three days! -- ______________! I could do it in three hours. A．You are right. B．I’m stuck. C．Oh, come on D．Don’t mention it. 3．— Would you mind my coming over and having a look at your rehearse (排练)? My little son’s curious about the performance. — _______ . Just come round. A．Yes, I do B．Never mind C．Not at all D．Yes, please 4．Johnson hasn’t felt any effect the new dieting recipe has him since he tried to lose weight three months ago. A．for B．to C．on D．with 5．Everything is amazing. Thank you all. We without your help. A．can’t make it B．mustn’t have made C．won’t make D．couldn’ t have made it 6．Repairs of historic buildings have to be _____ the original structure. A．in sympathy with B．in search of C．in response to D．in contrast to 7．________ online payment is safe, people will be more likely to link their bank cards to WeChat. A． Even though B． As though C． Ever since D． As long as 8．An international team of astronomers announced Wednesday that they ________ the first-ever image of a black hole. A．have captured B．were capturing C．had captured D．would capture 9．More than a quarter of the energy in the United States goes to moving people and goods from one place to another. A．using B．used C．to use D．use 10．The news shocked the public，______ to great concern about students' safety at school. A．having led B．led C．leading D．to lead 11．—— David should lie to his best friend in order to get the well-paid job! —— It is typical of him because he ________. A．is facing his Waterloo B．is visually challenged C．has cast-iron nerves D．worships the golden calf 12．—I will pick you up at 7 o’clock tomorrow morning. Is that all right? —________. See you then. A．I’d love to. B．That’s settled. C．It’s up to you D．My pleasure 13．Decades ago, scientists believed that how the brain develops when you are a kid ______ determines your brain structure for the rest of your life. A．sooner or later B．more or less C．to and from D．up and down 14．— Can you do me a favour, Mr. Smith? My car ______ start. — No problem. You can count on it. A．won’t B．mustn’t C．needn’t D．shouldn’t 15．A heavy sandstorm is going to envelop our city. It is unwise to have your car . A．wash B．washed C．washing D．to wash 16．When faced with a big challenge ________ potential failure seems to hide at every corner, maybe you've heard this advice before: “Be more confident.” A．where B．whose C．which D．of which 17．––Is this tea good cold as well? ––______ with ice, this tea is especially delicious. A．Served B．Serving C．Having served D．To be served 18．Citizens are _____ to exercise their rights, but under no circumstances can they violate other people’s rights. A．on track B．on schedule C．at ease D．at liberty 19．Nearly all educators believe that a challenging situation can often ______ the best qualities of a person. A．cheer up B．take over C．bring out D．put away 20．Our team is world-class and it was no surprise that we won by such a margin. A．low B．high C．wide D．narrow 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）20 years ago, a couple of ecologists, Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs, convinced Del Oro, a large orange juice producer, to donate part of their forestland to a national park in exchange for the right to dump (倾倒) massive amounts of orange peels on a 3-hectare piece of land within the national park, at no cost. Dealing with tons of waste peels usually involved burning them or paying to have them dumped at a landfill, so the proposal was very attractive. A year after the contract was signed, Del Oro dumped around 12,000 tons of sticky orange waste in the land. However, another juice company and rival of Del Oro challenged the deal in court, arguing that their competitor was “polluting the national park”. They ended up winning, and the deal between Del Oro and the national park fell through. The 3-hectare piece of land virtually covered with fruit waste was completely forgotten. Then, in 2013, Timothy Treuer, a scientist at Princeton University visited that piece of land 15 years earlier. What he found shocked him. “It was completely overgrown with trees and vines,” Timothy Treuer recently said, “the difference between fertilized and unfertilized areas was visually surprised us a lot! We needed to come up with some really good standards to evaluate exactly what was happening there.” To confirm that the fruit waste was responsible for the revival of plant life, Treuer and his team spent months picking up samples, an