2023学年河北省邢台市重点中学高考英语一模试卷（含解析）.doc

2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷 注意事项： 1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用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，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 3．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 1．Distinguished guests and friends, welcome to our school, _____the ceremony of the 50th Anniversary this morning are our alumni （校友） from home and abroad. A．Attend B．To attend C．Attending D．Having attended 2．Many universities throughout the world provide scholarships for students ________ financial aid. A．in favour of B．in need of C．in face of D．in honour of 3．—What has made him in such high spirits recently? —_____ by his teacher for succeeding passing the exam. A．Being praised B．Praised C．Having praised D．To praise 4．If it had not been for the heroes’ contributions and sacrifices, we _____such a happy life. A．wouldn’t have led B．wouldn’t be leading C．haven’t led D．are not leading 5．Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small. You don’t know _____ it can lead. A．how B．where C．whether D．what 6．Mother told me in a phone call that she had written to me a week before, but I haven’t received__________. A．one B．it C．something D．anything 7．To work from home, which one could hardly imagine, has been made with the development of computer technology. A．possible B．it possible C．possibly D．to be possible 8．Without your help, I ________ the first prize in the English Speaking Contest. A．won’t get B．didn’t get C．wouldn’t get D．wouldn’t have got 9．The news of the newly-elected president’s coming to China for a visit was ______ on the radio just now. A．given away B．given in C．given off D．given out 10．The monitor said that the learning method he used improved his maths. A．greatly B．nearly C．normally D．seriously 11．We all agree that it is good to help those in need, but when ______ comes to giving away our money, things become strange. A．that B．this C．it D．one 12．The new means of transport ________ in this city, so whether it will work out remains to be seen. A．have never tried B．has never tried C．have never been tried D．has never been tried 13．The doctor’s dilemma was _____ he should tell the patient the truth. A．whether B．which C．that D．what 14．I admire my English teacher. I can remember very few occasions _____ she stopped working because of ill health. A．that B．when C．where D．which 15．The witness an important detail when describing the accident. A．brought out B．kept off C．left out D．ran into 16．The house caught fire last week, with little of the original building _________. A．remain B．remained C．remains D．remaining 17．What you said doesn’t ________ what the police have told us, so we have to find more evidence. A．agree with B．make up C．contribute to D．show off 18．Most people quit ________ any results appear; they give up too soon and a quitter never wins. A．while B．until C．since D．before 19．Due to the reform and opening­up, our living conditions, undoubtedly, have improved ________ over the past decades. A．considerately B．approximately C．appropriately D．considerably 20．— Catherine, will you visit us this weekend? —I planned to, but something unexpected . A．has come up B．was coming up C．had come up D．would come up 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）Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful,there's a natural impulse to catch and own it—which means, in this day and age,that we can't help reaching for our phones to take a picture when seeing beautiful things. Though this would seem to be a wonderful solution,there are two big problems about taking pictures.Firstly, we're likely to be so busy taking the pictures that we forget to look at the world whose beauty and interest inspire us to take a photograph in the first place.And secondly,because we feel the pictures are safely stored in our phones,we never get around to look at them. These problems would seem to be very much of today,a consequence of the tiny phones in our pockets.But they were noticed right at the beginning of the history of photography,when the average camera was the size of a grandfather clock.The first person who noticed them was the English art critic,John Ruskin.He was a travelling lover who realized that most tourists failed to notice or remember the beautiful things they saw. He argued that humans have a born tendency（倾向）to respond to beauty and desire to keep it,but that there are bad expressions of this desire.At worst,we get into buying souvenirs or taking photographs.But,in Ruskin's eyes, there's one thing we should do and that is attempting to draw the interesting things we see,and it doesn't matter whether we happen to have any talent for doing so. Before the invention of photography,people used to draw far more than they do today.It was an active necessity. But in the mid-19th century,photography killed drawing.It became something only "artists" would ever do,so Ruskin spent four years on a campaign t