2023学年陕西省咸阳市乾县第二中学高考冲刺模拟英语试题（含解析）.doc

2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷 请考生注意： 1．请用2B铅笔将选择题答案涂填在答题纸相应位置上，请用0．5毫米及以上黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将主观题的答案写在答题纸相应的答题区内。写在试题卷、草稿纸上均无效。 2．答题前，认真阅读答题纸上的《注意事项》，按规定答题。 第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 1．—Good morning. May I help you? —No, thank you. I’m just looking around. —________ A．It’s up to you. B．How are you feeling today? C．Thanks for coming to see me. D．Take your time then. 2．In order to make my composition clearer and smoother, my teacher asked me to _________ the unnecessary words and sentences. A．leave alone B．leave behind C．leave off D．leave out 3．I wonder ________ the equipment will be available in ten days. A．that B．when C．whether D．where 4．That student admitted in the math exam, that he would never do that again in the future. A．to have cheated, promising B．cheating, promised C．to cheating, promised D．having cheated, promising 5．We’ll build a power station ______ water resources are plentiful. A．where B．in which C．which D．that 6．--- I’ll take the blue one. This is twenty dollars. --- Here’s the change. . A．Best wishes B．My pleasure C．Have a nice day D．Let’s call it a day 7．When the questions got personal during the talk show, the actress ______ in tears as she opened up about the wounds she suffered. A．broke up B．broke down C．broke out D．broke through 8．When I was twenty, I had to________ before graduation and work in a clothes shop to help support my family. A．come out B．stay out C．leave out D．drop out 9．— I wonder what chance there is of me passing by the old places without thinking of you. — ______. Time cures all wounds. A．My pleasure B．Don’t mention it C．I can’t agree more D．Never mind 10．This car is important to our family. We would repair it at our expense _______ it break down within the first year. A．could B．would C．might D．should 11．Today's homework was easy _______so I finished it quickly and went out to play． A．to be done B．done C．doing D．to do 12．—Do you really plan to drop out of the football team? —________ It’s time for me to concentrate on my study. A．I’m just kidding. B．Definitely not. C．I mean it D．What a pity! 13．Anyway, we’re here now, so let’s ___________ some serious work. A．come up with B．get down to C．do away with D．live up to 14．— What about the protection of these new machines? — Let’s keep the surface ________ dust by putting a cover over them. A．far from B．apart from C．free from D．away from 15．---.We didn’t find the Blacks during the lecture. --- No one had told them about _____ a lecture. A．there to be B．there being C．there be D．there was 16．Our bedrooms are all on the sixth floor, with its own bathroom. A．all B．every C．either D．each 17．Creating an atmosphere ______ employees feel part of a team is a big challenge. A．where B．whose C．that D．which 18．There are lots of examples of English idioms ________ animals are used. A．which B．when C．whose D．where 19．__________ 62% of all luxury consumer sales in Europe in 2015, shoppers from the Chinese mainland spent $7.2 billion overseas during the Spring Festival. A．Accounting for B．Adding to C．Consisting of D．Making up 20．Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, only today is a gift, and that is ______ we call it present. A．how B．when C．why D．where 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） A new study suggests climate conditions in the Sahara Desert, one of hottest, driest and most deserted areas in the world, have changed from wet to dry a about every 20,000 years. But previous evidence has suggested the Sahara did not always experience such extreme heat and dry conditions. At times, the Sahara Ranged to a very wet climate. This permitted plants and animals to develop and grow and led to the creation of human settlements. Now, they have discovered more evidence, which, the lead researcher David Mc Gee says, supports the idea that the Sahara's climate kept changing between wet and dry about every 20,000,years. McGee reported these climate changes were mainly driven by changes in the Earth's(地轴)as the planet travels round the sun .This process affects the amount of sunlight between seasons. Every 20,000 years the Earth receives more strong summer sunlight. When the Earth's axis changes again, the amount of sunlight is reduced. This season change happened continuously every 20,000 years. The other part of the season produced rainy conditions, resulting in a wetter, greener, plant-rich environment. When the rainy activity weakens, the climate becomes hot and dry, like the Sahara remains today. The scientists based their research on dust collected from ocean sediment(沉积物)in the Atlantic Ocean bottom off the coast of West Africa. The dust contained layers (层)of ancient sediment built up over millions of years. Each layer could contain traces of Saharan dust as well as the remains of life forms. This information was used to assess over what time period the dust had built up. This led to the overall finding