2023学年贵州省北师大贵阳附中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 考生请注意： 1．答题前请将考场、试室号、座位号、考生号、姓名写在试卷密封线内，不得在试卷上作任何标记。 2．第一部分选择题每小题选出答案后，需将答案写在试卷指定的括号内，第二部分非选择题答案写在试卷题目指定的位置上。 3．考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，请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．Mary nearly missed the flight doing too much shopping. A．in need of B．on top of C．in front of D．as a result of 2．The Tang Dynasty is generally regarded as a golden chapter by people worldwide, ________ the Chinese civilization influenced many neighboring countries. A．where B．when C．which D．who 3．Different cultural features of ethnic groups are ________ one another and work out a melody． A．in tune with B．in parallel with C．in contrast to D．in response to 4．Not until the bus disappeared in the distance ________ her school bag was gone. A．Tina had found B．had Tina found C．did Tina find D．Tina found 5．Fred let ________ that he was prepared to leave company when the new manager took office. A．secret B．slip C．promise D．standard 6．He let me write down his instructions sure that I would know what was after he went away. A．making; doing B．making; to do C．to make; to do D．to make; to be done 7．___________the effect of culture shock, he is trying to read a lot about it before going to France for further study. A．To reduce B．Reduced C．Reducing D．Having reduced 8．She was in a ________ condition after the heart transplant operation when her body rejected the foreign organ. A．skeptical B．critical C．theoretical D．practical 9．—What did she want to know, Tom? —She wondered _______ we could complete the experiment. A．when was it B．it was when that C．it was when D．when it was that 10．________ they’ve managed to get everything finished so quickly is not clear to us. A．Which B．What C．That D．How 11．Hardly ever ______ so many choices for young people entering the workforce as there are today. A．there are B．there have been C．have there been D．are there 12．—Where on earth have they gone? —I have no idea, but I wish I . A．know B．knew C．would know D．would have known 13．____________ you are familiar with the author’s ideas, try reading all the sections as quickly as you possible can. A．Now that B．Ever since C．So that D．In case 14．I have no doubt that Anna will ________ it, but I wonder whether she is really ready enough. A．dig B．hit C．make D．lift 15．It was in the remote mountain areas ______ I spent the gap year ______ I learned how to work with a group of strangers and how to look after myself. A．where; that B．when; that C．where; when D．that; where 16．______ the students were hearing the exciting news! A．How happily B．What a fun C．What pleasure D．How pleased 17．Last year I applied to Princeton University．I ____ they would say yes—but they did, and now here I am． A．never think B．am never thinking C．have never thought D．never thought 18．By serving others, a person focuses on someone other than himself or herself, ________ can be very eye-opening and rewarding. A．who B．which C．what D．that 19．—What about the services in this hotel? —They are at least as good as, if not superior to, ______ in yours. A．it B．those C．that D．the one 20．When the old man woke up, he found someone his TV in the living room. A．stole B．steal C．stealing D．stolen 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）Until recently, voice cloning — or voice banking, as it was then known — was a customized industry which served those at risk of losing the power of speech to cancer or surgery. Synthesizing（合成） a voice was a long and expensive process. It meant recording many phrases, each spoken many times, with different the history of the KidPass blog emotional emphase（s重音）and in different contexts (statement, question, command and so forth), in order to the tips on writing good articles online cover all possible pronunciations. Not any more. Software exists that can store pieces of recorded speech which is merely five milliseconds long, each marked with a precise pitch（音高）. These can be put together to make new words, and adjusted individually so that they fit harmoniously into their new sonic homes. This is much cheaper than conventional voice banking, and permits novel uses to be developed. This year Vivo Text plans to release an app that lets users select the emphasis, speed and level of happiness or sadness with which individual words and phrases are produced. Mr. Silbert refers to the emotive quality of the human voice as “the ultimate instrument”. Yet this power also troubles him. Vivo Text licenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings. Hasbro is aware, Mr. Silbert notes, that without safeguards a naughty child might, for example, type impolite words on his mother’s smartphone in order to see a younger sibling burst into tears on hearing them spoken by a toy using mum’s voice. More troubling, when tested against voice-biometrics software like that used by many banks