2023届湖南省常德市武陵区芷兰实验学校历史班高考英语二模试卷（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．Sometimes it seems to bother the teacher ______ all the students are being too quiet. A．how B．what C．that D．where 2．With people paying attention to fitness, self-service mini-gyms, each covering about 5 square meters, ________ in China’s major cities these years. A．have sprung up B．sprang up C．had sprung up D．spring up 3．Abraham set himself up in front of his daughter, hands ________ her hair, and was close to tears, reluctant to tear himself from her. A．to toy with B．toyed with C．toying with D．being toyed with 4．The two brothers look so much alike that it is difficult to ______. A．tell them from B．tell from them C．tell apart them D．tell them apart 5．––Cathy is not coming to your birthday party tonight. ––But she ______! A．promised B．promises C．will promise D．had promised 6．Jane realized her ____ to become the first woman to run the 10,000 metres within 30 minutes. A．achievement B．commitment C．competition D．ambition 7．The store______ I bought my textbooks is having a sale this week. A．that B．where C．which D．why 8．Agatha didn’t tell me ______ she would pick up her son from school. A．which B．when C．where D．what 9．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 10．How I wish I ______ my mouth before I shouted at my mum! A．shut B．have shut C．had shut D．would shut 11．It’s impossible for all the people to get jobs because ______of them is not fit for them. A．every one B．all C．not all D．none 12．____ of danger in the street at night, the girl doesn’t dare to go out without someone ____ her. A．Warned; accompanied B．Warned; accompanying C．Warning; accompanied D．Warning; accompanying 13．—What did she want to know, Tom? —She wondered we could complete the experiment A．when was it that B．it was when that C．it was when D．when it was that 14．As he works in a remote area, he visits his parents only _____ A．anxiously B．occasionally C．practically D．urgently 15．Thanks to Chinese people’s hard work and wisdom, China has _____ into the second largest economy. A．evolved B．slipped C．extended D．shaped 16．—You look sleepy today. —__________ not to miss the flight, I didn't dare to close my eyes the whole night. A．Reminded B．Being reminded C．Reminding D．Having reminded 17．语音知识(共5小题；每小题l分，满分5分) 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的 选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 18．The event that _________ in my memory happened one morning in 1983 when I was 14 years old. It has never escaped. A．stood out B．stands out C．would stand out D．has stood out 19．The new supermarket has announced that the first to purchase goods on the opening day ________ get a big prize. A．must B．shall C．would D．could 20．— 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 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）From childhood, Moira loved to write. Throughout school she enjoyed writing, but pursuing it professionally was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse. “Medicine was a fairly safe choice,” Moira says, “and writing was a career where it wasn’t a certainty that you’d have high income.” She became a doctor but still wanted to write something. However, being a doctor was so demanding that she didn’t take up writing until her thirties. She produced a novel—a fictionalized version of her travel in China after university. She got excellent reviews. Moira sent it off to as many agents as she could find, and found one who wanted to represent her. Suddenly, it seemed she was on her way as an author. “I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we went through all possible areas that she thought needed polishing. I worked on those and sent it back to her but didn’t hear anything.” It wasn’t long before Moira found another agent who was interested if she was willing to rewrite it from the first person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. “I got back a really brief letter: ‘Thank you, I’m no longer interested.’ It was really disappointing.” A decade went by, and Moira found herself eager to write again, this time purely for her own enjoyment. She set herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her setting. As she was writing just for herself, something surprising began to happen. “The characters took on a life of their own; they started doing things I hadn’t thought about. It just flew.” One day, an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel, Cicada, was published in March. “Even if it had