亳州市重点中学2023学年高考临考冲刺英语试卷（含解析）.doc

2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷 注意事项 1．考生要认真填写考场号和座位序号。 2．试题所有答案必须填涂或书写在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。第一部分必须用2B 铅笔作答；第二部分必须用黑色字迹的签字笔作答。 3．考试结束后，考生须将试卷和答题卡放在桌面上，待监考员收回。 第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 1．As you go through this book, you ________ that each of the millions of people who lived through World War II had a different experience. A．will find B．found C．had found D．have found 2．—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! 3．________ has greater potential than flammable ice being mined from underneath the South China Sea when it comes to a global energy revolution. A．nothing B．neither C．no one D．none 4．--- To be a promising student is not an easy job. It takes time. --- I can’t agree more. _______. There is no short cut. A．All roads lead to Rome B．Slow but sure wins the race C．Practice makes perfect D．Rome was not built in a day 5．Efforts will be made to______ new teaching models to exploit the students’ potential. A．accelerate B．innovate C．differentiate D．compile 6．— I’m terribly sorry. I’m late because …. — That’s OK. You are here and that’s what _____. A．does B．works C．functions D．counts 7．Newly-built wooden cottages line the street，___________ the old town into a dreamland. A．turned B．turning C．to turn D．having turned 8．Beijing’s new international airport into operation in 2019 will serve 72 million passengers annually. A．being put B．to be put C．put D．to put 9．He always keeps an eye on shortcomings of his brother’s _________ refusing to admit his own mistakes. A．but B．while C．although D．though 10．Smell the flowers before you go to sleep, and you may just ________sweet dreams. A．keep up with B．put up with C．end up with D．catch up with 11．—I believe it is the only solution to this problem. —That’s debatable, I think. I can five other solutions as good as that. A．come up with B．make up with C．live up with D．keep up with 12．The why he is absent today is he has got a bad headache. A．reason; that B．reason; because C．cause; that D．cause; because 13．I refuse to accept the blame for something ________ was someone else's fault. A．who B．that C．as D．what 14．This book is said to be a special one, as it ____ many events not found in other history books. A．writes B．prints C．covers D．reads 15．lt was in December, 2018 ________ Chairman Xi and President Trump met in Argentina. A．when B．that C．before D．since 16．Have you got these jeans in ________ larger size? This pair is a bit too small around ________ waist. A．a; the B．/; the C．the; / D．a; a 17．— I wonder what makes you a good salesperson. — I ________ as a waiter for three years,which contributes a lot to my today’s work. A．serve B．served C．have served D．had served 18．The witness an important detail when describing the accident. A．brought out B．kept off C．left out D．ran into 19．One hundred and fifteen Chinese companies hit the newly released Fortune 500 list for 2017, ______ an increase for the 14th straight year, domestic website reported on Thursday. A．to realize B．realized C．realizing D．having realized 20．Among the crises that face humans ________ the lack of natural resources. A．is B．are C．is there D．are there 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） Historian Tom Holland is the award-winning author of Rubicon, Persian Fire and Millennium. He appears regularly on radio, TV and in print. His latest book Dynasty is published in paperback by Abacus. Moominsummer Madness By Tove Jansoon What I love about this book, as a child and still today, is its mix of the fantastical and normal. On the one hand, it’s about a family and their friends all enjoying themselves, quite happy not doing much. On the other hand, it’s about characters that can change into odd shapes, magicians coming down from the moon and peculiar creatures emerging from the roof. That mix of the familiar and the extraordinary informs all my writing.The Histories By HerodoTus By the time I was 12, I was obsessed by Ancient Greece and Rome. At first, I found the early section of The Histories a real grind because it’s like a long shaggy dog story that never gets to the point. In the second half I was rewarded with the stories I’d been waiting for, like the battles of Marathon, Salamis and Thermopylae. Over the years, I come to value the infectious curiosity of the first half and the portrait of the world in the fifth century BC seen through the eyes of this extraordinary Greek historian.A Distant Mirror By BarBara W TucHman Tuchman’s book The Guns of August won the Pulitzer Prize, but it’s this slightly less well-known work that provided me with a role model for my own writing. Both scholarly and interesting, it’s a portrait of the 14th century in Western Europe and vividly evokes medieval civilization buffeted by cataclysms: