2023届重庆市永川北山中学高三考前热身英语试卷（含解析）.doc

2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷 注意事项: 1．答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在条形码区域内。 2．答题时请按要求用笔。 3．请按照题号顺序在答题卡各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试卷上答题无效。 4．作图可先使用铅笔画出，确定后必须用黑色字迹的签字笔描黑。 5．保持卡面清洁，不要折暴、不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。 第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 1．Thanks to her determination and perseverance on the piano lesson, she has a ______ grasp of the subject. A．comprehensive B．confidential C．conservative D．compulsory 2．— David is a green hand at such things. — But I believe he is quite ________ to the task. A．relevant B．accessible C．equal D．unique 3．_______, I have never seen anyone who's as capable as John. A．As long as I have traveled B．Much as I have traveled C．Now that I have traveled so much D．As I have traveled so much 4．—That's the third time you've done that! —Yeah, _____? A．what of it B．what’s on C．what about D．what for 5．He finished writing his first novel last year, and we all think that is ______ his career really took off. A．where B．when C．how D．why 6．My mother is always warning me when I go out, “Don’t get off the bus ________ it is stopping.” A．until B．while C．before D．after 7．Why are some brands more popular than others ______ the products are of similar quality? A．as though B．even if C．so that D．in case 8．－ I hear Iron Man III is on recently. Let’s set off for the cinema to appreciate it now. － ________ It’s about 10 PM. I’m so tired that I must go to bed. A．Let’s find some of the action. B．How do you find it? C．It’s entirely up to you. D．You can’t be serious. 9．—— How did you find your trip to Water Park in the summer of 2016? ——I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was ________ than I expected. A．even much interesting B．far more interesting C．so far interesting D．far from interesting 10．-----My room gets very cold at night. -----_________________. A．So is mine B．So mine is C．So does mine D．So mine does 11．8 students and 2 teachers at Santa Fe High School by a 17-year-student armed with a shotgun and a pistol. This is one of the many gun-related tragedies that have happened in the last 2 years. A．killed B．were killed C．have killed D．have been killed 12．The fellow we spoke ________ no comment at first. A．to make B．to made C．made D．to making 13．At the news of the earthquake, the soldiers did what they could the victims. A．help B．to help C．to helping D．helping 14．The two birds _________ each other in shape and color. In other words, they _________ each other in shape and color. A．differ, are different from B．differ from, are different to C．resemble, are similar to D．resemble, are similar with 15．---Are you satisfied with his school report? ---Not at all. It couldn’t have been ______. A．worse B．so bad C．better D．the worst 16．The company needs to _____ its outdated image to promote its newly-released product. A．lay out B．call up C．shake off D．give away 17．The government officials met the workers and engineers working on the stadium, most____ were migrant workers． A．of which B．of who C．of whom D．of them 18．If you want to go further in the new sport, the best way is to ______ and practise more frequently. A．dive in B．drop out C．catch on D．spring up 19．Yesterday I took my car to the garage to have them ________ the air-conditioner. A．to check B．checking C．checked D．check 20．-I feel caught between experience and jobs after graduation. -It’s really_________—without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience. A．a catch-22 B．a Herculean task C．a sacred cow D．a Mickey Mouse course 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）Columbus Day has been on American calendars since 1937, when President Franklin D．Roosevelt declared October 12 a federal holiday to honor the Italian explorer who “discovered” the Americas in 1942. However, the holiday has always been controversial. Many people believe that Christopher Columbus should not be given credit for “discovering” the continent, since native Americans had already been living there for generations. Besides, the explorer’s mission was not a scientific “voyage of discovery”, but one intended to conquer the new land. Critics maintain that the Spanish army Columbus brought on his second voyage, caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of indigenous(土著的) people. Those that survived the massacre became slaves, working in mines. Many, therefore, believe that the explorer’s arrival should not be celebrated. In 1977, a delegation of Native nations at the International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas, proposed renaming the holiday to “Indigenous People’s Day”. The proposal passed with a majority. However, convincing the rest of the country to do the same was not that easy. It took 15 years before the city of Berkeley in California adopted the name in 1992 and then 22 more years before Minneapolis, MN and Seattle, WA did the same in 2014. The following year, eight more cit