2023届湖南省长沙市宁乡一中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 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．—Have you found the new flat advertised in the newspaper? — Yes. But the community____ very large and I nearly got lost just now. A．had been B．was C．will be D．is 2．— BoB．could I use your computer this evening? —Sorry. I a report on it then. A．will be writing B．have been writing C．have written D．will have written 3． for years of hard training, she would not be standing on the stage, receiving huge cheers and applause. A．It were not B．It had not been C．Were it not D．Had it not been. 4．— Do you know anything about British history? —______________. I have no interest in it. A．Take it easy! B．Please don’t bother. C．It’s up to you. D．No. It’s beyond me. 5．The new product is beyond all praise and has quickly taken over the market ________ its superior quality. A．in terms of B．on account of C．on behalf of D．on top of 6．—Would you mind moving over a little? I have to pass here. —________ I’d like to help. A．Not in the slightest. B．Don’t mention it. C．Never mind. D．At your service. 7．________ blood if you can and many lives will be saved. A．Giving B．Given C．To give D．Give 8．Having lost something in the cloakroom，I went inside to get it，and found Roy ________ the pockets of people’s coats. A．going around B．going after C．going against D．going through 9．—This is the first time I ________ my picture with my own hands. —It is time that you ________ a picture for me. A．have taken; took B．took; should take C．took; will take D．will take; have taken 10．---When shall we start the reconstruction of the historic building? --- Not until our program ______ by the authority. A. will approve B. will be approved C. has approved D. has been approved 11．People who drink and drive are ________ danger both to themselves and to others. They are in ________ danger of losing their lives. A．the; the B．a; a C．a; / D．/; / 12． more about the place where you live,and you will shoulder more responsibility to protect it A．Learning B．To learn C．Learn D．Learned 13．With the number of homecoming overseas students ________ up in recent years, the attraction of foreign degree holders has gradually faded. A．shot B．being shot C．shooting D．to shoot 14．---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 15．—I need to advertise for a roommate for next term. —______? Mary is interested. A．What for B．Why not C．So what D．Why bother 16．The government should develop system to predict when wildfires occur and give warnings in time. A．previous B．reliable C．reasonable D．responsible 17．—Next Monday is my birthday. —Is that so? ______ A．I can’t believe my ears.          B．I’m so glad to hear that. C．What presents do you want?  D．Many happy returns of the day! 18．The kid is crying, for he ______ jump over the ditch on his own. A．dares not to B．dare not to C．doesn’t dare to D．dares not 19． their final medical check, the astronauts boarded their spacecraft． A．Received B．Being received C．To receive D．Having received 20．Great pity! His illness is ________ the treatment available so far. A．within B．above C．about D．beyond 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）Machines might one day replace human laborers in a number of professions,but surely they won't ever replace human artists.Right? Think again.Not even our artists will be safe from the inevitable machine takeover,if a new development in artificial intelligence by a team of researchers from Rutgers University and Facebook's A．I.lab offers a clue of what's to come.They have designed an A．I.capable of not only producing art,but actually inventing whole new aesthetic styles similar to movements like impressionism or abstract expressionism,reports.The idea,according to researcher Marian Mazzone,was to make art that is "novel,but not too novel." The model used in this project involved a generator network,which produces the images,and a discriminator network,which "judges" whether it's art.Once the generator learns how to produce work that the distributor recognizes as art,it's given an additional directive: to produce art that doesn't match any known aesthetic styles. "You want to have something really creative and striking—but at the same time not go too far and make something that isn't aesthetically（美学地）pleasing,"explained Ahmed Elgammal. The art that was generated by the system was then presented to human judges alongside human-produced art without showing which was which.To the researchers' surprise,the machine-made art scored slightly higher overall than the human-produced art. Of course,machines can't yet replace the meaning that's infused in works by human artists,but this p