2023届清华大学附中高三第五次模拟考试英语试卷（含解析）.doc

2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷 考生须知： 1．全卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，全部在答题纸上作答。选择题必须用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题的答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔写在“答题纸”相应位置上。 2．请用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔在“答题纸”上先填写姓名和准考证号。 3．保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。 第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 1．People from all walks of life are eager for success, _______ lack of confidence, however, is a great barrier. A．where B．which C．to which D．beyond which 2．It_____ have been Tom that parked the car here, as he is the only one with a car. A．may B．can C．must D．should 3．—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 4．—It’s really great to have a computer to store my photos. —Don’t count on it too much. It ________ break down and you’d better make a copy of them. A．must B．can C．should D．will 5．I was on a business trip then, otherwise I ________ to the hospital for tests. A．went B．had gone C．would have gone D．would go 6．______ caught in the rain unexpectedly, we still enjoyed the journey very much. A．When B．As C．Unless D．Although 7．The company needs to _____ its outdated image to promote its newly-released product.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 8．James Smith and his girlfriend went to Chenyi Square to celebrate the New Year, never _________. A．returned B．to return C．returning D．having returned 9．________some people criticize graffiti for being ugly and destructive, those graffiti lovers still see it as real art. A．As B．While C．Once D．Until 10．Some tourists’ visiting Tian’ anmen Square during the holiday left a __________ of litter everywhere they went. A．trail B．dot C．chain D．track 11．They felt ________ it was high tax and low income ________ contributed to the extreme misery of the working people at the bottom of the ladder. A．/；that B．that; which C．that; what D．/; which 12．You have to rewrite the monthly report because you _____ many important details. A．turned off B．left out C．dropped by D．put up 13．— I got that job I wanted at the public library. — ___________! That’s good news. A．Go ahead B．Cheers C．Congratulations D．Come on 14．If he had been working hard, he ______ in the office now. However, he didn’t. A．would be working B．were to be working C．was working D．should work 15．If you’d written earlier, I’d have known when you to go on holiday. A．want B．have wanted C．wanted D．will want 16．We packed all the books in the wooden boxes_______ they wouldn’t get damaged. A．as long as B．as if C．in case D．so that 17．﹣Have you got the results of the final exam？ ﹣Not yet．It will be a few days ________ we know the full results．（　　） A．before B．after C．until D．when 18．Was it at the beginning _____ you made the promise ____ you would do all to help make it? A．that; that B．when; that C．that; when D．when; when 19．—What was it that caused the party to be put off? —________ the invitations. A．Because Tom delayed sending B．Tom delayed to send C．That Tom delayed sending D．Tom delayed sending 20．The artist is said during the production and thus a pirated video was sold in every part of Kenya. A．to be cheated B．being cheated C．to have been cheated D．having been cheated 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）The first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or “tags”, on buildings all over the city. In the mid-seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as masterpieces. In the early days, the “taggers” were part of street crowds who were concerned with marking their territory(领地). They worked in groups called “crews” and called what they did “writing” — the term “graffiti” was first used by The New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. But at the same time that it began to be regarded as an art form, John Lindsay, the then mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings. The debate over whether graffiti is art or deliberate damage is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York city councilor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone else’s property it becomes a crime. “I have a message for the graffiti destroyers out there,” he said recently, “and your freedom of expression ends where my property begins.” On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public