2023届河南省信阳市第六高级中学高三第二次联考英语试卷（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．---They are quiet, aren’t they? ---yes. They are accustomed ____at meals. A．to talking B．to not talking C．to not talk D．to talk 2．---Excuse me, could you tell me the time, please? ---Sorry, I don’t have a watch with me. --- ___________ A．Thanks a lot. B．What a pity. C．I’m sorry to hear that D．Thanks all the same 3．Acceptance is not about liking a situation. It is about acknowledging all that has been lost and ________ to live with that loss. A．learning B．learned C．to learn D．having learned 4．Parents need to encourage kids to develop their potential _____ putting too much pressure on them. A．without B．besides C．by D．for 5．--- I’ll send you the signed contract personally this time tomorrow. --- Sorry, I ______ a meeting then. A．am attending B．attended C．have attended D．will be attending 6．When the girl did ________ the courage to tell her parents what had happened, unfortunately her own family didn't believe her. A．work out B．work up C．work at D．work on 7．Word came that 30 firefighters gave their lives to our country _______ national property security. A．in exchange for B．in response to C．in terms of D．in contrast with 8．—You speak very good French! —Thanks. I __________ French in Sichuan University for four years. A．studied B．study C．was studying D．had studied 9．I thought it hard to complete the project then, but I ________ my mind. A．will change B．would changed C．have changed D．had changed 10．—What a mess! You are always so lazy! —I’m not to blame, mum. I am ________ you have made me. A．how B．what C．that D．who 11．---Sorry to have broken your glass. ---_____________. You didn’t mean to, did you? A．No problem B．Forget it C．All right D．Don’t say so 12．The party last month really gave me a lot of fun. So can we have this month,Mr. James? A．any B．one C．another D．the other 13．Much to their delight, their new project _____ at the conference, the excited scholars decided to have a barbecue in honour of the fantastic moment. A．to approve B．being approved C．having approved D．having been approved 14．Justin a book about his adventures in Tibet．I hope he can find a good publisher when it is finished． A．was writing B．is currently writing C．has already written D．wrote 15．It was a difficult job for him. He had tried everything but it made little ________. A．use B．good C．difference D．result 16．Jess was sad and her friend helped her ___ the first awful weeks after her husband Bill died. A．break through B．break down C．get through D．get rid of 17．—How was your job interview? —Very successful. I ________ my homework about the company, you know. A．had done B．have done C．did D．was doing 18．—How long do you think it will be________the Stock Market returns to normal? —At least one year, I guess. A．when B．before C．until D．that 19．Playing with the foreign visitors, my cousin is beginning to several different languages. A．pick up B．pick out C．turn up D．show out 20．The new supermarket has announced that the first to purchase goods on the opening day ________ get a big prize. A．must B．could C．would D．shall 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）I still remember my hands and my fingers still remember — what used to lie in store for us on our return to school from the holidays. The trees in the school yard would be in full leaf again and the old leaves would be lying around like a muddy sea of leaves. “Get that all swept up!” the headmaster would tell us. “I want the whole place cleaned up, at once!” There was enough work there, to last over a week. Especially since the only tools with which we were provided were our hands, our fingers, our nails. “Now see that it’s done properly, and be quick about it,” the headmaster would say to the elder pupils, “or you’ll have to answer for it!” So at an order from the elder boys we would all line up like peanuts about to cut and gather in crops. If the work was not going as quickly as the headmaster expected, the big boys, instead of giving us a helping hand, used to find it simpler to beat us with branches pulled from the trees. In order to avoid these blows, we used to bribe (贿赂) the elder boys with the juicy cakes we used to bring for our midday meal. And if we happened to have any money on us, the coins changed hands at once. If we did not do this, or if we were afraid of going home with an empty stomach or an empty purse, the blows were redoubled. They hit us so violently and with such evil enjoyment even a deaf and dumb person would have realized that we were being beaten not so much to make us work harder, hut rather to beat us into a state of obedience (服从) in which we would be only too glad to give up our food and money. Occasionally one of us, worn out by su