2023届杭州第二中学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 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．By the end of last week,600 people from 50 countries to attend the meeting，with nearly half coming from the United States，Germany and Britain. A．had registered B．have registered C．registered D．were registered 2．— What shall we do tonight then? — , whatever you want. A．Help yourself B．It’s a deal C．No problem D．It’s up to you 3．.---Would you have told him the answer had it been possible? .---I would have, but I _____ so busy then. A．had been B．were C．was D．would be 4．Though the story of Li Yunlong in the TV drama “Bright Sword” is a fiction, much of __________happened is historically true. A．that B．what C．which D．it 5．Kunming is called “Spring City”, but it _____ snow in winter. A．shall B．can C．must D．might 6．---Mr. Johnson has been chosen as the manager of the sales department. ---___________ he was so excited this morning. A．No chance B．No way C．Not possible D．No wonder 7．________ a high percentage of Australians may be people who watch sports rather than do them, as far as most of its population is concerned, it is indeed a great sporting nation. A．While B．as C．If D．Whether 8．— Tell me something about his match in Sydney. — Well，he got the championship， we had expected.He made it at last. A．as B．what C．why D．how 9．Taught in a more professional way, you _________ the swimming skill much better. A．might master B．would have mastered C．can have mastered D．could master 10．---There are probably aliens living here on earth. ---_____! I can’t believe you said that. A．Come on B．Forget it C．Go ahead D．Allow me 11．We’d better take umbrellas—I’m sure it ________ when we arrive in London; it’s always wet there at this time of year. A．will rain B．is raining C．will be raining D．would rain 12．______ property, we’re among the richest people in this city． A．In search of B．In spite of C．In place of D．In terms of 13．Have you read the book Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan, _____ that won him the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature? A．the one B．one C．those D．ones 14．Comparison may make something appear more beautiful than it is when _____ alone． A．seen B．seeing C．see D．to see 15． I want to tell you is the deep love and respect I have for my parents. A．That B．Which C．Whether D．What 16．— Mum, would you please buy me an MP5 player? — If you can help do some housework the whole vacation，you ____ have one as a reward. A．must B．need C．would D．shall 17．You ________ have booked the tickets in advance; there were plenty left. A．needn’t B．can’t C．shouldn’t D．mustn’t 18．______ is important in study is diligence rather than intelligence. A．Which B．What C．Who D．When 19．The guide was enthusiastic and knowledgeable and we spent a lovely evening wandering into places which we ________ straight past otherwise. A．had walked B．were walking C．would have walked D．must have walked 20．Computers can do nothing．But once ______what to do, they show extraordinary power to do a great deal． A．to program B．being programmed C．programmed D．having programmed 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）Decades before the first unaccompanied child was put on a plane to grandma’s in the care of a flight attendant, a few resourceful parents accomplished the same end by simply dropping their kids in the mail. This was in the earliest days of the parcel post service, which launched in 1913. Before that, U.S. Postal Service packages were capped at four pounds, which limited the goofy things people tried to send by post. But when the parcel service began, all kinds of cargo showed up in the mail stream, including coffins, eggs, dogs and, in a few cases, human young. According to National Postal Museum historian Nancy Pope, the first known case of a mailed baby was in 1913 when Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beauge of Glen Este, Ohio, shipped their 10-pound infant son to his grandmother’s home about a mile away, paying 15 cents in postage and springing for $50 in insurance (because they were worriers). But some children were mailed much farther, Pope said. Edna Neff of Pensacola, Fla., was 6 when she was packed off — or packaged off — to her father’s home in Christiansburg, Va., 720 miles away. The precious parcels weren’t truly parcels in the brown-paper. Instead they were more like companions in the arms of their carriers or walked along the route(路线). But the most famous mailed child, May Pierstorff, was indeed sent by an Idaho railway mail car in 1914 with the appropriate stamps stuck to her traveling coat. May’s picture survives, but no physical evidence of her trip. “We would sure love to have that coat,” Pope said. In 1914, the postmaster general instituted a rule about the mail that stands to this day: no humans. But that didn’t st