云南省陆良县第八中学2023学年高考冲刺英语模拟试题（含解析）.doc

2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷 注意事项 1．考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回． 2．答题前，请务必将自己的姓名、准考证号用0．5毫米黑色墨水的签字笔填写在试卷及答题卡的规定位置． 3．请认真核对监考员在答题卡上所粘贴的条形码上的姓名、准考证号与本人是否相符． 4．作答选择题，必须用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应选项的方框涂满、涂黑；如需改动，请用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案．作答非选择题，必须用05毫米黑色墨水的签字笔在答题卡上的指定位置作答，在其他位置作答一律无效． 5．如需作图，须用2B铅笔绘、写清楚，线条、符号等须加黑、加粗． 第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 1．﹣Mom，I'll stay in to accompany my grandpa this evening． ﹣________! A．With pleasure B．Never mind C．Suit yourself D．It depends 2．Jack and Mike were found cheating in the exam, and_______by their teacher at the moment. A．were scolded B．are being scolded C．have been scolded D．were being scolded 3．---I’m sure Andrew will win the first prize in the final. ---I think so. He _____ for it months. A．is preparing B．has been preparing C．was preparing D．had been preparing 4．I owe my current success to David, my best friend since childhood, without whom I have no idea where I ________ today. A．am B．was C．would have been D．would be 5．— Hello, I ________ to ask if I can book a flight ticket to Hainan tomorrow? — Sorry, we’ve already sold out. A．phone B．will phone C．am phoning D．have phoned 6．World AIDS Day is also important in reminding us that HIV has not gone away, and there are many things still to be done. A．which B．what C．that D．/ 7．The village evolved into a major e-commerce center, and _____ the past, the villagers owed their success to the reform and opening-up policy. A．reviewed B．reviewing C．to review D．being reviewed 8．Pele had bags of natural talent, but he ______ without the determination to deal with all the problems life threw in his path. A．would never succeed B．never succeeded C．would never have succeeded D．have never succeeded 9．Mary really hard on his book and thinks he’ll have finished it by Friday. A．worked B．has been working C．had worked D．has worked 10．According to The Sun, British scientists have solved the ancient riddle of ________ came first—chicken or egg? A．who B．what C．which D．that 11．— I am so glad to find you at home. Can you do me a favor? — Sure. _______? A．Why not B．What’s up C．How come D．How is it going 12．Maybe he really should do more exercises from now on. ____, I hope he could get over soon. A．Somehow B．Somewhat C．Anyway D．Anywhere 13．We are to hold the sports meeting next weekend, ________ the air quality becomes better. A．which B．when C．where D．while 14．Don't defend him any more. It's obvious that he ________ destroyed the fence of the garden even without an apology. A．accidentally B．carelessly C．deliberately D．clumsily 15．– What’s wrong with your ipad2? The sound ____is not clear. --Yes. It has been broken for some time. A．come out B．coming out C．to come out D．came out 16．His suggestion_______to see the film Avatar interested every one of us. A．that we go B．which we should go C．that we would go D．we should go 17．— You should have helped your mom wash the dishes． —I meant ．But she is always telling me to study． A．to do B．to C．doing so D．doing 18．We had wanted to surprise Father with a birthday gift, but my sister _______ by asking him what he would like. A．licked her lips B．ate her words C．spilt the beans D．pulled his leg 19．— The rent of our flat will see a 20% rise this year? — Yes. That’s ______ I have compromised with the flat owner. A．what B．where C．how D．when 20．--- Do you know what Tom does all day ? ---- I know he spends at least as much time watching TV as he ____________his lessons. A．is doing B．does C．spends to do D．does doing 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）Imagine that you’re the creator and show runner of the newest comedy show on television. Only it isn’t so popular yet, and your live Studio audience isn’t giving you the big laughs the show deserves. Do you film the show all over again, hoping that this time the audience will laugh? Or is there another option for making a joke sound funnier than it was received? Sweeten(改善) the sound by adding a laugh track! “Sweetening,” or the addition of sound effects such as laughs, screams, and other audience-produced noises to the audio track of a TV show, has been used since the 1940s to produce the appearance, or rather the sound, of an engaged and entertained response to a show’s comedy. Laugh tracks came into existence as not only a solution, and sometimes replacement, for an unengaged live audience but also as a way to engage an at-home audience into a more-traditional, public, and theaterlike experience. Adding a laugh track to a television show makes the viewers at home feel much less like they’re sitting on a couch staring at the television screen and much more like they’re in a room full of laughing happy people to varying degrees of success. Though the art of sweetening has risen and fallen in popularity over the past 60 years, credit for its creation and continued use is owed to laugh-track pioneer and sound engineer Charles Douglass. Douglass was the first to develop