2023学年甘肃省庆阳市高三下学期联合考试英语试题（含解析）.doc

2023学年高考英语模拟测试卷 注意事项 1．考生要认真填写考场号和座位序号。 2．试题所有答案必须填涂或书写在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。第一部分必须用2B 铅笔作答；第二部分必须用黑色字迹的签字笔作答。 3．考试结束后，考生须将试卷和答题卡放在桌面上，待监考员收回。 第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 1．Many gases in the atmosphere actually heat energy that escapes from the Earth’s surface back to the earth. A．finding; reflecting B．found; reflected C．found; to reflect D．found; reflect 2．The case shocked the public, a hot debate over human nature on the Intemet. A．causes B．caused C．causing D．to cause 3．—I will pick you up at 7 o’clock tomorrow morning. Is that all right? —________. See you then. A．I’d love to. B．That’s settled. C．It’s up to you D．My pleasure 4．—— How did you find your trip to Water Park in the summer of 2016? ——I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was ________ than I expected. A．even much interesting B．far more interesting C．so far interesting D．far from interesting 5．The world’s leading thinkers and policymakers examine what’s come apart in the past year, and what will define the year ahead, A．evaluate B．innovate C．anticipate D．regulate 6．We __________back in the hotel now if you didn’t lose the map． A．are B．were C．would be D．will be 7．The biggest problem for most plants, which ________just get up and run away when threatened, is that animals like to eat them. A．shall not B．can't C．needn't D．mustn't 8．Was it from the lake ______ he often went fishing ______ he saved the drowning girl? A．that; that B．where; where C．where; that D．that; where 9．—Are you ready to leave? —Almost, I’ll be ready to go just as soon as I ________ putting the clean dishes away. A．get through B．give up C．carry out D．set about 10．An old lady came to the bus stop only the bus had gone. A．to run ; to find B．running;to find C．and ran ; finding D．running; finding 11．____ clear goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily doings until we become slaves of them. A．On top of B．In the silence of C．On account of D．In the absence of 12．All the photographs in this book, stated otherwise, date from the 1950s. A．unless B．until C．once D．if 13．I would not be seeing the film Green Book now _____ me up in time. A．were Kathy not to pick B．had Kathy not picked C．if Kathy hasn’t picked D．if Kathy did not pick 14．—I heard Mr. Morgan would be here at 4:00 pm. next Thursday. —No, he _____ at that time. A．was boarding B．would be boarding C．will be boarding D．is boarding 15．As you can see, the number of cars on our roads ________ rising these days. A．was keeping B．keep C．keeps D．were keeping 16．Don’t touch your eyes, nose and mouth, because they aren’t covered by skin and can _______ the virus more easily. A．take up B．pick up C．make up D．set up 17．Tom finally decided to ________ and give himself up to the police, which allowed him to get away with only a small fine. A．kill the fatted calf B．face the music C．see the handwriting on the wall D．be a black sheep 18．Tom is proud and ________, never admitting he is wrong and always looking for someone else to blame. A．strict B．stubborn C．sympathetic D．sensitive 19．— Can I lie about seeing a text because I was too busy or lazy to respond to it? — Receiving a text does not necessarily mean you have to respond．Why waste a perfectly good lie ________ the truth will serve? A．unless B．until C．when D．while 20．Criticized as online games are, they never fail to ______ a large number of teenagers． A．appeal to B．object to C．refer to D．turn to 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） If we want to find out what kind of technology people used in the past, we normally have to rely on archaeologists to find ruined buildings and parts of tools or instruments or machines. Archaeologists then try to reconstruct, sometimes with the help of computer technology, what these ancient buildings and objects must have looked like, and how they might have been made. Sometimes historians are lucky and find an ancient document with a written description of these ancient buildings and objects. We can understand, then, why Chinese historians were so excited when they found cave paintings which show ancient science. They found these paintings in the world-renowned Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City, in Northwest China's Gansu Province. There are 500 man-made caves and they have survived for at least 1,600 years. Almost all of these caves have paintings on their ceilings or walls and they date from the 4th to 14th centuries. Wang Jinyu is an expert on these cave paintings (also called frescoes) and he says: “We discovered frescoes containing scientific and technological content in almost all of the caves which have frescoes.” What is remarkable about these cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of "scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipm