2023学年肇庆市重点中学高三第三次测评英语试卷（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．—Bob says he will draw lessons from his failure and continue to try. —I’m delighted that he ________ take that view. A．will B．may C．should D．could 2．All the photographs in this book, stated otherwise, date from the 1950s. A．unless B．until C．once D．if 3．Jane established a program, ____ young people to take part in activities ____ promote greater concern for the environment． A．to encourage; where B．having encouraged; where C．encouraging; that D．encouraged; which 4．A proposal was put forward at the meeting __________ the new cement plant shouldn’t be built near the school. A．when B．where C．that D．which 5．We all agree that it is good to help those in need, but when ______ comes to giving away our money, things become strange. A．that B．this C．it D．one 6．Having battled with their _______ over whether to offer help to an aged man or woman who has fallen over, most people choose to help. A．compromise B．contradiction C．conscience D．competence 7．Children exposed to air pollution are more to suffering from different diseases. A．possible B．probable C．likely D．certainly 8．The house caught fire last week, with little of the original building _________. A．remain B．remained C．remains D．remaining 9．Jane can’t attend the meeting at 3 o’clock this afternoon because she ______ a class at that time. A．will teach B．would teach C．has taught D．will be teaching 10．—How did it come that you damaged your car so badly? —I ____into a tree on the roadside the other day. A．ran B．had run C．was running D．run 11．—You’ve agreed to go, so why aren’t you getting ready? —But I ________ that I was expected to set off at once. A．don’t realize B．didn’t realize C．haven’t realized D．hadn’t realized 12．If you go to buy the top best-selling CD, please get ______ for me. A．one B．it C．this D．that 13．---Let's walk to that village together. ---__________. How can we two girls do that in the dark？ A．I agree with you. B．That's a good point. C．You must be joking！ D．That's not your opinion！ 14．Andy can go to the cinema together with us he has finished the task． A．unless B．as soon as C．until D．as long as 15．____ interested in English may join this club. A．Whoever B．All who C．Anyone D．Who 16．The International Monetary Fund has received both criticism and for its efforts to promote financial stability, prevent crises, facilitate trade, and reduce poverty. A．worship B．credit C．argument D．privilege 17．I was expecting a present from her, so I was disappointed I didn’t receive ______. A．it B．one C．that D．the one 18．—Where are you going to hang the picture? —I haven’t decided yet. I ________ hang it in the dining room. A．might B．must C．need D．would 19．---- What do you think of zoology? ---- In my opinion, zoology is ______ botany. A．a subject so interesting as B．as a interesting subject as C．as interesting a subject as D．interesting as a subject as 20．When I was small, my mom ________read me stories at night. A．could B．should C．might D．would 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）In Shanghai’s Grand Theater, a fashionable, mainly young audience applauds enthusiastically as Guo Yong takes center stage. He holds a large bushy tree branch with leaves. Blowing on one of the leaves, he produces a sound like the singing of birds as he plays a traditional Buyi folk song. Some other musicians are also playing the traditional instruments from various ethnic groups in China. It’s the first time such music has ever been performed in the Grand Theater. But all this is the efforts of Zhu Zheqin, a Cantonese-born singer; who has made it her mission to help preserve China’s traditional ethnic music. Several years ago, after being appointed a United Nations Development Program ambassador, Zhu traveled through some of China’s remotest regions in an attempt to document the traditional music of various minority groups. In the course other four- month trip, she recorded more than a thousand songs. But she noticed that many of the best musicians were old, and some of the music was at risk of dying out. “I was shocked the beauty of what I heard-it was so good,” she says. “But it needed support. I hope to let people see the beauty of these things in the contemporary times.” So Zhu decided to introduce some of the musicians to a wider audience. By doing this, she hopes to rekindle (再次点燃) the interest of the younger generation. “Young people don’t like this music much; they prefer pop music and love songs. They think these songs are something their grandma sings. This kind of repackaging gives young people a new door into their heritage.” Zhu believes China needs to look again at its own roots. “China today is basically all Western art; in our conservatories (音乐学