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1、2022-2023学年高考英语模拟试卷注意事项:1答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在条形码区域内。2答题时请按要求用笔。3请按照题号顺序在答题卡各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试卷上答题无效。4作图可先使用铅笔画出，确定后必须用黑色字迹的签字笔描黑。5保持卡面清洁，不要折暴、不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of our government, Id like to _ a sincere welcom

2、e and heartfelt gratitude.Aexploit BexposeCexpand Dextend2With the development of agriculture, the people_ village I taught arenow living a happy life.Ain whoseBwhoseCin whichDwhich3Never turn down a job because you think its too small. You dont know _ it can lead.Ahow BwhereCwhether Dwhat4Look, _ f

3、ashionable clothes is she wearing that all the eyes are fixed on her!AsoBsuchChowDwhat5I was on a business trip then, otherwise I _ to the hospital for tests.AwentBhad goneCwould have goneDwould go6He would be in better health now _ with too much work when young.Ahad he not burdened himselfBif he wa

4、s not burdenedCwere he not burdenedDhad he not been burdened himself7-The prices of vegetables are going up madly. Its really too much for us.-But for the situation where many vegetable producing areas _ constant low temperature, things would not be like this.Ameet withBhave met withCmet withDhad me

5、t with8Going out is _good means of relaxation. Would you like to go to_ park with me in the afternoon?Athe ;theBthe; aCa; theD/；a9The palace is heavily guarded, because inside its walls _.Awhere sit the European leadersBthe European leaders there sitCsit the European leadersDthat the European leader

6、s sit10This is the first time that your parents have been abroad, _?Ahavent theyBhasnt itCarent theyDisnt it11In many countries in the world, breakfast is a snack _ a meal, but the traditional English breakfast is a full meal.Aless thanBmore thanCother thanDrather than12Lily is a good singer. How I

7、wish I _ as well as her.AsingBwill singChad sungDsang13Some warned that the step the US government has taken to cope with the current crisis is _ much risk.Aone ofBthe one ofCthe oneDthat one14You know quite a lot about the fashion show.Well, Cathy _ it to me during lunch.Aintroduces BintroducedChad

8、 introduced Dwill introduce15The event that _ in my memory happened one morning in 1983 when I was 14 years old. It has never escaped.Astood out Bstands outCwould stand out Dhas stood out16An old lady came to the bus stop only the bus had gone.Ato run ; to findBrunning;to findCand ran ; findingDrunn

9、ing; finding17Did you take sides when Mom and Dad were arguing again?No. Ive learned that its best _ until it blows over.Ato call it a day Bto pull their legsCto sit on the fence Dto wash my hands off18She runs on average about 15 miles a day every day, _ the circumstances.AwhateverBwhereverCwhichev

10、erDhowever19Due to a terrible flu that _ on, many students dont show up to school today.AgoesBwas goingCis goingDhas gone20Why are you so upset?I had my computer repaired yesterday, but it _ work again.AdoesntBdidntCwontDwouldnt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）Biking along the

11、beach. Working on a puzzle with the family. Reading on the couch. These apparently ordinary activities arent just time-killersthey can be life savers. Studies show that hobbies have long-lasting and preventative results. People who play puzzle games and read have less memory loss when they get older

12、.“A really good hobby totally absorbs us,” says Gail McMeekin. “It also gives us something to look forward to and focus on.” That break from everyday sadness is perfect for a person who juggles with careers and family life. Having a hobby makes that heavy load a little easier, as it sets aside time

13、for both a mental break and focuses on an activity the person loves, one that is separate from office and parental duties.“Its very sad when I see clients (当事人) who have been laid off show that work was the centre of their lives and they have no hobbies to turn to for support,” Gail says. “Entertain

14、ment gives us rest and a fresh perspective,” says Gall, who notes that lots of creative ideas appear when people take a break and listen to their intuition (直觉).Danielle, blogger, made her blogging hobby a career a few years ago, and in the meantime found a hobby she never expected to get into: clot

15、hing design. “Having a hobby, especially a creative one, has positively impacted not only my work life, but my personal life as well,” Danielle says. “The trick,” she says, is to find out where you are spending time doing things that arent fulfilling t o you and take that time t o do something you l

16、ove instead.”“Learn to be an expert public speaker so you can give better presentations at work; start a scrapbooking (剪贴本) with your kids so you can spend time with them and be creative. ”Danielle offers.Gail also suggests developing a hobby that promotes socialization with friends. This is an oppo

17、rtunity to become part of a powerful support system, which is important for emotional health. At the very least, its a good way to chat with a golf friend while walking the course and forgetting a long day at work.1、What do the underlined words in Paragraph 2 mean?AQuit ones career to pursue ones ho

18、bby.BStruggle to a balance between work and family.CPrevent us from taking up our hobby.DAttach more importance to work than family.2、What do we know about Danielle?AShe makes a living by writing blogs.BDesigning clothes is her career.CShe supports her family by being a public speaker.DShe spends ti

19、me doing what she has no interest in.3、What does the last paragraph imply?AIt s our responsibility to socialize with others.BDeveloping a hobby is very important.COur feelings are determined by our hobbies.DWe benefit from a hobby of talking with others.4、According to the passage, the benefit a hobb

20、y brings is that .Awe can concentrate more on our jobsBwe can enjoy ourselves in the wildCwe can think in a more creative wayDwe can avoid being laid off22（8分） On a college camping trip, curiosity about waves and sand caused Rob Thieler to study shorelines around the world. Thirty years later and no

21、w a U. S. Geological Survey research geologist, Thieler, is combining science and smartphone technology to help study a bird, which is dying out, the Atlantic Coast piping plover.The piping plover is a shorebird that lives along the Atlantic Coast, the Great Lakes and the Great Plains. Rising sea le

22、vel associated with climate change, as well as increased development of their beach habitats（栖息地）, threatens the species. To help track changes in piping plover habitats, Thieler developed a free app called iPlover in 2012. This is a marked change from the typical way scientists collect data.Since r

23、eleasing iPlover, scientists have gathered data across 1,500 km of breeding range. That equals about a third of the distance across the U. S., which is a large area to cover for only two thousand breeding pairs of piping plovers on the east coast. Instead of having to travel and spend days at each s

24、ite, a number of cooperators in the field use the app to collect and send data, allowing scientists to gather data more efficiently. It also allows them to collect data at the same time during each breeding season, providing a better picture of changes that happen over longer periods of time. And fa

25、st, centralized access means scientists can look at data quickly to get a real-time idea of where and how piping plovers are using their habitats.While iPlover is used by trained field staff, other apps like the U. S. Geological Surveys web-based “iCoast Did the Coast Change?” invite citizen scienti

26、sts to identify coastal changes by comparing aerial（从飞机上的）photographs taken before and after storms. All the information scientists and citizen scientists alike collect helps federal and state agencies create policy plans for addressing climate change impacts（影响）worldwide.1、What can we know about th

27、e piping plover?AIts behaviour is changing.BIts habitat is growing bigger.CIts living environment is becoming worse.DIts breeding range is limited to the Atlantic Coast.2、Why did Thieler develop iPlover？ATo study shorelines across America.BTo advance information technology.CTo study global climate c

28、hange.DTo monitor changes of piping plover habitats.3、Which of the following benefits the shorebird?AThe camping equipment.BResearch on smartphones.CThe changeable coast.DProgress in technology.4、What would be the best title of the text?AProtecting Endangered ShorebirdsBRob Thieler, a Creative Scien

29、tistCiPlover, a Tool for Training Field StaffDDifferences Between iPlover and iCoast23（8分）It is one of the oldest magic tricks in the booka magician locks a woman in a box, with her head and feet sticking out from either end, and saws (锯) it in half. But when she finally jumps out of the box, the wo

30、man is unharmed.This trick was introduced nearly a century ago. It has been around for some time, but it never goes wrong. Why is it so successful? The answer is simple: the human mind is easily fooled.Our brain processes the world around us based on information that sensory organs, including the ey

31、es, pick up. For instance, when we see a cow or a horse standing behind a tree, we automatically “fill in” the part of the animals body that is hidden from our sight. “So the brain is taking this kind of very sparse (匮乏的) information about the world and its generating this rich world by filling in i

32、nformation,” Stephen Macknik, a scientist at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, US, told Science magazine.But since our brains are filling in the gaps, sometimes they get it wrong. They tend to be driven by our previous experiences and we expect things to go as they have in the past even

33、if sometimes they do not.This tendency explains magicians success in fooling people with well-known coin tricks. For example, when you see a magician throw a coin up and down in one hand and then fake a coin thrown to the other hand, you would naturally believe that the coin is in the other hand.Apa

34、rt from the information gaps, magicians also use the “blind spots” theory when doing their shows.The most well-known experiment demonstrating this theory is called the “invisible gorilla (大猩猩)”, in which volunteers watch a video of two basketball teams. They are asked to count how many times the tea

35、ms wearing white shirts pass the ball. In the meantime, a person dressed as a gorilla walks onto the court. But shockingly, half of the viewers dont notice the gorilla, even when they appear to be looking directly at it.Magicians employ this tactic (招数), what they call “misdirection”, in almost ever

36、y one of their acts. They direct our attention somewhere else using comedy and music, which can make us miss stuff during the performance.1、The magic trick is mentioned in the first paragraph to _.Aintroduce the steps of the magic trickBprove magic tricks seldom go wrongCreveal how magic tricks are

37、designedDget us to wonder how magicians trick the mind2、We can conclude from the passage that the human mind is easily fooled because our brain _.Amay have difficulty remembering what we just sawBfills in information about the magic worldCis influenced by our previous experiencesDprocesses far more

38、information than our sensory organs pick up3、What does the underlined word “invisible” in paragraph 7 refer to?AUnnoticed. BUnimportant.CUnpleasant. DUnprepared.4、During the “invisible gorilla” experiment, people watching the video ignore the “gorilla” because _.Athey dont look directly at itBthey a

39、re not interested in itCthey are too focused on countingDthey consider it to be a distraction5、Why do magicians usually use comedy and music when they play magic tricks?ATo get viewers to stay focused on the show.BTo make the show more fun and exciting.CTo draw viewers attention away from a secret a

40、ction.DTo create information gaps between magicians and viewers.24（8分）I spent most my twenties working for the National Park Service, and I lived a wide variety of government housing, including several shabby but appealing old houses where the wild creatures outnumbered humans. Sometimes I wondered,

41、 lying awake at night, how many hearts beat inside those walls. With all that lovely national park habitat protected for their use, why did the animals need to live in my house?My latest essay “The indoor wilds at outdoor parks,” revisits my experiences with wild (non-human!) roommates and officemat

42、es in Rocky Mountain National Park. At first, they were considered annoying but not dangerous. Attitudes changed dramatically when hantavirus (汉他病毒) came on the scene, and suddenly those cute, non-housebroken deer mice became a threat. When I moved on to Canyonlands National Park, I found that every

43、 effort had been made to seal off my house from four-footed intruders. These efforts mostly worked and later employees moved into new housing. But somehow a rat still managed to chew its way through the floor and drown itself in my toilet. Im not even going to get started about my coworkers, experie

44、nces with other much scarier animals.The Beaver Meadows Vistor Center in the story was designed by Tailiesin Associated Architects, Frank Lloyed Wrights firm, after Wrights death. Working there, I always thought the building was strange. I recently revisited the building while researching a children

45、s book I am writing about the park. I think I get it now, at least a little.1、What does the underlined word “their” in Paragraph 1 refer to?ASome park visitors. BEndangered animals.CThe authors coworkers. DThe authors wild roommates.2、Why did people show a change in attitude towards deer mice?ABecau

46、se a virus was spreading. BBecause people were hurt by them.CBecause people saw a really cute one. DBecause they protected peoples houses.3、What can we infer about the living conditions of the authors coworkers?AThey were unknown to the author. BThey were acceptable to the author.CThey were no bette

47、r than the authors. DThey were much better than the authors.4、After visiting the Beaver Meadows Vistor Center again, the author _.Acould appreciate it better Bfinished a childrens bookCdid research on national parks Dknew it was designed by Wright25（10分）Since English biologist Charles Darwin publish

48、ed On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientists have vastly improved their knowledge of natural history. However, a lot of information is still of the speculation, and scientists can still only make educated guesses at certain things.One subject that they guess about is why some 400 million years ag

49、o, animals in the sea developed limbs (肢) that allowed them to move onto and live on land.Recently, an idea that occurred to the US paleontologist (古生物学家) Alfred Romer a century ago became a hot topic once again.Homer thought that tidal (潮汐的) pools might have led to fish gaining limbs. Sea animals w

50、ould have been forced into these pools by strong tides. Then, they would have been made either to adapt to their new environment close to land or die. The fittest among them grew to accomplish the transition (过渡) from sea to land.Romer called these earliest four-footed animals “tetrapods”. Science h

51、as always thought that this was a credible theory, but only recently has there been strong enough evidence to support it.Hannah Byrne is an oceanographer (海洋学家) at Uppsala University in Sweden. She announced at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Oregon, US, that by using computer software, her team

52、had managed to link Homers theory to places where fossil deposits (沉积物) of the earliest tetrapods were found.According to the magazine Science, in 2014, Steven Balbus, a scientist at the University of Oxford in the UK, calculated that 400 million years ago, when the move from land to sea was achieve

53、d, tides were stronger than they are today. This is because the planet was 10 percent closer to the moon than it is now.The creatures stranded in the pools would have been under the pressure of “survival of the fittest”, explained Mattias Green, an ocean scientist at the UKs University of Bangor. As

54、 he told Science, “After a few days in these pools, you become food or you run out of food. the fish that had large limbs had an advantage because they could flip (翻转) themselves back in the water.”As is often the case, however, there are others who find the theory less convincing. Cambridge Univers

55、itys paleontologist Jennifer Clark, speaking to Nature magazine, seemed unconvinced. “Its only one of many ideas for the origin of land-based tetrapods, any or all of which may have been a part of the answer,” she said.1、Who first proposed the theory that fish might have gained limbs because of tida

56、l pools?AAlfred Romer. BCharles Darwin.CHannah Byrne. DSteven Balbus.2、Why were tides stronger 400 million years ago than they are today according to Steven Balbus?AThere were larger oceans.BEarth was closer to the moon.CThe moon gave off more energy.DEarth was under greater pressure.3、The underline

57、d word “stranded” in Paragraph 8 probably means “_”.Afound BsettledCabandoned Dtrapped4、What is the focus of the article?AThe arguments over a scientific theory.BThe proposal of a new scientific theory.CSome new evidence to support a previous theory.DA new discovery that questions a previous theory.

58、第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节）第一节（每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项26（30分）Last year,I met with a major accident.This accident totally changed the 1 I used to look at things in my life. Like every day,it was time for my office for which I used to go 2 a two wheeler vehicle.And that day I wa

59、s not in the 3 to wear the helmet.Its very 4 to ride a two wheeler in India and 5 most of the Indians are ignorant about is wearing a helmet. And it was a 6 for me too to wear a helmet every single day.So I was riding the vehicle at an average speed of 30-40 mph when I thought to go 7 of a scooter（小

60、型摩托车）being slowly ridden (on the left end of the lane) by a middle-aged man in parallel. The only 8 here was the wrong timing. The man without any hint or even looking at the back to check if any vehicle was approaching, 9 with his hand and immediately took a right turn to cross the street.Unfortuna