2023届湖南省长沙市雅礼教育集团高考英语押题试卷含解析

1、2023届高考英语模拟试卷注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3考试结束后，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）1I was telling a joke and Sam just interrupted me to tell a different one. He always _!Abites his tongue Bsaves his skinC

2、steals my thunder Dpulls my leg2_naturally by the skin when exposed to sunlight, Vitamin D is needed for healthy bones, teeth and muscles.AMakingBTo makeCMadeDMake3Physically challenged as Jack was, he did not _ himself to his fate.Aresist Breserve Cresign Drescue4There is no doubt that climate all

3、over the world _ greatly in recent years.Ahad changedBis changingCchangedDhas been changing5The waitress at the restaurant was usually very considerate, but on this occasion she seemed to _ the diners.AignoreBidentifyCapplaudDsatisfy6_the safety of gas, the government has checked the citys gas suppl

4、y system thoroughly.ATo ensure BEnsuringCHaving ensured DTo have ensured7Its that time of year again， when Alipay _ us just how much weve been spending， and on whatAremindsBremindedChas remindedDis reminding8Different cultural features of ethnic groups are _ one another and work out a melodyAin tune

5、 withBin parallel withCin contrast toDin response to9_ the students from their endless homework the school has decided to take a series of measures.AFreedBTo freeCFreeingDHaving freed10- How did you like the concert last night? - I enjoyed it very much, but the dancers _ a better job.Acould have don

6、eBcouldnt have doneCcould doDhad done11Peter has previous experience, _ I think hes the right person for the job.Aor BbutCfor Dso12Being happy is a skill that can be learned, and one way to _ ourselves to be happy is to write down the little things that cheer us up each day.AconveyBappealCtrainDatte

7、mpt13The explosion in the chemical plant _ avoided had the county authorities, aiming too much at short-term interests, performed their duties from the beginning.Ashould beBmight beCmust have beenDcould have been14The part in the film Rio _ the two birds escaped from the crashing plane made some of

8、the audience give a cry.AwhichBwhoCwhereDwhom15Thanks to the special chemical _ of the soil in the mountainous area, this economic plant grows well there.Acomposition BcompetenceCconstruction Dconclusion16 What do you want to do next? We have half an hour until the basketball game. _. Whatever you w

9、ant to do is fine with me.A. Its up to youBGlad to hear thatCYou cant miss itDIt just depends17-Mary was asked to do something important.-It doesnt matter. Lets the work where it is left off.Atake upBtake downCtake inDtake off18I was going to pay by cash when it suddenly occurred to me _ I had left

10、my purse at home.AwhetherBwhatCthatDwhere19- I cant think why he_ so angry. I meant no offence.-Its typical of him to be sensitive.Ashould have beenBmust have beenCmight have beenDcan have been20Our team is world-class and it was no surprise that we won by such a margin.AlowBhighCwideDnarrow第二部分 阅读理

11、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） I can hear the sound of insects and feel autumn is nearing. This means my year of study at Nara University of Education is coming to an end.The time Ive spent here has flown by so quickly. It seems as if I came here a month ago，but in reality I have to

12、 go home soon. When I came here，I missed my family and friends back home and found it hard to overcome loneliness，but on the other hand，I was interested in the new environment and had a lot of fun.I had visited Japan three times before coming to study at this university，but when I started living in

13、Japan，many days were filled with a mixture of anxiety and excitement. I sometimes made silly mistakes，but I thought this was the best way to learn about Japanese culture. I was not the only one that was not accustomed to the different customs of Japanese people.My plan before coming to Japan was to

14、make friends with some Japanese students in universities. However，I found my best friends were those who came from other countries. I didnt know much about other countries but I came to be more interested in them through making friends from different places，which made me aware of many different and

15、sometimes hard-to-understand customs. Furthermore，I was surprised to see myself thinking more about my own culture and realized I should come to know it better.I am really happy that I came to Nara. During my stay，I felt the closer connection between humans and nature here than in Europe.1、What can

16、we infer from the third paragraph?AThe author felt puzzled all the time.BThe author is adjusted to the life.CMany foreigners live in the city of Nara.DMany students like the author felt anxious.2、What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 4 refer to?ADifferent countries.BDifferent cultures.CM

17、any different places.DForeign students.3、What do we know about the Japanese according to the text?AThey value their lives much more.BThey are difficult to get along with.CThey are mindful of protecting the environment.DMany Europeans love to make friends with them.4、What is the authors purpose in wr

18、iting the text?ATo look back on his study.BTo call on readers to visit Nara.CTo show the beauty of Japanese culture.DTo share his experience of studying abroad.22（8分）About 15 years ago, I taught A Problem from Hell, a book on genocides (大屠杀), to a group of 18- and 19-year-olds in a mid-west universi

19、ty in the US. In my class there was a young man who had spent his boyhood in Bosnia as NATO bombed his hometown. My other students, amazed by his connection to the genocide in the textbook, asked him what it was like to grow up in a war-zone. “A pretty normal childhood as you had here,” he said. “We

20、 played cards inside a lot, and when there was no bombing we kicked a ball in the street.”In the past few years, the world has seen a rapid increase in refugees (难民), with the number hitting 60 million. Viet Thanh Nguyens story collection The Refugees reminds us that literature is news that stays ne

21、ws. Set in the Vietnamese communities in California as well as in Vietnam, the stories do not aim to surprise us with new twists or shock us with wonderful details, as war and refugee stories could easily choose to do. Rather, like the young man from Bosnia, Nguyens characters tell these stories bec

22、ause they are the only ones known to them.Included in the collection are two of the most touching pieces, both about siblings (兄弟或姊妹) separated by geography and history. In “Black-Eyed Women”, the narrator (讲述人), a young Vietnamese woman, is visited by the ghost of her elder brother, who died young

23、on the boat when the family took flight from the war. The tale of love and loss, violence and violation, may not be unfamiliar to the reader, but the determination of the brothers ghost (he has taken decades to swim across the Pacific to reach America) and the sisters abandoning herself to a half de

24、ath make the story lasting.As an echo, the closing story, “Fatherland”, explores a more complex situation between two siblings. The narrator, a young Vietnamese woman, meets her half-sister, visiting from the US for the first time. Adding to the tension is the fact that her father has named the narr

25、ator and her siblings after his first set of children. Two sisters, one American and one Vietnamese, yet named the same by the father it may sound strange, but isnt it the fate many refugees have to face: a life left behind, that could have been theirs; and a life in an adopted country.The theme of

26、doubleness choice and inevitability (不可避免性), home and homelessness, starting afresh and being stuck is present not only in the stories of Vietnamese refugees, but also of those who have become refugees from their own homes and loved ones. “Smiling at your relatives never got you very far, but smilin

27、g at strangers and acquaintances sometimes did.” So a pilot, who fought in the Vietnam war and is now revisiting the country for the first time, thinks while waving at the locals from a tour bus. Hes distant from his daughter, just as a Mexican American in the collection is distant from his wife, or

28、 a young man from Hong Kong is distant from his father.The collection is full of refugees, whether from external or from a deeper, more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each other. With anger but not despair, with reconciliation (和解) but not unrealistic hope, and with genuine

29、humour that is not used to insult anyone, Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters.1、The first paragraph is intended to .Adescribe the boring life of war victimsBappeal to the readers to help war victimsCcriticize NATOs killing of innocent peopleDintroduce the story collection The

30、 Refugees2、Which of the following about The Refugees is True?AIt tells the news in a literary form.BIt is full of surprising twists and plots.CThe author experiences the stories himself.DIts characters narrate their own stories.3、How are Black-Eyed Women and Fatherland mainly developed?ABy giving ex

31、amples.BBymaking contrasts.CBy providing evidence.DBy making classifications.4、We can infer from Paragraph 5 that .Arelatives hate their loved ones for being left behindBseparation from loved ones tends to make them distantCpeople become refugees due to their double characterDsmiling is a good way t

32、o keep loved ones together5、Which of the following is the theme of The Refugees？ADespair, suffering, and regret.BAnger, humour and hope.CSympathy, regret, and reconciliation.DDream, hope, and expectation.6、The Refugees mainly focuses on .Athe problems of identity, love, and family for refugeesBthe m

33、iserable lives of refugees in the adopted countriesCthe refugees reunion with their families after separationDthe various reasons for peoples being reduced to refugees23（8分）To fight for the conservation of forest ecosystem, several ecologists including Daniel Janzen convinced Del Oro, an orange juic

34、e producer, to donate part of their forestland to a national park. In return, Del Oro was allowed to throw large amounts of waste in the form of orange peels (皮) on a 3-hectare piece of land within the national park at no cost. Dealing with tons of leftover peels usually involved burning them or pay

35、ing to have them poured into a landfill, so the proposal was very attractive.But a year later, another juice company challenged the deal in court, arguing that their competitor was “polluting a national park”. They ended up winning, and the deal between Del Oro and the national park fell through.The

36、n in 2013, while discussing possible research avenues with Timothy Treuer, Daniel Janzen mentioned the orange story. Feeling interested, Treuer decided to stop by that piece of land that had been covered with fruit waste 15 years earlier. What he found shocked him.“While I would walk over exposed ro

37、ck and dead grass in the nearby fields, Id have to climb through undergrowth and cut paths through walls of vines (藤) in the orange peel site itself.” said Timothy Treuer.Treuer and his team spent months picking up samples (样品), analyzing and comparing them. They found great differences between the

38、areas covered with orange peels and those that were not. The area with orange waste had richer soil.The effect that the orange peels had on the land is probably not that surprising to people familiar with composting (施肥), but what is really shocking is that a judge actually thought the waste of oran

39、ge “mined” a national park and stopped it from going forward. Now that Timothy Treuers study has received worldwide attention, this type of “ruining” is being seriously considered as a way of bringing forests back to life.1、What did Del Oro usually do with orange peels?AAdd them to fuel. BThrow them

40、 into a national park.CBum or bury them. DMake them into cakes.2、What can we know about the deal between Del Oro and the national park?AIt lasted 15 years. BIt was signed by Treuer.CIt was made in about 1998. DIt was broken by Del Oro.3、What was Treuers finding?AOrange peels contain much fibre.BOran

41、ge peels can make soil richer.COrange peels rot away in a short time.DOrange waste ruined the national park.4、What is the authors attitude toward the judge mentioned in the last paragraph?ADisapproving. BPositive.CWorried. DAdmirable.24（8分）David was about 8 when he learned how to swim. He got so goo

42、d that he eventually picked up free diving, a sport where divers hold their breath until resurfacing instead of using breathing equipment. He never imagined nearly two decades later he would come to use that skill in such a way.It is an extraordinary act of courage, but to have the moment caught on

43、camera for the world to see is something else entirely. The scene was filmed by someone on the same boat and was put online. The video was shared immediately by national and global media.That August day began with David boating around with his friends. They spotted a woman driving a bright red Mazda

44、 heading right into high water. David and his crew tried to warn her to stop, but by then it was too late, and the car had already slid under water.In the moments before David jumped into those muddy flood waters to tear the roof off the car with his bare hands, his thought process was short. In fac

45、t, he didnt have one.“The car was sinking fast,” David says. “There was no time to think. It had to be done.”Up until recently, David hadnt reunited with the woman he saved. He was perfectly fine with saving a stranger and remaining unknown to her.Still to this day, even after the attention the vide

46、o received, after the media from all over the globe landed on his front yard, David doesnt think it a big deal. “I think I was just lucky,” David says, smiling. “I happened to be at the right place at the right time.”1、177What did David do on that August day?AHe picked up free diving. BHe rescued a

47、woman.CHe drove into the water. DHe filmed a video.2、179Why did the media land on his front yard?ATo take photos of his yard. BTo make a deal with him.CTo keep an eye on him. DTo dig for more about him.3、181What kind of person is David?AAmbitious. BConsiderate. CModest. DConservative.25（10分） Plants

48、are boring. They just sit there photosynthesizing （光合作用） while animals have all the fun. Right? Not so much. A new study has found that there is a long history of interactions between ants and plants. The ant and plant co-evolution （协同进化） started with ants feeding on plants and plants evolving ant-f

49、riendly features.Plants make a number of different structures that are specific for ant use. Some plants have evolved features that persuade ants into defending them from attack from other insects and even mmml. h nlud hollow thorns that nt will live nd, or tra ntr (琼浆) n lv or stems for the ants to

50、 eat. Some ants will just cheat and take the nectar and run, but some will stick around and attack anything that tries to hurt the plant. Other plants get ants to help them move their seeds around, by providing them with rich food packets attached to the seeds. The ant will pick up the seed and carr

51、y it away, eat the food packet, and leave the seed - often in a nutrient-rich area where itll grow better, and since its farther away from its parent, they wont have to compete for resources.But scientists werent sure how the evolutionary relationship between ants and plants got started. If evolutio

52、n is an arms race between species developing ways to make use of their neighbors, then scientists wanted to know whether plants or ants fired the first shot. It was a chicken-and-egg question, whether things started with ants developing behaviors to take advantage of plants, or plants evolving struc

53、tures to take advantage of ants.The history of ants and plants evolving together goes back to the time of the dinosaurs, and its not easy to tell from fossils who fired the first shot. However, it is a question of little significance. Scientists say their study maters because it provides a look at h

54、ow these widespread and complex interactions evolved.1、Some plants attach food packets to their seeds in order to .Areward the antsBmake a fool of antsCprovide nutrition for the seedsDget the seeds moved around2、What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?AHow plants and ants interact.BWhat ants do to prot

55、ect plants.CHow plants and ants survive attacks.DWhy plants and ants need co-evolution.3、Which is true about the evolutionary relationship between ants and plants?AAnts depended more upon plants.BIt caused a race for better evolution.CHow it got started was uncertain.DIt was of little value for futu

56、re studies.4、Whats the authors purpose of writing the passage?ATo introduce a science research method.BTo inform readers of a latest research findingCTo arouse readers interest in science research.DTo criticize peoples traditional views about plants.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

57、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）There was once a group of young people searching everywhere for happiness but what they got was only annoyance, grief and misery.So they 1 Socrates for advice on where happiness 2 But 3 giving any answers, Socrates asked them to help with building a 4 first. The gro

58、up of guys had to 5 the task, laying aside their own business of seeking happiness. It took them a long time to cut down a tall tree, gouging out (挖空) the center. Through painstaking effort, they made a canoe out of the tree. They launched the canoe into a river, and then 6 together in it, singing w

59、ith 7 .Socrates asked, “My children, do you have happiness now?” They answered in chorus: “We 8 be happier!” Socrates 9 , “Thats it! 10 you are too busy pursuing something to notice anything bitter, happiness will occur.”From the story I got to know that happiness 11 hides behind every tiny thing th

60、at you are involved in, and that you may only get pleasure through 12 work and creativity.We may have to 13 pain in our daily life and in the process of 14 happiness. Sometimes we tend to look for happiness in 15 things, like a new car, clothes, etc. True long term happiness, however, comes from wit