湖北省当阳市第二高级中学2022-2023学年高考英语三模试卷含解析

1、2022-2023学年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）1Although passing the driving test _ be difficult now, its worth the efforts.AneedBshallCcanDshould2After he was pr

2、omoted to the present position, he is not so hardworking as he _.Awas used toBused to beCwas used to beingDused to3It suddenly occurred to him _ he had left his keys in the officeAthatBwhatCwhereDwhich4That Was the first time she alone at home during the weekends，bored to death Ahas left Bhas been l

3、eft Chad left Dhad been left5By the side of the teaching building of our school _, which was completed in 2009. Athere standing the library Bdoes the library stand Cthe library stands Dstands the library6At college, Barack Obama didnt know that he the first black president of the United States of Am

4、erica.Awas to becomeBbecomesCis to becomeDbecame7The book is now out of print, _ it can easily be borrowed from libraries.Aand BforCso Dbut8_ flag-raising ceremony was held at the Golden Bauhinia Square on July 1 to celebrate _ 17th anniversary of Hong Kongs return to China.AA; /BA; theCThe; theD/;

5、the9 I am so glad to find you at home. Can you do me a favor? Sure. _?AWhy notBWhats upCHow comeDHow is it going10The reign of the next Japanese emperor will be known as “Reiwa” (令和) era, in _ name the character for “harmony” is included.AwhichBwhatCwhoseDas11The course about Chinese food attracts o

6、ver 100 students per year, _ up to half are from overseas.Ain whichBof whomCwith whichDfor whom12_ the difference between the two findings is one of the worst mistakes youve made.AIgnored BIgnoringCTo ignore DHaving ignored13The customs officers were insisting that suitcases should be opened and the

7、ir contents _ for closer inspection.Alaid outBgiven outCsent outDpicked out14-I feel nervous when taking an exam.- and you can do it well.ATake it w easy BTake your time CGood luck DIts up to you15_ here, come and have a cup of tea.APassingBTo passCPassDHaving passed16Just as the famous man _it, “An

8、ything one man can imagine, other men can make_real.”Asays, itBput, /Csays, /Dput, them17_ they choose Chinese company is that China has the most advanced technology of high speed railway in the world.AWhenBThatCWhereDWhy18-Excuse me, could you tell me the time, please?-Sorry, I dont have a watch wi

9、th me.- _AThanks a lot.BWhat a pity.CIm sorry to hear thatDThanks all the same19Lack of sleep _ lead to weakened immunity and memory, and also slow physical growth.AshallBmustCshouldDcan20Mr. Chapman retired at 70 after he nearly 40 years with the Gas CompanyAhad spentBhas spentCspendsDwould spend第二

10、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）For an increasing number of students at American universities, Old is suddenly in. The reason is obvious: the graying of America means jobs, coupled with the aging of the baby-boom generation, a longer life span means that the nations elderly popu

11、lation is bound to expand significantly over the next 50 years. By 2050, 25 percent of all Americans will be older than 65, up from 14 percent in 1995.The change poses profound questions for government and society, of course. But it also creates career opportunities in medicine and health profession

12、s and in law and business as well. “In addition to the doctors, were going to need more sociologists, biologists, urban planners and specialized lawyers,” says Professor Edward Schneider of the University of Southern Californias (USC) School of Gerontology（老年学）.Lawyers can specialize in “elder law”,

13、 which covers everything from trusts and estates to nursing-home abuse and age discrimination. Businessmen see huge opportunities in the elder market because the baby boomers, 74 million strong, are likely to be the wealthiest group of retirees in human history. “Any student who combines an expert k

14、nowledge in gerontology with, say, an MBA or law degree will have a license to print money,” one professor says.Margarite Santos is a 21-year-old senior at USCShe began college as a biology major but found she was “really bored with bacteria.” So she took a class in gerontology and discovered that s

15、he liked it. She says, “I did volunteer work in retirement homes and it was very satisfying.”1、With the aging of America, lawyers can benefit _.Afrom the adoption of the “elder law”Bfrom presenting their professional services to the elderlyCby enriching their professional knowledgeDby winning the tr

16、ust of the elderly to promote their own interests.2、Who can make big money in the new century according to the passage?ARetirees who are business-minded.BThe volunteer workers in retirement homes.Ccollege graduates with an MBA or law degree.DProfessionals with a good knowledge of gerontology.3、Why c

17、an businessmen gain profit in the emerging elder market?ARetirees are more generous in spending money.BThey can employ more gerontologists.CThe elderly possess an enormous purchasing power.DThere are more elderly people working than before.22（8分） High school and college are periods of ever-expanding

18、 responsibility for students. You can get help from some practical apps. Check out these apps to get a head-start on being on top of your life!Sleep Cycle alarm clock (free; iOS, Android)Getting enough sleep is essential to getting a good education, but waking up rested isnt just about how much you

19、sleep; its about where you are in your sleep cycle when you wake up. Sleep Cycle uses your phones microphone and/or accelerometer to analyze your sleeping patterns and wake you up at the best time, when youre in your lightest sleep state(within a window that you set, so that youre not late). myHomew

20、ork Student Planner(free; iOS, Android, Windows)The myHomework Student Planner is available on wide variety of platforms so that you can stay organized wherever you are. You can keep track of your class schedule and homework, get reminders for upcoming tests, and sync it across all of your platforms

21、. Theres also a premium version for $4.99 that takes away the ads, gives you more themes, lets you add file attachments, and integrates access to external calendars.Circle of 6(free; iOS, Android)Circle of 6 is an innovative safety app that connects you to six of your most trusted friends (your “cir

22、cle”) and helps you keep track of each other. If youre feeling scared about a situation youre in you can send a per-programmed text to your circle with just two taps, and it will include your exact location. This could also be used by younger students to discreetly let their parents know that theyre

23、 in an uncomfortable situation and want to be picked up.Goodbudget(free; iOS, Android)Goodbudget can divide your money into virtual “envelopes” for things like Groceries, Transportation, Entertainment, Gas, and whatever else you need to budget for. The free version includes 10 regular envelopes plus

24、 syncing across two devices. Or you can move to a premium subscription(溢价认购)($5/month, $45/year)for more envelopes, five devices, and a five-year transaction history.1、Which of the following is NOT true?AAll of the four apps can be used free of chargeBSleep Cycle alarm clock can make you sleep as mu

25、ch as possibleCmyHomework Student Planner can be used on computers and cellphonesDGoodbudget can help you use your money wisely2、The app Goodbudge with a premium subscription for six months costs _.A$5B$22.5C$30D$453、Which might be the most useful for a primary school student who walks to the school

26、 alone every day?ASleep Cycle alarm clock(free; iOS, Android)BmyHomework Student Planner(free; iOS, Android, Windows)CCircle of 6(free; iOS, Android)DGoodbudget(free; iOS, Android)23（8分） An online supermarket companyOcado in the UK, has recently displayed a robotic hand that can pick fruits and vege

27、tables!When an embryo is in the womb (子宫), the very first sense it develops is touch. The senseof touch is also the one that lasts the longestas we get older and our vision and hearing begins to weaken, touch still remains. Humans use their touch to protect themselves, to create emotional relationsh

28、ips with other people and to experience pleasure. Can you imagine life without it?The sense of touch comes from a net work of nerve endings (神经末梢) and special touch receptors on the surface of the skin. While there are different kinds of touch receptors, they help usjudge pressure, texture and vibra

29、tions (震动). They are located in our fingertips, palms, soles of our feet, face, lips and tongue.When we touch something, the mechano-receptors feel the touch and through a network of nerves send signals to the brain. This informs the brain about the location of the touch, the amount of force used, a

30、nd the speed at which it was used.Several different techniques have been tried in the past few years to create such a robotic handusing three fingers. But this latest design by Soma copies the human hand. The gripper (钳子) is made up of flexible materials which grasp the thing based on its size and s

31、hape. Then air pressure is used to control the movement of the robotic fingers to pick objects safely and without causing damage.The next step would be for the robot to judge how ripe the fruits and vegetables are, and apply pressure accordingly. Members of the research team are currently working on

32、 adding computerized vision to the robots, so that they can see what they are grasping.Does all this mean robots can replace people? According to Ocado, it helps improve productivity by removing some of the repetitive tasks done by humans.1、What is focused on in the second paragraph?AThe origin of t

33、ouch.BThe importance of touch.CThe development of touch.DThe process of transporting touch.2、What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 4 refer to?AThe brain.BThe touch.CThe nerve.DThe signal.3、What is the typical feature of the latest robots?AThey can see what theyre taking hold of.BThey can tak

34、e the place of people in work places.CThey can tell whether the fruits and vegetables are ripe.DThey can hold things firmly according to their outer features.4、What can be a suitable title for the text?AA Sense of Touch for RobotsBA Robotic Hand for Classifying FruitsCA Robotic Hand with a Gentle To

35、uchDA Robot Made of Flexible Materials24（8分）Until recently, voice cloning or voice banking, as it was then known was a customized industry which served those at risk of losing the power of speech to cancer or surgery. Synthesizing（合成） a voice was a long and expensive process. It meant recording many

36、 phrases, each spoken many times, with different the history of the KidPass blog emotional emphase（s重音）and in different contexts (statement, question, command and so forth), in order to the tips on writing good articles online cover all possible pronunciations.Not any more. Software exists that can

37、store pieces of recorded speech which is merely five milliseconds long, each marked with a precise pitch（音高）. These can be put together to make new words, and adjusted individually so that they fit harmoniously into their new sonic homes. This is much cheaper than conventional voice banking, and per

38、mits novel uses to be developed.This year Vivo Text plans to release an app that lets users select the emphasis, speed and level of happiness or sadness with which individual words and phrases are produced. Mr. Silbert refers to the emotive quality of the human voice as “the ultimate instrument”. Ye

39、t this power also troubles him. Vivo Text licenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings. Hasbro is aware, Mr. Silbert notes, that without safeguards a naughty child might, for example, type impolite words on his mothers smartphone in order to

40、see a younger sibling burst into tears on hearing them spoken by a toy using mums voice.More troubling, when tested against voice-biometrics software like that used by many banks to block unauthorized access to accounts, more than 80% of the fake voices tricked the computer. Alan Black, one of Festv

41、oxs developers, thinks systems that rely on voice-ID software are now “deeply, fundamentally insecure”.Dr. Saxena and his colleagues asked volunteers if a voice sample belonged to a person whose real speech they had just listened to for about 90 seconds. The volunteers recognized cloned speech as su

42、ch only half the time (ie, no better than chance). The outcome, according to George Papcun, an expert witness paid to detect fake recordings produced as evidence in court, is the appearance of a technology with “enormous potential value for disinformation”.As might be expected, countermeasures to re

43、cognize such deception （ 欺 骗 ） are being developed.Nuance Communications, a maker of voice-activated software, is working on algorithms（算法） that detect tiny skips in frequency at the points where slices of speech are stuck together. Adobe, best known as the marker of Photoshop, an image-editing soft

44、ware suite, says that it may add digital watermarks to speech synthesized by a voice-cloning software called VoCo it is developing. Such technology may help computers recognize suspicious speech. Even so, it is easy to imagine the chaos that might be created in a world which makes it easy to put aut

45、hentic-sounding words into the mouths of opponents be they colleagues or heads of state.1、Paragraphs 1 and 2 are mainly about .Asignificant elements influencing voice cloningBpossible applications of voice cloning in realityCcomplexities of creating a synthetic copy of a voiceDdifferences between tr

46、aditional and existing voice banking2、Whats Hasbros attitude towards Vivo Tests new app?AOptimistic. BConservative.CUnconcerned. DSubjective.3、The experiment carried out by Dr. Saxena and his colleagues shows that volunteers .Aidentified cloned speech in about 45 secondsBpreferred a real speech to a

47、 voice sampleCproved only a little harder to fool than softwareDfound it hard to use the software to record their voices4、What can we infer from the last paragraph?AInvestments should be increased to advance voice cloning.BLong-term measures should be taken to popularize the idea of voice cloning.CD

48、isagreements among firms about the way to treat voice cloning are getting serious.DProblems of voice cloning are unavoidable despite the efforts that have been made.25（10分）Scope: Recently your school board proposed moving the school start time from 7:50a.m. to 7:20 a.m. What was your reaction to thi

49、s?Jilly Dos Santos: I was getting only four to six hours of sleep a night and I was late for school a lot. With the new start time, Id have to wake up even earlier. After we heard about the proposal, a teachers said to my class, “If you dont like it, why dont you do something about it?”Scope: What d

50、id you do?Jilly: I organized a group of students to speak to the school board.Scope: What did you do to prepare for the meeting?Jilly: I wanted to focus our presentation on why having an earlier start time was unhealthy. There is scientific research about teens and sleep. I learned that during your

51、teen years, because of a change in hormones(激素), your body begins to change. You start to want to go to bed later. School starts the same time it always has, so getting enough sleep becomes difficult. I realized there wasnt something wrong with my time management or me; the way I was feeling had a p

52、hysical and biological basis.Scope: How did it go?Jilly: About 30 students came to support me, and the board liked that I didnt get emotional and just provided the evidence. Two months later, an 8:55 a.m. start time became official. The board decided to make the start time later instead of earlier.S

53、cope: What has changed since the later start time?Jilly: I dont need to stay up an extra hour or two at night, because I can get work done in the morning. Ive also been late a lot less. And this year, there are more morning clubs and more people going to them.1、What can be a suitable title for the t

54、ext?ATalking With the School Board? Cheer Up!BAn Interview on a ProposalCA Dialogue between Scope and JillyDMoving the Start Time Earlier? Say No!2、Jillys teacher seemed to encourage the students _Ato talk with the school boardBto get their work done in timeCto voice their opinions bravelyDto take a

55、ction to support the proposal3、What does the underlined word “it” refer to?AJilly body clockBThe scientific researchCThe meeting Jilly organizedDJillys secret for time management4、How did Jilly succeed in persuading the school board?ABy showing scientific evidenceBBy putting forward a new proposalCB

56、y telling different students storiesDBy presenting her personal experience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）Signs can sometimes be seen at the entrance of a house, expressing that a tramp（流浪汉） has passed. This special sign-language is frequently 1 by

57、 tramps to inform their 2 whether the host of a certain house is friendly or unfriendly, and to 3 them the trouble of making unnecessary calls.Quite 4 one day, I came across a real tramp. He was such a rare sight these days that I stood some distance away and watched him. He was dressed just as a tr

58、amp should be 5 , old worn trousers, and a jacket many sizes too big for him. On his head there was a battered old hat and his boots were so old and worn; they were almost coming into 6 But the man himself looked cheerful as if he had not been a 7 , for the tramps face lit up with 8 He entered the f

59、ront gate confidently and rang the bell. When the door opened, I saw him 9 his hat but couldnt hear his words. The 10 was very short indeed, for no sooner had he spoken a few words than the door closed fiercely in his face. I felt 11 for him as he walked 12 out of the house, But just as quickly, his

60、 face lit up again and he moved quickly towards the gate. There he stopped, looked at the sign, and 13 his head seriously as if he had made a bad mistake. 14 deeply into his pockets, he produced a piece of chalk, rubbed out the 15 sign and made a new one in its place. He stared at it for a moment sm