2022-2023学年湖北省荆州开发区滩桥中学高考英语必刷试卷含解析

1、2022-2023学年高考英语模拟试卷注意事项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）1If you have a job, _ yourself to it and finally youll succeed.Ado devoteBto devoteCdevotingDdevoted2What does Nickys job involve as a public

2、relations director?_ quite a lot of time with other people.ASpending BHaving spentCTo spend DTo have spent3What about your self-drive trip yesterday?Tiring! The road was being widened, and we _ a rough ride.AhadBhaveCwould haveDhave had4“It might have saved me a lot of money”, Mr. Chen sighed, “_ ti

3、mely from the stock market this July”.Adid I withdrawBshould I withdrawChave I withdrawnDhad I withdrawn5You have a big mouth, Tom. You have told everybody the secret.AcantBmustntCshouldntDmightnt6My mother opened the drawer to _ the knives and spoons.Aput awayBput upCput onDput together7A mother re

4、cognizes the feel of her childs skin when blindfolded. _, she can instantly identify her babys cry.ASimilarly BMeanwhileCNevertheless DAccordingly8_ the deadline, the workers had to work overtime to get the job finished.AGivingBGivenCHaving givenDTo give9一Did you forget your promise, dear?一 I have f

5、inished my homework on time, mom.AExcuse me.BSurely.CWhy not?DHow could I?10What about the services in this hotel?They are at least as good as, if not superior to, _ in yours.AitBthoseCthatDthe one11 Did you catch the first bus this morning?No. It had left the stop _ I got there.A. in the timeBat th

6、e timeCby the timeDduring the time12Russias cutting off the gas supply raised a major concern to the European Union, a number of member states are increasingly dependent on one single supplier.AwhoseBthatCwhereDwhich13-Good evening. Huangshan Hotel. -Good evening. _?ADo you still have a room for ton

7、ight BWhat would you like, pleaseCIs there anything I can do for you DWho is that speaking, please14 on one foot with your eyes closeDand you will soon lose your balance.AStanding BStoodCTo stand DStand15_ the plant once a week if you are to get fruit in the autumn.AWatered BWatering CTo water DWate

8、r16What matters in life is working hard _ hardly working.Aas well asBless thanCrather thanDother than17People should stop using their cars and start using public transport._. The roads are too crowded as it is.AAll rightBExactlyCGo aheadDFine18But for the metal cage to pull the miners to safety, the

9、 miners in Chile _ in less than twenty-four hours.Awould not be rescuedBwould not have been rescuedCwould be rescuedDwould have been rescued19_ more energy to my study instead of being crazy about computer games, I would be sitting in a comfortable office now.AIf I devotedBHad I devotedCWould I be d

10、evotedDShould I be devoted20A proposal was put forward at the meeting _ the new cement plant shouldnt be built near the school.Awhen BwhereCthat Dwhich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）The most anticipated films of 2018Thanks to movies like Wolf Warrior 2, Never Say Die, Youth,

11、The Fate of the Furious an Dangal, the 2017 box office gross (票房收入) has reached new heights. Meanwhile, audience have been fed up with Hollywoods long dependence on sequel (续集) films. A lack of origin stories has been criticized for a while.As we embrace the new year, lets look to the future, and th

12、e most anticipated films in t following year.Guardians of The TombCountry: China and AustraliaRelease Date: Jan 19, 2018Director: Kimble RendallStars: Li Bingbing, Kellan Lutz, Wu Chun, Kelsey GrammerAn innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000-year-o

13、ld nightmare a secret that should have remained buried.Monster Hunt 2Country: ChinaRelease Date: Feb 16, 2018Director: Raman HuiStars: Bai Baihe, Jing Boran, Tony Leung Chiu-waiMonster Hunt was a huge commercial success, breaking numerous box office records. The film took place in the distant past,

14、when the human race existed alongside the Monster race. Monster Hunt 2 is the sequel of it.Avengers: Infinity WarCountry: United States ReleaseDate: May 4, 2018Director: Anthony Russo, Joe RussoStars: Robert Downey Jr., Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Chris EvansThe upcoming American supe

15、rhero film, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, is the sequel to 2012s Marvels the Avengers and 2015s Avengers.Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer VacationCountry: United StatesRelease Date: July 13, 2018Director: Genndy TartakovskyStars: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, David

16、SpadeThis 3D animated cartoon movie, the sequel of Hotel Transylvania 2, is a fantasy-comedy for your whole family to enjoy.1、What the first two films have in common is that _.Athey are produced by Chinese companies onlyBthey are sequels of their former onesCthey are released in the same monthDthey

17、are related to stories from the past2、A fan of Marvel Comics would probably go to see _.AMonster Hunt 2BAvengers: Infinity WarCGuardians of The TombDHotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation3、Which of the following is true about the film Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation?ARobert Downey Jr. stars in

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26、d man in a faded yellow shirt sat in a windowless room on a raised concrete form. The only source of heat came from somewhere beneath the plastic mattress and the rough blanket the blank-faced police woman had handed him after taking his thumb prints. He heard voices and metallic clang as the cell d

27、oor swung open.At the front desk a tired looking policeman handed the old man back his belongings, his worn-out cap and the Seiko watch that had stopped working the day his beloved Evelyn left. The policeman dramatically held the blue plastic bag at an arms length to the old man who took it and made

28、 sure its contents were undamaged: the goat meat, palm oil, leaves and spices. He ignored the confused expression on the officers face and signed the document declaring he had been returned the possessions they had taken off him the night before.No one spoke to him as he walked slowly towards the ex

29、it.“Mr. Easy-nwa?” He stopped and prayed to the God who now took care of Evelyn to please take him far away from this unhappy place of expressionless faces, clipped accents and people who did not even attempt to pronounce his name right.“Ezenwa,” He said and looked at a woman with tangerine lips, he

30、r name tag said Jessica Harlow, Social Services. “A bit far from home，she said as she drove fast and with confidence the way Evelyn used to. He wondered if she meant the 50 miles from Liverpool or the 50,000 miles from Enugu，a city in Nigeria. He did not bother replying as this woman had plenty to s

31、ay about the weather, bad drivers, her daughters school play.At last she drew up outside the block of flats where he lived.“Got here in the end”，said she seriously, “Really Mr. Easy-nwa, if you keep getting lost, we will have to consider moving you into a home”.“No need, I was not lost，he answered.

32、He carefully rolled up the sleeves of the oversize bomber jacket he wore and turned on the tap to wash his hands, relieved the pipes were not frozen. In a clean pan he placed the chopped pieces of goat meat. The herbs and spices that had taken him three months to track down, the uziza seeds had take

33、n him into the heart of Granby Market in Liverpool, his uchanwu leaves down a shady back alley in Manchester, and yesterday, among other food items, the finest goat meat from a Sierra Leonean Butcher in Birmingham. That had taken some time, so much he missed the last train and when the police found

34、him shivering outside the locked up station, so cold he couldnt answer loudly enough the pink-faced big copper who yelled in his face, “Whats your name sir?” spraying his face with spittle (吐沫）as he did so, leaving them with no choice but to search an exhausted, frozen old black man and finding him

35、in possession of mysterious condiments (调味品）including a bag of dried bitter-leaf which could of course be mistaken for anything that resulted in him getting read his rights and charged with .possession?He lifted the lid of the bubbling soup, the room was filled with the rich and spicy scent of his c

36、ulinary (烹饪的）effort. He served two bowls, taking the chipped one and placing the other opposite where Evelyn would have sat. He would tell her about his adventure, it was their anniversary and this was the perfect pepper soup to celebrate.Ken Onyia, UK (Nigeria) Commonwealth Sport Short Story Prize1

37、、Why was Mr. Ezenwa taken to the prison for a night?AHe was too weak to move.BHe couldnt find his way back home.CHe then had nowhere else to go.DHe was suspected of possessing drugs.2、When Mr. Ezenwa was to leave the prison, Ahis thumb print was taken immediatelyBthe policeman was confused about wha

38、t he hadCa social worker was assigned to drive him back homeDthe policeman was so kind as not to damage his belongings3、What did Mr. Ezenwa do for his wedding anniversary?AHe collected all sorts of valuables as presents.BHe cooked native food as a surprise for his wife.CHe prepared a special Nigeria

39、n pepper soup carefully.DHe travelled a lot, attempting to get his wife back.4、What words can be used to describe Mr. Ezenwa?AHopeless and pessimistic.BMysterious and troublesome.CAffectionate and persistent.DEnergetic and sympathetic.5、What theme does the author want to express through the story?AR

40、acial prejudice.BHard life of the elderly.CStruggle for freedom.DPreservation of tradition.24（8分）On the day the tornado hit, there was no indication severe weather was on its waythe sky was blue and the sun had been out. The first alert my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 p.m., from

41、some scrolling text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel from the presidential primary debate I had been watching to our local Pensacola, Florida, station.No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of u

42、s. Suddenly, the bones of the house shook, the power went out, and the wind began to roar through blown-out windows. We had three flights of steps to navigate to the relative safety of the first floor, where a closet fixed underneath a brick staircase might be the firmest place to wait things out. E

43、verything around rattling, we struggled forward, uncertain whether we would make it.As we reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Shards of glass flew everywhere. A three-foot-long tree branch whipped, missing us by inches.By the time I reached the closet, the tornado had been ove

44、r us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but the wind kept him outside. I grasped his arm as the tornado constantly sucked the door open and tried to bring him with it. My knees and scalp were full of glass, but I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right

45、out the back of the house and into the bay. Then everything stopped. In those first quiet moments, I couldnt believe it was over.The storm lasted four minutes. Four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly,

46、 none of us were severely injured.1、The author and her husband were caught unprepared by the tornado mainly because _.Athey were watching the presidential debate on the TVBthey missed the first alert from the TVCno signs indicated the disasterDthe government didnt warn them of the severe weather2、Th

47、e author didnt feel the pain in her keens and scalp because_.Ashe lost her consciousness Bshe was concerned about her husbands safetyCshe got to the closet safe and sound Dshe was glad that the tornado was over3、How did we feel after the tornado?Ablessed BdepressedCannoyed Dshocked4、Which word best

48、describe the experience?Ainteresting BadventurousCunpredictable Deducational25（10分） Ride-hailing apps and robot cars promise to change how we get around and the effects are already being felt. Traffic in New York is slowing down. Jams are common in Manhattan, especially in its business districts. Da

49、ytime traffic in the busiest areas now moves almost 20% more slowly than it did five years ago.It seems a place ripe for wide use of ride-hailing apps that, you might think, would reduce some of the jams. However, those apps appear to be making things worse as traffic has slowed in line with the gro

50、wing popularity of apps such as Uber and Lyft, a study by transport expert Bruce Schaller suggests.Over the four years of the study, the number of cars in Manhattan seeking ride-hailing fares increased by 81%. There are now about 68,000 ride-sharing drivers across New York. Thats about five times th

51、e number of the yellow cabs licensed to operate there, he found. There are so many drivers, his work suggests, who spend about 45% of their spare time just touring for fares. That is a lot of unused cars blocking a lot of busy streets.Simple physics explains why ride-sharing vehicles are causing, no

52、t curing jams, said Jarrett Walker, a public transport policy expert who has advised hundreds of cities about moving people.“Lots of people are deciding that, Oh, public transport is just too much trouble this morning, or whenever, which causes a shift from it,” he told the BBC“That means moving peo

53、ple from larger vehicles into smaller ones, which means more vehicles to move the same people. Therefore, more traffic.”Data gathered about ride-sharing drivers illustrates how they contribute to congestion(塞车), said Prof. Christo Wilson, a computer scientist at Northeastern University who has studi

54、ed the services. “You can look at the traffic pattern for the Uber vehicles and it perfectly matches the peaks for the rush hour and the peak time of a day,” he said. They are out there in force at the worst possible times.1、What can we know about the cabs in New York?AMore cabs are needed to meet t

55、he demand.BThey often tour around the city seeking users.CTheir fares increased greatly over the four years.DThe number of them is far less than ride-sharing cars.2、What is Christo Wilsons attitude toward ride-sharing practice?ANeutralBNegativeCIndifferentDSupportive3、Which of the following best rep

56、laces “it” underlined in Paragraph 5.AA jam.BPublic transportCA car.DA ride-sharing vehicle.4、What is the best title for the text?AWorse Road Jams.BApp Makes Terrible Jams.CEfforts Needed for Traffic.DTechnology Counts in Future.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

57、处的最佳选项26（30分） After my brother died in an accident, my mother was very sad. I was only 4 years old at the time, but I still understood the 1 in my moms attitude toward safety. 2 , everything around us was potentially 3 .I grew up with a lot of 4 and rules that were meant to 5 me. For example, I was

58、not 6 to walk home from school by myself, even though everyone I knew already did. I couldnt 7 evening parties or go to summer camp, 8 what if something happened to me?As I got older, the list of things to 9 got longer. I became a natural 10 . I was concerned about things like getting cancer, losing

59、 my wallet, being caught in car accidents and earthquakes 11 big and small, real and 12 .The funny part is that youd never know it by looking at my life, because Im constantly 13 myself to do the things that frighten or worry me. In fact, Ive developed a 14 for myself: If it scares me, then I have t

60、o do it 15 once. Ive done lots of things that would have 16 my mom: Ive ridden a motorcycle, Ive traveled alone, and Ive performed stand-up comedy.Courage isnt a natural attribute (品质) of human beings. I believe that we have to practice being courageous. The more 17 I do things that scare me or that