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．—Listening to language recording in bed seems like an easy way to _______ some new vocabulary.
—But does this learning method actually work?
A．polish up    B．make up
C．pick up    D．build up
2．As you can see, the number of cars on our roads ________ rising these days.
A．was keeping    B．keep
C．keeps    D．were keeping
3．— I am worn out. — Me too, all work and no play. So it’s time to ________.
A．burn the midnight oil    B．push the limits
C．go with the flow    D．call it a day
4．Many artifacts ________ for the first time in the National Museum at present.
A．were exhibited    B．were being exhibited
C．are being exhibited    D．are exhibited
5．Tourists are required to _________ local customs and mind their manners when travelling abroad.
A．spot    B．confirm
C．observe    D．spread
6．We work during the week，but weekends and evenings are usually ________．
A．vacant    B．casual    C．empty    D．clear
7．—Did you take sides when Mom and Dad were arguing again?
—No. I’ve learned that it’s best _______ until it blows over.
A．to call it a day    B．to pull their legs
C．to sit on the fence    D．to wash my hands off
headset8．We believe ________ you have been devoted to ________ naturally of great neces
sity.
A．that; being    B．all that; be
C．that all; are    D．what; is
9．--- I have been working for more than 30 years! I’m going to retire next month.
--- Really? You don’t look a day       40!
A．over    B．by
C．with    D．for
10．I think you’ve got to the point      a change is needed , otherwise you’ll fail .
A．when    B．which    C．where    D．there
11．—Which do you prefer, the former option or the latter one?
—I think the former one is no better than the latter one. So I’ll choose ________.
A．the former one    B．the latter one
C．either of them    D．neither of them
12．These remarkable findings suggest the elephants have ________ a memory capacity to make distinctions between human voices.
A．built up    B．packed up    C．brought up    D．took up
13．You can ask anyone for help. ________ here is willing to lend you a hand.
A．Everyone    B．No one
C．One    D．Someone
14．—Have you seen Jiang Wen’s movieLet the Bullets Flyrecently?
—Yes. I        it twice last week, At home and in the theatre.
A．had enjoyed    B．enjoyed    C．have enjoyed    D．was enjoying
15．In the early morning all of us stood at the top of the mountain ___________ east of the city, watching __________burning sun rising.
A．/; a    B．the; a
C．the; the    D．/; the
16．There are a lot of signs         men are more likely to have heart attacks than women.
A．indicate            B．to indicate          C．indicated          D．indicating
17．How did it come about ________ a quiet person should appear so wild today?
A．whether    B．that    C．if    D．what
18．To his delight, Tom quickly earned the trust of his boss and then       of his colleagues.
A．one    B．ones
C．that    D．those
19．_____ how to get along with others is very important in success.
A．Know    B．Known    C．Having known    D．Knowing
20．Two professors at Harvard University published a study of 3,300 new graduates, looking at ________ their names had any bearing on their academic performance.
A．that    B．how    C．why    D．whether
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 first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in th
e 1970s, when people began writing their names, or “tags”, on buildings all over the city. In the mid-seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as masterpieces.
In the early days, the “taggers” were part of street crowds who were concerned with marking their territory(领地). They worked in groups called “crews” and called what they did “writing” — the term “graffiti” was first used by The New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. But at the same time that it began to be regarded as an art form, John Lindsay, the then mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings.
The debate over whether graffiti is art or deliberate damage is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York city councilor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be ar
t, but if it is on someone else’s property it becomes a crime. “I have a message for the graffiti destroyers out there,” he said recently, “and your freedom of expression ends where my property begins.” On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public from advertisers, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities livelier.

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