备战2023高考英语冲刺模拟试卷（九）
第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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。
(2023·广东省·模拟题)
A
Check out whatˈs coming soon, and whatˈs in development. Playbill will update the listings when new information is made available.
THE COLLABORATION at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
The play tells a true story in New York. Fifty-six-year-old Warholˈs star is falling. Jean is the new wonder-kid taking the art world by storm. When Jean agrees to work together with Warhol on a new exhibition, it soon becomes the talk of the city. The two artists t foot on a shared journey, both artistic and deeply personal, which redraws both their worlds.
ALMOST FAMOUS at Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre笔记本声音小
Bad on the 2,000 film of the same name, the musical features Pulitzer winner Kitt and a book by Crowe, who earned an Oscar award for penning the original film bad on his own teenage experience. The coming-of-age story tracks a 15-year-old music fan named William who follows the emerging band Stillwater on tour.
THE PIANO LESSON at Ethel Barrymnore Theatre
The play is the fourth in Wilsonˈs Century Cycle, which digs into the Black experience in every decade of the 20th century. Set in Pittsburghˈs Hill District in 1936, it centers around a brother and a sister involved in a battle over a piano carved with the faces of their ancestors.
KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Booth Theatre
Kim is a bright and funny high school girl, who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady. And yet her aging dia may be the least of her problems. Forced to deal with family crets, and possible crime charges, Kim is determined to explore happiness in a world where not even time is on her side.
1. What kind of play is THE COLLABORATION?
A. A romance.
B. A sci-fi story.
C. A fairy tale.
D. A life story.
2. Which theatre should you visit if you want to learn about racial issues?
A. Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
B. Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
C. Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
D. Booth Theatre.
3. What can you e in both ALMOST FAMOUS and KIMBERLY AKIMBO?
A. Struggles against crime charges.
B. Cutting-edge film technology.
C. Award-winning performances.
D. Teenagersˈ gr owth experiences.
【答案】D、C、D济南惨案
表示说话的词语【知识点】文学与艺术、逻辑推理、其他应用文、直接理解
【解析】【文章大意】本文是一篇应用文，主要介绍的是四部戏剧的相关信息。
1. 根据THE COLLABORATION at Samuel J.Friedman Theatre部分的The play tells a true story in New York. ... which redraws both their worlds.（该剧讲述了纽约的一个真实故事。56岁的沃霍尔的明星地位正在下降。琼是新的神童，在艺术界引起了轩然大波。当琼同意与沃霍尔合作举办一个新展览时，这件事很快就成了全城的话题。这两位艺术家踏上了一段共同的旅程，既有艺术的，也有深刻的个人色彩，重新描绘了他们的世界。）可知，THE COLLABORATION是一个人生故事。故选D。
2. 根据THE PIANO LESSON at Ethel Barrymnore Theatre部分的The play is the fourth in Wilsonˈs Century Cycle,which digs into the Black experience in every decade of the 20th century. （这部剧是威尔逊《世纪循环》的第四部，它深入研究了20世纪每十年的黑人经历。）可知，如果你想了解种族问题，你应该去Ethel Barrymnore Theatre，故选C。
3. 根据ALMOSTFAMOUS at Bernard B.Jacobs Theatre部分的The coming-of-age story tracks a 15-year-old music fan named William （这个成长故事讲述了一个名叫威廉的15岁乐迷跟随新兴乐队Stillwater的巡演。）和KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Booth Theatre部分的Kim is a bright and funny high school girl，who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady.（金是一个聪明有趣的高中女孩，她看起来像一个72岁的老太太。）和Forced to deal with family crets,and possible crime charges,Kim is determined to explore happiness in a world where not even time is on her side.（被迫处理家庭秘密，和可能的犯罪指控，金决心在甚至时间都不站在她一边的世界探索幸福。）可知，能在ALMOST FAMOUS和KIMBERLY AKIMBO看到青少年的成长经历。A.Struggles against crime charges.反对犯罪指控的斗争；B.Cutting-edge film technology.尖端电影技术；C.Award-winning
performances.获奖表演；D.Teenagers' growth experiences.青少年的成长经历。故选D。
(2023·江苏省南京市·模拟题)
B
Women were less likely than men to support the Vietnam war, the Gulf war, or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. They commit far fewer murders. They are less likely to favor strikes. For some scholars, the are grounds for thinking that a world run by women would be more peaceful.
But European history suggests otherwi, according to political scientists Oeindrila Dube and S. P. Harish. They studied how often European rulers went to war between 1480 and 1913, and found that states ruled by queens were 27% more likely to get involved in wars than tho ruled by kings.
This was not all the queens' fault: men, eing them as soft targets, tended to attack them. Frederick the Great of Prussia once declared: "No woman should ever be allowed to govern anything." Shortly after becoming king, he attacked the newly crowned Archduchess of Austria, Maria Theresa, and ized Silesia province. Despite years of war, she never recovered it.
But perceived weakness is not the whole story. Queens, the rearchers found, were more likely to gain new territory. Catherine the Great expanded her empire by some 200,000 square miles. And married queens were more aggressive than single queens or kings, whether single or married.
The authors suggest veral reasons for this. First, married queens may have been able to form more military alliances (联盟), making them confident enough to pick fights. Their husbands had often rved in the army before they married, and were well placed to strengthen military ties between their homelands and their wives' states.
Second, unlike most kings, queens often gave their husbands a lot of power, putting them in charge of foreign policy or the economy. During the 1740s, Maria Theresa's husband, Francis I, reformed the Austrian economy and raid money for the armed forces while his wife ruled much of central Europe. Prince Albert was Queen Victoria's most trusted advir, shaping her foreign policy until his death in 1861. This division of labor, the authors suggest, freed up time for queens to pursue more aggressive policies.
The modern era, too, has witnesd female leaders in wars: Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur war, or Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands. The number of countries led by women has more than doubled since 2000, but there is plenty of room for improvement: the current level of 15 reprents less than 10% of the total. A world in which more women took power might be more equal. Whether it would be more peaceful is a different question.
4. The underlined "perceived weakness" in paragraph 4 means that ______.
A. women were less likely to support wars
B. women could not recover lost territory
C. women commit far fewer crimes
D. women were soft targets
5. Why were married queens more likely to gain new territory?
A. Becau their military alliances picked fights for them.
B. Becau they were ambitious and aggressive by nature.
数学0C. Becau their husbands were supportive in state governing.
D. Becau they centralized all power into their own hands.
6. What is the purpo of mentioning the two female leaders in the last paragraph？
A. To imply there is room for improvement in gender equality.
B. To indicate more females become leaders in modern times.
C. To illustrate female leaders cannot prevent wars in modern times.
信怎么写D. To suggest female leaders have their share of wars in modern times.
7. According to the passage, we can safely conclude that ______.格式条款
A. married women are not fit to govern their states on their own
B. female leaders should be responsible for all wars throughout history
C. the world wouldn't be more peaceful even if more women took power
D. the division of labor allows queens to survive economic crisis
【答案】D、C、D、C
【知识点】逻辑推理、语意转化、历史与政治、说明文、词义猜测、目的意图
【解析】【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了由女性执政的国家历史上并不比男性执政的国家和平，已婚女王带领的国家其实经历了更多的战争。
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4. 根据第三段第一句话This was not all the queens' fault: men, eing them as soft targets, tended to attack them.（这不全是女王的错：男人们把他们视为软目标，倾向于攻击她们）以及下文可知，男人们将女人看作软柿子，倾向于攻击她们，然后举例证明男人攻击女性执政的国家，而第四段却表示这不是完整的故事，说明划线词应该指代上文男性对女性的轻视，因此划线的句子应该理解为“认为女人是软柿子”，故选D。
5. 根据倒数第三段中的First, married queens may have been able to form more military alliances (联盟), making them confident enough to pick fights. Their husbands had often rved in the army before they married, and were well
placed to strengthen military ties between their homelands and their wives' states.（首先，已婚皇后可能已经能够形成更多的军事联盟，这让她们有足够的信心挑起战争。她们的丈夫在结婚前经常在军队中服役，在加强他们的祖国和妻子所在国家之间的军事联系方面处于有利地位。）可知，已婚皇后更有可能获得新的领地是因为她们的丈夫会帮助其管理国家，使她们在军事联系方面处于有利地位，故选C。
6. 根据最后一段中的The modern era, too, has witnesd female leaders in wars: Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur war, or Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands.（现代也见证了战争中的女性领导人：Gold
a Meir和赎罪日战争，或者Margaret Thatcher和马岛战争。）可知，这里举例是想表明当代的女性领导者也在战争中有参与，故选D。
7. 根据文章最后一段最后两句话A world in which more women took power might be more equal. Whether it would be more peaceful is a different question.（一个有更多女性掌权的世界可能会更加平等。是否会更和平是另一个问题）可知，越来越多女性执政可能世界会更平等，但是是否更和平就是另一回事了，且前面一直介绍历史上和现代女性执政者都参与战争，所以我们可以总结出就算更多女性执政，世界也不会变得更加和平。故选C。
(2023·江苏省南通市·模拟题)
C
While the benefits of Zoom and other videoconferencing tools made them absolutely esntial in the pandemic (疫情), the rearch suggests that heavy reliance on the technology comes at a cost to creative thinking.
Brucks at Columbia University and her team started their investigation when managers reported having trouble innovating with remote workers. Brucks doubted whether videoconferencing was a fa学校图书馆
ctor, suspecting that difficulties coordinating (协调) large, global teams online might be to blame instead.
To find out, the rearchers analyd ideas for new products generated by 1,490 engineers for a multinational company. The engineers, who were in Finland, Hungary, India, Israel and Portugal, were randomly paired up and given an hour or so to brainstorm products either in person or over videoconferencing. They then lected their best idea.
Writing in Nature, the rearchers report that the engineers produced more ideas, and more innovative ideas, when working face to face. "They are not only generating a larger number of creative ideas, but their best idea is better," Brucks said. Virtual teams were just as good at lecting the best ideas from a bunch as tho that met in person.
"Visual focus is a huge component of cognitive (认知) focus. When you're focud on the screen and ignoring the rest of the environment, that affects how you approach the task," said Brucks. "It's uniquely bad for creativity becau
