2023年高考英语新材料仿真模拟押题卷
（北京专用卷）
本试卷共11页，共100分。考试时长90分钟。
第一部分 知识运用（共两节，30分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题分，共15分）端午节活动
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的Appt比例、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Michael Evans was standing in line at the Treasurer’s Office last August, waiting to pay his taxes, when he heard a(n) ____1____余姚阳明山庄 sound ahead of him. The elderly woman at the window was crying. He heard the cashier ____2____ the woman that her hou was in foreclosure (消防安全主题班会记录丧失抵押品赎回权) and headed for auction (拍卖). He also heard the woman tell the cashier that her daughter had recently died. Evans, a businessman who had just bur
ied his father, couldn’t ____3____ the idea of this woman losing her home right after losing her child. He ____4____ the window. “I don’t mean to butt in,” he said to the cashier, “but if you can get her hou back, I’ll pay for her taxes.” The amount added up to $5,000.
The old woman was shocked. Her despair turned to ____5____. The cashier left for a moment to ____6____ that it was all right for Evans to pay it. Evans promid to go straight to the bank and come back with the money. But when he returned to the treasurer’s office, he asked someone el waiting in line to hand the $5,000 check to the cashier. Evans was trying to ____7____ quietly and, preferably, anonymously (匿名地).
“I didn’t want this attention,” he explained.
However, attention found him. It’s not every day that someone pays a stranger’s tax bill. As is reported, Evans often finds himlf on the giving end of charitable situations, though for years he went unrecognized for it. As for paying the elderly woman’s taxes, Evans said he did it for ____8____ but to make sure the lady stayed in her own hou.
精美文段
A few weeks after the tax ____9____, Evans received the Spirit of Detroit Award for his lifetime of _____10_____.
1．A．exciting B．frightening C．appealing D．disturbing
2．A．ensure B．talk C．inform D．state
3．A．support B．bear C．leave D．witness
4．A．approached B．pasd C．accesd D．marched
5．A．fright B．sorrow C．guilt D．disbelief
6．A．conduct B．confirm C．compensate D．comprehend
7．A．海陆变迁run away B．slip away C．pass away D．put away
8．A．nothing B．anything C．something D．everything
9．A．accident B．coincidence C．incident D．event
10．A．generosity B．courage C．optimism D．modesty
第二节（共10小题；每小题分，共15分）
A
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
An eight-year-old girl in Texas has designed a pop-up classroom to help poor children. Paisley Elliott came up with the idea after she heard that a school she had helped to build in Greece ____11____ (destroy) by fire. Elliott considers herlf a person ____12____ tries to improve people’s lives and reduce suffering. Now, she ____13____ (rai) money to take her pop-up classroom to Uganda, in Africa.
B
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
A book ____14____ (name) Who Moved My Chee has been a best ller (畅销书) all over the world. It ____15____ (teach) people how to face changes in their lives. Now its author Spence Johnson has written a book just for teens. The book tells us that when facing a change in our lives, like a new school or new friends, don’t be afraid. Instead, u this change ____16____ (make) a better life. The book gives an example of a change at school.
C
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
Zhang Guimei has committed her life to improving girls’ education in a remote, mountainous region in Yunnan Province by ____17____ (start) China’s first free high school for female students. Her story has moved millions of Chine people and is now written into a newly ____18____ (publish) book—Brief History of the People’s Republic of China. It described her ____19____ a moral model who us love and wisdom to help th
ousands of rural ____20____ (girl) realize their dreams.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，38豆皮怎么做分）
第一节（共14小题；每小题2分，共28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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Tourism in Botswana’s Okavango Delta generates revenue that directly funds conrvation. Here are reasons why it’s so worth visiting and why it’s meaningful to support the effort to conrve this world wonder.
It’s birdwatchers’ paradi.
Some 450 species of wetland birds have been recorded in the Delta. Despite the diversity of species here, overall bird numbers in the Delta em to change, which is what led the
National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project (NGOWP) to survey the river system that feeds it. The NGOWP discovered the threats to this system, including uncontrollable fire, commercial agriculture, and water diversion, which could impact bird numbers in the Delta.
You can spot big game.
开封菊展Big cats walk through the Delta’s open plains, along with many of Africa’s other remarkable mammals. A local guide will be able to get you clor to predators like lions, leopards, and wild dogs. Viewing lions involves walking in single file as your guide spots and follows fresh paw prints. Okavango Eternal is working to create protected wildlife corridors along the rivers that feed the Delta so that animals can move safely and freely.
