2023年高考英语模拟题及答案第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共大鼻孔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。
A
Guildford School of Acing （GSA） is a successful center for musical training. Our philosophy is bad on your growth as an individual and your development as an artist within a highly disciplined whole.
About what you should do
We want you to view yourlf as a potential artist who can compete and succeed in all aspects musical performance. To accomplish this, you will need to develop your professional awareness through a strict process of training.
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About the content of the cours
We will guide you towards the development of a clear t of individual technical skills, with practical class in group and individual singing, ballet jazz and other forms of dance. Your skills are further developed through many exercis, scene work and project rehearsal （排练）.Class in dancing and singing are highly ranked alongside acting class and projects, which enable you to become mulli-skilled. Professional development class by the guests lected from the contemporary musical industry ensure currency within your chon field and enable you to maximize all employment opportunities.
About the test
A final show prentation in （he West End Theatre helps you complete your change from a musical student to a professional performer. The result is your development into a highly disciplined individual and all-round performer who has both artistic skills and ihe ability to work in cooperation with olhers.
1.Who is GSA intended for?
最美文字A. Literature students. B. Sports students.C. Psychology students. D. Musical students.
2.Who may teach professional development class to the students?反问和设问有什么区别
A. High school teachers.B. University teachers.
C. Professional musical performers.D. Professional compors.
3.What should the students do in order to graduate?
老厨白菜A. Write an essay.B. Put on a show.
C Design a cour.D. Meet a performer.
B
Douglas Smith, n gardener from Hertfordshire, the U.K., recently t a new Guinness World Record for the most tomatoes grown on a single stem （茎），1,269.
Up until last summer, the record for the most tomatoes grown on a single stem had stood 喜不自胜
unchallenged for over a decade. Then English fanner Douglas Smith t his sight on breaking it, thinking that he could grow more than 488 fruits on s single stem. He proved that last year, when he managed to break the old record by growing 839 tomatoes on a greenhou -grown plant. It was quite an achievement, but he was only getting started, as only a few weeks later Douglas Smith broke his own record by growing no less than 1,269 tomatoes on a single stem.
Is Douglas Smith a gardening addict? He spends up to four hours a day in his back garden tending his plants, and has been working hard on becoming the best possible gardener the world has ever en. To maximize his chances of tting a new world record, he read various scientific papers and even took soil samples to be tested in a laboratory. And in the end, they all paid off.
UI am over the moon,” Douglas said. "This year was only meant to be an experimental year to e which varieties would produce the most fruits and we had to fight with early blight （疫病），which put paid to a number of other tomato plants. I'm amazed by how many tomatoes were on the plant in the end.”
Growing 1,269 tomatoes on a single stem is only Douglas Smith's latest achievement. In 2020, he grew a 20- foot-tall sunflower, and also t a new national record for the heaviest tomato, with a 3.106 kg tomato. He likes to run little experiments on other vegetables and crops, and he is currently experimenting on peas, aubergines and potatoes.
4.What can we know about Douglas Smith from paragraph 2?
A. He broke the old record twice.
B. He had planted the best tomatoes.
C. He thought breaking the record was easy.
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D He had worked to break the record for a decade.
5.Which of the following can describe Douglas Smith best?
A. Strict and tolerant.B. Attractive and braveC. Patient and hard-working.D. Friendly and
humorous.
6.What may be a challenge fbr Douglas Smith to break the old record?
A. A lack of money.B. Skill shortages.
C. Building a laboratory.D. Dealing with the blight.
7.What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A. The record's significance.
8.Douglas Smith's next plan.
C The details about the heaviest tomato.
D. More information about Douglas Smith's planting.
C
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The days, there's a green version of just about everything. There are cars that run on electricity and alternative fuels, hous that are powered by solar energy and wind farms emingly popping up on every open space from California to coastal Japan. Even drones （无人机）ate getting in on the action. The unmanned air vehicles are also being put to environmental us around the globe.
