2023高考英语模拟试卷考生须知：1全卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，全部在答题纸上作答。选择题必须用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题的答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔写在“答题纸”相应位置上。2请用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔在“答题纸”上先填写姓名和准考证号。3保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1I _ tell you with certainty that he wont be able to finish it before the deadline. Awill Bmust Ccan Dmay2Opening the door, MrsSummers found family of cats shut in the bathroomAa; 不填Ba; theCthe; 不填Dthe; the3Mum, do you mind if I invite some friends to my birthday party?_. It will be more interesting.ABy no meansBYes, of courseCDont worryDNo doubt.4Jack decided to choose a different _ and teach history through storytelling.Aanalysis Bangle Cattitude Dapproach5Several of us were asked to attend the meeting, as _ below.AlistedBlistingCto be listedDhaving listed6Wechat intends to radically change the way _ people use mobilephones.A/BwhichCwhyDwho7The church which is easily _ from my home is being rebuilt.Aaccessible BavailableCacceptable Dresponsible8World AIDS Day is also important in reminding us that HIV has not gone away, and there are many things still to be done.AwhichBwhatCthatD/9Although everything seems to have been taken into consideration, _ accident can happen when the astronauts walk in _ space.A/; theBan; theCthe; theDan; /10A scientists attempt to produce the worlds first gene-edited babies _ are immune to HIV has sparked controversy in academia and the public.AasBwhoCwhomDwhose11The drums of war are beating once again. As tensions rise between America and Iran, China appeals to both sides to _.Astand byBcome alongCstep backDstick together12Generally speaking, _according to the directions, the medicine has no side effect. Awhen taken Bwhen taking Cwhen to take Dwhen to be taken13As often happens after long sleeplessness, he was _ by an unreasoning panic.Aseized BfascinatedCimpressed Dembarrassed14Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, _ anyone can start now and make a new ending.Afor BandCbut Dso15Though our football boys are faced with four goals behind, they are still struggling hard in the field to _.Aface the musicBsave faceCcost their arm and legDland on their feet16The boy stood his head down, listening to his mother scolding him for breaking the windows.AforBofCwithDaround17I need to advertise for a roommate for next term._？ Mary is interested.AWhy botherBWhy notCSo whatDWhat for18An old lady came to the bus stop only the bus had gone.Ato run ; to findBrunning;to findCand ran ; findingDrunning; finding19Tony, do remember to send the report to the sales manager!_.AMade itBGot itCHeard itDFollowed it20The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain_as the plane was making a landing.AseatBseatingCseatedDto be seating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）In the hills outside Missoula, Montana, wildlife biologists are looking at how climate change affects something very small: the snowshoe hare.Life for snowshoe hares is pretty stressful 一 almost everything in the forest wants to eat them.Alex Kumar, a graduate student at the University of Montana, lists the animals that are hungry for hares. “Lynx, foxes, coyotes, . even red squirrels.”Kumar and field technician Tucker Seitz spend months searching these woods for hares, often listening for signals from hares theyve already put radio collars on.They catch other hares with wire traps about the size of a breadbox, with some apple as bait (诱饵). Most of the hares they track live less than a year a hazard (风险）of being what Kumar calls “the cheeseburger of the ecosystem”.But snowshoe hares have a special skill: camouflage. Theyre brown during the summer, but turn white for the snowy winter months.“Theres times when youre tracking them and you know theyre really, really dose, and you just cant find them,” he says.Hares switch color in the spring and fall in response to light, when the days get longer or shorter. But if the snow comes late, you get a white hare on brown ground.“And they really think that theyre camouflaged,” Kumar says. “They act like we cant see them.”Kumar calls this “mismatching,” and its becoming more of a concern with climate change.“If the hares are consistently molting (脱毛) at the same time, year after year, and the snowfall comes later and melts earlier, theres going to be more and more times when hares are mismatched,” he says.Scott Mills of North Carolina State University leads the research. He says theyre finding that mismatched hares die at higher rates. Thats a concern for the threatened Canada lynx, which ma