2023年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试模拟测试（二）.docx

2023年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试模拟测试(二)英语本试卷共10页，满分120分。考试用时120分钟注意事项：1.答卷前，考生务必将自己所在的市(县、区)、学校、班级、姓名、考场号、座位号和考生号填写在答 题卡上，将条形码横贴在每张答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”2 .作答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔在答题卡上将对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改 动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案不能答在试卷上。3 .非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如 需改动，先画掉原来的答案，然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效。4 .考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。第二部分阅读(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ACommunity Volunteers ProgramCommunity Volunteers Program is a brand new service opportunity that engages volunteers in weekly service with community-based organizations in neighborhoods surrounding the Boston campus. It offers various volunteer placements that will allow you to connect your skills, passions, and interests with weekly service!826 BostonIt is a nonprofit kids writing and publishing organization empowering traditionally under-served students (age 2 to 13) to find (heir voices, tell (heir stories, and gain communication skills to succeed in school and in future life.Primary Focus: Aftcr-school cnrichmcnt/tutoring.Opportunity Type: RemoteFamily Gym ProgramFamily Gym's goal is (o provide families with young children (age 0 to 10) with a safe, accessible spare to engage in fun, and age-appropriate physical activity.Primary Focus: Nutrition and Meal Assistance, Nutrition and Physical Education.Opportunity Type: Virtual/Remote.Community ServingsCommunity Servings actively engages the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals to critically ill kids (age 6 to 10) and their families.Primary Focus: Food Security, Nutrition and Meal Assistance.Opportunity Type: In person.Hernandez After School ProgramHASP involves youth from the Rafael Hernandez Two-Way Bilingual School to provide the highest quality of specialized services to meet the educational, social, emotional, cultural, and recreational needs of its students (age 5 to 12) in the surrounding communities.Primary Focus: Aftcr-school cnrichmcnt/tutoring for multilingual students.Opportunity Type: Remote.21. What is the main job of volunteers in 826 Boston?A. To teach students expressive skills.B. To provide kids with physical trainingC. To offer teenagers social assistance.D. To help youth with emotional problems.22. Which program may prefer volunteers with medical knowledge ?A. 826 Boston.B. Family Gym Program. C. Community Servings. D. Hemdndez After School Program.23. What do the four programs have in common?A. They advocate healthy diets.B. They focus on education.C. They feature online service.D. They center around children.BHelga Stentzel's Clothesline Animals combine charming images as fine art prints in various sizes.As an artist whose style she calls" household surrealist（超现实主义）"，she works in various media and has a large collection of works. Instead of throwing an old pair of pants or T-shirt away. Helga Stentzel puts her tired garments out to the farm. By hanging them on a simple clothesline she sets up and folding them artfully that look like animals, she takes wonderful pictures. Some are shot in real locations while others are digitally placed in environments in charming form with appealing colors.Siberian-born Stentzel has cooperated with many respectable and well-known brands, one of which is Hogar Verde, a bio-friendly laundry products brand in Ecuador. For them she has created the adorable clothing illusions （错觉）for a print ad campaign, which also drew attention to the endangered animals shown within, like dinosaurs, polar bears and so on.Stentzel's practice started from her childhood in Siberia, where she spent hours surveying her grandmother's carpet, woods and random objects for recognizable forms, including a pile of buckets looking like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.In what seems a very simple gesture. Stentzel's works employ household items and （urn them into surrealist images that uncover different reading layers. From food to clothes, the artist is inspired by cry day objects and gives them a second life through her creative and really poetic personal angle."I stare at things longer than socially acceptable! It can be anything-a chair, a noodle hanging off the fork, a lamp post in the middle of the road. Observation is a form of thinking for me. I really enjoy studying colors, shapes and texlures-wi（h no expectation, simply admiring their unique beauty. Very often there's nothing more to it, but sometimes BOOM! -a creative idea hits my brain, and it makes a link between sliced bread and wrinkled skin of a French bulldog. It's very unpredictable/' Stentzel said.24. How did Stentzel create an artwork according to paragraph 2?A. By designing clothes on software.B. By painting animals in various colors.C. By taking photos of animals on （he farm.D. By hanging clothes folded in animal shapes.25. What is Stentzel's source of inspiration?A. Daily items.B. Tourist attractions.C. Random surveys.D. Childhood adventures.26. Which of the following can best describe Stentzel's fine art prints?A. Complex and digitalB. Meaningful and creative.C. Poetic but commercialD. Ordinary but bio-friendly.27. What can wc learn from Stentzel's story?A. Art can give people a second life.B. Artworks are from life yet above life.C. Creation is from intentional observation.D. Cooperation results in adorable artworks.CCould the next Ernest Hemingway or Jane Austen be a well-engineered Al software program? It's a question becoming increasingly pressing as machine language-learning software continues to evolve.Much of this is just nerves. Today's Al creative writing programs are not yet at a stage of development where they pose a serious threat to Colleen Hoover or Charles Dickens. But while attention continues to focus on the possibility of a blanket takeover of human literature by AI, far less consideration has been given lo the prospect of AI co-working with humans.Earlier this month, America ci-fi writer Ken Liu. who had been awarded Hugo and Nebula to his name, joined 12 other professional authors for a writing workshop on Google's Wordcraft. This AI tool, a language generating model, is not yet publicly available but is advertised as an Al-powered writing assistant that can, when given the right instruction from the writer, provide helpful descriptions, create lists of objects or emotional states, and even brainstorm ideas.The writers at the workshop, however, emerged with mixed reports. "Wordcraft is too sensible. Wow!" Robin Sloan wrote. "But 'sensible' is another word for predictable, overused and boring. My intention here is to produce something unexpecled.”I'm unconvinced that writers awarded the Nobel Prize have much to fear from AL Their work, and that of countless other novelists, short story writers, dramatists and poets, is too particular, too beautifully unique. Even if a model learned what they had done in the past, it would not be able to predict where their creativity might take them in the future. But for authors who write following a pattern, AI might step in, first as assistants before some day to authorship.Production-line novels are nothing new. In the 1970s, Barbara Cartland, who wrote more than 723 books in her lifetime, many of which are romance bestsellers, would read her novels for her secretary (o type up at the remarkable rate of roughly seven chapters a week. But already machine las replaced the secretary's role. Perhaps creative writing software isn't that farfrom replacing the Mrs. Cartlands of today.28. Which aspect of AI calls for more attention?A. Its to our nerves.C. Its cooperation with humans.29. What can we learn about Wordcraft from the text?A. It generates novels automatically.C. Its works receive praises from the public.30. What can writers do to avoid the threat from AI?A. Increase writing speed. B. Use diverse resource.31. Which of the following is, the best title for the text?A. Will AI Replace Human Writers?C. Is Writing Running into a New Era?B. Its progress in literary studies.D. Its influence on human literature.B. It outperforms professional writers.D. Its works bear similarity to existing ones.C. Produce creative works. D. Follow the latest patterns.B. AI Warns Mrs. Cartlands of TodayD. Wordcraft Lies at the Center of DebateDTwo separate research groups in the U. K. and Denmark have come up with the same idea for a study that could help save endangered species, and have gotten (he same results. It involves sucking environmental DNA from the air that animals leave behind."Wc use a really small pump that pulls the air through, and wc hope the DNA gets caught on the filter (过滤器),"said Elizabeth Clare, the lead researcher." i I's a bit like making coffee. You make coffee by sucking water through a filler and leaving the coffee grounds behind. That's basically what wc'rc doing; wc'rc just sucking the air through and hoping that the DNA gets lost behind.Clare says the concepthas been used for years in different ways. Scientists sample pathogens (病原体)from the air, which has been used to help (rack COVID-19. Environmental DNA can also be collected from water to help ease invasive species.A big goal for both research teams with the new study is to be able to locate endangered species and help save them It is important to note that this type of DNA sampling can only be picked up if a species is in the area, so if there were two of the same animal, scientists would not be able, to tell which one the DNA came from.Both research groups also reported certain DNA samples not showing up when they knew an animal had been in the area. They also can't tell yet how long an animal's DNA will stick around after it's been in one area. Clare says she'd like to plan more researches to get these answers.But one thing is for sure after conducting the study. Clare says she has a whole new perspective on taking a deep breath. "As you know, I'm walking through a jungle or the park or taking my dog for a walk or my kids out to play, and I take a deep breath; I think I just inhaled information about all (he things that have been here before and as a scientist, that's exciting to think that the information that I'm trying to gather is literally hanging in front of me,“ she said.32. Why does the author mention coffee-making?A. To show the function of a filter.B. To illustrate how the idea works.C. To compare two different methods.D. To prove how simple DNA-sucking works.33. What does the underlined phrase " the concept" in paragraph 3 refer to?A. Detecting danger in the air.B. Protecting endangered animals.C. Sucking DNA out of the air.D. Collecting environmental samples.34. What do wc know about the new method of DNA sampling?A. It distinguishes different DNAs.B. Il collects certain DNA within range.D. It predicts the duration of animals' stay.C. It locates endangered species exactly.35. What can we infer from Clare's words in the last paragraph ?A. She breathes the air of hope for future studies.B. She agrees with the benefits of deep breathing.C. She adopts brand-new methods of purifying the airD. She finds inner peace by doing simple things in life 第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项We clearly live in an era with little patience. Entire TV series are available at once on streaming services, and burning questions arc solved in seconds via a search engine. This instant satisfaction, undoubtedly, is killing our ability to wait. 36. Here are some strategies to pick up that magic mix if you weren't bom wilh it.Visualize successThere's no need to set a real situation where you wait in a super long grocery checkout line to test yourself. Simply visualizing it helps a lot. See yourself smiling and breathing as you wait for the line to move. 37 For example, youcould say, "it's not bad to enjoy this magazine while waiting'*. Your mind will start to process the picture as a real experience and help to set you up for future successes.Slow downRacing around is not necessarily the only way to get what you want. 38 Most adults do not feel happy whenthey're rushing, and children are even less capable of doing it with a good attitude. Instead of sweating through your on some background music you like and move at a normal pace.39The ability to let your mind wander, whether daydreaming or actively applying your imagination, is a skill that improves patience. 40 Take a break and do something that could free your brain from the work that takes tons of energy. Thishelps you build up your staying power, so next time you might be more patient and more likely to focus on your task.A. Learn to distract yourselfB. Add some positive words if possibleC. Therefore, we are getting more and more impatientD. You don't have to get the whole paper done in one, goE. We get so caught up in hurrying that we get stuck in that modF. But sometimes, a fast pace does improve-our working efficiencyG. Thus, the loss of this mixed quality of tolerance and calmness is unavoidable 第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Every August, teams with players about 10 years old play baseball across the US, with the aim to become Little League _41_. in this year's game, Isaiah Jarvis, a Little League batter （击球手）_42_ the pitcher （投球手），Kaiden Shelton, who threw a baseball that hit him in the head. The _43_ scene brought tears to the eyes of the crowd in the stadium.On August 7th, Kaiden Shelton, from Texas, _44_ Isaiah Jarvis, from Oklahoma, at the plate. With two strikes against Isaiah, Kaiden_45_ lost control of his pitch. The ball hit Isaiah in his helmet, sending him to the ground. The field staff inmicdiatcly _46_ him and found him to be OK. He decided to remain in the _47_. Yet Kaiden, the pitcher, appeared to be _48_.Isaiah called a timeout upon seeing his_49 battling emotions. He calmly walked toward Kaiden and gave him a big hug, trying to _50_ him. "Hey, you're doing just great. Kaiden later shared with NBC News. "These _51_words from him really helped me.A video of the moment was posted online and attracted more than 6.5 million views. Danny Graves, a sports announcer, said Isaiah's _52_ was the best thing he had ever seen in Little League baseball.The Texas team won the game 9-4 to _53_ to the Little League World Series. And Isaiah was also _54_ to the game to celebrate its 75lh anniversary. The pair told NBC News they think （heir newfound _55_ will last beyond any tournament.41. A. candidatesB. volunteersC. championsD. reporters42.A. replacedB. huggedC. challengedD. identified43.A. embarrassingB. confusingC. amusingD. touching44.A. facedB.savedC. assistedD. needed45. A. possiblyB. suddenlyC. graduallyD. nearly46. A. attended toB. appealed toC. referred toD. objected