2023年高考英语考前模拟考场练手卷（北京卷）

( ………………○……………… 外 ………………○……………… 装 ………………○……………… 订 ………………○……………… 线 ………………○……………… ) ( ………………○……………… 内 ………………○……………… 装 ………………○……………… 订 ………………○……………… 线 ………………○……………… ) ( 此卷只装订 不密封 ) ( ………………○……………… 内 ………………○……………… 装 ………………○……………… 订 ………………○……………… 线 ………………○……………… ………………○……………… 外 ………………○……………… 装 ………………○……………… 订 ………………○……………… 线 ………………○……………… … 学校： ______________ 姓名： _____________ 班级： _______________ 考号： ______________________ ) 2023年高考英语考前模拟考场练手卷 （北京卷） （原卷版） 第一部分 知识运用（共两节，30分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，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。 The Paul O’Sullivans Paul O’Sullivan felt bored around his Baltimore apartment one evening. So, like a lot of people with nothing better to do, he logged on to Facebook to find out just how many others on the social network ___1___ his name. Moments later, dozens of name twins from around the world ___2___ his screen. The 27-year-old human resources employee decided to send friend requests to them all. Many of his fellow Paul O’Sullivans ignored him, but a few felt too curious to ___3___ his invitation. As Baltimore Paul scrolled through the other Paul O’Sullivans’ profiles, he noticed something ___4___ in four of them: They were all musicians. Four men with the same name who all love making music? Baltimore Paul had an idea. Wouldn’t it be ___5___, he asked the other musical Pauls, if they formed a band called The Paul O’Sullivans? Yes, it would be, they all agreed. And so they did. Starting a band ___6___ multiple time zones proved to be tricky. To fix the problem, they created a sort of musical assembly line. Baltimore Paul and Rotterdam Paul wrote and recorded a basic track, then e-mailed it to Manchester Paul. The Paul O’Sullivan Band released its first original song, “Namesake,” in March 2016. It’s a cheerful track about long-distance relationships—not romantic ones, but ___7___ like those that they had begun to develop. They shared family pictures, chatted live on Instagram, and checked in