南京市2018届高三年级第三次模拟考试 英 语 2018.05.03

第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分20分) 

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节 （共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1Why does the man want to leave?

A . The food is toobad. B The music is too loud C. The service is too slow.

2What is the woman?

A.A nurse B. A. teacher C. A clerk

3.What does the man mean?

A .He missed the endof the game.

B. He got home a fewminutes late.

c. He watched the gamefive minutes.

4Where does the conversation probably take place?

A.In a shop. B. At the cinema C .On a bus.

5.How long did the woman stay in Chicago?

A. 6 years B. I2 years. C.23 years

第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6.Where is Starry House?

A.On South Street. B. On Queen Road. C.. In Stone Lane.

7.When will they meet at Starry House?

A. At 5:30 pm. B. At 5:45 pm. C. At 6 :00 pm.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题，

8.What are the speakers talking about?

A. Where to give theconcert.

B. Who to invite tothe concert.

C. How advertise theconcert.

9.What do the speakers agree to do in the end?

A. Put up notices. B. Send out emails. C. Hand out invitations

听第8段材料，回答第10 至12题。

10.Where did the woman play baseball?

A. In the park. B. At the stadium. C. In the playground.

11.Which sport is the woman weak in?

A . Baseball. B. Skating. C. Volleyball

12.Who else likes playing volley ball on the beach?

A. The woman's mom. B. The woman's uncle. C. The woman's sister.

听第9段材料，回答第13 至16题。

13.Where is the man going?

A. To thelibrary. B. To the city museum. C. To his new apartment.

14.What are the man's favorites?

A. Portraits. B. Watercolors. C. Oil paintings.

15.What does the man say about himself?

A. He wishes to paintvery well.

B. He loves thetraditional style.

C. He has highartistic ability

16.What is the woman going to do this weekend?

A. Buy a ticket B Goto the exhibition. C Take paintinglessons.

听第10段材料，回答第17 至20题。

17.Where is JollyGood Skincare's head office?

A. In London. B. In York. C. In Bath.

18.Why was "Feel Good" developed?

A. To open up newmarkets.

B. To introduce moderntechnology

C. To increase thevariety of products.

19.What is the selling point of "Feel Good"?

A. Its look. B. Its history. C. Its price.

20.When will "Feel Good" come into the market?

A. On September 10th. B. On September 11th. C. On September 12^th.

第二部分英语知识运用(共两节,满分35分)

第一节 单项填空 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的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。

21. Sometimes it’shard to accept the truth _________ thelie sounds so much better.

A. because B. unless C. though D. until

22. Held inside fortoo long, regret ______affect the immune system•

A. must B. can C. should D. shall

23.Coming-of-age is aceremony _______youngpeople wear traditional costumes to mark the transition from youth toadulthood.

A. that B. what C as D. where

24. We come fromdifferent cultures, and carry with_______ different histories.

A. it B. that C. us D. them

25. The couch of thefootball team _______toresign to take responsibility for the failure, but it was rejected.

A. offered B. managed C. needed D. afforded

26. The suspect wasreleased, as the evidencewas _______and, to some extent, ambiguous.

A. clear B. thin C. hard D. negative

27. —Can you put me _______aboutthe World Cup Football Match?

—Sorry. I myself know nothingabout it.

A. in the air B. on the move C.in the picture D .on the post

28. The selfie hasinspired risk-taking behavior,_______ theboundaries of safety, whether by hanging from a skyscraper orposing with live explosives.

A. pushed B. to push C. pushing D. having pushed

29.As more and morecompanies extend their global _______, it is easy to understand why new opportunitiesbirth in various locations.

A. concern B. appeal C. reach D. consensus

30.Through the use of blogs, shy students who rarely ______ duringclass discussions are given a voice.

A. advance B. focus C. compromise D. contribute

31.The agency willmake travel arrangements for you._______ , youcan organize your own transport.

A.Similarly B.Furthermore C. Instead D.Alternatively

32. We watched theharbour and then the coastline______into themorning mist.

A. turn away B. fade away C. wear away D. break away

33. The banker findsit difficult _______justas an ordinary human being at home.

A.to treat B.to be treated C. to have treated D.to have been treated

34.They say at the end of your life, you regret thestuff you didn^'t do more than the stuff that you ______.

A. do B.did C. had done D. would do

35.--- Hey, can youlend me some money, buddy? I am hard up these days.

--- ____. The funds Ibought came down again yesterday and I don’t have a bean now.

A. Forget it B. No worry C.No problem D. Forgive me

第二节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的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。

What brought McCoy thatBaltimore alley was nothing to be proud of. McCoy was looking for a safe placeto do ___36____.He had been there for only a minute when something caught his eyes: a brownleather Rioni handbag.Picking it up, he found it had been____ 37_____of everything but an electricity bill.

McCoy could ___38____all too well. One of his____39___ possessions, the sleeping bag, had recently been stolen.Remembering how angered he’d been by his own 40 ,he decided to return the purse.

He began right away, startingwith the ____41____on the bill. It was on the other side of the city.On the way, several people asked to buy the purse, but he __42___,“I’m returning this to its owner.”

After traveling much of theday and __43___approaching the address, he was stopped by a woman called Smith. She asked tobuy the purse. ____44___, McCoy refused, saying he was searching for itsowner. “But I am the owner,” thewoman said.

At Smith’s___45___ .McCoy told her his story. He’d been in charge of a landscaping business until2012, when he was in acar accident that___ 46 him addicted to narcotics.

Smith, 47 , this stranger had gone to such great strengths toreturn her bag, asked to do something

tohelp. “I’m a heroin addict,” McCoy 48 .“I’m probably going to let you down.”

Undaunted, Smith gave him herphone number, saying, “If you want to go to rehab, call me.” She 49 his lost sleeping bag with her own, then drove himback and left, thinking that would be the 50 of it. Two days later, she got a call.

Smith realized that McCoy was 51 aboutgetting better; he even gave her the name of a 28-day rehab facility inFlorida. So she 52 her saving account and bought McCoy a plane ticket.While there, he would call her. “I heard his 53 over thephone. Every day he would call me, and it went from this scared, 54 voice to ahealthy, energetic voice.”

After 28 days there, McCoy isdrug-free. His life is back 55 .One crime victim would empathize with another’s loss.

第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的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

Costa Rica NaturalParadise 9-Day Tour $1295

Volcanoes, Beaches &Rainforests --- w/All Hotels, Meals &Activities

56. During the 9-daytour, tourists will have a chance to .

A. spend time in volcanic hotsprings B. hike in the desert

C. feed crocodiles and birds D.camp in a national park

57. Which promotionstrategy does the tour agency employ?

A. Revealing others’shortcomings. B. Reducing itsoriginal price.

C. Presenting tourists’comments. D. Giving away free activities.

B

Humanity has begun wrestling with the dangers of globalthreats such as climate change. But fewauthorities are planning for catastrophic solar storms-huge eruptions of massand energy from the sun that destroy Earth’s magnetic field. In a recent paper,two Harvard University scientists estimate the potential economic damage fromsuch an event will increase in the future and could equal the current U.S.GDP-about $20 trillion-150years from now.

This kind of storm hashappened before. The so-called Carrington Event in 1859, the most intensemagnetic storm ever recorded on Earth, caused auroras (极光）in the atmosphere and even delivered electric shocks totelegraph operators. But a Carrington-scale storm today would cause far moreharm because society now depends so heavily on electrical power grids,communications satellites and GPS.

In an effort to quantify thatthreat, astrophysicists Abraham Loeb and Manasvi Lingam of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics developed a mathematical model that assumessociety’s vulnerability (脆弱性）to solar stormswill grow with technological advances. Under this model, during the next 50years

thepotential for economic damage will depend primarily on the rising odds of astrong solar storm over time. Beyond 50 years our vulnerability will increasedramatically with technological progress until the latter levels off.

Some scientists question themodel^’spredictions. “Estimating the economic impact is challenging now, let alone inover a century,” says Edward Oughton, a research associate at the University ofCambridge’s Center for Risk Studies. Yet he warns that uncertainty should notstop us from practical preparations, such as making power grids stronger andimproving early-warning systems.

Loeb and Lingam think up amuch wider strategy: a $100-billion magnetic deflector shield (导流板), positioned between Earth and the sun. This ideaseems “pretty preposterous,” however, given that solar particles arrive atEarth from all directions, says Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory forAtmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

A better understanding of“space weather”-the changing condition in Earth’s outer space environment,including solar radiation and particles-could help find the best strategies forconfronting a dangerous solar storm, says Stracey Worman, a senior analyst atconsulting firm Abt Associates. “This is a challenging but important question,”Worman says, “that we need more eyes on.”

58. According toEdward Oughton, which of the following about solar storms is right?

A. They will become much stronger in 150 years.

B. Technology makes their potential damage grow.

C. It’s difficult to predict their possible economicdamage.

D. Space weather forecast can effectively help dealwith them.

59.The underlined word “preposterous” inParagraph 5 means .

A. unreasonable B. practical C.innovative D.inflexible

60. The author writesthe passage mainly to .

A. report the damage of solar storms

B. remind people to guard against solar storms

C. introduce the characteristics of solar storms

D. analyze the possible cause of solar storms

C

There are plenty of goodreasons for a young person to choose to go to university: intellectual growth,career opportunities, having fun. Around half of school-leavers in the richworld now do so, and the share is rising in poorer countries, too.

Governments are keen on highereducation, seeing it as a means to increase social mobility and economicgrowth. But they tend to overestimate the benefits and ignore the costs ofexpanding university education. Often, public money just feeds the arms race forqualifications.

As more young people seekdegrees, the returns both to them and to governments are lower. Employersdemand degrees for jobs that never required them in the past and havenot become more demanding since. In a desperate attempt to stand out, studentsare studying even longer, and delaying work, to obtain master’s degrees.

Spending on universities isusually justified by the “graduate premium” — the increase in earnings thatgraduates enjoy over non-graduates. These individual gains, the thinking goes,add up to an economic increase for society as a whole. But the graduate premiumis a flawed unit of calculating. Part of the usefulness of a degree is that itgives a graduate jobseeker an advantage at the expense of non-graduates. It isalso a signal to employers of general qualities, such as intelligence anddiligence, that someone already has in order to get intoa university. Some professions require qualifications. But a degree is notalways the best measure of the skills and knowledge needed for a job. Withdegrees so common, recruiters are using them as a simple way to evaluateapplicants. Non-graduates are thus increasingly locked out of nice work.

In any case, the premiumcounts only the winners and not the losers. Across the rich world, a third ofuniversity students never graduate. It is the weakest students who are drawn inas higher education expands and who are most likely to drop out. They pay feesand sacrifice earnings to study, but see little increase in their futureincomes. When dropouts are included, the expected financial return to startinga degree for the weakest students shrinks to almost nothing. Manyschool-leavers are being misled about the probable value of university.

Governments need to offer theyoung a wider range of options after school. They should start by rethinkingtheir own hiring practices. Most insist on degrees for public-sector jobs thatused to be done by non-graduates, including nursing, primary-school teachingand many civil-service posts. Instead they should seek other ways fornon-graduates to prove they have the right skills and to get more on-the-jobtraining.

School-leavers should be givena wider variety of ways to gain job skills and to demonstrate their employability inthe private sector. If school qualifications were made more strict, employerswould be more likely to trustthem as signals of ability, and less insistent on degrees. Universities shouldgrant credits to dropouts for the parts of courses they havecompleted. They could also open their exams to anyone who wants to take them,and award degrees to those who succeed.

Such measures would be moreefficient at developing the skills that increase productivity and should savepublic money. To promote social mobility, governments would do better to directfunds to early-school education and to helping students who would benefit fromuniversity but cannot afford it. Young people, both rich and poor, areill-served by the arms race in academic qualifications, in which each must study longer because thatis what all the rest are doing. It is time to disarm.

61. How does theauthor consider higher education?

A. It⁵s a good way to raise students⁵social status.

B. It definitely benefits the development of economy.

C. It will amply reward individuals and governments.

D. It’s a waste of money for some students andtaxpayers.

62. What does theunderlined word “them” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Degrees. B. Returns. C. Employers. D. Jobs

63. What is theauthors’ preferred solution to the issue?

A. To decrease university drop-out rates.

B. To improve the teaching qualities of universities.

C. To open more public-sector jobs to non-graduates.

D. To provide school-leavers with proper job training.

64. What is the besttitle for the passage?

A. Measures to boost social mobility

B. Time to end the academic arms race

C. Difficulty in solving unemployment

D. Necessity of changing hiring practices

D

Recently, I was made keenlyaware of the different Englishes I do use. I was giving a talk to many people,the same talk I had already given to half a dozen other groups. The nature ofthe talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club.The talk was going along well enough until I remembered one major differencethat made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room. And it wasperhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kindof English I have never used with her. I was saying things like, “theintersection of memory upon imagination”—a speech filled with all the forms ofstandard English that I had learned in school, the forms of English I did notuse at home with my mother .

You should know that mymother’s expressive command of English doesn’t show how much she actuallyunderstands. She reads the Forbes report and listens to Wall StreetWeek 一all kinds ofthings I can’t begin tounderstand, Yet some of my friends tell me they understand noneof what my mother says, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But tome, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, fullof observation and imagery. That wasthe language that helped shape the way I sawthings, expressed things, made sense of the world.

Lately, I’ve been giving morethought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as“broken” English. But I wince when I say that. It has always bothered me that Ican think of no way to describe it other than “broken”，as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, I’veheard other terms used, “limited English”，for example. But they seem to indicate thateverything is limited, including people’s perceptions of the limited Englishspeaker.

And I had plenty of evidenceto support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and atrestaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service,pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.

WhenI was fifteen, she used to have me call people on the phone to pretend I wasshe. One time I was forced to call her stockbroker in New York and say in anadolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs. Tan”. And mymother was standing in the back whispering loudly, “why he don’t send me check,already two weeks late. So mad he lie to me, losing me money”. And then I saidin perfect English and gave him warnings. The following week there we were infront this astonished stockbroker, and I was sitting there red-faced and quiet,and my mother, the real Mrs.Tan, was shouting at his boss in her brokenEnglish.

I think my mother’s Englishalmost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well. Sociologistsand linguists probably will tell you that a person’s developing language skillsare more influenced by peers. But I do think that the language spoken in thefamily, especially in immigrant families plays a large role in shaping thelanguage of the child. I also had teachers who were trying to steering me awayfrom writing and into math and science.

Fortunately, I happen to berebellious in nature and enjoy the challenge of disproving assumptions madeabout me. I became an English major my first year in college. When I began towrite, I decided I should envision a reader for the stories I would write.And the reader I decided upon was my mother, because there were stories aboutmy mothers. So with this reader in mind—and in fact she did read my earlydrafts—I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: theEnglish I spoke to my mother, which for lack of better term might be describedas “simple”； the English she used with me, which for lack ofbetter term might be described as “broken”；and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak inperfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought preserve theessence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to capturewhat language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, herimaginary, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

Apart from what any critic hadto say about my writing, I knew I had succeeded where it counted when my motherfinished reading my book and gave me her opinion: “So easy to read.”

65. What happenedduring the speech, according to paragraph 1?

A. The author’s mother arrived unexpectedly at thespeech.

B. The author delivered wrong information to theaudience.

C. The author admitted that she could use standardEnglish.

D. The author began to reflect on the differentEnglishes she used.

66. In which blank weput the sentence “It’s my mother tongue.”？

A. B. C. D.

67. How does theauthor feel about her mother’s English being described as “limited”？

A. Ashamed B. Uncomfortable C. Astonished D.Disappointed.

68. The author tellsthe story in Paragraph 5 to .

A. show the limitations of her mother’s English.

B. Indicate that people in New York are easily takenin.

C. explain the reasons for others’ bad attitude to hermother.

D. display the difficulty immigrants had fitting intosociety.

69.In what way wasthe author influenced by her mother?

A. Her mother helped her draft her writing.

B. Her mother greatly shaped her writing.

C. Her mother’s language ability inspired her.

D. Her mother’s language almost ruined her life.

70. What can belearned from the passage?

A. The author’s writing retells what happened to hermother.

B. American language ability tests are unfair toChinese immigrants.

C. The author finds it impossible to describe hermother’s language.

D. The author feels lucky to have inherited culturefrom her mothers.