【高考模拟】江苏省南京市秦淮区高三第一次模拟英语试题答案与祥细解析

1、试卷第 =page 36 36页，总 =sectionpages 37 37页试卷第 =page 37 37页，总 =sectionpages 37 37页江苏省南京市秦淮区高三第一次模拟英语试题一、单项选择1. Patience is a quality _ success feeds on itself. A.whereB.whatC.thatD.which2. Have you ever waited for your bus for a very long time, _ by two or more buses arriving together? A.only to greetB.

2、only greetedC.only to be greetedD.only greeting3. Hemingway used what he learned from his life in Italy to show that war _ the best and worst in men and women. A.holds outB.brings outC.puts outD.hands out4. Ive had enough of your talking! Its time to _ words into action! A.transferB.transportC.trans

3、mitD.translate5. Jack had planned to visit his grandparents last weekend, but an emergency _ and he had to reschedule. A.should come upB.had come upC.came upD.would come up6. A former tai chi world champion is teaching tai chi classes in New York _ broadening the appeal of Chinese culture. A.in plac

4、e ofB.in hope of .C.in praise ofD.in case of7. _ having a roommate inevitably has its challenges, it can also be a great part of your college experience. A.WhileB.WhenC.AsD.If8. _ by a burning desire for adventure, Li Bai left home and started to travel around in his early twenties. A.Having drivenB

5、.Being drivenC.To driveD.Driven9. Why are you so excited?I met Tommy just now. We _ each other for ages. A.havent seenB.didnt seeC.hadnt seenD.dont see10. He was on the scene and saw what happened, which makes him the only witness who provides an _ account. A.authenticB.ambiguousC.arbitraryD.artific

6、ial11. The Oxford Dictionary is useful for you to learn English, so youd better buy _. A.itB.oneC.thatD.the one12. It is estimated that 12.79 million new urban jobs have been created this year, which almost doubles _ it was last year. A.howB.whichC.whereD.what13. Tommy, you seem to be overjoyed!_ ?

7、I have just received the offer from the Sydney University. A.Guess whatB.What forC.What ifD.So what14. There is no quick fix for the climate crisis were facing right now. To talk about alternative energy is merely to _ of something much deeper. A.push the limitsB.give it the edgeC.scratch the surfac

8、eD.land on the feet15. The actor lately released a new film, which has met with a mixed _ from his fans. A.assumptionB.receptionC.compositionD.description二、完形填空 Foryears, I thought a present and a gift as the same thing.Igrew up in a household where presents marked special _ There was always a boxfo

9、reach of us under the tree at Christmas. _ Dad always gave Mom something each Valentines Day and anniversary. He would carefully plan his shopping trips to find just the _thing. His joy in the hunt was proof of the _ of giving and of his love for her. I saw these presents as the _ of a husbands devo

10、tion.Sowhen I married a man who did not give presents on a regular basis, it was a(an)_.Iwrestled with my _ . Gary did not_ avoid gift-giving. Gary would return from sea _ with a brown paper bag inside of which was something that reminded him of me.Itried to change him_.I prepared gifts for Christma

11、s and for his birthdays _ .Heappreciated the caring, but refused to do the same thing for me.Idropped hints, they fell on_ ears.Ibegan to tell him what I wanted, giving_ instructions. When Gary left for the market one Saturday, I asked him to find me diamond earrings as a birthday present. Yet he ca

12、me home with a road scraper （刮路机）._when the snowstorm Mt later that year and he was at sea, I used the road scraper to plow （犁）out both our driveway and our neighbors, thinking how_ earrings would have been was then that I realized he had been giving me gifts ail along. The gestures, large and small

13、, born of his caring and concern were the _that he gave daily.We_to teach others how to love us. In that struggle, we often forget how to _the love they already give us as only they can give it.Ifinally began to understand the_ between a present and a gift. A present is a thing. But a gift is a smal

14、l act of kindness, the willingness to_to anothers needs, the sacrifice of time and effort. （1）A.locationsB.situationsC.occasionsD.conditions （2）A.AdditionallyB.OriginallyC.FortunatelyD.Consequently （3）A.cheapB.astonishingC.splendidD.right （4）A.pleasureB.ambitionC.intentionD.addiction （5）A.exampleB.e

15、mphasisC.reminderD.expression （6）A.improvementB.adjustmentC.despairD.disaster : （7）A.expectationsB.dilemmaC.conscience 、D.anxiety （8）A.activelyB.willinglyC.intentionallyD.wholly （9）A.suppliedB.armedC.decoratedD.filled （10）A.by traditionB.by forceC.by exampleD.by accident （11）A.on purposeB.in orderC.

16、at randomD.on time （12）A.sharpB.bigC.deafD.sensitive （13）A.someB.specificC.briefD.unusual （14）A.AndB.SoC.ThoughD.But （15）A.preciousB.practicalC.uselessD.ugly （16）A.promisesB.giftsC.blessingsD.instructions （17）A.struggleB.failC.attemptD.decide （18）A.expressB.appreciateC.returnD.share （19）A.distanceB.

17、similarityC.differenceD.conflict （20）A.subscribeB.takeC.connectD.bend三、阅读理解 Bythe end of the year, editors of New York Times have picked the 4 best books of 2019, including fiction and nonfiction Lets see which one will take your fancyDisappearing EarthByJulia PhillipsInthe first chapter of this nov

18、el, two young girls vanish, sending shock waves through a town on the edge of the remote and mysterious Kamchatka Peninsula What follows is a novel of overlapping short stories about the different women who have been affected by their disappearance Each tale pushes the narrative forward another mont

19、h and exposes the ways in which the women of Kamchatka have been destroyed personally, culturally and emotionally by the crimeNoVisible BruisesByRachel Louise SnyderSnyders thoroughly reported book covers what the World Health Organization has called a global health problem In America alone, more th

20、an half of all murdered women are killed by a current or former life partner; domestic violence cuts across lines of class, religion and race Snyder reveals pervasive myths （restraining orders are the answer, abusers never change） and writes movingly about the lives （and deaths） of people on both si

21、des of the equation She doesnt give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hopeMidnight in ChernobylByAdam HigginbothamHigginbothams superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technol

22、ogy that read like a tensionfilled thriller Filled with vivid detail and sharply etched personalities, this narrative of astonishing incompetence moves from mistake to mistake, miscalculation to miscalculation, as it builds to the inevitable, historychanging disasterExhalationByTed ChiangManyof the

23、nine deeply beautiful stories in this collection explore the material consequences of time travel Reading them feels like sitting at dinner with a friend who explains scientific theory to you with no airs and graces Each thoughtful, elegantly crafted story poses a philosophical question; Chiang arra

24、nges all nine into a conversation that comes full circle, after having travelled through remarkable areas （1）Which of the following tells about the violence from a husband to a wife in a family？_A. Disappearing EarthB. No Visible BruisesC. Midnight in ChernobylD. Exhalation （2）How may readers feel w

25、hen reading the book Midnight in Chernobyl？_A. DelightedB. AwkwardC. TenseD. Calm （3）What kind of book is Exhalation？_A. A folk taleB. A biographyC. A love storyD. A scifi story Youare about to hear a strange but true story Legend has it that, Harry Houdini, the master magician, once claimed that he

26、 could break out of any jail cell in the world All he had to do was walk into that jail cell with his street clothes on I will be out of there in one hour No problem! He said A very old jail down South heard about Houdinis claims and they accepted the challenge On the day of the event, many people g

27、athered outside Very confidently, Houdini walked into the jail and into the cell and they shut the metal door behind himThefirst thing Houdini did was to take off his coat Then, very strangely, he took off his belt Secretly hidden in Houdinis belt, was a teninch piece of steel; very tough and very f

28、lexible and Houdini started workingInabout 30 minutes, that confident expression Houdini had when he walked in disappeared In one hour, he was bathed in sweat And at the end of two hours, Houdini in defeat, collapsed against the door, which then opened It opened because you see, that door had never

29、been locked But thats not entirely true is it? That door was locked It was firmly and thoroughly locked in Houdinis mind, which meant it was locked as if the best locksmith in the world had put his lock on itThemind is powerful How many doors in your life do you think are locked but arent? how many

30、times have you been stuck in the mental prison of over thinking something that really had a simple solution There is an ancient African proverb that says when there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harmYourmind is the most powerful force you will ever face It will tell you lies It

31、will tell you cant do that Youre not meant for that Youre not good enough for that You cant go on anymore You dont have the energy You must thank it for its opinion and carry on Because as Houdini showed us the only locked doors that exist are in your own mind The doors in reality are open and all y

32、ou have to do is walk through （1）Why couldnt Harry Houdini open the door within two hours？_A.Because he didnt open the door with his mindB.Because the door was locked by the best locksmithC.Because he had thought the door was lockedD.Because he overestimated his own ability to open the door （2）Which

33、 of the following story shows the locked door in our mind？_A.Bring the painted dragon to life by putting in the pupils of its eyesB.One tends to stand still and refuse to make progressC.The donkey has exhausted its skills against the tigerD.Lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen （3）We

34、can conclude from the passage EXCEPT_？A. The biggest enemy in your life is in fact the enemy in your mindB. If you walk through the door in mind， your potential will be unlimitedC. Unless you defeat the enemy outside， you will not defeat your enemy insideD. Life is really simple， but we insist on ma

35、king it rigid and complicated Without trust, writes Rachel Botsman, society cannot survive, and it certainly cannot thriveClearly, we are in trouble Twothirds of people surveyed last year in 28 countries expressed low levels of trust in mainstream institutions of business, government and mediaInWho

36、Can You Trust? Botsman, an Oxford lecturer offers a timely and accessible framework for understanding what trust is, how it works, why it matters and how it is evolving It is an important guidance to the obstacles and opportunities we face as a society if we are to repair and redefine trustThrough h

37、uman history, trust has evolved in three basic stages: Local trust was enough when people lived in small communities and everybody knew everybody else; industrialization and urbanization required institutional trust so that people could trust complete strangers running governments, corporations, and

38、 standards for international trade, commerce and finance We are now living through a massive global shift of trust from institutions to individuals: distributed trust facilitated by hightech platforms, many of which are run by the private sectorThisshift is caused by several factors First, accountab

39、ility is unequal Rich, powerful and wellconnected individuals have been able to accumulate vast quantities of often undocumented wealth by avoiding tax and antibribery laws, while ordinary people are likely to be caught and punished for lawbreaking Second, people in power are no longer seen to deser

40、ve greater respect as the details of their lives are exposedBotsman does not prescribe how we deal with that But if the old ways of giving and cancelling trust such as voting, markets and consumer choice are no longer functioning, then we must change or replace them Systems must be driven democratic

41、ally and rationally, become more transparent, inclusive, and accountable and, most important, be designed to put people first, which profitdriven platforms have failed to do sufficientlyTechexecutives are responding to the trust crisis mainly with promises of more and better technology But Batsman w

42、arns that the responsibility for ensuring that the robots being used are trustworthy lies with the human beings who design and use them We have not thought through how we hold those people accountable, let alone their robots She warns against a natural tendency to become overreliant on machines Idea

43、lly machines should be programmed to understand their own limitations and even seek human help or interventionAgrowing number of people hope that new trust mechanisms can be established through the use of exciting new technologies such as the blockchain（区块链） In essence, blockchains are digital publi

44、c ledgers of transactions that cannot be changed, thereby creating greater transparency and accountability and making corruption much harderHowever, Botsman warns that the blockchain is _ for human trust Whether blockchain systems lead to more accountable governance and a more just global economy wi

45、ll depend on their design and the intentions of those who build them There is no app for fixing trustWhoCan You Trust? does make a clear case for why it is important for the companies, governments and other institutions to be much more transparent and subject themselves to new mechanisms that can cr

46、edibly hold them accountable It is the only way they can hope to earn and maintain trust in the future （1）Which of the following orders of trust evolution is right？_A.institutional trust industrialized trust individual trustB.urbanized trust local trust institutional trustC.local trust institutional

47、 trust distributed trustD.local trust urbanized trust individual trust （2）What can we conclude from the passage？_A.Profitdriven platforms pay no attention to the importance of peopleB.It is the people who design and use technology that count in restoring trustC. New technologies， such as the blockch

48、ain can prevent corruption from happeningD. People should rely on new technologies to create transparency and accountability （3）What do the underlined words no panacea mean？_A. not a Herculean taskB. a hard nutC. not a cureall medicineD. a catch 22 （4）Whats the authors attitude toward the possibilit

49、y of using technology to restore trust？_A. SupportiveB. NegativeC. IndifferentD. Skeptical Shelly hugged her husbandBe careful, BillyCome on, Shell! Bill rolled his eyes You worry too much, Honey Me and the boys will be OK Its just a three day trip Well catch enough halibut to be able to fix up the

50、babys room the way you want itBilly, I love you and worry every time you go to sea, especially in winterShell, I promise Ill be careful I may be the youngest captain in this port, but Im the most careful I learned at the helm of Daddys boat, which I was practically raised onTheyhugged again Bill pla

51、nted a tender kiss on her cheek, rested his open palm on her slightly swollen stomach, Besides, I need to be here Little Billy will need his daddy Shelly slapped him on the shoulder Its Billy Jean and you know itBilllaughed, Not on my watch, Girl I gave you a boy to take over as captainTheir laughte

52、r broke the tension I have to go, Shell See you in a few days? He turned to leave and then turned back, reached into the pocket of his heavy coat and pulled out an envelopeI almost forgot Heres my letter?Shelly took the crisp envelope and slipped into the pocket of her dress Thanks,Billy It had been

53、 their custom since they started dating Billy gave her a note before he went to sea She wasnt allowed to open it until the next day He usually wrote of love or sometimes something silly both made her smile She wrote a reply and left it on the kitchen table for him Reading her reply was the first thi

54、ng he did when he came homeShewatched as her husband walked thelength of the pier to where the fortyfive foot Shelly Girl and his crew waited He gave a final wave and climbed aboardShelly stood by their pickup truck and watched until the boat rounded the point and disappeared from view I love you, B

55、illy she whispered Be safe Thatevening, five hundred miles to the south, a small winter depression moved north along the Atlantic coast of the USA Experts found an unexpected change in the jet stream, which would make the small depression become a raging winter storm Shelly woke in the morning and l

56、istened to the weather report on the battered radio sitting on kitchen table The phone rangHelloShelly?Hi, Gail! She recognized the voice of her friend, who was the wife of one of Billys crew Have you heard the weather?Hang on a second I just turned the radio on Shellys face paled as she heard the w

57、eather person say a major winter depression had moved into the area Oh crap!Thats what said tooTheyll be OK, Gail Theyre experienced fishermen Shelly said to Gail It was aattempt to convince herself that her man would be safe Offthe south shore of Nova Scotia, Bill struggled to control the Shelly Gi

58、rl in the growing waves Wind and water attacked Bill and his crew from all directions The forty and fiftyfoot walls of water were too much of a challenge for the young captainTheforce of the water flipped the boat over, tore the wheelhouse off and tossed Bill and his crew into the icy AtlanticThewat

59、er, only a few degrees above the freezing point, soon overcame Bills will to live Shelly!Hetook a last painful breath of salt water and slipped below the surface Thecrisp envelope bent beneath her fingers as she laid it on her lap and read Shelly, you are my life, my love and soontobe mother of our

60、son 一 girl if that is what you really want Ill always come homeShelly reached for the pen in her dress pocket Tears dripped from her face and stained the paper she wrote on, _Hernote sits on their kitchen table still 一 never read （1）Why was Shelly worried too much when Billy go to sea this time？_A.B