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2018南京三模英语试卷及答案南京市2018届高三年级第三次模
拟考试英语
南京市2018届高三年级第三次模拟考试英语试卷
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 the concert.
B. Who to invite to the concert.
C. How advertise the concert.
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 the library.
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 paint very well.
B. He loves the traditional style.
C. He has high artistic ability
16.What is the woman going to do this weekend?
A. Buy a ticket B Go to the exhibition. C Take painting lessons.
听第10段材料,回答第17 至20题。

17.Where is Jolly Good Skincare's head office?
A. In London.
B. In York.
C. In Bath.
18.Why was "Feel Good" developed?
A. To open up new markets.
B. To introduce modern technology
C. To increase the variety 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 12th. 1-5 BAACB 6-10ACCBA 11-15 BCACA 16-20 BBACC
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’s hard to accept the truth _________ the lie sounds so much better.
A. because
B. unless
C. though
D. until
22. Held inside for too long, regret ______affect the imm une system•
A. must
B. can
C. should
D. shall
ing-of-age is a ceremony _______young people wear traditional costumes to mark the transition from youth to adulthood.
A. that
B. what C as D. where
24. We come from different cultures, and carry with_______ different histories.
A. it
B. that
C. us
D. them
25. The couch of the football team _______to resign to take responsibility for the failure, but it was rejected.
A. offered
B. managed
C. needed
D. afforded
26. The suspect was released, as the evidence was _______and, to some extent, ambiguous.
A. clear
B. thin
C. hard
D. negative
27. —Can you put me _______about the World Cup Football Match? —Sorry. I myself know nothing about it.
A. in the air
B. on the move
C.in the picture D .on the post
28. The selfie has inspired risk-taking behavior,_______ the boundaries of safety, whether by hanging from a skyscraper or posing with live explosives.
A. pushed
B. to push
C. pushing
D. having pushed
29.As more and more companies extend their global _______, it is easy to understand why new opportunities birth in various locations.
A. concern
B. appeal
C. reach
D. consensus
30.Through the use of blogs, shy students who rarely ______ during class discussions are given a voice.
A. advance
B. focus
C. compromise
D. contribute
31.The agency will make travel arrangements for you._______ , you can organize your own transport.
A.Similarly
B.Furthermore
C. Instead
D.Alternatively
32. We watched the harbour and then the coastline______into the morning mist.
A. turn away
B. fade away
C. wear away
D. break away
33. The banker finds it difficult _______just as 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 the stuff you didn't do more than the stuff that you ______.
A. do
B.did
C. had done
D. would do
35.--- Hey, can you lend me some money, buddy? I am hard up these days.
--- ____. The funds I bought came down again yesterday and I don’t have a bean now.
A.Forget it
B. No worry
C.No problem
D. Forgive me
答案:21-25 ABDCA 26-30 BCCCD 31-35 DBBBA
第21题考查连词。

句意:有时候真相很难被接受因为谎言听起来更好听。

故选A。

第22题考查情态动词。

情态用词特殊用法,can表示可能。

后悔在心里憋得时间过长,可能会有影响到免疫系统。

故选B。

第23题考查定语从句。

成人礼是一个仪式,在这个仪式上孩子们穿着传统服饰标志着孩子从青少年成长为成年人。

Where表地点指代前面的ceremony。

故选D。

第24题考查固定搭配。

Carrywith sb sth,句意:我们来自不同的文化,我们背负着不同的历史。

故选C。

第25题考查动词词义辨析。

A主动提供,B成功做成,C需要,D付得起。

句意:这支足球队的的主教练主动提出辞职来承担这场失利的责任,但是这个请求被拒绝了。

根据句意,选A。

第26题考查形容词词义辨析。

大致句意为指控被取消了,因为证据不够充分。

A清晰,C坚硬牢靠,D消极的,均不符合句意,根据排除法,故选B。

第27题考查介词短语。

A悬而未决,B在移动中,C知情,D当场,立刻。

句意:——你能给我讲讲世界杯吗?——不好意思,我自己也不太清楚。

Put sb in the picture about也可理解为固定搭配,故选C。

第28题考查时态语态。

这里逗号加v-ing表示的是一种顺其自然的结果,“自拍激发了很多危险动作,引发了很多危险”,选C。

第29题考查名词辨析。

A关心,B吸引,C可及之范围,D共识。

句意:因为越来越多的公司开始扩展自己的国际贸易范围,因此也可以很容易的理解为什么新的机会都产生在各种地区。

Extend …… reach,选C。

第30题考查动词辨析。

大致句意为:通过博客的广泛使用,那些害羞的不敢再讨论上发言的学生也有了发表自己意见的地方。

A促进,B关注,D贡献,均不符合句意,根据排除法,选D。

意为在教室讨论中做出自己应有的贡献。

第31题考查副词词义辨析。

句意:这个机构会帮你做好旅行安排。

或者,你也可以自己安排出行方式。

根据句意,该空格表达的是选择的意思,故选D,Alternatively。

第32题考查短语辨析。

句意:我们眺望了港口接着海岸线消失在早晨的雾霭之中。

结合语意,表达的是海岸线延伸至远处,消失在雾霭之中,故用fade away,A远离,C磨损,D脱离;打破,均不符合句意,故选B。

第33题考查时态语态。

被对待,表示被动,排除AC,不存在表示过去的含义,不需要用have,排除D,故选B。

第34题考查时态语态。

句意为:在你生命的最后时间,你会更加后悔那些你没有做过的事而不是那些你做过的事。

做过的事,时态为过去时,故用did,选B。

第35题考查情景交际。

句意:——能借我点钱吗兄弟,最近手头拮据。

——别想了,我买的基金昨天又亏了我现在一个子都没有了。

首先排除BC,D forgive me用在要说或者请求一些鲁莽的事情前。

(used before you ask or say something that might seem rude)不符语境,故选A。

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 that Baltimore alley was nothing to be proud of. McCoy was looking for a safe place to do ___36____.He had been there for only a minute when something caught his eyes: a brown leather 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, starting with 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 the day and __43___approaching the address, he was stopped by a woman called Smith. She asked to buy the purse. ____44___, McCoy refused, saying he was searching for its owner. “But I am the owner,” the woman said.
At Smith’s___45___ .McCoy told her his story. He’d been in charge of a landscaping business until2012, when he was in a car accident that___ 46 him addicted to narcotics.
Smith, 47 , this stranger had gone to such great strengths to return her bag, asked to do something
to help. “I’m a heroin addict,” McCoy 48 .“I’m probably going to let you down.”
Undaunted, Smith gave him her phone number, saying, “If you want to go to rehab, call me.” She 49 his lost sleeping bag with her own, then drove him back and left, thinking that would be the 50 of it. Two days later, she got a call.
Smith realized that McCoy was 51 about getting better; he even gave her the name of a 28-day rehab facility in Florida. So she 52 her saving account and bought McCoy a plane ticket.While there, he would call her. “I heard his 53 over the phone. Every day he would call me, and it went from this scared, 54 voice to a healthy, energetic voice.”After 28 days there, McCoy is drug-free. His life is back 55 .One crime victim woul d empathize with another’s loss.
36.A. drugs B. sports C.business D. study
37.A. rid B. removed C. emptied D. cheated
38.A. recall B. relate C. remember D. reflect
39.A. few B. many C. illegal D. original
40.A. loss B. deed C. desire D. response
B. date C.number D. address
42.A. added B. declined C. promised D. hesitated
43.A. slowly B. secretly C. finally D. cautiously
44. A. Then B. Actually C. Constantly D. Again
45. A. urging B. insulting C. approving D. threatening
46. A. kept B. left C. found D. saw
47.A. amused B. confused C. amazed D. concerned
48.A. insisted B. repeated C.declared D. warned
49.A.shared B. replaced C. exchanged D. compared
50.A. end t B. star C. result D. cause
51.A. careful B. casual C. serious D. doubtful
52.A. went into B. dug into C. looked into D. checked into
53.A. satisfaction B. expectation C. transformation D. determination
54.A.calm B. anxious C. pleasant D. desperate
55.A. at will B. at risk C.on duty D. on track
答案:36-40 ACBAA 41-45 DBCDA 46-50 BCDBA 51-55 CBCDD
第36空根据后文M这个人吸毒,可以看出,他想找一个地方做毒品交易
第37空这个钱包被清空了所有东西,只有一张电子账单。

第38空 A与C同义必同错
第39空他没有多少东西了,因为所剩无几的睡袋也被人偷了第40空 loss与stole还有后文的lost属于同义替换
第41空根据账单中的地址,M找到了失主,这与后面的theother side of the city 同义替换
第42空有人要买这个钱包,但是他委婉拒绝了
第43空最后,终于到达了目的地
第44空再一次,S提出要买这个钱包
第45空在S的一再敦促下,M分享了他背后的故事
第46空一次交通事故,使得M染上了毒品
第47空 S被这个吸毒者的诚实感到惊讶
第48空S提出要帮助M,但是M警告S,他吸毒
第49空S给了M她自己的睡袋
第50空 S把M送回了家,以为他们不会再有联系
第51空 S知道M解毒是真心的
第52空 S自己掏腰包,帮助M买了一张飞机票
第53空在电话里我听得出他的改变,与后面的went from 呼应第54空之前M对生活绝望的声音,因为他连绝无仅有的睡袋都被人偷了,生无所恋导致绝望。

但所幸的是,保留了最后的诚实第55空固定搭配,生活回到了正规
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
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56. During the 9-daytour, tourists will have a chance to .
A. spend time in volcanic hot springs
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D.camp in a national park
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A. Revealing others’ shortcomings.
B. Reducing its original price.
C. Presenting tourists’ comments.
D. Giving away free activities.
答案:56-57 AC
56. 选A。

根据day4:enjoy a relaxing soak in volcanic hot springs提示,enjoy同义替换spend time,故选A。

根据day 8:hike through
the rainforest提示,B错;根据day 7:enjoy birdwatching & crocodile spotting提示,C错;根据day7:continue to your Manuel Antonio hotel located atNational Park提示,D错。

57. 选C。

根据右下角的框中他人的评论提示,故选C。

ABD原文中根本没有提到
B
Humanity has begun wrestling with the dangers of global threats such as climate change. But few authorities are planning for catastrophic solar storms-huge eruptions of mass and energy from the sun that destroy Earth’s magnetic field. In a recent paper,two Harvard University scientists estimate the potential economic damage from such 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 has happened before. The so-called Carrington Event in 1859, the most intense magnetic storm ever recorded on Earth, caused auroras (极光)in the atmosphere and even delivered electric shocks to telegraph operators. But a Carrington-scale storm today would cause far more harm because society now depends so heavily on electrical power grids,communications satellites and GPS. In an effort to quantify that threat, astrophysicists Abraham Loeb and Manasvi Lingam of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics developed a mathematical model that assumes society’s vulnerability (脆弱性)to solar storms will grow with technological advances. Under this model, during the next 50years
The potential for economic damage will depend primarily on the rising odds of a strong solar storm over time. Beyond 50 years our vulnerability will increase dramatically with technological progress until the latter levels off.
Some scientists question the model’s predictions. “Estimating the economic impact is challenging now, let alone in over a century,” says
Edward Oughton, a research associate at the University of Cambridge’s C enter for Risk Studies. Yet he warns that uncertainty should not stop us from practical preparations, such as making power grids stronger and improving early-warning systems.
Loeb and Lingam think up a much wider strategy: a $100-billion magnetic deflector shield (导流板), positioned between Earth and the sun. This idea seems “pretty preposterous,” however, given that solar particles arrive at Earth from all directions, says Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric 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 for confronting a dangerous solar storm, says Stracey Worman, a senior analyst at consulting firm Abt Associates. “This is a challenging but important question,”Worman says, “that we need more eyes on.”
58. According to Edward 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 economic damage.
D. Space weather forecast can effectively help deal with them.
59.The underlined word “preposterous” in Paragraph 5 mea ns .
A. unreasonable
B. practical
C.innovative
D.inflexible
60. The author writes the 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
58. 选C。

根据题目Edward Oughton提示,找到第4段第1、2行:estimating the economic impact is challenging now,challenging 同
义替换为difficult,estimate同义替换为predict,故选C。

59. 选A。

根据第5段第1行提示:wilder strategy,wilder说明了感情趋向,再来看这个idea:$100-billionmagnetic deflector shield, positioned between Earth and the sun,非常的狂野,几乎不可能,所以只能选A,unreasonable“不切实际的”。

60. 选B。

通读全文可知作者的情感取向,ACD的确是文章的内容的一部分,但题目问的是作者写作目的,根据最后一段第二行:help find the best strategies for confronting a dangerous solar storm,最后一句:this is a challenging but important question that we need more eyes on说明作者在提醒大家阻止solar storm,故选B
C
There are plenty of good reasons for a young person to choose to go to university: intellectual growth,career opportunities, having fun. Around half of school-leavers in the rich world now do so, and the share is rising in poorer countries, too.
Governments are keen on higher education, seeing it as a means to increase social mobility and economic growth. But they tend to overestimate the benefits and ignore the costs of expanding university education. Often, public money just feeds the arms race for qualifications.
As more young people seek degrees, the returns both to them and to governments are lower. Employers demand degrees for jobs that never required them in the past and have not become more demanding since. In a desperate attempt to stand out, students are studying even longer, and delaying work, to obtain master’s degrees.
Spending on universities is usually justified by the “graduate premium” —the increase in earnings that graduates enjoy over non-graduates. These individual gains, the thinking goes,add up to an economic increase for society as a whole. But the graduate premium is a flawed unit of calculating. Part of the usefulness of a degree is that i t
gives a graduate jobseeker an advantage at the expense of non-graduates. It is also a signal to employers of general qualities, such as intelligence and diligence, that someone already has in order to get into a university. Some professions require qualifications. But a degree is not always the best measure of the skills and knowledge needed for a job. With degrees so common, recruiters are using them as a simple way to evaluate applicants. Non-graduates are thus increasingly locked out of nice work.
In any case, the premium counts only the winners and not the losers. Across the rich world, a third of university students never graduate. It is the weakest students who are drawn in as higher education expands and who are most likely to drop out. They pay fees and sacrifice earnings to study, but see little increase in their future incomes. When dropouts are included, the expected financial return to starting a degree for the weakest students shrinks to almost nothing. Many school-leavers are being misled about the probable value of university. Governments need to offer the young a wider range of options after school. They should start by rethinking their own hiring practices. Most insist on degrees for public-sector jobs that used to be done by non-graduates, including nursing, primary-school teaching and 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-job training.
School-leavers should be given a wider variety of ways to gain job skills and to demonstrate their employ ability in the private sector. If school qualifications were made more strict, employers would be more likely to trust them as signals of ability, and less insistent on degrees. Universities should grant credits to dropouts for the parts of courses they have completed. They could also open their exams to anyone who wants to take them,and award degrees to those who succeed.
Such measures would be more efficient at developing the skills that
increase productivity and should save public money. To promote social mobility, governments would do better to direct funds to early-school education and to helping students who would benefit from university but cannot afford it. Young people, both rich and poor, are ill-served by the arms race in academic qualifications, in which each must study longer because that is what all the rest are doing. It is time to disarm.
61. How does the author 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 and taxpayers.
62. What does the underlined word “them” in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Degrees.
B. Returns.
C. Employers.
D. Jobs
63. What is the authors’ 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 best title 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
61. 选D。

文中第二段提及“Often, public money just feeds the arms race f or qualification”在文末重提“Such measures would be more efficient at developing the skills thatincrease productivity and should save public money”所以作者认为对于一些学生和纳税人而言,高等教育是在浪费金钱,所以答案选择D。

62. 选A。

Them所在的当句为“Employersdemand degrees for jobs that never required them in the past and have notbecome more demanding since,”所以文中指的是老板过去曾经不需要学历。


里的them指代degrees。

63. 选D。

作者在文中提出了“Instead they should seek other ways for non-graduates to prove theyhave the right skills and to get more on the job training.”所以作者提出了要让辍学者得到合适的工作培训。

所以D选项正确。

A选项没有提及,文中只提出了让大学资格的获得更严格。

B选项也没有提及。

C选项文中说的是private sector而并非publicsector。

64. 选B。

A选项过于片面,提高社会流动性只是政府支持大学教育的理由之一,并非全文核心。

C选项偏离主题,文中探讨的是辍学者和大学教育的问题,并不是谈失业。

D选项同理,偏题主题。

排除法得B选项最佳。

B选项包含了文中的内容
D
Recently, I was made keenly aware 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 of the 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 difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her. I was saying things like, “the intersection of me mory upon imagination”—a speech filled with all the forms of standard English that I had learned in school, the forms of English I did not use at home with my mother ① .
You should know that my mother’s expressive command of English doesn’t show how much s he actually understands. She reads the Forbes report and listens to Wall StreetWeek 一all kinds of things I can’t begin to understand, ② Yet some of my friends tell me they understand none of what my mother says, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. ③ Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation
and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world.
Lately, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. ④ Like others, I have described it to people as“broken” English. But I wince when I say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”,as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English”,for example. But they seem to indicate that everything is limited, including people’s perceptions of the limited English speaker.
And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants 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.
When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on the phone to pretend I was she. One time I was forced to call her stockbroker in New York and say in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs. Tan”. And my mother 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 said in perfect English and gave him warnings. The following week there we were in front 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 broken English.
I think my mother’s English almost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well. Sociologists and linguists probably will tell you that a person’s developing language skills are more influenced by peers. But I do think that the language spoken in the family, especially in immigrant families plays a large role in shaping the language of the child. I also had teachers who were trying to steering me away from writing and into math and science.
Fortunately, I happen to be rebellious in nature and enjoy the challenge of disproving assumptions made about me. I became an English major my first year in college. When I began to write, 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 about my mothers. So with this reader in mind—and in fact she did read my early drafts—I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of better term might be described as “simple”;the English she used with me, which for lack of better term might be described as “broken”;and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to capture what language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imaginary, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
Apart from what any critic had to say about my writing, I knew I had succeeded where it counted when my mothe rfinished reading my book and gave me her opinion: “So easy to read.”
65. What happened during the speech, according to paragraph 1?
A. The author’s mother arrived unexpectedly at the speech.
B. The author delivered wrong information to the audience.
C. The author admitted that she could use standard English.
D. The author began to reflect on the different Englishes she used.
66. In which blank we put the sentence “It’s my mother tongue.”?
A.①
B.②
C.③
D.④
67. How does the author feel about her mother’s English being described as “limited”?
A. Ashamed
B. Uncomfortable
C. Astonished
D.Disappointed.
68. The author tells the story in Paragraph 5 to .
A. show the limitations of her mother’s English.
B. Indicate that people in New York are easily taken in.
C. explain the reasons for others’ bad attitude to her mother.
D. display the difficulty immigrants had fitting into society.
69.In what way was the 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 be learned from the passage?
A. The author’s writing retells what happened to her mother.
B. American language ability tests are unfair to Chinese immigrants.
C. The author finds it impossible to describe her mother’s language.
D. The author feels lucky to have inherited culture from her mothers.
65.选D。

第一段文中“recently, I was made keenly aware of the different Englishes I douse.”和“The talk was going along well enough until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong”可知作者在演讲中突然反应过来她所用的不同的英语,答案选择D。

66. 选C。

It’s my mother tongue. 在1处与前文所述话题矛盾,前文在说标准英语,而这句显然是在说来自作者妈妈的“broken English”,所以不选A。

2处上文在说读的报刊,与这句话所说内容无法相连,错误。

3处上文在说my mother’s English 而后文在说她的语言的特点。

恰好能连上,所以放在3处合适。

4处上文是在思考的内容,前后不连贯。

所以放在3处最合适,答案选C。

67. 选B。

由文中“But they seem to indicate that everything is limited, includingpeople’s perceptions of the limited English speaker”可知作者并不满意limited English这种说法,所以答案选择Buncomfortable。

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