2019年江苏提前招生英语模拟试题（一）【含答案】
第I卷（三部分, 共85分）
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30 分）
略。
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. A lot of suggestions were put forward at the meeting, but ______ was practical.
A. nothing
B. neither
C. none
D. no one
22. People rarely succeed ________ they have fun in what they are doing.
A. if
B. unless
C. since
D. when
23. Our car ________ engine trouble, we stopped for the night at a roadside rest area.
A. developed
B. being developed
C. to develop
D. having developed
24. When it comes to protecting us from digital threats, ______ we need to make progress is in applying these tools and encouraging people to use them.
A. what
B. where
C. that
D. when
25. Everyone in society is supposed to _________ kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look.
A. stand up for
B. catch up with
C. make up for
D. get away with
26. When my mother became unwell, I felt a sense of duty that perhaps I ______ before.
A. might not feel
B. should not have felt
C. could not feel
D. would not have felt
27. ---Does the river still flood the village during the summer?
---Thanks to the past two years’ river engineering efforts, the impact____.
A. was reduced
B. has reduced
C. is reducing
D. has been reduced
28. There has been positive reaction to the proposal of helping the disabled, the impact ______ will be lasting especially for younger ones.
A. on which
B. on whom
C. of which
D. of whom
29. --- Cathy, in my opinion, is very __________.
--- Absolutely! She prefers home life to going out.
A. Domestic
B. Energetic
C. Dynamic
D. enthusiastic
30. Education is to change traditionally-minded individuals, typically those who are not prepared to ______, and to encourage critical thinking.
A. compensate
B. innovate
C. investigate
D. accumulate
31. —How can I live my dreams in a short time?
—Be practical. Between you and your dreams ________ a lot of hard work.
A. stand
B. stands
C. is standing
D. are standing
32. Denying the unknown will limit your imagination and keep creativity ________.
A. in order
B. in contrast
C. at distance
D. at best
33. --- You can tell me I’m _________, because nobody follows the instructions.
---Take it easy. I believe you can make it.
A. a white elephant
B. a lame duck
C. a top dog
D. a dark horse
34. — How did you enjoy the game?
— I was impressed by the energy and______ shown by the players.
A. commitment
B.qualification
C. investment
D. privilege
35. —How come you were half an hour late for my class this morning, Mike?
—_______ My father’s car broke down halfway.
A. Yes, so what?
B. No, it’s not my fault.
C. Well, who knows?
D. Sorry, but I couldn’t help it.
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请阅读下面短文，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。
I met my true fate as I lay on a soccer field, holding on desperately to my consciousness. Finally, I36and came into a world of darkness, leaving people struggling to help an37girl who, just hours ago, had been in perfect38 .
Later I spent most of my time in bed. No doctors knew what was wrong with me. Most of my friends had become39 . Every day became more and more frustrating. Eventually I returned to school on a part-time40 . Instead of getting the41I expected, I received dirty42and harsh rumors about how it was "all in my head."
43my dreams of being a soccer player was ruined, I joined the drum band instead. I held the belief that things would get better.44 , I lost consciousness at nearly every band practice and people were constantly45always having to take care of me. Some people even tried to get me46off the drum band. Thus, I continued to be bullied and labeled me as an "attention-seeker."
As I struggled through my health problems and47 , I continued to keep promising myself that things would get better, and eventually they did. I made friends with a few members of the drum band, who48by my side and knew how desperately I needed somewhere to49 . Unfortunately, my health50worse. My doctor decided to send me to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in51that the doctors there would be able to solve the52that had puzzled every other doctor I'd seen. The Mayo doctors diagnosed me with a problem called POTS. They were certain that the unconsciousness that I'd been53was not "in my head".
I am extremely happy to have kept promising myself that things would get better.54it hadn't been for others’55and my perseverance, I'd still be wondering if my problem really was "in my head." And, most importantly, I've learned to never lose hope because I believe that the only disability in life is a bad attitude.
36. A. stayed up B. let go C. gave away D. went on
37. A. independent B. frightened C. energetic D. unconscious
38. A. order B. health C. terror D. danger
39. A. annoyed B. patient C. enthusiastic D. distant
40. A. move B. respect C. basis D. regard
41. A. award B. approval C. result D. sympathy
42. A. eyes B. work C. joke D. looks
43. A. Unless B. Once C. Since D. Before
44. A. Altogether B. Nevertheless C. Otherwise D. Therefore
45. A. insisting on B. worrying about C. complaining about D. concentrating on
46. A. kicked B. scared C. seized D. discouraged
47. A. loneliness B. confusion C. shame D. sickness
48. A. looked B. waited C. wandered D. stuck
49. A. follow B. rest C. belong D. recover
50. A. came B. went C. fell D. stayed
51. A. purposes B. hopes C. wishes D. needs
52. A. case B. deal C. wonder D. mystery
53. A. looking into B. pushing for C. dealing with D. suffering from
54. A. When B. While C. If D. Providing
55. A. blessing B. help C. impact D. strength
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请阅读下列短文，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
UNWARRANTED: Policing Without Permission, by Barry Friedman.
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.) In this accessible study, a legal scholar argues
that clear rules governing the use of force and surveillance (监管), under court
guidance and police leadership, are the solution to abusive policing.
CANNIBALISM: A Perfectly Natural History, by Bill Schutt. (Algonquin, $26.95.)
This account is full of impressive research, drawing on scholarly journals and
ancient texts. Schutt, a biologist, shows that cannibalism (同类相残) in the
natural (including human) world is much more common than we once
thought.
THE SCHOOLDAYS OF JESUS, by J. M. Coetzee. (Viking, $27.) In the second
installment of his allegorical fable, the Nobel Prize winner has created a mixed
genre combining the energy of philosophical dialogue with the emotional
effect of family romance. The result is rich and full of inner tension and
suspense (悬念).
PRETENDING IS LYING, by Dominique Goblet. Translated by Sophie Yanow.
(New York Review Comics, $24.95.) The Belgian artist uses charcoal, pencil and
ink to help explore the important relationships in her life in the first of her
books to be translated into English.
A. UNWARRANTED
B. CANNIBALISM
C. THE SCHOOLDAYS OF JESUS
D. PRETENDING IS LYING
57. From the passage we know______.
A. some regulations can effectively prevent abusive policing
B. wild animals kill their own kind more commonly than before
C. The Schooldays of Jesus mainly focuses on tension and suspense
D. charcoal, pencil and ink are helpful in exploration and translation
B
There are endless motivations for human behaviour, from the basic drives for food to more complicated ones, such as sympathy, envy and anger. But none of these explain behaviours that we call compulsions (强迫症).They come from a need that is desperate and tortured (折磨). They may bring relief, but they bring little enjoyment, and while one part of our brain desperately wishes to stop them, another is afraid of stopping.
I used to view compulsions as foreign and almost frightening. But in the course of my research, two things happened. First, when I got to know people who were compulsive, their behaviour didn’t seem unreasonable at all. Second, I realized that although people with the most extreme compulsions seem like outliers (另类人), the anxiety that drives them to those extremes is universal.
Over any year, many of us find ourselves in the control of a compulsion that falls short of something that is disabling enough to qualify as a mental disorder – in fact, some compulsions are adaptive, helping us lead our lives or perform our jobs more effectively.
Like many people, maybe you feel forced to reach for your smart phone as soon as you wake up in the morning. Fortunately a growing number of experts have begun to succeed in distinguishing addictions from compulsions.
An addiction begins with a flash of pleasure accompanied with dang er; it’s fun to gamble or to drink, and it also puts you at risk. Additions involve acting without planning or even thought, driven by an urge for immediate https://www.doczj.com/doc/0613104067.html,pulsions, in contrast, are all about avoiding unpleasant outcomes. They are behaviours we repeat many times to relieve the anxiety brought on by the possibility of negative consequences. But the actual behaviour is often unpleasant –or at least not particularly rewarding, especially after many rounds of it.
Behind every compulsion is the need to avoid what causes you pain or anxiety. Compulsive behaviour is not necessarily a mental disorder. Some forms of it can be, and people in its control deserve to be diagnosed and helped. But many are expressions of psychological needs we all feel: to be at peace and in control, to feel connected and to matter. And if those are
mental illnesses, we’re all crazy.
58. From the first two paragraphs, we know that _____.
A. compulsions can bring relief as well as enjoyment
B. compulsive people will prefer unreasonable behaviour
C. compulsions may be an understandable response to anxiety
D. compulsive people must be frightening and behave differently
59. The main difference between addictions and compulsions lies in _____.
A. human relationships
B. internal drives
C. financial rewards
D. social expectations
60. What’s the author’s attitude towards compulsion?
A. Objective.
B. Negative.
C. Doubtful.
D. Cautious.
C
It is believed that a period of mass extinction,
which happened between 234 and 232 million years ago during the Triassic period, enabled the booming of dinosaurs. This extinction is thought to have been caused by a period of unstable climate called the Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE), in which the climate went from dry, to wet, to dry again four times over the course of 2m years.
The earliest fossil remains that are widely agreed to be those of a dinosaur come from Tanzania and date from about 245m years ago. For the next 10m years or so, however, dinosaurs are nothing special. In collections of the bones of land animals they form about 5% of the total. But then the percentage starts to rise and within 5m years or less they dominate (处于首要位置) such collections, while other groups of creatures decrease and eventually disappear. The bones show a huge turnover of species, and that this coincides with the CPE. The bone evidence, however, is restricted mainly to what are now Argentina and Brazil. Massimo Bernardi of the Museum of Sciences in Trento, Italy sought to prove it elsewhere, and with a different type of evidence—the tracks they left behind.
Dr Bernardi and his colleagues identified more than 20 sets of such tracks, called ichno-associations, in Dolomite rocks laid down during the relevant part of the Triassic. The Dolomite ichno-associations, they found, fall into three
groups. The oldest show no signs of dinosaur tracks. In
those of middling age, about 40% of the tracks have
been laid down by dinosaurs. In the most recent, that
proportion is 90%.
The relative ages of rock layers are easy to see. Unless a
rock formation has been turned upside down by
movement of Earth’s crust, young layers will be at the top and old ones at the bottom. That is how Dr Bernardi knew which tracks were older and which younger. Working out absolute ages, though, is harder.
The Dolomites’ rocks were formed at a time when the sea’s level, relative to the land, was
going up and down. Such movements mean that marine (海的) and land sediments (沉积物) are sandwiched in these mountains, and the marine sediments provided the information needed. Most obviously, those sediments show how far, at the time they were laid down, the turnover of species had continued at sea. On top of this, some of them contain layers of volcanic ash that can be dated from radioactive isotopes within.
The result was that Dr Bernardi and his colleagues were able to establish accurate dates for the various ichno-associations they had catalogued, confirming that those associations precisely run through the Carnian Pluvial Episode, thus matching the bone evidence in South America. That is clear evidence the dinosaurs were indeed the beneficiaries of the CPE, though why they did better than other groups is not yet understood.
61. By studying the tracks of dinosaurs, Dr Bernardi wants to prove that ______.
A. climate changes led to a period of mass extinction
B. dinosaurs make up the most part of bone collections
C. the CPE helped the growth of dinosaurs’ population
D. the bone evidence can be found in other places
62. From the passage we can know that _______.
A. first dinosaurs appeared during the CPE period
B. Dolomite rocks also contain other animals’ tracks
C. upper rock layers are younger than those beneath
D. land sediments don’t provide clues to absolute ages
63. The underlined word “beneficiaries” in paragraph 7 refers to animals that _______ the CPE.
A. suffered from
B. gained from
C. survived in
D. appeared in
64. Which can be the most suitable title for the passage?
A. The rise of Dinosaurs
B. Seeking new evidence of CPE
C. Footprints in the Mud
D. Tracking down the truth
D
Thomas had achieved fame as a poet in the 1930s and had spent World War Two in London writing propaganda (宣传) films. But by 1946, after the end of the war, he needed a regular income to support his wife Caitlin, and children Llewelyn and Aeronwy. Luckily he had a new admirer in the form of Margaret Taylor, wife of noted historian and broadcaster A.J.P. Taylor. Introduced as an “entertaining guest” by a mutual friend, he had succeeded in charming Mrs Taylor, who put the family up in a summerhouse in their garden in the grounds of Magdalen College (牛津大学莫德林学院). ①
Thomas had a love-hate relationship with Oxford, according to his biographer Andrew Lycett. His poetry may have brought him respect and celebrity in literary circles, but in Oxford he felt at odds with his surroundings. “His father, who had been a schoolmaster in Swansea, would have liked him to go to Oxford University,” Mr Lycett explains. “When he did actually get to Oxford he wasn’t actually at the university. It was a curious period. He was in this academic environment though he wasn’t a born academic himself. But he generally enjoyed himself because he got to
know some of the professors there. He wasn’t popular among them, because they thought he was a bit of a wastrel (不务正业者), so he hung out in pubs and met students.” ②
Thomas also took paid jobs at the BBC, regularly travelling to London and became something of a celebrity through appearing on panel shows. ③
“He didn’t really endear (使受垂青) himself to Profess or Taylor,” Mr Lycett says. “He overstayed his welcome. The professor liked to have a barrel of beer in the house and Dylan would finish it off. He just took a dislike to him, partly because, reading between the lines, his wife rather fancied this young ma n.” Mark Davies, an Oxford historian, says Professor Taylor disliked the poet “intensely”. “He ended up being banished (驱逐) a safe distance away from his wife,” he adds.
This banishment was in the picturesque village of South Leigh, nine miles out from the city, in a house set up for Thomas by Margaret, who continued to be his proud sponsor. However, it was here that his granddaughter Hannah Ellis believes Thomas found much of the inspiration for one of his most famous works, the radio drama Under Milk Wood. “South Leigh is hugely important because that was one of those villages where he met all the different characters and it helped him arouse his passion,” she says. “The play had been a seed from when he was about 20 and I think it was that village lifestyle and all the characters that helped. He liked sitting in the corner of the pub, watching all the drama going on. Also he had somewhere quiet to work and a home. For such a long time he hadn’t settled and it was a good period in his life.” ④
Mrs Taylor also helped him return to Wales when he was ready in 1949, buying him a boathouse with her own money. He lived there for the remainder of his life.
“People so often focus on the other periods of his life and they forget about Oxford,” adds Ms Ellis. “They se e the romantic period of living in Laugharne at the boathouse, and the contrast of the chaotic times in New York.”
“There’s just something interesting about this little Welshman wandering around the streets of Oxford,” adds Mr Lycett. “The period isn’t dis cussed much. Somehow or other there was this intervening period that tends to get forgotten. People don’t realize he was starting to think about Under Milk Wood so it wasn’t unproductive. His time in Oxford was an important period of his life.”
Indeed Mr D avies believes Thomas’s connection to Oxford would be better known if he had studied at the university. “Because he didn’t and he was only here as a guest of the college it has been brushed to one side,” he said. “There are some great historical characters who, because they’re not associated with the university, have been pushed sideways out of history.”
A new tour, organized by Literature Wales, aims to make this clear. Its trail takes in the poet’s summerhouse, and the village that became his home. It means the city will finally take the time to remember and treasure one more person in its long line of literary giants.
65. Which of the following is TRUE about Thomas’ life in Oxford?
A. Most of his works were created there.
B. He wasn’t popular among stu dents there.