江苏省高三三校（海安，金陵，南京外国语）联考英语试卷

—Look! More trees are being planted around the new building. What do you think of ________natural surroundings here?
—Fantastic! Beyond _______ expression.

Elizabeth Taylor, the Hollywood legend died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital _______ by her four children after being taken to hospital six weeks ago with heart failure.

_________ many countries in Latin America have been trying to reduce gaps in income, America has allowed inequality to grow.

—Robert, I failed again!
—Don’t worry, you’ll get chosen for the team. ___________.

The moonlight was quite bright, and about fifteen yards up the road there was a deep _______ thrown by a tree.

—How anxious Ruby is! I wonder what on earth she ________.
—I’m afraid nobody knows. She is always so strange.

Freedom-loving young students dislike being restricted by rules, especially ______ which are
“outdated” in their eyes.

—What is the result of the survey?
—15% of those surveyed worry that in the long term children _________ be more dependent
on their parents, which does no good to them.

The researchers found clear and convincing evidence _______ happiness is the key when it comes to better health and longer lives.

New comer as you are, if you spend a little more time on your work, I am sure you’ll ________ ahead in the end.

So hot a day! I would buy one soft-drink can, but I _____ money on me.

—What do you think I should do, Anny?
—In my opinion, you will need to seek _____ advice about your claim for compensation. 

—Is he interested in sailing?
— Of course! In fact he is known ________ as the most daring sailor on the seas.

Men are more suited to occupational environments ______require decisive action while women are better at jobs ______ a considered approach is most important.

Out _________, still discussing the fashion show with great interest.

Thanks to a combination of young businessmen, large numbers of university students and revitalization (新生) efforts by the local and national governments, today’s Nanjing has an      36    of youthful exuberance (繁茂) that would have been    37    only a few decades ago.   38   , the city, a booming city of 6.5 million on the banks of the Yangtze River some 185 miles west of Shanghai, bears    39    resemblance to the former capital of China that suffered the worst cruelty and violence of World War II.
40    Nanjing has shown a remarkable capacity for reinvention during its 2,500-year history. And in recent years, the city has moved    41    its tragic past to become a vital engine of China’s economic growth, thanks    42    to its position in the middle of China’s prosperous eastern seaboard. Growth has also    43    thanks to improved ground transportation: A new bullet train linking Nanjing and Shanghai started service last year,    44    travel time between the cities from several hours to just 75 minutes, and a Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line is    45   to open later this year, with a stop in Nanjing. Within the city, two metro lines were built in the last few years; 15 more are planned to begin service by 2030.
Signs of Nanjing’s    46    wealth and optimism can be seen everywhere. In the heart of the downtown Xinjiekou district, a bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen,    47    the father of modern China, looks    48    over a busy    49    area.
There is perhaps no more    50    symbol of the city’s transformation than the Zifeng Tower, a 1,480-foot skyscraper that opened its doors last May.    51    offices, restaurants and an InterContinental hotel, the tower is the second-tallest building in China and billed as the seventh-tallest in the world.
Underlying all this development is a large Chinese and    52   student population — there are several major universities, plus a branch of Johns Hopkins’s international studies school. In fact, art and music    53   in all sorts of places.
On a larger    54   , local government officials and private investors are pushing the city as a rising center for contemporary art and architecture, hoping to attract    55    from the neon-bathed streets of its neighbor Shanghai.

A．advance B．affection C．air D．ability

A．unforgettable B．unthinkable C．unbearable D．unnecessary

A．Actually B．Regretfully C．Hopefully D．Consequently

A．close B．slight C．much D．little

A．Because B．But C．As D．Since

A．beyond B．on C．off D．out

A．in addition B．in all C．in part D．in fact

A．started B．enlarged C．existed D．accelerated

A．removing B．cutting C．dividing D．lowering

A．scheduled B．invented C．desired D．meant

A．attractive B．well-received C．newfound D．discovered

A．thought B．treated C．considered D．elected

A．out B．at C．about D．for

A．remote B．regional C．rural D．commercial

A．universal B．visible C．traditional D．political

A．Keeping B．Consisting C．Opening D．Housing

A．British B．western C．American D．foreign

A．spring up B．stand up C．set up D．keep up

A．extent B．degree C．scale D．level

A．businessmen B．students C．tourists D．painters

I think it was my mother who taught me the meaning of honesty. Not because she actually was honest, but because she lied all the time. She felt that the easiest way out of any given situation was generally the best way out. And, for her, that generally meant telling a “little white lie.” As a young child I thought it was kind of cool. And, naturally, when I would come to her with a concern or question wondering what I should do, she generally advised me to lie.
“Mom, I told Theresa that I would go over to her house, but now I would rather go to Sue’s house to play.”
“Tell Theresa you’re sick,” she would advise. And generally I did. But I didn’t seem blessed with her lack of conscience. On many painful occasions Theresa would find out that I really went to Sue’s house without her. These occasions taught me that it is more painful to be caught in a lie than it is to tell the truth in the first place. I wondered how it was possible that my mother had never learned that lesson.
I started thinking of all the lies that I’d heard her tell. I remembered the time she told someone that her favorite restaurant had closed, because she didn’t want to see them there anymore. Or the time she told Dad that she loved the lawn-mower he gave her for her birthday. Or when she claimed that our phone lines had been down when she was trying to explain why she hadn’t been in touch with a friend of hers for weeks. And what bothered me even more were all the times she had involved me into her lies. Like the time she told my guidance counselor that I had to miss school for exploratory surgery, when she really needed me to babysit. And it even started to bother me when someone would call for her and she would ask me to tell them that she wasn’t there.
So, I started my own personal fight against her dishonesty. When I answered the phone and it was someone my mother didn’t want to talk to, I said, “Louise, mom is here, but she doesn’t want to talk to you.” The first time I did it, she punished me, but I refused to apologize. I told her that I had decided that it was wrong to lie. And the next time it happened I did the same thing. Finally, she approached me and said, “I agree that lying is not the best thing to do, but we need to find a way to be honest without being rude.” She admitted that her methods weren’t right, and I admitted that mine were a bit too extreme.
Over the past few years, the two of us have worked together to be honest—and yet kind. Honesty should mean more than not lying. It should mean speaking the truth in kindness. Though I started by trying to teach my mom the importance of honesty, I ended up gaining a deeper understanding of the meaning of the term.
The author’s mother __________. 

The author __________.

It can be inferred that the author’s mother __________.

Finally the author and her mother agreed that __________.

Air pollution is damaging 60% of Europe’s prime wildlife sites in meadows, forests and bushes, according to a new report.
A team of EU scientists said nitrogen emissions(氮排放) from cars, factories and farming were threatening biodiversity. It’s the second report this week warning of the on-going risks and threats linked to nitrogen pollution.
Nitrogen in the atmosphere is harmless in its inert(惰性的) state, but the report says reactive forms of nitrogen, largely produced by human activity, can be a menace to the natural world.
Emissions mostly come from vehicle exhausts(排气), factories, artificial fertilizers(肥料) and animal waste from intensive farming. The reactive nitrogen they emit to the air disrupts the environment in two ways: It can make acidic soils too acidic to support their previous mix of species. But primarily, because nitrogen is a fertilizer, it favors wild plants that can maximize the use of nitrogen to help them grow.
In effect, some of the nitrogen spread to fertilize crops is carried in the atmosphere to fertilize weeds, possibly a great distance from where the chemicals were first applied.
The effects of fertilization and acidification favor common aggressive species like grasses, brambles and nettles. They harm more delicate species like mosses(苔藓), and insect-eating sundew plants.
The report said 60% of wildlife sites were now receiving a critical load of reactive nitrogen. The report’s lead author, Dr Kevin Hicks from the University of York’s Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), told BBC News that England’s Peak District had a definitely low range of species as a result of the reactive nitrogen that fell on the area.
“Nitrogen creates a rather big problem that seems to me to have been given too little attention,” he said. “Governments are responsible for protecting areas like this, but they are clearly failing.”
He said more research was needed to understand the knock-on effects for creatures from the changes in vegetation accidentally caused by emissions from cars, industry and farms.
At the conference, the representatives agreed “The Edinburgh Declaration on Reactive Nitrogen”. The document highlights the importance of reducing reactive nitrogen emissions to the environment, adding that the benefits of reducing nitrogen outweigh the costs of taking action.
The underlined word “menace” is used to express that the reactive nitrogen, largely produced by human activity can be ___________.

We can infer from the passage that _________.

The team of EU scientists released the second report of nitrogen emissions this week when __________.

Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

Which of the following is NOT true about James Surowiecki?

___________ can be provided by The Big Apple Circus Care program for sick children.

Which of the following can be used by the Big Apple Circus Clown Care program to promote itself?

Lots of people have hobbies. Some people collect old coins or foreign stamps; some do needlework; others spend most of their spare time on a particular sport.
A lot of people enjoy reading. But reading tastes differ widely. Some people only read newspapers or comics, some like reading novels, while others prefer books on astronomy, wildlife, or technological discoveries.
If I happen to be interested in horses or precious stones, I cannot expect everyone else to share my enthusiasm. If I watch all the sports programs on TV with great pleasure, I must put up with the fact that other people find sports boring.
Is there nothing that interests us all? Is there nothing that concerns everyone—no matter who they are or where they live in the world? Yes, dear Sophie, there are questions that certainly should interest everyone. They are precisely the questions this course is about.
What is the most important thing in life? If we ask someone living on the edge of starvation, the answer is food. If we ask someone dying of cold, the answer is warmth. If we put the same question to someone who feels lonely and isolated, the answer will probably be the company of other people.
But when these basic needs have been satisfied—will there still be something that everybody needs? Philosophers think so. They believe that man cannot live by bread alone. Of course everyone needs food. And everyone needs love and care. But there is something else—apart from that—which everyone needs, and that is to figure out who we are and why we are here.
Being interested in why we are here is not a “casual” interest like collecting stamps. People who ask such questions are taking part in a debate that has gone on as long as man has lived on this planet. How the universe, the earth, and life came into being is a bigger and more important question than who won the most gold medals in the last Olympics.
This text is most probably taken from __________. 

Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?

The author believes that __________.

Interviewing someone for a job is not as easy as it looks. First, as the interviewer, you’re tasked with finding the person who will not only do the job well but also fit in well with the other employees.
You have to make an evaluation of abstract qualities that can’t be found on a résumé. Because you have to repeat the process for every potential employee, you end up asking question after question, applicant after applicant.
Still, interviewers need to be told something: “What is your biggest weakness?” is not a good question. It just isn’t.
Now, job seekers have to understand that interviewers want to find some way to know what makes an applicant different from others. Asking questions that are seemingly impossible to answer is one way to see who can think creatively. Then what may be a proper way to respond to such a question?
Honesty, with a twist(新手法)
“‘What are your three strengths and three weaknesses?’ is a classic, but not too many people know how to answer this,” says Kenneth C. Wisnefski, founder and CEO of WebiMax, an online marketing company.
“As an interviewer, we want to hear strengths that describe initiative(主动性), motivation and dedication. The best way to respond is to include these qualities into specific ‘personal statements.’”
“Similarly, weaknesses should be positioned as a strength that can benefit the employer.”
“I like to hear applicants state an exaggerated strength, and put an interesting twist on it. An example of this is, ‘My initiative is so strong, that sometimes I take on too many projects at a time.’”
This answer leads with a strength that employers want —initiative —and still acknowledges that you’re not perfect.
Although you might consider this acknowledgement too honest, it works because it proves you’re being honest.
Honesty, with progress
When you consider what your weaknesses are, think about how you have attempted to overcome them. No one is perfect, so pretending that you are a perfectionist will come across as insincere.
Debra Davenport, author of “Career Shuffle,” believes citing(引用) examples are the best approach.
“My preferred response for this question is to tell the truth without damaging the applicant’s image.” Davenport explains.
“A better response might be, ‘I’ve had some challenges with work-life balance in the past and I realize that a life out of balance isn’t good for me, my family or my employer. I’ve taken the time to learn better time and project management, and I’m also committed to my overall wellness.’”
The answer adds some dimension to the question, and proves you’ve thought beyond the answer. You’ve actually changed your behavior to address the situation, even if you haven’t completely overcome the weakness.
Put yourself in the interviewer’s shoes
However you decide to answer, Debra Yergen, author of “Creating Job Security Resource Guide,” recommends job seekers imagine themselves sitting on the other side of the desk.
“If you were doing the hiring, what would you be looking for? What would be your motivation for asking certain questions? Who would you be trying to weed out? If you can empathize (共鸣) with the interviewer, you can better understand what they want and need, and then frame your qualifications to meet their needs for the position you seek.”
Once you consider what the goal of the question is and figure out what your honest answer is, you’ll be able to give the best possible answer to a tricky question.

Job Interviews
Tasks for a job interviewer	☆ Find the person both doing the job well and ()   ▲   along well with other employees. ☆ ()   ▲  abstract qualities of applicants by asking one question after another.
()    ▲   to interviewees for replying to a tricky question	☆ Understand that the interviewers want to ()   ▲   between applicants and that asking a question seemingly impossible to answer is one way to see an applicant’s ()   ▲   . ☆ Be ()   ▲   and inventive when asked about your weaknesses, and respond properly. ☆ Never ()   ▲   you are perfect, which may be believed to be insincere. ☆Try to show that you’ve changed a lot ()   ▲    you haven’t completely get rid of your weaknesses. ☆ Put yourself in the interviewer’s shoes and have a better  ()   ▲      of their needs for the job.
Conclusion	☆ With the goal of the question ()   ▲   into account and the honest answer in your mind, you will be able to give the best possible answer.

请你根据对下面这幅漫画的理解用英语写一篇短文。你的短文应该包括以下内容：
1. 这幅漫画描述了什么
2. 这幅漫画想要告诉我们什么
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1. 可参照图示作必要的发挥想象。
2. 词数150左右。
3. 作文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。
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