江苏南京高三第三次模拟考试英语试卷

——Your argument is     .I will not let you pass.
--Are you kidding?

The International Monetary Fund has received both criticism and     for its efforts to promote financial stability, prevent crises, facilitate trade, and reduce poverty.

In this movie going season, women are driving ticket sales to a degree      ,if ever, seen before.

Acceptance is not about liking a situation. It is about acknowledging all that has been lost and     to live with that loss.

Some tourists’ visiting Tian’anmen Square during the holiday left a ________ of litter everywhere they went.

----There won’t be anywhere to park.
----Oh, _______. Let’s try the subway.

How did it come about ________ a quiet person should appear so wild today?

You never really understand a person _______ you consider things from his point of view.

---Kingsman: The Secret Service is a spy action comedy film. Wants to come with me?
---I’d love to, but my best friend is getting married, and I won’t _______ it for anything.

---________ I say something to you? You were really, really something back there. Incredible!
---Are you talking to ---me? Whoa!

The guide was enthusiastic and knowledgeable and we spent a lovely evening wandering into places which we ________ straight past otherwise.

Loneliness is a feeling _______ people experience a powerful rush of emptiness and solitude.

Halfway through the chapter _______ I hadn’t taken anything in.

If Kate had known what was _______ for her, she would not have married Tom.

He started school the same day as I did and ________ to it like a duck to water.

The opening and closing of doors are the most significant actions of man’s life. What a     lies in doors!
No man knows what awaits him when he opens a door.       the most familiar room, where the clock ticks and the hearth glows red at dusk may harbor          .The worker may actually have called and       the leaking pipe. The cook may have been ill and demanded her passport.
There are many kinds of doors. Revolving doors for hotels, shops and public buildings. There are many        the busy, bustling ways of modern life. Can you       William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens skipping through a       door? There are double doors, sliding doors, stage doors and glass doors. The       and mystery of a door lies in its quality of being hidden. A glass door is not a door at all, but a window. The meaning of a door is to       what lies inside; to keep the heart in suspense.
Also, there are many ways of opening doors. There is the cheery       of elbow with which the waiter opens the kitchen door. There is the sympathetic and awful       of the dentist’s maid who opens the door into the operating room and, without speaking,       that the doctor is ready for you.
The opening of doors has in it some flavor of the       , some sense of moving into a new moment. Even in       , the opening of a door may bring relief. But the closing of doors could be      , A door closed brings       to an end. And there are degrees of sadness in the closing of doors. A door slammed is a confession of weakness. A door       shut may often be the most tragic gesture in life.
The opening and closing of doors is a part of the serious fluency of life. Life will not stay            and let us alone. We are       opening doors with hope, closing them with despair. Life       not much longer than a pipe of tobacco, and destiny knocks us out like the ashes.

A．mystery B．relief C．scenery D．pleasure

A．So B．Still C．Even D．Also

A．wishes B．puzzles C．surprises D．changes

A．checked B．fixed C．wrapped D．removed

A．essential to B．different from C．consistent with D．typical of

A．imagine B．suggest C．catch D．notice

A．stage B．sliding C．glass D．revolving

A．symbol B．miracle C．sign D．mark

A．busy B．hide C．discover D．exhibit

A．knock B．bump C．push D．touch

A．silence B．noise C．voice D．peace

A．announce B．admits C．implies D．expects

A．darkness B．certainty C．possibility D．unknown

A．vain B．hope C．sadness D．happiness

A．easy B．terrible C．dull D．interesting

A．nothing B．everything C．anything D．something

A．heavily B．hurriedly C．gently D．firmly

A．still B．calm C．silent D．simple

A．naturally B．continually C．obviously D．possibly

A．measures B．matches C．reaches D．lasts

 
Of the three letters, which is in response to which?

Chances for Duke University to change its admission decision in history were_______.

What makes it impossible for the applicant to resubmit an application next year?

What can we infer form the letter about college application?

Obviously!
Until Descartes came along in the seventeenth century, everyone assumed that we exited. Obviously. The fact seemed so mind-blowing obvious that it wasn’t really discussed. We could see ourselves in the mirror, we could feel pain and pleasure, we could think thoughts for ourselves and, more importantly, perhaps, all the world’s main religions assumed that we do exist. So we exist.
No you don’t it!
You don’t exist. That’s because it’s impossible to show once and for all that you do. There’s no proof. You might think you exist-that you are sitting at a table reading this book, for instance-but how could you show with 100 percent certainty that this is true? There’s no experiment that could prove it. Although Descartes said just you could prove your own existence by the fact that you are able to think, this isn’t actually, according to the British philosopher A. J. Ayer. Just because we know that we are thinking, this doesn’t mean that there is a “you” doing the thinking. It just shows that the thoughts are happening, not that anyone is having them. Thoughts exists, “You” don’t.
_____________!
What a waste of time this question is. Although you can argue until the end of time whether you exist or not, it doesn’t get you anywhere. Unless you forget about this unanswerable question, you’ll be stuck thinking about it forever, and that isn’t of any use to anyone. Move on. Think about something more important! This very roughly, is the view of almost all philosophers, who prefer to answer other, apparently more useful, questions.
Yes, but…
You exist, but not in the way you might think. According to the great French philosopher Ren Descartes, you can’t show that anything exists—apart from your own self. The existence of the entire world can be doubted in one way or another, but the facts you’re having thoughts shows that there might be something (that’s you) having them. This let Descartes to write the famous philosophical phrase, “ I think before I am”.
Which of the following can be the missing heading?

This passage is anything but a(n)___________.

The famous answer to the question “Do I exist?” is ___________.

Knots are the kind of stuff that even myths are made of.In the Greek legend of the Gordian knot, for example, Alexander the Great used his sword to slice through a knot that had failed all previous attempts to unite it. Knots, enjoy a long history of tales and fanciful names such as “Englishman’s tie, ” “and “cat’s paw. ” Knots became the subject of serious scientific investigation when in the 1860s the English physicist William Thomson (known today as Lord Kelvin) proposed that atoms were in fact knotted tubes of ether（醚）. In order to be able to develop the equivalent of a periodic table of the elements, Thomson had to be able to classify knots — find out which different knots were possible. This sparked a great interest in the mathematical theory of knots.
A mathematical knot looks very much like a familiar knot in a string, only with the string’s ends joined. In Thomson’s theory, knots could, in principle at least, model atoms of increasing complexity, such as the hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen atoms, respectively. For knots to be truly useful in a mathematical theory, however, mathematicians searched for some precise way of proving that what appeared to be different knots were really different — the couldn’t be transformed one into the other by some simple manipulation（操作）. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Scottish mathematician Peter Guthrie Tait and the University of Nebraska professor Charles Newton Little published complete tables of knots with up to ten crossings. Unfortunately, by the time that this heroic effort was completed, Kelvin’s theory had already been totally discarded as a model for atomic structure. Nevertheless, even without any other application in sight, the mathematical interest in knot theory continued at that point for its own sake. In fact, mathematical became even more fascinated by knots. The only difference was that, as the British mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah has put it, “the study of knots became a special branch of pure mathematics. ”
Two major breakthroughs in knot theory occurred in 1928 and in 1984. In 1928, the American mathematician James Waddell Alexander discovered an algebraic expression that uses the arrangement of crossings to label the knot. For example, t²-t+1 or t²-3t+1, or else. Decades of work in the theory of knots finally produced the second breakthrough in 1984. The New Zealander-American mathematician Vaughan Jones noticed an unexpected relation between knots and another abstract branch of mathematics, which led to the discovery of a more sensitive invariant known as the Jones polynomial.
What is surprising about knots?

What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

According to the passage, ______ shows the most updated study about knots.

Which one would be the best title for this passage?

ELMONT, N. Y. (AP)---Elmont High School senior Harold Ekeh had a plan—he would apply to 13 colleges , including all eight Ivy League schools, figuring it would help his chances of getting into at least one great school.
It worked, And then some, The teenager from Long Island was accepted at all 13 schools, and now faces his next big test: deciding where to go.
“I was stunned, I was really shocked, ”Ekeh told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday at his home near the Belmont Park racetrack, his four younger brothers running around.
He found out last week he had been accepted to Princeton University. That made him eight for eight in the Ivy League—he had already been accepted to Yale University , Brown University, Columbia University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College, Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania. His other acceptances came from Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Stony Brook University and Vanderbilt University.
“We are so proud of him, ” said his mother , Roseline Ekeh.“Hard work, dedication, prayer brought him to where he is today. ”
Born in Nigeria, Harold was eight years old when his parents brought the family to the United States.
“It was kind of difficult adjusting to the new environment and the new culture, ” he said. But he saw his parents working hard, “and I took their example and decides to apply myself”
He referenced that effort in his college essay, writing, “Like a tree, uprooted and replanted, I could have withered in a new country surrounded by people and languages I did not understand. Yet, I witnessed my parents persevere despite the potential to give in. I faced my challenges with newfound zeal; I risked insults, spending my break talking to unfamiliar faces, ignoring their sarcastic remarks. ”
Harold “is tremendously focused in everything he does.” said John Capozzi, the school’s principal, “He’s a great role model. All the students and faculty are so proud of him. ”
Harold is the second Long Island student in as many years to get into all eight Ivies. Last year, William Floyd High School’s Kwasi Enim chose to go to Yale.
Harold, who has a 100. 51 grade-point average and wants to be a neurosurgeon, said he was leaning toward Yale, and had heard from Enin, offering congratulations. Like Enin, he’s likely to announce his college choice at a press conference later this month. The deadline to decide is May 1.
Which is closest in meaning to the underlined phrase“apply myself”?

Which of the following is true about Harold?

Harold is probably going to

What can we infer from this passage?

The emotional bond a child secures with its parents has a greater impact on its education than previously thought, a report suggests. The Sutton Trust study says children’s early attachment to parents has far-reaching consequences for their ability to speak, learn and think. Parents who are insecure themselves find it harder to provide children with security, it says. And the report calls for more help so parents can develop such crucial bonds. The study focuses on the application of the theory of attachment—a key theory in child developement and psychology. This says the degree to which children are secure and resilient as they grow up depends on their own early experiences with their mothers and fathers and how they have bonded.
The report from the Sutton Trust education charity, entitled Baby Bonds, makes the case that it has an important impact on children’s future educational chances as well as their emotional well-being. It is based on an analysis of more than 100 studies on the issue, including home visits and assessments and observations of children in a range of countries. The trust argues that although psychologists have been aware of attachment theory, it has not been seen by policy makers as a key influence on educational attainment. And it asks them to take this into account. The report says when babies and toddlers do not form these strong parental bonds—known as secure attachment—they are more likely to exhibit poor language and poor behavior before they reach school.
And it cites international studies which suggest this continues late into life, with insecure children more likely to leave school early or duck out of employment or training. They are also more likely to suffer from aggression, defiance and hyperactivity later in life.
The Sutton Trust says its analysis of the research suggests that about 40% of children in the UK lack a secure attachment with their parents. Lead author Sophie Moullin said that when her team looked at large scale representative studies in a number of countries they all found, from their observations, that between 38% and 42% of children suffered from poor attachment in all the different study locations. She added: “Secure attachment really helps children with emotional and social development and at school it really helps them to manage their behavior. Shouting, looking out of the window, hitting each other…These are the things that teachers will tell you that are stopping children from learning. It’s really only as we understand more about these behavior problems that we have decided that a lot of it goes back to this early bonding with parents. ”
Research director at the trust Conor Ryan said: “Better bonding between parents and babies could lead to more social mobility, as there is such a clear link to education, behavior and future employment. The educational divide emerges early in life, with a 19—month school readiness gap between the most and least advantaged children by the age of five.
This report clearly identifies the fundamental role secure attachment could have in narrowing that school readiness gap and improving children’s life chances. “More support from health visitors, children’s centers together with local authorities in helping parents improve how they bond with young children could play a role in narrowing the education gap. ”

The Sutton Trust study
Introduction	The study reveals children’s early attachment to parents _______ affects their ability to speak, learn and think.
Method of the study	Researchers_______ more than 100 case studies on the issue through visiting homes, assessing children and ________children.
Statistics of the study	·In the UK, only about 60% of children have a secure attachment with their parents. ·In other countries where the studies were carried out, the numbers are quite________.
Negative effects of insecure _______	·A________ of secure parental bonding may lead to poor language and behavior for preschool children. At the age of five, the_______ school readiness gap between children can be 19 months. ·Without secure attachment, future life difficulties such as quitting school, _________ from work and other emotional issues would emerge.
The significance of parental attachment	Better bonding between parents and babies could lead to a change in people’s social ________ because it narrows children’s school readiness gap and it improves children’s life chances.
Suggestion	A_____ effort is needed for strong parent-child bonding.

This is a picture of a ballet dancer whose left foot looks shockingly different from the right one. Some even jokes that the left foot represents how elegant ballet dancers look. On the contrary, the right one reveals the nature of those dancers’ life. One can hardly imagine how much time and effort have been devoted to endless practice.

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