江蘇省南京市高三第三次模擬考試英語試題及答案

1、南京市2015屆高三第三次模擬考試 英語 2015. 05第一部分 聽力（共兩節(jié)，滿分20分）做題時(shí)，現(xiàn)將答案標(biāo)在試卷上。錄音內(nèi)容結(jié)束后，你將有兩分鐘的時(shí)間將試卷上的答案轉(zhuǎn)涂到答題紙上。第一節(jié) (共5小題； 每小題1分，滿分5分）聽下面5段對話，每段對話后有一個(gè)小題，從題中所給的a bc三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有10秒鐘的時(shí)間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍。1. what is the woman probably doing?a. preparing a speech.b listening to loud music.c talki

2、ng loudly on the telephone.2. how does the woman like the canteen food? a. she is fond of it. b she is tired of it. c. she cant have enough of it.3. why does the man want to wear his new suit?a. at the womans request. b. for an important occasion. c. to look more professional.4. where does this conv

3、ersation probably take place? a. at the mans house b. at a hotel c. in a cafe.5. what time is it when the conversation is on? a. 8:30 b. 8:45 c. 9:15第二節(jié)（共15小題每小題1分，滿分15分）聽下面5段對話或獨(dú)白。每段對話或獨(dú)白后有幾個(gè)小題， 從題中所給的a、b、c三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對話或獨(dú)白前，你將有時(shí)間閱讀各個(gè)小題，每小題5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時(shí)間。 每段對話或獨(dú)白讀兩遍。聽第6段材料，回答第

4、6、7題。6. why do they have no chance for the horror movie?a. the theater is too far.b. the tickets are sold out.c. the man didnt read the paper.7. which cinema are they going tonight?a. the bayside b. the capitol c. the golden.聽第7段材料，回答第8至10題。8. what is true about the womans danish friend?a. she worke

5、d at a bank.b. she used to live in london.c. she was the womans roommate.9. how long will the woman be in copenhagen?a. two weeks. b. seven days. c. three days.10. what has the woman heard about copenhagen?a. its big but relaxing.b. people there are quite busy.c. it has good-quality desserts.聽第8段材料，

6、回答第11至13題。11. what is the woman doing?a. hosting an evening tv program.b. having her bicycle repaired.c. lecturing on business management.12. why did the man take over the bicycle shop?a. he wanted to be his own boss.b. he found it more interesting.c. he wanted to win a bike race.13. what do we lear

7、n about the people working in the shop?a. they are volunteers.b. they are all the mans friends.c. they work five days a week.聽第9段材料，回答第14至16題。14. why is the woman calling?a. she has an appointment with the man.b. she is checking if mike still wants the desk.c. she wants to make sure if she could del

8、iver the desk.15. what probably is the man who answered the call?a. a colleague of mikes. b. a relative of mikes c. a neighbor of mikes16. what happened to the manager?a. he is on sick leave.b. he is busy with something.c. he is just not being around.聽第10段材料，回答第17至20題。17. what is the presentation ma

9、inly about?a. the sales of the motor car.b. the popularity of the motor car.c. the development of the motor car.18. what used to restrict the use of electric vehicles?a. the driving ranger and cost.b. recharging points and safety.c. the driving range and recharging points.19. what does the speaker s

10、ay about electric vehicles of today?a. they are able to receive email.b. they can do all the driving for users.c. they are comparatively environmental-friendly.20 what do you learn about a conventional car in the future?a. it will be powered by vegetable oil.b. it will be challenged by other new-ene

11、rgy cars.c. it will still play an important role on the market.第二部分：英語知識運(yùn)用(共兩節(jié)，滿分35分)第一節(jié)：單項(xiàng)填空(共15小題；每小題l分，滿分l5分)25. some tourists visiting tiananmen square during the holiday left a _ of litter everywhere they went.a. trailb. dotc. chaind. track26. -there wont be anywhere to park. -oh, _. lets try t

12、he subway.a. thats a real bargainb. thats a good pointc. thats really somethingd. thats all settled27. how did it come about _ a quiet person should appear so wild today?a. whetherb. thatc. ifd. what28. you never really understand a person _ you consider things from his point of view.a. ifb. oncec.

13、asd. until29. -kingsman: the secret service is a spy action comedy film. wants to come with me?-id love to, but my best friend is getting married, and i wont _ it for anything.a. overlookb. tradec. missd. forget30. -_ i say something to you? you were really, really something back there. incredible!-

14、are you talking to -me? whoa!a. mustb. canc. needd. should31. the guide was enthusiastic and knowledgeable and we spent a lovely evening wandering into places which we _ straight past otherwise.a. had walkedb. were walkingc. would have walkedd. must have walked32. loneliness is a feeling _ people ex

15、perience a powerful rush of emptiness and solitude.a. whichb. wherec. thatd. how33. halfway through the chapter _ i hadnt taken anything in.a. did i realizeb. had i realizedc. i realizedd. i would realize34. if kate had known what was _ for her, she would not have married tom.a. in responseb. in ret

16、urnc. in reactiond. in store35. he started school the same day as i did and _ to it like a duck to water.a. appealedb. tookc. cateredd. saw第二節(jié) 完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分） 40 the busy, bustling ways of modern life. can you 41 william shakespeare or charles dickens skipping through a 42 door? there are do

17、uble doors, sliding doors, stage doors and glass doors. the 43 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 44 what lies inside; to keep the heart in suspense.also, there are many ways of opening doors. there

18、is the cheery 45 of elbow with which the waiter opens the kitchen door. there is the sympathetic and awful 46 of the dentists maid who opens the door into the operating room and, without speaking, 47 that the doctor is ready for you.the opening of doors has in it some flavor of the 48 , some sense o

19、f moving into a new moment. even in 49 , the opening of a door may bring relief. but the closing of doors could be 50 , a door closed brings 51 to an end. and there are degrees of sadness in the closing of doors. a door slammed is a confession of weakness. a door 52 shut may often be the most tragic

20、 gesture in life.the opening and closing of doors is a part of the serious fluency of life. life will not stay 53 and let us alone. we are 54 opening doors with hope, closing them with despair. life 55 not much longer than a pipe of tobacco, and destiny knocks us out like the ashes.36. a. mysteryb.

21、reliefc. sceneryd. pleasure37. a. sob. stillc. evend. also38. a. wishesb. puzzlesc. surprisesd. changes39. a. checkedb. fixedc. wrappedd. removed40. a. essential tob. different fromc. consistent withd. typical of41. a. imagineb. suggestc. catchd. notice42. a. stageb. slidingc. glassd. revolving43. a

22、. symbolb. miraclec. signd. mark44. a. busyb. hidec. discoverd. exhibit第三部分 閱讀理解認(rèn)真閱讀下列短語，從短文后各題所給的a、b、c、d四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題紙上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。adear applicant, awe regret to inform you that your application to the stated establishment cannot be processed at this time due to the fact that it does not exist. after

23、 consultation with out mythical advisors we have also determined that even if it didnt exist, the course “wandology” would be highly in demand and hence require at least two as and a b in any of the following subjects:advanced spellcraftingmystimaticsdefence against the dark artshistory of the occul

24、tshaft designyour hand written grade sheet claiming top marks in “waving a stick about”, “ waving a pointy hat” and “watching paul daniels tv specials” sadly is not suitable for submission, however by applying through clearing you may be suitable of liberal arts courses. alternatively you may wish t

25、o resubmit next year by tying your letter to an owl and hoping for the best.on behalf of ucas i wish you every success.yours sincerely, xxxdear duke university admissions, bthank you for your rejection letter of march 26, 2015. after careful consideration, i regret to inform you that i am unable to

26、accept your refusal to offer me admission into the fall 2015 freshman class at duke.this year i have been fortunate enough to receive rejection letters from the best and the brightest universities in the country. with a pool of letters so diverse and accomplished i was unable to accept the rejection

27、 letters i would have been able to only several years ago. therefore, i will be attending duke universitys 2015 class. i look forward to seeing you then.best, siobhan odelldear siobhan, ci understand how disappointed you are that we were unable to offer you a space in our incoming class, i want to b

28、e honest with you and let you know that its very rare that we learn something that leads us to change our decision, in the last ten years weve about 500 requests for a review and changed the decision four timeswish you all the bestxxx56. of the three letters, which is in response to which?a. a-b b.

29、c-b c. c-a d. b-c57. chances for duke university to change its admission decision in history were_.a. none b. big c. slim d. hard to tell58. what makes it impossible for the applicant to resubmit an application next year?a. tying the letter to an owl and send it to ucasb. printing out grade sheetc.

30、applying for the liberal arts course as an optiond. improving his scores59. what can we infer form the letter about college application?a. it is disappointing for sure.b. rejection letters are better written than offers.c. it is no as fun as on imagines.d. there could be extra work beyond normal pro

31、cedure.bdo i exist?obviously!until descartes came along in the seventeenth century, everyone assumed that we exited. obviously. the fact seemed so mind-blowingly obvious that it wasnt really discussed. we could see ourselves in the mirror, we could feel pain and pleasure, we could think thoughts for

32、 ourselves and, more importantly, perhaps, all the worlds main religions assumed that we do exist. so we exist.no you dont it!you dont exist. thats because its impossible to show once and for all that you do. theres no proof. you might think you exist-that you are sitting at a table reading this boo

33、k, for instance-but how could you show with 100 percent certainty that this is true? theres 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 isnt actually, according to the british philosopher a. j. ayer.

34、just because we know that we are thinking, this doesnt 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” dont._!what a waste of time this question is. although you can argue until the end of time wheth

35、er you exist or not, it doesnt get you anywhere. unless you forget about this unanswerable question, youll be stuck thinking about it forever, and that isnt 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 a

36、nswer other, apparently more useful, questions.yes, butyou exist, but not in the way you might think. according to the great french philosopher ren descartes, you cant show that anything existsapart from your own self. the existence of the entire world can be doubted in one way or another, but the f

37、acts youre having thoughts shows that there might be something (thats you) having them. this let descartes to write the famous philosophical phrase, “ i think before i am”.60. which of the following can be the missing heading?a. forget about it b. what a ridiculous pointc. think about it d. what a p

38、ointless question61. this passage is anything but a(n)_.a. comment b. discussion c. argument d. debate62. the famous answer to the question “do i exist?” is _.a. no, you dont exist. b. i think, therefore, i am.c. yes, you do exist. d. it wont get you anywherecknots are the kind of stuff that even my

39、ths 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 “englishmans tie, ” “and “cats paw. ” knots became the s

40、ubject 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 cla

41、ssify 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 strings ends joined. in thomsons theory, knots could, in principle at least, model atoms of

42、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 couldnt be transformed one i

43、nto 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 her

44、oic effort was completed, kelvins 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

45、 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 disc

46、overed 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 rela

47、tion between knots and another abstract branch of mathematics, which led to the discovery of a more sensitive invariant known as the jones polynomial.63. what is surprising about knots?a. they originated from ancient greek legend.b. the study of knots is a branch of mathematics.c. knots led to the d

48、iscovery of atom structure.d. alexander the great made knots well known.64. what does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 3 refer to?a. no other application found except tables of knots.b. the study of knots meeting a seemingly dead end.c. few scientist showing interest in knots.d. the publicati

49、on of complete tables of knots.65. according to the passage, _ shows the most updated study about knots.a. t2-t+1b. t2-3t+1c. alexander polynomiald. jones polynomial66. which one would be the best title for this passage?a. mathematicians vs physiciansb. to be or knot to bec. knot or atomd. knot vs m

50、athematicsdelmont, n. y. (ap)-elmont high school senior harold ekeh had a planhe 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 a

51、ll 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

52、princeton university. that made him eight for eight in the ivy leaguehe 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 univ

53、ersity, 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 paren

54、ts 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, “l(fā)ike a tree, upro

55、oted 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, ignor

56、ing their sarcastic remarks. ”harold “is tremendously focused in everything he does.” said john capozzi, the schools principal, “hes 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 schools kwas