（江苏专用）2020版高考英语冲刺提分模拟组合练四（2）（含解析）.docx

模拟组合练四(2).阅读理解A(2019南通如皋中学高三上学期质量调研)Historian Tom Holland is the award-winning author of Rubicon, Persian Fire and Millennium. He appears regularly on radio, TV and in print. His latest book Dynasty is published in paperback by Abacus.Moominsummer MadnessBy Tove JanssonWhat I love about this book, as a child and still today, is its mix of the fantastical and normal. On the one hand, its about a family and their friends all enjoying themselves, quite happy not doing much. On the other hand, its about characters that can change into odd shapes, magicians coming down from the moon and peculiar creatures emerging from the roof. That mix of the familiar and the extraordinary informs all my writing.The HistoriesBy HerodotusBy the time I was 12, I was obsessed by Ancient Greece and Rome. At first, I found the early section of The Histories a real grind because its like a long shaggy dog story that never gets to the point.In the second half I was rewarded with the stories Id been waiting for, like the battles of Marathon, Salamis and Thermopylae. Over the years, I come to value the infectious curiosity of the first half and the portrait of the world in the fifth century BC seen through the eyes of this extraordinary Greek historian.A Distant MirrorBy Barbara W. TuchmanTuchmans book The Guns of August won the Pulitzer Prize, but its this slightly less well-known work that provided me with a role model for my own writing. Both scholarly and interesting, its a portrait of the 14th century in Western Europe and vividly evokes medieval civilization buffeted by cataclysms:the Black Death, the Peasants Revolt and the Great Papal Schism. I felt I knew what it was to die of the plague or to have a sword put through mereal stories told remarkably.1.Tom Holland now finds the first half of The Histories .A.off the pointB.culture-centeredC.really boringD.quite entertaining2.Which book does Tom Holland appreciate and try to copy its style?A.The Histories.B.A Distant Mirror.C.The Guns of August.D.Moominsummer Madness.答案语篇解读本文介绍了历史学家Tom Holland及其作品。他经常出现在广播、电视和印刷品上。他的最新著作Dynasty由Abacus出版平装本。1.D细节理解题。根据The Histories中Over the years, I come to value the infectious curiosity of the first half and the portrait of the world in the fifth century BC seen through the eyes of this extraordinary Greek historian.可知,Tom Holland现在发现The Histories的前半部分很有趣。故选D。2.B推理判断题。根据A Distant Mirror中Tuchmans book The Guns of August won the Pulitzer Prize, but its this slightly less well-known work that provided me with a role model for my own writing.可知,Tom Holland喜欢A Distant Mirror,并试着模仿它的风格。故选B。B(2019江苏扬州一模)An introduction to this book is as superfluous as a candle in front of a powerful searchlight. But a convention of publishing seems to require that the candle should be there, and I am proud to be the one to hold it. About ten years ago I picked up from the pile of new books on my desk a copy of Sons and Lovers by a man of whom I had never heard, and I started to race through it with the immoral speed of the professional reviewer. But after a page or two I found myself reading, really reading. Here washere isa masterpiece in which every sentence counts, a book packed with significant thoughts and beautiful, arresting phrases, the work of a remarkable genius whose gifts are more richly various than those of any other young English novelist.To appreciate the rich variety of Mr Lawrence we must read his later novels and his volumes of poetry. But Sons and Lovers reveals the range of his typical power. Here are combined and blended (混合的) sort of “realism” and almost lyric (抒情的) imagery and rhythm. The speech of the people is that of daily life and the things that happen to them are normal adventures and accidents; they fall in love, marry, work, fail, succeed, and die. But of their deeper emotions and of the relations of these little human beings to the earth and to the stars, Mr Lawrence makes something near to poetry and prose (散文) without violating its proper “other harmony”.Take the marvellous paragraph next to the last page of Sons and Lovers (Mr Lawrence depends so little on plot in the ordinary sense that it is perfectly fair to read the end of his book first):Where was he? One tiny upright speck of flesh, less than an ear of wheat lost in the field. He could not bear it. On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a spark, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun, stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing.Such glorious writing lifts the book far above a novel which is merely a story. I beg the reader to attend to every line of it and not to miss a single one of the many sentences that await and surprise you. Some are enthusiastic and impressive, like the paragraph above; others are keen, “realistic” observations of things and people. In one of his books Mr Lawrence makes a character say, or think, that life is “mixed”. That indicates his philosophy and his method. He blends the accurately literal and trivial (琐碎的) with the extremely poetic.To find a similar blend of tiny daily detail and wide imaginative vision, we must go back to two older novelists, Hardy and Meredith. I do not mean that Mr Lawrence derives (起源于) directly from them or, indeed, that he is clearly the disciple (门徒) of any master. I do feel simply that he is of the elder stature (名望) of Hardy and Meredith, and I know of no other young novelist who is quite worthy of their company. When I first tried to express this comparison, this connection, I was contradicted by a fellow-critic, who pointed out that Meredith and Hardy are entirely unlike each other and that therefore Mr Lawrence cannot resemble both. To be sure, nothing is more hateful than forced comparisons, nothing more boring than to discover parallels between one work of art and another. An artists mastery consists in his difference from other masters. But to refer a young man of genius to an older one, at the same time pronouncing his independence and originality, is a fair, if not very superior, method of praising him.3.The underlined word “superfluous” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to .A.meaningfulB.unnecessary C.fundamentalD.fashionable4.What is typical of Lawrences works?A.They equally reveal his genius power.B.They contain lots of great lyric poetry.C.They present some real living situations.D.They focus on relations between humans.5.What does the author want to illustrate by including one paragraph from Sons and Lovers?A.The plot of the novel has little to do with daily life.B.It is wise to read Lawrences books from the end. C.Lawrence is not capable of telling good stories.D.The language in Lawrences books is elegant.6.Who were Hardy and Meredith?A.They taught Lawrence literature when he was young.B.They were the realistic novelists of Lawrences time.C.They were novelists who resembled each other in writing.D.They were novelists combining details with imagination.7.According to the author, what does an artists mastery mean?A.He must have personal diversity.B.He must have the critical spirits.C.He must be happy to be compared.D.He must be a man of genius.8.What is the authors purpose of writing the passage?A.To introduce Lawrences novel Sons and Lovers.B.To show his experiences of reading classics.C.To analyze Lawrences writing characteristics.D.To compare the styles of different novelists.答案语篇解读作者通过引用儿子与情人中的一段文字,及与Hardy和Meredith的写作特点对比,分析了Lawrence的写作特色。3.B词义猜测题。根据第一段第一句中An introduction to this book is as superfluous as a candle in front of a powerful searchlight.可知,这本书的引言如同在强力探照灯前的蜡烛一样是多余的。meaningful有意义的;unnecessary多余的,不必要的;fundamental基本的;fashionable流行的。故选B项。4.C细节理解题。根据第二段第二、三句But Sons and Lovers reveals the range of his typical power. Here are combined and blended sort of “realism” and almost lyric imagery and rhythm.可知,儿子与情人体现了他典型的写作风格:混合了“现实主义”和抒情的意象和节奏。由此可见,他的写作特色之一是表现生活的真实性,故选C项。5.D推理判断题。根据第二段最后一句.Mr Lawrence makes something near to poetry and prose without violating its proper “other harmony”.及倒数第二段第一句Such glorious writing lifts the book far above a novel which is merely a story.可知,引用这个段落是为了体现他的文字的优美和谐,故选D项。6.D细节理解题。根据最后一段第一句To find a similar blend of tiny daily detail and wide imaginative vision, we must go back to two older novelists, Hardy and Meredith.可知,应选D项。7.A推理判断题。根据最后一段倒数第二句An artists mastery consists in his difference from other masters.可知,作者认为,一位艺术家的造诣就在于他与其他大师的不同。A项中personal diversity指的是个体多样性或个人差异,相当于difference from other masters,故选A项。8.C主旨大意题。纵观全文,作者通过引用儿子与情人中的一段文字,及与Hardy和Meredith的写作特点对比,分析了Lawrence的写作特色。故选C项。.任务型阅读(2019兴化第一中学模拟考试)Ive always been an optimist and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place.For as long as I can remember, Ive loved learning new things and solving problems. So when I sat down at a computer for the first time in seventh grade, I was hooked. It was a clunky old Teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today. But it changed my life.When my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft 30 years ago, we had a vision of “a computer on every desk and in every home”, which probably sounded a little too optimistic at a time when most computers were the size of refrigerators. But we believed that personal computers would change the world. And they have.And after 30 years, Im still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade.I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventivenessto help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldnt solve on their own.Computers have transformed how we learn, giving kids everywhere a window into all of the worlds knowledge. Theyre helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are.Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it “tap-dancing to work”. My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makes me “tap-dance to work” is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetimes worth of photos, and they say, “I didnt know you could do that with a PC!”But for all the cool things that a person can do with a PC, there are lots of other ways we can put our creativity and intelligence to work to improve our world. There are still far too many people in the world whose most basic needs go unmet. Every year, for example, millions of people die from diseases that are easy to prevent or treat in the developed world.I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world. My wife, Melinda, and I have committed to improving health and education in a way that can help as many people as possible.As a father, I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than the death of a child anywhere else, and that it doesnt take much to make an immense difference in these childrens lives.Im still very much an optimist, and I believe that progress on even the worlds toughest problems is possibleand its happening every day. Were seeing new drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostic tools, and new attention paid to the health problems in the developing world.Im excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and, of course, for technology. And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, were going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.Fueling our creativityOutlineSupporting detailsBeingenthusiastic9, I believe the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world better.An old Teletype machine, which made me 10 in the computer, changed my life.11 what sounded crazy, Paul Allen and I dreamt of there being a computer for everyone.For 3 decades, I still have a deep 12 for the computer.BeingdevotedI feel lucky to do something challenging at Microsoft, and I have a sense of 13 when we present people something new.Computers are the most incredible tool, and there is no14 in terms of problem solving.Computers are transforming how we learn,15our horizons wherever we are.Being16Im bound to give my fortune to the world just in17.All children are created equal, and it doesnt take much to make a difference in their lives.Great importance is being18 to the health problems in developing countries.答案语篇解读作者一直都是一个乐观主义者,他认为这根植于自己的信念,即创造力和智慧的力量可以让世界变得更美好。本文作者论述的是“如何推动我们的创造力”。9.Optimistically根据第一段Ive always been an optimist and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place.中的optimist可知,我乐观地认为,创造力和智慧的力量可以让世界变得更美好。此处副词修饰整个句子,故答案为Oerested根据第二段中的So when I sat down at a computer for the first time in seventh grade, I was hooked. It was a clunky old Teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today. But it changed my life.可知,一台老式的电传打字机,让我对电脑产生了兴趣,改变了我的生活。故答案为interested。11.Despite根据第三段中的When my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft 30 years ago, we had a vision of “a computer on every desk and in every home”, which probably sounded a little too optimistic at a time when most computers were the size of refrigerators.可知,尽管听起来很疯狂,Paul Allen和我都梦想着能让每个人都有一台电脑。故答案为Despite。12.affection根据第四段And after 30 years, Im still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade.可知,30年来,我仍然对电脑有很深的感情。故答案为affection。13.achievement/satisfaction根据第七段中的My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makes me “tap-dance to work” is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetimes worth of photos.可知,我很幸运能在微软做一些有挑战性的事情,当我们向人们展示一些新的东西时,我有一种满足感。故答案为achievement/satisfaction。14.match/equal/comparison根据第五段I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventivenessto help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldnt solve on their own.可知,计算机是最不可思议的工具,在解决问题方面没有什么可以与它匹敌。故答案为match/equal/comparison。15.broadening/widening根据第六段Computers have transformed how we learn, giving kids everywhere a window into all of the worlds knowledge. Theyre helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are.可知,计算机正在改变我们学习的方式,无论我们在哪里,都在拓宽我们的视野。故答案为broadening/widening。16.responsible根据倒数第四段第一句I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world.可知,要有责任感。故答案为responsible。17.reward/return根据倒数第四段第一句I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world.可知,我一定会把我的财富给这个世界,作为回报。故答案为reward/return。18.attached根据倒数第二段最后一句Were seeing new drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostic tools, and new attention paid to the health problems in the developing world.可知,发展中国家的健康问题非常重要。故答案为attached。.书面表达请阅读下面短文,并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。(2018启东中学高三最后一模)Recently, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) issued a guidance to open cultural heritage buildings to the public, encouraging local governments, cultural heritage departments and organizations using or managing such buildings to better bring these buildings cultural and social value into play, o