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tohelp. “I’m a heroin addict,” McCoy 48 .“I’m probably going to let you down.”
Undaunted, Smith gave him herphone number, saying, “If you want to go to rehab, call me.” She 49 his lost sleeping bag with her own, then drove himback and left, thinking that would be the 50 of it. Two days later, she got a call.
Smith realized that McCoy was 51 aboutgetting better; he even gave her the name of a 28-day rehab facility inFlorida. So she 52 her saving account and bought McCoy a plane ticket.While there, he would call her. “I heard his 53 over thephone. Every day he would call me, and it went from this scared, 54 voice to ahealthy, energetic voice.”
After 28 days there, McCoy isdrug-free. His life is back 55 .One crime victim would empathize with another’s loss. 36.A. drugs
B. sports B. removed B. relate B. many B. deed B. date B. declined B. secretly B. Actually B. insulting B. left B. confused B. repeated B. replaced B. star B. casual B. dug into B. anxious B. at risk
C.business C. emptied C. remember C. illegal C. desire C.number C. promised C. finally C. Constantly C. approving C. found C. amazed C.declared C. exchanged C. result C. serious C. looked into C. transformation C. pleasant C.on duty
D. study D. cheated D. reflect D. original D. response D. address D. hesitated D. cautiously D. Again D. threatening D. saw D. concerned D. warned D. compared D. cause D. doubtful D. checked into D. determination D. desperate D. on track
37.A. rid
38.A. recall 39.A. few 40.A. loss 41.A.name 42.A. added 43.A. slowly 44. A. Then 45. A. urging 46. A. kept 47.A. amused 48.A. insisted 49.A.shared 50.A. end t 51.A. careful 52.A. went into 54.A.calm 55.A. at will
53.A. satisfaction B. expectation
第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文，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。
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Costa Rica NaturalParadise 9-Day Tour $1295
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Volcanoes, Beaches &Rainforests --- w/All Hotels, Meals &Activities
Your Costa Rica tour is fully guided from Day 8. Explore Manuct Antonio National start to finish …and all-inclusive …with all hotels, all meals, and all activities. Park. Hike through the rainforest and along spectacular beach coves. Enjoy a thrilling aerial train adventure. Join the smart shoppers and experienced Day 9. Return with wonderful memories, travelers who rely on Caravan. Hasta la vista! --- Caravan Your Costa Rica Tour Itinerary Choose Your Guided Tour plus tax & Day 1. Your tour starts in San Jose, Costa fees Rica. Guatemala with Tikal 10 days $1395 Day 2. Explore Poas Volcano and view inside the active crater. Costa Rica Panama Canal Tour Nova Scotia, P.E.I. Day 3. Visit to a wildlife rescue center. Canadian Rockies Day 4. Cruise on the Rio Frio into Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge. Enjoy a relaxing soak in volcanic hot springs. Day 5. Hike on the Hanging Bridges. Continue to Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast. Day 6. Free time at your beach resort. Day 7. Cruise on the Tarcoles River. Enjoy bird watching & crocodile spotting. Continue to your Manuel Antonio hotel, located at the National Park entrance. Yellowstone New England, Fall colors 8 days $1395 Zion California Coast, Yosemite Mt. Rushmore, 9 days $1295 8 days $1295 10 days $1495 9 days $1795 Grand Canyon, Bryce, 8 days $1495 8 days $1595 8 days $1395 “All Hotels Were Excellent! There is no way I would’ve stayed in such superior and sophisticated hotels for the price I paid” ---Client Salinas, CA “Brilliant, Affordable Pricing” ---Arthur Frommer, Travel Editor 56. During the 9-daytour, tourists will have a chance to . A. spend time in volcanic hotsprings B. hike in the desert C. feed crocodiles and birds D.camp in a national park
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57. Which promotionstrategy does the tour agency employ?
A. Revealing others’shortcomings. B. Reducing itsoriginal price. C. Presenting tourists’comments. D. Giving away free activities.
B
Humanity has begun wrestling with the dangers of globalthreats such as climate change. But fewauthorities are planning for catastrophic solar storms-huge eruptions of massand energy from the sun that destroy Earth’s magnetic field. In a recent paper,two Harvard University scientists estimate the potential economic damage fromsuch an event will increase in the future and could equal the current U.S.GDP-about $20 trillion-150years from now.
This kind of storm hashappened before. The so-called Carrington Event in 1859, the most intensemagnetic storm ever recorded on Earth, caused auroras (极光）in the atmosphere and even delivered electric shocks totelegraph operators. But a
Carrington-scale storm today would cause far moreharm because society now depends so heavily on electrical power grids,communications satellites and GPS.
In an effort to quantify thatthreat, astrophysicists Abraham Loeb and Manasvi Lingam of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics developed a mathematical model that assumessociety’s vulnerability (脆弱性）to solar stormswill grow with technological advances. Under this model, during the next 50years
thepotential for economic damage will depend primarily on the rising odds of astrong solar storm over time. Beyond 50 years our vulnerability will increasedramatically with technological progress until the latter levels off.
Some scientists question themodelspredictions. “Estimating the economic impact is challenging now, let alone inover a century,” says Edward Oughton, a research associate at the University ofCambridge’s Center for Risk Studies. Yet he warns that uncertainty should notstop us from practical preparations, such as making power grids stronger andimproving early-warning systems.
Loeb and Lingam think up amuch wider strategy: a $100-billion magnetic deflector shield (导流板), positioned between Earth and the sun. This ideaseems “pretty preposterous,” however, given that solar particles arrive atEarth from all directions, says Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory forAtmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
A better understanding of“space weather”-the changing condition in Earth’s outer space environment,including solar radiation and particles-could help find the best strategies forconfronting a dangerous solar storm, says Stracey Worman, a senior analyst
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atconsulting firm Abt Associates. “This is a challenging but important question,”Worman says, “that we need more eyes on.”
58. According toEdward Oughton, which of the following about solar storms is right? A. They will become much stronger in 150 years. B. Technology makes their potential damage grow.
C. It’s difficult to predict their possible economicdamage. D. Space weather forecast can effectively help dealwith them. 59.The underlined word “preposterous” inParagraph 5 means . A. unreasonable B. practical C.innovative D.inflexible 60. The author writesthe passage mainly to . A. report the damage of solar storms
B. remind people to guard against solar storms C. introduce the characteristics of solar storms D. analyze the possible cause of solar storms
C
There are plenty of goodreasons for a young person to choose to go to university: intellectual growth,career opportunities, having fun. Around half of school-leavers in the richworld now do so, and the share is rising in poorer countries, too.
Governments are keen on highereducation, seeing it as a means to increase social mobility and economicgrowth. But they tend to overestimate the benefits and ignore the costs ofexpanding university education. Often, public money just feeds the arms race forqualifications.
As more young people seekdegrees, the returns both to them and to governments are lower. Employersdemand degrees for jobs that never required them in the past and havenot become more demanding since. In a desperate attempt to stand out, studentsare studying even longer, and delaying work, to obtain master’s degrees.
Spending on universities isusually justified by the “graduate premium” — the increase in earnings thatgraduates enjoy over non-graduates. These individual gains, the thinking goes,add up to an economic increase for society as a whole. But the graduate
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premiumis a flawed unit of calculating. Part of the usefulness of a degree is that itgives a graduate jobseeker an advantage at the expense of non-graduates. It isalso a signal to employers of general qualities, such as intelligence anddiligence, that someone already has in order to get intoa university. Some professions require qualifications. But a degree is notalways the best measure of the skills and knowledge needed for a job. Withdegrees so common, recruiters are using them as a simple way to evaluateapplicants. Non-graduates are thus increasingly locked out of nice work.
In any case, the premiumcounts only the winners and not the losers. Across the rich world, a third ofuniversity students never graduate. It is the weakest students who are drawn inas higher education expands and who are most likely to drop out. They pay feesand sacrifice earnings to study, but see little increase in their futureincomes. When dropouts are included, the expected financial return to startinga degree for the weakest students shrinks to almost nothing. Manyschool-leavers are being misled about the probable value of university.
Governments need to offer theyoung a wider range of options after school. They should start by rethinkingtheir own hiring practices. Most insist on degrees for public-sector jobs thatused to be done by non-graduates, including nursing,
primary-school teachingand many civil-service posts. Instead they should seek other ways fornon-graduates to prove they have the right skills and to get more on-the-jobtraining.
School-leavers should be givena wider variety of ways to gain job skills and to demonstrate their employability inthe private sector. If school qualifications were made more strict, employerswould be more likely to trustthem as signals of ability, and less insistent on degrees. Universities shouldgrant credits to dropouts for the parts of courses they havecompleted. They could also open their exams to anyone who wants to take them,and award degrees to those who succeed.
Such measures would be moreefficient at developing the skills that increase productivity and should savepublic money. To promote social mobility, governments would do better to directfunds to early-school education and to helping students who would benefit fromuniversity but cannot afford it. Young people, both rich and poor, areill-served by the arms race in academic qualifications, in which each must study longer because thatis what all the rest are doing. It is time to disarm. 61. How does theauthor consider higher education? A. Its a good way to raise studentssocial status. B. It definitely benefits the development of economy. C. It will amply reward individuals and governments. D. It’s a waste of money for some students andtaxpayers.
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2019届江苏省南京市高三年级第三次模拟考试英语试卷(word版)
