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)
62. What does theunderlined word “them” in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Degrees. B. Returns. C. Employers. D. Jobs
63. What is theauthors’ preferred solution to the issue? A. To decrease university drop-out rates.
B. To improve the teaching qualities of universities. C. To open more public-sector jobs to non-graduates. D. To provide school-leavers with proper job training. 64. What is the besttitle for the passage? A. Measures to boost social mobility B. Time to end the academic arms race C. Difficulty in solving unemployment D. Necessity of changing hiring practices
D
Recently, I was made keenlyaware of the different Englishes I do use. I was giving a talk to many people,the same talk I had already given to half a dozen other groups. The nature ofthe talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club.The talk was going along well enough until I remembered one major differencethat made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room. And it wasperhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kindof English I have never used with her. I was saying things like, “theintersection of memory upon imagination”—a speech filled with all the forms ofstandard English that I had learned in school, the forms of English I did notuse at home with my mother ① .
You should know that mymother’s expressive command of English doesn’t show how much she actuallyunderstands. She reads the Forbes report and listens to Wall StreetWeek 一all kinds ofthings I can’t begin tounderstand, ② Yet some of my friends tell me
they understand noneof what my mother says, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But tome, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. ③ Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, fullof observation and imagery. That wasthe language that helped shape the way I sawthings, expressed things, made sense of the world.
Lately, I’ve been giving morethought to the kind of English my mother speaks. ④ Like others, I have described it to people as“broken” English. But I wince when I say
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)
that. It has always bothered me that Ican think of no way to describe it other than “broken”，as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, I’veheard other terms used, “limited English”，for example. But they seem to indicate thateverything is limited, including people’s perceptions of the limited Englishspeaker.
And I had plenty of evidenceto support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and atrestaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service,pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her. WhenI was fifteen, she used to have me call people on the phone to pretend I wasshe. One time I was forced to call her stockbroker in New York and say in anadolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs. Tan”. And mymother was standing in the back whispering loudly, “why he don’t send me check,already two weeks late. So mad he lie to me, losing me money”. And then I saidin perfect English and gave him warnings. The following week there we were infront this astonished stockbroker, and I was sitting there red-faced and quiet,and my mother, the real Mrs.Tan, was shouting at his boss in her brokenEnglish.
I think my mother’s Englishalmost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well. Sociologistsand linguists probably will tell you that a person’s developing language skillsare more influenced by peers. But I do think that the language spoken in thefamily, especially in immigrant families plays a large role in shaping thelanguage of the child. I also had teachers who were trying to steering me awayfrom writing and into math and science.
Fortunately, I happen to berebellious in nature and enjoy the challenge of disproving assumptions madeabout me. I became an English major my first year in college. When I began towrite, I decided I should envision a reader for the stories I would write.And the reader I decided upon was my mother, because there were stories aboutmy mothers. So with this reader in mind—and in fact she did read my earlydrafts—I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: theEnglish I spoke to my mother, which for lack of better term might be describedas “simple”； the English she used with me, which for lack ofbetter term might be described as “broken”；and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak inperfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought preserve theessence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to capturewhat language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, herimaginary, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
Apart from what any critic hadto say about my writing, I knew I had succeeded where it counted when my motherfinished reading my book and gave me her opinion: “So easy to read.”
65. What happenedduring the speech, according to paragraph 1? A. The author’s mother arrived unexpectedly at thespeech.
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)
B. The author delivered wrong information to theaudience. C. The author admitted that she could use standardEnglish. D. The author began to reflect on the differentEnglishes she used. 66. In which blank weput the sentence “It’s my mother tongue.”？ A.① B.② C.③ D.④
67. How does theauthor feel about her mother’s English being described as “limited”？ A. Ashamed B. Uncomfortable C. Astonished D.Disappointed. 68. The author tellsthe story in Paragraph 5 to . A. show the limitations of her mother’s English. B. Indicate that people in New York are easily takenin. C. explain the reasons for others’ bad attitude to hermother. D. display the difficulty immigrants had fitting intosociety. 69.In what way wasthe author influenced by her mother? A. Her mother helped her draft her writing. B. Her mother greatly shaped her writing. C. Her mother’s language ability inspired her. D. Her mother’s language almost ruined her life. 70. What can belearned from the passage?
A. The author’s writing retells what happened to hermother. B. American language ability tests are unfair toChinese immigrants. C. The author finds it impossible to describe hermother’s language. D. The author feels lucky to have inherited culturefrom her mothers.
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What can we learn from Amish people?
Many people think of the Amishas living without. These devout communities, predominantly located inPennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, go without cars, TVs, computers, phones or eventhe electricity needed to run so much of 21st century gadgetry. But whatresearchers who have studied them have found is what the Amish have a surplusof: good health in late life. The average American life expectancy is currentlyjust under 79 years. Back in 1900, it was only 47, but for early-20th centuryAmish it was already greater than 70. Over the decades, most Americans havecaught up in overall life expectancy, but the Amish still have a significant edgein late-life health, with lower rates of cancer, cardiovascular disease,diabetes and more. So how do they do it?
Start with lifestyle. Amishcommunities are agrarian, with no modern farm equipment, meaning all the workhas to be done by hand. In 2004, the American College of Sports Medicine fittedAmish volunteers with pedometers to determine how much physical activity theyperformed. The results were dramatic. Amish men took 18,425 steps a day andwomen 14,196 steps, compared with non-Amish people who are encouraged bydoctors to shoot for at least 10,000 steps-and typically fail. Including otherforms of manual labor-lifting, chopping, sowing, planting-the Amish are sixtimes as active as a random sample of people from 12 countries.
One result of this is that only 4% of Amish people are obese, compared with 36.5% ofthe overall US population. Amish children are about one-third as likely asnon-Amish to be obese, according to a 2012 study in PLOS One. This means 50%lower rates of Type 2 diabetes.
The near absence of tobacco inthe Amish community-some men do smoke cigars--results in a 63%lower rate of tobacco-related cancers, according toa 2004 study of Ohio's Amish population. The Amish also had rates of allcancers that were 40% lower than therest of the Ohio population.
Cardiovascular disease is onearea in which the Amish don't have an edge, with blood-pressure andheart-disease rates slightly higher than those of other populations. Some ofthis might be attributed to the Amish diet, which is heavy on pancakes, eggsand sausage for breakfast, and meat, potatoes, gravy and bread for dinner.Working the farm can burn off those calories, but all the fat and salt andcarbs still have a bad effect.
The most powerful weapon inthe Amish long-life arsenal, however, may be genes. The Amish population in theUS is about 318,000, descended from just 200 families that immigrated in the1700s. They mostly marry within their own communities, which means the genesthat existed when their ancestors got to America have remained. That can be 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)
adangerous thing if bad genes are hidden in the mix but a good thing if thegenes are sound. While no community is without genetic problems, the Amish seemto have gotten a lucky draw.
In a study released lastNovember, researchers announced the discovery of a gene in an Amish communitythat seemed to be associated with an average life span 10% longer than that of people without the gene.
While much of the Amishadvantage is unique to the Anish themselves, there is one long-life lesson onthey can teach everyone else. Almost all elderly people in the Amish communityare cared for at home, by relatives. This isn't always realistic or possible inthe non-Amish world, but when it is, it plays huger health dividends thanmedicine does.
What can we learn from Amish people? Outline Introduction to the Amish Supporting details The Amish (71) _________the average American by molast century. The Amish in general enjoy better health than most are (72)_________ Lifestyles The Amish have to (74) _______to the lack Of agricultural equipment. Thus(75)__________ active, taking the non-Amish people. Various labor (76)_________ that they obesity. Factors in the Amish’s (73)_____________ (77) _________smoking contriburates of tobacco-related canceAmish. Genes The Amish are able to (78)genes pure by marrying within communities. Problems with the The Amish's diet, (79)_________ more fat, salAmish’s lifestyles needed, brings about high blood pressure and heartLesson from the Amish The power of family affection may go (80)_______medicine. 第五部分书面表达(满分25分)
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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)
