江苏省泰州市2016届高三英语第一次模拟考试试题

The evidence at this exhibition suggests that, in the early days, he often wrote in pencil, mostly in cheap notebooks but sometimes on whatever paper came to hand. The first draft of the short story “Soldier’s Home” was written on sheets he appeared to have snatched from a telegraph office. The impression you get is of a young writer seized by inspiration and sometimes barreling ahead without an entirely clear sense of where he is going.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (some of whose letters with Hemingway is also on view) famously urged him to cut the first two chapters of “The Sun Also Rises,” complaining about the “elephantine facetiousness” of the beginning, and Hemingway obliged, getting rid of a clunky opening that now seems almost “meta”. In 1929, in a nine-page penciled critique, Fitzgerald also suggested numerous revisions for “A Farewell to Arms.” Hemingway took some of these, but less graciously, and soon afterward his friendship with Fitzgerald came to an end.

The papers at the Morgan show a Hemingway who is not always sure of himself. There are running lists of stories he kept fiddling with, and there are lists and lists of possible titles, including the 45 he considered for “Farewell” and 47 different endings for the novel.

In display case after display case, you see Hemingway during his Paris years inventing and reinventing himself, discovering as he goes along just what kind of writer he wants to be. In a moving 1925 letter to his parents, who refused to read “In Our Time,” his second story collection, he writes: “You see I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across — not just to describe life — or criticize it — but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You cant do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.”

By the time the Second World War broke out, Hemingway had solidified into the iconic figure we now remember: Papa. Even J. D. Salinger calls him this. And a blustery, cranky Hemingway appears in 1949 when aboard the Pilar he grabs an old fishing diary and begins scrawling an angry letter to Harold Ross, the editor of The New Yorker, complaining about Alfred Kazin’s review of “Across the River and Into the Trees,” not, in truth, a very good book. But, Hemingway, often drinking and depressed, didn’t know it, his best work was behind him by then.

66. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined words “a pack rat” (para. 1)?

A. a person who doesn’t waste anything B. a person who cannot be relied on

C. a person who likes to collect rubbish D. a person who enjoys collecting things

67. How many of Hemingway’s works are mentioned in this passage?

A. 4 B. 5 C.6 D.7

68. We can conclude from the Morgan show that sometimes Hemingway was a person . A. unconfident but full of inspirations B. stubborn but full of enthusiasm about love

C. casual but full of heroism D. bad-tempered but full of strange

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habits

69. What does the writer truly mean by saying “Hemingway before he became Hemingway”? A. Hemingway wrote many masterpieces before he killed himself.

B. Hemingway was once a war correspondent before he became a famous writer.

C. Hemingway devoted all his strengths to writing before he won the Nobel Prize. D. Hemingway kept exploring the world and adjusting himself before he became a

commanding figure in literature.

70. According to the Morgan show, readers are likely to see in Hemingway’s works. ① tough men who can’t be defeated ② anti-war fighters ③ the dark side of the world as well as its beauty

④ love affairs between a man and a woman ⑤ the story of a family business A. ①③ B. ②④ C. ①⑤ D. ③⑤

第 II 卷（非选择题， 共35分）

第四部分 任务型阅读 （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。 注意：每空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

Following one million middle-aged women in Britain for 10 years, a study finds that the widely held view that happiness enhances health and longevity is unfounded.

The results come from the so-called Million Women Study, which took on women aged 50 to 69 from 1996 to 2001, and tracked them with questionnaires and official records of death and hospital admissions. The questionnaires asked how often the women felt happy, in control, relaxed and stressed, and also instructed them to rate their health and list ailments like high blood pressure, diabetes, depression or anxiety.

When the answers were analyzed statistically, unhappiness and stress were not associated with an increased risk of death. It is not clear whether the findings apply to men.

Professor Peto said particularly important data came from 500,000 women who reported that they were in good health, with no history of heart disease, cancer, or stroke. A minority of these healthy women said they were stressed or unhappy, he said, but over the next decade they were no more likely to die than were the women who were generally happy.

“This finding refutes（驳斥）the large effects of unhappiness and stress on deathrate that others have claimed,” Dr. Peto said. Unhappiness itself may not affect health directly, but it can do harm in other ways, by driving people to suicide, alcoholism or other dangerous behaviors, he warned.

This type of study, in which people involved depends on their self-assessments, is not considered as reliable as a designed experiment where people involved are picked at random and assigned to a treatment or control group. But the huge number of people in this study gives it power. Still, some observers noted that measuring emotions is more nuanced（细微的）and complex than simply declaring happiness or unhappiness.

“I would have liked to see more discussion of how people translate these complicated feelings into a self-report of happiness,” said Baruch Fischhoff, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University.

The results of earlier studies have been mixed, with some finding that unhappiness

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causes illness and others showing no link, Dr. Fischhoff said. “It looks to me like people have collected a lot of data without finding a clear signal,” he said. However, an editorial accompanying the study in The Lancet noted that it had the largest population so far in happiness studies and praised its statistical methods.

Professor Peto said he doubted whether the new study would change many minds because beliefs about the risks of unhappiness are so rooted. “People are still going to believe that stress causes heart attacks,” he said.

Topic Happiness Doesn’t (71) Bring Good Health (72) of the One million women aged 50 to 69 research ? Track the women with questionnaires. (73) of the ? Keep official records of deaths and hospital admission. research ? Make statistical (74) ____________of the answers. ? It lacks basis that unhappy people (75) to suffer mortality more easily. ? Unhappiness may (76)____________ for some Results of the research dangerous behavior. ? Whether the conclusion applies to men hasn’t been (77) ? It just depends on how people involved (79)___________themselves. (78) _ of the ? Measuring emotion is more nuanced and complex. research ? The results of earlier studies have been mixed. ? The largest population were involved. Significance of the research ? Statistical methods were used. Professor Peto’s concern The study can (80)______________ change people’s minds as the beliefs about the disadvantages of unhappiness are so anchored. 第五部分 书面表达（满分25分）

81.请阅读下面短文，并按要求用英语写一篇150个词左右的英语短文。

Editor's note:China is the top country of origin for international students in the US, with more than 274,000 Chinese students reportedly accounting for 31percent of all international students at US universities.Many Chinese parents save up a lot of money for their children to pursue an overseas education. Is it worth spending big to study abroad? You are welcome to leave your comments.

Arsa(Russia):I went to study abroad when I was 17. First year was a total waste as I met plenty of Russian students in my collage and we spent most of our time shopping and hanging

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out at cafes.It wasn't until two years later that I realized that my English hadn't improved.I changed my mindset entirely and started studying hard.I ended up staying in UK for 10 years, which opened a lot of doors and introduced me to great people,so I'm all for studying abroad. Truth(US):There is an assumption that American education is the best in the word,so Chinese parents are pushing their kids to American collages. And some are even sending their children overseas at junior or high school level. I often think this is a mistake as the education a Chinese child gets in a foreign country is very different from what they are used to and they often struggle Some students have trouble understanding their lecturers and their assignments keep coming back with poor scores. [写作内容]

1.用约30个单词写出上文概要； 2.用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：（1）支持或反对“国外留学”；

（2）用2至3个理由或论据支撑你的观点。 [写作要求]

1.可以支持文中任一观点，但必须提供理由或论据； 2.阐述观点或提供论据时，不能直接引用原文语句；

3.作文中不能出现其真实姓名和学校名称； 4.不必写标题

泰州市2016届高三第一次模拟考试 英语试题参考答案及听力录音稿

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分）

1—5 ACABB 6—10 ABCAC 11—15 ACABA 16—20 CACBA 第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 21—25 DDACB 26—30 CABBC 31—35 DBDBA 第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

36—40 BADCB 41—45 BCADC 46—50 BCACD 51—55 DCAAB 第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

56—57 BA 58—61 DBCC 62—65 CDCB 66—70 DCADA 第四部分：任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

71. Necessarily 72. Subjects/ Participants 73. Procedure/Steps 74. analyses 75. tend 76. account/make 77. confirmed/ proved 78. Drawbacks/Shortcomings/Disadvantages/Weaknesses 79. assess/ evaluate 80. hardly 第五部分：书面表达（满分25分） （赞成）More and more Chinese parents prefer to send their children to study abroad, assuming

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