2023届河南郑州市高三考前英语模拟试题一

高三英语考前押题卷试题一 第一部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A My favourite Books —Posted by Catherine Chung, a great writer Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang This collection contains several maths stories. The one I recommend is Division By Zero, about Jane Parkinson, a brilliant German mathematician. To her great despair, she ends up proving that mathematics is inconsistent and is able to prove that any two numbers are equal. A beautiful, thought-provoking(发人深省的)story about belief, understanding, and faith. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa It's about a woman who comes to work for a once-great mathematician. Due to a brain injury, he has only 80 minutes of short-term memory available to him before he forgets everything. It is filled with beautiful maths, simply and clearly described alongside finely drawn relationships between the characters. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Kovalevskaya was a 19th-century mathematician at a time when women were not allowed in most of Europe to attend university. She married a man who promised to take her to Germany to study. She made major contributions to the field and became the first woman in Russia to obtain a doctorate in mathematics. The Ore Miner's Wife by Karl Iagnemma It is about a miner who thinks he's discovered the proof to the problem: construct a square, equal in area to a given circle. His wife, not knowing what has suddenly taken his attention and his time, fears he is being unfaithful. A moving exploration of the joys of entering a problem whole and the desire and impossibility of truly knowing those we love. 21. What does "I" refer to in Paragraph 1? A. Catherine Chung. B. Ted Chiang. C. Jane Parkinson. D. Yoko Ogawa. 22. Which book is about a pioneering Russian woman mathematician? A. Stories of Your Life and Others. B. The Housekeeper and the Professor. C. Too Much Happiness. D. The Ore Miner's Wife. 23. What do the listed books have in common? A. They