Ⅰ.阅读理解
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(2022·江苏省七市二模)
My Favourite Books
——Posted by Catherine Chung，a great writer
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
This collection contains several math stories.The one I recommend is Division by Zero, about Renee，a brilliant 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 Yōsko 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 math, 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 of 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.It's a moving exploration of the joys of entering a problem wholly and the desire and impossibility of truly knowing those we love.
语篇导读：本文是一篇应用文，介绍了作家Catherine Chung最喜欢的书籍。
1．What does“I”refer to in Paragraph 1？ A
A．Catherine Chung. B．Ted Chiang.
C．Alice Munro. D．Yōko Ogawa.
解析：推理判断题。根据文章标题“My Favourite Books—Posted by Catherine Chung，a great writer”可知，本文以作家Catherine Chung为第一视角，介绍她喜欢的书，由此可推知文中的第一人称I，指的是Catherine Chung。故选A。
2．Which book is about a pioneering Russian woman mathematician？ C
A．Stories of Your Life and Others.
B．The Housekeeper and the Professor.
C．Too Much Happiness.
D．The Ore Miner's Wife.
解析：细节理解题。根据Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro部分中的“Kovalevskaya was a 19th-century mathematician”以及“became the first woman in Russia to obtain a doctorate in mathematics”可知，Too Much Happiness这本书是关于俄罗斯女数学家的先驱科瓦列夫斯卡娅的。故选C。
3．What do the listed books have in common？ B
A．They tell love stories.
B．They involve mathematics.
C．They explore human relationships.
D．They reveal people's inner world.
解析：细节理解题。根据第一部分中的“This collection contains several math stories.”；第二部分中的“It's about a woman who comes to work for a once-great mathematician.”；第三部分中的“Kovalevskaya was a 19th-century mathematician at a time...”和第四部分中的“It is about a miner who thinks he's discovered the proof of the problem：construct a square, equal in area to a given circle.”可推知，列出的书籍具有的共同点是它们都涉及数学。故选B。
