A. It is not hard for small films to keep up with fast-changing consumer markets. B. Most consumers in America and Europe trust little brands snore than established ones.
C. Some local firms can meet consumers’ needs better than world-famous brand giants. D. Small firms mainly sell creative or organic products which are more appealing to consumers.
70. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. Centralizing decisions can help small companies increase profits.
B. Over one-third of consumers would pay extra for convenience or innovation. C. Cutting cost is more important to big companies than meeting customer demand. D. Besides purchasing smaller competitors, big companies are supporting them as well. 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一个最恰当的单词。注意：请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。
The future belongs to the flexible mind. This is the argument behind best-selling author Leonard Mlodinow’s new book, Elastic（灵活的）, which examines the ever-increasing changes we find ourselves living through, and the ways of thinking best suited to them.
Do we need to develop a flexible mind?
Times we live in demand a flexible style of thinking. In politics, we now have to cope with more scandals in a single year than we used to encounter in a lifetime. Meanwhile, the speed and processing power of computers makes it difficult for us to navigate a landscape in which the number of websites has been doubling every two to three years, and the way we use and access them is subject te frequent “disastrous changes.” More importantly, social attitudes are changing just as fast.
Logical thought is an analysis that can be described fey an algorithm（算术）of the kind that computers follow. Elastic thought cannot. Logical thought is solved to help us face the everyday challenges of life while elastic thought helps us succeed when circumstances change. Elastic thought is where our new ideas come from. Logical thought can determine how to drive from our home to the grocery store most efficiently,
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but it’s elastic thought that gave us the automobile.
What makes it hard to think “flexibly”?
Flexible thinking comes naturally to all humans, bit one way it may be blocked is through another power exercised by our brain, the ability to tune out “crazy” ideas. A single information processor depends on an algorithm to solve a problem. The human brain, instead, acts as a set of interacting and competing systems. They use our knowledge and expectations of the world to assess ideas. That approach is well suited to a stable environment. But it can be less productive when circumstances change.
How can we learn to be more flexible in our own thinking?
One of the abilities most important to flexible thinking is the power to relax our mind and let our guard down. If we are constantly alerted, our ideas may have a narrow range, and tend to fee conventional.
One can also cultivate flexible thinking by adjusting one's external conditions. Studies show that sitting in a darkened room, or closing our eyes, can widen our perspective. Low ceilings, narrow corridors, and windowless offices have the opposite effect Being able to think without any kind of time pressure is also important when striving for novel ideas. Just as important, interruptions are deadly. A short phone call, email or even a text message can redirect your attention and thoughts.
As a more general exercise to nurture our mental flexibility we can try to pay special attention to one of our strongly held beliefs, taka it seriously and recall times in the past that we were wrong about something, even though we’d been confident of being right. In fact, more generally, introducing a little disagreement to our intellectual interactions may also be helpful.
Deep (71) ▲ into Flexible Thinking Passage outline Supporting details Necessity to possess a ● (72) ▲ , technological and social changes in our times call for flexible thinking. flexible mind ● Flexible thinking and logical thinking are playing different, roles in our
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daily lives. The (73) ▲ helps make what we analyze accurate while the former enables us to be (74) ▲ . (75) ▲ to (76) ▲ information processors, our brain can either ignore new ideas thinking flexibly Ways cultivate flexible thinking to ● It is better to let our mind off guard occasionally so as to avoid (78) ▲ our ideas to conventional ones. ● Adjusting external surroundings (79) ▲ and thinking without time pressure and distractions is also important. ● (80) ▲ on one of our strongly held beliefs and having some doubt about it may be of help. 第五部分 书面表达（满分25分）
请阅读下面图表及文字。并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
or kill them (77) ▲ on our experience and expectations.
Here are some tips for students to take into consideration when choosing elective courses: > Pursue your passions > Maintain balance > Try something new > Take courses beneficial to your own development > Tate courses beneficial to your country > … 【写作内容】
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1. 用约30 个词概括上述图文的主要内容； 2. 简要分析此现象产生的原因（至少两点）；
3. 在这四门选修课中，你会选择哪一门？结合所给材料，阐述你选择的理由。 【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句。 2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。 3. 不必写标题。
江苏省南京市金陵中学、海安高级中学、南京外国语学校2018届高三
第四次模拟考试 英语试题答案
第一部分 听力（共两节，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 1－5 AABBC
6－10 BABAC
11－15 ABCCA 16－20 ACACB
第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
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第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 21－25 BDBAC
26－30 CDBCB
31－35 ABBDA
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） 36－40 BABCA 41－45 DDCAC 46－50 BDABA
51－55 CDADA
第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 56－60 ACDAA
61－65 CDBBA
66－70 ADBCD
第四部分 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 71. Insight(s)
72. Political
73. latter 74. innovative /creative
75. Barriers/Obstacles
77. based
78. limiting/restricting/narrowing
76. Unlike
79. matters/counts
80. Focusing/Concentrating/Reflecting 第五部分 书面表达（满分25分）
【参考范文】
The chart illustrates the proportion of electives selected in a high school. 52% of the students register for scientific courses while 7% enroll in those concerning literature and art. Some tips are given for the selection.
Science and art courses are regarded differently, mainly because of where students’ interests lie. The former emphasizes searching natural laws to help human beings live longer and healthier, while the latter aims to better the thoughts of people, and promote social values. Apparently, given more attention, the former comes out ahead in our developing society. However, if the tendency continued to grow, we would end up in a steel concrete with no room for our spiritual home.
I would enroll in Chinese classical art. For one thing, I am always fascinated by traditional Chinese culture—paper-cutting, calligraphy, architecture, cuisine, just to name a few. For another, the wisdom delivered by Chinese philosophy will bring benefits to my long-term development and therefore the whole nation.
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