2022年江苏省泰州市高考英语二调试卷
一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共37. 5分）A My favourite Books — Posted by Catherine Chung,a great writer
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangThis 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 equaLA beautiful,thought-provoking (发人深省的）story about
belief,understanding,and faith.
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawalfs 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.lt is filled with beautiful maths,simply and clearly described alongside finely drawn relationships between the characters.
Too Much Happiness by Alice MunroKovalevskaya 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 lagnemmalt 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.
1.What does 'T' refer to in Paragraph 1 ?
A.Catherine Chung.B. Ted Chiang.
C. Jane Parkinson.D. Yoko Ogawa.
2.Which book is about a pioneering Russian woman mathematician?
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