2017年3月成都市高三英语第二次诊断性考试试题

成都市2014级高中毕业班第二次诊断性测试

英语

本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。第1卷（选择题）1至8页，第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）9至10页，共10页；满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：

1．答题前，务必将自己的姓名、考籍号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。

2．答选择题时，必须使用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。

3．答非选择题时，必须使用0.5毫米黑色签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。

4．所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。

5．考试结束后，只将答题卡交回。

第I卷（100分）

第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What will the woman’s father most probably do after his retirement?

A. Travel abroad.

B. Go fishing.

C. Look after his grandchildren.

2. How does the man feel now?

A. Tired.

B. Hungry.

C. Thirsty.

3. What is wrong with Peter’s mother?

A. She has high blood sugar.

B. She doesn’t sleep well.

C. She has a bad habit.

4. What is the weather like now?

A. Rainy.

B. Snowy.

C. Windy.

5. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A secret.

B. A dish.

C. A party.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟。听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What will the class be like with an electronic whiteboard?

A. Smart.

B. Lively.

C. Convenient.

7. Who are the two speakers?

A. School students.

B. Teacher and student.

C. School teachers.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. When did the woman buy the mobile phone?

A. On February 5th.

B. On February 6th.

C. On February 7th.

9. What does the woman want to do with the mobile phone?

A. To return it.

B. To repair it.

C. To exchange it.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What made the man feel tired?

A. Walking too much.

B. Walking to school.

C. Cleaning up the mess.

11. What does the man think of the flat?

A. Nice but expensive.

B. Big but old-fashioned.

C. Convenient but dirty.

12. What does the woman suggest the man do tomorrow?

A. Keep trying.

B. Visit some friends.

C. Seek help from school. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A holiday camp.

B. A family holiday.

C. A sports competition.

14. What does the man think of teaching kids to ride a horse?

A. Funny.

B. Difficult.

C. Successful.

15. Why did Helen jump into water?

A. To have a swim.

B. To have fun.

C. To rescue someone.

16. How did the children spend the last day?

A. Going sailing.

B. Having a barbecue.

C. Riding horses.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When did Belfast develop most rapidly?

A. During the 17th century.

B. During the 18th century.

C. During the 19th century.

18. What is Belfast famous for?

A. Rope-making.

B. Ship building.

C. City tours.

19. Where will the tourists go this afternoon?

A. City Hall.

B. Ulster Museum.

C. The zoo.

20. When will the tourists see the Palm House?

A. Tomorrow morning.

B. Tomorrow afternoon.

C. Tomorrow evening.

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Welcome to Whitney High School!

Spring Kids Dance Clinic

The WHS Dance team is hosting the annual Spring Dance Clinic for children aged 5-13. If you are interested in your son or daughter attending this camp, you may download the form and return it to the WHS office or register online!

QUESTIONS? CONTACT: Halley Crandell at hcrandell@https://www.360docs.net/doc/0d6690063.html,

WHERE: Whitney High School Cafeteria

WHEN: April 22nd from 9:00 am-12:30 pm

COST: $25 Online Registration $30 Walk-up Registration

Kaplan SAT/ACT Combo Practice Tests

Kaplan SAT/ACT Combo Practice Tests

Offered in the WHS Library

Saturday, April 29th 9 am to 1 pm

Registration is $20.

Please sign up in the College and Career Center by April 21st to secure a spot.

Please see Mrs. Randazzo in the College and Career Center to sign up or for questions.

Lions Club Student Speech Contest

Enter to be one of two Whitney High School students to qualify for the Rocklin Lions Club Speech Contest, which is to be held this summer. A written copy of your speech is due to the College and Career Center no later than April 30th at 3:00 pm.

Open to grades 9 -12. No less than 5 minutes and No more than 10 minutes.

Can You Catch the Wildcat? 5K Race

On April 28th at 8:30 am, the Whitney Wildcat will leave his stadium and attempt to outrun the hundreds of runners trying to catch him!

This will be a fun exciting way to challenge yourself and provide needed funds for two great causes! The WHS track and field team is raising money for equipment. Secondly, we are raising money for the Heidi Greenwood Scholarship. All profits on T-shirt sales will go directly to the scholarship! Entry to the race is $15 and T-shirt sales will be on site.

Go to https://goo.gl/QANQg8 to register!

Questions? Email Mark Snow at msnow@https://www.360docs.net/doc/0d6690063.html,

21. How much should one pay for registering the dance camp in person?

A. $15

B. $20

C. $25

D. $30

22. Who should students turn to if they have questions about practice tests?

A. Mark Snow.

B. Mrs. Randazzo.

C. Halley Crandell.

D. Heidi Greenwood.

23. What do we know about Can You Catch the Wildcat? 5K Race?

A. It’s an indoor activity to be held on April 28th.

B. All the money collected will go to scholarship.

C. There is no specific information for registration.

D. People can support it by buying T-shirts on the spot.

24. What’s the purpose of the text?

A. To show how wonderful the school is.

B. To persuade students to join in the events.

C. To publicize the schedule of some events.

D. To draw parents’ attention to the school.

B

This rainy afternoon I decided to visit The Great North Museum. Walking into the building, I just felt excited, looking forward to what I was going to find out in the visit, something I would like to share with my beloved husband when I got home.

Just as I walked past the Chinese Antique Porcelain section, one collection caught my eyes and heart very much: a Chinese Plate with a drawing of a garden scene with two ladies, a child, a dog and a willow, very beautiful and unique. It reminded me that my mum used to have a similar plate like that; of course it was not from the Ming dynasty, but we had plates and bowls of a similar design, following and serving us for many years.

I still remember every day mum was busy cooking for eight of us. While waiting for the dinner to be ready, we would play in the garden, jumping up and down, with the family dogs and cats also running around. When the dinner was ready, we all ran over to the big round table, everyone holding a bowl with rice, and chopsticks, getting ready to fight for the foods on the table. My mum normally would prepare five or six meals served with those beautiful Chinese plates. The noises of chatting mixed with the warm heat, sweat, and wind blowing would slowly accompany the sun setting down. The pleasant evening would come and purple and blue colored the sky. Mum’s face was full of shine and happiness; she loved to see us finish all her dishes. She would always be the last person to eat, and basically the last to clear the leftover. Mum always put herself last and the children first. When I moved away and lived so far from her, the food that she prepared always stays in my heart, and I always remember the beautiful Chinese plates.

Plates for many people can be just tools to serve food, nothing more than that. But for me they are not plates, for me they are a memory.

25. Why did the Chinese Plate in the Museum draw the author’s attention?

A. Because its pattern and design were elegant.

B. Because it called up her previous experience.

C. Because she could share it with her husband.

D. Because she remembered Mum had the same plate.

26. What can we infer about the author from Paragraph 3?

A. She didn’t want to help her mother cook dinner.

B. She used to fight against her family for more food.

C. Her family enjoyed a warm and happy dinner atmosphere.

D. Her mum would serve precious dishes with Chinese plates.

27. How does the author sound while telling the story?

A. Touched.

B. Excited.

C. Pleased.

D. Encouraged.

C

What are your retirement plans? Keep working? Get more exercise? Or learn something new? You may put them on hold. There’s a chance that, sooner or later, you might have to move further than you were thinking. As far as Mars(火星).

On Thursday, National Geographic will show the first ever Mars showhome, giving earthlings an idea of what their life could look like on the Red Planet. Set in the not-so-distant year of 2037, the igloo-shaped structure could be the home of your future.

It shows a house built using recycled spacecraft parts and Martian soil, called regolith, which has been microwaved into bricks. Some parts of the home are recognisable – kitchen, bedroom –but there are fundamental differences that are vital for human survival.

As the Martian atmosphere is around one hundredth as thick as the Earth’s, people will need permanent shelter from the sun; society will move largely indoors. Most buildings will be connected by underground passages and the houses won’t have windows. The homes will have simulated solar lighting, or natural light that has been bent several times.

Walls will need to be 10 to 12 feet thick, to protect people from dangerous rays that can pass through six feet of steel, and a double air-locked entrance to keep the home under proper pressure.

“We don’t think of our houses as things that keep us alive, but on Mars your house will be a survival centre,” says Stephen Petranek, author of How We’ll Live on Mars. This is not just the stuff of sci-fi. “Ten to 20 years from now there will certainly be people on Mars,” Petranek says.

“We’ve had the technology for 30 years to land people on Mars, but we haven’t had the will,” Petranek says. But two main factors have “completely sw u ng public attitudes”.

The private companies’ participation has forced government agencies to up their game, and influential films such as Gravity and The Martian have caught society’s eye.

28. What can we know about the showhome from the text?

A. It has no windows or doors due to security concern.

B. Its design presents the idea of environmental protection.

C. It has thick walls keeping the home under proper pressure.

D. Its underground passages connect all the buildings together.

29. What does the underlined words “put them on hold” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A. Put them off.

B. Give them away.

C. Carry them through.

D. Take them seriously.

30. According to Petranek, what has sped up the process of sending people to Mars?

A. The great influence of Mars showhome.

B. The development of related technology.

C. The competition from private companies.

D. The popularity of influential books on Mars.

31. What is the best title for the text?

A. Living on Mars: Possible or Not

B. Sending People to Mars: Yes or No

C. First Ever Showhome: How Is It Made

D. Future Home on Mars: What Will It Be Like

D

Fans of the movie Finding Nemo may remember the terrifying fish that scares Dory and Marlin at the bottom of a trench.

But in reality this “monster”, a black seadevil, is only about 9 cm long, which would make it about a third of the size of Dory and potentially smaller than Marlin or Nemo.

While this inaccuracy may seem harmless, it could cause problems for future conservation efforts, as people are more likely to support conservation of adorable rather than scary-looking animals.

The black seadevil is just one of the mysterious “monsters”. From 2000-2010, scientists described about 1,200 new species in the Census of Marine Life Program. While this figure may seem astonishing, a further 5,000 individual dead creatures are in specimen (标本) jars, waiting to be described.

Specimens must be methodically collected, identified, and then the identity of new deep-water species must be confirmed.

If we call unusual deep sea animals monsters, then we may harm their conservation as people are unlikely to connect with them or care about saving them.

On the other hand, their rarity clearly makes them popular on social media sites. For other species,this has resulted in increases in illegal trading for unusual pets. Deep sea species may potentially become illegally obtained specimens or food. Humans may end up eating these animals of the deep to extinction before their species are even known to science.

Every habitat on earth is interconnected, and whatever we as humans do has an influence on marine ecosystems. In reality, about 80% of our oxygen is produced by microorganisms(微生物) in the oceans. This makes our oceans both the lungs and lifeblood of our planet and we must all try harder to save them.

32. What can we know about the black seadevil in reality?

A. People benefit greatly from the oxygen produced by it.

B. Its body size is a big threat to fishes like Dory and Nemo.

C. Its scary appearance will cause problems for conservation.

D. People did n’t know much about it when filming Finding Nemo.

33. What does the author think of the scientific process of describing new species?

A. Acceptable.

B. Surprising.

C. Unsatisfying.

D. Hopeless.

34. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 7 probably refer to?

A. Their popularity on social media.

B. Their rarity among sea creatures.

C. Their conservation being harmed.

D. Their importance being ignored.

35. What can we infer about those unusual sea animals?

A. They are the lungs and lifeblood of our planet.

B. Confirming their identity is very urgent for protection.

C. Most of them are becoming illegally obtained specimens.

D. Adorable ones are more likely to be posted on social media.

第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Color is in everything we touch, taste, smell, and feel. It evokes（唤起）emotion without any thought. 36 We are all familiar with it, but did you know the following facts?

Silver will save your life. When buying a new car and finding yourself facing various choices, you can’t think clearly. Your best choice is to go with silver. Silver-colored cars are least likely to be involved in a car accident. 37 Another reason is the silver color’s ability to have a look of cleanliness.

38 Tough prisoners and crazy patients? It is the color commonly used to help calm down those who are out of control. So it surely has a useful place and a purpose, other than decorating a dress or Barbie’s dream house.

Yellow makes you hungry. Yellow and orange are not recommended for use in kitchens, as they have a positive influence on your appetite. 39 I’m not normally one for conspiracy(阴谋) theories –but perhaps there’s something in it for them if we remain ignorant of yellow’s effects?

Color is an imaginary friend. Technically, it’s all in our heads: color does not exist at all. 40 So, if you start a heated debate over color combinations with someone you are certain has a low IQ or is just color-blind, remember it’s a pointless argument and you should drop it instantly. You’re both wrong.

第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的

最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

From childhood, Moira loved to write. Throughout school she 41 writing, but pursuing(追求) it 42 was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse. “Medicine was a fairly 43 option,” Moira says, “And writing was a career where it wasn’t a 44 you’d have high income.”

She became a doctor but still wanted to do some writing. However, being a doctor was so 45 that she didn’t take up writing until her 30s. She 46 a novel—a fictionalized version of her travels in China after university. She got excellent 47 . Moira sent it off to as many agents as she could find, and found one who wanted to 48 her. Suddenly, it seemed she was on her 49 as an author.

“I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we 50 all possible areas she thought needed 51 . I worked on those and sent it back to her but didn’t hear anything. It was not lo ng 52 Moira found another agent who was 53 if she was willing to rewrite it from the first person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. “I got back a really brief letter: ‘Thank you, I’m no longer interested.’ It was rea lly 54 .”

A decade went by, and Moira found herself itching to write again, this time 55 for her own enjoyment. She 56 herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her setting.

As she was writing just for herself, something surprising b egan to happen. “The characters 57 a life of their own; they started doing things I hadn’t thought about. It just 58 out.” One day, an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel, Cicada, was published in March.

“59 it hadn’t been published I still would have gained so much from the 60 ,” says Moira.

41.A. learnt B. avoided C. considered D. enjoyed

42.A. actively B. professionally C. energetically D. permanently

43.A. influential B. explicit C. terrible D. safe

44.A. dream B. purpose C. choice D. certainty

45.A. promising B. discouraging C. demanding D. interesting

46.A. produced B. introduced C. bought D. received

47.A. rewards B. readers C. reviews D. praises

48.A. employ B. represent C. trust D. guide

49.A. own B. feet C. way D. business

50.A. took off B. went through C. pulled down D. came over

51.A. deleting B. adapting C. polishing D. covering

52.A. before B. after C. since D. when

53.A. fascinated B. interested C. anxious D. amused

54.A. common B. absurd C. terrifying D. disappointing

55.A. purely B. wonderfully C. instantly D. sadly

56.A. set B. found C. made D. permitted

57.A. put up B. took on C. went over D. got down

58.A. flew B. brought C. broke D. burst

59.A. Ever since B. As if C. If only D. Even if

60.A. adventure B. practice C. process D. result

第II卷(50分)

注意事项：用0.5毫米黑色笔迹的签字笔将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。

第三部分英语知识运用

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The wives who lived within the walls of the Weinsberg Castle in Germany were well aware of the riches it held: gold, silver, jewels, and wealth beyond belief. Then the day came in 1141 A.D. when all their 61 (value) treasure was threatened. Wolf, the Duke of Bavaria, sat 62 (trap) inside his Weinsberg castle. Outside the Castle walls lay the army of Frederick, the duke of Swabia, 63 his brother, the emperor Konrad, 64 army had surrounded the castle and demanded the fortune and the lives of the men within.

Although the conquering commander had set a condition for the safe release of all the women and children, the wives of Weinsberg refused 65 (leave) without having their own condition met. They demanded that they be allowed to fill their arms 66 as many possessions as they could carry out. Thinking that the women couldn’t 67 (possible) take much, their request was met.

When the castle gates opened, the army outside was brought to 68 (tear): every woman was carrying her husband! Konrad assured the women of their husbands’ complete 69 (safe) and freedom. He invited them all to a banquet and 70 (make) peace with the Duke of Bavaria on terms much more favorable than expected.

Afterwards, the castle was known as the h ill of woman’s loyalty.

第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词。

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I was working in the garden while I felt so hungry that I went back to my house where I can get something to eat. My lovely little daughter was holding an apple in every hand. I softly asked her with smile, to give me one. She looked up on me for some seconds, and then suddenly took an extreme quick bite at one apple. Then she did the same to the other. I felt the smile on my face to freeze. I tried hard not to have my disappointments shown. Then she handed one of her biting apples to me and said, “Mummy, here you are. This is the sweetest one.”

第二节书面表达（满分25分）

某英文报社拟开辟“中国古诗谈”栏目。现在，请根据以下要点，写一篇短文投稿。

1、中国古诗影响深远；

2、你所喜爱的诗人；

3、学习中国古诗的意义及方法。

注意：

1．词数100左右（短文题目及首句已给出，并不计入总词数）；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

The Ancient Chinese Poetry

The ancient Chinese poetry is part of our traditional Chinese culture.

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