郑州市2020届高三第一次质量预测
英语试卷 第Ⅰ卷
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小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What time is it now ?
A.9:15 B. 9:45 C. 10:15 2. What is the weather like now?
A. It's cloudy B. It's raining C. It's snowing 3. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a restaurant B. In a shop C. In an office 4. What is the woman's job?
A. A teacher B. A policewoman C. A doctor 5. What does the man want to learn? A. Russian B. Spanish C. English
第二节（共15小题；每小题1．5分．满分22．5分）
听下面5段对话或独自。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至第7题。 （听力试题不全）
18. Why did Gordon offer to give Gloria the money?
19. Why did Top Club pay Gloria the money at last?
20. What is this srory mainly about?
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
阅读下列短文， 从每题所给的ABCD四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并且在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A
A month ago, I broke a nail. My other nails looked amazing, but now one was a mess. Clearly, there was no point in keeping the others, so I look out the nail scissors to cut them all off.
“What are you doing, Mom?”my daughter cried, “ your nails look great! Don’t cut them!”
“But they’re ruined,”I said, waving the broken one in her face. “They’re not ruined,”she said .” you still have nine nails left!” I hesitated, with the scissors still in my hand. My nails certainly weren’t perfect anymore, and the opposite of “perfect”is “ruined”, right? I mean, this is how I think about most things: it’s all or nothing. Take my finances for example.
I can spend weeks being sensible and buying only essential items, such as food for my family. And then one day, I’ll see something expensive that I really like and buy it. Then, I think to myself,“well, I already spent 100dollars on that dress last week,so I may as well spend 50dollars on this lipstick（口红）”and give up saving entirely, I’ve thought about why I act this way, but I don’t know what causes this behavior. I seem to go from “good”to“complete disaster”in a matter of moments. My brain only sees“perfect”or “disaster”,which is extremely unhelpful.
We humans are never just good or bad-we are far more complex. We
have wins and we have losses and, occasionally, they are hard to tell apart. Some people understand this instinctively（本能地）， while others struggle. For most of us, learning not to do the thing we’re used to requires effort and discomfort. However, we should remind ourselves that we sometimes make mistakes, and that this doesn’t mean we’ve failed. We need to accept that things will sometimes go wrong.
Indeed, failure is part of life. We all fall occasionally, and we normally get straight back up. And so, with my daughter’s words ringing in my ears, I decided to keep my nine nice nails. I feel annoyed every time I look at my hands , but I ‘m determined to live with my choice. It’s a perfect exercise in imperfection. Maybe soon, I’ll switch off my computer the next time I feel like I might buy something else I don’t need, although I may need my daughter there to guide me again.
21. why did the author want to cut off her nails?
A.She got all of them ruined. B.She didn’t like long nails at all. C.She didn’t want to have imperfect nails D.She wanted to prevent them being broken.
22. what is the author’s problem with her life?
A. She is rather crazy about shopping B. She looks at life in an extreme way
C. She is too careful with her finances D. She is unwilling to change her mind.
23. What does the author think of failure?
A. It is just a normal part of life B. It can help people to be stronger C. It can completely destroy our life D. It is something we need to overcome B
My son Sam is 16 and autistic(自闭症). There’s a lot of going on in that beautiful and brilliant mind of his, but even on a good day he can be easily at a loss. Throw in some diagnosed anxiety, an inability to read social cues(信号) and an unexpected change to his daily routine, and you have the way to deal with a very public meltdown(崩溃)。
It was Sam’s very first day at high school. We’d set up a plan for how he’d get home: I’d pick him up outside the shop near his school at 3:30 pm and I believed this was a perfect plan. Unknown to me, very bad weather was on its way and I was unable to warm him to take a shelter.
With the combination of his dead phone battery and my dead car battery, I was running late and unable to communicate that to him. As a result, he was left alone and extremely frightened. He became very upset outside the
河南省郑州市2020届高三英语上学期第一次质量预测试题
