绵阳市高中2015 级第一次诊断性考试
英 语
本试卷分为试题卷和答题卡两部分，其中试题卷由第I卷(选择题) 和第II卷(非选择题) 组成，共12页；答题卡共2页。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。 注意事项:
1.答题前，考生务必在答题卡上将自己的学校、班级、姓名用0.5毫米黑色签字笔填写清楚，同时用2B铅笔将考号准确填涂在“考号”栏目内。
2.选择题使用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡对应题目标号的位置上，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后再选涂其它答案非选择题用0.5毫米黑色签字笔书写在答题卡的对应框内，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。
3.考试结束后将答题卡收回。
第I卷(选择题，共100分)
第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分30分)
回答听力部分时，先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将你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并阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 例: How much is the shirt? A. ￡ 19.15. B. ￡ 9.18. C. ￡ 9.15. 答案是C.
1. Who wants to borrow a camera?
A. Mary. B. Jane. C. Alice. 2. What is the man doing?
A. Attending an appointment B. Discussing an agreement. C. Applying for a position. 3. Where are the two speakers talking?
A. Ina shop. B. In a bank. C. In a cinema. 4. How long did Eric stay abroad in all?
A. 9 days. B. 11 days. C. 16 days. 5. Why will Mr. Rogers be off work next week?
A. To make his holiday. B. To attend a wedding. C. To travel on business.
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、7题。 6. Why is Jane unhappy?
A. David fell in love with her. B. She met problems with math.
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C. Kevin made up stories about her.
7. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Teacher and student. B. Father and daughter. C. Boss and employee. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. When does the conversation most probably take place?
A. On Monday. B. On Wednesday. C. On Saturday. 9. What makes the newly-opened restaurant popular?
A. Good position. B. Special foods. C. Music show. 10. When will the music be over?
A. At 8. B. At 9. C. At 10. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. How did the woman get to know about third-hand smoke?
A. From young smokers. B. From a newspaper article. C. From some smoking parents. 12. Why does the man say that he should keep away from babies?
A. He's just become a father. B. He wears dirty clothes. C. He is a smoker. 13. What's the woman's suggestion for smoking parents?
A. Quit smoking. B. Stay outdoors. C. Clean clothes., 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. What does the woman say about the science book?
A. It's of little value. B. It's in bad condition. C. It's an old edition. 15. How much will the woman pay the man?
A. $30. B. $23. C. $21. 16. Why is the woman unwilling to buy more textbooks?
A. Textbooks are changeable. B. She's in financial trouble. C. She prefers new books. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What does the speaker mainly talk about?
A. His success in acting. B. His work experience. C. His regret for ignorance, 18. How did the speaker feel on his arrival at Los Angeles?
A. Discouraged. B. Worried. C. Confident. 19. What did he think of his career as an actor?
A. Disappointing. B. Tiring. C. Interesting. 20. What did he decide to do in the end?
A. Say goodbye to movies. B. Turn to movie management. C. Be happy with small roles.
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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
(A)
Road trip
Motorhome delivery offers great family holidays. For just $1 a day, you can hire a fully-equipped motorhome, which you deliver to a specific destination within some days and kilometers. You then hire another one to get home or take a bus or train. Your only other expense will be fuel and about $20 a day for parking fees. To learn more, visit apollocamper.com 2
Plan ahead
For a comfortable break, flexibility with times, dates and places helps lower the cost. Find a few hotels you like, ask about heir vacant rooms, then wait a few weeks and call again. If they still have rooms, you're at an advantage to ask for a better price. Lots of last-minute deals are online. Watif (watif.com.au) has deals on hotels that have dropped their prices so low. You don't know where you're staying until it's booked, but anywhere with four or five stars has to be fairly good. Back to nature
Wild camping appeals to nature lovers and costs nothing. This is forbidden on beaches and parks in most urban areas, but you can turn up in more distant areas as long as nobody owns the land, You'll need to take everything with you and may need to shop on eBuy (ebuy.com.au). If you're a camping beginner, be aware of safety measures and get your questions answered on the Internet. Swap meet
How about a home swap? For a $250 yearly joining cost, you can stay in someone's home in an international place of your choice while they or someone else stays in yours. Find out more at familylink.com.au. 21. Where can you get the information about motorhomes?
A. apollocamper.com. B. watif.com.au. C. ebuy.com.au. D. familylink.com.au. 22. What helps to pay less for rooms in a hotel?
A. Choosing hotels with four or five stars. B. Bargaining prices through the Internet. C. Waiting for some time before booking. D. Deciding on rooms as early as possible. 23. What's the advice for camping beginners?
A. Keep in touch with eBey. B. Watch out for possible dangers. C. Stay away from no-man's land. D. Take only what you need. 24. What's the purpose of the text?
A. To teach the importance of running away from work. B. To introduce new destinations for nature lovers. C. To show the advantages of online service. D. To help people have fun at less expense.
(B)
One time a young man, who hoped to study law, wrote to Lincoln for advice, and Lincoln replied, \bear in mind that your own determination to succeed is more important than any other one thing.'
Lincoln knew. He had gone through it all. He had never, in his entire life, had more than a total of one year's schooling. And books? Lincoln once said he had walked to borrow every book within fifty miles of his home. A fire was usually kept going all night in the small house and he read by the light of it.
He walked twenty or thirty miles to hear a speaker and, returning home, he practiced his talks everywhere — in the fields, in the woods, before the crowds. He joined several societies and practiced speaking on the topics of the day.
A lack of confidence always troubled him. In the presence of women he was shy and dumb. Even when he was in love with Mary Todd, he used to sit there, nervous and silent, unable to find words, listening while she did the talking. Yet that was the man who, by practice and home study, made himself into the speaker who debated with the famous speaker Douglas! That was the man who, in Gettysburg address rose to the heights of eloquence (雄辩) that have seldom been achieved in all the human history.
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Small wonder that, speaking of his own great barriers and painful struggle, he wrote, \determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.\25. What does the underlined word \it\
A. Earning a fortune. B. Making a living. C. Asking for advice. D. Becoming a lawyer. 26. What is the key point of the fourth paragraph?
A. Lincoln's courage. B. Lincoln's position. C. Lincoln's progress. D. Lincoln's eloquence. 27. What is the most vital spirit reflected in Lincoln's story above?
A. Believing in oneself. B. Keeping on practicing hard. C. Overcoming difficulties. D. Sticking to one's determination.
(C)
David Rees runs a truly distinctive business .He charges customers $15 to sharpen their pencils to perfections, using a variety of tools.
I know what you're thinking — is this a joke? The 39-year-old gets asked that question a lot. To clarify everything, he even created a special section on his website telling everyone he's actually providing a real service.
You can supply your own pencil or you can have Rees sharpen one of his own favorite 2B pencils. After that, he mails it to you in a display tube with the shavings in a separate bag, and an authentic certificate which just happens to mention the pencil is so sharp as to be a dangerous object.
To achieve the desired result, the master sharpener uses all kinds of tools, including general sandpapers, pocket knives and even a special $450 sharpening machine. \depends on what the customer wants to use his/her pencil for,\he says. \determines the most appropriate pencil-sharpening technique. Some customers buy pencils as inspirational symbols while others buy them because of their special memories of classic 2B pencils.
$15 to have a pencil sharpened is a bit expensive though, right? You're not the only one who feels that way, and David's unique business has really angered lots of people, who talk of inequality in America, saying it is so insane for the wealthy to pay S15 to sharpen a pencil. But others will say, \is just our urge to put an end to the welfare state because new ideas arise along with the business.\
David admits his trade is sort of unusual. But there are those who actually value his service, as proven by the over 500 orders he has gotten.
28. How could David make money by sharpening pencils?
A. He invented new tools for the job. B. He promoted his skill on his website.
C. He saved lots of time for other people. D. He provided quality service to his customers. 29. From his words, we can infer that David Bees . A. knows all kinds of pencil users B. provides personalized services C. values ideas behind the pencils D. always write with pencils 30. What does the underlined word \insane\A. Deliberate. B. Rewarding. C. Unreasonable. D. Irresponsible. 31. What seems to be the author's attitude to David Bees' trade?
A. It's a fancy service. B. It has a good reputation. C. It's awfully expensive. D. It wastes time and money.
(D)
German artist HA Schult is an unusual artist who uses trash (废旧物) to make sculptures. \living in the time of garbage,\says Schult.\I created a thousand sculptures of garbage. They are a mirror of ourselves.\
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He first exhibited them in 1996 in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
\are social sculptures,\he explains. \are not only sculptures for the eyes. They are sculptures to spread the idea that we live in a time of garbage.\been on show in Paris, in Moscow's Red Square, on the Great Wall of China, and in the desert next to the Giza Pyramids near Cairo.
HA Schult's work is unforgettable. Although his work has had a big influence on the art world, Schult remains modest about his creations: \that counts is the time in which we are living.\
Trash art has been around for years. But it seems that only the popular artists are regarded as true artists when working with trash. Why can't common people be considered artists when they use the same things and change them into some form of personal art? Maybe it's because we all have our own preset ideas of what art is and isn't, or who artists are or should be.
You can be an artist like Schult if you try. Look at used metal cans. What might be done with them? Imagine them in any number of new uses, or imagine them simply as an art form. What about boxes or clothing? Boxes can usually serve as new storage containers and houses for pets. And clothing? Imagine taking old clothes and turning them into hats or hanging organizers. 32. What do we know about Schult's sculptures?
A. They served as garbage containers. B. They reflected environmental issues. C. They were first shown in Paris, France. D. They were to raise economic awareness. 33. HA Schult's artistic works also get the message across that an artist must . A. be socially responsible B. be as modest as possible C. make garbage recyclable D. take diverse artistic forms 34. According to the last 2 Paragraphs, the author probably agrees that
A. it takes talent to be a trash artist B. preset ideas are important to artists
C. trash art can't be seen as a real art form D. average people can also make trash artists 35. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A. Could You Be a Trash Artist? B. What Are Social Sculptures?
C. Do You Know About Trash Art? D. How Can We Deal with Used Cans?
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。 The exam period is always a stressful time and it does not do justice for our mindset (思维方式) and our physical body. 36 Yet you have no fear because there are ways to keep a healthy mind and healthy body.
Whether you are planning your week or planning your day of study, a revision timetable will keep you focused. This will make it a lot less difficult to achieve glorious high marks. 37 Besides, you also enjoy the satisfaction you get as a result of completing the most impossible timetable. 38 They can increase your confidence and make you work more fruitfully.
Unfortunately, the work does not stop after perfecting the revision timetable. 39 So it is fundamental that you choose to study in a quiet place, making sure that any disturbance is out of sight. However, the one mistake we all make is where we sit down, plant our heads into our books and remain in the same position until the sun goes down. 40 Therefore, it is vital that you get some fresh air throughout the day. These breaks help to absorb what you have learnt and help avoid information overload.
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绵阳市高中2015 级英语第一次诊断性考试（含答案）
