四川2018届高三联合诊断考试英语试卷

.四川2018届高三联合诊断考试英语试卷秘密启封并使用完毕前【考试时间：2018年4月25日下午1500-1700】本试卷分为第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。满分 150分。考试时间 120 分钟。第卷考生注意：1.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡规定的位置上,在答题卡规定的位置贴好条形码，并核准条形码上的姓名、考号。2.作答时，将答案涂或写在答题卡规定的位置上，在试题卷上作答，答案无效。3.考试结束后，考生将答题卡交回。第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）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。每段对话读一遍。1. When is Jessicas Birthday?A. September 8. B. September 9. C. September 10.2. Which hotel does the woman live in now?A. China Great Hotel. B. Holiday Inn. C. Hilton.3.Why will the woman not go to the zoo tomorrow?A. The mans son is too young. B. The weather is unpleasant. C. It ll rain heavily.4. Where does the conversation take place most probably?A. At a bus stop. B. At a railway station. C. In a bank.5. When did the man probably arrive?A. At 8:00 am. B. At 8:30 am. C. At 5:30 pm.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，从每题所给的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8题。6. Where does this talk take place probably?A. In the street. B. At a shoe shop. C. On the bus.7. Why did she think of buying Tom a pair of iron shoes?A. Because Toms shoes were easily worn out.B. Because Tom likes iron shoes.C. Because Tom asked the woman to buy him a pair of iron shoes.8. What kind of shoes did she buy at last?A. Leather shoes. B. Iron shoes. C. Sports shoes.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. Why did the woman go to London during the vacation?A. To learn English. B. To go sightseeing. C. To visit some teachers.10. How long did the woman stay in London?A. About 30 days. B. About 40 days. C. About 45 days.11. What did the woman like particularly about the English classes?A. The teachers were nice and clever.B. The classes focused on writing.C. The students were quite free in class.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12. Whats the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Friends. B. Boss and secretary. C. Shop owner and customer.13. What are the gifts the man advises the woman to choose from?A. Postcards and some fruit. B. Hand-made vase and pottery. C. Cotton hats and some food.14. How much should the woman pay for the gift she picked?A. $ 80. B. $ 45. C. $ 90.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15. Where does the conversation take place?A. At an airport. B. In a bookshop. C. At a duty-free shop.16. What does the man think of the prices of the items in the duty-free shop?A. Very high. B. Low. C. A little high.17. Which of the following is right?A. The man is certainly from Asia.B. The man appreciates the cleanness of the airport.C. It took the man a long time to get through the Immigration.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. Where did Henry Ford come from ?A. German. B. America. C. Australia.19. How much did Henry get every week when he worked in a machine shop?A. $2.15 B. $2.5 C. $520. Which of the following is not true according to the speaker?A. Henry began to work for money at the age of 16.B. As a boy Henry enjoyed repairing watches and machines.C. Henry was the inventor of the first car.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。 AThe Jialing County Council recognizes that citizens have certain needs. To better meet your needs, we have made several changes to community facilities in 2017. This chart shows how we have tried to make your life better.TransportThree stations for the suburbs have been added to the western train service.20 new buses for the southern line were purchased in January.50 per cent of city bus-stops have been upgraded.CommunicationBroadband cable is now available to all parts of the city.All of the new Government buildings are smart-wired for better computer service!Medical FacilitiesThe new state-of-the-art Nightingale Hospital was opened in June.To overcome a shortage of trained medical staff at The Peoples Hospital, 10 doctors have beenemployed from overseas.Some facilities at Xiahe Street Hospital have been upgraded.EducationTextbooks will be free to all primary students in 2017!The rent for private schools has been reduced.Protection and SecurityExtra police now patrol (巡逻 ) the tourist areas.50 new police officers graduated in July and have taken up duties in the city area.Entertainment / RecreationThe new Central Community Building opened in May.5,000 new fiction books were bought for the Jialing Public Library.21. The notice is mainly about _.A. the work carried out by the people of Jialing CountyB. the facilities available in Jialing CountyC. some improvements in Jialing CountyD. information for interested tourists22. The public notice is written by _.A. the community B. the local government C. the citizens D. a travel agency23. All the following are true EXCEPT that _.A. both residents and tourists can enjoy more security nowB. Xiahe Street Hospital had out-dated facilities before 2017C. traveling is more convenient in Jialing County.D. The Peoples Hospital is still short of trained medical staffBCharles Dickens was one of the greatest English novelists but also one of the greatest entertainers in the history of fiction. He wrote over twenty novels and many of his characters are as familiar to todays readers as they were to readers in Dickenss day. In the early nineteenth century there was a rise in literacy and everyone, from the ordinary workman to Queen Victoria herself, read Dickenss novels.His popularity was in part due to his ability to capture the imagination of his audience by creating unforgettable characters such as the orphan Oliver in Oliver Twist or the escaped convict Magwitch in Great Expectations. He described the lives of ordinary people during the industrial revolution and he had a deep understanding of the hardships suffered by the poor because of his own childhood.He was also capable of incredible wit (机智)as is demonstrated in his first and brilliantly comic novel, The Pickwick Papers. This was an instant success with his Victorian audience and is still considered to be one of the funniest books ever written in English. But there was another reason for the amazing success of his novels and that was the way they were published. All of his major novels were published in magazines in weekly or monthly instalments. Serial publication had several advantages. In those days, the price of a book was far too expensive for ordinary peoplea novel cost 20 shillings or more and the average worker only earned between 5 and 30 shillings a week.Dickenss novels appeared in magazines as weekly or monthly instalments. These magazines cost under a shilling and were within the price range of ordinary people. For the publisher, it increased the market for fiction because more people could afford to buy the magazines.Dickens wrote his stories with this serial style of publishing in mind, planning each instalment carefully to keep the attention of his audience. He had to make sure that at the end of each instalment there was suspense(悬念) which would make readers wonder what would happen next and as a result they would buy the next magazine. This created a special style of novel which is organised into regular chapters. Not until the whole story had been published in serial form did itappear as a complete novel.This type of publishing was extremely common throughout the nineteenth century and many other novelists also published in serial form. But unlike Dickens, these other writers never published the first instalment of a novel until they had written the complete work. Dickens had so much energy and such an exceptional imagination that he was able to keep to the tight writing schedules required by serial publication for nearly 35 years!From around the 1850s, many of Dickenss earlier novels were re-issued in weekly or monthly parts in what was called the Cheap Edition. This was a similar idea to todays cheap paperbacks which are published at least a year after the more expensive hard back books.24. Which of the following is NOT the reason for the success of Dickenss novels?A. Queen Victoria recommended Dickenss novels to readers.B. The characters Dickens created were unforgettable.C. His books were interesting.D. The method of serial publishing made the magazines affordable .25. The underlined word instalments in the 4th paragraph could be best replaced by .A. serial publication B. low price C. different style D. close connection26.How did Dickens encourage people to buy the next instalment of his story?A. By creating a special style of novel. B. By making his characters realistic.C. By creating suspense at the end of each instalment. D. By telling his writing plan.27. How did Dickens differ from other writers at the same time?A. He was the only writer to use serial publishing.B. He didnt complete his stories before he started publishing.C. His stories were better.D. He was short of imagination.CAmericans do not usually see themselves, when they are in the United States, as representatives of their country. They see themselves as individuals who are different from all other individuals, whether those others are Americans or foreigners. Americans may say they have no culture, since they often think of culture as an additional quality of customs to be found only in other countries. Individual Americans may think they chose their own values, rather than having had their values forced on them by the society in which they were born. If you ask them to tell you something about American culture they may be unable to answer and they may even deny that there is an American culture.Because they think they are responsible as individuals for having chosen their basic values and their way of life, many Americans dont like generalisations(概括) others make about them.Generalisations disturb Americans. They may be unhappy with the thought that they hold certain ideas and act in certain ways simply because they were born and raised in the United States, and not because they had consciously thought about those ideas and ways of doing things and chosen the ones they preferred.At the same time, Americans will readily generalise about various subgroups within their own country. Northerners have fixed views about Southerners, and vice versa. There are fixed views of people from the country and people from the city; people from the coasts and people from inland; people from the Midwest; minority ethnic groups; Texans; New Yorkers; Californians; Iowans; and so on.Therefore, Americans see few generalisations that can safely be made about them, in part because they are so individualistic and in part because they think regional and other kinds of differences clearly distinguish Americans of various groups from each other.28. Americans, when in the United States, see themselves as _.A. individuals much the same as foreignersB. individuals that share the same values and way of lifeC. individuals who are all differentD. representatives of their country29. Americans may think that American culture _.A. is different from other cultures B. is highly valued around the worldC. is better than other cultures D. does not really exist30. Americans are disturbed by generalisations others make about them because _. A.American culture has not been thoroughly studiedB. they think of themselves as individualsC. not all Americans were born and raised in the USD. different Americans have different origins31. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?A. How Americans See Themselves B. Why Generalisations Disturb AmericansC. How American Culture Develops D. What American Values AreDNeed for closure is a psychological term that describes a persons desire for a firm answer to a question. Our need for closure is our natural preference for definite answers over confusion and uncertainty. Every person has their own baseline level of need for closure. It likely evolved via natural selection.What I find really fascinating is how our need for closure is affected by the situation were in.Our need for closure rises when we have to act rather than just observe, and it matters much more when were rushed, or bored, or tired. Any stress can make our discomfort with uncertainty increase, and a high need for closure negatively influences some of our most important decisions: who we decide to trust, whether we admit were wrong and even how creative we are.In hiring, for instance, a high need for closure leads people to put far too much weight on their first impression. Its called the Urgency Effect. In one experiment, psychologists tried to lower peoples need for closure by telling them, right before participants are about to make various judgments of a job candidate, that theyll be responsible in some way for them, or that their judgments have serious consequences.In making any big decision, its not enough just to know that we should take our time. We all know that important decisions shouldnt be rushed. The problem is that we dont keep that advice in mind when it matters. So, one of the best solutions is to formalize the reminders. Before making important decisions, write down not just advantages and disadvantages but what the consequences could be. Also, think about how much pressure youre under. If your need for closure is particularly high that day, its even more important to think twice.32. How does need for closure probably come into being?A. By acquiring. B. By accident. C. By nature. D. By imitating.33. It can be inferred that a high need for closure _.A. promotes ones creativity B. leads to not so good decisionsC. brings about more stress D. causes discomfort and uncertainty34.In the experiment the psychologists reduced participants need for closure by telling them to _.A. be responsible for their boss B. be cautious about their judgmentsC. value their first impression D. pay little attention to the consequences35.The author would probably discuss_ in the paragraph that follows.A. some serious consequences of making decisionsB. other approaches to making important decisionsC. more helpful solutions to high need for closureD. another strategy to escape the pressures of modern life第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。Skydiving is a sport in which people jump or fall from a plane at a high altitude. 36 People at different levels of physical fitness can do it , as long as they are ready for a sport which can be both frightening and exciting.The roots of the sport are actually much older than many people realise. 37 In 1797, Andre-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a hot-air balloon with a parachute, marking the first example of truly modern skydiving.In the military, skydiving was originally used as a way to provide support for airmen. 38Brave pilots began to skydive for fun as well. Wildfire fighters also skydive to reach remote site so that they can be on the ground quickly.Several safety measures are taken to make skydiving as safe as possible. Skydivers regularly check their equipment to ensure that it is in good shape. 39 In some cases, the backup(后补的) parachute will open if a skydiver reaches a certain altitude. Internationally, several organizations promote safe skydiving , offering classes and certifications in the sport.For people who want to experience skydiving for themselves, many companies around the world offer opportunities. 40 Good training also involves ground schooling as well, to make sure that the skydiver is safe, secure, and ready to skydive on his or her own.第三部分: 语言知识运用（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。Life is full of miracles. They surround us every day. One of these miracles happened to me recently. I was 41 my cars tank at a local gas station. It was only 10 am, but I already felt 42 . It was a cloudy, gloomy and rainy day and I hadnt slept well the night before. After I paid for the gas I turned my car towards the main road. I looked right and left and then my brain sent the signal for my 43 to push on the gas pedal but 44 happened. 45, I shook my head to clear it and gazed down at my foot.Just 46 I did, though, a semi-truck roared past my car doing 60 mph. My tired, bleary (视线模糊的)eyes hadnt seen it when I had looked just 2 seconds 47 . If I had been 48 when I should have been , my little green car would have been hit violently and I would have most likely been 49 . I sat there for a long time quietly 50 God for sparing my life before pulling out on the road and 51 home. This time both my brain and foot worked 52 .As I looked 53 on that moment later I still couldnt understand it. Did God prevent my brains signal from reaching my foot? Did an angel grab my toes to keep them from 54 on the gas? One question kept coming back into my mind as well: why? Why did I get this miracle? Why did God 55 my life this day? Finally, I felt the 56 forming deep within my heart and mind. I heard the words coming from my 57 saying, “You still have more to do. Your work is not done yet!”Richard Bach, a famous American writer, wrote, “Here is the 58 to find if your mission on Earth is finished: if you are 59 it isnt.” Wake up each day then knowing that your mission isnt done yet. You have more love to 60 , more people to help, more kindness to give. You have one more day to be the miracle God meant for you to be.41. A.repairing B. filling C. washing D. renewing42. A. hungry B. hot C. tired D. impatient43. A. foot B. hand C. leg D. car44. A. everything B.something C. anything D. nothing45. A. Accustomed B. Touched C. Excited D. Shocked46. A. if B. as C. since D. while47. A. earlier B. later C. shorter D. longer48. A. checking out B. wearing out C. running out D. pulling out49. A. saved B. injured C. killed D. shot50. A. scolding B. praying C.accompanying D. thanking51. A. leaving B. heading C. walking D. settling52. A. perfectly B. aimlessly C. painfully D. sleepily53. A. forward B. up C. down D. back54. A. sitting B. pressing C. moving D. burning55. A. take B. desert C. spare D. see56. A. answer B. lesson C. loss D. meaning57. A. God B. soul C. family D. experience58. A. question B. choice C. theory D. test59. A. missing B.dead C. challenging D. alive60. A. get B. share C. clean D. control第卷第三部分: 语言知识运用第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分, 满分15分）阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。The only 61_(survive) of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island.He prayed for God 62_ (rescue) him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help,but none seemed forthcoming.Exhausted, he 63_(eventual) managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the danger, and to store his few 64_(possession).But then one day, after looking for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling 65_ into the sky. The worst happened and everything was lost . He was shocked with anger and sorrow. “God, how could you do this to me!” he cried.Early the next day, however , he 66_ (awaken) by the sound of a ship 67_(approach) the island. It had come to rescue him.The w