1、2017 届四川省成都市高考英语一诊试卷第一部分 听力(共两节,满分 30 分)1What was the weather like when the man got home?ASnowyBCloudyCRainy2Where are the speakers?AOn a shipB In an exhibition hallCIn a classroom3What will the man do?A,Make a cup of teaBHave a cup of teaCBoil water4What does the man suggest?AFinding out the reason
2、 BSticking to playingCQuitting chess5How old is the man now?AAbout 20 BNearly 40 COver 606听第 6 段材料,回答第 6 至 7 题6Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?ATeacher and studentBFather and daughterC Boss and employee7What happened to Mary?AShe didnt do well in the examBShe was made to tak
3、e a walkC She was scolded by her mother8听第 7 段材料,回答第 8 至 9 题8Whats wrong with the man?A,He cant see clearly sometimesBHe has a headacheC He has broken his leg9What will the doctor do next?ACall an expert immediatelyBOperate on the eyesC Give some tests10听第 8 段材料,回答第 10 至 12 题10Where is the womans ro
4、om?AOn the 2nd floorBOn the 3rd floorC On the 4th floor11Where can the woman get free WiFi?AIn her hotel roomBIn the parking lotC In the restaurant12What does the woman decide to do finally?ACancel the reservationBMove to another hotelC Stay in the hotel13听第 9 段材料,回答第 13 至 16 题13How many job offers
5、has the woman got?ANoneBOneCThree14Where is the womans hometown?ANew YorkBBostonC California15Why hasnt the man got a job?AHe is inexperienced in workingBHe hasnt sent any applicationC He wants to continue his education16Who are the speakers?AFellow studentsBPeople out of workC High school teachers1
6、7听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 题17On which Channel can you learn about the Election campaign?AChannel 6BChannel 8CChannel 1118Which program provides local information?AThe NewsBWhats OnCNight Time19What do we know about the game shows?AYou can watch them on Channel IlBYou can read more program guidelinesC Y
7、ou can get gifts by answering questions20What is the passage about?AThe best channelBEntertaining programsC Everyday TV shows第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分 40 分)21Everyday Foodby Martha StewartNo matter how busy you are,at the end of the day you want meals that are easy to prepareAnd you want lots of choices and
8、variationsYoull find all of that in this book:250 simple recipes for delicious meals that bring freshness and nutritionPaperback,published by Random House,$16.79Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld,Margo Lanagan,Deborah Biancotti NewYorkTimes bests elling author Scott Westerfeld teams upwith Margo Lanagan and
9、 Deborah Biancotti inthe book about six teenagers with amazing abilitiesThese teenagers have powers that set them apartThey can dot hings ordinary people cantPaperback,published by Simon Schuster,$12.99Mrghty Jackby Ben HatkeJaek dislikes summerBut hes got a good reason:summer is when his single mom
10、 takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his sister,Maddylts lots of responsibility,and its boring,too,because Maddy doesnt talkEverBut one day, at the market,Maddy does talklo tell Jack to trade their moms car for a box of mysterious seedsIts the best mistake Jack has ever madeHardcover
11、,published by First Second,$14.15Only Daughterby Anna Snoekstra Shes caught stealingShes homeless and on the runBut she happens to look the same as a girl who went missing a decade ago,Rebecca WinterShe assumes Rebeccas identity,using it as a way out Little does she know her new life as Rebecca is i
12、tself a prison and it looks like a killer might be after herKindle edition,published by Harlequin Enterprises,$8.8821Who wrote a book to help you cook a meal? AMartha StewartBAnna SnoekstraC Ben HatkeDScott Westerfeld22How much should readers pay for a story about a boys amazing experience? A.8.88B.
13、12.99 C.14.15D.16.7923How is Zeroes different from the rest books? AIt tells a storyBIts in paperbackC Its quite popularDIt s a cowritten book24What do we know about Only Daughter? AIts heroine enjoys her life on the runBIts heroine Iives with a false identityC, It provides different kinds of editio
14、nsDIt is written by Harlequin Enterprises25I remember the first time I got on a horse When I was a little boy aged two,my mom agreed to Let me take a short ride and that was it!From then on,I drove my parents crazy Begging for a horseWhen I was four,I had Mutism,in which children stop speaking in ce
15、rtain social situationsI went days,weeks months without a sound at schoolAt most,I might quietly whisper to a friendI suffered silently through school until I was ten when a psychologist had an idea,He asked me what I wanted more than anything else in theworld He explained I was going to be given an
16、 opportunity to work for thatAnd I was permitted to whisper the answer in my mothers ear,“A horse“I was to get a pony,but I had to Live up to my end of the bargainI had a chart of weekly tasks I had to accomplishI had to answer the phone five times per week,something I had never done beforeI had to
17、say one word to my teacher at school and the list went onFor a child with Mutism,saying one word to someone can be like climbingMount QomolangmaI did everything that was asked of me and the day came,His name was Sequoia,whom I fell in love with immediatelyWhen I was in Sequoias presence,I forgot all
18、 about my problems and felt strong and secureI am a fully participating member of society these daysMy horses and I made it through a masters degreeI may have made it otherwise,but Im not sureI feel I owe my life to the horses and I try to give it back to them every dayThey have given me the best gi
19、ft I could ever imagine,my life25What was the situation like when the author was four? AHe didnt say a word at allBHe learned how to ride a horseC He found his classmates unfriendlyDHe had difficulty in communicating26What can we infer about the author from Paragraph 3? AHe completed some tasks easi
20、ly,BHe pushed himself extremely hardC He fell in love with Sequoia graduallyDHe found the psychologists idea ineffective27What is the authors purpose in writing the text? ATo share his unfortunate childhoodBTo give tips on how to cure MutismC To show his deep gratefulness to horsesDTo inspire kids s
21、truggling against Mutism28Wouldnt it be wonderful to travel to a foreign country without having to worry about the headache of communicating in a different language?In a recent Wall Street journal article,technology policy expert Alec Ross argued that,within a decade or soWell be able to communicate
22、 with one another via small earpieces with builtin microphonesThats because technological progress is extremely rapidIts only a matter of rimeIndeed,some parents are so convinced that this technology is imminent that theyre wondering if their kids should even learn a second languageIts true that an
23、increase in the quantity and accuracy of the data loaded into computers Will make them cleverer at translating“No es bueno dormir mucho“as“1ts not good to sleep too much“Replacing a word with its equivalent (同义词) in the target language is actually the“easy partof a translators jobBut even this seems
24、 to be a discouraging task for computersIts so difficult for computers because translation doesntor shouldntinvolve simply translating words,sentences or paragraphsRather,its about translating meaningAnd in order to infer meaning from a specific expression,humans have to interpret a mass of informat
25、ion at the same timeThink about all the related clues that go into understanding an expression:volume,gesture,situation,and even your cultureAll are likely to convey as much meaning as the words you useTherefore,we should be very skeptical of a machine that is unable to interpret the world around us
26、If people from different cultures can offend each other without realizing it,how can we expect a machine to do better?Unless engineers actually find a way to breathe a soul into a computer,undoubtedly when it comes to conveying and interpreting meaning using a natural language,a machine will never f
27、ully take our place28What does the underlined word“imminent in Paragraph 2probably mean? AReadyBApproachingC HelpfulDAdvanced29Why is it hard for computers to replace a word with its equivalent? ATheir data is not adequate enoughB,The real meaning of words can varyC Their accuracy needs big improvem
28、entD,A soul hasnt been breathed in them30What view does the author hold about translation? AProper translation can be tough for humansBSlight distinctions matter little in translationC Some machines will interpret our world properlyD Cultures deserve more attention than words used31What is the best
29、title for the text? AAn Experts Precise Prediction BThe Complexity of TranslationCWho Will Be a Better Translator DWill Language Barrier Actually Fall32Lucy ,whose skeleton(骨骼) was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974,died shortly after she:fell out of a treeaccording to a new study published Monday in th
30、e British journal NatureFor their research,Kappelman and DrRichard Ketcham used a CT scanner to create more than 35,000“slices“of Lucys skeletonScientists named her Lucy from the Beatles song“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds“,which was played at the camp the night of her discoveryThe following analysis
31、 of the slices showed sharp,clean breaks seen at the end of Lucys right humerus (肱骨) are similar to bone breaks seen in victims of falls,The researchers concluded that these and Other breaks in her skeleton show that Lucy,who is believed to have stood about 3feet 6inches and weighed about 60pounds,f
32、ell feet first and used her arms to support herselfbut that the injury was too severe to have been survivableThe researchers estimate that Lucy was going about 35miles an hour when she hit the ground after falling from a height of roughly 40feet,according to the statementThat sounds plausibleBut oth
33、er scientists are doubtful“There are countless explanations for bone breaks,“Dr ,Donald C,Johanson,director of the Institute of Human Origins and one of the scientists who discovered Lucy,said,“The suggestion that she fell out of a tree is largely a justso story and therefore unprovable“Johanson sai
34、d it was more likely that Lucys breaks occurred long after she died,saying that“elephant bones appear to have the same kind of breaks,Its unlikely theyell out of a treeBut the new research focused on“a small number of breaks“that are consistent with“highenergy bonetobone influences“and which differ
35、from the sorts of breaks commonly seen in other collected bonesKappelman responded in an email,“These appear to have occurred at or near the time of death“32What can we know about Lucy from Kappelman and DrRichard Ketchams research? AShe got her name from a songBShe had more than 35,000slicesC She c
36、ouldnt use her arms properlyDShe made an effort to save herself33What does the underlined word“plausible“in Paragraph 6probably mean? AReasonable BCreativeC SurprisingDUnbelievable34Which of the following would Johanson probably agree? AElephants are unlikely to die from fallingBLucy got breaks at o
37、r near the time of deathC Other reasons for the breaks should be consideredDLucys bone breaks differ from other bone breaks35What conclusion can we draw from the passage? ALucy didnt die from falling out of a treeBThe newly published study was meaninglessC The argument on how Lucy died will continue
38、DScientists will find another way to solve the problem36根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项Shoulder pain is commonThe shoulder has the most range of movement of any part in the body (36) Furthermore,shoulder pain sometimes comes from other areas of the bodyHere are some tips to help reduce shou
39、lder pain(37) Often, the root cause of shoulder pain is simply your overdoing somethingIf your problem is work related,change to a different activityIf the shoulder pain is exerciserelated,then you may be working out too aggressively or with bad formturn to a personal trainer for helpIce your should
40、erThe application of ice is useful for almost all acute Injuries (38) Apply ice for 1015minutes every hour,then reduce the frequency as the pain and swelling become less strongDo some light shoulder stretches(拉伸) While standing or sitting,reach around the front of your body and seize the opposite el
41、bow(肘) (39 ) Reach behind your back towards your shoulder and hold it with your other handSlowly pull on the hand with the painful shoulder until youeel a stretchSee your doctorIf your shoulder pain is especially severe,and longlasting,what else can you do?(40) Your doctor will discuss a treatment p
42、lan according to your painASeek medical helpBRest your shoulderC Build shoulder strengthDConsider surgery if necessaryE Thats why its so likely to suffer from injuryFThe cold treatment works well when applied to the most painful shoulderGGently pull on the back of the elbow until you feel a stretch in the shoulder