四川省宜宾市2022-2023学年高三上学期一诊考试英语试题.docx

宜宾市普通高中2020级第一次诊断测试
英 语
（考试时间：120分钟 满分：150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. What does the woman want to know?
A. Where the police station is.
B. When the grocery store opens.
C. Where the new ice cream store is.
2. What color is Mary’s hair?
A. Red. B. Brown. C. White.
3. What does the woman mean?
A. She’ll not go to the game.
B. She will do everything later.
C. She just wants to cut the grass now.
4. Why doesn’t the man want to go to Chicago?
A. It is too far away.
B. It isn’t as nice as Pittsburgh.
C. He hasn’t been to Pittsburgh.
5. What does the man want?
A. Something to eat. B. Something to share. C. Something to read.
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。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. Where are the speakers?
A. In a park. B. At a zoo. C. By a lake.
7. Why does the man prefer the ducks?
A. They are pretty.
B. They don’t bite people.
C. They don’t eat too much.
请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. What time does the store usually close?
A. At 6:00 pm. B. At 6:30 pm. C. At 9:00 pm.
9. What is the woman going to do next?
A. Go to the store. B. Make dinner. C. Watch a movie.
请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What month might it be now?
A. December. B. July. C. April.
11. Where does Simon live?
A. In Philadelphia. B. In Boston. C. In New York.
12. How long has Fiona been taking vacations in Miami?
A. It’s her first year.
B. For the last ten years.
C. For the past three years.
请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What did James get from Nancy last month?
A. A necklace. B. Some furniture. C. Some clothing.
14. What does Nancy want James to do?
A. Sell something. B. Move something. C. Buy something.
15. When is James going to help?
A. On Saturday night.
B. On Sunday morning.
C. On Sunday afternoon.
16. How long will it take James to get to Nancy’s house?
A. About two hours. B. About one hour. C. All day.
请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Who are the listeners going to meet?
A. Mr. Hamilton. B. Mr. Gonzalez. C. Mr. Jones.
18. Who is the champion right now?
A. Carlos. B. Joey. C. Tommy.
19. What has Tommy invited the listeners to do in the gym?
A. Become his customers.
B. Pay to watch a boxing match.
C. Try his special training methods.
20. How might Tommy be described?
A. Quiet and huge. B. Friendly and strong. C. Small and kind.
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
Some libraries use unique architecture to encourage visitors to explore the racks and settle down with a new book, or use flowing libraries to bring books to hard-to-reach populations.
Kansas City Library (Kansas City, Missouri)
Along the south wall of this parking garage’s exterior, visitors are treated to what looks like a huge shelf of books. The building originally served as a bank, which is readily apparent when the library has screenings in its Vault Theater, inside an actual 1925 bank vault.
Stuttgart City Library (Stuttgart, Germany)
Opened in 2011, this nine-story public library designed by Eun Young Yi is characterized by its impressive white-on-white color scheme, its bold cubic shape and its cavernous interior. This cultural center for the city, designed to feel open and full of light, can be entered from any of its four sides, and readers can borrow artwork as well as books.
The Camel Library Service (North Eastern Province, Kenya)
To fight with low literacy rates in the desert of Kenya, the government created a roaming library composed of nine camels to bring books to villages. The library travels four days a week serving the region’s migratory people. Currently the service focuses on children, but with more funding they plan to increase their reach both in distance and the titles they carry.
Macquarie University Library (Sydney, Australia)
A stunning combination of cutting edge and sustainable, this building was made from recycled materials, features a green roof, and was designed to imitate the look of a eucalyptus tree. It is also state of the art, using robot cranes to bring requested books to the front desk.
21. What is the feature of Kansas City Library?
A. It used to be a bank.
B. It has only a book shelf.
C. It served as a park lot.
D. It makes use of robot cranes.
22. Which of the following provides books for migratory people?
A. Kansas City Library.
B. Stuttgart City Library.
C. The Camel Library Service.
D. Macquarie University Library.
23. What’s the purpose of the libraries?
A. To sell the artwork in libraries.
B. To urge people to read books.
C. To show the art of architecture.
D. To keep people staying in the libraries.
B
Herb Chasan could have eased into retirement after spending 18 years teaching math to high school students. But the octogenarian(八旬老人) couldn’t rest. It wasn’t until eight years ago that
he stepped into one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. He noticed a group of children wandering nearby with nothing to do. He couldn’t shake the image from his mind, and it became the driving force for Hoops and Homework, an after-school program that has provided activities and tutoring for youth up to age 14.     
Since 2012, Hoops and Homework has helped more than 300 children who otherwise would have gone home to empty houses or roamed the streets until their parents got off work.Thanks to Mr. Chasan and dedicated staff and volunteers, the children instead have spent industrious afternoons making crafts, playing basketball, learning violin and yoga, gardening, and basking in the attention of a small army of tutors. “Our goal is to help these kids break the cycle of poverty and jail to have a good job, to be a success,” says Mr. Chasan.
Within a few months, he secured $81,000 in town funding to start the program. It takes $170,000 annually to run the center. Hoops and Homework has encouraged people from different parts of the community to volunteer during the after-school sessions because they can tell the children “someday you may be doing that job, we love to have role models come in.”
The program goes beyond helping children. Most of the staff members are bilingual, which enables them to serve the largely Spanish-speaking community. “My English is not good,” says Keila Cupid, a parent who lives close to the center. But the mother of 11-year-old Cupid is clear in expressing her gratitude for Hoops and Homework: “It’s a safe space for my daughter when I am away to my English class.”
24. What motivation made Chasan decide on Hoops and Homework?
A. Homeless neighborhood kids.
B. Parents being engaging in work.
C. The volunteers in the community.
D. Children aimlessly walking around.
25. What activity is available in Hoops and Homework?
A. Making crafts.
B. Baking food.

C. Learning Spanish.
D. Doing extra homework. 
26. Which statement does Chasan agree with?
A. More money should go to charity.
B. More people should join in voluntary work.
C. More community centers should be built.
D. More after-school activities should be considered.
27. From the passage, we can infer_______.
A. starting an organization is tough
B. Keila Cupid is studying Spanish
C. parents can benefit from the program
D. the community kids must have a successful career
C
Seth Magle is an urban ecologist in Chicago. In 2021, he started building a network of fellow urban animal lovers from around the world. They’re working to collect information so that it can be compared in different cities.
With the goal of trying to create more wildlife inclusive cities, the network helps reduce human wildlife conflict and increase human wildlife coexistence in the massively urbanizing areas.
In Chicago, Magle and his team have been watching their city’s wildlife for about 10 years. All together, they have over 100 camera traps set up across different types of urban environments from the downtown Loop and city parks to nature preserves and suburb golf courses.
During times of recent extreme heat, we do definitely see animals reduce movement and just stay where they are. It’s probably energetically difficult to move around when it’s so hot. Although this works for a short term in high temperature, it’s not ideal over a longer period because it means less time to search for food or a new mate.
As Magle and his network of urban researchers look toward the future and climate change, they predict bigger shifts. Temperatures everywhere are projected to warm, so wildlife in urban settings and beyond will likely have to shift their normal regions a bit further north to where it feels more comfortable and to what they’re already used to. We don’t have armadillos in Chicago, but we have them in the southern part of the state. And they seem to be migrating north.
Only time will tell how our urban wildlife reacts to these longer term shifts in temperature.
For now, it sounds like urban animals - so long as they’re healthy- are totally capable of handling a few days of extreme heat here and there.
28. What is the aim of the network?
A. To observe wildlife in different cities.
B. To compare animals’ living conditions.
C. To collect information of urban animals.
D. To help human and wildlife coexist.
29. What’s the main idea of paragraph 3?
A. The tracks of wildlife activities.
B. The movement of urban animals.
C. The way of watching city animals.
D. The different types of urbanization.
30. In what way do animals escape extreme heat?
A. Keeping still.
B. Moving constantly.
C. Shifting to the north.
D. Looking for food everywhere.
31. What is the text probably taken from?
A. A market report.
B. A science magazine.
C. A biological textbook.
D. A social research report.
D
Arecibo, a giant radio observatory is located in the lush mountains of Puerto Rico, did some of the dreamiest work in astronomy. But it was forced to stop operations this year after suffering unprecedented damage, and officials now believe that it is beyond repair. Instead of trying to fix it, they’re going to tear it down.
Arecibo has provided observations for discoveries within the solar system and well beyond. It is considered one of the best spots for studying potentially dangerous asteroids(小行星) near Earth.
Over the years, Arecibo has faced danger and damage, but it has always endured. In its lifetime, it has experienced earthquakes and storms, including the hurricane that spoilt Puerto Rico in 2017, which damaged some of the dish.
The trouble began in August. A metal support cable weighing thousands of pounds slipped out of its socket（插口）and dropped sharply into the cavernous, 1,000-foot-wide radio dish in the middle of the night. The cable, installed in the 1990s, was considered fairly new for an observatory that began operations in 1963, and the incident confused Arecibo’s officials. The cable “definitely should not have failed in the way it did,” Ashley Zauderer, the Arecibo program director at the National Science Foundation, which owns the telescope, said. But earlier this month, just days before engineers were scheduled to try to stabilize the telescope, another piece of hardware came smashing into the dish. A main cable, one of the originals installed when the observatory was built, had cracked, causing even more damage.
Engineers are now working to quickly outlined a plan to pull down the telescope before it collapses on its own. Arecibo’s failure is a different fate than astronomers are used to. Hardware of all sorts ages and breaks — Hubble, another famed telescope, is operating with fewer working parts than it launched with 30 years ago. But it is unusual to wreck an observatory because you have no other choice, and so unexpectedly too.
32. What will happen to Arecibo?
A. It will be destroyed.
B. It will be rebuilt.
C. It will be repaired.
D. It will be stabilized.
33. What does the underlined word “endured” mean in paragraph 2?
A. Avoided. B. Survived. C. Endangered. D. Forgotten.
34. Which can best explain Ashley Zauderer’s message in paragraph 3?
A. Arecibo can be removed easily.
B. Arecibo has failed at work unexpectedly.
C. Arecibo has made significant contribution.
D. Arecibo’s present situation is unimaginable.
35. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. The Powerful Telescope Faces Upgrading.
B. Immeasurable Losses Happened to Astronomy.
C. The Damaged Arecibo Telescope Meets an End.
D. Great Observatory is Being Reconstructed Before Its Time.
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。
What do the happiest people on earth have in common? Recently, researchers have analyzed the common characteristics of the people who call themselves very, very happy with their lives, and who tend to live long. Here is part of what they have found:
Relationships
Research has found that it is strong personal and social relationships that make people happy. And this is true all throughout your life. 36 . Socializing with friends and family, in a small and close-knit group, is the most important key to happiness and long life.
Helping others
It is not being helped or loved by others that leads to happiness and long life; it is helping others. 37 .
Being busy doing things you love and are good at
It is true that one should not be stressed out and rushed all the time. 38 , if you want to live a long, happy life. However, doing anything under the sun is not the secret to happiness. It is doing things that you are good at, and you are interested in, that makes you happy.
A happy, warm childhood
39 . A study has noted that “warmth of childhood environment” is a very important predictor of contentment, happiness and even a long life.
Being grateful
In a study of gratitude, researchers at the University of Miami have found that people who consciously think of their blessings feel better about their lives. 40 , than those who tend to take things for granted.
A. Being helped is of great importance
B. People are happiest when they have loving relationships
C. Children always happily grow up and play with themselves
D. They even exercise more, and make fewer visits to the hospital
E. The happiest people on earth have had a happy, warm, and stable childhood
F. But you have to be engaged in work that makes you busy and fully involved
G. The joy on the face of the people you help makes you contented and joyful yourself
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
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