1、- 1 -2019 年春四川省棠湖中学高三二诊模拟考试英语试题时间：120 分钟 满分：150 分 第 I 卷（选择题 100 分）第一部分 听力(共两节，满分 30 分）该部分分为第一、第二两节。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 does the man wa
2、nt to do?A. Take it easy. B. Finish his work. C. Get something to eat.2. What does the woman suggest the man buy?A. A dress. B. A purse. C. A jacket.3. When does the man want to go to the library?A. On Saturday. B. On Sunday. C. On Monday.4. Where does this conversation most likely take place? tA. A
3、t a clothing store. B. At a laundry place. C. At a restaurant.5. How does the woman respond to the man?A. She is disappointed. B. She is impressed. C. She is optimistic.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
4、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。- 2 -6. Why wont the womans sister come to dinner?A. She has to work late. B. She has an appointment. C. Shes in another town.7. How does the man feel about the dinner tonight?A. He is very excited. B. He is a little disappointed. C. He is quite angry.听
5、第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Where does the woman plan to go? A. San Francisco. B. Sacramento. C. Los Angeles.9. What is the best way to see California according to the man?A. Go there by plane. B. Take the train along the coast. C. Go through the center of California.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10What are the s
6、peakers mainly talking about?AA typhoon. BAn earthquake. CA traffic accident.11Why do earthquakes happen frequently in China?AChina has a long history.BChina is located on the Eurasia plate.CChina is one of the biggest countries.12Where did the 8.0 magnitude earthquake take place?AIn Wenchuan. BIn T
7、angshan. CIn Gansu.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13Why does the man look pale?ABecause he is ill. BBecause he stayed up late. CBecause he seldom goes out.14How does the man feel about his Chinese learning?ASatisfied. BAmazed. CDisappointed.15How does the woman study Chinese?- 3 -ABy writing. BBy learning C
8、hinese songs. CBy reciting Chinese poems.16What will the man take in case of running into new characters?AA textbook. BA dictionary. CA magazine.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17What is the first step to be popular?ATo stay in good shape. BTo wear suitable clothes. CTo improve our appearance.18What is the
9、most important step according to the speaker?ATo be a good listener. BTo consider others more. CTo be real.19How can we get others respect?AGet high scores in study. BBe sincere to others. CDo something ourselves.20Whats the purpose of the speech?ATo give tips on how to be popular.BTo encourage peop
10、le to improve appearance.CTo explain why people like to be popular.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。 ASeveral Jobs That Will Be Automated By Artificial Intelligence(AI) And RobotsTranslatorImage recognition software and voice recogni
11、tion software are bringing some major advances to language translationApplications like Googles Word Lens can translate words from signs and documents in real time and there ale a lot of translation apps that allow you to type in a word or phrase and will translate it for you- 4 -Some will even spea
12、k the phrase for you and raw word-to-word translation will be fully automated soonFast food workersAutomated ordering booths have already made their way into a few McDonalds restaurants around the world，and cooking positions could be removed nextThe booths probably cant handle customer service probl
13、ems well，so televideo systems could bring in an office employee to deal with complaintsField technicianNew advances in the Internet of Things could make this work obsoleteLow-cost sensors combined with high availability cellularsatellite communications and cloud technology are being started to autom
14、ate and alarm these sites，and can be checked and maintained from a desktop or mobile deviceSales representativeBut，e-commerce is changing how we make purchasing decisions，especially those where there isnt much differentiation among the major competitorsIf youre selling a high-differentiation product
15、 andor a high-price，low-volume product you have some job security，but if youre selling a high-volume，low-differentiation product，you better start polishing your resume，said Doug Camplejohn，CEO of Fliptop “These kind of product sales are all moving online ”21What can Googles Word Lens do?ATranslate b
16、y image and voice recognition software BSpeak the phrase or word for youCMake real-time translation DAllow you to type in a word or phrase22What can we infer from the second part?AAll the restaurants own automated ordering boothsBService problems cant be handled automaticallyCCooks will not be autom
17、ated by AI and robotsDCustomers will have no complaints because of AI- 5 -23What does the underlined word“obsolete”mean in Part 3?AAbandoned BWelcome CForbidden DEfficientB“Mayday! We got Mayday!”Frank Pisano screamed over the microphone to the air control tower at the airportOne of the two engines
18、on his plane had failed，and he was now going down towards one of the busiest highways in AmericaInterstate 405， just south of Los Angelesand there was no stopping itDriving south on the 405，near the airportS runway，was John Meffert，a fire department captainHe was heading home from his shift when sud
19、denly a lowflying plane caught his eyeAfter he took a second glance，a thought crossed his mind：“This planes going to hit me ”He was rightThe plane slammed into the road，popped up a few feet，and then clipped the front of Mefferts carIt finally stopped after hitting the divider(隔栏)Meffert pulled overH
20、e was unhurt，and his car had received only a large scratch，so he turned his attention to the planeHe ran towards the smoke，and then he saw Franks wife，Janan Pisano，pop her head up on the passenger sideBy the time Meffert reached the aircraft，part of it was on fire and Janan，who was covered in blood，
21、was on the wing trying to pull her husband from the wreckMeffert ，afraid the plane would explode，guided her to safety behind itThen，he ran back for Frank，who had been knocked out by the initial crash，lying across both seatsMeffert carefully positioned himself under the pilots arms and lifted him fro
22、m the cockpitThen he dragged the pilot off the wing and carried him to safety，where they could see the plane in flamesThe Pisanos spent three weeks in the hospitalRemarkably，Mefferts car was the only one hit by the planeHad Meffert been a second or two faster，Frank said，the left propeller(螺旋桨)would
23、have ripped the top off his car and killed him- 6 -“I play all the what-ifsgoing slower，going fasterIt could have been a very different result， ”Meffert said “We just had a lot of angels ”24What does the underlined word“Mayday”in Paragraph 1 refer to?AA special day in May BThe arrival timeCA message
24、 for help DThe local airport25Why was the plane going down to the highway?AOnly one engine was working BFrank mistook 405 for the runwayCThe plane caught fire DThe pilot was seriously hurt26What prevented Meffert from being killed?AHis good sense of direction BHis low driving speedCHis second glance
25、 at the plane DHis belief in God27It can be inferred from the passage that_AMeffert and Frank were friendsBMefferts car was not totally damagedCJanan Pisano was one of the crew of the airportDthe plane would take off again when Frank recoveredCPlastic sludge(污泥) and garbage is a disaster for the wor
26、lds oceans A film crew traveled the globe to document the rubbish And Julie Andersen of the Plastic Oceans Foundation says what we see is just the tip of the problem“Half of the waste actually sinks to the bottom，and that that remains on the surface actually breaks down”The filmmakers found rubbish
27、in ocean gyres， the circulating currents that trap large concentrations of pollution in the Atlantic，I ndian，and Pacifc Oceans， home of what some haveplasticWhat we found was a plastic smog that spread throughout all the water And in some parts of theoceans，s cientists have found more plastic than p
28、lant”- 7 -The pieces of the plastic garbage infect the food chain，som etimes visibly,and more so at the microscopic level， where the plastic particles interact with other pollutants“There are heavy metals， medicines， industrial waste in the sea， while it acts like magnets(磁铁 ) These poisonous substa
29、nces absorbon the plastic，and then when seafood absorbs the plastics，t hose poisonous substances enter the fattytissues”To be consumed by other sea life and by people at lastChina， Indonesia， the Philippines， Thailand and Vietnam are the worst plastic polluters The United States，al though a leader i
30、n recycling，i s one of the worlds 20 since it produces and consumes so much plasticThere are efforts around the world to address th e problem，i ncluding at this newly opened recycling center in Lebanon(黎巴嫩 )B ut Andersen says there is more that people can do“Cut back on single-use plastics， straws，
31、plastic cups， plastic water bottles， plastic bags and find alternatives like reusable materials”She says healthy oceans are essential to our sur vival28What can we learn from the passage?ATheres all island full of plastic rubbish in the Pacific BThe bad effect of plastic pollution cant be seen by ey
32、es CThe United States is the least plastic pollutersDThe plastic pollution to oceans is more serious than what we can see29.What does the underlined word“it”refer to in paragraph 3?APollutants like heavy metals and medicines BThe plastic particles CSeafood DFatty tissues30What can be inferred from t
33、he last paragraph?AAll Asian countries have the most serious problem of plastic pollutionBThe plastic problem hasnt attracted the worlds attentionC.Andersen is not satisfied with what has been done to solve the plastic problem, DPeople should stop using plastic products immediately- 8 -31Which may b
34、e the title ofthe passage?A.Plastic pollution in the World BPlastic pollutionOceansDisasterCWays to solve the problem of plastic pollution to oceansDPlastic pollution and our healthDIf conditions get bad enough，almost any kind of weather can become a stormStormy weather can cause people to cancel th
35、eir plansIt can cause major events to be postponedAnd severe stormy weather can be dangerous to people，fortune and anima1If you weather the storm，or ride out the storm，you survive and move on without harm or injury For example，1ets talk about Tornado Alley，the name for part of the central United Sta
36、tesDuring springtime，this area often has a large number of powerful tornadoesPeople who live there are taught to shelter in the safest place they can find and wait for the storm to passPeople who live in Tornado Alley are used to weathering many storms!You can also weather a storm，but it doesnt invo
37、lve actual weather “To weather the storm”can also mean to make it through a difficult experience or trying timesSo，if the stock market(股市)crashes ，you might have to weather a financial stormOften before a big storm，conditions are calmThe calm before the storm can happen anytimeIt is the time before
38、something bad happensFor example，at the beginning of a family reunionthe adults were all talking happilyBut the older children knew it was just the calm before the stormTheyve seen it happen beforeThe adults talk happily for about an hourThen they start arguing about events from the pastthings that
39、should really stay buried!But after the storm begins and you find yourself in the middle of it，you are in the eye of the stormIn the world of weather，the eye of the storm is the calmest part，in the center of a hurricane，for exampleHowever，in the - 9 -English language，if you are in the eye of the sto
40、rm，you are in the most intense part of a conflictFor example，she had no idea that walking into the meeting would put her in the eye of the stormHowever，a brainstorm does not exist in the world of weatherTo brainstorm means to try to solve a problem by talking with other peopleAnd dont worryIf we hav
41、e trouble thinking of an idea for the next program，we can always brainstorm with you !32Whats mainly discussed in the 3rd and 4th paragraphs?AWhat the meanings of weathering the storm areBHow we can weather the stormCWeathering a storm doesnt involve actual weatherDPeople in Tornado Alley can surviv
42、e the storm33Why does the author mention a family reunion in the fifth paragraph?ATo stress the importance of weather forecastBTo develop the awareness of familyCTo explain the meaning of an expressionDTo praise the older children for being clever34What can be inferred from the last paragraph?AA pro
43、blem eart be solved if you worry too muchBA brainstorm often appears in the world of weatherCDifficulties can be dealt with by teamworkDTo brainstorm can cause troubles in the program35Whats the authors purpose in writing the text?ATo tell us stormy weather can cause destructionBTo tell us some expr
44、essions about stormCTo tell us a storm can cause conflictsDTo tell us we should be ready for a storm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。- 10 -Every animal sleeps, but the reason for this has remained foggy. When lab rats are not allowed to sleep, they die within a mon
45、th. 36 One idea is that sleep helps us strengthen new memories. 37 We know that, while awake, fresh memories are recorded by reinforcing (加强) connections between brain cells, but the memory processes that take place while we sleep have been unclear.Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved
46、so that connections between neurons (神经元) in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day. 38 Now we have the most direct evidence yet that he is right. 39 The synapses in the mice taken at the end of a period of sleep were 18 per cent smaller than those t
47、aken before sleep, showing that the connections between neurons weaken while sleeping.If Tononis theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a nights, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.Their research a
48、lso suggests how we may build lasting memories over time even though the synapses become thinner. The team discovered that some synapses seem to be protected and stayed the same size. 40 “You keep what matters,” Tononi says.A. We should also try to sleep well the night before.B. Its as if the brain is preserving its most important memories.C. Thats why students do better in tests if they get a chance to sleep after learning.D. Similarly, when people go for a few days without sleeping, they get sick.E. The process
