甘肃省张掖市民乐一中高三5月诊断考试英语试题及答案

1、民乐一中2013-2014学年高三年级五月诊断考试英语试卷命题人： 李富国注意事项：1.本卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷两部分，答题前，考生务必用0.5 毫米黑色签字笔将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡和试卷规定的位置。2选择题答案使用2b铅笔填涂，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号，保持卡面清洁，不折叠，不破损。非选择题答案使用0.5毫米的黑色签字笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。答案必须写在答题卡上各题目指定区域内相应的位置，试卷上答题无效。3.本卷满分120分。考试用时100分钟。第卷第一部分：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

2、给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出最佳选项。aa few days ago，i went to school with lots of books，hoping to get a locker (锁柜)suddenly，it started raining heavily. i hurried to pay for my locker，but i was disappointed when they informed me they only accepted cash. i was $7.00 short，which meant i had to carry the books back h

3、ome. it would be an exhausting (令人筋疲力尽的) twohour journey back home with all those books.an elderly gentleman nearby noticed my problem. he asked how much cash i needed. when i told him i was $7 short，he quickly took out the money from his wallet. “you dont have to pay me back，”he said. i was speechl

4、ess；i didnt know whether to take the money or come back with the books the next day. a young student who was working there noticed my hesitation. “hes really nice，” said the student. “i was starving this morning and he bought breakfast for me. he always helps people in different ways.”the next day，i

5、 went to him and thanked him for trusting me and lending me the money. he said he forgot about it and didnt expect i would give it back. “im very happy，”he said，“not because im getting my money back，but because this is the right way to gowhatever you get from this world，give it back as much as you p

6、ossibly can. spread kindness around the world with the smallest things you can do.”later，i found out he wasnt involved with any charity organizations. he has been performing these types of acts for years. earlier，someone had done something incredibly kind for him and he has been spreading the kindne

7、ss ever since. he taught me a very important lesson in lifewe come to this world with nothing and we will leave with nothing. whatever we own，it will become somebody elses and whatever we leave，it will become somebody elses.1.when the old gentleman offered the money，the writer was_.atouched bhesitan

8、t camazeddembarrassed2.from paragraph 3 we learn that_.athe gentleman worked in the schoolbthe gentleman was kind but forgetfulcthe gentleman refused to take back the moneydthe gentleman thought it right to give back to society3.why had the gentleman been doing acts of kindness?ahe wanted to join th

9、e charity organizations.bhe managed a lot of other peoples money.che had received help from others before.dhe thought money was of little importance.bi am a good mother to three children. i have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. i no longer consider myself the

10、 center of the universe. i show up. i listen. i try to laugh. i am a good friend to my husband. i have tried to make marriage vows (誓约) mean what they say. i am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. without them, there would be nothing to say to you today. so heres what i wanted to tell you t

11、oday: get a life. a real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.get a life in which you are not alone. find people you love，and who love you. and remember that love is not leisure(休闲) but work. pick up the phone. send an email. write a letter. and realiz

12、e that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.it is so easy to waste our lives，our days，our hours，and our minutes. it is so easy to exist instead of living. i learned to live many years ago. something really，really bad happened to me，something that changed my life

13、. if i had my choice，it would never have been changed at all. and what i learned from it is what，today，seems to be the hardest lesson of all.i learned to love the journey，not the destination. i learned to look at all the good in the world and tried to give some of it back because i believed in it，co

14、mpletely and totally. and i tried to do that，in part，by telling others what i had learned.by telling them this：read in the backyard with the sun on your face. learn to be happy. and think of life as a deadly illness，because if you do，you will live with joy and passion(激情) as it ought to be lived.4.h

15、ow did the author form her view of life?athrough social experience. bby learning from her friends.cthrough an unfortunate experience. d. from her children and husband.5.by the underlined sentence “it is so easy to exist instead of living.” in the fifth paragraph，the author really means that people t

16、end to_.amake a living rather than live a real life bwork rather than enjoy lifecwaste a lot in life dforget the most important lesson in life6.whats the authors attitude toward work?ado it well to serve others. bearn enough money to make life better.ctry your best to get higher position and pay. dd

17、ont let it affect your real life.7.it can be inferred from the passage that_.athe author is a success in personal lifebthe author doesnt try her best to work wellcthe author spends all her time caring for her childrendthe author likes traveling very muchca tent can be one of the more costly items on

18、 your camping equipment shopping list. it is definitely something that you need to consider carefully.by seeing a tent for real you will be able to get a better impression of its size and construction in the traditional shop. however，the downside is that，unless you are experienced，you may miss out s

19、ome of the details that the manufacturers promotional material makes clear. cheap tents often look similar to the quality models they are mimicking(模仿)，but you can be sure that they use inferior(次的) materials and probably have lower design standards.shop staff are often campers themselves. that mean

20、s they usually can give lots of advice. if a shop assistant agrees with your own conclusions，that will be great；if they try to change your decision with a clear and reasonable argument，then that will be worth considering；if they just try to bamboozle(欺骗)，or even bully，you then walk away.the internet

21、 is a wonderful tool，and so long as you know how to make the most of search engines and put in a little effort，you really have the perfect answer waiting to be found. that answer will be different for every camper as each of us has different needs. dont be surprised to see your favorite criticized s

22、omewhere，but if you see too much criticism，then you had better start thinking again. no problem. you wont have spent anything yet，so think of it positively as a large expense saved.probably the best approach，if you have the time，is to research tents online and make a short list. then try to inspect

23、those tents at nearby shops. then you can make a final decision on where to buy your chosen model based purely on total cost.8.the underlined word “downside” in paragraph 2 means “_”adisadvantage binstruction cargumentdprinciple9.it can be concluded from the third paragraph that_.ashop assistants us

24、ually enjoy going campingbshop assistants usually have practical advicecyou should consider your idea repeatedlydit is impolite for you to trouble shop assistants10.you can make use of the internet to_.ameet your different needs bfind the answer for every camperchelp you out of trouble dfind your fa

25、vorite tent11.which of the following would be the main idea of this passage?ait is good to buy your tent in the traditional shop.byoud better buy a tent with the help of the internet.cbetter buy a tent combining seeing tents for real in shops and researching them online.dgoing camping is really bene

26、ficial to your health.da huge cloud of dust rose and an overpass disappeared. this was the scene in zhuzhou，hunan province on may 17.nine people were killed and 16 injured. things were similar last year in the sichuan earthquake. thousands of people were buried in the ruins and lost their lives. wha

27、t if we could have warned them?people are always racking their brains to find a way of preventing buildings collapse. better materials and technology help，but they are not a solution.just like humans，a building has its own life cycle from “birth” to “death”if we know when a building is going to coll

28、apse，we can repair it in advance or get out of it before it falls.now，scientists at the university of illinois have developed a material that turns red before it breaks. the invention could be used in things like climbing ropes or bridge supports.the research was led by nancy sottos，a professor at t

29、he universitys beckman institute，and douglas davis，a graduate research assistant.the secret behind the colorchanging material is a type of molecule (分子)a molecule is a group of atoms held together by chemical bonds. imagine you and your friends standing in a circle，holding hands. each person stands

30、for one atom，your hands represent the bonds，and the entire circle represents a molecule. if one person lets go of his or her hands，the molecule changes color.the research team put the molecule into a soft material. when the researchers stretched the material，it turned bright red for a few seconds be

31、fore it broke into two pieces. when they repeatedly stretched and relaxed the material，without breaking it，it only turned a little red.the major problem is that light can get rid of the red color. when the team shone bright light on the molecule，the broken bond was fixed，and the color disappeared.if

32、 the bright light keeps the red color from appearing，the materials warning system will be useless. scientists still have a lot of work to do before the colorchanging molecules can be used outside the lab.12.what does the passage mainly introduce?athe collapse of an overpass in zhuzhou，hunan province

33、.bthe sichuan earthquakeca material that turns red before it breaks.da way of preventing building from collapsing.13.the underlined words “racking their brains” in the third paragraph mean _.asuffering a lot bcollecting beyond imaginationclosing a lot dthinking very hard14.which of the following is

34、a wrong statement?athousands of people died from the collapse of buildings in the sichuan earthquake because they hadnt been warned.bthere is no building that will never collapse.ca new material has been applied to buildings to warn people of collapse.da colorchanging material can turn red before it

35、 breaks.15.what can we infer from the passage?athe colorchanging molecules are certain to be used outside the lab.bthere will be no collapse with the help of the colorchanging material.cthere is a long way to go before the material can be applied.dthe problem caused by bright light will be solved by

36、 scientists.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答案。其中两项为多余选项。my mother is a diligent and kind woman. she is very busy from morning till night. as a teacher, she works hard. _16 _both my brother and i love her dearly as she loves us. my mother has been teaching math at a middle school in m

37、y hometown. she goes to work early in the morning and does not return home until late in the afternoon. _17 _she treats them with patience and teaches them well. for her excellent quality and very good teaching results, she has been elected as a model teacher several times._18_every day, when she co

38、mes back home from work, she sets about doing housework, sweeping the living room and bedrooms or cleaning the furniture, and putting everything in good order. she seems to be busy all the time. as she has been very busy working every day, she looks older than her age. but she looks as cheerful and

39、happy as ever. mother never buys expensive dresses for herself, but she often buys some inexpensive but high quality clothes for us. _19_ she just eats a plain meal outside when she is too busy to cook herself. she lives a busy yet simple life, without any complaints. often she says to us, “work whi

40、le you work, and play while you play. that is the way to be happy and gay. if you do not work, you will become lazy and be of no use to society”. what a piece of good advice this is! _ 20 _ this advice of hers will always serve as a guide to my behavior. my mother is great indeed, and i always feel

41、proud of her. a. she enjoys listening to classic music. b. as a mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort. c. she loves her students and cares for them. d. she never goes to expensive restaurants to enjoy meals. e. my mother is hard-working and never wastes money. f. i never forge

42、t it and always bear it in my mind. g. can you tell us something about your mother? 第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从文后所给的四个选项（a、b、c、d）中，选出一个可以填入空白处的最佳答案。when i started riding a bike a couple of years ago, i didnt think my involvement would ever be more serious than th

43、e occasional short ride. but as i built strength, my friends _21_me to step up my training and try some longer trips, the first one to come along was a 150-mile trip, the ms-150, an annual _22_ that raises money to fight aids.when i registered，the idea seemed fantastic and i trained with _23_.howeve

44、r，as the time for the ride approached，my selfdoubts _24_ beyond my endurance(忍耐)i _25_ wanted to raise money for the charity，but i didnt really want to bike all those miles for two days straight.the ride began on a beautiful sunday morning in the georgia countryside，and for the first few hours i fel

45、t _26_.this was just the experience i had _27_，and my spirits were high._28_ by the end of the day，i felt tired out. if the body is _29_ to the mind，here was evidence. every _30_ my brain pushed out seemed to travel right down to my legs. “i cant handle this” became a leg cramp (抽筋)，and “everyone el

46、se is a better rider” translated into _31_ of breath. i was sure id have to _32_.as i topped the crest (顶) of a hill，the beautiful sunset kept me going for a few minutes more. then in the distance，i saw a lone woman riding very slowly _33_ the bright red sun. i _34_ that the person looked different

47、in some way，but i couldnt tell why. so i pushed myself to _35_.there she was，riding along slowly but _36_，with a slight and determined smile on her face and she had only one leg.my focus changed in that instant. for a whole day id been _37_ my body. but now i knew it wasnt the body，but the _38_ that

48、 would help me reach my goal. it rained all the second day. i never saw the one-legged biker again，but i pushed on without _39_，knowing she was out there with me somewhere. and at the end of the day，still feeling _40_，i completed the 150mile trip.21. a. encouraged bforbade cforced dwarned22. a. acci

49、dent bevent cincident daffair23. a. care bease centhusiasm ddifficulty24. a. achieved bgained cprogressed dadvanced25. a. still beven crather dthen26. a. nervous bdisappointed cwonderful drefreshed27. a. assumed bappreciated cadmired dimagined28. a. but btherefore cmeanwhile dmoreover29. a. opposite

50、 bconnected cexposed dequal30. a. cause breason cexcuse deffect31. a. holding bsaving ccatching dshortness32. a. quit bcontinue cinsist dfade33. a. on bagainst cdown dover34. a. observed bwatched cnoticed d. overlooked35. a. put up blook up ccatch up dtake up36. a. steadily babruptly cclosely dnarro

51、wly37. a. trusting bdoubting ccheating dfighting38. a. strength bhonesty cwill dpower39. a. struggling barguing cdiscussing d. complaining40.a. strongbweak chealthy dspiritless第卷第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第二节：语法填空（共10题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡相应位置。on

52、e day, about ten years ago, while working at the cash register in the gift shop at my university museum of natural history, i saw41_elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.as i looked42_( close )at this girl, i found that she was fixed on her chair. i then realized she had no arms

53、or legs, just a head, a neck andupper body,43_( dress ) in a little white skirt.as the couple wheeled her up to me, i turned my head toward the girl. when i took the money from her grandparents, i looked back44 _the girl, who was giving me the most optimistic, largest smile i had ever seen. all of a sudden, herhandicapwas gone and all i saw was this beautiful girl,45_smile just melted me46_almost instantly