绵阳市高2006级第三次诊断性考试英语试题
考试时间：120分钟， 全卷满分：150分
第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共115分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
作题时，选将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两人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，你将有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. Where does this conversation take place?
A. In the street. B. In a post office. C. In front of the TV station.
2. What is the weather like now?
A. Sunny but cold. B. Warm and sunny. C. Windy and cloudy.
3. What do we know about the woman?
A. She's not very good at history.
B. She hasn't passed the physics exam.
C. She doesn't like to see others happy.
4. What is the most probable result of this conversation?
A. The woman sat between the man and his friend.
B. The woman sat together with her friend.
C. The man sat together with his friend.
5. What does the man want to do?
A. Change the TV set. B. Return the TV set. C. Buy another TV set.
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 conversation take place?
A. In a bank B. In a restaurant. C. In a hotel.
7. How much does the man pay totally?
A. 150 dollars. B. 180 dollars. C. 330 dollars.
8. What will the man do next?
A. Sign his name. B. Get his change. C. Have a meal for free.
听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9. What else is wrong with the man besides a stomachache?
A. He has a temperature. B. He has a backache. C. He has a headache.
10. What has caused his illness?
A. He has caught a bad cold. B. He has eaten unripe bananas.
C. He didn't have his supper that evening.
11. What does the doctor suggested the man doing?
A. Taking medicine twice a day.
B. Staying in bed for two days.
C. Seeing him again in two days.
听第8段材料，回答第12至13题。
12. What does the man tell the woman about the museum?
A. It is on King Street. B. It is outside the city. C. It is really worth visiting.
13. Who is the woman?
A. A tourist. B. A reporter. C. A guide.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. what is the woman looking for?
A. A street. B. A bus. C. A bank.
15. Which bus should the woman take?
A. No. 8. B. No. 18. C. No. 80.
16. Where can the woman take the bus?
A. In College Road. B. In Bridge Street. C. Near the bank.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where is the speaker giving the talk?
A. On a hill. B. In a forest. C. Beside a lake.
18. What kind of trip the man is talking about?
A. Off-road riding. B. Cycling. C. Hiking.
19. What can the listeners do at Summit Lake?
A. Rest and take photos. B. Go boating or swimming.
C. Cook lunch over a campfire.
20. How many lakes they would see during the trip?
A. 2. B. 3. C. 4
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。
21. — Universal Ticket Office, _____?
— I'd like to book two tickets for 9:00 show tonight.
— No problem.
A. What's up B. How may we help you
C. What to do D. Are you going to buy tickets
22.The shop needs more children's toys in ___store, for the Children's Day is just around ___ corner.
A. the ; / B. /; the C. a; the D. the ;the
23.The police got the fingerprints of the thief, ______would throw light upon the case.
A. who B. that C. which D. what
24. —What's our homework for today, Peter?
—Oh, sorry I _____.
A. hadn't concentrated B. wouldn't concentrate
C. haven't been concentrating D. wasn't concentrating
25. —Of them, how many do you want to act in the film?
—_______ if you must ask : still a large number needed!
A. All B. Both C. Neither D. None
26. —What made the young man ___ of so many talents?
—His hard work and wisdom.
A. stand by B. stand out C. stand up D. stand for
27.—Have the manager gone on business?
—No. He ____have but something prevented him at the last minute.
A. could B. may C. can D. mustn't
28.He asked me just to sit down and drink some water ______I could say anything about my travel plan.
A. while B. when C. if D. before
29. —A lot of money must be in place for the Hope Project.
—Yes. One way is to obtain___ to some charity body leaders.
A. access B. reach C. channel D. rescue
30. Having bought the new car, ________to tell my wife the good news.
A. a phone call was made B. a phone call was needed
C. I made a phone call D. I would make a phone call
31. Reciting does much good in language learning and it _____ helps to learn science subjects better.
A. on the contrary B. in turn
C. by chance D. for once
32. —If _______ help, regardless of what, please don't refuse!
—No, I won't. Thank you.
A. offering B. to be offering
C. having been offered D. offered
33. In Russia, a guest must match the amount of his drink with ___ of his host's.
A. one B. what C. that D. those
34. Not until the last note died away _____ that the concert was over.
A. did the audience realize B. the audience realized
C. the audience did realize D. realized the audience
35. —Still waiting? I was told that he wouldn't come.
—Why? I _____ he would.
A. thought B. had thought C. has thought D. think
第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。
I had just been beaten in a city ping-pong tournament（锦标赛).I was now sitting alone in the empty stadium, depressed and 36 . Late. Time to leave. As I turned around, I suddenly froze: up there, on the stand was 37 my mother!
"Happy Birthday, son!" she rose and greeted me , smiling a big smile.
"Mom!" I jumped up, rushed 38 towards her, and threw myself into her open arms, 39 into a cry of great sadness, " Mom, sorry ... 40 on my fifteenth birthday. But...but ...why ...not even a word of 41 ?" Mother stroked my hair, saying, "Son, you have to 42 the hardest part of life all by yourself. I, 43 any other, can not be of any help."
"Then, why...choose to stay behind?" I cried out even louder. "I 44 want you to know: whatever you are doing, I am always there 45 you, and for ever..." mother said calmly, adding, "Happy birthday, son."
Holding back my tears, I 46 my head, looked steadily at her and said, "Thank you, mom."....
The next year witnessed my victory over my adversaries(对手), and my 47 self as well—I came out first in the same stadium and in the same 48 . Greater honors poured in. Once, when a reporter asked me about what had helped me to 49 it, " Mother's love!" I answered without hesitation, "She has been there 50 , tar or near , always watching me defeated or 51 . Her eyes, gentle and kind, are always on me, full of trust and love, and, with that much appreciation and 52 ..."
Puzzled, the reporter went on, "But, 53 some, even far from home, are still within their mothers' 54 , yet, they can never be what you are. Why?"
"I care 55 about my mother's love." I replied.
36. A. worried B. excited C. heart-broken D. cheerful
37. A. shaking B. sitting C. waiting D. shouting
38. A. madly B. excitedly C. happily D. sadly
39. A. turning B. bursting C. running D. changing
40. A. Won B. Refused C. Unnoticed D. Lost
41. A. praise B. comfort C. scold D. concern
42. A. cover B. know C. understand D. see
43. A. or B. except C. and D. despite
44. A. anxiously B. just C. always D. even
45. A. discouraging B. helping C. watching D. pleasing
46. A. turned B. shook C. moved D. lifted
47. A. old B. good C. special D. strange
48. A. place B. event C. position D. year
49. A. play B. recover C. make D. love
50. A. below B. down C. up D. behind
51. A. rest B. lose C. fight D. defeat
52. A. respect B. congratulation C. expectation D. wish
53. A. If B. while C. until D. when
54. A. reach B. sight C. thought D. concern
55. A. much B. little C. more D. most
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40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，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。
A
Nowadays, everyone tends to use EZ-link card for transportation.
Normally, when you get on board the bus, you flash your EZ-link card and move in and when you get down the bus, you flash your card again at the exit door ( located at the middle of the bus ). We all know that if we forget to flash the card, full fare will be deducted (扣除) from the card.
Below is something not known to public:
If you get off from the entrance door and you flash your card, the card will capture another entrance fare instead of exit fare, thus meaning that two full fares will be deducted from the card as no exit was being captured for the two entrances. For example, you board a crowded bus at Pasir Ris ( where it stops at Jurong East) and decided to get down ten stops later from the door you had entered. If you flash your card at the entrance door without informing the busdriver, a second entrance fare will be captured instead of exit fare thus you are paying two full fares ( 2 X $ 1.90 = $ 3.80 ) instead of one fare. This is useful information.
Here's the solution:
Go to the "big" machine (i.e. machine for you to top up the card) located at the MRT stations.
1) Insert your EZ-link card
2) Press the function key "Check card"
3) Press "more"
The above function will show you Information of the last 20 transactions (交易) on the screen. Please pass this e-mail to people you know so that they will not pay extra charges for nothing and burn a big hole in their pockets.
Last but not least, call the hotline: 1800 767 4333 when the incorrect fares are deducted.
56.If a passenger had flashed his EZ card twice in one bus ride and it later showed that he had paid twice as much as he actually should, it suggested that _____.
A. he got on the bus from the exit door
B. he got off from the front door twice
C. he got off from where he had got on
D. he flashed it twice at the entrance door
57.The author ask readers to pass on this e-mail to their friends to help them to____.
A. stay away from a loss of their pocket money
B. get free from their pockets being burnt on buses
C. avoid losing their money unnecessarily
D. know how to use an EZ card at the MRT station
58.The best title for the passage is most probably "________"
A. Helping Tips for Using an EZ Card
B. Don't Flash Your EZ Card Twice
C. Why You Pay Twice than Should
D.EZ Cards Steal Your Money
B
It was a few months before she was to graduate from Colgate University in 2004, but Lauren DiCioccio was not ready for the briefcase or the Brooks Brothers look.
Armed with a bachelor's degree in art and art history, she did what an increasing number of college graduates are doing: she bought a plane ticket to a country she had never visited, backpacked around the region, got a job in that country and then traveled some more.
According to one survey, 35,000 young Americans realize that working abroad, whether teaching, bartending, taking care of children, typing or picking grapes, has moved well. Far from being career suicide, it can actually provide a professional boost.
"When I went, I was hesitant because people looked at me and were surprised that I would graduate with a degree from Colgate and take time off to work and backpack around Australia," said Ms. DiCioccio, who picked grapes and was a short-order cook at a roadhouse in the outback. "So when I came back and had it on my resume (简历), I couldn't believe all of the interviews were about my time in Australia." "I ate bread and sausage, but I got experience working for a world-class brand that everybody recognizes. Cool, really, especially when I earned enough for my 30-day travel before going back home "she said. Working abroad "is a career move". "It's not a money-making move," she said. "It puts you in a position to promote yourself."
59. Which of the following four statements is Not True according to the passage?
A. Ms. DiCioccio made no money in Australia though she did work.
B. Working abroad is becoming a trend for American college graduates.
C. Experience of working in a foreign country has proved to be fruitful.
D. The Brooks Brothers may be a name of a certain company in the USA.
60.The underlined word "boost" in the second paragraph probably means" ______".
A. a good training B. working abroad C. a push ahead D. an experience
61. Which shows the correct order of Ms. DiCioccio's experience?
a. worked for a world-class brand
b. graduated from Colgate University
c. picked up grapes and worked as a short-order cook
d. bought a plane ticket for her destination country
e. traveled for 30 days before going back home
f. reached Australia
A. bdefca B. dfabce C. dbaecf D. bdfcae
C
In the world today, an often-heard term is " team work", which is regarded as something utmost important for any companies, schools, businesses or whatever related to human work. So true is it that almost none would say anything against it once there are things, especially those we call hard nuts to be cracked that need to be done on a large scale.
Take, for example, a can-only-be-worked-out-by-at-least-8-people software program. No matter how talented any of the eight advanced software engineers is, he or she is only part of the team who cannot, for one thing or another, complete the whole program alone whatever efforts he/she makes or however diligent he/she is, for, a software program, often needed badly and calling for lots of time and extremely pains-taking efforts of a programmer, must be done within a limited period of time. Time, as everyone who keep in mind that this is a world of fierce competition knows, is money! Days', even minutes' delay would cause a business to lose thousands, even millions of dollars. From this point of view, the example tells everything ----- team work!
A recent survey done by WEIO, shortened form of the Working Efficiency Investigation Organization, of University of Detroit, shows that all over the world 95% of work needs team work in one way or another unless it is completely personal—say, brushing one's teeth. The organization concludes that team work stands for unity of a team and efficiency of human abilities. "Have you heard that ancient Chinese story of 'One Chopstick and Nine Chopsticks'?", says the director of WEIO smilingly," besides unity, it has a spirit of team work in it!"
62.The main idea of the passage is mostly that ______.
A. nothing can be done alone no matter when it is done
B. co-operation is needed most in our modern society
C. software programming is an example of team work
D. human ability is based on helping each other
63.The author mentioned the Chinese story of chopsticks to______?
A. support his own point of view
B. show how old "team work" is
C. tell us software programming is hard
D. show the Chinese is best at team work
64.What does the underlined part" hard nuts to be cracked" refer to here?
A. Fruit with hard shell.
B. Bad things to be turned down.
C. Very difficult problems to be solved.
D. Kind of software to be made.
65. What can we learn after reading the whole passage?
A. Team work is something very often mentioned in all companies.
B. Team work is a must to do a good job, a quality that everyone should have.
C. Team work can help you to find a very easy job with lots of money.
D. Team work means to make good use of one's time whoever one is.
D
SACRAMENTO (New York Times)----- The 2005 Best Ten Citizens of Charity have been honored today by the city government, one of whom is Ms Myrtle Smith. To answer our reporter's why-question, she told us the following story which, as she put it, had led her to the work for the less fortunate people:
"It was Thanksgiving morning and in the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.
"Any old papers, lady?" asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say "no" until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals, wet with heavy snow.
''Come in and I'll make you a cup of hot cocoa. "
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget.
The silence in the front room struck me. 1 looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, 'Lady, are you rich?"
"Am I rich? Mercy, no!"
I looked at my shabby slipcovers (家具套). The girl put her cup back in its saucer carefully and said, "Your cups match your saucers. "Her voice was hungry with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left after that, holding their bundles of papers against the wind. They hadn't said "Thank you." They didn't need to. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.
Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job —— these matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy prints of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how rich I am. And from then on I can't help doing more."
Ms Smith concluded her story with a very sweet smile that was worth millions of dollars, even an amount no one could figure out how large!
Sure enough, sometimes a very small matter counts much when it is big enough to change one's life a little and great enough to make one feel moved and eager to do things one has even never thought of, which oftentimes brings benefits.
66. Why did Ms Smith let the children in?
A. She did it out of great pity on them.
B. She had old papers to sell.
C. She knew them and wanted to make them a cup of cocoa.
D. She wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving party.
67. The girl thought Ms Smith was rich perhaps in that _______.
A. she saw that the lady's room was comfortable
B. she saw the cups matched the saucers
C. the writer's slipcovers were very new
D. the boy thought so
68. From the passage, we can infer that whether you are rich depends on____.
A. how much money you have had
B. how you feel about your life
C. how you have helped others
D. what job you are doing
69. Ms Smith left the muddy prints of small sandals on the floor for a while to____.
A. show her husband that someone had come
B. remind her that she had helped two children
C. show that she was a kind-hearted woman
D. remind herself how rich she was
70. The last two paragraphs imply that _______.
A. a famous person's smile is worth millions of dollars, or more
B. a meaningful small matter can bring about a great change in one's life
C. little children can change one's life style by paying him a visit
D. once a good deed is done, one could become well-known in a short time.
E
Making an advertisement for television often costs more than a movie. For example, a two-hour movie costs $ 6 million to make. A TV commercial can cost more than $ 6 000 a second. And that does not include cost of paying for air time. Which is more valuable, the program or the ad? In terms of money—and making money is what television is all about— the commercial is by far the more important.
Research, market testing, talent, time and money———all come together to make us want to buy a product. No matter how bad we think a commercial is, it works. The sales of Charm went up once the ads began. TV commercials actually buy their way into our head. We, in turn, buy the product.
And the ads work because so much time and attention are given to them. Here are some rules of commercial ad making. If you want to get the low middle-class buyer, make sure the announcer has a tough, manly voice. Put some people in the ad who work with their hands. If you want to sell to upper-class audience, make sure that the house, the furniture, and the hair style are the types that the group identifies (认同) with. If you want the buyer feel superior to the character selling the product, then make that person so stupid or silly that everyone will feel great about himself or herself.
We laugh at commercials. We don't think we pay that much attention to them. But evidence shows we are kidding ourselves. The making of a commercial that costs so much money is not kid stuff. It's big, big business. And it's telling us what to think, what we need, and what to buy. To put simply, the TV commercial is a form of brainwashing.
71. TV commercials are more important than other programs to television because____.
A. they bring in great profits (利润)
B. they require a lot of money to make
C. they are not difficult to produce
D. they attract more viewers than other programs
72. The purpose of all the efforts made in turning out TV commercials is ____.
A. to persuade people to buy the product
B. to show how valuable the product is
C. to test the market value of the product
D. to make them as interesting as TV movies
73. From the rules set for making commercial ads, we can see that______.
A. the lower-middle-class buyer likes to work with his hand
B. the more stupid the characters, the more buyers of the product
C. ad designers attract different people with different skills
D. an upper-class buyer is only interested in houses and furniture
74.lt is believed by the writer that________.
A. few people like to watch TV commercials
B. TV commercials are a good guide to buyers
C. TV commercials often make people laugh
D. people do not think highly of TV commercials
75.What does the author actually mean in the last paragraph?
A. He asks TV viewers never to laugh at the TV commercial ads.
B. Commercials are used to show the true value of a product to be sold.
C. TV commercials cost much and they do influence us in one way or another.
D. Brainwashing must be introduced to sell something on TV.
第II卷（非选择题，共35分）
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边的横线上画一个勾(√)；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：
该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线(＼)划掉。
该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
Dear father:
I'm very glad to have received your letter.
Thanks to his encouragement, I now feel much 76.
better and realized that one's success lies in how 77.
good he does in his class, how scientifically 78.
he makes use of his own time ,and how hard 79.
that he works out of class. We have no more 80.
than one month and a half leave to get ready for 81.
2006 NMET. While English is my poor subject, 82.
I don't give up. On one hand, it is a subject 83.
in that we have to be examined. On the other hand, 84.
it's a tool of life, as my English teacher often told 85.
us " English makes you successful". I'll try harder
and I will never let you down, father.
Please remember me to mother,
Your son
Cheng Ming
第二节：书面表达 (共1小题，满分25分)
假使你叫李华，是高一学生，你所在学校和美国California州一所中学实
施互派“exchange students'’的友好合作项目，你家被定为“host family",一个
名叫John Stephenson的将在你家住三年。现在，请根据下面的提示，以李华
的名义给John Stephenson发一封e-mail，告诉他有关情况。
提示：
I．要点：
1．得知他的到来全家人非常高兴。父母已为他准备好了一个房间，既
可作卧室也可作书房。
2．你们可以一起上学、锻炼身体、上网、参观访问，还可以互相学彼
此的语言等。
3．相信你们将对彼此的国家和人民有更多的了解，会一起度过一段美
好的时光。
II．注意：
1．词数100字左右，信的格式和开头和结尾已为你写好。
2．可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear John:
How happy my family are when we know you'll stay with us for 3 years! My
Parents
Looking forward to seeing you!
Yours
Li Hua