四川省广安市2014届高三第三次诊断考试

英语试题

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷(非选择题)。第I卷1至8页，第II卷9至10页，共10页。考生作答时，须将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷、草稿纸上答题无效。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。

第I卷（选择题 共90分）

注意事项：

1.必须使用2B铅笔在答题卡上将所选答案对应的标号涂黑。

2.第I卷共两部分，共计90分。

第一部分 英语知识运用 (共两节,满分40分）

第一节 单项填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

从A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1．Everyone tells me I’m a good speaker, _____ I really don’t like speaking in public.

A. and B. so ? C. but? D. or

2．John seemed puzzled about _____ the question meant.

A. how ? B. why? C. what? D. which

3．According to the factory safety rules, all accidents _____ be reported to the safety officer.

A. may? B. can? C. would D. shall

4．We?climbed?higher?_____?we?might?see?the?scenes?better.

A. so?that? B. even though? C. in case? D. as if

5．Most of my friends shop at the stores _____ the goods are very cheap.

A. which? B. where? C. whose? D. why

6．At first I regretted _____ them to stay, but we soon became great friends.

A. to invite? B. invited C. to have invited? D. inviting

7．I suggest you delete the useless files on the computer which _______ too much space.

A. give away B. make up C. set aside D. take up

8．The painting?______?to someone who later donated it to the college.

A. had sold? B. was sold C. will sell? D. is sold

9．— Joe, don’t forget to bring your laptop with you tomorrow, OK?

— Oh, thank you. I wouldn’t bring it if you _____ me.

A. wouldn’t remind? B. haven’t reminded

C. hadn’t reminded D. shouldn’t have reminded

10．— Are you sure the delegation will come to our school next week?

— _____. The head of it has just emailed me about the departure time of their flight.

A. No wonder. B. You bet.

C. Don’t mention it. D. Definitely not.

第二节 完形填空(共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从11—30 各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳答案。

We live in a fast-paced and anxiety-filled world that oftentimes seems to shift beneath our feet. Thus we are sometimes affected by fears or anxiety impacting our life. For as long as I could remember I had struggled with anxiety. After I left university, I made friends with a Moroccan woman at work. One day she invited me to 11 her and her family back home. I wanted to, but I would have to travel there 12 and I knew we would be in a very rural area. How would I cope with my 13 ?

Then one day it 14 to me that I had a life to live. I could choose to let anxiety 15 me or I could go to Morocco and 16 something different. I was 23 years old and had never been out of the UK alone. The journey to Morocco 17 something inside me. I managed to cope with my anxiety. The sense of 18 was overwhelming and still to this day when I get afraid of going somewhere alone, I remember how 19 it felt when I arrived in Morocco.

Upon arrival I was so 20 for the generous welcome I received. My friend’s family had arranged a welcome party. The people were so loving toward me. As a moment of 21 felt in a faraway village, this reminded me that I was “good enough”, which helped to 22 my anxiety. Waking up the next day, in the morning light, I saw the area where we were. I was 23 by how rural it was – and the realization that these people had very few 24 .

In the days afterwards, I traveled around Morocco. We went to Marrakesh and 25 the Atlas mountains. We had the most amazing food – lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.

At the end of my 26 something inside me had changed. I realized I had not felt anxious for nearly two weeks.

Experiencing a different culture far away from home helped me to realize what is important in life, what really 27 , and with that my anxiety 28 . When I returned home I was much more active in 29 my anxiety. Working with people, helping them 30 their anxiety, is how I can share the love I found in Morocco.

11．A. send B. consult C. call D. visit

12．A. alone B. soon C. free D. safe

13．A. work B. curiosity C. homesickness D. worries

14．A. appeared B. hit C. struck D. occurred

15．A. impress B. control C. reach D. persuade

16．A. enjoy B. experience C. take D. experiment

17．A. changed B. moved C. supported D. impressed

18．A. achievement B. fear C. disappointment D. embarrassment

19．A. good B. ashamed C. afraid D. proud

20．A. sorry B. confused C. confident D. thankful

21．A. doubt B. luck C. love D. surprise

22．A. improve B. hold C. protect D. reduce

23．A. inspired B. moved C. pleased D. shocked

24．A. lands B. difficulties C. resources D. Friends

25．A. discovered B. explored C. examined D. recognized

26．A. opportunity B. rush C. stay D. life

27．A. rules B. exists C. matters D. hurts

28．A. disappeared B. expanded C. remained D. removed

29．A. expressing B. challenging C. forgetting D. remembering

30．A. drop B. notice C. pass D. overcome

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，共50分）

第一节 阅读下面短文, 从每题所给的四个选项(A, B, C 和D)中, 选出最佳选项。（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

A

When it comes to hard, noisy traveling, we’ve found that sometimes we’d rather read about it than actually go. Here are some bestsellers for armchair travelers.

The Station by Robert Byron. In 1928, the 22-year-old man made a journey to Mount Athos, resulting in one of the best travel books ever written, matched only by Byron’s own, much more famous The Road to Osciana.

In Darkest Africa by Henry Monton Stanley. It’s about his great efforts to save an unlucky German doctor Eduard Schnitzer, who had no desire to be rescued at all.

A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs by Sir Steven Runciman. A to Z and around the world. He provides priceless information of long-gone princesses, priests, and places.

South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Sir Ernest Shackleton. As the planet started the global war, Shackleton and his brave group of explorers made an unsuccessful but heroic journey to cross Antarctica from 1914 to 1917.

The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005 Reading through this final listing of all the nice hotels and wonderful restaurants in France is better than going there, listening to Chirac talk about the poisonous American culture, and spending the price of this book for a tiny cup of tea and a cookie the size of your thumb.

The Past Is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal. This great book of an armchair exploration tells us what has happened in the past and shows the relationship between us and the past travelers.

31．The underlined phrase “armchair travelers” in the first paragraph refers to those

who___________ .

A. can only travel with special equipment for the disabled

B. find fun teaching others how to travel to other places

C. like to write about their strange traveling experiences

D. like to read about travels instead of traveling themselves

32．Which of the books has a very low price according to the passage?

A. The Past Is a Foreign Country.

B. South: A Memoir to the Endurance Voyage.

C. The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005.

D. A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs.

33．What can we learn from the passage?

A. The Station is more famous than The Road to Osciana

B. Henry Monton Stanley, was saved by a German doctor in Africa.

C. It took Shackleton and his men 3 years to cross Antarctica.

D. In his book, Lowenthal focuses more on history than the present.

34．This passage is written____________ .

A. to warn readers against traveling

B. to sell more books about travels

C. as an introduction to famous travelers

D. to tell people where to travel

B

Oprah Winfrey, born in 1954, is all American talk show host, best known for her multi-award-winning talk show. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. It's no surprise that her endorsement(认可)can bring overnight sales fortune that defeats most, if not all, marketing campaigns. The star features about 20 products each year On her “Favorite Things” show. There’s even a term for it: the Oprah Effect.

Her television career began unexpectedly. When she was 16 year old, she had the idea of being a journalist to tell other people’s stories in a way that made a difference in their lives and the world. She was on television by the time she was 19 years old. And in 1986 she started her own television show with a continuous determination to succeed at first.

TIME magazine wrote, “People would have doubted Oprah Winfrey’s swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of big size. As interviewers go, she is no match for Phil Donahue. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plainspoken curiosity, rich humor and, above all understanding. Guests with sadstories to tell tend to bring out a tear in Oprah’s eye. They, in turn, often find themselves exposing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience.”

“I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to fall if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages, you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction” as Oprah addressed graduates at Harvard on May 30, 2013.

35．The Oprah Effect refers to _______

A. the effect on a business B. the power of Oprah’s opinions

C. the impact on talkshows D. the assessment of Oprah’s talk show

36．What can be inferred about Oprah’s television career?

A. She