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1、甘肃省2015届高三第二次高考诊断试卷英 语 试 题本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。考生注意：1答题前，考生务必将自己的准考证号、姓名等填写在答题卡和答卷密封线内相应的位置上。考生要认真核对答题卡上粘贴的条形码的“准考证号、姓名、考试科目”与考生本人准考证号、 姓名是否一致。 2第I卷每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。第卷用黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上书写作答，在试题卷上作答，答案无效。 3考试结束后，监考员将试题卷、答题卡一并收回。第I卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
2、 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. What does Mr. Black most probably do? A. He s a carpenter. B. He s an electrician.C. Hes a doctor.2. What does the woman want to d
3、o?A. To continue with the work B. To stop for a break. C. To go home.3. What is the woman s trouble? A. She is late for the class. B. She can t find the classroom. C. She has little chance of getting into that class.4. When is the dress likely to be ready? A. Tuesday morning. B. Tuesday afternoon. C
4、. Thursday afternoon.5. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. At a hotel. B. At a restaurant. C. At home.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. What does the man
5、urge the woman to do? A. To buy the silk dress. B. To try on the linen dress. C. To buy the linen dress.7. What makes the woman hesitate to get the dress? A. The extra thickness and the collar. B. The high price and the tightness. C. The material and the collar.8. What is the result of the conversat
6、ion? A. The woman buys the dress. B. The woman refuses to buy the dress.C. The woman promises to come back for the dress.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. How many members are there in Adam s family? A. Three. B. Four. C. Five.10. Who does the cooking on Tuesday? A. David. B. Mum. C. Dad.11. Who usually does the s
7、hopping in the family? A. Dad and David. B. Adam and David. C. Mum and Adam.听第 8段材料 ,回答第 12至 14题。12. Where was the woman yesterday? A. At home. B. At school. C. At a hospital.13. When will the speakers have a quiz? A. Tomorrow. B. On Friday. C. Next Friday.14. What did the teacher ask the students t
8、o do? A. To review chapter 6. B. To improve their reading skills. C. To read the chapters about the Spanish War.听第9段材料,回答第 15至 17题。15. What was Alfred Nobel s nationality? A. German. B. Swiss. C. Swedish.16. What do you think of Nobel according to the woman? A. He was a man of contrasts. B. He was a
9、 knowledgeable man. C. He was a selfish man.17. What did Nobel think of his fame? A. He was very proud of it. B. He had no interest in it. C. He thought he deserved it.听第 10段材料,回答第 18至 20题。18. What is the importance of December 15th? A. The date when Abraham Lincoln passed away. B. The date when the
10、 Civil War ended. C. The date when the paper is expected.19. Where did President Lincoln give his famous speech?A. In Washington D. C.B. At Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.C. In Texas University.20. What will the speaker probably discuss next? A. The speech by Lincoln.B. The end of the Civil War.C. The beg
11、inning of the war between the states.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 There was once a lonely girl who longed so much for love. One day while she was walking in the woods she found two starving songbirds. She took them home and put them in
12、 a small cage, caring them with love. Luckily, the birds grew strong little by little. Every morning they greeted her with a wonderful song. The girl felt great love for the birds.One day the girl left the door to the cage open accidentally. The larger and stronger of the two birds flew from the cag
13、e. The girl was so frightened that he would fly away. So as he flew close, she grasped him wildly. Her heart felt glad at her success in capturing him. Suddenly, she felt the bird go weak, so she opened her hand and stared in horror at the dead bird. It was her desperate love that had killed him.She
14、 noticed the other bird moving back and forth on the edge of the cage. She could feel his strong desireneeding to fly into the clear, blue sky. Unwillingly, she lifted him from the cage and threw him softly into the air. The lucky bird circled once, twice, three times.The girl watched delightedly at
15、 the bird. Her heart was no longer concerned with her loss. What she wanted to see was that the bird could fly happily. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the sweetest tune that she had ever heard.Remember, the fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tight
16、; the best way to keep love is to give it wings!21. After the girl found the two birds, she _.A. became frightened at onceB. began to treat them badlyC. greeted them happily D. fed them and raised them22. Why did the girl grasp the stronger bird wildly? A. Because the girl disliked the bird any long
17、er B. Because the bird wanted to fly alone. C. Because the girl loved the bird deeply. D. Because the bird intended to find some food.23. What can we learn from the passage? A. Catch what you can catch on your way to success. B. Going too far is as bad as not going far enough. C. East or west, home
18、is best. D. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. B Considering Australia s size and the fact that early settlements were far apart, Australian society is remarkably homogeneous ( 同种的). Its citizens are fundamentally prosperous and the way of life in the major cities and towns is much the sam
19、e however many miles divide them. It takes a sharp ear to identify regional accents. However, there is some difference in lifestyle between city settlers and the country people. Almost 90 percent of the population lives in the fast-paced cities along the coast and has little more than a passing fami
20、liarity with the desert. The major cities preserve images of colonial heritage, but the overall impression is modem, with new buildings reflecting the country s youth. In contrast, the rural communities tend to be slow-moving and conservative. For many years, Australia was said to have ridden on the
21、 sheep s back , a reference to wool being the country s main money earner. However, it is no longer dominant ( 主宰的) . Much of Australia s relatively sound economy is now achieved from natural coal and wheat, and by being the largest diamond producer in the world. Newer industries such as tourism and
22、 wine making are also increasingly important. Australians are generally friendly and relaxed, with a modest sense of humor. Yet, contrary to widespread belief, very few Australians have true prisoner origins. Within only one generation of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Australia had become
23、a nation of immigrants. Originally coming almost entirely from the British Isles, today one in three Australians comes from elsewhere. Australia s liberal postwar immigration policies led to a flowing of survivors from war-torn Europe, most notably Greeks, Italians, Poles and Germans. The emphasis h
24、as shifted in recent years and today the majority of new immigrants are from Southeast Asia. Today Australia is a mixture of nations and although some racism exists, it has generally been a successful experiment and the country is reasonably proud to have one of the most harmonious multicultural com
25、munities in the world.24. What does the writer mean by saying has little more than a passing familiarity with the desert in the second paragraph? A. The major population has a close relationship with the desert. B. The fast-paced cities are just located by the desert. C. The major population knows l
26、ittle about the desert. D. The major population is familiar with the people living in the desert.25. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A. The pace of life in the city is different from that in the country. B. One third of people living in Australia come from Europe.
27、 C. The Australian economy is dependent on sheep exports. D. Most Australians have ancestors who were prisoners.26. What used to be Australia s main money earner? A. Wheat. B. Wool. C. Tourism. D. Diamond.27. We can infer from the passage that _. A. nothing about Australia s colonial part in modem c
28、ities can be seen by visitors B. tourism and wine making resulted in fast development in rural communities only C. immigrants from Europe have brought racial problems D. Australia s recent immigration policy encourages immigrants from Southeast Asia CBritish singer Sarah Brightman began training for
29、 a 2015 flight to the International Space Station where she hopes to become the first professional musician to sing from space, the company arranging the trip said on Tuesday.Brightman, a famed soprano (女高音) who starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber s Phantom of the Opera , will pay about $ 52 million for
30、a 10-day stay aboard the orbital outpost, Tom Shelley, president of privately owned Space Adventures, said.Brightman, who will become the eighth privately funded space tourist, is scheduled to fly in September 2015. Her training to fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule began last fall.Brightman has planned
31、 to be the first professional musician to sing from space. But she faces competition from Lady Gaga, who, according to media reports late last year, intends to be the first when she performs one song in space in early 2015 on a Virgin Galactic flight. Virgin Galactic, part of Richard Bransons Virgin
32、 Group, plans to offer suborbital(亚轨道的) space flights.Brightman said in 2012 that she would travel to the space station, but her plans havent been confirmed until now. So far. Space Adventures has arranged for nine private missions to the space station, a $ 100 billion research laboratory that flies
33、 about 260 miles above the earth. Microsoft co-founder Charles Simonyi made two trips.Brightman will be the first private citizen to visit the station since Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Lalibarte paid about $ 35 million for an 11-day stay in September 2009.Google co-founder Sergey Brin has an option
34、 to fly on the next available Soyuz seat after Brightman, which most likely will be in 2017, Shelley told Reuters.28. What is the purpose of the passage? A. To praise Brightman. B. To persuade the readers that Brightman is more famous than Lady Gaga. C. To instruct the readers how to begin a space f
35、light. D. To give some information about Brightman. 29. When did Brightman start training for her space travel? A. Last winter. B. Last autumn. C. Next spring. D. Next summer.30. The underlined word she in Paragraph 4 refers to _. A. Brightman B. Lady Gaga C. Andrew Lloyd Webber D. Tom Shelley31. Th
36、e fifth paragraph is mainly carried out _. A. in time order B. in space order C. by giving examples D. by comparison DSome kinds of mental skills naturally decrease as people get older. Yet research seems to show that some training can improve such skills. A recently published study also appears to
37、attest that the good effects of training can last for many years after that training has ended.Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland wanted to learn how long memory and thinking skills would last in older people who were trained to keep them. The people were part of the ten-year resear
38、ch project. They were taught methods meant to improve their memory, thinking and ability to perform everyday tasks.More than 2,800 volunteered for the study called ACTIVE short for Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly. Most were studied when they were more than 70 years old.
39、 The volunteers took one of several short training classes meant to help them keep their mental abilities. One class trained participants in skills including how to remember word lists. Another group trained in reasoning. A third group received help with speed-of-processing speed of receiving and un
40、derstanding information. A fourth group the control group did not get any training.Earlier results had established that the training helped the participants for up to five years. Now, leading study writer George Rebok says, the research showed most of the training remained effective a full ten years
41、 later.Professor Rebok and his team found that the people trained in reasoning and speed-of- processing did better on tests than the control group. “We are wondering whether those effects which endured over time would still be there ten years following the training, and in fact, thats exactly what w
42、e found.,The effect on memory, however, seemed not to last as long. Still, the old people in any of the three classes generally reported less difficulty in performing daily activities than the control group. The total training time for the older people was between 10 and 15 hours.32. Which statement
43、 is false according to the text? A. This kind of training can only have effects on people for a few years. B. The people were trained during a period of ten years. C. Most of the people who were studied were more than 70 years old. D. The first group were trained how to remember word lists.33. How w
44、ould the old in the second group perform after receiving the trauung?A. Remember more words.B. Understand information more quickly.C. Act as poorly as before.D. Perform daily activities better.34. What does the underlined word attest in the first paragraph mean7 A-Affect. B. Deny. C. Prove. D. Impro
45、ve.35. Which of the following can be the best tide for the passage? A. Some Kinds of Mental Skills Naturally Decrease. B. Mental Training Helped Elderly Stay Sharp for Years. C. Four Groups of Old People Were Trained Mentally. D. A Ten-year Research Affects Elderly. 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人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. Theyll say, This is my fate. I cannot change it.”36 . You dont ha
