1、 遂宁市高遂宁市高 2023 届第二次诊断性考试届第二次诊断性考试 英语英语 注意事项：1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、座位号和准考证号填写在答题卡上。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用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，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）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，
2、从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。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。例：How much is the shirt?A.19.15.B.9.18.C.9.15.答案是 C。1.Who enjoys working out in the gym?A.Barbara.B.Peter.C.Angela.2.How many words has the man memorized this month?A.90.B.100.C.110.3.What does the woman do?A.A cashier.B.A cook.C.A
3、 shop assistant.4.What does the woman ask Eric to do?A.Ignore others comments.B.Have his own hairstyle.C.Make more friends.5.What does Linda mean?A.She has wasted much time.B.She knows Thomson well.C.She is very busy tonight.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
4、出最佳选项。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、7题。6.What does the man want to do?A.Buy some medicine.B.Make an appointment.C.Get some time to sleep.7.What does the woman tell the man to do?A.Stay in hospital.B.Telephone the dentist.C.Take his illness seriously.8.W
5、hat will Kate do?A.Go to university.B.Deliver a speech.C.Promote the man.9.What do you think of Paul?A.Hes helpful.B.Hes lucky.C.Hes strict.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10至 12题。10.What does Wendy fear her parents will do about her test?A.Check her score again.B.Report to her teachers.C.Feel discouraged.11.Why did W
6、endy fail the test?A.Her mind went blank.B.The test was too difficult.C.She didnt prepare for it.12.What does the man advise Wendy to do?A.Tell her parents the truth.B.Apply for a make-up test.C.Ask her parents for help.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13至 16题。13.Whats the mans original attitude towards going to the sa
7、le?A.Favorable.B.Unwilling.C.Carefree.14.Which attracts the man most?A.The dishwasher.B.The hairdryer.C.The big screen TV.15.Whats the relationship between the speakers?A.Colleagues.B.Husband and wife.C.Customer and salesgirl.16.What are the speakers mainly talking about?A.A big sale.B.The city traf
8、fic.C.Product quality.听第 10段材料，回答第 17至 20题。17.On what day of a week can you read the websites latest article?A.Monday.B.Wednesday.C.Friday.18.What aspect of an article will the website pay more attention to?A.Its length.B.Its fun.C.Its creativity.19.What is an LLM used to do?A.Edit an article.B.Rewr
9、ite an article.C.Make a draft of an article.20.Which is one of LLMs weaknesses of outputs?A.They may be inaccurate.B.They are not interesting.C.They are less informative.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 A、B、C 和 D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A Heathfield Day Summer Camp Its for girls aged
10、7 to 15.Heathfield started its own Summer Camp for local girls so they could enjoy the high quality activities and sports that we were already offering to overseas students on our International Summer School（ISS）.Over the years more than a thousand girls have attended the camp.many returning year af
11、ter year and bringing sisters and friends with them.Returning students receive a 10%discount from their second year.Day girls arrive between 08:45 and 09:15 when ac-tivities start.An Early Morning option with Breakfast is available at 08:00.At 5:30 girls are collected and signed out by parents or ca
12、n take our Late Stay option until 6:30.Heathfields teachers offer the girls a fun-packed and educational daily program,balancing cre-ative,artistic and sporting skills.Campers are grouped together according to age and move together between activities.Therere different programs for junior and senior
13、groups.Girls enjoy the opportunity to spend time as a day girl and as a boarder.They can stay from one day to four weeks.But residential stays are for a minimum of one week.Each Thursday afternoon we invite parents to an exhibition or show to see what the girls are doing.The exhibitions include cook
14、ery.art,craft and photography in weeks 1 and 3,and in weeks 2 and 4,music,dance and drama shows take place.Two or three afternoons a week girls mix with the students from the ISS and take part in sports and games.Theres an hours lunch break.Our dining-room service offers a great range of hot and col
15、d dishes.21.What do we know about Heathfield Day Summer Camp?A.Its arrangements are flexible.B.It offers participants 10%off.C.Its programs are the same for groups.D.It limits the number of participants.22.What does Heathfield do to the camper?A.Advise them to stay as boarders.B.Forbid them to go ou
16、t on weekdays.C.Call on them to be independent.D.Divide them into different groups.23.What may Tinas parents do at Heathfield on Thursday of Week 2?A.Pay a visit to the ISS.B.Have dinner with her.C.See her dancing.D.Take physical exercise.B It was a history-making moment at Miller Millers Canadiana
17、Decorative Arts auction（拍卖）when the hammer finally came down for a rare Maud Lewis painting.Lewis was a Canadian artist who painted brightly colored scenes.She sold her paintings by the side of the road for$2 toS3.Painting wasnt easy,since she suffered from a physical challenge that made moving pain
18、ful.John Kinnear,also an artist,struck up a friendship with the then-little-known Lewis after reading an article about her.He mailed her boxes of painting supplies.At the time,Lewis,with her husband,lived in a one-room house with no electricity or running water,using simple house paint to paint.Afte
19、r receiving the supplies,Lewis wrote back insisting on repaying him with some of her paintings.Kinnear sold some of them,sending some money back to Lewis and using the remain-der to buy her more paint.Kinnear was friends with Irene and Tony Demas,who owned a restaurant where he ate lunch every day.O
20、ne day,Kinnear told them he had some paintings by an artist and wondered if they might consider swapping a few grilled cheese lunches for one of them.When we saw the paintings,we were shocked,and both of us were hesitant,recalls Irene.I had never seen anything like them.They were so childlike,with c
21、ats and cows.But they ended up agreeing to the trade,choosing a painting called Black Truck.Over 50 years later,theyre long retired and are now considering travelling more.They hoped to sell the painting.In the years since Lewis died,her paintings have become famous.But it was a recent scare that re
22、ally urged them into action.After having non-glare glass added to the painting,the busi-ness street where the framer lived burned to the ground just days after they picked up their painting.We saw that Miller&Miller had sold one not long ago,says Irene.We trusted the Miller brothers.Recently,the pai
23、nting was sold at auction for CA$350,000.24.Why did John Kinnear send Lewis boxes of painting supplies?A.To get her paintings.B.To offer her assistance.C.To make friends with her.D.To learn to paint from her.25.How did Irene and Tony Demas feel when they first saw Lewiss paintings?A.Disappointed.B.C
24、onfused.C.Panicked.D.Embarrassed.26.What was the real reason for the Demas selling Black Truck?A.They were forced by Miller&Miller.B.They were desperate for money to travel.C.They feared the unexpected would happen.D.They thought the painting would lose value.27.What is the purpose of this text?A.To
25、 introduce a paintings adventures.B.To explain a trend in art collecting.C.To expand the painting market.D.To recommend an auction house.C In 2022,61 companies in the United Kingdom（UK）took part in the worlds largest test of a four-day work week.The pilot program,conducted in the UK,guided over 60 c
26、ompanies and almost 3,000 workers through a six-month trial of a 4 day week,with no loss of pay for workers.Overall results show that almost every organization will stick to a 4-day week post-trial,with 91%definitely continuing or planning to continue,and a further 4%leaning towards continuing.Compa
27、nies rated their overall experience of the trials an average of 8.5/10,with business productivity and business performance each scoring 7.5/10.Profits rose by 35%over the trial periods when compared to similar periods from the previous year and hiring increased while absenteeism decreased.Lead resea
28、rcher,Professor Juliet Schor of Boston College observed an encouraging consistency in the data.Results are largely steady across workplaces of varying sizes,showing it works for many types of organizations.There are also some interesting differences.We found that employees in non-profits and profess
29、ional services had a larger average increase in time spent exercising,while those in construction enjoyed the largest reductions in burnout and sleep problems,she said.Getting the carbon footprint down is also encouraging,with commuting（通勤）time falling by a half bour per week.How did workers do more
30、 in less time?Some companies cut meetings,or made sure they were shorter.Others used technology to help workers get more done quickly.Some companies created a focus time so workers could work on just one thing without being interrupted.In general,workers said the four-day work week left them feeling
31、 less tired.About 71%said they felt less burnt out with their new work hours,and 39%said they felt less stressed.On average,73%of the workers were more satisfied with the time they spent working 28.Which of the following best describes the experiment?A.Controversial.B.Ambitious.C.Eventful.D.Successf
32、ul.29.What can we say about the four-day work week?A.Its a one-sided move.B.Its what technology brings.C.Is environmentally friendly.D.Its unfit for big companies.30.What are the statistics in the last paragraph about?A.Working habits.B.Joy at work.C.Health management.D.Business performance.31.Which
33、 can be a suitable title for the text?A.Monday-Friday Model Is Outdated B.Good Health Is Good Business C.4-Day Workweek Trial Finishes D.4-Day Workweek Could Be Coming D Ever been hungry enough to eat a house?Now,you actually could.Food waste is a big problem in Japan and globally.Japan produced aro
34、und 5.7 million tons of food waste in 2019.The government plans to reduce that by around 2.7 million tons by 2030.Tokyo University researchers Kota Machida and Yuya Sakai have developed a way to transform food waste into cement（水泥）for construction use and more.This is the first-ever process created
35、for making cement entirely from food waste.The researchers say their product is four times as strong as tradi-tional concrete.This particular cement can be used to make things like tea cups or chairs as well.However,theres one additional feature-its also edible（可食的）.Kota and Yuya are the intelligenc
36、e behind the formation of Fabula Inc.,a company with pur-poses of reducing food waste,and helping fight global warming.As expected,something this unique took years to develop.It took a few attempts to find just the right process.Kota and Yuya created the unique technology while researching possible
37、environmen-tally-friendly materials to replace cement-based concrete.Cement production accounts for 8%of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions.After a few failures,they realized they could get the cement to bind（黏合）by adjusting the temperatures.The most challenging part was that each type of food wast
38、e requires different temper-atures,Yuya said.So the researchers had to observe them and respond in time.In the experiments,Kota and Yuya have successfully made cement using tea leaves,coffee grounds,cabbage.and even lunchbox leftovers.Fabula Inc.is currently working to make tea cups and furniture,bu
39、t Yuya is thinking a little bit bigger.Their product could provide relief in the form of edible emergency shelters in disaster ones For example,if food cannot be delivered to the people,they could eat makeshift beds made out of food cement,he said.To eat the material,a person needs to break it apart
40、 and boil it.32.Which is one of Kota and Yuya purposes in making use of food waste?A.To offer Fabula Inc.more cement.B.To produce building materials.C.To warn how serious food waste is.D.To extend concretes service life.33.What did Kota and Yuya assess previously about making edible cement?A.Its dam
41、age to the environment.B.It cost of recycling the cement.C.Its difficulties they would face.D.Its popularity among the public.34.What made the experiment of making cement out of food waste harder?A.Making sure to make cement tasty.B.Selecting correct food waste timely.C.Getting cement broken apart e
42、asily.D.Regulating the temperatures constantly.35.What does the underlined word makeshift in the last paragraph mean?A.Temporary.B.Strong.C.Bendable.D.Commercial.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。The Oxford Dictionary describes staycations as a holiday spent in ones ho
43、me country rather than abroad,or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.36 It gives you almost 100%of restful time with little to no prep.Stop to consider the following:the ratio（比例）of quality time thats spent on relaxation is more important than the number of days for holida
44、ys.37 For instance,a weekend break that consists of long travel on either side is no recipe（良方）for relaxation.This is one of the reasons why staycations are more refreshing than vacations.38 Instead of losing time and energy preparing for a vacation,a staycation will provide you with high-quality re
45、st-ing time.Youll get back to work feeling more refreshed,and relaxed.39 Staycations also tick some of the same boxes as vacations like experiencing new things.You just need to explore nearby things which you have never paid attention to.Often we overlook the attractions that are near to us.40 Howev
46、er,if you make an effort to explore the area close to where you live,you may be pleasantly surprised.There will be cafes and restaurants youve never tried,historic buildings youve never seen before,and nature parks youve never visited.So with a little effort on your part,youll be able to experience
47、new and exciting things close to home.A.They act as real breaks from work and life pressure.B.If you give this some thought,youll realize that its true.C.A vacation can leave you more tired than before your trip.D.In addition,it can offer you fresh experiences immediately.E.Lets take a look at the g
48、reat things about taking a staycation.F.Staycations dont mean long traveling,which costs you a lot less.C.We often choose to spend big amounts of money visiting foreign1 countries.第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分 45分）第一节（共 20小题；每小题 1.5分，满分 30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。In Connecticut,&teache
49、r made a big decision that would change the course of her life and her new students.Jenna Riccio,a busy elementary school teacher,encountered a 41 that would test her pity and kindness.In 2019,Jenna 42 her new student,Nate,fell ill and needed emergency surgery.Unfortu-nately,the blood infection 43 t
50、he amputation（截肢）of his loge and left arm.When Jenna 44 eve-rything and went to see Nate at the hospital,she found him alone.She decided to bring him 45 by being there for him.However,her 46 was not just an act of kindness.Jenna learned Nate had been 47 Concerned for his well-being,Jenna 48 his soci
