四川省广安、眉山 2018届毕业班第一次诊断性考试英语

one day a teacher, who was a member of an organisation, saved me. He gave me advice and support for several weeks till I finally quitted this bad habit. ” Salim said.

Samira is a secondary school student. “My mother neglected (忽视) me. She gave me money just to get rid of me. As for my dad, he only came home in the evening and always started shouting at my mother. I easily found refuge to drugs. ” She explains.

Amina Baaji is a teacher and member of the Moroccan Associations for Listening and Dialogue. She stressed the importance of the role of parents in dealing with cigarette smoking, before it leads to drug addiction. “Families must look after their children and try to understand them so that they will not become addicted to tobacco or drugs. ”She says. “Parents’ failure to listen to their children and understand their problems is the main reason why young people start smoking or taking drugs.” She adds.

Jamal Bahaoui, another teacher, agrees with Baaji. “If young people are to be protected from tobacco and drugs, families and schools must keep an eye on them and try to understand their needs and fears.” He explains. “Teachers must spend more time listening to their students so that they can give them guidance and help them deal with their psychological problems.” He adds. 28. What’s the main idea of the text?

A. Non-governmental organizations in Morocco. B. Anti-smoking and drug campaigns in Morocco. C. Students, psychological problems in Morocco. D. Teenagers giving up smoking or drugs in Morocco. 29. How did Salimas teacher help him?

A. By keeping encouraging him to keep away from tobacco. B. By continuing to tell him to talk with his mother. C. By giving him money to support his studies. D. By communicating with his mother. 30. What led to Samira’s drug addiction? A. Her own bad habit.

B. Her family problem.

D. Her failure to listen to her parents.

C. Her teachers’ ignorance.

31. What does Baaji advise parents to do to protect their children from addiction? A. Give advice to their children. B. Give up smoking or taking drugs.

C. Communicate with their children. D. Put their family problems behind their children.

D

Queuing, unpacking and repacking our suitcases is the price of airport security. Suitcases go through an X-ray and any suspicious (可疑的) image means the luggage is sent on to a second machine, but a new 3D scanner may speed things up. It was the result of a collaboration (合作) between a global company, Rapiscan, and a team led by professor Bill Lionheart.

The idea is that the bags could have a three-dimensional scan and be viewed from any angle, allowing the security people to get a much better idea of the contents of a piece of luggage much faster. “They had invented it to make it very fast,” says Lionheart, “but they hadn’t thought about how to make the three-dimensional picture.”

Despite the difficulties, Lionheart and his team who designed the machine finally managed to make one based on complex mathematical calculations, which the operator can look at in any direction.

The resulting machine, the RTT80 3D scanner won a famous Engineer magazine prize and has been inexperimental use in the US and in Germany with a view to being put into production if it meets the necessary standards. The mathematics they’ve used for the scanner is also a starting point for other applications. Rapiscan also makes metal detectors which made Professor Lionheart think that there are perhaps new ways of thinking about landmines (地雷).

Lionheart says, “Generally, it will take hundreds of years to clear the mines. We’re hoping that this metal detector project will lead to clean up landmines quicker.” Lionheart believes that mathematics is particularly good at working across different engineering problems. “You start looking at X-rays in airport security; then apply the same things to material science, inventing detectors, and you realize the same mathematics could be applied to landmine detection. We tend to make bridges across different areas of knowledge because the mathematics is shared.”

32. What may security measures at airports result in?

A. Passengers having to wait in lines. B. Checking suitcases being very expensive. C. Airplanes sometimes having to be put off. D. All luggage passing through at least two machines. 33. Which is right about the new three-dimensional picture of luggage?

A. It was invented by accident. B. It has already been put on the market.

C. It depended on mathematical calculations. D. It can be mistaken for the image of other luggage. 34. What does the underlined word “it” refer to in Paragraph 3? A. The prize.

B. The production. C. The experimental use.

D. The 3D scanner.

35. What can we know about mathematics from Lionheart’s words? A. It inspires Lionheart to design the 3D scanner. B. It has wide application in the engineering field. C. It accelerates the solving of the landmine problem. D. It can reduce the differences between scientific fields. 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。 How to improve social skills? Different people have different opinions. Social skills are an essential part of life but are not always easy to perfect. Improving takes time and some trial and error.

Select specific skills to improve

Don’t try to improve all of your social skills at once. 36 After you feel comfortable in your understanding of body language, you might read a guide on small talk and practice that next.

37

Talk with people while carrying out daily activities at school, work or at any other place. Communication is powerful and as you enter into more conversations, you will become more experienced in chatting.

Be relaxed and confident around people

38 You can help grow this feeling by building your sense of self-worth and finding your inner-strength. Remind yourself that you are a very special and worthwhile person.

Choose specific goals and work towards them

Trying to improve your social skills is such a broad goal that it is hard to see progress towards it and it is easy to get discouraged. 39 For instance, you might decide “I want to successfully join a conversation at a party.”

Find people who share the same interests with you

Why do you think you see a lot of friends are people who share something in common? For example, the basketball group, the football group, the video games group. 40 So if you love football then talk about football. This is how most friendships start off.

A. Join in conversations.

B. Refer to social skills books and guides. C. People love to be around with humorous people. D. People like it when you are comfortable with yourself. E. You might buy a book on body language and work on that first. F. Instead, pick a goal that is challenging but able to do and specific.

G. Generally, those who share the same interests are more likely to become friends.

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。 Alice Green tries to follow the fashion at 11. But her mom, Helen, 41 part-time and her husband was recently 42 off, leaving little room in the family budget for designer-brand clothes. So Alice didn’t ask her mom to 43 her wallet this fall to buy clothes. Instead, she 44 a mass of her own old jeans and shirts at a 45 and bought what she wanted for school. Alice is learning she has to make 46 with her money.

The cost of bringing up kids is continuing to 47 . Now, because there is a growing 48 that today’s youth will face a lasting drop in their standard of living, many parents are working to reshape children’s 49 . The result is a strong, painful change in 50 , as kids learn to save 51 work to pay for consumer goods they want.

Ms. Green is teaching Alice and her brother Noah, 13, to 52 consumer pressures. Both children have learned to enjoy 53 family camping vacations, and they sell items on eBay to raise cash for purchases. The joke around their house is that if the things are not nailed 54 , they will be sold.

In the past, money talk was unacceptable in many 55 , and many parents 56 children from financial realities. Because parents want everything to be 57 great for their children. So it’s 58 sometimes to set limits for the children.

There is a networking group—Mothers & More with 4,100 members, where teaching kids money skills is a 59 topic. A better approach is to give children a budgeted amount for necessities and require them to 60 it and account for their spending. 41. A. writes 42. A. laid 43. A. give 44. A. sold 45. A. shop

B. works B. driven B. hide B. bought B. sale

C. wears C. kicked C. open

D. wonders D. cut D. show D. found D. spot D. choices D. improve D. fact D. needs D. thinking D. or

D. escape from D. fantastic D. in D. families D. sheltered D. just D. hard D. troublesome D. devote to

C. collected C. price C. clothes C. rise

46. A. plans 47. A. raise

B. rules B. add

48. A. belief 49. A. wishes 50. A. action 51. A. and 52. A. bear

B. idea C. suggestion C. dreams C. behavior C. rather

B. expectations B. activity B. but

B. resist B. shabby B. off

C. be opposed to C. valuable C. down C. groups

53. A. inexpensive 54. A. up

55. A. schools 56. A. realized 57. A. almost 58. A. easy

B. societies

B. appreciated B. merely

C. inspected C. only

B. necessary B. popular B. arrange

C. important C. tough C. stick to

59. A. unbelievable 60. A. admit

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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Seychelles has long been on my “to visit” list so I was excited at the chance of 61 (final) being able to go there.

To get to the Seychelles we flew via Dubai to Mahe. From there we took a smaller plane for a 45-minute trip to Desroches. I was so 62 (please) as the plane was landing—all I could see was this noble island, edged with pure, white beaches in the middle of the Indian Ocean. What 63 sight!

Desroches is described 64 a sort of place in the Seychelles for romance (浪漫), adventure and 65 (amuse). The island is famous for its great contributions to protecting the environment and the only sounds we heard were those 66 (provide) by Mother Nature.

The giant tortoises are one of the real 67 (delight) of Desroches. They’re so lovely. I regularly requested fresh fruit from the restaurant, 68 I told them I was going to give to the tortoises. They kindly provided me with a small tortoise feast of mango and banana. Similar to dogs, the tortoises come to you when