2019年9月浙江绍兴市高考科目诊断考试英语试题

注意事项：2019年9月绍兴市高考科目诊断考试

英语

第Ⅰ 卷

6．Where does the conversation probably take place?

A．In an office. B．In a classroom. C．At a restaurant.

7．How does the man feel about the woman’s words?

A．Reasonable. B．Ridiculous. C．Humorous.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8．What makes the hotel so full tonight?

1．答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．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。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

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，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。

1．When did the award ceremony finally start？

A．8:35. B．8:15. C．8:40.

2．What do you think of Robert?

A．He’s absent-minded. B．He’s helpful. C．He’s intelligent.

3．What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?

A．Close friends. B．Parent and child. C．Employer and employee. 4．What happened to the man?

A．He got caught in the rain.

B．He took a hot shower.

C．He came across a rat.

5．What do we learn about the woman?

A．She has been invited to give a talk.

B．She cannot attend the presentation.

C．She is suffering from a toothache.

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7题。

A．A large conference. B．A discount activity. C．An anniversary celebration. 9．What kind of room is available to the man?

A．A non-smoking room with a double bed.

B．A corner room on a non-smoking floor.

C．A small room on the fifth floor.

听第8段材料，回答第10 至12 题。

10．Who answers the telephone?

A．Darren. B．Carol. C．Jill.

11．What is Carol doing when Susan makes the phone call?

A．Preparing a dessert. B．Doing some cooking. C．Taking a bath.

12．What is the purpose of Susan’s phone call?

A．To remind Carol of the party.

B．To ask Carol about the party.

C．To invite Carol to the party.

听第9段材料，回答第13 至16 题。

13．What does the woman think about the subject of climate change?

A．Appealing. B．Important. C．Entertaining.

14．How do the couple usually go to the city theatre?

A．By car. B．By subway. C．On foot.

15．What does the reporter of the local paper say about the comedy?

A．It is really amusing. B．It is quite awful. C．It is rather popular. 16．What will the man probably do next?

A．Go and see a film. B．Go to the theatre. C．Book tickets.

听第10 段材料，回答第17 至20 题。

17．What is the speaker?

A．A hotel manager. B．A tour guide. C．A taxi driver. 18．Which continent is considered to be the most mysterious land?

A．Antarctica. B．Asia. C．Europe.

19．What does the speaker mainly talk about?

A．Preparations for a trip. B．Benefits of traveling. C．Advice about exploration.

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20．What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To encourage people to explore the world.

B．To recommend travel destinations to tourists.

C．To share personal travelling experience.

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35 分）第一

节（共10 小题；每小题2.5 分，满分25 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A woman in a lab coat stands at the front of a packed school audience and yells, “Do you like science?” The room full of children screams back, “YES!” Then the woman pours a bottle of hot

water into a bucket of liquid nitrogen (氮气). Instantly, a cloud of nitrogen gas fills the front of the room as children applaud and cheer, thus ending another demonstration ( 演示) of Fun with

Chemistry. The scientist in the lab coat is Dr. Kate Biberdorf and she runs the new science outreach program in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas.

The program, which began visiting schools in December of 2014, was created to get children excited about science. The demonstrations are intended to be fun and exciting while showing basic principles of chemistry. “Our whole mission is to get kids excited about science and show people it’s not necessarily boring. It can be cool, and you can have fun with it,” Biberdorf said.

Biberdorf can prove the power of such demonstrations, as she was once inspired by a teacher with her same enthusiasm and energy. “I had a crazy — just amazing — chemistry teacher who

was excited about everything. It was contagious (有感染力的) and ever since I was 15, I knew I wanted to be in chemistry and teaching.”

While teaching her own classes, Biberdorf uses demonstrations just like the ones of Fun with Chemistry and has found them to be effective. “You get the studen ts’ attention. It takes maybe a minute of class time out of 50,” she said. “But it wakes them up. They’re excited again, and they can see the reasons why they’re in class.”

Biberdorf also presents at local schools several times a week. In the short time Fun with Chemistry has been around. She has performed before almost 8,000 children in schools around Austin. Often these schools cannot afford to purchase some equipment needed to do their own demonstrations, so her presentations are something the children have never seen before. “I love it when a student gets excited about science or liquid nitrogen. It makes my heart just jump!” she said. “I know I’m not going to get a Nobel Prize, but maybe I can inspire the person who will.”21．According to paragraph 1, how did the kids feel after watching the demonstration of Fun with Chemistry?

A．Scared. B．Amazed. C．Puzzled. D．Disappointed.22．Why did Biberdorf create the new science outreach program?

A．To show her effective teaching approaches.

B．To turn her chemistry teache r’s dream into reality.

C．To provide children with easy access to education.

D．To inspire children’s interest in science.

23．From Biberdorf ’s point of view, ▲ .

A．her work relies on her teache r’s continuous assistance

B．her work makes it possible for schools to purchase equipment

C．her work excites her and it’s worthwhile

D．her work will lead her to a big award in chemistry

B

What do you do when you have a problem? Would you ask a crowd of strangers for a solution? It may sound strange, but it has encouraged successful innovations (创新). That’s the thinking behind a “challenge pri ze”.

Challenge prizes come in many shapes and sizes but the basic concept remains the same. Rather than paying an expert to work out a solution, you offer the prize up to anyone who believes they can solve it and present the first to do so with a prize. Many would argue, “Who is better qualified than an expert?” But actually, not using an expert will result in a great deal of thinking outside of the box. Some argue that formal education can kill creativity because it sometimes only teaches a single method to achieve a task. Similarly, some suggest that experts can have the same problem. “If we set up a challenge prize, the ‘expe rts’ that come to compete in it may tell us it can’t be done.” says Marcus Shingles, former CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation.

There are other advantages too. “You’re not asking people to use a particular solution set on how to solve that problem. So you get the large amount of diversity.” adds Shingles. And because the crowd acts like a think tank (智囊团), various thinking can throw up issues that may have been overlooked.

However, there are dangers connected to challenge prizes. “You don’t want to be creating a challenge prize which inspires people to solve a problem where there is no demand,” s ays Tris Dyson, executive director of challenge prizes. This happened in 1979 where a prize of ￡100,000 was claimed by the first person to fly under human power across the English Channel. Despite its success, it has not led to the adoption of human-powered flight as a form of travel. And of course, there are those who invest their personal time and money only to see no return at all.

The pros and cons of challenge prizes affect both problem-setters and problem-solvers. But they don’t seem to be going out of style anytime soon. To many, the challenge to innovate and the attraction of the prize are too much to resist. And there’s no solution for that.

24．What is the basic concept behind a challenge prize?

A．Rewarding the first one to solve a challenging problem.

B．Competing with the experts to get a particular solution.

C．Challenging the formal education that kills creativity.

D．Picking out someone more qualified than experts.

25．According to Marcus Shingles, what can be the problem with “e xperts”?

A．Overlooking possible details about a problem.

B．The lack of concentration on practical innovations.

C．Failure to find a solution due to habitual thinking.

D．Overconfidence in finding a best solution.

26．What is the potential danger of challenge prizes?

A．The prizes receive no return in terms of practical use.

B．The money shortage prevents the adoption of innovations.

C．Innovations are likely to go out of date in a short time.

D．The attraction of prize money is hard to resist.

27．Which of the following might be the best title for the text?

A．Arguments for Formal Education B．The Problem-solving Prizes

C．Dangers Associated with Challenge Prizes D．The Attraction of Innovation

C

A lake of liquid water has been detected by radar (雷达) beneath the southern polar ice cap of Mars, according to a new study by Italian researchers, published Wednesday in the journal Science.

Evidence was gathered by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument, also known as MARSIS, on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft. Between May 2012 and December 2015, MARSIS was used to survey the Planum Australe region, which is in the southern ice cap of Mars. It sent radar pulses through the surface and polar ice caps and measured how the radio waves reflected back to Mars Express.

Those pulses reflected 29 sets of radar samples that created a map of great change in signal almost a mile below the surface. It stretched about 12.5 miles across and looked very similar to lakes that are found beneath Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets on Earth. The radar reflected the feature’s brightness, signaling that it’s water.

“We interpret this feature as a stable body of liquid water on Mars,” the authors wrote in the study. The study authors r uled out other causes for this brightness.

Considering its location beneath the polar ice cap, the water is expected to be below the freezing point of water. But varieties of salt already found on Mars could help the water to form a brine (盐水), which would lower the melting point to allow the lake to remain liquid.

On Earth, lakes exist below the Antarctic ice sheet even though the average annual temperature is around negative 76 degrees Fahrenheit. Brine lakes on Earth can remain liquid at 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the study. In comparison, salty ocean water freezes at 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Much like our own ice sheets, the polar ice caps change depending on the climate and act as records for what has happened in the past. Learning more about these caps can reveal Mars’ climate history.

28．What does the phrase “rule ou t” in paragraph 6 probably mean?

A．Collect the evidence of something. B．Remove something from consideration.

C．Take total control of something. D．Interpret the cause of something.

29．It can be learned from paragraphs 7-9 that ▲.

A．the freezing point of water has no link with its location

B．the lake on Mars remains liquid at 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit

C．salts in the water enable the lake on Mars to remain liquid

D．the polar ice caps offer a record of world climate change

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。

Sleep tips: steps to better sleep

Think about all the factors that can influence a good night’s sleep —from work stress and family responsibilities to unexpected challenges. 31 While you might not be able to control the factors that affect your sleep, you can adopt habits that encourage better sleep.

Stick to a sleep schedule.

The recommended amount of sleep for a healthy adult is at least seven hours. Most people don’t need more than eight hours in bed to achieve this goal. 32 Try to limit the difference in your sleep schedule on weeknights and weekends to no more than one hour. If you don’t fall asleep within about 20 minutes, leave your bedroom and do something relaxing. Go back to bed when you’re tired. Repeat as needed.

Pay attention to what you eat and drink.

Don’t go to bed hungry or full. In particular, avoid heavy or large meals within a couple of hours of bedtime. 33 Nicotine, caffeine and alcohol deserve caution, too. The stimulating