2018年陕西省高三质量检测题（一）英语本试题共12页，满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
（命题人：王海峰）第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)做题时，先把答案标在试卷上。
录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟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，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。
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 T-shirt?A.$19.15B. $18.7C. $13.57答案是C。
1. What has happened to the bike?A. It has broken down.B. She changed the brake.C. She has just repaired it.2. What does the man like best?A. Poems.B. Camping.C. Basketball.After all that’s my favorite.3. What does Tom plan to do next week?A. To make a robotB. To enter a competition.C. To surprise the woman.4. What’s the man probably going to eat?A. Fried dishes.B. Hot pot.C. Local snack.5. How is Janet probably feeling now?A. Stressed.B. Confused.C. Disappointed.1. A. 旨在考查考生简单分析推理的能力。
见The chain’s broken. （0.75）2. C. 旨在考查考生简单分析推理的能力。
见Maybe I’ll go to the basketball. （0.70）3. B. 旨在考查考生简单分析推理的能力。
见It’s for the competitio n next week.（0.70）4. C. 旨在考查考生理解并确认事实性信息的能力。
本题有两个干扰信息，分别是fried dishes 和hot pot，但男方却说but maybe we should try some local snack.（0.65）5. A. 旨在考查考生理解对话、分析判断说话者心情的能力。
The deadline is tomorrow. But I haven’t finished even half of it.（0.60）第二节（共15小题，每题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。
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 time is it now?A. 1:45.B. 2:10.C. 2:15.6. A. 本题旨在考查考生7. What will the man do?A. He’ll work on a project.B. He’ll see Linda in the library.C. He’ll meet with Professor Smith.听第7段材料，回答第8至第10题。
8. What are the speakers talking about?A. Having guests this weekend.B. Going out for sightseeing.C. Moving into a new house.9. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Neighbors.B. Husband and wife.C. Host and visitor.10. What will the man do tomorrow?A. Work in his garden.B. Have a barbecue.C. Do some shopping. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What did the woman plan to do at first?A. Read at home.B. Borrow a book.C. Go to the cinema.12. How are they going to the opera?A. Take a bus.B. Drive a car.C. Take a taxi.13. What do you learn about the woman?A. She has little interest in reading.B. She hates going out on weekends.C. She is crazy about classic opera.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. How does Carrie feel about her job?A. It is quite OK.B. It is unpleasant.C. It is not bad.15. Why does the man want to give up his present work?A. His colleagues aren’t friendly.B. He’s got too low a wage.C. He’s lost interest in his work.16. What seems to be Andrew's future plan?A. To learn to speak Spanish.B. To start a travel business.C. To find a new job in Spain.17.What is the relationship between Carrie and Andrew?A. Good friends.B.Fellow workers.C. Travel companions.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
18. How do students enter the library?A. With a library account.B. With a student card.C. With a password.19. What kind of books have to be returned within one week?A. Books liked by a lot of people.B. Books borrowed by local residents.C. Books published recently.20. What will the speaker do next?A. Tell the students where to get bottled water.B. Take the students on a campus tour.C. Show the students around the library.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、D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
AThe Electricity workers’strike has been going on for three days. Below are some statements about the strike.Mr. Mike Smith:I t wasn’t an easy decision, but we have been asking for a reasonable wage for years. Now at last people are beginning to listen to us. We’re only asking for a 25 percent increase in our wages. It’s a pity so many people have to be inconvenienced by our strike. but please don’t blame us. Blame the government for refusing our claim.Mr. Tom Brown:It’s totally unreasonable to demand so much money when we are trying desperately to stop the prices going up. If wages go up, so do prices. If we give in to them, all the other unions would want more, with the inevitable result that the crisis would become uncontrollable. We offer them a 10 percent increase. And that’salready too much. My stand at the strike is to persuade the Union to see the reason.Mr. Bob Davis:Everybody will be hurt by this strike, including the electricity workers themselves. The economy will be destroyed and many people will lose their jobs. Already people are saying that the big unions have too much power and shouldn’t be allowed to strike. Of course the electricity workers want to get more money. don’t we all?Miss Stater:Let’s face it. It’s neither here nor there. The electricity workers are in a strong position. Perhaps we can’t do anything about it. What I say is: let them have their 250 dollars so we can return to work. I mean, the government wastes the taxpayers’money all the time on unimportant things. How can anyone say 250 dollars is “too much”? Pop singers get more. Nurses get less. It’s just one of those things.21. Who is most likely to be employed in electricity industry?A. Mr. Mike SmithB. Mr. Tom BrownC. Mr. Bob DavisD. Miss Stater22. The underlined word most probably means _______.A. avoidableB. inspiringC. automaticD. sensitive23. We can learn from the texts that ________.A. the electricity workers won’t achieve their goalB. the government won’t meet the workers’ demandC. the strike caused little trouble for the societyD. the workers got little support from the societyBLate last year, I needed to transport some furn iture from our house to my son’s flat in central London. I should have paid a man to do it, but foolishly confident in my driving ability, I decided to hire a lorry and drive it myself.Moving the lorry backward in my yard, I crashed into a small shed, causing permanent damage. Fortunately I owned the shed. I loaded up the furniture and set out. By now it was rush hour. My nerves broke down, as I drove the huge lorry through the streets nervously.At last I arrived at Charlotte Street and found an available parking space. I moved the lorry into it only to notice three people at a pavement cafe waving to me.I got out, trembling violently, like one who has just finished a stormy Atlantic crossing. “You’ve hit the car parked behind you,” they said. I examined the car. There were white scratches on its front face. It bore a disabled sign. So, now I was a bad driver and a bad man. Under the severe look of the three, I left an apologetic note on the damaged car’s wingscreen, giving my phone number.I unloaded the furniture, dripping the sweat. wanting only to escape from the monster, I drove it back to its base at Edgware. On arrival, the boss told me I must fill it up with petrol before returning it. “Just charge me,” I cried, still shaking with fear. He stared at me with understanding. No doubt he’d witnessed others in this state before. “How about I drive you to a petrol station, you fill up, and I drive her back?” he asked.He danced the great through the traffic so carefully that it would have shamed me if I had not been so grateful.24. The man felt it _______ to have delivered the furniture himself.A. gratefulB. proudC. confidentD. regretful25. The man trembled violently because _______.A. the lorry was too difficult to driveB. he caused a terrible traffic accidentC. he was afraid to see the three menD. the furniture was too heavy for him26. The man said he was a bad man most probably because _____.A. he shouldn’t have driven the lorry himselfB. he made the traffic accident on purposeC. he shouldn’t cause trouble for the disabledD. he parked the big lorry on the pavement27. The writer intended to suggest that ________.A. it was thrilling to drive a lorryB. being too confident is foolishC. it was hard to avoid accidentsD. the bass was expert in drivingCIt’s easy to keep your ag eing brain as quick as it was in college. Log on to a website full of brain games or download the right apps, and within 20 minutes you’llbe doing your part to sharpen your memory and slow the decline of your mental functions. At least that’s what the companies behind this booming industry would have you believe. But is it true?Concrete proof about the benefits of brain games is hard to come by, experts say, when it comes to measurably improving aspects of mental fitness, like having a good memory. “People would really love to believe you could do something like this and make your brain better, but t here’s just no solid evidence.” Says Randall W. Engle, a primary investigator at the Attention and Working Memory Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology.That’s not to say brain games are without benefit. Experts say these kinds of mental exercises can change your brain. The brain changes with just about everything you do, including mental training exercises. But numerous studies have shown that brain game lack what researchers call “transfer.” In other words, repeating a game over and over again teaches you how to play the game and get better at it but your brain ageing won’t necessarily come to a stop.“It’s like, you walk through fresh snow, you leave a trace. If you walk the same route again, the trace gets deeper and deeper,” says Ursula Staudinger, director of the Butler Columbia Ageing Center at Columbia University. The fact that structural changes occur does not imply that in general this brain has become more capable. It has become more capable of doing exactly the tasks it was practicing.28. We can infer from the first paragraph that _______.A. brain games improve the memoryB. brain ageing actually can be quitC. people don’t believe brain gamesD. the author doubt the effect of brain games.29. What does Engle think of the functions of brain games?A. They really make difference.B. Their effects still need proving.C. People like to be led by the noseD. people don’t believe the effects.30. The underlined word most probably means _______.A. stopping the brain ageingB. having the brain working.C. making the brain more active.D. speeding up the brain’s ageing.31. Which can be the best title of the passage?A. Games Stop Brain AgingB. Unavoidable Brain Aging.C. Games’ Roles Need Proving.D. Games Improve Your Brain.DCulture shock occurs when people have been suddenly thrown into a new culture. Newcomers may be anxious because they don’t speak the language. Neither do they know the customs or understand the people’s behavior in daily life.Quite often the visitor find that “yes”may not always mean “yes”, that friendliness does not necessarily mean friendship, or that statements that appear to be serious are really intended as jokes. the foreigners may be unsure as when to shake hands, when to start conversations, or how to approach a stranger. The idea of culture shock helps explain feeling of puzzlement and confusion.Language problems do not account for all the setback that people feel. When one has lost everything that was once familiar, such as understanding a transportation system, knowing how to register for university classes, or knowing how to make friends, difficulties in coping with the new society may arise.When an individual enters a strange culture, he or she feels like a fish out of water. Newcomers feel at times that they do not belong to the culture and feel deserted by the native members of the culture. When this happens, visitors may want to reject everything about the new environment and may glorify and sing their own praises of the positive aspects of their own culture. On the other side, more visitors may sneeze at their native country by rejecting its value and instead choosing to approve of the value of the new country. This may occur as an attempt to accept the new culture in order to be taken in by the people in it.32. What do people feel when they are abruptly in a new culture?A. Excited.B. Delighted.C. Upset.D. Depressed.33. We can infer from the second paragraph that _______.A. it’s impossible to get used to a new cultureB. people feel confused due to culture shockC. foreigners often don’t mean what they sayD. most foreigners are usually quite humorous34. The biggest barrier people often meet with in a new country is _____.A. the languageB. the transportationC. the environmentD. the puzzlement35. Which of the following can help one be taken by a new country?A. To do what he is used to.B. To follow the native culture.C. To reject the new culture.D. To keep his own customs.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选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。