四川省宜宾市2022-2023学年高三上学期一诊考试英语试题及答案

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宜宾市普通高中2020级第一次诊断测试
英 语
（考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分）
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。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.18. C. ￡9.15. 答案是C。
1. What does the woman want to know?
A. Where the police station is.
B. When the grocery store opens.
C. Where the new ice cream store is.
2. What color is Mary’s hair?
A. Red. B. Brown. C. White.
3. What does the woman mean?
A. She’ll not go to the game.
B. She will do everything later.
C. She just wants to cut the grass now.
4. Why doesn’t the man want to go to Chicago?
A. It is too far away.
B. It isn’t as nice as Pittsburgh.
C. He hasn’t been to Pittsburgh.
5. What does the man want?
A. Something to eat. B. Something to share. C. Something to read.
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。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. Where are the speakers?
A. In a park. B. At a zoo. C. By a lake.
7. Why does the man prefer the ducks?
A. They are pretty.
B. They don’t bite people.
C. They don’t eat too much.
请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. What time does the store usually close?
A. At 6:00 pm. B. At 6:30 pm. C. At 9:00 pm.
9. What is the woman going to do next?
A. Go to the store. B. Make dinner. C. Watch a movie.
请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What month might it be now?
A. December. B. July. C. April.
11. Where does Simon live?
A. In Philadelphia. B. In Boston. C. In New York.
12. How long has Fiona been taking vacations in Miami?
A. It’s her first year.
B. For the last ten years.
C. For the past three years.
请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What did James get from Nancy last month?
A. A necklace. B. Some furniture. C. Some clothing.
14. What does Nancy want James to do?
A. Sell something. B. Move something. C. Buy something.
15. When is James going to help?
A. On Saturday night.
B. On Sunday morning.
C. On Sunday afternoon.
16. How long will it take James to get to Nancy’s house?
A. About two hours. B. About one hour. C. All day.
请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Who are the listeners going to meet?
A. Mr. Hamilton. B. Mr. Gonzalez. C. Mr. Jones.
18. Who is the champion right now?
A. Carlos. B. Joey. C. Tommy.
19. What has Tommy invited the listeners to do in the gym?
A. Become his customers.
B. Pay to watch a boxing match.
C. Try his special training methods.
20. How might Tommy be described?
A. Quiet and huge. B. Friendly and strong. C. Small and kind.
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
Some libraries use unique architecture to encourage visitors to explore the racks and settle down with a new book, or use flowing libraries to bring books to hard-to-reach populations.
Kansas City Library (Kansas City, Missouri)
Along the south wall of this parking garage’s exterior, visitors are treated to what looks like a huge shelf of books. The building originally served as a bank, which is readily apparent when the library has screenings in its Vault Theater, inside an actual 1925 bank vault.
Stuttgart City Library (Stuttgart, Germany)
Opened in 2011, this nine-story public library designed by Eun Young Yi is characterized by its impressive white-on-white color scheme, its bold cubic shape and its cavernous interior. This cultural center for the city, designed to feel open and full of light, can be entered from any of its four sides, and readers can borrow artwork as well as books.
The Camel Library Service (North Eastern Province, Kenya)
To fight with low literacy rates in the desert of Kenya, the government created a roaming library composed of nine camels to bring books to villages. The library travels four days a week serving the region’s migratory people. Currently the service focuses on children, but with more funding they plan to increase their reach both in distance and the titles they carry.
Macquarie University Library (Sydney, Australia)
A stunning combination of cutting edge and sustainable, this building was made from recycled materials, features a green roof, and was designed to imitate the look of a eucalyptus tree. It is also state of the art, using robot cranes to bring requested books to the front desk.
21. What is the feature of Kansas City Library?
A. It used to be a bank.
B. It has only a book shelf.
C. It served as a park lot.
D. It makes use of robot cranes.
22. Which of the following provides books for migratory people?
A. Kansas City Library.
B. Stuttgart City Library.
C. The Camel Library Service.
D. Macquarie University Library.
23. What’s the purpose of the libraries?
A. To sell the artwork in libraries.
B. To urge people to read books.
C. To show the art of architecture.
D. To keep people staying in the libraries.
B
Herb Chasan could have eased into retirement after spending 18 years teaching math to high school students. But the octogenarian(八旬老人) couldn’t rest. It wasn’t until eight years ago that he stepped into one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. He noticed a group of children wandering nearby with nothing to do. He couldn’t shake the image from his mind, and it became the driving force for Hoops and Homework, an after-school program that has provided activities and tutoring for youth up to age 14.     
Since 2012, Hoops and Homework has helped more than 300 children who otherwise would have gone home to empty houses or roamed the streets until their parents got off work.Thanks to Mr. Chasan and dedicated staff and volunteers, the children instead have spent industrious afternoons making crafts, playing basketball, learning violin and yoga, gardening, and basking in the attention of a small army of tutors. “Our goal is to help these kids break the cycle of poverty and jail to have a good job, to be a success,” says Mr. Chasan.
Within a few months, he secured $81,000 in town funding to start the program. It takes $170,000 annually to run the center. Hoops and Homework has encouraged people from different parts of the community to volunteer during the after-school sessions because they can tell the children “someday you may be doing that job, we love to have role models come in.”
The program goes beyond helping children. Most of the staff members are bilingual, which enables them to serve the largely Spanish-speaking community. “My English is not good,” says Keila Cupid, a parent who lives close to the center. But the mother of 11-year-old Cupid is clear in expressing her gratitude for Hoops and Homework: “It’s a safe space for my daughter when I am away to my English class.”
24. What motivation made Chasan decide on Hoops and Homework?
A. Homeless neighborhood kids.
B. Parents being engaging in work.
C. The volunteers in the community.
D. Children aimlessly walking around.
25. What activity is available in Hoops and Homework?
A. Making crafts.
B. Baking food.
C. Learning Spanish.
D. Doing extra homework. 
26. Which statement does Chasan agree with?
A. More money should go to charity.
B. More people should join in voluntary work.
C. More community centers should be built.
D. More after-school activities should be considered.
27. From the passage, we can infer_______.
A. starting an organization is tough
B. Keila Cupid is studying Spanish
C. parents can benefit from the program
D. the community kids must have a successful career
C
Seth Magle is an urban ecologist in Chicago. In 2021, he started building a network of fellow urban animal lovers from around the world. They’re working to collect information so that it can be compared in different cities.
With the goal of trying to create more wildlife inclusive cities, the network helps reduce human wildlife conflict and increase human wildlife coexistence in the massively urbanizing areas.
In Chicago, Magle and his team have been watching their city’s wildlife for about 10 years. All together, they have over 100 camera traps set up across different types of urban environments from the downtown Loop and city parks to nature preserves and suburb golf courses.
During times of recent extreme heat, we do definitely see animals reduce movement and just stay where they are. It’s probably energetically difficult to move around when it’s so hot. Although this works for a short term in high temperature, it’s not ideal over a longer period because it means less time to search for food or a new mate.
As Magle and his network of urban researchers look toward the future and climate change, they predict bigger shifts. Temperatures everywhere are projected to warm, so wildlife in urban settings and beyond will likely have to shift their normal regions a bit further north to where it feels more comfortable and to what they’re already used to. We don’t have armadillos in Chicago, but we have them in the southern part of the state. And they seem to be migrating north.
Only time will tell how our urban wildlife reacts to these longer term shifts in temperature.
For now, it sounds like urban animals - so long as they’re healthy- are totally capable of handling a few days of extreme heat here and there.
28. What is the aim of the network?
A. To observe wildlife in different cities.
B. To compare animals’ living conditions.
C. To collect information of urban animals.
D. To help human and wildlife coexist.
29. What’s the main idea of paragraph 3?
A. The tracks of wildlife activities.
B. The movement of urban animals.
C. The way of watching city animals.
D. The different types of urbanization.
30. In what way do animals escape extreme heat?
A. Keeping still.
B. Moving constantly.
C. Shifting to the north.
D. Looking for food everywhere.
31. What is the text probably taken from?
A. A market report.
B. A science magazine.
C. A biological textbook.
D. A social research report.
D
Arecibo, a giant radio observatory is located in the lush mountains of Puerto Rico, did some of the dreamiest work in astronomy. But it was forced to stop operations this year after suffering unprecedented damage, and officials now believe that it is beyond repair. Instead of trying to fix it, they’re going to tear it down.
Arecibo has provided observations for discoveries within the solar system and well beyond. It is considered one of the best spots for studying potentially dangerous asteroids(小行星) near Earth. Over the years, Arecibo has faced danger and damage, but it has always endured. In its lifetime, it has experienced earthquakes and storms, including the hurricane that spoilt Puerto Rico in 2017, which damaged some of the dish.
The trouble began in August. A metal support cable weighing thousands of pounds slipped out of its socket（插口）and dropped sharply into the cavernous, 1,000-foot-wide radio dish in the middle of the night. The cable, installed in the 1990s, was considered fairly new for an observatory that began operations in 1963, and the incident confused Arecibo’s officials. The cable “definitely should not have failed in the way it did,” Ashley Zauderer, the Arecibo program director at the National Science Foundation, which owns the telescope, said. But earlier this month, just days before engineers were scheduled to try to stabilize the telescope, another piece of hardware came smashing into the dish. A main cable, one of the originals installed when the observatory was built, had cracked, causing even more damage.
Engineers are now working to quickly outlined a plan to pull down the telescope before it collapses on its own. Arecibo’s failure is a different fate than astronomers are used to. Hardware of all sorts ages and breaks — Hubble, another famed telescope, is operating with fewer working parts than it launched with 30 years ago. But it is unusual to wreck an observatory because you have no other choice, and so unexpectedly too.
32. What will happen to Arecibo?
A. It will be destroyed.
B. It will be rebuilt.
C. It will be repaired.
D. It will be stabilized.
33. What does the underlined word “endured” mean in paragraph 2?
A. Avoided. B. Survived. C. Endangered. D. Forgotten.
34. Which can best explain Ashley Zauderer’s message in paragraph 3?
A. Arecibo can be removed easily.
B. Arecibo has failed at work unexpectedly.
C. Arecibo has made significant contribution.
D. Arecibo’s present situation is unimaginable.
35. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. The Powerful Telescope Faces Upgrading.
B. Immeasurable Losses Happened to Astronomy.
C. The Damaged Arecibo Telescope Meets an End.
D. Great Observatory is Being Reconstructed Before Its Time.
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。
What do the happiest people on earth have in common? Recently, researchers have analyzed the common characteristics of the people who call themselves very, very happy with their lives, and who tend to live long. Here is part of what they have found:
Relationships
Research has found that it is strong personal and social relationships that make people happy. And this is true all throughout your life. 36 . Socializing with friends and family, in a small and close-knit group, is the most important key to happiness and long life.
Helping others
It is not being helped or loved by others that leads to happiness and long life; it is helping others. 37 .
Being busy doing things you love and are good at
It is true that one should not be stressed out and rushed all the time. 38 , if you want to live a long, happy life. However, doing anything under the sun is not the secret to happiness. It is doing things that you are good at, and you are interested in, that makes you happy.
A happy, warm childhood
39 . A study has noted that “warmth of childhood environment” is a very important predictor of contentment, happiness and even a long life.
Being grateful
In a study of gratitude, researchers at the University of Miami have found that people who consciously think of their blessings feel better about their lives. 40 , than those who tend to take things for granted.
A. Being helped is of great importance
B. People are happiest when they have loving relationships
C. Children always happily grow up and play with themselves
D. They even exercise more, and make fewer visits to the hospital
E. The happiest people on earth have had a happy, warm, and stable childhood
F. But you have to be engaged in work that makes you busy and fully involved
G. The joy on the face of the people you help makes you contented and joyful yourself
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。
I’ve been writing now for 34 years. It all started when I was just 18 years old.
As a boy 41 , I probably read hundreds of books, including mysteries, science fiction, thrillers, and just about any other 42 of book I could find. I had a 43 for knowledge that never seemed to disappear, no matter how many books I 44 .
Then 45 , I found that I too had ideas of my own that I wanted to write and share. I wanted to share things that were full of 46 , love and joy. I tried to 47 my desire at first, but as any writer will tell you, once ideas 48 inside of you, they don’t leave you 49 until you write them down. I didn’t have a computer, or even a typewriter, but I 50 a pen and a notebook and wrote down everything that was burning 51 of me.
When I was done, I didn’t know how to 52 my work with the world without Internet then. Finally I sought out the 53 of my local newspaper and asked if he would like to 54 what I’d written. He was a man full of both wisdom and kindness. He not only printed my first story but agreed to publish anything else I was 55 to write.
After that, nothing could stop me. Years later, I even self-published two 56 of my stories in book form.
Through my writing, I slowly became a 57 person. Writing allowed me to 58 the goodness and light that exist in us all. I also found that we are all 59 , whether we put pen to paper or not.
With every choice we make, with every thought we think, and with every 60 we take, we are writing our own life story.
41. A. bringing up B. growing up C. going up D. standing up
42. A. type B. name C. quality D. detail
43. A. try B. talk C. gift D. thirst
44. A. read B. drew C. edited D. wrote
45. A. frankly B. carefully C. suddenly D. generally
46. A. fright B. goodness C. sadness D. darkness
47. A. express B. explore C. ignore D. realize
48. A. fade B. awaken C. sharpen D. freeze
49. A. alone B. open C. on D. off
50. A. lost B. lent C. gave D. grabbed
51. A. upside B. back C. inside D. front
52. A. share B. send C. give D. post
53. A. reader B. buyer C. editor D. reporter
54. A. read B. sell C. hear D. print
55. A. shy B. willing C. nervous D. anxious
56. A. collections B. sets C. pieces D. records
57. A. greater B. bigger C. better D. fatter
58. A. develop B. overlook C. form D. discover
59. A. trainers B. sellers C. friends D. writers
60. A. care B. action C. medicine D. picture
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
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。
Shortly after dawn, the 680-year-old Lion Grove Garden wakes up to the sound of birds and its moist air is suffused with ascent. With a view of pavilions, early 61 (visitor) to this garden in downtown Suzhou, can feel 62 sense of Zenlike inner peace.
When monks during the Yuan Dynasty first constructed this garden, they may have wanted to enjoy a quiet retreat. But this charming garden has attracted celebrity guests, 63 have left poems, paintings and 64 (history) anecdotes in the following centuries.
“In recent years, we’ve tried 65 (restore) the landscapes of classical gardens, but a delicate garden cannot be an empty shell,” says Bai Lingzhi, deputy director of Suzhou Administrative Bureau of Garden and Landscaping. “We need creative ideas to lead people to the lifestyle 66 (advocate) by the gardens in the era,” she explains.
  Last year, a new project was launched, 67 (allow) tourists in small groups to reserve places to enter the garden in the early morning before the regular opening time. Their visit ends up 68 making a traditional folding fan.
In 1997 and 2000, nine of the best-known classical gardens of Suzhou 69 (register) onto the World Heritage List. As UNESCO remarks: “Classical Chinese garden design, which seeks to re-create natural landscapes in miniature, is nowhere 70 (well) illustrated than in the nine gardens.”

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
As a student，I have few opportunities to work owing my full schedule. But an activity called Farm Work Program left a deep impression on you. During the program, I had to get up early and did arranging farm work with my classmates. For example, we help water the plants and picked vegetables. While work, I realized how hardly it was to work with my own hands.
What happy it was to enjoy the fruits of my labor. At home where we can help our parents do some housework. We can help wash dishes before dinner. Remember that nothing can make us happy than seeing the results of our hard work.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
10月16日所在周为全国粮食安全宣传周，你校将以 “珍惜粮食”为主题，举办英语征文比赛。请你写一篇短文投稿。
内容包括：
1. 粮食的重要性；
2. 珍惜粮食的倡议。
3. 参考词汇：全国粮食安全宣传周：National Food Security Publicity Week












2020级秋期高三年级第一次诊断考试
英语参考答案及评分意见
2022.11
第一部分（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1-5 CBCAA 6-10 CBACA 11-15 ACABC 16-20 BABCB
第二部分（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
21-25 ACBDA 26-30 BCDCA 31-35 BABBC 36-40 BGFED
第三部分（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
41-45. BADAC 46-50. BCBAD 51-55. CACDB 56-60. ACDDB
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
61. visitors 62. a 63. who 64. historical/historic 65. to restore
66. advocated 67. allowing 68. with 69. were registered 70. better
第四部分
第一节 短文改错（共10小题; 每小题1分，满分10分）
As a student，I have few opportunities to work owing ∧ my full schedule. But an activity
71. to
called Farm Work Program left a deep impression on you. During the program, I had to get up
72. me
early and did arranging farm work with my classmates. For example, we help water the plants
73. arranged 74. helped
and picked vegetables. While work, I realized how hardly it was to work with my own hands.
75. working 76. hard
What happy it was to enjoy the fruits of my labor. At home where we can help our parents do some
How 77 78
housework. We can help wash dishes before dinner. Remember that few things can make us happy
79. after 80. happier
than seeing the results of our hard work.

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
一、评分原则
1. 本题总分为25分，按5档次给分。
2. 评分时，先根据文章的内容和语言初步确定其所属档次，然后以该档次的要求来衡量，确定或调整档次，最后给分。高中试卷君
3. 评分时，应注意的主要内容为：内容要点、应用词汇和语法的准确性、上下文的连贯性及语言的得体性。
4. 拼写与标点符号是语言准确性的一个方面，评分时，应视其对交际的影响程度予以考试。
5. 如书写较差，以至影响交际，将分数降低一个档次。
二、内容要点：
1.粮食的重要性；
2.珍惜粮食的倡议。
三、要点认定：
1. 考生必须有较完整的句子表达出要点。如只有关键词而无主谓结构，不可视为要点写出。
2. 围绕要点的发挥，如有语言错误，则扣语言分。
四、为了操作方便，按表达要点的多少和使用语言的情况，划分为五个档次，列表说明如下：
档次
得分
要点数
语言情况
五
21—25
5
语言基本无误，行文连贯，表达清楚。
四
16—20
4
语言有少量错误，行文基本连贯，表达基本清楚。
三
11—15
3
语言有一些错误，尚能达意。
二
6—10
2
语言错误很多，影响表达。
一
0—5
1
只能写出与所要求内容有关的一些单词。
注意：
1. 原则上应按照考生所表达的要点数归档。如语言错误多，可降一档，如语言表达较好，可打该档最高分或上升一档。
2. 在同一档次内，根据语言错误的多少确定五个分值。
1—2个错误，取该档次分值的高线（如一档中的24-25分）；3个错误，取该档次分值的中线（如一档中的23分）；4个错误，取该档次分值的低线（如一档中的21-22）；5个错误降一档（如二档中的20分）。以此类推。
录音原文
Text 1
W: I heard that there is a new ice cream store in town. Is it by the grocery store?
M: Well, there is one over there. But that’s not the new one. It’s over by the police station. They don’t open until next weekend.
Text 2
M: Did you see that red-headed woman in the store? The one wearing the white dress. She looked a lot like our cousin, Mary.
W: Are you kidding me? Everyone in our family has brown hair except for my dad. And that’s just because he has no hair on his head!
Text 3
M: Good morning! Today, you need to cut the grass, then clean up the living room and put away all your clean clothes.
W: I wanted to go to the game this afternoon. How about I just do the grass now and do the other stuff later tonight after the game?
Text 4
W: How about you drive us to Chicago this weekend? I really like history, and I want to go and see some of the historical sites there.
M: Yes, it’s nice there. But why don’t we go to Pittsburgh? It’s much closer, and I know some great places to visit, too.
Text 5
M: I know it’s late, but I’m hungry. And I don’t feel like making something for myself. Do you know if the pizza place is still open?
W: No, I don’t think so. They closed at ten. If you’re really that hungry, you can call the café. They deliver until midnight.
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M: Hey, Jane. Look at all the birds on the lake.
W: Wow! There are a lot of birds there.
M: They’re pretty, but be careful of them. My friend was bitten by a big bird once, and it really hurt.
W: What? How could that happen?
M: He was feeding some larger birds in a park, and one of them got angry and bit him. He should have stayed around the ducks instead.
W: Why’s that? Is it because ducks eat less?
M: No, ducks are just nicer. And they don’t attack you if you stop feeding them.
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M: When are you going to go to the store? You know that it closes at six today, right?
W: It does? I thought it was open until nine every day.
M: No, today is Sunday. It closes early today. But if you leave now, you can make it back in time for a delicious steak dinner.
W: Oh, that sounds really good. What time are you going to have dinner ready?
M: Everything should be ready by half past six.
W: I think I’ll just wait until tomorrow to go to the store. I know that the store opens at ten. That way, I’ll have plenty of time to get there after I go to the gym. And I want to finish watching this movie.
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W: Hey, Simon. Have you seen Fiona? I haven’t talked to her for a few days and I’m a little worried.
M: Don’t worry, Claire. She has been in Miami on vacation. She’s visiting her sister for a week. She’ll be back next weekend.
W: Oh, I didn’t know she had a sister in Miami.
M: She does. And she goes there every winter for two weeks just to visit her.
W: I go to visit my brothers every summer in Boston and New York. But I only stay for a few days with each of them. Then they come here to Philadelphia when they take their vacations.
M: Oh, that sounds good. That way, you can see each other more often.
W: Yeah, that’s why we do it. We have been doing it for the past ten years.
M: I think Fiona has only been going to Miami for the last three years.
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W: Hi, James. Can I ask you a favor?
M: Sure, Nancy. What do you need?
W: You know about my business selling things online, right?
M: Yes, of course. I got a necklace from your store last month.
W: I started to sell some of the things that my husband makes, too. He makes chairs and tables out of wood. And I also resell clothes that I find in local shops. Everything has gotten so busy that we need more space. So, we decided to rent an office in town. And we need some help moving things there from the house. Would you mind lending us a hand?
M: Well, I have to work on the farm this weekend. When do you need help?
W: Mark has agreed to come Saturday morning around nine. And he said he could stay all day. Sunday morning, I usually go grocery shopping. So, I could use some help in the afternoon if you have time.
M: Sure, I can do that. I should be finished at the farm by one. So, I could be at your place by two.
W: That would be perfect.
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M: I’m going to introduce you to my friend Tommy “Thunder Fist” Hamilton. Many years ago, Tommy was a boxing champion. Today, he is a professional trainer, and he works with many young fighters. He is a fitness trainer and coach for men like Carlos Gonzalez and Joey “Two Toes” Jones, who is the champion right now. We’re meeting Tommy here at the Thunder Fist Gym. He comes here each and every day, but his clients aren’t always here. Many of his clients are famous, and they pay a lot of money to come here to work out. So, please don’t bother them during our visit. Tommy knows we’re coming and he has invited us to try some of his special training methods. Before we go in, I need to explain a few things. Tommy is loud, he’s very tall, and looks a little scary. But don’t worry about the way he looks. He really is a nice guy, and he will be happy to answer any questions you have about him and his training. He loves helping people to get fit.