湖北2008年高考英语试题

第二部分：英语语言知识运用（共三节，满分55分）

第一节：多项选择（共10小题；
每小题1分，满分10分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
例:To make members of a team perform better, the trainer first of all has to know their ________and weaknesses.
A.strengths B.benefits C.techniques D.values
答案是A。

21.The young man made a _________to his parents that he would rty to earn his own living after graduation.
A.prediction
B.promise
C.plan
D.contribution

22.The top leaders of the two countries are holding talks in a friendly________.
A.atmosphere
B.state
C.situation
D.phenomenon

23.Though having lived abroad for years,many Chinese still__________the traditional coustoms.
A.perform
B.possess
C.observe
D.support

24.As nobody here knows what is wrong with the machine,we must send for an engineer to_________the problem.
A.handle
B.raise
C.face
D.present

25.The teacher stressed again that the students should not ___________any important details while retelling the story.
A.bring out
B.let out
C.leave out
D.make out

26.In modern times,people have to learn to __________all kinds of pressure although they are leading a comfortable life.
A.keep with
B.stay with
C.meet with
D.live with

27.The present situation is very complex ,so I think it will take me some time to __________its reality.
A.make up
B.figure out
C.look through
D.put off

28.In those days,our ________comcern was to provide people who were stopped by the snow storm with food and health care.
A.normal
B.constant
C.permanent
D.primary

29.As he works in a remote area,he visits his parents only__________.
A.occasionally
B.anxiously
C.practically
D.urgently

30.When she first arrived in China,she wondered what the future might have_______for her,but now all her worries are gone.
A.in need
B.in time
C.in preparation
D.in store

第二节：完成句子（共10小题；
每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
例：We________(起床)before dawn.It was still dark outside.(get)
答案：got up

31.__________(最长的三条河流)in the world are the Niles,the Amazon,and the Changjiang River.(long)
32.Seldom____________(他们玩)video games ever since they entered college.(play)
33.The city__________(我成长的)is very hot and damp in summer.(grow)
34._________(我花了)one thousand dollars to buy the painting last week.(cost)
35.I fell so sick .I wish Mum__________(没有逼我)to eat so much.(force)
36.—You’d better go and_________(把你的轿车洗洗).--No,I’ll do it myself.(wash)
37.With the rapid development of science and technology,I can’t imagine________(我的家乡会是什么样子)in ten years.(what)
38.Ir is your efforts,not your intelligence,_______(决定)your success.(determine)
39.He looks sleepy.He must________(熬夜了)last night,writing the essay.(stay)
40.At present,lots of food,water,tents,and medicine__________(正在运往)from all over China and other parts of the world to the earthquake-stricken areas.(transport)

第三节：完形填空（共20小题；
每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　On a warm Monday,Jenny Neitson bought a sandwich and parded her car under some trees.Rolling down the windows to __41__in fresh air,she settled badk to enjoy her lunch.Suddenly she __42__a big bald(秃顶的)man running through the parking lot.Before she __43__what would happen,the man was there,shouting through window.“Get out!”
Neilson__44__.
　　Pulling open her door,the man seized her __45__the neck and hair,and threw her out of the car onto the ground.She screamed,__46__her purse and the keys.
　　Two reporters of the local newspaper,Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson,just outside their office building on a __47__,heard the screams and began running.
　　When they __48__Neilson’s car,the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was __49__ serching for the keys.Bruce opened the door,and he and Jackson dragged the man out.The attacker __50__ back.But even in his cornered panic,he was no__51__for the two athletic men.
　　Reggie Miller,a worker of the local newspaper,heard the screams,too.He rushed back to the office to__52__the policd ,and then ran back with some plastic ropes—used to tie up newspers.
　　With his arms__53__tightly behind him,the prisoner looked up and said __54__.“I hope you guys feel good about youtselves—you just caught one of the most wanted men.” They __55__him and waited for the police.
　　Later,Bruce and Jackson were shockde to learn the man was the __56__carjacker(劫车者)and suspected murderer,whose__57__--but with a full head of hair—had been recently printed in their own newspaper.
　　Neilson considers herself lucky __58__she suffered injuries.She believes the story might have had a __59__ending if those good people had not come to her aid.“Unforunately,”she says,“many people would__60__have done what they did ,and that is the real truth.”
41.A.bring B.let C.gather D.send
42.A.recognized B.watched C.noticed D.met
43.A.realize B.understand C.imagine D.conclude
44.A.escaped B.struggled C.refused D.obeyed
45.A.by B.around C.with D.on
46.A.burying B.forgetting C.offering D.grabbing
47.A.trip B.visit C.bresk D.holiday
48.A.started B.stopped C.entered D.reached
49.A.carefully B.madly C.disappointedly D.patiently
50.A.fought B.turned C.jumped D.shouted
51.A.match B.target C.equal D.companion
52.A.remind B.phone C.invite D.beg
53.A.rolled B.folded C.bent D.tied
54.A.angrily B.kindly C.coldly D.warmly
55.A.caight B.thanked C.comforted D.ignored
56.A.ordinary B.professional C.honest D.outstanding
57.A.picture B.background C.character D.story
58.A.and B.but C.though D.when
59.A.ridiculous B.similar C.strange D.different
60.A.sometimes B.never 　C.often 　　D.forever

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；
每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

　　Margaret,married with two small children,has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner,cleaning offices in a big building.
　　She trained as a nurse ,but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill.“I would have liked to go back to it ,but the shifts(工作班次)are all wrong for me,as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”
　　So she works as a cleaner instead,from 9 p.m.till 6 a.m.five nights a week for just £ 90,before tax and insurance.“It’s better than it was last year,but I still think that people who work‘unsocial hours’should get a bit extra.”
　　The hours she’s chosen to work mean that she sees plenty to the children,but very little of her husband.However,she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
　　Her work isn’t physically very hard,but it’s not exactly pleasant,either.“I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”
　　The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all, Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three, “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself－and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”
　　Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write, ” said Margaret. “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing , but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”

61．Margaret quit her job as a nurse because ．
A．she wanted to earn more money to support her family
B．she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C．she needed the right time to look after her children
D．she felt tired of taking care of patients

62．Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because ．
A．they never clean their offices
B．they look down upon cleaners
C．they never do their work carefully
D．they always make a mess in their offices

63．When at work, Margaret feels．
A．light-hearted because of her fellow workers
B．happy because the building is fully lit
C．tired because of the heavy workload
D．bored because time passes slowly

64．The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would．
A．help care for her children
B．regret what they had said
C．show sympathy for her
D．feel disappointed in her

第四部分：书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是卜曼宜，你购买了一部某外国公司生产的手机，因有质量问题，要求该公司更换。请根据下列要点，用英文写一封电子邮件。

要点：
1．问题：
手机不响铃，不能发短信；

该产品已售完，无法列换；

型号新，无配件，无法维修。
2．要求：
公司应尽快予以更换。

注意：
1．词数为100左右；

2．参考词汇：配件－spare pat；

3．电子邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好（不计人你所写词数）；

4．已给出的电子邮件的开头和结属不得抄入答题卡。

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（以下所给内容不得抄入答题卡）

Dear Sir:
　　I am writing to you for the mobile phone of Dephone-S250 I bought on 20th Apr. 2008 at Tele Mail in Wuhan, P. R. China …
　　Thank you for your consideration.
　　Sincerely yours.
　　Bu Manyi