2009-2010学年度武汉市高三新起点考试英语试卷.doc

2009-2010学年度武汉市高三新起点考试英语试卷第二部分：词汇知识运用(共两节，满分40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。21. As a matter of fact, I had such fun at the party that time seemed to _so quickly.A. go by B. go away C. go out D. go over22. Ms. Wesley published her first novel when she was 70 and quickly for lost time by writing nine more. Aworked out Bcarried out Cmade up Dtook up 23. Young as she is, she seems to be able to _any kind of behavior from the students.A. ignoreB. tolerateC. receive D. resist24.In the USA guests tend to feel they are not highly _ if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date.A. admired B. regarded C. considered D. concerned25. On May 18,2009, Senior UN officials called for a greater global _ to help poor out of financial and economic crisis.A. respectB. research C. response D. relief 26. At the request of the government, the _to this website has been blocked.A. approach B. assistanceC. applicationD. access27. She keeps a supply of candies in the house in case of power _. A. failure B. lackC. absenceD. drop28. The trouble with Bill was that he never had a _ aim in life; he didnt know what he really wanted to do. A. specificB. practical C. uniqueD. general 29.Students are expected to dress _, suitable for weather conditions, and in good taste.A. accurately B. adequately C. essentially D. attractively30. A famous person once said: “The secret of success is to be _existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.” A. in harmony with B. in comparison with C. at the mercy of D. at the expense of 第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)阅读下面的短文，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。It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30 a .m. , when an elderly gentleman in his 80s, arrived to have stitches(手术缝线) 31 from his thumb. He stated that be was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9: 00 am. I took his vital(生命的) signs and had him take a seat,32 it would be over an hour 33 someone would be able to see him. I saw him look at his 34 and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would 35 his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed 36 to take his sutures(缝合线) away and redress his wound.While taking care of his wound, we began to 37in conversation. I asked him if he had another doctors 38 this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife.I then asked about her 39. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a 40 of Alzheimers Disease(早老年痴呆病). As we talked, I asked if she would be 41 if he was a bit late. He replied that she had not 42 him for five years.I was surprised, and asked him, “And you still go every morning, 43 she doesnt know who you are?” He 44 as he patted my hand and said, “She doesnt know me, 45 I still know who she is.” I had to 46 tears as he left, thinking, “That is the kind of love I want in my 47 .”True love is not just romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be ,and will not be. The happiest people dont 48 have the best of everything; they just 49 the best of everything they have.Life isnt about how to 50 the storm, hut how to dance in the rain.31. A. movedB. protected C. separated D. removed32. A. knowingB. hopingC. expectingD. imaging33. A. unlessB. untilC. beforeD. when34. A. wound B. watchC. thumbD. hand35. A. coverB. cureC. checkD. heal36. A. suppliesB. medicinesC. servicesD. operations37. A. joinB. engageC. includeD. break38. A. appointmentB. remarkC. warningD. advice39. A. informationB. treatmentC. positionD. health40. A. victimB. loserC. winnerD. model41. A. seriousB. curiousC. upsetD. anxious42. A. realizedB. seenC. recognizedD. minded43. A. as if B. even thoughC. now thatD. in case44. A. smiledB. agreedC. shoutedD. whispered45. A. and B. soC. as D. but46. A. burst intoB. shut down C. hold back D. take back47. A. workB. experience C. lifeD. day48. A. completelyB. necessarilyC. steadilyD. generally49. A. takeB. makeC. shareD. give50. A. competeB. preventC. fightD. aurvive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）Before he left for Iraq, Shaun Blue never talked about the war with his friends. He didnt need to. “We all knew where each other stood,” says Mike Bell, a fellow Marine who attended the University Of Southern California with Blue. They were juniors when the war began. “All of us wanted to go. All of us wanted to be there.”Blue had considered dropping out of college to enlist in the Marines rather than finishing school and entering as an officer. He was a voracious reader, a philosophy major whose interests ranged from hard sciences to Roman architecture (His mother says he asked for a copy of The Old Man and the Sea as a Christmas present in second grade). In college he was as serious about conditioning his body as he was his mind. He played pickup basketball in some of L A.s toughest neighborhoods. Once, late at night, after drinking beer with Bell, Blue told Bell he was going for a run. He put on a flak jacket for added weight and ran the darkened L. A. streets alone for hours, finally returning to the house shortly before dawn. Blue set off for his first deployment(调遣) to Iraq on July 4, 2005. He joined the Marine campaign in Anbar province, leading a platoon (排) in the Fallujah area. Even in the desert reaches of Iraq, Blue found ways to call Bell and his younger sister Amy Blue, who was living in Ireland at the time. “Those phone calls from him were the highlights of my days,” says Amy. “Hearing him across all those miles, it was like he was right there with me.” He was killed halfway through a second tour in Anbar, while riding in the passenger seat of a humvee (悍马) that was hit by a roadside bomb. “Twenty-five years is so short,” his sister says, “but I am very lucky that I could call him a brother and a true best friend for that long.”“He wanted to fight,” says Bell of his fallen friend. “He really, really did. He couldnt wait.” 51. Before joining the Iraqi war, Blue was .A. a junior school student B. a classmate of BellC. the youngest son of the familyD. a third-year student at a university.52. The underlined part “a voracious reader” (Para.2) refers to a person_.A. having difficulty in readingB. desiring much new information and knowledgeC. reading mainly academic booksD. being in deep thought53. Blue wanted to go to Iraq perhaps because .A. he was tired of the university life and wanted to go aboardB. he wanted to make a contribution to his own countryC. he wanted his sister to be proud of him D. he wanted to devote his life to the war54. The author seems to indicate that Blues death is .A. unavoidableB. reasonableC. regrettableD. Worthless （B）I m an English teacher working in Russia, and for some reason I really dont like that classroom topic “Talk about your family”. Perhaps its because everyone studied English from the same book at school. So all the students say: “My family consists of five members. Me, my mother, my father, my brother and my dog.” And so on. As if al families are exactly the same.Its such a shame, because our families are unique. Theyre the place where our personalities were made. Families are the most exotic(奇异的) things on earth. If you dig enough into your own family, youre sure to come up with all the stuff you could want for a great novel. Surprising characters, dramatic or funny stories passed down for generatio9ns, or a face from the past you recognize. Someone or something unique to your family. Or, as genealogists (系谱学者) like to say, “Shake you family tree and watch the nuts fall out.”My mother started tracing our family tree a few years ago, not expecting to get far. But, digging in old records and libraries she got back 300 years. Start someone talking about their family stories and they might never stop. Youll find the whole history of your country there, too. When my mother, still putting the family tree together, asked me for a few names from my Russian wifes family, My wife got on the phone to her own mother, just to check a name or two. But they were still talking an hour later, and shed filled five pages of A4 paper. And so I was introduced to someone who lived through the siege (围攻) of Leningrad, a high official in the Communist Party. and some rich relations who used to go to Switzerland for their holidays before the revolution. There was also a black sheep of the family who left his wife and children and disappeared in the civil war though nobody in the family knows which side he fought on. All these people seemed strange but interesting to me.55. The writer doesnt like the topic “Talk about your family” because .A. everyone studies English at schoolB. everyone has little to talk aboutC. all families are the sameD. everyone gives almost the same answer56.By quoting the genealogists words, the writer means that .A. some of your family members have nuts in their pocketsB. your family tree is easy to be broken C. there are a lot of things to know about you know.D. there are more family members in you family than you know57. The underlined part “a black sheep of the family” (pare 3) might refer to someone who .A. brought shame on his familyB. was loyal to his familyC. won great honor for his family D. was deserted by his family58. The passage mainly intends to tell us .Ahow the writer teaches English in RussiaBthere are old stories and even a few mysteries behind each family tree.Chow the writers mother searched his family treeDthe writers wifes family can be written into a novel （C）Youyes, youcan save the planet!Its a message being spread across Americanot by radical environmental activists but by ordinary businessmen and women, families on vacation, truckers and salespeople who would never think of carrying a picket sing(示威标语牌).Their venues for this grass-roots movement are the motel bathrooms where travelers shower and the hotel beds where they lay their heads at night.In more than5,000 U.S. hotels and motels, travelers who are staying beyond one night are agreeing to forgo a change of towels, washcloths, and bed linens in the name of conservation. This is quite a variance from the usual custom of enjoying clean linens and towels each night.According to Project Planeta company that grew out of the InterContinental Hotel chains efforts to save energy coststhis skip-the-clean-towels program in a 100-room hotel chains efforts to save energy coststhis skip-the clean-towels program in a 100-room hotel keeps 2,300 liters of water and 150 liters of detergent(洗涤剂) out of the ecosystemand saves the hotel almost $1,700each MONTH. Labor costs drop. too, since housekeepers can finish a room faster when they dont have to change linens and towels.The Holiday Inn Express chain leaves little Project Planet placards in rooms that read: Yes, Ill help! Other motels instruct guests to drop towels in the tub if they want them washed; otherwise, the cleaning staff wont bother. Not everybody likes this idea, of course. Some customers, particularly at upscale hotels, complain that theyre paying plenty for a room and want to be pampered with fresh linensand dont forget the mint under the pillowcase.But as many as 95% of guests at other hotels are going along with the programbuying into the idea that theyre saving the planet, one washcloth at a time.59.What is the message being spread across America? A. Please reuse the towels. B. You can save the planet.C. Save water and labor.D. Help to save energy.B. the Holiday Inn Express chain still changes towels every day C. He had never been caught by the police. D. The house had no security alarm.60. The underlined world “forgo”(Para.4) can be replaced by “ ”. A. give upB. pay for C. go on D. ask for61. From the passage we can learn that . A. the skip-the-clean-towels program is aimed at top hotels.B. the Holiday Inn Express chain still changes towels every day C. He had never been caught by the police. D. the majority of the guests is in favor of the idea of one washcloth at a time62. Which of the following can be the best title for this passage? A. Saving the Planet Starts from Your Towel. B. Project Planet Works Well in Hotels. C. Hotel Chains Efforts to Save Energy. D. Saving the Planet, You and Me.（D） This is the fourth edition of these pages. It is hard to believe, but once again they are new and improved. My motive in publishing these pages remains to help and stimulate others in Shakespearestudies, and especially those who might contribute their work to the Internet. The spirit of altruism(利他主义) that originally built the Internet is not quite gone, though, sadly, through the pressure of time and profit has lessened. A major new addition to the pages is a Shakespeare Timeline, which is an online biography mounted at this site. The problems with searching for Shakespeare resources using the available Search Engines are: It is difficult to focus most searches so that you get a number of hits; It is impossible by simply reading an abstract(摘要) to make any distinction between the output of a Junior High School student and that of a professional researcher. Another change in these pages over previous editions is the “Whats News” page. If you come away From these pages with the feeling that they are very useful but slightly pedantic (学究的)， I will have realized my goal. I am continually apologizing to the many who have written me requesting revisions of the pages. We are all too busy. I simply have not had the time to dedicate to these pages that I wish. But I love the material and so have, at long last, made some time to update them. These pages co9ntain the best links I can find to Shakespeare on the Internet. As a reminder, I would say I very much enjoy hearing from people who view and use these pages. If you want to do Shakespeare research using the web, this page is a great starting point, and I keep it as current 63. The passage is mainly written to .A. let Shakespeare researchers buy these pages.B. make an apology to readersC. introduce the fourth edition of these pages.D. show off these pages to readers64.When searching for Shakespeare resources using Search Engines, youA. will waste some time in finding what you wantB. can easily recognize what the abstract means.C. will often come into the “Whats News” pages.D. will become an expert at Shakespeares works.65. The writer makes an apology forA. having no time to reply the readers letters.B. being unable to update the pages to meet the readers needsC. not considering the readers requests.D. offering useless materials 66. Which of the following can best conclude the last paragraph?A. The writer is very proud of these pages.B. The writer enjoys receiving readers e-mails.C. The web should be improved soon.D. The web is a good starting point for Shakespeare researchers.EI dont usually read forwarded email, but I received one that caught my attention. It was written by someone who works at Volvo in Sweden, and he mentions how any project in the company “takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant, Its a rule.”Apparently the fast-pace global corporate world, focused on immediate results, “contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold a quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always produces better results.”He relates the following story:The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, a bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance(2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didnt say anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, “Do you have a fixed parking space? Ive noticed we park far away from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot.” To which he replied, “Since were here early well have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Dont you think?” Imagine my face.He goes on to talk about a movement in Europe named Slow Food, which “establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle.”I love this idea. It is what is at the heart of the simplicity movement, as well as those who are trying to live frugal(节俭的) lives. Its not just a matter of reducing clutter or saving moneyits a matter of slowing down to enjoy life more, of savoring（品味） lifes simple pleasure, of rejecting on some level the materialistic culture we