2015年全国统一高考英语试卷（湖北卷）

When he was running after his brother, the boy lost hisand had a bad fall.

He gave himself a new name to hide his ____ when he went to carry out the secret task.

The team are working hard to ___ the problem so that they can find the best solution.

In order not to be heard, she pointed her finger upwards tothat someone was moving about upstairs.

There is no doubt that this candidate's advantagehis ability to communicate with foreigners in English.

Don’t worry. I’m sure your missing glasses will ______ sooner or later.

Even though the conference hall is near his apartment, he has to hurry a little if he wants to be_____.

I don’t think what he said is _____ to the topic we are discussing . He has missed the point.

The girl used to be shy, but is ____ getting active in group work and is more willing to express herself.

This meeting room is a non-smoking area. I would like to warn you _____ that if you smoked here you would be fined.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。
“Daily Star, sir” called Jason, carrying some newspapers under his arm. The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty___left. His voice was almost gone and his heart was___. The shops would soon close, and all the people would go home. He would have to go home too, carrying the papers___money. He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a___for his mother and some seeds for his bird. That was why he had bought the papers with all his money. He___as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.
“You don’t know the ___of selling papers. You must shout, “Hot news! Bomb bursting!” another newsboy Chad told Jason. “__   it’s not in the paper at all,” replied Jason. “Just run away quickly____they have time to see, and you’ll___out and get your money,”Chad said.
It was a new ___to Jason. He thought of his bird with no_     and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was___that he would not tell a lie. Though he was ___ a poor newsboy, he had been___ some good things.
The next afternoon Jason went to the office for his papers___. Several boys were crowding around Chad, who declared with a___smile that he sold six dozen the day before. He added that Jason___money because he would not tell a lie. The boy ___at Jason. “You wouldn’t tell a lie yesterday, my boy?” A gentleman at the office came up and patted Jason’s shoulder___.”You’re just the boy I am looking for.” A week later Jason started his new___. He lost sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

A．shops B．coins C．people D．papers

A．open B．heavy C．pure D．weak

A．instead of B．in return for C．regardless of D．in exchange for

A．cup B．card C．comb D．cake

A．gave in B．broke down C．got away D．showed up

A．difficulty B．process C．goal D．secret

A．And B．But C．For D．So

A．before B．since C．though D．unless

A．call B．drop C．sell D．reach

A．edition B．idea C．policy D．task

A．bread B．insects C．seeds D．water

A．concerned B．amazed C．excited D．determined

A．still B．already C．just D．also

A．taught B．handed C．awarded D．allowed

A．at once B．by chance C．as usual D．on purpose

A．proud B．gentle C．warm D．polite

A．borrowed B．lost C．made D．saved

A．laughed B．shouted C．nodded D．started

A．bravely B．grateful C．fondly D．modestly

A．duty B．business C．job D．method

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
“I see you’ve got a bit of water on your coat,” said the man at the petrol station. “Is it raining out there?”“No, it’s pretty nice,” I replied, checking my sleeve. “Oh, right. A pony(马驹) bit me earlier.”
As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you might get from a naughty child. The pony responsible was queuing up for some ice cream in the car park near Haytor, and perhaps thought I’d jumped in ahead of him.
The reason why the ponies here are naughty is that Haytor is a tourist-heavy area and tourists are constantly feeding the ponies foods, despite sighs asking them not to. By feeding the ponies, tourists increase the risk of them getting hit by a car, and make them harder to gather during the area’s annual pony drift(迁移).
The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother’s milk, and those who’ve gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area. Some of them are also later sold, in order to limit the number of ponies according to the rules set by Natural England.
Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few mils west of here. While walking, I noticed a pony roll over on his back. “Hello!” I said to him, assuming he was just rolling for fun, but he was very still and, as I got closer, I saw him kicking his legs in the air and breathing heavily. I began to properly worry about him. Fortunately, I managed to get in touch with a Dartmoor’s Livestock Protection officer and send her a photo. The officer immediately sent a local farmer out to check on the pony. The pony had actually been trapped between two rocks. The farmer freed him, and he began to run happily around again.
Dartmoor has 1,000 or so ponies, who play a critical role in creating the diversity of species in this area. Many people are working hard to preserve these ponies, and trying to come up with plans to find a sustainable(可持续的) future for one of Dartmoor’s most financially-troubled elements.
Why are tourists asked not to feed the ponies?

One of the purposes of the annual pony drift is ______________.

What as the author’s first reaction when he saw a pony roll on its back?

What does the author imply about the preservation of Dartmoor’s ponies?

B
What Theresa Loe is doing proves that a large farm isn’t prerequisite for a modern grow-your-own lifestyle. On a mere 1/10 of an acre in Los Angeles, Loe and her family grow, can（装罐）and preserve much of the food they consume.
Loe is a master food preserver, gardener and canning expert. She also operates a website, where she shares her tips and recipes, with the goal of demonstrating that every has the ability to control what’s on their plate.
Loe initially went to school to become an engineer, but she quickly learned that her enthusiasm was mainly about growing and preparing her own food. “I got into cooking my own food and started growing my own herbs (香草) and foods for that fresh flavor,”she said. Engineer by day, Loe learned cooking at night school. She ultimately purchased a small piece of land with her husband and began growing their own foods.
“I teach people how to live farm-fresh without a farm,” Loe said. Through her website Loe emphasizes that “anybody can do this anywhere.” Got an apartment with a balcony （阳台）? Plant some herbs. A window? Perfect spot for growing. Start with herbs, she recommends, because “they’re very forgiving.” Just a little of the herbs “can take your regular cooking to a whole new level,” she added. “I think it’s a great place to start.” “Then? Try growing something from a seed, she said, like a tomato or some tea.”
Canning is a natural extension of the planting she does. With every planted food. Loe noted, there’s a moment when it’s bursting with its absolute peak flavor. “I try and keep it in a time capsule in a canning jar,” Loe said. “Canning for me is about knowing what’s in your food, knowing where it comes from.”
In addition to being more in touch with the food she’s eating, another joy comes from passing this knowledge and this desire for good food to her children: “Influencing them and telling them your opinion on not only being careful what we eat but understanding the bigger picture,” she said, “that if we don’t take care of the earth, no will.”
The underlined word “prerequisite” (Pare. 1) is closest in meaning to “______”.

Why does Loe suggest starting with herbs?

According to Loe, what is the benefit of canning her planted foods?

What is the“the bigger picture” (Para. 6) that Loe wishes her children to understand?

C
Hilversum is a medium-sized city between the major cities of Amsterdam and Utrecht in the Gooi area of North Holland, the Netherlands. Unlike most of the Netherlands, Hilversum is actually in a hilly area with the soil mostly consisting of sand. Once called the Garden of Amsterdam, it still attracts travelers to come over to cycle and walk through the surrounding forests. They visit it for a relaxing day off from the urban madness. For Dutch people, Hilversum is all about textile (纺织) and media industries, and modern architecture.
In history, Hilversum was largely an agricultural area. Daily life was marked by farming, sheep raising and wool production. A railway link to Amsterdam in 1874 attracted rich traders from Amsterdam to Hilversum. They build themselves large villas (别墅) in the wooded surroundings of the town. One of the families moving in was the Brenninkmeijers, currently the wealthiest family of the Netherlands. They moved in after big success in the textile industry and aided a substantial textile industry in Hilversum. But the textile boom lasted only several decades. The last factory closed in the 1960s.
The change to a media economy started in 1920, when the Nederlandse Seintoestedllen Fabriek (NSF) established a radio factory in Hiversum. Most radio stations called in the large villas in the leafy areas of the town. Television gave another push to the local economy. Hilversum became the media capital of the Netherlands, and Dutch televison stars moved into the leafy neighborhoods surrounding the town.
In the early 1900s, modern architcts W.M. Dudok and J. Duiker placed hundreds of remarkable buildings in Hilversum. These modern architectural masterpieces (杰作) are so many that Hilversum almost feels like an open air museum. Dudok alone shaped most 20th century Hilversum and approximately 75 buildings in 1928-1931. It has wide international fame and is included in many architecture textbooks. The building has a remarkable shape and looks like a combination of “blocks”. Actually, one may start his journey of modern architecture by walking or biking the W.M. Dudok Architectural Route in Hilversum.
Hilversum is different from most of the Netherlands in that ______.

What was the greatest contribution of the Brenninkmeijers to Hilversum?

The beginning of the media industry in Hilversum was marked by the establishment of ______.

What is known about W.M. Dudok’s Hilversum Town Hall?

D
The oddness of life in space never quite goes away. Here are some examples.
First consider something as simple as sleep. Its position presents its own challenges. The main question is whether you want your arms inside or outside the sleeping bag. If you leave your arms out, they float free in zero gravity, often giving a sleeping astronaut the look of a funny balled （芭蕾）dancer. “I’m an inside guy,” Mike Hopkins says, who returned from a six-month tour on the International Space Station. “I like to be wrapped up.”
On the station, the ordinary becomes strange. The exercise bike for the American astronauts has no handlebars. It also has no seat. With no gravity, it’s just as easy to pedal violently. You can watch a movie while you pedal by floating a microcomputer anywhere you want. But station residents have to be careful about staying in one place too long. Without gravity to help circulate air, the carbon dioxide you exhale (呼气) has a tendency to form an invisible （隐形的）cloud around you head. You can end up with what astronauts call a carbon-dioxide headache.
Leroy Chiao, 54, an American retired astronaut after four flights, describes what happens even before you float out of your seat,”Your inner ear thinks your’re falling . Meanwhile your eyes are telling you you’re standing straight. That can be annoying—that’s why some people feel sick.” Within a couple days —truly terrible days for some —astronauts’ brains learn to ignore the panicky signals from the inner ear, and space sickness disappears.
Space travel can be so delightful but at the same time invisibly dangerous. For instance, astronauts lose bone mass. That’s why exercise is considered so vital that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) puts it right on the workday schedule. The focus on fitness is as much about science and the future as it is about keeping any individual astronauts return home, and, more importantly, how to maintain strength and fitness for the two and a half years or more that it would take to make a round-trip to Mars.
What is the major challenge to astronauts when they sleep in space?

The astronauts will suffer from a carbon-dioxide headache when _____.

Some astronauts feel sick on the station during the first few days because _____.

One of the NASA’s major concerns about astronauts is _____.

E
Science has a lot of uses. It can uncover laws of nature, cure diseases, make bombs, and help bridges to stand up. Indeed science is so good at what it does that there’s always a temptation(诱惑) to drag it into problems where it may not be helpful. David Brooks, author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character,and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to resist the temptation.
Brooks gained fame for several books. His latest book The Social Animal, however, is more ambitious and serious than his earlier books. It is an attempt to deal with a set of weighty topics. The book focuses on big questions: What has science revealed about human nature? What are the sources of character? And why are some people happy and successful while others aren’t?
To answer these questions, Brooks surveys a wide range of disciplines（学科）. Considering this, you might expect the book to be a dry recitation of facts. But Brooks has structured his book in an unorthodox(非常规的), and perhaps unfortunate, way. Instead of introducing scientific theories, he tells a story, within which he tries to make his points, perhaps in order to keep the reader’s attention.So as Harold and Erica, the hero and heroine in his story, live through childhood, we hear about the science of child development and as they begin to date we hear about the theory of sexual attraction. Brooks carries this through to the death of one of his characters.
On the whole,Brooks’ story is acceptable if uninspired. As one would expect, his writing is mostly clear and, to be fair, some chapters stand out above the rest. I enjoyed, for instance, the chapter in which Harold discovers how to think on his own. While Harold and Erica are certainly not strong or memorable characters, the more serious problems with The Social Animal lie elsewhere. These problems partly involve Brooks’ attempt to translate his tale into science.
The author mentions the functions of science at the beginning of the passage to__________.

According to the author, which of the following could be a strength of the book?

What is the author’s general attitude towards the book?

What is the author likely to write about after the last paragraph?

阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，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。

If she had been aware that the muchroom were poisonous,she ___them for dinner.(pick)
要是知道这些蘑菇有毒，她不会采来做晚餐了。
___the beef being cooked on the stove,the mother pictured the whole family having meals together.(look)
看着炉子上炖着的牛肉，妈妈想象着一家人在一起吃饭的画面。
The director,___a dorm-room in the Film Academy, has already make four films.(share)
这位导演已经执导了四部电影，在电影学院求学时杰克与他同住在一间寝室。
Into the complete silence of the waiting class____, “Good morning,children.”(come)
在全班同学静静的等待中传来了老师甜甜的嗓音：“孩子们，早上好”。
____will not make any difference to our arrangements.(say)
无论她说什么，都是不会对我们的安排有影响。
We must act as quickly as possible now. Just tell us ___the task or not.(undertake).
现在我们必须采取行动。你就告诉我们，你能否承担这项任务吧。
The professor was delighted to find that two thirds of the project ___by the students independently.(finish)
教授高兴地发现学生们已独立完成了该项目三分之二的工作。
____that they found the long lost sword of the Ming Dynasty .(be)
就是在这个湖里，他们发现了失踪已久的明代宝剑。
_____to only a few people here,his reputation abroad is very great.(know).
虽然这里只有几个人知道他，但他在国外的名气却很大。、
Many bad habits can be especially difficult to cure because they are likely ___at a very young age.(from).
许多坏习惯特殊气味难以纠正，因为它们可能是人们在年幼时就形成了的。

请根据以下提示，并结合具体事例，有英语写一篇短文。
Questioning is a bridge to learning. When you begin to doubt something and search for an answer,you will learn.
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2.除诗歌外，文体不限；
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