[湖北]2012届湖北省武汉市武昌区高三5月调研英语试卷

The shouting in the classroom suddenly stopped with the ____ of Mr. Black, who preferred silence all the time.

Her ______ to Sales Manager took everyone by surprise, because she was just a fresh clerk in the company, working here only for one month.

During an emergency period, those who ______ false news should be severely punished by the authorities.

He was out of work due to the global financial crisis; he was sad and discouraged, feeling that he _ his family.

Over the years she had tried her best to ______ the terrible memory, but it was not an easy task.

Many people think it’s very difficult to ______ a conversation with someone who only says “Yes” and “No”.

While there are some differences in the educational systems in many countries in the world, education itself is ______.

Many doctors complain that they don’t have ______ working hours, for they have to wait for patients all day long in the hospital.

I am trying to do what is best, but ______ I’ve got to consider the cost, which is of great importance.

Most of the educators are ______ providing more freedom to the teenagers, believing that it may make them more creative and independent.

Allan Paul, a final year engineering student, was considered as a safe driver by all who knew him. One sunny morning, Allan was on his way home from his friend’s house on his favorite bike. All of a sudden, due to a major 31  by a truck driver near a traffic signal, Allan’s bike was hit by the huge truck. Poor Allan lost his legs and was 32  in the middle of the road, trembling.
He cried out for help but no one troubled to  33 . They were afraid of the consequences they could face if they gave Allan  34 .
There was a huge crowd gathering,  35  Allan like he was an alien. Allan kept crying and shouting aloud and finally he  36  his body to the sidewalk. Then he saw a man getting out of a car. Allan  37  him and cried out, “Please help me. I want to live. Save me, I am  38 .”
The man ran over and  39 . He picked up Allan and took him to the hospital. Allan gave him his  40  number and the man then called Allan’s house to inform his parents about the  41  and their son’s situation. Allan’s parents rushed to the  42 ; the doctors told them there was no  43  and asked them to take Allan home since it was impossible for him to  44 .    
Allan asked his parents to only  45  one person when he died, the man who had helped him. He also requested that they not inform or allow anybody else to see his dead body. Allan  46  the same night. As was Allan’s last  47 , his father called only that man and informed him about Allan’s  48 .
Only a person, who has a  49  heart and who offers his service for the good of his fellow human beings, is a man. Those who  50  to, remain animals forever.

A．issue B．mistake C．crisis D．problem

A．sitting B．standing C．lying D．rolling

A．pick him up B．take him in C．calm him down D．leave him alone

A．some support B．some advice C．a lift D．a helping hand

A．greeting B．watching C．attacking D．teasing

A．carried B．pushed C．dragged D．conveyed

A．turned to B．thought of C．pointed at D．called on

A．exhausted B．helpless C．painful D．dying

A．yelled B．helped C．hesitated D．stopped

A．office B．account C．contact D．street

A．accident B．operation C．injury D．consequence

A．road B．scene C．home D．hospital

A．bed B．hope C．time D．trouble

A．survive B．recover C．walk D．improve

A．forgive B．visit C．call D．thank

A．broke down B．passed away C．gave in D．burned out

A．view B．idea C．wish D．comment

A．situation B．will C．funeral D．death

A．helping B．innocent C．brave D．cheerful

A．fear B．pretend C．fail D．claim

Lie in bed, by an open window, and listen…
“No air conditioning? How can you sleep?” a friend asks, horrified. I tell her my family has decided to shut the air conditioner off and reduce our electric bill. On this first night of our cost-cutting plan, it’s only 85 degrees. We’re going to suffer, but the three kids complain anyway.
They have grown up in 72-degree comfort, protected from the world outside.
“It’s too hot to sleep,” my 13-year-old daughter complains. “I’m about to die from this heat,” her brother complains down the hall. “Just try it tonight,” I tell them. In truth I’m too tired to turn for long. My face is sweaty, but I lie quietly listening to the cricket choirs outside that remind me of childhood.
The neighbor’s dog howls. Probably a passing squirrel. It’s been years since I took the time to really listen to the night.
I think about grandma, who lived to 92 and still helped with my mom’s gardening until just a few weeks before she died. And then, I’m back there at her house in the summer heat of my childhood. I move my pillow to the foot of grandma’s bed and turn my face toward the open window. I turn the pillow, hunting for the cooler side.
Grandma saw me turn over and over. “If you just watch for the breeze(清风),” she said, “you’ll cool off and fall asleep.” I stare at the filmy white curtain, willing it to move. Lying still, waiting, I suddenly notice the life outside the window. The bug chorus. Neighbors, porch(门廊)-sitting late, speak in unclear words that calm me.
“Mom, did you hear that?” my seven-year-old son cries, “I think it was an owl(猫头鹰)family.”
“Probably,” I tell him, “just keep listening…”
Without the working air conditioner, the house is peaceful, and the natural night noises seem close enough to touch. I hope I’m awake tonight when the first breeze comes in.
On the first night of the writer’s cost-cutting plan, her children ______.

The author talks about her grandmother and her childhood to show that ______.

In the writer’s eyes, her children are ______.

Which of the following titles best suits the passage?

We were driving on the right road when, all of a sudden, a black car pulled out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver stepped on his brake, skidded(打滑), and missed the black car’s back end by just inches! The driver of the black car, who almost caused a major accident, turned his head angrily and started shouting bad words at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. I mean, my taxi driver was friendly. So, I said, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to hospital!” And the following is what my taxi driver told me, which I now call “the law of the Garbage Truck”.
“Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump(倾卸)it. And if you let them, they dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish him well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be happier.”
So this is “The Law of the Garbage Truck”. I started thinking: How often do I let “Garbage Trucks” run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets? It was then that I said, “I’m not going to do it any more.”
I began to see “Garbage Trucks”. I see the load they’re carrying. I see them coming to drop it off. And like my taxi driver, I don’t make it a personal thing; I just smile, wave, and move on.
Good leaders know they have to be ready for their next meeting. Good parents know that they have to welcome their children home from school with hugs and kisses. What about you? The mark of a successful person is how quickly he can get back his focus on what’s important.
Who acted like a garbage truck in the accident described in the first two paragraphs?

The reason why the taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy is that ______.

The underlined part “the load” in Paragraph 5 refers to _____.

What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

NBA commissioner David Stern was in Orlando on Thursday night, getting ready for Sunday’s All-Star Game. Of course, all he could talk about was the only player anyone wants to talk about these days: New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin.
Hours before Lin took the court against the Heat, a few hundred miles South down I-95 in Miami, Stern told reporters that Lin’s instant popularity hasn’t ever been matched in sports history, not even by Sunday’s biggest names, LeBron James or Kobe Bryant.
The Associated Press had the details.
“I haven’t done a calculation, but it’s fair to say that no player has created the interest and the craze in this short period of time, in any sport, that I’m aware of like Jeremy Lin has,” Stern said Thursday.
Lin, an undrafted(未选秀的)guard from Harvard, has become the NBA’s biggest story since coming off the Knicks’ bench earlier this month to lead them to nine wins in 11 games heading into their matchup with Miami on Thursday night.
With Lin’s popularity in Asia as the league’s first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, and with the religious community because of his strong Christian faith, Stern says he’s “never quite seen anything like” the attention on Lin.
“It’s fascinating,” Stern said after the All-Star Jam Session opening ceremonies.
The top five videos on NBA.com since Feb. 4, when Lin joined the circulation, are all Lin or Knicks related. Lin went from 190,000 followers on Sina, China’s version of Twitter, on Feb. 2 to more than 1 million as of Feb. 16.
Indeed, Lin’s popularity is so out of this world that the NBA made a late list switch to ensure his participation in the Rising Stars Challenge on All-Star Saturday, a game that includes the NBA’s best rookies(新秀球员)and sophomores. Lin is in such high demand that all of the game’s other participants will meet with the media following a team practice on Friday while Lin will have his own, separate press conference later in the night. 
This is Jeremy’s world, folks. We’re all just living in it. Even David Stern and the rest of the league’s All-Stars, at least for the moment. 
The following statements about Jeremy Lin’s instant popularity are true EXCEPT that ______.

Why did Jeremy Lin have so many followers in Asia on Sina, China’s version of Twitter?
A. Because Jeremy Lin was born in Taiwan with strong Christian faith.
B. Maybe because he is the first player born in America but has Chinese descent.
C. Because Sina has a large group of surfing people, maybe more than 10 million.
D. Because the top five videos on NBA. com since Feb. 4 are all Lin or Knicks related.
The underlined phrase “out of this world” in Paragraph 9 may probably be replaced by ______.

What can we learn from the above passage about Jeremy Lin’s instant popularity?

Why Rent Textbooks?
Renting textbooks is a relatively new idea for everyone. Back in the old days, the idea of renting one never existed since the books are affordable or readily available in libraries. But the time has changed and with the changes in educational system and various economic challenges happening across the globe, the price of textbooks increased.
Given such fact, textbook renting is now a new fashion among college students. Research was made to find out if renting helps one save money and time rather than buying new textbooks and realized that it really is. Let’s examine carefully further and see why renting books is a cost-effective way to still get to have your textbooks without shelling too much money from your pocket.
Gives value for your money
You don’t have to buy all of your textbooks. Those non-major subjects, are better acquired through renting. It saves one money and helps you give out the money you save on some other personal possessions you need in college.
Renting textbooks allows you to save at least 50% off the standard retail (零售) price for each item. You can tell, with a little research, that renting is a lot cheaper compared to buying used books aside from looking way better than the former.
Saves time
You can save a great deal of time when renting a textbook. Instead of browsing your way for hours trying to look for better deals online, you can simply go to a popular book renting marketplace online and just order away. There is literally no need to skimming for hours and see where you can find a great deal. Often, the rental company gives you prepaid postage slip just to get you going and do the same when you decide to return the book.
This process not only saves you time, it also saves other resources like gas if you decide to go to the nearest bookstore to buy books or spend hours using electricity just to find a good deal.
User Friendly
Aside from being able to save money and time, renting textbooks brings convenience to all users. Imagine trying to scan the virtual bookshelf and checking on comments of previous users and figuring out which ones got bad comments and which had great ones. It could be fun at first but if you are short of time, the process can become annoying.
If you rent books, you will only be needing the book’s ISBN number and find it right away. No more time-wasting site search. Type in the ISBN number, order the book, and wait for it to get shipped to your home.
The reason why people haven’t the habit of renting textbooks in the old days is that ______.

The underlined word “shelling” in paragraph 2 means “______”.

The following statements are the reasons why textbook renting is now a new fashion among college students EXCEPT ______.

The passage mainly tells us that ______.

Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some degree our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and different surroundings. Thus the limits of persons’ intelligence are fixed at birth, and whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This idea, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to show that intelligence is to some degree something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be intelligent. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two twins, they are very likely to be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this shows that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in touch with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.
If a child is born with low intelligence, he can ______.

In Paragraph 2, the underlined sentence “if we take two unrelated people at random from population” means “______.”

The example of the twins going to a university and to a factory separately shows ______.

The best title of the passage can be “______”.

阅读下列各小题，根据汉语句子，用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。
The couple were engaged in decorating their new flat last summer and seldom __________ the study of their children. (care)
去年夏天两口子忙着装修新居，很少关心孩子们的学业。
I suppose by the time I come back in ten years’ time all these old houses __________. (pull)
我想十年以后我回来时所有这些老房子都会拆除了。
Retirement is obviously a very complex adjustment period and __________ planning for it, the better. (start) 
很明显，退休是一个非常复杂的适应期，你越早开始规划越好。
Maria passed the driving license test. She came back __________. (wear)
玛丽娅通过了驾证考试，她面带微笑地回家了。
Fully __________ the housework, she doesn’t have time to enjoy various activities in the club any longer. (occupy)
由于全部的时间都忙于做家务, 她再也没有时间去参加俱乐部丰富多样的活动了。
We’d like to know how __________ a businessman like your age has succeeded in remaining energetic. (it)
我想知道一个你这样年龄的商人究竟怎样成功地保持精力充沛。
You needn’t __________ all the calculations! We have a computer to do that sort of things. (do)
你本不必做这些计算。我们可以用电脑来做。
__________ most in the Harry Porter series is not only the fantastic plot but also the charming characters in the story. （attract)
《哈里波特》丛书最吸引孩子们的不仅是奇特的故事情节，还有故事里吸引人的各色人物。
It is the most instructive lecture ___________ since I came to this school. (attend)
这是自从到这个学校以来我听过的最有教育意义的讲座了。
He ________ a phone call，for the telephone is broken and needs repairing. (make)
他不可能在打电话，因为电话坏了需要修理。

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Nowadays students study hard and they are always under a lot of pressure. It’s necessary for them to have some ways to ease stress and minds.
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