[湖南]2007年高考湖南卷英语试题

Reality is not the way you wish things to be,nor the way they appear to be,_______the way they actually are.

_______the silence of the pauses,we could hear each other’s breathing and could almost hear our own heartbeats.

Polar bears live mostly on_______sea ice,which they use as_______platform for hunting seals.

The biggest problem for most plants,which_______just get up and run away when threatened,is that animals like to eat them.

As the years passed,many occasions—birthdays,awards,graduations—_______with Dad’s flowers.

It’s hard for him playing against me.I’ve got nothing to play for,but for him,he needs to win so_______.

To save class time,our teacher has_______students do half of the exercise in class and complete the other half for our homework.

Having checked the doors were closed,andall the lights were off,the boy opened the door to his bedroom.

As the light turned green,I stood for a moment,not,and asked myself what I was going to do.

We live day by day,but in the great things,the time of days and weeks_______so small that a day is unimportant.

Cathy is taking notes of the grammatical rules in class at Sunshine School,where sheEnglish for a year.

By serving others,a person focuses on someone other than himself or herself,_______can be very eye-opening and rewarding.

Most birds find it safe to sleep in the trees,butthey have eggs or young chicks,they don't use a nest.

"Thingsnever come again!"I couldn't help talking to myself.

There is an old proverb,"Love me,love my dog."But there iswisdom in this:"Love me,love my book."

完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第36至第55小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
When I was young,my parents ran a snack bar in our small town.
One evening in early April,my mother told me to fill in at the snack bar   36  a worker who had the flu.I told her I would mess it up,  37 I had never worked at the bar before.I   38  
that instead of making money,I would end up owing it.
“You can do it,”said my mother.“   39  ,you won’t get much business until lunch.”
“But I’ll never remember the orders,and I’m no good___40_money.Please,Mom,don’t
   41  me.”
“Then I’ll help you,”she said.
I shrugged my shoulders.I thought my mother’s     42    was a bad one,but I      43    .
When I got to the bar the next day,I found my mother was   44  .Because the weather that day was rainy and cold,people wanted hot snacks and drinks.   45  ,I was really slow at taking the orders and making change.The line of people grew,and everybody seemed   46  .I was so nervous that my hands shook,and I    47  a cup into pieces.What a mess!Then my mother came to   48  me,and she also showed me how to make   49  .If someone gave me $5 for something that cost $3.25,I handed over  50  quarters and a dollar and said,“75 cents makes four dollars,plus one dollar makes five.”Things went more   51  after that.
By the end of the day,I could remember orders,   52  the bill,and make change quickly with a smile.I was even a little   53   when the sun came out and dried up business.My mother said she was proud of me,and when she   54  that I work at the snack bar again next year,I did not even shrug.I was too busy   55  the restaurant I would open one day.
36.A.to                        B.for                     C.after                         D.over
37.A.because                B.though               C.until                         D.while
38.A.promised                     B.noticed               C.worried                     D.hoped
39.A.Therefore             B.However            C.Besides                     D.Yet
40.A.of                        B.on                            C.about                        D.with
41.A.blame                   B.fool                   C.frighten                     D.make
42.A.idea                            B.bar                    C.day                           D.answer
43.A.guessed                B.obeyed               C.begged                      D.admitted
44.A.angry                   B.sad                    C.wrong                       D.ashamed
45.A.At least                B.At last                C.At most                     D.At first
46.A.surprised                     B.impolite             C.pleased                      D.impatient
47.A.damaged               B.destroyed           C.broke                        D.ruined
48.A.scold                    B.help                   C.beat                          D.save
49.A.money                  B.lunch                 C.coffee                       D.change
50.A.two                      B.three                  C.four                          D.five
51.A.smoothly                     B.fairly                 C.simply                      D.conveniently
52.A.turn in                  B.count out            C.take over                   D.add up
53.A.discouraged          B.disturbed            C.disappointed              D.distrusted
54.A.thought                B.stated                 C.announced                 D.suggested
55.A.imagining             B.preparing           C.examining                 D.describing

In June,2007,a group of students from eight high schools in Winnipeg,the capital of Canada’s Manitoba province,will begin test-launching(试发射)a satellite the size of a Rubik’s cube.
The one-kilogram Win-Cube satellite,named for its home city and its shape,will be put into low orbit.Once in space,it can perform for a few months or up to several years,communicating information that could help find the early signs of earthquakes.

There are 80 similar satellite projects worldwide,but this is the first high-school based program of its kind in Canada.30 Manitoba high school students are having a hand in designing and building the satellite,in cooperation with aerospace(航空航天的)experts and 10 students from the University of Manitoba,and with support from two other organizations.
The Win-Cube project is not something that goes on a piece of paper,it is real-world engineering,allowing high school students to have an opportunity to learn more about the exciting world of engineering through their participation in this challenging program.It is also taken as a wonderful example of the unique partnerships within Manitoba.Designing,building and lauching a satellite with high-school participation will bring this world-class educational project into reality and Manitoba closer to space.
“These Manitoba high school students deserve congratulations for their enthusiasm, innovation(创新)，and a strong love for discovery,”said Education,Citizenship and Youth Minister Peter Bjornson.“We want to make science more relevant(相关的),interesting and attractive to high school students by showing them how classroom studies can relate to practical experience in the workplace or,in this case,in space,”Bjornson added.
The Win-Cube program is mainly aimed at inspiring a strong desire for discovery on the part of the students.It also shows Manitoba’s devotion to research and innovation and the development of a skilled workforce—all important drivers of knowledge-based economic growth.
According to the passage,the Win-Cube satellite is_______.

According to Mr.Bjornson,_______.

The primary purpose of the project is to_______.

The best title for this passage may be_______.

Welcome to my Message Board!
Subject Slimming down classics?
Mr. Handsome 2007-5-12&24 AM	Orion Books,which decides there is a market in creating cut-down classics(经典著作)，is slimming down some novels by such great writers as L.Tolstoy,M.Mitchell and C.Bronte.Now,each of them has been whittled down to about 400 pages by cutting 30 to   40  per cent of the original,with words,sentences,paragraphs and,in a few cases,chapters removed.The first six shortened editions,all priced at ￡6.99 and advertised as great reads “in half the time”,will go on sale next month,with plans for 50 to 100 more to follow.The publishing house believes that modern readers will welcome the shorter versions.
Mr. Edwards 2007-5-12 9:40 AM	Well,I’m publisher of Orion Group.Thanks for your attention,Mr.Handsome. I must say,the idea developed from a game of “shame”in my office.Each of us was required to confess(承认)to the most embarrassing blanks in his or her reading.I admitted that I had never read Anna Karenina and tried but failed to get through Gone with the Wind several times.One of my colleagues acknowledged skipping(跳读)Jane Eyre.We realised that life is too short to read all the books you want to and we never were going to read these ones. As a leading publishing house,we are trying to make classics convenient for readers but it’s not as if we’re withdrawing the original versions.They are still there if you want to read them.
Ms.Weir 2007-5-12 11:35 AM	I’m director of the online bookclub www.lovereading.co.uk. Mr.Edwards,I think your shortened editions is a breath of fresh air.I’m guilty of never having read Anna Karenina,because it’s just so long.I’d much rather read two 300-page books than one 600-page book.I am looking forward to more shortened classics!
Mr. Crockatt 2007-5-124:38 PM	I’m from the London independent bookshop Crockatt & Powell. In my opinion,the practice is completely ridiculous.How can you edit the classics?I’m afraid reading some of these books is hard work,and that is why you have to develop as a reader.If people don’t have time to read Anna Karenina,then fine.But don’t read a shortened version and kid yourself it’s the real thing.

According to the message board,Orinon Books_______.

In Mr.Edwards’ opinion,Orion Group is shortening classics to_______.

By describing the shortened classics as “a breath of fresh air”,Ms.Weir_______.

Mr.Crockatt seems to imply that_______.

Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005,the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph,Untitled (Cowboy),was sold for $1 248 000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs”—a loose term given to everything from discarded(丢弃的)prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album.The German artist Joachim Schmid,who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”,has gathered discarded photographs,postcards and newspaper images since 1982.In his on-going project,Archiv,he groups photographs of family life according to themes:people with dogs;teams;new cars;dinner with the family;and so on.
Like Schmid,the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion(捍卫)found photographs.One of them,called simply Found,was born one snowy night in Chicago,when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper(雨刷)an angry note intended for someone else:“Why’s your car HERE at HER place?”The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication,which features found photographs sent in by readers,such as a poster discovered in your drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions.Perhaps one of the most difficult is:can these images really be considered as art?And,if so,whose art?Yet found photographs produced by artists,such as Richard Prince,may raise endless possibilities.What was the cowboy in Prince’s Untitled doing?Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone?Or how did Prince create this photograph?It’s anyone’s guess.In addition,as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists,like Schmid,have collated(整理),we also turn toward our own photographic albums.Why is memory so important to us?Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children,our parents,our lovers,and ourselves?Will they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?
In the absence of established facts,the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely.That,above all,is why they are so fascinating.
The first paragraph of the passage is used to_______.

According to the passage,Joachim Schmid_______.

The underlined word “them”in Paragraph 4 refers to“_______”.

By asking a series of questions in Paragraph 5,the author mainly intends to indicate that_______.

The author’s attitude toward found photographs can be described as_______.

One of our biggest fears nowadays is that our kids might some day get lost in a “sea of technology”rather than experiencing the natural world.Fear-producing TV and computer games are leading to a serious disconnect between kids and the great outdoors,which will change the wild places of the world,its creatures and human health for the worse,unless adults get working on child’s play.
Each of us has a place in nature we go sometimes,even if it was torn down.We cannot be the last generation to have that place.At this rate,kids who miss the sense of wonder outdoors will not grow up to be protectors of natural landscapes.“If the decline in parks use continues across North America,who will defend parks against encroachment(蚕食)？”asks Richard Louv,author of Last Child in the Woods.
Without having a nature experience,kids can turn out just fine,but they are missing out a huge enrichment of their lives.That applies to everything from their physical health and mental health,to stress levels,creativity and cognitive(认知的)skills.Experts predict modern kids will have poorer health than their parents—and they say a lack of outside play is surely part of it:research suggests that kids do better academically in schools with a nature component and that play in nature fosters(培养)leadership by the smartest,not by the toughest.Even a tiny outdoor experience can create wonder in a child.The three-year-old turning over his first rock realizes he is not alone in the world.A clump of trees on the roadside can be the whole universe in his eyes.We really need to value that more.
Kids are not to blame.They are over-protected and frightened.It is dangerous out there from time to time,but repetitive stress from computers is replacing breaking an arm as a childhood rite(仪式)of passage.
Everyone from developers,to schools and outdoors’ citizens,should help regain for our kids some of the freedom and joy of exploring,taking friendship in fields and woods that cement(增强)love,respect and need for the landscape.As parents,we should devote some of our energies to taking our kids into nature.This could yet be our greatest cause.
The main idea of Paragraph 2 is that_______.

According to the passage,children without experiencing nature will______.

According to the author,children’s breaking an arm is_______.

In writing this passage,the author mainly intends to_______.

阅读下面短文，根据第1～3题的具体要求，简要回答问题。

The north magnetic pole(磁极)is no longer a resident of Canada.It has drifted across the Canadian Arctic and is now angling toward Siberia.
Not to be confused with the geographic North Pole-the northern extremity of the Earth's axis(地轴),the north magnetic pole(where the Earth's magnetic field is directed downward)is moving due to natural changes in the Earth's magnetic field,a process that originates about 3000 kilometers below our feet,in the outer core(核心)of the planet.But scientists are now noticing that the magnetic pole has picked up its pace.

Over the past century,the pole has been migrating at an average speed of about 10 kilometers per year,says Larry Newitt,head of Geomagnetic Laboratory at Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa.Since the 1970s,this speed has increased to about 50 kilometers per year.
Scientists are wondering why the speed is increasing,says Newitt.One hypothesis(假说)relates it to "magnetic jerks",sudden shifts(变化)in the rate of change of the magnetic field.There have been three jerks in the past four decades,each one correlating to an increases in speed.
If the north magnetic pole continues at its current rate,it could reach Siberia by 2056.
"For most of recorded history,the pole has been a part of Canada,and now it's not,"says Newitt."It may be a blow to our collective psyche,but other than that,it doesn't have a major effect on most people's existence."

填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后第76至第85小题的空格中填上适当的单词或短语。
注意：每空不超过3个单词。
Host family accommodation,or living with host families,remains popular among language travel students for its unique advantages.These days,host families are trying to offer more in terms of quality,for they still have something to worry about.
Host family accommodation is often seen as the number-one choice for its advantages in language study,cultural communication and cost of living.Staying alongside host families enables students to get enough practice for the short time of their studying so that their language acquisiton is likely to become faster.Living in host families also has the advantage of students of being able to spend a lot of time communicating with their “host parents”,and get to know the local way of life,people and culture.Another advantage is that host family accommodation can sometimes be the least expensive.It attracts students for it ensures them a family type of living at a low cost.
The advantages,however,have not prevented host families from worrying.On one hand,some host families are losing their unique selling point.The probelm is that the majority of bosts in big cities,now generally single and young,have less time available for students,but the selling point for host family accommodation is communication practice.On the other,students’ expectations have risen.They are becoming more demanding and asking for more than ever from their accommodation,as they come mainly from high socio-economic groups in their own countries.
To get out of the difficult situation,host families are now making efforts to improve the quality of service.They are trying to make living conditions better,including broadband Internet service,private bathroom,and access to plenty of hot water for long showers.They are also providing students with structured family activities.
It is believed that host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with language travel students.

写作(满分25分)
假设你叫王平，李华是你的同窗好友，请根据下列要点，用英文给李华写一篇毕业留言。
要点：1.简要表述李华在你心目中的印象；
2.用一到两个相关事例进行具体描述；
3.对李华表示美好的祝愿。
注意：1.内容积极向上，语意连贯，结构完整。词数120左右。
2.不能写成诗歌形式；不能使用真实姓名和学校名称。