2008年全国统一高考英语试卷（浙江卷）

Adrian's "Amazing Race" started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn't hear a thing, not even loud noises. In a special school for the hearing-impaired (听觉受损的)，he learned sign language and got to mix with other disabled children. However, the sight of all the disabled children communicating with one another upset his mother. She wanted him to lead a normal life. So after speaking to an advisor, she sent him to private classes where he learned to read lips and pronounce words.

Later on, Adrian's parents decided to send him to a regular school. But the headmaster tried to prevent them from doing so, saying regular school couldn't take care of a special needs students. His parents were determined to take the risk and push him hard to go through his work everyday because they wanted to prove that, given the opportunity, he could do anything. Adrian made the grade and got accepted. It was a big challenge. The pace （节奏）was faster so he had to sit at the front of the class and really pay attention to the teacher, which wasn't always easy. But he stuck to it and did a lot of extra work after school.

The efforts made by Adrian and his parents paid off. Adrian graduated with good grades and got into a top high school. He also achieved a lot in life outside school. He developed a love for the outdoors and went to Nepal to climb mountains. He even entered the World Yacht Race 05/06--- being the first hearing-impaired Asian to do so.

But none of these achievements would have been possible without one of the most important lessons from his mother." "If you believe in yourself and work hard, you can achieve great results." She often said.

Below is a discussion on a website.

 
Who would miss his or her family most?

Which of the following people would feel most uncomfortable without the news media?

How many of them mentioned that they would miss food or drink?

A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Don't start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce (确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically these sleepyhead students aren't used to the early hour.

"Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies," says Mary Carskadon, a professor looking at problem of adolescent  (青春期的) sleep at Brown's School of Medicine.

Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And, at a more basic level. she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns.

Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, no less, as commonly thought.

Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer to stay up later at nigh and sleep later in the morning. But it's not just a matter of choice -their bodies are going through a change of sleep patters.

All of this makes the transfer from middle school to high school-which may start one hour earlier in the morning  ---- all the more difficult , Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the "sleep late, rise late" pattern, adolescent are up against difficulties when it conics to trying to be up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first hell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their body's way of saying. "I need a timeout."

For a while, my neighborhood was taken ever by an army of joggers(慢跑者). They were there all the time: early morning, noon, and evening. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. "Come on!" My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. "You'll feel great."

Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army. I'm not alone in my opinion.

First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet a real pounding（追击）ruining down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn't kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me.

Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes isn't my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, "I love being out there with just my thoughts" Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt.

And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn't just the first week: it was practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn't fun. What a cruel way to do it! So many other exercises, including walking, lead to almost the same results painlessly, so why jog?

I don't jog any more, and I don't think I ever will. I'm walking two miles three times a week at a fast pace, and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I'm getting exercise, and I'm enjoying it at the same time. I could never say the same for jogging, and I've found a lot of better ways to stay in shape.

A simple piece of clothesline hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors.
On one side stand those who see clothes dryers(干衣机) as a waste of energy and a major polluter of the environment. As a result, they are turning to clotheslines as part of the “what-I –can do environmentalism(环境保护主义).”
On the other side are people who are against drying clothes outside, arguing that clotheslines are unpleasant to look at. They have persuaded Homeowners Associations (HOAs) access the U.S. to ban outdoor clotheslines, because clothesline drying also tends to lower home value in the neighborhood. This had led to a Right-to-Dry Movement that is calling for laws to be passed to protect people’s right to use clotheslines.
So far, only three states have laws to protect clothesline. Right-to-Dry supporters argue that there should be move.
Matt Reck, 37, is the kind of eco-conscious(有生态意识的) person who feeds his trees with bathwater and reuses water drops from his air conditioners to water plants. His family also uses a clothesline. But on July 9, 2007, the HOA in Wake Forest, North Carolina, told him that a dissatisfied neighlzir had telephoned them about him clothesline. The Recks paid no attention to the warming and still dried their clothes on a line in the yard. “Many people say they are environmentally friendly but they don’t take matters in their own hands,” says Reck. The local HOA has decided not to take any action, unless more neighbors come to them.
North Carolina lawmakers are saying that banning clotheslines is not the right thing to do. But HOAs and housing businesses believe that clothesline drying reminds people of poor neighborhoods. They worry that if buyers think their future neighbors can’t even afford dryers, housing prices will fall.
Environmentalists say such worries are not necessary, and in view of global warming, that idea needs to change. As they say, “The clothesline is beautiful”. Hanging clothes outside should be encouraged. We all have to do at least something to slow down the process of global warming.”
One of the reasons why supporters of clothes dryers are trying to ban clothesline drying is that ____.

Which of the following best describes Matt Reck?

Who are in favor of clothesline drying?

What is mainly discussed in the text?

人们完成工作的方式通常有两种：独立完成和合作完成。两种方式各有特点。请你以"Working Individually or Working in a Team"为题，按照以下要点写一篇英语短文：
独立完成：自行安排、自己解决问题。
合作完成：一起讨论、相互学习
我喜欢的方式和理由
注意：词数100-120，文章的题目和开头已给出（不计词数）。
Working Individually or Working in a Team
There are basically two ways to get work done

Are you all right?

______ apple fell from the tree and hit him on ______ head.（）

I like this jacket better than that one, but it costs almost three times______.

wants to stay in a hotel has to pay their own way.

I don’t believe you’ve already finished reading the book — I ______it to you this morning!

Some children want to challenge themselves by learning a language different from ______ their parents speak at home.

——What’s that noise?
——Oh, I forgot to tell you. The new machine ______.

Yesterday she sold her car, ______ she bought a month ago.

--I'd like some more cheese.
--Sorry, there'sleft.

that he was in great danger, Eric walked deeper into the forest.

You ______ be hungry already — you had lunch only two hours ago!

There are plenty of jobs ______ in the western part of the country.

It is one of the funniest things ______ on the Internet so far this year.

American Indianabout five percent of the U.S. population.

Dogs have a very good ______ of smell and are often used to search for survivors in an earthquake.

Don’t promise anything ______ you are one hundred percent sure.

Everything was perfect for the picnic ______ the weather.

Running a company is nota matter of hiring people - they also need to be trained.

Why are you so anxious? It isn't your problem.

—Shall we go out for dinner tonight?
——______.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent, in fact, what I call __21__and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming tool. But he did __22__the water. Any kind of __23__ride seemed to give him pleasure. __24__he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being __25__the water, moving through it, __26__it all around me. I was not a strong __27__, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __28__. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and __29__those summer days with my father, who __30__ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __31__person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go __32__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me __33__anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk __34__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his _35__. But my father always __36__and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s __37__.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __38__ an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood,; the rest is __39__.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but __40__, in that childhood, look at us.  
21．A. desire      B. joy        C. anger        D. worry
22．A. avoid       B. refuse      C. praise        D. love
23．A. boat        B. bus        C. train        D. bike
24．A. But        B. Then       C. And          D. Still
25．A. on         B. off         C. by           D. in
26．A. having     B. leaving     C. making       D. getting
27．A. swimmer     B. rider      C. walker       D. runner
28．A. hopes       B. faiths      C. rights       D. fears
29．A. spending    B. saving      C. wasting      D. ruining
30．A. should     B. would       C. had to       D. ought to
31．A. next       B. only        C. other        D. last
32．A. away from  B. out of      C. by           D. inside
33．A. put up     B. break down  C. play with     D. work out
34．A. the moment   B. the first time   C. while           D. before
35. A. fishing net   B. office things    C. wooden chair    D. lab equipment
36. A. stood up     B. set out         C. showed up       D. turned out
37. A. fine         B. strange          C. terrible        D. funny
38. A. the student   B. the assistant   C. myself          D. himself
39. A. memory       B. wealth          C. experience      D. practice
40. A. which        B. who             C. what            D. whose

Molly信箱是一个报刊栏目，主持人Molly回答读者提出的各种问题。下列题是五位读者的来信。请从A、B、C、D、E和F中为每封来信选出最合适的回复，并在答题纸上将该选项桔号涂黑。选项中一项是多余选项。

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词正确的完全形式（每空限写一词）。
This cake t    delicious. Would you like a try?
Lucy was badly hurt in a traffic a     last week.
Yesterday Michael a      to his boss for being late.
These books b     to Sarah--- I must give them back to her.
Mum is cooking in the k     while Dad is watching TV.
About 71 percent of the earth’s surface is e     by water.
I u    go to bed at 10:00 p.m., but I stayed up till 11:00 last night.
Plants and a     , including humans, need food and water to survive.
He was p     of the Olympic Gold Medal he won for his country.
Each student is allowed to borrow two books at a time from the school l      .

短文改错（共10小题; 每小题1分，满分10分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉, 在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
Last winter vacation, some of my classmates decide to               76.           
travel with their friends, while I chose to take par-time job        77.           
to gain experience and earn some money. I learned from my       78.           
teacher that a nearby company was looking after students         79.           
with good handwriting to write address on envelope. The         80.           
pay were 10 cent per envelope. I headed for the company,        81.           
feeling sue I would easy finish 300 envelops in five hours and     82.           
to earn the money. Actually, I only finished 200. Now, I         83.           
fully understand how hard is to earn money. Getting out          84.           
of the classroom is indeed necessary for we all.                  85.