◎ 2009年高三英语普通高校招生统一考试(湖南卷)的第一部分试题
  • 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在
    试题卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后,你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段
    对话仅读一遍。
    1. What does the man mean?
    A. It will take about one month to repair the watch.
    B. It costs too much to have the watch repaired.
    C. The watch is no longer worth repairing.
    2. When will they get there for the play?
    A. 9:00.
    B. 10:00.
    C. 10:30.
    3. Why can't the man concentrate on his study?
    A. He keeps thinking of going to the movies.
    B. His classmates are taking a break.
    C. He's been studying for too long.
    4. What is the man going to do?
    A. Go to the Chinese restaurant.
    B. Watch the football game.
    C. Visit a friend downtown.
    5.What do you know about Frank?
    A. He will arrive in Chicago this morning.
    B. He will send Ms. Tyler an e-mail.
    C. He will call Ms. Tyler himself.
  • 听下面一段对话,回答第1和第2两个小题。
    1. Which part of the man's body hurts?
    A. An arm.
    B. An eye.
    C. An ear.
    2. What does the woman advise the man to do?
    A. Go to hospital at once.
    B. Stay away from the swimming pool.
    C. Get some medicine from the drugstore.
  • 听下面一段对话,回答第1至第3三个小题。
    1. What do you know about the woman?
    A. She doesn't believe the man's excuse.
    B. She's been waiting far too long.
    C. She's really angry with the man.
    2. What does the man mean?
    A. He got there in only five minutes.
    B. He has a good reason for being late.
    C. He is used to waiting for the woman.
    3. What does the woman want the man to do?
    A. Buy the tickets.
    B. Buy her a wallet.
    C. Go back for her wallet.
  • 听下面一段对话,回答第1至第3三个小题。
    1. Who is the woman talking to?
    A. A hotel clerk.
    B. A hotel manager.
    C. A policeman.
    2. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
    A. In the manager's office.
    B. In the room of the guest.
    C. At the police station.
    3. What do you know about the woman?
    A. She cannot find her necklace.
    B. She put her necklace in the bed.
    C. She is not satisfied with the room.
  • 听下面一段对话,回答第1至第4四个小题。
    1. Why is the woman asking for leave?
    A. She plans to go to the UK with her parents.
    B. She has to take care of her parents at home.
    C. She wants to spend some time with her parents.
    2. What can be inferred about the man?
    A. He knows a lot about Chinese culture.
    B. He doesn't want the woman to take any time off at first.
    C. He considers language a big problem for foreign visitors.
    3. What can be inferred about the woman?
    A. She is a student.
    B. She is a teacher.
    C. She is a tourist.
    4. What agreement do the two speakers reach at the end of the conversation?
    A. The woman can take two days off.
    B. The woman needs to do some extra work.
    C. The woman should buy some travelling materials.
  • 听下面一段材料,将第1至第3三个小题的信息补充完整,每小题不超过3个单词。听材料前,你将
    有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟;听完后,各小题将给出15秒钟的作答时间。本段材料读两遍。
                                                  Doing exercise and keeping fit
    Ⅰ. The importance of exercise
          A 1______ can lead to many health problems.
    Ⅱ. How to prevent illness
          Stay 2______: playing sports, gardening & doing housework.
    Ⅲ. Ways of doing exercise
          · Choose a proper form
            One that you enjoy and that you can stick with
          · Exercise in the right way
            Start exercising slowly and increase the amount of exercise 3______.
  • Every evening after dinner, if not _____ from work, I will spend some time walking my dog.

    A. being tired
    B. tiring
    C. tired
    D. to be tired
  • Most Americans would prefer to keep their problems _____ themselves, and solve their problems _____
    themselves.
    [     ]
    A. to; by
    B. by; to
    C. for; to
    D. in; on
  • When he _____ the door, he found his keys were nowhere.
    [     ]
    A. would open
    B. opened
    C. had opened
    D. was to open
◎ 2009年高三英语普通高校招生统一考试(湖南卷)的第二部分试题
  • I can _____ be a teacher. I'm not a very patient person.
    [     ]
    A. seldom
    B. ever
    C. never
    D. always
  • At the age of 29, Dave was a worker, _____ in a small apartment near Boston and _____ what to do about
    his future.

    [     ]

    A. living; wondering
    B. lived; wondering
    C. lived; wondered
    D. living; wondered
  • I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city _____ name will create a picture of beautiful trees and green grass in our mind.

    A. which
    B. of which
    C. that
    D. whose
  • Would you please keep silent? The weather report _____ and I want to listen.

    A. is broadcast
    B. is being broadcast
    C. has been broadcast
    D. had been broadcast
  • She is very dear to us. We have been prepared to do _____ it takes to save her life.
    [     ]
    A. whichever
    B. however
    C. whatever
    D. whoever
  • Nowadays people sometimes separate their waste to make it easier for it _____.
    [     ]
    A. reusing
    B. reused
    C. reuses
    D. to be reused
  • — It's the office! So you _____ know eating is not allowed here. 
    — Oh, sorry.
    [     ]
    A. must
    B. will
    C. may
    D. need
  • Please do me a favor - _____ my friend Mr. Smith to Youth Theater at 7:30 tonight.

    A. to invite
    B. inviting
    C. invite
    D. invited
  • You and I could hardly work together, _____?
    A. could you
    B. couldn't I
    C. couldn't we
    D. could we
◎ 2009年高三英语普通高校招生统一考试(湖南卷)的第三部分试题
  • Either you or one of your students _____ to attend the meeting that is due tomorrow.

    A. are
    B. is
    C. have
    D. be
  • _____ the police thought he was the most likely one, since they had no exact proof about it, they could not
    arrest him.
    A. Although
    B. As long as
    C. If only
    D. As soon as
  • — The food here is nice enough.
    — My friend _____ me a right place.

    A. introduces
    B. introduced
    C. had introduced
    D. was introducing
  • 完型填空。
         "It's no use, Mum," said Johnny. "I'm just no good at dancing."
         "You've got to keep trying. Tonight will be   1  , dear. Try a turn with that pretty Lisette."
         Johnny   2  . Every Saturday night used to be the best of the week. He and his parents went to the   3   
    at the Club, where his hero, Alcide, played the accordion (手风琴) with the band. But lately everything had
    changed. Now that Johnny was older, he was   4   to dance with a girl! 
           5   Johnny and his parents arrived at the Club, music had already started. Johnny got up his   6   to
    approach Lisette. "May I have this dance?" Johnny asked. "That's all right," said Lisette. Johnny struggled
    to keep up with Lisette's   7   steps, but he was always one beat behind her. Then Johnny heard his friend
    Pierre say, "Look! Johnny has two left feet!"   8   burst from the crowd. Johnny   9   and ran outside,
    determined never to go to another dance.
         The next Saturday, Alcide  10  to Johnny's house for some potatoes. He happened to hear Johnny playing
    the accordion. Alcide's eyes  11 . "Bring that accordion and play some songs tonight," Alcide said. Then he
    drove off, leaving Johnny staring open-mouthed  12  him.
         At the Club, Johnny scanned the crowd for Lisette and  13  her. The band played for a long time before
    Alcide said, "Dear friends, I got a  14  for you tonight. Young Johnny is going to join us!"  15 , Johnny
    stepped up on the platform, his eyes on the floor. He began to play, and the band  16  behind him. When the
    song ended, he heard cheers. Johnny kept playing until the dance was  17 . "You did a fine job tonight. Play
    with us again next Saturday night," Alcide said. "Yes, sir!" said Johnny.  18  he went outside, Johnny saw
    Lisette and her friends near the door. Lisette stepped  19 , smiling. "You played really good tonight!" she said.
         "Thank you," Johnny blushed (脸红). As he walked on, Pierre  20  moved out of the way for him to pass.
         Johnny patted his accordion. Come to think of it, in his whole life, he had never once seen Alcide out on
    the dance floor.
    (     )1. A. difficult  
    (     )2. A. answered   
    (     )3. A. platform   
    (     )4. A. expected   
    (     )5. A. If         
    (     )6. A. spirits   
    (     )7. A. smooth     
    (     )8. A. Shouts     
    (     )9. A. broke away  
    (     )10. A. ran       
    (     )11. A. opened     
    (     )12. A. off       
    (     )13. A. caught    
    (     )14. A. surprise  
    (     )15. A. Struggling    
    (     )16. A. got round  
    (     )17. A. in         
    (     )18. A. As        
    (     )19. A. backward   
    (     )20. A. still     
    B. troublesome 
    B. sighed      
    B. appointment     
    B. invited     
    B. Since      
    B. feelings    
    B. clumsy     
    B. Laughter    
    B. went out    
    B. walked      
    B. rolled      
    B. with        
    B. searched    
    B. puzzle    
    B. Trembling      
    B. joined in   
    B. out         
    B. Because     
    B. forward    
    B. even      
    C. different  
    C. smiled         
    C. meeting      
    C. allowed        
    C. Though      
    C. courage       
    C. slow       
    C. Applause    
    C. broke up    
    C. drove         
    C. sharpened    
    C. after        
    C. sought      
    C. story         
    C. Wandering     
    C. turned around    
    C. over         
    C. Until          
    C. onward      
    C. ever        
    D. terrible   
    D. laughed       
    D. dance      
    D. chosen        
    D. When        
    D. strength      
    D. small     
    D. Cheers      
    D. turned out                
    D. cycled        
    D. widened     
    D. for         
    D. spotted    
    D. joke         
    D. Whispering   
    D. showed off   
    D. on         
    D. So             
    D. downward  
    D. almost     
  • 阅读理解。
         Eddie McKay, a once-forgotten pilot, is a subject of great interest to a group of history students in
    Canada.
         It all started when Graham Broad, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, found McKay's
    name in a footnote in a book about university history. McKay was included in a list of university alumni
    (校友) who had served during the First World War, but his name was unfamiliar to Broad, a specialist
    in military history. Out of curiosity, Broad spent hours at the local archives (档案馆) in a fruitless search
    for information on McKay. Tired and discouraged, he finally gave up. On his way out, Broad's glance
    happened to fall on an exhibiting case showing some old newspapers. His eye was drawn to an old picture
    of a young man in a rugby uniform. As he read the words beside the picture, he experienced a thrilling
    realization. "After looking for him all day, there he was, staring up at me out of the exhibiting case," said
    Broad. Excited by the find, Broad asked his students to continue his search. They combed old newspapers
    and other materials for clues. Gradually, a picture came into view.
         Captain Alfred Edwin McKay joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1916. He downed ten enemy planes,
    outlived his entire squadron (中队) as a WWI flyer, spent some time as a flying instructor in England, then
    returned to the front, where he was eventually shot down over Belgium and killed in December 1917. But
    there's more to his story. "For a brief time in 1916 he was probably the most famous pilot in the world,"
    says Broad. "He was credited with downing Oswald Boelcke, the most famous German pilot at the time."
    Yet, in a letter home, McKay refused to take credit, saying that Boelcke had actually crashed into another
    German plane.
         McKay's war records were destroyed during a World War II air bombing on London-an explanation for
    why he was all but forgotten.
         But now, thanks to the efforts of Broad and his students, a marker in McKay's memory was placed on
    the university grounds in November 2007. "I found my eyes filling with tears as I read the word 'deceased'
    (阵亡) next to his name," said Corey Everrett, a student who found a picture of Mckay in his uniform.
    "This was such a simple example of the fact that he had been a student just like us, but instead of finishing
    his time at Western, he chose to fight and die for his country."
    1. What made Professor Broad continue his search for more information on McKay?
    A. A uniform of McKay.
    B. A footnote about McKay.
    C. A book on McKay.
    D. A picture of McKay.
    2. What did the students find out about McKay?
    A. He trained pilots for some time.
    B. He lived longer than other pilots.
    C. He died in the Second World War.
    D. He was downed by the pilot Boelcke.
    3. McKay's flying documents were destroyed in _____.
    A. Belgium
    B. Germany
    C. Canada
    D. England
    4. We can learn from the last paragraph that McKay _____.
    A. preferred fight to his study
    B. went to war before graduation
    C. left a picture for Corey Everrett
    D. set an example for his fellow students
    5. What is the text mainly about?
    A. The research into war history.
    B. The finding of a forgotten hero.
    C. The pilots of the two world wars.
    D. The importance of military studies.
  • 阅读理解。
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    1. How long does it take the battery to charge up an iPhone?
    A. 15 minutes.
    B. 30 minutes.
    C. 1.5 hours.
    D. 3 hours.
    2. What is special about the battery?
    A. It is built in an iPhone.
    B. It is the smallest of its kind.
    C. It can also be used as a charger.
    D. It keeps power for about 30 days.
    3. Who mentions the transporting of the battery?
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    B. B.L.
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  • 阅读理解。
         People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group,
    and getting eaten as a result. That is the fascinating conclusion of the latest research into fish behavior by
    a team of Australian scientists.
         The research team have discovered that subordinate fish voluntarily diet to avoid challenging their larger
    competitors. "In studying gobies we noticed that only the largest two individuals, a male and female, had
    breeding (繁殖) rights within the group," explains Marian Wong. "All other group members are nonbreeding
    females, each being 5-10% smaller than its next largest competitor. We wanted to find out how they
    maintain this precise size separation."
         The reason for the size difference was easy to see. Once a subordinate fish grows to within 5-10% of
    the size of its larger competitor, it causes a fight which usually ends in the smaller goby being driven away
    from the group. More often than not, the evicted fish is then eaten up.
         It appeared that the smaller fish were keeping themselves small in order to avoid challenging the boss
    fish. Whether they did so voluntarily, by restraining how much they ate, was not clear. The research team
    decided to do an experiment. They tried to fatten up some of the subordinate gobies to see what happened.
    To their surprise, the gobies simply refused the extra food they were offered, clearly preferring to remain
    small and avoid fights, over having a feast.
         The discovery challenges the traditional scientific view of how boss individuals keep their position in a
    group. Previously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and size to threaten their
    subordinates and take more of the food for themselves, so keeping their competitors small.
         While the habits of gobies may seem a little mysterious, Dr. Wong explains that understanding the
    relationships between boss and subordinate animals is important to understanding how hierarchical (等级的)
    societies remain stable.
         The research has proved the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive to humans. "As
    yet, we lack a complete understanding of how widespread the voluntary reduction of food intake is in
    nature," the researchers comment. "Data on human dieting suggests that, while humans generally diet to
    improve health or increase attractiveness, rarely does it improve long-term health and males regularly
    prefer females that are fatter than the females' own ideal."
    1. When a goby grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it _____.
    A. faces danger
    B. has breeding rights
    C. eats its competitor
    D. leaves the group itself
    2. The underlined words "the evicted fish" in Paragraph 3 refer to _____.
    A. the fish beaten up
    B. the fish found out
    C. the fish fattened up
    D. the fish driven away
    3. The experiment showed that the smaller fish _____.
    A. fought over a feast
    B. went on diet willingly
    C. preferred some extra food
    D. challenged the boss fish
    4. What is the text mainly about?
    A. Fish dieting and human dieting.
    B. Dieting and health.
    C. Human dieting.
    D. Fish dieting.
  • 阅读理解。
         Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would
    be "like a magic carpet…You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag". Then he paused:"But
    you'll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel."
         It was a rare-indeed unique-occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor,
    William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable,
    had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted
    into Grout's Wonderful Bag, a leather case.
         Grout's aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn't that sound familiar? Grout
    intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly,
    the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage: in Grout's day, tyres were solid, which made the business
    of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn't do the same with a wheel fitted with
    a one-piece inflated (充气的) tyre.
         So, in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer,
    Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse (椭圆).
    Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.
         Will the young Fitzsimons's folding wheel make it into production? I haven't the foggiest idea. But his
    inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has
    reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It's as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there's plenty
    still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You
    can buy a folding bike for less than £1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a
    plane-minus wheels, of course-as hand baggage.
         Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew
    Ritchie's imagination? No. But it's progress.
    1. We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike _____.
    A. was portable
    B. had a folding wheel
    C. could be put in a pocket
    D. looked like a magic carpet
    2. We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable _____.
    A. were difficult to separate
    B. could be split into 6 pieces
    C. were fitted with solid tyres
    D. were hard to carry on a train
    3. We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons's invention _____.
    A. kept the tyre as a whole piece
    B. was made into production soon
    C. left little room for improvement
    D. changed our views on bag design
    4. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
    A. Three folding bike inventors
    B. The making of a folding bike
    C. Progress in folding bike design
    D. Ways of separating a bike wheel
  • 阅读下面短文,根据第1至第3小题的具体要求,简要回答问题。
         A long time ago, Milton S. Hershey, the creator of the popular chocolate bars, was dipped in warm
    chocolate. I know all about it. My grandfather was there!
         At nineteen, Hershey established a candy business in Philadelphia. Although it failed, he tried again
    in several other cities and succeeded with Crystal A Caramels. But Hershey was not content. He began
    experimenting with chocolate and managed to sell his first chocolate bars in 1900. They were an instant
    success. In 1903, Hershey built a factory.
         Hershey was usually pleasant and kind and enjoyed a good joke. However, in his chocolate factory,
    he held high standards for all the workers. He was both respected and feared. His anger would burst
    out when things didn't go as he'd expected, and workers were fired for mistakes.
         My grandfather began working in the factory as a young man. His job was to push the vats (大桶)
    of warm chocolate to a storage area. To do this, he had to push the heavy vats up a ramp (斜坡) and
    across the walkway. One day, Hershey was walking backward on the walkway while my grandfather
    was pushing a vat of chocolate up the ramp. Bump. Clunk. Ker-plop! Hershey fell backward into the vat.
    Everyone else held their breath and ran up to pull him out. Grandfather froze in fear. Was he going to
    lose his job?
         Hershey stood stiffly with his hands on his hips. Color rose in his face. He said something in a low
    voice. Then he smiled. "It's not your fault, son," he said. "I need to watch where I'm going." He put
    some chocolate in his mouth. "Mmm, that's good," he said. Everyone laughed. The tour continued, with
    Hershey dripping chocolate as he went. And Grandfather kept his job.
    1. What did Grandfather do in Hershey's factory? (回答词数不超过12个)
         ___________________________________________________________________
    2. Why didn't Hershey fire Grandfather? (回答词数不超过10个)  
         ___________________________________________________________________
    3. What does the incident show us about Hershey? (回答词数不超过15个) 
         ___________________________________________________________________
  • 填空:阅读下面短文,根据所读内容在文后第76至第85小题的空格里填上适当的单词或短语。
    注意:每空不超过3个单词。
         What is eco-fashion? Eco-fashion is a complex phenomenon and the common use of the term covers
    two aspects of fashion-'ecological' and 'ethical' (伦理的). Ecological fashion usually refers to textile (织
    物) and clothing production processes and the environmental issues (议题) surrounding them; ethical
    fashion generally relates to the working conditions involved in the producing processes.
         What are the problems with fashion? Firstly, the production of textiles pollutes the environment heavily.
    Cotton-planting uses pesticides; sheep-farming and wool-cleaning contribute to global warming; synthetics-
    making (人造纤维生产) brings about harmful waste. Secondly, every stage of clothing production has a
    significant effect on the environment. They all use a great deal of energy, and some also involve harmful
    chemicals. In addition to this, there is a lot of waste produced in the process, especially in the form of
    polluted water. Thirdly, growing consumption levels and our shopping habits further worsen the bad effects.
    We are now buying clothes in increasing quantities without realizing the scale on which it affects natural
    environment, and we are also quick to throw away clothes that have been worn only a couple of times.
         Then, how to solve the problems? To a large degree, it is the fashion producers that really have the power
    and the responsibility to shape our future. There are numerous ways in which these producers can reduce
    their ecological footprint, from switching to green energy and reducing energy use, through selecting
    sustainable (可持续使用的) materials and choosing local suppliers, to recycle and minimize waste. On the
    other hand, as consumers we can all make contributions by selecting environmentally friendly clothing and
    reducing clothing consumption.
         Now many people are beginning to shop for organic food products because the benefits of eating food
    free of chemicals are straightforward and immediate. They relate directly to our personal health. In fact,
    choosing eco-fashion can also contribute to our personal health, though it is mostly done by way of keeping
    the health of the planet.
  • 写作。
         假设你是某中学新老师李红,请给你的朋友张华写一封信,告诉他你第一天上课的情况,
    主要内容如下:
         1. 描述一件课堂上令你印象深刻的事情;
         2. 介绍你处理该事的方式;
         3. 谈谈你的感想。
    注意:
         1. 词数不少于120个;
         2. 可适当发挥想象,增加细节,以使行文连贯;
         3. 文中不得出现与本人及学校相关的任何真实信息。
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