2011年全国统一高考英语试卷（湖北卷）

“Tommy, run! Be quick! The house is on fire!” the mother shouted, with______ elderly in her votes.

Giviog 22.up maker to go back to full time caudation was s a big________, but now I know was the best decision I ever made.

The old engineer's eyes still shone bright in the wrinkled brown face and his step as he came across the room was，though slow.

An unhappy childhood may have some negative effects on a person’s characters however, they are not always_________,

The state-run company is required to make its   accounts asas possible for its staff to monitor the use of money.

Know font if we want to the success but they may also________ out thinking.

The minister said. “We are ready for discussions with any legal parties, but we’ll never_______ with criminals.”

Clinical evidence began to__________, suggesting that the new drugs had a wider range of useful activities than had been predicted from experiments in animals.

The government has taken measures tothe high prices of daily goods to keep the market stable.

When asked about their opinion about the schoolmaster ,many teachers would prefer to see him step aside __________ younger men.

The young wonman entered the pool where an injured dolphin(海豚) was swimming. Despite her fear,she felt strong wearing her new leg.

In her second grade. Maja1her cousin.Jasmina.After Jasmina's death.Maja swore she would honor the little girl by2with a dolphin,an animal that both girls3."Jasmina never got the chance to do it."says Maja.now32,"so I4that someday I'd do it for her."

In high school,Maja was5about sports. she even planned to become an athlete.6,in 1993. during the eivil war in her home country, a bomb7her left leg.

After two years'8in the U.S.,Maja received her first artifierd (人造的)leg. But9it didn't fit well, walking for Maja was painful.10，she managed to graduart from a loca high school. Then after receiving a 11from Saint Francis University, she got a job at an insurance firm and12started her own campany.

To relax. Maja13ofter watch the dolphins play at an auarium (水族馆)near her home.A young dolphin. Winter, who had lost its tail, caught her14One day,Maja happened to see trainers15Winter with a high-teeh tail.When they were done.Winter swam freely in the water.Maja was16. She managed to find the inventors of Winter's tail.Within ten days,she  had a new leg which freed her the17that had troubled her for almost 16years.

Now, Maja was ready to keep her18.She went to the aquarium. Lowered herself into the pool and held out a hand to Winter, who approached19, then swum away. After a few minutes. The dollop hint let Maja20its back Finally .they began to swim around together.

Honesty, my mum always used to tell me, is the best policy. Of course, this didin’t include her when she told me that if I didn’t eat all my vegetables Father Christmas would find out and wouldn’t give me any presents.
But when it comes to medicine, I had assumed it was important to always be honest with my patients. After all, the doctor patient relationship is based on trust, and therefore honesty is essential, Or so I thought.
I had just started working in geriatrics(老年病科). Mr. McMahon was brought in when his baby was faound very swollen. I took a medical history from his daughter would accompanied him in the ambulance. She’d been his main carer for years. I stood looking at him as she gave a detailed history. “Has he lost any weight recently?” I asked, “Well, it’s funny you should mention that, but yes.” She said slowly. There was silence for a few moments. “Why? What are you worried about?” she asked, I hesitated. She was obviously very involved in his care and it was only fair that I told her the truth. “Well, we need to prove it’s not cancer.” I said and talked briefly about some of the tests I was going to order.
Half an hour later, a nurse called me: “Mr. McMahon’s daughter broke down－she said you told her he had cancer.” My heart sank. By the time I arrived at the ward, my consultant was already there, explaining that we still had to run lots of tests and that it was by no means confirmed that he had cancer. I stood silently at the end of the bed. My consultant was obviously angry with me and as we left Mr. McMahon, she turned to me. “Why on carch did you do that?” she asked to disbelief. I looked at her andbit my hp. “She asked me what I was worried about and I told her.” I said, hanging my head. “And give her more to worry about?” replied my consultant. “You don’t say the word ‘cancer’ until it’s confirmed. Even if you suspect it, think very carefully before you tell people.”
As it turned out, it wasn’t cancer. But I did learn that when somecone is stressed and worried about their loved one they’re sometimes selective in what they hear－and as a doctor it’s important to be mindful of this. In being truthful, I’d made the situation worse.
.The purpose of the first two paragraphs is to show that the author        .

The author’s consultant was angry with him because         .

The author hung his head (the underlined part in Para.4) because he was feeling    

.What lesson has the author learnt from his experience?

Howling is a behavior commonly observed among a wolf nark. An animals, wolves work together to hunt and rely on howling was an important means of communication each other. There are different explants of a wolf’s howl and it appears that there may be more to discover.      One theory is that wolves howl to bend better together. It’s almost as if howling together helps the pack stay together. Perhaps something similar to people feeling a sense of involvement with each other when singing a song together . But this theory may be wrong, explains Fred H. Harington, a professor who studies wolf behavior.     Indeed, there have been tines when wolves have been seen one moment howling in a exhorts, and the next, quarreling anions each other. It appears that usually the lowest-tanking menthes of the pack may actually be “punished” for
Joining in the churs at times. So is howling a way to strcagthen a social boad or just a way to reconfirm status among its members? ——Why do welves howl for sure?
What is cleat, however, is that howling is often used among packmates to locate each other. Hunting grounds are distant and it happens that woloves may separate from one another at times. When this happens, howling appcars to be an ercellent means of gathering.
Howling, interestingly, is a contagious behaviour. When one wolf starts to howl, very likely others will follow. This is often seen to occat in the morning, as if wolves were doing some sotr of “roll rall”where wolves all howl togeter to howl, very likely others will follow. This is often seen to occar in the morning, as if wolves were doing w some sotr of “roll call”where wolves all howl together to repotr their pteence.
.What the por similarity between wolves’ how humaes ting in chorus?

.Why does Harrington think the“secial boad”theory may be wrong?

Reseatchers are sure that wolves often howl to______.

“Howling… is a contagious behaviour”(in the last paragraph)means_ ______.

In today's throw away society, dealing with the city's growing mountain of waste is an inereasing challenge for the city countil(市议会)。

Recently. Edinburgh is faced with the problem of dssposing of(处理)about250,000 Million tons of waster a year . Despite different ways to dispose of much of it in a green manner---largely through encouraging tecycling---its aging facilities such as the Powderhall landfill do not have the ability to deal with it.

The European Union(EU) has issued a new policy, regulating how such mountains of waster are to hr disposed of. The five councils (Edinburgh. East Lothian. West Lothian. Midlethian and Borders) face fine around $18million a year from 2013 it they don't inerease recycling levels and rely less on landfill. With this in mind, the coumlls got together with the idea of building a lage incinerator plant (垃圾焚烧厂)to burn half of the waste produced in their districts. But the plan fell apart after the change of target levels by a new UK government waste policy which required that no more than 25% of the city's waste should be disposed of in this way by 2025.

After the plan was abandoned, a private company which already transported millions of tons of the city's wast by train to a landfill site near Dunbar, offered an alternative soution when it suggested opening a huge waste site near Portobello.

Since Powderhall is supposed to close in 2015, it seemed necessary for the members of the Edinburgh Council to accept the suggestion. But soon they turned it down-after 700 local objections reached them-because it would have meant hundreds of lorries a day making loud noise through heavily populated areas.

That still leaves eth council with a problem. By 2013,only50%of 1995 levels of waste will benllewed to be sent to landfill. Even if recveling large are met, there will still be a large amount of rubbish to be burnt up. Due build an Edinburgh and Midlothian councils have now decided to work together to build an ineinerator plant as time to find a solution is fast running out.

Feeling blue about world ? “Cheer up.” Says science writer Matt Ridley.”The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and got nature.”
Ridley calls himself a tat ional optimist—tactical .because he’s carefully weighed the evidence optimistic .because that   offence shows human progress to be both unavoidable and good .And this is what he’s set out to prone from unique point of view in his most recent book. The Rant anal Opting  .He views mankind as grand enterprise that .on the whole .has done little but progress for 100.000 years. He backed his finding with hard gathered though years of research.
Here’s how he explains his views.
Shopping fuels invention
It is reported that there are more than ten billion different producers for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty .our own generation has access to more nutritious food .more convenient transport .bigger houses, better ears .and of course, more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us .This will continue as long as we there things to make other things, This more we specialize and exchange, the better off we’ll be.
2) Brilliant advances
One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer-lived and freer than ener before is that the four most basie human needs -food, clothing, fuel and shelter- have grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hour’s light cost six hours’ work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes’ work to pay for. In 1950 it was eight seconds. Today it’s half second.
3) Let’s not kill ourselves for climate change
Mitigating(减轻) climate change could prove just as damaging to human welface as climate change itself. A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fassil-fuel(化石燃料) electrieity is forhidden by well meaming members of green polucal movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that mes in a flood caused by climate change. If chmaic change proves to be xxxx, but cutting carbon canses realparn, we may well find that we have stopped a nose bleed by putting a tournquet(止血带) around our necks.
What is the theme of Ridley’s most recent book?

How does Ridley look at shopping?

The candle and lamp example is used to show that     .

What does the last sentence of the passage imply?

Which are you more likely to have wath you at sny given mement—your cell phone or your wallet? Soon you may be able to throw your wallet away and pay for things with a quick wave of your smart phone over an electroue scannet.
In January, Starbucks announced that customers could start using their phones to buy coffee in 6,800 of its states. This is the first pay-by-phone practice in the U.S., but we’re likely to see more witeless payment alternatives as something called ucar field communcation(NFC)GETS IN TO America’s consumet electanies. Last Deccmbet some new smart phanes which cantain an NFC chip were introduced to the public.
Already in use in part of Asia and Europe, NFC allows shoppers to wave theie phones a few inchs above a payment terminal-a contact-free system build for speed and convenience.  plan a few incees live a payment tetminal a one a few ptaht need to be worked out, like who will get to collect the profitable trunsacian(交易)fees. Although some credit card providers have been experimenting with wave and pay systems that use NFC enabled credit cards, cellphone service providers truay try to mused their way into the point of sale (POS)market. Three big cell phone service providers have formed a joinf tenture(合资企业)that will go into opention over the next 15 months. Its goal is“to lead the U.S. payments industry from cards to mobile phone.”
The other big NFC sue, apart from how paymeats will be processed, is security, For instance, what’s to stop a thief from digitally pickpocketing you? “We’re still not at the point where an attacker can just brush against yee in a crowd and steal all the money out of your phone,”says Jimmy Shah. A mobile security rescarcher, “Usera may also be able to set transaction timeits,requiring a password to be enteced for larger putchases.
Bussiness? Keep in mund you lost your smart phone, it can be located on a located on a map and remotely disabled. Plus, your phone can be password protected, Your wallet isn’t.
What is predicted to happen in the U.S.?

The NFC technology can be used to________.

Three cellphone service providers form a joint venture to__________.

According to the what can users do if they lose their smart phones?

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，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。
例：We__________(起床)before dawn. It was still dark outside.(get)
答案：got up
  Not until two days after the earthquake________(她发现)her mother alive.(find)
  ________call net when you arrive. Just come up to me house. I’ll be at home all day.(there)
  It was cold and dumpty the man pulled up his collat and put his hands to his_____(冻僵了的脸).(freate)
________(把钥匙握在手上)，he looked for them everywhere.(hold)
  If_________(我没有喝)alcohol last night. I could have driven my car home.(drink)
         （令球迷欣喜的）was that the young player performed exteriorly well in the table tennis tournament.(delight)
  A number of paintings in this castle are believed        (被毁掉)in a fire in 2009.(destroy)
         (他突然想到) that he had an important conference to attend the next morning.(occur)
  Be careful! The machine starts      (你一按)the button.(moment)
                        (比较这两把牙刷) and you’ll find the purple one is softer.(compare)

请根据以下提示，结合你校园生活中的一个事例，就与人合作这一话题，用英语写一篇短文。
Working in groups at school is an opportunity to learn about team work. Teamwork shows us how other people’s roles fit the purpose of the group, and it teaches to be patient and how to respond to different people.
注意：①无须写标题，不得照抄英语提示语；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③内容必须结合校园生活中的一个事例；
④文中不得透漏个人姓名和学校名称；
⑤词数为100左右。