湖北荆州市普通高等学校招生5月模拟A英语试卷

When you come across a new word , you should learn to guess the meaning of the word according to the ________ clues , which may be in the sentence that comes before the word.

________ is an unreasonable dislike of a particular group of people or things, or a preference for one group of people or things over another.

Since the day it was founded , the Venus Orchestra , known as the “the most beautiful orchestra in the world ”, has _________ the attention of professional critics , music lovers , and a wide range of audience.

It is some time since the two parties came into conflict with each other , and now leaders of both sides are _________ a settlement of the dispute.

Built mainly on natural resources , the prosperity of the city was _______ and its economy almost collapsed when coal prices began to fall in 2012.

After years of learning Chinese, I still can’t understand everything , particularly in the rural areas. These are my most ______moment---when I can’t understand what people say.

Our plane delayed taking off as we ran into a storm. We were ________ for several hours at the airport, waiting for the storm to clear up.

Many outside the US continue to see the country as one of opportunities , and despite being in a tough economic position , research shows many young Americans would ________it as well.

Contrary to my expectation, the teacher was by no means satisfied with my works, saying that the trees had been painted too________.

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

Times were tough in our household. My husband was out of work and there was no sign of anything      for him. In addition to going to nursing school full-time, I was working three part-time jobs        to put food on the table for our family of five.
After a rather        meal one night, I answered the ringing phone. With no       , a voice asked,“Do you need food? Come to my place and I can help you.” Directions followed and he hung up the phone. No in-depth conversation or queries as to our         situation. It was up to us to decide whether we         a voice on the telephone.
I was desperate. With            food in the cabinet and no prospect of a job for my husband, I had to take a         , swallow my pride, and accept the strange offer. Was there a            ?  When I uneasily got to a ranch home as            ,I found there was no car in the garage.            , lined up in orderly rows were tables filled with varieties of food. A craggy（轮廓分明有皱纹的）gentleman          me, not much different than our phone conversation! “Look around. If you see what you want,            yourself.”He handed me paper bags and turned to another new arrival, passing along the same            .This couldn’t be real!
I guiltily filled the paper sacks with what          needed and gratefully thanked the elderly man. “Be here next week. You’ll          of the food by then” was his reply.
Then I learned the thing. Widowed and retired, he wanted to do something          in his golden years to fill his time. Daily, he drove his pickup truck and begged for            items and canned goods from local grocery stores and            folks like us who had fallen on hard times.
I never knew what our weekly menus would be         I had “shopped” in the garage, but I knew, with our bellies full, we could focus on paying necessary bills.

A．worrying B．boring C．confusing D．promising

A．just B．even C．ever D．also

A．delicious B．necessary C．simple D．ordinary

A．information B．communication C．introduction D．instruction

A．physical B．financial C．educational D．social

A．trusted B．accepted C．recognized D．satisfied

A．certainly B．originally C．actually D．barely

A．chance B．step C．decision D．measure

A．future B．possibility C．trap D．kindness

A．appointed B．directed C．guided D．requested

A．Therefore B．Besides C．Instead D．However

A．discovered B．greeted C．reminded D．examined

A．help B．enjoy C．behave D．seat

A．welcome B．supply C．assistance D．message

A．mostly B．eventually C．absolutely D．accidentally

A．leave out B．drop out C．run out D．get out

A．interesting B．worthwhile C．mysterious D．astonishing

A．usable B．additional C．acceptable D．valuable

A．recalled B．sought C．identified D．inspected

A．although B．since C．before D．Until

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and preparing for the worst, Australian adventurer Peter Seiter wrote a farewell note to his family, put it in a bottle and threw it overboard. With a sense of bad feeling he wrote: “The ocean has a personality of its own. The place can be such a peaceful environment to be in, yet it can be frightfully violent. I’ve experienced both.” Fearing he wouldn’t make it home, he placed the note -- dated June 11, 1998 -- in a wine bottle and covered the bottle.
“I included my geographical coordinates, so if anything happened to me, they’d know my last place when I threw the bottle into the ocean,” says Peter, who was then sailing from the Azores in Portugal to New York and knew the Atlantic could be dangerous. He also included some money with his message, asking whoever found it to use the money to post the letter to his family.
Seventeen days later he reached his destination, having survived the dangerous seas, but he assumed his message in the bottle had not -- until it was found on shore, 11 years later!
Recently, American woman Katherine Ginn and her friend came across the bottle on a deserted beach in the Bahamas. “Alongside it they’d found a life jacket and, assuming the worst, opened the bottle and spent 24 hours drying it out so they could read my story and write to my family as I requested,” says Peter, 44. “I couldn’t believe it -- that after all these years my bottle had turned up with its contents, still undamaged.”
Overjoyed, he wrote to the pair, saying he was alive and living in Australia with his family.
Katherine posted him his letter, money and some broken glass of his bottle placed in a tiny box as a special souvenir. These special items now share pride of place among photos of Peter’s Atlantic voyage. “I can’t express what this old letter means to me,” Peter says. “It gives me a sense of hope and belief. It’s something special to share with my children as they grow up.”
Why did Peter have the idea of a message bottle?

As for the survival of the message bottle, Peter ________.

What can be inferred about the message bottle according to Paragraph 3 and 4?

From the passage, we can learn that ________.

It’s 4 am, and Danilo C. Dequina is already awake. Holding a flashlight and a bucket, he is walking in the pre-dawn darkness along the shore of Old Poblacion Beach in the town of Maitum, Sarangani, in the far south of the Philippines.
A few minutes later, he spots a patch of sand that appears to have been disturbed by a turtle. Dequina studies the area carefully, figuring out where the eggs have been buried, and then starts digging slowly. After clearing away several centimeters of sand, he uncovers a large group of eggs, roughly the size of ping-pong balls. He picks them up and puts them in the bucket.
Dequina carries the eggs to his hatchery (孵卵所), some 50 meters away from the seashore. The hatchery is really just a sandy patch of land under the coconut trees enclosed by a black fence. It is here that he buries the turtle eggs he has collected. Today, Dequina scoops a hole, puts the eggs in it, and covers them with sand. After 45 to 70 days, the eggs will hatch. Dequina will then carry the hatchlings to the shore, and release them into the sea. He admits to feeling sorrow as he sets the hatchlings free -- most are hunted down by natural predators, and just one percent survive to adulthood.
According to the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), eight species of sea turtles face extinction, including four that come to the shores of Sarangani to lay their eggs -- the Hawksbill, Olive Ridley, Loggerhead and Green Turtles.
After learning about their plight (困境), Dequina attended a DENR training session on turtle conservation and decided to take action. He helped the local government to set up the Pawikan Nesting Sanctuary next to his house in 2003.
The hatchery drew the attention of the locals. “They started to change their attitudes towards sea turtles,” 52-year-old Dequina says. “If they see turtle eggs, they will either bring them to me or inform me of the nesting places.” Over the past ten years, more than 3,000 hatchlings have been released to the ocean.
Dequina walks along the shore to ________.

When Dequina finds turtle eggs along the shore, he will ________.

What is the attitude of local people toward Dequina’s efforts?

What do we learn from the passage?

About five years ago, an American electrical engineer named Scott Brusaw and his wife Julie came up with the idea of putting solar panels (控制板) on the ground rather than the roof. Then they began to develop the Solar Roadway. The Solar Roadway is an intelligent road that provides clean renewable energy using power from the sun while providing safer driving conditions, along with power and data delivery. They predict that the Solar Roadway will pay for itself through the generation of electricity along with other forms of income and that the same money that is being used to build and resurface current roads can be used to build the Solar Roadways.
Each Solar Road Panel measures roughly 4 meters by 4 meters and contains a microprocessor (微处理器) that monitors and controls the panel, while communicating with neighboring panels and the vehicles traveling overhead. The inventors suggest that this provides a communications device every 4 meters on every road which could be used for example to warn drivers of cars which are moving across a centre line and various other speed control problems. The top of the Solar Road panels is made of super-strong glass that would offer vehicles the tractions (抓地力)  they need.
According to the inventors, the Solar Roadway creates and carries clean renewable electricity and therefore electric vehicles can be recharged at any conveniently located rest stop, or at any business that has paved Solar Road Panels in their parking lots.
The inventors say their Solar Roadway has many functions and advantages from main roads to driveways, parking lots, bike paths, sidewalks and runways. The Federal Highway Administration has given Brusaw ＄100,000 to develop the invention and Brusaw hopes to build a smart-road parking lot in the coming spring .
In the inventors’ opinion, the Solar Roadway ___________________________ .

The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refers to       .

It can be inferred from the text that ____________________________.

What can be the best title for the text?

High-quality customer service is preached (宣扬) by many, but actually keeping customers happy is easier said than done.
Shoppers seldom complain to the manager or owner of a retail store, but instead will alert their friends, relatives, co-workers, strangers—and anyone who will listen.
Store managers are often the last to hear complaints, and often find out only when their regular customers decide to frequent their competitors, according to a study jointly conducted by Verde Group and Wharton School.
“Storytelling hurts retailers and entertains consumers,” said Paula Courtney, President of the Verde Group. “The store loses the customer, but the shopper must also find a replacement.”
On average, every unhappy customer will complain to at least four others, and will no longer visit the specific store. For every dissatisfied customer, a store will lose up to three more due to negative review. The resulting “snowball effect” can be disastrous to retailers.
According to the research, shoppers who purchased clothing encountered the most problems. Ranked second and third were grocery and electronics customers.
The most common complaints include filled parking lots, cluttered (塞满了的) shelves, overloaded racks, out-of-stock items, long check-out lines, and rude salespeople.
During peak shopping hours, some retailers solved parking problems by getting moonlighting (业余兼职的) local police to work as parking attendants. Some hired flag wavers to direct customers to empty parking spaces. This guidance eliminated the need for customers to circle the parking lot endlessly, and avoided confrontation between those eyeing the same parking space.
Retailers can relieve the headaches by redesigning store layouts, pre-stocking sales items, hiring speedy and experienced cashiers, and having sales representatives on hand to answer questions.
Most importantly, salespeople should be diplomatic and polite with angry customers.
“Retailers who’re responsive and friendly are more likely to smooth over issues than those who aren’t so friendly,” said Professor Stephen Hoch. “Maybe something as simple as a greeter at the store entrance would help.”
Customers can also improve future shopping experiences by filing complaints to the retailer, instead of complaining to the rest of the world. Retailers are hard-pressed to improve when they have no idea what is wrong.
Why are store managers often the last to hear complaints?

What does Paula Courtney imply by saying “…the shopper must also find a replacement” (Line 2, Para. 4)

What contributes most to smoothing over issues with customers?

To achieve better shopping experiences, customers are advised to ________.

Hong Kong businesses hit by nearly two months of illegal street occupations breathed a collective sigh of relief on Wednesday. Police finally cleared illegal protesters camped at the main intersection in the Mong Kok district, arresting two student leaders.
More than 7,000 officers backed bailiffs (执达官，法警)clearing occupied sections of Argyle Street and Nathan Road. The two-day operation saw 148 people arrested for various offenses, including contempt (藐视) of court, resisting arrest, possession of offensive weapons, unlawful gathering and attacking police.
The Chief Leader Stephen Hui said 22 officers were injured during the clearances.
Police used pepper spray and batons (警棍)to keep protesters from reclaiming cleared roads and from spreading the illegal occupation to neighboring streets.
Six-lane Nathan Road, which goes through the heart of Kowloon, was cleared after nearly five hours. However, comments on the Internet said protesters were looking to reoccupy roads later in the evening.
This week's actions mark the first time the authorities have successfully cleared one of the three main protest sites, which sprang up after demonstrators seized key intersections in late September to press for unconstitutional reforms.
Contractor Kwan Sui-sum, 55, said he wished the Nathan Road clearance had come earlier, as he has had to pay HK$20,000 ($2,580) after the protesters delayed building reconstruction work. The owner of the Chung Hing Duty Free drug store was cautiously optimistic and eager for his store at the corner of the cleared intersection to get back to business. Sales dropped by 40 percent during the occupation, he said.
“I'm not worried about the guess that the protesters will return. I trust in Hong Kong's rule of law and in the police,” the man said, who wished to remain unknown as he fears attack from protesters.
But five stores at a cleared site owned by jewelry chain Chow Tai Fook were still closed hours later. A company spokesman said the outlets will remain shut while it continues to monitor the situation.
You can infer from the passage that _______.

In the two-day operation,_________.

What Hong Kong police will probably do next according to the passage?

This passage is mainly about ______.

阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，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。
It was not long                         the life of the countryside even though he lived in the big city for many years.(fit)
尽管他在大城市里生活很多年，但没过多久他就适应了乡村生活。
An old man is reported                          an envelope containing 5,000 dollars on his way home from the bank yesterday.( rob)
据报道一位老人昨天在从银行回家的路上被抢走了一个装有5000美元的信封。
In order to discover the crops most suited to the soil , Dr .Johnson as well as his assistants various kinds of grain. (experiment)
为了找到最适合该土壤的农作物，Dr .Johnson和他的助手正在试验各种各样的谷物。
At the class meeting , our teacher urged that we                          the campus cultural construction activity with him. ( participate)
在班会上，我们的老师敦促我们和他一起参加校园文化建设活动。
Hard training and persistence are                    to win a gold medal in the Olympics. （take）
努力训练和坚持不懈是在奥运会中赢得金牌所需要的。
                          , the Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music is the most prestigious music award ceremony.(hold)
每两年举行一次，中国金钟音乐奖是最有名望的音乐典礼。
Most of the homes in the mountainous area of Yunnan,                       , were made of bricks ,wood and mud walls .( happen)
在发生地震的云南地区，大部分房屋都是用砖，木头和泥墙做的。
Researchers have found that the more involved one is online ,                    about his day to day activities.(negative)
研究者发现，一个人在网上陷得越深，他对自己的日常生活就变得越消极。
All of a sudden, the door opened and __________________________ our English teacher with a book in his hand.  ( come )
门开了，我们的英语老师手里拿着一本书走了进来。
I _______________ the early train, but I was stuck in a heavy traffic jam. (plan)
我本来打算乘坐早班火车的，但是我却遇上了交通阻塞。

请根据以下提示，并结合事例，用英语写一篇短文。
As Madam Curie put it , “I never see what has been done ;I only see what remains to be done .”
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文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
④词数为120左右,如引用提示将不计入总词数。