[湖南]2012届湖南省长望浏宁四市县高三5月联考英语试卷

More and more old people are skiing but it has ______ to do with snow and slopes: this type of skiing stands for Spending the Kids Inheritance.

A Colorado woman said that her iPhone 4 ______ fire while charging overnight.

In May 2011, Americans spent 53 billion minutes on Facebook, ______ it the most popular U.S. website.

A study has found that 80% of the people who ______ to be constantly distracted ______ more “working memory”.

It's not how much money you make or who your daddy is ______ makes you the most attractive person in the world but the way you do some simple things.

They studied what ______ since 2007 and found Australian electricity prices were among the  highest in the developed world.

Some scientists have questioned the theory ______ CO₂ is causing dangerous global warming.

North Korea fired a long-range rocket last month, but the launch was reported ______ in failure.

As long as the laws of nature ______, there will be tornadoes.

It is believed that forest bathing ______ strengthen the immune system.

Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning American writer, says if there’s a book you really want to read, but it ______ yet, then you must write it.

Children ______ on healthy diets are more intelligent compared with their junk food eating peers, new research suggests.

A work spouse is a co-worker, usually of the opposite sex, ______ one shares a special relationship, such as, loyalties, shared experiences and openness.

The mayor of a small town in southern Italy has forbidden residents to die, ______ there is no graveyard for them to be buried in.

Helen Keller ever wrote in her article that only through experiences of trial and suffering ______ achieved.

A man and his girlfriend got married. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, "I read in a magazine about how we can   36   our marriage. Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit   37   with the other. Then, we can talk about how we can   38   them together and make our lives happier together."
The husband   39  . So each of them went to a(n)   40   room and thought about the things that annoyed them about the other for the rest of the day.
The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their   41  .
"I'll start," offered the wife. She   42   her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill 3 pages. After the wife had read all three pages to her husband,   43   the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the   44   that you are. I don't want you to   45   anything for me."
The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his   46   of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go   47   for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time seeking the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wonderful things before us?

A．enrich B．strengthen C．lengthen D．deepen

A．annoying B．surprising C．satisfying D．inspiring

A．fix B．do C．find D．set

A．smiled B．refused C．agreed D．hesitated

A．spare B．separate C．empty D．special

A．dishes B．magazines C．lives D．lists

A．put away B．handed in C．took out D．wrote down

A．disappointedly B．unluckily C．bitterly D．quietly

A．appearance B．way C．situation D．position

A．change B．accept C．decide D．drop

A．advice B．warning C．acceptance D．pride

A．leaving B．waiting C．asking D．looking

To upcycle something is to take a used object and change it to a new function.
Recycling usually breaks down the material that an object is made from     it is made into something else. By that means it wastes plenty of energy.     recycling, upcycling just uses something in a new way without reprocessing     material it's made from. In addition to being    energy-saving, another major benefit of upcycling is     it reuses items made of materials which couldn't be dealt with by traditional recycling methods. When something is upcycled, nothing,    very little, is thrown away, with every component part having a potential use.
An upcycled product is generally     higher value than the materials or objects which are used to create    , like metal ring pulls becoming pins or earrings, low-value coins becoming cufflinks(袖扣), and so on.

Careercast.com is out with its list of best and worst jobs of 2012. It’s bad news for the writer of this story, but much brighter for the folks who program the code that keeps this website busy.
Using a method that looked at physical demands, work environment, income, stress and hiring outlook, career Website Careercast.com, ranked the top 200 jobs. They also ranked the jobs with the most stress. Not surprisingly, none of the most stressful jobs show up on the best jobs list.
At the top is software engineer and at the bottom is the lumberjack. Cutting trees failed to skate above the bottom 10 percent in all ranking categories, except income. “Unemployment for lumberjacks is very high, and the demand for their services is expected to continue to fall through 2016. And while working outside all day may seem like a great job perk(有额外津贴的工作), being a lumberjack not only is considered the worst job, but also one of the world’s most dangerous,” according to Careercast.com. And, for that most dangerous job, a lumberjack earns a little more than $32,000 a year. That’s about $56,000 less than the easy job of a software engineer, which has the average salary at $88,000 a year, according to Careercast.
Here’s a complete look at the best and worst jobs. And, take a look at the most stressful jobs. You may be surprised.
Best Jobs                     Worst Jobs             Most Stressful Jobs
Software Engineer                   Lumberjack              Enlisted Soldier
Actuary                         Dairy Farmer                Firefighter
Human Resources Manager         Enlisted Military Soldier       Airline Pilot
Dental Hygienist                    Oil Rig Worker         Military General
Financial Planner                   Reporter (Newspaper)        Police Officer
Audiologist                     Waiter/Waitress         Event Coordinator
Occupational Therapist              Meter Reader                Public Relations Executive
Online Advertising Manager          Dishwasher              Corporate Executive Computer Systems Analyst          Butcher                 Photojournalist
Mathematician                       Broadcaster             Taxi Driver
Who might be most interested in the passage?

Which of the following was not considered when Careercast.com ranked the top 200 jobs?

What do we know about the lumberjack?

According to the passage, the list is good news for ______.

What is the main purpose of the passage?

Located along California’s San Andreas Fault, the city of San Francisco is likely to take precautions(预防，防备) in the event of the next big earthquake.
According to a New York Times report, emergency planners in San Francisco are not only thinking of human evacuation(撤离，疏散) plans in the event of an earthquake, but also of how to care for pets during a natural disaster. Ideally, the planners will be able to train pet-disaster responders who work to evacuate dogs, cats and other household pets from the disaster site to one of the 125 temporary animal shelters that will be set up or, if the pet is injured, it will be brought to an emergency animal medical unit where there will be people on hand to tend to the pet’s injury. The city’s “no-pets-left-behind” policy results from the great number of pet deaths during the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
As emergency responders arrived to rescue people isolated in their homes during Katrina, hurricane victims were told that they could not take their pets along with them when evacuating; thus, many pet owners were forced to make the heart-breaking decision to save themselves while leaving their pets behind to perhaps meet their deaths.
Since then, the U.S. has passed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act of 2006, allocating federal funds for animal disaster planning projects. Yet, not all counties are as progressive as San Francisco has been in the effort to protect pets in the event of a natural disaster. Pets are after all, a large part of San Francisco’s population — overnumbering the number of school age children in the city.
Over the last three years, San Francisco has received $350,000 in federal funds designated to animal disaster preparedness efforts in order to protect animals in the case of a disaster such as an earthquake. The city is still working on obtaining $300,000 to pay for an emergency animal unit. Until then, animal lovers in San Francisco will continue to work to ensure that pets are never an afterthought when it comes to rescues during earthquakes or other life threatening situations.
We learn from the second paragraph that ______.

What do we know about Hurricane Katrina?

Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

The underlined word “designated” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.

What’s the main idea of this passage?

In James Cameron’s fantasy films, such as Avatar and The Abyss, the unexplored is decorated in color and filled with alien danger. But on his dive to the deepest place on Earth, which took place on a Sunday last month, reality proved far different: white, deserted, and dull.
“I felt like I literally had gone to another planet and come back,” Cameron said after returning from the cold, dark place in the western Pacific Ocean, nearly 7 miles (11km) below the surface. “It was a very fantastic day.” Cameron is the first person to explore the deepest valley in the ocean since two men made a 20-minute trip there in 1960.
He spent about three hours gliding through the icy darkness, brightened only by lights on the one-man sub(潜水艇). This deepest section of the Mariana Trench is so untouched that at first it appeared dull. But there’s something strangely interesting about the first pieces of video that Cameron shot — a sense of aloneness.
“It’s really the sense of isolation, realizing how tiny you are down in this big, black and unexplored place,” the Titanic director said. The wordless minute-long video, released by sponsor National Geographic, shows Cameron’s sub gliding across what he calls “the very soft, almost gelatinous(胶状的) flat plain.”
To Cameron, the main thing was to appreciate being there. “There had to be a moment where I just stopped, and took it in, and said, ‘This is where I am; I’m at the bottom of the ocean, the deepest place on Earth. What does that mean?’” Cameron told reporters during a conference call. The trip was only about half as long as planned because Cameron’s battery ran low. He said he would return and film it in 3D for later viewing.
“I see this as the beginning,” Cameron said. “It’s not a one-time deal and then moving on. This is the beginning of opening up this new frontier.”
Why did Cameron dive to the deepest place on Earth?

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

The underlined sentence in the passage means that ______.

According to the passage, which of the following words best describes Cameron?

What’s the best title of the passage?

Loneliness is all about feeling isolated, but it's actually quite common. In general, there are three different types of loneliness.
The first kind of loneliness is temporary. It is the most common type but usually disappears quickly and does not require any special attention. The second kind, situational loneliness, is a natural result of a particular situation, such as, family problem, the death of a loved one, or moving to a new place. Although this kind of loneliness can cause physical problems, it usually does not last for more than a year. The third kind of loneliness is chronic (the opposite of “temporary”). Being the most severe, it usually lasts for more than two years and is often connected with serious illnesses.
An important factor in loneliness is a person’s social contacts. Through social contacts, we get emotional support and guidance from our parents and teachers and share similar interests and activities with our friends. However, some lonely people almost make no contacts with people around them and feel apart from those who they supposedly know well. They just see themselves as outsiders. On the other hand, some lonely people may have enough social contacts, but they rarely enjoy the contacts and question their popularity, thinking of themselves as someone powerless. So loneliness is closely related to the quality of those social relationship in addition to the quantity.
Loneliness is tough, but something can be done to cope with it. First, take time to accept that you are suffering from loneliness. Then, contact your old friends or visit relatives to spend quality time with others. Besides, pick up a hobby to reduce your feelings of loneliness, such as taking up needle work, joining craft classes, or attending lectures. You can also beat loneliness by volunteering at a nursing home, hospital, church or pet rescue organization. This not only helps you get in touch with people from all walks of life, but also makes you feel good about yourself. In a word, if you take a correct attitude towards loneliness and get involved with people around you, you are sure to get over it.

After squeezing into a small space with two other friends, I had a strong sense of pride to be the mission commander of this space flight. Our objective was very important. Scientists had been arguing about the possibility of existence of life on Mars for decades. Some of them said that the pictures of Mars, taken during various space explorations, had given them sufficient proof that only intelligent being could have made those amazing structures. Others maintained that what looked like a face in the pictures was nothing more than a flash of lights. The arguments continued without conclusion. To prove this once and for all, a decision was made to launch an expedition into space.
My crew and I were the best among our group of trainees. We practised hard together, training hand in hand, filled with a single aim—flying safely to Mars and back. This feeling was tense and everyone was highly excited, as the day drew nearer. We were anxious to see what Mars was like but the uncertainty held us with fear.
The last moment finally came. The countdown proceeded, and soon we were deep in space, floating about freely and went about preparing the spaceship for the intended landing. Since the trip was scheduled to take about three years, we slept in a special room to prevent ourselves from aging. So I drifted off to sleep peacefully and suddenly I felt someone woke me up. We must have arrived at Mars and my crew was trying to wake me up.
I opened my eyes slowly and saw a familiar face. “Why would my English teacher wake me up?” I thought. Oh, no. Instead of medals and praise that I should receive, all I had was a severe warning against sleeping in class and then I spent the rest of the lesson standing in a corner.
Why did the author feel proud of himself?       (No more than 10 words)  (2 marks)
                                                                      
What was the objective of the mission?         (No more than 11 words)  (2 marks)
                                                                      
How did they feel as the day to explore space drew near?
(No more than 8 words)  (3 marks)
                                                                       
What did the author finally receive after he was woken up?
(No more than 8 words)  (3 marks)
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请根据以下提示，结合你经历的一个事例，就如何克服困难这一话题，用英语写一篇作文。
On the path of moving forward, we will meet with various difficulties. In fact, these difficulties are “paper tigers”. The stronger we are, the weaker they will be.
注意：1. 不得照抄英文提示；
2. 内容必须结合自己的亲身经历；
3. 词数不少于120；
4. 不能使用真实姓名和学校名称。