[湖北]2013届湖北省七市（州）高三4月联考英语试卷

Because of the continuous bad weather, the building work of the bridge over the Yangtze River is far behind        

We are going to lose anyway, so I can't see the    of playing this game.

The recent study has shown that people's attitudes towards protecting the environment are not     with their behavior in daily life.

The Jiangsu TV station is very popular with many people in China, as it deals with     sub-jects such as music, entertainment and fashion.

Though the "No smoking" signs have existed for long in public places, heavy smokers often  them and light up cigarettes.

The monthly sales of Mo Yan's works     199 times compared with those before he won the Nobel Prize for.Literature.

With more and more farmers moving to cities, an inadequate labor force is    becoming a major factor affecting the country's grain output.

After the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, President Obama ordered his members to     solutions to gun violence.

The Chinese football team had experienced a series of reforms. However, its performances in Shenzhen in October     all the people, especially the crazy fans.

Housing prices in Beijing and Shanghai are now largely     for low-income families,

After finishing shopping in the supermarket, I and my wife Julie stood in the shortest line.
There was only one guy in it, but he was in a   31   and there seemed to be some trouble going on.
Well, I and my wife Julie stepped in behind him. At first, he seemed to be having 32 getting his groceries onto the conveyor belt. But after a while, I realized that what he was actually doing was  33   them into two parts. I offered to help, but he and the checkout lady had it  34  He asked Julie if she would mind   35   his empty basket away. Then he   36   for his wallet which was in a pocket on one side of his wheelchair. The way he was positioned and the fact that he had only one   37   arm made this quite a stretch for him, so I helped there.
What must it be like, I wondered, to be so  38   on other people like that.9 The checkout operator came around and gave him his   39   and the items he needed. She   40   one bag of groceries over a handle at the back of his chair. I   41   to get the. bigger bag and he said, "No. 42 you could do me a favor. Take that part along to the entrance and give it to Angela. " I dutifully did that,   43   Julie with our shopping. It  44  that Angela was collecting food for people who might otherwise go hpngry!
This guy, despite the  45 that his physical condition imposed on him, had   46   more than twice as much shopping as he needed and   47  the bigger bag to help other people! He didn't let the fact that he needed help  48   him from being a help. He may have been limited  49  , bat his heart was more than capable of  50  all that. And it changed my idea of dependenee.

A．comer B．queue C．wheelchair D．lift

A．mercy B．interest C．confidence D．difficulty

A．separating B．breaking C．cutting D．placing

A．under order B．under control C．under discussion D．under repair

A．putting B．getting C．casting D．rolling

A．hunted B．reached C．looked D．sought

A．comfortable B．clumsy C．disabled D．usable

A．kind B．strict C．dependent D．considerate

A．change B．basket C．bag D．food

A．presented B．handed C．hung D．pulled

A．preferred B．used C．decided D．offered

A．So B．But C．For D．Thus

A．exchanging B．leaving C．charging D．associating

A．turned out B．came out C．burst out D．gave out

A．manners B．chances C．limitations D．fates

A．collected B．reserved C．donated D．bought

A．thrown away B．givenaway C．left out D．sent out

A．save B．protect C．stop D．shelter

A．physically B．economically C．originally D．mentally

A．accomplishing B．overlooking C．valuing D．overcoming

If you want to know how crazy people can be about their pets, you might remember that Helmsley left $12 million to her little Maltese dog when she died last year.
The dog's name is Trouble. And apparendy Trouble is still alive. Of course, I would hang on,too, if someone left me $12 million. Look! Top-shelf dog food, soft pillows everywhere, drivers walking me in nice leafy parks. I would live to be 110 in dog years.
The dog's story is still fresh in my mind the other night when I leave a steak house after a superb meal. Then I notice a woman carrying a small bag out of the door behind me.
Once outside, she walks over to where a man is holding a tiny dog hke it's a baby. The dog looks like a Maltese, too, barking and annoying, with a cute haircut,
And now I am treated to an absolute astonishing sight. Because now the woman reaches into the bag and begins pulling out little pieces of meat, which she puts on a plastic spoon and feeds to the dog.
This is no cheap steak house. It's actually, way out of my league --I'm there only because it's a special occasion. I can tell you this: if I walked out of the place with any leftover steak, it sure wouldn't go to a dog. Not at those prices.
So now the woman is Spoon-feeding the dog and the man is just standing there, holding this dog and looking as if this is the most normal thing in the world. And the dog is calmly chewing these pieces of steak as if he's a little king. And this dog is in no hurry. He's having a great time.
A few minutes go by, and now the dog finishes all of his steak. At this point, I hear the woman say to the man "Think he's still hungry?" And she glances behind her at the restaurant, as if she might go back in there to get more steak for the dog.
Watching all this, I'm afraid I'm going to shout, "Are you out of your mind? Feeding all that pricey steak to that little dog? Did you see what our American life is like today? We're all going to be eating dog food if this keeps up!"        
Why would the author live to be 110 in dog years?

What is the story mainly about?

The underlined sentence "It's actually way out of my league. " (in Para. 6) means __

Seeing the dog.is being treated to expensive steak, the author becomes extremely ____

Over three million people will do their Christmas shopping entirely online this year without once visiting an actual shop, a poll (民意调查) has found. Overcrowding and long queues in shops are forcing people away from the high street as the hassle (烦扰) of Christmas shopping becomes too much.
The number of people turning their backs on the high street is almost one million higher than it was last year, according to the poll by YouGov. Last Christmas 2.4 million shoppers did not do any of their shopping in actual shops. The figure this year is predicted to be around 3.4 million, equal to around 7 percent of the adult population.
Over a third of people said that the main turn-off about shopping on the high street is 0ver-crow-ding. Meanwhile almost a quarter said that long queues at the cheek-out are the worst thing about it.
Of the 2.065 people pored, even those who are stir taking to the shops plan to spend less time in them this Christmas. Around 31 percent of shoppers who plan to spend at least some time on the high street will spend less than half of their shopping time in actual shops, using the rest of the time to shop remotely via the internet. This compares to 28 percent of people last year. Meanwhile the proportion of people spending over half of their shopping time in high street shops has dropped from 41 percent last year to 39 percent this year. Just 2 percent of people said that they are looking forward to dealing wi.th store staff this festival season.
Guy Boxall, senior product marketing manager at Casio Business Solutions Division, which commissioned the research from YouGov, said that despite the fall in people visiting the high street,humans are "social creatures" who actually like spending time together.
"Although the high street is facing a big challenge Christmas, retailers (零售商) should see this research as a challenge to improve the in-store shopping experience, rather than the nail in the coffin. We are social creatures, and the desire to spend time with each other, particularly at Christmas, is never going to go away," said Mr. Boxall.
According to the poll, in this year's Christmas       

What's the meaning of "turn-off" in Para.5?

It can be inferred from Mr. Boxall's words that                                                                                                   

Wheat's the writer's attitude towards Christmas online shopping?

As Apple tries to maintain its growth and success in China, the world's largest smart-phone market is becoming even more critical. Apple's shares(股份) fell sharply as the company's earnings for the holiday quarter through December disappointed investors.
The sales of the iPhone, which include both the iPhone 5 and older models, came in at the low end of analysts' expectations, while the company's income plan for the second quarter was below analysts' forecasts, though Apple is known to give conservative (保守的) forecasts.
Som'6 analysts have said that for Apple to regain its growth, the company.needs a more aggressive strategy for markets, or more specifically for China, where the market for smart phones has been expanding more rapidly than anywhere else. In China, demand is particularly great for inexpensive phones that run on Android(安卓) operating system, sold by many Chinese phone makers as well as South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.
But Apple says it's already enjoying strong growth in China. "We saw big growth in iPhones,"Chief Executive Tim Cook said. He said that the company has been quickly expanding its sales channels in China, including the number of Apple stores. "This isn't nearly what we need, we're not even close to that, but we're making great progress. " he said.
In China, a big missing piece for Apple is China Mobile Ltd. , the biggest local telecom carrier that doesn't yet sell the iPhone. Earlier this month, Mr. Cook met China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua in Beijing and discussed cooperation, stirring hopes that the world's largest mobile carrier may soon start offering the iPhone.
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is working on a lower-end iPhone that could launch as early as this year. But one possible challenge for Apple in China is that low-pricod Android-based phones are getting better in terms of quality. A report from CLSA in late November showed that many smart-phones sold at about 1,000 yuan ( $160) came with higher-reso-lution screens, better cameras and more powerful processors than phones at that price did a year earlier.
Apple's shares dropped sharply because in December__

What can we learn from the passage?

The author uses the report from CLSA to prove           

The main purpose of the passage is to show the readers __

Forget hard work and perseverance. Getting ahead is as simple as tidying your desk.
According to a leading expert, having a cluttered environment reflects a cluttered mind, but the act of tidying up can help you be more successful. The advice comes from Jayne Morris, the resident"life coach" for NHS Online, who said it is no good just moving the mess around. In order to clear the mind, unwanted items must be thrown away to free your "inner world", she said.
Ms Morris, who claims to have coached celebrities to major business figures, said:“Clearing clutter from your desk has the power to transform your business. " How? Because clutter in your outer environment is the physical sign of all the clutter going on inside of you. " Clearing clutter has a chain effect across your entire life, including your work. Having an untidy desk covered in clutter could be stopping you achieving the business success you want. " She is sure cleaning up will be helpful even though some of history's biggest achievers lived and worked in messy conditions.
Churchill was considered untidy from a boy throughout his life, from his office to his artist's studio,and the lab where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin was famously untidy.
Among the recommendations is that simply tidying a desk at work and an overflowing filing cabinet(陈列柜) will instantly have a positive impact on "your inner world. " Anything that is no longer used should not be put into storage but thrown away completely.
Keeping something in the loft, garage or other part of the house, does not help because it is still connected to the person "by tiny energetic li.nes", Ms Morris. claims.
She said, "The things in your life that are useful to you, that add value to your life, that serve a current purpose are charged with positive energy that refreshes you and enriches your life. But the things that you don't ever use and don't need anymore have the opposite effect on your energy.
Things that no longer fit or serve you, use up your energy. "
The underlined word "cluttered" (in Para.2) is closest, in meaning to __

Which of the following statements does Ms Morris agree to?

According to Ms Morris, an untidy desk probably means that         

Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

Removing the sleeve(封套), you will find a book that is entirely white, except for the names of its author and subject in elegant black type on the cover. It is the perfect design for the biography of a man who insisted that even the insides of his products be perfectly constructed, and that his factory wails flash in the whitest white.
The cover was the only part of the book Steve Jobs wanted to control, writes Isaacson in his introduction. Though Mr. Jobs pushed the biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin to write in his own way, generously allowing the writer more than 40 interviews, this book offers quite a different view of Mr. Jobs, who won much praise from his fans after his death on October 5th at the age of 56.
As a biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Mr. Isaacson knows how to celebrate long-dead genius, but he claimed that "Steve Jobs" would not be entirely praiseful words. The picture he paints, particularly in the first half of this book, is not nice. Mr. Jobs emerges as a controlling and often cold-blooded character. A child of the 1960s counter-culture (反主流文化), he hated, materialism and lived in simply furnished houses ( in part because he was too particular about furniture). But when Apple went public in 1980, he refused to give any share to Daniel Kottke, a Iongtime supporter and soul mate from college. "He has to abandon the people he is close to," observes Andy Hertzfeld, an early Apple engineer.
Mr. Jobs was undoubtedly possessing an extraordinary ability to attract others and inspire a kind of faith that could not be questioned. But also he could be cold and cruel. If he disapproved of an employee's work, he often shamed him. "This is who I am," he once said after being challenged,"and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not. " This disgusting personality wasn't always helpful,but it served a purpose, writes Mr. Isaacson, many would "end their chain of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible. "
Mr. Isaacson treats "Steve Jobs" as the biography of record, which means that it is a strange book to read so soon after its subject's death.   
The biography for Jobs is believed to have the perfect design because __

The picture of Jobs that Isaacson paints in his book is __
①cruel    ②humorous   ③particular  ④generous

It can be safely concluded that        

This passage can be classified as          

根据每小题题后的汉语提示，以及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。
This is the most instructive film              since I could remember. (see)
这是我懂事以来看过的最有教育意义的电影了。
Don't be too hard on yourself.            what you have is the key to happiness.(content)
不要对自己太苛刻，满足于你所拥有的是幸福的关键。
Calm down for a while,      the complicated problems very soon. (simplify)
冷静片刻你就会化繁为简了。
The generation gap      for parents ,to understand their children's opinions.  (make)
代沟使得父母很难理解孩子们的想法。
If you are unhappy with anything you have bought from us, we will gladly exchange your purchase, or give your money back,                    (prefer)
若您对从我们这买到的任何商品不满意，我们将乐意为您更换或退款，您愿意哪种都行。
A person with a severe mental health problem is              to have no close friends than the average. (likely)
有着严重心理疾病的人找不到知心朋友的可能性是普通人的四倍。
Charles                   then as I met him in the supermarket five minutes ago.(clean)
查理那时不可能在清理房间，因为我五分钟前才在超市碰到他。
It is not how much we do but how much love we put into what we do                      our work most. (benefit)
让我们的工作最受益的不是我们做多少，而是我们有多么热爱自己所做的事。
Seated in the studio                  , along with his two students, reoeiving the interview now．(be)
坐在录音棚里的是这位教授和他的两个学生，现正在接受采访。
The teacher was making every effort to clarify                  the students. (confuse)
这个老师正全力诠释让学生困惑的地方。

请根据以下提示，并结合事例，用英语写一篇短文。
We can go as far as we think. The great minds, more often than not, think more and have more aggressive ideas of their life than ordinary people.
注意：
①无须写标题；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③文中不得透漏个人姓名和学校名称;
④词数为120左右，如引用提示语则不计入总词数。