2009年全国统一高考英语试卷（湖北卷）

短文写作（共1题;满分25分）
假设你是华华，与英国网友汤姆约定用对方的母语通信，以提高各自的外语水平。最近你收到汤姆的电子邮件（附后），发现有一个成语使用不当。请根据下列要点，用英文回一封电子邮件。  
要点:  
1．不应使用 “无所不为”，应使用 “无所事事”;  
2．说明这两个成语的用法;  
3．给予鼓励。  
注意:  1.词数为1叨左右;  
2.参考释义:无所不为一do all kinds of bad things  
无所事事一have nothing to do  
3.除以上两个成语外，邮件中不得使用其它汉字或拼音;  
4. 电子邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好（不计人你所写词数），但不得抄人答题卡。  
附（汤姆的邮件）:  
华华，你好!  
近几天在忙什么事?有什么有意思的事吗?我们的学校放假了，所以这几天在家无所不为，饱食终日，只好上网发伊妹儿。没意思。我决定找份工作，做个自食其力的人。祝好!  
汤姆  
（以下所给内容不得抄入答题卡）  
Hi! Tom  
Nice to read your e-mail today. I noticed you’ve begun to use Chinese idioms and used most of them correctly.  
…  
Hop you’ll find a good job soon.  
Huahua  

During the war there was a serious lack of food. It was not unusual that even the wealthy families had to ______ bread for days.

In our class, when the bell rang and the teacher closed his book, it was a ______ for everyone to stand up.

The loss has not yet been ______ accurately, but it is believed to be well beyond a hundred million dollars.

Hiking by oneself can be fun and good for health. It may also be good for ______ building.

The questionnaire takes ______ ten to fifteen minutes to complete and can be used along with the assessment interview.

You'd sound a lot more polite if you make a requesta question.

As there is less and less coal and oil, scientists are exploring new ways of making use of ______ energy, such as sunlight, wind and water for power and fuel.

Some parents are just too protective. They want to ______ their kids from every kind of danger, real or imagined.

His efforts to raise money for his program werebecause, no one showed any intention to take a cent out of their pockets.

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There was a very special teacher who made a far -reaching difference in my life
Fall ,1959,the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about begin ."Who"，I asked a senior , "is Mrs McNamara,my 10th grade English teacher?"He just1and said something about my being in2Soon ,I understood what he meant. Mrs. McNamara had a pattern of3that she repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for4. The next day ,when we came to class, there would be two or three topics on the blackboard5to the homework reading. We were6to write an in -class essay about one of the topics. The following day ,she would7thd corrected and graded essays and each person would be called8to stand in front of the class and to9his\her essay. The class were required to criticize(评论)that essay,10the grade of everyone in class would be reduced
The first time that I11her read-write-criticize method, I had not12to do the homework and had written something without knowing what it meant.13the extreme embarrassment I suffered, standing before my classmates,14myself. No one laughed at me, no one would be15enough ,or foolish enough, to do that in Mrs. McNamara's class. The embarrassment came from16and along with it came a strong17not to let it happen again
Mrs. McNamara kept all of our written work in files, it was easy to see the18in writing that had occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place, at least for me. What Mrs. McNamar19me to do was to see myself as others see me and, having done that, I could improve myself. And I20. Thank you, Mrs. McNamara.

My grandfather came from Hungary and was the only one in his family who settled down in the United States. The rest of his family remained in Europe. When World War I broke out, he seemed to have become another man, downhearted. Such obvious change was not born out of concern for his welfare, but out of fear: if his only son, my uncle, had to go to war, it would be cousin fighting against cousin.
One day in 1918, my Uncle Milton received his draft notice. My grandparents were very upset. But my mother, at the age of 10, felt on top of the world about her soldier brother going off to war. Realizing how he was regarded by his little sister and all of her friends, my uncle bought them all service pins, which meant that they had a loved one in the service. All the little girls were delighted.
The moment came when my uncle and the other soldiers, without any training but all in uniforms, boarded the train. The band played and the crowd cheered. Although no one noticed. I'm sure my grandmother had a tear in her eye for the only son. The train slowly pulled out, but not about a thousand yards when it suddenly paused. Everyone stared in wonder as the train slowly returned to the station. There was a dead silence before the doors opened and the men started to step out. Someone shouted, "The war is over!" For a moment, nobody moved, but then the people heard someone bark orders at the soldiers. The men lined up in two lines, walked down the steps, and with the band playing, marched down the street, as returning heroes, to be welcomed home. My mother said it was a great day, but she was just a little disappointed that it didn't last a tiny bit longer.

Three years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona, thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers. No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their kind for 50 years. To the researchers’ surprise, they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from Mexico and set free at the same time. Within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure, and the poor birds were back in cages, on their way to the safety of the Arizona reintroduction programme.
Ever since then, the programme has enjoyed great success, mainly because the birds now being set free are Mexican birds illegally caught in the wild, confiscated （没收） on arrival north of the border, and raised by their parents in the safety of the programme. The experience shows how little we know about the behaviour and psychology （心理） of parrots, as Peter Bennett, a bird researcher, points out: “Reintroducing species of high intelligence like parrots is a lot more difficult. People like parrots, always treating them as nothing more than pets or valuable ‘collectables’.”
Now that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out, biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds. Last year was an important turning point: conservationists founded the World Parrot Trust, based at Hayle in Cornwall, to support research into both wild and caged birds.
Research on parrots is vital for two reasons. First, as the Arizona programme showed, when reintroducing parrots to the wild, we need to be aware of what the birds must know if they are to survive in their natural home. We also need to learn more about the needs of parrots kept as pets, particularly as the Trust’s campaign does not attempt to discourage the practice, but rather urges people who buy parrots as pets to choose birds raised by humans.
What do we know about the area where the five parrots were reintroduced?

The reintroducing experience three years ago shows that man-raised parrots

Why are researches on parrots important according to the passage?

According to the passage, people are advised ______.

When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven't had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don't need one. I have a mobile phone and I'm always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices（装置）tell the time - which is why, if you look around, you'll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007.

But while the wise have realized that they don't need them, others-apparently including some distinguished men of our time-are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling command shocking prices, up to ￡250,000 for a piece. 

This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra functions - but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years' school fees for watches that allow you to do these things?

If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds' worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world.

Watches are now classified as "investments"（投资）. A 1994 Patek Philippe recently sold for nearly ￡350,000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from ￡15,000 to ￡30,000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It's a toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up-they've been rising for 15 years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that ￡350,000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Timex.

A few years ago, Paul Gerner began to gather a group of architects in Las Vegas to ask them what it would take to design a public school that used 50 percent less energy, cost much less to build and obviously improved student learning. “I think half of them fell off their chairs,” Gerner says.
Gerner manages school facilities （设施） for Clark County, Nevada, a district roughly the size of Massachusetts. By 2018, 143,000 additional students will enter the already crowded public-education system. Gerner needs 73 new schools to house them. Four architecture teams have nearly finished designing primary school prototypes （样品）; they plan to construct their schools starting in 2009. The district will then assess how well the schools perform, and three winners will copy those designs in 50 to 70 new buildings.
Green schools are appearing all over, but in Clark County, which stands out for its vastness, such aggressive targets are difficult because design requirements like more natural light for students go against the realities of a desert climate. “One of the biggest challenges is getting the right site orientation （朝向）,”Mark McGinty, a director at SH Architecture, says. His firm recently completed a high school in Las Vegas. “You have the same building, same set of windows, but if its orientation is incorrect and it faces the sun, it will be really expensive to cool.”
Surprisingly, the man responsible for one of the most progressive green-design competitions has doubts about ideas of eco-friendly buildings. “I don’t believe in the new green religion,” Gerner says. “Some of the building technologies that you get are impractical. I’m interested in those that work.” But he wouldn’t mind if some green features inspire students. He says he hopes to set up green energy systems that allow them to learn about the process of harvesting wind and solar power. “You never know what’s going to start the interest of a child to study math and science,” he says.
How did the architects react to Gerner’s design requirements?

Which order of steps is followed in carrying out the project?

What makes it difficult to build green schools in Clark County?

What does Gerner think of the ideas of green schools?

Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be. Places of business that used to keep daytime "business hours" are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant （不相关的）. A half century ago in the United States, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the boundaries still exist, but they seem not clear.

The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does. It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer; in most, it still does. And whether the work week should strengthen its legal limits, or whether it should become more "flexible," is often debated. How should we, as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the boundaries of  time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?

These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we rarely recognize the "law of time" even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to attend school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years-but unless we meet the truant officer （学监）, we may well think that we should go to school due to social custom and parents' demand rather than to the law. As adults we are familiar with "extra pay for overtime working," but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes （构成）"overtime" is a matter of legal definition. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight-saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves: "Here is the law in action"? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how we organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving law - as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess.

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。
______ （多亏了） her assistance, we succeeded in starting the engine. （owe）
When you are finished with the electric iron, don’t forget ______ （关掉它）. （turn）
During his last lecture, the scientist ______ （觉得）easier to explain the theory to those with some background knowledge. （find）
______ （获得奖学金） gave Martin the chance to go to a college in one of the northern states. （win）
If times ______ （变了）, have our ways of thinking changed too? （change）
At the award ceremony, Mr. Jackson said, “For me, there has been ______ （没有更大的回报） than your support.”（great）
______ （任何计划好了的事） is sure to change as one puts it into practice. （whatever）
Such knowledge is still useful ______ （当应用） to similar situations in other countries. （when）
After circling around the earth for three days, Shenzhou Spaceship received the command from the ground that ______ （它着陆） as scheduled the next day. （land）
Learning strategies, to ______ （老师们认为） importance, have not yet drawn enough attention of students. （attach）