2008年全国统一高考英语试卷（湖北卷）

假设你是卜曼宜，你购买了一部某外国公司生产的手机，因有质量问题，要求该公司更换。请根据下列要点，用英文写一封电子邮件。
　　要点：1. 问题：手机不响铃，不能发短信；该产品已售完，无法更换；型号新，无配件，无法维修。 2. 要求：公司应尽快予以更换。
　　注意：1. 词数为100左右；
　　2. 参考词汇：配件-- spare part;
　　3. 电子邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好（不计入你所写词数）；
　　4.已给出的电子邮件的开头和结尾不得抄入答题卡。

The young man made a ______ to his parents that he would try to earn his own living after graduation.

The top leaders of the two countries are holding talks in a friendly

Though having lived abroad for years, many Chinese still ______ the traditional customs.

As nobody here knows what is wrong with the machine, we must send for an engineer to ______ the problem.

The teacher stressed again that the students should not ______ any important details while retelling the story.

In modern times, people have to learn to ______ all kinds of pressure although they are leading a comfortable life.

The present situation  is very complex, so I think it will take me some time toits reality.

In those days, ourconcern was to provide people who were stopped by the snow storm with food and health care.

As he works in a remote area, he visits his parents only ______.

When she first arrived in China, she wondered what the future might havefor her, but now all her worries are gone.

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。
______（最长的三条河流）in the world are the Niles, the Amazon, and the Changjiang River.（long）
______（他们玩）video games ever since they entered college.（play）
______（我成长的）is very hot and damp in summer.（grow）
______（我花了）one thousand dollars to buy the painting last wek.（cost）
I feel so sick. I wish Mum ______（没有逼我）to eat so much.（force）
—You’d better go and ______（把你的轿车洗洗）.
—No, I’ll do it myself.（wash）
With the rapid development of science and technology, I can’t imagine ______（我的家乡会是什么样子）in ten years.（what）
It is your efforts, not your intelligence, ______（决定）your success.（determine）
He looks sleepy. He must ______（熬夜了）last night, writing the essay.（stay）
At present, lots of food, water, tents, and medicine ______（正在运往）from all over China and other parts of the world to the earthquake-stricken areas.（transport）

On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to  41  in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she  42  a big bald（秃顶的）man running through the parking lot. Before she came to  43  what would happen, the man was there, shouting through her window, “Get out!”
Neilson  44.
Pulling open her door, the man seized her  45  the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed,  46  her purse and the keys.
Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a  47, heard the screams and began running .
When they  48  Neilson’s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was  49  searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker  50  back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no  51  for the two athletic men.
Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to  52  the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes —— used to tie up newspapers.
With his arms  53  tight behind him, the prisoner looked up and said  54 , “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves—— you just caught one of the most wanted men.” They  55  him and waited for the police.
Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the  56  carjacker（劫车者）and suspected murderer, whose  57—— but with a full head of hair—— had been recently printed in their own newspaper.
Neilson considers herself lucky  58  she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a  59  ending if those good people had not come to her aid. “Unfortunately,” she said, “many people would  60  have done what they did, and that’ the real truth.”
41. A. bring            B. let              C. gather       D. send
42. A. recognized       B. watched         C. noticed     D. met
43. A. realize          B. understand      C. imagine      D. conclude
44. A. escaped          B. struggled        C. refused      D. obeyed
45. A. by               B. around       C. with             D. on
46. A. burying          B. forgetting   C. offering         D. grabbing
47. A. trip             B. visit        C. break            D. holiday
48. A. started          B. stopped      C. entered          D. reached
49. A. carefully        B. madly        C. disappointedly   D. patiently
50. A. fought           B. turned       C. jumped          D. shouted
51. A. match            B. target       C. equal           D. companion
52. A. remind           B. phone        C. invite           D. beg
53. A. rolled           B. folded       C. bent            D. tied
54. A. angrily          B. kindly       C. coldly           D. warmly
55. A. caught           B. thanked      C. comforted        D. ignored
56. A. ordinary         B. professional C. honest           D. outstanding
57. A. picture          B. background   C. character        D. story
58. A. and              B. but          C. though           D. when
59. A. ridiculous       B. similar      C. strange         D. different
60. A. sometimes        B. never        C. often            D. forever

Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.

She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. "I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次） are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school."

So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 a.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. "It's  better than it was  last year, but I still think that people who work 'unsocial hours' should get a bit extra."

The hours she' s chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn't think that puts any pressure on their relationship.

Her work isn't physically very hard, but it's not exactly pleasant, either. "I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they'd be a bit more careful."

The fact that she's working all night doesn't worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. "Since I've got to be here, I try to enjoy myself--and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags."

Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. "They think you're a cleaner because you don't know how to read and write," said Margaret. "I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I'd been doing, but I don't think that way any more. I don't dislike the work though I can't say I'm mad about it."

Kathy started at my nursery school at the age of three. She settled into the group easily, and would be first on the slide and highest up the climbing frame. She could put on her coat without help and not only fasten her own buttons but other children's too.
She was a lovely child but unfortunately a scratcher. If anyone upset her or stood in her way, her right hand would flash out fast and scratch down the face of her playmates. Children twice her age would fly in fear from her.
This must have been very rewarding for Kathy but obviously it had to be stopped. All the usual ways failed and then I remembered an account by G  Atkinson Highfield School, of how fights in the playground had been stopped. No punishment had been given, but the attacker had been ignored and the victims rewarded. So I decided to try out on Kathy.
With a pocketful of Smarties I followed Kathy around. She was so quick that it was impossible to prevent her scratching, but I was dertermined to stay within arm's length all afternoon.
All was peaceful but then I saw Kathy's hand moved and heard the scream. Gently I gathered up the little hurt one in my arms and said "Nice, nice sweetie" and then looked puzzled when she got nothing.
Soon came another scream, this time from John. While holding him in my arms, I said, "Look, Kathy, a nice Smartie for John" and put it into John's mouth.
A smile of understanding flashed across Kathy's face. Minutes later, she came to me and said loudly, "Give me a Smartie! I have hurt my finger!"
"No," I replied, "you'll get it if someone hurts you."
On purpose, she turned and scratched a nearby boy, Tom, and waited quietly while I mothered and rewarded him, then she walked away.
She has never scratched a child since.
Parents who find older children bullying younger brothers and sisters might do well to replace shouting and punishment by rewarding and giving more attention to the injured ones. It's certainly much easier and more effective.

One August afternoon, Richard Allen dropped off his last passenger, Mrs. Carey. Lifting two grocery bags, he followed her across the yard and stood on the step of her house. Glancing up, he saw a large wasp（黄蜂） nest under the roof. Allen had heard that wasps can become more likely to sting (sting, sting, stung蜇) in summer. He mentioned this to Mrs. Carey, who had opened the door.
“Oh, they don’t bother me,” she said lightly. “I go in and out all the time.”
Anxiously, Allen looked at the nest again—— to see the wasps flying straight at him. “Hurry!” he shouted to Mrs. Carey. “Get in!”
She stepped quickly inside. Allen ran for his mini-bus. Too late; they were upon him. Just as he jumped aboard, half a dozen red spots showed on his arm, and he felt more on his back and shoulders.
As he was driving down the road, Allen felt as if something was burning at the back of his neck, and the “fire” was spreading forward toward his face. And immediate anxiety took hold of him. Allen knew that stings could cause some persons to die. But he had been stung the previous summer and the after-effects soon passed. However, what he didn’t know what that the first sting had turned his body into a time bomb waiting for the next to set off an explosion.
Miles from the nearest medical assistance, Allen began to feel his tongue thick and heavy and his heartbeat louder. Most frightening, he felt his breathing more and more difficult. He reached for the radio mike（话筒）, trying to call the mini-bus center, but his words were hardly understandable. Signals were also poor that far out. He knew a rescue team was on 24-hour duty at the Amherst Fire Department’s north station. So his best chance was to make a run for it.
Rushing down the mountain, Allen tried not to panic, focusing his mind on each sharp turn. He was almost through the last of them when he felt sure he was going into shock（休克）. Just then he reached for the radio mike again.
“Call fire station,” he shouted, concentrating to form the words. “Emergency. Bee sting. Emergency. There in ten minutes.”
“Five-ten,” the center replied.
Hold on, Allen thought. Keep your eyes open. Breathe. Keep awake.
At last he reached the station. Two firemen ran out. Allen felt their hands grasp him before he hit the ground. You made it, he thought.
It is mentioned in the passage that wasps are more likely to attack when _______.

Allen didn’t know that if stung by wasps again, he would _______.

Allen failed at his first attempt to send his message to the mini-bus center because _______.

Which would be the best title for the passage?

One morning a few years ago, Harvard President Neil Rudenstine overslept. For this busy man, it was a sort of alarm: after years of non-stop hard work, he might wear himself out and die an early death.
Only after a week’s leave—— during which he read novels, listened to music and walked with his wife on a beach—— was Rudenstine able to return to work.
In our modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. Amazingly, within this world there is a universal but silly saying: “I am so busy.”
We say this to one another as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully deal with stress. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family, and to be unable to find time to relax—— this has become the model of a successful life.
Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the guide telling us where to go, the food providing is with strength, the quiet giving us wisdom.
How have we allowed this to happen? I believe it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath, the day of the week—— for followers of some religions—— for rest and praying. It is a day when we are not supposed to work, a time when we devote ourselves to enjoying and celebrating what is beautiful. It is a good time to bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, walk and sleep. It is a time for us to take a rest, to put our work aside, trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world.
Rest is s spiritual and biological need; however, in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest. The Sabbath gives us permission to stop work. In fact, “Remember the Sabbath” is more than simply permission to rest; it is a rule to obey and a principle to follow.
The “alarm” in the first paragraph refers to “_______”.

According to Paragraph 4, a successful person is one who is believed to _______.

Some people feel guilty when taking time to rest because they _______.

What is the main idea of this passage?

Downing the last drop of an expensive famous brand H₂O as well as remembering to throw the empty bottle in the recycling bin, makes you feel pretty good about yourself, right? It shouldn’t. Even when the bottles are recycled, there are all kinds of other consequences of swallowing bottled water, says Melissa Peffers, the air-quality program manager for Environmental Defense.
The containers are often filled in faraway lands, then shipped from abroad, and storedin refrigerators at your local store. Compare that with the influence on environment of turning on your tap, filling a glass, and drinking up!
Anyone who is choosing bottled water for health reasons is misguided, says Peffers, “Most bottled water is just tap water.” And what comes out of your tap is carefully monitored to follow the strict rules. Consider another fact that bottled water is surprisingly expensive, especially when compared with the alternative, which is almost free, and it is astonishing that America’s desire for bottled water seems impossible to satisfy, reaching nearly 30 billion bottles a year.
“My parents’ generation never had bottled water,” says Isabelle Silverman, an Environmental Defense legal adviser. She has made a commitment to going bottle free. “You don’t need to fetch it home from the store, and it’s cheaper,” she adds.
Bottled water’s role as a status symbol needs to change, Peffers points out. So when a waiter at an expensive restaurant offers  “And what’s your drink?” that’s no reason to forget your conviction（信念）. “Don’t be afraid to say, ‘I’ll have tap.’ Say it loud enough that the other tables nearby can hear you,” Peffers says. “And then spend that money on a dessert.”
In the first paragraph, the underlined sentence “It shouldn’t.” suggest that people _______.

According to the author, tap water is _______.

The underlined part “going bottle free” (in Para. 4) means “_______”.

Why does Peffers ask people to say “I’ll have tap.” Loudly?