2008年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语试题及答案-天津卷

1、 普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（天津卷）英 语第一部分：英语知识使用(共两节，满分45分)从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出你能够填入空白处的最佳选项。第一节：单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)例：Stand over there _ youll be able to see it before.A. or B. and C. but D. while答案是B。1. Well have a picnic in the park this Sunday _ it rains or its very cold. A. since B. if C. unless D. until2. My

2、 brother is really _. He often works in his office far into the night. A. open-minded B. hard-working C. self-confident D. warm-hearted3. - I just cant stop worrying about the result of the job interview. -_. Theres nothing you can do now but wait. A. Relax B. Go ahead C. Go for it D. Good luck4. _

3、their hats into the air, the fans of the winning team let out loud shouts of victory. A. To throw B. Thrown C. Throwing D. Being thrown5. To know more about the British Museum, you can use the Internet to go to the library, or _. A. neither B. some C. all D. both6. She _ have left school, for her bi

4、ke is still here. A. cant B. wouldnt C. shouldnt D. neednt7. The meal over, the managers went back to the meeting room to _ their discussion. A. put away B. take down C. look over D. carry on8. It was along the Mississippi River _ Mark Twain spent much of his childhood. A. how B. which C. that D. wh

5、ere9. -How much do I owe you for lunch? -_. Its nothing. A. Youre welcome B. Forget it C. With pleasure D. Thats right10. Many Chinese universities provided scholarships for students _ financial aid. A. in favour of B. in honour of C. in face of D. in need of11. Most air pollution is caused by the b

6、urning of _ like coal, gas and oil. A. fuels B. articles C. goods D. products12. The last time we had great fun was _ we were visiting the Water Park. A. where B. how C. when D. why 13. Her shoes _ her dress; they look very well together. A. suit B. fit C. compare D. match14. He _ football regularly

7、 for many years when he was young. A. was playing B. played C. has played D. had played15. At the railway station, the mother waved goodbye to her daughter until the train was _. A. out f sight B. out f reach C. out f order D. out f place第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-35各题所给的A、B、C、

8、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in herclass and was ready for new 16 in high school.17, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛) for cheerleaders(拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew i

9、t would be 18 for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 19 read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 20 as the list ended without her name. Feeling 21, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math stude

10、nt, but now she was 22. She moved on to English and history, and was 23 to find that she didnt have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to 24 math for the time being.The nest day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school 25. Mrs. Biden wasnt as 26 as Jenna.

11、“Im sorry, but we have enough 27 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and well talk then.” Jenna smiled 28 and left. “Why is high school so 29?” she sighed.Later in 30 class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 31. By the end of class, she understo

12、od how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided shed continue to try to 32 at her new school. She wasnt sure if shed succeed, but she knew she had to 33. High school was just as her mom had said: “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 34 a big fish in a small pond. The cha

13、llenge is to become the 35 fish you can be.”16. A. processes B. decision C. challenges D. exercises17. A. Therefore B. However C. Otherwise D. Besides18. A. difficult B. easy C. boring D. interesting19. A. editor B. boss C. candidate D. judge20. A. jumped B. sank C. stopped D. raced21. A. strange B.

14、 happy C. awful D. lonely22. A. struggling B. improving C. working D. complaining23. A. ashamed B. disappointed C. shocked D. relieved24. A. put up B. prepare for C. worry about D. give up25. A. committee B. newspaper C. radio D. team26. A. enthusiastic B. artistic C. sympathetic D. realistic27. A.

15、speakers B. readers C. cheerleaders D. writers28. A. widely B. weakly C. excitedly D. brightly29. A. similar B. ordinary C. different D. familiar30. A. physics B. history C. English D. math31. A. pleasure B. hope C. trouble D. sorrow32. A. fit in B. look out C. stay up D. get around33. A. swim B. tr

16、y C. ask D. escape34. A. in return for B. in case of C. in terms of D. instead of35. A. slimmest B. smallest C. best D. gentlest第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ASandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seve

17、n children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.In h

18、igh school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because her thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searchi

19、ng for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the universitys Writers Workshop, however, she felt lonely-a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different h

20、elped Cisneros find her “Creative voice.”“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didnt think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! T

21、hats when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldnt write about.”Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhood

22、s in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a childrens book, and a short-story collection.36. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisnero

23、s in her childhood?A. She had seven brothers. B. She felt herself a nobody.C. She was too shy to go to school.D. She did not have any good teachers.37. The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _. A. work for a school magazine B. run away from her family C. make a lot of friends D. develop her

24、writing style38. According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success? A. Her early years in college. B. Her training in the Workshop. C. Her feeling of being different. D. Her childhood experience.39. What do we learn about The House on Mango Street? A. It is quite popular among stud

25、ents. B. It is the only book ever written by Cisneros. C. It wasnt success as it was written in Spanish. D. It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.BI love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is

26、 a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you wont find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not

27、 damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods.The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charitys appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations(捐赠物). They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise

28、money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find childrens books, all 10 or 20 pence each.Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who

29、gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they dont encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open.The shops have very low running costs: all profits g

30、o to charity work. Charity shops raise more than 110 million a year, funding（资助）medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sens

31、e. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment.40. The author loves the charity shop mainly because of _. A. its convenient location B. its great variety of goods C. its spirit of goodwill D. its nice shopping environment41. The first charity shop in the UK was set up to _

32、. A. sell cheap products B. deal with unwanted things C. raise money for patients D. help a foreign country42. Which of the following is TRUE about charity shops? A. The operating costs are very low. B. The staff are usually well paid. C. 90% of the donations are second-hand. D. They are open twenty

33、-four hours a day.43. Which of the following may be the best title for the passage? A. What to Buy a Charity Shops. B. Charity Shop: Its Origin & Development. C. Charity Shop: Where You Buy to Donate. D. The Publics Concern about Charity Shops.CMichael Fish may soon be replaced as a weather forecast

34、er by something truly fishier-the shark(鲨鱼).Research by a British biology student suggests that sharks could be used to predict storms. Lauren Smith, 24, is close to completing her study on sharks ability to sense pressure.If her studies prove the theory, scientists may be able to monitor the behavi

35、our of sharks to predict bad weather.Miss Smith had previously studied the behaviour of lemon sharks in the Bahamas.She then used their close relatives, lesser spotted dogfish, for further research at Aberdeen University.Her work-thought to be the first of its kind to test the pressure theory - resu

36、lted from the observation that juvenile blacktip sharks off Florida moved into deeper water ahead of a violent storm in 2001.Miss Smith said: “Ive always been crazy about traveling and diving and this led me to an interest in sharks.”“I was delighted to have been able to research in the area for my

37、degree. I know theres so much more we need to understand - but it certainly opens the way to more research.”It has been discovered that a shark senses pressure using hair cells in its balance system.At the Bimini Shark Lab in the Bahamas, Miss Smith fixed hi-tech sensors to sharks to record pressure

38、 and temperature, while also tracking them using GPS (Global Positioning System) technology.In Aberdeen, she was able to study the effects of tidal(潮汐的) and temperature changes on dogfish-none of which were harmed. She also used a special lab which can mimic(模拟) oceanic pressure changes caused by we

39、ather fronts.She is due to complete her study and graduate later this year. She says she will be looking for a job which will give her the chance to enrich her experience of shark research. 44.The passage is most probably taken from _.A. a short-story collectionB. a popular science magazineC. a rese

40、arch paperD. a personal diary45. What do we learn from the first four paragraph of the passage?A. Sharks may be used to predict bad weather.B. Sharks behaviour can be controlled.C. Michael Fish is not qualified for his job.D. Lauren Smith will become a weather forecaster.46. Lauren Smith conducted h

41、er research by _. A. removing hair cells from a sharks balance system B. measuring the air pressure of weather fronts C. recording sharks body temperature D. monitoring sharks reaction to weather changes47. What is the passage mainly about? A. A popular way of forecasting weather. B. A new research

42、effort in predicting storms. C. Biologists interest in the secrets of sharks. D. Lauren Smiths devotion to scientific research.DWe can achieve knowledge either actively or passively（被动地）. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.We achieve knowledg

43、e passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, its not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication wi

44、th friends and co-workers.Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor(谣言).Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesnt show it to anyone. Then the

45、 person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the ori

46、ginal message has changed.Thats what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping（打上标记）it with their own

47、personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the

48、facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.48. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _. A. doing a medical experiment B. solving a math problem C. visiting an exhibition D. doing scientific reasoning49. The und

49、erlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to _. A. active learning B. knowledge C. communication D. passive learning50. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that _. A. a message may be changed when being passed on B. a message should be delivered in different ways C. people may have problems wit

50、h their sense of hearing D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor51. What can we infer from the passage? A. Active learning is less important. B. Passive learning may not be reliable. C. Active learning occurs more frequently. D. Passive learning is not found among scholars.EAs kids,

51、 my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friends house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, hes out in the woods, ” with a tone(语气) of airy acceptance. Its similar to the tone peop

52、le sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone Im looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk.” For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woo

53、ds was exploring(探索). Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting

54、frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Italian burial mound.Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold wei

55、ght, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly-tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the