2006年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语试题

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I．单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，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。

21. -- Andrew won't like it, you know.

-- ______ ? I don't care what Andrew thinks!

A. So what            B. So where          C. So why             D. So how

22. -- Must he come to sign this paper himself?

-- Yes, he _______.

A. need                 B. must                 C. may                  D. will

23. I thought she was famous, but none of my friends have ______  heard of her.

A. even                 B. ever                  C. just                   D. never

24. The traffic lights ______  green and I pulled away.

A. came                B. grew                 C. got                   D. went

25. I was still sleeping when the fire ______, and then it spread quickly.

A. broke out          B. put out              C. came out           D. got out

26. Jenny was very sad over the loss of the photos she had shot at Canada, ______  this was a memory she especially treasured.

A. as                     B. if                      C. when                D. where

27. Sarah had her washing machine repaired the day before yesterday, ______  she?

A. had                   B. did                    C. hadn't               D. didn't

28. Much of the power of the trade unions has been lost., their political influence should be very great.

A. As a result         B. As usual            C. Even so            D. So far

29. No matter how frequently ______, the works of Beethoven still attract people all over the world.

A. performed         B. performing        C. to be performed D. being performed

30. this cake, you'll need 2 eggs, 175 g sugar and 175 g flour.

A. Having made     B. Make                C. To make           D. Making

31. “You can't have this football back ______  you promise not to kick it at my cat again,” the old man said firmly.

A. because            B. since                 C. when                D. until

32. The young girl sitting next to me on the plane was very nervous. She ______  before.

A. hasn't flown      B. didn't fly           C. hadn't flown      D. wasn't flying

33. So difficult ______  it to work out the problem that I decided to ask Tom for advice.

A. I did find           B. did I find           C. I have found      D. have I found

34. You have been sitting on my hat and now it is badly out of _______.

A. date                  B. shape                C. order                D. balance

35. -- Excuse me, Sir, is the swimming pool open all day?

-- ______ Only from 6:00 pal to 10:00 pm.

A. That's right.                                  B. Yes, of course

C. Sorry, I am not sure                       D. Sorry, I'm afraid not

II．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36 ~ 55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world, children can___36___from a different kind of poverty — of the spirit.___37___, one Western country alone now sees 14, 000 attempted suicides (自杀 ) every year by children under 15, and one child___38___five needs psychiatric (心理) advice.

There are many good things about___39___in the Third World. Take the close and constant relation between children and their parents, relatives and neighbours for example. In the West, the very nature of work puts distance between___40___and children. But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in offices.___41___, the child sees mother and father, relations and neighbours working___42___and often shares in that work.

A child___43___in this way learns his or her role through joining in the community's ___44___ : helping to dig or build, look after animals or babies -- rather than___45___playing with water and sand in kindergarten, keeping pets___46___playing with dolls.

These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the ___47___children. Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky. Children in the rich world, ___48___, are provided with a watch as one of the___49___signs of growing up, so that they can___50___along with their parents about being late for school times, meal times, bed times, the times of TV shows. …

Third World children do not usually___51___to stay indoors, still less in highrise apartments (公寓). Instead of dangerous roads, “keep off the grass” signs and “don't speak to strangers”, there is often a sense of___52___to study and play. Parents can see their children outside rather than observe them___53___from ten floors up.

54 , twelve million children under five still die every year through hunger and disease.

But childhood in the Third World is not all   55

36. A. come          B. learn                 C. suffer               D. survive

37. A. As usual      B. For instance      C. In fact              D. In other words

38. A. by               B. in                     C. to                     D. under

39. A. childhood    B. poverty             C. spirit                 D. survival

40. A. adults          B. fathers              C. neighbours        D. relatives

41. A. Anyhow      B. However           C. Instead             D. Still

42. A. away           B. alone                 C. along                D. nearby

43. A. growing up  B. living through    C. playing              D. working

44. A. activity        B. life                    C. study                D. work

45. A. by               B. from                 C. through             D. with

46. A. and             B. but                   C. or                     D. so

47. A. Eastern        B. good                 C. poor                 D. Western

48. A. at any moment                         B. at the same time

C. on the other hand                           D. on the whole

49. A. easiest         B. earliest              C. happiest            D. quickest

50. A. care            B. fear                  C. hurry                D. worry

51. A. dare            B. expect               C. have                 D. require

52. A. control        B. danger              C. disappointment  D. freedom

53. A. anxiously     B. eagerly              C. impatiently        D. proudly

54. A. Above all     B. In the end          C. Of course         D. What's more

55. A. bad             B. good                 C. rich                  D. poor

III．阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Scientific experiments can sometimes go wrong and when they do the results may range from the disastrous to the troubling. One such experiment took place in South America about fifty years ago. Whether its final consequences will cause serious damage or nothing more than a small trouble still remains to be seen.

The story began in 1956 when an American scientist working in Brazil decided to solve the problem of increasing the productivity of that country's bees. He imported a very active type of African bee from Tanzania and mated  (交配)  it with the more easy-going native variety to produce a new kind of bees. The new bees worked harder and produced twice as much honey. It seemed that Professor Kerr, for that was the scientist's name, had a total success on his hands.

Then things began to go wrong. For some reason as yet unseen, but perhaps as a result of something in their environment, the new bees began to develop extremely attacking personalities. They became bad-tempered and easy to be angry, attacked the native bees and drove them from their living places.

But worse was to follow. Having taken over the countryside, the new bees, with their dangerous stings (叮), began to attack its neighbours — cats, dogs, horses, chickens and finally man himself. A long period of terror began that has so far killed a great number of animals and about 150 human beings.

This would have been bad enough if the bees had stayed in Brazil. But now they are on the move, heading northwards in countless millions towards Central and North America, and moving at the alarming speed of 200 miles a year. The countries that lie in their path are naturally worried because it looks as if nothing can be done to stop them.

56. The results of the South American experiment_______.

A. have caused a serious trouble

B. have proved to be wrong

C. are not yet certain

D. are not important

57. The experiment mentioned in this passage was designed to_______.

A. increase the amount of honey in Brazil

B. make Brazilian bees more easy-going

C. increase the number of bees in Brazil

D. make African bees less active

58. Which of the following may be the cause of the new bees' attacking personalities?

A. Their production of honey.

B. Their hard work.

C. Their living environment.

D. Their bad temper.

59. The last paragraph implies that _______.

A. the bees have been driven to Central and North America

B. the bees may bring about trouble in more countries

C. the bees must be stopped from moving north

D. the bees prefer to live in Brazil

B

He’s an old cobbler  (修鞋匠)  with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me: “I haven't time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street; he'll fix them for you right away. ”

But I’d had my eye on his shop for a long time. Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman (手艺人). “No,” I replied, “the other fellow can’t do it well. ”

“The other fellow” was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys “while-U-wait” -- without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work carelessly, and when they have finished sewing back a sandal strap (鞋带) you might as well just throw away the pair.

My man saw I wouldn't give in, and he smiled. He wiped his hands on his blue apron (围裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said,

“Come back in a week. ”

I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.

“See what I can do?” he said with pride. “Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work. ”

When I got back out into the street, the world seemed brand-new to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny accent from who-knows-where and, above all, his pride in his craft.

These are times when nothing is important but the bottom line, when you can do things any old, way as long as it “pays”, when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption (消费) rather than a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.

60. Which of the following is true about the old cobbler?

A. He was equipped with the best repairing tools.

B. He was the only cobbler in the Marais.

C. He was proud of his skills.

D. He was a native Parisian.

61. The sentence “He was something out of an ancient legend. ” (paragraph 7) implies that

A. nowadays you can hardly find anyone like him

B. it was difficult to communicate with this man

C. the man was very strange

D. the man was too old

62. According to the author, many people work just to _______.

A. realize their abilities

B. gain happiness

C. make money

D. gain respect

63. This story wants to tell us that_______.

A. craftsmen make a lot of money

B. whatever you do, do it well

C. craftsmen need self-respect

D. people are born equal

C

Members of the working class have blue-collar jobs. They are construction workers, truck drivers, mechanics, steel workers, electricians, and the like. What makes this class differ from the lower class is, first, longer periods of employment -- and therefore, more fixed incomes — and, second, employment in skilled or semiskilled (半熟练的 ) occupations, not unskilled ones. Although unemployment hits all levels of the American economy, including those of skilled and semi-skilled workers, it is most common at the bottom of the class structure and increasingly less common at each level upward. They consider themselves to be respectable and hard working and they look down upon members of the “lower” class, whom they often consider to be lazy, dishonest, and too ready to exploit public assistance.

Most people in the working class have at least high school education. Many have some experience of college (especially community college), though few are college graduates. Unionization has helped the working class, but a rapidly changing economy and frequent periods of high unemployment make it difficult for most of its members to be able to increase their savings greatly. Purchasing a house for people in this class is extremely difficult, although a certain percentage may receive houses from their parents. (Home-owning rises with social class. )

A greater number of the members of the working class take relatively little satisfaction in their jobs, because much of their work is ordinary and boring. As a result, many seek their main satisfaction in recreational (娱乐的) activities. Many members of this class would like to earn enough money to leave their jobs and start their own businesses, though few make it. Many place their expectations on their children, hoping that they at least will rise in the ladder of success, American style.

64. Which of the following is true about the working class?

A. They are often employed as skilled and semi-skilled workers.

B. They are often offered jobs with high incomes.

C. They are often considered lazy and dishonest.

D. They are often exploited by the public.

65. The underlined word “hit” (paragraph 1 ) roughly means_______.

A. strike with a blow

B. have bad effects on

C. break up

D. beat

66. Most people in the working class_______.

A. have difficulty increasing their savings greatly

B. have at least some experience of college

C. receive houses from their parents

D. buy houses by themselves

67. Many members from the working class are not satisfied with their jobs because _______.

A. they could not rise in the ladder of success

B. they are not interested in their jobs

C. they could not earn much money__________

D. they are not their own bosses

D

How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time7 Far too many.

This is Life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal (排演) and, unhappily, we do miss so many of its best moments.

We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then, at 60 or 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for Real Life to come along were in fact real life.

In  America they have a saying much laughed at by the English：“Have a nice day” they speak slowly and seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, reminding us, in effect, to enjoy the moment: to value this very day.

How often do we say to ourselves, "I'll take up horse-riding (or golf, or sailing) as soon as I get a higher position," only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position.

When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable job at the Daily Telegraph to go and edit a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was astonished by what appeared to me to be his completely abnormal (反常的) mental state. How could anyone turn his back on Fleet Street in central London for a small local area？I wanted to know.

Now I am a little older and possibly wiser, I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure. He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains.

68. The first paragraph of the passage tells us that_______.

A. we always try to find some time to write a book

B. we always make plans but seldom fulfil them

C. we always enjoy many of life's best moments

D. we always do what we really want to do

69. The underlined phrase "turn his back on" (paragraph 6) most probably means _______.

A. leave for           B. return to            C. give up             D. rely on

70. The man (paragraph 6) left his first job partly because he was _______.

A. in an abnormal mental state             B. under too much pressure

C. not well paid                                  D. not respected

71. What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. Provide Homes For Our Family       B. Take Up Horse-riding

C. Value This Very Day                      D. Stay Alive

V．短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√)；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(八)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

When a young man starts to earn his own living, he

can no longer expect others to pay his food, his clothes,    76.

or his room, but he has to work till he wants to live          77.

comfortable. If he spends most of his time playing             78.

about in the way that he used to as a child, they will go      79.

hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society that he used   80.

to break the laws of his parents, he may go to the prison. 81.

If, therefore, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has  82.

better health, he can have the great happiness of seeing      83.

himself to make steady progress in his job and of               84.

building up for himself his own position in society.            85.

Ⅵ．书面表达(满分25分)

根据以下图画，写一篇英语短文，描述今昔通讯方式的变化，以及这些变化给人们生活带来的影响。

注意：

1．词数：100左右

2．生词：通讯：communicate(with sb．)ication n．

互联网：the Internet n.