2007年高考英语试题及参考答案(湖北卷)

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A

、

B

、

C

和

D

）中，选出可以填入空

Many

years

ago,I

owned

a

service

station

and

roadhouse

on

the

main

road

between

Melbourne and Adelaide.

One very cold, wet night at about 3:30 a.m., there was a 41 on the front door of our house. A

young man, wet from 42 to toe, explained that he had 43 out of petrol about 30 km up the road. He

had

left

his

pregnant

(

怀孕的

)

wife

and

his

two

children

44

at

the

car

and

said

that

he

would

hitchhike

(< /p>

搭便车

) back.

Once

I

had

45

a

can

with

petrol,

I

took

him

back

to

his

car

where

his

two-year-old

and

four-year-old

children

were

both

46

,saying

that

they

were

cold.

Once

the

car

had

started,

I

suggested that he

47

me back.

Before leaving, I had turned the heater 48 in the roadhouse, so that when we went in, it was

nice

and

49

.While

the

little

ones

played

and

ran

50

,

I

prepared

bread

and

butter

for

the

children,and hot chocolate for the

51

.

It was about 5 a.m. before they 52

.The young fellow asked me how much he 53

me and I

told him that the

petrol pump

(

加油泵

) had 54

$$ offered to pay “call

-

out fee”,

but I wouldn?t

accept it.

About a month later, I received a

55

from Interstate, a large bus company that we had

been trying to

56

to stop off at our roadhouse for a long time. It

57

out that the young

fellow I had helped was its general manager, the most

58

person in the company.

In his letter, he thanked me again and 59 me that, from then on, all their buses would stop at

my

service

station.

In

this

60

,

a

little

bit

of

kindness

was

rewarded

with

a

huge

amount

of

benefits.

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B. shoulder

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A< /p>

、

B

、

C

和

D

）中，选出最佳选

项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Karen,

grown

up

in

a

very

traditional

family

in

the

western

United

States,maintained

high

moral

(

道德的

) standars throughout her youth..In 1984,at the age of 23,she married were

blessed with two children,a boy and a girl.

By 1991 their love had deepened,and they were that year,Bill developed a white

spot on his visited a doctor.

One day shortly after that,Bill called Karen to sit beside said with tears in his eyes

that

he

loved

her

and

wanted

to

live

forever

with

doctor

suspected

that

he

had

been

infected with HIV,the virus that leads to AIDS.

The family was and Karen?s results were had become infected before

he

met

Katen;then

he

passed

the

virns

on

to

children?s

results

were

three years,Bill was dead.“I don?t know how to express what it is like to watch the once handsome

man

you

love

and

intend

to

live

with

forever

dying

slowly.I

cried

many

died

three

months short of ten years of our marriage,”says a doctor told Karen that she would

soon

follow

her

husband

into

death,she

is

still

infection

has

progressed

to

the

early

stages of AIDS.

Karen is but one of about 30 million people now living with HIV/AIDS,a figure larger than

the

combined

populations

of

d

and ing

to one UN report,Africa

has 21 million of these the turn of the century that number could reach 40 million and

the disease will bring on the greatest disaster in human the wold?s sexually active adults

aged 15 to 49,1 in 100 has already been infected with HIV

.Of these,only 1 in 10 realizes that he or

she is some parts of Africa,25 percent of the adults are infected.

Since the beginning of the spread of AIDS in 1981,about 11.7 million people have died of

is roughly calculated that in 1997 alone,about 2,3 million people died of heless,there

are fresh reasons for optimism in the battle against the past few years,there has been

a drop in new AIDS cases in wealthy addition,promising drugs hold out hope of better

health and longer life.

telling the story of Karen,the author intends to

.

people against high risk behaviors

the importance of medical tests

s sympathy for AIDS victims

the consequences of AIDS

underlined part in Paragraph 1 most probably means “

”.

lucky in having

asked to adopt

ted having

birth to

was suspected of being infected with HIV after

.

got married to Karen

family members were tested

persuaded him to see the doctor

found something wrong with his tongue

can be concluded from the passage that

.

ing drugs will soon stop AIDS

spread of AIDS could be controlled

is hopeless to win the battle against AIDS

death rate of AIDS patients has been reduced

B

How can a creature weighing over 5 tons and normally taking 150 kilograms of food and 120

liters of water per day survive in a desert environment?

In the southwest African country of Namibia, and the Sahara lands of Mali further north, the

desert elephant does just that.

Although not regarded as a separate species from the African elephant, the desert cousin differs

in

many

ways.

Their

bodies

are

smaller,

to

absorb

less

heat,

and

their

feet

are

larger

for

easier

walking across sandy surfaces. They are taller, to reach higher branches. They have shorter

tusks

（象牙）

，

and most importantly, longer trunks to dig for water in riverbeds.

Desert clephants can travel

over 70 kilometers in search for feeding grounds and waterholes,

and

have

a

larger

group

of

families,

They

drink

only

every

3-4

days,

and

can

store

water

in

a

“bag”

at

the

back

of

their

throat,

which

is

only

used

when

badly

needed.

Desert

elephants

are

careful feeders-they seldom root up trees and break fewer branches, and thus maintain what little

food sources are available. Yong elephants may even eat the

dung

（粪便）

of the female leader of

a group when facing food shortage.

During drought they are unlikely to give birth to their young but with good rains the birthrate

will increase greatly. Desert elephants have sand baths, sometimes adding their own

urine

(

尿液

)

to make them muddy!

As we continue to overheat our weak planet, it can only be hoped that other animal species will

adapt as extraordinarily well to change as the desert elephant.

65. The underlined part in Paragraph 2 means“

”.

s in the African countries

120 liters of water a day

s to live in desert areas

150 kilograms of food daily

elephants are called careful feeders because they

.

ruin trees

only every 3-4 days

for food in large groups