2014年湖北省英语高考真题

Ⅰ. 选择题（本大题共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）

从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个可以填入题中空白处的最佳选项。未选、错选或多选均不得分。

1. —Your English is excellent！

—______.

A. Just so so

B. No, my English is poor

C. Thank you

D. You are right

2. —Remember to telephone me when you arrive.

—OK, ______.

A. I must

B. I will

C. I should

D. I can

3. —Hi, Peter! Shall we go out for a picnic this weekend?

—______.

A. Good idea

B. Yes, please

C. No, thanks

D. Never mind

4. ―Excuse me, I’m a visitor to this city. I get lost.

―______

A. Sorry.

B. That’s OK.

C. What can I do for you?

D. Nice to meet you.

5. Yesterday，I ______ an exciting TV program when she came in.

A. watched

B. was watching

C. had watched

D. am watching

6. I have been to the palace four times ______ 2000.

A. since

B. after

C. in

D. before

7. They are looking forward to ______ a good result after a long time of hard work.

A. get

B. getting

C. be getting

D. have got

8. The child is sleeping, and would you please ______ TV a little?

A. turn on

B. turn up

C. turn down

D. turn off

9. Can you ______ the differences between American English and British English?

A. say

B. speak

C. talk

D. tell

10. In our class, we have only two ______.

A. woman teacher

B. woman teachers

C. women teacher

D. women teachers

11. My new camera isn’t like Bill’s, but it is almost the same as ______.

A. you

B. your

C. yours

D. yourself

12. They tried hard, but ______ could answer the question.

A. all

B. none

C. some

D. everybody

13. ______ it is to have a game of basketball after a day of study at school!

A. What a fun

B. How fun

C. What fun

D. How a fun

14. There is ______ old phone on the table. ______ phone is hers.

A. an; The

B. the; An

C. a; The

D. the; The

15. —Excuse me, ______ does it take me to the railway station?

—It’s twenty minutes’ walk.

A. how often

B. how many

C. how long

D. how much

16. The soup smells ______. I would like to drink it.

A. bad

B. hot

C. terrible

D. nice

17. All the students are going to the park except ______.

A. he and I

B. him and I

C. him and me

D. he and me

18. Neither Tim nor Jim ______ from Britain. They are from Australia.

A. is

B. were

C. are

D. was

19. He has never had enough money to afford a house, ______ he?

A. has

B. hasn’t

C. does

D. doesn’t

20. After learning the grammar rules, we went on ______ exercises.

A. to do

B. done

C. do

D. Did

Passage Two

I live in a small village in the country. My wife and I run the village shop. We have a very peaceful life, boring, some might say, but we love it. I have plenty of time for my hobbies—gardening, fishing, and walking in the countryside, but it wasn’t always like this.

I used to have a very stressful job, till late in the office every evening and often bringing work home on the weekend. The advertising world is very competitive (竞争激烈的) . I had no private life at all. No time for the really important things in life. Because of the pressure, I used to smoke and drink too much. The trouble came when my wife decided to leave me. She complained she never saw me. And I had no time for a family life. This made me realize what was really important to me. I talked things through with her and decided to get back and start a new and better life together.

56. The writer of the passage is ______.

A. a shop owner

B. a fisherman

C. a clerk in an office

D. a manager of a company

57. In the writer’s opinion, life in the country is ______.

A. satisfying

B. boring

C. stressful

D. competitive

58. The man used to smoke and drink too much, as he ______.

A. was in a big trouble

B. enjoyed smoking and drinking

C. often had dinners with his customers

D. wanted to forget the pressure from work

59. Why did the man’s wife want to leave him?

A. He drank too much.

B. They had little time together.

C. He complained a lot.

D. They never talked things through.

60. Which means the most important to the man?

A. Family.

B. Business.

C. Hobby.

D. Job.

Passage Three

Dear Xiaojun,

I ho pe you are very well. I’m fine, but tired. Right now it is the summer vacation and I’m helping my Dad on the farm. August is the hottest month here. It is the time of year for the rice harvest, so every day I work from morning until dark. Sometimes we go on working after dark by the lights of our tractors (拖拉机) . We grow rice in the south of the