A. reduce the roast of burying waste
B. meets the EU requirements
C. speed up waste recycling
D. tempter landfill sites
61. The city council of Edinburgh rejected the suggestion to open a huge landfill site near Portobello because .
A. a name from a private company
B. the comelier was not interested in it
C. it was not supports by EU
D. the local poodle was waist it
62. What is the final dream an Edinburgh and Midlothian Country?
A. To open a new landfill nearby
B. To close the powder hall landfill in 2015
C. To set up a plan for burning waste
D. To persuade people to deduce their waste.
D
Feeling blue about world ? “Cheer up.” Says science writer Matt Ridley.”The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and got nature.”
Ridley calls himself a tat ional optimist—tactical .because he’s carefully weighed the evidence optimistic .because that offence shows human progress to be both unavoidable and good .And this is what he’s set out to prone from unique point of view in his most recent book. The Rant anal Opting .He views mankind as grand enterprise that .on the whole .has done little but progress for 100.000 years. He backed his finding with hard gathered though years of research.
Here’s how he explains his views.
Shopping fuels invention
It is reported that there are more than ten billion different producers for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty .our own generation has access to more nutritious food .more convenient transport .bigger houses, better ears .and of course, more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us .This will continue as long as we there things to make other things, This more we specialize and exchange, the better off we’ll be.
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2) Brilliant advances
One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer-lived and freer than ener before is that the four most basie human needs -food, clothing, fuel and shelter- have grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hour’s light cost six hours’ work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes’ work to pay for. In 1950 it was eight seconds. Today it’s half second.
3) Let’s not kill ourselves for climate change
Mitigating(减轻) climate change could prove just as damaging to human welface as climate change itself. A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fassil-fuel(化石燃料) electrieity is forhidden by well meaming members of green polucal movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that mes in a flood caused by climate change. If chmaic change proves to be xxxx, but cutting carbon canses realparn, we may well find that we have stopped a nose bleed by putting a tournquet(止血带) around our necks.
63. What is the theme of Ridley’s most recent book?
A. Weakness of human nature.
B. Concern about climate change.
C. Importance of practical thinking.
D. Optimism about human progress.
64. How does Ridley look at shopping?
A. It encourages the creation of things.
B. It results in shortage of goods.
C. It demands more fossil fuels.
D. It causes a poverry problem.
65. The candle and lamp example is used to show that .
A. oil lamps give off more light than candles
B. shortening working time brings about a happier life.
C. advanced technology helps to produce better candles.
D. increased production rate leads to lower cost of goods.
66. What does the last sentence of the passage imply?
A. Cutting carbon is necessary in spite of the huge cost.
B. Overreaction to cliamate change may be dangerous.
C. People’s health is closely related to climate change.
D. Careless medical treatment may cause great pain.
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E
Which are you more likely to have wath you at sny given mement—your cell phone or your wallet? Soon you may be able to throw your wallet away and pay for things with a quick wave of your smart phone over an electroue scannet.
In January, Starbucks announced that customers could start using their phones to buy coffee in 6,800 of its states. This is the first pay by phone practice in the U.S., but we’re likely to see more witeless payment alternatives as something called ucar field communcation(NFC)GETS IN TO America’s consumet electanies. Last Deccmbet some new smart phanes which cantain an NFC chip were introduced to the midlit.
Already in use in part of Asia and Europe, NFCtheir plan a few incees live a payment tetminal a one a few ptaht need to be worked out, like who will get to collect the profitable trunsacian(交易)fees. Although some credit card providers have been experimenting with wave and pay systems that use NFC enabled credit cards, cellphone service providers truay try to mused their way into the point of sale (POS)market. Three big gellphone service providers have formed a joinf tenture(合资企业)that will go into opention over the next i15 months. Its goal is“to lead the U.S. payments industry from cards to mobile phone.”
The other big NFC sue, apart from how paymeats will be processed, is security, For instance, what’s to stop a thief from digitally pickpocketing you? “We’re still not at the point where an attacker can just brush against yee in a crowd and steal all the money out of your phone,”says Jimmy Shah. A mobile security rescarcher, “Usera may also be able to set transaction timeits,requiring a password to be enteced for larger putchases.
Bus siness? Keep in mund you lost your smart phone, it can be located on a located on a map and remotely ned Plus, your phone can be password protected, Your wallet isn’t.
67.What is predicted to happen in the U.S.?
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A.The expansion of cellphone companices.
B. The boom of pay by phone business.
C. The dissppearanceof credit cards.
D. The increase of Starbucks sales.s
68.The NFC technology can be used to________.
A. ensure the safety of shoppers
B. collect transaction fees easily
C. make purchase faster and smpler
D. improve the quality of cellphones
69.Three cellphone service providers form a joint venture to__________.
A. strengthen their relationship
B .get a share in the payments industry
C .sell more cellphones
D. test the NFC teehnoingy
70.According to the what can users do if they lose their smart phones?
A. Stop the luneting of niet phones.
B .Stop a passwant.
C .Cat all the money out of their phones.
D. Can large purchases.
第四部分：书面表达(共两节，满分40分)
第一节：完成句子(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
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。
例：We__________(起床)before dawn. It was still dark outside.(get)
答案：got up
71.Not until two days after the earthquake________(她发现)her mother alive.(find)
72.________call net when you arrive. Just come up to me house. I’ll be at home all day.(there)
73.It was cold and dumpty the man pulled up his collat and put his hands to his_____(冻僵了的脸).(freate)
74.________(把钥匙握在手上)，he looked for them everywhere.(hold)
75.If_________(我没有喝)alcohol last night. I could have driven my car home.(drink)
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76. (令球迷欣喜的)was that the young player performed exteriorly well in the table tennis tournament.(delight)
77. A number of paintings in this castle are believed (被毁掉)in a fire in 2009.(destroy)
78. (他突然想到) that he had an important conference to attend the next morning.(occur)
79.Be careful! The machine starts (你一按)the button.(moment)
80. (比较这两把牙刷) and you’ll find the purple one is softer.(compare)
第二节：短文写作(共1题;满分25分)
请根据以下提示，结合你校园生活中的一个事例，就与人合作这一话题，用英语写一篇短文。
Working in groups at school is an opportunity to learn about team work. Teamwork shows us how other people’s roles fit the purpose of the group, and it teaches to be patient and how to respond to different people.
注意：①无须写标题，不得照抄英语提示语;
②除诗歌外，文体不限;
③内容必须结合校园生活中的一个事例;
④文中不得透漏个人姓名和学校名称;
⑤词数为100左右。
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2011年高考湖北卷英语试题解读
一、各大题型考查内容
多项选择题题号
名词21，22
形容词23，24，25
动词26，27，28
动词短语29
介词短语30
完形填空题号
动词31，32，33，34，43，45，46，50
形容词35
副词36，40，42，49
名词38，41，44，47，48
连词39
动词短语37
阅读理解题号
细节题52，55，56，57，59，60，61，62，63，64，65，68，69
推理题51，70
主旨大意题54，67
猜测词义题53，58，66
完成句子题号
倒装句71