2014全国高考英语阅读表达汇总
湖南卷
Kids and Ponds
Years ago there was a group of kids who would hang around at some local ponds in the woods near their houses in Warwick, Rhode Island.In summer they caught frogs and fish.When winter arrived they couldn’t wait to go skating.Time paed, and the ponds became the only open space for the kids to enjoy themselves in that neighborhood.
One day.a thirteen-year-old boy from this group of kids read in the local newspaper that a developer wanted to fill in the ponds and build over a hundred small houses called condominiums.So the boy went door to door and gathered more than two hundred signatures (签名）to stop the development A group of citizens met and decided to support him.
At the meeting of the town planning board (委员会)，the boy was quite nervous at first and spoke very softly.But when he saw the faces of his friends and neighbors in the crowd and thought about what was happening to their favorite ponds，his voice grew louder.He told the town officials that they should speak for the citizens.He also insisted that they should leave enough space for children.A few days later，the developer stopped his plan.
Nine years later, when that teen was a senior in college, he was informed that the developer was back with his proposal to build condominiums.Now twenty-two years old, he was studying wetlands ecology.He again appeared before the town planning board.This time as an expert witne, he used environmental protection laws to explain restrictions on development in and around wetlands and the knowledge of
wetlands ecology to help improve the development.Finally some condominiums were built, but le than half the number the developer wanted.The ponds where those kids used to hang around were protected by a strip of natural land，and are still there today.
81.What did the kids like to do at the local ponds in winter?(No more than 6 words) (2 marks)
82.How did the boy win the citizens’ support? (No more than 10 words) (2 marks)
83.What did the boy tell the town officials? (No more than 16 words) (3 marks)
84.What helped the boy to protect the ponds succefully nine years later?
(No more than 12 words) (3marks)
[1] Nowadays the cost of a new car has fallen in real terms so that it is cheaper than ever to own one, and better road conditions have also attracted more drivers.The result is overcrowding on the road system, which is one of the problems the local governments are faced with.
[2] When people travel to other towns, the problem might be relieved by getting them to park outside the town.Buses could be provided to take them into the centre.These Park and Ride projects are increasingly popular in the UK.At Southerton, for example, a council-funded project led to a 15% drop in city centre traffic over five months.
[3] What the council found, though, was that the project proved somewhat unpopular with shop owners in the area outside the centre.Many of their shops relied on paing car drivers for some of their trade.As the number of people driving past dropped, so did their incomes.
[4] Making car driving expensive is another way of ____________.Road taxes tend to mean that people use their cars le.Fining drivers who are in areas where cars have been banned can also tend to encourage them to leave their cars behind.
[5] However, one thing has to be got right for any solution to succeed.If we expect people to give up the habit of driving, we must give them an alternative they can rely on.Constant delays, unannounced changes to the timetable and sudden cancellations all discourage people from using public transport.People will only see it as a real choice if the buses and trains are on time.
66.What causes overcrowding on the road system according to Paragraph 1? (no more than 12 words)_______________________________________________________________________________
67.What should people do when traveling to other towns according to the Park and Ride projects? (no more than 10 words)
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68.Why were some shop owners unhappy about the project? (no more than 10 words)
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69.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4.( no more than 8 words)
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70.Why are people unwilling to use public transport according to Paragraph 5? (no more than 8 words)_______________________________________________________________________________
When my father was celebrating a milestone（里程碑）birthday, I pulled together a surprise gift treat he would never forget.
As he was approaching 60, I had a fun idea: What if I could get the memories people had of him, put each one into an envelope—60 in total—and have him open them, one by one, on his birthday? So I wrote an e-mail to family and friends, explaining my idea.
I sent the e-mail and waited.And then the replies started coming in and I was very, very surprised.There were so many memories, and they were all so lovely.They came from the ’50s, ’60s,’70s, from every decade（十年）between now and the day my dad was born.They came from my mother, my siblings, my grandma, my dad’s friends from high school, his sister, my dad’s first bo, a colleague at his first job, from people who hadn’t seen my dad in 40 years, from people I myself hadn’t even informed.They typed them and handwrote them.They mailed them and e-mailed them.
The night before Dad\'s birthday, my sister and I stayed up late, putting everything together with some envelopes.
The next morning, after breakfast and presents and cake, we gave the pile of envelopes to him.\"Just one more thing for you,” we said.
It took him a long time to open them and read.Each one was a brief ticket to another time, a leap（跳跃）backward over years and decades.There was a lot of laughter and a few tears, too.
I was kind of sad when the project was over because it was great fun to collect these memories.It gave me a different picture of dad.
56.When did the author give her father a surprise gift?(no more than 4 words)
57.Who sent the mails?( no more than 6 words)
58.Why did the author and her sister stay up late the night before their father’s birthday?
( no more than 9 words)
59.How did the author’s father most probably feel when he read the mails? ( no more than 3 words)
60.What was the surprise gift? ( no more than 6 words)
Last December, Doris Low turned 90.Once a week she still drives to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) in Toronto, where she helps transform literature into Braille() to bring the power of story and knowledge to the hears and minds of blind readers.She has been volunteering her time and talents to such enterprises foe more than 40 years.
After working in the busine world for a while, Low got fed up.So she turned to teaching at a technical school and later moved into the library.
Low’s mother liked reading.As her eyes began to fail, low read to her.Then “ hearing an advertisement encouraging people to learn Braille, I decided to give it a try.” In 1973, she was certified as a braille transcriber (转译者) and began transcribing books as a volunteer for the CNIB library.do the whole thing again.For a number of years, low also worked in the CNIB sound studio reading books onto tape.Three years ago, she took up proofreading (校对) at the CNIB’s word factory.
In April, during Volunteer Week, the CNIB recognized Low for her great contributions.Thanks to volunteers like Low, the CNIB library has got more than 80,000 acceible materials for people unable to read traditional print.“ I can’t imagine how many readers of all ages have benefited from
Doris’s contribution as a skilled volunteer through her rich voice and her high degree of accuracy in the hundreds of books she has brailled and proofread over the years--- and she is still doing so,” said a CNIB official.
“For me,” said Low, “the CNIB is more than just a place to volunteer.Three thins matter most in my life: a little play, a little work, a little love.I’ve found them all here.”
56.What does Low still do at the age of 90 at the CNIB? ( no more than 10 words)
57.why did Low learn Braille? ( no more than 15 words)
58.what does the underlined word “strenuous” most probably mean?(1 word)
59.What are Low’s contributions to the CNIB? ( no more than 10 words)
60.What do you think of Low? Give your reasons.( no more than 20 words)
