1、2008 年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（全国卷 II） 英语 本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。第一卷 1 至 12 页。第二卷 13至 16 页。考试结束，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一卷 第一部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满分 50 分） 从 A、四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 例： have A. gave B. save C. hat D. made 答案是 C。 1. course A. journey B. four C. labour D. hour 2. match A. separate B. mar
2、ry C. machine D. many 3. rise A. purse B. else C. praise D. mouse 4. bathe A. faith B. cloth C. maths D. smooth 5. Britain A. certain B. train C. against D. contain 第二节 语法和词汇知识（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分） 从 A、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。 例： We _ last night, but we went to the concert instead. A. m
3、ust have studied B. might study C. should have studied D. would study 答案是 C。 6. Do you know Annas telephone number? - _. As a matter of fact, I dont know any Anna, either. A. I think so B. Im afraid not C. I hope so D. Id rather not 7. A small car is big enough for a family of three _ you need more
4、space for baggage. A. once B. because C. if D. unless 8. Its not _ good idea to drive for four hours without _ break. A. a ; a B. the ; a C. the ; the D. a ; the 9. What are you reading, Tom? Im not really reading, just _ the pages. A. turning off B. turning around C. turning over D. turning up 10.
5、- Could I ask you a rather personal question? - Sure, _. A. pardon me B. go ahead C. good idea D. forget it 11. If the weather had been better, we could have had a picnic. But it _ all day. A. rained B. rains C. has rained D. is raining 12. The director had her assistant _ some hot dogs for the meet
6、ing. A. picked up B. picks up C. pick up D. picking up 13. Stand over there _ youll be able to see the oil painting better. A. but B. till C. and D. or 14. If their marketing plans succeed, they _ their sales by 20 percent. A. will increase B. have been increasing C. have increased D. would be incre
7、asing 15. Modern equipment and no smoking are two of the things I like _ working here. A. with B. over C. at D. about 16. The road conditions there turned out to be very good, _ was more than we could expect. A. it B. what C. which D. that 17. Liza _ well not want to go on the trip - she hates trave
8、ling. A. will B. can C. must D. may 18. Little Johnny felt the bag, curious to know what it _. A. collected B. contained C. loaded D. saved 19. The house still needed a lot of work, but _ the kitchen was finished. A. instead B. altogether C. at once D. at least 20. It was in New Zealand _ Elizabeth
9、first met Mr. Smith. A. that B. how C. which D. when 第三节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（ A、和）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch, I 21 a note. Often written on a napkin (餐巾 ), it might be a t
10、hank-you for a 22 moment, a reminder of something we were happily expecting, or a bit of 23 for the coming test or sporting event. In early grade school they 24 their notes. But as children grow older they becomes self-conscious(有自我意识的 ), and 25 he reached high school, my older son, Marc, informed m
11、e he no longer 26 my daily notes. Telling him that he no longer needed to 27 them but I still needed to write them, I 28 until the day he graduated. Six years after high school graduation, Marc called and asked if he could move 29 for a couple of months. He had spent those years well, graduating fro
12、m college, 30 two internship (实习 ) in Washington, D.C., and 31 , becoming a technical assistant in Sacramento, 32 short vacation visits, however, he had lived away from home. With his younger sister leaving for college, I was 33 happy to have Marc back. Since I was 34 making lunch for his younger br
13、other, I 35 one for Marc, too. Imagine my 36 when I got a call from my 24-yere-old son, 37 his lunch. “Did I do something 38 ? Dont you love me 39 ,Mom?” were just a few of the questions he threw at me as I 40 asked him what was wrong. “My note, Mom,” he answered. “Wheres my note?” 21. A. carried B.
14、 found C. included D. held 22. A. difficult B. special C. comfortable D. separate 23. A. congratulation B. improvement C. explanation D. encouragement 24. A. loved B. answered C. wrote D. examined 25. A. lately B. by the way C. by the time D. gradually 26. A. received B. understood C. enjoyed D. col
15、lected 27. A. copy B. read C. take D. send 28. A. held up B. gave up C. followed D. continued 29. A. out B. home C. to college D. to Sacramento 30. A. organizing B. planning C. comparing D. completing 31. A. hopefully B. finally C. particularly D. certainly 32. A. Because of B. Instead of C. Except
16、for D. As for 33. A. especially B. immediately C. equally D. generally 34. A. once B. again C. still D. even 35. A. packed B. fetched C. bought D. filled 36. A. fear B. surprise C. anger D. disappointment 37. A. waiting for B. worrying about C. caring for D. asking about 38. A. wrong B. funny C. str
17、ange D. smart 39. A. any more B. enough C. once more D. better 40. A. interestingly B. bitterly C. politely D. laughingly 第二部分 阅读理解（共 25 小题。第一节每小题 2 分，第二节每小题 1 分；满分 45 分） 第一节 阅读下列短文，从媒体所给的四个选项（ A、和）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 There was a story many years ago of a school teacher- Mrs. Thompson. She told th
18、e children on the first day that she loved them all the same. But that was a lie. There in the front row was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. He didnt play well with the other children and he always needed a bath. She did not like him. Then Mrs. Thompson got to know that Teddy was actually a very
19、good boy before the death of his mother. Mrs. Thompson was ashamed of herself. She felt even worse when, like all her other students, Teddy brought her a Christmas present too. It was his mothers perfume(香水 )。 Teddy said, “Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mom used to.” After the children
20、left she cried for at least an hour. On that very day, she stopped teaching reading, writing and math. Instead, she began to teach children. Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. The boys mind seemed to come alive. The more she encourage him, the faster he improved. By the end of the six
21、th grade, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class. Six years went by before she got a note from Teddy. He wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole lift. He went to college. Mrs. Thompson got two more le
22、tters from him with the last one signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, M. D.(医学博士 ). The story doesnt end there. On his wedding day, Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompsons ear, “Thank you, Mrs. Thompson, for believing in me. You made me feel important and showed me that I could make a difference.” Mrs. Th
23、ompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back, “Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didnt know how to teach until I met you.” 41. What did Mrs. Thompson do on the first day of school? A. She made Teddy feel ashamed. B. She asked the childre
24、n to play with Teddy. C. She changed Teddys seat to the front row. D. She told the class something untrue about herself. 42. What did Mrs. Thompson find out about Teddy? A. He often told lies. B. He was good at math. C. He needed motherly care. D. He enjoyed playing with others. 43. In what way did
25、Mrs. Thompson change? A. She taught fewer school subjects. B. She became stricter with her students. C. She no longer liked her job as a teacher. D. She cared more about educating students. 44. Why did Teddy thank Mrs. Thompson at his wedding? A. She had kept in touch with him. B. She had given him
26、encouragement. C. She had sent him Christmas presents. D. She had taught him how to judge people. B The Queens English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queens Christmas broadcasts had found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since
27、1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received. Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germanys University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent (口音 ) changers recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far
28、 as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said. He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音 ) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But thes
29、e are very, very small and slow changes that we dont notice from year to year.” “We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. “In 1952 she would have been hears saying thet men in the bleck het. Now it would be that man in the black
30、 hat. And hame rather than home. In the 1950s she would have been lorst, but by the 1970s lost.” The Queens broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each Christmas, the 10-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional tu
31、rkey lunch. (传统火鸡午餐 ). The results were published (发表 ) in the Journal of Phonetics. 45. The Queens broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because _. A. she has been Queen for many years B. she has a less upper-class accent now C. her speeches are familiar to many people D. her speeches have be
32、en recorded for 50 years 46. Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English? A. “duaty” B. “citee” C. “hame” D. “lorst” 47. We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on _. A. speech sounds B. Christmas customs C. TV broadcasting D. personal messag
33、es 48. What is the text mainly about? A. The relationship between accents and social classes. B. The Queens Christmas speeches on TV. C. The changes in a persons accent. D. The recent development of the English language. C Do you know of anyone who uses the truth to deceive (欺骗 )? When someone tells
34、 you something that is true, but leaves out important in formation that should be included, he can give you a false picture. For example, some might say, “I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery (彩票 ). It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for on e hundred do
35、llars!” This guys a winner, right? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought $200 worth of tickets, and only on e was a winner. Hes really a big loser! He didnt say anything that was false, but he left out important information on purpose. Thats called a half-truth. Half-truths are not techn
36、ically lies, but they are just as dishonest. Some politicians often use this trick. Lets say that during Governor Smiths last term, her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks another term. One of her opponents(对手 ) says, “During Governor Smiths term, the state lost
37、 one million jobs!” thats true. However, and honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smiths term, the state had a net gain of two million jobs.” Advertisers(广告商 ) will sometimes use half-truths. Its against the law to make false statements so they try to mislead you with the truth. An adv
38、ertisement might say, “Nine out of ten doctors advised their patients to take Yucky Pills to cure toothache.” It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Company. This kind of deception happens too of often. Its a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and some
39、times the truth can lie as well. 49. How much did the lottery winner lose? A. One hundred dollars. B. Two hundred dollars. C. Three hundred dollars. D. Four hundred dollars. 50. We may infer that the author believes people should _. A. buy lottery tickets B. make use of half-truths C. not take anyth
40、ing at face value D. not trust the Yucky Company 51. What do the underline words “net gain” in Paragraph 5 mean? A. final increase B. big advantage C. large share D. total saving 52. What can we know from the example of the Yucky Pill advertisement? A. False statements are easy to see through. B. Ha
41、lf-truths are often used to mislead people. C. Doctors like to act in advertisements. D. Advertisements are based on facts. D Something in chocolate could be used to stop coughs and lead to more effective medicines, say UK researchers. Their study found that theobromine, found in cocoa, was nearly a
42、 third more effective in stopping coughs than codeine, which was considered the best cough medicine at present. The Imperial College London researchers who published their results online said the discovery could lead to more effective cough treatment. “While coughing is not necessarily harmful(有害的 )
43、 it can have a major effect on the quality of life, and this discovery could be a huge step forward in treating this problem,” said Professor Peter Barnes. Ten healthy volunteers(志愿者 ) were given theobromine, codeine or placebo, a pill that contains no medicine, during the experiment. Neither the vo
44、lunteers nor the researchers knew who received which pill. The researchers then measured levels of capsaicin, which is used in research to cause coughing and as a sign of how well the medicine are stopping coughs. The team found that, when the volunteers were given theobromine, the capsaicin need to
45、 produce a cough was around a third higher than in the placebo group. When they were given codeine they need only slightly higher levers of capsaicin to cause a cough compared with the placebo. The researchers said that theobromine worked by keeping down a verve activity(神经活动 ), which cause coughing
46、. They also found that unlike some standard cough treatments, theobromine caused no side effects such as sleepiness. 53. According to Professor Barnes, theobromine _. A. cannot be as effective as codeine B. can be harmful to peoples health C. cannot be separated from chocolate D. can be a more effective cure for coughs 54. What was used in the experiment to cause coughing? A. Theobromine. B. Codeine. C. Capsaicin. D. Placebo. 55. We learn from the text that volunteers in the experiment _. A. were patients with bad coughs B. were divided into the th
