2004年高考英语试题·江苏卷（附答案）

第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节：单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

从四个选项中，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：It is generally considered unwise to give a child _____ he or she wants.

A. however            B. whatever

C. whichever         D. whenever

21. I will never know what was on his mind at the time, nor will ______.

A. anyone              B. anyone else          C. no one              D. no one else

22. --I don’t mind telling you what I know.

--You______. I’m not asking you for it.

A. mustn’t             B. may not                C. can’t                 D. needn’t

23. I accept that he is not perfect, I do actually like the person.

A. While                B. Since                    C. Before               D. Unless

24. He got to the station early, _______ missing his train.

A. in case of          B. instead of              C. for fear of         D. in search of

25. The man insisted ______ a taxi for me even though I told him I lived nearby.

A. find                  B. to find                  C. on finding          D. in finding

26. More patients ________ in hospital this year than last year.

A. treated              B. have treated          C. had been treated D. have been treated

27. Tom owns _______ larger collection of _______ books than any other student in our class.

A. the; 不填        B. a; 不填                C. a; the                D. 不填; the

28. --You haven’t lost the ticket, have you?

--_______. I know it’s not easy to get another one at the moment.

A. I hope not         B. Yes, I have           

C. I hope so           D. Yes, I’m afraid so

29. It’s ten years since the scientist _______on his life’s work of discovering the valuable chemical.

A. made for           B. set out                  C. took off            D. turned up

30. A man is being questioned in relation to the _______ murder last night.

A. advised             B. attended                C. attempted          D. admitted

31. The old man, _______ abroad for twenty years, is on the way back to his motherland.

A. to work             B. working              C. to have worked  D. having worked

32. The________ house smells as if it hasn’t been lived in for years.

A. little white wooden                             B. little wooden white

C. white wooden little                             D. wooden white little

33. _______ is often the case, we have worked out the production plan.

A. Which               B. When                   C. What                D. As

34. Sales of CDs have greatly increased since the early 1990s, when people _______ to enjoy the advantages of this new technology.

A. begin                B. began                   C. have begun        D. had begun

35. --How long are you staying?

—I don’t know. _______.

A. That’s OK         B. Never mind           C. It depends         D.It doesn’t matter

第二节  完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears. ___36___, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I ___37___ to see--or look at--on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter ___38___ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On ___39___days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Sometimes ___40___out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. ___41___, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I ___42___ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how ___43___ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I ___44___ her.

“Did she have an accident? Something ___45___?” I thought to myself about her ___46___. Now that she was gone, I felt I had ___47___ her. I began to realize that part of our ___48___ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar ___49___: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who ___50___walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are ___51___markers in our lives. They add weight to our ___52___ of place and belonging.

Think about it. ___53___, while walking to work, we mark where we are by ___54___ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though ___55___ person?

36. A. Make           B. Take                     C. Give                 D. Have

37. A. happened     B. wanted                 C. used                 D. tried

38. A. what           B. how                     C. which               D. when

39. A. sunny          B. rainy                     C. cloudy              D. snowy

40. A. took            B. brought                 C. carried              D. turned

41. A. Clearly         B. Particularly            C. Luckily             D. Especially

42. A. believed       B. expressed            C. remembered      D. wondered

43. A. long            B. often                    C. soon                 D. much

44. A. respected     B. missed                  C. praised              D. admired

45. A. better          B. worse                   C. more                 D. less

46. A. disappearance                              B. appearance

C. misfortune                                         D. fortune

47. A. forgotten     B. lost                       C. known              D. hurt

48. A. happy          B. enjoyable               C. frequent            D. daily

49. A. friends         B. strangers               C. tourists             D. guests

50. A. regularly      B. actually                 C. hardly               D. probably

51. A. common      B. pleasant                C. important          D. faithful

52. A. choice         B. knowledge            C. decision            D. sense

53. A. Because       B. If                         C. Although           D. However

54. A. keeping        B. changing               C. passing             D. mentioning

55. A. unnamed      B. unforgettable         C. unbelievable       D. unreal

第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the salvage(救援) workers that they called him “our baby”. In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby’s grave(墓), carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child. He has rested there ever since.

But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby, says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children--including a 13-month-old boy named Eino from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. “We thought they were all lost in the sea,” says Schleifer.

Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby’s grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino, now, the family sees: no need for a new grave. “He belongs to the people of Halifax, says Schleifer. “They’ve taken care of him for 90 years.”

Adapted from People, November 25, 2002

56. The baby travelled on the Titanic with his________.

A. mother              B. parents                 C. aunt                  D. relatives

57. What is probably the boy’s last name?

A. Schleifer         B. Eino                     C. Magda              D. Panula

58. Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child’s grave on Nov. 5______.

A.  1912              B. 1954                     C. 2002                 D. 2004

59. This text is mainly about how _______.

A. the unknown baby’s body was taken from the north Atlantic

B. the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia

C. people found out who the unknown baby was

D. people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years

B

Deserts are found where there is little rainfall or where rain for a whole year falls in only a few weeks’ time. Ten inches of rain may be enough for many plants to survive(存活) if the rain is spread throughout the year, If it falls, within one or two months and the rest of the year is dry, those plants may die and a desert may form.

Sand begins as tiny pieces of rock that get smaller and smaller as wind and weather wear them down. Sand dunes(沙丘) are formed as winds move the sand across the desert. Bit by bit, the dunes grow over the years, always moving with the winds and changing the shape. Most of them are only a few feet tall, but they can grow to be several hundred feet high.

There is, however, much more to a desert than sand. In the deserts of the southwestern United States, cliffs(悬崖) and deep valleys were formed from thick mud that once lay beneath a sea more than millions of years ago. Over the centuries, the water dried up. Wind, sand, rain, heat and cold all wore away at the remaining rocks. The faces of the desert mountains are always changing — very, very slowly — as these forces of nature continue to work on the rock.

Most deserts have a surprising variety of life. There are plants, animals and insects that: have adapted to life in the desert. During the heat of the day, a visitor may see very few signs of living things, but as the air begins to cool in the evening, the desert comes to life. As the sun begins to rise again in the sky, the desert once again becomes quiet and lonely.

60. Many plants may survive in deserts when ______.

A. the rain is spread out in a year            B. the rain falls only in a few weeks

C. there is little rain in a year                D. it is dry all the year round

61. Sand dunes are formed when______.

A. sand piles up gradually                      

B. there is plenty of rain in a year

C. the sea has dried up over the years

D. pieces of rock get smaller

62. The underlined sentence in the third paragraph probably means that in a desert there is______.

A. too much sand   B. more sand than before

C. nothing except sand                           D. something else besides sand

63. It can be learned from the text that in a desert______.

A. there is no rainfall throughout the year

B. life exists in rough conditions

C. all sand dunes are a few feet high

D. rocks are worn away only by wind and heat

C

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64. Where can you spend the night in a tour?

A. Cook’s Cottage. B. Westfield Centrepoint.                       

C. Sydney Tower.  D. Sovereign Hill.

65. What is the time that Cook’s Cottage is open on Saturday in the summer?

A. 11:00 am—2:00 pm.                          B. 5:00 pm—10:30 pm.

C. 9:00 am—5:30 pm.                            D. 9:00 am—5:00 pm.

66. The Anchorage Restaurant is ______.

A. in Williamstown B. in the centre of the city                      

C. in Anchorage     D. in a Cantonese fishing port

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A. 9397 6270         B. 9231 9300

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D

Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson River must remember the Catskill Mountains. They are a branch of the great Appalachian family, and can be seen to the west rising up to a noble height and towering over the surrounding country. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their beautiful shapes on the clear evening sky, but sometimes when it is cloudless, gray steam gathers around the top of the mountains which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will shine and light up like a crown of glory(华丽的皇冠).

At the foot of these mountains, a traveler may see light smoke going up from a village.

In that village, and in one of the houses (which, to tell the exact truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years ago, a simple, good-natured fellow by the name of Rip Van Winkle.

Rip’s great weakness was a natural dislike of all kinds of money-making labor. It could not be from lack of diligence(勤劳), for he could sit all day on a wet rock and fish without saying a word, even though he was not encouraged by a single bite. He would carry a gun on his shoulder for hours, walking through woods and fields to shoot a few birds or squirrels. He would never refuse to help a neighbor, even in the roughest work. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to do such little jobs as their less helpful husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to everybody’s business but his own.

    If left to himself, he would have whistled(吹口哨) life away in perfect satisfaction; but his wife was always mad at him for his idleness(懒散). Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was endlessly going, so that he was forced to escape to the outside of the house--the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband.

68. Which of the following best describes the Catskill Mountains?

A. They are on the west of the Hudson River.

B. They are very high and beautiful in this area.

C. They can be seen from the Appalachian family.

D. They gather beautiful clouds in blue and purple.

69. The hero of the story is probably ______.

A. hard-working and likes all kinds of work                         

B. idle and hates all kinds of jobs

C. simple, idle but very dutiful                

D. gentle, helpful but a little idle

70. The underlined words “henpecked husband” in the last paragraph probably means a man who ______.

A. likes hunting      B. is afraid of hens    

C. loves his wife    D. is afraid of his wife

71. What would be the best title for the text?

A. Catskill Mountains.                            B. A Mountain Village.

C. Rip Van Winkle. D. A Dutiful Husband.

E

Every year more people recognize that it is wrong to kill wildlife for “sport”. Progress in this direction is slow because shooting is not a sport for watching, and only those few who take part realize the cruelty and destruction.

The number of gunners, however, grows rapidly. Children too young to develop proper judgments through independent thought are led along way away by their gunning parents. They are subjected to advertisements of gun producers who describe shooting as good for their health and guncarrying as a way of putting redder blood in the veins(血管). They are persuaded by gunner magazines with stories honoring the chase and the kill. In school they view motion pictures which are supposedly meant to teach them how to deal with arms safely but which are actually designed to stimulate(刺激) a desire to own a gun. Wildlife is disappearing because of shooting and because of the loss of wildland habitat(栖息地). Habitat loss will continue with our increasing population, but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by shooting? There doesn’t seem to be any chance if the serious condition of our birds is not improved.

Wildlife belongs to everyone and not to the gunners alone. Although most people do not shoot, they seem to forgive shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it. The only answer, then, is to bring the truth about sport shooting to the great majority of people.

Now, it is time to realize that animals have the same right to life as we do and that there is nothing fair or right about a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful creatures. The gunners like to describe what they do as character-building, but we know that to wound an animal and watch it go through the agony of dying can make nobody happy. If, as they would have you believe, gun-carrying and killing improve human-character, then perhaps we should encourage war.

72. According to the text, most people do not seem to be against hunting because_______.

A. they have little knowledge of it

B. it helps to build human character

C. it is too costly to stop killing wildlife

D. they want to keep wildlife under control

73. The underlined word “agony” in the last paragraph probably means______.

A. form                 B. condition               C. pain                  D. sadness

74. According to the text, the films children watch at school actually______.

A. teach them how to deal with guns safely                         

B. praise hunting as character-building

C. describe hunting as an exercise  

D. encourage them to have guns of their own

75. It can be inferred from the text that the author seems to _______.

A. blame the majority of people

B. worry about the existence of wildlife

C. be in favour of war

D. be in support of character-building

第二卷（非选择题 共35分）

第四部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节：短文改错(共 10小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√)；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

This is a story told by my father: “When I was boy,              76.______

the most exciting thing was when to celebrate the Spring       77. ______

Festival. My grandma was the best cooker in the world         78. ______

but could make the most delicious dishes. One time, I just      79. ______

couldn’t wait for the Spring Festival dinner. As I was            80. ______

about take a piece from a cooked duck, I saw Grandma in  81. ______

the kitchen looking at me. Shake her head, she said, “It          82. ______

isn’t a good time to do that, dear.” At once I apologize           83. ______

and controlled me at my best till the dinner started. You   84. ______

know, that was a dinner we had waited for several month.”   85. ______

第二节：书面表达(满分25分)

假如你是李晓华，住在江城。你的加拿大笔友Bob来信谈到了他所居住的城市，并希望了解你家乡江城的情况。请你用英语写一封回信。回信须包括下表中的内容。

自然情况
 ①位于长江边、风景优美、适合居住   
 
成    就
 ②经济7发展迅速

③新建了不少工厂、住房、道路等。
 
存在问题
 ④水、空气污染 ⑤交通拥挤
 
对江城发展的看法
 ⑥(内容由考生自己拟定)                     
 

注意：1.回信中不能使用“江城”以外的地名。

2.词数 100 左右。信的开头与结尾已为你写好，不计入词数。

参考词汇：经济  economy n.

Dear Bob,

It’s very kind of you to write me and let me know about your beautiful city. Now I’d like to tell you something about my hometown, Jiangcheng. _________

                                                                             Yours,

                            Xiaohua

【参考答案】

1~5 BABAC           6~10 ABB CA            11~15 CBCAC

16~20 CACBB       21~25 BDACC          26~30 DBABC

31~35 DADBC       36~40 BCADB           41~45 ACDBB

46~50 ACDBA       51~55 CDBCA          56~60 ADCCA

61~65 ADBDC       66~70 ABBDD          71~75 CACDB

76. boy 前加a      77. when 去掉          78. cooker →cook

79. but → and      80. √                      81. take 前加 to

82. shake →shaking                              83. apologize → apologized    

84. me → myself  85. month → months

One possible version:

Dear Bob,

It’s very kind of you to write me and let me know about your beautiful city. Now I’d like to tell you something about my hometown Jiangcheng.

The city stands on the bank of the Changjiang River. It is a beautiful place for people to live in. Its economy has been developing rapidly in the past ten years. New factories, houses and roads have been built. More schools and hospitals are available for its people. However, there are still some problems, such as water and air pollution and heavy traffic in rush hours. In my opinion, Jiangcheng should develop its economy scientifically. I would also think that the growth of its population should be brought under control so that we’ll have a better hometown in future.

                            Yours,   

                            Xiaohua