2014湖北省八市高三下学期3月月考英语试题答案(5)

   B. Japanese Changed a Bird Paradise into Rat Island
   C. FWS Plan to Drive Rats Out Of Rat Island
   D. Alaska’s Rat Island Returns to a Bird Paradise
 E
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I can dimly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity（大灾难） can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. In spite of the fact the adjustment is never easy, I had my parents and teachers to help. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. 
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
67. We can learn from the beginning of the passage that          .
A. the author lost his sight because of a car crash
B. the author wouldn’t love life if the calamity didn’t happen
C. the calamity made the author appreciate what he had
D. the calamity strengthened the author’s desire to see
68. What’s the most difficult thing for the author?
A. How to adjust himself to reality    
B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life
C. Learning to manage his life alone   
D. To find a special work that suits the author
69. For the author, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man         .
A. hurt the author’s feeling                     
B. made the author puzzled
C. directly led to the change of the author’s career   
D. inspired the author
70. According to the passage, the author         .
A. set goals for himself but only invited failure most of the time
B. thought that nothing was impossible for him
C. was discouraged from trying something out of reach for fear of failure
D. suggested not trying something beyond one’s ability at the beginning
第四部分：书面表达(共两节，满分50分)
第一节：完成句子（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，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。
71. Central government jobs                  “golden rice bowl” for their stable income and generous benefits. (describe)
   政府部门的工作因其稳定的收入和优厚的福利经常被描述为”金饭碗”。
72. A dog is the only thing on earth                  than he loves himself. (love)
   狗狗是世界上唯一爱你胜过爱自己的动物。
73. Lucy might not attend our fancy party for she is said ______________  a famous actor. (interview)
   露西可能来不了我们的化妆舞会了。据说她正采访一个著名演员呢。
74. I try to understand                 prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one expects. (it)
   我想弄明白到底是什么使这么多的美国人不像人们认为的那样幸福。
75. Hardly               the airport when he was spotted by his fans. (reach)
   杰克刚到机场就被他的粉丝认出来了。
76. The 43-year-old says that                 is the unpredictability of the waves. (make)
   这位43岁的人说使这项运动如此刺激的就是海浪的不可预测性。
77. Don’t worry. It’s a storm in a teacup. Everyone                about it by tomorrow. (forget)
   别担心，这不过是茶杯里掀风浪，到明天大家会忘记这事.
78.                 that air pollution is an extremely serious problem, the city authorities should take strong measures to deal with it. (deny)
   无可否认，空气污染是一个极其严重的问题，城市当局应该采取有力措施来解决它。
79. Angelina Jolie knows that were her mother still alive, she                  her achievement. (proud)
   安吉丽娜·朱莉知道如果母亲仍然活着，那她就会为她的成就感到骄傲。
80. ________________hurriedly, the speech was handed in to the teacher. (complete)