2006年高考英语真题(甘肃卷)

2006年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试

英语

第I卷（共85分）

第一部分：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A、B、C、D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。

1. ---- Are you sure to help me find _____________ school for my son?

---- Sure, but not now. I’m heading for __________ schoo l and have English classes.

A. a; /

B. a; a

C. the; a

D. the; /

2. What great thanks I own for my teacher’s __________ advice.

A. worthless

B. valueless

C. costless

D. priceless

3. ---- Stop eating the cake! ---- I ________ it.

A. just taste

B. just tasted

C. am just tasting

D. was just tasting

4. ---- What will happen if I smoke here?

---- Anyone _________ here will be punished.

A. seeing smoke

B. seeing smoking

C. seen smoking

D. seen smoke

5. ---- There isn’t any ink in the bottle.

---- Oh, ____________? I’ll go and get some in the shop.

A. isn’t there

B. is there

C. isn’t it

D. is it

6. There’s a feeling in me _________ we’ll lose the important soccer game.

A. that

B. which

C. of which

D. what

7. ---- Did the book give the information you need?

--- Yes, but __________ I had to read it entirely.

A. for finding it

B. to find it

C. finding it

D. by finding it

8. ---- How did you find this poem? ---- I ______ it while reading a classic novel.

A. came down

B. came about

C. came across

D. came up

9. --- How would you like your coffee? ---- _______________ .

A. It’s well done

B. Very nice, thank you

C. One cup. That’s enough

D. The stronger, the better

10. What the old man said at the meeting hardly made any _________ to those young listeners.

A. matter

B. meaning

C. sense

D. better

11. ---- Tom, you are so lazy. You ought to have finished the work hours ago.

---- Sorry, I know it ________ .

A. ought to have done

B. must have been

C. should have been

D. should be

12. The girl seldom, if __________, turned to her brother for protection.

A. never

B. ever

C. then

D. always

13. ---- Our holiday cost a lot of money.

---- Did it? Well, that doesn’t matter _________ you enjoyed yourselves.

A. unless

B. in case

C. as far as

D. as long as

14. Although Ms. Zhang is very busy as an English teacher’s in our school, she still _________

much time to her son.

A. spends

B. provides

C. offers

D. devotes

15. ---- Brad was Jane’s brother!

---- _________ he reminded me so much of Jane!

A. No doubt

B. No wonder

C. Above all

D. Of course

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16～35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The Hymnbook（赞美诗集）

I watched attentively as my little brother was caught in the act. He sat in the corner of the living room, a ( an ) 16 in one hand and my father’s hymnbook in the other. As my father walked into the room, my brother cowered（畏缩）slightly. He 17 that he had done something 18 . From a distance, I saw that he had opened my father’s brand-new book and scribbled（乱写）across the

length and breath of the entire first page with a pen. Now staring at my father 19 , he and I both waited for his punishment.

My father picked up his prized book, looked at it 20 , and then sat down without saying a word. Books were 21 to him; he was a clergyman（牧师）and the holder of several 22 . For him, books

were knowledge, and yet. he loved his 23 . What he did in the next few minutes was remarkable. Instead of punishing my brother, instead of 24 or yelling or shouting, he sat down, took the pen

from my brother’s hand and then wrote in the book himself, alongside the 25 John had made: “John’s word 1959, age two. How many times have I looked into your 26 face and into your warm, alert（警惕的）eyes looking up at me and thanked God for the one who has now scribbled in my new hymnal. You have made the 27 sacred（神圣的）as have your brothers and sister to so much of my life.”Wow, I thought: This is the 28 my father is giving?

From time to time I take a book down －not just a cheesy（劣质的）paperback but a 29 book that