Loading... Please wait...第二节 简答题(共3小题, 每小题2分, 满分6分)
阅读下面短文, 根据第73至第75小题的具体要求, 简要回答问题, 并将答案转写到答题卡上.
Every January, Breckenridge hosts the International Snow Sculpture Championships. Fourteen teams travel from all over the world to Switzerland to compete. Teams sculpt for sixty-five hours over five days. Each team hopes that when the time is up, its sculpture will be judged the best.
As the championship begins, the fourteen teams are faced with huge blocks of snow that weigh twenty tons each. The sculptors bring out their favorite tools that work best on the hard iced snow, but they are not allowed to employ tools that use electricity.
Most teams are inspired by what they have seen in daily life. For example, one team carved a teapot with tea pouring out. Another team sculpted a little cat on its hind feet(后脚)reaching into a fish bowl complete with water ripples(涟漪) and a crab(螃蟹) trying to attack the cat. In 2006, Team USA sculpted a golden dog looking at its image reflected in a mirror. To create the effect that the little dog saw its reflection in the glass, the artists carved two dogs facing each other with their paws(脚爪)touching.
As the final hours of the competition tick by, exhausted team members add last-minute detail. They use small brooms to brush off snow caught in tiny holes. One team member counts down the last five minutes while others are busy cleaning up the tools. If they leave any tools behind, they will be out. When the whistle bows, everyone must step away from the sculpture. The judges then vote on creativity, technical skills, and visual impact (视觉效果)of the designs.
In 200, Team USA took first place for their golden dog sculpture titled “Discovery”. But the competition is not just about medals and ribbons. “It’s not about the prize,” said Rob Neyland, Team USA’s captain. “It’s about touching the audience. ”
Every year, as the championship ends, each team is already dreaming of the next masterpiece it will design.
73. What kind of tools are the sculptors Not permitted to use?(回答词数不超过6个)
74. What gives the sculptors ideas for their creative work? (回答词数不超过9个)
75. Why did Team USA win the competition in 2006? (回答词数不超过15个)
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 填空（共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后第76至第85小题的空格里填上适当的单词或短语，并将答案转写到答题卡上。
注意：每空不超过3个单词。
The best thing you can say about the roofs of most city buildings is that you don’t have to look at them. That’s very good, since an urban landscape viewed from above can be an unlovely thing ---block after block of tarred (铺有沥青的)black rooftops, sticky in summer, ugly year-round. Or at least that’s the way it used to be.
But urban roofs are going green. Environmental designers have begun to realize that the tops of buildings don’t have to be wastelands. Indeed, they can be gardens, planted with grasses, flowers and bushes.
A planted roof usually comes in one of two varieties: extensive or intensive. The extensive type is wide and shallow, with a soil depth of less than 8 inches, able to support smaller plants. The intensive type may be smaller, but it’s relatively deeper and home to larger plants.
Whatever the design, green roofs are not so simple as ordinary gardens. The have multiple layers beneath the soil, including a drainage layer, waterproofing, structural support, and so on.
But this system can do a great deal of good. A recent paper in the journal Bio Science tells that green roofs can control temperature, contain water and clean the air. And most impressively, they can cut heat loss from a building by 50%, lower air-conditioning costs by 25%, and reduce the urban-heated-island effect by 2℃.
Of course, apart from the square feet greened and heat reduced, green roofs are even more valued since people can gain some psychological comfort simply by having a quiet place to go . as so often happens, what’s good for the planet can also be good for the spirit.
第二节 写作（满分25分）
请从下列任务中选择你 最喜欢的一位，用英语谢一篇120词左右的短文。要求很具所给信息做适当发挥，且需包括一下三部分内容：
1. 对该任务的简单介绍；
2. 喜欢该任务的理由；
3. 从该任务身上得到的启示。
2008年湖南高考题答案
第一部分．听力部分
1-5BCBCA 6-10ACBBC 11-15AABAC 16-17BC18．（kind of）medicine
19. half an hour 20. free
第二部分
第一节 单选
21-25 BCADC 26-30 BDCAD 31-35 BABAC
第二节 完形
36-40 CBDAD 41-45 ACBBA 46-50 CBCAA 51-55 CDDBD
第三部分 阅读
第一节 选择题：
56-59 CCBB 60-64 CAACD 65-68 CDBA 69-72 ADAB
第二节 简答题：
73. The tools that use electricity
74. The things they have seen in daily life
75. Because its scuopture was judged the best for creativity, technical skills and visual impact
第四部分 书面表达
第一节 填空
76. Roofs Going Green
77. Tarred Roofs
78. ugly year-round
79. Varieties/Types
80. Extensive
81. possibly smaller
82. Multiple layers
83. Advantage benefits
84. controlling temperature
85. Mental/Psychological
第二节 写作
Sample 1: Thomas Edison
Born in American, Thomas Edison was a great scientist and inventor. He once thought to be a boy who was not worth educating. In fact, he was a man full of imagination.
I admire Edison a lot because of his great contribution to the world. He had more than 1000 inventions. In his little time, he was always eager to know how things worked, which helped him to earn the nickname “the Wizard of Meio Park”. He was also so diligent that he worked day and night. And this explained why he had so many inventions.
What impresses me most is his famous saying, “genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”. Probably I cannot be an Edison myself, but I can be a hardworking learner. From him, I realize the secret to success is not when and where you were born, but what you are doing and how you do it in your life.
Sample 2: Helen Keller
Every time I read “…if I had the power of sight for three days;, I cannot help being moved by its author Helen Keller, an ordinary but great American woman.
I admire Helen because she is optimistic about life. She became deaf and blind when she was 19 months old. Since then she lived in a world of darkness and silence, and communication seemed only a dream for her. But she never gave up and struggled to lead an active life. Under the guidance of her teacher, Ms. Sulliven, Helen learned to read and write, and became a famous writer. For a disabled person like her, this was really a wonder.
Helen has set an excellent example to all of us. Her story tells us that we should value what we have and try our best to overcome any difficulty in life.
Sample 3: William Shakespeare
Do you know Hamlet? Have you read the Merchant of Venice? These two great works are both written by William Shakespeare, my favourite English writer and the man of all ages!
Shakespeare, a son from a poor family, a man of little education, wrote plays and poems that are read all over the world. I like him because his comedies and tragedies gring me into a fantastic world; I love him because his poems let me enjoy the beauty of the English language; I admire him because his keen sights set me thinking and teach me how to lead a meaningful life!
Since “life is a stage”, we are actually all actors and actresses. On this stage, everyone has his own role to play, and I will try my best to play my role well.