一． 考纲说明
2005年高考考纲公布之后，在高三师生中引起强烈反响。英语考纲因增加了新题型，取消了题型示例及赋分，可谓是“革命化”的修改。于是，2005高考英语变化成为考生和教师共同关心的焦点之一。
1.填空题考查三能力
今年的考纲最大的变化是增加填空题。规定的高考题型有：多项选择题、多项选择式完形填空题、填空题、短文改错和写作等题型，其中填空题是新增加的一种题型。从考纲给出的填空题型示例看，题目给出了一段文字，要求考生阅读后按照自己的理解进行填空，即用自己的理解来转述原文内容。该类题型将主要考查三种能力：阅读、阅读+写作、写作。 例如：

A laboratory, different from any others, at the University of Chicago is busy only at night. It is a dream laboratory where researchers are at work studying dreamers. While the students sleep, special machines record their brain waves and eye movements that shows the beginning of the dream as well as the body movements that shows the end of a dream. Observers report that a person usually keeps moving before a dream. Once the dream has started, his mouth doesn't move, neither does his body. But his eyes become more active, as if the certain had gone up on a show. When the dream lasts, many people murmur and even speak without any body movements. But the scientists can't make the final scientific conclusion until now.