1、2016年全国统一高考英语试卷（新课标）第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节 (共15题：每小题2分，满分30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。AWhats On?Electric Underground7:30pm1:00am Free at the Cyclops TheatreDo you know whos playing in your area? Were bringing you an exciting evening of live rock and pop music from the best loc
2、al bands. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording contract (合同)? If so, come early to the talk at 7:30pm by Jules Skye, a successful record producer. Hes going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce your music.Gee Whizz8:30pm10:30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscop
3、eCome and see Gee Whizz perform. Hes the funniest stand-up comedian on the comedy scene. This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest. Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7:00pm for drinks and snacks (快餐).Simons Workshop5:00pm7:30pm Wednesdays
4、 at Victoria StageThis is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every kind of comedy, and practices many different ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comedian and actor who has 10 years experience of teaching comedy. His workshops are exciting and f
5、un. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny.Charlotte Stone8:00pm11:00pm Pizza WorldFine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will perform songs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering on the piano. The menu is Italian, with e
6、xcellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta (面食). Book early to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine.21. Who can help you if you want to have your music produced?A. Jules Skye. B. Gee Whizz.C. Charlotte Stone. D. James Pickering.22. At which pla
7、ce can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?A. The Cyclops Theatre. B. Kaleidoscope.C. Victoria Stage. D. Pizza World.23. What do we know about Simons Workshop?A. It requires membership status. B. It lasts three hours each time. C. It is run by a comedy club. D. It is held every Wednesday.24.
8、 When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs?A. 5:00pm7:30pm. B. 7:30pm1:00am.C. 8:00pm11:00pm. D. 8:30pm10:30pm.BFive years ago, when I taught art at a school in Seattle, I used Tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students. I put a small set of Tinkertoys
9、in front of each student, and said: “Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes today and 45 minutes each day for the rest of the week.”A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see what the rest of the class would do. Several others checked the instructions and made something
10、 according to one of the model plans provided. Another group built something out of their own imaginations.Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. His constructions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I was delighted at the
11、 presence of such a student. Here was an exceptionally creative mind at work. His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect (感染) other students.Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside. I ran the risk of losing those students who had a
12、different style of thinking. Without fail one would declare, “But Im just not creative.”“Do you dream at night when youre asleep?”“Oh, sure.”“So tell me one of your most interesting dreams.” The student would tell something wildly imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growing three
13、heads. “Thats pretty creative. Who does that for you?”“Nobody. I do it.”“Really at night, when youre asleep?”“Sure.”“Try doing it in the daytime, in class, okay?”25. The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to _?A. know more about the students B. make the lessons more excitingC. raise the stude
14、nts interest in art D. teach the students about toy design26. What do we know about the boy mentioned in Paragraph 3?A. He liked to help his teacher. B. He preferred to study alone.C. He was active in class. D. He was imaginative.27. What does the underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 4 probably m
15、ean?A. Mistake. B. Drawback. C. Difficulty. D. Burden.28. Why did the teacher ask the students to talk about their dreams? A. To help them to see their creativity.B. To find out about their sleeping habits.C. To help them to improve their memory.D. To find out about their ways of thinking.CReading c
16、an be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet to discuss them. Now, the website BookC turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share. BookCrossing
17、provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it.Bruce Pederson, the managing director of BookCrossing, says, “The two things that change your
18、 life are the people you meet and books you read. BookCrossing combines both.”Members leave books on park benches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found it.People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describin
19、g what they thought of it. E-mails are then sent to the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found. Bruce Peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.BookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to
20、 get back to the “real” and not the virtual (虚拟). The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirty-five countries.29. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph?A. To explain what they are. B. To introduce BookCrossing.C. To stress the importance of
21、reading. D. To encourage readers to share their ideas.30. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. The book. B. An adventure.C. A public place. D. The identification number.31. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?A. Meet other readers to discuss it. B. Keep i
22、t safe in his bookcase.C. Pass it on to another reader. D. Mail it back to its owner.32. What is the best title for the text?A. Online Reading: A Virtual TourB. Electronic Books: A new TrendC. A Book Group Brings Tradition BackD. A Website Links People through BooksDA new collection of photos brings
23、 an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.Frank Hurleys pictures would be outstanding undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable exp
24、ectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to
25、 the southernmost shore of Antarcticas Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died
26、 with his four companions on the march back.As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scotts last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the worlds imagi
27、nation, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian p
28、hotographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.33. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley?A. They were made last week. B. They showed undersea sceneries.C. They were found by a cameraman. D. They recorded a disastrous advent
29、ure.34. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?A. Frank Hurley. B. Ernest Shackleton.C. Robert Falcon Scott. D. Caroline Alexander.35. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?A. Artistic creation. B. Scientific research.C. Money making. D. Treasure hunting.第二节（共5
30、小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。A garden thats just right for youHave you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum (总和) of its parts? 36 . But it doesnt happen by accident. It starts with look
31、ing inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process. 37 Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less w
32、ater and fewer fertilizers (肥料). 38 . However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.Recall(回忆) your childhood memoriesOur model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandmas rose garden and Dads v
33、egetable garden might be good or bad, but thats not whats important. 39 how being in those gardens made us feel. If youd like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth. 40 . Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood
34、 memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.A. Know why you gardenB. Find a good place for your own gardenC. Its our experience of the garden that mattersD. Its delightful to see so many beautiful flowersE. Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plantsF. You can produce that kin
35、d of magical quality in your own garden, tooG. For each of those gardens, write down the strongest memory you have第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）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。Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device
36、(装置) on your desk. And theyve never actually 41 you. Everything they know about you 42 through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away. 43 they feel they can know you 44 from the sound of your voice. Thats how powerful the 45 is. Powerful, yes, but not always 46 . For years I dealt with m
37、y travel agent only by phone. Rani, my faceless agent whom Id never met 47 , got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really 48 me. I sometimes wished to 49 another agent.One morning, I had to 50 an immediate flight home for a family emergency. I ran into Ranis off
38、ice 51 . The woman sitting at the desk, 52 my madness, sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a 53 smile, nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the 54 immediately. “What a wonderful lady!” I thought.Rushing out 55 I called out over my shoulder, “By the way, whats your name?” “Im Ran
39、i,” she said. I turned around and saw a 56 woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip. I was 57 ! Why had I thought she was cold? Rani was, well, so 58 .Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out. Ranis 59 her warm smile, her nods, her Im here for y
40、ou 60 were all silent signals that didnt travel through wires.41. A. acceptedB. noticedC. heardD. met42. A. cameB. movedC. ranD. developed43. A. ThusB. YetC. ThenD. Indeed44. A. ratherB. alsoC. justD. already45. A. telephoneB. voiceC. connectionD. impression46. A. directB. usefulC. easyD. accurate47
41、. A. in personB. by myselfC. in publicD. on purpose48. A. annoyedB. interestedC. discouragedD. confused49. A. promoteB. trainC. findD. know50. A. arrangeB. postponeC. confirmD. book51. A. for the first timeB. at any timeC. from time to timeD. in good time52. A. expectingB. seeingC. testingD. avoidin
42、g53. A. shyB. comfortingC. familiarD. forced54. A. billB. formC. ticketD. list55. A. hopefullyB. disappointedlyC. gratefullyD. regretfully56. A. carefulB. seriousC. nervousD. pleasant57. A. amusedB. worriedC. helplessD. speechless58. A. calmB. niceC. proudD. clever59. A. forgivenessB. eagernessC. fr
43、iendlinessD. skillfulness60. A. explanationB. attitudeC. conceptD. behavior第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you should take a step back and identify (识别) those of 61 (great) and less importance. Then, handle the most import
44、ant tasks first so youll feel a real sense of 62 (achieve). Leaving the less important things until tomorrow 63 (be) often acceptable.Most of us are more focused 64 our tasks in the morning than we are later in the day. So, get an early start and try to be as productive 65 possible before lunch. Thi
45、s will give you the confidence you need to get you through the afternoon and go home feeling accomplished.Recent 66 (study) show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks 67 (regular). Give your body and brain a rest by stepping outside for 68 while, exercising, or dong somethi
46、ng you enjoy.If you find something you love doing outside of the office, youll be less likely 69 (bring) your work home. It could be anything gardening, cooking, music, sports but whatever it is, 70 (make) sure its a relief from daily stress rather than another thing to worry about.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）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。The summer holiday is coming. My classmates and I are talking about how to do du