1、2016年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（新课标卷）英语 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分） 略 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。 A Whats On? Electric Underground 7.30pm 1.00am Free at the Cyclops Theatre Do you know whos playing in your area? Were bringing you an evening of live rock and
2、pop music from the best local 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 you music. Gee Whizz 8.30pm-
3、10.30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope Come 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
4、Workshop 5.00pm-7.30pm Wednesdays at Victoria Stage This 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
5、. His workshops are exciting and fun. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny. Charlotte Stone 8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza World Fine 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
6、the piano. The menu is Italian, with excellent 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. 1. Who can help you if you want to have your music produced? A. Jules Skye B. Gee Whizz. C. Charlotte Sto
7、ne. D. James Pickering. 解析： 细节理解题。根据文章第一则广告最后一句 Hes going to talk about how you can find right person to produce your music.可知 Jules Skye可以教你如何制作音乐。那么如果你想做你自己的音乐，你就可以去找他。故 A正确。 答案： A 2. At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh? A. The Cyclops Theatre B. Kaleidoscope C. Victoria
8、 Stage D. Pizza World 解析 ： 细节理解题。根据文章第二则广告第三句 This joyful show will please everyone， from the youngest to the oldest可知这场表演能够让所有年龄段的人都很开心。表演的场所 Kaleidoscope。故 B正确。 答案： B 3. 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 co
9、medy club. D. It is held every Wednesday. 解析： 细节理解题。根据第三则广告第二行中 “5.00 pm- 7.30pm Wednesdays at Victoria Stage”可知 Simons Workshop的表演是在每周三下午 5点至 7点 30之间进行。故 D项正确。 答案： D 4. When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs? A. 5.00pm-7.30pm. B. 7.30pm 1.00am. C. 8.00pm-11.00pm. D. 8.30pm-10.30pm. 解析： 细节理解题。根
10、据第四则广告第二行 “8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza World”可知 Charlotte Stone将在晚上 8.00至 11点之间表演她最受欢迎的歌曲。故 C项正确。 答案： C B Five 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 in front of eac
11、h student, and said:”Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes today and 45minutes each day for the rest of the week.” A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see the rest of the class would do. Several others checked the instructions and made something according to one of
12、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 presence of such a
13、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 different style of
14、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 heads. “Thats pr
15、etty 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?” 5. The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to _? A. know more about the students B. make the lessons more exciting C. raise the students intere
16、st in art D. teach the students about toy design 解析： 推理判断题。根据文章第二段可知当我把拼装式玩具放在学生面前的时候，有些学生犹豫着在等着看别人如何行动，有一些学生查看了使用说明并根据模型做出了一些东西。而另外一些学生则根据本人的想象力做出了一些东西。通过观察我对不同的学生的性格有了不同的理解。故 A正确。 答案： A 6. What do we know about the boy mentioned in Paragraph 3? A. He liked to help his teacher. B. He preferred to s
17、tudy alone. C. He was active in class. D. He was imaginative. 解析： 推理判断题。文章第三段第一句中提到的这个男孩在空闲时间拼装这些玩具，而且他的作品堆满了艺术教室的架子，家里的卧室里也有很多。第三段倒数第三句 “Here was an exceptionally creative mind at work” 说明他是一 个很有想象力和创造性的人。故 D项正确。 答案： D 7. What does the underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 4 probably mean? A. Mis
18、take. B. Drawback. C. Difficulty. D. Burden. 解析： 词义猜测題。根据划线单词后一句 “I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking”可知我冒着失去那 些有不同思维方式的学生的危险。说明我的这种教育方法也有不足之处。故划线词意为 “drawback缺点 ”。故 B正确。 答案： B 8. Why did the teacher ask the students to talk about their dreams? A. To help th
19、em 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. 解析 ： 推理判断题。根据文章最后七段中的对话内容可知作者鼓励孩子们说出最有趣的有创造性和想象力的梦，并鼓励他们在白天的课堂里把梦的内容做出来。作者这样做的目的就是为了让他们看到自己的创造性和想象力。故 A正确。 答案： A C Reading can be a social act
20、ivity. 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 provides an ident
21、ification 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 life are the pe
22、ople 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 describing what they th
23、ought 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 get back to
24、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. 9. 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 reading. D.
25、 To encourage readers to share their ideas. 解析：目的意图题。作者在第一段中提出读书也是一个社交活动，那些参加读书小组的人经常在一起阅读讨论所读内容， 增强相互之间的理解。接着在最后一句提出 BookC，说明作者提到读书小组的目的正是为了介绍网站 BookC。故 B正确。 答案： B 10. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2refer to? A. The book. B. An adventure. C. A public place. D. The identification n
26、umber. 解析： 代词指代题。根据本句 “.hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it”那些留下书的人希望自己的书能够随着找到它的人走得更远。可知其中的 it指代前半句提到的同一事物 “the book”。故 A正确。 答案： A 11. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it? A. Meet other readers to discuss it. B. K
27、eep it safe in his bookcase. C. Pass it on to another reader. D. Mail it back to its owner. 解析： 推理判断题。根据文章第四段最后一句 “.the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home”让书蒙上尘土是一种很自私的行为，网站BookC的目的正是鼓励 人们与别人分享图书，所以拿到书的人最可能继续把书传递下去。故 C项正确。 答案： C 12. What is the b
28、est title for the text? A. Online Reading: A Virtual Tour B. Electronic Books: A new Trend C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back D. A Website Links People through Books 解析 ： 标题概括题。根据文章第三段可知 BookC把人生命中最重要的两个事物：人和书联系在一起。 D项内容能够涵盖文章的中心思想。 答案： D D A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarc
29、tic 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(海滩 ), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival.
30、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 the southernmost sho
31、re 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 with his four compan
32、ions 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 be lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the worlds imagination, and a film m
33、ade 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 photographer who knew
34、 the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published. 13. 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 adventure 解析： 细节理解題。根据 文章
35、第二段第二句 “they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck.”可知这些照片记录了一次海难。故 D项 正确。 答案： D 14. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text? A. Frank Hurley B. Ernest Shackleton C. Robert Falcon Scott D. Caroline Alexander 解析： 细节理解題。根据第三段最后一句 “Captain Scott had
36、reached the South Pole.”可知到达南极的是 Captain Scott 。 故 C项正确。 答案： C 15. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage? A. Artistic creation B. Scientific research C. Money making D. Treasure hunting 解析： 细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二句 “.start a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and
37、still photography”可知 Alexander认为他的这次航 行就是为了挣钱。故 C项正确。 答案： C 第二节（共 5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 you Have 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 )
38、of its parts? 16 . But it doesnt happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process. _17 Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of colo
39、r. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers(肥料 ). 18 . 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 memories Our model of what a gar
40、den should be often goes back to childhood. Grandmas rose garden and Dads vegetable garden might be good or bad, but thats not whats important. 19 -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
41、 youth. 20 then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun. A. Know why you garden B. Find a good place for your own garden C. Its our experience of the garden that matters D. Its delightful to see so many beautiful flowers E. Still others
42、 may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants F. You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, too G. For each of those gardens, writer down the strongest memory you have 16. 解析： 根抿前两句提出：你是否参现过那些让你感觉非常好的花园？你也可以自己搞一个属于你自己的花园。故 F项“你也可以把你自己的花园搞得那么美好”符合上下文串联。 答案： F 17. 解析： 根据本段
43、前两句可知不同的做园艺有不同 的原因，再倒数第二句“然而，有很多能够解释你为什么想做园艺的原因”可知我们 首先 要搞 清楚 为什么要做园艺。故 A项正确。 答案： A 18. 解析： 本段前两句提出有些人认为花园只是一些花花草草，有些人关心少用水少用废料。本句仍然在说明人们对园艺的不同看法。故 E 项 “还有其他人只是喜欢在户外接触植物 ”与上下文一致，也是人们对于园艺的观点。 答案： E 19. 解析： 根据前句 “.那些都不重要 ”可知划线句强调的是在园艺中对我们来说真正重要的是什么。故 C项 “重要的是我们搞园艺的经历 ”符合上下文串联。 答案： C 20. 解析： 本部分介绍自己搞一个
44、花园，要回忆一下年轻的时候所看到的那些花园，并把这些花园的优点写下来，然后制定计划并把自己的计划变成美丽的花园。故 G项与上下文一致。 答案： G 第二部分：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 。 Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device(装置 )on your desk. And theyve never actua
45、lly 21 you. Everything they know about you 22 through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away. 23 they feel they can know you 24 from the sound of your voice. Thats how powerful the 25 is. Powerful, yes, but not always 26 . For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone. Rani, my fa
46、celess agent whom Id never met 27 , got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really 28 me. I sometimes wished to 29 another agent. One morning, I had to 30 an immediate flight home for a family emergency. I ran into Ranis office 31 . The woman sitting at the desk,
47、32 my madness, sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a 33 smile, nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the 34 immediately. “What a wonderful lady!” I thought. Rushing out 35 I called out over my shoulder, “By the way, whats your name?” “Im Rani,” she said. I turned around and saw a
48、 36 woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip. I was 37 ! Why had I thought she was cold? Rani was, well, so 38 . Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out. Ranis 39 -her warm smile, her nods, her Im here for you 40 -were all silent signals that d
49、idnt travel through wires. 21. A. accepted B. noticed C. heard D. met 解析： 考查上下文串联。动词 accept接受； notice注意； hear听说；听见； meet遇见；根据第一句可知很多人只是通过电话了解你，你们也许从来都没有见过面，只是通过电话交流。故 D正确。 答案： D 22. A. came B. moved C. ran D. developed 解析： 考查动词短语。动词 move移动； run奔跑； develop发展，开发；短语 come from来自于 ；他们对你的了解来自于电话，因为你们之间的距离通常非常遥远，甚至在千里之外。与BC
