1、2016年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（新课标卷）英语 第 I卷 第一节（共 15小题；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 Music Opera at Music Hall: 1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honors Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone: 241-
2、2742. http:/. Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers several concerts from March through June. Call 723-1182 for more information. http:/. Symphony Orchestra: At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, call 381-3300. Regular season runs September
3、 through May at Music Hall in summer at Riverbend. http:/www.symphony.org/home.asp. College Conservatory of Music (CCM): Performances are on the main campus(校园 ) of the university, usually at Patricia Cobbett Theater. CCM organizes a variety of events, including performances by the well-known LaSall
4、e Quartet, CCMs Philharmonic Orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting Baroque through modern music. Students with I.D. cards can attend the events for free. A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183. http:/www.ccm.uc.edu/events/calendar.
5、Riverbend Music Theater: 6295 Kellogg Ave. Large outdoor theater with the closest seats under cover (price difference).Big name shows all summer long! Phone:232-6220. http:/. 1.Which number should you call if you want to see an opera? A. 241-2742. B. 723-1182. C. 381-3300. D. 232-6220. 解析： 细节理解题。根据
6、“opera”定位到第一个活动，第一个活动的联系电话是 241-2742，故选 A。 答案： A 2. When can you go to a concert by Chamber Orchestra? A. February. B. May. C. August. D. November. 解析：细节理解题。根据“ Chamber Orchestra”定位到第二个活动，根据“ which offers several concerts from March through June”可知，活动举办时间是 3-6月，故选 B。 答案： B 3. Where can students go f
7、or free performances with their I.D. cards? A. Music Hall. B. Memorial Hall. C. Patricia Cobbett Theater. D. Riverbend Music Theater. 解析：细节理解题。根据“ with their I.D. cards”定位到第四个活动中的“ Students with I.D. cards can attend the events for free”，根据“ usually at Patricia Cobbett Theater.”可知答案，故选 C。 答案： C 4. H
8、ow is Riverbend Music Theater different from the other places? A. It has seats in the open air. B. It gives shows all year round. C. It offers membership discounts. D. It presents famous musical works. 解析：推理判断题。根据“ Riverbend Music Theater”。定位到最后一个活动，根据“ Large outdoor theater with the closest seats”可
9、知 , Riverbend Music Theater是一个露天剧院，不同的座位，其价格也是不同的，由此可知， Riverbend Music Theater的座位是在室外的；根据“ all summer long!”排除 B；根据第一个活动排除 C；根据第四个活动排除 D。故选 A。 答案： A B On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a com
10、fortable East Side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table. “Hey, arent you from Mississippi?” the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. “Im from Mississippi too.” Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner
11、 partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair. “They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,” Welty said. “I didnt know what my New York friends were thinking.” Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside. Weltys new f
12、riends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi. “My friends said: Now we believe your stories,” Welty added. “And I said: Now you know. These are
13、 the people that make me write them.” Sitting on a sofa in her room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with this explanation. “I dont make them up,” she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. “I dont have to.” Beauticians, bartenders, piano players
14、 and people with purple hats, Weltys people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, s
15、he hears only a fragment(片段 ) of a particularly interesting story. 5. What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe? A. Two strangers joined her. B. Her childhood friends came in. C. A heavy rain ruined the dinner. D. Some people held a party there. 解析： 细节理解题。根据第一段“ another customer was
16、approaching their table”和第三段“ the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair”可知，先后有两个陌生人（一位女士及其同伴）加入了 Welty他们的聚会，故选 A。 答案： A 6. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 6 refers to Weltys. A. readers B. parties C. friends D. stories 解析： 猜测词义题。划线的 them指
17、代前面提到的人或物，根据“ Now we believe your stories”可知， them 指代的 是 Welty写的小说里面的故事，听了 Welty和两个陌生人的有关密西西比的谈话之后， Welty的朋友相信了 Welty小说里的故事都是来源于生活，故选 D。 答案： D 7. What can we learn about the characters in Weltys fiction? A. They live in big cities. B. They are mostly women. C. They come from real life. D. They are p
18、leasure seekers. 解析： 推理判断题。根据 “I dont make them up”和 “Weltys people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus.”可知 ， Welty小说里的人物并非虚构的 ， 他们都来源于现实的生活 ， 故选 C。 答案： C C If you are a fruit growero
19、r would like to become onetake advantage of Apple Day to see whats around. Its called Apple Day but in practice its more like Apple Month. The day itself is on October 21, but since it has caught on, events now spread out over most of October around Britain. Visiting an apple event is a good chance
20、to see, and often taste, a wide variety of apples. To people who are used to the limited choice of apples such as Golden Delicious and Royal Gala in supermarkets, it can be quite an eye opener to see the range of classical apples still in existence, such as Decio which was grown by the Romans. Altho
21、ugh it doesnt taste of anything special, its still worth a try, as is the knobbly(多疙瘩的 ) Cats Head which is more of a curiosity than anything else. There are also varieties developed to suit specific local conditions. One of the very best varieties for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but youll n
22、eed a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it, so its a pipe dream for most apple lovers who fall for it. At the events, you can meet expert growers and discuss which ones will best suit your conditions, and because these are family affairs, children are well catered for with apple-themed
23、 fun and games. Apple Days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards(果园 ).If you want to have a real orchard experience, try visiting the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale, near Faversham in Kent. 8. What can people do at t
24、he apple events? A. Attend experts lectures. B. Visit fruit-loving families. C. Plant fruit trees in an orchard. D. Taste many kinds of apples. 解析： 细节理解题。根据第二段“ Visiting an apple event is a good chance to see, and often taste, a wide variety of apples.”可知，参加相关的庆祝活动的人们可以品尝 各种各样的苹果，故选 D。 答案： D 9. What
25、 can we learn about Decio? A. It is a new variety. B. It has a strange look. C. It is rarely seen now. D. It has a special taste. 解析： 推理判断题。故选 C。 答案： C 10. What does the underlined phrase “a pipe dream” in Paragraph 3mean? A. A practical idea. B. A vain hope. C. A brilliant plan. D. A selfish desire
26、. 解析： 猜测词义题。根据第二段“ to see the range of classical apples still in existence, such as Decio”可知， Decio 是许多仍然存在的经典苹果种类之一，根据“ which is more of a curiosity than anything else”可知，人们品尝它是出于好奇心，故选 B。 答案： B 11. What is the authors purpose in writing the text? A. To show how to grow apples. B .To introduce an a
27、pple festival. C. To help people select apples. D. To promote apple research. 解析： 写作意图题。根据第一段“ If you are a fruit groweror would like to become onetake advantage of Apple Day to see whats around.”和最后一段“ lf you want to have a real orchard experience, try visiting the National Fruit Collection at Brog
28、dale； near Faversham in Kent.”可知，作者向读者介绍了一个节日 -Apple Day,并推荐人们参加这个节日，故选 B。 答案： B D Bad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers.But now that information is being spread and monito
29、red(监控 ) in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking peoples e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories. “The if it bleeds rule works for mass media,” says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the Univer
30、sity of Pennsylvania. “They want your eyeballs and dont care how youre feeling. But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react. You dont want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer.” Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communicatione-mails, Web posts and reviews, f
31、ace-to-face conversationsfound that it tended to be more positive than negative(消极的 ), but that didnt necessarily mean people preferred positive news. Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that possibility, Dr. Berger look
32、ed at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on The New York Times website. He and a Penn colleague analyzed the “most e-mailed” list for six months. One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-
33、science articles. He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others. Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad. They ne
34、eded to be aroused(激发 ) one way or the other, and they preferred good news to bad. The more positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared, as Dr. Berger explains in his new book, “Contagious: Why Things Catch On.” 12 .What do the classic rules mentioned in the text apply to? A. News repor
35、ts. B. Research papers. C. Private e-mails. D. Daily conversations 解析： 细节理解题。根据第二段“ The if it bleeds rule works for mass media”可知 ,像“ it bleeds”这样的传统说法适用于大众媒体，故选 A。 答案： A 13. What can we infer about people like Debbie Downer? A. Theyre socially inactive. B. Theyre good at telling stories. C. Theyre
36、inconsiderate of others. D. Theyre careful with their words. 解析： 推理判断题。根据“ you care a lot more how they react”可知，你非常在乎朋友听完你讲的故事后的反应， 根据“ You dont want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer”可知，你不想被当作一个“ Debbie Downer”，说明指的是“一个不为他人考虑的人”，故选 C。 答案： C 14.Which tended to be the most e-mailed according t
37、o Dr. Bergers research? A. Sports new. B. Science articles. C. Personal accounts. D. Financial reviews. 解析： 细节理解题。根据第三段“ articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles”，科技类的文章比非科技类的更有可能被人们讨论，故选 B。 答案： B 15. What can be a suitable title for the text?
38、A. Sad Stories Travel Far and Wide B. Online News Attracts More People C. Reading Habits Change with the Times D. Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks 解析： 选择最佳标题。根据第一段“ By tracking people s e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters
39、and sob stories.”可知，好消息在网络上传播得更快，影响更深远；说明文章主要讲的是好消息通过网络的传播，故选 D。 答案： D 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。 Everyone knows that fish is good for health. 16 But it seems that many people dont cook fish at home. Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person
40、 per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home. Buying, storing, and cooking fish isnt difficult. 17 This text is about how to buy and cook fish in an easy way. 18 Fresh fish should smell sweet: you should feel that youre standing at the oceans edge. Any fishy or strong smell mea
41、ns the fish isnt fresh. 19 When you have bought a fish and arrive home, youd better store the fish in the refrigerator if you dont cook it immediately, but fresh fish should be stored in your fridge for only a day or two. Frozen fish isnt as tasty as the fresh one. There are many common methods used
42、 to cook fish .20 First, lean it and season it youre your choice of spices(调料 ). Put the whole fish on a plate and steam it in a steam pot for 8 to 10 minutes if it weighs about ne pound. (A larger one will take more time.) Then, its ready to serve. A. Do not buy it. B. The easiest is to steam it. C
43、. This is how you can do it. D. It just requires a little knowledge. E. The fish will go bad within hours. F. When buying fish, you should first smell it. G. The fats in fish are thought to help prevent heart disease. 16. 解析： 考査上下文串联。第一句“ Everyone knows that fish is good for health.”是总写， But表示择折，说明
44、but 前面一句是对第一句的解释， G 项“鱼中的脂肪有助于预防心脏病”符合语境，故选 G。 答案： G 17. 解析： 考査上下文串联。题目前一句“ Buying, storing, and cooking fish isrft difficult”可知，购买，存放和烧鱼并非难事，再根据后面一句可知，文章主要介绍了买鱼和烧鱼的筒单知识， D项“这仅仅需要一点知识，符合语境，此题容易与 C 项混淆， C 项后面应该直接跟烧鱼的方法，即 C项与后一句重复，故选 D。 答案： D 18. 解析： 考査上下文串联。根据“ Freshfish should smell sweetf”可知，本段讲的是买
45、鱼的时候要阆一下鱼的气味，故选 F。 答案： F 19. 解析： 考査上下文串联。根据前 _句“ Any fishy cr strong smell means the fish isnt fresh”可知，带有强烈的味道的鱼都不是新鲜的，不应该买这样的鱼， A项与后句联系紧密，故选 A。 答案： A 20. 解析： 考查上下文串联。 根据 “Put the whole fish on a plate and steam it in a steam pot”可知 ， 本段介绍的是蒸鱼的方法 ， 故选 B。 答案： B 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
46、；每小题 1. 5分，满分 30分） 阅读下面的短文，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。 When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant 21 Miller King, who was the best 22 at our school. Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carrie
47、d my football everywhere for 23 . Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from 24 . He looked very 25 , but he didnt cry. That season, I 26 all of Millers records while he 27 the home games from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was
48、named most valuable player, 28 I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Millers 29 . One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller 30 going over a fencewhich wasnt 31 to climb if you had both arms. Im sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept 32 from
49、. But even that challenge he accepted. I 33 him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally 34 on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didnt tell you this during the season, but you did 35 .Thank you for filling in for 36 .” His words freed me from my bad 37 . I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was m
