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。AWhats On? Electric Underground7.30pm1.00am Free at the Cyclops TheatreDo you know whos playing in your area? Were bringing you an evening of live rock and popmusic from the best l
2、ocal bands. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recordingcontract(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 Whizz8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope
3、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 howto make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks and snacks(快餐).Simons Workshop5.00pm-7.30pm Wednesdays a
4、t Victoria StageThis is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. The workshop looks atevery kind of comedy, and practices many different ways of making people laugh. Simon is acomedian and actor who has 10 years experience of teaching comedy. His workshops are excitingand fun. A
5、n evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny.Charlotte Stone 8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza WorldFine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will performsongs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering on the piano. The menu is Italian, with excel
6、lent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta(面食). Book early to get a table. Our bar is open allday, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine.1. Who can help you if you want to have your music produced?A. Jules SkyeB. Gee Whizz.C. Charlotte Stone.D. James Pickering.解析：细节理解题。根据文章第一则广告最后一句Hes
7、going to talk about how you can find rightperson 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：A2. At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?A. The Cyclops TheatreB. KaleidoscopeC. Victoria StageD. Pizza World解析：细节理解题。根据文章第二则广告第三句This joyful show wi
8、ll please everyone，from theyoungest 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：B3. 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.解析：细节理解题。根据第三则广告第二行中“5.00 pm- 7.30
9、pm 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：D4. When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs?A. 5.00pm-7.30pm. B. 7.30pm1.00am.C. 8.00pm-11.00pm.D. 8.30pm-10.30pm.解析：细节理解题。根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
10、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 frontof each student, and said:”Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes today and45minutes ea
11、ch day for the rest of the week.”A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see the rest of the class would do. Severalothers checked the instructions and made something according to one of the model plans provided.Another group built something out of their own imaginations.Once I had a boy w
12、ho worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. Hisconstructions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I wasdelighted at the presence of such a student. Here was an exceptionally creative mind at work. His presence meant that I had an unexpected teach
13、ing 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 whohad a different style of thinking. Without fail one would declare, ”But Im just not creative.”“Do you dream at night when youre asleep?
14、”“Oh, sure.”“So tell me one of your most interesting dreams.” The student would tell something wildlyimaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growing three heads. “Thats pretty creative.Who does that for you?” “Nobody. I do it.”“Really-at night, when youre asleep?”“Sure.” “Try doing it
15、 in the daytime, in class, okay?”5. The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to _?A. know more about the studentsB. make the lessons more excitingC. raise the students interest in artD. 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
16、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：A6. 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.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
17、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：D7. What does the underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?A. Mistake.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 adifferent style of thinking”可知我冒
18、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：B8. 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.
19、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 CReading can be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choosebooks to read and then meet to discuss them. Now, the website BookC turns the page onthe traditiona
20、l idea of a book group.Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share. BookCrossingprovides 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
21、 reader who findsit. Bruce Pederson, the managing director of BookCrossing, says, “The two things that change your 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. Whoeverfinds their book w
22、ill go to the site and record where they found it.People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of it.E-mails are then sent to the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have beenfound. Bruce peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfi
23、sh by keeping a book to gather duston a shelf at home.BookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the “real” and not thevirtual(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 th
24、e first paragraph?A. To explain what they are. B. To introduce BookCrossing.C. To stress the importance of reading.D. 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：B10. What does the underlin
25、ed word “it” in Paragraph 2refer to?A. The book. B. An adventure.C. A public place.D. The identification number.解析：代词指代题。根据本句“.hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and widewith 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：A11. Wh
26、at will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?A. Meet other readers to discuss it. B. Keep 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 keepinga book to gather dust on a shelf at home”让书
27、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：C12. What is the best title for the text? A. Online Reading: A Virtual TourB. Electronic Books: A new TrendC. 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
28、能够涵盖文章的中心思想。答案：D DAnew collection of photos brings an unsuccessfulAntarctic voyage back to life.Frank Hurleys pictures would be outstanding-undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism-ifthey had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwrec
29、k(海滩), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Manyof 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 totake Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small cre
30、w of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to thesouthernmost shore of Antarcticas Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force apassage by dog sled(雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than whatCaptain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached
31、the South Pole early in 1912 buthad died 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 be lay in a tent dying of c
32、old and hunger, caught the worlds imagination, and a filmmade in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got towithin 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to makemoney from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley,
33、 a confident and gifted Australianphotographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have neverbefore been published.13. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley?A. They were made last week B. They showed undersea sceneriesC. They were found by a cameramanD. The
34、y recorded a disastrous adventure 解析：细节理解題。根据文章第二段第二句“they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most ofthem after a disastrous shipwreck.”可知这些照片记录了一次海难。故D项正确。答案：D14. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?A. Frank HurleyB. Ernest ShackletonC. Robert Falcon ScottD. Caroline Alexander解析：细
35、节理解題。根据第三段最后一句“Captain Scott had reached the South Pole.”可知到达 南极的是Captain Scott。故C项正确。答案：C15. What doesAlexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?A.Artistic creationB. Scientific researchC. Money makingD. 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 makemone
36、y from movie and 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。Agarden thats just right for youHave you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of thegarden appeared to total more than the sum(总
37、和) of its parts? 16 . But it doesnt happen byaccident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process._17Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of colo
38、r. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewerfertilizers(肥料). 18 . However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why youwant to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.Recall(回忆)your childhood memoriesOur model of what a garden sh
39、ould be often goes back to childhood. Grandmas rose gardenand Dads vegetable garden might be good or bad, but thats not whats important. 19 -howbeing in those gardens made us feel. If youd like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start bytaking some time to recall the gardens of your youth. 2
40、0 then go outside and work out a plan totranslate your childhood 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 en
41、joy being outdoors and close to plantsF.You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, tooG. For each of those gardens, writer down the strongest memory you have16.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：F17.解析：根据本段前两句可知不同的做园艺有不同的原因，再倒数第二句“
42、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：A18.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：E19. 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：C20.解析：本部分介绍自己搞一个花园，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
43、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 yourdesk. And theyve never actually 21 you. Everything they know about you 22 through this device,somet
44、imes from hundreds of miles away. 23 they feel they can know you 24 from the soundof 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 faceless agent whom Id never met 27 , got me rock-bottom prices on airfares,
45、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 intoRanis office 31 . The woman sitting at the desk, 32 my madness, sympathetically jumped up.She gave me a 33 smile, nodded while
46、 listening patiently, and then printed out the 34immediately. “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 36 woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me asafe trip. I was 37 ! W
47、hy 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 didnt travel through wires.21.A. accepted B. noticedC. heardD. met解析：考查上下文串联。动词accep
48、t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：D22.A. came B. movedC. ranD. 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BCD三项的动词语义不搭配。故A正确。答案：A23.A. Thus B. YetC. ThenD. Indeed解析：考查上下文串联。虽然你们之间的距离很远，但是他们只要通过你的声音
49、，就可以了解你。上下文之间是转折关系，所以使用副词yet串联前后语义。故B正确。答案：B24.A. ratherB. also C. justD. already解析：考查副词辨析。副词rather相当地；also也；just只是；already已经；本句使用just表 示强调，别人只要通过声音就可以了解你。故C正确。答案：C25.A. TelephoneB. voiceC. connectionD. impression解析：考查上下文串联。根据26空后“only by phone”可知本文介绍的是电话，人们可以通过电话了解你。故A正确。 答案：A26.A. directB. usefulC. easyD. accurate解析：考查上下文串联。形容词direct直接的；useful有用的；easy容易的；accurate准确的；本空前的but说明上下文之间是转折关系，电话虽然很强大，但是也并不是很准确。与ABC三项语义不搭配。故D正确。 答案：D27.A. in personB. by myselfC. in publicD. on purpose解析：考查介词辨析。介词in person亲自，by myself靠自己；in public当众；on purpose故意地；A项与空前的faceless形
