广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试广州一模.docx

1、广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试广州一模2016年广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试(一)英 语20163本试卷分第1卷(选择题)和第卷(非选择题)两部分。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第I卷注意事项：1答第I卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上，并用铅笔在答题卡上的相应位置填涂考生号。2选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号，不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第一部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)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

2、项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A1. Who is organizing the Festival of Books?A. Book TV. B. The Los Angeles Times.C. Natural History Museum. D. Los Angeles Public Library.2. How are the best book prizes chosen?A. By a group of experts. B. By a vote of the authors,C. By the reading public. D. By festival sponsors.3. Wh

3、at is true about tickets to the festival?A. They are only for published authors. B. They include transport to each event.C. They can only be applied for online D. They can be purchased at the event location.BIn 1800, only three percent of the worlds population lived in cities. Only one city Beijing

4、had a population of over a million. Most people lived in rural areas, and never saw a city in their lives. In 1900, just a hundred years later, roughly 150 million people lived in cities, and the worlds ten largest cities all had populations exceeding one million. By 2000, the number of city dweller

5、s exceeded three billion; and in 2008, the worlds population crossed a tipping point more than half of the people on Earth lived in cities. By 2050, that could increase to over two-thirds. Clearly, humans have become an urban species.In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many people viewed cities ne

6、gatively crowded, dirty environments full of disease and crime. They feared that as cities got bigger, living conditions would worsen. In recent decades, however, attitudes have changed. Many experts now think urbanization (城市化) is good news, offering solutions to the problems of Earths growing popu

7、lation.Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, author of The Victory of the Cir, is one such person. Glaeser argues that cities are very productive because “the absence of space between people” reduces the cost of transporting goods, people, and ideas. While the flow of goods has always been important to

8、cities, what is most important today is the flow of ideas. Successful cities enable people to learn from each other easily, and attract and reward smart people with higher wages.Another urbanization supporter is environmentalist Stewart Brand. Brand believes cities help the environment because they

9、allow haft of the worlds population to live on about four percent of the land. This leaves more space for open country, such as farmland. City dwellers also have less impact per person on the environment than people in the countryside. Their roads, sewers, and power lines need fewer resources to bui

10、ld and operate. City apartments require less energy to heat, cool, and light. Most importantly, people in cities drive less so they produce fewer greenhouse gases per person.So its a mistake to see urbanization as evil; its a natural part of development. The challenge is how to manage the growth.4.

11、What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?A. The history of modern cities.B. Changes taking place within cities.C. How cities have grown over time.D. Why modern cities are changing.5. How have experts attitudes towards cities changed in recent decades?A. They now view the weaknesses as strengths.B. They no l

12、onger see city-riving as attractive.C. They accept city life in spite of its problems.D. They think city-riving provides more benefits.6. Which of the following would Edward Glaeser agree with?A. Cities provide more economic opportunities.B. City people get along better with each other.C. Over-crowd

13、ed cities result in problems.D. Cities limit the flow of ideas.7. According to Paragraph 4, what would be the result of moving people out of cities?A. Economic production would be reduced.B. There would be less farmland available.C. People would travel less frequently.D. House values would fall grea

14、tly.CIt was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War I. German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and started socialising with “the enemy” along two-thirds of the Western Front.German troops held up Christmas trees with si

15、gns, “Merry Christmas”. Thousands of troops ran across the battlefields covered with dead bodies. They sang Christmas songs, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared food and even played football. Soldiers hugged men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. They agreed to

16、warn each other if their officers forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high.Fear ran through the military leaders on both sides. They felt that their power was being challenged: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight. Generals declared this unexpected pea

17、cemaking illegal and said that participating soldiers would face a military court. Those found guilty would be imprisoned or even shot. By March 1915 the socialising movement had been destroyed and the killing machine was back in full operation. Over the next three years more than fifteen million pe

18、ople died in the war.Not many people have heard the story of the Christmas Truce (休战). On Christmas Day, 1988, a local radio host in Boston played “Christmas in the Trenches”, a song about the Christmas Truce, several times and was stunned by his listeners response. Thousands of people called in, pr

19、aising the song, with many moved to tears by the amazing events it described.You can probably guess why the callers were in tears. The Christmas Truce story goes against most of what we have been taught about people. It lets us see the world as it can be and says, “This really happened once.” It sho

20、ws us the potential we have as humans, and contradicts all of those TV and newspaper stories that tell us how mean and heartless people are. It is like hearing that our deepest wishes really are true: the world really can be different.8. The soldiers began socialising with the enemy because _.A. the

21、y couldnt bear the meaningless killingB. it was the best way to avoid being killedC. they feared that they would be caughtD. their enemies were from similar backgrounds9. How did the generals finally put an end to the soldiers socialising?A. They sent the soldiers loved ones to prison.B. They moved

22、the two groups of soldiers further apart.C. They increased the number of officers to control the soldiers.D. They warned the soldiers that they would face severe punishment.10. The underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 4 most probably means _.A. satisfied B. shocked C. amused D. confused11. The aut

23、hor uses the story of the soldiers to imply that human beings _.A. are not trustworthy under stressB. are naturally aggressive and war-likeC. are basically caring and kindheartedD. will always do what is in their own self-interestDEarlier this year, the social media website Facebook announced that i

24、t would work with several news organisations including The New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC to place news stories directly into users personal Facebook webpage. Stories published using Facebook Instant will load more quickly and keep the style of the original publisher, who will keep all th

25、e advertising income the stories earn at least for now. The deal shows how important social, media has become to news organisations, and is a clear sign of how the world of news is changing and has been for a while.When Google News began in 2002, many saw it as the death of the newspaper. It had no

26、human editor. Instead Google used, and still uses, a secret computer program that selects and displays news stories according to the readers personal interests. More recently, Associated Press and Yahoo! have been punishing computer-written articles. Both use special software to automatically produc

27、e stories about company financial results and sports reports areas where the quality of writing is felt to be of secondary importance to the accuracy of the data.Should we be worried about such developments? I think we should. One concern is that facebook, Google and other social media websites see

28、journalism as a sideline, a way of putting people in front of advertisements. It isnt their primary function so if it stops making them lots of money, theyre likely to stop doing it.Theres also a concern that computer-written articles are not actually journalism at all, because what a human news tea

29、m produces is actually quite complex. A well-written news story puts information in context, offers a voice to each side of an argument and brings the public new knowledge.Though economics and speed of delivery mean readers will probably choose a computer-written story over a carefully shaped articl

30、e at least for daily news I dont think the computers will be writing any in-depth articles for a while yet.12. What is the main purpose of the article?A. To report on a new computer service offered by Facebook.B. To advise readers against reading computer-written news.C. To express concern about rec

31、ent trends in online news.D. To describe the process of online news reporting.13. Computer-written news reports have so far focused on sports and finance because _.A. these are the most popular topics for online readersB. there are fewer journalists specialising in these areasC. information on these

32、 topics is more easily availableD. writing style is less important than accuracy in these areas14. What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A. Journalism. B. Advertising. C. Facebook. D. Business.15. In Paragraph 4, which of the following is mentioned as a characteristic of a well-written news article?A. The information presented is up-to-date. B. The authors opinion is clear.C. Differe