全国统一考试英语试题全国丙卷III精校版.docx

1、全国统一考试英语试题全国丙卷III精校版绝密启用前 6月8日 15:0016:402016年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（新课标III）英语第二部分：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、D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AMusicOpera at Music Hall：1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera

2、 honors Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone：241-2742. .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. .Symphony Orchestra: At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, cal

3、l 381-3300. Regular season runs September 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, includi

4、ng performances by the well-known LaSalle 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

5、. http:/www.ccm.uc.edu/events/calendar.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. .21. Which number should you call if you want to see an opera? A. 241-2742. B. 723-1182. C. 38

6、1-3300. D. 232-6220.22. When can you go to a concert by Chamber Orchestra?A. February. B. May. C. August. D. November23. Where can student go for free performances with their I.D. cards?A. Music Hall. B. Memorial Hall. C. Patricia Cobbett Theater. D. Riverbend Music Theater24. How is Riverbend Music

7、 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.BOn one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner

8、. They settled in at a comfortable East Side caf 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 Wel

9、ty party. When her dinner 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 pour

10、ing outside. Weltys new friends 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 state reunion(团聚). “My friends said: Now we believe your stories,” Welty

11、added. “ And I said: Now you know. These are 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

12、 to.” Beauticians, bartenders, piano players 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 ou

13、t. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story.25. 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 the

14、re.26. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 6 refersto Weltys_.A. readers B. parties C. friends D. stories27. 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 pleasure seekersCIf you are a frui

15、t grower or would like to become one take 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 go

16、od chance 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 Rom

17、ans. Although 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, bu

18、t youll need 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 appl

19、e-themed 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.28. What can peopl

20、e do at the apple events? A. Attend experts lectures B .Visit fruit-loving families C. Plant fruit trees in an orchard D. Taste many kinds of apples29. What 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 taste30. What does the un

21、derlined phrase “a pipe dream” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. A practical idea B. A vain hope C.A brilliant plan D. A selfish desire31.What is the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To show how to grow apples B .To introduce an apple festivalC. To help people select apples D. To promote apple researchD

22、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 monitored(监控) in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking peop

23、les 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 University of Pennsylvania. “They want your eyeballs and dont care how youre feeling. But

24、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, face-to-face conversationsfound that it tended to be more positive than negative(消极的)

25、, 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 looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on Th

26、e New York Times website. He and a Penn colleague analyzed the “most e-mailed” list for six months. One of his first finds was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles. He found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share

27、 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 needed to be aroused(激发) one way or the other, and they preferred good news to bad. The mor

28、e positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared, as Dr. Berger explains in his new book, “Contagious: Why Things Catch On.” 32 .What do the classic rules mentioned in the text apply to?A. News reports B. Research papers C .Private e-malls D. Daily conversations33. What can we infer about

29、people like Debbie Downer?A. Theyre socially in activeB. Theyre good at telling storiesC. Theyre inconsiderate of othersD. Theyre careful with their words34.Which tended to be the most e-mailed according to Dr. Bergers research?A .Sports new B .Science articlesC. Personal accounts D. Financial revie

30、ws35 .What can be a suitable title for the text?A. Sad Stories Travel Far WideB .Online News Attracts More PeopleC. Reading Habits Change with the TimesD .Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks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.

31、_36_ But it seems that many people dont cook fish at home. Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home. Buying, storing, and cooking fish isnt difficult._37_ This text is about how to buy and cook fish in an easy way._3

32、8_ Fresh fish should smell sweet: you should feel that youre standing at the oceans edge. Any fishy or strong smell means the fish isnt fresh. _39_ 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