高考英语全国卷2.docx

1、高考英语全国卷22016年全国英语2卷第二部分阅读理解（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，并在 答题卡上将该项涂黑。AWhat s on?Electric Un dergro und7.30pm 1.00am Free at the Cyclops TheatreDo you know who s playing in your area? We re bringing you an everoidg of liveand pop music from the best local ban ds

2、. Are you in terested in beco ming a musicia n and gett ing a record ing con tract合 同）? If so, come early to the talk at 7.30pm byJules Skye, a successful record producer. He s going to talk about how you can findthe right pers on to produce you music.Gee Whizz8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope c

3、omedy sce ne. This joyful show will please every one, from the youn gest to the oldest.Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks and sn acks快 餐）.Sim on s Workshop5.00pm-7.30pm Wed nesdays at Victoria StageThis is a good cha nee for anyone who wants to lear

4、n how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every ki nd of comedy, and practices many differe nt ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comdia n and actor who has 10 years experie nee of teach ing comedy. His workshops are excit ing and fun. An eve ning with Simon willgive you the con fide nee to be

5、funny.Charlotte Sto ne8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza WorldFine 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 the piano. The menu is Italian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and past面食）.Book early

6、 to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine.21.Who can help you if you want to have your music produced?A.Jules Skye. B. Gee Whizz.C. Charlotte Stone. D. James Pickeri ng.22.At which place can people of differe nt ages enjoy a good laugh?A.The Cyclops

7、 Theatre B. Kaleidoscope C. Victoria Stage D. PizzaWorld23.What do we know about Simon s 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 Wedn esday.24.When will Charlotte Stone perform her son gs?A. 5.00pm-7.30pm. B. 7.3

8、0pm 1.00am.C. 8.00pm-11.00pm. D. 8.30pm-10.30pm.BFive years ago, whe n I taught art at a school in Seattle, I used Tin kertoys as a testat the begi nning of a term to find out somethi ng about my stude nts. I put a small set ofTinkertoys in front of each student, and said: ” Make something out of th

9、e Tinkertoys.You have 45 minu tes today -and 45mi nu tes 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 in structio ns and made someth ing accord ing to one of the model pla ns provided. Ano ther gro

10、up built someth ing out of their own imag in ati ons.Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. His con struct ions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I was delighted at the prese nee of such a stude nt. Here was an excepti o

11、n ally creative mind at work. His prese nee meant that I had an un expected teach ing assista nt in class whose creativity would infect感染）other stude nts.En courag ing this kind of thinking has a dow nside. I ran the risk of los ing thosestude nts who had a differe nt style of thinking. Without fail

12、 one would declare,I m just not creative. ”“ Do you dream at night when you re asleep? ”Oh, sure.“ So tell me one of your most interesting dreams. ” The student would tell somethingwildly imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growing three heads.“ That s pretty creative. Who does th

13、at for you? ”“ Nobody. I do it. ”“ Real-at night, when you re asleep? ”“Sure. ”“ Try doing it in the daytime, in class, okay? ”25.The teacher used Ti nkertoys in class in order to ?A.know more about the stude nts B. make the less ons more excit ingC. raise the stidents interest in art D. teach the s

14、tudents about toy design26.What do we know about the boy men tio ned 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 imagi native.27.What does the underlined word “ downside ” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?A. Mistake. B. Drawback. C.

15、 Difficulty. D. Burde n.28.Why did the teacher ask the stude nts 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 ofthi nki ng.CRead ing can be a social activity. Th

16、ink of the people who bel ong to book groups.They choose books to read and the n meet to discuss them. Now, the websiteBookCross in tur ns the page on the traditi onal idea of a book group.Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share.BookCross ing provides an ide nt

17、ificati on nu mber to stick in side the book. Then the pers on leaves it in a public place, hop ing that the book will have an adve nture, traveli ng far and wide with each new reader who fin ds_it.Bruce Peders on, the managing director of BookCross ing, says, “ The two thi ngsthat change your life

18、are the people you meet and books you read. BookCrossing comb ines both. ”Members leave books on park ben ches and buses, in train stati ons 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 describ ing

19、 what they thought of it. E-mails are the n sent to the BookCross ing to keep them updated about where their books have bee n found. Bruce Peters on says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keep ing a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.BookCrossi ng is part of a trend among people who wa

20、nt to get back to the “ reand not the virtual虚拟）.The site now has more tha n one millio n members in more than one hundred thirty-five countries.29.Why does the author men ti on book groups in the first paragraph?A.To explain what they are.B.To in troduce BookCross ing.C.To stress the importa nee of

21、 readi ng.D.To en courage readers to share their ideas.30.What does the underlined word “ it ” in Paragraph 2refer to?A. The book. B. An adve nture.C. A public place. D. The ide ntificatio n nu mber.31.What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?A. Meet other readers to discuss it. B. Ke

22、ep it safe in his bookcase.4C. Pass it on to ano ther reader. D. Mail it back to its owner.32.What is the best title for the text?A. On li ne Readi ng: A Virtual Tour B. Electro nic Books: A new TrendC. A Book Group Brings Traditio n Back D. A Website Li nks People through BooksDA new collectio n of

23、 photos brings an un successful An tarctic voyage back to life.Frank Hurley spictures would be outstanding-undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism-if they had bee n made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck海 滩）,by a camerama n who had n

24、o reas on able expectati on of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, un der freez ing water, i n the damaged woode n ship.The ship was the En dura nee, a small, tight, Norwegia n-built three-master that was inten ded to take Sir Ern est Shacklet on and a small crew of seame n and

25、 scie ntists, 27 men in all, to the southernmostshore of Antarctica Weddell Sea. From that point Shacklet on wan ted to force a passageby dog sled（雪橇） across the continent. The journey was in ten ded to achieve more tha n what Capta in Robert Falc on Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the Sou

26、th Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four compa nions on the march back.As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The En dura nee, adve nturi ng was eve n the n a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott s last journey, completed as be lay in a tent dying o

27、f cold and hunger, caught the world isnagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a on etime British mercha nt-n avy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a bus in ess before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Fr

28、ank Hurley, a con fide nt and gifted Australia n photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before bee n published.33.What do we know about the photos take n by Hurley?A.They were made last weekB.They showed un dersea sce neriesC.They were found by a

29、camerama nD.They recorded a disastrous adve nture34.Who reached the South Pole first accordi ng to the text?A. Frank Hurley B. Ernest Shackleto nC. Robert Falc on Scott D. Caroli ne Alexa nder35.What does Alexa nder think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?A. Artistic creatio n B. Scie ntific resear

30、chC. Money making D. Treasure hunting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 that s just right for youHave 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）of its parts? 36_. But it do

31、es n happe n by accide nt. It starts with look ing in side yourself and un dersta nding who you are with respect to the n atural world and how you approach the garde ning process. 37Some people may thi nk that a garde n is no more tha n pla nts, flowers, patter ns and masses of color. Others are con

32、cerned about using garde ning methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers（月肥料）. 38 . However, there are a number of other reasonsthat might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years. Recal 回 忆）your childhood memoriesOur model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma srose garden and Dad s vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that s not wha