1、新课标英语全国卷32016全国卷(英语)第卷第一部分阅读理解(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，选出最佳选项。C42016全国卷 AMusicOpera at Music Hall: 1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honours Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Pho
2、ne: 2412742. http：/. Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers several concerts from March through June. Call 7231182 for more information. http:_/.Symphony Orchestra: At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, call 3813300. Regular season runs Sept
3、ember through May at Music Hall and 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 Theatre. CCM organizes a variety of events, including performances by the wellknown
4、 LaSalle Quartet, CCMs Philharmonic Orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting Baroque through modern music. Students with ID. cards can attend the events for free. A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 5564183. http：/www.ccm.uc.edu/events/calen
5、dar. Riverbend Music Theatre: 6295 Kellogg Ave. Large outdoor theatre with the closest seats under cover (price difference). Big name shows all summer long! Phone：2326220. http：/. 1. Which number should you call if you want to see an opera?A. 2412742. B. 7231182. C. 3813300. D. 2326220. 2. When can
6、you go to a concert by Chamber Orchestra?A. February. B. May. C. August. D. November. 3. Where can students go for free performances with their ID. cards?A. Music Hall. B. Memorial Hall. C. Patricia Cobbett Theatre. D. Riverbend Music Theatre. 4. How is Riverbend Music Theatre different from the oth
7、er 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.【要点综述】 这是一篇应用文。本文通过广告的形式介绍了几家举行音乐演出的剧场的信息。1A细节理解题。根据第一则广告Opera at Music Hall中“Phone：2412742.”可知，要想看歌剧应拨打电话2412742。2B细节理解题。根据第二则广告中的“which offers several
8、 concerts from March through June.”可知，5月份期间可以去听该音乐会。3C细节理解题。根据第四则广告的“Performances are on the main campus(校园) of the universityStudents with ID. cards can attend the events for free.”可知，学生凭身份证可以免费在Patricia Cobbett Theatre看演出。4A细节理解题。根据题干Riverbend Music Theatre可知信息在最后一则广告中。再根据“Large outdoor theatre wi
9、th the closest seats under cover (price difference)”可知是露天剧场，其他几家剧场没有室外席位，因此“露天席位”是其特色。选项中的seats in the open air是outdoor theatre的同义替换。 C22016全国卷 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. They settled in at a comfortabl
10、e East Side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table. “Hey, arent you from Mississippi？” the elegant, whitehaired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. “Im from Mississippi too.”Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner
11、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 friends imm
12、ediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her bigcity friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion(团聚). “My friend said: Now we believe your stories，” Welty added. “And I said: Now you know. The
13、se 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 to.”Beauticians, bartenders, piano play
14、ers 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,
15、 she hears only a fragment(片断) 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. 6. The underlined word “them” in Paragr
16、aph 6 refers to Weltys _. A. readers B. parties C. friends D. stories7. 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 seekers. 【要点综述】 这是一篇记叙文。文章通过作家Welty一次与朋友在外面吃饭的经历，讲述了小说中的人物大多都是来自现实生
17、活。5A细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句以及第二段中的the stranger可知他们刚坐下没几分钟，一名陌生的顾客来到他们桌旁。根据第三段“the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.”可知这位陌生顾客的朋友也参与了进来。故选A项。6D词义猜测题。根据倒数第四段Welty与她朋友的对话可推断出them指代的意义。她的朋友说：“现在我们相信你写的故事了。”Welty说：“你知道，是这些人使我写出这些故事的。”故选D项。 7C细节理解题。根据文章最后一
18、段可知，Welty小说中的人物都是来自现实生活中的。故选C项。C72016全国卷 CIf you are a fruit groweror 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
19、of October around Britain. Visiting an apple event is a good 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 st
20、ill in existence, such as Decio which was grown by the Romans. 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
21、 best varieties for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but 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
22、are family affairs, children are well catered for with applethemed 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 Collecti
23、on at Brogdale, near Faversham in Kent.8. What can people do at the apple events?A. Attend experts lectures. B. Visit fruitloving families. C. Plant fruit trees in an orchard. D. Taste many kinds of apples. 9. What can we learn about Decio?A. It is a new variety. B. It has a strange look. C. It is r
24、arely seen now. D. It has a special taste. 10. What does the underlined phrase “a pipe dream” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. A practical idea. B. A vain hope. C. A brilliant plan. D. A selfish desire. 11. What is the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To show how to grow apples. BTo introduce an apple f
25、estival. C. To help people select apples. D. To promote apple research. 【要点综述】 这是一篇说明文，介绍了苹果节的一些情况。8D细节理解题。根据第二段的“Visiting an apple event is a good chance to see, and often taste, a wide variety of apples.”可知，参加苹果节活动是一次观赏并品尝各种各样苹果的好机会。故选D项。9C细节理解题。由第二段最后一句“as is the knobbly(多疙瘩的) Cats Head which is
26、more of a curiosity than anything else.”可知，Decio这种罗马人种植的苹果让参观者眼睛为之一亮，它长着多疙瘩的猫头样的形状，更让人感到好奇。由此可知这种苹果非常罕见。故选C项。10B词义猜测题。由第三段的“There are also varieties developed to suit specific local conditionsbut youll need a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it”可知这个品种比较娇贵，种植它需要温暖、有遮蔽且肥沃的土壤，因此种植成功的可能性不
27、大，由此可知答案。11B写作意图题。文章介绍了苹果节的时间、地点、影响及在苹果节上的活动及见闻，最后建议读者参观the National Fruit Collection。由此可知作者写作此文的目的是向读者介绍苹果节的。故选B项。C52016全国卷 DBad 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
28、 that information is being spread and monitored(监控) in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking peoples emails 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，”
29、says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University 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 wordofmouth communi
30、cationemails, Web posts and reviews, facetoface 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 fo
31、r that possibility, Dr Berger looked 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 emailed” 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 nonscience 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 t
