2016年广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试（一）英语试卷及答案

2016年广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试(一)英语试卷及答案

第I卷

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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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

1. Who is organizing the Festival of Books?

A. Book TV. C. Natural History Museum. 2. How are the best book prizes chosen?

A. By a group of experts.

B. The Los Angeles Times. D. Los Angeles Public Library. B. By a vote of the authors,

C. By the reading public. 3. What is true about tickets to the festival?

A. They are only for published authors. C. They can only be applied for online

D. By festival sponsors.

B. They include transport to each event.

D. They can be purchased at the event location. B

In 1800, only three percent of the world's population lived in cities. Only one city — Beijing — 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 world’s ten largest cities all had populations exceeding one million. By 2000, the number of city dwellers exceeded three billion; and in 2008, the world's 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 negatively — 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 Earth’s growing population.

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 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 allow haft of the world’s 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 build 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 it’s a mistake to see urbanization as evil; it’s a natural part of development. The challenge is how to manage the growth.

4. 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 longer 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-crowded 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 greatly.

C

It 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 signs, “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 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 peacemaking 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 people 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, praising 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 shows 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. they couldn't bear the meaningless killing B. it was the best way to avoid being killed C. they feared that they would be caught

D. their enemies were from similar backgrounds

9. How did the generals finally put an end to the soldiers’ socialising?

A. They sent the soldiers’ loved ones to prison.

B. They moved 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. confused 11. The author uses the story of the soldiers to imply that human beings ________.

A. are not trustworthy under stress

B. are naturally aggressive and war-like

C. are basically caring and kindhearted

D. will always do what is in their own self-interest

D

Earlier this year, the social media website Facebook announced that it 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 the 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 human editor. Instead Google used, and still uses, a secret computer program that selects and displays news stories according to the reader’s personal interests. More recently, Associated Press and Yahoo! have been punishing computer-written articles. Both use special software to automatically produce 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 journalism as a sideline, a way of putting people in front of advertisements. It isn’t their primary function — so if it stops making them lots of money, they're likely to stop doing it.

There’s also a concern that computer-written articles are not actually journalism at all, because what a human news team 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 article — at least for daily news — I don't 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 recent 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 readers B. there are fewer journalists specialising in these areas C. information on these topics is more easily available

D. writing style is less important than accuracy in these areas 14. 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 author's opinion is clear. C. Different views on the topic are presented. D. The language used is vivid.

第二节 (共5小题，每小题2分，满分l0分)