广州市2016届普通高中毕业班综合测试(一)英语试题(共10页).doc
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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上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。A1. Who is organizing the Festival of Books?A. Book TV.B. The Los Angeles Times.C. Natural History Museum.D. Los Angeles P
2、ublic 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. What 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
3、applied for onlineD. They can be purchased at the event location.BIn 1800, only three percent of the worlds 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
4、, 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 dwellers 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
5、 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 rece
6、nt decades, however, attitudes have changed. Many experts now think urbanization (城市化) is good news, offering solutions to the problems of Earths growing population.Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, author of The Victory of the Cir, is one such person. Glaeser argues that cities are very productive
7、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 re
8、ward smart people with higher wages.Another urbanization supporter is environmentalist Stewart Brand. Brand believes cities help the environment because they 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
9、 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 fe
10、wer 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. 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. W
11、hy 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. Whic
12、h 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 c
13、ities?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.CIt was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War I. German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless k
14、illing, 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 photogr
15、aphs 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
16、 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 Mar
17、ch 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 pl
18、ayed “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 Christm
19、as 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. I
20、t 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 couldnt bear the meaningless killingB. it was the best way to avoid being killedC. they feared that they would be caughtD. their enemies wer
21、e 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 the two groups of soldiers further apart.C. They increased the number of officers to control the soldiers.D. They warned the soldiers that the
22、y would face severe punishment.10. The underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 4 most probably means _.A. satisfiedB. shockedC. amusedD. confused11. The author uses the story of the soldiers to imply that human beings _.A. are not trustworthy under stressB. are naturally aggressive and war-likeC. are
23、 basically caring and kindheartedD. will always do what is in their own self-interestDEarlier 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 pe
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