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1、 2016.11=考生注意：1. 本试卷分第I 卷（选择题）和第II卷（综合题）两部分。满分120分，考试时间100分钟。2. 请将第I 卷答案填在第II 卷前面的答题表中；第II 卷用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔答题。3.本试卷命题范围：高考范围。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。AMost people agree that eating healthy food is important. But sometimes making good food choic

2、es can be difficult. Now, there are apps that can help people learn about the food they eat to improve their health and their dining out experience.Open Table appOpen Table app helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. It is a free service that shows users restaurant available

3、 based on where and when they want to dine. It gives users points when they make reservations(预定), which can add up to discounts on restaurant visits.Max McCalmans Cheese & Wine Pairing appWine and cheese can be a great combination. But which wines go best with which cheeses? Max McCalmans Cheese &

4、Wine Pairing app can help. It provides information about hundreds of different cheeses and suggests wines to pair with each. Max McCalmans Cheese & Wine Pairing app is free.HappyCow appVegetarians do not eat animal meat. Vegans do not eat any animal products. The HappyCow app is made for both groups

5、. Users can search for vegetarian-vegan restaurants and stores around the world.LocalEats appRestaurant chains, like McDonalds, can be found almost anywhere a person might travel. But sometimes travelers want to eat like locals. The LocalEats app is designed for that. It can help you find local rest

6、aurants in major cities in the US and in other countries. It costs about a dollar.Where Chefs Eat app“Where Chefs Eat” is a 975-page book. Most people would not want to carry that around. But there is a much lighter app version of the same name for just $15. Six hundred chefs provide information on

7、3,000 restaurants around the world on the Where Chefs Eat app.1. What do the first two apps have in common? A. They are both free of charge. B. Discounts are provided on both. C. Best wines can be reserved on both D. They tell you where to have the best food.2. Who is Happycow app probably designed

8、for? A. Friends drinking wines together. B. Chefs enjoying meat very much. C. People who want to go on a diet. D. Those often eating in a restaurant.3. Where can we most likely see the text? A. On a tourism guide. B. In a cellphone application introduction C. In a students textbook D. On a scientifi

9、c discovery TV program4. Why on earth did the writer make this text? A. To help fatties to lose some weight. B. To bring us some healthy eating habits. C. To make some money by advertising apps. D. To introduce some useful apps to food lovers.BMost academics would view a post at an elite university

10、like Oxford or Harvard as the crowning achievement of a careerbringing both honour and access to better wine cellars. But scholars desire such places for reasons beyond glory. They believe perching on one of the topmost branches of the academic tree will also improve the quality of their work, by br

11、inging them together with other geniuses with whom they can collaborate and who may help spark new ideas. This sounds reasonable. Unfortunately，as Albert Laszlo Barabasi of Northeastern University，in Boston (and also, it must be said, of Harvard), shows in a study published in Scientific Reports, it

12、 is not true.Dr Barabasi and his team examined the careers of physicists who began publishing between 1950 and 1980 and continued to do so for at least 20 years. They ranked the impact of the institutions these people attended by counting the number of citations each institutions papers received wit

13、hin five years of publication. By tracking the association of individual physicists and counting their citations in a similar way, Dr Barabasi was able to work out whether moving from a low to a high-ranking university improved a physicists impact. In total, he and his team analysed 2,725 careers.Th

14、ey found that, though an average physicist moved once or twice during his career, moving from a low-rank university to an elite one did not increase his scientific impact. Going in the opposite direction, however, did have a small negative influence. The consequence is that elite university do not，a

15、t least as far as physicists are concerned，add value to output. That surprising conclusion is one which the authorities in countries such as Britain, who are seeking to concentrate expensive subjects such as physics in fewer, more elite institutionspartly to save money, but also to create what are s

16、een as centers of excellencemight wish to consider.5. What is the fundamental reason why scholars want to get a post at an elite university?A. Their academic career can benefit from it.B. It is an access to better wine cellars.C. Reasons beside glory.D. They can win honour.6. On what basis did Dr Ba

17、rabasis research team draw conclusions that getting a post at a higher-rank university wont help scholastic impact?A. His team examined the 20-year careers of physicists.B. He came from Havard, a top-ranking university himself and knew it well.C. Individual physicists citations by other authors incr

18、eased within 5 years.D. They ranked the physicists institutions according to citations to these universities paper.7. Which of the following is true of Dr Barabasis research?A. It proved that a post at an elite university helps academics.B. It began in 1950 and ended in 1980.C. It calculated the cit

19、ations of the physicists institutions.D. It is based on a lot more than 2,000 scholars of various fields.CWorld leaders from nearly 200 countries have signed an important historic agreement to fight global climate change. The agreement came after two weeks of talks between the leaders at the 21st Co

20、nference in Paris, France.As part of the Paris agreement，countries said they would cut down on pollution However，according to the terms of the deal，countries that dont do this will not be punished，or fined. Instead，the document is meant to show that governments around the world take climate change s

21、eriously and are willing to work together to fight global warming.World leaders have met many times to discuss climate change. But，the 21st Conference of Parties, or COP21, which began on November 30 in Paris，was the first time they agreed on a global, legal pact (协定).Before the conference, each nat

22、ion was asked to create plans on how to reach the shared goal. The pact that was signed allows countries to decide the best way to cut down their gas pollution. No matter how they decide to go green, each country must report honestly on all of their efforts. Every five years, nations must look at th

23、e work theyve done and submit new plans on how they will improve over the next five years.In the pact, the countries pledge to limit the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity to the levels that trees，soil and oceans can absorb naturally. It urges countries to spend trillions of dollar

24、s on creating new energy sources, like solar and wind power. It also requires countries to raise at least $ 100 billion each year to help developing countries.However, critics of the pact say it is not detailed enough, and doesnt include specifics about how the plan will be enforced and how improvem

25、ents will be measured. The pact does include one large, specific goal: how countries will aim to keep global temperatures from rising more than 3. 60(20) by 2100.Nonetheless，the agreement is considered by many world leaders to be a major victory. The U. N. has been working more than two decades to c

26、onvince governments to work together to reduce man-made emissions.“History will remember this day,” U. N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said. “The Paris agreement on climate change is a monumental success for the planet and its people.”8. When was the legal pact probably passed?A. On November 30. B.

27、 On December 4.C. On December 8. D. On December 12.9. According to the agreement, countries_ .A. have to give a yearly report about their workB. will be published if they fail to reduce pollutionC. are required to ensure investment in fighting pollutionD. should try to reach the agreed standard in f

28、ive years10. What is each country required to do before the Paris conference?A. Provide a work plan. B. Give an oral explanation .C. Provide a large amount of money. D. Give a written assessment.11. The pact is thought to be imperfect because_.A. it doesnt consider developing countriesB. it is not d

29、etailed enoughC. it is not attractive to all countriesD. it only benefits some countriesDMany people dont realize the importance of music education in the schools today. A new study showed, however, music education is extremely important.In college, music education is one of the largest programs. Te

30、achers have to learn general education materials and techniques. They must learn to play every instrument; they must learn music history and music theory; they must learn instrument repair and teaching methods; they must learn conducting and so much more. At the same time, much of our culture and tr

31、adition is absorbed in music.Music plays a very important role in our education.Music helps with math and science. Students learn to count, and how to multiply and divide. Students also use science to help them discover what sounds good together and what doesnt. Students also need science to underst

32、and something called the “overtone series, which is about how music is produced by vibration（颤动）and why. Students learn a lot about languages through musicMany songs are written in other languages, including ancient ones. Students must learn to translate these works to understand what they are singi

33、ng about. A song is likely to be a famous short work set to music; so students are exposed to that very often while singing.Students learn a huge amount of cooperation （协作）of body parts through music, so parts of the body can work better together. Students must use motor（肌肉运动的）skills in order to pla

34、y an instrument. Singers and wind（管乐器）players must learn breath control and be in good shape to play.Students learn about art. Some famous pieces were written about important pieces of art, and students learn about the artists and styles as theyre playing the music.Music education also brings higher

35、 thinking to our children. It allows them to think about complex patterns. Students have to be aware of what every other musician does at every time. In that way, it develops cooperation, as well. They tend to develop more ability for learning. As one can see, music is very important to education.12

36、. What can we infer about learning music in college? A. It is an easy task without much effort. B. It attracts more and more people to learn. C. It is such a challenging job to finish D. It has no value to our future life.13. Music benefits us a lot in many ways except for_. A. making us a scientist

37、 later. B. improving language ability C. bettering cooperation of body parts. D. making us think more about how to learn well14. The underlined word “that” in Para. 5 refers to “_” A. the music B. the work C. the culture D. the language15. What can we know from the passage? A. A good achievement of

38、science is vital to music learning. B. Learning music to a higher level on ones own is impossible C. People have long known the importance of music to our growth. D. Music has benefits to the allaround development of human beings.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。After yo

39、u go to college, youll find you have to buy a lot of textbooks. 16 If you want to make ends meet and successfully make it through college, you have to find ways to save on college textbooks. Here are some of the tips that would help you cut back and manage your book expense.17 The first thing you wa

40、nt to do when you need a specific book is to go to the bookstore. But the most effective way to save money on college books is to stay away from the bookstore. While it is more convenient to purchase textbooks in the bookstore, it could cost you a lot of money.Buy your books online. You can save a l

41、ot of money when you purchase your books online. You can buy college textbooks from Amazon, Half, CENGAGE Learning, Barnes&Noble and other websites. ff you want to save money on college books，it is best to check BigWords. 18Rent your college textbooks. ff you feel you are not going to use the book a

42、fter the end of the semester, it is best to rent it instead. 19 You can check campus book rentals, bookbyete, bookrenter, chegg and ecampus. This can save you a lot of money on textbooks.Check your university library. ff you do not need the book all the time, it is best to do your research in the un

43、iversity library instead. 20 In this way, you can ensure the book is available when you need it. You can also use the interlibrary loan system.A. Do not go to the bookstore.B. You can rent books from other students.C. College textbooks can be very expensive.D. Buy books from second-hand bookstores.E

44、. Many websites and booksellers rent books.F. Youd better order the book you need ahead of time.G. This website will help you find promotions, discounts and other deals.第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出以可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Fireworks are beautiful and we

45、all enjoy appreciating them. But lets stop and think about the price that we 21 for just a few minutes of 22 . To begin with, the amount of money we spend on fireworks is 23 . The excitement is gone 24 . Lets face it, what we really are doing is burning 25 . Yet, year after year, thousands of cities

46、 and towns spend our tax dollars on fireworks displays. Those tax dollars would be put to much better 26 feeding our hungry and housing our homeless.Second, there is the matter of 27 . Fireworks contain chemicals that are harmful to people and animals. Over the years, these chemicals will 28 the air

47、 we breathe and the water we drink.Third, lets 29 the trash left behind after a fireworks display. What a 30 ! One would probably expect that those who 31 the fireworks would have the politeness to 32 the trash afterwards. 33 , they dont. The mess they leave behind 34 the kind of attitude many Americans have toward our 35 .Fourth, fireworks are 36 . Some fireworks can damage your hearing, especially the fireworks used in public displays that give off a big BANG. Losing your 37 is too high a price to pay._38 all the safety warnings, we sti