2016年高考英語全國甲/Ⅱ卷閱讀理解題解析

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閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中選出最佳選項。

Whats On？

Electric Underground

7∶30 pm—1∶00 am Free at the Cyclops Theatre

Do you know whos playing in your area？ Were bringing you an exciting evening of live rock and pop music from the best local bands. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording contract（合同）？If so， come early to the talk at 7∶30 pm by Jules Skye， a successful record producer. Hes going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce your music.

Gee Whizz

8∶30 pm—10∶30 pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope

Come and see Gee Whizz perform. Hes the funniest stand-up comedian on the comedy scene. This joyful show will please everyone， from the youngest to the oldest. Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh！ Our bar is open from 7∶00 pm for drinks and snacks （快餐）.

Simons Workshop

5∶00 pm—7∶30 pm Wednesdays at Victoria Stage.

This is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every kind of comedy， and practices many different ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comedian and actor who has 10 years experience of teaching comedy. His workshops are exciting and fun. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny.

Charlotte Stone

8∶00 pm—11∶00 pm Pizza World

Fine 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 pasta（面食）. Book early 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 Pickering.

22. At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh？

A. The Cyclops Theatre. B. Kaleidoscope.

C. Victoria Stage. D. Pizza World.

23. What do we know about Simons 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 Wednesday.

24. When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs？

A. 5∶00 pm—7∶30 pm. B. 7∶30 pm—1∶00 am.

C. 8∶00 pm—11∶00 pm. D. 8∶30 pm—10∶30 pm.

B

Five years ago， when I taught art at a school in Seattle， I used Tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students. I put a small set of Tinkertoys in front of each student， and said， “Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes today—and 45 minutes each day for the rest of the week.”

A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see what the rest of the class would do. Several others checked the instructions and made something according to one of the model plans provided. Another group built something out of their own imaginations.

Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. His constructions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I was delighted at the presence of such a student. Here was an exceptionally creative mind at work. His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect（感染）other students.

Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside. I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking. Without fail one would declare， “But Im just not creative.”

“Do you dream at night when youre asleep？”

“Oh， sure.”

“So tell me one of your most interesting dreams.” The student would tell something wildly imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growing three heads.“Thats pretty creative. Who does that for you？”

“Nobody. I do it.”

“Really—at night， when youre asleep？”

“Sure.”

“Try doing it in the daytime， in class， okay？”

25. The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to ___________.

A. know more about the students

B. make the lessons more exciting

C. raise the students interest in art

D. teach the students about toy design

26. What do we know about the boy mentioned 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 imaginative.

27. What does the underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 4 probably mean？

A. Mistake. B. Drawback. C. Difficulty. D. Burden.

28. Why did the teacher ask the students 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 of thinking.

C

Reading can be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet to discuss them. Now the website BookCrossing.com turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.

Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share. BookCrossing provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place， hoping that the book will have an adventure， traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it.

Bruce Pederson， the managing director of Book Crossing， says， “The two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read. BookCrossing combines both.” Members leave books on park benches and buses， in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their books will go to the site and record where they found it.

People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of it. E-mails are then sent to the BookCrossers to keep them updated about where their books have been found. Bruce Pederson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.

BookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the“real”and not the virtual（虛擬）. The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirty five countries.

29. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph？

A. To explain what they are.

B. To introduce BookCrossing.

C. To stress the importance of reading.

D. To encourage readers to share their ideas.

30. What does the underlined word“it”in Paragraph 2 refer to？

A. The book. B. An adventure.

C. A public place. D. The identification number.

31. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it？

A. Meet other readers to discuss it.

B. Keep it safe in his bookcase.

C. Pass it on to another reader.

D. Mail it back to its owner.

32. What is the best title for the text？

A. Online Reading： A Virtual Tour

B. Electronic Books： A New Trend

C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back

D. A Website Links People through Books

D

A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.

Frank Hurleys pictures would be outstanding—undoubtedly first-rate photo journalism—if they had been made last week. In fact， they were shot from 1914 through 1916， most of them after a disastrous shipwreck（海難），by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest， under freezing water， in the damaged wooden ship.

The ship was the Endurance， a small， tight， Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists， 27 men in all， to the southernmost shore of Antarcticas Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled（雪橇）across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.

As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story， The Endurance， adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scotts last journey， completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger， caught the worlds imagination， and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton， a onetime British merchant navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908， started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley， a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic， was hired to make the images， most of which have never before been published.

33. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley？

A. They were made last week.

B. They showed undersea sceneries.

C. They were found by a cameraman.

D. They recorded a disastrous adventure.

34. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text？

A. Frank Hurley. B. Ernest Shackleton.

C. Robert Falcon Scott. D. Caroline Alexander.

35. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage？

A. Artistic creation. B. Scientific research.

C. Money making. D. Treasure hunting.

答案與解析

（A）本文是一篇由四則廣告組成的應(yīng)用文。分別介紹了一個講座、一個喜劇演員的演出、一個喜劇演員的工作室以及一個有爵士樂和美食的好去處。

21. A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由題干的have your music produced（制作你的音樂）可找到答案信息點在第一則廣告最后三句，“你是否有興趣成為音樂人，得到錄制唱片的合同呢？如果有興趣，請晚上7點半來聽Jules Skye的報告，他會談到如何找到你的音樂制作的人。”故選A項。

22. B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由題干中的laugh在第二則廣告中找到Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh，再由其前面一句This joyful show will please everyone， from the youngest to the oldest，可知Gee Whizz是最滑稽的單口喜劇演員（stand-up comedian），他的表演能夠讓所有人快樂，下至孩童上到老人（from the youngest to the oldest）。表演的地點是Kaleidoscope，故選B項。

23. D 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由題干中的Simons Workshop可知答案信息點就在第三則廣告里，由5∶00pm—7∶30pm Wednesdays at Victoria Stage可知，該活動每個星期三舉辦，故選D項。由5∶00pm—7∶30pm可排除B項，選項A和C，文中無信息支撐，是無中生有，應(yīng)排除。

24. C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由題干中的Charlotte Stone可知答案信息點在最后一則廣告中，由8∶00 pm—11∶00 pm Pizza World可知，選C項。

（B）本文是一篇記敘文。作為一名教師，作者用一種玩具培養(yǎng)孩子們的創(chuàng)造性和動手能力，其中一個孩子的創(chuàng)造性引起了作者的注意。

25. A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。本題問作者在課堂使用Tinkertoys這種玩具的目的。由第一段第一句中的as a test...to find out something about my students可知，其目的是更多地了解自己的學(xué)生，故選A項。

26. D 推理判斷題。第三段作者描述這個學(xué)生，說他特別有創(chuàng)造性（an exceptionally creative mind），故選D項，“他有想象力的（imaginative）”。

27. B 詞義猜測題。由下文“冒著失去那些有不同的思考風(fēng)格的學(xué)生的風(fēng)險”可知，downside的含義應(yīng)該是drawback“缺點”，而不是mistake“錯誤”，difficulty“困難”，burden“負(fù)擔(dān)”。

28. A 推理判斷題。在最后一段對話中，作者鼓勵學(xué)生講述他最有趣的夢，起因于有學(xué)生聲明“But Im just not creative（但我就是沒有創(chuàng)造力）”，由此推斷，作者讓學(xué)生講述他們的夢，是為了幫助學(xué)生看到自己的創(chuàng)造性，故選A項。

（C）本文是一篇說明文。文章介紹了一個圖書漂流的網(wǎng)站，該網(wǎng)站鼓勵人們拿出自己的圖書與他人分享，如今超過135個國家的一百多萬人成為該網(wǎng)站的會員。

29. B 推理判斷題。第一段首先說閱讀是一種社會性的活動，談到讀書小組（book groups），然后作者用一個Now引出本書要說的話說：BookCrossing這個網(wǎng)站給傳統(tǒng)的讀書小組翻開了新的一頁（turns the page on），可見作者介紹讀書小組的目的是引出這個網(wǎng)站，故選B項。

30. A 詞義猜測題。根據(jù)畫線詞所在句，即第二段最后一句句意可推知，it是指代前面的the book。將the book代入原句看前后是否通順：主人把書留在公共場所，希望這本書會有一段不尋常的經(jīng)歷，即隨著找到它（這本書）的每一位新讀者云游四海。故選A。

31. C 推理判斷題。由第三段可知，人們在看完一本書之后就把書留在公園的長凳、公共汽車、火車站或咖啡館，下一位找到這本書的人就到網(wǎng)站上記錄他們找到這本書的地點，由此推斷應(yīng)選C項“把書繼續(xù)傳遞給另一位讀者”。

32. D 標(biāo)題歸納題。由第一段末句和最后一段最后一句可知，主要介紹了BookCrossing這個網(wǎng)站，這個網(wǎng)站現(xiàn)在有135個國家的一百萬人，因此本文的標(biāo)題應(yīng)體現(xiàn)出“網(wǎng)站”二字，故選D項“一個通過書把人們聯(lián)系起來的網(wǎng)站”。

（D）本文是一篇記敘文。1914年到1916年間，一群海員和科學(xué)家踏上了南極探險之路。結(jié)果他們在回來的路上發(fā)生 了海難，其中一個攝影師在臨死之前拍攝了大量的照片，并把照片封存在破損的木船的冰塊箱里。通過這些照片我們可以了解到那次不成功的探險經(jīng)歷。

33. D 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由題干中的Hurley定位在第二段。由most of them after a disastrous shipwreck （海難）可知，多數(shù)照片是在海難之后拍的，即“記錄了海難”，故選D項。由“這些照片即使是上個星期拍的也堪稱佳作”可排除A項；選項B“拍攝的是海底景觀”是無中生有，應(yīng)排除；文中提到這些照片是攝影師拍攝的，而沒有說是一名攝影師發(fā)現(xiàn)了這些照片，故排除C項。

34. C 推理判斷題。題干問“根據(jù)這篇短文，第一個到達(dá)南極的是誰”。Robert Falcon Scott在1912年到達(dá)了南極；Shackleton在1908年到達(dá)南極100英里以內(nèi)，但并未到達(dá)南極；Frank Hurley是受雇去拍照的；Alexander是創(chuàng)作the Endurance的一個作家。故選C項。

35. C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由題干中的1914 voyage 定位于最后一段倒數(shù)第二句。由to make money from movie and still photography可知，1914年航行的目的是賺錢（money making），故選C項。

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