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2016 年普通高等学校全国统一考试
英语
注意事项：
本试卷分第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II 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
注意事项：
1.答第 I 卷前，考 考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号填写在答题卡上。
2.选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应的题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦 干净后，在选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷，否则无效。 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 Music
Opera at Music Hall: 1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honors Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone: 241-2742. http://www.cityopera.com
.
Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers several concerts from March through June. Call 723-1182 for more information. http: //www.chamberorch.com .
Symphony Orchestra:At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, call 381-3300. Regular season runs
September
through
May
at
Music
Hall
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 Theater. CCM organizes a variety of events, including
performances by the well-known LaSalle Quartet, CCM’s Philharmonic Orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting Baroque through modern music. Students with I.D. cards can attend the events for free. A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183. http://www.ccm.uc.edu/events/calendar
.
Riverbend Music Theater: 6295 Kellogg Ave. Large outdoor theater with the closest seats under cover
(price
difference).Big
name
shows
all
summer
long!
Phone:232-6220.
http://www.riverbendmusic.com .
3. Which number should you call if you want to see an opera? A. 241-2742. C. 381-3300.
B. 723-1182. D. 232-6220.
4. When can you go to a concert by Chamber Orchestra? A. February.
B. May.
C. August.
D. November.
5.Where can students go for free performances with their I.D. cards? A. Music Hall.
B. Memorial Hall.
C. Patricia Cobbett Theater. D. Riverbend Music Theater. 6. How is Riverbend Music Theater different from the other 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.
B
On 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 comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.
Hey, aren’“t you from Mississippi?”the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. “I’m from Mississippi too. ”
Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.
They began telling me all the news of Mississippi, ”Welty said. ““I didn’t 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. Welty ’s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi.
My friends said: ‘“Now we believe your stories, ’”Welty added. “And I said: ‘Now you know. These 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 don ’“t make them up, ”she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. don’t have to.”
Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty’s 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, she hears only a fragment( particularly interesting story.
7. 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.
8. The underlined word “them ”in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty ’s A. readers
B. parties
C. friends
D. stories
.
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9. What can we learn about the characters in Welty ’s fiction? A. They live in big cities. B. They are mostly women. C. They come from real life. D. They are pleasure seekers.
C
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