2016届湖南省常宁市高考英语阅读理解和信息匹配选练（4）

　　湖南省常宁市2016高考英语阅读理解和信息匹配选练（4）

　　信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

　　阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。以下是酒店的信息：

　　A. Long Bar Steakhouse

　　Located on the 2nd storey of Raffles Hotel Arcade, near to the world-famous Long Bar, Long Bar

　　Steakhouse cleverly combines steakhouse dining with the simple and honest tastes of ancient rural diets.

　　Lunch: Monday to Friday - 12:00 noon to 2:00p.m.

　　Brunch: Sunday - 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

　　Dinner: Daily - 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

　　B. Long Bar

　　It is the rough decoration of this two-storey bar that provides its charm. Besides almost every alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink, traditional pub favorites are available for both lunch and snacks.

　　Snacks: Daily - 12:00 noon to 10:45 p.m.

　　Cocktails: Sunday to Thursday - 11:00 a.m. to12:30 a.m.; Friday, Saturday and eve of public holidays - 11:00 a.m. to 1:30a.m.

　　C. Empire Café

　　Styled like a typical 1920s Singapore coffee house, Empire Cafe serves up both international staples and local favorites.

　　All-day Dining: Daily - 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.

　　Afternoon Tea: Daily - 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

　　D. Writers’ Bar

　　Established in 1896, the Bar houses two original writing tables from the turn of the century. Three meals a day are served from Sundays to Saturdays and it's the best choice for writers who stay at the hotel to write.

　　Breakfast: 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

　　Lunch: Daily ? 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

　　Supper: 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 p.m.

　　E. Doc Cheng’s Bar

　　This internationally acclaimed, award-winning themed restaurant features Western cuisine created I with an Asian twist, using the region’s cooking techniques, spices and cooking materials.

　　Lunch: Monday to Friday - 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.

　　Dinner: Daily - 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

　　Cocktails: Monday to Friday - 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.

　　F. Raffles Courtyard

　　Built in the tropical setting of an open courtyard, Raffles Courtyard with psalms keeps the feeling of “Old Singapore" alive. A colonial cocktail bar, a traditional alfresco(露天的) kitchen and live music make the courtyard a pleasant place for customers.

　　Dinner: Sunday to Friday - 6:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m.

　　Local Snacks: Daily - 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

　　以下是消费者的信息。请匹配消费者与他们所拟定的场所。

　　46. Mr. David from Singapore is good-hearted, humorous and independent. He enjoys music when he is eating either dinner at about 9:00 p.m. or local snacks at noon. He also likes the Courtyard’s ocean-fresh seafood.

　　47. Mr. Bruce comes from a village nearby France Cherbourg. He likes prime cuts of meat, seafood and rural tastes of ancient food. He goes to Steakhouse every weekend.

　　48. Douglas comes from Scotland. He is a strong handsome man, -but not very smart or sensitive.

　　He works for a large company in China. He likes food with a Chinese twist. He enjoys cocktails for lunch every noon.

　　49. Mr. Harper is a young English writer. Like any other artist, he has no resting place. He's accustomed to writing at the hotel.

　　50. Charles and his wife are straightforward, and often take care of others. Charles is a gentleman who likes drinking alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for lunch. His smart and quiet wife is used to enjoying snacks in the evenings.

　　【参考答案】46-50 FAEDB

　　阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　　Finally, Ientered the university. Because of my careful savings, I did not have to work during the school year. Then,summer came and it was time to work harder than ever. I continued working as a waitress at night, instructed tennis camps several mornings a week and worked as a secretary for a few hours in the afternoons. I even decided to take a class at acommunity（社区）college. This class at the community college saved me $650. It was an extremely tiring summer and made me anxious to return to my relatively easy life at the university.

　　　During my　second and third years of undergraduate schooling, I decided to work about five hours per week in the campus（校园）admissions office answering phones. This provided a little spending money and kept me from drawing my savings out. The overall situation looked hopeful as I approached my senior year as long as I could make as much money as I had the previous summer. I wanted to go to Israel to study for 3 weeks, but I hesitated in making this decision because it would cost me $1,600 more to get the credits in Israel. About two weeks later my Mom called to tell me that I had $1,600 in the bank that I had forgotten about! One of my concerns about this trip was not only the cost, but the loss of time to make money; however, I made as much that summer in the ten weeks when I was at home as I had made during the fourteen weeks when I was at home the summer before. The way everything worked together to make this trip possible was one of the most exciting things that have ever happened to me.

　　　This experience has shaped me in many important ways. The first thing that Ilearned was the importance of a strong work ethic (伦理). Working long hours did a lot to develop my character and helped me learn the value of adollar. It also made me learn how to search for creative ways to settle difficult situations.

　　1. Where did the writer probably work part-time before attending the university?

　　A. In a restaurant.　 B. In the tennis camps.

　　C. In a company. D. In the admissions office.

　　2. The writer took a class at a community college mainly because_____.

　　A. she wanted to save money　 B. life there was relatively easy

　　C. summer time was tiring D. it was required by the university

　　3. The writer’s major concern about the trip to Israel was that_____.

　　A. her mother would not give her approval　B. she would fail to get credits in Israel　

　　C. a well-paid summer job would be lost

　　D. $1,600 couldn’t be drawn out in time

　　4. The passage is mainly about how the writer _____.

　　A. made money on the college campus

　　B. managed to make full use of her vacation

　　C. was forced to support herself by her mother

　　D. was shaped by working part-time through college

　　【参考答案】1—4、AACD

　　阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　A new argument has been put forward as to whether penguins are disturbed by the presence of tourists in Antarctica.

　　Previous research by scientists from Keil University in Germany monitored Adelie penguins and noted that the birds’ heart rates increased dramatically at the sight of a human as far as 30 meters away. But new research using an artificial egg, which is equipped to measure heart rates, disputes this. Scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge say that a slow moving human who does not approach the nest too closely, is not viewed as a threat by penguins.

　　The earlier findings have been used to partly explain the 20 per cent drop in populations of certain types of penguins near tourist sites. However, tour operators have continued to insist that their activities do not adversely affect wildlife in Antarctica, saying they encourage non-disruptive behavior in tourists, and that the decline in penguin numbers is caused by other factors.

　　Amanda Nimon of the Scott Polar Research Institute spent three southern hemisphere summers at Cuverville Island in Antarctica studying penguin behavior towards humans. “A nesting penguin will react very differently to a person rapidly and closely approaching the nest,” says Nimon. “First they exhibit large and prolonged heart rate changes and then they often flee the nest leaving it open for predators (掠夺者) to fly in and remove eggs or chicks.”　The artificial egg, specially for the project, monitored both the parent who had been ‘disturbed’ when the egg was placed in the nest and the other parent as they both took it in turns to guard the nest.

　　However, Boris Culik, who monitored the Adelie penguins, believes that Nimon’s findings do not invalidate his own research. He points out that species behave differently – and Nimon’s work was with Gentoo penguins. Nimon and her colleagues believe that Culik’s research was methodologically flawed because the monitoring of penguins’ responses needed capturing and restraining the birds and fitting them with beart-rate transmitters. Therefore, argues Nimon, it would not be surprising if they became stressed on seeing a human subsequently.

　　1.　 According to the passage, what overall message is presented?

　　A. No firm conclusions are drawn.

　　B. Neither Culik’s nor Nimon’s findings are of much value.

　　C. Penguin reduction is closed related to tourist behavior.

　　D. Tourists are not responsible for the fall in penguin numbers.

　　2.　 Which ONE argument of the following is stated in the passage?

　　A. Penguins are harder to research when they have young.

　　B. Tour operators should encourage tourists to avoid Antarctica.

　　C. Not all penguins behave in the same way.

　　D. Penguins need better protection from tourists.

　　3.　 What do you notice about the views presented in the passage?

　　A. They are groundless.

　　B. They are factual.

　　C. They are descriptive.

　　D. They are conflicting.

　　69.　 What does the underlined word (final line) probably mean?

　　A. later on

　　B. carmly

　　C. separately

　　D. in the same place

　　【参考答案】1—4、ACDA

　　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。

　　Throughout the 1990s and 2000s until today, Domingo continued performing, singing many of the same roles but adding new roles as well, among them the title roles in Wagner‘s Parsifal and Mozart‘s Idomeneo, Rossini‘s Il barbiere di Siviglia as Figaro, Wagner’s Die Walküre as Siegmund, Lehár‘s The Merry Widow as Danilo and Alfano‘s Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano. From the middle 1990s to early in 2008 alone, he added 38 new roles, covering opera in six different languages (English, Italian, French, German, Russian and Spanish). The latest was the Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, Tamerlano.

　　Giving him even greater international recognition outside of the world of opera, he participated in The Three Tenors（男高音）concert at the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final in Rome with José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti. The event was originally planned to raise money for the José Carreras International Leukemia（白血病）Foundation and was later repeated a number of times, including at the three later World Cup finals (1994 in Los Angeles, 1998 in Paris, and 2002 in Yokohama). Alone, Domingo again made an appearance at the final of the 2006 World Cup in Berlin, along with rising stars Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón. On 24 August 2008, Domingo performed a duet with Song Zuying, singing Ài de Huǒyàn (The Flame of Love) at the 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Beijing. The Beijing Olympics were the second Olympics he performed at; he sang the Olympic Hymn at the closing ceremonies of the Barcelona Olympics. At the Olympic games that followed, he would meet Sissel Kyrkjebø, who performed the Olympic Hymn at both the opening and closing ceremonies at those games.

　　In what has been called his ‘final career move’, Plácido Domingo announced on 25 January 2007 that in 2009 he would take on one of Verdi‘s most demanding baritone（男中音）roles, singing the title role in Simon Boccanegra. The first performance was at Berlin State Opera on October 24, followed by 29 other performances during 2009/2010 at major opera houses around the world. He would, however, continue to sing tenor roles beforehand and afterwards.

　　On 16–17 April 2008 he sang during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI at Nationals Park and at the Italian embassy in Washington D.C. Since 1990 Plácido Domingo has received many awards and honors for his achievement in the field of music and in recognition of his many benefit concerts and contributions to various charities.

　　On 15 March 2009, The Metropolitan Opera celebrated Domingo’s 40th anniversary with the company with an on-stage gala dinner at the Met’s 125th anniversary, in honour of his first performance in Adriana Lecouvreur as Maurizio opposite Renata Tebaldi on 28 September 1968.

　　On 29 August 2009 he sang Panis Angelicus at the funeral mass of Senator Ted Kennedy in the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston, Massachusetts.

　　On September 20, 2010, Domingo announced that he would renew his contract as General Director of the Los Angeles Opera through 2017. On September 27, 2010, Domingo announced that he will not renew his contract as General Director of the Washington National Opera beyond its June 2011 expiration date.

　　Ever a sympathetic colleague, in March 2011 he refused to sing in Buenos Aires until the city settled a bitter musicians strike at the Teatro Colon.

　　1. What can we conclude from the passage?

　　A. Domingo can only sing in six different languages.

　　B. Domingo won many awards because he sang a lot.

　　C. José Carreras was later diagnosed with Leukemia.

　　D. Domingo enjoyed world-wide popularity as a Tenor.

　　2. Domingo does the following EXCEPT ___________.

　　A. charity work

　　B. promoting world sports

　　C. organizing anniversary celebrations

　　D. forming a peaceful society

　　3. Singing at different events of world sports shows that Domingo ___________.

　　A. prefers to try singing in different languages including Chinese

　　B. enjoys watching sports events despite his busy performances

　　C. would be more than happy to do some benefit work for the world

　　D. knows clearly that singing for sports events helps him to be famous

　　4. From paragraph 3, we can see that Domingo is a ___________ person.

　　A. challenging

　　B. strict

　　C. responsible

　　D. hard-working

　　【参考答案】DCCA

　　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。

　　The flag, the most common symbol of a nation in the modern world, is also one of the most ancient. With a clear symbolic meaning, the flag in the traditional form is still used today to mark buildings, ships and other vehicles related to a country.

　　The national flag as we know it today is in no way a primitive artifact. It is, rather, the product of thousands of years’ development. Historians believe that it had two major ancestors, of which the earlier served to show wind direction.

　　Early human beings used very fragile houses and boats. Often strong winds would tear roofs from houses or cause high waves that endangered travelers. People’s food supplies were similarly vulnerable. Even after they had learned how to plant grains, they still needed help from nature to ensure good harvests. Therefore they feared and depended on the power of the wind, which could bring warmth from one direction and cold from another.

　　Using a simple piece of cloth tied to the top of a post to tell the direction of the wind was more dependable than earlier methods, such as watching the rising of smoke from a fire. The connection of the flag with heavenly power was therefore reasonable. Early human societies began to fix long pieces of cloth to the tops of totems (图腾) before carrying them into battle. They believed that the power of the wind would be added to the good wishes of the gods and ancestors represented by the totems themselves.

　　These flags developed very slowly into modern flags. The first known flag of a nation or a ruler was unmarked. The king of China around 1000 B.C. was known to have a white flag carried ahead of him. This practice might have been learned from Egyptians even further in the past, but it was from China that it spread over trade routes through India, then across Arab lands, and finally to Europe, where it met up with the other ancestor of the national flag.

　　41. The best title for the passage would be “________”.

　　A. Development of the National Flag

　　B. Power of the National Flag

　　C. Types of Flags

　　D. Uses of Flags

　　【答案】A

　　【解析】标题归纳题。“It is, rather, the product of thousands of years’ development.”说明国旗是几千年发展的产物。而且整片文章从旗帜最初用于表示风向，一直讲到它演变为现代的旗帜。所以本文说的是国旗的发展。故选A。

　　42. The underlined word “vulnerable” in Paragraph 3 means ________.

　　A. impossible to make sure of

　　B. likely to be protected

　　C. easy to be damaged

　　D. difficult to find

　　【答案】C

　　【解析】词义猜测题。本段第一句“Early human beings used very fragile houses and boats.”说早期人类使用非常易坏的的房屋和船只。而本句 “People’s food supplies were similarly vulnerable.” 中“similarly”意为“同样地”，所以"vulnerable”也表示“易损坏”。故选C。

　　43. The earliest flags were connected with heavenly power because ________.

　　A. they could tell direction

　　B. they could bring good luck to ancient fighters

　　C. they were handed down by the ancestors

　　D. they were believed to stand for natural forces

　　【答案】D

　　【解析】细节理解题。本段第一句“Using a simple piece of cloth tied to the top of a post to tell the direction of the wind was more dependable than earlier methods,……”“用一块布系到标杆顶部来判断风向比早期的办法更可靠。”因此，最早的旗帜与天的力量有关。故选D。

　　44. What does the author know of the first national flag?

　　A. He knows when it was sent to Europe.

　　B. He believes it was made in Egypt.

　　C. He thinks it came from China.

　　D. He doubts where it started.

　　【答案】D

　　【解析】细节理解题。最后一段“The first known flag of a nation or a ruler was unmarked.。”说明第一个国家的旗帜未被标明，所以作者不知道第一面国旗是从哪儿诞生的。

　　45. What will the author most probably talk about next?

　　A. The role of China in the spread of the national flag.

　　B. The second ancestor of the national flag.

　　C. The use of modern flags in Europe.

　　D. The importance of modern flags.

　　【答案】B

　　【解析】推理判断题。结尾处“This practice might have been learned from Egyptians even further in the past, but it was from China that it spread over trade routes through India, then across Arab lands, and finally to Europe, where it met up with the other ancestor of the national flag.”说明中国国王树立旗帜的做法遍及到了贸易行路，通过印度，穿过阿拉伯大陆，最终到达欧洲。在那与另一个国旗的原型结合。所以，接下来最可能讨论的是过国旗的第二个始祖。故选B。