1、1绝密启封前2016 普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（江苏卷）英 语第二部分 阅读理解（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。AE-learning: An Alternative Learning OpportunityDay school ProgramSecondary students across Toronto District School Board(TDSB) are invited to take one or two e-Learning courses on their day school ti
2、metable. Students will remain on the roll at their day school.The on-line classroom provides an innovative relevant and interactive Learning environment. The courses and on-line classroom are provided by the Ministry of EducationThese on-line coursesare taught by TDSB secondary school teachersare pa
3、rt of the TDSB Students time table; andappear on the Students report upon completionBenefits of e-LearningInclude:Access to courses that may not be available at his or her TDSB school Using technology to provide students with current information: and.assistance to solve timetable conflictsIs e-Learn
4、ing for You?Students who are successful in on-line course are usually;able to plan, organize time and complete assignments and activities; capable of working independently in a responsible and honest manner; and ,able to regularly use a computer or mobile device with internet accessStudents need to
5、spend at least as much time with their on-line course work as they would in a face-to-face classroom course.56. E-Learning courses are different from other TDSB courses in that .A. they are given by best TDSB teachers.B. they are not on the day school timetable.C. they are not included on students r
6、eports.D. they are an addition to TDSB courses.57. What do students need to do before completing e-learning courses?A. To learn information technology on-line.2B. To do their assignments independently.C. To update their mobile devices regularly.D. To talk face to face with their teachers.BChimps(黑猩猩
7、 ) will cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect their territory. But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another. Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regularly decline to share food with
8、their children. Who are able from a young age to gather their own food.In the laboratory, chimps dont naturally share food either. If a chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or, with no great effort, a plate that also provides food for a neighbor to the next cage,
9、 he will pull at random -he just doesnt care whether his neighbor gets fed or not. Chimps are truly selfish.Human children, on the other hand are extremely corporative. From the earliest ages, they decide to help others, to share information and to participate a achieving common goals. The psycholog
10、ist Michael Tomasello has studied this cooperativeness in a series of expensive with very young children. He finds that if babies aged 18 months see an worried adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.There are several reasons to believe that the urges to
11、help, inform and share are not taught .but naturally possessed in young children. One is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train children to behave socially. Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded. A third
12、 reason is that social intelligence. Develops in children before their general cognitive（认知的）skills, at least when compared with chimpsIn tests conducted by Tomtasell, the children did no better than the chimps on the physical world tests, but were considerably better at understanding the social wor
13、ldThe cure of what childrens minds have and chimps dont in what Tomasello calls what. Part of this ability is that they can infer what others know or are thinking. But that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose. They actively seek to be part of a “we”, a group that intends to
14、 work toward a shared goal.58. What can we learn from the experiment with chimps?A. Chimps seldom care about others interests. B. Chimps tend to provide food for their children.C. Chimps like to take in their neighbors food. D. Chimps naturally share food with each other.59. Michael Tomasellos tests
15、 on young children indicate that they_.A. have the instinct to help others B. know how to offer help to adultsC. know the world better than chimps D. trust adults with their hands full60. The passage is mainly about _.A. the helping behaviors of young children B. ways to train childrens shared inten
16、tionalityC. cooperation as a distinctive human nature D. the development of intelligence in childrenCEl Nifio, a Spanish term for “the Christ child”, was named by South American fisherman sho noticed that the global weather pattern, which happens every two to seven years, reduced the amount of fishe
17、s caught around 3Christmas. El Nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western Pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes the other way round.The weather effects both good and bad, are felt in many places. Rich countries gain more fro
18、m powerful Nifio, on balance, than they lose. A study found that a strong Nifio in 1997 helped Americans economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the Midwest gained from extra rain. The total rise in agricultural in rich countries in growth than the fall
19、in poor ones.But in Indonesia extremely dry forests are in flames. A multi-year drought (干旱）in south-east Brazil is becoming worse. Though heavy rains brought about by El Nino may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.The most recent powerfu
20、l Nino, in 1997-98, killed around 21,000 people and caused damage worth $36 billion around the globe. But such Ninos come with months of warning, and so much is known about how they happen that governments can prepare. According to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), however, just 12% of disas
21、ter-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards. This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.Simple improvements to infrastructure (基础设施）can reduce the spread of d
22、isease. Better sewers (下水道）make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach. Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods. According to a paper in 2011 by Mr Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is relat
23、ed to El Ninos harmful effectsand the poorer the country, the stronger the link. Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepare for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people. Since the poorest are leas
24、t likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to El Nino, reducing their losses needs to be the priority.61. What can we learn about El Nino in Paragraph 1?A. It is named after a South American fisherman.B. It takes place almost every year all over the world.C. It forces fishermen to st
25、op catching fish around Christmas.D. It sees the changes of water flow direction in the ocean.62. What may El Ninos bring about to the countries affected?A. Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.B. Droughts become more harmful than floods.C. Rich countries gains are greater than their losses.
26、D. Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.63. The data provided by ODI in Paragraph 4 suggest that _.A. more investment should go to risk reduction B. governments of poor countries need more aidC. victims of El Nino deserve more compensation D. recovery and reconstruction should come
27、first64. What is the authors purpose in writing the passage?A. To introduce El Nino and its origin. B. To explain the consequences of El Nino.C. To show ways of fighting against El Nino. D. To urge people to prepare for El Nino.DNot so long ago, most people didnt know who Shelly Ann Francis Pryce wa
28、s going to become. She was just 4an average high school athlete. There was every indication that she was just another American teenager without much of a future. However, one person wants to change this. Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann as a track meet and was convinced tha
29、t he had seen the beginning of true greatness. Her time were not exactly impressive, but even so, he seemed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking. He decided to offer Shelly Ann a place in his very strict tr
30、aining seasons. Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few year later at Jamaicas Olympic games in early 2008, Shelly Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat Jamaicas unchallenged queen of the sprint(短跑).“Where did she come from?” asked an astonished sprinting world
31、, before concluding that she must be one of those one-hit wonders that spring up from time to time, only to disappear again without signs. But Shelly Ann was to prove that she was anything but a one-hit wonder. At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistentl
32、y by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold. She did it again one year on at the World Championship in Briton, becoming world champion with a time of 10.73- the fourth record ever.Shelly-Ann is a little woman with a big smile. She has a mental toughness that did no
33、t come about by chance. Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless. She grew up in one of Jamaicas toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers
34、. Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in Jamaica, is a really violent and overpopulated place. Several of Shelly-Anns friends and family were caught up in the killings; one of her cousins was shot dead only a few streets away from where she lived. Sometimes her family didnt have enough to eat
35、. She ran at the school championships barefooted because she couldnt afford shoes. Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby. Maximes early entry into the adult wor
36、ld with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouses roundabout of poverty. One of the first things Maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything.It didnt take long for Shelly-Ann to
37、 realize that sports could be her way out of Waterhouse. On a summer evening in Beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment finally bore fruit. The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new
38、chapter in the history of sports.But Shelly-Anns victory was far greater than that. The night she won Olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped. The dark cloud above one of the worlds toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disap
39、peared for a few days. “ I have so much fire burning for my country,”Shelly said. She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse. She hopes to inspire the Jamaicans to lay down their weapons. She intends to fight to make it a womans as well
40、as a mans world.As Muhammad Ali puts it, “ Champions arent made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision.” One of the things Shelly-Ann can be proud of is her understanding of this truth.65. Why did Stephen Francis decide to coach Shelly-Ann?
41、A. He had a strong desire to free her family from trouble.5B. He sensed a great potential in her despite her weaknesses.C. She had big problems maintaining her performance.D. She suffered a lot of defeats at the previous track meets.66. What did the sprinting world think of Shelly-Ann before the 200
42、8 Olympic Games?A. She would become a promising star. B. She badly needed to set higher goals.C. Her sprinting career would not last long. D. Her talent for sprinting was known to all.67. What made Maxime decide to train her daughter on the track?A. Her success and lessons in her career. B. Her inte
43、rest in Shelly-Anns quick profit.C.Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty. D. Her early entrance into the sprinting world.68. What can we infer from Shelly-Anns statement underlined in Paragraph 5?A.She was highly rewarded for her efforts. B. She was eager to do more for her country.C.She became
44、an athletic star in her country. D. She was the envy of the whole community.69. By mentioning Muhammad Alis words, the author intends to tell us that _.A.players should be highly inspired by coaches B. great athletes need to concentrate on patienceC.hard work is necessary in ones achievements D. mot
45、ivation allows great athletes to be on the top70. What is the best title for the passage?A.The Making of a Great Athlete B. The Dream for ChampionshipC.The Key to High Performance D.The Power of Full Responsibility第三部分 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
46、、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Years ago, a critical event occurred in my life that would change it forever. I met Kurt Kampmeir of Success Motivation Incorporation for breakfast. While we were 36 , Kurt asked me, “ John, what is your 37 for personal growth?Never at a loss for words, I tried t
47、o find things in my life that might 38 for growth. I told him about the many activities in which I was 39 . And I went into a 40 about how hard I worked and the gains I was making. I must have talked for ten minutes. Kurt 41 patiently, but then he 42 smiled and said, “You dont have a personal plan f
48、or growth, do you?”“No, I 43 .“You know,” Kurt said simply, “growth is not a(n) 44 process.”And thats when it 45 me. I wasnt doing anything 46 to make myself better. And at that moment, I made the 47 : I will develop and follow a personal growth plan for my 48 .That night, I talked to my wife about
49、my 49 with Kurt and what I had learned. I 50 her the workbook and tapes Kurt was selling. We 51 that Kurt wasnt just trying to make a sale. He was offering a 52 for us to change our lives and achieve our dreams.Several important things happened that day. First, we decided to 53 the resources. But more importantly, we made a commitment to 54 together as a couple. From that day on, we learned together, traveled together, and sacrificed together. It was a 55 decision. While too many couples grow
