2016年重庆高考英语试卷及答案(2)

D. To find out about their ways of thinking.

答案：ADBA

C

Reading can be a social activity. Think of thepeople who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet todiscuss 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 theyown and would like to share. BookCrossing provides an identification number tostick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping thatthe book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new readerwho finds it.

Bruce Pederson, the managingdirector of BookCrossing, says, “The two things that change your life are thepeople you meet and books you read. BookCrossing combines both.”

Members leave books on parkbenches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their bookwill go to the site and record where they found it.

People who find a book can alsoleave a journal entry describing what they thought of it. E-mails are then sentto the BookCrossing to keep

them updated about where their books have beenfound. Bruce peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keepinga book to gather dust on a shelf at home. zxx.k

BookCrossing is part of a trendamong people who want to get back to the “real” and not the virtual(虚拟). The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundredthirty-five countries.

9. 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.

10. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2refer to? A. Thebook. B.An adventure. C.A public place.

D. Theidentification number.

11. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it? A. Meet other readers to discussit. B.Keep it safe in his bookcase. C. Pass it on to another reader. D.Mail it back to its owner.

12. What is the best title for the text? A. Online Reading: A VirtualTour B. Electronic Books: A newTrend C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back D. A Website Links People through Books

答案：BACD

D

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

Frank Hurley’s pictures would be outstanding----undoubtedlyfirst-rate photo-journalism---if they had been made last week. In fact, theywere shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous

shipwreck(海滩), by a cameraman who had noreasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an icechest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.

Theship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built

three-master that wasintended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen andscientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica’s WeddellSea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled(雪橇) across the continent. Thejourney was

intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott haddone. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died withhis four companions on the march back. Aswriter Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched storyThe Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort.Scott’s last journey, completed as be lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger,caught the world’s imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds.Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage tomake money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident andgifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make theimages, most of which have never before been published. 13. What do we know about the photos takenby 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

14. Who reached the South Pole firstaccording to the text? A.Frank Hurley B. ErnestShackleton C.Robert Falcon Scott

D. CarolineAlexander

15. What does Alexander think was thepurpose of the 1914 voyage? A.Artistic creation B. Scientificresearch C.Money making D. Treasure hunting

答案：DCC

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