广州市2016届普通高中毕业班综合测试(一)英语解说.doc

2016年广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试(一) 英 语 2016．3 本试卷分第1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 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 1. Who is organizing the Festival of Books? A. Book TV. B. The Los Angeles Times. C. Natural History Museum. D. Los Angeles Public Library. 2. How are the best book prizes chosen? A. By a group of experts. B. By a vote of the authors, C. By the reading public. D. By festival sponsors. 3. What is true about tickets to the festival? A. They are only for published authors. B. They include transport to each event. C. They can only be applied for online D. They can be purchased at the event location. B In 1800, only three percent of the worlds population lived in cities. Only one city ? Beijing ? had a population of over a million. Most people lived in rural areas, and never saw a city in their lives. In 1900, just a hundred years later, roughly 150 million people lived in cities, and the world’s ten largest cities all had populations exceeding one million. By 2000, the number of city dwellers exceeded three billion; and in 2008, the worlds population crossed a tipping point ?hmore than half of the people on Earth lived in cities. By 2050, that could increase to over two-thirds. Clearly, humans have become an urban species. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many people viewed cities negatively ? crowded, dirty environments full of disease and crime. They feared that as cities got bigger, living conditions would worsen. In recent decades, however, attitudes have changed. Many experts now think urbanization (城市化) is good news, offering solutions to the problems of Earth’s growing population. Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, author of The Victory of the Cir, is one such person. Glaeser argues that cities are very productive because “the absence of space between people” reduces the cost of transporting goods, people, and ideas. While the flow of goods has always be