2016届湖南省常宁市高考英语阅读理解和信息匹配选练（4）_高考复习指南

2016届湖南省常宁市高考英语阅读理解和信息匹配选练（4）

　　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.