第二部分：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。
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iOS 10 The world’s most advanced mobile operating system.
Easy to Use
From the moment you pick up your iOS device, you’re up and running. Tap your favorite app and get right to work — or play. Swipe from the right side of the Lock screen to quickly pull up your camera. Scroll through thousands of photos in seconds. Everything about iOS is designed to look beautiful and work beautifully. So smooth and responsive you won’t even notice it. And that’s the point.
Because iOS is engineered specifically for iPhone and iPad, everything looks and feels incredibly fluid. iOS uses a framework called Metal to maximize graphics performance. Whether you’re surfing the web, moving from app to app, or playing the most complex 3D video game, the graphics and responsiveness are amazingly smooth. No other mobile operating system is so effortless and natural. An OS with a remarkably high IQ.
With sophisticated features like proactive(积极主动的) suggestions, predictive typing, and everybody’s favorite personal assistant, Siri, iOS 10 makes everything you do easier, quicker, and more fun. Nobody understands you quite like Siri.
Siri learns how you talk, not the other way around. Thanks to Apple-developed machine-learning technology, you can simply speak naturally. So whether you say “Get a Lyft to SFO” or “I’d like a ride to SFO using Lyft,” Siri will read you loud and clear.
Siri even works with your favorite apps.
You can ask Siri to send someone a payment using Square Cash, book a reservation through OpenTable, and much more. And the number of apps incorporating Siri is growing every day.
1. Instead of the complicated procedures of starting a camera on an iPhone, you can easily ________.
A. start the camera by tapping the right side of the screen B. start the camera from the Lock screen
C. start the camera by tapping the app from the Lock screen D. start the camera by scrolling thousands of photos in seconds 2. According to the passage, “Metal” is ______. A. an app which helps you surf the web
B. a framework which helps everything look more beautiful C. something that can promote the graphic performance D. an app helping play the most complex 3D video games
3. Siri can distinguish between different syntaxes(文法) by _________. A. enabling you to learn how it talks B. machine-learning technology C. apple-developed multi-tasking technology D. speaking naturally
4. According to the passage, you can easily complete a payment on an iPhone by ____. A. Square Cash B. Siri C. Opentable D. apps developed only by Apple 【答案】1. B 2. C 3. B 4. A
【解析】本文是一篇应用文，介绍了世界上最先进的智能电话操作系统iOS 10的几个性能。
4. 细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“You can ask Siri to send someone a payment using Square Cash”可知，你可以通过iPhone 上的Square Cash进行支付，故A项正确。
B
When the population of the port town began to suffer from poisoning, the police came to find the cause of the poison. They thought someone was poisoning the people on purpose but no one knew how it was possible. Soon people took the position that the pork was poisoned. It was a popular food everyone ate and it could have possibly
made everyone sick. Anyone who had possession of pork would throw it out. Even the poorest of the poor wouldn’t eat pork. Signs were posted on poles and letters were sent to everyone to warn people of the pork. Shortly afterwards, even policemen in high positions were also getting sick.
Soon it became political and popular. Politicians rushed to the town to talk about politics and promised how they would find the solution if they were elected. Everyone was so sick that they didn’t care about politics. Everyone was in a position where he or she didn’t know what to do anymore. They went to the post office to mail posts out asking for help. The poor town didn’t know how to deal with the situation.
One day, a well-known scientist from New York came to the town with a huge box containing many instruments and his possessions. He went to pools and the port and made measurements. He was quiet and polite. Then one day he made a speech at a newspaper meeting-room to announce his findings.
“I am sorry to say your water supply is so heavily polluted; it is poisoned. I know who has been poisoning you all for such a long time. It is you who have been poisoning yourselves with pollution. A great deal of rubbish has been thrown into the water day after day. No one here has taken good care of the environment. It is no wonder all of you have been sick.” Shocked at the news, the people present were lost in thought. 5. Which is the correct order of the facts described in the story? a. People suffered from poisoning. b. Politicians came to make promises. c. People began to realize the real cause. d. Pork was thrown away. e. The water there was polluted. f. A scientist came to check the water.
A. e, a, d, b, f, c B. e, a, d, c, f, b C. a, e, b, d, c, f D. f, c, d, b, e, a 6. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Everyone was so sick of politics that they didn’t care about those politicians.
B. According to the scientist from New York, it was the industry that poisoned the environment of the town C. The reason why the people in the town got sick was that they ate the pork poisoned by the heavily polluted water.
D. If the people in the town hadn’t polluted the water supply, they would not have suffered from poisoning or sickness.