2016 年广州市第一次模拟考试英语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 卷注意事项：1．答第 I 卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上，并用铅笔在答题卡上的相应位置填涂考生号。2．选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号，不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。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 world's 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 world's population crossed a tipping point — more 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,...
