四川省2016届高三高考适应性测试英语试题(含答案).doc

四川省2016年普通高考适应性测试 英 语 本试卷分第I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： 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15分；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、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在 答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Dictionaries are not closed books. There is still plenty of room for more words in these great vocabulary authorities. New words are continually being created and added to our language. And many of todays word experts can credit a famous mathematician with the creation of the method by which they develop many new words. The mathematician was an Englishman named Charles L. Dodgson. In addition to working with figures, Dodgson wrote books. His imaginative stories and poems have made Dodgson beloved to generations of readers. We know him, however, not by the name of Dodgson but by his pen name, Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll has delighted countless readers, young and old, with Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and numerous poems. In these works, Carroll developed dozens of nonsensical words such as chortle and galumph. Many of these words are combined naturally with more common words in the English language. Carroll referred to his made-up words as portmanteau words, named after a kind of leather suitcase that opens into two compartments. The name was well suited, because most of Carrolls words had two compartments. Rather than being entirely fabricated（虚构）,they were usually made from the combined parts of two different words. A snark, for example, clearly came from a snake and a shark. Although Carroll died long ago, his technique continues to be used today. We clearly see his influence in such words as smog, brunch, and guesstimate. 21. What does the underlined sentence probably mean according to the passage? A. Dictionaries are open to the public. B. Dictionaries are helpful to the public. C. Dictionaries are ready to welcome new words. D. The vocabularies in dictionaries are limited. 22. Dodgsons made-up words____. A. are based on differen