2006年全国中学生英语能力竞赛(NEPCS)高一年级组样题.doc

2006年全国中学生英语能力竞赛(NEPCS)高一年级组样题听力部分（共四大题，计30分） （略）笔试部分（共七大题，计120分）I. 选择填空（Vocabulary and structure）（共15小题；每小题1分，计15分） 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。 31. Noise is unpleasant, _ when youre trying to sleep. A. basicallyB. naturally C. extremely D. especially 32. The watch _ unnoticed for a few days before I found it. A. had laid B. had lain C. had been laidD. had been laying 33. Steven likes music, but he dislikes dancing,_ ? A. doesnt heB. does he C. isnt he D. is he 34. It was careless of you to have left the door unlocked. My God! _ . A. So did I B. So I did C. So were youD. So did you 35. Would you _ me a hand? I will do what I can _ you. A. offer; help B. grasp; to helpC. give; to help D. lend; help 36. I wont hire him _ he is quite a capable man. A. if B. although C. and D. because 37. In the office Sammie seems to have time until after 6:00 p.m.,_ many people have gone home. A. on which B. whose time C. by which time D. that 38. _ my lack of experience, I didnt do the work well. A. As for B. Regardless of C. Except for D. Owing to 39. Theres no water in the basin here. Would you please fetch some? _ . Thanks a lot. A. Id be glad toB. Id rather not C. Id like it D. I dont have to 40. Beyond _ stars, the astronauts saw nothing but _ space. A. 不填； theB. the; 不填 C. the; the D. 不填； 不填 41. My son went abroad five days ago, Jane said. Jane said that her son _ . A. went abroad five days agoB. went abroad five days before C. had gone abroad five days beforeD. has gone abroad five days ago 42. _ who met Marian in the street this morning. A. That was meB. This was IC. It is me D. It was I 43. Steward left the place, _ never _ back again. A. determining; comingB. determined; to come C. being determined; to turn D. determined; return 44. Do you enjoy listening to Jolin Tsais records? I think records are often _ an actual performance. A. as good as B. as well asC. such good as D. as well 45. Dont _ yourself _ other peoples affairs. A. care; for B. be concerned; aboutC. concern; with D. care; about II. 阅读理解（Reading comprehension）（共20小题；选择题5小题，每小题1分；非选择题15小题，每小题2分，计35分） A) 选择题：阅读下面的短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。 ADo you know that some insects are very much like people? They live together in crowded cities and work together for the good of all. Ants are insects of this kind. They are social insects, living together in colonies. They build their houses to suit the climate of the place where they live, and they live almost everywhere in the world. Like people, ants distribute the work to be done. Some worker ants get food and feed it to young ants. They are like farmers gathering food for people to eat. When the young ants eat the food, they give out a liquid that the grown-up ants can eat. In some colonies, the ants feed liquid food to a few special workers. These workers store it in their stomachs, which become very large. They spend all their time in the nest giving out liquid to whoever needs it, just like the person who runs a store. Ants are ruled by a queen ant. She spends all her time laying eggs, and the worker ants take care of her. New queens come to rule a colony in many different ways. One kind of ant queen can go into another colony and kill the old queen. Another kind can take some workers with her from her mothers nest and start a new colony of her own. Another kind of ant queen takes her young with her and hides in some other colony. She gets some of the workers to feed her young instead of the old queens young. In this way she becomes strongest in the colony, and she rules. Some ants form armies and fight battles with other colonies, but not all ants are fierce. Some live in peace with their neighbours. 46. What is the main idea of this passage? A. There are different kinds of ants.B. Ants live very much like human beings. C. Ants live alone. D. Ants live as long as human beings. 47. The underlined word distribute means _ . A. divide and hand out B. hand in C. design and carry on D. try out 48. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A. Ants always build the same kind of homes. B. Ants are ruled by a male. C. In some ant colonies, elections are held to choose a new queen. D. One kind of ant queen gets workers to feed her young. 49. The RIGHT order in which they appear in the passage is _ . (a) Some ants fight battles. (b) Different groups of ants do different jobs. (c) Ants live in colonies. (d) New queens come to rule a colony in many different ways. (e) Some insects are very much like people. A. c-e-d-b-a B. c-e-b-d-a C. e-c-b-d-a D. e-c-d-b-a 50. Which one of the following is a way people are just like ants? A. The young give off a liquid that the grown-ups eat. B. They store liquid in their stomachs and give it to others. C. Queens spend all their time making new citizens. D. They build their houses to suit the climate. B) 非选择题：阅读下列短文，并按文后的要求完成所给出的题目。 B Sally was a seventeen-year-old high school student. She lived with her parents on the outskirts of a small village in North Dakota, in the U.S. The winters are long and cold in North Dakota, and Sally sometimes felt very isolated （隔离的） from the outside world. However, Sally had a computer in her bedroom. Late at night, when she had finished her homework, she used to get onto the Internet, log into a chat room and join a chat group. One night, around midnight, she started chatting to someone using the name Zanda. Sally and Zanda soon realised they had a lot in common. So they agreed to leave the chat room and talk to each other more privately using an instant message service called ICQ. Sally discovered that Zanda was an eighteen-year-old boy from Sydney, Australia. His real name was Ben. They sent each other messages for about an hour, and exchanged e-mail addresses. Over the next year Sally and Ben e-mailed each other regularly, and also communicated through ICQ. Then one day Sally decided she wanted to visit Ben in Australia. Sallys parents were very nervous about the idea. However, after talking to Bens parents by phone and e-mail, they agreed that she could go. Six months later the two friends met face to face for the first time. This friendship between two people thousands of miles apart was possible because the Internet links computers all over the world. It has been described as the most revolutionary technological development since the telephone. In a short time, it has changed how people communicate with each other, how they do business, and how they get information. Many people still find it amazing that two people who live as far apart as Sally and Ben can communicate with each other so easily. Questions 5153: Answer the following questions or complete the sentences. 51. Sally and Ben communicated by _ . 52. When did they meet face to face for the first time? 53. The underlined word it in the fourth paragraph refers to _ . C Questions 5456: Answer the following questions or complete the sentences. 54. Another word for jealousy would be _ . 55. In which programme can you see a drama which is based on actual events? 56. How many programmes are thirty minutes long? D Kristen Ulmer （极限运动员） takes risks for a living. She is the only woman to have skied down Wyomings Grand Teton, one of the steepest slopes in the United States. She loves extreme sports so much that she is also an ice climber, a paraglider （滑降伞运动员）, and a downhill mountain biker. Extreme sports have helped Ulmer gain the self-confidence she didnt have as a child. She was alone a lot. So skiing, which she started at age seven, became a way to express herself. She skied a lot through her teens, joining the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team in 1985. Ulmers great competence led her to become one of the first skiers to join in a new sport: extreme skiingdoing stunts while skiing down extremely steep, difficult slopes. When she left the U.S. ski team in 1992, she entered the first extreme skiing championships and won the womens division. After that experience, Ulmer became a professional extreme skier. At 34, she was called the original goddess of extreme and the best female extreme skier in the world. In Powder magazines 2001 list of the 50 best skiers in North America, Ulmer was the only woman in the top 10. Ulmer is an example of the best risk taker. However, taking risks often results in injuries. At one point in her career, Ulmer had knee surgery five times in four years and was in rehab （康复治疗） constantly. The more time you spend taking risks, the more chances you have of getting hurt or killed, says Ulmer. Sometimes, however, things do get out of control. Ulmers scariest moment was surviving a series of 100-to-200-mph avalanches （雪崩）. After that experience, Ulmer says she has become a little more careful. Shes also trying to do new things. In addition to extreme skiing, she gives speeches to young people and business executives. She doesnt suggest that they take risks, but she says, I tell them to go big. Thats a reference to doing a big jump and catching big air while skiing, but it applies to everyday life, too. I talk about the importance of going big in whatever you do. Dont do it halfway. Questions 57 and 58: Complete the following sentences. 57. Kristen Ulmer is different from most other athletes because _ . 58. The word in Paragraph 3 means a very dangerous action that shows great strength and skill is _ . Questions 5961: The table below shows Ulmers different experiences in different years. Fill in the blanks to complete the table correspondingly （相应地）. E Three months ago, Mariza Castro left Honduras. Today, she is in the United States, and she has a job. Castro works behind the counter at McDonalds. Speed is an important part of her work life. Fast-food counter workers are expected to serve customers in less than a minute. At McDonalds they say, Work fast or you dont last. Are McDonalds workers lucky to have their jobs? Or are they being exploited? The answer depends on who you talk to. McDonalds does many good things. For example, no other company hires more young people than McDonalds. More than half of its workers are under 20 years old. McDonalds also has a good record of hiring minority workers. Thirteen percent of its workers are black. This is better than any other U.S. company. But the burger house has its critics as well. The pay bothered Edward Rodriguez. He worked for nearly a year at a Los Angeles McDonalds. During that time he got only one 10-cent raise. (64) I used to joke that working for McDonalds is the closest thing to slave labour in the U.S. today, he says. Today, most McDonalds pay about $5.00 an hour. They hire new workers constantly. The restaurant has no other choice because 70 percent of its workers quit or are fired every year. But McDonalds also gets its share of praise. Its best workers move up quickly. Just talk to 17-year-old Ameer Abdur-Razaaq of Harlem, New York City. They call me Young Crew Chief around my block, he says. Where else can I go at my age and be in charge of this many people? He sees the job as the first step in his career. (65) However, most McDonalds crew members never make it to manager because the job pressure is so intense and the rewards so few. As one worker put it, They expect a lot and they dont pay you much. Questions 6263: Answer the following questions. 62. What does the sentence Work fast or you dont last. in Paragraph 1 mean? 63. How to explain the underlined word exploited in English? Questions 64 and 65: Translate the underlined sentences in the passage into Chinese. III. 完形填空（Cloze）（共15小题；每小题1分，计15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后选择方框内所给的单词或短语，并用其适当的形式填空。方框内有多余的词或短语，每个词或短语限用一次。 fall, break, later, before, cause, take away, happen, take place, at work, evening, morning, situation, blow down, drive, get, remove, move, outside, inside, piece Here is the local news for Friday, February 14th. Last night in Cowford many trees (66) _ in the storm. One tree (67) _ across the main road into Cowford. It (68) _ by the fire service during the night. Heavy rain also (69) _ problems on the roads. Some roads were covered by half a metre of water. Many motorists left their cars and walked home. Now over to our reporter, Carol Black. Carol, what (70) _ ? Well, the (71) _ this morning is better, and nearly back to normal. The last few cars (72) _ by the emergency services at the moment. And I can see the telephone engineers (73) _ . The (74) _ lines are being repaired. The traffic now (75) _ in and out of the town along the main roads. Thank you Carol. And now one (76) _ of good news. Yesterday (77) _ , a black BMW was stolen from outside the home of Mr John Simpson. Mr Simpson telephoned the police. (78) _ that evening, the car was seen in the High Street by Mr Simpsons wife, Laura. It was (79) _ the Red Lion Hotel. The keys were in the car, so she (80) _ it home! The police are looking for a careless thief! IV. 翻译（Translation）（共5小题；每小题2分，计10分） 根据提示把下列句子译成英语。 81. 这个字拼错了， 你漏掉了一个字母。（leave out） _ 82. 不要老是责怪他！毕竟他还是个孩子。（after all） _ 83. 那部电影我已经看过好多次了。（a number of） _ 84. 为了能赶上第一班火车，我们很早就出发了。（in order to） _ 85. 她又改变主意，这使我们大家都很生气。（定语从句） _ V. 短文改错（Error correction）（共10小题；每小题1分，计10分） 此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正： 此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。 此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。 此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。 注意：原行没有错的不要改。 For hundreds of the years, people learned about the world 86. _ from materials in print, such as book, newspapers, and 87. _ magazines. This was the main way people get information. 88. _ The ability to read and write was the key to learn. 89. _ Today many people also get their information 90. _ from electronic media. They prefer to watching television, 91. _ listen to a radio or connect to the Internet rather than 92. _ reading. Thats what its important for students 93. _ to learn to analyze, not just acceptance, electronic information 94. _ as well what they read in print. 95. _ VI. 智力测试（IQ）（共5小题；每小题1分，计5分） 回答下列问题。 96. A B C D E F G H Which letter is two to the right of the letter immediately to the left of the letter three to the right of the letter immediately to the right of the letter A? 97. Dormitory is to sleep as refectory is to _ . A. studyB. eatC. meet D. pray E. speak 98. Change one letter in each word to get three words that are members of the same category. For example, foul, sax, tin = four, six, ten. weed, dab, near = _ . 99. Find a word in the brackets that means the same as the two words outside the brackets. BARREN LAND （-） RUN AWAY 100. II. 写作（Writing）（共2小题，计30分） A) Read the following passage, and then use your own words to give a brief summary of it in about 80 words. （10分） The movie, Titanic, is a love story which takes place in the middle of a disaster. Rose DeWitt Bukater is a beautiful young woman. She is returning to the United States with Caledon Hockley and her mother. Rose is engaged to Hockley. Her mother wants her to marry him because he is rich. Rose is very unhappy because she doesnt love Hockely. One night, she gets upset and tries to commit suicide. Jack Dawson, a poor young artist, saves her life. Rose is very grateful, so she invites Jack to a formal dinner. After dinner, he takes her dancing in the part of the ship where all the poor people are. Rose has a wonderful time. She and Jack fall in love. The next day they meet in secret. While they are together, an iceberg hits the ship. Meanwhile, a friend of Cals puts a diamond necklace in Jacks pocket. Cal accuses Jack of stealing the necklace and he is arrested. The ship begins to sink. Rose fights her way down to Jack and helps him to escape. There are not enough lifeboats. Rose gets onto a lifeboat but she cant leave Jack. She jumps back onto the ship. Right before the ship s