上海海文杯英语竞赛决赛试题.doc

I. Vocabulary and Structure (20%) 1. She is only three and she hasnt learned to _ the time yet. A. tell B. show C. look D. read 2. The room is covered with a _ carpet. A. green beautiful Chinese B. Chinese beautiful green C. beautiful green Chinese D. Chinese green beautiful 3. You should always _ the plates with clean water after you have washed them. A. soak B. splash C. rinse D. damp 4. The proposal will be discussed at the meeting _ next week. A. to hold B. holding C. will hold D. to be held 5. It is dangerous to lean _ the windows when the train is moving. A. through B. from C. out by D. out of 6. Parts of the church _ from the eleventh century. A. spring B. originate C. come D. date 7. Youve managed to find a flat? What a _ of luck! A. touch B. fortune C. stroke D. kind 8. _, he tried his best to save the child from the burning house. A. Being seriously injured B. He seriously injured C. Despite seriously injured D. Though seriously injured 9. The unpleasant customs official _ on my opening all my cases. A. suggested B. determined C. insisted D. repeated 10. _ writers are as wellknown as Shakespeare. A. Some B. Many C. Little D. Few 11. Anyone who can study abroad is fortunate; but, of course, it is not easy to make the _ from one culture to another. A. translation B. transportation C. transmission D. transition 12. Not all persons arrested and _ with a crime are guilty, and the main function of criminal courts is to determine who is guilty under the law. A. sentenced B. accused C. persecuted D. charged 13. With the constant change of the conditions, the outcome is not always _. A. favorable B. predictable C. dependable D. reasonable 14. Although Tom made mistakes, we _ have laughed at him. A. may not B. mustntC. ought to not D. ought not to 15. It was at that moment _ he realized _ serious trouble he had got in. A. when, what B. then, how C. before, that D. that, what 16. There _ nothing to talk about, everyone in the room remained silent. A. was B. had C. being D. having 17. On the whole, the time _ the students devote to the games in the Internet cafes without doubt has a great effect on the study in the school. A. in which B. on which C. when D. that 18. When the mid-term exam was over, I went fishing _ I hadnt done for weeks. A. anything B. everything C. nothing D. something 19. In fact this city is not _. A. worth being visited B. worthy visit C. worthy of visitingD. worth visiting 20. This kind of silk _ quite _. A. feelssoftlyB. is feltsoftC. feelssoftD. is feelingsoftly Whats your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you heard thunder or watched a television programme? Adults seldom _1_ events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four _2_ retain any specific, personal experiences. A variety of explanations have been _3_ by psychologists for this “childhood amnesia”(儿童失忆症). One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is responsible for forming memories, does not mature _4_ about the age of two. But the most popular theory maintains that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot _5_ childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or _6_ - one event follows _7_ as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental _8_ for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they dont find any that fit the _9_. Its like trying to find a Chinese work in an English dictionary. Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new _10_ for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply arent any early childhood memories to recall. According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use _11_ spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term impressions of them into long-term memories. In other _12_, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about _13_ - Mother talking about the afternoon _14_ looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this _15_ reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form permanent memories of their personal experiences. 1. A. recall B. resolve C. involve D. interpret 2. A. merely B. really C. largely D. rarely 3. A. proposed B. witnessed C. canceled D. figured 4. A. after B. since C. until D. once 5. A. access B. refer C. reflect D. attain 6. A. regulations B. descriptions C. narratives D. forecasts 7. A. the other B. others C. the rest D. another 8. A. flashes B. files C. outputs D. dreams 9. A. frame B. landscape C. footstep D. pattern 10. A. explanation B. factor C. emphasis D. arrangement 11. A. some else B. someone elses C. anyone else D. anyone elses 12. A. words B. means C. senses D. cases 13. A. it B. them C. him D. theirs 14. A. taken B. spent C. used D. chosen 15. A. petty B. mutual C. habitual D. verbal IV. Reading Comprehension (15%) Passage One To An Athlete Dying YoungThe time you won your town the race /We chaired you through the market-place, Man and boy stood cheering by. / And home we brought you shoulder-high. Today, the road all runners come /Shoulder high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down/Townsman of a stiller town. Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay, And early though the laurel grows/ It withers quicker than the rose. 1. The athlete was a _. A. runner B. football player C. soccer star D. high jumper 2. “Threshold” in the third line of the second stanza is a metaphor for _. A. the finish line B. the grave C. his home D. sports 3. “Stiller town” in the last line of the second verse is a metaphor for _. A. a country village B. old age C. death D. love 4. An advantage of the athletes death in the view of the poet is that he _. A.had slowed down recently, although he was still fast B. had been forgotten and his death was therefore a mercy C.had been very ill and had suffered a great dealD. had died when he still had fame Passage Two Are you superstitious? No, of course not. Do you believe in magic, and luck charms, and elves or gremlins? Certainly not, but if I should greet you with the usual “Hows business?” youll answer “Oh, just so-so.” Yet your health is the best its ever been and your business is booming. Or, when you are successful in some venture and you are complimented, you knock on wood and say you were just lucky; yet you know it was probably due to your ability and hard work. Why? Playing down good health and making light of good fortune stems from a desire to avoid the envy and enmity of the gods who may be listening in. So you duck, attribute your success to luck, or knock on wood. And you knock on wood because wood was once a tree and there is a primitive belief that protective gods inhabit trees and knocking on wood attracts their attention so they may be credited with your successes. If I should sneeze only the strongest of you could refrain from saying “God bless you.” Why bless this unsanitary rudeness? Our ancestors believed that a sneeze opened the body to invasion by devils, and invoking the name of God made the devils get out in a hurry. You may not realize it, but you express this same “devil invasion” when you say: “That youngster acts possessed” or “Whatever can have gotten into that child?” or “I wonder what possessed me to do that?” Although they may no longer be believed, evidences of superstitions that have had their origins in the primitive fear of the unknown still exist in modern language and gestures. 5. The author _. A. believes that most people are superstitious B. believes that very few people are superstitious C. is superstitious D. believes that evidences of superstitions still linger in our speech and actions 6. This article suggests that actually success is due to _. A. luck B. influence C. supernatural causes D. hard work 7. When a person says “I wonder what possessed me?” he expresses a belief in _. A. primitive gods B. gremlins C. devils D. knocking on wood 8. One could conclude from reading this article that _. A. what we call superstitions today were once primitive beliefs B. most people today are as superstitious as their primitive ancestors C. in this age of scientific progress superstitions no longer exist D. superstitious people are possessed Passage Three Im afraid we have to accept the fact that criminals are getting younger all the time, but unfortunately the offences they commit are becoming proportionately more serious. I only wish we didnt have to admit this, but, in doing so, we must first ask ourselves whats wrong with our society that our children apparently couldnt care less about law and order. The days of the sneak thief who stole a couple of apples off a barrel or nicked a packet of sweets from chain store are virtually over. I had occasion to say this to a young offender the other day. “Sweets from a chain store?” he said. “You must be joking. Thats kids stuff.” I may add that he was aged eleven. In other words, todays young criminals would find it laughable to risk being caught for petty theft of this description. Theyve got enough money in their pockets to buy the sweets they want, anyway, I think we have come to the point where its all too easy to put the blame on anyone but ourselves. Faced as they are with a society that frequently rejects them on the grounds of colour, race or low academic ability, these children turn to crime as a means of boosting their self-esteem. Nurtured on films and TV glamorizing the role of the criminal, they are quick to identify with these anti-heroes. It is a matter of increasing concern to the police and magistrates that the Children and Young Persons Act, 1969, is becoming inadequate to deal with the rise in juvenile delinquency. Because the emphasis has been placed on the cause and treatment of their delinquency, rather than on old-fashioned methods of punishment, the children themselves are well aware that there is very little that can be done to prevent them continuing to mug, vandalize and in some case even cause the death of those they choose to terrorize. I dont like the look of this situation any more than you do. In our own interests and in those of our children and grandchildren, we cannot continue to take the “its nothing to do with me” attitude we have adopted for so long. We must unite in a common demand for harsher and more disciplined methods against these young offenders. 9. The children nowadays _. A.are unable to learn about law and order B.have already known about law and order C. hardly care about law and order D. are greatly concerned about law and order 10. “Sweets from a chain store?” means that _ . A.he stole some sweets from a chain store B.he sneaked into a chain store for sweets C.stealing sweets from a chain store was illegal D.stealing sweets from a chain store was unbelievably foolish 11. Young people have seen so much violence and crime on TV and in films that they _ . A.would like to have a try themselves B.have the idea of what crime is C.can easily tell a criminal from a hero D.have become tired of it 12. What is the writers purpose of writing the passage? A.To call peoples attention to the seriousness of juvenile delinquency. B.To call for more severe punishments of juvenile delinquents. C.To call on people to change their attitude towards juvenile delinquents. D.To call on people to stop young people from committing crime. Passage Four When we think of creative people the names that probably spring to mind are those of men such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Pablo Picasso, i.e., great artists, inventors and scientists a select and exceptionally gifted body of men with rare talent and genius. The tendency to regard creativity and imaginative thinking as the exclusive province of a lucky few disregards the creative and imaginative aspects inherent in the solution of many of the tasks we regularly have to face the discovery and development of new methods and techniques, the improvement of old methods, existing inventions and products. Everyone has creative ability to some extent. Creative thinking involves posing oneself a problem and then originating or inventing a solution along new and unconventional lines. It involves drawing new analogies, discovering new combinations, and/or new applications of things