2011黄冈英语竞赛试题.doc

2010年初中语、数、英综合能力测评英语试题注意事项：1、本试卷共12页，其中试题卷10页，答题卷2页。 2、答案必须写在答题卷上，交卷时只交答题卷。 3、本科测评时间为120分钟，卷面总分为100分。Part One Listening (25%)第一节（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）听下面10段对话，每段对话后面有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并填写在答题卷相应的位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. A. A waiter. B. A doctor. C. A shop assistant.2. A. Red. B. Green. C. White.3. A. In three hours. B. In half an hour. C. In forty minutes.4. A. Great. B. Not so good. C. Terrible.5. A. In a restaurant. B. In a hospital. C. In a shop.6. A. Action movies. B. Comedies. C. Documentaries.7. A. An actor. B. A reporter. C. A bank clerk.8. A. Having a meal. B. Doing some shopping. C. Having a picnic.9. A. Australia. B. America. C. China.10. A. The computer. B. The TV set. C. The camera.第二节（共15小题，每小题1分，共15分） 听下面5段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后面有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并填写在答题卷相应的位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听下面一段对话，回答第11、12两个小题。11. A. Watch a movie. B. Go skating. C. Visit a classmate.12. A. He will have an exam tomorrow. B. He isnt in good health. C. He has homework to do. 听下面一段对话，回答第1315三个小题。13. A. In a cinema. B. In the street. C. On the phone.14. A. See a film. B. Have a school trip. C. Play table tennis.15. A. They want to see a friend first. B. Theyll have dinner together. C. Theyll do some shopping. 听下面一段对话，回答第1618三个小题。16. A. Janes science teacher. B. Toms father. C. A book shop assistant.17. A. A VCD about astronauts life. B. Some books about science. C. A book about space.18. A. One week. B. Two weeks. C. Two days. 听下面一段独白，回答第1921三个小题。19. A. Listening, speaking and writing. B. Listening, speaking and reading. C. Listening, reading and writing.20. A. By listening to the radio. B. By watching TV programs. C. By listening to tapes.21. A. The notebook. B. The magazine. C. The dictionary. 听下面一段独白，回答第2225四个小题。22. A. One. B. Two. C. Three.23. A. A white shirt. B. A pair of glasses. C. Long trousers.24. A. A friend of the writers. B. A friend of the writers brothers. C. A stranger.25. A. The young man was taken away by policemen. B. The young man became their friend. C. The young man ran away.Part Two Reading & Writing (75%)第一节（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 根据所了解到的有关知识或背景，选择正确答案。26. Where are the keys? Im not sure. They _ in the drawer. A. can be B. must be C. may be D. should be27. Did you find the school easily? No. I didnt find it _ Tony came along. A. when B. until C. before D. after28. This dress is in good quality. Yes. Ill get it even if it _ much. A. cost B. costs C. will cost D. has cost29. Do you really want to take it? No. Im just _. I dont have enough money with me. A. trying it on B. putting it up C. turning it on D. taking care of it30. What kind of sport do English people like best? Fishing is said to be _ one in the UK. A. the popular B. more popular C. most popular D. the most popular31. How are we going to travel this vacation, Mom? Your father _ a careful plan for it, and he says well take the train. A. makes B. made C. will make D. has made32. Sam hasnt come yet. He likes to watch football match, _? So Im sure hell come. A. doesnt he B. does he C. isnt he D. is he33. Did you go to the beach yesterday? Yes. _ playing in the water. A. It was very funny B. It was a funny day C. We had great fun D. We had a great fun34. This pen doesnt work. Would you mind giving me a new one? _ A. Yes. Here it is. B. Of course, here you are. C. No. Here it is. D. Not at all. Here you are.35. How do people play American football? A. Use a round ball, carry and throw it to each other, and try to score goals by letting the ball pass across the goal line. B. Use a ball in the shape of an egg, kick it to each other, and try to score goals by kicking the ball into the goal net. C. Use a ball in the shape of an egg, carry and throw it to each other, and try to score goals by letting the ball pass across the goal line. D. Use a round ball, kick it to each other, and try to score goals by kicking the ball into the goal net.第二节（共23小题，3656每小题1分，57、58每小题2分，共25分） A）阅读下列短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以完成句子或回答所提问题的最佳选项。(1) If you dont use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; when you start using them again, they will gradually become stronger again. Everybody knows this. Yet many people do not seem to know that it is the same with our memory. If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame(责怪), and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people cant read or write but they usually have better memories? This is because they can not read or write and they have to remember things; they can not write them down in a little notebook. They must remember dates, names, songs and stories; so their memories are being exercised the whole time. So if you want a good memory, learn from these people: practice remembering.36. What do many people think of the person with a poor memory? A. His parents are to blame. B. He isnt clever. C. He is foolish. D. His parents are very clever. 37. Some people cant read or write, but they usually have better memories because _. A. they are stronger B. they often practice remembering things C. they have strong arms and legs D. their parents are good 38. What does the passage mainly talk about? A. Arms and legs. B. Exercise. C. Behavior. D. Memory.(2)Chess must be one of the oldest games in the world. An Arab traveler in the year 900 wrote that it was played “long, long ago”. Chess was probably invented in India, and it has been played everywhere from Japan to Europe since 1400. The name “chess” is interesting. When one player is attacking the others king, he says, in English, “check”. When the king has been caught and cannot move anywhere, he says “check mate”. These words come from Persian(波斯人). It means “the king is dead”. That is when the game is over, and one player has won.Such an old game changes very slowly. The rules have not always been the same as they are now. For example, at one time the queen(王后) could only move one square(方块) at a time. Now she is the strongest piece on the board. It would be interesting to know why this has happened! Chess takes time and thought, but it is a game for all kinds of people. You dont have to be winner in order to enjoy it. Two people sitting at the same table do not always play it. The first time the Americans beat the Russians was in a match played by radio. Some people are able to play with many people at the same time. One man played 400 games! It is said that some people play chess by post. This must make chess the slowest game in the world.39. “You dont have to be a winner in order to enjoy it” means “_”. A. Only a winner can enjoy chess B. You can enjoy chess only by losing a game C. You can enjoy chess even if you may not win D. You can enjoy chess when you play with a winner40. The author tries to tell us _. A. some interesting facts about chess B. how the rules of chess have changed C. how to play chess D. how people enjoy chess41. The game is over when _. A. one of the players has won B. either king is caught C. the queen is moving D. the rule changes(3) A famous foreign company in China wanted a clerk for its public relation department(公关部). A beautiful girl with a masters degree(硕士学位) went through a lot of challenges and her name was on the list. In the final stage she faced an interview together with another girl. Both of them were outstanding, not only in looks but also in education. The girl was successful in the interview. It seemed that she would get the chance. At last the examiner asked her, “Can you come to the office next Monday?” Shocked by the unexpected question, the beautiful girl couldnt make a decision at the moment, so she said, “I have to talk with my parents before I give an answer.” The examiner felt surprised but said calmly, “If so, let s wait till you are ready.” The next day, the girl came to tell the examiner that her parents had agreed to let her begin work next Monday. But the examiner said, “Sorry, another suitable person has got the job. You had better try another place.” The beautiful girl was surprised. She asked for an explanation and was told, “What is needed here is a person who knows her own mind.” That was how a good opportunity right under the nose of a beautiful girl ran away.42. The beautiful girl wanted to ask her parents for advice because _. A. she didnt like the job B. she didnt expect the examiner would ask such a question C. she didnt want to answer the question D. her parents would be angry if she didnt ask them43. We can learn from the passage that _. A. the company lost its best clerk B. no girl got the job C. the second girl might get the job D. the examiner was very pleased with the girl44. The examiner regarded _ as the most important. A. ones own decision B. ones knowledge C. a persons age D. a person s looks(4) When I was twelve years old, my family were the first black people to move into an all white part of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Many of our new neighbors werent very welcoming. Some of them said angrily that we should return to where we came from. The children sometimes threw stones at me or drove me home from school. Most of my teachers simply took no notice of me, but not Dorothy Bean, my history teacher. Miss Bean was angry at how badly I was being treated, but she didnt say this to me. Miss Bean showed her respect for me by teaching me just like anyone else. Instead of being unnoticed, I was given a chance to show that I was clever. Miss Bean was the first teacher who ever made me think for myself. She always wanted to know what I thought about difficult questions. Was Thomas Jefferson right to buy Louisiana from France? Why? She expected me to have my own idea. Miss Bean was teaching me that thinking for oneself was the real key to education. One day, when I was not paying attention in class, Miss Bean suddenly threw an eraser at me. The eraser hit me right on the hand and sent my pencil flying. The whole class were very surprised at first, then started laughing. This event became famous in the school and, because it happened to me, the students wanted to get to know me. So thats the story of how Dorothy Bean made me her target(靶子), and how I became just another kid in school. 45. The author and his family were not welcomed by the local people because _. A. they returned from another countryB. they had different skin colorC. they spoke a different languageD. they moved to a wrong place46. Miss Bean respected the author by _. A. giving him chances to answer questionsB. hitting him with an eraserC. giving him extra lessonsD. treating him as one of her students 47. To Miss Bean the most important thing for a student is to _. A. pay close attention to what the teacher saysB. learn to think and have ones own ideaC. keep silence and be unnoticed in classD. get special attention from the teacher B）阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，简要回答所提问题。(5) One day, a boy and a girl were both invited to a television interview program. They both lost their arms when they were very young. The boy lost his arms in a car accident and his father died in that terrible accident. Since then, he had to depend on the arms of his younger brother. But one day, his younger brother let him live his own life. He was heart-broken and didnt know what to do. Similar(相似) to the boy, a fire took the girls arms away. Now, both of her parents have died. Though her elder sister who was studying in another city wanted to take care of her, she decided to be completely independent(独立的). Once she wrote the following in her composition: “I am lucky. Though I lost my arms, I still have legs; I am lucky, though my wings are broken, my heart can still fly.” During the interview, they were both asked to write something on a piece of paper with their toes. The boy wrote: My younger brothers arms are my arms. The girl wrote: Broken wings, flying heart. Disasters(灾难) can happen at any time. How you face them is the true test. If you choose only to complain and run away from them, they will always follow you wherever you go. But if you decide to be strong, the disasters will turn out to be chances from which new hopes will rise.48. How did the boy feel after he was left alone to face his own life? _49. Who did the girl depend on after her parents died? _50. Whats the difference between the boy and the girl? _(6) Last Monday, a school bus driver from Cleveland made a quick stop to use the bathroom in a gas station(加油站) while on the way to school. But the bus didnt stop with him: Moments after the driver left, the bus began to roll down the hill, with 27 young students. It went straight into coming traffic. But luckily, an 11-year-old passenger, David Murphy, ran to the drivers seat and caught the steering wheel(方向盘) to direct the bus out of wrong way. He couldnt stop the bus from going down the hill, but, instead of running towards coming cars, he moved the bus towards a pillar(桥墩) of a bridge. So it came to a sudden stop. When Davids mother learned what her son had done, “I was much shocked. When I saw the position of the bus, it seemed like it was parked,” she said, “I couldnt believe that he had that strength(力量) and that direction.” Davids keeping pretty quiet about it, but hes the only one. “David is the most modest hero Ive ever met, but if there were no his actions, that bus would have went right down into the river,” said Brian Seltz, the familys lawyer and close friend. “He saved all of those childrens lives.”51. What was described in the second paragraph? _52. How did Davids mother feel? _53. What do you think of David? _(7) At a special ceremony(仪式), a special award was offered to a group of students from Changjiang University on February 11, 2010. They were brave enough to help save two boys from Changjiang River. All the students were there except three, who lost their lives when they tried to save the boys. On the afternoon of October 24, 2009, some students were taking a trip to Changjiang River. Suddenly two boys fell into the river. Some of them quickly jumped into the water and saved one boy. However, things didnt go so well when they tried to save the other one. More students joined in, and, hand in hand, they formed a human wall. Finally the other boy was saved. However, the human wall broke down and many students were swept away by the rushing water. At that moment several members of a winter swimming team nearby came to help and succeeded in saving most of the students. But the three of them, who were only 19, were nowhere to be found.54. What did the students receive at the ceremony? _55. Why were many students rushed away by the water? _56. Whats your idea after reading this story? _(8) You want to know about my staying in America, right? Well, to tell you the truth, it is really an eye-opening experience to study here. In China, I had English classes five times a week since fifth grade. However, I didnt know how different textbook English could be from everyday English until I came to Hotchkiss School, Connecticut. When I first studied English, I was told to say, “I am fine” when people say “How are you?” But in the US, I found that people say, “I am good” or “Im tired”. One day, someone greeted me with “Whats up?” It made me confused. I thought for a moment and then smiled because I didnt know what to say.Since then, I have discovered more and more differences between Chinese and US cultures