高二组初赛题·外教社杯第九届全国中学生英语能力竞赛

1、高二组初赛题外教社杯第九届全国中学生英语能力竞赛 （请考生沿虚线撕下答题纸答题） “外教社杯”第九届全国中学生英语能力大赛 初赛试题（高二组） 答题纸 姓名_ 学校_ 班级_ 联系电话_ 成绩_ vocabulary cloze. （1%*10 = 10%） 1 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 5 10 multiple choice on grammar.（1%*10= 10%） 11 16 12 17 13 18 14 19 15 20 cloze. (2%*10 = 20%) 21 26 22 27 23 28 24 29 25 30 reading comprehension.（4%*15

2、=60%） 31 32 33 36 41 37 42 38 43 34 39 44 35 40 45 1 “外教社杯”第九届全国中学生英语能力大赛 初赛试题（高二组） 主办单位：上海外语教育出版社 学术指导单位：上海外国语大学 中国教育学会外语教学专业委员会 大赛官方微信： 答卷时间为60分钟 请将答案写在答题纸上，题号一一对应 i. multiple choice on vocabulary. (1%*10= 10%) directions: complete the following passage by using the words in the box. each word can

3、 only be used once. note that there is one word more than you need. a. repeating b. distinctive c. coincidence d. imagination when caterina finally woke up, she felt cold and damp. there was a terrible pain in her head and a 1 sound the put put put of a canal barge. she was on the canal, but why? th

4、e last thing she remembered was going to see jake. “what happened after that? think, girl, think!” then she remembered and her heart started beating fast. “the shop uncle sanjit the two men. where are they taking me?” then her 2 took over. “theyre going to throw me in the canal. its all happening ag

5、ain. history is 3 itself. theyre going to push me into the canal just like that man pushed me great-great grandmother,” thought caterina. “perhaps this is the canal at saltaire or is that too much of a 4 ? samira wouldnt think so. samira would say its my destiny.” a. relief b. sinking c. belief d. h

6、appening suddenly there was a very loud sound of last moving water. “oh no! the barge is 5 . “caterina screamed but her scream could not compete with the sound of water. water poured down on them, but the barge didnt sink, and then it clicked. “now, i know whats 6 ,” caterina thought. “its ok. were

7、in a lock,” she thought and she breathed a sigh of 7 . then she had an idea. “ill count the locks. then ill know where we are.” a. panicked b. trembled c. halt d. destination and so caterina counted. “five locks! theres only one place in the whole country with five locks. i know where we are.” put p

8、ut put, the engine stopped and the barge came to a 8 . she heard the men tie up the barge then footsteps as they walked away. “are they coming back? how much time do i have to escape?” she wondered. there was a chain around her left leg and it was locked to the door. she couldnt escape. her hands we

9、re free but there was nothing she could do. then, caterina felt her phone in her pocket. “if only i can text jake. i can tell him where i am. hell know what to do.” quickly, she pulled the phone out of her pocket and went to messages. just then caterina heard a voice and fear overcame her. the barge

10、 rocked as someone 2 climbed on. caterina 9 . “i have to send it now,” she thought. her hands 10 as she hit the send button. hopefully jake would understand where she was. she lay down on the floor again and shut her eyes. now she could hear voices at the other end of the barge. ii. multiple choice

11、on grammar.（1%*10=10%） directions: beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked a, b, c and d. choose the one that best completes the sentence. 11. he tells some other sailors of his experience _ the captain of a steamboat on a large river in africa. a. as b. for c. of d. to

12、 12. he was standing _close to her that she could feel his hot, smelly breath on her face. a. so b. such c. very d. even 13. then suddenly, when she walked into the room, he realized that she was the most beautiful person he _. a. has ever seen b. saw c. had ever seen d. was seeing 14. she opened he

13、r eyes, and saw the wall slowly _ away like a mist, and a great black cavern in front of her. a. fade b. faded c. fading d. being fade 15. the minister could not help smiling at the handsome young man, and _ by his devotion to virginia. a. was touched b. touched c. had touched d. had been touched 16

14、. “yes, you have,” he answered, smiling, “you have never told me what happened to you when you _ up with the ghost.” a. locked b. were locked c. locking d. had locked 17. virginia grew up _ by books and intelligent conversation. a. surrounds b. surrounded c. surrounding d. being surrounded 18. now a

15、nd again some glass tinkled in the cupboard _ a giant voice had cried so loud in agony that it shook the glass. a. in case b. so that c. even though d. as if 19. he rushed forward and seized it in his arms, _, to his horror, the head fell off and rolled onto the floor. a. where b. which c. when d. w

16、hy 20. the conversation in no way included a discussion of ghosts, so there were not even the right conditions of receptive expectation _ so often precede psychical phenomena. a. why b. which c. what d. how iii. cloze.（2%*10=20%） directions: there are 10 blanks in the following passage. for each bla

17、nk there are 4 choices marked a, b, c and d. you should choose the one that best fits into the passage. my parents were lucky. in 1853, they found work at the new steam-powered 21 mill a few miles outside bradford. the 22 , titus salt, wanted his workers to have better 23 conditions, so he built a w

18、hole village around his mill. at first, my parents took the train to work, but later they were given a house in the village of saltaire, and thats 24 i spent my teenage years. 3 my father was an overlooker, so our house was bigger than the others. we had a living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms.

19、we even had our own outside lavatory and a small garden. the village was surrounded by countryside and it was a short walk from the house to a canal. we were 25 . so now you know where i lived and worked, lets 26 a few years. the year was 1869. leo tolstoy, the famous russian author, wrote war and p

20、eace, the vacuum cleaner was invented and the suez canal was opened; and i was eighteen years old. the dust from the mill got into my 27 and i had difficulty breathing but so did all my friends. that is, my friends who were still alive-the lucky ones. lucy died last year. she was sixteen. katy died

21、the year before that. she was just fourteen. so you see, i was lucky. but life wasnt all 28 . we had fun, too. on sundays we didnt work. there was the occasional visit to brown her hair was done into the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to her knee, brass gloves to her elbow, and dark red s

22、pots on each cheek. around her neck were many necklaces with glass beads that shook and glittered at every step. she was savage and superb and there was something dangerous in her slow, continuous movements. she came to the side of the steamer, stood still and faced us. her face had a mixture of sad

23、ness, fear and pain. there was a terrible silence around us. then she turned away slowly and walked on, following the river bank, only turning once to stare at us for a moment, before she disappeared into the forest. “if she had tried to come on board,” said the russian, “i think i would have shot h

24、er, i have been risking my life every day for the last fortnight to keep her out of the house. she got in one time and talked loudly to kurtz for an hour, turning and pointing at me frequently. i dont understand the dialect of this tribe. luckily for me, kurtz was too ill to care that day, or i thin

25、k i would have been in trouble. i dont understand. its too much for me. ah, well, its all over now.” at that moment i heard kurtzs deep voice from the cabin. “save me! save the ivory, you mean. dont talk about saving me when ive had to save you! you are interrupting my plans now. sick? not so sick as you would like to think. never mind. ill continue with my plans i will return. ill sh