高一英语竞赛试卷文档

2006学年第二学期高一六、八、九三校竞赛试卷

英语试题卷

说明：1 考试时间为90分钟，卷面满分为100分

2 请将答案写在答题卷上，写在试卷上无效

第一节:单项填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

1 Knowing the result of the exam, he went home and lay in bed, ______.

A upset

B was upset

C felt upset

D and upset

2 I wonder how he_______ that to the teacher.

A dare to say

B dare saying

C not dare say

D dared say

3 The government officials’ visit on his 80th birthday______ the famous scientist greatly.

A respected

B honoured

C cared for

D admired

4 I thought Nelson Mandela must be a kind and honest man_______ I saw his picture.

A where

B whether

C the first time

D for the first time

5. I t worried her a bit __________ her hair was turning grey.

A. while

B. that

C. if

D. for

6. With all his money and friends , he was now in great despair (绝望).

A. going

B. gone

C. be gone

D. had gone

7 He can’t _________ breaking the window.

A get rid of

B get away from

C get away with

D get away

8 Although amber feels as hard as stone, it easily melts when________.

A heating

B heated

C it heats

D being heated

9 Both of them showed a ________ to finish the fighting, so the problems will probably be ______.

A willingness; solved

B willing; solving

C will; solved

D willingness, solving

10 I was ________ to find that I won the competition to design a new computer. The news was really _______.

A amazing ; exciting

B amazed ; excited

C amazed ; exciting

D amazing ; excited

11 Mark Twain left_____ school at _____ of twelve to look for work.

A the ; the

B / ; the

C / ; /

D the ; /

12 “I won’t have you ________ to your father like that.” said the mother.

A speak

B spoken

C speaking

D to speak

13---Lucy doesn’t mind lending you her dictionary.

---She_____. I’ve already borrowed one.

A can’t

B mustn’t

C needn’t

D shouldn’t

14---Shall I give you a ride as you live so far away ?

---Thank you.______.

A It couldn’t be better

B Of course you can

C If you like

D It’s up to you

15 This cake is very sweet. You______ a lot of sugar in it.

A should put

B could have put

C might put

D must have put

16 Our country is now short of natural gas oil and other forms of_______.

A energy

B strength

C power

D material

A where he works in

A will change

B will have changed

C is changing

D has changed

19 The train he was looking forward to ______ only a few minutes ago.

A arrives

B arrived

C arriving

D had arrived

20.I doubt very much _____ the tickets for tomorrow have _____.

A that ; been sold away

B that ; been sold out

C if ; sold out

D whether ; been sold out.

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

In about 250 BC, the Greek scientist Archimedes was asked by King Hieron to find out if his crown was__21__ gold . Archimedes thought and thought about the problem Suddenly the answer__22__ to him when he was having a bath .

As he got into the bath .Archimedes __23__ that if he immersed (浸入)the king’s crown in a vessel __24__ to the brim (边缘) with water, it would cause some water to __25__ .If he then immersed a piece of pure gold of the same __26__ as this crown, the same amount of water would overflow if the crown was pure gold . __27__ this way , Archimedes found that the crown __28__ pure gold.

He is believed to have rushed naked (赤裸) from his bath into the __29__shouting , “ Eureka ! ” , __30__means, “ I’ve found it !” Archimedes made many important scientific discoveries, __31__pulleys (滑轮) ,and he first explained__32__things float.

A __33__-word code was sent from Kissinger (基辛格) to Nixon（尼克松）,

“ Eureka” , meaning that the trip had been __34__.After returning from Beijing ,Kissinger and his assistant wrote a __35__ to Nixon, “We have the __36__work for you and Mao to turn a page in __37__.” On July 15 Nixon informed stunned (震惊的) television viewers of Kissinger’s __38__ trip and his own plan to visit China some time before May 1972. In October 1971, Kissinger returned to __39__, with a team of “ advance men”, to __40__ for Nixon’s own visit.

21 A special B true C simple D pure

22 A hit B came C passed D belonged

23 A realized B said C remarked D knew

24 A filled B full C exact D perfect

25 A freeze B overflow C fall D lose

26 A weight B size C length D shape

27 A On B In C By D At

28 A was not B was hardly C was nearly D was almost

29 A bathroom B waiting-room C bedroom D street

30 A when B what C that D which

31 A regarding B supposing C including D considering

32 A how B where C why D when

33 A one B double C three D four

34 A successful B necessary C secret D public

35 A letter

D notice

36 A result D terrible 37 A world D century

38 A secret B tiring C helpful D dangerous

39 A China B U.S C his hometown D Greece

40 A prepare B wait C send D look

第三部分：阅读理解（10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）

第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A 、B 、C 和D ）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

A

Malls are popular places for Americans to go. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called mall rats. Mall rats shop until they drop in the hundreds of stores under one roof.

People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations or private security (安全) guards. Parking is usually free, and the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest area with waterfalls and large green trees.

The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 million square feet. It has 350 stores, eight night clubs, and a seven-acre (公顷) park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop every week.

The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina, Minnesota. People loved doing all their shopping in one place. More malls were built all over the country. Now, malls are like town centers where people come to do many things. They shop, of course. They also eat in food houses that have food from all over the world. They see movies at theatres. Some people even get their daily exercise by doing the new sport of mall walking. Others go to malls to meet friends.

In some malls, people can see a doctor or a dentist (牙医) and even attend church. In other words, people can do just about everything in malls. Now residents (居民) can actually live in their favorite shopping center.

41 Malls have to be large places because .

A ．many people drive their cars to go to malls

B ．there have to be some restaurants, clinics and theatres

C ．many people hope to do sports in the malls

D ．they have to meet different needs of so many people

42 Those are called mall rats.

A ．who are busy stealing in the mall

B ．who have visited the biggest malls

C ．who are often found busy shopping in malls

D ．who live under the roof of the mall

B

We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. I dressed them nicely for the party, and told them that their job was to join Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang. Mommy would introduce them to the guests, and then they would take the guests' coats upstairs and put them on the bed in

the second bedroom.

The guests arrived. I introduced my two daughters to each of them. The adults were nice and kind and said how lucky we were to have such good kids.

Each of the guests made a particular fuss over Kelly, the younger one, admiring her dress, her hair and her smile. They said she was a remarkable girl to be carrying coats upstairs at her age.

I thought to myself that we adults usually make a big "to do" over the younger one because she's the one who seems more easily hurt. We do it with the best of intentions.

But we seldom think of how it might affect the other child. I was a little worried that Kristen would feel she was being outshined. I was about to serve dinner when I realized that she had been missing for twenty minutes. I ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom, crying.

I said, "What are you doing, my dear?"

She turned to me with a sad expression and said, "Mommy, why don't people like me the way they like my sister? Is it because I 'm not pretty? Is that why they don't say nice things about me as much?"

I tried to explain to her, kissing and hugging her to make her feel better.

Now, whenever I visit a friend's home, I make it a point to speak to the elder child first.

43. The underlined expression ' make a big "to do" over' (paragraph 4) means ______.

A. show much concern about

B. have a special effect on

C. list jobs to be done for

D. do good things for

44. The guests praised Kelly for carrying coats upstairs because of her ______.

A. beautiful hair

B. pretty clothes

C. lovely smile

D. young age

45 Kristen felt sad and cried because ______.

A. the guest gave her more coats to carry

B. she didn't look as pretty as Kelly

C. the guests praised her sister more than her

D. her mother didn't introduce her to the guests

46. We can conclude from the passage that ______.

A. parents should pay more attention to the elder children

B. the younger children are usually more easily hurt

C. people usually like the younger children more

D adults should treat children equally

C

He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912，his tiny body so moved the salvage (救援) workers that they called him “our baby.” In thei r home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby's grave (墓), carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child.” He has rested there ever since.

But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “T hi s is our baby,” say s Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula,42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for

her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.

Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby's grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees: no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer. "They've taken care of him for 90 years."

Adapted from People, November 25, 2002

47. The baby travelled on the Titanic with his___________.

A. mother

B. parents

C. aunt

D. relatives

48. What is probably the boy's last name?

A. Schleiferi

B. Eino.

C. Magda.

D. Panula.

49. Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child's grave on Nov. 5__.

A. 1912

B. 1954

C. 2002

D. 2004

50. This text is mainly about" how______________.

A. the unknown baby's body was taken from the north Atlantic

B. the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia

C. people found out who the unknown baby was

D. people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years

第四节单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母；在答题纸上按题号写出各单词正确的完全形式（每空限写一词）

1. Judging by her a_______ ,she must be a southerner.

2. He drove off in the d________ of London.

3. You must eat a b___________ diet to stay healthy.

4. Any students caught c______ in the exam will be punished.

5. Deaf people use sign languages to c_______ .

6 The pilot always had a sense of h________ What he said always made us laugh.

7 Mary has never f_________ her mother because she left her alone when she was only four.

8 Tom suggested she should do some r______________ into what foods should be eaten to become thinner.

9 Water disappeared from planets like Mars or satellites but it stayed on the earth. It allowed the earth to dissolve h________ gases.

10. Don’t stare so hard at the man over there or he might lose his p________ and come over to ask you why.

第五节书面表达(满分20分)

Michael是一名美国中学生，在学校里选修汉语。他利用暑假到中国进修，希望进一步了解中国文化。有一天，他看到下面有关成语的漫画，不大明白其中的意思。请你用英语把漫画所表达的故事和寓意写成一段短文，向他解释。

注意：1．词数：在80—120词之间；

2．参考词汇：bump into (撞上), hoe (锄头)

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第五节书面表达

答案

1---5:ADBCB 6---10:BCBAC 11---15:BCCAD 16--20:ABCBD

21---25:DBAAB 26---30:ABADD 31---35:CCAAB 36--40:BCAAA

41 D 42 C 43 A 44 D 45 C 46 D 47 A 48 D 49 C 50 C

单词拼写

1 accent

2 direction

3 balanced

4 cheating

5 communicate

6 humour

7 forgiven 8 research 9 harmful 10 patience

书面表达： 1

Once upon a time there was a farmer who worked hard in the fields every day. One day, while he was ploughing the field, he heard a bumping sound. He saw a rabbit lying by the trump. He picked it up and found that it was a fat rabbit. He thought to himself, “Since it is so easy to get a rabbit like that, why should I work so hard all day long?” He threw his hoe away and lay by the tree every day, dreaming for more rabbit to come. When he finally realized his foolishness and returned to his field, he found that all his crops were dead. This story tells us that we should not wait for unexpected gains by chance and luck. Or, we should not hope to get rewards without hard work.

2

There was once a farmer who worked very hard every day. One day when he was hoeing in the sunshine, he suddenly heard a low sound “Peng!”. He turned and hurried to the tree. He found a rabbit dying. He took hold of the rabbit and was excited. “What a rabbit! I’ll have it for dinner!”Then he had a good idea, “Why can’t I wait for more rabbits here? It’s cool under the tree.” So he dropped off his hoe and waited there. But day after day, there were no more rabbits coming. What was worse, all his crops were dead.

The story tells us that if you want to get something, you must work hard for it. Remember, “No pains, no gains!”