竞赛英语

2014年全国中学生英语能力竞赛(NEPCS)初赛高二年级组试题

(总分：150分答题时间：120分钟)

听力部分(共三大题，计30分)

I．Responses(句子应答)(共5小题；每小题1分，计5分)

Here listen to the followingfive sentences and choose the best response to each one you hear．Each sentence will be read only once．(请听下面五个句子，选出能应答所听句子的最佳选项。每个句子只读一遍。)(答案涂在答题纸上)

1. A. No, I'd been there twice before. B. No, it was my first visit to the USA.

C. Yes, I'll go there this May. -

D. Yes, I'd like to visit the USA.

2. A. I'll go right now. B. Sorry to hear that.

C. That's a good idea.

D. You're welcome.

3. A. Don't put up the poster. B. You probably left her alone.

C~ They're on your sister's desk. D. It'll take you half an hour to write.

4. A. Thanks. My brother is a teacher. B Yes. I'm very happy to go with you.

C. Sure? I'm sorry to hear his illness.

D. No. Classical music is my favorite.

5. A. I had been to Beijing three times. B. It was hard work and I felt tired.

C~ I took care of my friend's daughter. D. I'll work as a volunteer at the library. II．Dialogues(对话理解)(共10小题；每小题1分，计10分)

(A)Please listen to the following five mini—dialogues．Each dialogue is followed by a question．Choose the best answel"to each question according to the dialogue you hear．Each dialogue and question will be read twice．(请听下面五组小对话，每组对话后有一个问题，根据你所听到的对话内容，选出能回答所提问题的最佳选项。每组对话和问题读两遍。)(答案涂在答题纸上)

7. A. One. B. Two. C Three. D. Four.

8. A, The man. B. The man's wife. C. The woman. D. The woman's mother.

9. A. Because he needs an electrician immediately.

B. Because he can't turn off the hot water.

C. Because there's no hot water in his apartment.

D. Because there's no heat in his apartment.

the best answer to each question according to the dialogue you hear. The dialogue and questions will be read twice.(请听下面的对话及对话后的五个问题，根据你所听到的对话内容，选择能回答所提问题的最佳选项。对话和问题读两遍。)(答案涂在答题纸上)

12. A. By lunchtime. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening. D. At night.

13. A. Because he didn't like the breakfast food.

B. Because he didn't get up early enough.

C. Because he didn't get on well with the manager.

D. Because he didn't find the restaurant he liked.

14. A. At nightclubs. B. At restaurants.

C. On the. beach.

D. In the hotel.

15. A. His new car. B. The holiday next year. :

C. His new house.

D. The coming new year. III．Passages(短文理解)(共15小题；每小题1分，计15分)

(A)Here listen to thefollowingpassage．The passage isfollowed byfive questions．Choose the best answer to each question according to the passage you hear．The passage and questions will be read twice．(请听下面的短文及短文后的五个问题，根据你所听到的短文内容，选择能回答所提问题的最佳选项。短文和问题读两遍。)(答案涂在答题纸上)

16. A. A tour guide. B. A school director.

C. A journalist.

D. A famous lecturer.

17.~A. For five days. B. For a week. C. For ten days. D. For a month.

18. A. Tomorrow morning. B. Tomorrow afternoon.

~C. Tomorrow night. D. The day after tomorrow.

19. A. At the school. B. In the host families.

C. At the restaurant.

D. In the hotel.

20. A. They'll meet their teachers. B. They'll have a tour of the town.

C. They'll go to their host families.

D. They'll take part in a party.

(B)Please listen to the following passage．There are ten missing words or phrases．Fill in,the blanks with the exact words or phrases you hear．The pcLsage will be read twice．(请听下面的短文，短文中有十个缺失的单词或短语，请根据你所听到的单词或短语填空。短文读两遍。)(答案写在答题纸上)

Alayne and Steve both loved 21. and animals, but they worked hmg hours in an office. They lived in Seattle, Washington, and worked for a large company. Their jobs were OK and they earned 22. money, hut they didn't feel satisfied. They needed to work with animals.

One summer Alayne and Steve went on a 23. vacation in Montana. There was an ad there: Land For 24. They decided to buy the land and live on it when they 25. . They planned to start a home for animals. Back in Seattle, Alayne and Steve thought 26. their land and their plan. They ask 27. ,

"Why wait?" They decided to go to Montana that same year.

Soon Alayne and Steve were in Montana--with dogs, cats, chickens, sheep, cows, donkeys, horses, and pigs. They 28. their home The Rolling Dog Animal Home. The animals at the home were old and sick. Some of them were disahled in some way--29, they weren't able to see, hear, or walk. Alayne and Steve 30. the animals, and made them safe and happy.

笔试部分(共八大题，计120分)

I．V ocabulary(词汇)(共5小题；每小题1分，计5分)

Hease complete the following sentences by using the Chinese hints given in the br~kets．(请根

据括号巾所给的汉语提示完成下列句子。)(答案写在答题纸上)

31．The equator is an (想象中的)line around the middle of the earth

32．The report says the peace (协定)came after Weeks of discussion．

33．The school has (建立)a Successful relationship with the local communfty．

34．It was a difficuh time．(除……之外)everything else，we had financial problems．35．The elevator in our building (出毛病；坏了)this morning，SO we had to walk up the stairs

II．Grammar(语法)(共10小题；每小题1分，计10分)

Please complete the following passage by choosing the best one from the four choices marked A，B，C and D given in the boxes．(请从方框中所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中选出最佳选项完成下面的短文。)(答案涂在答题纸上)

The elephant has some distant relatives called mammoths(猛犸)，which lived in the Stone Age．More than 1 5，000 years ago people painted pictures of them on cave walls．

36． a surprising discovery.

37. Peering into a wall of ice, he could see the shape of a massive (巨大的), hairy mammoth, looking out at him.

38. He immediately ran away terror, but several days later he found the courage to return and cut the mammoth's tusks--its two enormous teeth--out of the ice to sell them.

39. Mammoth tusks are the biggest teeth of any known creature, some in length.

40. These tusks were to good use, protecting the mammoths' young from other animals, and brushing away snow.

meters

41. To most of us, mammoths are probably the most of the elephant's extinct relatives, but thousands of years earlier, in the woodlands of eastern North America, lived another of the elephant s relanves called mastodons (乳齿象). A. when

42. Like mammoths, mastodons may also have had a hairy coat, but mammoths mainly ate grass on the plains, mastodons preferred to eat twigs (嫩枝) and leaves.

43. We do not know mastodons became extinct.

44. However, computer studies of the decrease in mammoth particular combination of over-hunting by humans, and changes in the climate at that time,

45. led to their disappearance.

III．Cloze(完形填空)(共15小题；每小题1分，计15分)

(A) Please read the followingpassage and fill in the blanks with the proper forms of 5 words or phrases out of the 7 given in the box according to the context. (请阅读下面的短文，并根据其内容提示，从方框中所给的7个词语中选出5个，并用其适当形式填空。)(答案写在答题纸上) take, arrangement, be supposed to, much, all in all, include, look forward to

Dear Morn,

Today's the big day. We're leaving on the ten o'clock flight from Heathrow and arriving in Madrid at twelve. When we arrive we'll take a taxi to the hotel. Then we'll go out for a walk to get the feel of the city. We haven't made any definite 46. ___ because we want to feel free. Peter is going to a football match on Saturday which he has booked in advance. And rm going to the opera on Friday to see Carmen, and I have to book that early too. There 47. __ be a really good flea market on Sunday mornings. There you can find bargains (便宜货) of all sorts. I thought maybe I could find some unusual souvenirs there. We're especially 48,. __ tasting some of the local specialities in the restaurants.

One place I really want to visit is the Prado Art Gallery. There are a lot of very well-known paintings there, 49. __ works by Velazquez and Goya. Peter isn't so keen. He's 50. __ interested in contemporary (现代的) art and wants to go to the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia to see Picasso's Guernica. We'll probably visit the galleries on Monday morning and then go for a sightseeing trip round the city in the afternoon.

I’ll phone you as soon as I get back home.

Love from

Mary

(B) Please read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word in one of the

following three ways: 1 based,on the context; 2 using the proper form of the given word;. 3

based on the given letters of the words. (请阅读下面的短文，用以下三种形式中的一种填空：①根据上下文填空；②用所给单词的适当形式填空；③根据单词所给的字母填空。每空一词。)(答案写在答题纸上)

Many people see strange things in the sky and think they could be UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). It's certainly difficult to 51. ex what happened to the young Australian pilot Frederick Valentich in 1978.

At 6:19 p.m. on October 21, 20-year-old Erederick took 52. m "a Cessna 182 from Melbourne. He had to fly over the sea to King Island, between mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania.

At 7:06 p.m., Valentich contacted Steve Robey at Air Traffic Control in iMelbouvne, 53. be he saw a large aircraft flying over him. Robey was very 54. (surpriseY—he knew there shouldn't be any other aircraft in the area. But the small Cessna wasn't alone. Valentich watched the UFO flying above himself. The object was long and very fast, 55. w a green light. It looked like metal, 56. b it wasn't a plane. Then it disappeared from the sky.

At 7:11 p.m., when Valentich was still 30 minutes from land, he reported engine

57. pro . I’m going to try to reach King Island," he told Robey. Suddenly he 58. sh ,"I can see that strange thing above me again, and it's not an aircraft!

Robey heard a 59. str noise over the radio, and then there was silence.

The Cessna 182 60. n reached King Island; the plane and pilot completely disappeared. We don't know what happened to Frederick Valentich.

IV. Reading Comprehension(共20小题；6l一65小题每小题1分，66—80小题每小题2分，计35分)

Read the following passoges. Each passage ts followed by several questions. Please respond to

the questions according to the requirements given at the end of each passage. (阅读下面的短文，每

64—80小题答案写在答题纸上)

I'm trying to do some review for my exams, but it's hard to concentrate for long. I sit on the bed with my books, but then I lie down and fall asleep. And my parents ask me to do things or my friends call, so I give up studying. I'm starting to panic. What should I do?

Rob I get good marks at school, so my friends all want to copy my homework. But I spend a lot of time working while they're having fun. It's not fair, and I'm getting fed up with this situation. But how do I tell them they can't copy my work--I don't want to lose my friends. Help!

Lara I secretly like a boy in my class, and I told my best friend. She promised not to tell anyone, but she really let nle down. Now the whole class knows, including the boy. They all think it's funny, but I'm very embarrassed and upset, Should I stop being friends w~th this girl? She sind sorry but ! don t trust her any more.

Abbie

It's quite normal to be nervous but you should calm down!, It's helpful to have a regular routine--try to study at the same time every day. And you d better tell your friends and family so they don't interrupt you! Sit down to work at a desk or table, and take a break every half hour to get up and do something different for five minutes. Good luck! Your friends ought to know that they shouldn't copy your work. It's cheating. The next time they ask, say no nicely but firmly. Tell them that they have to do the work themselves or they won't learn anything. If they don't understand, they aren't real friends. You'd better not tell her any more secrets! But it's not necessary to end a good friendship because of a broken promise. It's impossible for some people to keep a secret, and I bet your friend feels very guilty and sad. You ought to accept her apology.

Questions 61--63: Choose the best answer from A, B, C and D according to the passage.

61. Lara is very angry with her friends because .

A. they often have fun without her

B. they want to copy her homework

C. they take her homework back home

D. they get high marks in the exam

62. Abbie feels after she learns that the class knows her secret.

A. embarrassed and upset

B. exhausted and sleepy

C. worried and sleepless

D. weak and worthless

63. It's suggested that we should do something different every while doing the revision.

A. ten minutes

B. twenty minutes

C. half hour

D. two hours

Questions 64--65: Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or fidse (F) according to the passage.

64. None of the problems in the passage is about the students' school life.

65. Three pieces of advice are offered to solve the problems the people have.

(B)

We have spent thousands of years fighting for our survival. Yet now we have discovered that our planet is under threat and, to make matters worse, it's all our fault.

The rainforests are dying, rare plant and animal species are disappearing, rivers and seas are being contaminated (污染), crops are failing to grow, people are dying of hunger and the air is being polluted. It's time we woke up to these problems and started repairing the damage.

66. They're home to half the world's species and to millions of people. Moreover, the rainforests clean the air by absorbing carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) and giving, out oxygen. The trees are being cut down for paper or to make room for cattle farms. 67. This destruction is also bringing about changes in the climate, air pollution, flooding, drought and famine (饥荒). If we continue to burn and cut down the rainforests as we're doing now, the earth will never be the same again.

Another problem is water pollution. Do you like swimming in the sea or drinking a cool" glass of water on a hot day? 68. Factories are polluting our rivers and lakes with dangerous chemicals. Oil tankers are releasing thick, black oil into our oceans. Tons and tons of industrial and domestic waste are poured into our seas. Consequently, sea life is threatened with extinction.

Air pollution is another important issue. 69. In the past few years, more and more people than ever before have developed breathing problems. If we don't do something now, our cities will become impossible to live in.

Fortunately, it is not too late to solve these problems. We have the time, the money and even the technology to prepare the way for a better, cleaner and safer future. We can plant trees and adopt animals. We can create parks for endangered species. We can put pressure on those in power to take action. Together we can save our planet. 70. .

Questions 66--70: Choose from the sentences A-G to complete the passage. There are two sentences which you do not need to use.

A. These simple pleasures may soon become a thing of the past.

B. Governments should improve public transport as soon as possible.

C. All we need to do is open our eyes and act immediately.

D. As a result, birds and animals lose their homes and die.

E. The cars and factories in and around our cities are giving off dangerous gases.

F. One of the major problems is the destruction of the rainforests in South America.

G. We'll force them to use environmentally friendly production methods.

(C)

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In the cozy living area you can put your feet up on a

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table and chairs in the dining area. The kitchen has a refrigerator, stove, oven, and microwave. A twin bed and a small dresser fit in the sleeping area. And the bathroom has a shower, sink, toilet, and medicine cabinet.

You even get a loft (阁楼) for storage or extra sleeping space. You can choose the carpet for the floors and paint for the walls and ceilings. You can also order shutters (百叶窗), a window box, and a picket fence (栅栏).

Do you need more space? The most exciting thing about this house is that it can grow with your needs. You can add a bedroom or a family room at any time.

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We can deliver almost anywhere in the world. When you receive your E-Z Home, ask two friends to help you put it together. All you need is a screwdriver (螺丝刀) and a wrench (扳手). In about a week you will have your own E-Z Home!

* You must hire an electrician and a plumber (水暖工) to hook up (连接) electricity and water.

Kobe, Japan:

In 1995 an earthquake destroyed my house, and I needed a new one quickly.

This one took only 6 days to build. I'm happy to have my own home again.

Curitiba, Brazil:

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Vancouver, Canada:

I never wanted to live in a factory-built home, but when I looked at E-Z

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Questions 71--75: Answer the following questions according to the passage.

71. Why do many people love the E-Z Home although it's designed so small?

73. Who is needed if the customer wants to solve the electricity problem?

74. What's the price of an Extra Bedroom 15' x 18' according to the passage?

75. Which three countries are mentioned in the customers' letters?

D

"As I was turning a sharp corner, the back tire skidded (横滑). That's the last thing I remember," says David. David lost control of the motorbike and when he woke up, he was at the bottom of a hill. He was bleeding and his left leg was broken.

He knew he had to get back to the road for help. Slowly, he began the painful crawl up the hill. He was in agony (痛苦), but kept going.

Eventually he reached the road. A passing car stopped to help him. David felt extremely relieved. He was exhausted, but he knew he was lucky to be alive. I felt excited when, in 1912, my family and I boarded the famous new ship, the Titanic. On the fourth day of its voyage the Titanic crashed into a huge iceberg. The engines stopped and water started rushing into the ship.

All around me, people were screaming and running to the lifeboats. My father lifted me into one of them and said, "Hold your mother's hand and don't be afraid." I was shaking with fear.

Eva's father stayed behind to help the other passengers. Tragically, there weren't enough liteboats for everyone. Eva never saw her father again. "He should have come with us," she kept repeating as the ship disappeared into the sea. "Don't play on the rocks, Patrick! " my mother said as I left the house. It was a rather cloudy day, just a week before our holiday was over. The beach was lovely but the tides were dangerous; twice a day the sea came up and covered the rocks.

I was playing on the rocks when suddenly, to my horror, I realized I was surrounded by water. I climbed up higher, but the water was rising fast. The rocks were wet and I kept slipping. I thought I was going to drown.

The water had reached my waist when I saw a fishing boat. I screamed for help. The boat came towards me and the fisherman was able to rescue me just in time. From that day on I never played on the rocks again.

Questions 76--80: Complete the summary of the passage above with no more than two wordsfor each blank.

Three people tell us their experiences of narrow escapes. A road accident happened to David while riding his 76. . David lost control of the bike and fell down to the bottom of a hill. David crawled up the hill with his 77. left leg until he was saved by a passing car. Eva's experience happened on the Titanic, which 78. a huge iceberg and sank to the bottom of the sea on its fourth day of the voyage. Eva escaped from the endangered ship with the help of her father, but her father died while trying to save the other passengers. The danger occurred to Patrick who was playing on the rocks during his holiday. Patrick was terrified by the rising water. Soon the water reached his 79. . He thought he was going to 80. but he called to a fishing

V. Translation（翻译）（共5小题，每小题2分，计10分）

(A) Please translate the underlined sentences in the followinz passage into Chinese. (请将短文中的划线句子译成汉语。)(答案写在答题纸上)

81. Dennis Tito. the 60-year-old multi-millionaire from New York. was sitting in a Russian spaceship. He was on a journey to the International Space Station. It might have been a routine trip for the two cosmonauts who were traveling with him, but for him it was certainly no ordinary journey. Dennis Tito was the first tourist ever in space, and he had paid the sum of $20 million to go there. 82. As the sDacecraft left the earth's atmosphere. Tito drank a glass of fruit juice to celebrate and looked down at the earth's blue-green surface. Two minutes later, he was sick. Luckily it was only a minor problem. He soon recovered, and from then on enjoyed a smooth journey. When he arrived at the space station, there was a big smile on his face. "A great trip! " he commented. "I love space."

For a long time space travel was something for heroes. But if some people are right, all this is going to change. Many companies want space travel to belong to the public, not just governments. 83. There are other plans, like cruises through space from one side of the world to the other. Maybe we'll be able to depart from New York at nine o'clock in the morning, and

arrive an hour later--in Tokyo! Such a schedule would allow the business traveler to return to

New York on the same day, and still have eight hours for a meeting!

Notes: Dennis Tito

(B) Please translate the following sentences into English by using the hints given in the brackets. (请根据括号内所给的提示，将下列句子译成英语。)(答案写在答题纸上)

84．简到了学校才意识到丢了钥匙。(强调句型)

85．这所新大学以纪念本市的第一位市长而命名。(in honor of)

VI. Error Correction

Correct the errors in the passage according to the following requirements. First, you have to decide whether there is an error or not in the line which is numbered. If there is no error, put the sign "√" in the corresponding line on the right. If there is an error, correct it in the following ways:for an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with the sign "\" and put the word with the sign "\" in the line on the right;far a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with the sign " " and write the word you believe to be missing in the line on the right; for a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the line on the right.

Notes: Do not make any correction if there is no error in the line.

按要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边的横线上画一个勾；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边的横线上写出该词，并也用斜线(＼)划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(八)，在该行右边横线上写出该词。

该行错一个词：在错词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

When Iwas young, I lived in a place calling Coromandel

in New Zealand. I was'been taken there by my parents when I

was a few weeks old, but lived there until I was fourteen. I

still think of that period like the happiest time of my life.

Coromandel has been a busy gold-mining town, but that was long

before my family arrived. By then it had become a very run-down

place. My father was a doctor, and people would pay to him

in sheep, pigs, hens and, occasionally, piece of gold.

He would have preferred money, of course, but they simply didn't have some.

My sister and I had no care in all. We went to the village

school, where was attended by just twenty children of all ages.

Out of school hours, we looked after animals on the peaceful

VII. IQ Test

A nswe r the following q ues tions.

96. One letter in each word of a well-known saying has been changed. What's the saying?

TAPE TIE PULL MY TOE CORNS

97. What number can replace the question mark?

98. Five girls swim in a race. Judith can beat Beverly but is slower than Margaret. Denise is faster than Judith but has never beaten Susie. Which girl should come in fourth?

99. How many squares (正方形) can you see in the pattern' below?

100. What letter should replace the,question mark?

VIII. Writing

(A) Suppose you're Elaine Richards and you've read an advertisement in the Bingley Times on March 2nd. However, you've some questions about some of the details of the advertisement. Please write to the editor a letter of about 100 words asking far the answers.

Dear Sir / Madam,

I'm writing in response to your advertisement in the Bingley Times on March 2nd.

……

Yours faithfully,

Elaine Richards

because not all students enjoy or are good at sports. What do you think of it? Please write your