2015中央电视台希望之星英语风采大赛市预赛试题

1、2015中央电视台希望之星英语风采大赛市预赛试题 2015中央电视台希望之星英语风采大赛市预赛试题01 Hair and Beard.Lucy always wanted to become a teacher, because she liked children. When she was twenty-one years old, she began teaching in a small school. She was a good teacher, and she laughed a lot with the children in her class. They enjoyed h

2、er teaching.One day, one of the girls in her class asked her, “Why does a mans hair become grey before his heard does?” Mary laughed and answered,“I dont know, Helen.” Then one of the boys said, “I know! Mans hair becomes grey first because its sixteen years older than his beard.”2. A lovely weekend

3、.It is a fine Saturday morning. Bob and his family get up later than usual, because he isnt going to school and his father isnt going to work. They are all staying at home, but they are not idle. Each of them is doing a different thing.Bobs father is in the garage. He is washing his car. His mother

4、is in the kitchen. She is busy preparing a good meal for the family. Sometimes Bob helps his mum with the cooking, and sometimes he goes to the garage and watches his father washing his car. His elder brother, Jack, usually stays in his study till lunchtime. His two sisters are listening to some bea

5、utiful music while theyre cleaning the house. His younger brother, Tom, is training his puppy. He is having a lot of fun. Around 12:30, the whole family is seated around the table enjoying a wonderful meal.3. A bridge.Bridges are built for many reasons. Some bridges are built so that cars can cross

6、over rivers. Others are made for trains to use. In the state of Washington, There is a very unusual bridge it was built for squirrels.The town of Long-view has a very busy street. Many cars use it every day. Squirrels were being killed as they tried to cross the street. Mr. Peter built a bridge for

7、squirrels one that would pass above the traffic. For years now, the squirrels have been able to cross safely from one side of the street to the other.4. School in airMike is nine years old and Jane is seven. They live at Mount Ebenezer. Their father has a big property. In Australia they call a farm

8、a property.Mike and Jane like school very much. At school they can talk to their friends, but Mike and Jane cant see their friends. They live 100, perhaps 300 miles away. And like Mike and Jane, they all go to school by radio.Mount Ebenezer is in the centre of Australia. Not many people live in the

9、Centre. School is a room at home with a two-way radio. The teacher also has a two-way radio. Every morning she calls each student on the radio. When all the students answer, lessons begin.5. Fire fightersThere are about 5,000 fire fighters in Chicago. Tim is one of them. He is on duty eight hours ev

10、ery day. During his shift, he eats and sleeps at the firehouse. The fire fighters have to be ready to answer an alarm at any hour of the day or night. Most of the alarms are for small fires. They can be put out in a few minutes.Big fires are very dangerous. Most of the time, the greatest danger come

11、s from smoke. Sometimes, fire fighters have to enter burning buildings in order to rescue the people inside.Tim has been a fire fighter for five years. Hes proud of himself and of his service. He does exercises every day to stay strong.6. My familyI am Tom. Im eleven years old. I live near the schoo

12、l. I go to school every day. In my family there arethree people. My father, my mother and I. My father is a bus-driver. He is friendly. He has a lot of friends. My mother is a teacher. She works at my school. She does housework every day. I love them.7. An outingFather: Today is Sunday. Tom, I would

13、 like to take you to the park.Lucy: Can I come, too?Father: Oh no, you must look after your sister. And your mother is at work.Lucy: I can take my sister to the park, too. She can play games with other children.Father: OK. Go to your bedroom and put on your new dress in the box.Lucy: OK.Father: Its

14、about nine oclock. Lets go.Lucy and Tom: All right. Lets go.8. Our ClassThis is a picture of our class. There are fifty students in our class. You can see twenty-five boys and twenty-five girls. There is an American student in our class. Her name is Mary. Her English is very good. We all like her. S

15、he likes eating bread and cakes. She likes drinking milk and orange juice. We like eating rice and drinking tea. We are very happy together.9. We all have a first name and a last name. Most people have a middle name too. Some have lots of middle names! Sometimes people are called by names that are n

16、ot their real names. These names are nicknames. Joey might be called J. Lucinda might be called Lulu. Someone with red hair might be called Red. These are all nicknames.10. In the classroomThis is a classroom. You can see some girls, a boy and a teacher in it. The boy is Tom. He has golden hair and

17、blue eyes. He is from America. He is a new pupil. The girls are Chinese. They can speak a little English. They are talking with Tom in English. Miss Li is writing something on the blackboard.11. A Football MatchIts Sunday tomorrow. We are going to watch a football match. Its between a Japanese team

18、and a Chinese team. The football match is going to be at four oclock in the afternoon. Our teachers Mr. Li and Mr. Wang are going to watch the football match with us. We are going there by bike. We think we can come back at about six in the evening.12. My parentsMy parents work in a show factory. Th

19、ey get up at five thirty. They first get breakfast ready. Then they go to work by bus. They work there from eight to five. They come home at about six and prepare supper for us. Mother washes clothes in the evening. Father often makes toys for us. They are busy all day.13. A RiddleI am a word. I hav

20、e three letters. My first is in “snow” but not in “ice”, my second is in “rose” and also in “rice”, my third is not in “pencil” but in “paper”, my whole is a place where there is a lot of water. What am I?14. Jims BedroomThis is Jims bedroom. Its new and nice. A bed and a chair are in it. A desk is

21、on the floor. Some flowers are on it. A bookshelf is behind the bed. Some English books are on the bookshelf. A picture is on the wall. Some people are in the picture, the man is his father. The woman is his mother. Who is the boy? Do you know?15. The SunThere is nothing more important in life than

22、the sun. Without the sun all living things on Earth would die.The sun is a star. In the sky there are thousands of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and as hot as the sun. At night you can see many stars, but in day-time you can only see one star- the sun. Thesun is much nearer to us

23、than any other stars. That is why it looks like the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance of the sun from the Earth is as much as 150 million kilometers. Most of the stars are thousands of light years away form the Earth. Do you know what a light year is? Nothing in the world travels

24、faster than light. It travels 300,000 kilometers a second. One light year is the distance that light travels in one year.16. Air JordanMichael Jordan is one of the most famous basketball players in the world. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He didnt like to talk about himself. He was also very sh

25、ort. He didnt play very well when he joined the basketball team in his high school at first. But the next year things changed greatly for him, as he grew much taller. Michael Jordan became famous when he joined the university basketball team in North Carolina. Michael used his quickness and strength

26、 to reach the basket again and again. He played so well that people call him Air Jordan. After college, Michael became a member of the Chicago Bull basketball team. The NBA was very surprised at this high-flying player. He was named Rookie of the year in 1985 and the most Valuable Player in 1987. He

27、 once set a record by getting 63 points in one game.17. The Strongest Power in the World.One day a great general asks his soldiers, “What is the strongest power in the world?” Four of his soldiers put up their hands. They want to answer the question. The general asks the first man to speak. The firs

28、t man is younger than the other three, and hes not strong. He says, “My gun is the strongest. It can kill anyone.” “Thank you. Next, please.” The second man is very strong. He says,” I dont think thats true. Soldiers use guns. So a soldier is the strongest.” The third man says,” Soldiers use guns, b

29、ut our general gives orders. So I think our general is the strongest.” The fourth man is the oldest. He says,” Love is the strongest. With love, people dont need guns.” The general says nothing. He takes out a medal and gives it to him.18. Who is the God?Tom likes sweets very much. But his mother ne

30、ver gives him any, because she thinks they are bad for his teeth. But when Toms uncle gives him some, she always lets him eat the sweets. She wants to make her brother happy.One evening, a few days before Toms birthday, he was praying in his bedroom. “Please, God,” he shouted. “Let them give me a bo

31、g box of sweets as my birthday present.” His mother heard this and came into the room. “Why are you shouting, Tom?” she asked. “God can hear you quite well, even when you talk quietly.” “I know,” answered the clever boy, “but my uncle in the next room cant.”19. Kites.Do you know how to fly a kite? D

32、o you know how to make a kite? Can you describe the shapes of kites? Today, people all over the world make and fly kites for fun. Kites were the first flying machines. People in China used kites as fly machines more than 2000 years ago. In Marco Polos report, the Chinese used big kites to carry peop

33、le up into the sky. The idea of kites helped people to make planes. In 1894 in Australia, Lawrence grave made four very big kites. These four kites lifted him 5 metres into the air. Today, the wings of planes are just like kites.Now people around the world use kites in festivals. Kites can have all

34、kinds of colors and shapes, but the most important thing is to fly well.20. An interesting newspaperEvery morning Mike goes to work by train. As he has a long trip, he always buys a newspaper. It helps to make the time pass more quickly.One Tuesday morning, he turned to the sports page. He wanted to

35、 read the report about an important football match. The report was so interesting that he forgot to get off at his station. He didnt know it until he saw the sea. He got off at the next station, and had to wait a long time for a train to go back. Ofcourse, he got to the office very late, His boss wa

36、s very angry.21. FallIn the fall, leaves drop to the ground. Many trees have nuts or fruits. Animals may begin to store food. Some birds collect nuts and corns to store. Other birds fly to a warmer place for the winter. They wont return until the spring. Days become shorter. Cold weather is coming.

37、The fur of many animals gets thicker because they need a thick coat to protect them. People also wear warmer clothing and prepare for winter. In some areas there may be rain or even snow, but in fall farmers harvest their crops. People look forward to fall for many reasons. The most important one is

38、 that fall is the harvest season.22. PandasPandas are lovely animals. Most of them live in the deep forests of Sichuan Province in China. They have white fur, though their shoulders, legs, ears and eyes are black. Pandas are usually very heavy, some of them can be about 1.5 meters tall and weigh abo

39、ut 100 kilograms. However, pandas are very agile, they can climb trees as easily as some other creatures do. Pandas have big, sharp teeth and live mainly on bamboo leaves. Every day each grown-up panda eats about 15-30 kilograms of bamboo leaves and they usually spend 10-12 hours eating. Pandas also

40、 have spare-time hobbies. Two of their hobbies are climbing trees and sleeping. Sadly, there are not many pandas left in the world because some people keep cutting down trees, and bad hunters are trying to kill them for money. The Chinese government is doing its best to protect pandas from being har

41、med or killed.23. Books on “How to”Books on how to do things are very popular in America today. There are about four to five thousand kinds of books about the money. Another may tell you how to save or spend it. And another may explain how to give your money away.Some “How to” books tell you how to

42、choose a way of making a living and how to succeed in it. However, if you fail, you can buy a book which is called “How to turn a Failure into a Success.” If you would like to become very rich, you can buy the book “How to make a Million.” If you never make any money at all, you may need a book call

43、ed “How to live on nothing.”If you are unhappy with your life, you can read “How to Love Every Minute of Your Life.” There is even a book called “How to kill yourself.”24. The Pianist and an Old WomanJohn was a very famous pianist. When he was a small boy, he once played at a party in the home of a

44、rich man. He was only eight years old, but he had played the piano for several years. At the party he played a famous piece by Beethoven. He played wonderfully. The famous piece has several long rests in it. In each of these rests he took his hands away from the piano and waited. To him this was ver

45、y exciting, but the mother of the rich man thought differently. Finally, during one of these rests she came over to him. She touched him on the head, smiled and said, “My boy, why dont you play us what you know well?”25. The favorite coat.Mr. Smith had a nice, blue coat. He loved it very much, but h

46、is wife didnt like it because it was old. She often said, “Give it to a poor man.” Mr. Smith always said, “No, I like this coat.” Then one day a cigarette fell on it and made a hole in it, so Mrs. Smith said, “Please dont wear it again.” Mr. Smith took it to a small tailors shop and said to the tail

47、or, “Please make another coat just like this one.” The tailor made the coat very carefully, then he lit a cigarette and made a hole in it in the same place.26. NoiseMiss Gray lived alone in an apartment house. She was old and did not like noise at all. One day a young man moved into the room above h

48、er. He looks quiet, Miss Gray thought. However, at three oclock the next morning, Miss Gray was woken up by the barking of a dog. She thought, Ive never heard a dog here before. It must belong to the new man in the room above me. So he telephoned the young man, saidsome nasty things to him about the

49、 dog, then hung up the telephone before he could answer. At three oclock the next morning, Miss Grays telephone rang. When she answered, the young man said, “Im the man upstairs. Ive called to tell you that I havent got a dog.”27. The Diet.Mrs. Tan is worried about her weight, so she goes to see a d

50、octor. “Oh, Im too fat, I need to lose a lot of weight.” “It isnt difficult to lose weight,” the doctor says. “All you need to do is go on a diet. Ill give you one.” The doctor takes out a piece of paper and writes “Eat lots of fruit and vegetables. Also, eat a lot of lean meat and grains.” The doct

51、or hands the paper to Mrs. Tan. “Eat all those things and youll soon lose weight.”A few weeks later, Mrs. Tans friend visits her. Her friend is surprised to see that Mrs. Tan is even fatter than before and she is eating a huge sandwich with chocolate and ice cream. “I thought you were on a diet,” he

52、r friend says. “Oh, I am.” Mrs. Tan answers. “Ive already had all the food on my diet today. Now Im having my dinner.”28. A Cheap MeaA man goes into a restaurant and sits down at one of the tables. A waiter comes up to him and gives him the menu. The man reads it carefully, then he orders all the mo

53、st expensive dishes. Then a small boy comes into the restaurant and sits at the mans table. The waiter comes up and says to the man, “What will your little boy like, sir?” “Oh, just an ice cream,” the man tells him. After he finishes his meal, the man stands up and says to the waiter, “Im just going

54、 out to buy a newspaper.” He leaves the restaurant. The waiter gives the boy an ice cream. The boy eats it, and then stands up and walks to the door. The waiter runs towards him. “Excuse me,” he says, “but your father hasnt come back and he hasnt paid for his meal or your ice cream. Youd better stay

55、 here until your father comes back and pays his bill.” “Hes not my father,” the boy says. “The man came up to me in the street and asked me if I liked ice cream. I told him I did. The he told me to come into the restaurant at nine oclock and sit at his table. He said he would give me one.”29. Comput

56、ersMany people know what a computer is and what it can do. The computer is fast and never makes mistakes, while people are slow and often make mistakes. Thats what people often say when they talk about computers. For many years, scientists have improved computers. Now a computer can do a lot of ever

57、yday work quite well, and people can use a computer in many ways. Many computer scientists are now thinking of making the computer “think” like a man. With the help of a person, a computer can draw pictures, write music, talk with people, and so on. Maybe a computer will think and fee one day.30. Tw

58、o American PresidentsThere are stories about two U.S. presidents, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. They try to explain to people how the word “OK” came from. We dont know if either story is true, but they are both interesting. Some said that President Jackson could hardly read or write. When imp

59、ortant papers came to Jackson, he tried to read hem or asked his men to tell him what they said. If he agreed, he would write “All correct” on the Paper. The problem was that he did not know how to spell. So he wrote “OL Korekt” instead. Later it was shortened to “OK”. Others said that President Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York. Van