2004年全国中学生英语能力竞赛(NEPCS)决赛_高二组试题

1、中学英语之家 | | 我们致力于为您提供最全的免费、免注册即可下载的教学资源2004年全国中学生英语能力竞赛（NEPCS）决赛 高二组试题 （时间：120分钟总分：150分）听力部分（共四大题，计30分）I听辨单词（Words）（共5小题，计5分）根据你所听到的句子，选出你所听到的单词。每个句子只读一遍。（答案涂在答题纸上）1Areason Braising Cseeds Dseason2Aworth Bwords Cworthy Dworld3Apublic Bpub Cpublish Dpolitics4Aclearly Bknew Cnewly Dnearly5Ainvented Bsi

2、gned Cunkind DdesignedII句子理解（Sentences）（共5小题，计5分）请听句子，然后从A、B、C、D中选出一个与你所听到的句子意思一致的句子。每个句子只读一遍。（答案涂在答题纸上）6AJane doesn't like cookingBJane doesn't have time to do much cookingCJane spends lots of time cookingDJane is tired of cooking7AThey didn't want to go sailingBIt was too windyCThey di

3、dn't think the weather was rightDThey planned another activity8AHe is usually too tired to play tennisBHe plays golf most of the timeCHe plays golf more often than he plays tennisDHe usually prefers tennis to golf9APeter didn't want to be a doctorBPeter couldn't make up his mindCPeter wa

4、sn't interested in studying medicineDPeter was advised that a law course would be best for him10AEric would have one roommateBEric wanted to have two roommatesCEric wanted a room aloneDEric would have two roommatesIII对话理解（Dialogues）（共10小题，计10分）A）请听下面六组小对话，每段对话后有一个小题，然后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。

5、每组对话和问题均读两遍。（答案涂在答题纸上）11ABy carBStanding upCBy busDNo，hedoesn't12AJapaneseBChineseCAmericanDEnglish13AThat she will correct the examsBThat her teaching assistant will correct the examsCThat she will collect the examsDThat she will not give her students the final exams14AGo to a danceBGo to a lec

6、tureCGo to the Student CenterDStay at home15AFive years oldBSix years oldCFour years oldDIt is new16B）请听下面一段对话，然后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。对话读两遍。（答案涂在答题纸上）17AAn exhibition of paintingsBA Broadway playCAn operaDA modern dance production18ATour guidesBMusiciansCArtistsDTravellers19AIn the early 18th

7、centuryBIn the early 20th centuryCIn the late 17th centuryDIn the late 19th century20AFascinatingBHugeCColdDPopularIV短文理解（Passage）（共10小题，计10分）请听下面短文，然后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。短文读两遍。（答案涂在答题纸上）21What is the passage mainly about？AHow to greet people wherever you goBDifferent greetings in Asian count

8、riesCDifferent greetings in European countriesDGreetings and introductions22According to the passage，what do people in most Asian countries do when they meet each other？AGreet with a kiss on the cheekBShake handsCBowDKiss and shake hands23If you are introduced to someone in the United States，often y

9、ou will be given _ Athe name the person wishes to be called Ba name cardCthe address of the person you want to meetDa book about communications24A person will appreciate it if you use a title when you address him or her if_ Athe person has no titleBthe person has a title such as doctor or professorC

10、you are uncertainDnobody tells you what he or she is25It's all right to address a person with only his or her first name _ Awhoever he or she is Bno matter how old he or she isCif the person is the same age as you or youngerDif the person is older26It's always best to be polite and use a tit

11、le with a business associate，but for the most part，_ with greetingsAthe average American is very informalBthe average American is very formalCa few Americans are informal Dall Americans are formal27A hug and a kiss are used with people_ Awho are in love Bwho are womenCwho are introduced to each othe

12、r for the first timeDwho know one another well28He or she might think that you are _ if you look away while he or she is speaking to youAdeaf Buninterested Cafraid Dblind29If you stand in the personal space of an American，he or she might _ Awelcome you with open arms Bshout at you angrilyCstand stil

13、l Dmove to avoid contact30According to the passage，where are you likely to meet people who may not seem very friendly？AIn small townsBIn big citiesCIn restaurantsDIn supermarkets笔试部分（共七大题，计120分）I选择填空（Multiple-choice）（共20小题，计20分）A）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（答案涂在答题纸上）1Did the medicine make you feel

14、 better？No_ ，the worse I feelATaking more medicine BMore medicine takenCWhen I take more DThe more medicine I take2The Rolls Royce，_ in almost every country，is one of the most expensive carsAbuy and sell Bhaving bought and soldCbuying and selling Dbought and sold3Alice looks sadDid you tell her abou

15、t the accident？Yes，but I _ her just before as her final examinationsAshouldn't have told Bshould have toldCought to have told Dmust have told4To carry out this plan will cost you _ moneyAa large number of Ba large sum ofCa good many Dlarge quantity5_ ，so the sports meet has to be put offABecause

16、 of the bad weather BAs it has been raining for daysCAs the bad weather DIt has been raining for days6Computers that once took up entire rooms are now _ to be put on desktops and into watchesAas small as Bsmall enoughCsmaller than Dso small7_ must be no more time wastedAIt BThat CThere DThey8If too

17、many of these rare animals are killed，they will _ Ashorten Bdisappear Close Dincrease9MrCox lost his job；_ ，he was unable to support his familyAwhat's more Bas a result Cby this means Dby the way10How beautiful your garden looks in this dry weather！Well，we've just had the flowers a short tim

18、e agoAof being watered BwateringCwatered Dto be watered11_ temperature at which air holds as much water vapor as it can is called the dew pointAAs the BThe CIt is the DIt is12After the teacher gave an explanation，Jim，_ his mistake，corrected his answerArealizing Brealized Chaving been realized Dhe re

19、alized13How many times have you seen the actor？Oh，_ ，I thinkAhundreds of times Ba hundred of timesChundred times Dhundreds times14There will be plenty of activities here tonight because the French delegates have just hit townThe underlined phrase means _ Aarrived in town Bmade speeches in townCgone

20、on strike Dgiven performances15He has worked hard all year，and should be able to make light work of passing the examThe underlined phrase means _ Ato burn the midnight oil Bto make all lights brightCto do something easily and without much effortDto know the answers beforehandB）下列5题中的句子可以组成一篇小短文，请从所给

21、的四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（答案涂在答题纸上）16I then took the train to St PetersburgNo one was _ at the station to meet me，although the theatre I was visiting was going to send someoneAjust Bliking Chowever Dwaiting17I later learnt that the director didn't recognise me because I was wearing a fur hat and loo

22、ked _ a RussianAabout Blike Cfor Dat18So I took a taxi to the theatreBefore I could find a hotel one of the actresses，Natasha， invited me to stay with herShe lived in a flat which she was sharing with six other peopleNatasha couldn't _ me on her salary because she was only earning about 300 a mo

23、nth，so I tried to find food during the dayAfeed Badvise Cgive Ddepend19Old women stood in the bitter cold and sold pastries which they kept warm in large pots with steaming cloths sealing them from the falling snowI never knew what was going to be inside them and ate cabbage pastries for breakfast _

24、 I discovered a woman in front of the Winter Palace selling apple piesAdid Bthen Cuntil Dafter20They were the best I had ever tasted，and by the end of the week she had two apple pies ready when she saw me approaching I had a very real _ of what life is really like in RussiaAidea Bknowledge Cexercise

25、 DinformationII阅读理解（Reading comprehension）（共30小题，计30分）A）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。（答案涂在答题纸上）（A）    Do you want something different for dinner？Try some space foodScientists are experimenting with ways to grow food in spaceScientists think that in 20or 30years，astronauts will b

26、e able to live in space colonies（聚居地）off the planetIt's too expensive to carry food to feed people living in space coloniesPeople in space colonies will need to grow food for them selvesBut how can they grow food without soil and sunlight？    Today，we already have hydroponic（无土栽培）

27、vegetablesThese are vegetables you can grow without soilThis kind of food can grow in an artificial（人工的）environmentIn addition to sunlight，hydroponic farms can use artificial lightingInstead of soil，hydroponic farms can use special material，such as mixtures of chemicals，to feed the plants，and in add

28、ition to a natural climate，most hydroponic farms often use greenhousesFarmers know how to grow a few kinds of hydroponic vegetablesIn winter，when it is too cold to grow vegetables outdoors，hydroponic farmers can grow such vegetables as lettuce，tomatoes，and cucumbers and many different herbs and spic

29、esThese products are in many superm arkets However，in space，people will need to eat more than salad and spicesSo scientists are learning how to grow hydroponic rice，beans，potatoes，and wheatScientists can even grow hydroponic melons and strawberries    Nutrition（营养）scientists at Cornel

30、l University in New York State are experimenting with recipes（食谱）that use these hydroponic vegetablesThe National Aeronautics and Space Agency（NASA）is paying for this nutrition researchSome of the Cornell experiments are unusualThey make imitation meat dishes，such as carrot drum sticks made from car

31、rots， peppers，onions，garlic，herbs，and breadcrum bs instead of chickenThey make dishes made from tofu and seitan（a wheat protein（蛋白质）instead of meatHow do these unusual foods taste？The scientists invite a group of taste testers into their laboratoriesEvery week，twenty-five people come to taste five d

32、ifferent dishesSo far，they have tested 200 different recipesThe carrot drum stick dish was a hitIt rated an 8out of 9Perhaps soon，people will eat meals m ade from hydroponic vegetables that are truly out of this world21Scientists are experimenting with ways to grow food _ Ain space colonies Bin cold

33、 weatherCin expensive restaurants Din the sunshine22It takes too much _ to bring food to space coloniesAtime Bmoney Cwork Dwater23To grow hydroponic vegetables，you need _ Achemicals to feed the plants Bsunlight and warm weatherCsoil to grow the plants in Dnothing to feed the plants24You can find hyd

34、roponic vegetables in _ Aspace laboratories Boutdoor gardensCmany supermarkets Dthe countryside25Scientists are experimenting with recipes that use _ Avegetables instead of meat Bchicken instead of tofuCchicken drum sticks Dgarlic and breadcrumbs only26Scientists invite _ to try out their unusual re

35、cipesAtaste testers BNASA Cfarmers Dastronauts27The most popular dish was _ Atofu and seitan BbreadcrumbsCmeat dishes Dcarrot drumsticks（B）   Ice cream is rated as America's favorite dessert. Annual production amounts to 15 quarts a year for every man, woman and child in the US, and if

36、 ice, sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt and gelato are added, the figure jumps to 23 quarts per person. Ice cream has been a dessert phenomenon since its creation 4 thousand years ago. Surprisingly, ice cream was developed in a country not known for its milk products, China.    At that point

37、in history, the milking of farm animals had recently begun in China and milk was a prized conmmodity. A favorite dish of the nobility was made of a soft paste of overcooked rice, spices and milk packed in snow to solidify. This milk ice was regarded as a symbol of great wealth. Next. the Chinese tur

38、ned to importing snow from the mountains and adding fruit juices to create fruit ices.    Ice milk and fruit ice made their way to Italy, probably through Marco Polo. The Italians carried ice cream across Europe, improving it over time, making it with cream and perfecting its production. E

39、ventually the popular dessert made its way to America.注：dessert甜食，annual每年的，phenomenon现象，commodity商品，solidify使固化28Which of the following statements is true？AOnly wealthy people around the world eat ice cream BRich and poor alike now eat ice creamCIce cream is available only in cold countriesDIce cre

40、am was developed in America29Which ingredient（成分）is in contem porary（现代的）ice cream that was notoriginally present in ice cream ？ACream BSnowCSpicesDRice30What is unusual about ice cream's creation？AIt took a long time to get to AmericaBIt was created in a country that didn't produce a lot of

41、 dairy productsCIt was developed in winter when it was too cold to eat ice creamDIt was created to celebrate special holidays and eventsB）阅读下列短文，然后回答问题或完成句子。（答案写在答题纸上）（C）    Every day，we have messages to give peopleDo you want to tell people about an important meeting？Do you have to l

42、eave your office for 5minutes？Do you want to remember something important？Write the information on a Post-it NotePost-it Notes have special glue on the edge of the paperThey are sticky so that you can leave them anywhereon a door or on a wall or in a bookand they won't fall outYou can reuse the

43、notes because they have special glue on the backif you take off the note and put it back down，it will stay in place   Who invented Post-it Notes？Art Fry was a scientist who worked for the famous 3M CompanyHe needed a bookm ark that stayed in place but didn't tear the pageA friend at th

44、e company was making special glueFry took some of the glue and put it on the back of a piece of yellow paperThen he wrote a report to his boss and put the yellow sticky paper on the top pageHis boss took off the note，wrote an answer，stuck the paper back on， and sent it backThe two men met for coffee

45、 in the cafeteria that afternoonFry's boss congratulated him on his inventionThis was the beginning of Post-it Notes    Today，everyone uses them for many different purposesOne man used it to write a marriage proposalHe wrote，“Will you marry me？”and put the Post-it Note on his girl

46、friend's front doorShe wrote her answer and put the note back on his doorOne mother put a note on the back of her son's car before he left on a long tripWhen he arrived，he found the noteAfter 3，000 miles，it was still on the carThere are Post-it Notes to suit everyone's tastesYou can buy

47、Post-it Notes in eighteen different colors，twenty-seven different sizes， and fifty-six different shapesPost-it Notes are popular around the world31People use Post-it Notes for _ 32You can put a Post-it Note _ 33Post-it Notes can be _ 34Post-it Notes _ when you stick them back down35_ used the glue m

48、ade by _ and put it _ 36Today _ come in many colors，sizes and shapes（D）    Janet Jackson，the youngest of nine children，was born in 1966She became a child star in American soap operas after being spotted（发现）in a television appearance with her brothers，The Jackson FiveIn the past ten ye

49、ars she has recorded five albums，the last two of them providing her with twelve American Top Five singles    As a female singing star，only a handful of other artistsMadonna，Whitney Houston and Gloria Estefan， for exampleprovide her with serious competition    Janet has

50、managed to create a new art form ，a mixture of music，dance and fashion which is perfect for the m usic video ageShe is small and rather shy which makes her seem vulnerable（脆弱的）She also has much more natural talent than many of today's stars    Janet was born in Gary，Indiana，but mo

51、ved with her family to the West Coast when she was twoShe was brought up in the Jackson compound in Encino，California，with its own zoo and private cinemaShe would turn on the TV to find cartoon copies of her brothers dancing to“ABC” and“I want you back”    By the age of seven she was

52、performing in the fam ily's live stage actJanet and her brother Randy would do im pressions of Sonny Cher，WCFields and Mae WestThen came her enrollment（录取）in Valley Professional，a school for children in the entertainment business，as well as small parts in TV series and a recording contract with

53、AM Records    At the age of eighteen she moved away from the family to live in New YorkShe then secretly married Motown singer James DeBargeThe marriage only lasted sixty days“All my life I had people telling me what to doI wanted to do something on my ownSo I ran away to get married”

54、37How did Janet Jackson become a TV star？38Why was her childhood unusual？39How old was she when she began perform ing in the family's live stage act？40Why did she move away and get married？（E）    Whether it's the melodic（旋律优美的）sound of an Eric Clapton solo or the growl（隆隆声）of

55、a heavy metal band，the electric guitar has influenced popular music and culture more than any other instrumentRock's greatest musicians have always been closely identified with their guitars，but the instruments being designed for tomorrow's pop stars may look and sound rather different from

56、today's familiar electric and acoustic guitars（原声吉他）    It has been only sixty years since the electric guitar was inventedSince then there have been incredible changes to the technical design of the instrumentFrom what was once a rounded wooden box with a hole in the front，the guitar has evolved（发展）into the smooth solid body of the rock guitarist's“axe”The most modern guitars are really c