最新全国大学生英语竞赛A类初赛真题官方.docx
- 文档编号:13762733
- 上传时间:2023-06-17
- 格式:DOCX
- 页数:19
- 大小:202.18KB
最新全国大学生英语竞赛A类初赛真题官方.docx
《最新全国大学生英语竞赛A类初赛真题官方.docx》由会员分享,可在线阅读,更多相关《最新全国大学生英语竞赛A类初赛真题官方.docx(19页珍藏版)》请在冰点文库上搜索。
最新全国大学生英语竞赛A类初赛真题官方
2013 National English Contest for College Students
(Level A – Preliminary)
(总分:
150分 答题时间:
120分钟)
Part I listening Comprehension (30 marks)
Section A (5 marks)
In this section, you will hear five short conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. At the end of each conversation, there will be a twenty-second pause. During the pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
1. Where does the dialogue probably take place?
A. On a train. B. In a restaurant. C. In a gym.
2. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Where to have their meal.
B. How to make people intelligent.
C. The disadvantage of watching TV.
3. What was the woman probably doing when she hurt herself?
A. She was cooking. B. She was bathing. C. She was reading.
4. What did the man mention about the briefcase?
A. The price. B. The shape. C. The color.
5. Why did the man get divorced according to the woman?
A. He was bad-tempered all the time.
B. He didn’t help take care of the baby.
C. He spent too much time in the pub.
Section B (10 marks)
In this section, you will hear two long conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. At the end of each conversation, there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause, read the questions and the three choices marked A, Band C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
Conversation One
6. Why is it very difficult for the woman to get the time off?
A. She is supposed to attend an important meeting.
B. She has been arranged for an interview.
C. There are not enough teachers in her school.
7. Why does the woman ask the man to get off at the golf course?
A. They are going to play golf together.
B. The pathway is too rough for the taxis to go.
C. It is nearest to her home.
8. Who will the man come with?
A. His dad. B. His friend. C. His child.
Conversation Two
9. What is this conversation about?
A. Travel agencies. B. Space tours. C. Holiday plans.
10. What is being planned for tourism in the beginning phase of the next ten years?
A. Trips to the moon. B. Trips in the moon’s orbit. C. Trips within the earth’s orbit.
11. What is said about the training?
A. It takes a couple of days. B. Only children need some training. C. It’s unnecessary.
12. Who will be the potential tourists?
A. The general public. B. Those wanting rest and recreation. C. Risk-takers.
13. Which statement below is correct?
A. A few minutes is enough for tourists because of weightlessness.
B. The cost for the trip is acceptable to the general public.
C. The duration of the trip is expected to be increased.
14. What is said about moon tours?
A. They will be the first tours that get out of the earth’s orbit.
B. The number of tourists will be reduced.
C. They are less dangerous than traveling to Mars.
15. What does the man say people could do on the moon?
A. Build hotels. B. Do space-walking. C. Prepare for trips to Mars.
Section C (5 marks)
In this section, you will hear five short news items. After each item, which will be read only once, there will be a pause. During the pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
16. What measure is mentioned in the news?
A. Consolidating buildings. B. Implementing a curfew in cities. C. Storing food and water.
17. How did the police find the files?
A. The police found them after raiding the man’s home.
B. The man lost some of the files during the duplication.
C. The man handed them in.
18. How much did Google approximately earn in the same period last year?
A. $2bn B. $2.2bn C. $2.5bn
19. What is the purpose of the report?
A. To prepare for the construction of nuclear plants in Europe.
B. To deal with the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
C. To test European nuclear power plants’ reaction to emergencies.
20. What’s the cause of demonstrations in cities and towns across Syria?
A. They are calling for more freedom.
B. Workers demand higher pay.
C. Some thirty people were killed by the police
Section D (10 marks)
In this section, you will hear a radio talk. The talk will be read only once. For questions 21-30, complete the notes which summarize what the speaker says. You will need to write a word or a short phrase. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
Speaker:
chairman of the Carocan Group-a (21)______
Topic:
How to achieve success Obstacles for success:
● Fear of (22) ______ (the (23) ______ one to deal with)
Analysis:
It can be both a (24) _____. In fact daring not to take opportunities discloses
your (25) ______ about your ability to succeed.
Suggestion:
Admit your fear and meet it (26) _____
● Fear of (27) ______
Analysis:
It is in fact the fear of (28) ______
Suggestion:
(29) ______
Conclusion:
In order to succeed, you need to (30) ______ opportunities.
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (15 marks)
There are fifteen incomplete sentences in this section. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
31. Katie’s parents never see her as the mothering type but when her son was born she took to it like a _____ to water.
A. shrimp B. horse C. duck D. dog
32. He has struggled for weeks inside his heart since the offer of a place at a good university is not to be ______ at.
A. coughed B. sneezed C. laughed D. rejected
33. When a professor gives students ______ instructions, the instructions are generally easily understood.
A. clear-cut B. blurry C. marginal D. ambiguous
34. After years of neglect there was a huge _______ programme to return the city to its former glory.
A. refurbishment B. restoration C. conservation D. preservation
35. More recently, green tea has also been ______ added to the list of youth-promoting substances as it contains rich Vitamin.
A. coincidentally B. supposedly C. surprisingly D. tentatively
36. Our landlord tried to _____ all the cockroaches in our building, but they came back the next year.
A. remove B. deport C. expedite D. eradicate
37. Mariko believed everything she read on the Web, so she was ______ by the hoax the TV Station played on April Fool’s Day.
A. taken out B. taken in C. taken off D. taken on
38. There is a lobby of people who insist that it’s justifiable and necessary to carry out these animal experiments _______ science.
A. leading to B. relating with C. in touch with D. in the name of
39. A drum is a percussion instrument made by ______ a skin or other material over one or both ends of a hollow container.
A. compressing B. strengthening C. calculated at D. stretching
40. Britains gold and currency reserves ______ £15,977 million, and this year they have repaid foreign loans to the value of £3,500 million.
A. equal to B. amounted to C. calculated at D. targeted at
41. The film was initially a box-office disaster but quickly gained ______ status, and the actress has been well-known ever since.
A. cult B. humble C. vulgar D. feeble
42. ______, but seats are proffered, doors smilingly held open for pram-pushing mothers and tables miraculously appear in crowded restaurants.
A. Not only are they not shunned B. They are not only shunned
C. Though they are not shunned D. Despite they not being shunned
43. Selina:
Do you think Tim takes after his dad?
Tom:
Well, he does, in some ways. Selina:
How?
Tom:
Well, I mean, they’re both very stubborn, aren’t they?
Selina:
That’s for sure. ______
A. It’s not taken for granted. B. Nothing serious.
C. It runs in the family. D. It’s hard to say.
44. Assistant:
Wadley’s Garage called this morning. They said your new car wasn’t ready.
Manager:
Oh, no… ______
Assistant:
They said there was a strike at the factory yesterday. Manager:
Again?
A. You sold it?
B. why on earth not?
C. I suppose not. D. I’ve been there.
45. Manager:
What have you got?
Assistant:
We’ve got the files up to 2010, but all those after 2010 have not been found.
Manager:
______ It won’t take long to sort the rest out.
A. That’s a relief!
B. Bad news!
C. Who knows?
D. Let it go.
Part III Cloze (10 marks)
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways:
according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letter(s) of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
A top racehorse was brought down at Royal Ascot with
- 配套讲稿:
如PPT文件的首页显示word图标,表示该PPT已包含配套word讲稿。双击word图标可打开word文档。
- 特殊限制:
部分文档作品中含有的国旗、国徽等图片,仅作为作品整体效果示例展示,禁止商用。设计者仅对作品中独创性部分享有著作权。
- 关 键 词:
- 最新 全国大学生 英语 竞赛 初赛 官方