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全国大学生英语竞赛A类考试初赛试题
全国大学生英语竞赛A类考试2008年初赛试题
Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension （略）
Part Ⅱ Vocabulary and Structures
Instructions:
There are 15 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. He can't ______ ignorance as his excuse; he should have known what was happening in his own department.
A. insist B. refer C. plead D. defend
32. His father came home to dinner every night, and ______ in his life Jack felt that they were a real family.
A. for the first timeB. firstly C. at first time D. at first
33. After the robbery, the shop installed a sophisticated alarm system as an insurance ______ further losses.
A. towards B. for C. from D. against
34. The bones, tendons and cartilages require a small amount of blood, ______ such organs as the kidneys and brain need large amounts of blood.
A. as B. while C. because D. so that
35. Although they usually did their own painting and papering, on this occasion they brought in a firm of ______ decorators.
A. inside B. inward C. interior D. internal
36. ______ the neighboring street, it would have had to pass through the station barriers, where a collector is always standing.
A. Had it not been pulled down B. But for bringing it up
C. Should it not have been carried down from D. Had it not been carried down from
37. The people around him kept saying ______ the drowned man but he went on doing artificial respiration.
A. it was useless reviving B. there was no use reviving
C. there was no use to try to revive D. it was no use trying to revive
38. Although they had only been invited for lunch they ______ till suppertime.
A. stayed out B. stayed on C. stayed up D. stayed off
39. When he heard how well the new company was doing, he took a calculated ______ and invested all his money in it.
A. risk B. opportunity C. danger D. venture
40. More and more people are signing up for yoga classes nowadays, ______ advantage of the health and relaxation benefits.
A. taking B. to have taken C. having taken D. having been taken
41. In the same area _____, with a circular church--so that the devil couldn't find a corner to conceal himself in, or so the locals say.
A. a village of Bowmore is B. there is a village of Bowmore
C. is the village of Bowmore D. the Bowmore's village is
42. There are no trips that will make it possible for the tourists to stop everywhere and see ______ they want.
A. all what B. everything that C. everything what D. all which
43. More and more people are becoming aware of the dangers facing our planet. ______, we still have a lot of work to do before our environment is safe again.
A. Consequently B. In spite of the fact that C. Because of that D. Despite that
44. Ray:
Have you met the new boss yet?
David:
No, tell me--what's he like?
Ray:
Well, I met him this morning and my first impression was very positive. ______. and I hear he's got a great sense of humor.
David :
That's great!
A. He came across as very pleasant B. He has a large office
C. He seems very unfriendly D. He's not very sharp
45. Customer:
I think I'll have the tomato soup to start. ______. Waiter:
Right. And would you like croutons in your soup?
Customer:
No, thank you.
Waiter:
How would you like your steak?
Rare, medium or well done?
A. And I'd like some tea. B. And I'd also like a steak.
C. And perhaps some orange juice. D. And I'd like to order now.
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension Section A
Instructions:
There is one passage in this section with 5 questions. For each question, there are
four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Then mark the
corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Questions 46-50 are based on the following passage.
Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction room to make offers, or "bids", for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyerof the goods. This is called "knocking down" the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on a table at which he stands. This is often set on a raised platform called a rostrum.
The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auctio, meaning "increase". The Romans usually sold in this way the spoils taken in war; these sales were called sub hasta, meaning "under the spear", a spear being stuck in the ground as a signal for a crowd to gather. In England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goods were
often sold "by the candle":
a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight.
Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, hides, skins, wool, tea, cocoa, furs, spices, fruit and vegetables and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, antique furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art. The auction rooms at Christie's and Sotheby's in London and New York are world-famous.
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by prospective buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a "lot", is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in numerical order; he may wait until he registers the fact that certain dealers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. The auctioneer's services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible.
The auctioneer must know fairly accurately the current market values of the goods he is selling, and he should be acquainted with regular buyers of such goods. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the rivalries among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other. It is largely on his advice that a seller will fix a "reserve" price, that is, a price below which the goods cannot be sold. Even the best auctioneers, however, find it difficult to stop a "knock-out", whereby dealers illegally arrange beforehand not to bid against each other, but nominate one of themselves as the only bidder, in the hope of buying goods at extremely low prices. If such a "knock-out" comes off, the real auction sale takes place privately afterwards among the dealers.
46. The end of the bidding is called "knocking down" because ______.
A. the auctioneer knocks the price down B. the rostrum is knocked down
C. the goods are knocked down D. the auctioneer bangs the table with a hammer
The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auctio, meaning "increase". The Romans usually sold in this way the spoils taken in war; these sales were called sub hasta, meaning "under the spear", a spear being stuck in the ground as a signal for a crowd to gather. In England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goods were
often sold "by the candle":
a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight.
Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, hides, skins, wool, tea, cocoa, furs, spices, fruit and vegetables and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, antique furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art. The auction rooms at Christie's and Sotheby's in London and New York are world-famous.
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by prospective buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a "lot", is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in numerical order; he may wait until he registers the fact that certain dealers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. The
auctioneer's services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible.
The auctioneer must know fairly accurately the current market values of the goods he is selling, and he should be acquainted with regular buyers of such goods. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the rivalries among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other. It is largely on his advice that a seller will fix a "reserve" price, that is, a price below which the goods cannot be sold. Even the best auctioneers, however, find it difficult to stop a "knock-out", whereby dealers illegally arrange beforehand not to bid against each other, but nominate one of themselves as the only bidder, in the hope of buying goods at extremely low prices. If such a "knock-out" comes off, the real auction sale takes place privately afterwards among the dealers.
46. The end of the bidding is called "knocking down" because ______.
A. the auctioneer knocks the price down B. the rostrum is knocked down
C. the goods are knocked down D. the auctioneer bangs the table with a hammer
47. The Romans used to sell by auction ______.
A. spoilt goods B. old worn-out weapons C. prop
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