互联网外研社杯阅读大赛样卷.docx

1、互联网外研社杯阅读大赛样卷“外研社杯”全国英语阅读大赛样题Part I Read and KnowIn Part I, you will read short texts of various kinds. Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions. (Time allowed: 22 minutes) Questions 1-3 (Suggested completion time: 5 minutes)Directions: Read the following quotes. Match the quotes on

2、the left with the people on the right. Please note there are two extra options you do not need to use.Questions 4 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.To ensure the high standards of facilities we need to build new wards, labo

3、ratories and consulting rooms. In short, we need your help now. Complete the coupon today and rest assured that your donation is going to the best possible cause. 4. Where is the piece of text taken from?A. an advertisement B. an instruction bookletC. a story D. a newspaperQuestions 5 (Suggested com

4、pletion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.Few corners of the world remain untainted by intrepid tourists, and their impact is often devastating. Too frequently they trample heedlessly on fragile environments, displacing wildlife and local popula

5、tions in their insatiable quest for unexplored locations. 5. What is the best title for this text?A. The future of tourismB. The role of tourismC. The price of tourismD. The benefits of tourismQuestions 6 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question accord

6、ing to the text.Buying and selling anything is your forte now. If you visit a jumble or car-boot sale or the like, a romantic encounter is more than probable! News linked to the family is brilliant!6. What type of text is this?A. A personal advertisement.B. A personal horoscope.C. A friends letter o

7、f advice.D. A written warning.Questions 7 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text. With our travel agency, the holiday you book is the holiday you get. If you arrive and find weve failed to live up to our promises, let us know wh

8、at the problem is within one day of your arrival. Well spend 24 hours doing everything possible to sort the problem out. In the unlikely event that we cant resolve your problem and make you happy within 24 hours, well fly you home and give your money back.7. The text could best be described as _.A.

9、a commitmentB. an appealC. a warningD. a vowQuestions 8 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text. The new digital cameras are great fun and very easy to use. They let you review your pictures the moment you take them, so you can r

10、e-shoot right away if youre not satisfied. But remember, a digital camera is just a computer XXXX. Its not a replacement for your ordinary camera.8. What is the meaning of the missing word (XXXX) in the text?A. “something that is poor quality”B. “an item that is not essential, something extra”C. “so

11、mething expensive but good value for money”D. “a fashion which always remains popular”Questions 9 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.She had gone alone, but the children were to go to the station to meet her. And loving the

12、station as they did, it was only natural that they should be there a good hour before there was any chance of Mothers train arriving, even if the train were punctual, which was most unlikely.9. What can you say about their mothers train?A. It would probably be early.B. It would probably be on time.C

13、. It would probably be late.D. It had been cancelled.Question 10 (Suggested completion time: 5 minutes)Directions: The bar chart shows the number and proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions, from 19901992 to 20142016. Answer the question according to the information in the char

14、t.Source: The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report201510. Choose the INCORRECT description about the chart.A. Current estimates suggest that nearly one in nine individuals do not have enough to eat between 2014 and 2016.B. Projections indicate that the 2015 MDG target is nearly reached, with 12

15、.9 per cent of undernourished population.C. The situation noticeably improved during the years 1995-1999, but went down in the first five years of the new millennium.D. The proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions has fallen by almost half since 1990.Part II Read and ReasonIn Pa

16、rt II, you will read short texts on different subjects. Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions based on logical inference and reasoning. (Time allowed: 38 minutes) Question 11-12 (Suggested completion time: 10 minutes)Directions: Read the definitions of two types of logical fallacy

17、. Answer the questions according to the definitions.Poisoning the WellPoisoning the well is a rhetorical technique and logical fallacywhere adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to anaudience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person i

18、s about to say. It uses theassociationof negativeemotionsto distract a subject from actualevidencein an argument.11. Which of the following provides a typical example of poisoning the well?A. Thats my stance on funding the education system, and anyone who disagrees with me hates children.B. You are

19、so weird. That meanswe are pretty much surethat your whole family is weird, too.C. God exists because the Bible says so. The Bible is inspired. Therefore, we know that God exists.D. I dont care what you say. We dont need any more bookshelves. As long as the carpet is clean, we are fine.False Dilemma

20、A false dilemma arises when we allow ourselves to be convinced that we have to choose between two and only two mutually exclusive options, when that is untrue. Generally, when this rhetorical strategy is used, one of the options is unacceptable and repulsive, while the other is the one the manipulat

21、or wants us to choose. Whoever succumbs to this trap has thus made a choice that is forced, and as such, of little value.12. Which of the following provides a typical example of a false dilemma?A. Smoking is harmful to health, so you are supposed to quit smoking. B. If the government doesnt reduce p

22、ublic spending, our economy will collapse.C. You may as well avoid overeating, or else you might be obese in no time. D. You are the worst of the classmates; therefore, what you say is incredible.Questions 13 (Suggested completion time: 4 minutes)Directions: Read the passage about syllogism. Decide

23、whether the reasonings are Valid or Invalid based on the principles of syllogism.Syllogism is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true. It is perhaps todays most commonly accepted f

24、orm of logical reasoning in aptitude tests. The most commonly used type of syllogisms is elucidated in a frequently used example:Premise 1: All men are mortal.Premise 2: Socrates is a man.Conclusion: Socrates is mortal.Now practice syllogisms for IQ tests. Please note that the conclusion is based on

25、 logical reasoning and doesnt necessarily represent the “truth” always. 13. Valid ( ); Invalid ( )Premise 1: All human action is conditioned by circumstances. Premise 2: All human action involves morality. Conclusion: All that involves morality is conditioned by circumstances. Questions 14 (Suggeste

26、d completion time: 4 minutes)Directions: Read the passage about contraposition. Decide whether the reasonings are Valid or Invalid based on the principles of contraposition.Inlogic,contrapositionis a law that says that aconditional statementislogically equivalentto itscontrapositive. The contraposit

27、ive of the statement has its antecedent and consequentinvertedandflipped. The most commonly used type of contraposition is elucidated in the following example:Premise 1: If it is raining, then there are clouds in the sky.Premise 2: There are no clouds in the sky.Conclusion: It is not raining.Now pra

28、ctice contraposition for IQ tests. Please note that the conclusion is based on logical reasoning and doesnt necessarily represent the “truth” always.14. Valid ( ); Invalid ( ) Premise 1: If he is not an American, he is not from Texas.Premise 2: He is from Texas.Conclusion: He is an American. Questio

29、ns 15-17 (Suggested completion time: 6 minutes)Directions: Read the text about a science discovery. Answer the questions according to the text. Manipulating MemoryMemory is notoriously malleable. Our recollections fade and take on new meanings; sometimes we remember things that never even happened.

30、But 15 .Recently, however, scientists have started to grasp and tinker with memorys physical basis. Last year, in work evocative of films such asEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindand Inception, researchers discovered ways to manipulate specific memories in mice using optogenetics, a powerful tech

31、nique that can trigger nerve cells in animals brains by zapping them with beams of laser light. In a series of experiments, they showed that they could delete existing memories and “incept” false ones.This year, researchers went even further: switching the emotional content of a memory in mice from

32、bad to good and vice versa. Under the laser, for example, male mice that had once associated a certain room with being shocked were tricked into acting as though they had once met friendly female mice there instead.Whether the mice in these experiments actually experienced vivid false memories or just a fuzzy sense of pleasure or fear is unclear. Nor is it clear whether the findings apply to the tricks of