外研社杯全国英语阅读大赛样题.docx

1、外研社杯全国英语阅读大赛样题2016 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 instructionscarefully and answer the questions. (Time allowed: 22 minutes)Questions 1-3 (Suggested completion time: 5 minutes)Directions: Read the following quotes. Match the quotes o

2、n the left with the people on the right. Please note there are two extra options you do not need to use.Questions 5 (Suggested completion 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

3、 impact is often devastating. Too frequently they trample heedlessly on fragile environments, displacing wildlife and local populations 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 be

4、nefits of tourismQuestions 6 (Suggested completion time： 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according 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 th

5、e family is brilliant!6.What type of text is this?A.A personal advertisement.B.A personal horoscope.C.A friend s letter of 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

6、 holiday you book is the holiday you get. If you arrive and find we ve failed to live up to our promises, let us know what the problem is within one day of your arrival. We 11 spend 24 hours doing everything possible to sort the problem out. In the unlikely event that we can t resolve your problem a

7、nd make you happy within 24 hours, we 11 fly you home and give your money back.7.The text could best be described as .A.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

8、cameras are great fun and very easy to use. They let you review your pictures the moment you take them, so you can re-shoot right away if you re not satisfied. But remember, a digital camera is just a computer XXXX. It s not a replacement for your ordinary camera.8.What is the meaning of the missing

9、 word (XXXX) in the text?A.something that is poor qualitynB.”an item that is not essential, something extra”C.usomething expensive but good value for money”D.”a fashion which always remains popularMQuestions 9 (Suggested completion time： 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question a

10、ccording to the text.She had gone alone, but the children were to go to the station to meet her. And loving the station as they did, it was only natural that they should be there a good hour before there was any chance of Mother s train arriving, even if the train were punctual, which was most unlik

11、ely.9.What can you say about their mother, s train?A.It would probably be early.B It would probably be on time.C.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 t

12、he developing regions, from 1990?1992 to 201472016. Answer the question according to the information in the chart.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 e

13、nough to eat between 2014 and 2016.B Projections indicate that the 2015 MDG target is nearly reached, with 12.9 per cent of undernourished population.C.The situation noticeably improved during the years 1995-1999, but wentdown in the first five years of the new millennium.D.The proportion of underno

14、urished people in the developing regions hasfallen by almost half since 1990.Part II Read and ReasonIn Part 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

15、 (Suggested completion time： 10 minutes)Directions: Read the definitions of two types of logical fallacy. Answer the questions according to the definitions.z Poisoning the Well11.ing the well?Poisoning the well is a rhetorical technique and logicalA、 /d anyone whodisagrees with me hates children.B Y

16、ou are so weird. That means-we are pretty much sure-that 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 don t care what you say. We don t need any more bookshelves. Aslong as the carpet is clean, we are fine.( AFa

17、lse Dilemma 12. ilse dilemma?A false dilemma arises when we allow ourselves to be iuit smoking.B If the government doesn t reduce public 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, wha

18、t you say is incredible.Questions 13 (Suggested completion time： 4 minutes)Directions: Read the passage about syllogism. Decide 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 con

19、clusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true. It is perhaps today s most commonly accepted form 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： S

20、ocrates is a man.Conclusion: Socrates is mortal.Now practice syllogisms for IQ tests. Please note that the conclusion is based on logical reasoning and doesn 9 t necessarily repre sen t the “truth” always.13.Valid ( ); Invalid ()Premise 1： All human action is conditioned by circumstances.Premise 2:

21、All human action involves morality.Conclusion: All that involves morality is conditioned by circumstances.Questions 14 (Suggested completion time： 4 minutes)Directions: Read the passage about contraposition. Decide whether the reasonings are Valid or Invalid based on the principles of contraposition

22、.In?logic, ?contraposition?is a law that says that a?conditional statement?is?logically equivalent?to its?contrapositive. The contrapositive of the statement has its antecedent and consequent?inverted?and?flipped. The most commonly used type of contraposition is elucidated in the following example:P

23、remise 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 practice contraposition for IQ tests. Please note that the conclusion is based on logical reasoning and doesn t necessarily represent the atruth ” always.14.Valid

24、( ); 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.Questions 15-17 (Suggested completion time： 6 minutes)Directions: Read the text about a science discovery. Answer the questions according to the text.Manipulating Memory

25、Memory is notoriously malleable. Our recollections fade and take on new meanings; sometimes we remember things that never even happened. But 15 .Recently, however, scientists have started to grasp and tinker with memoryf s physical basis. Last year, in work evocative of films such as?Eternal Sunshin

26、e of the Spotless Mind?and Inception, researchers discovered ways to manipulate specific memories in mice using optogenetics, a powerful technique 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 delet

27、e existing memories and “incept“ false ones.This year, researchers went even further： switching the emotional content of a memory in mice from 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 th

28、ough 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 memory so familiar to people. Long-sought therap

29、eutic advances, such as treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, could remain far off. One thing is certain, however: Once considered beyond scientific dissection, memory is finally starting to yield its secrets.15.Which of the following best fits the numbered space in the passage?A.what is re

30、ally happening in our brain as memories are remodeled remainsmysteriousB.scientists are curious about why people are oblivious to what have happened to themC.advanced technology has helped scientists discover the workings of our brainD.some scientists argue that what we observe about human memory is

31、 not what it really is16.The word “incept is closest in meaning to .A.operateB.startC.detectD.occupy17.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?A.People s false memories result from the impact of different emotion provoked by later experience on the same spot.B.The success in research

32、 indicates that it won t be long that a therapy is worked out for people disturbed by painful memory.C.By zapping the brain cells of mice with light, researchers are ableto create, erase, or alter their memories, good or bad.D.Many fancy ideas in science fictions or movies that are based on them actually draw greatly upon scientific achievement.Questions 18-19 (Suggested completion time： 4 minutes)Directions: Read the