05英语能力竞赛NEPCS高一年级组样题.docx

1、05英语能力竞赛NEPCS高一年级组样题2005年全国中学生英语能力竞赛(NEPCS)高一年级组样题全国中学生英语能力竞赛组委会办公室 提供 （时间：120分钟 总分：150分） 听力部分（共三大题，计30分）（略） 笔试部分（共七大题，计120分） I. 选择填空（Vocabulary and structure）（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答案。（每题1分） 31. Im thinking of hiring a teacher for my son. You see, he isnt able to _ the rest of hi

2、s class. A. get on B. keep up with C. keep in touch with D. go on 32. Must I come to your office to get my paper topic? No, you _. I can telephone you. A. mustnt B. couldnt C. shouldnt D. dont have to 33. _ they will send us invitation is not yet known, but we hope they will. A. If B. That C. Whethe

3、r D. When 34. I agree with most of what you said, but I dont agree with _. A. everything B. anything C. something D. nothing 35. Peter asked Tom whether the teacher _ five minutes _. A. was here; ago B. has been there; before C. had been there; ago D. had been there; before 36. It is _ fun to go to

4、_ cinema. A. a; the B. a; 不填 C. 不填; 不填 D. 不填; the 37. Mr. Brown returned to his office after a holiday, only _ broken into. A. to find it had been B. to find it had C. finding it had been D. finding it was 38. Anyway, that evening, _ Ill tell you more about later, I ended up staying at Rachels place

5、. A. when B. where C. which D. what 39. Excuse me _ for so long. It doesnt matter. A. to keep you waiting B. for having kept you waiting C. for keeping you to wait D. of keeping you to wait 40. Bill, you dont look well. Whats the matter? Oh. _. Im just tired. Ive been working until around ten every

6、night this week. A. Theres nothing serious B. Something is wrong with me C. Its none of your business D. That sounds great 41. Mr. Lius wife was hurt in the traffic accident yesterday afternoon. _ A. I dont think so. B. Im interested in such news. C. She must be more careful. D. What a pity!Is she O

7、K now? 42. _ of the land in that district _ covered with trees and grass. A. Two fifth; is B. Two fifth; are C. Two fifths; is D. Two fifths; are 43. Was _ Bill, _ played basketball very well, _ helped you repair your bike? A. that; that; who B. it; that; that C. this; who; who D. it; who; that 44.

8、When I returned to my childhood home, I was distressed to find all the apple trees _. A. were cut down B. had been cut down C. to cut down D. being cut down 45. If I had _, Id visit Europe, stopping at all the small interesting places. A. a long enough holiday B. an enough long holiday C. a holiday

9、enough long D. a long holiday enough B）下列5题中的句子可以组成一篇小短文，请从所给的四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。（每题1分） 46. Most people have thirty-two _ by the time they are twenty-five years old. A. neighbours B. pets C. teeth D. friends 47. Its easy enough to keep that many teeth clean, because people usually _ time to brush t

10、hem, most often two or three times a day. A. set aside B. set at C. set about D. set in 48. Can you imagine, though, what it would be like to_ about eight hundred times that many teeth? A. watch B. smell C. touch D. brush 49. Some snails actually have as many as _ thousand teeth! A. thirty-two B. ei

11、ghteen C. twenty-five D. forty 50. Its just _ that snails dont have to bother about brushing them. A. unfortunate B. lucky C. disappointing D. helpless II 阅读理解（Reading comprehension）（共20小题，计35分） A）阅读下列短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。（每题1分） A The first organized system that was used to send me

12、ssages began in Egypt around 1500 B.C. This system developed because the pharaohs (法老王) frequently needed to send messages up and down the Nile River in order to keep their empire running smoothly. Later, the Persians (波斯人) developed a more efficient system for sending messages using men and horses.

13、 Message carriers rode along the road system stretching from one end of the Persian Empire to the other. The problem with early systems for sending messages was that only the government was allowed to send messages. Businesses and other people had to find their own ways for delivering messages to di

14、stant places. Later, with the fall of the Roman Empire, organized postal systems almost completely disappeared in Europe for 600 years. In China, however, Kublai Khan had built up his own system for delivering messages. This system worked in the same basic way as the Roman system. The difference was

15、 that Kublai Khan kept 300,000 horses along the roads of his delivery lines. It wasnt until the 1500s that a well-organized postal system appeared again in Europe. One family gained the right to deliver mail for the Holy Roman Empire and parts of Spain. This family continued to carry mail, both gove

16、rnment and private, throughout Europe for almost 300 years. However, government-controlled postal systems finally took over private postal businesses, and by the 1700s government ownership of most postal systems in Europe was an accepted fact of life. These early government systems remained quite ex

17、pensive for public use until 1840 when Roland Hill suggested lowering postal rates in order to encourage more people to use the system. Soon after that many other countries took up his idea. 51. The Egyptian pharaohs sent many of their messages by _. A. boat B. fire C. horses D. runners 52. _ was (w

18、ere) allowed to use the early Roman postal system. A. Everyone B. Rich business owners C. No one D. The government 53. What was different about the postal system used by Kublai Khan? A. It had more horses. B. The roads were smaller. C. The stations were further apart. D. It delivered mail to all of

19、Asia. 54. In the _, government monopoly of postal systems became common. A. 1500s B. 1700s C. 1800s D. 1900s 55. What did Roland Hill suggest which changed postal practices around the world? A. Make the post faster. B. Make the post bigger. C. Make the post cheaper. D. Make the post easier. B）阅读下列短文

20、，然后回答问题或完成句子。（每题2分） B Jane was the seventh child of a country clergyman. He and his wife always encouraged their children to do what they like, converting the rectory barn （谷仓） into a little theatre for plays put on by the family during the summer holidays. By the age of 12, Jane was writing her own

21、 stories, reading them out to the rest of her household. Later on as a young woman she had several romances but never married, although she came close to it once. She accepted a young man one evening, but then turned him down the next morning. She devoted her life to her numerous nieces and nephews,

22、 and to the writing of six outstandingly witty novels. In her stories attractive heroines always find a husband in the end even though this often seems unlikely because of various misunderstandings and obstacles（障碍） standing in their way. She wrote Pride and Prejudice when she was 21. Emma was one o

23、f her last books, and the other four novels written by Jane Austen are entitled: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Persuasion. Jane Austen did not simply write love stories, though. She was also very amusing at the expense of certain pompous, shallow characters who always c

24、ome off very badly in her novels. And she describes the life led by people like her at the time so memorably that readers afterwards often feel they have been there themselves. 56. Jane has at least _ siblings. 57. The word in Paragraph 2 that means “very clever and humorous” is “_”. 58. Jane got ma

25、rried once, didnt she? 59. After Pride and Prejudice, Jane wrote Emma, Sense and Sensibility, _, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park. 60. The underlined word “there” in the last paragraph refers to “_”. C 61. How many tiny week-old calves are exported to veal crate farms in Holland and France on ave

26、rage half a year? 62. Why cannot the calves turn round in veal crates? 63. Whats the full name of CIWF? 64. The telephone number of CIWF is _. 65. If you want to help the campaign against live exports, but you have no job now, how much should you pay for the membership of this organization? D Newspa

27、pers keep us informed about what is going on in the world. They entertain, educate, and examine the events of the day. For hundreds of millions of people worldwide, newspapers are part of their daily lives. Newspapers are published at various intervals, but they usually come out daily or weekly. Of

28、the nearly 60,000 newspapers being published around the world, about 2,600 are published in the United States. More than halfabout 1,800of them are dailies. Some newspapers have a lot of subscriberspeople who pay to have each edition delivered to them. For example, The Wall Street Journal and USA To

29、day each have about two million subscribers. But there are many, many more newspapers with only a few thousand subscribers. These include small-town weeklies and special-interest papers, such as those written for people who enjoy the same hobby. Newspapers provide a service to the community by provi

30、ding information at little cost. But they are businesses, so they need to make money. They can keep the cost to the readers low and still stay in business by selling space to businesses and individuals who want to advertise products or services. In most newspapers, between one-third and two-thirds of the paper is taken up by advertising. 66. How many newspapers are thought to be published worldwide? 67. What does the underlined word “subscribers” mean? 68. At what intervals are most newspapers published? 6