大学生英语竞赛练习题.docx

1、大学生英语竞赛练习题Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identifi

2、ed by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Many Brazilians cannot read. In 2000, a quarter of those aged

3、15 and older were functionally illiterate（文盲）. Many _36_ do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. The _37_ Brazilian reads 1.8 non-academic books a yearless than half the figure in Europe and the United States. In a recent survey of reading habits, Brazilians came 27th out of 30

4、 countries. Argentines, their neighbours, _38_ 18th.The government and businesses are all struggling in different ways to change this. On March 13th the government _39_ a National Plan for Books and Reading. This seeks to boost reading, by founding libraries and financing publishers among other thin

5、gs.One discouragement to reading is that books are _40_. Most other books have small print-runs, pushing up their price.But Brazilians indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant the countrys leaders long _41_ education. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s.All

6、 this means that Brazils book market has the biggest growth _42_ in the western world.But reading is a difficult habit to form. Brazilians bought fewer books in 2004, 89 million, including textbooks _43_ by the government, than they did in 1991. Last year the director of Brazils national library _44

7、_. He complained that he had half the librarians he needed and termites（白蚁） had eaten much of the _45_. That ought to be a cause for national shame.(A) average(B) collection(C) distributed(D) exhibition(E) expensive(F) launched(G) named(H) neglected(I) normal(J) particularly(K) potential(L) quit(M)

8、ranked(N) simply(O) treasured536.收起解析正确答案是N，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4832 次 ， 总正确率 4% ， 最多的错误答案是I解析空格前面是many，承接上文，即many Brizilians；want to后面省略了动词read，因此空格处需要填入副词形式。simply符合句意“许多人只是不想读书”。particularly意为“独特地，显著地”，与句意不符，故排除。笔记37.收起解析正确答案是A，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4831 次 ， 总正确率 11% ， 最多的错误答案是I解析通过分析句子结构可知，空

9、格处应填入形容词修饰名词Brazilian. 通过下文的1.8 non-academic books a year可知，空格处形容词不可能达到总量，而应该是平均数。即“平均每个巴西人”之意，由此确定average为答案。笔记38.收起解析正确答案是M，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4831 次 ， 总正确率 9% ， 最多的错误答案是A解析巴西在被调查的30个国家中排名第27位，而邻国阿根廷排名第18位，故空格处填入的动词有“排名”之意，故ranked为答案。笔记39.收起解析正确答案是F，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4833 次 ， 总正确率 9% ， 最多

10、的错误答案是C解析根据句子结构可知，空格处应填入动词过去式作谓语，且该动词可以与plan搭配构成动宾关系。下文中提到国家通过修建图书馆等措施推进民众读书，故launched符合句意，即“发起计划”。笔记40.收起解析正确答案是E，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4831 次 ， 总正确率 13% ， 最多的错误答案是expensive解析根据句子机构可知，空格处应填入形容词，构成系表结构。根据句中的discouragement一词可知，此处意在表达影响巴西人不爱读书的因素。根据下文中的pushing up their price 可知，这里描述的应该是书的价格。故expensiv

11、e符合句意。笔记41.收起解析正确答案是H，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4831 次 ， 总正确率 7% ， 最多的错误答案是I解析空格处应填入动词作从句的谓语，本段分析了巴西人不爱读书的深层原因，即长达几个世纪的奴隶制度造成该国领导人不重视教育，结合下文提到“巴西基础教育在20世纪90年代才得到普及”可知，巴西教育的滞后深受奴隶制的影响，因此本空应选择neglected，即巴西“长期忽视教育”。笔记42.收起解析正确答案是K，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4831 次 ， 总正确率 7% ， 最多的错误答案是J解析通过分析句子机构可知，空格处应填入名词。因为

12、巴西以前读书人数少，这在客观上存在增长潜力，故potential符合句意。笔记43.收起解析正确答案是C，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4831 次 ， 总正确率 6% ， 最多的错误答案是B解析空格处应填入动词过去分词，作textbooks的后置定语，distribute textbooks意为“分发教科书”。故答案为C。笔记44.收起解析正确答案是L，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4831 次 ， 总正确率 7% ， 最多的错误答案是D解析空格处应填入动词构成主谓结构，结合下文的complained，shame等词可知，巴西国家图书馆馆长因对目前的状况不满而

13、辞职，故quit符合句意。笔记45.收起解析正确答案是B，您未作答。回答错误统计全站统计：本题共被作答 4831 次 ， 总正确率 9% ， 最多的错误答案是O解析空格前面有冠词the，故应填入名词。本句与图书馆有关，collection此处可理解为“藏书”，符合句意。笔记Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the p

14、aragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter.The Touch-Screen Generation(A) On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of childrens apps（应用程序）for phones and tablets（平板电脑）gathered at

15、 an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off their games. The gathering was organized by Warren Buckleitner, a longtime reviewer of interactive childrens media. Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-control helicopter could reach the halls second story, while vario

16、us children who had come with their parents looked up in awe（敬畏）and delight. But mostly they looked down, at the iPads and other tablets displayed around the hall like so many open boxes of candy. I walked around and talked with developers, and several quoted a famous saying of Maria Montessoris, “T

17、he hands are the instruments of mans intelligence.”(B) What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene? The 30 or so children here were not down at the shore poking（戳）their fingers in the sand or running them along stones or picking seashells. Instead they were all inside, alone or in g

18、roups of two or three, their faces a few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine.(C) In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its policy on very young children and media. In 1999, the group had discouraged television viewing for children younger th

19、an 2, citing research on brain development that showed this age groups critical need for “direct interactions with parents and other significant care givers.” The updated report began by acknowledging that things had changed significantly since then. In 2006, 90% of parents said that their children

20、younger than 2 consumed some form of electronic media. Nevertheless, the group took largely the same approach it did in 1999, uniformly discouraging passive media use, on any type of screen, for these kids. (For older children, the academy noted, “high-quality programs” could have “educational benef

21、its.”) The 2011 report mentioned “smart cell phone” and “new screen” technologies, but did not address interactive apps. Nor did it bring up the possibility that has likely occurred to those 90% of American parents that some good might come from those little swiping（在电子产品上刷）fingers.(D) I had come to

22、 the developers conference partly because I hoped that this particular set of parents, enthusiastic as they were about interactive media, might help me out of this problem, that they might offer some guiding principle for American parents who are clearly never going to meet the academys ideals, and

23、at some level do not want to. Perhaps this group would be able to express clearly some benefits of the new technology that the more cautious doctors werent ready to address.(E) I fell into conversation with a woman who had helped develop Montessori Letter Sounds, an app that teaches preschoolers the

24、 Montessori methods of spelling. She was a former Montessori teacher and a mother of four. I myself have three children who are all fans of the touch screen. What games did her kids like to play, I asked, hoping for suggestions I could take home.“They dont play all that much.”Really? Why not?“Becaus

25、e I dont allow it. We have a rule of no screen time during the week, unless its clearly educational.”No screen time? None at all? That seems at the outer edge of restrictive, even by the standards of overcontrolling parents.“On the weekends, they can play. I give them a limit of half an hour and the

26、n stop. Enough.”(F) Her answer so surprised me that I decided to ask some of the other developers who were also parents what their domestic ground rules for screen time were. One said only on airplanes and long car rides. Another said Wednesdays and weekends, for half an hour. The most permissive sa

27、id half an hour a day, which was about my rule at home. At one point I sat with one of the biggest developers of e-book apps for kids, and his family. The small kid was starting to fuss in her high chair, so the mom stuck an iPad in front of her and played a short movie so everyone else could enjoy

28、their lunch. When she saw me watching, she gave me the universal tense look of mothers who feel they are being judged. “At home,” she assured me, “I only let her watch movies in Spanish.”(G) By their reactions, these parents made me understand the problem of our age: as technology becomes almost eve

29、rywhere in our lives. American parents are becoming more, not less, distrustful of what it might be doing to their children. Technological ability has not, for parents, translated into comfort and ease. On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they wil

30、l have to navigate（航行）all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them. Parents end up treating tablets as precision surgical（外科的）instruments, devices that might perform miracles for their childs IQ and help him win some great robotics competitionb

31、ut only if they are used just so. Otherwise, their child could end up one of those sad, pale creatures who cant make eye contact and has a girlfriend who lives only in the virtual world.(H) Norman Rockwell, a 20th-century artist, never painted Boy Swiping Finger on Screen, and our own vision of a perfect childhood has never been adjusted to accommodate that now-common scene. Add to that our modern fear that every parenting decision may have lasting consequencesthat every minute of enrichment lost or mindless entertainment indulged（放纵的）will add up to some permanent handicap（障碍）in the futur