2012年全国大学生英语竞赛C类模拟试题

2012 Mock Test for National English Contest for College Students

85. 令我很失望的是，尽管他很努力，但还是没能通过托福考试。（to one?s disappointment） Part VI IQ Test (5 marks)

There are five IQ Test questions in this part.

86. Please give the missing letter: CFI DHL EJ（ ） 87. What is next letter in this sequence? AF, DI, GL, JO, ...

88. What appears once in a second, once in a month, once in a century, yet not at all in a year or a week? 89. Mary, who is sixteen years old, is four times as old as her brother. How old will Mary be when she is twice as old as her brother?

90. Which of the figures below the line of drawings best completes the series?

A. B. C. D.

Part VII Writing (30 marks) Task I

You must organize an annual academic conference which will be held on December, 15. Write an invitation to Dr. William. You should write no fewer than 80 words. Task II

Write an article of no fewer than 120 words with the topic “Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Dictionary”. 参考答案

Part II Vocabulary and Structure

31—35 DBADD 36—40 BDBAB 41—45 DBCBD

46. sending 47. questioned 48. received 49. who 50. devices 51. if 52. sensitive 53. unacceptable 54. instead 55. rules Part IV Reading Comprehension

56. B 57. A 58. A 59. It refers to someone who is almost always late. 60. Because he wants to be punished. 61. Self-confidence instilled 62. emerged as the top support 63. acted as a barrier 64. NG 65. Y 66. F 67. T 68. Under the ground.

69. Because it is convenient for vehicles to recharge the battery. 70. Because of much lower cost of establishing future power strips. 71. It shows that punishment is not the best way to influence behaviour. 72. Four years. 73. cooperative 74. rewards 75. slower Part V Translation

76. 世界卫生组织报道说，该组织已经收到来自33个国家报告的将近6500例经官方证实的甲型H1N1流感病例，其中包括65个死亡病例。 77. 他说，其他地区所有感染甲型H1N1流感的病例都是因为病人得病前去过北美洲。

78. 如果我们开始注意到有些得病的人根本没有跟去过北美的人接触过，那么，这的确就成为比较有力的证据，表明我们正在经历甲型H1N1流感发生了群体

性传播。

79. 他说对疾病进行监测，密切跟踪它的发展变化是非常重要的。

80. 在上述流感大流行时期，死的都是比较年轻的人，这种现象非常反常，跟季节性流感不同。 81. The water is unfit for drinking unless purified.

82. I was almost as good as the others in learning English, but much poorer in learning maths. 83. It looks like that snow is going to continue through the weekend.

84. Born and brought up in remote villages, some of them have never seen a train. 85. To my great disappointment, he failed the TOFEL exam though he worked very hard. Part VI IQ Test

86. O。通过仔细观察可知CFI这三个字母中，C到F间隔两个字母，F到I也间隔两个字母；而DHL中的D到H间隔三个字母，H到L间隔三个字母；E到J间隔四个字母，那么J到所填字母间隔也应是四个字母，所以答案当然就是O了。 87. MR

88. The letter “N”.

89. 24。 这是一道计算题。理解题意，按照题目的要求列式就能得出正确答案。

90. C。找出图形间排列的规律，要求考生仔细观察，从细微之处找到突破。奇数位的图形左下角有一小棒，偶数位的右上角有一小棒，那么排除A和D；再看偶数位图形上方的小棒个数是依次递增2个，下方的依次递减2个；总的小棒个数不变；因此选C。

Part III Cloze

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Part VII Writing Task I

One possible version: Dear Dr. William,

On behalf of Hangzhou College, I would be very pleased to invite you to attend our annual academic conference to be held at the Lecture Hall of the college at 9:00 a.m., on December 15, 2009.

The theme of the conference is Perspectives on In-service Training. I sincerely hope you will be able to accept our invitation. As a famous scholar in this field, your participation will be among the highlights of the conference.

We would appreciate having your acceptance soon, so that we can complete our agenda. Task II

One possible version:

The discussion about electronic dictionaries has never stopped in the past few years. Let?s have a look at its advantages and disadvantages before drawing the final conclusion. The biggest advantage of it is its convenience.

Whenever you meet new words, you can look them up quickly. What?s more, electronic dictionaries can pronounce the words clearly, provide sample sentences and store difficult words for special memorization. Last but by no means the least, electronic dictionaries are becoming cheaper, and more and more students can afford them.

However, it has the negative effects. First, some students rely too much on them—they do not put their heart into learning new words, but play games on them. Second, some explanations are neither complete nor accurate, which are quite misleading.

Now, we can see it clearly: so long as we can make proper use of them, they can be a useful tool.

（Level C - 6）

Part II Vocabulary and Structure (15 marks)

There are 15 incomplete sentences. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. 31. —Has Mary finished writing her composition? —No, but it ________ an hour ago.

A. should be finished C. should have finished

B. should have been finished

D. should finish

B. Having not been discovered D. Having not discovered

Sincerely yours,

Li Jun

32. ________, many laws of nature actually exist.

A. Not having been discovered C. Not having discovered A. when being necessary C. when that being necessary A. As it tried A. hurt

33. That is why, ________, we feel ourselves free to criticize the policies of leaders of those organizations.

B. when is necessary D. when necessary C. It as tried

D. Did try as it

D. harmed D. unreal

34. The company owed a debt of ten million dollars last year. ________, it couldn?t prevent itself from getting bankrupt.

B. Try as it did

B. damaged B. unnatural

35. Children who are over-protected by their parents may become ________.

C. spoiled C. false

36. There were some ________ flowers on the table.

A. artificial

37. The travelers ________ their journey after a short break at the lake.

A. recovered A. destroy A. gaps A. require

B. renewed B. resist

C. restored C. assume C. length C. enquire

D. resumed

D. cancel

38. Our company decided to ________ the contract because a number of the conditions in it had not been met. 39. In the advanced course students must take performance tests at monthly ________.

B. intervals B. demand

D. distance

D. acquire

40. From this course the students should ________ some useful knowledge in political science. 41. The US is trying to ________ the serious problems caused by the energy crisis.

A. put up with A. potential A. common Anita: ________

Kim: I know you feel sick of hearing his name, but he was seriously injured in a car accident.

A. I don?t care what happened to him. C. It?s none of my business.

B. I feel sick of hearing his name. D. I don?t want to meet him.

B. come up with B. overwhelming

B. average

C. cope with

D. comply with

D. inevitable

D. general

42. Although nuclear weapons present grave ________ dangers, the predominant crisis of overpopulation is with us today.

C. constant

43. The ________ runner can run two miles in fifteen minutes.

C. usual

44. Kim: Do you know what happened to Jack?

45. John: How did you enjoy the party last night, Sally?

Sally: ________ I was wondering why everyone gave me the cold shoulder.

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John: Maybe they dislike the way you were dressed.

A. Is it good? C. Enjoy the party? Part III Cloze (10 marks)

Read the passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letters of the word.

The new school year has begun in America, but some children do not go to school. (46) In________, they learn at home, usually with their parents (47) ________ teachers. Educational companies, libraries, school systems and the Internet provide families with (48) ________ (teach) material.

Homeschooling is (49) ________ (increase) popular. Homeschooling groups estimate that two-million children, around two percent, learn at home. The last government estimate was 850,000 in 1999. Current (50) n________ are not expected until next year.

Some parents choose homeschooling because of their religious beliefs. Others say it (51) pro________ more time for the family to be together. Many parents also believe homeschooling avoids problems of a lot of traditional schools. One problem is classes with too many students. Critics, though, say children need to (52) at________ school with other children to help them learn things like social skills. They also say that some homeschooled children do not get a very good education. All fifty states and the District of Columbia permit homeschooling. Some, however, require more (53) ________ (prepare) by parents or testing of children than others do.

There is even a National Home School Honour Society. Membership is based in part on the same tests (54) ________ students take in school. Homeschooled children go to college and have also won top (55) ________ (compete). These include this year?s National Geographic Bee. Fourteen-year-old James Williams knew that the Indian state of Goa is a former colony of Portugal.

Part IV Reading Comprehension (40 marks)

Read the following passages carefully and respond to the questions given. Section A

If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctor, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise—and as a result, we are ageing unnecessarily soon.

Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could be slowed down.

With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.

Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect and emotion, and determine the human character. (The rear section of the brain, which controls functions like eating and breathing, does not contract with age, and one can continue living without intellectual on emotional faculties or functions.)

Contraction of front and side parts—as cells die off—was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty-and seventy-year-olds. Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple remedy to the contraction normally associated with age-using the head.

The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.

Matsuzawa?s findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must circulate properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells need. “The best way to maintain good blood circulation is through using the brain,” he says.“Think hard and engage in conversation. Don?t rely on pocket calculators.” Questions 56 and 57: Answer the following questions briefly according to the passage. 56. On what are a team of Japanese doctors? research findings based? 57. What does the word “subjects” in paragraph five mean?

Questions 58 to 60: Choose the best answer to each question according to the passage. 58. The team of Japanese doctors wanted to find out ________.

A. why certain people are sooner than others C. the size of certain people?s brains 59. The doctor?s tests show that ________.

A. our brains shrink as we grow older

B. the front section of the brain does not shrink

C. sixty-year-olds have better brains than thirty-year-olds D. some people?s brains have contracted more than other people?s 60. According to the passage, which people seem to age slower than the others?

A. Lawyers. Section B

Mass travel is just that—travel for the masses. Over 60,000 million people will fly, drive, sail or go by train to a foreign destination this year.

Global earnings from tourism this year will exceed $450 billion. Within the next fifteen years, the tourism business is expected to expand fourfold and to generate receipts in excess of $1.5 trillion, according to the World Travel Organization. Add in other types of travel, such as business, to recreational travel and you have an industry that is worth perhaps double that amount—and employs more than 200 million people worldwide.

Nowhere is exempt (免除) from this explosion of movement. From the most remote island in the Pacific to the deepest valley in the Himalayas and the driest areas of Sahara, tourism is leaving its mark. Toilets for tourists are now provided at base camps on the slopes of Mount Qomolangma. Special landing craft fan out from luxury ships to explore the most remote beaches in the Galapagos Island.

Europe remains the motor of this industry, although its old dominance is slipping in the face of Asian competition. Today, 60 percent of all tourist arrivals are in Europe, (down from 69 percent in 1975), and receipts for tourism at $214 billion are more than three times higher than those in the US ($64 billion). No fewer than one in five tourists (120 million in 1997) go to the Mediterranean alone.

B. Farmers.

C. Clerks.

D. Shop assistants.

B. how to make people live longer

D. which people are most intelligent

B. Don?t you feel strange? D. Don?t you know?

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Tourism is a mixed blessing. Tourism generates wealth, employment—and enjoyment, at least, for the tourists. However, it has downside, too. Environmentalists who wish to protect the world?s beauty spots, peasants in developing countries force off their land to make room for tourists? golf courses, governments worried about “moral pollution” are just a few of those uneasy at the sudden and startling democratization of travel. Nor should we forget exhausted air traffic controllers, coping with greatly increased numbers of aircraft queuing to take off and land. For questions 61 to 63, mark:

Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts with the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.

61. In the near future, the tourism business will expand greatly and produce more profits. 62. Tourism industry will bring higher payment for 200 million people worldwide. 63. The explosion of movement refers to the busy transportation.

Questions 64 and 65: Complete each statement with no more than five words according to the passage. 64. The rapid development of tourism also has its ______________________, such as “moral pollution”. 65. The environmentalists who are against the fast expansion of tourism may think it important to ____________ __________. Section C

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008, was the first Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap. For example, private donors will give 150,000 bars of soap to schools in Ethiopia. The Education Ministry wants one million schoolchildren to wash their hands for Wednesday?s event.

Experts say people around the world wash their hands but very few use soap at so-called critical moments. These include after using the toilet, after cleaning a baby and before touching food.

Global Handwashing Day is the idea of the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap. Partners include the United Nations Children?s Fund, American government agencies, the World Bank and soap makers Unilever and Procter and Gamble. The goal, they say, is to create a culture of hand washing with soap.

The organizers say all soaps are equally effective at removing disease-causing germs. They say the correct way to wash is to wet your hands with a small amount of water and cover them with soap. Rub it into all areas, including under the fingernails. Rub for at least twenty seconds. Then, rinse well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth or wave them in the air.

The Partnership for Handwashing says soap is important because it increases the time that people spend washing. Soap also helps to break up the grease and dirt that hold most of the germs, and it usually leaves a pleasant smell, which increases the likelihood that people will wash again.

The partnership says washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any vaccine or medicine. It could help reduce cases of diarrhea by almost half, and it could reduce deaths from pneumonia and other breathing infections by one-fourth.

Diarrhea is the second leading cause of child deaths, killing more than one and a half million children a year. Pneumonia is the leading cause, killing about two million children under five each year. Hand washing can also prevent the spread of other diseases.

When people get germs on their hands, they can infect themselves by touching their eyes, nose or mouth. Then they can infect others. Questions 66 to 70: Complete the following form according to the passage. The Partners of the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap The goal of the Global Handwashing Day The time of the first Global Handwashing Day The correct way to wash hands Diseases that can be prevented

Section D

Would you like to know if your body is older or younger than it should be? Dr David Wikenheiser has been studying ageing in Vancouver, Canada, for the past ten years and has found the average person is 15 or more years older biologically than chronologically.

He says, “We all know people who are 30 but look over 40, and others who are 70 yet look 50. The difference comes down to lifestyle. Some people?s bodies get ‘rusty’faster than others, and this makes them age more quickly.”

Virtually every ageing process is related to the oxidative compounds or free radicals produced by our body as reaction to pollution, ultraviolet light, stress, smoking, alcohol and pesticides. But these can be neutralized by antioxidants.

After conducting more than 3,000 tests, Dr. Wikenheiser believes that, on average, you can lower your biological age by ten years in three months with the right lifestyle changes.

“You can?t alter your genetics but you can make other changes, such as eating the right food, drinking enough water to flush out toxins, exercising and managing stress,”he says.

However, exercising too much is just as bad as not doing enough. Working out for more than two hours at a time every day puts too great a strain on your heart.

“Multivitamin and antioxidant supplements are important even if you?re eating the right amount of fruit and vegetables. Today?s soil tends to lack essential minerals, so these are no longer found in the food we eat, in large enough quantities. We should also swap bleached while table salt for natural sea salt which is much better for us.”

It?s also important to eat three meals a day. Missed meals put a strain on your brain as your blood sugar level drops. Many of us are also eating the wrong fats or avoiding fat altogether, so we miss out on important nutritional oils.

the United Nations Children?s Fund, American government agencies, (66) ____________ and soap makers Unilever and Procter and Gamble. (67) ____________ of handwashing with soap. (68) ____________ Wet your hands first, then (69) ____________, next, rub it into all areas for at least twenty seconds, then rinse well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth or wave them in the air. Diarrhea, pneumonia and other (70) ____________ 28