2004年全国中学生英语能力竞赛高三组样题及参考答案 北京

and index finger(食指). Americans shake their index fingers at children when they scold them and pat them on the head when they admire them.

Learning a culture's body language is sometimes confusing(困惑的). If you don't know what to do, the safest thing to do is to smile.

21. When you shake hands with an American, you should _______ . A. shake his / her hand firmly

B. put your hands on his / her shoulder C. shake his / her hand gently D. give him / her a hug afterward

22. In the US, people usually _______ if you stand too close to them. A. feel friendly B. get uncomfortable C. keep still D. hit you angrily

23. If you talk with an American friend, it's polite to _______ . A. stare at him / her B. look at the ground

C. look at him / her in the eyes D. look here and there

24. When an American gives you the thumbs-up, he, in fact _______ . A. means that you are number one B. wants to please you C. needs to call a waiter

D. expresses his satisfaction to you 25. What's the main idea of this passage?

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A. People greet each other by shaking hands in America. B. Every country has their own gestures.

C. Learning a culture's body language is very important and necessary. D. It is all right to point at things but not at people with the hand and index finger.

(B)

Australia, with the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Indian Ocean to the west, is a very large country, while its population is very small. Another interesting fact is that one out of five Australians was not born in Australia. Most of the population is in the southeast part. Three out of every five people live in one of the five big cities. Sydney is the biggest city with a population of 3.1 million. Melbourne in Victoria has a population of about 3 million. Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth each has about one million. All of these cities, except Perth, which faces the Indian Ocean, are in the east and southeast of the country.

The capital city of Australia, Canberra, is not very big. Only about a quarter of a million live there. Hobart in Tasmania, which is to the south of the mainland of Australia, is even smaller and Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, is a very small city. It has a population of under 40,000.

26. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Australia is a country whose area is very large, but whose population is very small.

B. Australia is a very small country both in area and in population. C. Most Australians were not born in Australia.

D. Most of the population of Australia is in the southeast and the north part.

27. _______ has the second largest population. A. Canberra B. Sydney C. Melbourne D. Brisbane

28. Which of the following maps shows the right positions of Brisbane, Hobart,Perth and Darwin?

(B=Brisbane; H=Hobart; P=Perth;D=Darwin)

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29. The following five cities, Canberra,Darwin, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth,have a population of about _______ million.

A. 1.65 B. 4.40 C. 3.65 D. 3.29 30. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The cities' development of Australia in population. B. The history of the cities in Australia.

C. The distribution (分布) of Australia's population. D. The importance of the cities in Australia. B)阅读下列短文,并按要求做每篇后面的题目。

(C)

GENEVA— The use of stimulants(兴奋剂) or drugs is increasing and something must be done about it, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

\焦点) was on heroin. In the 1980s and the 1990s the focus was on cocaine. Now in the 21st century we are becoming frightened by the rapid increase in amphetamine-type stimulants, not only in the rich countries of the world but the whole world,\

Amphetamines are often used by the workers, such as long-distance truck drivers, to increase endurance (耐久力) or delay sleep, the official said.

About 3 per cent of the population of the world use amphetamine, experts said. In Britain, among young people between the ages of 16 and 19, fourteen percent of them have used amphetamines.

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In Korea, Japan, Denmark, the Philippines and Australia, amphetamines are more widely used than heroin or cocaine, a reporter said. The problem is also widespread in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe.

Directions (a): Answer the following questions.

31. This passage appeared in a newspaper,in which type of column (栏目) might it be?

32. How many kinds of drugs are mentioned in this passage? What are they? 33. Why does the use of amphetamine-type stimulants frighten us? 34. According to the passage, how many people in the world have used amphetamines?

35. What's the purpose of writing this article?

Directions (b): Judge whether the following statements are true (T) or false(F) .

36. The problem of using amphetamines is widespread in America and Europe. 37. Amphetamines are made of cocaine. 38. People in Britain never use heroin.

(D)

Microwaves that transmit television signals always travel in a straight line. As the Earth is round, it is impossible to send television signals over a long distance. For example, if we tried to send television signals directly from Europe to America, the microwaves carrying the signals would shoot into space over the Atlantic and wouldn't reach America.

If we want to send television signals around the surface of the Earth, we must send them from point to point by a relay system. On land we can set up relay stations

for this purpose, and we can pass signals from station to station in a series of straight lines. However, we can not do this so easily over water. In order to send pictures directly across the Atlantic, for example, we would need to build a chain of relay stations across the ocean, which is about 3,000 miles wide. One choice would be to build one great tower in the middle of the ocean.

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