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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. I'm thinking of hiring a teacher for my son. You see, he isn't able to _________ the rest of his 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. mustn't B. couldn't
C. shouldn't D. don't have to
33. _________ they will send us invitation is not yet known, but we hope they will.
A. If B. That C. Whether D. When
34. I agree with most of what you said, but I don't 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 _________ 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, _________ I'll tell you more about later, I ended up staying at Rachel's place.
A. when B. where C. which D. what
39. —Excuse me _________ for so long.
—It doesn't 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 don't look well. What's the matter?
—Oh. _________. I'm just tired. I've been working until around ten every night this week.
A. There's nothing serious B. Something is wrong with me
C. It's none of your business D. That sounds great
41. —Mr. Liu's wife was hurt in the traffic accident yesterday afternoon.
—_________
A. I don't think so. B. I'm interested in such news.
C. She must be more careful. D. What a pity!Is she OK 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. 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 _________, I'd visit Europe, stopping at all the small interesting places.
A. a long enough holiday B. an enough long holiday
C. a holiday 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. It's easy enough to keep that many teeth clean, because people usually _________ time to brush them, 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. eighteen C. twenty-five D. forty
50. It's just _________ that snails don't 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 messages 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. 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 distant 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 that Kublai Khan kept 300,000 horses along the roads of his delivery lines.
It wasn't 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 government 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 expensive 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 (were) 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 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，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 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, 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 of 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 come 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 married once, didn't 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 average half a year?
62. Why cannot the calves turn round in veal crates?
63. What's 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
 Newspapers 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 the nearly 60,000 newspapers being published around the world, about 2,600 are published in the United States. More than half—about 1,800—of them are dailies.
Some newspapers have a lot of subscribers—people who pay to have each edition delivered to them. For example, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today 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 providing 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?
69. Newspapers provide a service to the community, so they don't want to make money, do they?
70. What do newspapers do to keep the cost to the readers low but still make money?
III. 完形填空（Cloze）（共15小题，计15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填上适当的单词，使短文语义完整。每空一词。（每题1分）
Richard came from a small village. He left (71) _________ college last month. With a friend's help, he found a job in a psychiatric hospital. He found it (72) _________ to get on well with the patients, because he couldn't (73) _________ what they did and said. He was always worried about it.
One day a girl with a pair of glasses rushed in, without knocking at the door, while he was (74) _________ a book on medicine.
“What's (75) _________ with you, madam?” asked Richard.
The girl looked at the young doctor for a few minutes, laughed, and then (76) _________. After a while she repeated this again. It made him (77) _________. He wrote “Please (78) _________ at the door” on a piece of paper and stuck it on the door.
Can you guess what (79) _________ next? Before long, the young man heard a knock and opened the door, but there was (80) _________ outside. After a while he (81) _________ out the book, he heard a knock again. He didn't see anybody outside his office. Now he stood (82) _________ the door and waited. As soon as he heard a (83) _________ knock, he opened the door and rushed out. He saw the view of a girl's back.
(84) _________ did you knock at the door for, again and again?”
(85) _________ to the note on the door, the girl said with a smile, “Look at it yourself!”
IV. 翻译（Translation）（共10小题，计10分）
A）阅读下面短文，然后把划线处的句子译成汉语。（每题1分）
(86) Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. Each is born with the power to win at life. Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and thinking. Each has his or her own unique potentials（潜能）—skills and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creative being—a productive person, a winner.
(87) The word “winner” and “loser” have many meanings. When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who makes someone else lose. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically（真正地） by being believable, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine （诚恳的）, both as an individual and as a member of a society.
(88) Winners do not dedicate their lives to an ideal of what they imagine they should be. Rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence, and manipulating（操纵） others. (89) They are aware that there is a difference between being loving and acting loving, between being stupid and acting stupid, between being knowledgeable and acting knowledgeable. Winners do not need to hide behind a mask.
Although winners can freely enjoy themselves, they can also delay enjoyment. (90) They can discipline themselves in the present to enrich their enjoyment in the future.
B）根据提示把下列句子译成英语。（每题1分）
91. 万一下雨，他们就不能去了。（in case of）
92. 假如不是它售价太高的话，我本想买下那件衣服。（except that）
93. 他把他的全部时间都用在工作上了。（devote... to）
94. 只要有趣，他什么都愿意做。（as long as）
95. 医生是关照人们健康的人。（定语从句）
V. 短文改错（Error correction）（共10小题，计10分）（每题1分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判定：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注重：原行没有错的不要改。
Now I have taken over ten years at school. As a child, 96. _________
I regarded the school a beautiful garden. I went to 97. _________
school happily and excited with a small bag. Time 98. _________
flew fast. Now I'm studying at a senior middle school. 99. _________
Every day morning, on my way to school, the rising sun 100. _________
greets me with a smile. At class, I enjoy putting my 101. _________
heart into listening to the teachers. In the evening, I do 102. _________
exercises, like a farmer working hard, expect a good 103. _________
harvest. During breaks between class, I often go out for a rest. 104. _________
I'm sure I will never forget wonderful time at school. 105. _________
VI. 智力测试（IQ）（共5小题，计5分）
106. Which letter is three to the left of the letter two to the right of the letter immediately to the left of the letter F?
A B C D E F G H
107. 357 : 466 : 575
Which three numbers below have the same relationship to one another as the three numbers above?
A. 719 : 628 : 537 B. 462 : 353 : 262
C. 634 : 743 : 852 D. 873 : 651 : 762
108. What will you break once you say it?
109. Which number should replace the question mark?
110. This is a secret code（密码）.Study it carefully.
VII. 写作（Writing）（共2小题，计25分）
A） 情景作文。（10分）
Read the following passage, and then use your own words to give a brief summary of it about 90 words.
A Brahmin, a member of the Hindu Priest, had a great reputation for holiness (神圣), and received many presents so that he became rich. One day, he took a fancy to dress himself as a poor peasant. Then he went into the market place but no one saluted (敬礼) him and no one gave him any presents.
The Brahmin then returned to his house and, dressing himself in rich garments (外衣), once more set out for the market place. This time, everyone saluted him and made way for him and many handed him presents. This was the usual custom when a holy Brahmin happened to make his appearance in the market place.
Once again, the Brahmin returned to his home and changed his clothes. Then, taking the rich garments, he set them up on a shrine near the market. As he prostrates (跪拜) himself before them, cried continually, “O mighty garments, you are esteemed above all else in this world...”
The people gathered round in wonder, and in time came to worship the clothes as this Brahmin was doing.
S 开放作文。（15分）
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