31．It is a large，commercial and industrial city with a population of about three hundred
thousand．It is in the north-east of England，on the River Tyne
．______
32．It is a tourist centre on the south coast，about eighty-five
kilometres
from London．It is a medium -sized town with a population of around one hundred and fifty thousand
．______
33．It is an industrial and commercial city in central than one million
．______
England．It is
of more
a very large city with a population
34．It is a very small village with a population of only eight hundred and forty-twoon Lake Grasmere．______
（D）
A French girl in a Rolls Roycethe stories
outside Buckingham Palace said：“I was soexcited．I saw the Queen！She came out
．I've read all ．They tell me ！”
about Charles and Diana －in French newspapers and magazines
．Your newspapers can't tell the truth about them
for the first
．It is in the north-west
of England，
．I've been interested in your royal family since I was a little girl
－especially
what your royal family really do
An Italian
boy，who was in Britain time，talked about the weather．“I can't understand
！”
，
and I'm living with a
． British men
it．I've been here for over a week
A Japanese student from Tokyo saidBritish family
．I've noticed one
，and I still haven't seen any fog
：“I've been in Britain since April
British
big difference between and Japanese families
do jobs like cooking，washing up and ironingthink it's women's work
．But I don't agree
．They're jobs which I've never seen Japanese men do．They ！”
was a modern European ，pints，and pounds，
A German student，at a language school in Oxford said：“I thought Britain country
－you've been in the EEC for years now
，litres
．So why do you still use miles
instead of kilometres
and kilos？And why do you still
drive on the wrong side of the road？”
．I've noticed one very strange
A Danish girl in Brighton saidthing here．After British
：“I came to Britain a month ago
people have washed the dishes，they never rinse（remove．．．with water）
，soapy water and leave them to dry
！”
them．They just take them out of the dirty
A Swedish girl said
：“I've watched a lot of television since I arrived in Torquay two weeks
！But the“programmes”which I've enjoyed mos
t are the
ago．British television's wonderfuladvertisements
TV advertisem ents at all
Who said what
？
！”
．They're very funny or very clever，or both．Back home in Sweden we don't have any
Who do you think said these things？Write them on your answer sheet．
（E）
Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881 and died in France in 1973． He was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century
．
，but later he began to look at things in new ways
．Soon the shapes and colors became more important to him than ．
，but his most famous is a very large painting called ．It was bombed（attacked with bombs．Many people died
．
．The painting has only three colors
） and ruined
（毁．He
Picasso's early paintings were realisticexperimented with shapes and colorsthe real things in his pictures
Picasso painted many im portant picturesGuernica．Guernica is a small town in Spain灭）in 1937，during the Spanish Civil War
Picasso was angry
－black，white，and gray．It is abstractthings），but you can see some real things in it
．He wanted to show that war is terrible
（expressing the artist's ideas and feelings about certain
．On the left side are a mother and her dead baby
，
a bull and a horse，and a dead man with a broken sword（剑）and a flower．On the right are three people．One of them has a lampthat representto different very afraid
．They are sad and helpless
．
．Symbols are things
things
symbols mean．They mean different
Along with the realistic things，there are many sym bols in the painting
（describe）ideas．No one knows what all the people．But everyone agrees that this painting ）of war．
．
shows the horror（sth．that makes people
Guernica is in the Prado Museum in Madrid
Complete the sentences about Picasso with the correct words
41．Picasso was born in ______in 1881 and died in France in ______42．When he was young，Picasso painted realistic paintings_______paintings
．
．
．
，but he is famous for his
Write down four things that the reading mentions in the painting
43．_______and_______ 44．_______and_______
45．The broken sword is a symbol of _______
．（F）
Climbing is our life
Last summer Annabelle Jones and Claire Hippertto climb the Matter-horn
The girls
first
．（except the sword）
，two 17-year-old English schoolgirls
．The Matterhorn
， decided is popular
，the famous snow-covered mountain in Switzerland
．
to mountain climbers because it is so difficult to climb
got the idea for a climbing expedition
a few years ago，when a well-known disabled
．Norman
（unable to use legs or arms，etc．）climber，Norman Croucher，gave a talk at theirschool
lost both his legs in a train accident when he was nineteenhighest mountains on his artificial legs
Then the girls
．“He inspired us
，but he has climbed some of the world's ，” said Claire
．
trainer
．For
met a well-known mountaineer called Turbo Thomas and he became their
in the Swiss Alps during the summer holidays
．
the next two years he took them climbing very hard．“It wasn't easy
and they trained Sometimes it was
，”said Annabelle．“The weather was often a problem
so cold that we didn't want to get out of bedmade us climb
．”
，but Turbo dragged us to the foot of the mountain and
The girls kept going and finally they were ready to try the Matterhornthe last week in August and travelled to Zermatt
．They started to climb
．They made a date for ，but unluckily the weather r，”said Claire
．”
．
，
beat them．“It rained every day so it was impossible to climb very fa
Are they disappointed
but we'll be back next summer to try again
？“Of course not，”said Annabelle．“I know we didn't get to the top
！Climbing is our life
Answer the questions．
？______________
？_____________________ ？_____________________
46．Why did the girls start mountain climbing47．Where and how did they train48．Why was the training difficult49．What beat them
？And why？_____________________
？_______
7个并用其适当形式填入空中。（答案写
50．Why are they going to return to Zermatt next summerIII．完形填空（Cloze test
）（共15小题，计15分）
10个单词中选择
A）阅读下面短文，根据上下文从所给的
在答题纸上）
along，away，busy，first，get，goodbye，last，quiet，stand，without
Mr and Mrs Smith were
having an argument
into a lifeboat
（争吵）on the boat deck．Mrs Smith was refusing to get （51）______her husband．Then Mrs Smith had an idea．She
saw Captain Smith（52）______nearby with a megaphone．She went up to him and explained she was all alone in the world and asked if her husband could get into the lifeboat
with her．The old captain turned
，“Women and children
． He spoke to his
．This
（53）______and shouted into the megaphone（54）______！”At this point Mr Smith came over wife seriously andship is fully
（56）______with women and children
first
（55）______，“You really must get in now
is just a matter of form．The
equipped and everyone will be saved．”Mrs Smith asked
．Mr Smith replied
firm ．As
her husband if he was being completely truthful
y，“Yes”．So they kissed（57）______ and she got into the lifeboatthe boat dropped into the water，Mr Smith called “Keep your hands in you写在答题纸上）
r pockets
out from the deck，
．” （答案
，it is very cold weather
B）在下面短文空白处填入一个适当的词，形式不正确不得分。
最新2002年全国中学生英语能力竞赛(NEPCS)决赛初三组试题(附答案)
