2010年全国中学生英语能力竞赛（NEPCS）初赛
初二年级组试题
（总分：150分答题时间：120分钟）
听力部分（共四大题，共
30分）
Ⅰ.Sentences（句子理解）（共5小题，每小题
1分，计5分）
Listen to the following five sentences, and choose the best picture for each sentence. Each sentence will be rend only once.（听五个句子，选择与所听句子内容最相符的图片。每个句子只读一遍）
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Ⅱ.Responses（句子应答）（共5小题，每小题1分，共5分）
Listen to following sentences, and choose the best response to each sentence. Each sentence will be read only once.五个句子，选出最佳的应答句，每个句子只读一遍)。6、A. No, not at all B. Why not? It‘s open C. Me, too D. Yes, do please
7、A. Yes, I do
B. Yes, it is
C. Is it delicious D. Any one is OK?
8、A．How do you know?
B. You‘re welcome. C. What do you do ? D. Thank you very much 9、A. Twice a week B. Ten minutes
C. Go swimming
D. It‘s very healthy
10、A. That‘s good idea.
B. Hold on, please. C. Remember it
D. Nothing else.
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(Ⅲ.Dialogues（对话理解）（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
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A) Listen to the following five mini-dialogues, and choose the best answer to each question. Each dialogue will be read twice.（听五组小对话，选择能回答所提问题的最佳选项。每组对话读两遍）11. How will the boy go to the cinema?
A. By bus A. To Yunnan A. Went to a movie A. In a library A. A month
B. On foot
C. By taxi
D. By bike C. To Guangdong C. Bought a watch
D. To Hainan D. Read a book
12. Where is the man going?
B. To Shanghai B. Watched TV
13. What did the man do on the weekend? 14. Where are the speakers?
B. At a bookshop B. One week
C. In a clothes shop D. At the airport
15. How long will it take for the mail to get to Chicago?
C. Three days D. Twenty hours
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B) Listen to a long dialogue, and choose the best answer to each question. The dialogue will be read twice.（听一段长对话，选择能回答所提问题的最佳选项。对话读两遍）16. Who felt something had been left behind?
A. The man
B. The woman
C. Sarah
D. Nobody
D. The dog
D. This morning
17. What did they forget?
A. The passports
B. The suitcases
C. The gifts
18. When did Sarah see the dog looking for food?
A. Yesterday evening B. Yesterday morning C. This afternoon 19、Where are they talking?
A. In the ear A. Go on walking
B. On the bus
C. On the road
D. At the party
D. Repair the ear
20. What are they going to do next?
B. Look for the dog
C. Buy some food 1分，共10分）
短文读两遍)（答案涂在答题纸
Ⅳ.Passages（短文理解）（共10小题，每小题
A）Listen to the following passage, and choose the best answer to each question according to the passage. The passage will be read twice.(听一篇短文，根据其内容选择最佳选项回答下列问题，
上）
21. What was Sally‘s problem?
A. She wake too early every morning C. She never listened to her mother 22. Who was Suzie?
A. Sally‘s sister A. At the table
B. Sally‘s friend B. In her bedroom
C. Sally‘s cousin C. In the classroom
D. Sally‘s mother D. On the bus
23. Where did Sally nearly fall asleep? 24. What was Mums suggestion to Sally?
A. To remember her words C. To go to bed earlier A. She woke up late again C. It was her duty that day
B. To plan her time in the morning better D. To write down everything B. She was talking her mother D. It took her much time to write
B. She loved to sleep late
D. She was nearly late for school every day
25. Why did Sally hare rush in the end?
B）Listen to the passage, and complete the farm according to the passage. Use no more than two words for each blank. The passage will be read twice.（听一篇短文，根据其内容完成下面的表格，每空不超过两个单词。短文读两遍）（答案写在答题纸上）
2
Should schools have rules about teenagers‘ hair?
For: Against:
Their daughterspents (26) (28) about hair make us all look (29) Combing her hair, and (27)
(30)
also takes lost of time.
Too much time on it.
笔试部分（共九大题，共
120分）
Ⅰ.Multiple-choice(选择填空)（共15小题，每小题
1分，共15分）
Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D, Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. (从A，B, C, D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项)（答案涂在答题纸上）
31. After school we usually play
basketball for half an hour on
playground
A. the, a B. /; the
C. /; an
D. the; /
32. Here are some flowers you our best wishes.
A. to; for
B. for; with
C. of; to
D. form; to
33. ——Who taught Japanese?
——Nobody, I just learned it by
A. your; myself B. you ; I C. yours ; me
D. you; myself
34. I stopped and on the bed to have a rest.
A. to work; to lie B. to work; lied C. working; lay
D. working ; lying
35.Cherry, Lily‘s sister, at the aquarium yesterday and she also watched a movie dolphins.
A. were; on B. are; from
C. was; about
D. is; of
36. Jane is very happy because she is off today. The underlined（划线的）word can be replaced（被代替）by ――
A. at that time B. at once C. now D. for a second 37. Our Chinese teacher is in the office at the moment.The underlined wants can be replaced by―‖. A. at that time
B. at once
C. now
D. for a second
38. ——Can you speak English?
——Yes, but only . I know I should try harder. A. a little
B. a few
C. little
D. few
39.——Tony, is your brother as active as you? ——No, he‘s a quiet boy. He is than me.
A. outgoing B. more active C. less outgoing
D. much active
40. She began to play the violin
she was six years old.
A. when
B. because
C. but
D. as
41. About of the workers in our company were born in the
.
A. two –thirds; 1980 B. two-thirds; 1980
C. two-third; 1980
D. two third; 1980
42. ——Hello, what did you do last Sunday?
——.
——That sounds great.
A. I went to the Expo
B. I will go shopping
C. I am making my report
D. I visit my grandparents
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43. ——Where‘re Barry and Harry? —— I‘m not sure. They in the library .
A. will be ——
——Oh, I‘m sorry to hear that. A. I have a headache
B. I had a good time
C. It fits me well
D. Don‘t worry
45. ——Could you send me an e-mail about the meeting next week? ——Of curse,
——It‘s dora@ hotmail.corn..
A. What‘s your mobile phone number? C. How is the meeting going ? 2分，共25分）
A)Read the following passage which is followed by five questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the passage.46. Alain Bombard was
.
A. an
It can be dangerous to travel on the ocean. Ships sometimes sink a ling way from land, When this happens, the people have to get into small lifeboats. If another ship does not come to help them quickly enough. or they do not have any food or water. they may die.
Most people believe that we must not drink sea water. They believe that if we do. we will be very ill because of the salt in the water. But a doctor named Alain Bombard did not believe this. He thought that people could stay alive at sea by dinking sea water and eating small fish, animals and plants from the ocean, On October 19, 1953. he set out to prove he was right by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat. He did not take any food or water with him.
Every day, Dr Bombard drank just a little sea water. He also caught fish . He took small plants from the ocean, which gave him more food.
Dr Bombard became hot. and quite ill, but after sixty-five days at sea, he was still alive, He traveled 1,700 kilometers from one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other.
He had lost 20 kilograms in weight, but he proved that people can survive on sea water and the animals and plants in the ocean.
C. old sailor B.
a doctor
a
fisherman D. a cook 47.
He
wanted to prove .
A. sea water was dangerous B.
fish
were good for people
C. sailors often died A. sea water
D. people could drink sea water and not die
.
C. sea water, fish and small plants D. bread and rice
C. In December. 1953
D. In October. 1953
48. During his journey. Alain Bombard lived on
B. food that he cooked
（阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容从每题所给的
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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选项）
B. Which city do you live in ?
5小题，每小题
1分；非选择题
10小题，每小题
D. Can I have your e-mail address?
B. maybe
C. may be
D. must be
44. ——What‘s the matter with you ?
Ⅱ.Reading comprehension（阅读理解）（共15小题；选择题
49. When did he land on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean?
A. In October, 1954
B. In January. 1954
50. Which picture show Alain Bombard‘s life on the sea?
B)The questions
according to the passage.(阅读下列两篇短文，然后按短文后的要求完成所给出的题目。
A
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On my class trip to a museum, something happened. I was late leaving the bus. Then, I dropped my glasses while running to catch up with the class. Most of the class got in the first elevator. When I raised my head. I saw Fredrick all alone in the other elevator. (55)
He was holding the door open for me, but I did not expect him to do that.
I didn‘t
want to stand next to him. but I had to catch up with the class. So I jumped into the elevator.
Suddenly, the elevator stopped between two floors! I couldn‘t believe it!The elevator trapped us together for about one hour. After a while. we started talking. I learned that Fredrickmark less than perfect.
I felt different about Fredrick after being stuck in lunch together that day, and we now spend more time friend.
阅读短文，根据其内容补全句子，51. The boy lost
52. They were trapped together for 53. The boy learned that Fredrick had a 55.将划线句子翻译成汉语。
B The Big Apple
A lot of cities throughout the world have been given nicknames, for example, Paris is called ―the City of Light.‖One question that both New Yorkers and tourists often ask is, Apple‘?‖
Over the years there have been several stories. The most popular is that in the early 1920s. a reporter for the Morning Telegraph newspaper heard some people use the term ―big apple‖ while talking about the racetracks (赛马场) of New York. But the people
who really who really made the phrase ―big apple‖, the townwhere everyone wanted to perform. (60) If you could pick any appleoffa tree , why not pick a big apple? Then in the 1970s.the visitors‘bureau of New York Cityused a ―the big apple‖ as the centreof acampaign (运动), giving the apple the meaning of New York and inviting visitors to ―take a bite out of the apple‖. Now stores, maps, tour books, andweb sites use the big apple as the symbol for New York City. 56. What‘s the passage mainly about?
57. What did ―The Big Apple‖ refer to in the 1920s? 58. Who really made the phrase ―big apple‖ popular?
59. When did the visitors‘ bureau use the big apple to mean New York? 60. 将划线句子翻译成汉语。
Ⅲ. Cloze (完形填空) (共15小题；每小题
1分，计15分)
12个单词或短语中选择
10个，并用其适当形式填
A) Read the passage below, and fill in the blanks with suitable forms of 10 words or phrases of the 12 given according to the context. (阅读下面的短文，根据其内容提示，从所给的空。每个单词或短语只适用一次。
)(答案写在答题纸上
)
―Why is New York City called
?The Big
father.
54. Because of in the elevator, the two became friends.
每题不超过
三个词。classmates.
while running to catch his
the elevator with him, We had together at school. He is my new
‘s father was very strict. He punished Fredrick for any
What, more, worry, water, at first, two ,run into, hurry up, jump, outside, lucky, hot
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