2014年全国中学生英语能力竞赛高一年级组初赛试题册（节选）
听力部分(共三大题，计30分)
I．Responses (句子应答) (共5小题；每小题1分，计5分)
Please listen to the following five sentences and choose the best response to each one you hear. Each sentence will be read only once. (请听下面五个句子，选出能应答所听句
子的最佳选项。每个句子只读一遍。)
1．A. Oh. I’m sorry to hear that. B. Of course not. Go ahead.
C. Sure. Here you are. D. Sorry. I won’t do that again. 2．A. I’d like a kilo of tomatoes, please. B. My name’s Tony King.
C. I have to answer my cellphone. D. It’s been raining all day. 3．A. Thank you very much. B. The same to you.
C. You’re welcome. D. Congratulations
4．A. You can make it. B. Take it easy. C. It’s over there. D. Hold on, please. 5. A. Take the medicine, and you’ll feel better in a little while.
B. I really had a good time in Beijing last summer vacation. C. I’ll pick you up at the school gate tomorrow evening. D. I’d love to, but I have to meet my professor.
II. Dialogues (对话理解) (共10小题；每小题1分，计10分)
(A) Please listen to the following five mini-dialogues. Each dialogue is followed by a question. Choose the best answer to each question according to the dialogue you hear. Each dialogue and question will be read twice. (请听下面五组小对话，每组对话后有一个
问题，根据你听到的对话内容，选出能回答所提问题的最佳选项。每组对话和问题读两遍。)
6．A. Go hiking. B. Go sightseeing. C. Go swimming. D. Go shopping. 7.
A. B. C. D. 8．A. The man’s mother. B. The man’s grandmother.
C. The man’s sister. D. The man himself. 9. A. Because of the convenient transportation . B. Because of the good environment. C. Because of the warm weather. D. Because of his father’s new job. 10．
A. B. C. D. B) Please listen to the following dialogue. The dialogue is followed by five questions. Choose the best answer to each question according to the dialogue you hear. The dialogue and questions will be read twice. (请听下面的对话及对话后的五个问题，根据你所听到的对话内容，选择能回答所提问的最佳选项。对话和问题读两遍。) 11．A. It’s an airline company. B. It’s a motor company.
C. It’s a sporting goods company. D. It’s a travel company.
12．A. Selling sporting goods in Europe. B. Leading tours to Asian countries.
C. Promoting air travel to America. D. Selling cars in Africa. 13．A. Because she was inexperienced.
B. Because they wanted a native Chinese speaker. C. Because they were worried about her English. D. Because she hadn’t received job training.
14．A. At five. B. At six. C. At seven. D. At eight. 15．A. Suzy will take the job as a customer service representative.
B. Suzy will refuse the job as a customer service representative. C. Suzy will apply for a management job in another company. D. Suzy will attend another job interview for a new job.
III. Passages (短文理解) (共15小题；每小题1分，计15分)
A) Please listen to the following letter. The letter is followed by five questions. Choose the best answer to each question according to the letter you hear. The letter and questions will be read twice. (请听下面的一封信及信后的五个问题，根据你所听到的
信的内容，选择能回答所提问题的最佳选项。信和问题读两遍。)
16．A. Her friends. B. Her parents. C. Her classmates. D. Her boyfriend. 17．A. She’s a nurse. B. She’s a teacher. C. She’s a salesgirl. D. She’s a student. 18．A. In May. B. In June. C. In July. D. In August. 19．A. By taxi. B. By underground. C. By car. D. By bus. 20．A. In London. B. In Nottingham. C. In Manchester. D. In Leeds.
B) Please listen to the following passage. There are ten missing words or phrases. Fill in the blanks with the exact words or phrases you hear. The passage will be read twice.
(请听下面的短文，短文中有十个缺失的单词或短语，请你根据你所听到的单词或短语填空。短文读两遍。)
First of all I’d like to thank everyone who has helped with the school play. Both the actors and the stage (21). _______, have worked very hard, and everyone who made the costumes
worked hard (22). _______. I would also like to thank (23)._______those who have sold tickets. This year we had an even larger (24). ________than last year, and except for Tuesday evening, every single seat was (25)._______. This year the play ran for a week (26).______for two days. We didn’t have a lot of time for rehearsals, and yet the play was a
great success. (27)._______, I feel that we should congratulate all the actors for their (28)._________performance. (29). _________, I’d like to give Judy Walker, the director, this (30).__________from everyone at the school.
笔试部分(计120分)
I. Vocabulary (词汇) (共5小题；每小题1分，计5分) Please complete the following sentences by using the Chinese hints given in the brackets.（请根据括号中所给的汉语提示完成
下列句子。）
31. He __________（说服）me out of the idea of dropping the experiment. 32. Did you do it __ （故意地）or was it an accident?
33. The _____________（受惊吓的）child cried loudly in his mother’s arms.
34. The houses in Ludian were all ______________（严重受损）after the earthquake. 35. For my birthday in July I was given a good ____________（质量）bike. III. Cloze (完形填空) (共15小题；每小题计1分，计15分)
B) Please read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word in one of the following three ways:①based on the context; ②using the proper form of the given words;③based on the given letters of the words.(请阅读下面的短文。用以下三种形式中的一种
填空：①根据上下文填空；②用所给单词的适当形式填空；③根据单词所给的字母填空。每空一词。)
Part of a creative English family, Charlotte Brontё was the eldest of the three sisters who began (51). pub________ novels at the same time. Their father was a clergyman（牧师）, and their mother died when Charlotte was only five years old. As a result Charlotte, her brother and her sisters spent a lot of time home (52). al_______. They developed imaginary worlds and characters (53). tog_______. From the family’s literary (54). ________ (effort), Charlotte drew ideas for her novels and achieved financial success. Her novel Jane Eyre is a story of Jane Eyre and her love for Mr. Rochester. It is ranked (55). am_______ the great English novels.
Emily was the second of the three sisters in the Brontё family. Before she died from tuberculosis（肺结核）when she was just 30 years old, she wrote only one novel, Wuthering Heights. But it’s still (56). con_____ as / to be one of the greatest works of English literature. In the novel, Emily describes two families (57). _________(lock) in the dramatic relationship. Emily’s (58). ________ (power) writing was so beautiful and energetic that it made the book a literary classic.
Anne was the youngest member of the Brontё family. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel (59). b_____ on her own experience as a governess (家庭女教师) for five years. Anne’s life was cut short at the (60). ________ of 29.
IV.Reading Comprehension(阅读理解C 71-75)
If your cat walked across something you were painting and left footprints behind, would you consider your cat an artist? The idea might sound like a joke to you, but some people have been taking animal art very seriously.
In 1995, two Russian-American artists, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, first heard about the
troubles of elephants in Thailand. Elephants were used for hundreds of years in Thailand’s logging industry to move wood from forests in areas where there were no roads. When the forests of Thailand began to slowly disappear, the government put a stop to logging. All of a sudden, there were many elephants who no longer had a way to make a living. There were once tens of thousands of elephants living in Thailand. Today, there are less than five thousand. Komar and Melamid knew that something had to be done to help the elephants. They came up with an idea that would forever change the way people regarded Thai elephants. Komar and Melamid visited elephant camps in Thailand where they began to show the mahouts who trained elephants how to teach them to paint. At first, the mahout has to guide the elephant’s trunk. The elephants became more comfortable doing this with practice—and lots of sweet snacks—and finally started to paint on their own. The strange idea that Komar and Melamid had to save the elephants actually began to work. They helped found several elephant art schools in Thailand and in other Asian countries. The elephants and their mahouts go there to learn about painting and to get the supplies they need. Today people buy elephant artwork from galleries all around the world. Some are even willing to pay more than $2,000 for the work of the elephant artists!
Questions 71—75: Answer the questions according to the passage. 71．Why did many elephants no longer have a way to make a living? 72．About how many elephants are there in Thailand today? 73．What do the mahouts do in Thailand?
74．Where does the elephant artwork in the galleries come from?
75．What was the author’s main purpose in writing this article?
VI. Error Correction (短文改错) (共10处错误；每处错误1分，计10分) Correct the errors in the passage according to the following requirements. First, you have to decide whether there’s an error or not in the line which is numbered. If there’s no error, put the sign “√” in the corresponding line on the right. If there’s an error, correct it in the following ways: for an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with the sign “\\” and put the word with the sign “\\” in the line on the right; for a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with the sign “∧” and write the word you believe to be missing in the line on the right; for a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the line on the right. Notes: Don’t make any correction if there’s no error in the line. 按要求改正所给短文中的错误。
对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边的横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正： 该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\\）划掉，在该行右边的横线上写出该词，并也用斜线（\\）划掉。 该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该词。 该行错一个词：在错词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。 注意：原行没有错的不要改。
This summer the 2014 World Cup Finals took in Brazil. Germany 86. becomes the first European team to ever win a World Cup in the Americas, 87.________ beating Argentina on Sunday’s final in extra time and finally had 88.________ it fourth world championship. In the 113 th minute, Sehurrle passed 89. _______ the ball perfect to Mario Gotze, who had entered in the 88th minute. 90.________ He scored the only goal of the match. After Germany goal, Argentina 91._______
threw everything into attack but it was not to be for Lionel Messi and 92._______ his team. World champion Germany returned to home to show off 93._______ the World Cup at the Brandenburg Gate , where thousand of fans had gathered 94._______ to welcome their heroes. The players danced and sang its way onto a stage 95._______ at the Gate. Congratulations, Four Star Germany!
2014年全国中学生英语能力竞赛答案（节选）
听力部分 I.Responses
1----5 BADCD II.Dialogue
6——10 AABDC 11——15 DBCBA III Passages
16——20 ADCCB 21. workers 22. as well 23.all 24.audience 25.sold
26. instead of 27.Personally 28.wonderful 29. In conclusion 30.gift 笔试部分 I.Vocabulary 31. persuaded 32.on purpose/ purposely /deliberately /intentionally 33. frightened/ scared 34.seriously damaged / in ruins 35.quality III Cloze
51. publishing 52.alone 53.together 54.efforts 55.among 56. considered 57.locked 58.powerful 59.based 60.age IV. 阅读理解（C）
71. Because the government put a stop to logging. 72. Less than 5,000
73. They train elephants.
74. Thailand and some other Asian countries
75. To share information about the elephant artists in Thailand.
VI.短文改错。
This summer the 2014 World Cup Finals took in Brazil. Germany becomes the first European team to ever win a World Cup in the Americas, beating Argentina on Sunday’s final in extra time and finally had it fourth world championship. In the 113 th minute, Sehurrle passed the ball perfect to Mario Gotze, who had entered in the 88th minute. He scored the only goal of the match. After Germany goal, Argentina threw everything into attack but it was not to be for Lionel Messi and his team. World champion Germany returned to home to show off 86. part 87. _bacame 88. _in_____ 89. __its__ 90.perfectly 91.Germany’s 92.__√____ 93.___to__
全国中学生英语能力竞赛(高一组
