2017年全国中学生英语能力竞赛（NEPCS）决赛
高一年级组模拟试题二
（总分：150分 答题时间：120分钟） 听力部分（共三大题，记30分）略 笔试部分（共七大题，计120分）
Ⅰ. Knowledge and Usage (知识与用法) （共20小题；26-35每小题0.5分，36-45每小题1分计15分）
(A) Please complete the following sentences with one word for each blank by using the Chinese or English hints given in the brackets.（请根据括号中所给的汉语提示完成下列句子。）（答案写在答题纸上）
26. We(关心,在乎) what happens in our dreams, even when what happens makes no sense. 27. Everything in my childhood crowded in my mind (好像,仿佛) they had just happened. 28. But some scientists say that recovering from this (灾难) will be even more complicated. 29. In a word, we all can make a difference in (保护) the endangered species from extinction. 30. They are all American heroes and (应该得到) our thanks and our remembrances. 31. The internet resources should be made use of to(make wealthy or richer) our life
32. The people there did not allow them to(build) a factory so as not to pollute the water in the river. 33. Helicopters (save) nearly 20 people from the roof of the burning building last night. 34. A sad little boy was (looking for ) happiness and wanted to meet God. 35. Some patients(in fact)got worse after receiving the treatment.
(B) Please complete the following passage by choosing the best of the four choices marked A,B,C and D in the boxes. （请从方框中给所的A,B,C,D四个选项中选出最佳选项完成下面的短文。）（答案涂在答题纸上）
Sally is eighty-six years old. She has no sons 36daughters. Her husband died ten years ago. But she didn’t move into a nursing home. She would like to 37herself every day. Every night she spends two hours 38kids with math for twenty years. All kids living on her street can get her help without payment(报酬). She 39a famous math teacherbefore she retired(退休) from a middle school.
She gets up early in the morning, then does sports, goes shopping or helps cleaners 40the street. And she does these happily.
When the kids come for help, she is always 41and tries her best. People asked her42. She said, “I love it. It makes me happy to help them.”
She is always happy every day and always says hello to people around her 43a smile. “ I’ve decided to love everything around me. So I’m happy to do 44. I’m thankful for those kids 45come to me for help. Each kid is my gift. I love each day to help them.” she said.
Really, a good decision decided on what one does in life.
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36. A. and 37. A. look like 38. A. helping 39. A. was 40. A. do 41. A. awful 42. A. why 43. A. for 44. A. anything 45. A. what
B. or B. to help B. is B. run B. happy B. where B. on
B. nothing B. who
C. but C. helps C. has been C. sweep C. tired C. when C. with C. something C. which
D. so D. help D. will be D. play D. boring D. how D. in D. everything D. whom
B. look at C. look after D. look for
Ⅱ Cloze (完形填空) (共15小题：每题1分，计15分)
A) Please read the following passage and fill in the blanks with the proper forms of 5 words outof the 7 given ones in the box according to the context.(请阅读下面的短文，并根据其内容提示，从方框中所给的7个单词中选出5个，并用其适当的形式填空。)(答案写在答题纸上) do mistake explain honest us refuse Most people have trouble admitting theirown faults, though they're more than happy to point out everyoneelse's. This can be (41)_________. After all, it's usually when someone else tells us that we have done something wrong that welearn something about ourselves. What wehave to do is take a deep breath, and face up to what we have done. Remember, when it
comesto understanding (42), we're not on our own. Everyone we know lends a helping hand!Of course, doing the wrong thing is easy, but it's what we do about our mistakes that counts.Naturally we are all good at (43) to believe that we have done anything wrong at all.As we try to justify our actions, our (44) get more and more Complicated. We try toconvince the listener that we are telling the truth, but it's of no use. There's no chance at allthat they will believe us. And the truth is that it is ourselves we have deceived ( 蒙骗 ), not them.That's the very point I'm trying to make. Whatever you do, don't get into the habit of deceivingyourself. What is difficult is (45)______ admitting that we are wrong---especially toourselves.
B) Please read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word in one of the following three ways: ① based on the context; ②using the proper form of the given words; ③based on the given letters of the words.(阅读下面的短文，用以下三种形式之一完成短文填空：①根据上下文填空；②用所给单词的正确形式填空；③根据单词随给首字母填空。每空一词。) (答案写在答题纸上)
A diary is an individual's personal account of his / her daily experiences. Very often, diaries(46)
con_____ not just details of what happened on particular days, but also include(47)(observe) and thoughts inspired by the events recorded.
It is very likely that many of you have tried to keep a diary at some time or other andequally likely that many of you (48) up. either because keeping it going becametoo much of a chore or because you felt that what you were recording was of little interest.
(49) H , others among you may still be keeping a regular account of your activities in a diary form and discovering the value of being able to (50) ex yourprivate thoughts and feelings, knowing that they are not intended to be shared with anyone else.
Although some people, such as politicians, keep diaries in order to explain and justify their (51)______(contribute) to important events and with the intention that their diarieswill one day be published, not all diaries are (52)________(write) for this purpose. Most people keep diaries forprecisely (恰恰)the (53) op_____ reason they wantwhat they write to be kept (54)______ and to be seen bytheir eyes only because they use their diaries as an opportunity to express their most intimate(秘密的) thoughts and feelings about their (55) expand the people they meet.
III. Reading Comprehension(阅读理解)（共20小题，56-60每小题1分，61-75每小题2分计35分）
Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions. Please respond to the questions according to the requirements given at the end of each question.(阅读下列短文，每篇短文后设有若干问题，请根据短文后的要求回答问题) （56-58小题大案涂在答题纸上，59-75小题答案写在答题纸上)
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If you ask someone why he or she wears clothes, the answer will probably be \to cover my body.\but people also want to lookattractive and appear successful to others!
If people only wore clothes for warmth and to cover their bodies, most clothing would be simple and cheap. In most Western countries, however, clothing is sometimes very expensive. The main reason for this is not the cost of the fabric (布料) or the cost of making the clothes. The clothes are expensive because of fashion.Successful businessmen, for
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example, often wear very expensive suits, shirts and ties. Sometimes they pay thousands of dollars for a suit and hundreds of dollars for a tie. It's still just a suit and tie but they pay these prices because of the famous name of the designer. A suit costing much less would be just as warm and would cover the wearer's body just as well.
Fashion is constantly (不断地) changing, which means that people who want to be fashionable have to buy new clothes every few months, even if last month's clothes have only been worn once or twice. Some people have wardrobes (衣柜) full of clothes that have hardly been worn but are no longer in fashion. Being fashionable, therefore, can be a very expensive pastime!
Questions 56-58: Choose the best answer from A, B, C and D according to the passage. 56. Why do people wear clothes?
A. Only to cover themselves. B. Just to make themselves attractive. C. Just because of fashion. A. cost of the fabric
D. For a variety of reasons. B. famous name of the designer
57. Successful businessmen buy very expensive suits because of the________. C. cost of making them D. good packages 58. According to the passage, fashionable people have to________. A. wear their clothes only once
B. buy new clothes regularly
C. wear last month's clothes D. buy new Clothes once or twice Questions 59-60: Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the passage.
59. Successful businessmen pay thousands of dollars for a tie.
60. Some clothes are no longer in fashion though they have hardly been worn. B
There're two main things that make aircraft engineering difficult: the need to make every part as reliable (可靠的) as possible and the need to build everything as light as possible.
（61）_____________________
Given a certain power of engine and a certain fuel consumption ( 消耗 ), there is a practical limit to the total
weight of the aircraftthat can be made to fly. (62) So the structure of the aircraft has to be assmall and light as safety and efficiency (效能) will allow. The designer must calculate (计算) the normal load (负荷 that each part will bear. This specialist is called the \stress that may be put on the part.
The stress man's calculations go to the designer of the part, and he must make it as strongas the stress man says is necessary. (63) Each separate part is tested, thena whole assembly (装配) --for example, a complete wing, and finally the whole aeroplane.When a new type of aeroplane is being
made. normally only one of the first three made will beflown. Two will be destroyed on the ground in structural tests. (64)______________
(65) The first is to find the resistance (阻力) to loading of thewings, tail, etc. until they reach their largest amount of load and collapse (崩溃). The other testis for fatigue ( 疲乏 ) strength. When a plane has passed all the tests it can get a governmentcertificate (证书) of airworthiness, without which it is illegal to fly, except for test flying.
Questions 61-65: Choose from the sentences A-G to complete the passage. There are two extrasentences which you do not need to use.
A, Two kinds of ground strength tests are carried out.
B. One or two samples are always tested to prove that they are as strong as thedesigner intended. C. Each may be well under what the structure could stand as a single load, but many repetitions can result in collapse.
D. The third one will be tested in the air.
E. Making the working parts reliable is as difficult as making the structure strong enough: F. The fact that an aeroplane is up in the air and cannot stop if anything goes wrong, makes it perhaps a matter of life or death that its performance is completely dependable.
G. Out of that weight as much as possible is wanted for fuel, radio navigational instruments (导航设备), passenger seats, or freight (货物) room, and, of course, the passengers or freight themselves.
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Auctions(拍卖) are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He
asks
the
The auctioneer's services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goodsare sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high aspossible. The auctioneer must know fairly accurately the current market values of the goods heis selling, and he should be acquainted with (了解) regular buyers of such goods. He will alsoplay on the rivalries （竞争） among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price byencouraging two business competitors to bid against each other.
Questions 66-70: Answer the following questions according to the passage. 66. Whom are auctions conducted by?
67. Why is the end of the bidding called \68. Where did items the Romans used to sell by auction come from? 69. What is the use of a candle burned at auction sales? 70. How are the auctioneer's services paid for?
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Americans smoke six thousand million cigarettes every- year (1970 figures). This is roughly the equivalent(相当于) of 4,195 cigarettes a year for every person in the country of 18 years of age or more. It is estimated (估计) that 51% of American men smoke compared with 34% of American women. Cigarette smoking is believed by most research workers in this field to bean important factor
in the development of cancer of the lungs and cancer of the throat. Somecompetent physicians and research workers--though their small number is dwindling (减少)even further--are less sure of the effect of cigarette smoking on health. They consider theincrease in respiratory (呼吸道) diseases and various forms of cancer may possibly be explainedby other factors in the complex human environment. Gradually, however, research is isolating(使隔离) all other possible factors and proving them to be statistically irrelevant.
While all tobacco smoking affects life expectancy and health, cigarette smoking appears tohave a much greater effect than cigar or pipe smoking. Filters and low tar (焦油) tobacco areclaimed to make smoking to some extent safer, but they can only marginally (略微) reduce, noteliminate (消除), the hazards (危险).
Questions 71-75: Please complete the summary of the passage above with only one word foreach
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crowd
assembled in the auction-room to make offers, or \for the various itemson sale. He encourages buyers to bidhigher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called \down\the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammeron a table at which he stands.
The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes fromthe Latin \spoils (战利品]) taken in war; these sales were called \ground as a signal for a crowd to gather. In England in the 18th and 19th centuriesgoods were often sold \alight.
Example One of my favorite writers are Charlotte Bronte. She was born in the early nineteenth is Nearly half the adult population of the U.S.A. are smokers, in (71)of the fact that medical research
has shown beyond reasonable doubt that smoking is associated with poor health. One very (72)_____ century when women had far fewer opportunities∧ they have now. She lived in a than small village in Yorkshire and she took great pleasure in walking on the moors where where disease with which smoking is thought to be (73), is cancer. However, a few doctors think such things
near her home. as bronchitis (支气管炎) and cancer have other (74) _____, but their view is not well-supported blank.
statistically. Although all forms of smoking are almost certainly (75)________ , cigarettes appear to be the most harmful.
Firefighters were called out last night to a Taunton hotel which catching fire at around midnight. It appeared that the fire had broken on the first floor and spread rapid throughout the building. Unfortunately it coincided (同时发生)with gale-force winds which fuelled the flames. Although they have no advance warning, the guests were able to get out of and the hotel manager felt they had had a narrow escape. Firefighter fought the blaze for several hours but eventually put it out. This fire comes
77. When I held fast to my dreams, even during the tough times, the wonders really began to happen.
78. 太多的垃圾已经把美丽的城市变成了一个大垃圾箱。 (change... into)
79. 学生们轮流着照看这个老人，赢得了广泛的赞誉。 (take turns)
80. 如果你想考入一所好大学的话，你就应该在学习上付出大量的时间和努力。(put... into)
they are held responsibility, they could face prosecution (起诉).
at a time wherethere is growing concern about the health and safe regulations in holiday accommodation; the hotel owners now face the prospect of enquiry into the cause of the fire, and if
IV. Translation（翻译）（共5小题；每小题2分，计10分）
Please translate the following sentences into Chinese or English, using the hints given in the brackets.（用括号中给出的提示将下列句子译成英语或汉语。）
76. An informal letter usually begins with a casual and friendly greeting.
VI. IQ(智力测试）（共5小题；每小题1分，计5分）
Answer the following questions.（回答下列问题。） 91. Which letter completes the last group? DBAC HFEG LJIK PNM(?)
92. Which figure completes the sequence?
V.Error correction(短文改错）（共10小题；每小题1分，计10分）
Correct the errors in the passage according to the following requirements. First, you have to decide whether there is an error or not in the line which is numbered. If there is no error, put the sign \the corresponding line on the right; If there is an error, correct it in the following way: for an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with the sign \ \ \\wrong word and write the correct one in the line on the right. Notes: Do not make any correction if there is no error in the line.
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93. A man who worked in the butcher shop ( 肉店 ) was 6 feet tall, had red hair and wore size 11
shoes. What did he weigh?
94. Find the missing letter and number.
95. Television is to the image what radio is to...?
VII. VII. Writing（写作）（共2题；A题满分10分，B题满分20分，计30分）
A) You're Wang Meng. Your pen-friend, Steve, wants to know something about the protection
ofantelopes (藏羚羊) in China, Please write a letter to Steve according to the information given below. Your letter should be in 80-100 words. Past he number of antelopes was decreasing because they were killed for their fine fur.
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Present Result The government takesmeasures to protect The living conditions of antelopes: making strict laws; setting up antelopes have greatly reserves; stopping the killing; forbidding to improved. buy orsellanything made of antelope fur.
B) Nowadays some young students are pursuing pop music. They think it's necessary to follow fashion,
while others just don't agree. Write a composition of about 120 words to present your opinion on this topic.
2018年全国中学生英语能力竞赛决赛高一组模拟题及答案
