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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．
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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
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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
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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
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