“上外杯”上海市高三英语竞赛.doc

“上外杯”上海市高三英语竞赛

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I. Grammar and Vocabulary 20%

Choose the answer that best completes each sentence. 1. __________ page of the dictionary is torn and __________ cover looks very old.

C. A; a

2. You can hold the pot in one hand and take off the lid__________.

A. another B. the other C. other one D. the others

3. Painting is __________, but many people do so more than for __________.

A. pleasure; pleasure

with

B. a pleasure; pleasure C. pleasure; a pleasure D. a pleasure; a pleasure

4. He lives __________ his income, that is, he spends more than he earns.

A. on B. through C. by D. beyond

5. Of the two toys, the child chose __________. A. the least expensive one

B. the less expensive one C. the one most expensive D. the most expensive one

6. If the earthquake had happened during the daytime, there __________ fewer deaths.

A. would have B. would have had

C. would be D. would have been 7. He had to be called

two or three

times __________ he would

come downstairs to his dinner.

A. before B. when C. until D. as

8. One reason __________ he told me for his being late is __________ he didn ’t catch the early bus.

A. that; why B. why; became C. that; that D. why; that

9. With no exception __________ .

A. are the students forbidden to shop outside the campus B. the students

will be forbidden to shop outside the campus

C. the students are forbidden to shop outside the campus

D. will be the students forbidden to shop outside the campus

10. __________ inside the tyre, __________ on the inside of the tyre.

A. The more the air; and the harder it pushes B. The more air there is; the harder it pushes C. If there is more air; it pushes harder

D. The more air is there; the harder does it push

11. As it turned out to be a small party, we __________ so formally.

A. mustn ’t have dressed up

B. didn ’t need to dress up

C. needn ’t dress up D. needn ’t have dressed up

12. —How’s your new jo b, Bob? I can __________ you started it.

’t quite remember

—I started it half a year ago. It A. when it was that B. when was it that C. that when

’s interesting.

D. it was when

13. The version __________ to be closest to the author

original now belongs to a national museum in Paris.

A. was thought B. thought C. thinking D. having thought

14. The workers were sure that the factory would make some profit, __________ properly.

’s

A. if managed B. while managed C. as managing D. when managing

15. He __________ to lend her a hand as the suitcase was too heavy for her to carry.

A. helped B. preferred C. asked

D. offered

16. This publishing firm is planning a new __________ of school textbooks.

A. volume B. series C. number D. range

17. Your nose can __________ 50, 000 different smells. But that ’s nothing compared to your eyes, which can distinguish 1, 000, 000 colors.

A. catch B. attract C. depart D. recognize

18. Don ’t expect a(n) __________ success because Rome was not built in a day.

A. fast B. immediate C. constant D. rapid

19. Constant exposure to loud noise can cause __________ damage to hearing.

A. reluctant B. accessible C. permanent D. responsible

20. Whether things sink or float depends on their weight __________ their size.

A. in contrast with B. on the basis of

C. for the sake of D. in relation to II. Cloze 20%

For each numbered blank in the following passages, there are four choices. Choose the best one.

(A)

The native people of North and South America were given the name “Indians ” by the explorer Christopher Columbus. He thought he had reached a place called the Indies. ____21____,

the terms American Indian and Indian became widely used. About two million native Americans live in the United States today.

SomeIndians live on government land called reservations, or on tribal lands. Others live in cities.

Traditional culture ____22____ in areas where large numbers of Indians live. But many native Americans ____23____ that their

cultural traditions will be lost as young people leave these areas for economic reasons.

The economic situation of American Indians as a group is good. About fifty percent of those who live on reservations

not

have

no jobs. Most Indians hold ____24____ unskilled jobs. Indians have many ____25____ problems and do not live as long as other

Americans. But the situation is improving as more Indians are becoming ____26____. Today, most native

Americans graduate from

high school. At least nine percent of all Indians twenty-five years old or older have finished college.

The economic situation also has improved as native American tribes create ____27____ on their lands. One example is the Pequot tribe of the northeast. The tribe owns and operates a

hotel, gambling casino, and a museumof its culture and history. Today, American Indians are trying to control their land without

interference from the ____28____. This includes ____29____ over

hunting and fishing rights, and mining operations. They are trying to protect

their land from pollution.

And they are taking

them.

legal action to regain lost lands or to receive payment for

American Indians are trying to change their economic situation,

improve their lives and ____30____ their culture.

21. A. In time B. On time C. At times D. For a time 22.A. turns impersonal B. gets noble C. remains strong D. becomes faint

23. A. suspect B. wish C. believe D. worry

24. A. low-paid B. low-paying C. lowly-paid D. low-pay 25. A. economic B. health C. education D. culture 26. A. rich B. objective C. educated D. strong 27. A. rights B. history C. civilization D. business 28.A. native Americans B. tribes C. government D. city 29. A. control B. conduct C. conquer D. command 30. A. develop B. honor C. popularize D. extend (B)

There are a number of environmental features that can be found only in Bermuda Triangle. Because of these characteristics, the triangle is one of the most dangerous areas in the Atlantic Ocean.

The weather in the triangle is unexpectedly changeable and extremely dangerous; its sudden changes often ____31____ the lives of sailors.

The triangle is well known for ____32____ storms, hurricanes

that are out of season, and other unnatural ____33____. Many people feel that this unnatural weather can explain strange happenings which have occurred there.

Because of the many violent storms, the triangle is often ____34____.

Many ships leave land and disappear completely; the USS Cyclops, for example, ____35____ in 1918.

most of the

Some ships carried goods such as coal, oil, mahogany, and military supplies, while other ships carried only passengers.

____36____ might explain investigators must look for ship disappears.

the disappearance of old ships, but

when a ____37____

other explanations

When a ship is reported missing, searchers rush to the area to look for evidence which might explain the disappearance.

One author tries to explain the disappearances of the ships by regarding them as caused by natural events or human error.

Another author believes that intelligences from another world are ____38____ the disappearances. He says that these extraterrestrial missing seamen.

Many people agree that natural causes cannot explain the st range events in the triangle.

“It

just isn ’t

____40____ for

beings have a zoo where they ____39____ all the

a ship to completely disappear like this. It matter how you try to explain it,

’s strange, no

” declared the seamen.

“These eerie events make me afraid to sail out of sight of land. ”

31. A. offend B. endanger C. stir D. scratch

32. A. undirected B. unguarded C. unexpected D. undocumented 33. A. activities B. accidents C. behaviors D. events 34. A. inaccessible B. impassable C. intolerable D. impenetrable

35. A. lost B. sank C. ridded D. missed

36.A. Engine observers B. Engine fumes C. Engine operators D. Engine failures

37. A. super B. new C. single D. faulty

38. A. results of C. causes with B. relations to D. reasons for

39. A. feed B. support C. keep D. raise 40. A. common B. natural C. usual D. normal III. Reading Comprehension 60%

Read the following passages and choose the best answer. (A)

Shakes peare said

“A rose by any other name would smell as

sweet. ” When he wrote that, he was obviously a young guy. Our sense of smell changes as we get older.

If you ’re over 40, you don

’t smell the way you used to.

We’re not talking about your body o dor; we’re discussing nose, those little oblong cells in your nasal passages that

up smells and convert them to electrical impulses that scream

your

pick

“pizza!

” to your brain they just don

’t work as they did

before.

The decline tends to be gradual so many people a ren ’t of it. So aware people become less able to detect very weak odors.

They

rate stronger odors as being less intense than younger people would.

It may be a consequence of ageing. It may also be a consequence of some factors that accompany ageing, such as poor health or increased use of medication.

Whenolder people were exposed to a strong odor, It they got used to it faster.

very quickly got to the point where

they could

not detect it. That ’s called adaptation. It ’s why many older

people don ’t smell cer tain things.

For example, the warning odor in cooking gas won ’t be as noticeable to older people as younger people. So older people would be less likely to notice gas leaks.

And then there ’s cross

like that of vanilla,

-adaptation, where certain smells,

make people less sensitive

could actually

but it may happen in roughly 20 percent of the elderly. Food is

the most obvious area in which declining sensitivity to smell among the elderly impacts real life.

There isn ’t much of a decline in sensitivity to chemical irritants.

People can use black pepper, chili pepper,

cinnamon,

carbonated beverages — all of these will provide some sort of tingle( 麻刺感 )or burn that people can still detect, even if they have a poor sense of smell.

41. Shakespeare was a young guy when he wrote the poem, because __________.

A. Roses were sweet, and were smelled the same as he used to.

B. Roses could not make him less sensitive to the smell of vanilla.

C. Roses had weak odors, but he could still detect them.

D. Roses had strong odors, and he got adapted to them easily. 42. Which of the following

is true according to the passage?

A. An old man with a poor sense of smell could still detect chili pepper.

B. Roughly 20 percent of young people experience cross-adaptation.

C. Older people are less likely to get familiar with strong odors.

D. When you reach 40, your sense of smell begin to decline. (B)

Simply stated, use of electronic

computational linguistics and digital

is no more than the

research.

computers in linguistic

These machines are employed to scan texts and to produce, more rapidly and more reliably than is possible without their aid, such valuable tools for linguistic and stylistic research as word lists, frequency counts, and concordances( But more interesting

and much more difficult

主要词语索引 ). than the collection

and arrangement of lists, is the use of computers for automatic

A great amount of progress

in the United States,

grammatical analysis and translation.

was madein the area of machine translation

Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France between the

mid- 1950’s and the mid - 1960’s, but much of the original stimulating

force for this

work has now disappeared, due in part

to the realization that the problems involved are extremely more expected. Thus, translation

complex than was at first

continued

to remain as much as art as a science, if not more so.

43. The passage tells us that: __________

A. Computational linguistics is regarded as an art rather than a science.

B. Computers can be employed to make word lists more rapidly and reliably.

C. Machine translation continues to remain popular in many countries.

D. Between 1950 and 1960 significant progress was made in translations by

computers. (C)

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Joanna Schmidt pushes a canoe into a small slough in northern Minnesota. She paddles toward a floating rectangle of plastic

pipe. The simple device is a turtle trap. It ’s about four feet long with net in the bottom and a board attached to the side.

“We put a plank on the side and they crawl up to sun

themselves and they just fall in. It ’s pretty simple. No

mechanics to it. They do all the work for

us. ”

Joanna Schmidt is a student at Minnesota State University Moorhead. She ’s part of a long

-term turtle research project.

Researchers want to learn more about turtle habitat, and why there ’s been a recent decline in turtle populations.

This slough is about a quarter mile across. It lies in a hollow surrounded by farm fields. Chest high grass and reeds line the water ’s edge. Along one end, dead,

sun- bleached trees stick out of the water. It turtle habitat.

’s perfect

“It ’s warm, a lot of food for them, not very many predators, so they like it, especially having the dead trees with a place

to hang out and sun themselves. So this is very typical.

”

There are several turtles in the trap. Most have been caught

before. They ’re identified by small notches in their

Schmidt weighs and measures each turtle before gently setting them back in the water.

shells.

Minnesota State University Moorhead Biology professor Donna Stockrahm is directing this research project. She says it takes very slowly and they live a long time.

Stockrahm is hoping to learn about rates of turtle mortality,

growth rates, and the optimum(

最适宜的 )habitat for turtles.

She’s seen a puzzling decline in turtle

numbers. Stockrahm says

she doe sn’t have an explanation for the decline.

Most Great Lakes states

now ban or restrict

turtle

trapping.

Stockrahm says Minnesota decided to phase out commercial harvest.

He says about a dozen people make a living trapping turtles.

They’ll be allowed to cont

inue.

48. The floating rectangle of plastic

pipe is a trap to catch

the turtles and

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .

A. identify them

B. harvest them

C. research them

D. measure them

49. According to Joanna Schmidt, a typical good turtle

habitat is

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .

A. abundant in water, sunlight, food and dead trees

B. a large slough lined with chest high grass and reeds

C. a warm, wet, safe place with food and tree branches

D. a farm with much fertile soil and without predators 50. Why does the number of turtles decline puzzlingly? A. Commercial harvest is not restricted..

B. Their habitat is seriously damaged. C. Their living environment is polluted.

D. Researchers have n ’t reached a conclusion. (E)

Television has become the ultimate babysitter. Connie Drake recently realized that her nine-month-old daughter might be watching too much TV.

“When we would drive

in the car, I noticed that Marcy would get really excited

whenever we passed a McDonald ’s, ” she said. “It took me a while to realize that she recognized the sign from TV commercials. ”

Study after study tells us what we already know: kids watch

too much TV. In many countries, the average teenager spends more time watching television than he does eating, exercising,

reading, and talking to other people combined. But what is that the average age of television watchers is dropping and shows are being developed for babies who can barely crawl.

’s new

It started with the “Teletubbies ” — the first TV program

designed for children who hadn show’s bizarre charact outraged many educators. children under two, education.

’t yet learned to talk. The

ers, baby talk and pointless stories

“There is no excuse for targeting

” says Victor Strasburger, a professor of

“They should not be watching television, and to

”

target them is immoral.

The creators of the Teletubbies dismiss the criticism by saying that adults naturally have trouble understanding a

program that appeals to little television

in a radically

children. “Little children watch different way than older children and the show with her partner

little

children,

adults, ” says Anne Wood, who started Andrew Davenport. “Children,

especially live in the same world as the rest of us, but they perceive it differently.

”

But a growing number of parents perceive the Teletubbies and

other

baby-oriented shows as being the perfect babysitter. One parent wrote about the Baby Einstein series: put your child

in front of something that

“If you want to

will keep her occupied

while you cook, clean, read, or do other things, then this is as close as it gets to baby coc

aine without being illegal.

”

51. It is implied in the second paragraph that ________. A. the Drakes often go to McDonald

’s

B. Connie ’s daughter enjoys McDonald food C. Connie ’s daughter can read

D. Connie ’s daughter watches too much TV 52. It can be inferred in the passage that the Teletubbies are created to _______.

A. educate children B. help parents C. make money D. earn a reputation

53. The underlined word“outraged ” most probably means _______.

A. shocked B. excited C. disappointed D. interested

. According to Anne Wood, little children _______. A. have a better understanding of the world

B. self-teach more things than adults can imagine C. view the world differently from the adults

D. understand things that adults don ’t

55. According to the last paragraph, some parents think _______.

A. baby-oriented shows should be banned B. baby-oriented shows are a great help to them C. baby-oriented shows serve well as first teachers for babies

D. baby-oriented shows are against the law (F)

That afternoon, I wen

t up to my new patient

’s room. For a

man approaching seventy, he was a fine specimen of physical fitness. But I have never seen anyone more depressed.

He was sitting by the window, with his big, shaggy head in his hands. WhenI told

him who I was, he did not look up. I began

by asking him leading questions. He responded with grunts and shrugs.

After a while, he grew exasperated. He barked out shrilly that I should leave him alone, that he was tired of living, that he

had lived too long and that he was only a nuisance.

I decided to try the technique of agreeing with him. Looking at my watch, to sign that I was about to depart, I stifled a yawn. “You’re probably

right,

Mr Weatherby, ” I drawled.

“A man

at your age is, as you say, rather worthless, even if he has fairly good health; and I suppose you most of your life.

It delighted

“Puny! Sickly!

”

me to see how mad he became! As soon as he yelled,

’ve been puny and sickly

Me?” I knew there was definitely nothing wrong

with him. “Puny?” he shouted. Then he suddenly descended into

gloom again. But this did not discourage me.

I said,

“Now, tell

me the truth,

Mr. Weatherby, didn ’t

”

you

have lung trouble when you were a young man?

“Lung trouble! Who? Me? the age of fifteen, he was alr ea woods. Then he sank back in his

” He went on to inform me that at

dy doing a man ’s work in the chair and scowled at the window.

I tried another bait.

“Mean- looking, isn

“I saw your son,

’t he? I suppose his wife

” I said.

’s no better. No ”

wonder you ’re tired of living with them.

At that,

he turned on me furiously.

He declared that his son

was one of the finest men in the world and nobody could be any sweeter than Florence. Then suddenly, tears began to roll down

the old man ’s face. I knew now that I could make him talk and felt it was time to make peace with him.

“Of course I don’t think your boy is mean,” I said gently.

“And I don ’t think his wife is either. I know they both love you. But you wouldn

’t talk to me so I had to do something.

”

He nodded understandingly.

” I went on,

“you don ’t look as if you

probably comes from

“And the fact is,

had ever seen a sick day in your life. That living

in the woods. Life

there must be very different from life

here in the city. I wish you would tell me something about it. ”

That was exactly what he wanted to talk about. Adapted from Doctor Hudson ’s Secret Journal 56. It can be inferred that A. surgeon

“I ” was a ________.

B. volunteer doctor C. physician

D. psychological doctor

57. Which is the right order according to the story? a. The old man defended his health and family. b. The old man became angry.

c. The old man talked about why he was feeling depresse d.

d. The old man would not answer the doctor

’s questions.

e. The old man broke down and cried. A. d, e, a, b, c B. d, a, e, b, c C. d, b, a, e, c D. d, b, e, a, c

58. “Leading questions ” are questions ________. A. which are asked at the very beginning

B. whose answers are predictable C. which are rather difficult to answer

D. whose answers can be various

59. The old man was so depressed due to ________. A. his tense relationship with his son

B. his being overworking and poor health

C. too much pressure from both the family and the society D. his not being used to new life

60. Which of the following A. Lifestyle affects health.

is NOTtrue according to the story?

B. Environment affects health. C. Physical fitness doesn

’t necessarily mean health.

D. Too much depression may lead to health problems. Key : 每题 1 分

1—5 A B B D B 6 —10 D A C A B 11 — 15 D A B A D 16 — 20 B D

B C D 21—25 A C D B B 26 — 30 C D C A B 31 — 35 B C D B A 36 — 40 D B D C B 每题 3 分

41— 45 A A B D B 46 — 50 C A C C D 51-55 D C A C B 56-60 D C B D D