2010 National English Contest for College Students (Level C - Preliminary) (总分：150分 时间：120分钟)
Part I Listening Comprehension
Section A (5 marks)
In this section, you will hear five short conversation. Each conversation will be read only once. After each conversation, there will be a pause. During the pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
1. What in the woman probably doing now?
A. She is writing an essay.
B. She is studying for a test. C. She is shopping for shoes.
2. How did the woman feel according to the conversation?
A. She was relaxed.
B. She was pleased.
C. She was disappointed.
3. What does the woman say about her presentation?
A. It’s far from being ready.
B. She got a lot of information from the Internet. C. She needs another week to get it ready.
4. Where will the company probably hold the staff party?
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5. Which picture shows the corrections to the man’s name?
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A. B. C.
Section B (10 marks)
In this section, you will hear two long conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. After each conversation, there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
Conversation One
6. What does the man want to talk to Ann about? A. A holiday trip to Yellowstone Park. B. A research project in Yellowstone Park.
C. A lecture by a professor who visited Yellowstone Park.
7. According to the man, why is the buffalo population increasing in Yellowstone Park? A. A lot of buffalo have come from neighbouring areas. B. Fewer buffalo are dying of disease.
C. It is easier now for the buffalo to find food in winter.
8. Why does the man think Ann would be interested in going to Yellowstone?
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A. She has been studying animal diseases. B. She is eager to visit Yellowstone Park. C. She needs the money to continue her studies, 9. What did the woman plan to do in July? A. Work on her thesis. B. Have a holiday.
C. Study the buffalo population.
10. Where will the woman most probably spend the coming summer? A. At the University of Wycoming. B. At Yellowstone National Park. C. At her friend’s home in Wyoming.
Conversation Two
11. What was Matt Ryan’s first job?
A. Doing holiday relief work at a television channel. B. Working part-time as a model.
C. Taking pictures for a television station. 12. What did Matt find interesting about the sixties? A. The increasing number of comic books. B. The rapid advances in technology.
C. The American space programme.
13. Why were Matt’s models once used on the news?
A. They presented better images than the real pictures.
B. The spacecraft camera got damaged and failed to take any pictures.
C. The television studio was trying some new ideas.
14. What was the name of the programme that marked the beginning of Matt’s TV career? A. Strange Creatures. B. Time Traveller. C. Bright Star.
15. What did Matt do for the programme? A. He made models.
B. He acted the part of a monster. C. He filmed it.
Section C (5 marks)
In this section, you will hear five short news items. Each item will be read only once. After each item, there will be a pause. During the pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. 16. How many times has the National Hochey League allowed its players to take part in the Winter Olympics? A. Five times. B. Three times. C. Twice. 17. Where was the Africa Cup of Nations held?
A. In Togo. B. In South Africa. C. In Angola.
18. What has caused a large number of people to flee their homes in northern Yemen?
A. An armed conflict. B. Lack of food. C. Freezing temperatures. 19. Who is Emtiaz Sooliman?
A. A search and rescue specialist. B. Head of a South African foundation.
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C. Leader of a local civic group.
20. What did the second stimulus bill passed by the House of Representatives aim at? A. Promoting international trade. B. Boosting employment. C. Expanding the private sector.
Section D (10 marks )
In this section, you are required to fill in 10 blanks, each with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS after listening to a short passage. The passage will be read twice. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
Children’s Toys
◆ Most popular wooden toy: (21)＿＿＿＿ ◆ The wooden toy is for (22) ＿＿＿＿ ◆ Output per (23) ＿＿＿＿:4,000 items
◆ Average (24) ＿＿＿＿time per box: (25) ＿＿＿＿minutes ◆ The number of boxes in (26) ＿＿＿＿:1,000 ◆ Date of the coming dispatch: (27) ＿＿＿＿
◆ Current number of (28) ＿＿＿＿:20
◆ Number of staff working on the (29) ＿＿＿＿:40 staff ◆ All staff do: (30) ＿＿＿＿work
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (15 marks)
There are 15 incomplete sentences in this part. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence, then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
31. When Ian was injured, Harry was chosen as a last-minute ＿＿＿＿ for the rugby team.
A. preference B. diversification C. alternation D. replacement
32. --Hello, Mr Brown, I’m ringing about our component delivery. It’s not arrived yet and
it’s already three o’clock in the afternoon.
--Let’s see …it’s ＿＿＿＿ reach you on Tuesday afternoon.
A. owing to B. likely to C. due to D. subject to
33. Among the last groups of people to accept the new model were religious groups, who still
＿＿＿＿ the idea that the earth was the centre of the universe.
A. clung to B. applied to C. adapted to D. contributed to
34. Although apparently rigid, bones exhibit a degree of elasticity that enables the skeleton to ＿＿＿＿ considerable impact.
A. escape B. overwhelm C. withstand D. suppress 35. --Would you like me to go to the dentist with you ? --No, you ＿＿＿＿ with me.
A. need not to go B. need not go
C. do not need go D. not need go
36. Lance returned to cycling and training only five months after he was ＿＿＿ diagnosed with cancer.
A. aggressively B. drastically C. exactly D. initially 37. Great minds generally look at life in a way ＿＿＿＿ to themselves. A. peculiar B. confined C. similar D. unusual
38. They called in an electrician ＿＿＿＿ he could put a finger on the cause of the short
circuit.
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A. to hope B. to be hoping C. hoping D. to have hoped
39. The resistance experienced when one body moves over another, ＿＿＿＿ it is in contact, is called frictional force.
A. to which B. where C. with which D. while
40. Above all, they want to study a ＿＿＿＿ question: Are humans actually aware of the world they
live in?
A. contrary B. fundamental C. solemn D. progressive
41. --Tina, I hear you had a good journey to the Maldives last week. How was it? --I enjoyed the beautiful scenery, but the hotel was ＿＿＿＿ satisfactory. A. not anything B. nothing from C. nothing but D. anything but
42. At the beginning of the 20th century, people made coffee ＿＿＿＿ a cloth bag full of coffee
grounds into boiling water. A. by dumping B. to dump C. for dumping D. that dumped
43. If you ＿＿＿＿ Susan recently, you’d think the photograph on the right was strange. A. shouldn’t contact B. had’t contacted
C. weren’t contact D. didn’t contact
44. Beata: I’ve put the job advertisement in the newspaper, Mr Trim. Trim: Good. ＿＿＿＿
Beata: Well, it was a bit more than the $10 that they quoted us. Trim: As long as it wasn’t $10 a day.
A. How to schedule it? B. How much was it?
C. How often was it put there? D. How about the newspaper? 45. Woman: Who is Jackie Tow? I have a parcel here for him. Jackie: That’s me. ＿＿＿＿
Woman: Yes, please put your name here.
Jackie: Thank you. It must be the new pair of shoes I bought online.
A. This is the receipt for it. B. Do you have the sender’s address? C. I have to check the package. D. Do I have to sing for it?
Part III Cloze (10 marks)
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the word in one of the
following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the letters of the word. Remember to write the answer on the answer sheet.
Where The Wild Things Are
“I didn’t set out to make a children’s movie,” says Being John Malkovich director Spike Jonze,
“I set out to make a movie about childhood.” Indeed, like the recent alternative
children’s book (46) adapt＿＿＿＿, Fantastic Mr Fox, this is more like an adult film (47) ＿＿＿＿ children’s clothing – or rather in Jim Henson monster suit. When rambunctious (无法无天的) nine-year-old Max feels (48) ig＿＿＿＿ by his busy single mum and her new boyfriend, and runs away (49) ＿＿＿＿ home, he finds himself on an island populated by huge, hairy, scary Wild Thing. Here, he gets himself crowned king, and he and the monsters fight and play, and throw mud at each other (which the younger viewers will love). They return home. That’s it. And that’s your problem. As a film, I can’t (50) de＿＿＿＿ it’s disappointing. Despite whimsical (异想天开的) imaginative and heart-tugging moments, Jonze and co-writer Dave Eggers inevitably lose the wonderful subtlety (精妙之处) of Maurice
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Sendak’s well-loved 338-word picture book just by (51) ＿＿＿＿ (spin) it out into a full-length feature. Enough already! We get this dysfunctional group of neurotic Wild Things (52) rep＿＿＿＿ Max’s child’s eye view of grown-ups as comprehensible giants, both terrifying and loving. (53) ＿＿＿＿, even the repetitive action and non-subtleties (54) ＿＿＿＿ make this feel more like family therapy than fairy (55) t＿＿＿＿ can’t destroy the film’s haunting magic.
Part IV Reading Comprehension (40 marks)
Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given. Remember to write the
answers on the answer sheet. Section A (10 marks)
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Questions 56 to 58: Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according
to the advertisements.
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