2017全国大学生英语竞赛初赛C类真题

' 2017年全国大学生英语竞赛初赛(C级) 2017 National English Competition for College Students (Level C - Preliminary) (Total: 150 marks Time： 120 minutes)

Part I Listening Comprehension (30 marks) Section A (5 marks)

In this section, you will hear five short conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. At the end of each conversation, there will be a fifteen-second pause. During the pause, read the question and the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. 1. Where does this conversation probably take place?

A. At a TV studio. C. At the police station. A. Surfing. C. Swimming.

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B. In a supermarket. D. In an airplane. B. Windsurfing. D. Mountain climbing.

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2. Which of the following sports is Sarah good at?

3. How does the woman handle the over-load information on the Internet?

A. Only going shopping on line when she wants to. B. Always bookmarking some important websites. C. Downloading useful information to her computer. D. Making a time limit for surfing the Internet. 4. What do we learn about Richard from the conversation?

A. He got a promotion to vice president. B. He found a new job as a supervisor. C. He resigned from the company lately. D. He lost his 20-year job unfortunately. 5. What is the woman’s opinion about child stars?

A. They have a hard time growing up. B. They are the pride of their parents. C. They should learn to deal with pressure. D. They enjoy success and fame too early.

Section B (10 marks)

In this section, you will hear two long conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. At the end of each conversation, there will be a one—minute pause, during the pause, read the questions and make your answers on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. Conversation One

Listen to the conversation, and mark each statement as either true (T) or false (F) according to your listening.

6. Daniel found his research on the Globe Theatre interesting and he needed more time to finish it. 7. Lily believed that there must be much difference between today’s performances and the original ones in the Globe Theatre.

8. Daniel said that there were no women on the stage in Shakespeare’s time.

9. No live sound effects are used any more for today’s performances at the Globe Theatre.

10. Performers wear authentic clothes but use very few props in today’s shows at the Globe Theatre. Conversation Two

Listen to the conversation, mark each question as A, B, C or D according to your listening. 11. Where is most of Robert’s collection kept?

A. In his own study. C. In his private library.

12. What does Robert mainly collect?

A. Products related to the Olympics. C. Rare coins and stamps.

13. What was the first thing Robert collected?

A. An age-old shopping basket. C. An 18th century advertisement. 14. When did Robert start collecting?

A. About three years old. C. When he was thirteen.

B. After his 16th birthday. D. At the age of thirty.

B. A piece of rock from space. D. The fossil of a sea animal. B. Uncommon stones and rocks. D. The packaging of products. B. In a museum. D. In a secret cave.

15. What is Robert’s attitude towards his collecting interest now?

A. He admits it is a rather tedious thing to do. B. He feels it is a dedication he should continue. C. He regrets having spent too much time on it. D. He regards it merely as a personal hobby.

Section C (5 marks)

In this section, you will hear five short news items. Each item will he read only once. After each item, there will be a fifteen—second pause. During the pause, read the question and the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. 16. Which accident was reported in the news?

A. A parade stampede. C. Fireworks explosions.

B. A series of car crashes.

D. Terrorist bombings.

17. Why are even protected area in the Eastern Amazon at increased risk of forest fires?

A. The drying out of the undergrowthmakes it more likely to catch fire. B. The temperature has kept rising in thisarea in the past fe'v decades. C. There has been little rain for quite a long time in the Amazon region. D. Some tourists make fire to cook when they camp in the rain forest. 18. What does the Royal College of Physicians say is the impact of e—cigarettes?

A. Few people smoke e-cigarettes because they make people feel ill. B. E-cigarettes have the risk of encouraging people to take up cigarettes. C. Many smokers quit smoking successfully with the help of e-cigarettes. D. There is no evidence to show that e-cigarettes lead to better health. 19. What is the effect of shift work on people’s mind according to the study?

A. Three thousand shift workers died during the past two years. B. Doing shift work for years running makes people ageing faster. C. Mind injuries brought by shift work are impossible to recover. D. Less than five years’ shift work does no harm to people’s mind. 20. Why does Nepal make restrictions on Mount Everest climbing?

A. Climbers have found dangerous animals on the mountain. B. There have been fierce snowstorms on the mountain. C. A lot of serious accidents have happened on the mountain. D. It wants to improve the management of the mountain. Section D (10 marks)

In this section, you will hear two short passages. The passages will be read twice. After each passage, there will be a thirty —second pause. During the pause, write the answers on the answer sheet. Dictation

Listen to the passage. For questions 21—25, fill in the blanks with the exact words or phrases you hear.

The Amazon River begins in the Andes Mountains in South America. It (21) _______________ six countries before it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. It is almost 6,500 kilometers long. The Amazon is the second longest river in the world. The Nile in Africa is longer. But the Amazon has more water in it than any other river. This is why it is called the (22)___________________ river.

There is so much water in the Amazon that when it reaches the sea this water travels far out into the ocean. The water has a lot of mud in it, so it is brown. Five hundred years ago,

(23)二 ____ on a ship 300 kilometers from land saw this brown water. They followed it and found the Amazon River!

The river is very deep and very wide. In some places it is so wide that a person on one side cannot see the other side. When the river floods, it is (24) __________ . The river floods every year. Some people who live beside the river build their houses (25) ____________ . When the river rises, their houses rise too! Summary

Listen to the passage. For questions 26-30, complete the notes using no more than three words for each blank.

l At night, bright lights in city areas block the stars and cause (26) _____________ . Sometimes t § .

many citizens cannot sleep because of the light coming into their homes. And this can ^

§ ^ § cause serious (27) ________ . Animals and plants also suffer. Light affects the growth of c；

■ (； plants, and it can (28) and hurt animals. In

addition, the cost of lighting city y § i \\

v areas is huge. The waste of (29) _________ is totally unnecessary. We need to (30) __________ v

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、our use of lighting to save ourselves from the pollution.

Part Bt Vocabulary & Grammar (15 marks)

There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section. 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. In my opinion, all these special offers are there to _________ people into buying things they

don’t really want. A. urge 32.

B. hasten

C. sway

D. tempt

Nearly every hospital has the same unwritten regulation — the badly wounded have priority those A. over

B. to

C. before

D. above

only slightly hurt.

33. Native people in poor countries who cannot afford modem medicine use mixtures of herbs to diseases.

A. kill performances. A. as good than any in history. A. came up with

B. put up with

C. ran out of

D. ran op against

36. Your brother would certainly have attended the proceedings _______ .

A. if he didn’t get a flat tire C. had the tire not flattened itself night when the clock faces are ________ ? A. enlightened

B. glistened

C. illuminated

D. illustrated

38. Dr. Anderson is aware that we still have ______ long way to go in improving human living ,conditions and in fighting sickness _______ . A. the; where it is found C. a; wherever is it found everything. A. instead to learn C. rather to learn in the highest profit. A. is to be made C. should be paid

B. is going to direct D. would have to lay B. rather than learning D. instead of learning B. a; wherever it is found D. /; where is it found

B. if the flat tire hadn’t happened D. had he not had a flat tire

B. as good as

C. so good as

D. so good

35. After months of testing, the Russian space scientist _________ a space suit that works better

B. drive

C. stop

D. treat

34. I enjoy listening to records. I find records are often ______________ , or better than actual

37. The Big Ben is one of London’s best -known landmarks, and it looks most spectacular at

39. My approach is not to learn everything about something, but ___________ something about

40. The members of the Board of Directors agree that chief attention ________ to what can bring

41. The Nobel Prize is ______ by the Swedish inventor Alfred Bernhard Nobel and was first

given in 1901. ______ a Nobel Prize is considered to be one of the greatest honours in the world.

A. established; Receiving C. modified; To be given A. you will write B. can you write 43. —May I take your order, sir?

—Yes. I will start with cream soup, please, and then I’ll have a T-bone steak. Medium, and I’ll have a glass of beer. Thank you.

B. invented; Awarding D. organised; To be granted C. you can write D. you could write

42. Only Avhen you have acquired a good knowledge of grammar and vocabulary ____ fluently.

A. Anything to drink then? ,B. Call me if you need anything else. C. How would you like your steak? D. What would you recommend then?

44, —Would you mind answering a few questions for a survey Fm doing?

—How do you feel about the funding for university education? A. I’ll put you in. C. Nice to meet you. Not at all.

45. —Linda, how was your trip to Rome?

—That doesn’t sound good. What happened? A. I’m planning a new trip. B. That was very kind of you. C. Well, it’s a long story. D. Why do you ask? Part HI Cloze (10 marks)

Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one tvord. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form, of the given tvord, or by using the sheet.

B. I beg your pardon? D.

given letters) of the word. Remember to write the ansivers on the answer

The debate over whether dogs or cats make better pets was given a new dimension recently, and dogs seem to have come out the (46) ___________ (win).

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According to new research, dogs, more than cats or other pets, are (47) es _________ good for people’s health and can help them live longer lives.

In an article for the British Journal of Health Psychology, Dr. Deborah Wells of Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, - reviewed

dozens of studies on the health (48) be

__ of pet ownership. She found that all pets helped

their owners to be healthier, and that dog-owners were particularly better off. “It is possible that dogs can directly (49) prom _______ our well-being by buffering us from stress, one of the major

risk factors associated with ill-health,” writes Wells. “The stay wid] a dog can also lead to increases in physical activity and facilitate the development of social contacts, which may (50) enh psychological human health in a more indirect manner.”

both

physiological

and

In addition to keeping people healthy and helping prevent illness, it was found that dogs

can aid in (51) rec ________ ? For example, dogs have been shown to have a calming influence on

people suffering from heart disease, high cholesterol or Alzheimer’s. Citing one study, Dr. Wells explains that heart-attack victims are 9 percent (52)

. likely to be alive a year after their

episode if they own a dog. Dogs have also been found to help warn owners of oncoming heart

attacks or diabetic shock. In some (53) c _________ ，dogs have even helped revive coma patients. For these reasons, the use of therapy dogs in many hospitals and (54) __________ (retire) homes is becoming more popular. Although scientists still do not have (55) ________ (conclude) data as to why dogs play such a major role in the health of their owners, the evidence all seems to point in the same direction. Dogs may provide more than just companionship, including the key to a longer life. Part IV Reading Comprehension (35 marks)

There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by several questions. Respond to the questions using information from the passage. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet Section A (5 marks)

Questions 56—60 are based on the following passage. Research has shown that college students can learn as much, or more, from peers as they do from instructors and textbooks. When students work effectively in a supportive group, the experience can be a very powerful way to improve academic achievement and satisfaction with the learning experience.

Recent interviews with college students at Harvard University revealed that nearly every senior who had been part of a study group considered this experience crucial to his or her academic progress and success. The list below describes several important activities that you and your study group or learning team can collaborate on:

1. Team up with other students immediately after class to share and compare notes. One of your teammates may have picked up something you missed or vice versa.

2.

After completing each week’s readings, team up with other students to compare your

highlighting and margin notes. See if you all agree on what the author’s major points were and what information in the chapter you should study for exams.

3. Studies show that many students are unfamiliar with library research and sometimes experience \anxidy.\Forming library research teams is an effective way to develop a social support group for reducing this fear and for locating and sharing information.

4. Having your team visit the instructor during office hours to seek additional assistance in preparing for exams is an effective team learning strategy for several reasons. If you are shy or unassertive, it may be easier to see an instructor in the company of other students. Your team visit also sends a message to the instructor that you are serious about learning.

5. After receiving test results, the members of a learning team can review their individual tests together to help one another identify the sources of their mistakes and to identify any “model” answers that received maximum credit. You can use this information to improve your performance on subsequent tests or assignments.

Not all learning teams, however, are equally effective. Sometimes group work fails to reach its fall potential because insufficient thought was given to how teams should be formed or how they should function. Here are some suggestions as strategies for maximizing the power of peer collaboration. First, in forming teams, look for fellow students who are motivated and attentive to class. Remember to include teammates from both genders as well as students with different personality characteristics. Then keep your group size small as three to six classmates because smaller groups allow for more face -to -face interaction and less opportunity for any one individual to shirk his or her responsibility. Also, it is necessary to hold individual team members accountable for contributing to the learning of their teammates. Research on study groups at Harvard University indicates that they are effective only if each member has done the required course work in advance of the group meeting. Questions 56-60

Complete the following form with no more than three words according to the passage.

Student Learning Teams Activities for a Learning Team ① (56) ② Comparing ideas about assigned reading. ③ (57)- ④ Meeting with the instructor. ⑤ (5§) Strategies for Making a Learning Team Successful ① Seek peers who will contribute quality and diversity to form a team. ② Set a limit to (59) . to group learning. ③ Ensure that all team members can be responsible for (60)

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