2022年大英竞赛C类初赛样题.pdf

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 endof each conversation,one question will be asked,and you have fifteen seconds to read the four choicesmarked A,B,C and D,and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding letter on theanswer sheet with a single line through the centre.1.A.He enjoys the coldness outside.B.It is too hot in the room.C.There is heavy smoke inside.D.There is no much room inside.2.A.He will take up a new position.B.He will employ the woman.C.He wants to open an account.D.He is going to quit his job.3.A.In a post office.B.In their classroom.C.In the library.D.In the school lab.4.A.The woman has wasted too much time.B.The woman lost her camera unfortunately.C.The man doesn蒺t like the old city at all.D.The man has arranged an activity for her.5.A.He lost his resume before the job interview.B.He was rejected to attend an interview.C.He was late for the business meeting.D.He finished his essay on new media.2022 年全国大学生英语竞赛样题（C 类）2022 National English Competition for College Students(Type C-Sample)(Total：150 marksTime：120 minutes)1-Section B(10 marks)In this section,you will hear two long conversations.Each conversation will be read only once.At the endof each conversation,there will be a one-minute pause.Conversation OneListen to the conversation.Then read the four choices marked A,B,C or D,and decide which is thebestanswer according to what you hear.Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with asingleline through the centre.6.What information does the man want to know?A.About Hudson College.B.About life in Panama.C.About English courses.D.About visa application.7.How long does the Advanced Business English courses last?A.One month.B.One month and a half.C.Two months.D.Three months.8.How much is the tuition for the course?A.$1200.B.$1300.C.$1400.D.$1500.9.When will the man get the application form?A.Just after the phone call.B.Well after he gets the visa.C.When the woman gets the deposit.D.When they get the tuition fee.10.What is the exact class arrangement?A.Two hours a day,five days a week.B.Three hours a day,five days a week.C.Four hours a day,six days a week.D.Five hours a day,six days a week.Conversation TwoListen to the conversation and complete the following sentences with one word according to what you hear.Write the answers on the answer sheet.11.David Viscardi is aand he wrote a book entitled The Risk Phenomenon.12.According to David,many people find normal life much too dull so they take risk sports as a/an.13.David believes that risk sports help people developin challenging conditions.14.Bungee jumpers jump from a very high place with their ankles attached to a length ofrope.15.David explains that extroverts tend not to get anxious easily while other types of people are easily madeanxious and tend to avoid.2-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 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 sheetwith a single line through the centre.16.What does the evidence support?A.NASA is capable of operating a new type of telescope now.B.There is a planet orbiting a star outside the Milky Way Galaxy.C.The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the most powerful one.D.One enormous planet is approaching the Earth rapidly.17.What did the ancient ceremonial centers founded belong to?A.The ancient Olmec and Maya cultures.B.The old stone age statue cultures.C.The new Mexican cultures.D.The Lidar Kingdom cultures.18.What does humanity蒺s future depend on according to the world leaders?A.Cooperation among the countries.B.Efforts to fight climate change.C.Future exploration to the space.D.Peaceful talk on East Asia area.19.Which of the following is the main function of the artificial intelligence model?A.To search much more information on line.B.To get more accurate calculation results.C.To predict rainfall within next 90 minutes.D.To design fun and interesting computer games.20.Why will NASA explore the ancient objects orbiting the sun?A.To monitor the new spacecraft at the distance of JupiterB.To study the relationship between Jupiter and its“Trojan”asteroids.C.To compare the old and new objects orbiting the sun in recent years.D.To gather information about the solar system蒺s formation 4.5 billion years ago.Section D(10 marks)In this section,you will hear two short passages.The passages will be read only once.After each passage,there will be a one-minute pause.3-DictationListen to the passage and fill in the blanks with the exact words or phrases you hear.Write the answers onthe answer sheet.Black holes are areas where the pull of gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.Usually theyhappen after very big,supergiant stars explode.The exploded star 21.something called a“supernova.”It is very bright,but short-lived.Supernovas create the largest explosions in space.Thematerial remaining after the supernova explosion 22.Gravity pulls,or crushes,all the matter into avery small space.When light can no longer escape that space,it is known as a black hole.The Japanesesatellite Astro-H was carrying an instrument called an X-ray spectrometer.It was able to measure the waygas flows at the center of the Perseus cluster.What it found was that the superheated gas at the center ofthe cluster 23.than researchers expected.And that told them something about how black holeswork,and how galaxies are formed.Brian McNamara is an astrophysicist with the University of Waterloo in Canada.“And that gives us avery 24.of how much energy is being pumped into this gas by supermassive black holes,and so itallows us to form a more complete picture of how galaxies evolve,how the stars and the gas that willeventually cool out like rain to form the stars,evolves over cosmic time.”The scientists are also looking at the hot plasma another kind of matter and gases that surroundgalaxies.“This is gas that has not cooled out and condensed out like rain in our atmosphere to form stars,planets,life,for example.So it蒺s the potential for the future,and we蒺re trying to understand what the futuredestiny of this galaxy and many other galaxies would be.”McNamara says that supermassive black holesmay change how galaxies form and change over time.“The energy released by these giant black holes isvery 25.to these atmospheres,which is the stuff out of which future stars will form.”And what thatmeans,he says,is that these huge black holes can affect the rate at which a galaxy grows.SummaryListen to the passage and complete the table using no more than three words for each blank according towhat you hear.Write the answers on the answer sheet.The Layers of the EarthHow Are Mountains FormedThe outside layer of the Earth is the crustthat is made up of 26.The layer under the crust is 27.淤 Molten rock breaking though the crust forms28.mountain.于 Large pieces of rocks push against each otherforms 29.盂 While rocks move to break into faults,greatblocks are pushed in between to form 30.4-Part II Vocabulary&Grammar(15 marks)There are 15 incomplete sentences in this part.For each blank there are four choices marked A,B,C andD.Choose the one that best completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the answersheet with a single line through the centre.31.How close parents are to their childrena strong influence on the character of their children.A.HaveB.hasC.havingD.to have32.When I was a very young boy,I was terribly frightened of going to school,but I soonit.A.came acrossB.dropped offC.got overD.pushed away33.The destruction of these cultural treasures was a huge loss for mankind that no amount of money could.A.come up withB.make up forC.put up withD.stand up to34.Even researchers are not always careful enough to distinguish correlation betweenand effect.A.aspectB.beingC.causeD.effect35.The energy,such as gas,oil,electricity,going to be in short supply for a long time,andwhatever energy is,it will cost a lot more.A.are;usefulB.are;popularC.is;accessD.is;available36.Michael doesn蒺t feel like playing football today because he is.A.out of controlB.up in the airC.over his headD.walking on air37.Although by no means rich,Tom wasthan most of his fellow villagers in that area.A.ahead ofB.better offC.fed upD.the real thing38.From this preparation course most students shouldsome fundamental knowledge in Multimedia.A.requireB.enquireC.acquireD.demand39.Although nuclear weapons present gravedangers,the predominant crisis of overpopulation iswith us right now.A.constantB.inevitableC.overwhelmingD.potential40.According to an investigation,children who are over-protected by their parents may become.A.damagedB.harmfulC.ignorantD.spoiled41.If your father hadn蒺t stood under the tree to catch you,younow.A.couldn蒺t have smiledB.didn蒺t smileC.won蒺t smileD.wouldn蒺t be smiling42.In some countries,is called“equality”does not really mean equal rights for all people.A.thatB.oneC.whatD.which43.There is hardly an environment on the earthsome species of animal or other has not adapted.A.as to;fluentlyB.so that;naturallyC.to which;successfullyD.wherever;peacefully5-44.Are you going to have dinner before of after the show?Mm,I蒺d like to have it before the show.Or it will be too late.A.Don蒺t mention it.B.I agree with you.C.Thanks a lot.D.What a pity!45.Hello!The Maple Hotel.How can I help you?Hi!Is there any room available for two tomorrow?I蒺m sorry sir,but we蒺re fully booked tomorrow.A.I蒺d like to make a reservation please.B.Can I check in at the moment?C.How much is my bill for tomorrow?D.Should I take my visa with me?Part III Cloze(10 marks)Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word.Choose the correct word in one of thefollowing three ways:according to the context,by using the correct form of the given word,or by using thegiven letter(s)of the word.Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.A computer with the power of a human brain is a longway off,but this week researchers are 46.rethat they蒺ve simulated a cat蒺s cerebral cortex,thethinkingpartofthebrain,usingamassivesupercomputer.The computer has 147,456 processorsand 144 terabytes of main memory100,000 times as47.as your computer has.The simulation,which runs 100 times slower thanan actual cat蒺s brain,is more about watching howthoughts are 48.(form)in the brain and how the roughly one billion neurons and 10 trillionsynapses in a cat蒺s brain work together.The researchers created a programme that told the supercomputer to behave in the way that a brain is49.(believe)to behave.The computer was shown images of corporate logos and scientists watchedas 50.difparts of the simulated brain worked together to figure out what the image was.Dharmendra Modha,manager of cognitive computing for IBM Research and senior author of the paper,called it a“truly unprecedented scale of simulation”.Researchers at Stanford University and the LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory were also part of the project.Modha says the research could lead puters that rely less on structured data,such as 2 plus 1 equals 4,and can handle ambiguity better,like 52.idethe corporate logo even if the image is blurry.Such computers could also incorporatesenses such as sight,touch and 53.(hear)into the decisions they make.6-One reason that development would be 54.(signify)to IBM is that the company is now sellingsmarted planet services that use digital sensors to monitor things like weather and 55.and feed thatthe data into computers that are asked to various things with the information,like predicting a tsunami ordetecting a freeway way accident.Other companies could use cognitive computing as well to make bettersense of large volumes of information.Part IV Reading Comprehension(30 marks)There are three passages in this part.Each passage is followed by several questions.Respond to thequestions using information from the passage.Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.Section A(10 marks)Questions 5660 are based on the following passage.Situated at the heart of Beijing,the Palace Museum isapproached through the Gate of Heavenly Peace(Tian蒺anmen).Because of its centrality as well as restricted access,the palace was called The Forbidden City.It was built from1406 to 1420 by the third emperor of the Ming dynasty,theYongle Emperor who,upon usurping the throne,determinedto move his capital northward from Nanjing to Beijing.TheMing dynasty fell to the Manchu Qing in 1644 and in 1911theQingdynastywasoverthrownbytherepublicanrevolutionaries.56.57.Measuring 961 meters fromnorth to south and 753 meters from east to west,it covers anarea of 1,110,000 square meters.Each of the four sides ispierced by a gate:the Meridian Gate(Wu men)on the south,the Gate of Divine Prowess(Shenwu men)on the north,theEastern and Western Prosperity Gates(Donghua men and Xihua men).Once inside,visitors will see asuccession of halls and palaces spreading out on either side of an invisible central axis.The buildings蒺glowing yellow roofs levitating above vermilion walls is a magnificent sight.The painted ridges and carvedbeams all contribute to the sumptuous effect.Known as the Outer Court,the southern portion of the Forbidden City centers on three main halls Hall of Supreme Harmony(Taihedian),Hall of Central Harmony(Zhonghedian),and Hall of PreservingHarmony(Baohedian).58.Mirroring this arrangement is the Inner Court comprising the7-northern portion of the Forbidden City.The Inner Court is comprised of not only the residences of theemperor and his consorts but also venues for religious rituals and administrative activities.59.These were precisely designed in accordance with a code of architecturalhierarchy,which designated specific features to reflect the paramount authority and status of the emperor.No ordinary mortal would have been allowed or would even have dared to come within close proximity tothese buildings.60.The collection,displayed in gallery halls throughout the complex,is becomingincreasingly more accessible with digital technologies.The Museum蒺s website,established in 2001,isdedicated to presenting a“Digital Palace Museum”by which the wealth of cultural heritage contained inthe Forbidden City may be effectively spread worldwide.Questions 5660Choose from the sentences A G the one which best fits each gap of 56 60.There are two extrasentences which you do not need to use.A.It was here in the Ourter Court that the emperor held court and conducted grand audiences.B.During nearly six hundred years,twenty-four emperors lived and ruled from this palace.C.In total,the buildings of the two courts account for an area of some 163,000 square meters.D.The Palace Museum蒺s range of publications has created further interest in domains such as theForbidden City蒺s history,architecture,and vast cultural hold