2016“外研社杯”全国英语阅读大赛样题

2016“外研社杯”全国英语阅读大赛样题Part I Read and Know

In Part I, you will read short texts of various kinds.Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions. (Time allowed: 22 minutes) Questions 1-3 (Suggested completion time: 5 minutes)

Directions: Read the following quotes. Match the quotes on the left with the people on the right. Please note there are two extra options you do not need to use.

Questions 4 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.

To ensure the high standards of facilities we need to build new wards, laboratories and consulting rooms. In short, we need your help now. Complete the coupon today and rest assured that your donation is going to the best possible cause.

4. Where is the piece of text taken from?

A. an advertisement

B. an instruction booklet

C. a story

D. a newspaper

Questions 5 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.

Few corners of the world remain untainted by intrepid tourists, and their impact is often devastating. Too frequently they trample heedlessly on fragile environments, displacing wildlife and local populations in their insatiable quest for unexplored locations.

5.What is the best title for this text?

A. The future of tourism

B. The role of tourism

C. The price of tourism

D. The benefits of tourism

Questions 6 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.

Buying and selling anything isyour forte now. If you visit a jumble or car-boot sale or the like, a romantic encounter is more than probable! News linked to the family is brilliant!

6.What type of text is this?

A. A personal advertisement.

B. A personal horoscope.

C. A friend’s letter of advice.

D. A written warning.

Questions 7 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.

With our travel agency, the holiday you book is the holiday you get. If you arrive and find we’ve failed to live up to our promises, let us know what the problem is within one day of your arrival. We’ll spend 24 hours doing everything possible to sort the problem out. In the unlikely event that we can’t resolve your problem and make you happy within 24 hours, we’ll fly you home and give your money back.

7. The text could best be described as__________.

A. a commitment

B. an appeal

C. a warning

D. a vow

Questions 8 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.

The new digital cameras are great fun and very easy to use. They let you review your pictures the moment you take them, so you can re-shoot right away if you’re not satisfied. But remember, a digital camera is just a computer XXXX. It’s not a replacement for your ordinary camera.

8. What is the meaning of the missing word (XXXX) in the text?

A. “something that is poor quality”

B. “an item that is not essential, something extra”

C. “something expensive but good value for money”

D. “a fashion which always remains popular”

Questions 9 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.

She had gone alone, but the children were to go to the station to meet her. And loving the station as they did, it was only natural that they should be there a good hour before there was any chance of Mother’s train arriving, even if the train were punctual, which was most unlikely.

9. What can you say about their mother’s train?

A. It would probably be early.

B. It would probably be on time.

C. It would probably be late.

D. It had been cancelled.

Question 10 (Suggested completion time: 5 minutes)

Directions: The bar chart shows the number and proportion of undernourished peoplein the developing regions, from 1990?1992 to 2014?2016. Answer the question according to the information in the chart.

Source: The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report2015

10. Choose the INCORRECTdescriptionabout the chart.

A.Current estimates suggest that nearly one in nine individuals do not have

enough to eat between 2014 and 2016.

B.Projections indicate that the 2015 MDG target is nearly reached, with 12.9

per cent of undernourished population.

C.The situation noticeably improved during the years 1995-1999, but went

down in the first five years of the new millennium.

D.The proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions has

fallenby almost half since 1990.

Part II Read and Reason

In Part II, you will read short texts on different subjects. Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions based on logical inference and reasoning. (Time allowed: 38 minutes)

Question 11-12 (Suggested completion time: 10 minutes)

Directions: Read the definitions of two types of logical fallacy. Answer the

11. Which of the following provides a typical example of poisoning the well?

A. That’s my stance on funding the education system,and anyone who

disagrees with me hates children.

B. You are so weird. That means—we are pretty much sure—that your whole

family is weird, too.

C. God exists because the Bible says so. The Bible is inspired. Therefore, we

know that God exists.

D. I don’t care what you say. We don’t need any more bookshelves. As long as

the carpet is clean, we are fine.

12. Which of the following provides a typical example of a false dilemma?

A.Smoking is harmful to health, so you are supposed to quit smoking.

B.If the government doesn’t reduce public spending, our economy will collapse.

C.You may as well avoid overeating, or else you might be obese in no time.

D.You are the worst of the classmates; therefore, what you say is incredible. Questions 13 (Suggested completion time: 4 minutes)

Directions: Read the passage about syllogism. Decide whether the reasonings are Valid or Invalid based on the principles of syllogism.

Syllogism is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true. It is perhaps today’s most commonly accepted form of logical reasoning in aptitude tests. The most commonly used type of syllogisms is elucidated in a frequently used example:

Premise 1: All men are mortal.

Premise 2: Socrates is a man.

Conclusion: Socrates is mortal.

Now practice syllogisms for IQ tests. Please note that the conclusion is based on logical reasoning and doesn’t necessarily represent the “truth” always.

13. Valid ( ); Invalid ( )

Premise 1: All human action is conditioned by circumstances.

Premise 2: All human action involves morality.

Conclusion: All that involves morality is conditioned by circumstances. Questions 14 (Suggested completion time: 4 minutes)

Directions: Read the passage about contraposition. Decide whether the reasonings are Valid or Invalid based on the principles of contraposition.

In logic, contraposition is a law that says that a conditional statement is logically equivalent to its contrapositive.The contrapositive of the statement has its antecedentandconsequent inverted and flipped. The most commonly used type of contraposition is elucidated in the following example:

Premise 1: If it is raining, then there are clouds in the sky.

Premise 2: There are no clouds in the sky.

Conclusion: It is not raining.

Now practice contraposition for IQ tests. Please note that the conclusion is based on logical reasoningand doesn’t necessarily represent the “truth” always.

14. Valid ( ); Invalid ( )

Premise 1: If he is not an American, he is not from Texas.

Premise 2: He is from Texas.

Conclusion: He is an American.

Questions 15-17 (Suggested completion time: 6 minutes)

Directions: Read the text about a science discovery. Answer the questions according to the text.

Manipulating Memory

Memory is notoriously malleable. Our recollections fade

and take on new meanings; sometimes we remember

things that never even happened. But 15.

Recently, however, scientists have started to grasp and

tinker with memory’s physical basis. Last year, in w ork

evocative of films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless

Mind and Inception, researchers discovered ways to manipulate specific memories in mice using optogenetics, a powerful technique that can trigger nerve cells in animals’ brains by zapping them with beams of laser light. In a series of experiments, they showed that they could delete existing memories and “incept” false ones.

This year, researchers went even further: switching the emotional content of a memory in mice from bad to good and vice versa. Under the laser, for example, male mice that had once associated a certain room with being shocked were tricked into acting as though they had once met friendly female mice there instead.

Whether the mice in these experiments actually experienced vivid false memories or just a fuzzy sense of pleasure or fear is unclear. Nor is it clear whether the findings apply to the tricks of memory so familiar to people. Long-sought therapeutic advances, such as treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, could remain far off. One thing is certain, however: Once considered beyond scientific dissection, memory is finally starting to yield its secrets.

15. Which of the following best fits the numbered space in the passage?

A.what is really happening in our brain as memories are remodeled remains

mysterious

B.scientists are curious about why people are oblivious to what have

happened to them

C.advanced technology has helped scientists discover the workings of our

brain

D.some scientists argue that what we observe about human memory is not

what it really is

16. The word “incept” is closest in meaning to ________.

A. operate

B. start

C. detect

D. occupy

17. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A.People’s false memories result from the impact of different emotion

provoked by later experience on the same spot.

B.The success in research indicates that it won’t be long that a therapy is

worked out for people disturbed by painful memory.

C.By zapping the brain cells of mice with light, researchers are able to create,

erase, or alter their memories, good or bad.

D.Many fancy ideas in science fictions or movies that are based on them

actually draw greatly upon scientific achievement.

Questions 18-19 (Suggested completion time: 4 minutes)

Directions: Read the following passage about cholera. Decide whether the statements are True or False according to the passage.

A child receives the oral cholera vaccine Shanchol

Cholera is caused by a bacterial infection of the intestine. Approximately one in 20 people infected with cholera has a serious case, with symptoms including severe diarrhea, vomiting, and leg cramps. These symptoms quickly cause dehydration and shock, and can result in death within hours if the infected person doesn’t receive treatment. Cholera is typically transmitted by contaminated food or water. In areas with poor treatment of sewage and drinking water, the feces of people with cholera can enter the water supply and spread quickly, resulting in an epidemic. The cholera bacterium may also live in the environment in some coastal waters, so shellfish eaten raw can be a source of cholera in affected areas.

18. Cholera is known to be a life-threatening disease which easily causes death of most of the patients.

True ( ) False ( )

19. Cholera typically occurs in areas near the sea or the river where contaminated food is a major source of the disease.

True ( ) False ( )

Questions 20-21 (Suggested completion time: 5 minutes)

Directions: Read the abstract of a research paper from the DeepMind website. Decide whether the statements are True or False according to the abstract.

Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend

Authors: K. M. Hermann, T. Ko?isky, E. Grefenstette, L. Espeholt, W. Kay, M. Suleyman, P. Blunsom

Published: NIPS 2015

Abstract: Teaching machines to read natural language documents remains an elusive challenge. Machine reading systems can be tested on their ability to answer questions posed on the contents of documents that they have seen, but until now large scale training and test datasets have been missing for this type of evaluation. In this work we define a new methodology that resolves this bottleneck and provides large scale supervised reading comprehension data. This allows us to develop a class of attention based deep neural networks that learn to read real documents and answer complex questions with minimal prior knowledge of language structure.

20. Previous studies didn’t take constant effort to evalua te the reading ability of artificial intelligence machines, which was why the present research was conducted.

True ( ) False ( )

21. One implication of the research is that a methodology that helps gather and handle big data is indispensible to artificial intelligence related studies.

True ( ) False ( )

Questions 22-23 (Suggested completion time: 5 minutes)

Directions: Read the passage about the “Think small” advertising campaign. Answer the questions according to the passage.

Think Small

I f you’re interested in marketing and advertising, Volkswagen’s “Think small” campaign for the Beetle when it was first introduced to North America in 1959 looms large as one of the greatest advertising campaigns of all time. It wasn’t just a revolution in automotive advertising; it changed the entire industry.

Until the Beetle hit the market, automotive marketing copy was full of bluster, and the images were flights of fancy, emphasizing low, long lines and a fantasy lifestyle.

The clean, simple photography on a white background that emphasized the Beetle’s compact, practical form may seem commonplace these days, but it wa s a revolution in a world where Americans grew up obsessed with muscle cars,

horsepower, and tire smoke. Making the car small,

when the convention was to make it fill the page, was

also novel. The simplistic approach to design and

layout was totally contrary to the advertising

conventions of the time.

__ 22__ The text was minimalist in both look and

content, presenting the facts simply instead of trying

to weave tall tales and fantasies; and instead of

bluster, it ushered in an intelligent sense of humor

that made readers feel like they were in on the joke.

The message was one of smart anti-luxury, and took gentle aim at an industry obsessed with superficiality and styling, rather than the substance underneath the car bodies.

Not only does “Think small” cont inue to inspire Volkswagen advertising to this day, it ushered in a creative revolution in the advertising business and changed the world of marketing forever. “Think small” showed the power of humor and honesty, and its photographic and design principles brought about a major shift in the look and feel of marketing around the world.

22. Which of the sentences below best fits the numbered space in the passage?

A.What defined the ad even more than its visual style was the tone of its

copy.

B.This ad starts off doing the exact opposite of what you would expect in a

car ad.

C.This was an exercise in minimalism and a very accurate reflection on the

product itself.

D.The car wasn’t depicted as an integral piece of the daily lives of a middle

class family.

23. It can be inferred that the advertising conventions of the 1950s were reflected in the following except that ___________.

A.the ads in the 1950s typically showed proud owners and passengers

evoking great joy about new shiny big acquisitions.

B.the marketing concept then focused on providing as much information as

possible to the reader such as the way it’s created.

C.the marketing schemes associated the advertised product with an idea or

a way of living from average consumers’ perspective.

D.the marketing practice may attach importance to a sense of humor

brought by the use of exaggerated language.

Part III Read and Question

In Part III, you will read passages on the same subject.You will be required to identify the writer’s position and evaluate the effectiveness of the writer’s arguments. (Time allowed: 30 minutes)

Questions 24-35(Suggested completion time: 30 minutes)

Directions: Read three passages about fashion. Answer the questions according to the passages.

Passage A

It’s not that easy to answer the question, “what is fashion?” because it means different things to different people. Fashion is an art. It’s a religion. It’s a job. It’s a peek into a personality. It’s playfulness. It’s an escape or a disguise. It is a feast for the eyes. But ultimately,25. French fashion designer Coco Chanel once said, “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ide as, the way we live, what is happening.”

It’s true. Fashion isn’t defined solely by our clothing choices, but is also conveyed through the way we carry ourselves, our personalities and our views of the world. At its most fundamental, fashion is simply the prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior.

So, who exactly answers the question “what is fashion”? Who decides what’s fashionable and what isn’t? What’s in or what’s out?

Fashion Designers. The iconic fashion houses—Prada, Gucci, Chanel—are referred to as haute couture, French for “high sewing.” These designers lead the way in creating trend-setting fashion. While some of their designs are outrageous and

completely unrealistic when it comes to everyday wear, generally the theme is adapted into versions suitable for wearing.

Media. Fashion trends are often sparked by characters on popular television shows and movies as well as adopted from magazine pages. “Sex and the City,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” these shows introduced us to new, cutting-edge designs. While you mightnot be caught dead wearing a Carrie Bradshaw original, you might take ideas inspired from her look and piece together your own creation. Celebrities. A prime example of a celebrity-driven fashion trend? UGGs. Until Kate Hudson and Jessica Simpson were spotted wearing them around L.A. several years ago, no one had given any thought to UGG boots. Now they are everywhere.

Musicians. Musicians have always been very influential when it comes to dictating fashion. Rock ‘n’ roll is fashion. Elvis is an iconic example. In the 1950s, everyone wanted to dress like Elvis. What about the heavy metal hair bands so popular in the 1980s? Axl Rose reinvented the head bandana while Poison, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi set the pace for big, rocker hair.

Jus t because you don’t know if a Prada bag is fall 2007 or spring 2008 doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you like it and it’s an expression of you. That is fashion.

Passage B

Fashion is more prevalent in modern society than in primitive tribes or peasant communities. The modern society is an open society where class distinctions are not so rigid as in primitive society. Its urban and mobile class structure enables people to cultivate individual taste and adopt new course. The modern society is more tolerant of differences and therefore places few shackles on the cycle of fashion. Our standards of judgment have also changed. Today the individual is rated more by observable externalities than by his ancestry, his character or his genuine accomplishments. The clothes a man wears, the language he speaks, the manners he shows have more weight in ascribing a status than his simplicity, patriotism and integrity.

If he can keep himself up to date in the matters of his dress, speech and manners, he will assure himself a high social esteem. Not only the mobile and urban character of modern society but its affluence also speaks for greater prevalence of fashion in it. Men today are richer than their ancestors and have more leisure. They have the necessary means and time to play with luxuries and to think of fashion. Maclver writes: We do not think of fashion in overalls; there is more of fashion in the body of an automobile than in its chassis. There is no fashion in steam shovels. Consequently the higher the standard of living the more material there is for fashion to operate upon.

Passage C

As summer has officially faded into the colder weather of autumn, I assumed the days of Nike shorts, comically large T-shirts and polos would be only a memory of yesterday. This has not been the case.

Fashion, in and of itself, is already a type of conformism. In order to be considered fashion, a look, a garment or a stylistic choice must be deemed fashionable.

Who gets to decide this—what is fashionable? While certain fashion heavyweights play a role in this decision, the ultimate decision is left to the public.

As I was surfing the Web recently for inspiration for this column, I came across the Prada website. What I discovered literally caused me to gasp. Of course, everyone knows Prada is an expensive brand—a luxury—but what I discovered shocked me: a keychain priced at $180. No, this keychain was not solid gold or encased in diamonds. It was simply a keychain: a skull with the word “Prada” on a small charm.

How can a company charge $180 for a keychain? The answer: people are willing to pay for it. People know the brand and conform to the idea of owning a piece of such an Italian “luxury.”

This is nonsensical. Why do we choose to wear miniscule shorts in frigid weather or spend nearly $200 on a charm? Such decisions are influenced by peers, the media and the personal resolution to not make rational, individualistic choices. We cling to the idea of acceptance.

In short, we often choose to abide by the pressures of social conventionality, and this leads us to make ridiculous selections—pairing Ugg boots with shorts or wearing neon with camouflage—which we would otherwise not make.

I am certainly shamefaced in my occasional conformity to these ludicrous fashion folkways. I am guilty of donning Crocs in public. Yikes!

Transient, often preposterous trends referred to as fads inspire some rather strange ideas. Who can recall the pet rocks of the ‘70s or Popples of the ‘80s? Such pop trends are not confined to behavior; they bleed into the fashion world, evidenced in overly distressed jeans, the most painful of neon shades, shoes that resemble Swiss cheese and a host of other fads I do not have the space to mention.

I refuse to give up hope for societal common sense.

One day we will comprehend that shorts are for the summer and ridiculously expensive keychains are for “never.” Do not allow others to dictate for you. Be bold. Be an individual. Do not buy the keychain.

24. The phrase “might not be caught dead” in Passage A most probably means ______.

A.would rather not die anyway

B.might not be caught red handed

C.would refuse completely to do something

D.might be uneasy though doing something

25. Which of the following best fits the numbered space in Passage A?

A.fashion is an individual statement of expression for each of us

B.fashion facilitates social change by providing a transitional stage

C.fashion is not an individual choice but a group choice

D.fashion determines our speech, opinion, dress, music, art, etc.

26. It can be inferred from Passage A that fashion designers, media, celebrities and musicians share the following views except ______.

A.that fashion is anything but separated from the daily life of ordinary

people.

B.that nothing completely absurd and unrealistic can finally become

fashion.

C.that fashion is what society accepts and has an element of social sanction

behind it.

D.that if a particular choice remains confined to an individual it can’t be

called fashion.

27. The word “affluence” in Passage B is closest in meaning to ______.

A. versatility

B. wealthiness

C. peculiarity

D. charisma

28. According to Passage B, which of the following attributes may probably be more important than others for an individual to be favorably received now?

A. A wide range of erudition.

B. Loyalty to his or her friends.

C. A passion for popular novels.

D. Good virtues such as honesty.

29. Which of the following is NOT true about the author’s attitude towards fashion according to Passage C?

A.The author thinks it a waste of time mentioning a list of examples of

irrational fads.

B.People are mad about fashion and therefore lose their own good

judgment.

C.The author never allows himself to be carried away by the fashion trends.

D.Behind the behavior of keeping up with fashion is a need to stay in the

crowd.

E.

30-31. Decide whether the statements are True or False according to the three passages.

30. All the three passages agree that fashion plays a role in the interplay of class relations that it satisfies the contrary desires for novelty and for conformity.

True ( ) False ( )

31. None of the three passages are denying conventional social values in people’s judgment, for example, what’s considered good about things or people.

True ( ) False ( )

Part IV Read and Create

In Part IV, you will read a passage and then write a short essay according to it. You should write with clarity and logic. (Time allowed: 40 minutes)

Question 32(Suggested completion time: 40 minutes)

Directions: Read a passage from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences. Write a short essay according to the passage.

… And as a multitude of laws often only hampers justice, so that a state is best governed when, with few laws, these are rigidly administered; in like manner, instead of the great number of precepts of which logic is composed, I believed that the four following would prove perfectly sufficient for me, provided I took the firm and unwavering resolution never in a single instance to fail in observing them.

The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.

The second, to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for its adequate solution.

The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.

And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing was omitted.

The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations, had led me to imagine that all things, to the knowledge of which man is competent, are mutually connected in the same way, and that there is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it, provided only we abstain from accepting the false for the true, and always preserve in our thoughts the order necessary for the deduction of one truth from another. And I had little difficulty in determining the objects with which it was necessary to commence, for I was already persuaded that it must be with the simplest and easiest to know, and, considering that of all those who have hitherto sought truth in the sciences, the mathematicians alone have been able to find any demonstrations, that is, any certain and evident reasons, I did not doubt but that such must have been the rule of their investigations.

32. Answer the topic questions with no less than300 words. You should write in YOUR OWN words:

What is the main issue that Descartes explores in this part of the text, and w hat’s his method? What’s your OWN understanding of the methods proposed by Descartes?

2018外研社杯全国英语写作大赛样题

2018“外研社杯”全国英语写作大赛样题 比赛考查题型说明： 1. 初赛和复赛：比赛题型为议论文写作1篇（500词左右）、说明文/应用文写作1篇（300-500词）， 写作时间共120分钟，满分100分。 2. 决赛：比赛题型为议论文写作1篇（800词左右）、记叙文写作1篇（600-800词），写作时间 共180分钟，满分100分。 注：本样题中，说明文和应用文以初/复赛赛题为例，议论文和记叙文以决赛赛题为例。样题仅供了解题型，不提供参考答案。 类型1 说明文写作（Expository Writing） 比赛内容：选手完成一篇说明文写作（300-500词）。侧重考查选手解说事物、阐明事理的能力，以及运用知识、观察理解、梳理分析、提炼总结、跨文化沟通的综合能力。 评分标准（总分50分）：

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2016外研社杯阅读大赛南昌大学选拔赛题

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