大学生英语竞赛

2013年大学生英语竞赛（NECCS）C类决赛真题试卷

Part Ⅱ Vocabulary and Structure

31． She was on her______throughout the job interview because she didn't want to say anything stupid.

A．Defence B．Care C．Caution D．Guard

32． He has been with the company for 30 years, but the management has now decided to_____ _ with his services.

A．Discard B．Dispense C．Dispose D．Dismiss

33． To the disappointment of the whole country the national team was______in the first round of t he international tournament.

A．Excluded B．Eliminated C．Suspended D．Segmented

34． Dr. Jones' theory had been the orthodoxy in the field for 50 years until a young scholar _____ _every argument of the theory in a famous paper.

A．Confront B．Confounded C．Refuted D．Renounced

35． ______every effort has been made to ensure that the details in this brochure are correct, the company cannot accept responsibility for any late changes.

A．Even B．While C．Nevertheless D．Whereas

36． In this part of town, people are only worried about keeping up with______.

A．the Johnsons B．the Smiths C．the Joneses D．the Williams

37． The general public depends upon television to know about world affairs but unfortunately the TV reports sometimes______the reality.

A．Misrepresent B．Tramper C．Disrupt D．Mistake

38． ______, street features such as fountains, steps and even cobbled roadways, are being excl uded from our streets because of the risk of accidents.

A．Technically B．Surprisingly C．Financially D．Logically

39． For some people, it may be______to remember what they have just read ______recall wher e they left their car keys.

A．much easier: than to B．probable: as C．better: than D．so easy: just as 40． "If you don't mind, I'd sooner you______your violin somewhere else," my landlord cried. A．would practise B．Practise C．had practised D．Practised

41． ______our money back in a reasonable manner failed, we had to resort threats.

A．When asking for B．While we asked for C．Having asked for D．If we ask for

42． The president ordered that the stadium______finished before the National Day but the engin eer knew very clearly that it was almost impossible for it______in so short a time.

A．be: to do B．be: to be done C．should be: to be doing D．will be: to have done

43． The dinosaurs probably became extinct after a giant asteroid hit the Earth about 65 million ye ars ago. But what______if this asteroid______?

A．would have happened: had missed B．would happen: missed C．happened: would miss D．was happening: missed

44．—Are your printers easy to use? You see, we've managed without one up to now. Why are th ere so many knobs and buttons?

—______In fact, they're entirely automatic.

A．Whatever you think it is. B．Sorry to disappoint you. C．They couldn't be easier.

D．It is the cheapest one.

45．—Hello, John. How's your latest book going? I mean the one you're writing on the Loch Ness monster.

—Well, ______.

—Oh dear. Why's that?

—Well, the inspiration's there but everything else is wrong. One day I tire myself out with the writin

g and the next day I can hardly keep myself awake.

A．it's going rather slowly at present B．I've finished it now C．Nobody has fou nd the monster yet D．The editor asked me to stop writing Part Ⅲ Cloze

The opium poppy is a bright flower, usually red or orange, that grows to a【C1】h eight______of about 75 -90 centimetres. In the wild, it usually grows in huge clusters, sometimes covering an entire field. Humans have cultivated this flower for thousands of years,【C2】b oth_____for its beauty and for the powerful chemicals it produces. It is not【C3】sur prising______that an ancient human eventually tasted opium, the dried juice of the poppy. Man y people

【C4____mistakenly(mistake)believe that the juice comes only from the seedpods, and only at a c ertain time of year. The juice does not pool up the seedpod just before the seed ripen, but it flows 【C5】thr ough______the rest of the plant as well. The stem and seed capsules leak this milky juice easily if the plant is knocked down or the stem is broken. The dried juice forms a brown crust that is eas y to see. Someone searching for food was probably

hu ngry______enough to risk tasting the dried material. He or she was probably surprised by the re sult.

The first opium-eater has had a long sleep before being able to tell anyone else about the poppy . Its【C7】sci entific______name, papa-ver somniferum, means " sleep-bringing poppy ".【C8】_sleepiness_____ (sleep)is one of the best-known side-effects of ingesting opium. Ancient Greek art often showed Hypnos, the god of sleep, with poppies in his hands. The same images were ass ociated with Somnus, the Roman god of sleep.

This【C9 connectio n__(connect)of poppies with sleep carried through to one of the most popular books and movies of 20th-century America. In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, a girl named Dorothy and h er friends are trying to find a wizard who can help them get the things they need. An【C10】ev il______witch tries to stop them. One of the witch's tricks is to put Dorothy and all her friends to sleepby leading them into a beautiful, dangerous field of bright poppies.

Part Ⅳ Reading Comperhension Section A

Nowadays, most people realise that it's risky to use credit card online. However, from time to tim e, we all use passwords and government ID numbers on the Web. We think we are safe, but that may not be true I A new kind of attack is being used by dishonest people to steal ID and credit car d numbers from innocent websurfers.

This new kind of attack is called " phishing". Phishing sounds the same as the word "fishing" , a nd it implies a thief is trying to lure people into giving away valuable information. How can phishers lure people to do this? Like real fishermen, they use bait in the form of great online deals or servic es. For example, phishers might use fake emails and false websites to con people into revealing cr edit card numbers, account usernames, and passwords. They imitate well-known banks, online sel lers, and credit card companies. Successful phishers may convince as many as 5 percent of the p eople they contact to respond and give away their personal financial information.

Is this really a big problem? Actually, tricking 5 percent of the online population is huge! Currentl y , more than 350 million people have access to the Internet, and 75 percent of those Internet user s live in the wealthiest countries on Earth. It has been estimated that phishers send more than 3 bil lion scam messages each year. Even by tricking only 5 percent of the people, phishers can make a lot of money.

Since there is so much money to make through this kind of scam, it has caught the interest of m ore than just small-time crooks. Recently, police tracked down members of an organised phishing group in Eastern Europe who had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from people online. The group created official-looking email messages requesting people to update their personal informat

ion at an international bank's website. However, the link to the bank in the message actually sent p eople to the phishers' fake website. To make matters worse, further investigation revealed that this group had connections with a crime in Russia.

How can innocent websurfers protect themselves? Above all, they have to learn to recognize e mail that has been sent by a phisher. Always be wary of any email with urgent requests for person al financial information. Phishers typically write upsetting or exciting but fake statements in their e mails so that people will reply right away. Also, messages from phishers will not address recipients by name because they really don't know who the recipients are yet. On the other hand, valid mess ages from your bank or other companies you normally deal with typically include your personal na me.

Giving personal information over the Internet has always been full of【A1】_risks_____but now it's even more so with the new Internet scam, phishing. Phishers first lure,

【A2】___innocent___websurfers into a scam by making up fake emails. With this bait they lure some of the people they contact to give away personal financial【A3】______while there are millions of people surfing the Internet, phishers may make a lot of money th rough sending scam message. These phishers are not just small-time crooks. Police investigation s have recently tracked down organised phishing groups in Eastern Europe with connections to a crime【A4】______in Russia. Websurfers must deal with any urgent emails【A5】______private information warily. For example, a bank will address their customers properly where as a phisher will not be able to.

Section B

College of Engineering,

Mathematics and Physical Science Harrison Building Streatham Campus University of Exeter Exet er UK EX44QF Tel: + 44(0)1392723628 Fax: +44(0)1392217965 Email: emps@ exeter. ac. uk De ar Mr Qiu Ye

Congratulations! On behalf of the University of Exeter, I write to inform you that your application for postgraduate study at the University has been considered and we are pleased to offer you a pl ace on the following programme subject to the conditions set out below.

Programme: Master of science in Computer Science Registration dates: 21-22 September 20 13

School: College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Science Mode of study: Full-time Tuition status: Overseas

All new students will be required to arrive and register over the weekend of 21 -22 September, 2 013 and to participate in the Welcome Week events held between 23 -27 September, 2013.

As a postgaduate student at Exeter, you will be part of our friendly Computer Science Departme nt which provides close personal contact between staff and students and results in a highly produc tive and well-organised research environment. You will be based in the College's Harrison building which includes a suite of new teaching and research laboratories.

We maintain a firm focus on career-orientated postgraduate training. Working closely with a prof essional advisory group that includes senior managers from companies such as IBM, we ensure th at our programmes support the needs of the sector and our graduates are well placed for success in this exciting field.

The College maintains an excellent reputation for its research in robotics, machine learning, mul ti-objective optimisation, pattern recognition and computational statistical modelling, natural compu ting and hydroinformatics.

The University of Exeter offers excellent technology-enhanced learning opportunities via an inter active online learning environment which encourages blogging, online discussion forums and virtu al field trips. All students have access to My Exeter—a student portal which is home to vital IT serv

ices including your email and calendar, documents saved to your own file space, online learning fa cilities and teaching timetables.

At Exeter we are also committed to a system of personal tutoring so that student receive the indi vidual support and advice they need to succeed in their study here. All students have a personal tu tor who is there to support you and help you deal with any problems or issues that arise.

Our Main Library is available to you to support your studies 24/7 throughout the academic year: we have the second largest number of e-journal downloads of any UK university: we have one of t he highest UK academic library ratios of books to students with a stock in excess of 1. 2 million: an d we have one of Britain's largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relati ng to the history and prehistory of cinema in the Bill Douglas Centre.

I congratulate you on this offer and I look forward to welcoming you to the University of Exeter. Yours sincerely, Howard Johnson

Head of Recruitment and Admissions Office

61． There is a welcome week dating from 23 -27 September, 2013 and all new postgraduates mu st register during that week. A．TURE B．FALSE

62． Qiu Ye will study Computer Science in the University of Exeter as a full-time overseas postgr aduate student.

A．TURE B．FALSE

63． All postgraduate students in Computer Science can work in IBM after graduation because of t he close relationship between the company and the university. A．TURE B．FALSE 64． What does My Exeter provide students with?

65． How can students benefit from the personal tutoring system?

Section C

David Blaine calls himself an illusionist—a kind of magician who appears to do spectacular and often dangerous tricks. Among his more widely publicized feats, Blaine has been buried alive for a week, spent sixty hours encased in a hollow block of ice, and spent thirty-five hours standing on a platform 50 centimeters in diameter at the top of a 30-metre high pillar. In 2003 , the thirty-year-old illusionist from New York spent forty-four days in a clear plastic box that was hanging from a crane above the Thames River in Lon-don. But there was more to this trick than just staying in a small b ox for such a long time. Blaine also went without food for the entire period living nothing but water t he whole time.

On the day Blaine entered the box and the crane lifted him high above the river, a crowd of curio us spectators gathered to watch. For the next six weeks the crowds continued to drop by the site t o watch Blaine sleeping, writing in his journal, and staring back at them. However, not everyone ju st wanted to watch. Some people came to give Blaine a hard time and to do things to break the m agician's will and force him to come down. A few people threw things at his box or grilled food und er it so that the smell would float up to the starving performer. One person even went so far as to tr y and cut the hose carrying water up to Blaine's box, but security guards stopped the vandal befor e he could do any damage. Finally, after forty-four days up in the air, Blaine was lowered to the gro und and released from his box. He was weak and much thinner than before, but the performer still managed to give a short speech to the crowd gathered to watch him emerge. Then he was put in a n ambulance and rushed to a hospital where he spent the next week recovering from his ordeal. Not everyone in the crowd was satisfied with the ending of the magician's stunt. They had come expecting to see a dramatic finale. Some of the suggestions for ending the feat in a spectacular w ay included dropping the box into the river and watching Blaine escape, or opening the box in the air and letting Blaine jump out. Or, in a true magician's fashion, some people wanted to see him va nish into thin air, leaving a white rabbit in his place.

So what did David Blaine finally accomplish through this amazing feat of endurance? He certainly generated a lot of headlines! Along with a number of articles appearing in newspapers on both sid

es of the Atlantic, various websites sprang up both supporting and criticizing the man and his stunt .

66． David Blaine is a man who has done many amazing and______stunts over his career. 67． For one of his latest feat, Blaine stayed inside a small box and______himself for quite a long time with only water.68． Unsatisfied with Blaine's hanging stunt, some people expected to s ee him perform______at the end.

69． Which of Blaine's stunts lasted the longest?

A．Being buried alive. B．Being encased in a hollow block of ice. C．Standing on a high pillar. D．Staying without food in a hanging box.

70． Why did some people criticize Blaine's hanging stunt?

A．He came out of the box early. B．He didn't perform as long as he had promised. C．Th e ending was not surprising enough. D．It was too cruel and unhuman. Section D

It seems that there is no middle ground when it comes to cats. People either love them or hate t hem. These feelings are not new either. All through history, cats have been worshiped or hated. A study of ancient writings and evidence found in tombs indicates that for the past 5,000 years, cats have been kept as pets in China, Arabia, Egypt, and India. However, this isn't very long compared to dogs, which have been domesticated for 50,000 years. Still, while the period in which cats have been domesticated may be quite short, it has definitely had its high and low points.

Cats were at their positions of domesticated life in ancient Egypt. There were more cats living in Egypt during the time of the pharaohs than any other place in the world since that time. This high n umber of cats was probably due to the laws protecting them as holy animals. If anyone was caught killing a cat, the person could be put to death. Families in Egypt also mourned the death of a cat a nd had the body of the dead cat wrapped in cloth before it was finally laid to rest. This respect for c ats carried over to the Boman Empire where cats were the only animals allowed into temples. This fact was probably because of the ability of cats to keep the temples free of mice and rats.

With the coming of the Dark Ages in Europe, the place of cats in society took a turn for the wors e. Because they were associated so closely with the "old religions" of Egypt and the Roman Empir e, Christians began to associate cats with pagan beliefs.(74)Cats had a reputation as helpers of wi tches. When a person was accused of being a witch, a cat would often be put on trial with the pers on. The cat would be tortured to try and make the person tell the truth, and usually the cat and the person would end up being burned in a bonfire or drowned. Bonfires of collected cats were not unc ommon during this time.

The days of hunting witches have ended, but other myths about cats still hold out. For a while, people in some places used to bury live cats under new buildings for good luck. As well, many peo ple today continued to believe that black cats bring bad luck. If a black cat walks in front of a perso n, that person must take extra care in the near future to watch out for dangerous situations.(75)Re gardless of superstition, cats remain a popular pet today. Some cat experts believe that a cat can never truly be domesticated because it may turn wild and run away at any time. However, this clai m has not put people off keeping cats in their homes. A third of homes in the United States have ca ts, and one out of every three of these homes keeps both a dog and a cat. Especially in large citie s, many people in small apartments have found that cats make much better pets than dogs. 71． Why were there most cats living in ancient Egypt during the time of the pharaohs? 72． When was the lowest point in the history of raising cats?

73． What percentage of American homes keeps both a cat and a dog? 74． Cats had a reputat ion as helpers of witches. When a person was accused of being a witch, a cat would often be put o n trial with the person.

75． Regardless of superstition, cats remain a popular pet today. Some cat experts believe that a

cat can never truly be domesticated because it may turn wild and run away at any time. However, t his claim has not put people off keeping cats in their homes. Error Correction

One theory about the universe says that it has no boundary, no edge.

This theory was proposed by Stephen Hawking and Jim Hartle. It says 【M1】______ that the universe has a finite area, but no one travelling through the

universe would ever come to a point that the universe stops. This 【M2】______ would be similar to journey over the surface of Earth. We can travel 【M3】______ around the world without reaching boundaries nor edges, yet the area of 【M4】______ the planet is finite. This no boundary theory predicts what the universe 【M5】______ does have a beginning and an end, but it differs off the traditional 【M6】______ Big Bang theory in some ways. The traditional Big Bang theory

assuming that the beginning of the universe was a singularity, a point 【M7】______ of infinite density and infinitesimal volume to where space and time 【M8】______ became distorted. Instead, Hawking and Hatle predict

that the beginning of the universe could likened to the North 【M9】______ Pole of the Earth. If degrees of latitude on the Earth could be

compare to time, it could be said that the universe began 【M10】______ at the North Pole. However, the North Pole in itself is just an ordinary point on Earth. Part Ⅴ Translation Section B

86．两国的边境东部山区至西部海岸绵延一千余公里，其中多处存在争端。(非限制性定语从句；range…from) 87．因为现在是上班高峰时段，路上交通非常拥堵。(it being) 88．在谈判过程中他突然想到可以通过提高税率来控制通货膨胀，从而化解这场经济危机。(occur)

89．联合国向国际社会呼吁增加资金，以援助急需食物、饮水和药品的地震灾民。(appeal to)

90．最有天赋的学生未必能在考试中取得最好的成绩，比成绩更重要的是懂得如何充分发挥自己的能力。(count for) Part Ⅵ IQ Test

91． Complete the sentence with two different words that sound alike.

"______be proud to walk you down the______," said the father to his daughter on her wedding da y.

92． What in the night sky is suggested by the following word picture?

93． Among the following words, which is the odd one out? A. Moon B. Mercury C. Venus D. Mars E. Jupiter F. Saturn 94． Why is 10 x 10 =1000 like your left eye? 95． Which cube can be made from the given net?

Part Ⅶ Writing

Task Ⅰ

96． Read the chart below and write a 120-word report on population growth as the chart describe s. Write on the answer sheet.

Task Ⅱ

97． There is a discussion about how much freedom parents should allow young people to have n owadays. You are asked to write a composition giving your own views on the following statement; Young people are given too much freedom nowadays by their parents. Write your compositio n in 160 words and write on the answer sheet.