2004年上海初中英语竞赛试题(笔试)

2004年上海初中英语竞赛试题（笔试）

2004 Shanghai Junior High School

English Contest Paper for Written English?

I. V ocabulary and Structure. (20%)

1. The 911 rescue team found the ___________ boy extremely __________, wolves howling in the woods.

A. missing ... scaring

B. missed ... scared

C. missed ... scaring

D. missing ... scared

2. This year an increased number of drivers __________ for speeding.

A. have fined

B. have been fined

C. has punished

D. have been punished

3. A couple of decades ago, he __________ Austria and lives there now.

A. was to visit

B. had gone to

C. left for

D. arrived in

4. This is the Department of Foreign Languages, where we _________ about 80 students a year.

A. teach

B. educate

C. train

D. instruct

5. The percentage of women who would stay at home full-time, ______ they could afford it, dropped from 39 percent in 1981 to 31 percent in as recent survey.

A. if

B. until

C. even if

D. as

6. A: What __________ did the professor assign you for the essay?

B: The American labour movement following World War I.

A. topic

B. theme

C. subject

D. title

7. There was nothing of __________ importance in the annual report.

A. specific

B. particular

C. special

D. peculiar

8. The political party is collecting __________ from its members.

A. donations

B. presents

C. money

D. contributions

9. Max made a __________ decision when he decided to move.

A. smart

B. wise

C. clever

D. intelligent

10. A: The easiest way is to take the number 207 bus from that bus stop over there. It will stop right in front of the store.

B: I _________, thank you. By the way, do you happen to _______ how long it will take?

A. know ... understand

B. understand ... know

C. understand ... realize

D. realize ... know

11. A: Good morning, Mega Music Store. Can I help you?

B: Hello, __________

A: Certainly. The order number is CD39 dash 2Bk and the price is $39.99.

A. I’d like to know if I can order the new Discovery CD?

B. how much is the new Discovery CD?

C. I’d like to know how I can get to the music store?

D. How can I get some information about the new Discovery CD?

12. The vacation will be very expensive but if it helps make you fit and healthy again it will be cheap in terms of price.

The underlined part in the sentence probably means ‘__________’.

A. a disappointment to you

B. cheating you

C. well worth the price

D. not worth the price

13. We wanted to surprise Rosa with a surprise birthday party, but Susan let the cat out of the bag by asking her what she would like.

The underlined part in the sentence probably means ‘__________’.

A. told her the secret

B. brought a cat in a bag

C. disagreed

D. was informed of it

14. The bad economic situation forced the company to lay off some employees.

The underlined part in the sentence probably means ‘__________’.

A. fire

B. get rid of

C. employ

D. retire

15. Look, how pretty she looks. She’s going to knock all the people ______.

A. down

B. woken up

C. into coma

D. dead

16. I will be late again, so I have to take my breakfast on the __________.

A. mosquito

B. fly

C. cockroach

D. dragonfly

17. __________ has been set as the theme for Expo Shanghai 2010.

A. Green Shanghai, Green Expo

B. Better City, Better Life

C. Better Shanghai, Better Life

D. Green Expo, Better Life

18. The famous speech ‘I Have a Dream’was delivered by ________ on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington

D.C. on August 28, 1963.

A. Martin Luther King

B. Franklin D. Roosevelt

C. Ronald Reagan

D. Richard M. Nixon

19. ‘Genius without education is like silver in the mine.’—This was said by __________, a great scientist in the USA.

A. Albert Einstein

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Thomas Edison

D. Stephen Hawking

20. The term ‘MBA’stands for __________.

A. Member of Basketball Association

B. Master of Basketball Association

C. Master of Business Administration

D. Member of Business Association

II.Reading Comprehension.(25%)

(A)

Journey to Jupiter

Galileo left Earth on October 18th, 1989. In 1995, it became the first man-made satellite of Jupiter.

Galileo released its 339 kg probe (an exploring machine) in July 1995 and it slammed into the atmosphere of Jupiter in December. Travelling at 47km per second Galileo’s cone-shaped probe became a man-made meteor blazing across alien cloudtops. Within two minutes the drag caused by Jupiter’s atmosphere slowed the probe to a mere 1600 km per hour.

1. Galileo could best be described as a __________.

A. rocket

B. spacecraft

C. space probe

D. manned spaceship

22. In the section GALILEO FACTS ‘thermal’refers to __________.

A. solar

B. heat

C. battery

D. air conditioned

23. One of Galileo’s tasks was to __________.

A. check Jupiter for alien life

B. weigh Jupiter and its moons

C. slam into Jupiter’s atmosphere

D. return to Earth with scientific information

24. The length of a day on Jupiter is __________.

A. 10 hours

B. 24 hours

C. 2 days

D. 1 week

25. It is most likely that the space probe released by Galileo __________.

A. landed on Jupiter

B. returned to Earth

C. was struck by a meteor

D. burnt up in Jupiter’s atmosphere

(B)

Tropical Island Holiday Program

Jessica is planning her activities for Wednesday at the Tropical Island Resort. She studies the WEDNESDAY ACTIVITY program.

26. If Jessica decides to participate in four cost free activities she could choose __________.

A. Beach Cricket, V olleyball, Fun Tennis Tournament and Movie

B. Windsurfing Lesson, English Croquet, Torch Lighting and Bingo

C. Jogging, Rukurukulevu Bicycle Tour, V olleyball game and Children’s Movie

D. Tennis Clinic, Morning Fijian Art Demonstration, Beach Cricket and Torch Lighting

27. The word ‘tournament’means a __________.

A. tour

B. fair

C. lesson

D. competition

28. If Jessica goes on the Kaba Island Hike she would follow that activity with __________.

A. Auqa Aerobics

B. the Snorkelling Safari

C. the Putting Competition

D. the morning Fijian Art Demonstration

29. If Jessica decides to take part in two activities that involve competition she could choose __________.

A. Scuba Diving and Pool Table Competition

B. Windesurfing and Beach Cricket

C. Jogging and Golf Clinic

D. Putting and Bowling

30. Jessica can spend $20 on Activities. She would participate in ________.

A. Group Golf Clinic, Kaba Island Hiking and Bay Cruising

B. Play Golf with the Instructor, Gym Workout and Sunset Bay Cruise

C. Rukurukulevu Bicycle Tour, Snorkelling Safari and Fun Tennis Competition

D. Windsurfing with board hire, Sunset Bay Cruise and Pool Table Competition

31. If Jessica cannot go on the Bay Cruise at 11.30 she could go again at ___.

A. 12.00

B. 2.00

C. 3.00

D. 6.30

32. If Jessica decides to go on the Snorkelling Safari she should ________.

A. make a reservation

B. contact the operator on Extension 822

C. reserve a place by contacting the guide

D. meet the group at the Beach Office at 10 a.m.

(C)

Teeth and Beaks

Palaeontologists can tell much about how a dinosaur lived from the shape of its teeth or its beak, if it had no front teeth. Giraffes’teeth are different from zebras’teeth because giraffes eat tender leaves from the top of trees, white zebras eat tough, dry grass. In the same way, different families of dinosaurs evolved different kinds of teeth and beaks to cope with a variety of plants.

Protoceratops, one of the smaller horned dinosaurs, had a parrot-like beak for shearing off plant stems, and scissor-like teeth to slice up its food.

Camarasaurus, an 18-m (59-ft) long sauropod, had spoon-like cutting but no grinding teeth. However, it could reach high into trees to tear away leave.

Corythosaurus, a duckbill, tore off leaves with its horny beak, stored them in its cheek pouches, then used rows of strong interlocking teeth to grind them.

Plateosaurus, an early, long-necked giant, had leaf-shaped teeth to pluck off the leaves of soft plants such as ferns. It did not have grinding teeth.

Iguanodon browsed on tough plants such as horsetails, and used its horny beak to nip off leaves. Its rows of ridged, grinding teeth crushed the leaves into a pulp.

STRANGE BUT TRUE

Heterodontosaurus, a plant eater from the early Jurassic Period had three kinds of teeth; on the lower jaw it had a horny beak. Then it had two pairs of large, fang-like teeth, with grinding teeth at the back.

33. A palaeontologist is a person who studies __________.

A. teeth

B. giraffes and zebras

C. animal eating habits

D. life in the distant past

34. The word ‘browse’(in the section about Iguanodon) means to _______.

A. feed on small bushes

B. eat young grasses

C. wander around

D. survive

35. The Heterodontosaurus is unusual because __________.

A. it had a beak and teeth

B. it had three kinds of teeth

C. lived in the early Jurassic Period

D. the beak was made of horny material

36. A dinosaur that did NOT have grinding teeth was the __________.

A. Heterdontosaurus

B. Plateosaurus

C. Corythosaurus

D. Iguanodon

37. One difference between the Corythosaurus and the Iguanodon was ____.

A. that Iguanodon could grind up its food

B. the way they took leaves from plants

C. that Corythosaurus had a beak

D. the Period in which they lived

38. From the study of teeth palaeontologists can tell __________.

A. how long each dinosaur lived

B. in which Period dinosaurs lived

C. the type of plants dinosaurs ate

D. when dinosaurs died out

39. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Dinosaurs with beaks had no front teeth.

B. Giraffes are related to Plateosaurus.

C. Zebras only eat tender leaves.

D. Dinosaurs preferred to eat ferns.

(D)

Days of Joy and Heartbreak

Read the extract from the play

It is a typical day in the home of Tilly and Teddy Tedium. They are seated on a sofa relaxing as the curtain opens. Narrator: Welcome to chapter 3456 of ‘Days of Joy and Heartbreak’, a chronicle of life in the typical suburban home of the Tedium Family.

(The narrator exits.)

Tilly: Ah, Teddy, this is the life. No problems.

Teddy: Yes, Tilly, this is the life all right.

Tilly: We’ve worked hard all our days and now we can sit back and soak up life’s rich twilight.

Teddy: Without a care in the world.

(Their son Bertie rushes in.)

Bertie: Mother, Father.

Teddy and Tilly: Yes, son?

Bertie: I’ve made a terrible discovery!

Tilly: Oh no!

Bertie: Yes!

Teddy: On a scale of one to ten, how terrible?

Bertie: Fifteen!

Tilly: Bertie, you haven’t …

Bertie: But I have!

Teddy and Tilly: Who told you?

Bertie: No one. I just looked in every cabbage patch in town —and there are no babies there.

Tilly: We can explain, Bertie! Um, ask your father!

Bertie: Well Father?

Teddy: We were only joking when we said babies came from cabbage patches.

Bertie: Were you?

Tilly: That’s right —the stork (白鹳) brings them.

Bertie: Oh, the stork. Right. Of course. Well thanks for straightening that out. I must dash now or I’ll be late for medical school. Bye, bye.

(He exits)

40. The ‘school’Bertie goes to is a __________.

A. preschool

B. primary school

C. hospital staff training college

D. university

41. When Bertie discovers that babies do not come from cabbage patches he feels it is __________.

A. a disaster

B. a problem

C. a trick

D. an impossibility

42. Teddy and Tilly Tedium would be about __________.

A. 12 years old

B. 20 years old

C. 60 years old

D. 90 years old

43. Bertie Tedium could be best described as __________.

A. simple and innocent

B. foolish and impatient

C. trusting and sensitive

D. caring and thoughtful

44. When Bertie says ‘Thanks for straightening that out’he means: __________

A. Thanks for putting the facts right.

B. Thanks for sharing my problems.

C. Thanks for being honest with me.

D. Thanks for helping me better understand.

45. Bertie first found out that babies didn’t come from the cabbage patch __________.

A. when he searched all the town cabbage patches

B. when he discovered the stork delivered them

C. at medical school

D. from his father

III. Cloze Test. (20%)

Underwater Cave

It was a worrying time for the air-sea rescue team from Provence in southern France. Three divers had gone (46) __________ and the (47) __________ that they were still alive were bad.

(48) __________ Henri Cosquer on board, the rescue boat motored (49) __________ the coast to the area where the divers had (50) __________, and anchored (抛锚，停泊) alongside some limestone cliffs. Beneath the surface, Cosquer explained, was a cave —his own private cave, which he had discovered six years (51) __________, and which he had been exploring (52) __________. The cave was one of the most dangerous he had ever seen, which was one reason why he (53) __________ told anyone about it. He (54) __________ that the divers had (55) __________ found the entrance, and come to grief in the narrow passages beyond.

Cosquer and the rescue team put on their diving (56) __________ and entered the tiny opening, little more than a metre high. Inside, pitch black had it not been for their torches, was a long narrow passage. Clouds of silt (淤泥) were (57) __________ up by the divers’flippers as they passed, and the team quickly (58) __________ disorientated (辨不清方向的). But Cosquer knew (59) __________ he was going.

Soon, as he (60) __________, they found the (61) __________ of the three missing divers. (62) __________ his cave had been discovered and a tragedy (悲剧) had (63) __________, Cosquer knew that the authorities would (64) __________ its entrance off to prevent further accidents. But before they did he knew the cave’s other (65) __________ would have to be shared with the rest of the world.

46. A. missing B. lost C. away D. dead

47. A. possibilities B. facts C. chances D. reasons

48. A. As B. With C. By D. Leaving

49. A. across B. through C. along D. towards

50. A. appeared B. disappeared C. missed D. lost

51. A. before B. ago C. time D. passed

52. A. for a long time B. since then C. ever since D. already

53. A. ever B. already C. still D. never

54. A. thought B. considered C. suspected D. concluded

55. A. already B. possibly C. accidentallyD. probably

56. A. machine B. suit C. oxygen D. equipment

57. A. created B. made C. stirred D. caused

58. A. grew B. became C. turned D. happened

59. A. when B. how C. what D. where

60. A. thought B. considered C. expected D. concluded

61. A. bodies B. hands C. legs D. arms

62. A. Now that B. Because C. Suddenly D. However

63. A. existed B. been caused C. occurred D. been made

64. A. close B. shut C. seal D. make

65. A. fact B. secret C. story D. wonder