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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

the 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

excluded 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 where

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

engineer 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

years 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

there 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

writing 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 found 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______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______for its beauty

and for the powerful chemicals it produces.

It is not【C3】sur______that an ancient human eventually tasted opium, the dried juice of the

poppy. Many people【C4】______(mistake)believe that the juice comes only from the seedpods,

and only at a certain time of year. The juice does not pool up the seedpod just before the seed ripen,

but it flows【C5】thr______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 easy to see. Someone searching for food was probably【C6】hu______enough to risk

tasting the dried material. He or she was probably surprised by the result.

The first opium-eater has had a long sleep before being able to tell anyone else about the

poppy. Its【C7】sci______name, papa-ver somniferum, means " sleep-bringing poppy ".【C8】______ (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 associated

with Somnus, the Roman god of sleep.

This【C9】______(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 her friends are trying to find a wizard who can help them get the things they need. An【C10】ev______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 time, 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 card numbers from innocent websurfers.

This new kind of attack is called " phishing". Phishing sounds the same as the word

"fishing" , and 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 services. For example, phishers might use fake emails and false websites to con

people into revealing credit card numbers, account usernames, and passwords. They imitate

well-known banks, online sellers, and credit card companies. Successful phishers may convince as

many as 5 percent of the people 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!

Currently , more than 350 million people have access to the Internet, and 75 percent of those

Internet users live in the wealthiest countries on Earth. It has been estimated that phishers send

more than 3 billion 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 more 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 information at an international bank's website. However, the link to the bank in the

message actually sent people 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 email that has been sent by a phisher. Always be wary of any email with urgent requests

for personal financial information. Phishers typically write upsetting or exciting but fake

statements in their emails 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 messages from your bank or other companies you normally deal with typically

include your personal name.

Giving personal information over the Internet has always been full of【A1】______but

now it's even more so with the new Internet scam, phishing. Phishers first lure,【A2】______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 through sending scam message. These

phishers are not just small-time crooks. Police investigations 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 whereas a phisher will not be able to.

Section B

College of Engineering,

Mathematics and Physical Science

Harrison Building

Streatham Campus

University of Exeter

Exeter UK EX44QF

Tel: + 44(0)1392723628

Fax: +44(0)1392217965

Email: emps@ exeter. ac. uk

Dear 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 place on the following programme subject to the conditions set out below.

Programme: Master of science in Computer Science

Registration dates: 21-22 September 2013

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, 2013 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 Department which provides close personal contact between staff and students and results in a

highly productive 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 professional advisory group that includes senior managers from companies such as IBM,

we ensure that 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, multi-objective optimisation, pattern recognition and computational statistical modelling,

natural computing and hydroinformatics.

The University of Exeter offers excellent technology-enhanced learning opportunities

via an interactive online learning environment which encourages blogging, online discussion

forums and virtual field trips. All students have access to My Exeter—a student portal which is

home to vital IT services including your email and calendar, documents saved to your own file

space, online learning facilities and teaching timetables.

At Exeter we are also committed to a system of personal tutoring so that student receive

the individual support and advice they need to succeed in their study here. All students have a

personal tutor 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 the highest UK academic library ratios of books to students with a stock in excess

of 1. 2 million: and we have one of Britain's largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts

and ephemera relating 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

must 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

postgraduate student.

A．TURE B．FALSE

63． All postgraduate students in Computer Science can work in IBM after graduation because of

the 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 box for such a long time. Blaine also went without food for the entire period

living nothing but water the whole time.

On the day Blaine entered the box and the crane lifted him high above the river, a crowd of

curious spectators gathered to watch. For the next six weeks the crowds continued to drop by the

site to watch Blaine sleeping, writing in his journal, and staring back at them. However, not

everyone just wanted to watch. Some people came to give Blaine a hard time and to do things to

break the magician's will and force him to come down. A few people threw things at his box or

grilled food under it so that the smell would float up to the starving performer. One person even

went so far as to try and cut the hose carrying water up to Blaine's box, but security guards

stopped the vandal before he could do any damage. Finally, after forty-four days up in the air,

Blaine was lowered to the ground 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 an 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 way 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 vanish 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 sides 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 see 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．The 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

them. 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 number 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 and had the body of the dead cat wrapped in cloth before it was finally laid to rest.

This respect for cats 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

worse. Because they were associated so closely with the "old religions" of Egypt and the Roman

Empire, Christians began to associate cats with pagan beliefs.(74)Cats had a reputation as helpers

of witches. When a person was accused of being a witch, a cat would often be put on trial with the

person. 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

uncommon 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

people today continued to believe that black cats bring bad luck. If a black cat walks in front of a

person, that person must take extra care in the near future to watch out for dangerous

situations.(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, this claim has not put people off keeping cats in their homes. A third of homes in

the United States have cats, and one out of every three of these homes keeps both a dog and a cat.

Especially in large cities, 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 reputation as helpers of witches. When a person was accused of being a witch,

a cat would often be put on 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, this 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

day.

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

describes. Write on the answer sheet.

Task Ⅱ

97． There is a discussion about how much freedom parents should allow young people to have

nowadays. 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 composition in 160 words and write on the answer sheet.