2018年“上外杯”高中英语竞赛初赛试题

2018年“上外杯”高中英语竞赛初赛试题

2018年“上外杯”上海市高中英语竞赛

初赛试卷

考生注意：

一、本卷共13页、75小题，满分100分。答卷时间90分钟。

二、本卷所有题目均为选择题，请将所选答案用2B铅笔点涂在答

题卡上。

I. Grammar and Vocabulary（20分）

Directions:Complete the following passages by using the

words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that

there is one word more than you need.

hovering and flitting high over the heads of tourists and

workers ever since. The ___1___ image was intended to turn

attention to humanity’s shaky place in nature. The onscreen

message: “Earth Overshoot Day is August 1…Becau We Have

Only One Earth…#MoveTheDate.”

Created by the Global Footprint Network environmental

nonprofit, Earth Overshoot Day estimates the point in the year

when humanity has consumed more natural resources and

created more waste than Earth can replace or safely absorb in a

year. The Aug. 1 date ___2___ this year is earlier than any time in

the dozen years the calculation has been made and a warning,

especially, of the heightened challenge from the accumulation of

greenhou gas.

The Earth Overshoot concept is designed to bring ___3___ to

climate issues that can em distant in time and place. It aims to

keep citizens and decision-makers in touch with spiraling carbon

dioxide levels, particularly Americans who don’t live in coastal

flood zones or in the path of more frequent and ___4 __ hurricanes.

The Aug. 1 date declared this year means that, for the final

five months of the year, mankind is overdrawing natural

resources. It would, ___5 __ another way, take 1.7 Earths to supply

the resources needed to feed, clothe and sustain Earth’s 7.6

billion people for a year.

Global Footprint Network also calculates the biocapacity and

ecological footprint at the national level, offering a look at how

much each country is living beyond its ___6 __ resources. It shows,

for example, that the United States has a biocapacity of 3.6

hectares per person but that the average consumption is 8.4

hectares per person, meaning that Americans are running a 4.8

hectare per-capita deficit. Stretched across a population of 317

million, that country us all of its native resources by March 15,

the formulation suggests. To continue consuming at current

levels ___7 __, the U.S. would need the resources of five Earths.

That’s in sharp contrast to nations that have little industry

and relatively few cars and trucks and often immen forests,

pumping oxygen back into the biosphere. So Suriname in the

northern end of South America, has a biocapacity of 97 hetacres

per person, but each of its 496,000 inhabitants only us 2.7

hectares, on average, annually. So the tiny nation produces a

large 94.6 hectares of "rerve." Becau the construct is only

theoretical, though, Suriname can’t escape the ___8 __ carbon

dioxide most other countries pump into the atmosphere. And it

exports surplus of wood and commodities that other countries

can’t produce on their own.

Andrew Simms, a progressive British political economist who

helped ___9 __ the idea, said it is important to show how cultures

live beyond their own resources. “The wealthiest countries, in

particular, depend on a much larger land ba than they have

themlves to enjoy the material lifestyles they are accustomed

to," Simms said. Wackernagel said his group us the statistics

___10 __ and that the overshoot date underestimates humanity’s

impact on the planet.

The first thing you need is backup. You don’t want to take

all the work on yourlf, so meet with your committee and keep

this going throughout the year. No need to sacrifice your degree;

___11 __ the work to your team. That is, it’s best to avoid

becoming a mini dictator. Unless you want a mutiny on your

hands, it’s a good idea to listen to your committee’s views. Set

up a group chat where members can pipe up and discuss society

matters.

Just like a successful country needs citizens, a society won’t

last long without members. Free pizza and the promi of a

hangover at regular ___12 __ throughout the year are a tried-and-

tested way to get people to sign up and show up. Gemma Paine,

former president of the pole fitness society at the University of

Susx, invested a lot of money into making socials ___13 __ –

from air hockey to a Halloween pub crawl. She also suggests

creating branded kit or clothing. Seeing your members wearing

the society’s hoodie or T-shirt around the campus is not only

good publicity, it can create a n of unity and belonging.

However, a large membership alone is not enough to ensure

your society’s long-term ___14 __. “It’s great to have people

signed up and have them pay the membership fee, becau

that’s where you get your money from,” Paine says. “But at

the end of th e day if, by April, you only have 10 members turning

up to things, then you’re not running the society the right way.”

Retention can be one of the biggest challenges of running a

society. Unlike sports such as rugby or football, which students

are already familiar with, the more niche clubs like pole fitness

___15 __ to be taken riously. The sport is difficult to learn at first,

so once the initial novelty ___16 __ off, a lot of new members give

up.

You need to do a hard ___17 __ of whatever member benefits

your society does offer. Tell them exactly what they’re getting

for their money. As well as offering a low annual membership fee

that includes the cost of the class, Paine made sure there was

a clear structure to the ssions. She says before she became

president, members learned a party trick or two but nothing

more ___18 __. Now the instructor teaches the skills and moves

needed to perfect a whole pole routine, with members working

towards a clearer goal.

If you want members to stick around, make them feel like

they are part of something more than just a fun distraction.

That’s why Tanita Lewis’s street dance society at Leeds

University has a competitive ___19 __ when it enters and wins

tournaments. “People want some form of recognition,

something external to confirm that it has been worth the hard

work. It’s definitely a ca of getting a reward for everyone,”

she says. “The whole experience of rehearsals and the

competition ___20 __ people. That’s what keeps them going.”

II. Cloze （30分）

Directions:For each blank in the following passages there are

four words or phras marked A, B, C, and D. Fill in each blank

with the word or phra that best fits the context.

(A)

To procrastinate or not: the answer may be down to

differences in how our brains are wired, a study suggests.

It ___21 __ two areas of the brain that determine whether we

are more likely to get on with a task or continually put it off.

Rearchers ud a survey and scans of 264 people’s brains to

___22 __measure how proactive they were. Experts say the study,

in Psychological Science, underlines procrastination is more

about ___23 __ emotions than time.

Big clue

It found that the amygdala – an almond-shaped structure in

the temporal (side) lobe which process our emotions and

controls our ___24 __ –was larger in procrastinators. In the

individuals, there were also ___25 __ connections between the

amygdala and a part of the brain called the dorsal anterior

cingulate cortex (DACC).

The DACC us information from the amygdala and decides

what action the body will take. It helps keep the person on track

by ___26 __ competing emotions and distractions. “Individuals

with a larger amygdala may be more ___27 __ about the negative

conquences of an action –they tend to hesitate and put off

things,” says Erhan Gen?, one of the study authors, bad at

Ruhr University Bochum.

The rearchers suggest that procrastinators are less able to

filter out ___28 __ emotions and distractions becau the

connections between the amygdala and the DACC in their brains

are not as good as in ___29 __ individuals.

Mindfulness control

Prof Tim Pychyl, from Carleton University, Ottawa, who has

been studying procrastination for the past few decades, says,

“This study provides ___30 __ evidence of the problem

procrastinators have with emotional control. It shows how the

emotional centers of the brain can ___31 __ a person’s ability for

lf-regulation.”

Dr Pychyl is optimistic about the potential for change. He

said: “Rearch has already shown that mindfulness meditation

is related to amygdala ___32 __, expansion of the pre-frontal

cortex and a weakening of the connection between the two

areas.” He said this showed that changing the brain was possible.

Dr Caroline Schluter, the lead author of the study, said: “The

brain is very ___33 __ and can change throughout the lifespan.”

Productivity expert Moyra Scott thinks we need to take ___34

__ into account when motivating ourlves. “We need to

recogni when we are procrastinating and have ’___35 __’ we

can employ to get us doing something,” she said.

21. A. conducted B. diagnod C. identified D. targeted

22. A. interpret B. measure C. regulate D. comprehend

23. A. managing B. asssing C. distinguishing D. balancing

24. A. activities B. speeds C. movements D. motivations

25. A. poorer B. clearer C. clor D. faster

26. A. stirring up B. turning in C. blocking out D. joining up

27. A. curious B. anxious C. enthusiastic D. reluctant

28. A. challenging B. appealing C. interfering D. encouraging

29. A. conscious B. proactive C. desperate D. optimistic

30. A. physiological B. behavioral C. arguable D. rational

31. A. overlook B. overwhelm C. overstate D. overlap

32. A. shrinkage B. stretch C. distribution D. dominance

33. A. creative B. productive C. responsive D. adoptive

34. A. culture B. budget C. intelligence D. personality

35. A. models B. assistants C. energies D. tricks

(B)

“Where words fail, music speaks.” Though the words,

from the pen of Hans Christian Andern, are a(n) ___36 __ notion,

the idea that there might be universals in music which transcend

cultural boundaries has generally been met with scepticism by

scholars working in the ___37 __.

That skepticism may, however, be ___38 __, for rearch

published in Current Biology this week by Samuel of Harvard

University provides evidence that music does indeed permit the

communication of simple ideas between people even when they

have no language in common.

To ascertain this, the two rearchers recruited 750 online

volunteers from 60 countries. They played the volunteers 36

musical ___39 __, each 14 conds long, and each drawn ___40 __

from one of 118 songs in a collection of the music of small scale

societies around the world. Given the broad range of cultures and

languages reprented in the collection, and the ethnic ___41 __

of the volunteers, Dr Samuel could be reasonably certain that

tho listening were both unfamiliar with the music and unable

to understand the ___42 __ in question.

After each had been played, volunteers were asked what they

thought the song’s function was, and how sure they were of

that on a scale of one to six. The possibilities offered were: “for

dancing”; “for ___43 __ a baby”; “for healing illness”; “for

expressing love for another”; “for mourning the dead”; and

“for telling a story”. T he first four of the were real functions,

as stated by the people from whom the song in question had

been collected. The last two were made up, and were included as

___44 __. Dr Samuel found that volunteers’perceptions of a

song’s function were generally in good agreement with its

actual function – with one ___45 __.

Dance songs were particularly easy to ___46 __. They rated

2.18 points higher on the certainty scale as being ud “for

dancing” than lullabies did, 1.38 points higher than love songs,

and 1.09 points higher than healing songs. Similarly, lullabies

were rated 1.53 points higher than dance songs as being “to

soothe a baby”, 1.42 points higher than healing songs and 1.19

points higher than love songs. Healing songs proved a bit more

troublesome. They scored only 0.47 and 0.31 points higher than

dance and love songs respectively for “to heal illness”, and

were statistically ___47 __ from lullabies. The outlier, though, was

love songs. Listeners could distinguish them from healing songs,

but not from lullabies or dance songs. Why love songs were hard

to identify is unclear. Becau such songs involve showing off to

the object of ___48 __, they may require more ___49 __, and thus

generate more variety than lullabies or dance songs. Perhaps the

fact that both dancing and cooing are involved in romance

confud listeners. This genre aside, __50 __, the prestigious fairy

tale writer, Hans Christian Andern was clearly onto something.

36. A. romantic B. ridiculous C. appealing D. abstract

37. A. obtain B. transcend C. parallel D. clarify

38. A. unwarranted B. unexpected C. underestimated D.

uninvited

39. A. excerpts B. pieces C. instruments D. concerts

40. A. at large B. at ea C. at random D. at bay

41. A. minorities B. groups C. diversities D. conflicts

42. A. motto B. delicacy C. esnce D. lyrics

43. A. soothing B. raising C. feeding D. nurturing

44. A. deceptions B. foils C. accessories D. excus

45. A. exception B. missing C. option D. privilege

46. A. follow B. imitate C. interpret D. identify

47. A. indistinguishable B. inevitable C. interchangeable D.

impractical

48. A. affection B. pity C. jealousy D. influence

49. A. budget B. creativity C. energy D. impulsion

50. A. moreover B. instead C. however D. therefore

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A （10分）

Directions:Complete the following passage by using the

ntences in the box that best fits the

don’t understand,” says Dr. Laura A. Jana, pediatrician and

award winning author of The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills

Today That Will Shape Your Child’s Tomorrow.

There are some simple parallels that can be drawn between

your toddler’s brain and other things in life that are way less

mystifying.

51

Since your toddler was born, you’ve probably tried to spend

as much quality time playing, talking, and interacting in general

as possible. You’re just acting on instinct, but all this back-and-

forth (a concept known as “rve and return”to experts) is

incredibly important, Dr. Jana explains.

“Serve and return has been tied to literally connecting

neurons and pathways in the developing brain,” she says.

It works like this: When a baby or toddler cries, "talks," or

otherwi tries to communicate and a caring adult responds in

an appropriate manner, neural connections are formed in the

child’s brain that help to build social (and other) skills. The more

you interact with your child, the stronger the connections get,

Dr. Jana says.

52

There’s a reason why your toddler ems to mimic

everything you do: That’s a sign his brain is developing properly,

and it all has to do with what are known as "mirror neurons," Dr.

Jana says.

Rearch on mirror neurons has shown that when we watch

someone doing something, the same neurons that fire in their

brain fire in our brains, too. Simply by watching them, we end up

feeling the same thing they’re feeling. So for kids, who spend

most of their time mirroring the people clost to them (usually

their parents), it’s not about what parents say, but the feelings

their brains project. Some scientists theorize that this mirroring

system forms the basis for everything from the development of

social skills to language to empathy and understanding.

53

While the organs of a kid’s brain are incredibly malleable at

first, they get less pliable and harder to shape over time, as Dr.

Jana explains.

“External experiences help to shape the architecture of the

developing brain,” she says. And while it’s never too late to

teach the brain new tricks, you can make a dramatically bigger

difference in the early years of your child’s life.

“In the first five years, for the least amount of effort you get

the biggest return,” she says.

Will, if after the age of 5, your kid’s brain be too tough to

shape? Dr. Jana puts it in this way.

“I always tell my patients, the last time I checked it’s

possible to rewire a 100-year-old hou, it’s just going to cost a

lot more, take a lot longer, and not be as good as if you’d done

it right in the first place.”

54

Even adults sometimes struggle with impul control, but

toddlers have a biologically legitimate excu for being so

impetuous: The pre-frontal cortex, which is the part of the brain

responsible for “executive function” skills (impul control,

aggression, lf regulation, reasoning), is still developing in kids

under 5, Dr. Jana says.

Still, the most rapid rate of development happens between

the ages of 3 and 5. So even though sometimes it might em

like your toddler is capable of making a sound decision, that’s

no guarantee he won’t be doing the preschooler-equivalent of

dropping everything and heading off to blow his savings at the

casino the next minute.

55

There’s a reason why you can’t rationalize with your

toddler when he’s melting down over a terrifying spider on the

sidewalk: Becau the amygdala (the part of his brain that

controls the “fight or flight”respon) isn’t fully developed

yet, he can’t tell the difference between a real threat and a

perceived one.

As Dr. Jana explains it, back in early human times, this was

the evolutionary respon that told us to run if a saber tooth tiger

showed up, not hang out and wonder if the tiger was hungry or

not. In other words, that’s why you’ll find yourlf explaining

“It’s just a little spider, it can’t hurt you” over and over again

– becau your toddler’s brain is telling him to head for the hills!

Section B （40分）

Directions:Read the following passages. Each passage is

followed by veral questions or unfinished statements. For each

of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choo the

one that fits best according to the information given in the

passage you have just read.

(A)

Alcohol is physically bad for you in any quantity; and the

more you drink, the wor its health effects. The gigantic report

on the subject published last week is unequivocal and

authoritative. It makes depressing reading –“sobering” would

be the wrong word here, not least

becau few people are likely to change their behaviour as a

result. But it is difficult to argue with the conclusions. The report

was bad on enormous amounts of data: 28 million people

around the world were examined in 592 studies to estimate the

health risks, while the prevalence of drinking was estimated using

a further 694 studies. Some of the effects of large-scale drinking

are really shocking. In Russia, after the failure of Gorbachev’s

attempt to curtail the country’s vodka habit, alcohol caud 75%

of the deaths of men under 55, at a time when life expectancy

was actually falling. Around the world today, alcohol is

responsible for 20% of the deaths in the 15 to 49 age group.

The variety of ways in which alcohol can kill or damage

people comes as a shock. In the poorest countries, its primary

means of damage is through TB; as countries grow more

developed (and drink, on average, more) the damage shifts to

cancer and heart dia. It is the trade-off between cancer and

heart dia which leads the rearchers to reject the notion

that moderate drinking has health benefits: they find that the

incread risk of cancers outweighs the diminished risk of heart

dia among middle-aged moderate drinkers.

Perhaps the most startling single finding is that two-thirds of

the world’s population don’t drink at all. They manage without

a drug apparently esntial to civilid life in the west. The

question is whether tho of us in the other third should try to

imitate them. The rearchers are unequivocal. They want

concerted government action to deliver lower alcohol

consumption, using many of the same mechanisms that have

been successfully deployed against tobacco: price ris,

restrictions on advertising; limiting the availability of the drug.

The report is right that many people should drink less than

they do. Almost everyone should drink less than they want to.

Perhaps the real benefit of moderate drinking is not that it

protects the heart, but that it requires a little lf-discipline.

56. After reading the first paragraph, we can learn from the

author that __________.

A. the conclusion on alcohol effects was bad on 592

studies

B. alcohol drinkers may continue to drink despite its dangers

C. drinking alcohol has little relevance to life expectancy

D. Gorbachev caud 75% more men under 55 to die from

drinking

57. What is the rearchers’ opinion about moderate

drinking among the middle-aged?

A. It increas the likelihood of getting cancer.

B. It contributes to living a more balanced life.

C. It damages their heart and rais cancer risks.

D. It protects the heart but affects mental health.

58. Which of the following is suitable as an OPPOSITE word

for “unequivocal” in Paragraphs

1 and 3?

A. incredible

B. definite

C. ambiguous

D. Obvious

59. To bring down alcohol consumption, the government

should do all of the following except

__________.

A. impo controls on alcohol advertising

Arthur Mitchell, the eighty-three-year-old founder of Dance

Theatre of Harlem, has said that when he was young, “there

was a

falla cy that blacks couldn’t do classical ballet, becau they

had

big butts and they had flat feet, and …all like that.”

This belief has not been retired altogether, as was suggested

in 2011, when Misty Copeland, a soloist at American Ballet

Theatre, hired a public relations firm, apparently to help her

get

promoted to principal.

But we shouldn’t forget that half a century earlier, a black

dancer, Arthur Mitchell, made the impossible possible.

Arthur Mitchell knew early that he wanted to become a

dancer, but, probably becau of the “fallacy” he speaks of, he

studied just about every technique except ballet: tap, jazz,

modern dance. Finally, Lincoln Kirstein, the co-founder, with

George Balanchine, of City Ballet, saw Mitchell’s graduation

performance at the High School of the Performing Arts and gave

the School of American Ballet, N.Y.C.B.’s affiliate, enough money

to offer him a scholarship. Mitchell thus began studying ballet, in

1952, at the late age of eighteen. Three years later, out of the blue,

he receiv ed a telegram saying “WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN

COMPANY AS PERMANENT MEMBER STARTING CORPS DE

BALLET MINIMUM SALARY … LINCOLN KIRSTEIN.”

A few months later, Mitchell was assigned to partner a very

pointy-nod white ballerina –Tanaquil Le Clercq, Balanchine’s

wife at that time –in the choreographer’s “Western Symphony.”

As Mitchell recalls, an audience member sitting right behind the

conductor exclaimed, “By God, they’ve got a nigger in the

company.”Mitchell spent sixteen years at City Ballet, becoming

a principal dancer in 1962. In 1968, when Martin Luther King was

killed, Mitchell decided he would leave and found Dance Theatre

of Harlem, a company dedicated to showing that black people

could indeed dance ballet. In his view, all they needed was to be

given, as students, what white dance students were routinely

offered: training, encouragement, and models. In 2015, Mitchell

donated his papers to Columbia University.

Out of tho materials and others, the distinguished dance

historian Lynn G. has created an e xhibition, “Arthur Mitchell:

Harlem’s Ballet Trailblazer,” which will be up, at Columbia’s

Wallach Art Gallery, through March 11. There you can e the

heart-stopping telegram, and many beautiful photographs. Most

thrilling, though, are the videos, becau of what they say about

Mitchell’s versatility. We are perhaps too ud to eing him in

photos of Balanchine’s vere, pathbreaking “Agon.” So it is

nice to e him in other Balanchine roles: a relaxed, hi-pardner

cowboy in “Western Symphony,” a bobby-sox er in “Ivesiana.”

Best of all is his Puck, in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,”

clothed in not much and streaking, moon-silvered, through the

forest. In most “Midsummer” ballets, Puck is a cute little toy.

Only Balanchine could have come up with this glamorous, even

slightly alarming idea of Puck, and only Mitchell could have

executed it. It

hasn’t been done that way since he left.

61. The reason why Mitchell didn’t learn to be a classical

ballet dancer at an earlier age is

probably __________.

A. that his family was too poor to afford the tuition

B. that he had no interest in dancing

C. that many people held bias against the black becoming

ballet dancers

D. that being a dancer was not a decent career at that time

62. From the passage we can infer that __________.

A. Mitchell decided to leave New York City Ballet just becau

Martin Luther King was

killed

B. Misty Copeland has difficulty in getting promotion

becau she was a Black

C. The school of American Ballet offered a scholarship to

Mitchell becau it was a place

where Black dancers were not differentiated

D. The distinguished dance historian Lynn G. created an

exhibition in honor of Mitchell

becau he was also unfairly treated

63. What CANNOT a visitor to the exhibition “Arthur

Mitchell: Harlem’s Ballet T railblazer”

expect to e?

A. Some beautiful photos of Mitchell.

B. The heart-stopping telegram received from City Ballet

founder Lincoln Kirstein in 1955.

C. Some videos showing Mitchell playing different roles in

Balanchine’s works.

D. Mitchell’s autobio graphy telling the story of his

extraordinary life.

64. “… only Mitchell could have executed it. It hasn’t been

done that way since he left.” The

underlined words in Paragraph 5 are ud to __________.

A. sing high prai for the dancer’s extraordinary t alent in

ballet dancing

B. illustrate the ballet art has taken a bad turn since

Mitchell’s death

C. show the director’s sadness over the loss of such a great

dancer

D. express the audience’s dissatisfaction with Mitchell’s

performance in the play

65. Which of the following could be the best title of the

passage?

A. Say No to Fate

B. Unparalleled Arthur Mitchell

C. A Ca of Radical Discrimination

D. Color Line Crosd

(C)

An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones (Algonquin). This

powerful novel

follows a young, upwardly mobile African-American couple

in Atlanta as their

marriage is falling apart. It’s a disaster not of their own

making: Roy is accud

of, then imprisoned for, a crime he didn’t commit. But the

injustice of their

circumstance doesn’t ea the burden. “A marriage is

more than your heart, it’s your life,” his wife, Celestial, writes

to him at one point. “And we are not sharing ours.” The story,

narrated variously by Roy, Celestial, and a friend of Celestial’s, is

both sweeping and intimate– at once an unsparing exploration

of what it means to be black in America and a remarkably lifelike

portrait of a marriage. No one is to blame, yet everyone is at fault.

The Music Shop, by Rachel Joyce (Random Hou). Set in

England in the late

nineteen-eighties, this novel centers on a suburban record

store. Its owner is a kind

of therapist to his regular customers, choosing records to

ea their troubles, from

insomnia to infidelity. But, after an encounter with an

enigmatic woman, he finds

himlf in need of music’s cure. Unapologetically nostalgic

for a time when small shops could flourish and CDs hadn’t

completely replaced vinyl, the book is saved from total

ntimentality by its comic verve and also by its immersion in

music: Joyce vividly describes charact ers transported by a

Shalamar beat, a Beethoven sonata, Handel’s “Messiah,” an

Aretha Franklin song.

Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker (Viking). This

passionate defen of the

Enlightenment ideals of scientific rationalism and cular

humanism argues that

human progress is a measurable fact and that the current

moment is the best ever.

Undernourishment, extreme poverty, and violent crime have

fallen worldwide,

while literacy rates and the number of laws protecting

minorities are on the

ri—all of which Pinker credits to the cultivation of science-

bad rearch, democratic institutions, and bourgeois virtue.

Though he simplifies the Enlightenment into a monolithic t of

values and cherry-picks Nietzsche to vilify liberal academics,

Pinker’s strident optimism could help curb tho threats, like

climate change, that remain, by encouraging us to rid fatalism

and think about solutions.

The Line Becomes a River, by Francisco Cantú(Riverhead). The

author of this

memoir, who grew up in Arizona, near the Mexican border,

was always fascinated

by the border’s paradoxes. After college, he decided to join

the U.S. Border Patrol,

as “another part of my education.” Here he describes

learning how to densitize

himlf to the harsh realities of the job, as he arrests border

crosrs, confiscates drugs, and has nightmares about people

dying in the dert. For context, Cantúinterspers summaries of

writings by Mexican authors and borderland journalists; the

effect is lyrical, but unfocusd. When his friend, a Mexican father

of three, is deported, Cantú questions his own role in the

immigration enforcement system. “What would redemption

look like?” he wonders, though by then he knows it’s a

question he can’t answer.

66. What probably does the underlined word “unsparing”

mean in the book An American

Marriage?

A. compassionate

B. forceful

C. merciful

D. restricted

67. According to the information in The Music Shop, readers

could assume that the book was

written __________.

A. in a time when people preferred to listen to CDs instead

of vinyl

B. bad on the writer’s childhood experience

C. in a style which involves some n of comic

D. to highlight the important role various music played in

promoting people’s health

condition

68. What kind of message does the writer of the book

Enlightenment Now probably want to

deliver?

A. That reason, science and humanism can enhance human

flourishing.

B. It is no u fighting against destiny.

C. The world is really falling apart in spite of human beings’

A. outraged

B. remorful

C. indifferent

D. betrayed

71. The information above can probably be found __________.

A. attached to the map of a place of interest

B. on a website rating local restaurants

D. None of the above.

初赛试卷参考答案

I. Grammar and Vocabulary（每题1分）

(A)1—5 AHKJE 6—10 FGDBC

(B)11—15 HEAIC 16—20 JDGKB

II. Cloze（每题1分）

(A)21—25 CBADA 26—30 CBCBA 31—35 BACDD

(B)36—40 CBAAC 41—45 CDABA 46—50 DAABC

III. Reading Comprehension（每题2分）

Section A

51—55 DCEFA

Section B

(A)56—60 BACDD

(B)61—65 CBDAD

(C)66—70 BCABD

(D)71—75 ACBDD