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大学生英语竞赛C类非英语专业-1
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Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short news items. After each item, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer.
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[多项选择]The trumpet player was certainly loud. But I wasn't bothered by his loudness ______ by his lack of talent.
A. than
B. more than
C. as
D. so much as
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[多项选择]He constantly ______ his proposal that ______ of the budget surplus be used to offer a voluntary prescription drug benefit to seniors.
A. views; many
B. reiterates; a part
C. complains; a great amount
D. thinks; lots
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[单项选择]Carla: ______ Angie: Well, I lived in a small town in the country once and it was quite boring. Nothing ever seemed to happen. There’s much more going on in the city. It’s more exciting. Carla: ______ Angie: Although the city is more exciting, it’s also much noisier, dirtier and more crowded than the countryside. Sometimes I miss the peace and quiet there.
A. Why are you living in the city ; How would you compare life in the city to that in the country
B. Why don’t you live in the city now ; How would you compare life in the city to that in the country
C. Would you like to live in the country ; Why is the city better than the country
D. Why do you like living in the city ; What are the disadvantages of the country
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[单项选择]Jimmy: I think honeybees are very useful insects. They make honey for us. Amy: ______ They also help the flowers grow into a fruit. Jimmy: But I don’t like termites. I think they’re disgusting. Amy: ______ They’re actually a very good source of food. People in some countries eat them. Jimmy: Really I didn’t know that.
A. I love honey very much.; Me too.
B. That’s a good point.; I ’m not sure I agree with you.
C. They never do the least harm to us.; That’s wrong.
D. We have different opinions.; On the contrary, they are not disgusting.
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[单项选择]Sharon had received a telegram from the Queen to congratulate her on reaching her 100th birthday. Sharon’s sisters, Marjorie and Norah, are seen in the front-page photo of the local newspaper looking at the telegram. The next day, Sharon noticed something unusual about the headline. Can you spot it out
A. The local newspaper headline was written by the author incorrectly.
B. The headline can be read backwards and forwards as the same thing.
C. The headline didn’t say it was the Queen who sent a telegram to Sharon.
D. The editor didn’t put Sharon’s sisters, Marjorie and Norah into the headline
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[简答题]{{B}}Section D{{/B}}
Directions: You are going to read a passage. Seven sentences have been removed from it. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, {{U}} (72) {{/U}} . One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter; a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Red-shaped bacteria are usually from two to four microns long, while rounded ones are generally one microns in diameter. Thus, if you enlarged a rounded bacterium a thousand times, {{U}} (73) {{/U}} . An adult human magnified by the same amount would be over a mile (1.6 kilometers) tall.
Even with an ordinary microscope, you must look closely to see bacteria. {{U}} (74) {{/U}} , one finds that bacteria are barely visible as tiny rods or dots. One cannot make out any things of their structu
- [单项选择]Natalie, Michelle and Anthony have to be at school by 8:45 a.m. Michelle is never late for school. On Monday Anthony was late for school. If these statements are true, only one of the sentences below must be true. Which one
A. Natalie is sometimes late for school.
B. Anthony sometimes arrives after Michelle.
C. Natalie sometimes arrives after Michelle.
D. Anthony always arrives after Michelle.
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Directions: In this section, there is one passage followed by 5 questions. Read the passage carefully, then answer the questions in a maximum of 10 words.
Questions 61-65 are based on the following passage.
This Wednesday, Gordon Brown will replace Tony Blair as the new head of Britain’s Labor Party. This long-serving chancellor is a man of substance. However, even after more than a decade of scrutiny, his name remains a mystery and is not fully understood. Brown was born in Glasgow, Scotland in February 1951 and entered university at 16. After graduating" with a history degree from Edinburgh University, he Went on to earn a PhD.
Brown’s destiny, though, was politics. He joined Blair in entering the parliament in 1983. They even shared offices, where they became friends-with a slight bit of competitiveness. When the Labor leader John Smith died unexpectedly in May 1994,
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Directions: In this section, you will hear one long conversation. The conversation will be read only once. At the end of the conversation, there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause, you must read the four questions, each with three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer.
A. 1:15.
B. 2:00.
C. 1:30.
D. 3:30.
- [多项选择]The daring rescue of those stranded on the mountaintop was truly a ______ deed. Everybody praised this courageous deed.
A. creditable
B. abnormal
C. unbelievable
D. credible
- [多项选择]Ann never dreams of ______ for her to be sent abroad very soon.
A. there to be a chance
B. there being a chance
C. there be a chance
D. being a chance
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- [单项选择]Two men, starting at the same point, walk in opposite directions for 4 meters, turn left and walk another 3 meters. What is the distance between them
A. 6m
B. 10m
C. 12.5m
D. 14m
- [多项选择]Although there is some truth to the fact that Linux is a huge threat to Microsoft, predictions of the Redmond company's demise are, ______ , premature.
A. saying the most
B. to say the least
C. to say the most
D. to the least degree
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Directions: In this section, there is one passage followed by 6 statements. Go over the passage quickly. For questions 66-71, mark T (for True) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; F (for False) if the statement contradicts with information given in the passage; NG (for Not Given) if the information is not given in the passage.
Questions 66-71 are based on the following passage.
During World War II at the height of the blitz on East London, a boy of 12 was found wandering the rubble streets near Tower Bridge. His dirty face and torn clothing suggested that something awful had happened.
It was 7 a.m., and dawn was breaking into a sky of crimson red lit up by the many fires that burned across the City, London’s docks were ablaze as far as the eye could see, and the river had become a wall of crackling flame with dark plumes of smoke rising into
- [多项选择]The main road through Littlebury was blocked for three hours today after an accident ______ two lorries.
A. involving
B. including
C. combing
D. containing
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{{B}}Section A{{/B}}
Directions: There are two passages in this section with 10 questions. For each question, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
- [单项选择]Natalie, Michelle and Anthony have to be at school by 8:45 a.m. Michelle is never late for school. On Monday Anthony was late for school. If these statements are true, only one of the sentences below must be true. Which one