大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)A类研究生决赛英语真题2012年及答案解析.doc

1、大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)A 类研究生决赛英语真题 2012 年及答案解析(总分：150.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part I Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Section A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).What is said about the new kind of cars?A. They consume far less energy.B. They are environmentally friendly.C. They travel at a fascinating speed.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).What do

2、es the man think of the drama club?A. It helps students in many ways.B. It needs proper management.C. It should be run by students.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a hospital. B. In a spa. C. In a gym.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(4).What does the man think of David?A. He t

3、hinks David is the best candidate.B. He doesnt think David has a strong personality.C. He doesnt think David is ideal for the project.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).Where can the woman get the details about the application?A. From the university newspaper.B. From the booklet the man offers.C. From the email the

4、 man will send her.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.三、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Conversation One(总题数：1，分数：3.00)(1).How many travel schemes does the man offer?A. Three. B. Four C. Five（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).Why doesnt the woman choose the Mediterranean cruise?A. She doesnt like a package holiday.B. She thinks the man char

5、ges her too much.C. Its expense is beyond her budget.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).How will the woman book her tour?A. Over the phone. B. On the Internet. C. On the spot.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.五、Conversation Two(总题数：1，分数：7.00)(1).How does Mrs. Faulkes respond to Johns query on the governments not lowering taxes five y

6、ears ago?A. She blames the economic depression in the last five years.B. She insists that the government fulfilled its promise by lowering interest rates.C. She denies saying that before.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).What does John say about Britains healthcare?A. There are fewer hospitals and qualified doctor

7、s and nurses.B. Many hospitals to be built are waiting for the approval of the government.C. There are not enough doctors and nurses in the hospitals.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).What is Johns opinion of the Conservative governments investment on healthcare and that of the Labour government?A. It is hard to t

8、ell which government did better.B. The Labour government did better.C. The Conservative government did better.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(4).What does John think of the Conservative governments training schemes in the last five years?A. It helped a lot, but it didnt solve unemployment.B. It was a trick the gove

9、rnment played and couldnt solve the problem.C. It was only carried out for a few months and few people got jobs in the end.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).What is the solution to poverty according to Mrs. Faulkes?A. Increasing governments handouts to the poor.B. Governments creation of more jobs.C. Encouraging p

10、eople to find jobs themselves.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(6).What kind of relationship does Mrs. Faulkes think Britain will maintain with Europe?A. It will maintain a close relationship with Europe.B. It will support the idea of a central European government.C. It will keep a distance from Europe.（分数：1.00）A.B.C

11、.(7).How many promises does John believe the Conservative government failed to fulfill in the last five years?A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.六、Section C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).What gave rise to the attack in a mosque in Edo state according to the news?A. The fleeing of thousands of Muslims to t

12、he north of Nigeria.B. The killing of dozens of Christians by the militant Islamist Boko Haram.C. The address of the president of the Nigerian Christian Association.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).Which statement is true about the news?A. Organizers are well prepared for the Games.B. Mohammad Nazaruddin has been

13、 proved to be guilty.C. The graft scandal has negatively affected the Games.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).Whats Jerome Valcke concern about?A. Brazil football team has too many fans.B. Brazil is not well prepared for the oncoming World Cup.C. Brazil has not enough experience in hosting the event.（分数：1.00）A.B.C

14、.(4).What does the reverse brain drain in the news refer to?A. Talents flowing from developed countries to their motherland.B. Talents flowing from developing countries to developed ones.C. Talents flowing from big cities to rural areas.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).What is the urgent obligation of Richard Cor

15、dray?A. Making home loans and credit card agreements easier to understand.B. Supervising financial products.C. Protecting consumers interests.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.七、Section D(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Though portrayed as (21) in movies, criminals in (22) are inconceivably stupid. Below are three stories about them:C

16、ountry: (23) A man suspected of a jewelry store (24) was arrested. He tried to find himself the alibi by saying he had committed another crime somewhere else. Coincidentally, the crime did happen. Thus the man was arrested for the (25) which had caused greater damage.Country: EnglandA British man an

17、nounced to (26) the one who would murder the couple he hated. The police finally found the man with the details he offered on his website, such as his (27) and instructions for collecting the money.Country: the United StatesA man asked the police to demonstrate how the computer worked to (28) at pol

18、ice headquarters in a fair. But he got arrested because when the policeman entered in the ID number in his (29) , it showed on the screen that he was the (30) for a robbery.（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_八、Part Vocabulary an(总题数：15，分数：15.00)1.In just

19、a few years Georgia OKeeffe was praised as the greatest woman artist of her time, the first woman artist to_in America at a time when most artists were men.A. excel B. outlive C. present D. reveal（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.The explorers were trudging across a frozen waterway when suddenly the ice began to s

20、hake and fall apart, and the whole team fell into the_water.A. bland B. rigid C. frigid D. furious（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3.People say he was a cold_man, a murderer who should have been executed.A. acclaimed B. importunate C. meritorious D. vicious（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.4.It could take fourteen weeks to complete

21、 the_journey on foot from London to Rome in the Middle Ages.A. grueling B. sluggish C. lax D. tottering（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.5.An hour into the race, Susan Butcher and her sled dog team speeded down a hill, _the trail, and crashed into a fallen tree.A. buttoned up B. set down C. skidded off D. shuffled o

22、ff（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.6.Statistics show that in some parts of Africa, obesity_more children than malnutrition.A. tumbles B. penetrates C. frauds D. afflicts（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.7.Opponents charge that the new Internet regulations_unconstitutional censorship that would criminalize expression protected by th

23、e First Amendment.A. amount to B. break down C. stand opposite D. trail off（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.8.When he started wearing a pedometer and didnt accumulate 10,000 steps by the end of the day, he was_himself and went out and walked until he had.A. blamed by B. regulated by C. ticked off D. prompted by（分数：

24、1.00）A.B.C.D.9.Researchers have suspected that large portions encourage people to eat more, but studies have begun to_this suspicion only in the last several years.A. confirm B. contend C. contrive D. concoct（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.10.Chasing wild animals with spears and clubs was a marathon_and then you h

25、ad to chop up the catch and drag it miles back to camp.A. to undertake B. undertaken C. to be undertaking D. undertaking（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.11.Farmers armed with powerful fertilizers and high-tech equipment are growing enormous quantities of corn and wheat, most of which is processed and refined to be

26、tastier and more convenient _is less nutritious.A. but B. or C. while D. whereas（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.12.Police say_any more worried now that Swindons in the big league.A. its no need for genuine fans beingB. it being no need for genuine fans to beC. there being no need for genuine fans beingD. theres no

27、 need for genuine fans to be（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.13.Amy: My parents want me to get a degree in something thats vocational, so theyd like the idea of Business Administration and theyd like me to study somewhere closer to my home.Mr.Evans: Ok, well, then theres Swansea. It has an excellent reputation. _?A

28、my: Well, Id like to do something that uses my language skills, too.Mr.Evans: Good, there are many courses for you to choose.A. Would you like to study Business Administration with another subjectB. Do you think the subject of Business Administration is suitable for youC. Have you ever heard of its

29、Business Administration subjectD. Dont you think the subject of Business Administration is hard for you（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.14.Kobus: Id replace these chairs for a start. No wonder Ive got backache.Bridget: Oh come on, _How about blowing it all on an all-expenses-paid jaunt to the West Indies or somethi

30、ng?Kobus: I dont think to go on holiday with the rest of the staff is a good idea.Bridget: Then, maybe we can go on day-to-day things thatll make a difference in the long term, like renovating the office.A. you look pale B. you slept for only 3 hours last nightC. its nothing serious D. we can do bet

31、ter than that（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.15.Interviewer: What can you tell us about what happens when geniuses relax?Expert: Were looking into the psychology of high achievers. A recent study compared the hobbies of 134 Nobel Prize winning chemists. Over half were artistic and almost all had a long-lasting hob

32、by: chess or insect collecting.Interviewer: Fascinating. So should we conclude then, that only a creative person can be a genius?Expert: _Perhaps its true up to a point, but it may not be as clear-cut as that.A. I bet it is. B. Im contented.C. I think thats debatable D. You got it.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九

33、、Part Cloze(总题数：1，分数：10.00)I drove through a snow-whitened landscape towards the Grand Canyon. It was hard to believe that this was the last week of April. Mists and fog swirled about the road. I could see nothing at the sides and (46) a of me except the occasional white smear of oncoming headlights

34、. By the time I reached the entrance to Grand Canyon National Park, and paid the $ 5 (47) ad snow was dropping heavily again, thick white flakes so big (48) their undersides carried shadows. The road through the park followed the southern lip of the canyon for thirty miles. Two or three times I stop

35、ped in lay-bys and went to the edge to peer hopefully into the silent murk, knowing that the canyon was out there, just beyond my nose, but I couldnt see anything. The fog was everywherethreaded (49) am the trees, adrift on the roadsides, rising steamily off the pavement.Afterwards I trudged towards

36、 the visitors centre, perhaps 200 yards away, but before I got there I came across a snow-spattered sign (50) (announce) a look-out point half a mile away along a trail through the woods, and impulsively I went down it, mostly just to get some air. The path was sli (51) and took a long time to trave

37、rse, but on the way the snow stopped falling and the air felt clean and refreshing. Eventually I came to a platform of rocks, marking the edge of the canyon. There was no fence to keep you back from the edge, so I shuffled cautiously over and looked down, but could see nothing but grey soup. A middl

38、e-aged couple came along and as we stood chatting about what a dispiriting experience this was, a (52) (miracle) thing happened. The fog parted. Suddenly we saw that we were on the edge of a sheer, giddying drop of at least a thousand feet.The scale of the Grand Canyon is almost bey (53) comprehensi

39、on. It is ten miles across, a mile deep, 180 miles long. Indeed you could set the whole of Manhattan down inside it and you would still be so high above it that the buses would be like ants and people would be invisible, and not a sound would reach you. The thing that gets yougets everyoneis the sil

40、ence. The Grand Canyon just swallows sound. The sense of space and emptiness is (54) (overwhelm). Nothing happens out there. Down below you on the canyon floor, far, far away, is the thing that carved it: the Colorado River. It is 300 feet wide, but from the canyons lip it looks thin and insignifica

41、nt. It looks like an old shoelace. Everything is dwarfed by this (55) (might) hole.（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_十、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十一、Section A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Prevailing mythology has it that creativity is the exclusive domain of art

42、ists, scientists, and inventorsa giftedness not available to ordinary people going about the business of daily life. Partly as a result, ordinary people often hold the creative person in awe, finding little gradation in genius. Its either the Sistine Chapel ceiling or nothing.Our awe of creativity i

43、s like a dragon that blocks the gate to our personal creativity. Weve created this dragon to protect ourselves from something worse: the possibility that we might really go for it, do the very utmost we can doand find people out there who still dont think its good enough and reject not only what wev

44、e done, but us as individuals.What we need to understand is that by refusing to risk being creative at less than genius levels, we are already rejecting ourselves, passing judgment without evidence. While that judgment mechanism may have served to protect us from censure as children, we as adults no

45、 longer need to feel as vulnerable as we did when we were young. What we need to do instead is assume full responsibility for ourselves.In fact, most individual creativity is pretty humbleno Sistine Chapel ceiling, no Beethovens Ninth Symphony, just a solution to such a mundane problem as getting th

46、e microwave merry-go-round to work by turning it over and using it upside down, or finding a new way home, or writing a silly verse to a friend. All of these are valid examples of creative behaviors, because the doing of them includes an element of newness, novelty, and difference. Whats more, no ma

47、tter how severely our creativity may have been repressed in the past, it can be reaccessed, stimulated, and developed through life experiences. This is good news not only for the creatively uninformed or uninitiated. The same techniques that can open the creative world to a novice can set off a crea

48、tive explosion in the adept.Each persons experience of creativity is so unique and individual that no one can formulate a definition that fits everyone else. However, it does have something in common. Many people think of creativity purely in term of inventiveness, and that is surely part of it. Besides, to strengthen creative ability, you need to apply the idea in some form that enables both the experience itself and yo