2019年大学生英语竞赛（NECCS）A类（研究生）决赛真题试卷（精选）

The expedition has left for the Andes and there is no______when it will return. reflecting timing knowing accounting advising

Will you______my article to find out whether I’ ve made any mistakes? look after look through look up look at look on

Once a picture is proved to be a forgery, it becomes quite______. inexpensive invaluable priceless unworthy worthless

______the potential of new technology and the accompanying advances in science, it is possible to foresee a world in which a relatively stable human population can live at a high level of material affluence. In accordance with With regard to In case of As a result of For the sake of

I don ’ t think it’ s sensible of you to ______ your knowledge in front of the chairwoman, for it may well offend her. show around show up show off show out show away

______you promise you will work hard, ______support you to study abroad. If; will I Only; I will If only; will I Only if; will I Only if; I will

______is often the case with a new idea, much preliminary activity and optimistic discussion produced no concrete proposals. Which So It This As

All of the international delegates attending the conference______to bring a souvenir from their own countries. are asking were asking were asked have asked has been asked

People in business______hire artists for that kind of work say that simple artistic ability is not enough. which whom who whose why

So involved with their cell phones______that leaders at summer camps often have to force them to break for sports and games. became the children become the children had the children become do the children become children became

My son has an advantage over his mother______he can speak English. since that. in that at that so that with that

______with the size of the whole earth, the highest mountain does not seem high at all. When compared While comparing To compare Being compared Comparing

—I heard you took a trip to Mexico. —Yes, I did. —How did you like it? —Oh, I got sick and tired of hotels and hotel food. —I can imagine.______ I’d like to go with you. You’d better go to a beach. East or west, home is the best. Go to other parts of the country. They’ll be better next time.

—Hi, Danny.______ —I wish I could, but. I really have to stay in and finish my paper tonight. —Oh, maybe some other time, then. Can I visit you tonight? May I have dinner with you? Shall we have a barbecue some day this week? Would you like to go to the cinema with me tonight? John is leaving Brighton tonight. Shall we see him off?

—Do you think I could borrow your car to go grocery shopping? The supermarkets outside the city are so much cheaper. I’ d also be happy to pick up anything you need. —Well, I don’t like to let anyone else drive my car. Tell you what, ______ why don’ t you drive me there? why don’t we go together? what about buying a car of your own? needn’ t you go shopping every week? how about asking your friend to come over?

As high-tech materials invade high-street fashion, prepare for clothes that are cooler than silk or warmer than wool, keep insects at arm’ s length, and emit many pinpricks of coloured light. The convergence of fashion and high technology is leading to new kinds of fibres, fabrics and coatings that are imbuing clothing with egually wondrous powers. Corpe Nove has made clothes that can change according to external heat levels. And at Nexia Biotechnologies scientists have found fibres similar to those in nature. [*] A big impact is already being made at the molecular level. Nano-Tex can make material that rarely needs washing. Meanwhile, Schoeller Textil uses material that can make you warmer or cooler. Sensory Perception Technologies (SPT) embodies an entirely different application of nanotechnology. Created in 2003 by Quest International, a flavour and fragrance company, and Woolmark, a wool textile organisation, SPT is a new technique of embedding chemicals into fabric. Though not the first of this type, SPT’ s durability (evidently the microcapsule containing the chemicals can survive up to 30 washes) suggests an interesting future. Designers could incorporate signature scents into their collections. Sportswear could be impregnated with anti-perspirant. Hayfever sufferers might find relief by pulling on a T-shirt, and so on. The loudest buzz now surrounds polylactic acid (PLA) fibres—and, in particular, one brand-named Ingeo. Developed by Cargill Dow, it is the first man-made fibre derived from a 100% annually renewable resource. This is currently maize (corn) , though in theory any fermentable plant material, even potato peelings, can be used. In performance terms, the attraction for the 30-plus clothes makers signed up to use Ingeo lies in its superiority over polyester (which it was designed to replace). [*] As Philippa Watkins, a textiles specialist, notes, Ingeo is not a visual trend. Unlike nanotechnology, which promises to “ transform“ what clothes can do, Ingeo ’ s impact on fashion will derive instead from its emphasis on using natural sustainable resources. Could wearing synthetic fabrics made from polluting and non-renewable fossil fuels become as uncool as slipping on a coat made from animal fur? Consumers should expect a much wider choice of “ green“ fabrics. Alongside PLA fibres, firms are investigating plants such as bamboo, seaweed, nettles and banana stalks as raw materials for textiles. Soya bean fibre is also gaining ground. Harvested in China and spun in Europe, the fabric is a better absorber and ventilator than silk, and retains heat better than wool. Elsewhere, fashion houses—among them Ermenegildo Zegna, Paul Smith and DKNY—are combining fashion with electronics. Clunky earlier attempts involved attaching electronic components to the fabrics after the normal weaving process. But companies such as SOFTswitch have developed electro-conductive fabrics that behave in similar ways to conventional textiles. Could electronic garments one day change colour or pattern? A hint of what could be achieved is offered by Luminex, a joint venture between Stabio Textile and Caen. Made of woven optical fibres and powered by a small battery, Luminex fabric emits thousands of pinpricks of light, the colour of which can be varied. Costumes made of the fabric wowed audiences at a production of the opera Aida in Washington, DC, last year. Yet this ultimate of ambitions has remained elusive in daily fashion, largely because electronic textiles capable of such wizardry are still too fragile to wear. Margaret Orth, whose firm International Fashion Machines makes a colour-changing fabric, believes the capability is a decade or two away. Accessories with this chameleon-like capacity—for instance, a handbag that alters its colour—are more likely to appear first. Questions 56 ~ 60 Fill in the blanks below with information from the passage, using no more than two words for each blank. [*]

Jianzhi is the first type of paper cutting design, since paper was invented by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. The art form later spread to other parts of the world with different regions adopting their own cultural styles. Because the cut-outs are mainly used to decorate doors and windows, they are sometimes referred to as “chuānghuā“ , meaning window flower. [*] 【R1】______According to the present archaeological records, it originated from the 6th century, however people believed that its history could be traced as early as the Warring States Period (around the 3rd century BC), long before the paper was invented. At that time, people used thin materials, like leaves, silver foil, silk and even leather, to carve hollowed patterns for beauty. Later, when paper was invented, people realized that this material was easy to cut, store and discard. Thus paper became the major material for them to use, and they habitually called this artistry paper-cutting, or Jianzhi in Chinese. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties (around 1368 -1911), this artistry witnessed its most prosperous period. Twenty enthusiasts of traditional Chinese paper-cutting worked under the wing of Beijing-based master Jiao Wenjun in Beijing on Saturday. Jiao, an 87-year-old retired military veteran, is a paper-cutting star in Beijing. While his incredibly intricate, lace-like works often deal with contemporary topics, his style and aesthetics are rooted in his attachment to the country. 【R2】______After retirement he began voluntarily teaching paper-cutting to those who were interested, attracting people from all walks of life, from primary school students to civil officials. In 2008, when the Olympic Games were held in Beijing, he and 40 of his students cut out a piece that was 20.08 meters long to express their support and affection for the event. 【R3】______His workshops have been recognized for their excellence with a service award. [*] The 20 traditional culture enthusiasts who met with him on Saturday were participants in the intangible cultural heritage experience program, Great Seed, a global community for enthusiasts of intangible cultural heritage. They learned about and experienced this heritage through close talks with inheritor masters, and from hands-on experience. 【R4】______Although hard at first, in the end, even the youngest participants who came with their parents were able to cut out coins by themselves. “I’m happy to do it with my mom. I really enjoyed the process,“ said Li Junyi, a 7-year-old who attends No. 2 Elementary School of Hua Yuan Village in Beijing. Great Seed is regarded as a global community platform aimed to help intangible cultural heritage enthusiasts communicate, share, experience and inherit intangible cultural heritage worldwide. 【R5】______ Through June 9,2019, 1,000 people around the world will be recruited to connect with 1,000 inheritors to have an in-depth experience with different forms of intangible cultural heritage. Questions 61 ~ 65 Choose from the sentences A ~ G the one which best fits each gap of 61 -65. There are two extra sentences which you do not need to use. A. As traditional Chinese art, paper cutting has a long history. The first and earliest paper cutting was found in China 1,500 years ago. B. It is now recruiting people who will learn and experience such heritage. C. He got much fun and peace doing it and hoped more people would enjoy it. D. Taking up the craft as a hobby, he received his first paper-cutting prize in the army in the 1950s. E. An estimated 20,000 people have learned paper-cutting from him in the past 10 years. F. Paper-cutting originated from ancient activities of worshipping ancestors and gods, and is a traditional Chinese culture. G. They learned how to make paper-cuts of ancient coins under Jiao’ s guidance.

This is the incredible story of a mother’ s journey to keep her family alive. Echo is a wise elephant matriarch in her sixties. She lives in Southern Kenya alongside fifteen hundred other wild African elephants. As the oldest female and head of the family, Echo must guide four generations of her relatives through the cruel famine that follows the failure of the latest rains, protect them from attack by lions, and keep them away from growing conflict with angry Maasai farmers. Observing her as they have for the past four decades are American scientist Cynthia Moss and her team from the Amboseli Trust for Elephants. Echo leads her family out of harm’ s way, steers clear of battling tuskers, prevents clashes with neighbours over water, crops or grazing, and avoids natural calamities like deadly mud traps. As the months pass, she must prevent her family splitting under pressure, and finally bring new babies into the world with the best chance of survival. [*] In Kenya’ s Amboseli National Park, Echo keeps watch over her large family. The African Elephant Conservation Trust has followed her life for more than 30 years. Echo is sensitive and caring when with her family, but becomes fearless when threatened by animal or man. Her leadership gualities are admirable as she guides her family through danger. When Echo was first found and studied by the Conservation Trust, she was 23 years old. Having just survived the deaths of the more senior members of the herd, she had adopted a motherly role for seven of her family. Once, when her 10-day-old calf was kidnapped by other elephants, Echo encouraged three adult females from her own herd to help her to track and attack the enemy and successfully rescued the baby. Poachers, hunters, famine and drought have all taken their toll on Echo ’ s extended family, yet thanks to her successful leadership through many difficulties, the herd has now grown to 27 members of different ages. Meanwhile, Echo has become world famous, thanks to three films about her life and behaviour, by award-winning film-maker Martyn Colbeck. His work has changed public perception of elephants by demonstrating the high level of intelligence and social behaviour of these complex creatures. The respect and interest generated by the films have helped to save this species, which at one time was threatened with extinction. Recent research by the Conservation Trust has also revealed valuable information about birth and death rates and the fact that elephants communicate at a very sophisticated level. They celebrate birth, have lifelong friendships and even mourn the death of family members. The population in Kenya fell from 130,000 in 1973 to less than 20,000 in 1989 , a loss of 85 %. The reason for this disastrous decline was mainly because elephants were hunted intensively for their ivory tusks. Destruction of habitat made the problem worse. It isn’t all bad news for African elephants, however. In the Amboseli National Park they have been increasing steadily in numbers. In this protected area of 150 square miles in Southern Kenya, they can live relatively undisturbed in a natural habitat—because the presence of researchers and tourists has kept poachers away and, equally importantly, the local Masai people have supported the project. Unlike other places in Africa, where hunting and poaching still take place, here the elephant family structure is being preserved and the population spans the whole range, from newborn calves to adults as old as Echo. Questions 66 ~ 70 Answer the following questions with the information given in the passage.

[*] Today I will tell you about the research I have been conducting into the history of soap. While you may be able to find some information on the origins of soap, it is not a substance which has excited a great deal of study so far. What we do know is that even as long ago as 2500 BC soap was being used. Of course, initially it was only ever used on clothing rather than the body itself. In fact, although soap has existed for so many years, the use of soap for personal hygiene was unheard of until fairly recently and is considered to be a relatively modem notion. So we can only assume that other activities must have provided the basis from which this key concept arose. To make soap you need to combine three materials in relatively exact proportions. So, how is it that these primitive people from over two thousand years ago could have discovered soap? What these people lacked in technology they certainly made up for in practical skills. I carried out some experiments using basic technigues to try to find out what people without any chemical knowledge might have observed. And I was able to demonstrate that they would indeed have been able to make a soap-like substance that is not dissimilar to the one we know today. However, it is fair to assume that, as the process requires a certain amount of time and specialization, soap would most likely have only been available in the wealthy communities. Although there are claims that the British Celts and their European counterparts used soap, there is no real evidence that the British colonies of the Iron Age had access to such a product. The history of soap is not easy to discover. As soap is an organic substance no traces of it remain in archaeological sites, so we have had to rely almost entirely on written texts for our discoveries. Fortunately there are many of these. The first known written mention of soap was on Sumerian clay tablets dating from about 2500 BC. The tablets spoke of the use of soap in the washing of wool. In another incidence, a medical document from about 1500 BC mentions that Egyptians bathed regularly. It also describes how they made soap by combining alkaline salts and oil which they extracted from vegetables. We also know that the Romans used a mixture of earth, soda and wine to clean their clothes and pots. For the Romans bathing was not just a matter of hygiene; it was a form of relaxation, a social activity. The bather moved from room to room, getting progressively hotter, until they reached a steamy room where dirt was sweated out and scraped away with a metal blade. The Romans used scented bath oils but these were used to moisturize the skin rather than to cleanse it and there is no evidence that they used soap in this way. This is not to say that the Romans did not have soap. During the excavation of Pompeii, a city that was buried under the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, an entire soap factory was revealed, showing that they did in fact have access to soap but that they simply did not use it for personal hygiene. Questions 71-75 Complete the summary below with information from the passage, using no more than two words for each blank. In ancient times soap was used to clean clothing. It was not seen as a means of personal hygiene as 【A1】______times. Ancient people had little technology but many practical skills so they were able to discover soap by chance. Soap was probably only used in 【A2】______societies. There is no evidence that tribes people at the time of the British Iron Age used soap. The history of soap has mostly been discovered from 【A3】______. The earliest known use of soap in 2500 BC was to wash wool. The Egyptians made soap by mixing salts with oil taken from 【A4】______. The Roman saw washing themselves as a social activity. They removed dirt using steam and a metal blade. When Pompeii was excavated, they discovered a 【A5】______ for making soap.

This year, record numbers of high school students obtained top grades in their final exams, yet employers complain that young people still lack the basic skills to succeed at work. The only 【C1】______(explain) offered is that exams must be getting easier. But the real answer could lie in a study just published by Professor Robert Sternberg, an【C2】emi______ psychologist at Yale University and the world’ s leading expert on intelligence. [*] His research reveals the existence of a totally new variety: practical intelligence. Professor Sternberg’ s astonishing finding is that practical intelligence, which predicts success in real life, has an inverse relationship with academic intelligence. In other【C3】w______, the more practically intelligent you are, the less likely you are to succeed at school or university. Similarly, the more paper gualifications you hold and the higher your grades, the less able you are to cope with problems of everyday life and the lower your score in practical intelligence. Many people who are clearly successful in their place of work do badly in standard IQ (academic intelligence) tests. Entrepreneurs and those who have built large businesses from scratch are【C4】fre______discovered to be high school or college drop-outs. IQ as a concept is more than 100 years old. It was supposed to explain why some people excelled at a wide variety of intellectual tasks. But IQ ran into trouble when it became apparent that some high scorers failed to【C5】ach______in real life what was predicted by their tests. Emotional intelligence (EQ) , which emerged a decade ago, was supposed to explain this deficit. It suggested that to succeed in real life, people needed both emotional as well as intellectual skills. EQ includes the abilities to motivate【C6】______(you) and persist in the face of frustrations; to control impulses and delay gratification; to regulate moods and keep distress from swamping the ability to think; and to understand and empathize with others. While social or emotional intelligence was a useful concept in explaining many of the real-world deficiencies of super intelligent people, it did not go any【C7】______(far) than the IQ test, in measuring success in real life. Again, some of the most successful people in the business world were obviously lacking in social charm. Not all the real-life difficulties we face are solvable with just good social skills—and good social acumen in one situation may not translate to another. The crucial problem with academic and emotional intelligence scores is that they are both poor predictors of success in real life. For example, research has shown that 10 tests predict only between 4% and 25% of success in life, such as job【C8】pert______. Professor Sternberg’ s group at Yale began from a very different position to traditional researchers into intelligence. Instead of asking what intelligence was and investigating whether it predicted success in life, Professor Sternberg asked what distinguished people who were thriving from【C9】______ that were not. Instead of measuring this form of intelligence with mathematical or verbal tests, practical intelligence is scored by answers to real-life dilemmas such as: “ If you were travelling by car and got stranded on a motorway during a blizzard, what, would you do?“ An important contrast between these questions is that in academic tests there is usually only one answer, whereas in practical intelligence tests—as in real life—there are several different【C10】sol______to the problem.