2019年大学生英语竞赛（NECCS）B类初赛真题试卷

1. W: Mr. Johnson, I wonder whether it’s possible for me to take a vacation early next month. M: Did you fill out a request form? Question: What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? 2. M: Excuse me, can you tell me the way to the museum please? W: Yes. Go back to the street, just across the street, on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields church, then the museum is next to it. Question: Where does the man want to go? 3. W: Sorry? Do you know what our expected arrival time in Wellington is? M: We’re due to arrive at 3 p. m. W: At 3 p. m.? M: Yes. That’s right. W: Thank you. Question: What time does the woman reach Wellington? 4. M: Here’s a ten-dollar bill. Give me two tickets for tonight’s show, please. W: Sure. Two tickets and here’s a dollar forty cents change. Question: How does one ticket cost? 5. M: Hey, if you can’t enjoy the music at a sensible volume, why not use earphones? I’m preparing for the speech contest. W: Oh, sorry. I didn’t realize I’ve being bothering you all this time. Question: What is the man probably doing? Teacher and student. Employer and Employee. Doctor and patient. Travel agent and customer.

The student is looking for a job on campus.Listen to the conversation，and mark each statement as either true（T）or false（F）according to what you hear. W: Hello, Professor Smith, my name is Rose. I get the information from the university newspaper that you were looking for a student to work as a language laboratory assistant? M: Yes, we are. Are you interested in the job? W: I think so, but before I apply, I’d like you to tell me more about the work. M: Have you worked with tape recorders before? W: I used cassette a lot when I was studying French in high school. M: Good. There are many different kinds of language labs, ours is a small one, and it’s fairly easy to operate. This is the main control panel. You can set the controls to a lot of students to listen to the lessons they want to hear. If you decide to take the job, I’ll explain how the system operates. Most of the lessons are on cassette tapes, but some of them are also on long reel tapes of records. The cassettes are kept in order on these shelves, and they are clearly numbered with the language and the lesson number. For example, the cassettes in the green boxes are French lessons. Records and tapes are over there. W: How many hours would I work? M: We need someone ten hours a week, Monday through Friday from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m. This is one of the busiest times for this laboratory. W: I’ll fill out an application for this job right now. It would fit into my schedule nicely. M: Fine, I’ll get back to you in a week or so after we review the applications. TRUE FALSE

Where could the lady find the man?Listen to the conversation. Then read the four choices marked A， B， C and D, and decide which is the best answer according to what you hear. W: Hi, John. Your roommate told me that I could find you in the TV lounge. What are you doing here? M: What does it look like I am doing? W: Well, it looks like you are watching television. But we have a math midterm tomorrow, so I thought you’d be studying for it and maybe I can study with you. M: Oh, well, I was just taking a break. This math stuff gives me a headache if I work on it too long. W: I know what you mean. I’ve been working on it for three hours already. I’m beginning to go cross-eyed. I’m having trouble with the sample problems. I just don’t get some of them. M: But I can’t believe you are coming to me. I mean, you do know what I got on the last test, don’t you? W: Yeah, I know. You told me. I just thought two heads might be better than one. M: Yeah, that is a good idea. But you know, I wish I knew that person in our class who got a hundred on the last test. She didn’t miss a question. Umm...was it Elizabeth? W: Oh, yeah, Elizabeth! She is a friend of mine. She’d be a big help right now. Why don’t I give her a call? M: What! At this hour? It’s already ten thirty. I don’t want to impose her. W: Yeah, I guess you are right. But you know what? She owes me a big favor. Let’s at least give her a call and see what she says. Maybe going over some of the problems with us would help her review the material too. M: It’s worth a try. In the classroom In the TV lounge. In the departure lounge. In the next room.

What’ s the range of yuan fluctuation within a trading day?In this section， you will hear five short news items. Each item will be read only once. After each item， there will be a fifteen-second pause. During the pause， read the question and the four choices marked A， B， C and D，and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center. 16. The central parity rate of the renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened by 115 basis points to 6. 8402 against the US dollar on Tuesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. In China’s spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day. 17. The price of regular gasoline dropped across the United States last week, according to a report released by US Energy Information Administration on Monday. For the week ending January 7, the US average regular gasoline retail price dropped nearly 3 cents from last week to $2. 24 per gallon, which was 29 cents per gallon lower than the same period last year. 18. When internet enterprises emerged in China, the laws and regulations on personal information protection were not complete yet, so there were still loopholes for them to make use of. However, the Cyber-security Law came into effect in June 2017, and the personal information regulation in 2018, yet the products of internet companies continue neglecting people’s need for privacy and continue acquiring personal information without approval. 19. The profound friendship between China and Africa remains unbreakable despite some countries’ attempts to discredit China’s cooperation with the continent, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in reference to his New Year’s tour of Africa. Wang wrapped up his trips on Sunday to four nations—Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Gambia and Senegal. The visits further boosted China’s economic, security and Belt and Road cooperation with African countries. 20. The government will likely set a more flexible GDP growth target for 2019, but it would be around 6.3 percent, which can strike a relatively good balance between stabilizing economic growth and forestalling economic and financial risks. And if a GDP growth above 6.3 percent is maintained— which will raise nominal GDP to $14.93 trillion and per capita GDP to $10, 600— China will have a better chance of doubling its GDP and per capita income by 2020 from the 2010 level, which are vital to building a moderately well-off society by 2020. 115. 6.8402. 2% Two dollars.

Dictation Listen to the passage. For questions 21 -25, fill in the blanks with the exact words or phrases you hear. China’ s space industry has taken huge 【D1】______ in the past 12 months, culminating in last week’ s successful landing of 【D2】______on the far side on the moon for the first time in history. Last year not only saw the start of Chang’ e 4 【D3】______, but also marked the first time China had launched more rockets into orbit than any other country in a year. China saw 39 orbital launches in 2018, 【D4】______the nation’ s total space missions in the 1990s. These launches accounted for one-third of the world’ s space missions last year—more than the 【D5】______missions of Russia, the European Union and India, which ranked third to fifth in the annual launch list. The second-highest number of launches was 34 by the United States.In this section， you will hear two short passages. The passages will be read only once. After each passage， there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause， write the answers on the answer sheet. Dictation Listen to the passage. For questions 21~25， fill in the blanks with the exact words or phrases you hear. China’s space industry has taken huge strides in the past 12 months, culminating in last week’s successful landing of a probe on the far side on the moon for the first time in history. Last year not only saw the start of Chang’e 4 lunar program, but also marked the first time China had launched more rockets into orbit than any other country in a year. China saw 39 orbital launches in 2018, equaling the nation’s total space missions in the 1990s. These launches accounted for one-third of the world’s space missions last year— more than the combined missions of Russia, the European Union and India, which ranked third to fifth in the annual launch list. The second-highest number of launches was 34 by the United States.

Summary Listen to the passage. For questions 26 -30, complete the notes using no more than three words for each blank. There are many forms of fighting bare-fisted. Both wrestling and boxing were probably started in 【D6】______and Rome although modem boxing is believed to have started in England. Other fighting skills were developed 【D7】______strong enemies. Some people made use of strength and 【D8】______of the enemies to defeat them. It is said that this kind of fighting skill was first introduced to Shaolin Temple in Henan Province in China. After studying and copying the fighting movements of certain animals these people in the temple 【D9】______on the Indian’s skill. In each country some changes were made. As a result, there are now lots of different fighting skills and 【D10】______like the Chinese TaijiQuan, the Japanese judo and many others.Summary Listen to the passage. For questions 26~30， complete the notes using no more than three words for each blank. There are many forms of fighting bare-fisted. Both wrestling and boxing were probably started in ancient Greece and Rome although modern boxing is believed to have started in England. Other fighting skills were developed for defense against strong enemies. One story goes that long ago some people of South India practiced a form of fighting that required more skill than strength. They made use of strength and the careless movements of the enemies to defeat them. In this way an expert with nothing in hand could easily defeat several enemies with spears in hand. It is said that this kind of fighting skill was first introduced to Shaolin Temple in Henan Province in China. After studying and copying the fighting movements of certain animals these people in the temple made great improvement on the Indian’s skill. In each country some changes were made. As a result, there are now lots of different fighting skills and techniques like the Chinese TaijiQuan, the Japanese judo and many others.

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Police have planned a reconstruction of the crime tomorrow in the hope that this will______the memory of the passers-by. keep ease jog enhance forget

Diamonds have little______value and their price depends almost entirely on their scarcity. intricate intact intriguing introspective intrinsic

At the moment she is______the volleyball match between the Japanese team and the Chinese team over at the playing field. arbitrating intervening deciding refereeing grading

Any time______, any period of waiting is because you haven’t come and received the message. error cut lack lag slip

As a moralist, Virginia Woolf works by indirection, subtly undermining officially accepted mores, mocking, suggesting, and calling values into question______asserting, advocating or bearing witness. other than rather than together with as well as as soon as

This cycle of growth, reached its peak in 1986, when the annual rate of growth was______12 percent. in case of in view of in excess of in face of in charge of

How well a person______depends just as much on whether they’ re self-confident as it does on particular skills and expertise. jumps out covers up turns up jumps up turns out

Before the students set off, they spent much time setting a limit______the expenses of the trip. to about in for regarding

It is well known that knowledge is the______condition for expansion of mind. incompatible indispensable incredible indefinite indented

If businessmen are taxed too much, they will no longer be motivated to work hard, with the result that incomes from taxation might actually______. delay disperse shrink sink shuffle

As a way of______the mails while they were away, the Johnsons asked the cleaning lady to send little printed slips asking the senders to write again later. picking up passing out getting across coping with coexist with

—Next we’ll interview Miss Smith, I think. —Smith? Did she fill in the form? —She did fill in the form. —Mm, well it seems______, then. we didn’ t laugh at the irony we didn’t file it we didn’t approve it we didn’ t possess great strength of purpose we didn’t travel in small groups

—Would you pass me the milk, please? —Certainly, sir.______. —What about chocolate? —Sorry, I’m on a diet. Chocolate ice cream Here you are Give it to me Here we go Beef curry