2012年全国大学生英语竞赛A类初赛答案

2012National EnglishContest
forCollegeStudents
(Level A-Preliminary)
参考答案及作文评分标准
Part IListeningComprehension(30marks)
SectionA(5marks)
1—5BCCAB
SectionB(10marks)
6—8CBA 9—10AC 11—15BABBC
SectionC(5marks)
16—20BBACC
SectionD(10marks)
21. Italy; 22. capturingsnakes; 23. set off fireworks; 24. set free; 25. immune;
26. Spain;
27. throwtomatoes; 28.afight; 29. safetyglasses; 30. thefiringof arocket
Part IIVocabularyandStructures(15marks)
31—35CADCA 36—40ACDBA 41—45CABAD
Part IIICloze(10marks)
46. sensible; 47. to; 48. in; 49. read; 50. repeatedly; 51. lay; 52. filled; 53. vacant; 54. indefatigable; 55. little
Part IVReadingComprehension(40marks)
SectionA(10marks)
56. important features of companies; 57. freedomto develop ideas; 58. well-positioned (great) marketing
strategies; 59. scholarships; 60. makedecisions
SectionB(10marks)
61. Thebasicfunctionof Wikipedia.
62. Infoanarchy.
63. Set upawebsitethat canbeeditedbyanyonetheylike.
64. Toprevent idiots, vandalsandfanaticsfromdefacing, deletingor pushingone-sidedviews.
65. Disregardtheimportanceof expertise.
SectionC(10marks)
66. F; 67. F; 68.F
69.小型住宅和后花园，以及高层住宅的发展，不仅阻碍了人们饲养宠物，而且会加大人们对稀少的公共
休憩用地的需求。

70.希望这些原则能促使人们在对住宅建设及社区发展作决策时考虑到宠物的饲养。

SectionD(10marks)
71. surroundings/surroundingfactors; 72.ashortageof oxygen; 73. theimmunesystem;
74. overeat/eat toomuch; 75. theageingprocess
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Part VTranslation(10marks)
76. Liketheimmigrantsonthisland, countrymusicisaperfect combinationof thepast andthepresent, the
borrowedandtheinvented.
77. NothingismoreAmericanthanhot dogs, hamburgersandCokes.
78. Inspite of their great historicbreakthrough, the Wright brothers didn蒺t achieve their long-deservedfame
andhonor until several yearslater.
79. Overweight people wouldlike jumping onthe moonbecause they weighsix times less there thanthey
weighonearth.
80. Without natural enemies, herdsof cattlewouldincreasesoquicklythat theywoulduseupthefoodsupply
andeventuallystarvetodeath.
Part VIErrorCorrection(10marks)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, lies over夷Charles River opposite Boston.A universitytownsinceshort after its1630founding, siteof theonlycollegein theAmericasuntil nearlytheeighteenthcentury, Cambridgehasaworldwide reputation as a respected seat of learn. The heartbeat of Cambridge is Harvard Square, where life revolves around the many bookstores, coffee shops, boutiques and newsstands. No one would come to Cambridge with taking a walkthroughHarvardYard. Astroll throughthe yard蒺s windpaths, stately trees, grassy quadrangles and handsome brick buildings is a walk througha long history of higheducation. Six USPresidents have graduated fromHarvard. The LongfellowNational Historic Site is the house where the poet Henry WadsworthLongfellowlivedfor 45years andwrote most of his famous work. In the house you will find many fine Victorian furnishings, amongthem which Longfellow蒺sdesk, penandinkstand. Afewmileseast of HarvardSquare lie Campridge蒺s other famous university, the Massachusetts Instituteof Technologywhichhasofferedapremier educationinengineering
andtechnologysince1865.
81. the
82. shortly
83. learning
84. without
85. winding
86. higher
87. 姨
88. works
89. which
90. lies
Part VIIIQTest(5marks)
91. S8; 92. W; 93. TURBULENCE; 94. 75; 95.A
Part VIIIWriting(30marks)
(Omitted)
作文评分标准
一、评分原则：
1.本题满分为I 10分；II 20分，按四个档次给分。

2.评分时，先根据文章的内容和语言初步确定其所属档次，然后以该档次的要求来衡量、确定或调
整本档次，最后给分。

3.I词数少于100或多于140的，II 词数少于140或多于180的，从总分中减去2分。

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4.如书写较差，以致影响阅卷，将分数降低一档。

二、各档次给分范围和要求：
第四档（很好）：I 9-10分；II 16-20分
完全符合写作格式的要求，覆盖所有内容要点，表达思想清楚，文字通顺，连贯性很好，基本上无词汇
和语法错误。

第三档（好）：I 6-8分；II 11-15分
基本符合写作格式的要求，有个别地方表达思想不够清楚，文字基本通顺、连贯，有少量词汇和语法
错误。

第二档（一般）：I 3-5分；II 6-10分
未恰当完成写作格式的要求，漏掉内容要点，表达思想不清楚，文字多处出现词汇和语法错误，影响
了对写作内容的理解。

第一档（差）：I 1-2分；II 1-5分
未完成写作格式的要求，明显遗漏主要内容，表达思想紊乱，有较多词汇和语法的重大错误，未能将
信息传达给读者。

0分
白卷；作文与题目毫不相关；内容太少，无法评判；所写内容无法看清。

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Part IListeningComprehension(30marks)
SectionA(5marks)
Inthis section, youwill hear five short conversations. Eachconversationwill be readonlyonce. At the endof
eachconversation, there will beatwenty-secondpause. Duringthe pause, readthe questionandthe three
choices marked A, BandC, anddecide whichis the best answer. Thenmark the correspondingletter onthe
answersheetwithasingle line throughthe centre.
1.M:Didyouhavefunlast night?
W:To be frank,I蒺ve seenbetter things ontelevision. I didn蒺t like seeing large animals performing tricks,
andthejugglersweren蒺t asskillful asI thought they蒺dbe.
M:Soundslikeawasteof money, then.
2.M:Haveyouchosenacourseyet?Youknowthedeadlinefor theapplicationisFriday.
W:I know. It蒺ssodifficult! If I choosethewrongsubject ...
M:Don蒺t worry. Let蒺stalkthroughyour options.
3.M:What doyouthinkof thisone?
W:Tobehonest, it蒺snot reallymytaste.I蒺mnot reallyintothisstyleof portrait. Andit sort of lookslikea
phototome.
M:I likethecolors, andtheexpressiononher faceiskindof intense.
4.M:I got abackachefromplayingcricket.
W:I didn蒺t knowyouplayedcricket.
M:Well, onceinabluemoon.
5.W:Thisstupidthingkeepsgettingjammed. I can蒺t get it tomakeanycopies. M:Soit makessenseyou蒺reinsuchagoodhumor.
W:I gaveit agoodkickandfeel better.
SectionB(10marks)
Inthis section, youwill hear twolongconversations. Eachconversationwill be read onlyonce. At the endof
eachconversation, there will beaone-minute pause. Duringthe pause, readthe questions, eachwith three
choices marked A, BandC, anddecide whichis the best answer. Thenmark the correspondingletter onthe
answersheetwithasingle line throughthe centre.
ConversationOne
2012National EnglishContest
forCollegeStudents
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W:I don蒺t reallyhaveanyexpertiseinmanaging. Haveyougot anyideawhat wecoulddowithit?
M:Well, whenI seefiftysquarekilometresof land, I thinkof money.
W:Ha, that蒺stypical of you.
M:Well, yeah. I think, youknow, a hotel will be great here. There蒺s enoughroomfor it, andas it蒺s inthe
middleof thiskindof wonderful environment, wecouldreallysell it.
W:Yeah, theland蒺sgot these really lovely environmental features. You蒺ve got these lovely hills andthere蒺re
all theselovelytrees, andalittleforest downthere. Perhapsit wouldbenicer todosomethingthat蒺skind
of moresympatheticwiththeenvironment, like, um, youcouldleaveit wildandjust let theanimalsroam
free, or youcouldhavelikeamoreorganizedanimal sanctuarytoget themost out of thefeaturesof it.
M:What wouldweget out of that?
W:It蒺s doing something good, andgiving something backto the earth, andmaking sure that these sorts of
animal speciesareleft toliveintheir ownenvironment.
M:Ok. Perhapsnot ahotel then, but I thinkwecouldthinkof acommercial usethat wouldfit inmorewith
theenvironment. What about somekindof healthresort, maybe?
W:Well, that蒺s quite a nice idea. People could go walking in the hills, and they could do nature trails
through the forest. We could even have likealittle organic garden or provide food that蒺s fresh and
healthy. Wecouldhaveanorganichealthspa. What doyouthink?
M:Yeah, that蒺saniceidea.
ConversationTwo
M:I think, withtechnology, it wasMicrosoft that startedit.
W:“It”beingtheuseof teenagers...
M:Yes. Using teenagers to findout what蒺s inandwhat isn蒺t, what the market wants next. Aroundthe year
2000, theystartedobservingthesekidstofindout what theyweredoingwithtechnology.
W:AndthiswasanAmericanthing?
M:Well, no, actually they went all over the place observing these kids: fromstreet markets in Seattle to
skatingrinksinLondon, barsinTokyo, anywheretheythought trendsmight kickoff.
W:Sotheideawastowatchthesechildren, or teenagers, andlearnwhat theywantedtodowiththeir mobile
phones, withsoftware...
M:That蒺s right, because it蒺s teenagers that really drive technology. Kids have no fear of technology. They
experiment andthey automatically home inonthe new. One thing that became clear is that teenagers
want technologytheycancarryaround. Anythingbigger thanafewinchesisout. That蒺swhytherewasthe
development of these tiny mobile phones that couldbe attachedto your arm, that type of thing. Text
messaging caught onbecause kids wantedto pass notes to eachother during class. The lights that you
findonIBM蒺sThinkPadkeyboardaretherebecauseIBMnoticedthat kidstakenotesinthedarkduring
lectures.
W:Soall of thesethingscameabout becauseof theneedsof kids.
M:That蒺sright.
W:Andwhat蒺scominguponthehorizon?Isthereanybigdevelopment that
hasbeenledbyteenagers?
M:Well, the next big area is collaborative computing, where you have groups of people working together
online. Thisisreallygoingtotakeoff inthenext fewyears, becauseit hasmassivepotential for working
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environmentsinthe sensethat youmay be able to worksimultaneously onaproject withsomeonewho蒺s
ontheother sideof theworld, movingdataaroundtogether.
W:Soisit just technologywiththesekids?
M:Youmeanwhereteenagersareleadingthemarket?
W:Yes.
M:Not at all. I mean, fashionhasbeenyouth-ledfor yearsandyears, but inparticular, trainers. Now, if you
want tokeepupwiththelatest styleof trainers, whodoyouask?Youdon蒺t askanyoneover twenty, that蒺s
for sure. AndI thinkit wasConversetrainerswhousedtodolotsof their market researchonthestreets,
onthebasketball courtsof NewYork, anywhereyoufindteenagers. Theymaystill dothis, I don蒺t know.
W:And, what, theyjust talktothesekids?
M:Talktothem, watchwhat theyarewearing, thecolors, thestyle, andmaybebringinaprototype, askthe
kidsif they蒺dwear these. If not, whynot?
SectionC(5marks)
Inthis section, youwill hear five short news items. After eachitem, whichwill be read onlyonce, there will
be apause. Duringthe pause, readthe questionandthethreechoices markedA, BandC, anddecide which
is the best answer. Thenmark the correspondingletter onthe answer sheet withasingle line throughthe
centre.
16. There蒺sa better-than-randomchance that babies borninthe UnitedStates last year, 2010, were named
“Bella”or“Edward.”Thosewereamongthe10most popular girls蒺andboys蒺names, respectively, andit
wasmorethanacoincidencethat
theyarealsoleadingcharactersinthewildlypopular“Twilight”series
of young adult novels andfilms about vampires. Certainones whichwere popular inthe 1980s, become
therage, thenfall fromfashion.
17. The journal Science has namedanAIDSstudy as its 2011Breakthroughof the Year. The clinical trial
foundthat antiretroviral drugscanbeusedtodramaticallylower theriskof transmittingHIV. Theclinical
trial isknownasHPTN052. It provedthat givingthedrugstoHIVinfectedpeoplesooner madethem96
percent less likely to transmit the virus to their uninfectedpartners. The researchteamwas ledby Dr.
Myron Cohen. He said while the results were announced in May, preliminary work actually began 20
yearsago.
18. InIndia, anti-corruptioncampaigner AnnaHazarehasendedhishunger striketopressfor atougher anti-graft lawearlier than planned. The strike in Mumbai was to last for three days. But on Wednesday
evening, the74-year-oldactivist calledoff hisprotest adayearly. Hedidnot citeareason. But doctors
havewarnedof a danger to thehealthof the activist, who has beenrunninga fever. Hisprotest also has
seenfar thinner crowds comparedto his earlier campaigns, prompting commentators to say that the poor
publicresponsecouldbeafactor behindhisdecision.
19. For decades scientists have beenfollowing penguins by putting bands aroundtheir flippers. This allows
individual birds to be identifiedat a distance. But there have beenconcernsthat flipper bandsmight be
unethical becausetheyharmthebirdsbyslowingthemdownastheyswim. Thelatest studyreportedbirds
fittedwithbandsdiedyounger, startedbreeding later inthe year, tooklonger to forage for foodandover
all raisedabout 40percent fewer chicks. There are also concerns that some data gatheredonpenguins
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downtheyearsmaynowbeworthless.
20. Oddthings are happening to Brits ... we seemto be developing greenfingers! The number of people
growingtheir ownfruit andvegetableshasalmost doubledinthepast year, accordingto Gardeners蒺 World
magazine. But not everyonehasspacefor avegetablepatchor aflowerbed. That 蒺swhysomepeopleplant
flowers or vegetables inpublic spacesto make themgreener andmore pleasing to the eye. Many people
wouldapprove of prettifying towns andcities, but guerrilla gardening is not strictly legal. Therefore, this
typeof gardeningoftentakesplaceinthedeadof night.
SectionD(10marks)
Inthis section, youwill hear aradio talk about some festivals aroundthe world. The talk will be read only
once. For questions 21-30, complete thenotes whichsummarise what the speaker says. Youwill needtowrite
awordor ashort phrase. Remember towrite the answers ontheanswersheet. OnOctober 31, inmanycountrieschildrenandadultsdressupinunusual costumes. Somebecomewitchesor
ghosts; others dress up as trees, goats, and in other very unusual costumes. October 31 is, of course,
Halloween. This festival started in Europe and has spread to all parts of the world. However, not all
celebrations spreadaroundthe world. Every country has its ownsingular festivals. Here are two of the more
unusual ones.
Thefirst oneisFestival of Snakes. Manypeopleareafraidof snakes. Insomepartsof theworld, snakes
are regardedasevil or, at least, dangerous. But, there isonesmall village inItaly where the people seemto
worshipsnakes. Theyshowtheir respect andlovefor snakeswithafestival. Thisfestival isheldeachyear in
thetinyvillageof Cocullo, whichissurroundedbysomeof Italy蒺swildest forests.
CelebrationsbeginonSaint Joseph蒺sDay, March19, whenthefirst snakesof theseasonarecapturedand
put incages. Twomonthslater, onthefirst ThursdayinMay, villagersset off
fireworksandthengotochurch.
After church, thestatueof Saint Domenicaiscarriedthroughthestreets, andvillagersput thecapturedsnakes
aroundhisstatue. Then, more fireworks are set off. At the edge of the village, the snakes are set free inthe
forest, andthevillagersbelievethat theyareimmunefromsnakebitesfor another year.
The second festival, La Tomatina, in Bu觡ol, Spain, is very simple. Everyone throws tomatoes at each
other onthelast Wednesdayof August. Thetown蒺sstreetsturnbright redasover 20,000peoplehit eachother
withlarge, red, soft tomatoes.
Therearemanyideasonhowthefestival started. Themost likelyexplanationisthat it startedasafight
betweenpoor andrichteenagers. Nooneknowswhothrewthefirst tomato, but somehowtheybeganthrowing
tomatoesat eachother.
It soonbecame a point of honor to meet onthe same day intown. Over the years, this local event has
becomeanational event. It is no longer a war betweenpoor andrichandis nowanexciting time for young peopletohaveagoodtimethrowingtomatoesat everyone.
This standard uniformis an old T-shirt, old shorts, and safety glasses. Farmers bring thousands of
tomatoes fromaroundthe countryside, andthe festival begins withthe firing of a rocket. Anhour later, the
endof thefestival isannouncedwiththefiringof another rocket, andeveryonebeginstocleanupthetown.
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