上海初中英语竞赛试题答案

上海初中英语竞赛试题答案

上海初中英语竞赛试题(笔试)试题和答案

2005 Shanghai Junior High School English Contest Paper for Written English

I. Vocabulary and Structure: 30%

1. Adams hadn’t a _________ what the speaker was talking about most of time because the class was in chaos.

A. guess

B. thought

C. concept

D. clue

2. Any one who followed _________ would be blessed with a richer life and boundless love from his family.

A. my set of rules

B. my packet of rules

C. my group of rules

D. my pack of rules

3. _________, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, was crowned top-earning dead celebrity of the past

12 months.

A. Elton John

B. Elvis Presley

C. Sting

D. Michael Jackson

4. "To be or not to be, that is the question” is a quotation from Shakespeare’s play

_________.

A. Romeo and Juliet

B. Macbeth

C. Hamlet

D. King Lear

5. My cousin Betty is the black _________ of the family

A. cow

B. pig

C. horse

D. sheep

6. I’ve got my driving test this afternoon so keep your _________ crossed.

A. toes

B. fingers

C. arms

D. legs

7. As Mr. Best was passing the bookshop, he thought he'd just _________ to see whether any interesting books were on sale.

A. look in

B. look up

C. look round

D. look for

8. Lenny advised me to have a _________ of brandy because it will make me less nervous.

A. bite

B. lick

C. sip

D. touch

9. My father's very quiet too. I _________ him.

A. follow with

B. take after

C. look like

D. turn up to be

10. The capital of Australia is _________

A. Sydney

B. Melbourne

C. Liverpool

D. Canberra

11. Germany has won the World Cup _________

A. twice

B. three times

C. four times

D. five times

12. Tony Blair became _________ of Britain in 19971

A. president

B. general secretary

C. prime minister

D. king

13. _________ was defeated at the battle of Waterloo.

A. Hitler

B. Napoleon

C. Mussolini

D. Richard Nixon

14. There are two main political parties in the USA, _________ and _________.

A. the Democrats and the Republicans

B. the Democrats and the Labors

C. the Democrats and the Conservatives

II. Reading Comprehension: 15%

(A)

Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and apple pie. But ice cream was known long before America was discovered.

The Roman emperor Nero may have made a kind of ice cream. He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains. He used it to make cold drinks. Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.

Hundreds of years later, ice cream reached England. It is said that King Charles enjoyed that treat very much. There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.

Today ice cream is known throughout the world. Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year.

31 .The passage says that most Americans _________

A. think that ice cream is very new

B. think that ice cream was an American idea

C. know that ice cream has a long history

D. do not know what ice cream is

32. The Roman emperor Nero hired men to _________

A. make ice cream for him

B. bring ice cream from China

C. guard the secret of ice cream

D. bring ice to cool his drinks

33. Charles I of England wanted to _________

A. make ice cream popular

B. keep the secret of ice cream for himself

C. develop new kinds of ice cream

D. bring ice cream recipes from China

(B)

Ben Johnson is one of the few men ever buried standing up.

As the story goes, King Charles I once made him a promise. The king told the great writer that he would be buried in England's famous Westminster Abbey. But that wasn't all. Johnson could choose any place he liked for his grave.

Johnson died in 1637. Then it was found that the spot he had picked was already filled. The ground space left in it was just eighteen inches square. King Charles 1 kept his words. He had Johnson's coffin placed on its end in the small place. That's the way it would just fit.

34. Which probably happened first?

A. Johnson picked a place in the Abbey.

B. Johnson died.

C. Johnson received Charles’s promise.