外研社杯全国英语阅读大赛

2017“外研社杯”全国英语阅读大赛初赛（

90min ）

Part I Read and Know In Part I, you will read short texts of various kinds. Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions. (Time suggested: 20 minutes)

Questions 1-3 (Suggested completion time: 3 minutes)

Directions: Read the following quotes. Match the quotes with the people. Please note there are three extra options you do not need.

Questions 4 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.

A few intuitive, sensitive visionaries may understand and comprehend

XXXX (the book title), XXXX (the author)’s new and mammoth volume, without going through a course of training or

instruction, but the average intelligent reader will glean little or nothing from it —even from careful perusal, one might properly say study, of it

—save bewilderment and a sense of disgust. It should be companioned with a key and a glossary like the Berlitz books...

4. Which of the following works does the book review address?

A.Ulysses

B.The Odyssey

C.In Search of Lost Time

D.One Hundred Years of Solitude

Question 5 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text and answer the question according to the text.

I like the fact that the study focuses on a French classroom, which receives less attention in Second Language Acquisition research than other foreign language classrooms.

However, for reasons that I elaborate on below, I do not recommend this manuscript for publication. I recommend that the author consults the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. That journal might be a better fit for this paper.

5. The text could best be described as __________.

A. a conclusion

B. a summary

C. a review

D. a pledge

_____1. Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog

and filthy air.

_____2. I haven ’t failed. I

’ve just found 10,000 ways that won ’t work._____3. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Nelson Mandela

C. Thomas A. Edison

D. Steve Jobs

E. Mark Zuckerberg

F. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Question 6 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.

My Lord,

I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is

an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to

receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.

Seven years, my lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,

of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without

one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did

not expect, for I never had a patron before.

__________ the Lord.

6. This text is taken from a letter which showed the writer’s

A.gratitude towards

B.indifference to

C.contempt for

D.respect for

Question 7 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text and answer the question according to the text.

Because of social media, words are moving around the

world within weeks and months, whereas in the past, it

could take a few years, says Julie Coleman, author of The

Life of Slang. “It’s not necessarily that language is changing

more quickly, but technologies have developed and they

allow the transmission of slang terms to pass from one

group to another much more quickly.”

7. The main purpose of the text is to ________.

A.explain the quick migration of slang

B.imply the unnecessary change of language

C.exemplify the advancement of technology

D.introduce the book The Life of Slang

Questions 8 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)

Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.

When hunting raccoons for fur was a popular sport, hunting

dogs were used to sniff them out of trees. As they are XXXX

animals, the hunting party had to work at night, and the dogs

would sometimes end up choosing the wrong tree, or as the idiom

goes, “bark up the wrong tree.” The term was first printed in a

book by Davy Crockett in 1833.