2023年全国大学生英语竞赛C类真题答案含听力原文.doc

2023年全国大学生英语竞赛初赛
听力录音原文及参照答案
Part I Listening Comprehension (30 minutes, 30 points)
Section A Dialogues (10 points)
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short dialogues. At the end of each dialogue, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the dialogue and the question will be read only once. After each question,there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read 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 centre.
1. W: Hi, I’d like to send this package by express mail to San Francisco and I would like to buy a sheet of stamps, please.
   M: Here are your stamps, and just put the package on the scale.
   Q: Where did the conversation take place? (D)
2. M: I’m going out to lunch. Do you need anything while I’m out?
   W: Yes, if you pass a convenience store, get me some chocolate—a Snickers bar, please.
   Q: What do you learn from this conversation? (B)
3. W: If we go by car, how do we cross the river?
   M: There’s a ferry that will take your car. There’s even one for trains.
   Q: How will they cross the river? (D)
4. W: I heard that the mayor is closing the cheese factory.
   M: Yes, but it is only temporary.
   W: Oh, I’m surprised. I thought it was going to shut down for good.
   Q: Why was the woman surprised? (C)
5. M: I spilled tomato juice on my new white shirt. Do you think it will come out?
   W: That’s too bad. Leave it there and I’ll see what I can do.
   Q: What is the man’s problem?(B)
6. W: I’m going to lunch with my bowling instructor.
   M: What about the committee meeting?
   W: Don’t worry. I’ll be back at the office before then.
   Q: Where is the woman probably going now? (C)
7. M: How long have you had this problem with your shoulder?
   W: It started last week after my skiing accident.
   M: Let’s try some tests to determine the nature of the injury.
   Q: What is the man going to do? (B)
8. W: Are you having a good time?
   M: Sure. Thanks again for inviting me.
   W: No problem. I just wish more people could have come.
   Q: How does the woman feel? (C)
9. M: We finally made it, Mary!
   W: I can’t believe graduation is tonight.
   M: Can you come to my graduation party?
   W: Sure, after I finish the family celebration.
   M: I want to be sure we get pictures of us together.
   W: In our caps and gowns!
   Q: When will the woman go to the man’s graduation party? (A)
10. M: Hi, did you pass your geography exam?
    W: Yeah, I did quite well in fact, I got 76%.
    M: Oh,well done! So they gave you a per cent I thought they gave grades.
    W: Yeah, they gave both. Mine was an “A”. So how about you?
    M: Well, we don’t have exams.We have continuous assessment, so you just have to do coursework, and you get a mark for each essay.
    Q: How does the school evaluate the man’s progress in geography? (A)
Section B News Items (10 points)
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short pieces of news from BBC or VOA. After each news item and question,there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
11. Tens of thousands of health workers will go house to house over the next three days in an effort to immunise 63 million children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa. The campaign is the start of monthly national immunisation days during the low season for polio. It’s hoped that vaccinating children now—when the virus is at its weakest—will be the best way of stopping transmission.
Question:How old are the children to be immunised?(B)
12. Amid pomp and ceremony, China launched the 2023 Olympics. Together with a Chinese counterpart, the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, used a giant golden key to symbolically open what he called the most important market in the world. In his speech, he emphasised the power of the Olympic brand in China’s emerging market.
Question:What does the giant golden key symbolize?(C)
13. Microsoft tries to keep the code for its Windows operating system a closely guarded secret. It’s the equivalent of computer DNA and the firm fears if it falls into the wrong hands it could be used to infiltrate millions of computers worldwide. More than 90 percent of the world’s PCs run Windows.
Question:What action does Microsoft intend to take?(A)
14. Before he set off in November, there were fears that Francis Joyon would be unable to control his huge boat, named IDEC. With its three hulls slicing through the water and a massive rotating mast that reached 30 metres into the sky, the boat was built in 1986 for a crew of ten. It was feared that such a boat would be too powerful for one man in the rough seas of the Southern Ocean.
Question:How many people can the boat carry?(B)
15. Over timescales of thousands of years, the Earth goes through a natural cycle of warmer and colder periods, driven by changes in heat coming from the Sun. Professor William Ruddiman from the University of Virginia has now calculated that if the Earth had followed its natural cycle over the last ten thousand years, it ought to have got steadily colder. It hasn’t,because, he believes, human activities have been keeping the temperature steady.
Question:Has the Earth got steadily colder over the last ten thousand years?(A)
16. Inequality of health care is still paramount, says the WHO’s latest report. Industrialised countries account for less than 20 percent of the world’s population but take 90 percent of health spending. In Japan more than 500 dollars is spent on drugs per person per year. This compares to just three dollars in Sierra Leone. Only slightly more is spent in many sub-Saharan countries.
Question: How much do many sub-Saharan countries spend on drugs per person per year?(B)
17. The Iraqi dinar has risen a third or so in value against the dollar since the new banknotes began to circulate. One factor has been the gradual pick up of the Iraqi economy after the devastation of the war. There are simply more transactions taking place, which has supported the value of the currency. And it seems Iraqis trust the new dinar banknotes more than they did the old ones, which featured pictures of Saddam Hussein.
Question:Why did the Iraqi new dinar rise in value?(C)
18. The list of countries known to have the relatively new and deadly strain of bird flu is rapidly growing. The focus now is on Indonesia where tests will soon confirm whether or not the bird flu which killed several million chickens there is the often fatal H5N1, already confirmed in 5 other countries in the region. Reports of an outbreak in Laos are also being investigated.
Question:What is the number of countries mentioned in this news report?(C)
19. An unhealthy diet together with little exercise and smoking are the key preventable risks of non-communicable diseases and it’s estimated that low fruit and vegetable intake alone causes more than two and a half million deaths each year.
Question:What causes more than two and a half million deaths each year?(A)
20. Around Europe interest rates are at their lowest levels in half a century. But businesses are pressing for even cheaper borrowing costs amid signs of continued economic weakness.
A big drop in German manufacturing announced earlier this week is cited as evidence that Europe’s most important economy may even be sliding into recession. And the rise of the euro to a four-year high against the dollar in currency dealing is a major worry for many European exporters.
Question:What is the key problem for European exporters?(A)
Section C Passages (10 points)
Directions:In this section, you will hear 2 passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear 5 questions. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
The world of music will never be the same since the formation of a band in Liverpool, England in 1956. The Beatles were formed by George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul Mc-Cartney, and John Lennon. Their first hit song Love Me Do was recorded in 1962. The Beatles quickly became the world’s best-known pop music group and many people today still regard them as the finest band in the history of pop music.
Lennon and McCartney were the authors of most of the songs the group recorded. Harrison also wrote songs, often using ideas from Indian music. The drummer of the group was the famous Ringo Starr and he occasionally sang. For six years the Beatles had hit after hit song. Twenty-eight of their songs were on the Top Twenty record charts and seventeen of these songs reached number one on the charts.
The group also had a successful movie career. The comedies A Hard Day’s Night and Yellow Submarine became very successful movies. People imitated their long hairstyles, clothing, and humor. Almost all later pop bands learned from the Beatles. Beatlemania is the word used to describe how strong and loyal the fans were.
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard:
21. What kind of music did the Beatles play?(D)
22. What did many people copy from the Beatles?(D)
23. Where were the members of the Beatles group from?(B)
24. Which of the following is NOT true?(C)
25. How many of the Beatles’ songs reached number one on the record charts?(A)
Passage Two
Have you ever wondered where these cute little teddy bears came from? They were named for President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.
President Roosevelt was on a hunting trip in Mississippi when members of the hunting party caught a black bear and tied him to a tree. President Roosevelt was called to the area to shoot the bear, which he refused to do and said it was unsportsmanlike and showed poor manners.
The Washington Post newspaper ran a cartoon showing the President refusing to shoot the bear and people all over America saw the cartoon.
Morris Michtom, a shopkeeper in Brooklyn, New York, placed two toy bears in the window of his shop. Mr. Michtom requested permission from the President to call them “Teddy Bears” as Teddy is the nickname for Theodore Roosevelt. The sweet little bears with shiny button eyes were a delight with children everywhere. The Teddy Bears were made by Mr. Michtom’s wife. Mr. Michtom formed a new business called the Ideal Novelty and Toy Corporation.
Today, Teddy Bears are treasured toys of children all over the world. They are also collected by people and many are displayed in museums. Teddy Bears are sold by many companies and you can find them in almost any toy store, dressed in costumes or with a ribbon around the neck.
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the passage you have just heard:
26. Why did President Roosevelt refuse to shoot the bear?(C)
27. Why did Mr. Michtom ask for the President’s permission to call the toy bears “Teddy Bears”?(A)
28. Which of the following is NOT true?(D)
29. How many Teddy Bears were made by Mrs. Mitchtom and placed in the window of their shop?(C)
30. What did Mr. Mitchtom do after he sold the Teddy Bears in 1902?(D)
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (10 minutes, 20 points)
Section A Multiple Choice (10 points)
31. A 32. D 33. A 34. C 35. B 36. C 37. B 38. D 39. B 40. C
Section B Cloze-Test (10 points)
41. B 42. A 43. A 44. B 45. A 46. B 47. C 48. D 49. D 50 A
Part III Word Guessing and IQ Test (5 minutes, 10 points)
Section A Word Guessing (5 points)
51. B 52. B 53. D 54. C 55. B
Section B IQ Test (5 points)
56. C 57. A 58. B 59. A 60. A
Part IV Reading Comprehension (25 minutes,30 points)
61. trays
62. To preserve their colours. (or: To prevent darkening.)
63. In hot-air chambers.
64. dried separately and then mixed
65. climbers, explorers, soldiers
66. Because it takes so little time to cook them.
67. The travails of comics connoisseur Harvey Pekar.
68. original screenplay
69. Los Angeles, New York
70. Encouraged and excited.
71. Bend It Like Beckham, Dirty Pretty Things, In America, The Station Agent. ( Any three of them.)
72. 15.
73. modern advances in surgery
74. the stomach or one lung
75. 20%
76. The body’s tendency to reject alien tissues.
77. No, it has yet to become a reality.
78. your illness may be curable
79. tripled
80. Leeds
81. Manchester
82. Married women, those unmarried with partners
83. “Sindies”, women in their 40s
84. The sales have reached a new high, with regional variations.
85. Dress, way of speaking, area of residence education and manners. (Any three of them.)
86. Rulers, administrators, freemen and slaves.
87. politically
88. recurrent
89. resident foreigners
90. The rise of the burghers.
Part V Error Correction (5 minutes,10 points)
91. non-smoke→non-smoking
92. also ∧ smoked→be
93. smoke→smokeless / non-smoking
94. banned→banning
95. to→from
96. down→up
97. has→has
98. √
99. economical→economic
100. employee→employees
Part VI Translation (10 minutes, 20 points)
Section A English-Chinese Translation(10 points)
101. 即它必须在价格或质量或服务方面具有竞争力,并且还应具有可以吸引人们购置旳“个性特点”。
102. 保持诸方面原因旳平衡是很需要技巧旳,这也正是如此多旳品牌不成功旳原因所在。
103. 实际上,虽然是设计品牌旳人也无法左右品牌,他们甚至预测不出人们将怎样运用它们。
104. 有机食品是很成功旳, 但在最初却没有一种较大规模旳生产商或零售商(乐意)推销它们。
105. 换句话说,品牌自身远没有他们看起来那样有影响力。
Section B Chinese-English Translation (10 points)
106. Many flood-ravaged farmers say they will have no choice but to lay off some employees.
107. Sometimes it takes a lifetime for one to realize that to live is to give.
108. Many people in America who work in the cities now enjoy living in the country because of good roads and the ease of commuting by automobile.
109. Radio and television have made it possible for advertisers to capture the attention of millions of people in this way.
110.The labor market of New York has recently shown signs of emerging from its longest slump since World War II.
Part VII Writing (30 minutes, 30 points)
Writing Task I (10 points)
One possible version:

Dear Director,
I have to report the loss of my student identification card yesterday, Tuesday, September 3rd. I am a student in Business Studies. I believe I lost my card at the swimming pool when I dropped my backpack and many items fell to the ground.
I need my card to get money from the bank. The bank will only accept my student card as ID. I asked the bank if they would accept my passport, but they said that my student ID card was used to open the account, and that I should bring it with me when I want to withdraw money.
I also want to go to the cinema, but I will not get a concession without my student card.
Could you please