2006nationalenglishcontestforcollegestudents(编辑修改稿)

2006nationalenglishcontestforcollegestudents(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

ritten so far?。 Where do you get your stories? B. What are your favorite books that you39。 ve read?。 Where do you get your stories? C. Can you tell me about the books you39。 ve written so far?。 What39。 s the hardest part about being a writer? D. Where do you get your stories?。 What39。 s the hardest part about being a writer? 45. Lisa: ____________________________________ Andy: I think people love to laugh. They want to laugh even in serious business presentations, in the classroom, seminar, and so on. When people laugh, they relax. And they can remember you and your message better. Lisa: ____________________________________ Andy: Most people give a summary at the end of their speech. But, in my opinion, a summary at the end only distracts from a good presentation. I want to give people a chance to think about the topic, so I finish my speech with some questions. A. Could you tell me how to introduce speakers?。 How do you end your speech? B. Could you tell me how to introduce speakers?。 Do you think the title of a speech is important? C. How do you end your speech?。 Do you think the title of a speech is important? D. Why do you use so many jokes in your speech?。 How do you end your speech? Part IV IQ Test (5 minutes, 5 points) Directions: There are 5 IQ Test questions in this part. For each question there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. 46. What is the minimum number of matches you can remove from this diagram to leave just 2 squares? A. 2. B. 4. C. 6. D. 8. 47. Which of the bottom watches pletes the sequence? 48. Which of these cubes cannot be formed from this web? 49. How many circles contain a dot? A. 12. B. 11. C. 10. D. 13. 50. Each symbol in this table has a value. The total of these values in each row and column is written at the end of the corresponding row or column. Can you find the value of each symbol? A. Triangle = , Square = , Diamond = , Circle = B. Triangle = , Square = , Diamond = , Circle = C. Triangle = , Square = , Diamond = , Circle = D. Triangle = , Square = , Diamond = , Circle = Part V Reading Comprehension (25 minutes, 40 points) Section A Multiple Choice (5 points) Directions: There is one passage in this section with 5 questions. For each question, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Questions 5155 are based on the following passage. I was dirty, smelly, hungry and somewhere beneath all that, suntanned. It was the end of an InterRail holiday. My body couldn39。 t take any more punishment. My mind couldn39。 t deal with any more foreign timetables, currencies or languages. “Never again,” I said, as I stepped onto home ground. I said exactly the same thing the following year. And the next. All I had to do was buy one train ticket and, because I was under twentyfive years old, I could spend a whole month going anywhere I wanted in Europe. Ordinary beds are never the same once you39。 ve learnt to sleep in the corridor of a train, the rhythm rocking you into a deep sleep. Carrying all your possessions on your back in a rucksack makes you have a very basic approach to travel, and encourages incredible wastefulness that can lead to burning socks that have bee too antisocial, and getting rid of books when finished. On the other hand, this way of looking at life is entirely in the spirit of InterRail, for mon sense and reasoning can be thrown out of the window along with the paperback book and the socks. All it takes to achieve this carefree attitude is one of those tickets in your hand. Any system that enables young people to travel through countries at a rate of more than one a day must be pretty special. On that first trip, my friends and I were at first unaware of the possibilities of this type of train ticket, thinking it was just an inexpensive way of getting to and from our chosen campsite in southern France. But the idea of nonstop travel proved too tempting, for there was always just one more country over the border, always that little bit further to go. And what did the extra miles cost us? Nothing. We were not pletely uninterested in culture. But this was a first holiday without parents, as it was for most other InterRailers, and in anizing our own timetable we left out everything except the most immediately available sights. This was the chance to escape the guided tour, an opportunity to do something different. I took great pride in the fact that, in many places, all I could be bothered to see was the view from the station. We were just there to get by, and to have a good time doing so. In this we were no different from most of the other InterRailers with whom we shared corridor floors, food and water, money and music. The excitement of travel es from the sudden reality of somewhere that was previously just a name. It is as if the city in which you arrive never actually existed until the train pulls in at the station and you are able to see it with your own tired eyes for the first time. Questions: 51. At the end of his first trip, the writer said “Never again” because _______. A. he felt ill B. he disliked trains C. he was tired from the journey D. he had lost money 52. What does the writer mean by “this way of looking at life” in Paragraph 3? A. Worrying about your clothes. B. Throwing unwanted things away. C. Behaving in an antisocial way. D. Looking after your possessions. 53. Why did the writer originally buy an InterRail ticket?。