NEAT七级试题选登（三）

全国中小学生英语学习成绩测试组委会办公室

III.  短文填空（Cloze）（共10小题，计10分）

（A） 请阅读下面的短文，并根据其内容提示，从方框中所给的7个词语中选出5个，并用其适当形式填空。（每小题1分）

I live in Ironwood， Michigan， in the United States. We have 36. ______ delicious food， but our most famous dish is the pasty （馅饼）. To make a pasty， put enough meat and vegetables on the dough， and fold it over， so it looks like the letter D. Then bake it.

Pasties are usually 37. ______ hot and are easy to eat with your hands. Traditional pasties are filled with beef， potatoes， onions， and carrots， but today， they're also made 38. ______ chicken. There's even a taco （墨西哥玉米薄餅卷） pasty and a pizza pasty！

Pasties came from Cornwall， England. In the 1850s， British miners came to work in Ironwood. They introduced pasties to the locals. The miners left

39. ______， but the pasties stayed here. Now， it's such a popular food in my town. You can eat pasties all over England， but in the United States， you can only find them in a few 40. ______， like Ironwood！

____（B） 请阅读下面短文，用以下三种形式中的一种填空：①根据上下文填空;②用所给单词的适当形式填空;③根据单词所给的首字母填空。每空一词。（每小题1分）

Which country naps the most， Spain， Portugal， or Italy？ If you guessed any of these， you would be wrong. The correct answer would be 41. G______. According to a five-year study by American sleep researchers， 22% of Germans reported napping at least three days a week. Spaniards （西班牙人） napped far less frequently. Only 7% of them reported taking the 42. ______ （tradition） afternoon nap. Why do Germans feel the need to nap？ It may be because they get less sleep at night 43. ______ Spanish. Or it may be because they go to bed before 11：00 p.m. and get up at 6：00 a.m. By 3：00 p.m. a German worker has been up for nine hours and needs to take a “power nap”.

In fact， the German Institute for Sleep Research announced that afternoon naps were the best way for 44. ______ （work） to be at their best and be more alert （思维敏捷的）. Finally the government decided to have “quiet areas” for civil servants to go to take a quick nap in the middle of the day. Some private companies have also concluded that this is a good idea. They have prepared special offices with couches and sofa beds so that people can benefit 45. ______  a mid-day snooze （打盹）.

（A） 36. a great deal of 37. served 38. with 39. a long time ago 40. places

（B） 41. Germany 42. traditional 43. than 44. workers 45. from

IV.  补全对话（Dialogue Completion）（共5小题，计5分）

请阅读下面不完整的对话，并根据对话内容选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。有两个多余选项。（每小题1分）（请将答案涂在答题纸上）

T=Tim; K=Karen

T： So， when I get to Jakarta （雅加达）， what should I do？

K： I'm not really sure. I mean， I left Indonesia about ten years ago and ... well ... it's probably all changed now.

T： So， yeah， I think we'll just get a taxi from the airport to the hotel.

K： 46. ______

T： I suppose so. Is that what you did？

K： Well， I was going to Jakarta to work， so someone met us with a car and drove us into the centre of town.

T： 47. ______

K： It's something I'll never forget. You know， this was the first time I had been somewhere completely different—the other side of the world. I remember we had a pretty bad flight. There was a long delay at the airport because there was something wrong with the plane. And we had quite a lot of turbulence （气流） and as we were landing I kept thinking “Is this all a big mistake？” 48. ______ I loved it there.

T： And， so， once you were away from the airport， what did you see？

K： Well， the first thing I saw was a traffic jam.

T： Oh， no.

K： Yes， and a traffic jam that was much noisier and longer in this country. And a storm！

T： Oh， no！ Really？

K： Yes， quite often in the spring， the rainy season， there's suddenly a storm with heavy rain and lightning. And you just have to run for the nearest building！ For me， it was exciting though. 49. ______

T： You must have so many memories of your time there.

K： Yeah ... yeah， I do.

T： Did you write them down？ 50. ______

K： No ... I didn't have an Internet connection in my apartment.

T： Or a diary， or something like that？

K： No. I never did.

T： That's a pity. But you seem to remember it pretty well！

46—50 FDGAC

V. 翻译（Translation）（共2小题，计10分）

（A） 请将下面的英语段落翻译成汉语。（5分）（请将答案写在答题纸上）

51. Many people think that recycling is a new thing. But in fact， humans started recycling things in 400 B.C.！ Scientists recently discovered that people in Turkey reused glass then. Later， in 1031， the Japanese recycled paper. Nowadays we recycle because we know more about environmental problems. So while our grandparents used to recycle because they had to， we now recycle because we should.

____（B） 请将下面的汉语段落翻译成英语。（5分）（请将答案写在答题纸上）

52. 汤姆正在英国旅行，希望做一些有趣的事情并玩得高兴。他想要去一些远离大城市的、遥远的地方。他对历史感兴趣，尤其是一些不太出名的地方的历史。他还很喜欢拍照，希望能拍一些好照片给他的朋友和家人们看。为了拍到一张完美的照片，他并不介意整晚待在戶外。

（A） 51. 很多人认为回收利用是一件新事物，但是事实上，人类在公元前400年就开始回收利

用物品！科学家们最近发现在土耳其人们在那时就重复使用玻璃。后来，在1031年，日本人回收利用纸张。如今我们回收利用是因为我们更多地了解了环境问题。因此，我们的祖父母过去常常回收利用是因为他们不得不这样做，而我们现在回收利用是因为我们应当如此。

（B） 52. Tom is travelling in the UK and wishes to do something interesting and have fun. He wants to travel to distant places， away from the big cities. He's interested in history， especially the history of some less well-known places. He also likes taking photos and hopes to get some good photos to show to his friends and family. He doesn't mind staying out all night in order to take a perfect photograph.