发布时间 : 星期一 文章2004年全国中学生英语能力竞赛(NEPCS)决赛 - 高二组试题[1]更新完毕开始阅读
A．time B．money C．work D．water
23．To grow hydroponic vegetables，you need _____ ．
A．chemicals to feed the plants B．sunlight and warm weather C．soil to grow the plants in D．nothing to feed the plants 24．You can find hydroponic vegetables in _____ ． A．space laboratories B．outdoor gardens C．many supermarkets D．the countryside
25．Scientists are experimenting with recipes that use _____ ． A．vegetables instead of meat B．chicken instead of tofu C．chicken drum sticks D．garlic and breadcrumbs only
26．Scientists invite _____ to try out their unusual recipes． A．taste testers B．NASA C．farmers D．astronauts 27．The most popular dish was _____ ． A．tofu and seitan B．breadcrumbs C．meat dishes D．carrot drumsticks
（B）
Ice cream is rated as America's favorite dessert. Annual production amounts to 15 quarts a year for every man, woman and child in the US, and if ice, sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt and gelato are added, the figure jumps to 23 quarts per person. Ice cream has been a dessert phenomenon since its creation 4 thousand years ago. Surprisingly, ice cream was developed in a country not known for its milk products, China.
At that point in history, the milking of farm animals had recently begun in China and milk was a prized conmmodity. A favorite dish of the nobility was made of a soft paste of overcooked rice, spices and milk packed in snow to solidify. This milk ice was regarded as a symbol of great wealth. Next. the Chinese turned to importing snow from the mountains and adding fruit juices to create fruit ices.
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Ice milk and fruit ice made their way to Italy, probably through Marco Polo. The Italians carried ice cream across Europe, improving it over time, making it with cream and perfecting its production. Eventually the popular dessert made its way to America.
注：dessert甜食，annual每年的，phenomenon现象，commodity商品，solidify使固化 28．Which of the following statements is true？
A．Only wealthy people around the world eat ice cream ． B．Rich and poor alike now eat ice cream． C．Ice cream is available only in cold countries． D．Ice cream was developed in America．
29．Which ingredient（成分）is in contem porary（现代的）ice cream that was not originally present in ice cream ？ A．Cream ．B．Snow．C．Spices．D．Rice． 30．What is unusual about ice cream's creation？ A．It took a long time to get to America．
B．It was created in a country that didn't produce a lot of dairy products． C．It was developed in winter when it was too cold to eat ice cream． D．It was created to celebrate special holidays and events． B）阅读下列短文，然后回答问题或完成句子。（答案写在答题纸上）
（C）
Every day，we have messages to give people．Do you want to tell people about an important meeting？Do you have to leave your office for 5minutes？Do you want to remember something important？Write the information on a Post-it Note．Post-it Notes have special glue on the edge of the paper．They are sticky so that you can leave them anywhere—on a door or on a wall or in a book—and they won't fall out．You can reuse the notes because they have special glue on the back—if you take off the note and put it back down，it will stay in place．
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Who invented Post-it Notes？Art Fry was a scientist who worked for the famous 3M Company．He needed a bookm ark that stayed in place but didn't tear the page．A friend at the company was making special glue．Fry took some of the glue and put it on the back of a piece of yellow paper．Then he wrote a report to his boss and put the yellow sticky paper on the top page．His boss took off the note，wrote an answer，stuck the paper back on， and sent it back．The two men met for coffee in the cafeteria that afternoon．Fry's boss congratulated him on his invention．This was the beginning of Post-it Notes．
Today，everyone uses them for many different purposes．One man used it to write a marriage proposal．He wrote，“Will you marry me？”and put the Post-it Note on his girlfriend's front door．She wrote her answer and put the note back on his door．One mother put a note on the back of her son's car before he left on a long trip．When he arrived，he found the note．After 3，000 miles，it was still on the car．There are Post-it Notes to suit everyone's tastes．You can buy Post-it Notes in eighteen different colors，twenty-seven different sizes， and fifty-six different shapes．Post-it Notes are popular around the world． 31．People use Post-it Notes for _____ ． 32．You can put a Post-it Note _____ ． 33．Post-it Notes can be _____ ．
34．Post-it Notes _____ when you stick them back down． 35．_____ used the glue made by _____ and put it _____ ． 36．Today _____ come in many colors，sizes and shapes．
（D）
Janet Jackson，the youngest of nine children，was born in 1966．She became a child star in American soap operas after being spotted（发现）in a television appearance with her brothers，The Jackson Five．In the past ten years she has recorded five albums，the last two of them providing her with twelve American Top Five singles． As a female singing star，only a handful of other artists—Madonna，Whitney Houston and Gloria Estefan， for example—provide her with serious competition． Janet has managed to create a new art form ，a mixture of music，dance and fashion which is perfect for the m usic video age．She is small and rather shy which makes her seem vulnerable（脆弱的）．She also has much more natural talent than many of today's stars．
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Janet was born in Gary，Indiana，but moved with her family to the West Coast when she was two．She was brought up in the Jackson compound in Encino，California，with its own zoo and private cinema．She would turn on the TV to find cartoon copies of her brothers dancing to“ABC” and“I want you back”．
By the age of seven she was performing in the fam ily's live stage act．Janet and her brother Randy would do im pressions of Sonny ＆Cher，W．C．Fields and Mae West．Then came her enrollment（录取）in Valley Professional，a school for children in the entertainment business，as well as small parts in TV series and a recording contract with A＆M Records．
At the age of eighteen she moved away from the family to live in New York．She then secretly married Motown singer James DeBarge．The marriage only lasted sixty days．“All my life I had people telling me what to do．I wanted to do something on my own．So I ran away to get married．” 37．How did Janet Jackson become a TV star？ 38．Why was her childhood unusual？
39．How old was she when she began perform ing in the family's live stage act？ 40．Why did she move away and get married？
（E）
Whether it's the melodic（旋律优美的）sound of an Eric Clapton solo or the growl（隆隆声）of a heavy metal band，the electric guitar has influenced popular music and culture more than any other instrument．Rock's greatest musicians have always been closely identified with their guitars，but the instruments being designed for tomorrow's pop stars may look and sound rather different from today's familiar electric and acoustic guitars（原声吉他）．
It has been only sixty years since the electric guitar was invented．Since then there have been incredible changes to the technical design of the
instrument．From what was once a rounded wooden box with a hole in the front，the guitar has evolved（发展）into the smooth solid body of the rock
guitarist's“axe”．The most modern guitars are really computer-controlled synthesisers（音响合成器）．
Adolph Rickenbacker's Electro String Company produced the world's first electric guitar．It was made of wood and played on the user's lap．The first real breakthrough in design came in 1950when Leo Fender，a Californian radio repairman，made the first solid-bodied electric guitar，the Fender Telecaster．Soon afterwards the inventor Les Paul made the famous Gibson Les Paul．Fender launched his stylish
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