2005年全国中学生英语能力竞赛(NEPCS)高一年级组样题全国中学生英语能力竞赛组委会办公室提供（时间：120分钟总分：150分）听力部分（共三大题，计30分）（略）笔试部分（共七大题，计120分）I. 选择填空（Vocabulary and structure）（共20小题，计20分）A）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

（每题1分）31. I'm thinking of hiring a teacher for my son. You see, he isn't able to _________ the rest of his class.A. get onB. keep up withC. keep in touch withD. go on32. —Must I come to your office to get my paper topic?—No, you _________. I can telephone you.A. mustn'tB. couldn'tC. shouldn'tD. don't have to33. _________ they will send us invitation is not yet known, but we hope they will.A. IfB. ThatC. WhetherD. When34. I agree with most of what you said, but I don't agree with _________.A. everythingB. anythingC. somethingD. nothing35. Peter asked Tom whether the teacher _________ five minutes _________.A. was here; agoB. has been there; beforeC. had been there; agoD. had been there; before36. It is _________ fun to go to _________ cinema.A. a; theB. a; 不填C. 不填; 不填D. 不填; the37. Mr. Brown returned to his office after a holiday, only _________ broken into.A. to find it had beenB. to find it hadC. finding it had beenD. finding it was38. Anyway, that evening, _________ I'll tell you more about later, I ended up staying at Rachel's place.A. whenB. whereC. whichD. what39. —Excuse me _________ for so long.—It doesn't matter.A. to keep you waitingB. for having kept you waitingC. for keeping you to waitD. of keeping you to wait40. —Bill, you don't look well. What's the matter?—Oh. _________. I'm just tired. I've been working until around ten every night this week.A. There's nothing seriousB. Something is wrong with meC. It's none of your businessD. That sounds great41. —Mr. Liu's wife was hurt in the traffic accident yesterday afternoon.—_________A. I don't think so.B. I'm interested in such news.C. She must be more careful.D. What a pity!Is she OK now?42. _________ of the land in that district _________ covered with trees and grass.A. Two fifth; isB. Two fifth; areC. Two fifths; isD. Two fifths; are43. Was _________ Bill, _________ played basketball very well, _________ helped you repair your bike?A. that; that; whoB. it; that; thatC. this; who; whoD. it; who; that44. When I returned to my childhood home, I was distressed to find all the apple trees _________.A. were cut downB. had been cut downC. to cut downD. being cut down45. If I had _________, I'd visit Europe, stopping at all the small interesting places.A. a long enough holidayB. an enough long holidayC. a holiday enough longD. a long holiday enoughB）下列5题中的句子可以组成一篇小短文，请从所给的四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

（每题1分）46. Most people have thirty-two _________ by the time they are twenty-five years old.A. neighboursB. petsC. teethD. friends47. It's easy enough to keep that many teeth clean, because people usually _________ time to brush them, most often two or three times a day.A. set asideB. set atC. set aboutD. set in48. Can you imagine, though, what it would be like to_________ about eight hundred times that many teeth?A. watchB. smellC. touchD. brush49. Some snails actually have as many as _________ thousand teeth!A. thirty-twoB. eighteenC. twenty-fiveD. forty50. It's just _________ that snails don't have to bother about brushing them.A. unfortunateB. luckyC. disappointingD. helplessII．阅读理解（Reading comprehension）（共20小题，计35分）A）阅读下列短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

（每题1分）AThe first organized system that was used to send messages began in Egypt around 1500 B.C. This system developed because the pharaohs (法老王) frequently needed to send messages up and down the Nile River in orderto keep their empire running smoothly. Later, the Persians (波斯人)developed a more efficient system for sending messages using men and horses.Message carriers rode along the road system stretching from one end of thePersian Empire to the other.The problem with early systems for sending messages was that only the government was allowed to send messages. Businesses and other people had to find their own ways for delivering messages to distant places. Later, with the fall of the Roman Empire, organized postal systems almost completely disappeared in Europe for 600 years. In China, however, Kublai Khan had built up his own system for delivering messages. This system worked in the same basic way as the Roman system. The difference was that Kublai Khan kept 300,000 horses along the roads of his delivery lines.It wasn't until the 1500s that a well-organized postal system appeared again in Europe. One family gained the right to deliver mail for the Holy Roman Empire and parts of Spain. This family continued to carry mail, both government and private, throughout Europe for almost 300 years. However, government-controlled postal systems finally took over private postal businesses, and by the 1700s government ownership of most postal systems in Europe was an accepted fact of life. These early government systems remained quite expensive for public use until 1840 when Roland Hill suggested lowering postal rates in order to encourage more people to use the system. Soon after that many other countries took up his idea.51. The Egyptian pharaohs sent many of their messages by _________.A. boatB. fireC. horsesD. runners52. _________ was (were) allowed to use the early Roman postal system.A. EveryoneB. Rich business ownersC. No oneD. The government53. What was different about the postal system used by Kublai Khan?A. It had more horses.B. The roads were smaller.C. The stations were further apart.D. It delivered mail to all of Asia.54. In the _________, government monopoly of postal systems became common.A. 1500sB. 1700sC. 1800sD. 1900s55. What did Roland Hill suggest which changed postal practices around the world?A. Make the post faster.B. Make the post bigger.C. Make the post cheaper.D. Make the post easier.B）阅读下列短文，然后回答问题或完成句子。