71. The author suggests that _____.

A. we shouldn’t blame a person if he fails to help

B. a person must feel guilty if he fails to help

C. people should be responsible for themselves in emergencies

D. when you are in trouble, people will help you anyway

E

The man traveling in the back of the ambulance which thrust its way through the streets of Baltimore that morning in 1967 had no business to be alive. By everything that was reasonable, and there were plenty of precedents, he should have been very dead indeed. But he wasn’t. As the people in the hospital pointed out after they had examined him, he was only slightly bruised. Yet he has just fallen 150 feet down a hotel lift shaft!

Unknown to the man, two things had occurred which were to affect his life that day. On the thirteenth floor of the hotel, somebody had carelessly left the lift gate open. Down in the basement, a pipe had burst and, before anyone could check the rush of water, it had flooded the bottom of the lift shaft to a depth of two feet.

Modern lifts have all sorts of fail-safe mechanisms to prevent accidents, but this was an ancient contraption(奇妙的装置)— unreliable, creaking, slow, hazardous(dangerous), and suitable material for any scrap dealer who cared to take it away.

The man had plenty of things to occupy his mind that morning. He had overslept. The hotel had forgotten to call him and now he was late for an important business appointment. He dressed quickly, shaved hurriedly, grabbed his briefcase and hurried off down the hotel corridor.

Good! The lift gate was open. The lift must be there. He need not press the button and wait while the large, clumsy(badly-made)lift hauled its way upwards. Without looking or thinking he stepped out into space The lift cage was, in fact, one floor above him on the fourteenth. The world into which he had walked was a narrow space of not very fresh air, ending 150 feet below in two feet of dirty water.

The man descended(dropped), making his journey to the ground at a speed he had never dreamed of. Confused patterns, whirling shapes, a rush of air, time enough to be afraid, split-second thoughts of death, then — crash.

Perhaps this gave him the record for some sort of high-diving act. No doubt in future he always looked before he leap. Certainly he learnt that this was no way to save time. The experts said that those two feet of water had saved his life.

72. How do we know that the story is true?

A. We are told the place and time. B. We are given plenty of details.

C. Lifts often go wrong. D. The man won a high-diving record.

73. By ‘had no business to be alive’ the writer means that the man ____.

A. had missed his business appointment. B. was only just alive.

C. had done very little business. D. was alive and this was very surprising.

74. The word “precedents” in paragraph 1 refers to ____.

A. other people who had had similar accidents. B. rulers of countries.

C. the height which the man fell. D. the man’s injuries.

75. Which of the following did NOT help to cause the accident?

A. Someone left the lift door open. B. A pipe burst.

C. The man overslept. D. He was late for an appointment.

第二卷（共35分）

第三部分：智力检测（共两节，满分15分）

第一节：智力题 请把答案填入题后的括号内，或写在题后的Answer后。(15分)

1. Which of the four is least like the other three?

A. brain B. light C. philosophy D. metal ( )

2. What a scientific worker needs is the down-to-earth attitude instead of talking. The underlined word means ____.

A. honest B. practical C. hard-working D. thoughtful ( )

3. I don’t believe such a minor matter will make you down. Pull up your socks! What does the underlined phrase mean? A ( )

A. Keep up your spirit. B. Stand up. C. Your socks are a bit lower. D. Straighten up.

4. Which word does not go with the others?

A. yellow B. dark C. red D. blue ( )

5. Maria’s gift in literature soon found favour in her teacher’s eyes. What does the underlined phrase mean?

A. was discovered by her teacher B. came from her teacher’s help

C. was good at describing her teacher’s eyes D. much attracted her teacher ( )

6. It goes without saying that a person must behave himself. What does the underlined phrase mean?

A. 直言不讳 B. 不言而喻 C. 不值一提 D. 不辞而别 ( )

7. The following picture is made with matches. How to turn it into one with only three squares by taking away two matches from it?

Answer:

8. What number should replace the question number?

Answer:

9. Suppose it rains at midnight, can it be expected to clear up after 72 hours?

Answer:

10. Divide 45 into 4 parts this way: after you add 2 to the first part, take 2 away from the second part, multiply(乘)the third part by 2 and make the fourth part divided by 2, all the results are the same. Can you divide it?

高二年级英语能力竞赛参考答案

听力：1—5 CABCA 6—10 CBBCA 11—15 AACCB 16—20 AABBC

单选：21—25 CABDA 26—30 BACAC 31—35 BCADB

完型：36—40 BADAB 41—45 CDBCA 46—50 DCABD 51—55 CACBA

阅读：56—60 CBCBD 61—65 BBCDA 66—70 BBBCD 71—75 AADAB

智力题：

智力题：1--6CBABDB 7.

8. 379

9. No, because it will be still at midnight, when nobody can see any sunshine.

10. The four figures are separately 8, 12, 5 and 20.

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