国际传播综合能力赛项旨在考查当代大学生国际传播综合能力，赛题涵盖习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想核心内容，涉及经济建设、政治建设、文化建设、社会建设和生态文明建设等领域的重要话题，考查形式包括阅读、写作、翻译、演讲等。部分赛题素材选自《习近平谈治国理政》第一卷、第二卷、第三卷、第四卷和党的二十大报告等。
校赛为综合能力赛，进行读写译综合考查，鼓励有条件的院校在读写译考查的基础上增加演讲能力考查，将综合能力优秀的选手推荐参加省赛。
各参赛院校可组织学生参加大赛组委会举办的全国统一线上初赛，也可自行组织选拔。全国统一线上初赛赛题由大赛组委会提供，包括客观题若干道和议论文写作1篇，赛题构成见表1。
表1 校赛赛题构成
省赛设置综合能力和演讲两个分赛项。
参加综合能力分赛项的选手除参加全国统一线上笔试外，还需提交定题演讲视频。综合能力分赛项笔试赛题由大赛组委会提供，包括客观题若干道、汉译英1篇和议论文写作1篇，赛题构成见表2。定题演讲题目是The Chinese Dragon Is Good，演讲视频的具体提交方式见本地省赛通知。
演讲分赛项由各省赛组委会自行组织，具体比赛形式见本地省赛通知。
表2 省赛综合能力分赛项笔试赛题构成
Part I Read and Know
Questions 1-5
Directions: Choose the best answer for each question.
1. Please complete the translation of “礼之用，和为贵”: Make ______ a top priority in the application of rites.
A. peace B. harmony C. agreement D. cooperation
2. Please complete the translation of “四个自信”: the confidence in __________________ of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
A. path, theory, system and culture
B. path, economy, system and culture
C. path, theory, practice and culture
D. path, theory, system and ideology
3. Which of the following is the correct translation of “天下为公”?
A. Everyone is born equal.
B. The world belongs to all.
C. Justice is the most powerful.
D. The commonwealth benefits the people.
4. The meaning of “大信不约” is _________.
A. the greatest trust is not limited to pledges
B. the sincerest promise is not made through words
C. the most persuasive term is not written in agreements
D. the most influential belief is not recorded in holy books
In a bid to step up economic and social progress, it is imperative that all sectors work in unison. _______________________. The public and private sectors of the economy should be mutually reinforcing and beneficial; there is no need for conflict or strife.
—Xi Jinping: The Governance of China II
5. Which of the following sentences best fits in the blank?
A. A thing is yet to be done until it is done.
B. Clear waters and green mountains are invaluable assets.
C. The flame leaps high when everybody adds wood to a fire.
D. Distance tests a horse’s strength, and time reveals a person’s integrity.
Questions 6-11
Directions: Read the texts and answer the questions.
6. What do we know from the news?
A. The zoo was built specifically for filming the documentary series Tiger King.
B. Tiger King was an extremely successful documentary series about animal rights.
C. A federal judge found the cat zoo owner guilty of violating the animal welfare law.
D. All the big cats in the zoo were ordered to be transferred to the federal government.
As the saying goes: If your granny doesn’t recognise what’s in it, it’s probably not real food. Yet half the food we take home is made in factories from a list of ingredients and additives as long as your arm, most of which never found a place in any grandparents’ kitchen cupboard—and wouldn’t in yours or mine today.
The UK is a nation of ultra-processed-food eaters. Our lives have become too fast-paced to cook from scratch and our taste buds now crave the sweet and salty flavors that ultra-processed foods deliver. Our bread is fluffy and sticks to the teeth like candy floss. Our yogurts are super-sweet and creamy. We have ready meals that are shelf-stable (long life without refrigeration), which we can prise open, heat, eat and go.
7. What is the author’s attitude toward ultra-processed food?
A. Critical. B. Impartial. C. Defensive. D. Mixed.
As if a declining population wasn’t bad enough, a rare species of bird in Australia has now forgotten how to sing. The falling numbers of the Regent Honeyeater mean that fewer adults are around to pass on to young males the melodies they need to know to attract a mate—a problem that can only exacerbate the current situation. Some hope lies in the fact that honeyeaters are famously good mimics, and so scientists are investigating if they can be retaught their vocal skills by artificial means in a lab. And perhaps, we cheekily suggest, our feathered friends could be taught some new tunes at the same time? A bit of William Byrd would be an obvious place to start...
8. What does the underlined word “exacerbate” probably mean?
A. settle
B. reduce
C. control
D. worsen
9. What is the best title for the text?
A. Songful Dismissal Proves a Worry for a Male Bird
B. Regent Honeyeaters Are Being Pushed to the Brink
C. A New Application of Artificial Intelligence in Music
D. Significance of Artificial Environment in Birds’ Singing
One thing to remember in our age of instant gratification is that friends aren’t found; instead, friends are made—crafted, really—over time. It takes 6 to 8 conversations before someone considers us a friend. We wish we could walk into a party, instantly connect, and walk out arm-in-arm with a new BFF (Best Friend Forever), but really it’s an incremental process. The good news is that the bar to start is low. It’s been shown again and again that, as long as we are mutually kind to each other, we become friends with whomever we see most often. 11 and repetition are key. So put yourself in situations where you see the same faces again and again: a dog park at the same time each morning, a weekly writer’s workshop, or a co-working space.
10. What factor is essential to friend-making according to the text?
A. Mutual affection.
B. Frequent contact.
C. Instant connection.
D. Face-to-face communication.
11. What is the missing word probably?
A. Inclusion
B. Attraction
C. Proximity
D. Diversity
Questions 12-15
Directions: Read the chart and decide whether the following statements are True or False.
12. The chart reflects not only the steady and increasing growth in the use of renewables but also the continuous decline in the growth of non-renewable capacity.
True ( ) False ( )
13. The renewable generation capacity in 2020 was more than six times the non-renewable generation capacity.
True ( ) False ( )
14. The renewable generation capacity has accounted for more than half of total electricity generating capacity since 2015.
True ( ) False ( )
15. The renewable generation capacity has been greater than the non-renewable generation capacity since 2012.
True ( ) False ( )
Part II Read and Reason
Questions 16-18
Directions: Read the texts and answer the questions.
For novice exercisers, morning workouts are often the most dreaded. ①But morning workouts have their advantages. ②These chemicals, along with a few others, boost energy levels, alertness, and focus, which can make you more productive and attentive at work. ③Trading a cozy, nurturing bed for a sterile, unforgiving fitness center can be a rude awakening to say the least. ④Challenging the body triggers the release of endorphins, uplifting one’s mood following exertion.
16. What is the right order of the numbered sentences?
A. ③①④② B. ④①②③
C. ③②④① D. ④③②①
17. Which of the following commits the same logical fallacy as in the text?
A. “My professor, who has a Ph.D. in Astronomy, once told me that ghosts are real. Therefore, ghosts are real.”
B. “I don’t see how you can say you’re an ethical person. It’s so hard to get you to do anything; your work ethic is so bad.”
C. “It is possible to fake the moon landing through special effects. Therefore, the moon landing was a fake using special effects.”
18. What can be concluded from the disagreement between John and Henrietta?
A. John lies when saying the squirrel cannot escape from the hunter’s circle.
B. John believes the hunter is flexible enough to finally get a clear shot at the squirrel.
C. Henrietta thinks the hunter can never get behind the squirrel and shoot it in its back.
D. Henrietta guesses it is the tree that blocks the hunter’s sight to accurately target the squirrel.
Questions 19-25
Directions: Read the texts and answer the questions.
Chinese company Space Transportation wants to take a jab at the growing space tourism market with a winged rocket capable of suborbital travel. The reusable space plane could take wealthy tourists to the edge of space and then land them on the other side of the world in no time.
Space Transportation was founded in 2018 and it managed to raise $46 million to develop its flagship supersonic spaceplane in August, 2021. Although details are still sparse, a video presentation on the company’s website shows passengers boarding a vertical plane attached to a glider wing with two boosters. Once it reaches a high altitude in the stratosphere, the airplane detaches from the auxiliary power, with the wing and boosters landing back on the launch pad on their own.
The developers behind the project seem pretty serious about it. So far, they’ve made 10 flight tests for the self-landing booster rockets, the last of which was done in collaboration with a combustion research lab from Tsinghua University.
In many ways, Space Transportation sounds like the Chinese version of Virgin Galactic and, to a lesser degree, SpaceX. In the summer of 2021, Virgin CEO Sir Richard Branson made headlines after he went on an 11-minute suborbital flight, reaching 55 miles (88 km) above the Earth’s surface. Just a week later, fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos made it past the Kármán Line, the internationally-recognized boundary of space, at nearly 62 miles (100 km) above the Earth’s surface, aboard a capsule launched by Blue Origin’s New Shepard reusable rocket.
Global space tourism is projected to reach just $1.7 billion by 2027, according to a report published in 2021. Virgin Galactic has hundreds of reservations for tickets on future flights, sold between $200,000 and $250,000 each. No reservation data has been made public by Blue Origin, but we can presume they’ll soon start making more commercial space tourism flights.
However, neither Virgin Galactic nor Blue Origin seems to be interested in point-to-point travel. In addition to potential space tourism flights, Space Transportation’s vehicle also doubles as a supersonic plane capable of traveling at more than 2,600 mph. SpaceX had plans for a similar concept when it announced its “Earth to Earth” project in 2017, which repurposes its Big Falcon Rocket originally meant to carry passengers to Mars. But Elon Musk’s company hasn’t released any details about this city-to-city passenger transport since then, which may mean it could have been scrapped entirely.
Perhaps SpaceX found city-to-city supersonic travel financially unfeasible, but Space Transportation doesn’t seem deterred. It is planning ground tests by 2023, the first flight by 2024, and a crewed mission by 2025. Looking farther into the future, the Chinese startup dreams of testing an orbital crew space vehicle, the kind that SpaceX uses to ferry crew and cargo to the International Space Station, by 2030.
19. Why does Space Transportation develop its flagship supersonic spaceplane?
A. To realize the reuse of space planes.
B. To fulfill the supersonic space travel plan.
C. To solve the problems of self-landing rockets.
D. To compete with Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX.
20. What can be learned about Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin?
A. Both have launched suborbital flights.
B. Both aim high at sending passengers to Mars.
C. Both have made a fortune from space tourism.
D. Both are interested in the exploration of outer space.
21. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To encourage wealthy people to reserve space flight tickets.
B. To show the fierce competition in the global space tourism market.
C. To disclose the technological bottleneck of self-landing rockets.
D. To report a Chinese company’s progress in developing supersonic rockets.
While technology and construction have progressed rapidly in recent years, allowing structures to be built taller and faster than ever, remnants of colossal ancient monuments remind us that construction techniques from as long as hundreds of years ago had enormous merit as well. In fact, many of the innovations of antiquity serve as foundations of modern construction, with the Roman invention of concrete serving as a cogent example. Other essential ancient construction techniques, such as the arch and the dome, are now often considered stylistic flourishes, with designs like the Met Opera House reinterpreting classical typologies in a modern context.
These reinterpretations have taken many different forms, ranging from the revived use of ancient materials to renewing ancient construction techniques. For example, a new type of rammed earth construction reimagines ancient sustainability from a material standpoint, transforming traditional rammed earth into the stronger cement-stabilized rammed earth (CSRE). Originally consisting of soil, water, and a natural stabilizer (animal urine, animal blood, plant fibers, or bitumen), rammed earth construction has existed for centuries, having been used in monumental ancient projects ranging from the Great Wall of China to Alhambra of Spain. However, CSRE mixes soil, water, and cement instead, improving the material’s strength by orders of magnitude. Yet the main ingredient still being local soil, CSRE thus crucially reduces the negative effects of transporting other materials. CSRE is also cheaper than many other more common building materials, making it a sustainable option for affordable housing as well. The Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology has explored using CSRE to help rural communities to build new houses, while the Western Australian Department of Housing has investigated using CSRE in remote indigenous communities.
However, ancient construction materials and techniques are not only valued for their sustainability—building methods like the ancient Chinese dougong may be thousands of years old, but continue to be reinvented today for different structural and aesthetic needs. Consisting of a wooden bracketing system that once supported overhanging pagoda eaves without the need for nails, Chinese dougong is appreciated by contemporary architects like Kengo Kuma for its traditional significance and aesthetic potential. Kuma designed the unconventional Café Kureon using this technique. Similarly, He Jingtang utilized dougong to design the enormous and outward-expanding China Art Museum, which relies on the technique’s structural qualities to produce the building’s extraordinary tiered roof. Despite being an ancient construction method, contemporary architects thus continue to invent new ways of using dougong today.
With the field of architecture necessarily experiencing a kind of reinvention in light of the ongoing climate crisis, some innovators have looked back to the past in their search for successful and sustainable alternatives to common contemporary construction methods. Although many of these techniques rely on the small-scale use of local materials, it is possible that ancient construction methods may be applicable to large-scale structures as well. As reinventions of old techniques, these changes don’t necessarily constitute a step backward, but may indicate a more eco-conscious future instead.
22. Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the underlined word “cogent” in the first paragraph?
A. convincing B. ancient
C. complex D. innovative
23. Which of the following statements about cement-stabilized rammed earth (CSRE) is true?
A. It has led to an increase in construction costs.
B. It has applications in house building in China and beyond.
C. It is weaker than traditional rammed earth in terms of strength.
D. It is comprised of raw materials from various regions.
24. What can be learned about dougong from the third paragraph?
A. It was primarily used to build pagoda eaves.
B. It was solely present in ancient Chinese architecture.
C. It is employed today mainly to serve sustainable purposes.
D. It is creatively applied to modern constructions by architects.
25. Why do contemporary architects reinvent ancient construction techniques?
A. To achieve sustainability, structural and aesthetic needs.
B. To lower the construction costs for affordable housing.
C. To manifest aesthetic possibilities for modern buildings.
D. To mitigate the negative effects of transporting materials.
Part III Write and Create
Hellotravel is an online community where travel enthusiasts share their experiences and opinions on questions posted by global viewers. You happened to see a question by Tom Harris:
Write him a reply and state your opinion with reasons and examples. You should write between 200 and 250 words.
参考答案：
Part I Read and Know
1. B; 2. A; 3. B; 4. A; 5. C; 6. C; 7. A; 8. D; 9. A; 10. B; 11. C; 12. False; 13. False; 14. True; 15. False
Part II Read and Reason
16. A; 17. D; 18. C; 19. B; 20. A; 21. D; 22. A; 23. B; 24. D; 25. A
Part III Write and Create
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Part I Read and Know
参考校赛赛题样例，省赛文本难度较校赛有所增加。
Part II Read and Reason
参考校赛赛题样例，省赛文本难度较校赛有所增加。
Part III Read and Question
Questions 17-22
Directions: Read two texts about “not knowing” and answer the questions.
Text A
I’m going to give you three options. You’ll only be OK with one of them, and one of the other two is going to nudge you a little closer to madness. Ready?
Here they are:
1. I am not going to give you an electric shock.
2. I am definitely going to give you an electric shock.
3. I might give you an electric shock.
While it goes without saying which one you’re OK with, which of the other two is starting to make the skin on your forearms itch a little? According to the results of a study, it’s probably not No. 2 (though that’s not going to make me any friends). Rather, it’s what’s behind door No. 3 that stirs up the bats in your belfry, because when we’re facing outcomes imbued with uncertainty, it’s the fact that something bad might happen that gets us.
Researchers recruited 45 volunteers to play a computer game in which they turned over digital rocks that might have snakes hiding underneath. Throughout the game, they had to guess whether each rock concealed a snake, and when a snake appeared they received a mild but painful electric shock on the hand. Over the course of the game, they got better about predicting under which rocks they’d find snakes, but the game was designed to keep changing the odds of success to maintain ongoing uncertainty. In other words, they could only get marginally good at guessing before getting knocked off their game, again and again and again.
In the background, the researchers were running a sophisticated computational learning model to estimate the volunteers’ amount of uncertainty that any given rock was concealing a snake. At the same time, their stress was being monitored via instruments gauging pupil dilation and perspiration.
As it turned out, the volunteers’ level of uncertainty correlated in lockstep with their level of stress: If someone felt “certain”, he or she would find a snake (100% probability that a snake lived there), their stress was significantly lower than if they felt like maybe a snake lived here. In both cases, they’d get a shock, but their stress was jacked with added uncertainty.
“Using our model we could predict how stressed our subjects would be not just from whether they got shocks but from how much uncertainty they had about those shocks,” said lead author Archy de Berker of the UCL Institute of Neurology. “Our experiment allows us to draw conclusions about the effect of uncertainty on stress. It turns out that it’s much worse not knowing you are going to get a shock than knowing you definitely will or won’t.”
What I like about this study is that it touches on a massive swath of life: We evolved to respond this way to uncertainty for excellent reasons—namely, the thing that might be lurking behind that rock or bush or up in that tree could harm, kill, or quite possibly eat us. Our brains are adaptively wired to react this way from far back in our ancestral history. Just because we’ve launched ourselves (and our brains) into this techno-socially advanced era doesn’t mean our brains are reacting less or even differently; they are just reacting to different threatening possibilities—some physical and many more perceptual.
Those perceptual, intangible uncertainties are arguably worse because they morph into different forms in our heads the more we think about them. The world has its monsters, no doubt, but we create many times more in the boundless space of our minds—not to mention the space of minds connected. And this has much to do with crippling fear and anxiety, numbing substance abuse, the appeal of authoritarian leaders, and a host of other topics for another day—all rooted back to the brain’s insatiable craving for certainty.
Text B
It is a good idea to forget many of the things you have learned over the years. Some are outmoded, some incorrect, some too obvious and trite. We also need a fresh approach to things of interest, to see them as if for the first time, to attain “beginner’s mind”. This approach would help make a thing “strange”.
Years ago, when I kept coming across the idea that knowledge is not a good thing, I used to wonder if this was anti-intellectualism. But I kept finding the idea in the work of many brilliant thinkers that I admired. I loved to read and study, and I knew they did. So why were they so negative about knowledge? Here is poet David Hinton’s translation of Chapter 71 of Tao Te Ching:
Knowing not-knowing is lofty.
Not knowing not-knowing is affliction.
Let me go over this beautiful translation as I understand it: If you know the importance of not knowing everything, or anything for that matter, you are way ahead. You know the most important thing. If you don’t appreciate the importance of not knowing everything, you are going to have problems. You will be under the dangerous illusion that you know what life is all about. You will have banished the mysteries that are so important. You will be full of ego, thinking that you know what you are talking about, when in fact you are only defending against your ignorance. The starting point toward wisdom is to acknowledge your basic ignorance, your not-knowing.
Let’s delve into the phrase “beginner’s mind”. You can always find a frame of mind in which you are a beginner, maybe once again. You keep coming back to the role of student and novice, open to learning because there is something you know you do not know. How fruitful that attitude is. But you could discover it in any situation, acknowledging and appreciating the extent to which you don’t know something. Sometimes achieving it may require a little bruising to the ego, but that is always a good thing.
When you cultivate not-knowing along with learning, you also allow room for mystery, for the profound and inexplicable parts of life that give you a sense of awe. An appreciation of the unknowable keeps you honest and humble in the best way. The truly wise person knows how important it is not to know everything.
I sometimes find myself giving a lecture or speaking in an interview when I know I don’t know at all what I am talking about. Usually, that is because the topic is unknowable. I often speak about the soul, for instance, yet after years of study I still don’t know just what the soul is.
The trouble with some teachers and leaders is not that they don’t know what they are talking about, but that they don’t know that they don’t know what they are talking about. They go on blissfully using words that even they do not really understand, but they think they do, or at least talk as if they do.
The solution is to admit to our ignorance and try to clear our minds of preconceptions. These are Thoreau’s recommendations. Try to forget what you think you know. Don’t rely on authorities, but simply be in the presence of whatever it is you are concerned with. Finally, aim for “total comprehension” and not just acquaintance.
17. According to Text A, which of the following contributes more to stress levels?
A. Certainty of a positive outcome.
B. Certainty of a negative outcome.
C. Uncertainty of a positive outcome.
D. Uncertainty of a negative outcome.
18. According to Text A, how does uncertainty influence human brains?
A. It provides a higher level of excitement as humans evolve.
B. It triggers an instinctive stress response due to potential threats.
C. It minimizes the tendency to generate imaginary threats.
D. It amplifies the stress response if physical pain is involved.
19. According to Text B, what does David Hinton’s translation of Tao Te Ching suggest?
A. Proper knowledge can lead to wisdom and enlightenment.
B. Self-knowledge of not-knowing may sometimes cause pain.
C. Lack of knowledge can be beneficial to an individual at times.
D. The interpretations of knowledge vary from person to person.
20. According to Text B, how can one benefit from a “beginner’s mind”?
A. It enables one to learn new things faster and more efficiently.
B. It enables one to prove their intellectual superiority over others.
C. It helps one to avoid being disillusioned or disappointed in life.
D. It helps one to maintain great curiosity and keep exploring.
21. Which of the following statements is true concerning the two texts?
A. One of them holds that having much knowledge is beneficial.
B. Both of them have mentioned the benefit of certainty.
C. One text tells us that uncertainty contributes to human progression.
D. The common theme of the two texts is the wisdom of embracing uncertainty.
22. Which of the following questions can be answered using information from BOTH of the two texts:
① How can uncertainty influence human perception?
② Why is it necessary to delve into uncertainty?
A. Only ①.
B. Only ②.
C. Both ① and ②.
D. Neither ① nor ②.
Part IV Translate and Connect
Translate the following passage into English.
新质生产力是以创新为主导、符合新发展理念的先进生产力，摒弃损害、破坏生态环境的发展模式，改变过度依赖资源环境消耗的增长方式，推动经济社会发展绿色化、低碳化，促进经济高质量发展与环境高水平保护协同发展，实现人与自然和谐共生。
Part V Write and Create
参考校赛赛题样例，省赛难度较校赛有所增加。
参考答案：
Part I Read and Know
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Part II Read and Reason
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Part III Read and Question
17. D; 18. B; 19. C; 20. D; 21. C; 22. A
Part IV Translate and Connect
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Part V Write and Create
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写以言志（Write and Create）模块评分标准
译以通意（Translate and Connect）模块评分标准
