BFT考试(全国出国培训备选人员外语水平考试)-3及答案解析.doc

1、BFT 考试(全国出国培训备选人员外语水平考试)-3 及答案解析(总分：173.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Listening(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part 1(总题数：1，分数：16.00)(1).CONVERSATION 1Time for the man to arrive at the hotel: (1) . Price of the room: $ (2) . Number of the unit: No. (3) . On the (4) floor.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(2).CONVERSATION 1Time for the man to arr

2、ive at the hotel: (1) . Price of the room: $ (2) . Number of the unit: No. (3) . On the (4) floor.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(3).CONVERSATION 1Time for the man to arrive at the hotel: (1) . Price of the room: $ (2) . Number of the unit: No. (3) . On the (4) floor.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(4).CONVERSATION 1Time for the

3、man to arrive at the hotel: (1) . Price of the room: $ (2) . Number of the unit: No. (3) . On the (4) floor.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(5).CONVERSATION 2For: (5) Blake.From: (6) Anderson.Tomorrows (7) is cancelled.Helens telephone number: (8) .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(6).CONVERSATION 2For: (5) Blake.From: (6) Anderson

4、Tomorrows (7) is cancelled.Helens telephone number: (8) .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(7).CONVERSATION 2For: (5) Blake.From: (6) Anderson.Tomorrows (7) is cancelled.Helens telephone number: (8) .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(8).CONVERSATION 2For: (5) Blake.From: (6) Anderson.Tomorrows (7) is cancelled.Helens telephone numbe

5、r: (8) .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_三、Part 2(总题数：1，分数：10.00)(1).Speaker 1: _ 10. Speaker 2: _ 11. Speaker 3: _ 12. Speaker 4: _ 13. Speaker 5: _ A. final exam B. teaching problems in reading C. paying attention to ones teaching style D. canceling some classes E. stuff meeting F. students attendance（分数：2.00）填空项

6、1:_(2).Speaker 1: _ 10. Speaker 2: _ 11. Speaker 3: _ 12. Speaker 4: _ 13. Speaker 5: _ A. final exam B. teaching problems in reading C. paying attention to ones teaching style D. canceling some classes E. stuff meeting F. students attendance（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(3).Speaker 1: _ 10. Speaker 2: _ 11. Spea

7、ker 3: _ 12. Speaker 4: _ 13. Speaker 5: _ A. final exam B. teaching problems in reading C. paying attention to ones teaching style D. canceling some classes E. stuff meeting F. students attendance（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(4).Speaker 1: _ 10. Speaker 2: _ 11. Speaker 3: _ 12. Speaker 4: _ 13. Speaker 5: _ A.

8、 final exam B. teaching problems in reading C. paying attention to ones teaching style D. canceling some classes E. stuff meeting F. students attendance（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(5).Speaker 1: _ 10. Speaker 2: _ 11. Speaker 3: _ 12. Speaker 4: _ 13. Speaker 5: _ A. final exam B. teaching problems in reading C

9、 paying attention to ones teaching style D. canceling some classes E. stuff meeting F. students attendance（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_四、Part 3(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Look at the ten statements for this part.You will hear a passage about “Who First Started to Smoke?“ ; you will listen to it twice,Decide if you think ea

10、ch statement is right(R), wrong(W) or not mentioned(NM).（分数：20.00）(1).People in Europe started smoking long ago.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.WrongC.Not Mentioned(2).Tobacco is a native American plant, and it was Christopher Columbus who told European people about it.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.WrongC.Not Mentioned(3).Th

11、e American Indians used long tubes to bake tobacco before they smoked it.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.WrongC.Not Mentioned(4).Aware of the commercial value of tobacco, the American lndians traded it for other goods.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.WrongC.Not Mentioned(5).Jean Nicots great interest in plants was due to his fa

12、thers influence.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.WrongC.Not Mentioned(6).When a man had a bad pain in his body, Nicot would give the person some tobacco leaves to eat, and then the pain would be gone.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.WrongC.Not Mentioned(7).The word nicotine comes from the Frenchman Nicots name.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.

13、WrongC.Not Mentioned(8).Nicot wrote a book on all his discoveries about tobacco.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.WrongC.Not Mentioned(9).In Sir Walter Raleighs days, not many people knew about smoking.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.WrongC.Not Mentioned(10).Sir Walter Raleighs death was due to smoking.（分数：2.00）A.RightB.WrongC.N

14、ot Mentioned五、Part 4(总题数：1，分数：7.00)Look at the questions for this part.You will hear a passage about “American Weighs In “. You will listen to it twice.For questions 24-30, indicate which of the alternatives A, B, or C is the most appropriate response.Mark one letter A, B, or C on the Answer Sheet.（

15、分数：7.00）(1).American foods are _.（分数：1.00）A.insufficient and expensiveB.many and variousC.neither delicious nor healthful(2).What is the percentage of adults aged 20 to 74 who were obese in the 1960s?（分数：1.00）A.33 percentB.24 percentC.35 percent(3).How many US adults aged 20 and older were overweigh

16、t in 1988-94?（分数：1.00）A.65 millionB.16 millionC.20 million(4).Compared to the late 1970s, the percent of children aged 12 to 17 who were overweight in 1994 _.（分数：1.00）A.decreasedB.remained unchangedC.increased(5).What kind of market is sure to benefit from overweight people?（分数：1.00）A.The market for

17、 health careB.The market for foodC.The market for weight-loss diets(6).What is believed to be able to prevent and mitigate numerous chronic ailments?（分数：1.00）A.High blood pressureB.A reasonable body weightC.Smoking(7).Koop once launched an assault on _.（分数：1.00）A.chronic ailmentsB.obesityC.smoking六、

18、Reading(总题数：5，分数：90.00)Part 1Read thefollowingpassage, eight sentences have been removed from the article.Choose from the sentences A-H the one whichfits each gap.For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.Do not mark any letter twice.The single, decisive factor that made it possib

19、le for mankind to settle in permanent communities was agriculture. (1) Once people could control the production of food and be assured of a reliable annual supple of it, their lives changed completely.Fanning was a revolutionary discovery. (2) With more food available, more people could be fed. Popu

20、lations therefore increased. The growing number of people available for more kinds of work led to the development of more complex social structures. (3) Farming the world over has always relied upon a dependable water supply. For the earliest societies this meant rivers and streams or regular rainfa

21、ll. (4) Later communities were able to develop by taking advantage of the rainy seasons.All of the ancient civilizations probably developed in much the same way, in spite of regional and climatic differences. (5) Heavier pottery replaced animal-skin gourds as containers for food and liquids. Cloth c

22、ould be woven from wool and flax. Permanent structures made of wood, brick, and stone could be erected.The science of mathematics was an early outgrowth of agriculture. People studied the movements of the moon, the sun, and planets to calculate seasons. (6) With a calendar it was possible to calcula

23、te the arrival of each growing season. Measurement of land areas was necessary if property was to be a factor in farming and housekeeping. (7) All of the major ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China emerged in the 4th millennium BC. Historians still debate over whic

24、h one emerged first. It may well have been the Middle East, in an area called the Fertile Crescent. This region stretches from the Nile River in Egypt northward along the coast of former Palestine, then eastward into Asia to include Mesopotami a. (8) This kind of larming depended on the reproduction

25、 of seed, normally from grain crops.A. It not only made settlements possible and ultimately the building of cities but it also made available a reliable food supply.B. Later came measures of value as commodity and money exchange became common.C. In this area people settled along the riverbanks and p

26、racticed field agriculture.D. After farming was developed in the Middle East in about 6500 BC, people living in tribes or family units did not have to be on the move continually searching for food or herding their animals.E. As villages grew, the accumulation of more numerous and substantial goods b

27、ecame possible.F. With a food surplus, a community could support a variety of workers who were not farmers.G. The first great civilizations grow up along rivers.H. In doing so they created the first calendars.（分数：16.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Part 2Questions 9-18Read

28、the following passage and answer questions 9-18.1. When Christopher Columbus landed on Americas shores, he encountered copper-shinned people whom he promptly called “Indians“. Current estimates indicate that there were over a million Indians inhabiting North American then. There are approximately 80

29、0,000 Indians today, of whom about 250, 000 live on reservations.2. The early settlers had an amicable relationship with Indians, who shared their knowledge about hunting, fishing, and farming with their uninvited guests. The stereotyped stealthy, wicked Indian of western movies are created by diffe

30、rent faithless white man; the Indian was born friendly.3. Disgust developed between the Indians and the settlers, whose encroachment on Indian lands provoked an era of turbulence. As early as 1745, Indian tribes joined together to drive the French off their land. The French and Indian war did not en

31、d until 1763. The Indian had succeeded in destroying most of the settlements. The British, superficially submissive to the Indiana, promised that further migrations west would not extend beyond a specified boundary.4. Vacated from their lands or, worse still, frankly giving their property to the whi

32、tes for few baubles, Indians were ruthlessly pushed west. The battle in 1876 at Little Horn river in Montana, in which setting Bull and the Sioux tribes massacred General Custers cavalry, caused the whites intensify their campaign against the Redman. The battle at Wound Knee, South Dakota, in 1890 p

33、ut an end to the last vestige of hope for amity between Indians and whites.5. Although the Bureau of lndian affairs has operated since 1842, presumably for the purpose of guarding Indians “interests“, Indian on reservations lead notoriously deprived lives. In recent times Indians have taken a milita

34、nt stand and appealed to the courts and the American people to improve their substandard living conditions.Questions 9-13For questions 9-13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below.For each numberedparagraph (1-5), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.Do not mark any letter twice.9.

35、 Paragraph 1: _ A. Indians, once the master of America, now live in theirreservation.10. Paragraph 2: _ B. Indians were pushed away.11. Paragraph 3: _ C. The wars between Indian and the settlers.12. Paragraph 4: _ D. Indians arestill fighting for the improvement of their lives.13. Paragraph 5: _ E.

36、The relationship between Indians and the early settlers. F. Indians were ferocious savages. G. Indians struggle for their own possessions.（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Questions 14-18Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18 with a word or phrase from the list below.For

37、 each sentence (14-18), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.Do not mark any letter twice.14. The early settlers in American _. 15. The passage suggests that the war between French and Indians lasted _. 16. The kind of life Indians lead in their reservation is _. 17. The two measures that India

38、ns had taken to improve their lives are _. 18. From the passage, we can infer that the author _. A. sympathizes the American Indians B. eighteen years C. found the Indians very helpful D. taking a militant stand and appealing to the courts E. notoriously deprived F. ask the Indians to leave their la

39、nds G. force the Indians to leave（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Part 3Questions 19-25Read the following passage and answer questions 19-25.For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C and D.Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.While still in its early stages, welfare reform

40、has already been judged a great success in many states, at least UN is getting people off welfare, lts estimated that more than two million have left the roles since 1994.In the past four years, welfare in rolls in Athens country has been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the pas

41、t two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens country poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percenttwice the national average.For advocates for the poor, thats an indication that much more needs to be done.“More people are getting jobs, but its not making their li

42、ves any better,“ says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the center in budget and policy priorities in Washington.Canter analysis of US census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a great percentage of single, fame-headed household were earning money on their own, but that average income

43、for these households actually went down.But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.“Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin that was poisoning the family,“ says Rector, a welfare reform is

44、changing the moral climate in low-income communities. Its beginning to rebuild the work ethic, which is much more important.Mr. Rector and others argued that once “the habit of dependency is cracked,“ then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.（分数：14.00）(1).It

45、 can be seen from the passage that the author _.（分数：2.00）A.is over-enthusiastic about the success of welfare reformB.insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poorC.believes the reform has reduced the governments burdenD.considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful(2).Why a

46、rent people enjoying better lives when they have jobs?（分数：2.00）A.Because their wages are low.B.Because many families are divorced.C.Because the cost of living is rising.D.Because government aid is now rar(3).What is worth noting form the example of Athens country is that _.（分数：2.00）A.60 percent of t

47、he population no longer relies on welfareB.70 percent of the people there have been employed for two yearsC.the living standards of most people are going downD.great efforts should be madeto improve peoples living standards(4).From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at _.（分数：2.00）A.providing more jobsB.saving welfare fundsC.rebuilding the work ethicD.cutting government exp