[外语类试卷]浙江大学英语三级模拟试卷18及答案与解析.doc

1、浙江大学英语三级模拟试卷 18及答案与解析 Section A Directions: In this section you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, yo

2、u must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. （ A） The woman got her passport. （ B） The man received a plane ticket. （ C） The man was also excited last night. （

3、 D） The woman went on a trip yesterday. （ A） Modest. （ B） Honest. （ C） Hardworking. （ D） Considerate. （ A） It will not be held. （ B） Its very interesting. （ C） It has been put off. （ D） Its not interesting. （ A） She felt very cold because of the weather. （ B） She was frightened by the accident. （ C）

4、 She was hurt all over in the accident. （ D） She took no notice of the accident. （ A） Let her daughter choose the program by herself. （ B） Do as what other parents do. （ C） Choose the program that she is interested in. （ D） Choose the program that the teacher is interested in. （ A） At a company. （ B

5、） At a computer store. （ C） At a department store. （ D） At a clothing store. （ A） Because he has nothing to buy. （ B） Because he has just been to the supermarket. （ C） Because he will go to the supermarket himself. （ D） Because he doesnt want to bother the woman. （ A） Buy some oranges. （ B） Help the

6、 man. （ C） Go to the school. （ D） Finish her own paper. （ A） He wants to lose weight. （ B） He is afraid he cant get into the class. （ C） He doesnt like the people on the waiting list. （ D） He has grabbed good chances. （ A） She doesnt like dessert. （ B） She needs to buy new jeans. （ C） She needs to l

7、ose weight. （ D） She wants to meet Jane. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages or conversations. At the end of each passage or conversation, you will hear some questions. The passage or the conversation will be read twice. After you hear a passage or a conversation, y

8、ou must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. （ A） They lend money to students who cannot afford the tuition. （ B） They offer information about daily interest rate. （ C） The

9、y help young people watch over their money. （ D） They offer financial advice to young people. （ A） Because SmartyPig makes him careful with his money. （ B） Because SmartyPig helps him realize his financial goal. （ C） Because the local bank is less convenient. （ D） Because SmartyPig can offer him a l

10、oan. （ A） After he had a new baby. （ B） After he came back from a vacation. （ C） After he bought an iPhone for his child. （ D） After he opened a college savings account for his child. （ A） 18. （ B） 54. （ C） 65. （ D） 12 000. （ A） It is led by Erik Hansson from Lund University. （ B） It is based on the

11、 data from the Office for National Statistics. （ C） It will lead to a further research about the health impacts of commuting. （ D） It is about the different health impacts of car and public transportation. （ A） It brings higher pay and housing conditions. （ B） It saves a lot of journey time. （ C） It

12、 is safer than travelling by foot. （ D） It reduces the costs of working days lost. （ A） They only get moisture from rainfall. （ B） They need more moisture than trees elsewhere. （ C） They can live a long life without water. （ D） They do not need water to ensure their growth. （ A） It will turn brown o

13、r yellow. （ B） Its branches will break down. （ C） Its leaves will fall on the ground. （ D） Its leaves will hang downward. （ A） Water it often. （ B） Water it deeply. （ C） Water it every ten days. （ D） Water it only in hot season. （ A） To save water. （ B） To protect the soil. （ C） To establish the roo

14、ts. （ D） To let the water run off the surface. Section C Directions:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blank

15、s numbered from 21 to 27 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 28 to 30 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the m 20 Pollution of water supplies is usually due to poor

16、 health conditions close to water sources, sewage 【 T1】 _into the sources themselves, leakage of sewage into【 T2】 _systems or pollution with industrial or【 T3】 _waste. Even if a piped water supply is safe at its source, it is not always safe by the time it reaches the tap. Intermittent tap-water sup

17、plies should be【 T4】 _as particularly suspect. Travelers on short trips to areas with water supplies of uncertain【 T5】 _should avoid drinking tap-water, or【 T6】 _water from any other source. It is best to drink hot drinks, bottled or canned drinks of well-known brand names international【 T7】_of wate

18、r treatment are usually followed at bottling plants. Carbonated(含二氧化碳的 )drinks are acidic(酸性的 ), and slightly safer.【 T8】 _, and that their rims(边缘 )are clean and dry. Boiling is always a good way of treating water.【 T9】 _. Portable boiling elements that can boil small quantities of water are useful

19、 when the right voltage(电压 )of electricity is available.【 T10】 _. 21 【 T1】 22 【 T2】 23 【 T3】 24 【 T4】 25 【 T5】 26 【 T6】 27 【 T7】 28 【 T8】 29 【 T9】 30 【 T10】 Section A Directions: There are 3 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them

20、there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage One 30 When prices are low people will buy more, and when prices are high they will buy less. Every shopkeeper kn

21、ows this. But at the same time, producers want higher prices for their goods when they make more goods. How can we find the best price for the goods? The Law of Supply and Demand is the economists answer to this question. According to this law. changes in the prices of goods cause changes in supply

22、and demand. An increase in the price of the goods causes an increase in supply the number of goods the producers make. Producers will make more goods when they can get higher prices for the goods. The producer makes more shoes as the price of shoes goes up. At the same time, an increase in the price

23、 of the goods causes a decrease in demand the number of goods the consumers buy. This is because people buy less when the price is high. People buy fewer shoes as the price of shoes goes up. Conversely, a decrease in the price causes an increase in demand(people buy more shoes)and a decrease in supp

24、ly(producers make fewer shoes). Business firms look at both supply and demand when they make decisions about prices and production. They look for the equilibrium point where supply equals demand. At this point, the number of shoes produced is 3 000 and the price of the shoes is $ 30. $ 30 is the equ

25、ilibrium price: at this price the consumers will buy all of the 3 000 shoes which the producers make. If the producers increase the price of the shoes, or if they produce more than 3 000 shoes, the consumers will not buy all of the shoes. The producers will have a surplus(过剩 ) more supply than deman

26、d so they must decrease the price in order to sell all of the shoes. On the other hand, if they make fewer than 3 000 shoes, there will be a shoes shortage more demand than supply and the price will go up. According to the Law of Supply and Demand, the equilibrium price is the best price for the goo

27、ds. The consumers and the producers will agree on this price because it is the only price that helps them both equally. 31 Why does an increase in price cause an increase in supply? （ A） Consumers buy more goods when prices are high. （ B） Producers want to sell all of their goods. （ C） Producers mak

28、e more goods when prices are high. （ D） Consumers will not buy all of the goods. 32 Why does a decrease in price cause an increase in demand? （ A） Producers make fewer goods when prices are low. （ B） Consumers buy fewer goods when prices are low. （ C） Consumers buy more goods when prices are low. （

29、D） Producers make more goods when prices are high. 33 What do business firms look at when they make decisions about prices and production? （ A） The highest price. （ B） The lowest price. （ C） The income level of customers. （ D） The supply and demand. 34 When will producers have a surplus of goods? （

30、A） When supply equals demand. （ B） When they sell all of their goods. （ C） When there is more demand than supply. （ D） When there is more supply than demand. 35 Why will consumers and producers agree on the equilibrium price? （ A） It is the only price for the goods. （ B） It will help them both equal

31、ly. （ C） All of the goods will be sold. （ D） It is the lowest price. Passage Two 35 Money is used for buying or selling goods, for measuring value and for storing wealth. Almost every society now has a money economy based on coins and bills of one kind or another. However, this has not always been t

32、rue. In primitive societies a system of barter was used. Barter was a system of direct exchange of goods. Somebody could exchange a sheep, for example, for anything in the marketplace that he or she considered to be of equal value. Barter, however, was a very unsatisfactory system because peoples pr

33、ecise needs were seldom met. People needed a more practical system of exchange, and various money systems developed based on goods that the members of a society recognized as having value. Cattle, grain, teeth, shells, feathers, salt, elephant tusks, and tobacco had all been used. Precious metals gr

34、adually took over because, when made into coins, they were portable, durable, recognizable, and divisible into larger and smaller units of value. A coin is a piece of metal, usually disc-shaped, which bears words, designs or numbers showing its value. Until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, c

35、oins were given monetary worth based on the exact amount of metal contained in them, but most modern coins are based on face value the value that the governments choose to give them, which doesnt show the actual metal content. Coins have been made of gold, silver, copper, aluminum(铝 ), nickel(镍 ), l

36、ead, zinc(锌 ), plastic and in China even from tea leaves. Most governments now issue paper money in the form of bills, which are really “promises to pay“. Paper money is obviously easier to handle and much more convenient in the modern world. Checks and credit cards are being used increasingly, and

37、it is possible to imagine a world where “money“ in the form of coins and paper currency will no longer be used. Even today, in the United States, many places, especially filling stations will not accept cash at night for security reasons. 36 Barter here means_. （ A） exchanging goods for goods （ B） e

38、xchanging money for goods （ C） exchanging goods for money （ D） exchanging sheep for anything in the market 37 Why were precious metals gradually used for making coins? （ A） Because they were durable and portable. （ B） Because they were recognizable. （ C） Because they were divisible. （ D） All the abo

39、ve. 38 Coins were given value according to the exact amount of metals contained in them_. （ A） between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries （ B） after the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries （ C） during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries （ D） before the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 39

40、 “Promises to pay“ means_. （ A） opportunities to pay （ B） necessities to pay （ C） obligations to pay （ D） possibilities to pay 40 A world without any money in the form of coins and paper is_. （ A） suitable （ B） possible （ C） avoidable （ D） necessary Passage Three 40 Enviably healthy Denmark is leadi

41、ng the way in taxing unhealthy food. Why are they doing it, and will it work? The Danish governments now infamous, since “fat tax“ has caused an international uproar. Its praised by public health advocates on the one hand and dismissed on the other as nanny-state social engineering gone violent. I s

42、ee it as one countrys attempt to stave off rising obesity(肥胖症 )rates, when other options seem less feasible. But the policies appear confusing. Why Denmark of all places? Why particular foods? Will such taxes really change eating behaviour? And arent there better ways to halt or reverse rising rates

43、 of diet-related chronic(慢性的 )disease? Before getting to these questions, lets look at what Denmark has done. In 2009, its government announced a major tax overhaul aimed at softening the shock of the global economic crisis, promoting renewable energy, protecting the environment, discouraging climat

44、e change, and improving health all while maintaining revenues, of course. The tax reforms make it more expensive to produce products likely to harm the environment and to consume products potentially harmful to health, specifically tobacco, ice cream, chocolate, candy, sugar-sweetened soft drinks, a

45、nd foods containing lots of fats. Taxes pay for this through policies that maintain a relatively narrow gap between the incomes of rich and poor. Because its level of income disparity(差异 )is relatively low, the effects of health taxes are less hard on the poor that in many other countries. But the D

46、anes want their health to be better. Life expectancy in Denmark is 79 years, at least two years below that in Japan or Iceland. The stated goal of the tax policies is to increase life expectancy as well as to reduce the burden and cost of illness from diet-related diseases. 41 In the authors opinion

47、, what is the purpose of Denmarks exerting “fat tax“? （ A） To attract public advocates. （ B） To set up a nanny-state. （ C） To stave off rising obesity rates. （ D） To change medical conditions. 42 What was the aim of the major tax overhaul of Denmark in 2009? （ A） Decreasing the chronic disease rate.

48、 （ B） Softening the shock of the global economic crisis. （ C） Prohibiting the production of unhealthy food. （ D） Changing medical conditions. 43 Why does the Danish government tax such products as tabacco? （ A） Because this tax could narrow the income gap. （ B） Because tabacco could pollute the envi

49、ronment. （ C） Because this tax could discourage climate change. （ D） Because these products may harm the environment and health. 44 In Denmark, the effects of health taxes are less hard on the poor because_. （ A） the level of income disparity is relatively low （ B） the purpose of taxing is to improve economy （ C） the taxes aim at softening the shock of climate change （ D） the taxes make products more expensive 45 What is the goal of the tax policies in Denmark? （ A） To realize the effect