1、北京英语水平考试（ BETS）三级笔试模拟试卷 1及答案与解析 一、 Part 1 0 You are going to read a magazine article in which a famous chef talks about the importance of good service in restaurants. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-I for each part (1-7) of the article. There is one extra heading you do not need to
2、use. There is an example at the beginning (0). A A central figure B A policy for the times C Seen but not heard D A fairer system E Playing the right part F Time well spent G A strong sense of involvement H The deciding factor I All-round improvement At your service Top chef and restaurant owner Gia
3、ncarlo Curtis talks about what he looks for, apart from good food, when he eats out. Recently, I went into a restaurant near my home where I have eaten several times over the years. It used to have old-fashioned traditional style, but it has just re-opened after being completely renovated. The new s
4、urroundings seem to have given a lift to everything, from the food cooked by a new chef from Brittany in France, to the atmosphere and the quality of the service. 【 B1】 _ Many hours of behind-the-scenes work must have gone into getting the service so good. The staff were very pleasant and the speed
5、with which they reacted to customers needs was excellent. When someone sneezed, a box of tissues appeared. I have never seen that before in a restaurant. The preparation has certainly paid off. 【 B2】 _ Twenty years ago when people went out to restaurants, they probably never set eyes on the chef pro
6、bably didnt even know his name. But the person they did know was the head waiter. He was the important one, the person who could get you the best table, who could impress your friends by recognising you when you arrived. 【 B3】 _ Things have changed, but I think what is going to happen with so many g
7、ood new restaurants opening these days is that the waiters are going to become very important again. The level of service is what is going to distinguish one restaurant from another. 【 B4】 _ But we are talking about modern, unstuffy service, which is not four waiters hovering around your table makin
8、g you nervous, but a relaxed presence, giving you the feeling there is someone there and providing help and advice when you need it. There is a fine distinction between a server and a servant, and this is what the best waiter has learnt to appreciate. 【 B5】 _ Although they have to be commercial, the
9、 most popular restaurants aim to provide the kind of reception, comfort and consideration you would give to someone coming for a dinner party at your home. Service is not about the correctness of knives and forks and glasses people really dont care about those things any more nowadays it is about pu
10、tting people at their ease. 【 B6】 _ Whats more, waiting staff need to have a stake in the success of the enterprise. I realised that when I opened my own restaurant. The staff, chefs and waiters did all the decorating and the flowers themselves and it worked well because the right atmosphere had bee
11、n created by people who cared. 【 B7】 _ Above all, the waiting staff should be consistent, which is why I have always preferred the custom of putting an optional service charge on the bill, rather than relying on discretionary tips, so that all the stall feel valued. I dont like the kind of situation
12、 where there is competition going on, with one star waiter trying to outshine the rest. That affects the quality of the service as a whole. 1 【 B1】 _ 2 【 B2】 _ 3 【 B3】 _ 4 【 B4】 _ 5 【 B5】 _ 6 【 B6】 _ 7 【 B7】 _ 二、 Part 2 7 You are going to read an extract from a novel. For questions 7-13, choose the
13、answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. miss Rita Cohen, a tiny, pale-skinned girl who looked half the age of Seymours daughter, Marie, but claimed to be some six years olde. r, came to his factory one day. She was dressed in overalls and ugly big shoes, and a bush of
14、wiry hair framed her pretty face. She was so tiny, so young that he could barely believe that she was at the University of Pennsylvania, doing research into the leather industry in New Jersey for her Masters degree. Three or four times a year someone either phoned Seymour or wrote to him to ask perm
15、ission to see, his factory, and occasionally he would assist a student by answering questions over the phone or, if the student struck him as especially serious, by offering a brie tour. Rita Cohen was nearly as small, he thought, as the children from Maries third-year class, whod been brought the,
16、50 kilometres from their rural schoolhouse one day, all those years ago, so that Maries daddy could show them how he made gloves, show them especially Maries favourite spot, the laying- off table, where, at the end of the process, the men shaped and pressed each and every glove by pulling line 13 it
17、 carefully down over steam-heated brass hands. The hands were dangerously hot and they were shiny and they stuck straight up from the table in a row, thin-looking, like hands that had been flattened. As a little girl, Marie was captivated by their strangeness and called them the pancake hands. He he
18、ard Rita asking, How many pieces come in a shipment? How many? Between twenty and twenty- five thousand. She continued taking notes as she asked, They come direct to your shipping department? He liked finding that she was interested in every last detail. They come to the tannery. The tannery is a co
19、ntractor. We buy the material and they make it into the right kind of leather for us to use. My grandfather and father worked in the tannery right here in town. So did I, for six months, when I started in the business. Ever been inside a tannery? Not yet. Well youve got to go to a tannery if youre g
20、oing to write about leather. Ill set that up for you if youd like that. Theyre primitive places. The technology has improve, d things, but what youll see isnt that different from what youd have seen hundreds of years ago. Awful work. Its said to be the oldest industry of which remains have been foun
21、d anywhere. Six-thousand-year-old relics of tanning found somewhere Turkey, I believe. The first clothing was just skins that were lined by smoking them. I told you it was an interesting subject once you gel into it. My father is the leather scholar; hes the one you should be talking to. Start my fa
22、ther off about gloves and howll talk for two days. Thats typical, hay the way: glovemen love the trade and everything about it. Tell me, have you ever seen anything being manufactured, Miss Cohen? I cant say I have. Never seen anything made? Saw my mother make a cake when I was a child. He laughed.
23、She had made him laugh. An innocent with spirit, eager to learn. His daughter was easily 30cm taller than Rile Cohen, fair where she was dark, but otherwise Rite Cohen had begun to re, mind him of Marie. The good-natured intelligence that would just waft out of her amt into the house when she came h
24、ome from school, full of what shed learned in class. How she remembered everything. Everything neatly taken down in her notebook and memorised overnight. Ill tell you what were going to do. Were going to bring you right through the whole process. Come on. Were going to make you a pair of gloves and
25、youre, going to watch them being made from start to finish. What size do you wear? 8 What was Seymours first impression of Rita Cohen? （ A） She reminded him of his daughter. （ B） She was rather unattractive. （ C） She did net look like a research student. （ D） She hadnt given much thought to her appe
26、arance. 9 Seymour would show students round his factory if （ A） he thought they were genuinely interested. （ B） they telephoned for permission. （ C） they wrote him an interesting letter. （ D） their questions were hard to answer by phone. 10 What did Seymours daughter like most about visiting the fac
27、tory? （ A） watching her father make gloves （ B） helping to shape the gloves （ C） making gloves for her school friends （ D） seeing the brass hands 11 The word shiny in line 13 describes （ A） the look of the hands. （ B） the size of the hands. （ C） the feel of the hands. （ D） the temperature of the han
28、ds. 12 Seymour says that most tanneries today （ A） have been running for over a hundred years. （ B） are located in very old buildings. （ C） are dependent on older workers. （ D） still use traditional methods. 13 12 What does Seymour admire about his father? （ A） his educational background （ B） his kn
29、owledge of history （ C） his enthusiasm for the business （ D） his skill as a glove maker 14 When she was a schoolgirl, Marie （ A） made her parents laugh. （ B） was intelligent but lazy. （ C） easily forgot what she had learned. （ D） was hard-working and enthusiastic. 三、 Part 3 14 You are going to read
30、a magazine article about learning to fly a plane. Eight paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A-I the one which fits each gap (15-21). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0). Learning to Fly I had been t
31、esting cars and motorcycles for over twenty years. I couldnt take any more. It wasnt terribly exciting and, in any case, new cars were beginning to look identical and drive similarly. What I needed was a new challenge. Unfortunately, I wore glasses. The Royal Air Force wouldnt consider anyone for pi
32、lot training unless they had perfect eyesight. Halfway through an aptitude test, they realised that my eyes were far from perfect. I didnt stand a chance. 【 B1】 _ It was an obvious choice. Its just twenty minutes drive from my home. Its very quiet, too, so the t;90 per hour fur the training is spent
33、 flying in the air, not waiting on the ground for other planes to take off. 【 B2】 _ It took me a whole year to get my private pilots licence. It started well, with my first solo flight coming after just seven hours. Then came all the studying, the exams, the hard work. I never thought Id get to the
34、end of it. 【 B3】 _ Then came last winter and the end of the course was in sight. For weeks, the weather was so terrible that for most of the time it was impossible. to fly. Strong winds, heavy rain and even snow and ice made flying conditions extremely hazardous. 【 B4】 _ But finally the first of thr
35、ee practical exams arrived- the navigation test. The exam finer sets you a course that you have to plan according to the weather, and then fly with him sitting beside you. 【 B5】 _ I passed this test, but I dont know how. The second test involves flying cross-country to two other ah ports. which you
36、can choose, and landing at both. The important thing is to give the right messages to the air-traffic control people and understand their replies. 【 B6】 _ After this alarming episode, the excreiscs in the flight- handling test were simple. As we completed the sixth exercise, the examiner suddenly tu
37、rned to me and said, “Congratulations-youve passed!“ I wasnt sure why, because we usually land as slowly as possible. Then I turned round and realised straightaway: we were being followed by a British Airways jumbo jet! A A week which I had set aside for finishing the course came and went with no po
38、ssibility of getting in the air at all. And besides the problems with the weather, my second son was born, and that made it even more difficult to find the time for lessons and studying. B But the real reason I chose this club was that a friend of mine, Andrew Wilkins, is the chief instructor there.
39、 He impressed me by taking me out for a free flight just so that I could see what it was like. C Unfortunately, I got myself lost this time and flew too far east. I completely missed the first airport. However, I flew over a car factory I recognised and managed to get back on course. D Along the way
40、, hell take the controls and fly off course, ,just to get you lost. Then hell hand back the controls to you and expect you to find your way home. E One day I was asked by an air-traffic controller if I could see another aircraft ahead. I said yes, and immediately it disappeared into a cloud. I just
41、didnt know what to do. F At the time, taking private lessons to learn how to fly was financially beyond me. So 1 had to delay my plans to become a pilot for quite a while. It was twenty years, in fact, before I finally enrolled at a flying club in Hertfordshire. G Since getting my pilots licence, Iv
42、e been out flying a few times. The highlight so far was flying up to Birmingham International Airport for a motor show with Andrew beside me. As we approached the runway, the air-traffic controller came on the radio asking for as much speed as our little plane could manage. H For months, my head was
43、 always in a book and my head hurt from all the facts, figures and flying instructions. I This feeling of needing a change coincided with my 40th birthday, which started me thinking about what Id been doing all those years. When I left school all I had really wanted to do was fly. 15 【 B1】 _ 16 【 B2
44、】 _ 17 【 B3】 _ 18 【 B4】 _ 19 【 B5】 _ 20 【 B6】 _ 21 【 B7】 _ 四、 Part 4 21 You are going to read an article about people who changed their jobs. For questions 23-35, choose from the people (A-D). The people may be chosen more than once. There is an example at the beginning (0). Which person mentions en
45、joying their pastime more than the job they used to do? enjoying being in charge of their own life? 【 S1】 _ being surprised by suddenly losing their previous job? 【 S2】 _ not having other people depending on them financially? 【 S3】 _ missing working with other people? 【 S4】 _ undergoing training in
46、order to take up their new job? 【 S5】 _ a contact being useful in promoting their new business? 【 S6】 _ not being interested in possible promotion in their old job? 【 S7】 _ disliking the amount of time they used to have to work? 【 S8】 _ surprising someone else by the decision they made? 【 S9】 _ a pr
47、ediction that hasnt come true? 【 S10】 _ consulting other people about their businesses? 【 S11】 _ the similarities between their new job and their old one? 【 S12】 _ working to a strict timetable? 【 S13】 _ A NEW LIFE A The Farmer Matt Froggatt used to be an insurance agent in the City of London but no
48、w runs a sheep farm. “After 14 years in business, I found that the City had gone from a place which was exciting to work into a grind-no one was having fun any more. But I hadnt planned to leave for another five or ten years when I was made redundant. It came out of the blue, but it made me take a careful look at my life. I didnt get a particularly good pay-off but it was enough to set up the farm with. My break came when I got to know the head chef of a local hotel with one of
