1、北京英语水平考试（ BETS）三级笔试模拟试卷 4及答案与解析 一、 Part 1 0 You are going to read a magazine article about a man who teaches children how to improve their memory Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-I for each part (1-7) of the article. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. There is a
2、n example at the beginning (0). A An obvious need B Gaining attention C The odder the better D Making sense of information E Trade secrets F Academic approval G A change of focus H Selected memories I An ancient skill Memory test Jerome Burne talks to a magician who teaches children ways to remember
3、 facts. The Greek philosophers knew about it and it could still dramatically improve childrens school results today, except that no one teaches it. “It is a very old technique for making your memory better. Try memorising this series of random numbers: 3, 6, 5, 5, 2, 1,2, 4. About as meaningful as d
4、ates in history or equations in maths, arent they? Chances are you wont remember them in five minutes, let alone in five hours. However, had you been at a lecture given at a school in the south of England last month, you would now be able to fix them in your head for five days, five weeks, in fact f
5、or ever.“ 【 B1】 _ I am going to give you five techniques that will enable you to remember anything you need to know at school,“ promised lecturer lan Robinson to a fascinated audience of a hundred schoolchildren. He slapped his hand down on the table. In his other life, Robinson is an entertainer, a
6、nd he was using all the tricks he had picked up in his career. “When Ive finished in two hours time, your work will be far more effective and productive. Anyone not interested, leave now.“ The entire room sat still, glued to their seats. 【 B2】 _ When he entertains, Robinson calls himself the Mind Ma
7、gician. He specialises in doing magic tricks that look totally impossible, and then he reveals that they involve nothing more mysterious than good old-fashioned trickery. 1 have always been interested in tricks involving memory being able to reel off the order of cards in a pack, that sort of thing,
8、“ he explains. 【 B3】 _ Robinson was already lecturing to schools on his magic techniques when it struck him that students might find memory techniques even more valuable. “It wasnt a difficult area to move into, as the stutfs all there in books.“ So he summarised everything to make a two-hour lectur
9、e about five techniques. 【 B4】 _ What Robinsons schoolchildren get are methods that will be familiar to anyone who has dipped into any one of a dozen books on memory. The difference is that Robinsons approach is firmly aimed at schoolchildren. The basic idea is to take material that is random and me
10、aningless musical scales, the bones of the arm and give them a structure. That series of numbers at the beginning of the article fits in here. Once you think of it as the number of days in the year 365 and the number of weeks 52 and so on, it suddenly becomes permanently memorable. 【 B5】 _ “You want
11、 to learn a list of a hundred things? A thousand? No problem,“ says Robinson. The scandal is that every child is not taught the techniques from the beginning of their school life. The schoolchildren who were watching him thought it was brilliant. “1 wish Id been told this earlier,“ commented Mark, a
12、fter Robinson had shown them how to construct “mental journeys.“ 【 B6】 _ Essentially, you visualise a walk down a street, or a trip round a room, and pick the points where you will put the things you want to remember the lamppost, the fruit bowl. Then in each location you put a visual representation
13、 of your list phrasal verbs, historical dates, whatever making them as strange as possible. It is that simple, and it works. 【 B7】 _ The reaction of schools has been uniformly enthusiastic. “The pupils benefited enormously from lans presentation,“ says Dr Johnston, head of the school where Robinson
14、was speaking. “Ideally we should run a regular class in memory techniques so pupils can pick it up gradually.“ 1 【 B1】 _ 2 【 B2】 _ 3 【 B3】 _ 4 【 B4】 _ 5 【 B5】 _ 6 【 B6】 _ 7 【 B7】 _ 二、 Part 2 7 You are going to read a magazine article about an artist who paints flowers. For questions 8-14, choose the
15、 answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. An eye for detail Artist Susan Shepherd is best known for her flower paintings, and the large garden that surrounds her house is the source of many of her subjects. It is full of her favourite flowers, most especially varieties
16、of tulips and poppies. Some of tile plants are unruly and seed themselves all over the garden. There is a harmony of colour, shape and structure in the two long flower borders that line the paved path which crosses the garden line 10 from east to west. Much of this is due to the previous owners, who
17、 were keen gardeners, and who left plants that appealed to Susan. She also inherited the gardener, Danny. In tact, it was really his garden, she says. We got on very well. At first he would say, “Oh, its not worth it“ to some of the things I wanted to put in, but when I said I wanted to paint them,
18、he recognised what I had in mind. Susan prefers to focus on detailed studies of individual plants rather than on the garden as a whole, though she will occasionally paint a group of plants where they are. More usually, she picks them and then takes them up to her studio. I dont set the whole thing u
19、p at once, she says. I take one flower out and paint it, which might take a few days, and then I bring in another one and build up the painting that way. Sometimes it takes a couple of years to finish. Her busiest time of year is spring and early summer, when the tulips are out, followed by the popp
20、ies. They all come out together, and youre so busy, she says. But tile gradual decaying process is also part of the fascination for her. With tulips, for example, you bring them in and put them in water, then leave them for perhaps a day and they each form themselves into different shapes. They open
21、 out mad are fantastic. When you first put them in a vase, yon think they are boring, but they change all the time with twists and turns. Susan has always been interested in plants: I did botany at school and used to collect wild flowers from all around the countryside, she says. t wasnt particularl
22、y interested in gardening then; in fact, I didnt like garden flowers, I thought they were artificial to me, the only real ones were wild. Nowadays, the garden owes much to plants that originated in far-off lands, though they seem as much al home in her garden as they did in China or the Himalayas. S
23、he has a come-what-may attitude to the garden, rather like an affectionate any who is quite happy for children to run about undisciplined as long as they dont do any serious damage. With two forthcoming exhibitions to prepare for, and a ready supply of subject material at her back door, finding time
24、 to work in the garden has been difficult recently. She now employs an extra gardener but, despite the need to paint, she knows that, to maintain her connection with her subject matter, you have to get your hands dirty. 8 In the first paragraph, the writer describes Susans garden as （ A） having caus
25、ed problems for the previous owners. （ B） having a path lined with flowers. （ C） needing a lot of work to keep it looking attractive. （ D） being only partly finished. 9 What does this in line 10 refer to? （ A） The position of the path. （ B） The number of wild plants. （ C） The position of the garden.
26、 （ D） The harmony of the planting. 10 What does Susan say about Danny? （ A） He felt she was interfering in his work. （ B） He immediately understood her feelings. （ C） He was recommended by the previous owners. （ D） He was slow to see the point of some of her ideas. 11 What is Susans approach to pain
27、ting? （ A） She will wait until a flower is ready to be picked before painting it. （ B） She likes to do research on a plant before she paints it. （ C） She spends all day painting an individual flower. （ D） She creates her paintings in several stages. 12 Susan thinks that tulips （ A） are more colourfu
28、l and better shaped than other flowers. （ B） are not easy to paint because they change so quickly. （ C） look best some time after they have been cut. （ D） should be kept in the house for as long as possible. 13 How does the writer describe Susans attitude to her garden? （ A） She thinks children shou
29、ld be allowed to enjoy it. （ B） She prefers planting wild flowers from overseas. （ C） She likes a certain amount of disorder. （ D） She dislikes criticism of her planting methods. 14 What point is Susan making in the final paragraph? （ A） Its essential to find the time to paint even if there is garde
30、ning to be done. （ B） Its important not to leave the gardening entirely to other people. （ C） Its good to have expert help when you grow plants. （ D） Its hard to do exhibitions if there are not enough plants ready in the garden. 三、 Part 3 14 You are going to read a newspaper article about human bein
31、gs getting taller. Eight sentences have been removed from the article, Choose from the sentences A-I the one that fits each gap (14-20). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0). Its true Were all getting too big for our boots Chris Greener w
32、as fourteen when he told his careers teacher be wanted to join the navy when he left school. What do you want to be? asked the teacher, looking the boy up and down. The flagpole un a ship? The teacher had a pout because Chris, though still only fourteen, was already almost two metres tall. Every dec
33、ade, the average height of people in Europe grows another centimetre. Every year, more and more truly big people are horn. continuingly, this does not mean humanity is producing a new super race. 【 B1】 _ Only now are we losing the effects of generations of poor diet-with dramatic effects. We are onl
34、y now beginning to fulfil our proper potential and are reaching the dimensions programmed by our bodies, says paleontologist Professor Chris Stringer. We are becoming Cro-Magnons again- the people who lived on this planet 40,000 years ago. For most of human history, our ancestors got their food from
35、 a wide variety of sources: women gathered herbs, fruits and berries, while men supplemented these with occasional kills of animals (a way of life still adopted by the worlds few remaining tribes of hunter-gatherer). 【 B2】 _ Then about 9,000 years ago, agriculture was invented with devastating conse
36、quences. Most of the planets green places have been gradually taken over by farmers, with the result that just three carbohydrate- rich plants - wheat, rice and maize provide more than half of the calories consumed by the human race today. 【 B3】 _ Over the centuries we have lived on soups, porridges
37、 and breads that have left us underfed and underdeveloped. In one study of skeletons of American Indians in Ohio, scientists discovered that when they began to grow corn, healthy hunter-gatherers were turned into sickly, underweight farmers. Tooth decay increased, as did diseases. Far from being one
38、 of the blessings of the New World, com was a public health disaster, according to some anthropologists. 【 B4】 _ The fact that most people relying on this system are poorly nourished and stunted has only recently been tackled, even by the worlds wealthier nations. Only in Europe, the US and Japan ar
39、e diets again reflecting the richness of our attesters diets. As a result, the average man in the US is now 179cm, in Holland 180cm, and in Japan 177cm. It is a welcome trend, though not without its own problems.【 B5】 _A standard bed-length has remained at 190em since 1860, while the height of a doo
40、r was fixed at 198cm in 1880. Even worse, leg-room in planes and trains seems to have shrank rather than grown, while clothes manufacturers are constantly having to revise their range of products. The question is: where will it all end? We cannot grow for ever. 【 B6】_But what is it? According to Rob
41、ert Fugal, of Chicago University, it could be as much as 193cm -and we are likely to reach it some time this century. However, scientists add one note of qualification. Individuals may be growing taller because of improved nutrition, but as a species we are actually shrinking, although very tightly.
42、 During the last ice age, 10,000 years ago, members no the human race were slightly rounder and taller an evolutions response to the cold. (Large round bodies are best at keeping in heat.) 【 B7】 _ And as the planet continues to heat up, we may shrink even further. In other words, the growth of human
43、 beings could be offset by global warming. A We must have some programmed upper limit. B As they benefit from the changes in agriculture, people expect to have this wide variety of foods available. C In fact, we are returning to what we were like as cavemen. D This poor diet has had a disastrous eff
44、ect on human health and physique. E Since the climate warmed, we appear to have got slightly thinner and smaller, even when properly fed. F Nevertheless, from then on agriculture spread because a piece of farmed land could support ten times the number of people who had previously lived off it as hun
45、ter-gatherers. G One research study found that they based their diet on 85 different wild plants, for example. H Heights may have risen, but the world has not moved on, it seems. I Today, at 228cm, he is Britains tallest man. 15 【 B1】 _ 16 【 B2】 _ 17 【 B3】 _ 18 【 B4】 _ 19 【 B5】 _ 20 【 B6】 _ 21 【 B7】
46、 _ 四、 Part 4 21 You are going to read an article about the effect of advertising on children. For questions 22- 35, choose from the sections of the article (A-F). The sections may be chosen more than once. There is an example at the beginning (0). Which section of the article mentions the kind of sh
47、op in which TV advertising expects to see results? 0 B the influence a parent has had over their childs views? 【 S1】 _ the fact that children do not understand why their parents refuse their demands? 【 S2】 _ a parent who understands why children make demands? 【 S3】_ a family who rarely argue while s
48、hopping? 【 S4】 _ someone who feels children ought to find out for themselves how to make 【 S5】 _ decisions about what to buy? the fact that parents can be mistaken about what food is good for you? 【 S6】_ an unexpected benefit for shops? 【 S7】 _ a parent who regrets buying what their children have asked for? 【 S8】_ a parent who has different rules for themselves and their children? 【 S9】_ a parent who feels annoyed even before the ch
