1、国家公共英语三级（购物）练习试卷 6及答案与解析 Part B Directions: Read the text, match the items (61-65) to one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 0 Stinking buses jam the crowded street. Drivers shoot at one another and honk their horns. Smog hurts the eyes and chokes the senses
2、 The scene is Athens at rush hour. The city is in a sorry state of affairs, built without a plan, lacking even adequate sewerage facilities, its 135 square miles packed with 3.7 million people. Even Athens ruins are in ruin; sulfur dioxide eats away at the marble of the Parthenon and other treasure
3、s on the Acropolis. So great has been the population flow toward the city that neighboring villages stand vacant or nearly so. About 120,000 people from distant provinces move to Athens every year. The migrants come for the few available jobs, which are usually no better than the ones they ran away
4、from, at the current rate of migration, Athens by the year 2000 will have a population of 6.5 million, more than half the nation. Aside from overcrowding and poor public transport, the biggest problems facing Athenians are noise and pollution. A government study concluded that Athens was the noisies
5、t city in the world. Smog is almost at killing levels; up to four times the level that the World Health Organization considers safe. Nearly half the pollution comes form cars. Despite high prices for vehicles and fuel, nearly 100,000 automobiles are sold in Greece each year; 3000 drivers licenses ar
6、e issued in Athens monthly. After decades of neglect, Athens is at last getting some attention. In March a government meeting was held to discuss a plan to make the city livable and clean up its environment. A billion in public spending for Athens alone. A master plan that will move many government
7、offices to the citys suburbs is already in the works. Meanwhile, more Greeks keep moving into Athens. With few parks and few oxygen-producing plants, the city and its citizens are literally suffocating. A. noisiest B. mess C. moved D. kept E. pour F. limit G. dangerous 1 The city of Athens is in a t
8、otal _ especially at rush hour. 2 If people continue to _ into the city, its population will be uncontrollable. 3 The high level of smog has made it _ for people to live in the city. 4 So far, almost nothing has been done to _ the number of vehicles. 5 Many government offices are planning to be _ ou
9、t of the city. Part A 6 Write a short composition about reckless young riders (鲁莽的年轻骑车人 ). 国家公共英语三级（购物）练习试卷 6答案与解析 Part B Directions: Read the text, match the items (61-65) to one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 【知识模块】 购物 1 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 购物 2 【正确答案】 E 【
10、知识模块】 购物 3 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 购物 4 【正确答案】 F 【知识模块】 购物 5 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 购物 Part A 6 【正确答案】 People often come across reckless young riders. They have shiny bicycles and often ride with both hands off the handle bars. Sometimes they go double and sometimes they even go so far as to run the red light. Her
11、e we see two riders of similar type. They happen to be riding in the same street, along the same side but from opposite directions. Neither of them wants to give way to the other. Great minds think alike. Today their minds happen to run along the same line: “Any way he wont dare to run into me.“ In no time they will both land on the ground and roll together into the same ditch. Hopefully from this incident, they will draw the same lesson: Follow the traffic rules. 【知识模块】 购物
