1、国家公共英语三级（饮食）练习试卷 9及答案与解析 Part A Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 0 Centuries ago, man found out that removing moisture from food helps to preserve it, and that the easiest way to do this is to
2、 expose the food to sun and wind. All foods contain water cabbage and other leaf vegetables contain as much as 92% water, potatoes and other root vegetables 80%, lean meat 70% and fish anything from 80% to 60% depending on how fatty it is. If this water is removed, the activity of the bacteria(细菌 )
3、which cause food to go bad is checked. At present most foods are dried mechanically. The conventional method of such dehydration (脱水 ) is to put food in chambers through which hot air is blown at temperature of about 110 at entry to about 43 at exit. This is the usual method for drying such things a
4、s vegetables, minced meat and fish. Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soup and egg may be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontal steel cylinder or by spraying them into a chamber through which a current of hot air passes. In the first case, the dried material is stripped off the roller as a
5、 thin film which is then broken up into small, though still relatively coarse flakes. In the second process it falls to the bottom of the chamber as a fine powder. Where recognizable pieces of meat and vegetables are required, as in soup, the ingredients are dried separately and then mixed. Dried fo
6、ods take up less room and weight less than the same food packed in cans or frozen, and they do not need to be stored in special conditions. For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and soldiers in battle, who have little storage space, they are also popular with housewives for it
7、 takes so little time to cook them. Usually it is just a case of replacing the dried-out moisture with boiling water. 1 The chief point of the second paragraph is about _ . （ A） the comparison of lean meat and fish （ B） the removal of water in food （ C） the water content in food （ D） the relationshi
8、p between water and food 2 It can be inferred from the passage that _ . （ A） the fattier fish contains as much water as the lean ones （ B） the fattier the fish is the more water it may contain （ C） a fatty fish holds less water than a lean one （ D） the water content of fish has nothing to do with th
9、e content of their fat 3 The word “conventional“ in paragraph can most probably be replaced by _ . （ A） traditional （ B） scientific （ C） usual and acceptable （ D） not common 4 Which of the following statements is NOT true about drying food? （ A） The removal of water in food helps prevent it from goi
10、ng rotten. （ B） The open-air method of drying food has been known for hundreds of years. （ C） In the course of dehydration, the temperature of hot current coming from entry to exit is gradually going up. （ D） The process of drying liquid is much m-ore complex than that of drying solid food. 5 The la
11、st paragraph tends to discuss _ . （ A） the reason why housewives like dried food （ B） the general convenience of dried food （ C） the methods of storing food （ D） the advantages of dried, canned and frozen food Part B Directions: Read the text, match the items (61-65) to one of the statements (A to G
12、) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 5 The following five talks are different opinions about working at home instead of working in of rices in the centre of towns. Michael People spend a lot of their working day actually getting to and from their place of work, never mind the expense
13、of that. I mean, the rush hours, as everyone knows, are the worst times of day to travel, and millions of people spend their working lives either getting up early to avoid the rush hours or travelling in the middle of them with all the pressures and stress it can cause. Jane Now we think the future
14、looks very bad for these people. I mean it sounds extraordinary but you think about it in those technological terms you see. In future a British firm in, for example, London, might employ clerks in Belfast, or a Paris company could have their secretaries in Spain, and then they just dial around for
15、the cheapest labour. Lily Such arrangements suit a lot of people, particularly women. If they have young children they don t want to travel a long way from home. And. uhm. perhaps they want the advantages of flexible-time, where they have a number of hours to do but they can choose when to do them.
16、Cathy Now, what is clear is that the new technologies are radically changing the working lives of people. Well, it s those people who traditionally have had very little say in their conditions of employment. Now it would be very easy for an employer to exploit these people further by keeping them be
17、yond any possible contacts with trade unions. Nancy This appears to affect those people in the secretarial and data-processing field. You see there are three million women in Britain whose jobs involve processing information, and many employers would like to have them out of the way at home, with no
18、ne of the protection they would get if they were in an office. Now match each of the persons with the appropriate statement. Note: there are two extra statements. Statements A Flexible-time offers no job security. B Flexible-time gives people much more freedom to organize their lives. C Flexible-tim
19、e reduces expenditure on office renting. D Working at home reduces stress and pollution. E Flexible-time is risky to certain women workers.F Flexible-time may cause decrease in workers salaries.G Working in offices is time-consuming. 6 Michael 7 Jane 8 Lily 9 Cathy 10 Nancy 国家公共英语三级（饮食）练习试卷 9答案与解析 P
20、art A Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 【知识模块】 饮食 1 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题考查主旨题。第三段在讲述各种食物里水的含量，故选 C。 【知识模块】 饮食 2 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本题考查细节题。从文中 “.depending on how fatty it is.”。 【知识模块】 饮食 3 【正确答案】 C
21、【试题解析】 本题考查词义题。 conventional意为 “通常的，普遍的 ”。 【知识模块】 饮食 4 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题考查细节题。文中有 “.temperature of about 110 at entry to about 43 at exit”。 【知识模块】 饮食 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本题考查主旨 题。最后一段说的是干燥食品更方便贮藏等。 【知识模块】 饮食 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】 饮食 6 【正确答案】 G 【知识模块】 饮食 7 【正确答案】 F 【知识模块】 饮食 8 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 饮食 9 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 饮食 10 【正确答案】 E 【知识模块】 饮食
