1、国家公共英语（三级）笔试历年真题试卷汇编 2及答案与解析 Part A Directions: You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialo
2、gue ONLY ONCE. 1 What is the woman doing at the moment? （ A） Having a break. （ B） Having a coffee. （ C） Writing a report. （ D） Visiting the man. 2 What does the woman ask the man to do? （ A） Repair her windows. （ B） Take care of her house. （ C） Take a rest for a few days. （ D） Go to the seaside with
3、 her. 3 What do we learn about the woman from the dialogue? （ A） She bought a suitable skirt. （ B） She wanted to purchase a skirt. （ C） She returned a skirt to the shop. （ D） She complained about the service. 4 What does the man say to the woman? （ A） He envies her a lot. （ B） He enjoys cooking. （ C
4、） He usually eats out. （ D） He runs a restaurant. 5 What are the speakers talking about? （ A） Gardening. （ B） Air quality. （ C） Hot weather. （ D） Lack of rain. 6 Why is the woman angry with her son? （ A） He ignored traffic signals. （ B） He failed to repair her car. （ C） He didnt attend his class. （
5、D） He didn t take her advice. 7 Why does the man feel sorry? （ A） He forgot his Dad s birthday. （ B） He didn t buy a birthday present. （ C） He didnt put the cake in the fridge. （ D） He arrived late for his dad s birthday. 8 Where is the man s house located? （ A） Near a park. （ B） By a restaurant. （
6、C） Close to a highway. （ D） In a Chinese neighborhood. 9 What does the woman say about the data in the article? （ A） It is original. （ B） It is reliable. （ C） It is questionable. （ D） It is authoritative. 10 What does the man tell the woman? （ A） The best time for job interviews. （ B） The strategies
7、 for job interviews. （ C） His comments on her recent work. （ D） His congratulations on her good luck. Part B Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each qu
8、estion by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. 11 What is the man s first tip on a productive workday? （ A） Arrive at the office earlier. （ B） Jump into paper work first. （ C） Start with less diffi
9、cult tasks. （ D） Get ready within 15 minutes. 12 Why should personal phone calls be avoided? （ A） They may take a lot of time. （ B） They may reduce social time. （ C） They may spoil a great mood. （ D） They may cause errors in work. 13 Why should an alarm be set? （ A） To give a go-home signal. （ B） To
10、 remind people to relax. （ C） To make people work fast. （ D） To warn people of an emergency. 14 What news does Renee share with Tom? （ A） She met a high school classmate. （ B） She found an old friend s address. （ C） She paid a visit to her high school. （ D） She got in touch with an old friend. 15 Wh
11、y did Renee and her friend lose contact? （ A） Her friend s family left for another city. （ B） Her friend transferred to another school. （ C） They had an argument and drifted apart. （ D） They were too busy to write to each other. 16 What does Tom say about his old friends? （ A） He has lost touch with
12、 all of them. （ B） He maintains contact with most of them. （ C） He has regained contact with a few of them. （ D） He keeps in touch with one or two of them. 17 How did Renee s friend get her email address? （ A） From an old address book. （ B） From one of their former teachers. （ C） From another high s
13、chool classmate （ D） From the website of Renee s company. 18 Why did the woman decide to cancel her vacation? （ A） She had trouble with her health. （ B） She had trouble with her investment. （ C） She had to attend a financial course. （ D） She had to attend a conference in Paris. 19 What did the woman
14、 do after she graduated from college? （ A） She worked as a stock trader. （ B） She worked as a stock analyst. （ C） She worked as a finance teacher. （ D） She worked as a company manager. 20 Why did the woman want to start her own company? （ A） To make more money. （ B） To have more time for herself. （
15、C） To find more business opportunities. （ D） To know more about the stock market. 21 How does the woman feel about the present economic stimulating package? （ A） Relieved. （ B） Optimistic. （ C） Unconfident. （ D） Disappointed. 22 Which industry is the man s website concerned with? （ A） News. （ B） Mus
16、ic. （ C） Education. （ D） Television. 23 Whom is the man s website mainly meant for? （ A） College students in Asia. （ B） English learners of all ages. （ C） Teenagers and young adults. （ D） Any visitors for entertainment. 24 What does the website want its visitors to get familiar with? （ A） Classic fi
17、lms. （ B） Western music. （ C） English accents. （ D） Public speeches. 25 What does the man hope his website will do in three years? （ A） Fulfill its short-term goal. （ B） Get a big market in Asia. （ C） Become self-financed. （ D） Get more investments. 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directio
18、ns: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 25 In 2009, the number of hungry people in the world reached one billion for the first time. It s difficult not to be shocked by the fact that more than one in seven people in
19、 the world do not have enough to eat.【 C1】 _Hunger kills more people per year than diseases such as AIDS, malaria and TB combined. The UN estimates that almost two thirds of the world s hungry people are in Asia, which is of course the world s most populous continent.【 C2】 _Although this region has
20、a much lower population than Asia, it has the highest percentage of hungry people. Almost all of the rest are in Latin America, North Africa and the Caribbean. In the richest regions of the world there are only a tiny number of people who don t have enough to eat. There are many reasons for world hu
21、nger. They include wars, droughts, floods, and the overuse of farming land.【 C3】 _Many people also blame greedy businessmen for pushing up the prices of basic foods in the global market. But the most important reason, quite simply, is poverty, which has increased recently due to the financial crisis
22、 of 2008. Although many people make the obvious point that there would be less hunger if the global population were smaller, few people would argue that there is not enough food to go around.【 C4】 _In the last 50 years, global food production has risen even more quickly than the global population. T
23、here are many areas of the world in which people generally have more than enough food.【 C5】 _The answer to world hunger, therefore, may be a balanced food distribution around the whole world. Everyone will have enough to eat, but not overeat. AThe basic problem seems to be not a lack of food, but it
24、s distribution. BMore than a quarter are in sub-Saharan Africa. CAll these factors affect food production. DIt takes the effort of every country to fight against world hunger. EIn those places, obesity is a far bigger problem than hunger. FThose places need far more food than they actually get. GBy
25、the end of this year, more than 35 million people will have died as a result of not having enough to eat. 26 【 C1】 27 【 C2】 28 【 C3】 29 【 C4】 30 【 C5】 30 I cant believe the kind of rubbish that some people call art. Yesterday, my girlfriend dragged me to a modern art【 C6】 _to see an exhibition she h
26、ad read about in the paper. It was five or six so-called installations made of bits of plastic, wood and paper that【 C7】 _just to have been thrown on the floor. It was a mess, basically just like the floor in my sister s house when my two-year-old nephew s left all his toys out, but less【 C8】 _. Com
27、e to think of it,【 C9】 _you had given those bits of plastic, wood and paper to my nephew, he could probably have【 C10】_something just as good. I guess, sometimes, the cleaners end up throwing art like that in the bins at the end of the day,【 C11】 _they must find it hard to work out what s an exhibit
28、 and what s just【 C12】 _. I think that if a painting or an installation looks like something I could have done myself in fifteen minutes, it doesnt【 C13】 _to be called art. But when I say that, people like my girlfriend say Im “uncultured. “ I think a lot of the people who say they【 C14】 _the kind o
29、f stuff we saw yesterday are just pretending deep down they know it s rubbish but they dont want to be the first one to admit it because, unlike me, they re【 C15】 _of being looked down on. AafraidBappreciateCbecause DcolorfulEcreatedFdeserve GdislikeHgalleryIif JlitterKobjectLproved MseemedNseriousO
30、when 31 【 C6】 32 【 C7】 33 【 C8】 34 【 C9】 35 【 C10】 36 【 C11】 37 【 C12】 38 【 C13】 39 【 C14】 40 【 C15】 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. 40 Isabel has turned down two job offers in the pas
31、t year. In 2006, she started her own consulting practice, but by 2008, most of her larger clients had to drop her because of the economy. In 2011, she was undertaking irregular assignments and knew she needed a steady job. The first job she considered was Director of HR for a company in Utah. After
32、the initial interviews, she felt the job fit her except for the location. Still, she flew west to meet the hiring manager. The hiring manager explained that Isabel was the top candidate for the job but that, before she continued with the process, she should better understand the firm s culture. She
33、directed Isabel to several videos of the company s CEO, who regularly appeared in front of the company in costume as part of morale building exercises and expected his senior leaders to do the same. “Even though I was desperate for a job, I knew I couldn t do that,“ Isabel says. She called the recru
34、iter to turn down the job and explained that she didn t feel there was a cultural fit. A few months later, she interviewed for another job: a director of employee relations at a local university. After several interviews, the hiring manager told her the job was hers if she wanted it. The job had man
35、y positives: it was a low-stress environment, it offered great benefits, and the university was an employee-friendly place. But the job was relatively junior despite the title and Isabel worried it wouldn t be challenging enough. Finally, she turned it down. “It would be great to have a paycheck and
36、 great benefits but I would definitely have trouble sleeping at night,“ she says. In both cases, she was frank with the hiring managers about why she wasn t taking the jobs. “In the past, it felt like dating, I was worried about hurting people s feelings,“ she says. However, they appreciated her fra
37、nkness and thanked her for her honesty. She says it was hard to turn down the jobs and it was a risk for her financially but she felt she had to. 41 In 2011, Isabel_. （ A） did consulting now and then （ B） found a job close to her home （ C） refused several job interviews （ D） ran a successful consult
38、ing firm 42 Isabel turned down the first job offer mainly because of its_. （ A） CEO （ B） culture （ C） location （ D） recruiter 43 Isabel was dissatisfied with the second job due to its_. （ A） junior title （ B） low benefits （ C） environment （ D） lack of challenge 44 Isabel believed that her rejection
39、of the jobs was_. （ A） harmful （ B） surprising （ C） justifiable （ D） troublesome 45 According to Isabel, it is important to . （ A） look for jobs with little stress （ B） look for jobs with great benefits （ C） be truthful in declining job offers （ D） be cautious in declining job offers 45 You do not u
40、sually get something for nothing. Now, a new study reveals that the evolution of an improved learning ability could come at a particularly high price: an earlier death. Past experiments have demonstrated that it is relatively easy through selective breeding to make rats, honey bees and that great fa
41、vourite of researchers fruit flies a lot better at learning. Animals that are better learners should be competitive and, thus, over time, come to dominate a population by natural selection. But improved learning ability does not get selected amongst these animals in the wild. No one really understan
42、ds why. Tadeusz Kawecki and his colleagues at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland have measured the effects of improved learning on the lives of fruit flies. The flies were given two different fruits as egg-laying sites. One of these was laced with a bitter additive that could be detected only
43、 on contact. The flies were then given the same fruit but without an additive. Flies that avoided the fruit which had been bitter were deemed to have learned from their experience. Their children were reared and the experiment was run again. After repeating the experiment for 30 generations, the chi
44、ldren of the learned flies were compared with normal flies. The researchers report in a forthcoming edition of Evolution that although learning ability could be bred into a population of fruit flies, it shortened their lives by 1.5% . When the researchers compared their learned flies to colonies sel
45、ectively bred to live long lives, they found even greater differences. Whereas learned flies had reduced their life spans, the long-lived flies learned less well than even average flies. The authors suggest that evolving an improved learning ability may require a greater investment in the nervous sy
46、stem which takes resources away from processes that delay ageing. However, Dr. Kawecki thinks the effect could also be a by-product of greater brain activity increasing the production of Reactive Oxygen Species(ROS), which can increase oxidation in the body and damage health. No one knows whether th
47、e phenomenon holds true for other animals. So, biologists, at least, still have a lot to learn. 46 Past experiments prove selective breeding can make animals better_. （ A） commanders （ B） competitors （ C） survivors （ D） learners 47 In this experiment, scientists observed that_. （ A） some flies avoid
48、ed the fruit without an addictive （ B） some flies preferred the fruit with an addictive （ C） the eggs of the flies were not damaged （ D） the impact on the flies did not last long 48 The forthcoming report says that_. （ A） long-lived flies are better at laying eggs （ B） long-lived flies are poorer in
49、 learning （ C） learned flies have a relatively long life （ D） learned flies live as long as average ones 49 According to Dr. Kawecki, greater brain activity_. （ A） reduces oxygen consumption （ B） regulates the nervous system （ C） speeds up the ageing process （ D） stabilizes the ageing process 50 We learn from the text that_. （ A） the research findings need to be tested further （ B）
