1、国家公共英语（三级）笔试模拟试卷 127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 dialogu
2、e ONLY ONCE. 1 Where are the speakers? （ A） At a hotel. （ B） At a bank. （ C） At a department store. （ D） At a drug store. 2 What did the woman order? （ A） Ice cream and chocolate cake. （ B） Chocolate cake. （ C） Chocolate ice cream. （ D） Coffee and chocolate ice cream. 3 What did the teacher do? （ A）
3、 The teacher reviewed a previous lesson. （ B） The teacher presented a new lesson. （ C） The teacher tested the students. （ D） The teacher played a film in class. 4 Where is John now? （ A） In Canada. （ B） In China. （ C） In Europe. （ D） In America. 5 What conclusion can be drawn from the conversation?
4、（ A） He likes the brown one. （ B） He doesnt like either. （ C） He likes both. （ D） He likes the black one. 6 How long does the man have to wait for the text train? （ A） 5-minutes. （ B） 10 minutes. （ C） 45 minutes. （ D） 50 minutes 7 What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? （ A） Fath
5、er and daughter. （ B） Husband and wife. （ C） Mother and son. （ D） Boss and secretary. 8 What is the profession of the two speakers? （ A） Weathermen. （ B） Reporters. （ C） Farmers. （ D） Vacationers. 9 What does the man mean? （ A） He can speak several languages. （ B） He cannot speak several languages.
6、（ C） He likes foreign languages. （ D） He is good at speaking languages. 10 At what time does the second show start? （ A） 7:15. （ B） 7:00. （ C） 2:15 （ D） 9:15 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 quest
7、ions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question 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 can we learn about Jack from the dialogue? （ A） Hes a native in America. （ B） Hes a ne
8、w comer to America. （ C） He knows very well about the holiday. （ D） He dislikes this kind of holiday. 12 What do people eat on Thanksgiving Day? （ A） Turkey. （ B） Chicken. （ C） Duck. （ D） Goose. 13 What will the two speakers do immediately after the talk? （ A） They will prepare dinner. （ B） They wil
9、l go shopping for gifts to their guests. （ C） They will invite some people to dinner. （ D） They will go shopping for turkey and fixings. 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSW
10、ER SHEET 1. 13 The following issue is what we are going to discuss. Most of the people who【 C1】 _most often and【 C2】 _gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers,【 C3】 _the people who really helped civilization【 C4】 _are often never mentioned at all. We do not know
11、 who first【 C5】 _a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or【 C6】 _the length of the year, or【 C7】 _a field; but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a【 C8】 _deal of them, so much so that【 C9】 _all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure
12、 of a conqueror or a general or a soldier.【 C10】 _I think most people believe that the【 C11】 _countries are those that have beaten in baffle the greatest number of other countries and ruled【 C12】 _them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight, s
13、o【 C13】 _savages. Then to be good at fighting is to be good【 C14】 _in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people【 C15】 _for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently-this【 C16】 _is what conquerors and generals have done is not
14、【 C17】 _. People fight to【 C18】 _quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other than【 C19】 _seeing which side can kill off the greater【 C20】 _of the other side, and then saying that that side which has killed most has won. An
15、d not only has won, but, because it has won, has been in the right. For that is what going to war means; it means saying that might is right. 14 【 C1】 （ A） approve （ B） appear （ C） approach （ D） appeal 15 【 C2】 （ A） most （ B） much （ C） more （ D） too 16 【 C3】 （ A） where （ B） while （ C） whereas （ D） w
16、hen 17 【 C4】 （ A） forward （ B） up to （ C） toward （ D） up and down 18 【 C5】 （ A） sit （ B） set （ C） settle （ D） setting 19 【 C6】 （ A） calculated （ B） measured （ C） took （ D） stopped 20 【 C7】 （ A） developed （ B） manured （ C） plowed （ D） dirted 21 【 C8】 （ A） lot （ B） much （ C） great （ D） more 22 【 C9】 （
17、 A） onto （ B） on （ C） at （ D） for 23 【 C10】 （ A） So （ B） And （ C） But （ D） Or 24 【 C11】 （ A） rich （ B） stronger （ C） greatest （ D） powerful 25 【 C12】 （ A） upon （ B） over （ C） out （ D） off 26 【 C13】 （ A） are （ B） do （ C） were （ D） did 27 【 C14】 （ A） in the way （ B） by the way （ C） on the way （ D） to
18、the way 28 【 C15】 （ A） to attack （ B） to strike （ C） to fight （ D） to quarrel 29 【 C16】 （ A） above all （ B） after all （ C） all over （ D） all the while 30 【 C17】 （ A） to be civilized （ B） being civilized （ C） to be good （ D） being good 31 【 C18】 （ A） stop （ B） set （ C） settle （ D） avoid 32 【 C19】 （ A
19、） though （ B） with （ C） by （ D） for 33 【 C20】 （ A） amount （ B） number （ C） deal （ D） lot 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. 33 Ever since I was very small, Ive had the sense that I ought
20、to be somewhere else. I remember watching trains flash by and wishing ! was on board. I remember going to the airport with my parents when I was thirteen and reading the destinations board, seeing all the places that I could go to: Los Angeles, Chicago, and London. But the trains passed by and the p
21、lanes took off without me, so I wandered the world through books. I went to Victorian England in the pages of Middlemarch and A Little Princess, and to St. Petersburg before the fall of the star with Anna Karenina. My home was in a pleasant place outside Philadelphia. But ! really lived, truly lived
22、, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books. In books I traveled, not only to other worlds, but also into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might achieve, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. I travel today in the way .I once dreamed of travelin
23、g as a child on airplanes and in trains. And the irony is that I dont care for it very much. I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends and books. The only thing I do like about traveling is the time on airplanes spent reading. It turns out that when my younge
24、r self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the real destinations, and the journey, too. They are home. 34 What did the writer do as a curious child? （ A） She visited Victorian England and Tsarist Russia. （ B） She
25、flew to Los Angeles, Chicago and London with her parents. （ C） She read all kinds of books. （ D） She spent lots of time traveling on trains. 35 How does the writer feel about travel today? （ A） She doesnt like it very much. （ B） She takes great pleasure in it. （ C） She feels tired of it. （ D） She fe
26、els as excited as when she was young. 36 What did the writer learn from books as a child? （ A） About many foreign places. （ B） About many historical figures. （ C） About the outside world as well as her own self. （ D） About the ironies of life. 37 We can infer from the passage that when traveling by
27、air, the writer spends most of her time on the way _. （ A） reading books （ B） resting herself （ C） imagining things （ D） letting her spirit soar 38 In the passage the writer mainly talks about _. （ A） the wonders of travel （ B） her growth from an innocent child to a learned woman （ C） the benefits o
28、f reading （ D） the difference between childhood dreams and lifes realities 38 The North American frontier changed some of the characteristics of the pioneers of the 1750s and intensified others. They were, as a group, semiliterate, proud, and stubborn, as dogged in their insistence on their own way,
29、 of life as pine roots cracking granite (花岗岩 ) to grow. Perhaps their greatest resource was their capacity to endure. They outlasted recurrent (周期性发生的 ) plagues of smallpox (天花 ) and malaria (痢疾 ) and steady progression of natural accidents. They were incredibly prolific. Squire Boones family of eig
30、ht children was small by frontier standards. James Roberston, an eventful neighbor of Boones and the frontier of Nashville, had eleven children. Twice-married, John Sevier, the first governor of Tennessee, fathered eighteen; his long time enemy, John Tipton, also twice married, produced seventeen. T
31、he entire assets of one of these huge families often amounted, in the beginning, to little more than an axe, a hunting knife, an auger, a rifle, a horse or two, some cattle and a few pigs, a sack of seed corn and another of salt, perhaps a crosscut saw, and a loom. Those who moved first into a new r
32、egion lived for months at a time on wild meat, Indian maize, and native fruits in season. Yet if they were poor at the beginning, they confidently expected that soon they would be rich. In a way almost impossible to define to urban dwellers, a slice of ground suitable for fanning represented not jus
33、t dollars and cents, but dignity. The obsession brought shiploads of yearners (渴求者 ) every week to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charles Towne, and Savannah. It sent them streaming westward into the wilderness after their predecessors to raise still more children who wanted still more l
34、and. 39 What kind of stylistic device did the author use in the phrase “as pine roots cracking granite to grow“? （ A） Metaphor. （ B） Simile. （ C） Personification. （ D） Imagination. 40 Which of the following generalizations about pioneers ia NOT supported by the passage? （ A） They showed great endura
35、nce. （ B） They spent a great deal of money. （ C） They wanted their own land. （ D） They traveled with few possessions. 41 Upon arrival, the pioneers who settled a new area of the frontier would eat which of the following? （ A） Corn, cattle, arid pigs. （ B） Indian maize, native fruits, and wild meat.
36、（ C） Preserved fruits, dried meats, and pine roots. （ D） Fresh food and native vegetables. 42 It can be inferred from the passage that pioneers differed from city dwellers in that they _. （ A） thought farming would be easy （ B） were involved in local government （ C） associated land with dignity （ D）
37、 wanted to get rich quickly 43 What does “them“ refer to in the sentence “It sent them streaming westward into the wilderness after their predecessors to raise still more children who wanted still more land“ ? （ A） Urban dwellers. （ B） Dollars and cents. （ C） Yearners. （ D） Predecessors. 43 It was o
38、nce thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. Today, we know that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy clo
39、ud of air pollution has covered the entire eastern half of the United States and led to health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be affected by air pollution. Some scientists feel that
40、the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil) is creating a “greenhouse effect“ holding in heat reflected from the earth and raising the worlds average temperature. If this view is correct and the worlds temperature is raised only
41、 a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be under water. Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earths temperature a result that would be
42、equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. At present we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report pre
43、pared by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very likely). Perhaps, if we are very lucky, the two tendencies will offset each other and the worlds temperature will stay about the same as it is now. 44 As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that
44、air pollution _. （ A） caused widespread damage in the countryside （ B） affected the entire eastern half of the United States （ C） had damaged effect on health （ D） existed merely in urban and industries areas 45 As far as the greenhouse effect is concerned, the author _. （ A） shares the same view wi
45、th the scientists （ B） is uncertain of its occurrence （ C） rejects it as being ungrounded （ D） thinks that it will destroy the world soon 46 The word “offset“ in the second paragraph could be replaced by _. （ A） slip into （ B） make up for （ C） set up （ D） catch up with 47 It can be inferred from the
46、 passage that _. （ A） raising the worlds temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to the life on earth （ B） lowering the worlds temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major farming areas to disaster （ C） almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade （ D）
47、the worlds temperature will remain constant in the years to come 48 This passage is primarily concerned with the _. （ A） greenhouse effect （ B） burning of fossil fuels （ C） potential effect of air pollution （ D） likelihood of a new ice age Part B Directions: Read the text, match the items (61-65) to
48、 one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 48 Five people are interviewed by the local newspaper and they give their views on the problem of noise. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each people to one of the statements ( A to G) given below. Mark your a
49、nswers on your ANSWER SHEET 1. Bob Davis: It was so loud that I couldnt hear my own voice. You see, I had a terrible headache. I couldnt sleep at all that night. I just tossed and turned. In the morning I phoned the police, but they said they couldnt do anything about it. Why not? Dont I have a right to peace and quiet inside my own home? I tell you, next time the van comes, I am going to get a hammer and smash its
