1、国家公共英语（三级）笔试模拟试卷 306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 Which flight will the man take? （ A） Air China Flight 985 on the 26th. （ B） Air China Flight 985 on the 27th. （ C） Air China Flight 985 on the 28th. （ D） Air China Flight 985 on the 25th. 2 What will the woman probably have for dessert? （ A） Apple pie. （ B） Ice cream. （ C） Chocolate c
3、ake. （ D） Nothing. 3 Why does the man offer a lift? （ A） Because the womans home is on his way home. （ B） Because the driver is always willing to help others. （ C） Because the driver is going home right now. （ D） Because the woman asks him for help. 4 What has the man been treated with? （ A） A meal.
4、 （ B） Tea. （ C） Coffee. （ D） Wine. 5 Which one is OK for the woman? （ A） Opening the window. （ B） Taking off the shoes. （ C） Leaving the luggage at her room. （ D） Putting the luggage at the kitchen. 6 Where are the speakers? （ A） At a hospital. （ B） At a restaurant. （ C） At a railway station. （ D） A
5、t a booking office. 7 What does the woman advise the man to do? （ A） Call to check his scores. （ B） Inquire when the test scores are released. （ C） Be patient and wait. （ D） Take PETS a month later. 8 Whats the mans problem? （ A） He is too late to work. （ B） The bed was bought ten days ago. （ C） He
6、cant get his money back. （ D） The bed can be returned. 9 What are the two speakers doing? （ A） Sending an e-mail. （ B） Doing spelling exercise. （ C） Chatting online. （ D） Talking on the phone. 10 Whats the womans meaning? （ A） The man should have seen the doctor earlier. （ B） The man should have con
7、firmed his appointment. （ C） The man complains too much. （ D） The mans toothache will go away by itself. 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
8、 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 When did Miss Green become a swimming star? （ A） At the age of 15. （ B） At the age of 20. （ C） At the age of 18. （ D） At the age of 16. 12 How o
9、ld is Miss Green now? （ A） 15. （ B） 20. （ C） 18 （ D） 16 13 Why is the woman going to give up swimming? （ A） She doesnt enjoy swimming. （ B） She thinks she will never win in an international competition. （ C） She can t bear the hard training. （ D） She wants to do something other than swimming in her
10、life. 14 What are the two speakers talking about? （ A） How to arrange for a trip. （ B） How to book a satisfactory room. （ C） When the shop will be closed. （ D） What the weather is like. 15 Why is it not necessary for the man to take a taxi to the hotel? （ A） Because there is an excellent bus service
11、. （ B） Because there is an excellent railway service. （ C） Because there is an excellent subway system. （ D） Because taxi system there isn t convenient. 16 What s the weather like at this season? （ A） Usually warm but sometimes very cold and wet. （ B） Always warm. （ C） Usually cold and wet but somet
12、imes warm. （ D） Always cold. 17 When will the man go on the trip? （ A） At once. （ B） Fifteen days later. （ C） By the 15th of this month. （ D） In the middle of this year. 18 What is the first word the baby learned to say? （ A） Truck. （ B） OK. （ C） Duck. （ D） Tuck. 19 How old was the baby when he lear
13、ned to say that word correctly? （ A） About 18 months. （ B） About 21 months. （ C） About 24 months. （ D） About 12 months. 20 What did the father do when the baby screamed that word at the airport? （ A） He corrected the baby. （ B） He tried to stop the baby. （ C） He hid himself somewhere. （ D） He didn t
14、 do anything. 21 Why did the mother pretend not to know the baby? （ A） She got angry with the father. （ B） She was frightened by the noise. （ C） She felt uneasy about the noisy baby. （ D） She didn t like the baby. 22 Who is the speaker? （ A） A sales representative. （ B） A store manager. （ C） A commi
15、ttee chairperson. （ D） A class president. 23 What is the purpose of the meeting? （ A） To determine who will graduate this year. （ B） To discuss the seating arrangement. （ C） To choose the chairperson of the ceremonies. （ D） To begin planning the graduation ceremonies. 24 What should the students wri
16、te on the paper? （ A） Their names, phone numbers and job preference. （ B） The names and addresses of their guests. （ C） The names of the committee they worked on last year. （ D） Their dormitory name, address and phone number. 25 When is the next meeting? （ A） In an hour. （ B） Next week. （ C） In one
17、month. （ D） Next year. 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 ANSWER SHEET 1. 25 In shopping malls, the assistants try to push you into buying “a gift to thank her for her unselfis
18、h love“. When you log onto a website, a small pop-up invites you to book a bouquet for her. Commercial warmth and gratitude are the atmosphere being spread around for this special Sunday in May. 【 C1】 _The popularity of Mother s Day around the world suggests that Jarvis got all she wanted. In fact,
19、she got more enough to make her horrified. 【 C2】 _They buy, among other things, 132 million cards. Mother s Day is the No. 1 holiday for flower purchases. Then there are the various commodities, ranging from jewelry and clothes to cosmetics and washing powder, that take advantage of the promotion op
20、portunities. Because of this, Jarvis spent the last 40 years of her life trying to stop Mother s Day. One protest against the commercialization of Mother s Day even got her arrested for disturbing the peace, interestingly. 【 C3】 _As Ralph Fevre, a reporter at the UK newspaper The Guardian, observed,
21、 traditionally “ motherhood is something that we do because we think it s right. “ But in the logic of commercialism, people need something in exchange for their time and energy. A career serves this purpose better. 【 C4】 _So they work hard and play hard. Becoming a mother, however, inevitably handi
22、caps career anticipation. 【 C5】 _According to The Guardian, there are twice as many child-free young women as there were a generation ago. Or, they put off the responsibility of parenting until later in their lives. So, Fevre writes that the meaning of celebrating Mother s Day needs to be updated: “
23、It is to persuade people that parenting is a good idea and to honor people for their attempt to be good people. “ AAccording to a research by the US card company Hallmark, 96 percent of American consumers celebrate the holiday. BBut what s more, commercialism changes young people s attitude towards
24、motherhood. CObviously, the best gift will be a phone call or a visit. DThe American version of Mother s Day was thought up as early as 1905, by Anna Jarvis, as a way of recognizing the real value of motherhood. EIn addition, women are being encouraged to pursue any career they desire. FAs a result,
25、 motherhood has suffered a huge drop in status since the 1950s. GNowadays Mother s Day become more and more commercialization. 26 【 B1】 27 【 B2】 28 【 B3】 29 【 B4】 30 【 B5】 30 With the world s population estimated to grow from six to nine billion by 2050, researchers, businesses and governments are a
26、lready dealing with the impact, this increase will have on everything from food and water to infrastructure(基础设施 )and jobs. Underling all this【 C1】 _will be the demand for energy, which is expected to double over the next 40 years. Finding the resources to meet this demand in a【 C2】 _, sustainable w
27、ay is the cornerstone(基石 )of our nation s energy security, and will be one of the major【 C3】_of the 21st century. Alternative forms of energy-bio-fuels, wind and solar, to name a few are【 C4】 _being funded and developed, and will play a growing【 C5】 _in the worlds energy supply. But experts say that
28、 even when【 C6】_, alternative energy sources will likely meet only about 30% of the worlds energy needs by 2049. For example, even with【 C7】 _investments, such as the $ 93 million for wind energy development【 C8】 _in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, important alternative energy sources su
29、ch as wind and bio fuels【 C9】 _only about 1% of the market today. Energy and sustainability experts say the answer to our future energy needs will likely come from a lot of【 C10】 _ both traditional and alternative. AstableBsolutions CsignificantDrole EprogressFmarvelous GincludedHgrowth IexactlyJcon
30、sist KcompriseLcompetitions McombinedNchallenges Ocertainly 31 【 C1】 32 【 C2】 33 【 C3】 34 【 C4】 35 【 C5】 36 【 C6】 37 【 C7】 38 【 C8】 39 【 C9】 40 【 C10】 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. 4
31、0 “Family“ is of course an elastic word. And in different countries it has different meanings. But when British people say that their society is based on family life, they are thinking of “family“ in its narrow, peculiarly European sense of mother, father and children living together in their own ho
32、use as an economic and social unit. Thus, every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life. For both man and woman, marriage means leaving one s parents and starting one s own life. The man s first duty will th
33、en be to his wife, and the wife s to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support, and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their common responsibility and their alone. Neither the wife s parents nor the husband s, nor their brothers or sisters, aunts
34、 or uncles, have any right to interfere with them they are their own masters. Readers of novels like Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times, marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl s parents, that is, it was the parents duty to find a suitable husband for
35、their daughter, preferably a rich one, and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her. Until that time, the girl was protected and maintained in the parents home, and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married
36、 pair a sum of money called a dowry(嫁妆 ). It is very different today. Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage. This has had two results. A girl chooses her own husband, and she gets no dowry. Every coin has two sides; independence
37、 for girls is no exception. But it may be a good thing for all of the girls, as their social status are much higher and they are no longer the subordinate(部下，下级 )of their parents and husbands. 41 What does the author mean by “Family is of course an elastic word“? （ A） Different families have differe
38、nt ways of life. （ B） Different definitions could be given to the word. （ C） Different nations have different families. （ D） Different times produce different families. 42 For an English family, the husband s duty is_. （ A） supporting the family while the wife is working out （ B） defending the famil
39、y while the wife is running the home （ C） providing financial support while the wife is running the home （ D） independent while his wife is also independent 43 Everything is decided in a family_. （ A） by the couple （ B） with the help of their parents （ C） by brothers and sisters （ D） with the help o
40、f aunts and uncles 44 What is TRUE concerning the book Pride and Prejudice? （ A） It is the best book on marriage. （ B） It is a handbook on marriage. （ C） It gives some idea of English social life in the past. （ D） It provides a lot of information of former-time wealthy families. 45 With regard to ma
41、rriage in Britain, present-day girls differ from former-time girls in_. （ A） the right family （ B） more parental support （ C） choosing husbands （ D） social position 45 Steveland Morris is a household name in America. Ask Steveland Morris and hell tell you that blindness is not necessarily disabling.
42、 Steveland was born prematurely(过早地，不到期地 )and totally without sight in 1950s. He became Stevie Wonder composer, singer, and pianist. The winner of ten Grammy awards, Stevie is widely acclaimed(喝采 )for his outstanding contributions to the music world. As a child, Stevie learned not to think about the
43、 things he could not do, but to concentrate on the things that he could do. His parents encouraged him to join in his sighted brothers as many activities as possible. They also helped him to sharpen his sense of hearing, the sense upon which the usually disabled are so dependent. Because sound was s
44、o important to him, Stevie began at an early age to experiment with different kinds of sound. He would bang things together and then imitate the sound with his voice. Often relying on sound for entertainment, he sang, beat on toy drums, played a toy harmonica(口琴 ), and listened to the radio. Stevie
45、soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments. He first learned to play the drums. He then mastered the harmonica and the piano. He became a member of the junior church choir(唱诗班 )and a lead singer. In the evenings and on weekends, Stevie would play different instruments and sing popular r
46、hythm and blues tunes on the front porches(走廊 )of neighbors homes. One of Stevie s sessions was overheard by Ronnie White , a member of a popular singing group called The Miracles. Ronnie immediately recognized Stevie s talent and took him to audition(试听 )for Berry Gordy, the president of Hitsville
47、USA, a large recording company now known as Motown. Stevie recorded his first smash hit “Fingertips“ in 1962 at age twelve, and the rest of Stevie s story is music history. 46 This passage could be entitled_. （ A） The Music World （ B） Stevie Wonder （ C） Great Musicians （ D） Blind People 47 Which of
48、the following is NOT true about Stevie s childhood? （ A） Stevie often told people that a blind person was not necessarily disabled. （ B） He learnt to concentrate on things that he could do. （ C） He played as often as possible with his brother, who had normal sight. （ D） He tried very hard to train h
49、is sense of hearing. 48 By saying “Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments“, the author means that_. （ A） Stevie finished his study at a toy instruments school （ B） Stevie began to study in a real instruments school （ C） Stevie gave up all his toy instruments and began to buy many real instruments （ D） Stevie started to play real instruments 49 The author mentions all
