1、国家公共英语（三级）笔试模拟试卷 307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 What does the man propose to do first? （ A） Go downtown. （ B） See the movie. （ C） Get the tickets. （ D） Have a meal. 2 What does the woman mean? （ A） She s already visited the museum. （ B） Mary might be leaving earlier than she is. （ C） Mary will take him to the office. （ D） The man c
3、ould probably go with Mary. 3 What are the two speakers talking about? （ A） Strange colors. （ B） Different tastes of tea. （ C） Fashion. （ D） A painting. 4 What does the man mean? （ A） He went mountain climbing last year. （ B） He hasn t traveled around the world yet. （ C） He definitely does not want
4、to go. （ D） He always wants to climb that mountain. 5 Why did Hill lose his job? （ A） He got angry with his boss. （ B） He always got to work late. （ C） He was frequently sick and absent from work. （ D） He made a mistake in the accounting. 6 What can we infer from the conversation? （ A） The man wont
5、have the meeting. （ B） The man will go to the meeting whether the time is changed or not. （ C） The man will go for a meeting any day. （ D） Any meeting is the same to the man. 7 Where does the conversation most probably take place? （ A） In the supermarket. （ B） In the restaurant. （ C） In the man s ho
6、me. （ D） In the woman s home. 8 What probably is the relationship between the two speakers? （ A） Teacher and student. （ B） Manager and customer. （ C） Secretary and client. （ D） Interviewer and interviewee. 9 What does the man want to know? （ A） The way to the fifth floor. （ B） The way to Mr. Larry s
7、 office. （ C） The way to the conference room. （ D） The way to the lift. 10 What do we learn from the woman s words? （ A） She has more letters now than before. （ B） She doesn t have so many letters as before. （ C） She often hears from her family now. （ D） She is used to having a lot of letters. Part
8、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 question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each que
9、stion. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. 11 Where do you think does the dialogue take place? （ A） In a shop. （ B） At home. （ C） In the street. （ D） In a car. 12 Who do you think Anne and Dick are? （ A） Their children. （ B） Their niece and nephew. （ C） Their friend s children. （ D） Their neighbor s
10、 kids. 13 What will they buy for Dick? （ A） Some records. （ B） A toy suit. （ C） A space suit. （ D） A toy. 14 What is Ms. Bush s main purpose for the trip? （ A） Sightseeing in Australia and the Far East. （ B） Visiting a friend in Cairo. （ C） Attending a conference in Sydney. （ D） Shopping in Hong Kon
11、g. 15 What will Ms. Bush probably buy? （ A） An excursion fare. （ B） A full return ticket. （ C） A single ticket. （ D） Two tickets. 16 How much does the full fare cost? （ A） 1, 402 pounds. （ B） 1, 204 pounds. （ C） 2, 104 pounds. （ D） 4, 102 pounds. 17 What will Ms. Bush s trip probably be? （ A） Her ho
12、meSydneyCairo. （ B） Her homeCarioSy dney. （ C） CairoHer homeSydney. （ D） SydneyHer homeCairo. 18 What are the man s hobbies? （ A） Running and thinking. （ B） Running and jumping. （ C） Running and climbing. （ D） Running and skiing. 19 What is the main reason that the man runs every day? （ A） To think
13、out some difficult problems. （ B） To do some cross-country running. （ C） To finish a course in physical training. （ D） To keep fit and healthy. 20 What is the man going to do next year? （ A） Enter for the London Marathon. （ B） Do a cross-country running. （ C） Climb the Alps with his wife. （ D） Compl
14、ete a course in snow and ice climbing. 21 What is the speakers main topic? （ A） Training for a professional athlete. （ B） His physical training. （ C） How to do cross-country running. （ D） How to do mountain climbing. 22 What s the airport like? （ A） A hotel. （ B） A market. （ C） A madhouse. （ D） A ho
15、spital. 23 Why does the man want a one-way ticket to New York? （ A） He will live in New York forever. （ B） He will not do business in Los Angeles. （ C） He can t pay the round trip ticket. （ D） He hates Los Angeles and does not want to be here again. 24 How will the man pay the ticket? （ A） By cash.
16、（ B） By credit card. （ C） By plastic money. （ D） By travelers check. 25 What did he order during his last flight? （ A） Some cigarettes. （ B） A special salad. （ C） A toast. （ D） Some meat. 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase fo
17、r each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 25 When Carios Westez died at the age of 76, a language died, too. Westez, more commonly known as Red Thunder Cloud, was the last speaker of the Native American language Catawba. Anyone who wants to hear the songs of the Catawba can cont
18、act the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , D . C . , where, back in the 1940s, Red Thunder Cloud recorded a series of songs for future generations.【 B1】 _They are all that is left of the Catawba language. The language that people used to speak is gone forever. We are all aware of the danger tha
19、t modern industry can do to the world s ecology(生态 ). However, few people are aware of the impact widely spoken languages have on other languages and ways of life. English has spread all over the world. Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi have become powerful languages as well.【 B2】 _When this happ
20、ens, hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few die out. Scholars believe there are around 6,000 languages around the world, but more than half of them could die out within the next 100 years. There are many examples. Araki is the language of the island of Vanuatu, located in the Pacific Oc
21、ean. It is spoken by only a few older adults, so like Catawba, Araki will soon disappear. Many languages of Ethiopia will have the same fate because each one has only a few speakers.【 B3】 _In the Americas, 100 languages, each of which has fewer than 300 speakers, are dying out. Red Thunder Cloud was
22、 one of the first to recognize the danger of language death and to try to do something about it. He was not actually bomb into the Catawba tribe, and the language was not his mother tongue.【 B4】 _The songs he sang for the Smithsonian Institution helped to make Native American music popular. Now he i
23、s gone, and the language is dead. What does it mean for the rest of us when a language disappears? When a plant, insect, or animal species dies, it is easy to understand what has been lost and to appreciate what it means for the balance of the natural world. However, language is only a product of th
24、e mind. To be the last remaining speaker of a language, like Red Thunder, must be a peculiarly lonely destiny, almost as strange and terrible as being the last surviving member of a dying species. 【 B5】 _ ASome people might want to learn some of these songs by hearts. BMost languages have become les
25、s and less speakers. CHowever, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the language. DThese languages dont have many native speakers. EFor the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the world
26、. FAs these language become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increase, as well. GPapus New Guines is an extremely rich source of different language, but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction(灭绝 ). 26 【 B1】 27 【 B2】 28 【 B3】 29 【 B4】 30 【 B5】 30 To get a sense of
27、how women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a storied place, the【 C1】 _of some of the most important discoveries in modern science-starting with Ernest Lawrence s invention of the cyclotron(回旋加速器 )in 1931. A gen
28、eration ago, female faces were【 C2】 _and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits【 C3】 _the many distinguished physicists who made history here,【 C4】 _all of them white males. But climb up to the third floor and you 11 see a【 C5】 _dis
29、play. There, among the photos of current faculty members and students, are portraits of the【 C6】_head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro, and four other women whose research【 C7】 _everything from the mechanics of the universe to the smallest particles of matter. A sixth woman was hired just two wee
30、ks ago. Although they re still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real【 C8】_may be in the smaller photos to the right; graduate and undergraduate students, about 20 percent of them female. Every year Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs t
31、o the country s top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic, but also【 C9】_“ I believe things are getting better,“ she says,“ but they re not getting better as【 C10】 _as I would like.“ AcircumstanceBconfidence CcoversDcurrent EdealsFdifferent GexposingHfast IhonoringJhope KpresentlyLrare Mrealis
32、ticNsite Ovirtually 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. 40 Technology has been an encouragement o
33、f historical change. It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century, and across the entire Western World in the nineteenth. Rapid advances were made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture(制造 )of goods, which has changed ideas about work. One of the first change
34、s was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. Along with this came the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less time. People also developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product: each nail was exactly like every other nail, meaning that eac
35、h nail could be changed for every other nail. This means that goods could be mass produced, though mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smaller tasks. Once this was done, workers no longer started on the product and labored to complete it. Instead , they might work only
36、 one thousandth of it, other workers completing their own parts in certain order. There is nothing strange about this manufacturing work by today s standards. Highly skilled workers were unable to compare with the new production techniques, as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be pro
37、duced in greater number than could ever be done by hand. But the skilled worker wasn t the only loser, the common workers lost too. Similar changes forced farmers away. The increased mechanization(机械化 )of agriculture freed masses of workers from ploughing the land and harvesting its crops. They had
38、little choice but to stream toward the rapidly developing industrial centers. Increasingly, standards were set by machines. Workers no longer owned their own tools, their skill was no longer valued, and pride in their work was no longer possible. Workers fed, looked after and repaired the machines t
39、hat could work faster than humans at greatly reduced cost. 41 In this passage, which of the following is NOT considered as a change caused by the use of scientific findings in the production of goods? （ A） Other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. （ B） The increased exploitation of
40、workers in the 19th century. （ C） The increased use of machines to make products in less time. （ D） The use of machines producing parts of the same standard. 42 The underlined word “this“ in the first paragraph refers to_. （ A） the use of scientific findings （ B） the practice of producing the same p
41、arts for a product （ C） the human power being replaced by other forms of energy （ D） the technology becoming the encouragement of historical change 43 The underlined word “this“ in the second paragraph refers to the change that_. （ A） each nail could be taken the place of by every other nail （ B） ea
42、ch nail was exactly like every other nail （ C） producing tasks became smaller and smaller （ D） goods could be mass produced 44 According to the writer, highly skilled workers_. （ A） completely disappeared with the coming of the factory system （ B） were dismissed by the boss （ C） were unable to produ
43、ce goods of high standard （ D） were unable to produce fine goods at that same speed as machines 45 According to the passage, what did the farmers have to do with the coming of mechanization of agriculture? （ A） Many of them had to leave their farmland for industrial centers. （ B） They stuck to their
44、 farm work. （ C） They refused to use machines. （ D） They did their best to learn how to use the machines. 45 “ We are not about to enter the Information Age, but instead are rather well into it. “ Present predictions are that by 1990, about thirty million jobs in the United States, or about thirty p
45、ercent of the job market, will be computer-related. In 1980, only twenty-one percent of all American high schools owned one or two computers for student use. In the fall of 1985, a new study showed that half of United States secondary schools have fifteen or more computers for student use. And now e
46、ducational experts, administrators, and even the general public are demanding that all students become “computer-literate“. By the year 2000 knowledge of computers will be necessary in over eighty percent of all occupations. Soon those people not educated in computer use will be compared to those wh
47、o are print-illiterate today. What is “computer literacy“ ? The term itself seems to imply some degree of “knowing“ about computers, but knowing what? The present opinion seems to be that this should include a general knowledge of what computers are, plus a little of their history and something of h
48、ow they operate. Therefore, it is important that educators everywhere take a careful look not only at what is being done, but also at what should be done in the field of computer education. Today most adults are able to use a motor car without the slightest knowledge of how the internal combustion e
49、ngine(内燃机 )works. We effectively use all types of electrical equipment without being able to tell their histories or to explain how they work. Business people for years have made good use of typewriters and adding machines, yet few have ever known how to repair them. Why, then, attempt to teach computers by teaching how or why they work? Rather, we first must fix our mind on teaching the effective use of the computer
