1、国家公共英语（三级）笔试模拟试卷 336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 When do you think this conversation took place? （ A） Before six. （ B） At six. （ C） After six. （ D） After seven. 2 Why does the woman like the brick house better than the white house? （ A） It is bigger. （ B） It has a prettier color. （ C） It has a larger yard. （ D） It is brighter. 3 Wha
3、t is the probable relationship between the two speakers? （ A） Australian and American. （ B） Guest and host. （ C） Husband and wife. （ D） Professor and student. 4 When will the meeting be closed? （ A） 1:30. （ B） 11:00. （ C） 9:30. （ D） 10:00. 5 What will the man probably do? （ A） Wait for the sale to s
4、tart. （ B） Get further information about the sale. （ C） Call the TV station to be sure if the ad is true. （ D） Buy a new suit. 6 What does the man mean? （ A） He thinks she should visit her cousin. （ B） Her cousin doesnt visit very often. （ C） Her cousin is feeling a lot better today. （ D） He doesnt
5、think her cousin has been at home today. 7 Why does the woman plan to go to town? （ A） To pay her bills in the bank. （ B） To buy books in a bookstore. （ C） To get some money from the bank. （ D） To meet someone in the town. 8 What does the woman suggest Gordon do? （ A） He should start to find a new a
6、partment right now. （ B） He should buy an apartment right away. （ C） He should start to find a new apartment in a few weeks. （ D） He should buy an apartment near the campus. 9 What does the man say about Judy? （ A） Hes surprised she chose that agency. （ B） He wonders why she is still keeping the job
7、. （ C） He doesnt know when her classes started. （ D） He doubts if she makes much money now. 10 What is the woman probably doing now? （ A） Writing an essay. （ B） Studying for a test. （ C） Shopping for shoes. （ D） Reading a magazine. Part B Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Befor
8、e 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 question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. 11 How long did it t
9、ake for a letter to get to the USA six years ago? （ A） Usually four or five days. （ B） A week. （ C） More than a week. （ D） It depends. 12 Where does this conversation take place? （ A） A shop. （ B） A restaurant. （ C） A bookstore. （ D） A post office. 13 What is NOT mentioned in the conversation? （ A）
10、An overseas mail. （ B） A registered letter. （ C） A post office box. （ D） A parcel. 14 What will the woman do for the man? （ A） Buy some food for him. （ B） Send him to the hospital. （ C） Give him some medicine. （ D） Bring some vegetables to him. 15 Who is the man working with? （ A） The woman. （ B） Yo
11、ung people. （ C） Frank. （ D） The media. 16 What is the woman asking the man for? （ A） His opinions on juvenile crime. （ B） His opinions on social system. （ C） His opinions on the prevention of young people crime. （ D） His opinions on the behaviors of media and school. 17 According to Frank, why do k
12、ids get violent? （ A） Because the media teach them. （ B） Because the school is like a jail. （ C） Because the education system has problems. （ D） Because the environment makes them so. 18 How can we prevent juvenile crime? （ A） Create a more caring environment. （ B） Improve the education system. （ C）
13、 Make the school less like a jail. （ D） Educate kids on a one-to-one basis. 19 What didnt the man get from the conversation? （ A） A postcard. （ B） A questionnaire. （ C） Free samples of tinned meat. （ D） Some work. 20 Why the man insists on filling out the questionnaire right away? （ A） Because they
14、have promised to do so. （ B） Because he doesnt like the sample. （ C） Because he wants more free samples. （ D） Because he wants to mail it on his way to work. 21 Why doesn t the woman like the tinned meat? （ A） Because its tasteless. （ B） Because she doesnt want to fill in the questionnaire. （ C） Bec
15、ause it makes her cat ill. （ D） Because its free. 22 What are the guests comments? （ A） It has no taste. （ B） It makes the cat ill. （ C） The cat doesnt like eating it. （ D） The cat didnt touch it. 23 Why are mothers fed up with their jobs? （ A） Because the jobs are difficult. （ B） Because the jobs m
16、ake them have little time for their children. （ C） Because their children and family are in trouble. （ D） Because they dont like the jobs. 24 How many women work for themselves now? （ A） Two thousand. （ B） Twenty thousand. （ C） A million. （ D） Two million. 25 What do we learn about Tanya Rostron? （
17、A） She doesnt work. （ B） She works as head of marketing in a major company. （ C） She has little time with her new baby daughter. （ D） She employs 11 people in her company. 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered
18、blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 25 The whole of the United States cheered its latest hero, Ashley Smith, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation saying it was planning to give a big reward to her for having a brave heart and wise mind. 【 B1】 _ She was moving into her apartment in Atl
19、anta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man followed her to her door and put a gun to her side. “I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really afraid,“ she said in a TV interview last week. The man was Brian Nichols, 33. He was suspected of killing three people at an Atlanta
20、 courthouse (法院 ) on March, 11 and later of killing a federal agent.【 B2】_ Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but released her after she repeatedly begged him not to take her life. “ I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn t have a mummy,“ she said. In order to calm the man down, she read to h
21、im from The Purpose-Driven Life, a best-selling religious boot. He asked her to repeat a paragraph “ about what you thought your purpose in life was what talents were you given.【 B3】 _ “I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust,“ Smith said. Smith said she asked Nichols why he chose
22、 her. “ He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and we were Christian sister and brother, “ she said. “And that he was lost, and that God led him to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people. “【 B4】 _ She said Nichols was surprised when she made him breakfast and that the two of them
23、watched television coverage (报道 ) of the police hunt for him. “ I cannot believe that s me, “ Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he should do. She said, “I think you should turn yourself in. If you don t, lots more people are going to get hurt. Eventually, he let her
24、go.【 B5】 _ A $60,000 reward had been posted for Nichols capture. Authorities said they did not yet know if Smith would be eligible (有资格的 ) for that money. A She even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave. B Smith thanked the man for his kindness. C Smith tried very hard to kill
25、 Nichols. D The local police were searching for him. E And the two of them discussed this topic. F Then she called the police. G Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter. 26 【 B1】 27 【 B2】 28 【 B3】 29 【 B4】 30 【 B5】 30 One in six. Believe it or not, that s the number of Americans who str
26、uggle with hunger. To make tomorrow a little better, Feeding America, the nation s largest【 C1】_ hunger relief organization , has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program , it s asking【 C2】 _ across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000
27、 agencies in its network provide low income individuals and families with the fuel they need to【 C3】 _ It s the kind of work that s done every day at St. Andrew s Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People who【 C4】 _ at its front door on the first and third Thursdays of each month aren t looking for Go
28、d they re there for something to eat. St. Andrews runs a food pantry (食品室 ) that【 C5】 _ the city and several of the【 C6】 _ towns. Janet Drane is its manager. In the wake of the【 C7】 _ , the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It is【 C8】 _ that 49 million Americans are unsure
29、 of where they will find their next meal. What s most surprising is that 36% of them live in【 C9】_ where at least one adult is working. “It used to be that one job was all you needed,“ says St. Andrew s Drane. “The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and they re still right on the ed
30、ge【 C10】 _ “ A accumulate B circling C communities D competition E domestic F financially G formally H gather I households J recession K reported L reviewed M serves N surrounding O survive 31 【 C1】 32 【 C2】 33 【 C3】 34 【 C4】 35 【 C5】 36 【 C6】 37 【 C7】 38 【 C8】 39 【 C9】 40 【 C10】 Part A Directions:
31、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 of historical change. It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century, and across the entire Western World
32、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 changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. Along with this came the increased use of machines to manu
33、facture 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 each nail could be changed for every other nail. This means that goods could be mass produced, though mass production required brea
34、king 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 one thousandth of it, other workers completing their own parts in certain order. There is nothing strange about this manufactur
35、ing work by todays standards. Highly skilled workers were unable to compare with the new production techniques, as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be produced in greater number than could ever be done by hand. But the skilled worker wasnt the only loser, the common workers lost too
36、. 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 little choice but to stream toward the rapidly developing industrial centers. Increasingly, standards were set by machines. Worke
37、rs 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 that could work faster than humans at greatly reduced cost. 41 In this passage, which of the following is NOT considered as a chan
38、ge 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 workers in the 19th century. （ C） The increased use of machines to make products in less time. （ D） The use of machines producing
39、 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 parts for a product （ C） the human power being replaced by other forms of energy （ D） the technology becoming the encouragement of
40、 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） each nail was exactly like every other nail （ C） producing tasks became smaller and smaller （ D） goods could be mass produced 44 Ac
41、cording 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 produce goods of high standard （ D） were unable to produce fine goods at that same speed as machines 45 According to the passage, what
42、 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 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
43、 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 percent of the job market, will be computer-related. In 1980, only twenty-one percent of all American high schools owned one or two
44、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 educational experts, administrators, and even the general public are demanding that all students become “computer-literate“. By the
45、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 who are print-illiterate today. What is “computer literacy“? The term itself seems to imply some degree of “knowing“ about computers,
46、 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 how they operate. Therefore, it is important that educators everywhere take a careful look not only at what is being done, but also a
47、t 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 engine (内燃机 ) works. We effectively use all types of electrical equipment without being able to tell their histories or to explain ho
48、w 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 as the to
49、ol is. Knowing how to use a computer is whats going to be important. We dont talk about automobile literacy. We just get in our cars and drive them.“ 46 In 1990, the number of jobs having nothing to do with computers in the United States will be reduced to_. （ A） 79 million （ B） 100 million （ C） 30 million （ D） 70 million 47 The underlined part “print-illiterate“ in the text refers to _. （ A） one who ha
