1、国家公共英语（三级）笔试模拟试卷 352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 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 Kong. 15 What will Ms. Bush probably buy? （ A） An excursion fare. （ B） A full return ticket. （ C） A sin
11、gle 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 homeSydneyCairo. （ B） Her homeCarioSydney. （ C） CairoHer homeSydney. （ D） SydneyHer homeCairo. 18 What
12、 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 out some difficult problems. （ B） To do some cross-country running. （ C） To finish a course in physic
13、al 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） Complete a course in snow and ice climbing. 21 What is the speakers main topic? （ A） Training for a profes
14、sional 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 hospital. 23 Why does the man want a one-way ticket to New York? （ A） He will live in New York forever.
15、 （ 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. （ B） By credit card. （ C） By plastic money. （ D） By travelers check. 25 What did he order during his
16、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 for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. 25 When Carios Westez died at the age
17、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 contact the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , D . C . , where, back in the 1940s, Red Thunder Cloud
18、 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 that modern industry can do to the world s ecology(生态 ). However, few people are aware of the impact wid
19、ely 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 happens, hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few die out. Scholars believe there are around 6
20、,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 Ocean. It is spoken by only a few older adults, so like Catawba, Araki will soon disappear. Many langua
21、ges 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 one of the first to recognize the danger of language death and to try to do something about it. He w
22、as 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 is gone, and the language is dead. What does it mean for the rest of us when a language disappears? Wh
23、en 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 the mind. To be the last remaining speaker of a language, like Red Thunder, must be a peculiarly lonely
24、 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 less and less speakers. CHowever, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinom
25、a 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. FAs these language become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increase, as we
26、ll. 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 how women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University o
27、f 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 generation ago, female faces were【 C2】 _and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeC
28、onte 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】 _display. There, among the photos of current faculty members and students, are portraits of the【 C6】_head
29、 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 weeks ago. Although they re still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a pres
30、ence 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 to the country s top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic, but also【 C9】_“ I believe things are
31、 getting better,“ she says,“ but they re not getting better as【 C10】 _as I would like.“ AcircumstanceBconfidence CcoversDcurrent EdealsFdifferent GexposingHfast IhonoringJhope KpresentlyLrare MrealisticNsite Ovirtually 31 【 C1】 32 【 C2】 33 【 C3】 34 【 C4】 35 【 C5】 36 【 C6】 37 【 C7】 38 【 C8】 39 【 C9】
32、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 Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an hour s flight, one of
33、the scientists wrote in his book, “Look here for probable metal. “ Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain area, sent a message to other scientists on the ground, “Gold possible. “ Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported, “This ground should be searched for metal. “ From
34、 an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one word: “ Uranium. “ None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no magic power of looking down below the earth s surface. They were merely putting to use one of the newest methods of locating minerals in the ground . trees and
35、 plants as signs that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees and plants are growing. This newest method of searching for minerals is based on the fact that minerals deep in the earth may affect the kind of bushes and trees that grow in the surface. At Watson Bar Greek, a broo
36、k(小溪 )six thousand feet high in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees. Roots were dug and put into boxes. Each bag and box was carefully marked. In a scientific laboratory, the parts of the
37、forest trees were burned to ashes and tested. Each small part was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it. Study of the roots, branches, and seeds showed no silver. But there were small amounts of gold in the roots and a little less gold in the branches and seeds. The seeds growing neare
38、st to the tree trunks had more gold than those growing on the ends of the branches. 41 Scientists were flying over a desert or a hilly wasteland or a mountain area in order to search for_in the ground. （ A） gold （ B） silver （ C） uranium （ D） minerals 42 The study of trees, branches and roots shows t
39、hat_. （ A） there were larger amounts of gold in the branches than in the seeds （ B） there were smaller amounts of gold in the roots than in the branches （ C） there were less amounts of gold in the seeds growing on the ends of branches than seeds growing nearest to the tree trunks （ D） there was more
40、 gold in the branches than in the roots 43 Which is the best title suggested below? （ A） Scientists Searching for Metals with Special Power （ B） New Methods of Searching for Minerals （ C） Gold Could Be Found by Trees and Plants （ D） A New Method of Searching for Minerals Using Trees and Plants 44 Wh
41、ich of the following is NOT mentioned as part of a tree that can help find minerals? （ A） Leaves. （ B） Roots. （ C） Branches. （ D） Seeds. 45 The scientists were searching for minerals by using_. （ A） X-ray （ B） magic power （ C） a special instrument （ D） trained eyes 45 The most frightening words in t
42、he English language are, “ Our computer is down. “ You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “Im sorry, I cant sell you a ticket. Our computer is down. “ “ If your computer is down
43、, just write me out a ticket. “ “I cant write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so. “ I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?“ “We give the comp
44、uter the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not. “ “So when it goes down, you go down with it. “ “Thats good, sir. “ “How long will the computer be down?“ I wanted to know. “I have no idea. Sometimes it s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. The
45、re s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it s down it wont answer us. “ After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said. “Let s forget the computer. What about your planes? They re still flying, aren t they?“ “I couldn t tell without asking the computer. “ “Maybe
46、 I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he s flying to Washington, “ I suggested. “I wouldn t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn t take you if you didn t have a ticket. “ “Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few h
47、ours?“ “I wouldnt know, “ she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only IT knows. It cant tell me.“ By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white; some people started to cry and still others kic
48、ked their luggage. 46 The best title for the article is_. （ A） When the Computer Is Down （ B） The Most Frightening Words （ C） The Computer of the Airport （ D） Asking the Computer 47 What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer? （ A） She could sell a tick
49、et. （ B） She could write out a ticket. （ C） She could answer the passengers questions. （ D） She could do nothing. 48 Why do you think they had not a backup computer? （ A） Because it was easy down. （ B） Because it was very expensive. （ C） Because it was not advanced enough. （ D） Because it was not as big as the main computer. 49 The last paragraph suggests that_. （ A） a modern computer w
