大学英语三级模拟试题(三)

TEST 3

Part I Listening Comprehension (15%)

Part II. Vocabulary and Structure (20%)

Directions: There are 20incompleete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C), D).Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

13. She is not very ______about money only when it comes spending.

A) Sensible B) sensitive C) senseless D) insensitive

14. Cold and humid is this ______climate in spring of this west city.

A) Common B) general C) usual D) ordinary

15. If only I _____about his coming, I would have met him at the station.

A) Would know B) had known C) have known D) knew

16._____she is in London, she will ring up her old friend Mary.

A) As soon as B) As C) No sooner D) While

17. The reason why coal is still a very valuable source of power is _____atomic power is not available in sufficient quantity.

A) Because B) that C) as D) for

18. We moved to the front now ______ we could hear and see better.

A) So as B) so that C) because D) such that

19. He is very stubborn so asking him to change his mind is ______.

A) out of the question B) out of question

C) Out of order D) out of place

20. We took ______of the fine weather and spent the evening on the beach.

A) Change B) opportunity C) advantage D) use

21. After______ for the job ,you will be required to take a written test.

A) interviewing B) being interviewed C) interviewed D) having interviewed

22. We would have paid______ for the machines, if the company had insisted , because we really wanted them.

A) as much twice B) twice as much C) twice much D) twice so much

23. Her smile ______ that she had forgiven me.

A) applied B) implied C) justified D) supplied

24. It is very surprised that the driver was not ______ at all in the car accident.

A) injured B) wounded C) hurt D)damaged

25. Scarcely ______ one task when he was asked to do another.

A) has he finished B)had he finished C) he has finished D)he had finished

26. He offered a reward to _____ should return the lost ring.

A) who B) whom C) whoever D) whomever

27. Look at the clock! It’s time ______ home.

A) we’ll go B ) we went C) we’re going D) we should go

28. After going to dozens of job interviews , she eventually ______ to get a job.

A) gained B) succeeded C) managed D) achieved

29. The words of his old teacher left a _______ impression on his mind. He is still influenced by them. A) long B) lively C) lasting D) wide

30. They tried to silence the _____ audience but in vain.

A) exciting B) excited C) excite D) being exciting

31. Between 1974 and 1997, the number of overseas visitors expanded ______ 27%.

A) by B) for C) to D) in

32. He is _______ about his chances of winning a gold medal in the Olympics next year.

A) optimistic B) optional C) outstanding D) obvious

Part III. Reading Comprehension (40%)

Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each question, there are four choices marked A B C and D. You should choose the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Passage One

Questions 33 to 37 are based on the following passage.

Microsoft Corporation is the leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. The company also publishes books and multimedia titles and offers electronic mail services. It has sales offices throughout the world but does virtually all of its research and development at its corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington, U.S.

In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen, two boyhood friends from Seattle, converted BASIC, a popular mainframe programming language, for use on an early personal computer (PC) ,the Altair. Shortly afterward Gates and

Allen founded Microsoft, deriving the name from the words

“microcomputer” and “software”. During the next few years they refined BASIC and developed other programming languages. In 1980 International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) asked Microsoft to produce the essential software, or operating system, for its first personal computer, the IBM PC. Microsoft purchased an operating system from another company, modified it, and renamed it MS-DOS( Microsoft Disk Operating System). MS-DOS was released with the IBM PC in 1981. Thereafter , most manufacturers of personal computers licensed MS-DOS as their operating system , generating vast revenues for Microsoft; by the early 1990s it had sold more than 100 million copies of the program and defeated rival operating systems such as CP/M ,which it displaced in the early 1980s, and later OS/2. Microsoft deepened its position in operating systems with its Windows graphical command program, whose third version, released in 1990, gained a wide following. By 1993, Windows 3.0 and its subsequent versions were selling at a rate of one million copies per month, and nearly 90 percent of the world’s PCs ran on a Microsoft operating system. In 1995 the company released Windows 95, which for the first time fully integrated MS-DOS with Windows and effectively matched in ease of use Apple Computer’s Macintosh OS. It also became the leader in productivity software such as word-processing and spreadsheet programs, outdistancing long-time rivals Lotus and WordPerfect in the process.

33. What is the role of Microsoft Corporation in the world of software systems and applications/

A) It’s the biggest multinational corporation. B) It’s the founder of personal computers.

C) It’s the leading developer. D) It’s the largest bookseller in America.

34. Besides software systems and applications, what else dose Microsoft deal in ?

A) Publishing books and multimedia titles. B) Offering electronic mail services.

C) Inventing program languages. D) Both A and B.

35. Who established Microsoft?

A) Bill Gates. B) Paul G. Allen.

C) Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen. D)A group of computer experts.

36. In 1980 IBM asked Microsoft to produce the operating system, they ______.

A) invented it alone . B) refused to do it.

C) wanted to make a perfect one, but they failed.

D) bought one from another company and made a little change.

37. What does the passage imply?

A) Windows 3.0 fully integrated MS-DOS with Windows.

B) By 1990, nearly 90 percent of the world’s had run on Windows 3.0.

C) IBM asked Microsoft to develop Windows 95.

D) Microsoft surpassed Lotus and WordPerfect till 1995.

Passage 2

Questions 38 to 42 are based on the following passage.

Sony was incorporated in 1946 as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering corporation Its founders were Iuka Masaru, whose Japan precision Instruments Company had supplied electronic devices during World War II, and Morita Akio, an applied sciences instructor. Their business, which was funded by Morita’s father, was formed to apply the advanced technology developed during the war to the manufacture of consumer products. The company’s present name was adopted in 1958.

At the beginning, the company made voltmeters(伏特计), electrically heated cushions（垫子），and similar devices. The first major consumer item it produced was a tape recorder, introduced in Japan in 1950. Since then the company, which markets its products worldwide under the Sony trademark, has continued to pioneer new technology for consumer products. In 1957 Sony introduced the world’s first pocket-sized, all-transistor (晶体管) radio. In 1960 Sony introduced an 8-inch (20-centimetre) transistorized television set, creating a new market for television.

The company was one of the first to recognize the potential of the consumer videotape market, and in 1969 it introduced a color videocassette recorder for both industrial and consumer use.

38. When did the company first formed?

A) 1946 B) 1950 C) 1958 D) 1968

39. What was the first name of Sony Corporation?

A) Japan Precision Instruments Company

B) Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation.

C) Sony Corporation D) Sony Engineering Corporation.

40. When was the name Sony first used?

A) 1946 B) 1950 C) 1958 D) 1968

41. What was the first major consumer article produced by the company?

A) Voltmeters. B) Electrically heated cushions.

C) Resonator sound generators D) An audio tape recorder.

42. Who founded Sony Corporation?

Akio. C) Morita’s father D) Ibuka Masaru and Morita Akio

Questions 43 to 47 are based on the following passage.

Internet is a system architecture that has revolutionized communications and methods of commerce by allowing various computer

networks around the world to interconnect. Sometimes referred to as a

“network of network,” the Internet emerged in the United States in the 1970s

but did not become visible to the general public until the early 1990s. By the

beginning of the 21st century approximately 360 million people, or roughly 6

percent of the world’s population, were estimated to have access to the

Internet. It is widely assumed that at least half of the world’s population will

have some form of Internet access by 2010 and that wireless access will play

a growing role.

The Internet provides a capability so powerful and general that it can be

used for almost any purpose that depends on information, and it is accessible

by every individual who connects to one of its constituent networks. It

supports human communication through electronic mail ( e-mail), “chat

rooms,” newsgroups, and audio and video transmission and allows people to

work collaboratively at many different locations. It supports access to digital

information by many applications, including the World Wide Web. The

Internet has proved to be a spawning ground for a large and growing number

of “e-businesses” that carry out most of their sales and services over the

Internet. Many experts believe that the Internet will dramatically transform

business as well as society.

43. What is Internet according to the passage?

A) A system architecture that allows various computer networks around

the world to inter-connect.

B) An architecture that has revolutionized communications and methods

of commerce.

C) “Network of networks”.

D) World Wide Web.

44. When did Internet first appear?

A) 1970s. B) 1980s. C) 1990s. D)2010s.

45. What will come true according to the passage?

A) Approximately 360 million people will access to the Internet.

B) Roughly 6 percent of the world’s population will access to the Internet.

C) At least a quarter of the world’s population will have some form of Internet access.

D) Wireless access will play a growing role.

46. According to the author, who can access to the Internet?

A) Anyone.

B) The one who has any purpose that depends on information.

C) Every individual who connects to one of its constituent networks.

D) The people who are skilled in computer.

47. If people want to work collaboratively at different locations, what can the do?

A) They can use electronic mails.

B) They can work through “chat rooms”.

C) They can work through audio and video transmission.

D) All the above.

Passage Four

Questions 48 to 52 are based on the following passage.

Mitchell attended Washington Seminary(神学院)in her native Atlanta, Georgia, before entering Smith College in 1918. When her mother died the next year, she returned home. Between 1922 and 1926 she was a writer and reporter for the Atlanta Journal. After an ankle injury in 1926 she left the magazine and, for the next 10 years, worked slowly on a romantic novel about the Civil War and Reconstruction as seen from a Southerner point of view. Scarlett O’Hara is the heroine of novel, and she is a strong-willed woman. The novel had absorbed the tragedy of the war and the romance of the history. Mitchell worked at her novel occasionally, composing episodes(情节) out of sequence and later fitting them together. She apparently had little thought of publication at first, and for six years after it was completely finished, the novel lay unread. But in 1935 Mitchell was persuaded to publish her manuscript.

It appeared in 1936 as Gone with the Wind. Within six months 1,000,000 copies had been sold; 50,000 copies were sold in one day. It went on sell more copies than any other novel in U.S. publishing history, with sales passing 12 million by 1965, and was eventually translated into 25 languages and sold in 40 countries. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. The

movie rights were sold for $50,000. The film, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable and produced by David O. Selznick, premiered in Atlanta in December 1939 after an unprecedented period of advance promotion, including the highly publicized search for an actress to play Scarlett. It won nine major Oscars and two special Oscars at the Academy Awards and for two decades reigned as the top money-making film of all time. Mitchell, who never adjusted to the celebrity that had befallen her and who never attempted another book, died after an automobile accident in 1949. Four decades after Mitchell’s death, a sequel(续集) named Scarlett appeared.

48. When did Mitchell begin her novel?

A) In 1918. B) Between 1922 and 1926. C) In 1926. D) In 1936.

49. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A) When Mitchell mother died, she continued her study.

B) After an ankle injury in 1926, Mitchell became disabled.

C) Mitchell wrote her novel from a Northern point of view.

D) Mitchell didn’t write her novel for publication first.

50. The name of Mitchell’s first novel is “_______”.

A) Atlanta Journal B) Civil War and Reconstruction

C) Lost Cause D) Gone with the Wind

51. Who acted in the movie of Gone with the Wind?

A) Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable B) Mitchell C) David O. Selznick D) Scarlett O’Hara

52. When did the sequel (续集) to Margaret’s Gone with the Wind appear?

A) Four weeks after Mitchell’s death. B) Four months after Mitchell’s death.

C) Four years after Mitchell’s death. D) Forty years after Mitchell’s death.

Part IV. Translations from English to Chinese. (15%)

Directions: In this part, there are four items which you should translate into Chinese, each item consisting of one sentence. These sentences are all come from Part III of the test paper. You can refer back to the passages so as to identify their meaning in the context. Write the translation on the Translation Sheet in Test Paper.

T1. (Lines1-3, Para.1, Passage1)

Albert Einstein was a German-American physicist who developed the special and general and theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

_________________________________________________________________

T2. (Line5-7, Para.1, Passage2)

In the same room was the “Christmas pyramid,” a triangular construction of

wood that had she, elves to hold Christmas figurines and was decorated with evergreens, candles, and a star.

_________________________________________________________________________ T3. (Line10-11, Para.1, Passage3)

These difficulties were aggravated by the withdrawal of Soviet aid and technicians, who made a point of taking blueprints with them.

_________________________________________________________________________ T4. (Line9-12, Para. 2, Passage4)

When large number of immigrants, including the Irish, went to the United

States beginning in the mid 19th century, they took their Halloween customs

with them, and in the 20th century Halloween became one of the principal

U.S. holidays, particularly among children.

_________________________________________________________________________ Part V. Writing (15%)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition

of no less than 80 words. Remember your composition must be written

according to the following outline. Write your composition on the Composition Sheet.

Outline: 1.申请人：张燕，女，24岁，出生于成都市，未婚；

2.文化程度：1999年7月毕业于四川工商职业技术学院，专业是商务

英语，优秀学生；

3.经历：曾任某合资企业总经理秘书3年，擅长电脑操作和口译，现

得知贵公司欲招聘英语翻译一名，特自荐；

4.期望资薪：每月1000人民币；

5.爱好：上网，旅游；

6.外语：英语优良，日语一般；

7.联系地址：成都市红星路520号一楼

电话：88103547

Words for reference: major in, joint venture, operate

Resume

Job Objective: _________________________________________________

Family Name: _________________________________________________

First Name: ___________________________________________________ Tel No: _______________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________ Place of Birth: __________________________________________________

Age:

__________________________________________________________ Sex:

___________________________________________________________ Marriage:

_______________________________________________________ Foreign Language: ________________________________________________

Education:

_______________________________________________________

Salary Wanted: ____________________________________________________

Hobby:

___________________________________________________________ Experience:

_______________________________________________________ Keys:

Part I.

Part II.

13-17: BCBAB 18-22: BACCB

23-27:BABCB 28-32: CCBAA

Part III.

33-37: CDCDD 38-42: ABCDD

43-47: AADCD 48-52:CDDAD

Part IV.

T1: 艾伯特·爱因斯坦时一位德裔美国人，他提出了狭义和广义的相对论，并由于他的光电效应阐述而荣获1921年诺贝尔物理学奖。

T2:在同一房间里还有“圣诞金字塔”，那是一种用常青树、蜡烛和星星装饰的木制三角形建筑，它还带有方圣诞小雕像的架子。

T3：这些困难由于苏联的援助与苏联技术人员的撤回而加剧，那些技术人员还特意吧他们的详细图纸也带走了。

T4:当19世纪中期，大量移民———包括爱尔兰人——开始来到美国的时候，他们带来了他们的万圣节习俗；而到了20世纪，万圣节成为每个主要的假日，特别时在孩子们当中。

Part V

Writing(参考范文)

Test 3 Resume

Job Objective: ____Interpreter__

Family Name: Zhang____

First Name: _______Yan____

Tel No: _____88103547___

Address: __First Floor 520#, Hongxing Road, Chengdu___

Place of Birth: Chengdu, Sichuan Province

Age: 24

Sex: Female

Marriage: Single

Foreign Language: Excellent English& fair Japanese

Education:Graduated from Sichuan Technology and Business College in July, 1999. Majored in Business English, got the title of Top Student

Salary Wanted: ￥1000 per month

Hobby: Getting on Internet, Travelling

Experience: Used to be a secretary of a general manager for three years in a joint venture. Good at interpreting and computer operating