公共英语三级模拟试题及答案解析(1)

公共英语三级模拟试题及答案解析（1）

(1~3/共11题)Listening ComprehensionDirections: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are two parts in this section, Part A and Part B.Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 3 minutes to transfer your answers from your test booklet onto your ANSWER SHEET 1.If you have any questions, you may raise your hand NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started.Now look at Part A in your test booklet.Part AYou 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 15seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.

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What does the telegram say?

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A.Return immediately for his parents missed him badly.

B.Return immediately for his aunt is expecting him.

C.Return immediately for something unusual happened at home.

D.Return immediately for his uncle was seriously ill at home.

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Why was the man relieved at last?

A.Because the telegram was a false one.

B.Because this telegram was not addressed to him.

C.Because his uncle wasn′ t ill at all.

D.Because it was somebody else that was ill.

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What kind of person is Tom supposed to be?

A.Warm-hearted but careless.

B.Curious and mischievous.

C.Helpful and tricky.

D.Prudent but cautious.

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(4~7/共11题)Listening ComprehensionDirections: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are two parts in this section, Part A and Part B.Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 3 minutes to transfer your answers from your test booklet onto your ANSWER SHEET 1.If you have any questions, you may raise your hand NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started.Now look at Part A in your test booklet.Part AYou 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 15seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.

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What did the man give the woman?

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A.His address.

B.His recommendation.

C.His business card.

D.A hotel′s number.

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Why didn′t the man believe his eyes?

A.Because he didn′t know the price.

B.Because he didn′t see the price tag.

C.Because medical texts are usually expensive.

D.Because the price is too high.

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How much did the man pay for the book?

A.$65.

B.$70.63.

C.$70.36.

D.$29.64.

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How does the man think about his major?

A.He loves it.

B.He hates it.

C.He wants to learn mathematics as his major.

D.He regrets choosing medicine as his major.

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(8~11/共11题)Listening ComprehensionDirections: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are two parts in this section, Part A and Part B.Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 3 minutes to transfer your answers from your test booklet onto your ANSWER SHEET 1.If you have any questions, you may raise your hand NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started.Now look at Part A in your test booklet.Part AYou 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 15seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.

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What didn′ t the man know before he comes to buy the book?

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A.Medical books are expensive.

B.Books also have taxes.

C.He needs to pay extra money for the tax of the book.

D.All the above.

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What′s the good news for the man?

A.His company wants him to stay in New York for another half year.

B.His wife is involved in an important project.

C.His company wants him to move to an apartment.

D.He could save money in the long run.

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What′s the problem with the man′s place now?

A.It′s too expensive.

B.It′s in a hotel.

C.His wife can′t come here to stay with him.

D.It′s not big enough and noisy.

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What does "sublet" mean?

A.It means renting a place from other people.

B.It means renting a place from people who rents the place.

C.It means renting a place for a short period.

D.It means renting a place from people who is away to other places.

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(12~16/共10题)ComprehensionDirections:

Read the following two texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D.

Do you find it very difficult and painful to get up in the morning? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle. During the hours when your labor through your work you may say that you"re "hot". That"s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as: "Get up, Peter! You"ll be late for work again!" The possible explanation to the trouble is that Peter is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.

You can"t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit if better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you"re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning, but you have an important to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won"t change your cycle, but you"ll get up steam and work better at your low point.

Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

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If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably ______.

A.he is a lazy person.

B.he refuses to follow his own energy cycle.

C.he is not sure when his energy is low.

D.he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening.

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Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage?

A.Unawareness of energy cycles.

B.Familiar monologues.

C.A change in a family member"s energy cycle.

D.Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.

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If one wants to work efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should ______.

A.change his energy cycle

B.overcome his laziness

C.get up earlier than usual

D.go to bed earlier

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You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will ______.

A.help to keep your energy for the day"s work.

B.help you to control your temper early in the day

C.enable you to concentrate on your routine work

D.keep your energy your energy cycle under control all day

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Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A.Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save one"s energy.

B.Dr. Kletman explains why people reach their peaks at different hours of day.

C.Habit helps a person adapt to his own energy cycle.

D.Children have energy cycles, too.

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(17~21/共10题)ComprehensionDirections:

Read the following two texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil) is creating a "greenhouse effect"—conserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the world"s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world"s temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be in water.

Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blocking

sunlight and lowering the earth"s temperature—a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would mane agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very possible) Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies will offset each other and the world"s temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by economic profits, people neglect the damage on our environment caused by the "advanced civilization". Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worthwhile?

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As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution ______.

A.cause widespread damage in the countryside

B.affected the entire eastern half of the United States

C.had damaged effect on health

D.existed merely in urban and industries areas

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As to the greenhouse effect, the author ______.

A.share the same view with the scientist.

B.is uncertain of its occurrence

C.rejects it as being ungrounded

D.thinks that it will destroy the world soon

第19题

The word "offset" in the second paragraph could be replaced by ______.

A.slip into

B.make up for

C.set up

D.catch up with

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It can be concluded that ______.

A.raising the world"s temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earth.

B.lowering the world"s temperature merely a few degrees would lead major farming areas to disaster.

C.almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade.

D.the world"s temperature will remain constant in the years to come.

第21题

This passage is primarily about ______.

A.the greenhouse effect……

B.the burning of fossil fuels……

C.the potential effect of air pollution.

D.the likelihood of a new ice age.

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(22~26/共5题)ComprehensionDirections:

Read the texts from a magazine article in which five people talk about tipping in a restaurant. For questions 36-40, match the name of each person to one of the statements (A-G) given below.

You can always recognize dieters from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their time turning their noses up at food. They are forever consulting calorie charts, gazing at themselves in mirrors, and leaping on to weighing-machines in the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips, protruding tummies and double chins. What a miserable lot dieters are!

Marlin:

I began making some dietary and lifestyles changes during my second year of college and have been eating this way ever since. I like the way I feel when I don"t eat animal foods so much more than the pleasure I used to get from eating them. I have much more energy; I need less sleep; I feel calmer; I can maintain an ideal body weight without worrying about how much I eat, and I can think more clearly.

Maggie:

During my first year of college, I gained forty pounds when I began throwing the javelin. For the next twenty years, I carried all of this extra weight and kidded myself that I was in good shape since that"s what I weighed in college. Now that I"ve lost all that extra weight, I feel great! People say all the time, "Well, how do you live without eating cheeseburgers or this or that?" and I say, "You just don"t. It"s not even an option. It"s not that hard once you get on it."

Belinda：

If you are on a diet, you"re always hungry. You can"t be hungry and happy at the same time. All the horrible concoctions you eat instead of food leave you permanently dissatisfied. A complete food it may be, but not quite as complete as juicy steak. So at least three times a day you will be exposed to temptation. How miserable to watch others tucking into piles of mouth-watering food while you munch a water biscuit and sip unsweetened lemon juice! And if hunger just proves too much for you, in the end you will lash out and devour five huge guilt-inducing cream cakes at a sitting．Then things will turn out to be even worse．

Wood：

I went on diet when my doctor told me that my blood pressure tended to be high. only at that time did I realize the danger of being overweight. Since I began making dietary changes in 1982，eating this way has become increasingly accepted．I don’t feel I"ve lost something after dieting．Instead, I"ve got something valuable. That is good health.

Now match each of the persons to the appropriate statement.

Note: there are two extra statements .

Statements

A．Being on a diet is a torture.

B．I feel better with vegetarian food.

C．It is not difficult to have a diet.

D．I began dieting for the sake of health.

E．Dieting enables people to enjoy life more.

F．Dieting simply causes endless worries.

G．One should have a strict control of oneself during a diet.

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Maggie

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Belinda

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Wood

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(27~31/共15题)Directions:

Read the following text from which 10 words have been removed. Choose from the words A～O the most suitable one to fill each numbered gap in the text (46-55). There are FIVE extra words that you do not need to use.

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 contact 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 that 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 happens, 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 Ocean. 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 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 is 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 the 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】______[A] Some people might want to learn some of these songs by hearts.[B] Most languages have become less and less speakers.[C] However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the language.[D] These languages don′t have many native speakers.[E] For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the world.[F] As these language become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increase, as well.[G] Papus New Guines is an extremely rich source of different language, but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction (灭绝).

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(32~41/共15题)Directions:

Read the following text from which 10 words have been removed. Choose from the words A～O the most suitable one to fill each numbered gap in the text (46-55). There are FIVE extra words that you do not need to use.

To get a sense of 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 generation 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′ll see a【C5】______ display. There, among the photosof 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 weeks 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 to 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."[A] circumstance [B] confidence[C] covers [D] current[E] deals [F] different[G] exposing [H] fast[I] honoring [J] hope[K] presently [L] rare[M] realistic [N] site[O] virtually

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(1/1)WritingDirections:

You should write your responses to both Part A and Part B of this section on your ANSWER SHEET.

Part A

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According to some surveys done by the Ministry of Education, there are about 153 million illiterates and semi-illiterates in China. Its illiteracy rate in the western region is much higher than the country"s average level and it is as high as 40 percent. The rate for the country"s whole population stands at 14 percent. Write an essay of about 120 words, stating your opinion about this issue now confronting China.

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(1/1)WritingDirections:

Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use your own words.

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Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use you own words. Media coverage of "leftover men and women" has been widespread in China over the years, raising concerns over this increasingly serious social problem. New phrases like "leftover girls" and "leftover boys" are entering the modern lexicon, referring to women and men in their late 20s or early 30s who are still single. A new report released by China′s top health authority has once again highlighted the issue. According to a survey, 21.6% of the leftover men and women are subject to long-term pressures from the society and themselves. According to the report, China′s "leftover" men and women, as unmarried denizens aged over 30 or so are charmingly called, face significant health risks. The Report on Chinese Family Development 2015 was released by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, who conducted a survey of almost 32,500 households. The result shows that against the backdrop of population migration and big differences between urban and rural areas, unmarried men of all ages are largely limited to the countryside, while unmarried women are concentrated in urban areas. The report also reveals the trend that an increasing number of men marry women much younger than they are, and that they prefer women in rural areas. This is because it is difficult to find a spouse of their age or in their cities. In some impoverished areas, two percent of the men over 50 years old are still single. Interestingly, statistics also show that the number of single women in cities who are over 30 is much higher than that in the countryside, because the former group is usually well-educated,

more financially independent, and prefers career development to marriage.

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(1~3/共11题)Listening ComprehensionDirections: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are two parts in this section, Part A and Part B.Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 3 minutes to transfer your answers from your test booklet onto your ANSWER SHEET 1.If you have any questions, you may raise your hand NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started.Now look at Part A in your test booklet.Part AYou 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 15seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.

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What does the telegram say?

第1题

A.Return immediately for his parents missed him badly.

B.Return immediately for his aunt is expecting him.

C.Return immediately for something unusual happened at home.

D.Return immediately for his uncle was seriously ill at home.

参考答案： D 您的答案：未作答

答案解析：

第2题

Why was the man relieved at last?

A.Because the telegram was a false one.

B.Because this telegram was not addressed to him.

C.Because his uncle wasn′ t ill at all.

D.Because it was somebody else that was ill.

参考答案： B 您的答案：未作答

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第3题

What kind of person is Tom supposed to be?

A.Warm-hearted but careless.

B.Curious and mischievous.

C.Helpful and tricky.

D.Prudent but cautious.

参考答案： A 您的答案：未作答

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(4~7/共11题)Listening ComprehensionDirections: This section is designed to test your ability to