2009年成人英语三级考试模拟试题(3)
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Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
Questions 1-5 are based on the following passage
A great difference between American social customs and those of other countries is the way in which names are used. Americans have little concern for “rank”, especially socially. Most Americans do not want to be treated in any especially respectful way because of their age or social rank; it makes them feel uncomfortable. Many Americans even find the terms “Mr.”, “Mrs” or “Miss” too formal. People of all ages may prefer to be called by their first names. “Don’t call me Mrs Smith. Just call me Sally.” Using only first names usually indicates friendliness and acceptance. However, if you do not feel comfortable using only first names, it is quite acceptable to be more formal. Just smile and say that after a while you will use first names but you are accustomed to being more when you first meet someone.
Very often, introductions are made using both first and last names: “ Mary Smith, this is John Jones.” In this situation you are free to decide whether to call the lady “Mary” or “Miss Smith”. Sometimes both of you will begin a conversation using last names, and after a while one or both of you may begin using first names instead. You have a choice: if you don’t want to use first names so quickly, no one will think it impolite if you continue according to you own custom.
1. In the first paragraph the author tells us that
A. Americans do not talk about rank, especially socially
B. Americans feel uncomfortable when talking about rank
C. Americans tae interests in social customs
D. Americans don’t care much about social rank
2. According to the passage, most Americans feel when they are treated especially respectfully owing to their age or social rank.
A. sick B. sorry C. uneasy D. embarrassed
3. Which of the following statements in NOT true?
A. The way names are used in America is different from those of other countries.
B. Many Americans are used to being called by their first names.
C. It shows friendliness and kindness to use only first names.
D. When you talk to people in the United States, you have to use their first names.
4. If an American lady say “Don’t call me Mrs Smith, just call me Sally.” that shows
A. she is not a married woman
B. she prefers to be called “Sally”
C. she is not Mrs Smith
D. she likes to be more formal
5. The passage you’ve just read would most likely be found in a
A. guide-book for tourists
B. book about American history
C. notice
D. short story
Passage 2
Questions 6-10 are based the following passage
Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end-with commercials thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. “Buy Super Clean Toothpaste.” “Drink Good’n Wet Root Beer.” “Fill up with Pacific Gas.” Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of “You Need It! Buy It Now!”
The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if you’ve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changed-new houses, new buildings, sometimes even a new road. The bus driver has a style of driving and it’s fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so. If the driver is particularly reckless or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense story. Will the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the right or the left-hand lane? After a while, of course, the excitement dies down. Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting. But you’ve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops.
The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning. You know it will soon be over and there’s a kind of expectation and excitement in that. The seat, of course, has become harder as the hours have passed. By now you’ve sat with you legs crossed, with your hands crossed behind your head. The end comes just at the right time. There are just no more ways to sit.
6. According to the passage, what do the passengers usually see when they are on a long bus trip?
A. Buses on the road.
B. Films on television.
C. Advertisements on the board.
D. Gas stations.
7. What is the purpose of this passage?
A. To give the writer’s opinion about long bus trips.
B. To persuade you to take a long bus trip.
C. To explain how bus trips and television shows differ.
D. To describe the billboards along the road.
8. The writer of this passage would probably favor
A. bus drivers who weren’t reckless
B. driving alone
C. a television set on the bus
D. no billboards along the road
9. The writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because
A. the commercials both on TV shows and on billboards along the road are fun
B. they both have a beginning, a middle, and an end, with commercials in between
C. the drivers are always reckless on TV shows just as they are on buses
D. both traveling and watching TV are not exciting
10. The writer thinks that the end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning because both are
A. exciting B. comfortable C. tiring D. boring
Passage 3
Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage
No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.
All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation” of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting it.
I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is “a criticism of life”, “a heightening of life, enjoyment with others”. It is “an approach to the truth of feeling”, and it “can save your life” It also deserves a place in the teaching of languages and literature more central than it presently occupies.
I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don’t like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.
11. According to the passage, to have a better understanding of a poem, the best way is
A. to discuss it with others
B. to analyze it by oneself
C. to hear it read out
D. to practice reading it aloud
12. The recitation of a poetry by the teacher or a student in the classroom
A. is the best way to understand it
B. easily arouses some discussion among the students
C. helps the teachers to analyse it
D. can not take the place of the poet reading it analyse
13. According to the author, one of the purposes of teaching English is getting students
A. to criticize life B. to like poetry
C. to enjoy life D. to teach poetry
14. What does the last sentence in the third paragraph imply?
A. The teaching of poetry should have been much more stressed
B. The teaching of poetry is more important than the teaching of any other subject.
C. One cannot enjoy life fully without an understanding of poetry.
D. Poetry is the foundation of all languages and literature courses.
15. The phrase “make room” in the last paragraph can be best replaced by
A. “build a booth” B. “provide equipment”
C. “leave a certain amount of time” D. “set aside enough space”
Part Ⅱ Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. You might have the accident if you had had your headlights on.
A. missed B. avoided C. escaped D. dismissed
2. The streets were deserted the policeman on duty.
A. except B. except for C. but D. besides
3. It said that he murder.
A. committed B. conducted C. executed D. emitted
4. If the sun in the west, I would follow you.
A. were to rise B. was to rise C. had risen D. would rise
5. He let me use his computer and return I treated him to dinner.
A. for B. as C. in D. of
6. It was not until she has arrived home remembered her appointment with the doctor.
A. when she B. that she C. and she D. she
7. We didn’t know his telephone number; otherwise we him.
A. had telephone B. would telephone
C. must have telephoned D. would have telephoned
8. Don’t risk the chance which so many people dream of.
A. losing B. to lose C. lost D. your life to lose
9. I see no in leaving my company since I am doing quite well there.
A. reason B. excuse C. point D. chance
10. to speak when the audience interrupted him.
A. Hardly had he begun B. No sooner had he begun
C. Not until he began D. Scarcely did he begin
11. He finished reading and went on a composition.
A. write B. to write C. writing D. being written
12. for your help, we’d never have been able to get over the difficulties.
A. Had it not B. If it were not C. had it not been D. If we had not been
13. Now the committee seven members.
A. consist of B. is consisting of C. is consisted of D. consists of
14. There are no seats for those who are late for the show.
A. available B. enough C. supplied D. make
15. The problem at the meeting next week is of great importance.
A. discussed B. to be discussed C. being discussed D. discussing
16. The trip will be till next week because of the bad weather.
A. put out B. put off C. put on D. put up
17. It is recommended that the project until all the preparations have been made.
A. not be started B. will not be started
C. is not started D. is not to be started
18. It’s time about the traffic problem downtown.
A. something was done B. anything will be done
C. everything is done D. nothing to be done
19. John is determined to carry out the very important experiment happens, he will not change his plan.
A. That B. Whatever C. What D. Wherever
20. at the station, John found the train had just left.
A. On reaching B. On arrival C. At reaching D. At arrival
21. Soon he got his difficulties and succeeded.
A. across B. away C. over D. through
22. he had forgot to take his notebook.
A. That occurred to him B. To him that occurred
C. He occurred that D. It occurred to him that
23. They discussed the problem three or four times and finally came to .
A. end B. conclusion C. result D. judgment
24.It around nine o’clock when I drove back home because it was already dark.
A. had to be B. was to be C. must have been D. must be
25. I’d rather that you tomorrow than today.
A. came B. will come C. had come D. is coming
26. I wish I to study English years ago.
A. had started B. started C. could start D. would start
27. I doubt .
A. whether he can come B. if he can come or not
C. while he will be here D. that he will come
28. The children were surprised when the teacher had them their books unexpectedly.
A. closed B. to close C. closing D. close
29. It is not use .
A. to buy books and not to read them B. buying books and not to read them
C. buying books and not reading them D. to buy books and not reading them
30. This is the place the foreign guests are going to visit
A. where B. when C. how D. which
Identification
Directions: Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked A, B, C, and D. Identify the one that is not correct. Them mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. During the holidays, every train and steamboat were crowded.
A B C D
2. Pioneer woman in the West had more opportunities to work than they had in the East.
A B C D
3. Even though the children pretended asleep, the nurses were not deceived when they came into the room.
A B C D
4. Neither John or his father was able to wake up early enough to catch the morning train.
A B C D
5. The reason Michael has made such great progress is because he has never wasted his time.
A B C D
6. The chairman proposed that every speaker must limit himself to fifteen minutes.
A B C D
7. Mr. Jacking regretted to blame his secretary for the mistake, for he later discovered it was his own fault.
A B C D
8. You will not be able to succeed except you work harder than you do now.
A B C D
9. Jack has set his mind to go to college next year even though he hasn’t saved up enough money to pay his tuition.
10. The book was so bored that I returned it to the library without finishing it.
A B C D
Cloze
Directions: Each blank in the following passage is provided with four choices. Read each of the passage and choose the best answer for each blank. Then, mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Television, it is often said, keeps one 1) about current events, allows one to follow the 2) developments in science and politics, and 3) an endless series of programs which are both 4) and stimulating. The most distant 5) and the strangest customs are brought right 6) one’s sitting room. It could be argued that the radio performs this 7) just as well; but on television everything is much more living, much more 8) . Yet here is a danger. The television screen itself has a terrible, almost physical fascination for us. We get 9) used to looking at its movements, so 10) on its flickering pictures, that it begins to 11) our lives. A friend of 12) told me the other day that his television set had broken 13) and that he and his family had suddenly found that they had far more time to do things, and that they had 14) begun to talk to each other again. It makes one think, 15) it!
There are many other arguments for and against television. The poor 16) of its programs is often criticized. But is undoubtedly a great comfort to many 17) elderly people. And does it corrupt or instruct our children? I think we must realize that television 18) is neither good nor bad. It is the uses 19) which it is put that determine its 20) to society.
1. A. informative B. informed C. knowing D. familiar
2. A. latter B. late C. latest D. later
3. A. offers B. awards C. rewards D. avails
4. A. teaching B. instructive C. constructive D. illuminating
5. A. nations B. powers C. states D. countries
6. A. up to B. into C. down D. inside
7. A. business B. aid C. service D. duty
8. A. true B. vivid C. actual D. real
9. A. quite B. much C. so D. rather
10. A. dependable B. dependent C. reliable D. relying
11. A. dominate B. master C. rule D. ruin
12. A. me B. my C. mine D. I
13. A. down B. up C. off D. out
14. A. truly B. actually C. genuinely D. ruin
15. A. does B. doesn’t C. isn’t D. is
16. A. quantity B. quality C. character D. grade
17. A. lonely B. alone C. single D. solitary
18. A. by itself B. of itself C. in itself D. itself
19. A. into B. to C. on D. toward
20. A. price B. worth C. merit D. value
Translation
1. Directions: In this part, there are five items which you should translate into Chinese, each consisting of one or two sentences.
1) Most Americans do not want to be treated in any especially respectful way because of their age or social rank.
2) If the driver is particularly reckless or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense story.
3) By now you’ve sat with your legs crossed, with your hands in your lap, with your hands on the arms rests-even with your hands crossed behind your head.
4) No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student.
5) But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.
II. Translate the following sentences into English
1.成功在于勤奋，这句话很正确。
2.只要你不断努力，你迟早会解决这个问题。
3.如果有机会，约翰也许就已经成为一位杰出的画家了。
4.她行医已经有三年零四个月了。
5.就是在那间斗室里，他们勤奋地工作着，憧憬着美好的未来。
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