公共英语三级考试模拟试卷

公共英语三级考试模拟试卷
SECTION Ⅰ Listening
Directions:
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 section, you will have 3 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET.
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 A
Directions:
You will hear 8 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 dialogue only once.
1、Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. At the post office.
B. At the restaurant.
C. At a beauty shop.
D. At the coffee shop.
2、What does the woman mean?
A. The old man always troubles the others.
B. The old man likes to make a joke on others.
C. The old man is good at preventing you from doing anything.
D. Something is wrong with your legs.
3、What do we know about Jim from the words of the woman?
A. Jim wants to change his job.
B. Jim often makes his room clean.
C. Jim has pressure from his new job in mind.
D. Jim is determined to buy a new room.
4、Where's Miss Richard?
A. In her kitchen.
B. In her office.
C. In her bedroom.
D. In her factory.
5、What did the man forget?
A. Cigarette holder.
B. Cigarette lighter.
C. Cigarette case.
D. Cigarettes.
6、What is the man going to do?
A. To borrow some typing paper from the woman.
B. To lend the woman some typing paper.
C. To tape for the woman.
D. To buy some typing paper for the woman.
7、What's the probable relationship between the two speaker?
A. Student-Teacher.
B. Reporter-Editor.
C. Secretary-Administrator.
D. Writer-Publisher.
8、What is being discussed?
A. A head cold.
B. The weather.
C. The woman's son.
D. Fatigue.
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 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 the recording only once.
9、Where does this dialogue take place?
A. On a train.
B. In a convenience store.
C. On a bus.
D. In a bank.
10、What seems to be the woman's problem?
A. She doesn't have a penny on her to take the bus.
B. She doesn't have small change to take the bus.
C. She refuses to pay the bus fare.
D. She misunderstands what the bus driver is saying.
11、What favor does the woman ask the bus driver to do for her?
A. Allow her to take the bus for free this time.
B. Give her twenty minutes to break the money in the convenience store.
C. Break the money the driver himself.
D. Send her to her company because she is going to be late.
12、Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The driver can't wait for her for 5 minutes because he has to keep the schedule.
B. The driver suggests her taking another bus.
C. The driver asks the woman to stand by to make way for other passengers.
D. The driver gives the woman $2.5 back for change after she has given him $5.
13、What do we know about the woman's family?
A. They kept a lot of birds.
B. They lived in a big house.
C. They owned a small farm.
D. They suffered from poverty.
14、What did the woman's mother impress her with?
A. Her love.
B. Her success.
C. Her ambition.
D. Her knowledge.
15、What did the woman's mother wish her to do?
A. Go to college.
B. Become a writer.
C. Have a better life.
D. Support her family.
16、In what field do most people in Kansas work?
A. Mining.
B. Running railroads.
C. Farming.
D. Manufacturing.
17、What did the early pioneers think about Kansas?
A. They liked the rich soil.
B. They found slave labor too expensive.
C. They thought there was gold in western Kansas.
D. They considered the land unproductive.
18、What is the probable reason why the population in Kansas began to grow?
A. Its attitude towards slavery.
B. Its cheap land.
C. Its climate which is suitable for farming.
D. Its advanced railroad system.
19、What did Marco Polo see when he was in China?
A．Cai Lun invented paper.
B．The Chinese used paper money.
C．The Chinese saved paper.
D．Cai Lun invented books.
20、When did people in western countries first use paper money?
A．In the 7th century.
B．In the 15th century.
C．In the 13th century.
D．2,000 years ago.
21、How many trees should be cut down if you want to make 1,000 tons of paper?
A．71,000.
B．48,000.
C．17,000.
D．28,000.
22、Why should we start using less paper?
A．Because paper is becoming more expensive.
B．Because the waste paper pollutes the environment.
C．Because producing paper is very difficult.
D．Because it takes a tree more than ten years to grow up.
SECTION Ⅱ Reading
Part A
Directions:
Read the following two texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
Text 1
Since he was a child, Don Cameron has been interested in anything that flies. He grew up on the outskirts of Glasgow and, as a student at Glasgow University, joined the University Air Squadron. Interest in the mechanics of movement, if not flight, was a family tradition. His grandfather was an engineer, who turned his hand to making model steam engines and boats.
Don Cameron's first job was at Bristol Aircraft, where he worked as an engineer. He then had jobs in the steel works at Lanwern and for Rio-Tinto Zine in Bristol, working with computers. In the mid-sixties came news of American experiments with hot air balloons that crossed the Atlantic, so he and a couple of friends decided to build their own balloon. Probably the first hot air balloon in western Europe, they called it the Bristol Belle. Now there are 300 balloons in this country alone—and at least two-thirds of them have been made by the firm Don Cameron set up, Cameron Balloons.
At 40 he has already been halfway round the world by balloons. In 1972 he piloted the first hot air balloon to cross the Swiss Alps; and later that year he took part in what he calls "an odd expedition" to the Sahara Desert, with two balloons and a truck to carry the gas. He has crossed the Channel by balloon and even flown in the Arctic Circle in one. He started the business in the basement of the large Victorian house, where he lives with his wife Kim and two children. Now Cameron Balloons has its own premises in an old church hall in Bristol, making about 150 balloons a year. They include specially designed balloons for advertising purposes. The firm exports all over the world and is setting up a factory in America, where balloons will be made for them under license. The turnover is now around $ 500 000 a year and there is a staff of about 25.
23、Don Cameron's interest in flying ______.
A. began at school
B. began at university
C. came from a wish to imitate his grandfather
D. was the result of his professional experience
24、He began working with balloons ______.
A. as a relaxation from his work on aircraft
B. as part of his job at the time
C. as a hobby
D. when he heard that some Americans had crossed the Atlantic in one
25、Don Cameron's company ______.
A. is the only one of its kind in Britain
B. made the first balloon in Europe
C. has made most of the balloons in Britain
D. is now the largest in the world
26、When he started his company, Don ______.
A. spent most of his time on test flights
B. was mainly interested in designing balloons for advertising
C. worked hard, whereas now he relaxes
D. built the balloons at home
27、The success of Don's business can be measured by the fact that ______.
A. he has made 150 of the balloons in Britain
B. he now has enough orders to employ a number of people
C. he delivers balloons to France
D. he is going to move his factory to America
Text 2
In 1997, 25 Japanese citizens, all older than 60, launched Jeeba (the name means "old man and old woman") to make senior-friendly products. They knew they were making history when they coined their company motto: "Of the elderly, by the elderly and for the elderly." They do not hire young people, and the oldest of their workers is 75.
Firms run by senior citizens are still a rarity, in Japan and worldwide. But the elderly have numbers on their side. Healthier and longer-living seniors, born immediately after World War II, are reaching retirement age in huge numbers all over the developed world. Extremely low birthrates in those same countries mean there are far fewer young workers to take their place. One likely consequence is now clear: shrinking work forces.
While the streamlining effects of international competition are focusing attention on the need to create and keep good jobs, those fears will eventually give way to worries about the growing shortage of young workers. One unavoidable solution: putting older people back to work, whether they like it or not. Indeed, advanced economies like those of Finland and Denmark have already raised their retirement ages. Others are under severe pressure to follow suit, as both the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have recently warned their members that their future prosperity depends on a growing contribution from the elderly.
Whether these changes are good or bad news to workers depends on whether they anticipate retirement with eagerness or dread. In the United States, half of working-age Americans now expect to work into their 70s, whether by financial necessity or by lifestyle choice, according to a new study by Putnam Investments.
Contrary to still widespread assumptions, there is very little hard evidence to suggest that companies cannot stay competitive with a rising share of older workers. At British hardware chain B&Q, its "elder worker" stores in Manchester and Exmouth were 18 percent more profitable than its regular outlets—due in part, the company says, to six times less employee turnover and 60 percent less shoplifting and breakage.
28、Jeeba's difference from a conventional company mainly lies in ______.
A. the age of its employees
B. the number of its owners
C. the quality of its products
D. the scope of its operations
29、In the developed world, compared with young people, the elderly ______.
A. are better at business
B. are greater in number
C. have healthier lifestyles
D. have more job opportunities
30、According to the writer, in the current situation companies are faced with the tough task of
______.
A. creating good positions
B. employing retired workers
C. filling vacant positions
D. replacing unskilled workers
31、For future prosperity, many European countries will have to ______.
A. increase the number of young workers
B. offer many senior-friendly jobs
C. improve services for seniors
D. raise their retirement ages
32、B&Q's "elder worker" stores are mentioned to show that the employment of older workers
______.
A. does not reduce a company's competitiveness
B. does not affect older workers' lifestyle choices
C. is not a usual practice among competitive firms
D. is not good news to those who are eager to retire
Part B
Directions:
Read the texts from a magazine in which five people voice their different opinions in response to
an article on the issue of praising. For questions 1-5, match the name of each person to one of the statements (A-G. given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET.
Mike:
Praise often and sincerely—it's as simple as that. Employees want to feel needed and appreciated. By offering sincere praise with examples about what they did right, you'll go far in creating an energetic team. Meanwhile, I don't agree with the assertion that "to focus on what needs improving isn't good management." In fact, it's the balance of praise along with constructive criticism that drives employees to work smarter and reach higher.
Frank:
This article makes a valid point that needs to be understood, especially for the new generation of workers, my generation. We don't see ourselves as parts in the machine to be put in the dark to work. My generation needs respect in return from our employer, we need to feel appreciated beyond just a pay check, it's the difference between being fulfilled at our career and being sad at our job.
Joyce:
One skill missing in today's workplace is the ability to build effective business relationships. At the core of that relationship is the need for consistent feedback. "How am I doing?" is a question that should be answered consistently. When you tell an employee once a year what is needed to improve, you have not done your job as a leader—build skills, provide feedback and help the employee grow and develop.
Ellen:
I don't see a problem with praising employees when it's truly deserved (insincere praise is an entirely different story). It's a cost-free "benefit", if you will, in that it allows employees to see that their efforts are both noticed and valued. In the work world there are always people available to tell that you are doing something wrong and far too few occasions when employees are told that
they've done something right!
Diana:
Praise what the employee did. Be specific about why it was helpful. An employee who continually earns your praise also deserves your attention as to how else to reward their behavior. Meaningful praise encourages people beyond anything else. Written comments are available for later review. They give them confidence that they can "do it again." I never regretted praising an employee who deserved it but often kicked myself for missing an opportunity.
Now match the name of each person (1 to 5) to the appropriate statement.
Note: there are two extra statements.
Statements
A. Praise combined with criticism is helpful.
B. Praise can bring about many kinds of desired behavior.
C. Employees may feel it hard to accept insincere praise.
D. Let employees know exactly for what they are praised.
E. In my opinion, we are not generous enough to give praise.
F. Employees need helpful advice on a regular basis.
G. Money alone cannot guarantee a sense of career fulfillment for me.
33、Mike
34、Frank
35、Joyce
36、Ellen
37、Diana
Part C
Directions:
Read the following text from which five sentences have been removed. Choose from the sentences A-G the most suitable one to fill each numbered gap in the text (1-5). There are TWO extra sentences that you do not need to use. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
In shopping malls, the assistants try to push you into buying "a gift to thank her for her unselfish love". When you log onto a website, a small pop-up invites you to book a bouquet for her. Commercial warmth and gratitude are the atmosphere being spread around for this special Sunday
in May.
38 The popularity of Mother's Day around the world suggests that Jarvis got all she wanted. In fact, she got more enough to make her horrified.
39 They buy, among other things, 132 million cards. Mother's Day is the No.1 holiday for flower purchases. Then there are the various commodities, ranging from jewelry and clothes to cosmetics and washing powder, that take advantage of the promotion opportunities. Because of this, Jarvis spent the last 40 years of her life trying to stop Mother's Day. One protest against the commercialization of Mother's Day even got her arrested—for disturbing the peace, interestingly.
40 As Ralph Fevre, a reporter at the UK newspaper The Guardian, observed, traditionally "motherhood is something that we do because we think it's right." But in the logic of commercialism, people need something in exchange for their time and energy. A career serves this purpose better.
41 So they work hard and play hard. Becoming a mother, however, inevitably handicaps career anticipation.
42 According to The Guardian, there are twice as many child-free young women as there were a generation ago. Or, they put off the responsibility of parenting until later in their lives.
So, Fevre writes that the meaning of celebrating Mother's Day needs to be updated: "It is to persuade people that parenting is a good idea and to honor people for their attempt to be good people."
A. Obviously, the best gift will be a phone call or a visit.
B. Nowadays Mother's Day become more and more commercialization.
C. According to a research by the US card company Hallmark, 96 percent of American consumers celebrate the holiday.
D. In addition, women are being encouraged to pursue any career they desire.
E. But what's more, commercialism changes young people's attitude towards motherhood.
F. As a result, motherhood has suffered a huge drop in status since the 1950s.
G. The American version of Mother's Day was thought up as early as 1905, by Anna Jarvis, as a way of recognizing the real value of motherhood.
Part D
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 (1-10). There are FIVE extra words that you do not need to use. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
As is known to all, the organization and management of wages and salaries are very complex. Generally speaking, the Accounts Department is 43 for calculations of pay, while the Personnel Department is interested in discussions with the employees about pay.
If a firm wants to 44 a new wage and salary structure, it is essential that the firm should decide on a 45 of job evaluation and ways of measuring the performance of its employees. In order to be 46 , that new pay structure will need agreement between Trade Unions and employers. In job evaluation, all of the requirements of each job are defined in a detailed job description. Each of those requirements is given a value, usually in "points", which
are 47 together to give a total value for the job. For middle and higher management, a special method is used to evaluate managers on their knowledge of the job, their responsibility, and
their 48 to solve problems. Because of the difficulty in measuring management work, however, job grades for managers are often decided without 49 to an evaluation system based on points.
In attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel Department should 50 the value of each job with these in the job market. 51 , payment for a job should vary with any differences in the way that the job is performed. Where it is simple to measure the work done, as in the works done with hands, monetary encouragement schemes are often chosen, for 52 workers, where measurement is difficult, methods of additional payments are employed.
A. adopt
B. find
C. useful
D. indirect
E. responsible
F. reference
G. added
H. method
I. capacity
J. Basically
K. Necessarily
L. successful
M. ability
N. combined
O. compare
SECTION Ⅲ Writing
Directions:
You should write your responses to both Part A and Part B of this section on your ANSWER SHEET.
Part A
53、You haven't contacted your American friend James for a long time, and now you need to write a letter to invite him to deliver a lecture on American Culture. Please write a letter. (About 100 words) Part B
54、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.
Lori Schneider knows a few things about fear. "We were crossing a ridge that dropped off 8,000 feet on both sides," says the 53-year-old climber of ascending Mount Everest last spring. "The wind was blowing at 60 miles an hour. If there was ever a moment to panic, this was it. "
But she didn't. An hour later, she reached the peak--the last step in her personal challenge to scale the highest mountains on all seven continents.
Ten years earlier, she'd come face-to-face with a different type of fear, when she was unable to feel anything in the right side of her body. After learning she had multiple sclerosis (MS)--a serious illness that gradually makes a person weak and unable to move or see, she left her marriage, job, and home: "I ran from my whole life. "
It was just before climbing South America's Mount Aconcagua in 2000 that she set her sights on the Seven Summits. After training by pulling 50-pound bags of dog food up the ski slopes near her home, she topped Europe's Mount Elbrus in 2002, North America's McKinley in 2006, and Australia's Kosciuszko and Antarctica's Vinson Massif in 2008. She'd scaled Africa's Kilimanjaro in 1993. That left Asia's Everest, the highest of all.
And there she stood, on a ridge at 28,800 feet. "When I trained, I told myself to take one step at a time by spelling out words," she says. "So I spelled out 'Don't let fear in. '" It got her to the top.
She's the first person with MS to conquer the Seven Summits. With her condition stable, she plans a return to Kilimanjaro--this time with 15 others with MS by her side.
答案:
SECTION Ⅰ Listening
Part A
1、C
[听力原文]
M: It seems to be a little long now, but if it's curled, it will look just fine. I will give it a little trim if you want. What do you think?
W: All right, go ahead.
2、B
[听力原文]
M: Do you know the old man there?
W: Yes, he is often fond of pulling your leg.
3、C
[听力原文]
M: It seems that Jim never cleans his small room.
W: Really? I think he has a bit of load in his mind after he has got a new job now.
4、B
[听力原文]
M: Where is Miss Richard at the moment?
W: In her office.
M: What's she doing there?
W: She's typing, I think.
5、B
[听力原文]
W: Excuse me, Sir. Is this your cigarette lighter?
M: I beg your pardon?
W: I said, "Is this your cigarette lighter?"
M: Oh, yes, it is. Thank you so much.
W: Not at all. It's a pleasure.
6、D
[听力原文]
W: I'm out of typing paper. Will you lend me some?
M: I don't have any either, but I'll be glad to get you some when I get to the shop.
7、A
[听力原文]
M: I think if I learn enough vocabulary, I won't have any trouble using English.
W: That's not necessarily so. You'll see in my lecture today that language consists of much more than just vocabulary.
8、B
[听力原文]
M: Have you ever seen so much snow?
W: I'm tired of all this cold! I wish we'd see the sun for a change.
Part B
9、C
[听力原文]
W: Hello, How much is the fare?
M: It's $2.50.
W: Oh, damn. I've only got a five. Can you break this for me?
M: Sorry. Exact change only.
W: But I'm in a terrible rush. Can't you make an exception just this once?
M: Sorry, lady. Rules are rules.
W: How am I going to get on, then, without any change?
M: There's a convenience store over there. I'm sure they can give you change.
W: Will you wait for me?
M: I've got a schedule to keep, lady. I can't wait five minutes for you to go in there and get change. There'll be another bus in fifteen minutes.
W: That's too long! I'll be late for work.
M : I'm sorry there's nothing I can do. Now, would you please step aside. There are other people waiting to get on.
W: Ugh. You know what, here. Just take the entire bucks.
M: But, I alright, if you say so. Next.10、B 11、C 12、D
13、D
[听力原文]
M: Your readers are interested in your childhood. What was it like?
W: I grew up in a small town. We lived in very poor housing but we lived always in very beautiful settings, so I have favorite trees and I have contacted with birds. My parents were farm workers. Though we were poor for most of part, I think I was often happy.
M: It would not have been expected from that background that you'll become a literary figure. Was your mother ambitious with you?
W: Well, my mother wasn't especially ambitious with me in the sense of going to college when I grew up. I think her greatest contribution was simply that she loved me very much. No matter what happened, I had my mother with me.
M: She gave you confidence.
W: Oh, she did. She earned very little money, offering about $10 a week and never more than $20 a week. And in spite of that, she managed to buy a typewriter for me. She managed to buy me my first toothpaste when I left home. She just wanted me to be able to do things that she couldn't do even she didn't know what they were.14、A 15、C
16、C
[听力原文]
The state of Kansas is called the "Bread Basket of America" because it ranks first in wheat growing and flour milling. That may have something to do with the fact that the majority of people in the state are engaged in farming. In addition, there are hundreds of cattle farms in western Kansas, some of which cover 50000 acres. The state is larger than most states, but rather it has a small population.
In pioneer days, many settlers passed through Kansas seeking rich land and gold farther west. Looking upon Kansas as a "useless waste land", they refused to settle there. However, when Kansas joined the Union in 1861 as a free state opposed to slave labor, the population began to increase. Finally, the railroads helped to attract settlers by selling them inexpensive land.17、D
18、A
19、B
[听力原文]
In the 13th century, the famous Italian traveler, Marco Polo, traveled a long way to China. During his stay in China, he saw many wonderful things. one of the things he discovered was that the Chinese used paper money. In western countries, people did not use paper money until the 15th century. However, people in China began to use paper money in the 7th century. A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2,000 years ago. He made it from wood. He took the wood from trees and made it into paper. He then put these pieces of paper together and made them into a book.
Now paper still comes from trees. We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not he any trees left on the earth. If there are no trees, there will be no paper. It is reported that people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper only in Shanghai every day. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that they are cutting nearly 48,000 trees every day. Since it takes more than ten years for a tree to grow, we must start using less paper now. If we don't，we will not have enough time to grow more trees to take the place of those we use for paper. [解析] 事实细节题。

题干意为：“马可波罗在中国期间看到了什么?”A项意为“蔡伦发明纸”；B项意为“中国人用纸币”；C项意为“中国人节约用纸”；D项意为“蔡伦发明书”。

听力材料中提到：one of the things he discovered was that the Chinese used paper money．(马可波罗的发现之一就是中国人使用纸币。

)由此推断，马可波罗在中国期间看到中国人使用纸币。

因此，B为正确答案。

20、B
[解析] 时间数字题。

题干意为：“西方国家的人们什么时候第一次使用纸币?”A项意为“在七世纪”；B 项意为“在15世纪”；C项意为“在13世纪”；D项意为“2000年前”。

听力材料中提到：In western countries, people did not use paper money until the 15th century.(在西方国家，人们直到15世纪才使用纸币。

)由此推断，西方国家的人们在15世纪第一次使用纸币。

因此，B为正确答案。

21、C
[解析] 时间数字题。

题干意为：“生产1000吨纸需要砍伐多少棵树?”听力材料中提到It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper(生产一吨纸需要17棵树)，由此推断，生产1000吨纸需要17000棵树。

因此，C为正确答案。

22、D
[解析] 因果关系题。

题干意为：“我们为什么应该减少用纸?”A项意为“因为纸张越来越贵”；B项意为“因为废纸会污染环境”；C项意为“因为纸张生产非常困难”；D项意为“因为一棵树需要十多年时间才能长成”。

听力材料中提到“Since it takes more than ten years for a tree to grow, we must start using less。