英语能力考试试卷(中级3)

英语能力考试试卷 (中级3)

第1部分：词汇选项(第1-15题，每题l分，共15分)

下面每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。

1. I don’t want to get married because I don’t want any commitments.

A. responsibilities

B. housework

C. worries

D. duty

2. She speaks with a pronounced French accent.

A. strongly marked

B. thinly disguised

C. surprisingly strange

D. shortly sight

3. By some fluke the judges passed over the obvious choices and chose her.

A. success

B. accident

C. breeze

D. crash

4. The widow gave a plaintive wail at the graveside.

A. sad

B. hysteric

C. lonely

D. happy

5. We mustn’t let things fester.

A. remain the same

B. change for the better

C. become worse

D. get older

6. The university conferred an honorary degree on him.

A. created

B. gave

C. received

D. accepted

7. We fought with tooth and nail to get our plans accepted.

A. teeth and fists

B. great force or determination

C. biting and hitting

D. ideas and thoughts

8. Personally, I do not have any animosity against him.

A. hatred

B. hospitality

C. sympathy

D. thought

9. This kind of plants is indigenous, and cannot be found in other areas.

A. new

B. local

C. fragile

D. logical

10. Of the ten board members, only one dissented.

A. disagreed

B. agreed

C. refused

D. received

11. The ability to speak several languages was among his attainments.

A. merits

B. achievements

C. virtues

D. success

12. I didn’t know anything about any of the books so my choice was quite arbitrary.

A. based on facts

B. based on reason

C. based on chance or personal opinion

D. based on personality

13. No model can ever be a perfect analogue of nature itself.

A. something that is different from another thing

B. something that is similar to another thing

C. Something that is better than another thing

D. something that is worse than another thing

14. An irrevocable decision was finally made by the committee.

A. unalterable

B. inevitable

C. changeable

D. unbelievable

15. Don’t compound your mistake by lying to the police.

A. exacerbate

B. simplify

C. repeat

D. complex

第2部分：阅读判断(第16-22题，每题l分，共7分)

下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断；如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。

Pilots’ Illness

Living in space looks like lots of fun. You can do certain things in space (like floating around, or pushing huge objects) that you cannot do on earth. But being in space can do things to you, too. If you stay too long in a gravity-free environment, your bones could become weak, and a small spaceship just might annoy you after a while, because space travel could make you seasick!

On July 4, 1982, after seven days orbiting the earth, astronauts Thomas K. Mattingly and Henry W. Hartsfield returned home. Although not all of the experiments on board worked properly, the flight basically seemed to be a success except for one “little” thing: early in the flight, astronaut Hartsfield became “seasick”.

Thomas Mattingly, who is also a jet pilot and is highly resistant to motion sickness on earth, did much better. Mattingly sailed through space with a steady stomach. But no one knows why Hartsfield felt uneasy and Mattingly did not.

So far it seems there is no reliable way to predict who will become motion sick in outer space and who will not. In all, at least four astronauts have suffered from space motion sickness. Russian and American scientists are working together to try to understand and solve the motion sickness. Space program officials worry that if so many highly-trained pilots get sick in space, what will happen when civilians start flying in the shuttle?

Motion sickness is a disagreeable feeling that comes from the pitching, rolling, swaying, or just the moving of the object you are riding in or on. Symptoms of motion sickness include: dizziness, headache, a sinking feeling in the stomach, and vomiting.