新视野三级试题及答案A

New Horizon College English Test
Band 3 (A)
2005.1
Paper One
Part I. Listening Comprehension (20% )
Section A (1’*10=10’)
Directions:In this section, you?ll hear ten short conversations. After each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and question will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question.
1. A. She couldn?t go. B. She hurt herself.
C. She was delayed by the rain.
D. She was not able to meet Nancy.
2. A. To find a house about 20 miles away from work.
B. To drive about 20 miles to work everyday.
C. To buy a farm near the city.
D. To give up her work in town.
3. A. Carry the box down. B. Take the books upstairs.
C. Move the bricks.
D. Help the woman downstairs.
4. A. The woman shouldn?t be so upset.
B. He?s already an hour late for the interview.
C. The woman feels nervous about the interview.
D. He?s too nervous to calm down.
5. A. His money was stolen. B. He lost his passport.
C. His passport is in the car.
D. Somebody stole his passport.
6. A. Looking for water. B. Planting something.
C. Looking for something.
D. Getting dirty.
7. A. Twenty dollars. B. Twenty-five dollars.
C. Forty dollars.
D. Fifty dollars.
8. A. He used to have one like that. B. He didn?t think much of it.
C. He would like to have one like that.
D. It was not a very good bicycle.
9. A. Borrow his notes. B. Take a note to his professor.
C. Lend him her notes.
D. Help him to make notes.
10. A. It is raining. B. It is snowing.
C. It is cloudy.
D. It is clear.
Section B (1’*5=5’)
Directions:In this section, you?ll hear a short passage. The passage will be read only once. At the end of the passage you?ll hear five questions about what was said. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question.
11. A. In a city. B. At the foot of a mountain.
C. In his hometown.
D. In a seaside village.
12. A. In 1588. B. In 1885.
C. In 1682.
D. In 1518.
13. A. His parents. B. His friends.
C. Many of the tourists.
D. His guests.
14. A. He bought it. B. He sold it.
C. He rented it.
D. He left it empty.
15. A. Because it is small. B. Because it is modern.
C. Because it is quiet and peaceful.
D. Because it is cheap.
Section C ( Please put your answers on your Answer Sheet)(0.5*10=5’)
Directions:In this section, you?ll hear a passage three times. Listen carefully during the first reading. Then listen again. When the first part of the passage is being read, you should fill
in the missing words during the pause at each blank. After listening to the second part, you are
also required to write down the missing words according to what was said. Check your answers
when the passage is read the third time.
People in all parts of the world are observing “No Tobacco Day”. It is the day when the World Health Organization appeals to people to stop using tobacco _1_____. It hopes that if people stop smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco for one day, they will stop _ 2_______.
Health _ 3_____ have warned for years that smoking can lead to _ 4______ disease,
cancer and other problems. The World Health Organization says disease linked to smoking kill
at least 2,500,000 _ 5_____ each year.
“No Tobacco Day” is aimed at smokers and those who _ 6_____ money from tobacco sales. So businesses are asked to stop _ 7_____ tobacco products for 24 hours. Newspapers are asked not to _ 8______ advertisements for cigarettes.
Two important developments have been observed in _ 9_____ years. In industrial countries, the number of smokers has been falling about one percent a year. But in _ 10 __ countries, the number has been rising two percent a year.
This is the result of increased efforts by tobacco companies to sell their products in
developing countries.
Part II. Vocabulary and Structure (20%)
Directions: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence.
16. By the fact that he stayed in the United States for more than ten years, he developed
an American ________.
A. stress
B. sound
C. voice
D. accent
17. I would like to ________ you of the following changes we've made in the plans for
the development of our company.
A. notice
B. note
C. notify
D. suggest
18. In the 200 meters, Lisa and Rose came first and third .
A. respectably
B. respectively
C. respectfully
D. respecting
19. The millions of calculations involved, had they been done by hand, _____ all practical
value by the time they were finished.
A. had lost
B. would have lost
C. would lose
D. should have lost
20. Today the most difficult and questions about the economic crisis of the late
1990s concern its deeper causes, both domestic and international.
A. comprehensive
B. controversial
C. conventional
D. controversy
21. When the fire alarm rang we outside the emergency exit.
A. approved
B. collected
C. resembled
D. assembled
22. The policeman carefully opened the box and put a chemical on the paper, and the
fingerprints .
A. showed up
B. showed off
C. showed down
D. showed on
23. The children of the rich and powerful experience from birth.
A. priority
B. providing
C. privilege
D. preceding
24. I think the thing to do is to phone before you go.
A. sensitive
B. sensible
C. sensational
D. senseless
25. The environment of this city will be more seriously polluted ____ effective
measures are taken to prevent factories from sending out poisonous gases and
waste water.
A. if
B. once
C. however
D. unless
26. We must make sure that tourism develops in harmony the environment.
A. with
B. for
C. to
D. on
27. We give a 10% for immediate payment.
A. counter
B. discount
C. delivery
D. replacement
28. Please _______ my luggage is sent to the airport before seven tomorrow morning.
A. see to that
B. see to it that
C. seeing that
D. seen that
29. Is there a French word that is the exact of the English word “home”?
A. ceremony
B. promote
C. equivalent
D. approximate
30. The color TV set that you bought at a lower price is ________ the one that we bought
at a slightly higher price.
A. inferior to
B. inferior than
C. much inferior to
D. much inferior than
31. She accused the Party, and by ,accused its leaders too.
A. implication
B. meaning
C. significance
D. sense
32. It is doubtful that she has _________ the role of the Prime Minister in British politics.
A. transplanted
B. transferred
C. transported
D. transformed
33. I don?t like her because she is always putting me in positions.
A. clumsy
B. award
C. awful
D. awkward
34. He is telling a story of Yang Liwei, every of us is proud.
A. whom
B. which
C. of whom
D. of which
35. We Edison?s success to intelligence and hard work.
A. attributed
B. contributed
C. distributed
D. led
Part III. Reading Comprehension (30%)
Directions:Read the following passages carefully and do the multiple-choice questions.
Passage 1
Surfing the Internet can be as addictive as drugs, alcohol or gambling, a researcher from University of Pittsburgh said last month.
In a study of almost 400 men and women in Canada, researchers found Internet addiction hooked people into spending 40 hours or more a week online, most often involved in role-playing games or engaged in chat room discussions.
One-17-year-old boy was so addicted(上瘾)to the Internet activities that his parents had to admit him to a drug\alcohol rehabilitation（康复）hospital for 10 days for treatment.
One woman, described by friends, family and children as a perfect homemaker, wife and mother, became so addicted to the Internet that she would not cook, clean or do the laundry（洗熨衣物）and was neglecting her children and husband because she was spending as much as 12 hours a day talking to acquaintances on the Internet. Finally her husband said, “Choose me or the computer.” She divorced him.
Psychologist Kimberly Young, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh?s Bradford campus, found that 76 percent of the subjects in the study spends an
average of 40 hours a week on the Internet.
Of 396 people who met Young?s criteria （标准）for addicted Internet users, 157 were men, 239 women. The men were younger with an average age of 29; the women average 43 years of age.
The largest group of addicted users of the Internet was people who were not working outside the home; that is, homemakers, students and those who were disabled or retired.
In a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, 82 percent of the addicted users said that they had slowly drifted into their addictions.（278 words ）
36. According to the researcher in University of Pittsburgh, surfing the Internet can be
________.
A. alcoholic
B. harmful
C. exciting
D. stimulating
37. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?
A. Many Internet surfers play games and chat online.
B. Some Internet surfer has to receive medical treatment to get over the addiction.
C. Nearly half of the Internet surfers spend almost 6 hours online every day.
D. Internet, sometimes, can exert influence more powerful than family.
38. It can be inferred from the passage the majority of addicted Internet users are
. A. young men
B. middle-aged men 39.
C. young women
D. middle-aged women
It is implied people who are likely to be addicted Internet users are usually
. A. those who are busy with their work.
B. those who are not employed
C. those who want to escape from their boring life
D. those who want to make friends
40. The writer ?s attitude towards surfing the Internet is
.
A. appreciative
B. satiric （讽刺的）
C. critical
D. solemn
Passage 2
In the summer of 1978 an English farmer named Ian Stevens was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered something strange. Some of his wheat was
lying flat on the ground. The flattened （被压平的）wheat formed a circle about six meters across. Around this circle were four smaller circles of flattened wheat. In the following years more and more similar circles were found in a field of wheat or corn. So people cannot help but ask the question: What causes the circles?
At first, people suspected that the circles were a trick. To prove that the circles were a trick, people tried to copy them: they tried to make circles exactly like the ones the farmers had found. They couldn't do it. They couldn't enter a field of grain without leaving tracks,
and they couldn't flatten the grain without breaking it. The circles are apparently not a trick.
Many people believe that beings from outer space are making the circles. Some think that the beings are trying to communicate with us from far away and that the circles are messages from them. Others believe that the beings have actually landed on earth and that the circles are marks left by their spaceships. Several times people reported seeing strange flying objects near fields where circles later appeared.
Scientists say they're not sure what causes them. They have suggested several theories. For example, some scientists say that "microbursts" of wind created the circles. A microburst is a downward rush of cool air —the same downward rush of air that sometimes causes an airplane to crash. Other scientists say that forces within the earth cause the circles to appear. But circles often appear in forms. It is hard to believe that any natural force could create those forms. And recently farmers have discovered not only circles but also other shapes such as triangles in their fields. Could any natural force created a perfect triangle in a field of grain?
In the summer of 1990 some scientists spent three weeks in the part of England where many circles have appeared. They had all the latest high-tech equipment. This equipment —worth 1.8 million dollars —recorded nothing. But one night, as the scientists were watching a field, circles formed in the field behind them. These circles are shown in the photograph. The scientists had neither seen nor heard anything. (402 words)
41. What causes the circles?
A. Teenagers.
B. Farmers.
C. Flying objects.
D. None of the above.
42. The thing that proves that the circles were not a trick is that ________.
A. two men said they made the circles themselves
B. farmers were making the circles to attract tourists
C. people cannot copy the circles without leaving marks or breaking the grain
D. scientists suggest theories that support the idea that circles were made by
natural forces
43. The circles mean ________.
A. that beings from outer space are trying to communicate with human beings
B. that beings from outer space have visited the earth
C. that there do exist strange flying objects
D. none of the above
44. The only thing for the scientists to be happy about in the summer of 1990 is
possibly ________.
A. that they discovered how the circles were made
B. that they saw the circles with the help of the latest high-tech equipment
C. that they were able to show the circles in a photograph
D. none of the above
45. A proper title for this passage is ________.
A. An Unsolved Mystery
B. Strange Flying Objects
C. The Power of Natural Forces
D. The Discovery of Strange Circles
Passage 3
Accidents are caused; they don?t just happen. The reason may be easy to see: an overloaded tray, a shelf out of reach, a patch of ice on the road. But more often than not there is a chain of events leading up to the misfortune-frustration, tiredness or just bad temper-that show what the accident really is, a sort of attack on oneself.
Road accidents, for example, happen frequently after a family quarrel, and we all know people who are accident-prone, so often at odds with（和…人争执）themselves and the world that they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others.
By definition, an accident is something you cannot predict or avoid, and the idea
which used to be current, that the majority of road accidents are caused a majority of criminally careless drivers, is not supported by insurance statistics. These show that most accidents involve ordinary motorists in a moment of carelessness of thoughtlessness.
It is not always, clear, either, what sort of conditions make people more likely to have an accident. For instance, the law requires all factories to take safety precautions and most companies have safety committees to make sure the regulations are observed, but still, every day in Britain, some fifty thousand men and women are absent from work due to an accident-noise and fatigue, boredom or worry are possible factors which contribute to this. Doctors who work in factories have found that those who drink too much, usually people who have a high anxiety level, run three times the normal risk of accidents at work.
46. This passage might be taken from _____________.
A. a text book
B. a science fiction
C. a popular magazine
D. an annual report of a company
47. The writer indicates that ___________.
A. British people are often absent-minded.
B. doctors should work in factories to avoid accidents.
C. drivers are the only factor leading to road accidents.
D. there are always some people who fail to observe regulations.
48. Which of the following is not mentioned as a factor of accidents?
A. anxiety
B. tiredness
C. bad weather
D. carelessness
49. “Accident-prone”(Para.2) probably means “___________.”
A. liable to have accidents
B. likely to be killed in accidents
C. responsible for road accidents
D. possible to avoid accidents
50. Which of the following could serve as the best title for this passage?
A. Causes of Accidents
B. Prevention of Accidents
C. Results of Accidents
D. Accidents and anxiety
Passage 4
America?s most creative playwright today is a 47-year-old black man who grew up in
a Pittsburgh slum, dropped out of secondary school, did most of his reading at the neighborhood public library, and never saw plays until he started to write them. His name
is August Wilson, and his plays, which all are about the 20th century black experience in urban America, have won him audience?s acclaim(喝彩), critical approval and innumerable awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1987 for “Fences” and in 1990 for “The Piano Lesson”.
August Wilson was born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, of a white father and a black mother. His father , a baker of German descent, had just about abandoned the family and was rarely at home. His mother, Daisy Wilson, who had migrated north from North Carolina, raised August and his three sisters on her scanty wages as a cleaning lady and on her welfare checks, in a two-room cold-water flat. His friends, his neighbors, his surroundings all were black, and he became familiar with black speech and thought-processes. Later on, when the family moved to a somewhat better, more mixed neighborhood, he still retained his black connections and interests. But he developed affinities（爱好）of his own, too. Especially an affinity for reading, which his mother taught him by age five.
“My mother believed that if you could read, anything was possible,” he has said. “I read everything there was at the Carnegie Library, two blocks from the house. When I was 14, I discovered the ,Negro Section?. That?s what it was called. It consisted of 30 books or so on two little shelves. I still can remember how great it was when I read Ralph Ellison?s ,Invisible Man?. I guess from the time I was 12 I wanted to write poetry. Not plays. Poems.”
51. “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson” in the first paragraph are names of ________.
A. subjects
B. films
C. plays
D. novels
52. The evidence of this passage suggests that August Wilson .
A. didn?t enjoy his childhood.
B. didn?t finish elementary school.
C. did most of his reading at a public library.
D. was born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
53. The word “scanty”(Para.2) probably means .
A. plentiful
B. meager
C. excessive
D. enough
54. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?
A. August Wilson is a successful American playwright.
B. Wilson?s plays deals with the urban black American today.
C. Wilson became interested in writing poems at the age of five.
D. Wilson learned the importance of reading from his mother.
55. What is the author?s attitude towards August Wilson?
A. indifferent
B. contemptuous
C. ironical
D. objective
Paper Two
Part IV. Replacement(10%)
Directions: Replace the underlined words in the following sentences with expressions or phrases using the key word(s) supplied in the brackets. Please take care to use
the right form and keep the original meaning.
56.
I think we should express our good wishes to the bride and the bridegroom.(glass)
57.
The children there are being put in danger every day because care workers still do not know how to protect them from HIV. (risk)
58.
Pop stars often become very famous when they are very young. (fame)
59.
What he said had nothing to do with the problem.(bearing)
60.
It is most likely that the patient will die within three months if she is not given
proper treatment. (chance)
61.
Besides her work in the school, our teacher gives music lessons after school hours.
(addition)
62.
Wearing short hair is no longer in fashion now. (style)
63.
The picture she showed me is almost the same as the one my mother has. (identical)
64.
Hoping that he might be able to provide an explanation for the problem, I asked him for help.(shed)
65.
It doesn?t seem ugly to me; no, not at all, I think it is rather beautiful. (contrary)
Part V. Cloze (5%)
Directions: The following paragraph was chosen from your textbooks. Fill in the blanks with the exact words.
Commitment among parents is a key 66 in the Hyde mixture. 67 the student to gain admission, parents also must agree to accept and 68 the school?s philosophies and outlook. The parents agree in writing 69 meet monthly in one of 20 regional groups, go to a yearly three-day 70 retreat, and spend at least three times a year in workshops, discussion groups and 71 at Bath. Parents of Maine students have an 72 rate of 95% in the many sessions. Joe and Malcolm Gauld both say children 73 to do their utmost 74 they see their parents making similar efforts. The biggest 75 for many parents, they say, is to realize their own weaknesses.
Part VI. Writing (15%)
Directions: For this part, you are asked to write a composition on the topic Private Motor Vehicles. You should write at least 120 words and you should base your
composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
Private Motor Vehicles
1. 私家车极大地提高了人们的活动空间。

2. 私家车所带来的弊端。

3. 如何减少私家车的数量和使用。

New Horizon College English Test
Band 3
ANSWER SHEET
总分题号I IV V VI
得分
阅卷人
Paper One
I. Listening comprehension Section C (0.5’*10=5’)
1. ___________
2. ____________
3.______________
4.___________
5.____________
6.___________
7.______________
8._____________
9.___________ 10.____________
Paper Two
Part IV. Replacement (1*10)
56 57. 58. 59.
60. 61. 62. 63.
64. 65.
Part V. Cloze (0.5*10)
66. 67. 68. 69. 70.
71. 72. 73. 74. 75.
Part VI. Writing. (15%)
Private Motor Vehicles
2003级新视野期末考试试题
(A) 参考答案
I.Listening
Section A(1’*10=10’)
1.C
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. D
6.B
7.B
8.C
9.C 10.C
Section B(1’*5=5’)
11.D 12.A 13.C 14.B 15.C
II. Vocabulary and Structure（每题1分，共20分）
16. D 17. C 18. B 19. B 20. B 21. D 22. A 23. C 24. B 25. D 26. A 27 B 28. B 29. C 30. A 31.A 32. D 33. D 34.C 35. A III. Reading Comprehension（每题1.5分，共30分）
36. B 37. C 38. D 39. C 40.C 41. D 42. C 43. D 44. C 45. A
46 . C 47. D 48. C 49. A 50. A 51. C 52. C 53. B 54. C 55.D
Section C (0.5’*10=5’)
1. products
2. permanently
3. experts
4. heart
5. persons
6. earn
7. selling
8. publish
9. recent 10. developing
IV. Replacement（每题1分，共10分）
56. raise a glass to 57. at risk 58. rise to fame 59. had no bearing on 60. Chances are 61. In addition to 62. goes out of style 63. identical to\with 64. shed some light on 65. on the contrary
V. Cloze （每题0.5分，共5分）
66.ingredient 67.For 68.demonstrate 69.to 70.regional
71.seminars 72.attendance 73.tend 74.when 75.obstacle
VI. Writing (15)
Private Motor Vehicles
The private motor vehicle has given us a freedom our ancestors could never dream about. We can travel swiftly, and usually safely from one area to another, on the roads that have been built to accommodate our cars.
Sadly the car has become a disadvantage as well as advantage. The car pollutes the atmosphere, may be involved in serious accidents, and by its very numbers blocks roads and chocks cities. How can we reduce its use?
The car is only desirable if we can use it easily, so we might begin by reducing access to parking spaces in the cities and increasing the quality of public transport. The expense of buying and running a car can be raised. If the motorist is faced with a high purchase price, high road tax, he or she may reconsider the purchase. A corresponding reduction in the price of public transport would help this financial augmentation against car ownership.。