成人三级英语模拟试题(一)
成人三级英语模拟试题(一)
College English Test
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Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
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 to 5 are based on the following passage:
Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services. People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of others they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money today is made of metal or paper. But people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells.
Shells were not the only things used as money. In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money. In parts of Africa, Cattle were one of the earliest kinds of money. Other animals were used as money, too.
The first metal coins were made in China. They were around and had a square hole in the center. People strung them together and carried them from place to place.
Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money. The first coins in England were made of tin. Sweden and Russia used copper to make their money. Later, other countries began to make coins of gold and silver.
But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. They began to use paper money 76)The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.
1. Which of the following can be cited as an example of the use of money in exchange for services?
A. To sell a bicycle for $20.
B. To get some money for old books at a garage sale.
C. To buy things you need or want.
D. To get paid for your work.
2. Where were shells used as money in history?
A. In the Philippines.
B. In China
C. In Africa
D. We don’t know
3.Why, according to the passage, did ancient Chinese coins have a square hole in the center?
A. Because it would be easier to put them together and carry them around.
B. Because it would be lighter for people to carry them from place to place.
C. Because people wanted to make it look nicer.
D. Because people wanted to save the expensive metal they were made from.
4. Why does the author say that even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive?
A. Because they are easy to steal.
B. Because they are difficult for people to obtain.
C. Because they are not easy to carry around.
D. Because they themselves are expensive, too.
5. Which do you choose as the best tit
le for this passage?
A. Money and Its Uses
B. Different Things used as Money
C. Different Countries, Different Money
D. The History of Money
Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
77)In the last 500 years , nothing about people ----not their clothes, ideas, or languages----has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500’s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. 78）Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the “Potato Famine” of 1845-6, and thousands more were forced to emigrate to America.
There are many other foods that have traveled from south America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the World’s largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.
According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a goatherd name Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the “wide –awake” feeling that one-third of the world’s population now starts the day with.
6. According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?
A. Food
B. Chocolate
C. Potato
D. Coffee
7. “Some ”in “Some still exist today” means _________.
A. some cocoa trees.
B. some chocolate drinks.
C. some shops.
D. some South American Indians.
8.. Thousands of Irish people starved during the “Potato Famine” because _________.
A. they were so dependent on the potato that they refused to eat anything else.
B. they were forced to emigrate to America.
C the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing the potato.
D. the potato harvest was bad.
9. Coffee originally came from_________.
A. Brazil
B. Colombia
C. Ethiopia
D. Arabia
10. The Arabic legend is used to prove that _________.
A. coffee was first discovered by Kaldi.
B. coffee was first discovered by Kaldi’s goats.
C. coffee was first discovered in south American countries.
D. coffee drinks were first made by Arbas.
Passage 3
Questions 11-15 are based on this passage:
Traditionally, universities have carried out two main activities: research and teaching. Many experts would argue that both these activities play a critical role in serving the community. The fundamental question , however is : how does the community want or need to be se
rved?
In recent years universities have been coming under increasing pressure from both the governments and the public to ensure that they do not remain “ivory towers”(象牙塔)of study separated from the realities of everyday life. University teachers have been encouraged, and in some cases constrained (强逼), to provide more courses which produce graduates with the technical skills required for the commercial use.79) If Aristotle wanted to work in a university in the UK today, he would have a good chance of teaching computer science but would not be so readily employable as a philosopher.
A post-industrial society requires large numbers of computer programmers, engineers, managers and technicians to maintain and develop its economic growth but “man”, as the Bible says,“ does not live by bread alone.” 80)Apart from requiring medical and social services, which do not directly contribute to economic growth, the society should also value and enjoy literature, music and the arts. In these cost-conscious times, it has even been pointed out in justification for the funding of the arts that they can be useful money earners. A successful musical play, for instance, can contribute as much to the Gross National Product through tourist dollars as any other things.
11. The main idea of the first paragraph is that ____________.
A. traditional universities do a good job serving the society
B. universities must meet the needs of the society
C. research and teaching are of great importance in universities
D. universities play an important role in our society
12. We can infer from the second paragraph that__________.
A. the society is not satisfied with the present college education
B. the governments interfere too much with college education
C. teacher are forced to do what they don’t like to do
D. teachers dislike teaching commercially useful courses
13. The Aristotle example is used to make the point that _________.
A. universities in the UK have produced too many good-for –nothing graduates
B. such abstract subjects as philosophy is no longer useful
C. education should serve the social needs
D. it is advisable for today’s philosophers to know computer science.
14. According to the passage, literature, music and the arts__________.
A. do not contribute to economic growth at all
B. are less useful to the society because they do not make direct contribution to economic
growth
C. are similar to medical and social services in their way of promoting economic growth
D. should develop only when they are good for economic growth
15. The author believes that_________.
A. art is useful only when it is made into a money earner
B. the promotion of economic growth is the only goal of today’s society
C. universities should not provide literature or art courses
D. the society needs both technical skills and arts
Part II. Vocabulary and Structure (30%)
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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.
16. This is a nice car, but we cannot _______it.
A. provide
B. supply
C. afford
D. manage
17. The meeting will begin at 9:00 according to the ________.
A. calendar
B. schedule
C. column
D. diagram
18. The company is small but promising. ________, I’ll take the job.
A. In some cases
B. In case
C. In that case
D. In any case
19. The notice was written in several languages _____foreign tourists should misunderstand it.
A. so that
B. Lest
C. if
D. otherwise
20. It was not until she arrived in class_____ realized she had forgotten her book.
A. and she
B. when she
C. she
D. that she
21.But for water, people _____not live on the earth.
A. can
B. will be able to
C. make
D. could
22. You ______able to speak English so well if you hadn’t been practising hard.
A. are not
B. can not be
C. wouldn’t be
D. would have been
23. No one can avoid _______by advertisements.
A. influenced
B. influencing
C. to influence
D. being influenced
24. I_______ everything by the time you get back next month.
A. shall finish
B. will be finishing
C. have finished
D. shall have finished
25. _____halfway through the experiment, there was a power failure and the teacher told us to stop.
A. When we were only
B. Being only
C. When only
D. Having been
26.Johnny’s mouth watered at the _____of the delicious cake .
A. sight
B. light
C. touch
D. notice
27. We substitute fish_______ meat several times a week.
A. for
B. with
C. to
D. and
28. You will never guess whom I _______on the street yesterday.
A. ran over
B. ran out of
C. ran into
D. ran up to
29. I wondered ______to come to the party.
A. whether he should have been asked
B. whether he should asked
C. whether he was asked
D. should he been asked
30. To make up an objective test, the teacher writes a series of questions, _____has only one correct answer.
A. some of which
B. each of which
C. which
D. that
31. Ann was not careful enough ; _____she wouldn’t have made such a silly mistake.
A. nevertheless
B. however
C. otherwise
D. although
32. He used to get up late, _______?
A. did not he
B. did he
C. didn’t he
D. use he
33.I’m very ____to you for your help.
A. grateful
B. agreeable
C. pleased
D. satisfied
34._____did I have any idea what a real man-made satellite looks like.
A. Until quite recently
B. It was quite recently
C. Not was it quite recently
D. Not until quite recently
35. Had he worked harder, he _____the exams.
A. must have got through
B. could get through
C. would get through
D. would have got through
36. _____in a peasant family, Jack always likes farm work.
A. Brought in
B. Brought up
C. Brought about
D. Brought
out
37. I’m very sorry _____the whole morning. I forgot the appointment.
A. to keep you wait
B. to have kept you waiting
C. to keep you waiting
D. to keep you t wait
38. A woman and three children are said _____in the traffic accident.
A. to be injured
B. to have been injured
C. having been injured
D. being injured
39. _____deserves the award will certainly get it.
A. Who we think
B. Whoever we think
C. Whoever does
D. whoever do we think
40. You _____me because I didn’t say anything like that.
A. must misunderstand
B. may misunderstand
C. must have misunderstood
D. could have misunderstood
41. It is time the government _____the law into effect.
A. is putting
B. put
C. puts
D. will put
42. His mother is going to stay in Beijing for_______.
A. some times
B. some time
C. sometime
D. sometimes
43. Susan is not very intelligent, _____work very hard.
A. not does she
B. or does she
C. either does she
D. neither does she
44. ________, the new medicine is now in mass production.
A. With the solved problem
B. With this problem being solved
C. With the problem solved
D. With this problem to solve
45. His carelessness _______her failure in the exams.
A. resulted from
B. resulted
C. resulted in
D. resulted to
Part IV Cloze(10%)
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Directions: Each blank in the following passages 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.
When we want to __56__other people what we think, we can do it not only with the help of words, but also in many__57___ ways. For example , we sometimes move our heads___58___when we want to say ”yes”, and we move our heads __59___when we want to say ”no”.
People who can __60___hear __60___speak talk to each other with the help of their fingers. People who do not understand each other’s language have to do the same. The following story shows __61___they sometimes do it.
__62__English man who could not speak Italian was __63___travelling in Italy. One day he entered a restaurant and sat __64___a table. When the waiter came, the Englishman opened his mouth, __65___his fingers into it, __66___them out again and moved his lips. In this way he meant to say, “__67___me something to eat.” The waiter soon brought him __68___tea. The Englishman __69__his head and the waiter understood that he didn’t want tea, so he took it __70__and brought him __71___coffee. The Englishman was angry. He was just going to leave the restaurant__72__another traveller came in. When this man saw the waiter, he __73__his hands on his stomach. That was enough. In a __74___minutes there was a large plate of bread and meat __75___ his table.
56.
A. say
B. speak
C. tell
D. talk
57.
A. anything
B. another
C. other
D. others
58.
A. now and then
B. over and over
C. up and down
D. here and there
59.
A. from mouth to mouth
B. from door to door
C. from the masses to the masses
D. from side to side
60.
A. not only …but also
B. as well as
C. either…or
D. neither …nor
61.
A. how
B. why
C. what
D. which
62.
A. the
B. An
C. A
D. Any
63.
A. ever
B. never
C. before
D. once
64.
A. in
B. at
C. on
D. upon
65.
A. laid
B. played
C. put
D. stayed
66.
A. took
B. put
C. brought
D. carried
67.
A. Bring
B. Took
C. Fetched
D. Carried
68.
A. a piece
B. a packet of
C. a cup of
D. a box of
69.
A. shook
B. nodded
C. bent
D. showed
70.
A. back
B. away
C. out
D. along
71.
A. any
B. some
C. little
D. few
72.
A. when
B. where
C. why
D. how
73.
A. stood
B. sat
C. put
D. placed
74.
A. a few
B. few
C. little
D. a little
75.
A. at
B. over
C. under
D. on
Part V. Translation(20%)
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1) Directions: In this part, there are five items which you should translate into Chinese, each consisting of one or two sentences. These sentences are all taken from the Reading Passages you have read in Part I of the Test Paper. You should refer back to the passages so as to identify the meaning of these sentences in the context. (10%)
76 The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than paper money used today.
77 In the last 500 years , nothing about people ----not their clothes, ideas, or languages----has changed as much as what they eat.
78 Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the “Potato Famine” of 1845-6, and thousands more were forced to emigrate to America.
79 If Aristotle wanted to work in a university in the UK today, he would have a good chance of teaching computer science but would not be so readily employable as a philosopher.
80 Apart from requiring medical and social services, which do not directly contribute to economic growth, the society should also value and enjoy literature, music and the arts.
2) Translate the following sentences into English (10%)
81． 我怎么能为他讲的话负责呢？
82． 看外表他一点也不像一个八十岁的老人。
83． 很明显是他的年轻助手在经营这家书店。
84． 你可曾遇见到你现在遇到的困难？
85． 我问了她数次， 可她拒绝回答我的问题。