1、大学英语三级 A 级分类模拟题 246 及答案解析(总分：35.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：0，分数：0.00)1For most Americans, the word “poverty“ suggests destitution: an inability to provide a family with nutritious food, clothing, and reasonable shelter. But only a small number of the 35 million persons classified as “p
2、oor“ by the Census Bureau fit that description. While the poor are generally well-nourished, some poor families do experience hunger, meaning a temporary discomfort due to food shortages. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 13 percent of poor families and 2.6 percent of poor chil
3、dren experience hunger at some point during the year. In most cases, their hunger is short-term. Eighty-nine percent of the poor report their families have “enough“ food to eat, while only 2 percent say they “often“ do not have enough to eat. The typical American defined as poor by the government ha
4、s a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report,
5、his family is not hungry and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family“s essential needs. While this individual“s life is not well-off, it is equally far from the popular images of frightening poverty conveyed by the press.（分数：5.00）(1).For most Americans, a “poor“ man is the person
6、 who_.（分数：1.00）A.can not afford a lot of foodB.has no rich material wealthC.has no workD.has no money(2).In the second paragraph the writer tries to tell us that_.（分数：1.00）A.the poor families often do not have enough food to eatB.the hunger for the poor family is just short-termC.not all the poor fa
7、milies encounter food-shortageD.all the poor families do not have food to eat(3).The word “well-off“ (the last sentence of Para. 3) is close in meaning to_.（分数：1.00）A.poorB.healthyC.fastD.rich(4).Which of the following is NOT true about the poor American defined by the American government?（分数：1.00）A
8、.He has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator and a microwave.B.He has two color televisions and cable or satellite TV reception.C.His house is not very crowded.D.He provides enough money to satisfy all the needs for the whole family.(5).We can learn from the passage that the poor American life_.（
9、分数：1.00）A.can afford all modern productsB.means no house for the familyC.is different in the eyes of the government and the pressD.only belongs to those who do not have enough food to eat2Although Beethoven could sit down and make up music easily, his really great compositions did not come easily at
10、 all. They cost him a great deal of hard work. We know how often he rewrote and corrected his work because his notebooks are still kept in museums and libraries. He always found it hard to satisfy himself. When he was 28, the worst difficulty of all came to him. He began to notice a strong humming i
11、n his ears. At first he paid little attention, but it grew worse, and at last he consulted doctors. They gave him the worst news any musician can hear: he was gradually going deaf. Beethoven was in despair; he was sure that he was going to die. He went away to the country, to a place called Heiligen
12、stadt, and from there he wrote a long farewell letter to his brothers. In this he told them how depressed and lonely his deafness had made him. “It was impossible for me to ask men to speak louder or shout, for I am deaf,“ he wrote. “How could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense (hearing)
13、 which should have been more perfect in me than in others? .I must live like an exile.“ He longed to die, and said to death, “Come when you will, I shall meet you bravely.“ In fact, Beethoven did something braver than dying. He gathered his courage and went on writing music, though he could hear wha
14、t he wrote only more and more faintly. He wrote his best music, the music we remember him for, after he became deaf. The music he wrote was very different from any that had been composed before. Instead of the elegant and stately music that earlier musicians had written for their wealthy listeners,
15、Beethoven wrote stormy, exciting, revolutionary music, which reminds us of his troubled and courageous life. He grew to admire courage more than anything, and he called one of his symphonies the Eroica or heroic symphony , “to celebrate the memory of a great man“. Describing the dramatic opening not
16、es of his famous Fifth Symphony , he said, “thus fate knocks on the door.“ In time Beethoven went completely deaf, so deaf that he could not hear even the stormiest parts of his exciting music. But in those years he wrote more gloriously than ever. He could “hear“ his music with his mind, if not wit
17、h his ears. His friends had to write down what they wanted to say to him. He was lonely and often unhappy, but in spite of this, he often wrote joyful music. In his last symphony, the Ninth, a choir sings a wonderful hymn of joy. Because of his courage and determination to overcome his terrible disa
18、ster, his music has given joy and inspiration to millions of people.（分数：10.00）(1).In Para.1 we are told that Beethoven found that writing great music _.（分数：2.00）A.was easyB.was difficultC.was straightforwardD.easily satisfied him(2).To say that Beethoven was “in despair“ means that he _.（分数：2.00）A.w
19、as very frightenedB.was unhappyC.had given up hopeD.was dying(3).After he wrote a long farewell letter to his brothers, Beethoven _.（分数：2.00）A.died bravelyB.courageously continued to musicC.wrote more faintlyD.regained his hearing(4).Which of these words best describes Beethoven“s music when his hea
20、ring began to fail?（分数：2.00）A.Loud.B.Turbulent.C.Stately.D.Elegant.(5).Which of the following titles best sums up the whole passage?（分数：2.00）A.The Story of Beethoven“s LifeB.Beethoven Becomes DeafC.The Music of BeethovenD.Beethoven“s Courageous Triumph over Tragedy3Each year millions of people suffe
21、r from the effect of alcohol and drug abuse, getting into illness, crime and death. In the United States alone, 10 to 12 million men and women and their loved ones and family suffer from alcohol. Additional millions abuse alcohol at great cost in health. In Canada, it is said, “Alcohol increases bus
22、iness of hospitals, ambulance drivers, doctors, and nurses.“ Alcohol abuse and dangerous drugs have swept through Europe. Soviet culture, too, is playing enormous social and economic costs. Developing nations are bothered by drug problem-both ancient and modern. In this part of the world hundreds of
23、 millions request doctors to ease their miseries and problems in life. These methods of coping are unhealthy solutions! This passage is mainly about the worldwide 1 and 2 abuse. 3 million people and their families in America have suffered from alcohol abuse. The alcohol abuse has damaged 4 . The aut
24、hor strongly implies that the public should seek for proper 5 to drug problems in time.（分数：5.00）4Asecurities business Kstock company Bstock exchange corporation Lsecurities Cquotation Mcommon stock Dshare Npreference stock Eshareholder Oincome gain Fdividend Pissue G cash dividend Qpar value Hstock
25、investment Ropening price Iinvestment trust Sclosing price Jstock-jobber（分数：5.00）(1). 1 证劵公司 2 普通股（分数：1.00）(2). 1 股票持有人 2 利股收入（分数：1.00）(3). 1 股票投资人 2 证劵交易所（分数：1.00）(4). 1 优先股 2 股票经纪人（分数：1.00）(5). 1 开盘 2 投资信托（分数：1.00）5Reading for information is the kind of reading you do in your own language. You do
26、not stop to analyze tenses and clauses when you pick up a book written in your native language. You understand structure without thinking about it. It is second nature to you. Now you must develop this skill in English. You must be able to read beyond the clause markers (标志语) and prepositions and ot
27、her structure clues. You must learn to read for meaning. A reading comprehension test measures how well you understand the meaning of a passage. It measures your ability to understand the author“s main idea and the facts used to support the main idea. It measures your ability to read “between the li
28、nes“ and use contextual clues to infer what the author implied. It measures your ability to do this as quickly as a native speaker of English. To improve your reading comprehension, you have to develop certain skills. These skills include skimming or scanning a reading passage, identifying the main
29、idea and supporting statements; making inferences, and using context (上下文) clues to help you guess. Scanning means looking over a passage very quickly to find specific information such as a date, a name, or a particular word. Skimming means getting a quick, general overview of the passage. Both are
30、techniques you will begin to use today and continue to use each time you read something in English or your own language. Every time you read, you should use a technique called SQ3R: Survey, Question, Read, Review and Recall.（分数：10.00）(1).What is the purpose of the passage? To introduce some skills 1
31、.（分数：2.00）(2).What is the function of a comprehension test? It measures how well you 1 of a passage.（分数：2.00）(3).What does the letter S in SQ3R stand for? 1.（分数：2.00）(4).What is the reading skill of looking over a passage quickly to find specific information? 1.（分数：2.00）(5).What is the reading skill
32、 of getting a quick, general overview of a passage? 1.（分数：2.00）大学英语三级 A 级分类模拟题 246 答案解析(总分：35.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：0，分数：0.00)1For most Americans, the word “poverty“ suggests destitution: an inability to provide a family with nutritious food, clothing, and reasonable shelter. But
33、only a small number of the 35 million persons classified as “poor“ by the Census Bureau fit that description. While the poor are generally well-nourished, some poor families do experience hunger, meaning a temporary discomfort due to food shortages. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (U
34、SDA), 13 percent of poor families and 2.6 percent of poor children experience hunger at some point during the year. In most cases, their hunger is short-term. Eighty-nine percent of the poor report their families have “enough“ food to eat, while only 2 percent say they “often“ do not have enough to
35、eat. The typical American defined as poor by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He is able to obtain medical care. His home
36、 is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family“s essential needs. While this individual“s life is not well-off, it is equally far from the popular images of frightening poverty conveyed by the pre
37、ss.（分数：5.00）(1).For most Americans, a “poor“ man is the person who_.（分数：1.00）A.can not afford a lot of foodB.has no rich material wealth C.has no workD.has no money解析：解析 推理判断题。根据文章首句可知，“贫穷”是指在衣、食、 住即物质财富方面匮乏。因此可以判断四个选项中只有选项 B(无丰富的物质财富)最符合文意，为正确答案。 避错指南 选项 A(不能提供很多食物)只是“贫穷”的一个方面。选项 C(没有工作)和选项 D(没有钱)与
38、文章意思不符合。(2).In the second paragraph the writer tries to tell us that_.（分数：1.00）A.the poor families often do not have enough food to eatB.the hunger for the poor family is just short-termC.not all the poor families encounter food-shortage D.all the poor families do not have food to eat解析：解析 推理判断题。根据第
39、二段第一句话可知，穷人在一般情况下营养充足，而有些穷的家庭也的确遭受饥饿，因此可推理得出并不是所有的贫穷家庭都经受食物短缺这一境况，即选项 C 为正确答案。 避错指南 根据第二段最后一句话可知，大部分贫穷家庭有“足够”的食物，而只有很少一部分贫穷的家庭经常缺少吃的东西，选项 A(贫穷的家庭经常没有足够的食物)过分夸大事实，与文意不符；选项 D(所有贫穷的家庭都没有吃的东西)也不符合文意。根据第二段第三句话可知，食物缺乏“大多数情况下是短期的”，因此选项 B(对贫穷家庭来说，饥饿只是暂时的)这种说法过于绝对，所以不正确。(3).The word “well-off“ (the last sent
40、ence of Para. 3) is close in meaning to_.（分数：1.00）A.poorB.healthyC.fastD.rich 解析：解析 语义理解题。根据第三段最后一句的后半部分可知，well-off 的意思应与 poverty 相背，因此选项 D(富有的)为正确答案。 避错指南 选项 A(贫穷的)、选项 B(健康的)和选项 C(快的)与文章意思不一致，故可以排除。(4).Which of the following is NOT true about the poor American defined by the American government?（分数
41、：1.00）A.He has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator and a microwave.B.He has two color televisions and cable or satellite TV reception.C.His house is not very crowded.D.He provides enough money to satisfy all the needs for the whole family. 解析：解析 细节理解题。根据第三段第五句话可知，贫穷的美国人持有的钱能够满足生活中必需的消费，而不是所有的消费，
42、故选项 D(他能为家里所有的需求提供足够的钱)与文意不符，所以选项 D 为符合题意的答案。 避错指南 选项 A(他拥有一辆轿车、一部空调、一台冰箱和一个微波炉)与第三段第一句话意思相符。选项 B (有两台彩电和有线电视或者卫星电视接收器)与第三段第二句话意思相符。选项 C(他的房子不是非常拥挤)与第三段第四句话意思相符。(5).We can learn from the passage that the poor American life_.（分数：1.00）A.can afford all modern productsB.means no house for the familyC.is
43、 different in the eyes of the government and the press D.only belongs to those who do not have enough food to eat解析：解析 推理判断题。根据文章末句可知，美国政府定义的穷人形象和媒体宣传的穷人的形象相差甚远，故选项 C(美国穷人的形象在政府和媒体眼中是不一样的) 是正确答案。 避错指南 选项 A(能够买得起所有现代产品)在文中没有提到，而且这一选项仅根据我们的常识就可以加以排除。根据文章首句可知，“贫穷”是指缺少营养食品、衣服以及适宜的住处，故选项 B(没有供家人住的地方)与选项
44、D(只属于那些没有足够食物的人)均与文意不符。2Although Beethoven could sit down and make up music easily, his really great compositions did not come easily at all. They cost him a great deal of hard work. We know how often he rewrote and corrected his work because his notebooks are still kept in museums and libraries. He
45、 always found it hard to satisfy himself. When he was 28, the worst difficulty of all came to him. He began to notice a strong humming in his ears. At first he paid little attention, but it grew worse, and at last he consulted doctors. They gave him the worst news any musician can hear: he was gradu
46、ally going deaf. Beethoven was in despair; he was sure that he was going to die. He went away to the country, to a place called Heiligenstadt, and from there he wrote a long farewell letter to his brothers. In this he told them how depressed and lonely his deafness had made him. “It was impossible f
47、or me to ask men to speak louder or shout, for I am deaf,“ he wrote. “How could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense (hearing) which should have been more perfect in me than in others? .I must live like an exile.“ He longed to die, and said to death, “Come when you will, I shall meet you b
48、ravely.“ In fact, Beethoven did something braver than dying. He gathered his courage and went on writing music, though he could hear what he wrote only more and more faintly. He wrote his best music, the music we remember him for, after he became deaf. The music he wrote was very different from any
49、that had been composed before. Instead of the elegant and stately music that earlier musicians had written for their wealthy listeners, Beethoven wrote stormy, exciting, revolutionary music, which reminds us of his troubled and courageous life. He grew to admire courage more than anything, and he called one of his symphonies the Eroica or heroic symphony , “to celebrate the memory of a great man“. Describing the dramatic opening notes of his famous Fifth Symphony , he said, “thus fate knocks on
