1、公共英语三级-155 及答案解析(总分：110.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：2，分数：10.00)BPart A/BI You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answerA, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the quest
2、ion and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.Now look at question 1./I（分数：5.00）(1).On what day of the week will the magazine arrive?（分数：1.00）A.Monday.B.Tuesday.C.Wednesday.D.Thursday.(2).What is the man going to do after graduation?（分数：1.00）A.He will become a teacher.B.He will become a lawyer.C.He
3、will try a lot of jobs.D.He has not decided yet.(3).What do we learn from this conversation?（分数：1.00）A.The man thought the essay was easy.B.The woman had a hard time writing the essay.C.The woman thought the essay was easy.D.Neither of them has finished the essay yet.(4).What does the woman mean?（分数
4、：1.00）A.The clerk doesnt like to be bothered.B.The machine was just repaired.C.She can teach the man to operate the machine.D.The man shouldnt make any more copies.(5).Whats the relationship of the two people?（分数：1.00）A.Teacher and student.B.Father and son.C.Mother and son.D.Sister and brother.（分数：5
5、.00）(1).Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?（分数：1.00）A.Receptionist and customer.B.Waitress and customer.C.Salesperson and customer.D.Nurse and patient.(2).What are the man and woman talking about?（分数：1.00）A.Fashion.B.Music.C.A film.D.A book.(3).What will the man do?（分数：1.00）A.T
6、o play basketball.B.To go out for a walk.C.To go to the library.D.To prepare for the presentation.(4).What does the man imply?（分数：1.00）A.He cant go now.B.He want to call someone.C.He cant wait any longer.D.He wants to drink a cup of coffee very much.(5).Whats the woman?（分数：1.00）A.An operator.B.A man
7、ager.C.A student.D.A secretary.二、BPart B/B(总题数：4，分数：15.00)I Questions 1113 are based on the following dialogue between two friends talking about a telegram./I（分数：3.00）(1).What does the telegram say?（分数：1.00）A.Return immediately for his parents missed him badly.B.Return immediately for his aunt is ex
8、pecting him.C.Return immediately for something unusual happened at home.D.Return immediately for his uncle was seriously ill at home.(2).Why was the man relieved at last?（分数：1.00）A.Because the telegram was a false one.B.Because this telegram was not addressed to him.C.Because his uncle washt ill at
9、all.D.Because it was somebody else that was ill.(3).What kind of person is Tom supposed to be?（分数：1.00）A.Warm-hearted but careless.B.Curious and mischievous.C.Helpful and tricky.D.Prudent but cautious.I Questions 1417 are based on the following dialogue about a part-time job./I（分数：4.00）(1).What is t
10、he womans major?（分数：1.00）A.American literature.B.English literature.C.Teaching method.D.Mathematics.(2).How does the woman feel about her new job?（分数：1.00）A.Interesting.B.Boring.C.Inspiring.D.Challenging.(3).How often will the woman correct the students assignment?（分数：1.00）A.Once a week.B.Once two w
11、eeks.C.Once a month.D.Once three weeks.(4).How much will the man pay for the woman per month?（分数：1.00）A.$1,500.B.$1,350.C.$1,250.D.$2,250.I Questions 1821 are based on the following dialogue on a reading list./I（分数：4.00）(1).What is Helens major?（分数：1.00）A.Children s Literature.B.American Literature.
12、C.Medicine.D.Elementary Education.(2).Why do the speakers read children stories?（分数：1.00）A.These stories are interesting.B.They can learn how to write such stories.C.These stories are written by a famous doctor.D.The stories are on their reading list.(3).Who are Doctor Seuss and Theodore Geisel?（分数：
13、1.00）A.They are the same person.B.One is a doctor and the other is a writer.C.Both of them are teachers.D.They are from different departments.(4).What is true about The Cat in the Hat?（分数：1.00）A.It is a book written only for classroom reading.B.It is a book on education.C.It has a vocabulary of only
14、 two hundred words.D.It was written by a child.I Questions 2225 are based on the following monologue on psychological space./I（分数：4.00）(1).Which factor determines human beings psychological space needs?（分数：1.00）A.Economic factors.B.Pressure in life.C.Individual preference.D.Cultural preference.(2).W
15、here do the babies live in America?（分数：1.00）A.In his/her own room.B.In a small bed near the parents bed.C.On their parents bed.D.In his/her brothers or sisters room.(3).What does the author think of the American way of training people?（分数：1.00）A.Its common.B.Its realistic.C.Its uncommon.D.Its inhuma
16、n.(4).Why are the psychological space needs limited?（分数：1.00）A.Because of financial pressures.B.Because of individual liking.C.Because of local customs.D.Because of cultural difference.三、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Generations of Americans have been broughtU (26) /Uto believe that a good breakfast
17、 is important for health. Eating breakfast at theU (27) /Uof the day, we have all been U(28) /U,is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family carU (29) /U starting a trip.But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is byU (30) /Upleasures. So U(31) /Uall the efforts, they still
18、take noU (32) /U. Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figures areU (33) /U, the number of people who didnt have breakfast increased U(34) /U33 percentfrom 8.8 million to 11.7 million U(35) /U the Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America.For those who feel pain of U(36) /U a
19、bout not having breakfast, U(37) /U, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years U(38) /U that, for adults especially, there may be nothingU (39) /Uwith omitting breakfast. “Going U(40) /U breakfast does not affect U(41) /U “Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at
20、 Queen Elizabeth College in London, U(42) /U does giving people breakfast improve performance.U (43) /U evidence relating breakfast to better health or U(44) /U performances is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not U(45) /U“The literature,“ says one researcher,
21、Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, “is poor.“（分数：20.00）A.aboutB.intoC.upD.fromA.startB.endC.morningD.beginA.saidB.believedC.reportedD.toldA.afterB.beforeC.whenD.asA.someB.anyC.noD.allA.despiteB.in spiteC.thoughD.howeverA.brunchB.breakfastC.lunchD.supperA.availableB.usedC.gotD.estimatedA
22、.withB.atC.byD.fromA.fromB.according toC.throughD.out ofA.guiltB.happinessC.sadnessD.eagernessA.howeverB.thereforeC.whereasD.butA.indicateB.reportC.announceD.declareA.wrongB.rightC.correctD.incorrectA.withoutB.withC.fromD.out ofA.performanceB.healthC.heartD.brainA.notB.neitherC.eitherD.norA.ScienceB
23、.ScientistC.ScientificD.ScientistsA.betterB.goodC.wellD.worseA.peopleB.menC.humansD.adults四、BSection Readi(总题数：3，分数：30.00)BText 1/BWhen a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly tw
24、o months later the girl was still sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention.Hundreds of suggestions, ranging from “put a clothes pin on her nose“ to “have her stand on her head“ poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally, she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hosp
25、ital where Dr. Leo Kanner, one of the worlds top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (难以理解的) problem with great speed.He used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in an ancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It
26、 was all in her mind, he said, a view which Aristotle, some 3,000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily.Dr. Kanner simply gave a modem psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too much sneezing was an indication that the spirit was troubled; and he began to treat the girl acc
27、ordingly.“Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational adjustment, and reassurance about her unreasonable fear of tuberculosis quickly changed her from a sneezer to an ex-sneezer,“ he reported.Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr.
28、 Kanner has collected thousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for the blessing of God when a person sneezesa practice Dr. Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that a sneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Stran
29、gely, people over the world still continue the custom with the traditional, “God bless you“ or its equivalent.When scientists look at the sneeze, they see a remarkable mechanism which, without any conscious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, this b
30、eing natures clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be just some dust in the nose which nature is striving to remove.（分数：10.00）(1).The girl sneezed continuously because she_.（分数：2.00）A.was illB.was mentally illC.had heavy mental burdenD.had attracted world-wide
31、 attention(2).When the girl began to sneeze continuously,_. A a lot of people offered their advice B she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital C she was given a treatment found in ancient superstition D many doctors treated her in different ways（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Dr. Kanner cured the girl by_.（分数：2.
32、00）A.using Aristotles methodB.giving her psychological treatmentC.practicing superstitionD.treating her tuberculosis(4).When a person sneezes, we say “God bless you“ because_.（分数：2.00）A.its a traditionB.the person is possessed of an evil spiritC.the person is illD.God will bless those who sneeze(5).
33、According to scientists ,people sneeze because_.（分数：2.00）A.they are illB.to sneeze is human natureC.they do not need any conscious helpD.there are unwanted things in their nosesBText 2/BThere was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and
34、 heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rur
35、al areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal
36、 and oil)is creating a “greenhouse effect“conserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the worlds average temperature. If this view is correct and the worlds temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orle
37、ans will be in water.Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earths temperaturea result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make ag
38、riculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very possible). Perhaps, if we are lucky enough,
39、the two tendencies will Uoffset/U each other and the worlds temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by economic profit, people neglect the damage on our environment caused by the “advanced civilization“. Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their de
40、velopment. But is it really worthwhile?（分数：10.00）(1).As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution_.（分数：2.00）A.caused widespread damage in the countrysideB.affected the entire eastern half of the United StatesC.had damaged effect on healthD.existed merely in
41、 urban and industries areas(2).As to the greenhouse effect, the author_.（分数：2.00）A.shares the same view with the scientistsB.is uncertain of its occurrenceC.rejects it as being ungroundedD.thinks that it will destroy the world soon(3).The word “offset“ in the second paragraph could be replaced by_.（
42、分数：2.00）A.slip intoB.make up forC.set upD.catch up with(4).It can be concluded that_.（分数：2.00）A.raising the worlds temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earthB.lowering the world s temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major farming areas to disasterC.almost no
43、temperature variations have occurred over the past decadeD.the worlds temperature will remain constant in the years to come(5).This passage is primarily about_.（分数：2.00）A.the greenhouse effectB.the burning of fossil fuelsC.the potential effect of air pollutionD.the likelihood of a new ice ageBText 3
44、/BMy family and I recently returned from a trip to Alaska, a place that combines supernatural beauty with a breathtaking amount of bear risks. Ill start with some facts at a glance:WHERE ALASKA IS: Way the hell far from you. Beyond Mars.HOW YOU GET THERE: You sit in a variety of airplanes for most o
45、f your adult life.WHAT THEY HAVE THERE THAT WILL TRY TO KILL YOU: Bears.I am quite serious about this. Although Alaska is now an official state in the United States with modem conveniences such as rental cars and frozen yogurt, it also allows a large number of admitted bears to stride freely, and no
46、body seems to be the least bit alarmed about this. In fact, the Alaskans seem to be proud of it. You walk into a hotel or department store, and the first thing you see is a glass case containing a stuffed bear the size of a real one. Our hotel had two of these. It was what we travel writers call “a
47、two-bear hotel“. Both bears were standing on their hind legs and striking a pose that said: “Welcome to Alaska! Im going to tear your arms off!“This struck me as an odd concept, greeting visitors with a showcase containing a major local hazard. Its as if an anti-drug organization went around setting
48、 up glass display cases containing stuffed drug smugglers (走私者), with little plaques (胸章) stating how much they weighed and where they were taken.Anyway, we decided the best way to deal with our fear of bears was to become well informed about them, so we bought a book, Alaska Bear Tales. Here are some of the chapter titles, which I am not making up:“Theyll Attack Without Warning“Theyll Really Attack You“They Will Kill“Come Quick! Im Being Eaten by a Bear!“They Can Be Funny“Ha-ha! I bet they can. I bet Mr. and Mrs. Bea
