1、公共英语三级-240 及答案解析(总分：110.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Listening (总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part A(总题数：2，分数：10.00)(1).What did you learn about the man?（分数：1.00）A.He doesnt understand the question.B.He is ready to lend her the money.C.He will not lend her the money.D.He doesnt know what to do.(2).What did the woman d
2、o?（分数：1.00）A.She ordered a painting for the house.B.She hired someone to paint the house.C.She built the house.D.She hid the hous(3).What is true about Bob?（分数：1.00）A.He doesnt have enough money to buy a car.B.He really doesnt need a car.C.He plans to buy a car in a little while.D.He will have enoug
3、h money for a car soon.(4).What happened to Jane?（分数：1.00）A.She lost her temper.B.Her boyfriend no longer loves her.C.She no longer likes her boyfriend.D.She was moved by her boyfrien(5).What does the woman say about the supermarket?（分数：1.00）A.She doesnt know its hours.B.She thinks it closes at 6:30
4、.C.Its open all night during Christmas.D.It isnt open on Saturdays.(1).What does the man say about the seminar?（分数：1.00）A.It will end at 3:30.B.It will end before 3:30.C.It will last longer than scheduled.D.It will last three hours.(2).Does she like concerts?（分数：1.00）A.Yes.B.No.C.Sometimes.D.We dont
5、 know.(3).What does the man mean?（分数：1.00）A.Linda is practically the only one who thinks so.B.Most people will go down town.C.Few people will be surprised at the price.D.The price causes different opinions.(4).What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?（分数：1.00）A.Waitress and custome
6、r.B.Hostess and guest.C.Wife and husband.D.Mother and son.(5).Why is the man worried?（分数：1.00）A.He finds history books difficult to understand.B.He has to read a lot of history books.C.He doesnt like the history course.D.He has lost his history book.三、Part B(总题数：4，分数：15.00)Questions 11-13 are based
7、on the story you are going to hear.（分数：3.00）(1).Where did most of the “pilgrims“ the speaker met come from?（分数：1.00）A.U.S.A.B.Europe.C.Ohio.D.His hometown.(2).What was the main difference the speaker noted on returning to his hometown?（分数：1.00）A.It was busy early in the morning.B.The school had beco
8、me better than it used to be.C.The “Shakespeare industry“ has grown more important.D.Many Americans now lived ther(3).What was the direct connection between members of the speakers family and Shakespeare?（分数：1.00）A.They owned Shakespeares birthplace.B.They went to Shakespeares old school.C.They live
9、d near Shakespeares house.D.They shared Shakespeares first namQuestions 14-17 are based on a conversation you are going to hear.（分数：4.00）(1).What can be inferred about the woman whos speaking?（分数：1.00）A.Shes studying British culture.B.Shes wearing a black sweater.C.She sometimes misplaces things.D.S
10、he works in the library.(2).What is the man surprised to learn?（分数：1.00）A.That the library opens at 8:00.B.That no one else has read the articles.C.That none of the material he needs is available.D.That reserve materials can be taken out of the library.(3).What does the woman say about Professor Gra
11、nd?（分数：1.00）A.He is not cooperative.B.He will be in his office all afternoon.C.He has not read any of the articles himself.D.He already brought in extra copies of the articl(4).What does the woman suggest that the man do?（分数：1.00）A.Return early the next day.B.Photocopy the articles he needs.C.Ask pr
12、ofessor Grand for a copy of the articles.D.Wait until the girl has finished with her articles.Questions 18-21 are based on the following monologue.（分数：4.00）(1).What is John Smith?（分数：1.00）A.He is a poor man.B.He is a millionaire.C.He is a liar.D.He is a fortune teller.(2).In what way is John Smith d
13、ifferent from millionaires?（分数：1.00）A.He never uses money.B.He is a slave of his money.C.He is rich in peace of mind.D.He has no friends.(3).In what way is John Smith similar to the average millionaire?（分数：1.00）A.He always gets other people to pay for his drinks.B.He is full of jokes and fun.C.He al
14、ways makes people feel happy.D.He does not give much thought for tomorrow.(4).Whats the speakers attitude towards John Smith?（分数：1.00）A.He makes fun of John Smith.B.He looks down upon John Smith.C.He likes John Smith.D.He dislikes John SmitQuestions 22-25 are based on a conversation you are going to
15、 hear（分数：4.00）(1).Who is the woman?（分数：1.00）A.A recording artistB.A French teacherC.A studentD.An engineer(2).Why is the man talking to the woman?（分数：1.00）A.He is explaining the language laboratory.B.He wants to know where the tapes are.C.Hes showing her a new tape recorder.D.Hes recording her voice
16、 on a tap(3).What is the mans opinion of the language laboratory?（分数：1.00）A.It needs to have more French lesson tapes.B.It needs to have its controls repaired.C.It is different from all the other laboratories.D.It can be operated rather easily.(4).What will the woman do right now?（分数：1.00）A.Change h
17、er class schedule.B.Fill out a job application.C.Organize tapes on the shelves.D.Work on the French lessons.四、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Todays policeman in large cities throughout the world (26) on modem inventions to help them in their work. In most places motor scooters and police patrol c
18、ars have (27) away with the need to patrol a beat on foot or on horseback. Policemen use telephones, (28) located throughout their districts, to make immediate (29) with headquarters. Radio, television, and computers (30) to speed the work of the modem force. Even boats and helicopters are part of t
19、he equipment of metropolitan police departments.New technical inventions are widely used to (31) crime and speed the (32) of criminal cases. Electronic computers reduce from hours to minutes the time spent in (33) for fingerprints. Witnesses (34) of a criminal are coded and fed (35) a computer. The
20、machine then sorts through the picture file of known criminals and selects the name and photograph of the most (36) suspect. Lie detectors, (37) such evidence is acceptable, are used to (38) the truth. A criminal identification tool in (39) in some places is the image reflector, or “imagemaker“. Thi
21、s machine (40) a picture of a face (41) a screen. A detective manipulates the machine to (42) the parts of the face to match those of the suspect (43) described by the witnesses. The final picture is then photographed and sent to police in other areas. Sometimes skilled sketch artists employed by po
22、lice departments (44) oral descriptions into (45) of a suspect.（分数：20.00）A.insistB.insistingC.relyD.relyingA.doneB.keptC.putD.takenA.convincinglyB.convenientlyC.thatD.whichA.communicationB.connectionC.contactD.touchA.areB.helpC.tendD.usedA.combatingB.defeatingC.fightD.struggleA.processB.progressC.so
23、lutionD.solutionsA.examiningB.investigatingC.searchD.searchingA.descriptionB.descriptionsC.prescriptionD.prescriptionsA.intoB.onC.toD.withA.alikeB.likeC.likelyD.unlikeA.thatB.whereC.whichD.whoseA.doubtB.followC.tellD.uncoverA.operationB.serviceC.troubleD.useA.developsB.drawsC.projectsD.runsA.inB.int
24、oC.ontoD.toA.adjustB.changeC.reformD.tuneA.asB.havingC.whenD.whileA.transferB.transformC.transmitD.transportA.drawingsB.paintingsC.photographsD.pictures五、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、Part A(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：10.00)As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of
25、 time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase. I had left there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt did not seem to be wh
26、ere I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and railway tickets, money, scraps of paper, and photographs tumbled out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.When my turn came, I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at
27、 me suspiciously as if to say that he had heard this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown-looking object not different from the many cases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me a form and told me to make a list of the chief
28、 contents of the case. I were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down as they came to me.After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment, it o
29、ccurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up, he could have easily claimed the case already. This had not happened fortunately. For after a time, I found the case lying on its side high up in a comer. After examining the articles inside, the assistant was soon satisfied that it was mine a
30、nd told me I could take the case away. Again I took out my wallet: this time to pay. I pulled out a ten shilling note and the “lost“ receipt slipped out with it. I could not help blushing and glanced up at the assistant. He was nodding his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this hap
31、pen before too !（分数：10.00）(1).The writer needed the receipt _.（分数：2.00）A.to claim his suitcaseB.to pay at the luggage officeC.to prove that he had paid at the luggage officeD.to prove that he had bought the suitcase(2).The writer felt foolish because _.（分数：2.00）A.he couldnt really lost his receiptB.
32、he hadnt really lost his receipt at allC.he had to fill in a formD.the assistant was laughing at him(3).There werent _ people waiting at the luggage office.（分数：2.00）A.very muchB.a lotC.lotsD.very many(4).“situation“ means _.（分数：2.00）A.incidentB.eventC.placeD.position(5).“wrote them down“ means（分数：2.
33、00）A.copied themB.made a note of themC.signed themD.pointed at them八、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：10.00)A break through in the provision of energy from the sun for the European Economic Community (EEC) could be brought forward by up to two decades, if a modest increase could be provided in the EECs research effo
34、rt in this field, according to the senior EEC scientists engaged in experiments in solar energy at EECs scientific laboratories at Lspra, near Milan.The senior West German scientist in charge of the Communitys solar energy programme, Mr. Joachim Gretz, told journalists that at present levels of rese
35、arch spending it was most unlikely that solar energy would provide as much as three per cent of the Communitys energy requirements even after the year 2000. But he said that with a modest increase in the present sums devoted by the EEC to this work it was possible that the breakthrough could be achi
36、eved by the end of the next decade.Mr. Gretz calculates that if solar energy only provided three percent of the EECs needs, this could still produce a saving of about a billion pounds in the present bill for imported energy each year. And he believes that with the possibility of utilizing more advan
37、ced technology in this field it might be possible to satisfy a much bigger share of the Communitys future energy needs.At present the EEC spends about $2.6 millions a year on solar research at Lspra, one of the EECs official joint research centres, and another $3 million a year in indirect research
38、with universities and other independent bodies.（分数：10.00）(1).The phrase “be brought forward“ in Par（分数：2.00）A.1 most probably means _.A. be expectedB. be completedC. be advancedD. be introduced(2).Some scientists believe that a breakthrough in the use of solar energy depends on _.（分数：2.00）A.sufficie
39、nt fundingB.further experimentsC.advanced technologyD.well equipped laboratories(3).According to Mr. Gretz, the present sum of money will enable the scientists to provide _.（分数：2.00）A.a little more than 3% of the EECs needs after the year 2000B.3% of the EECs needs before the year 2000C.less than 3%
40、 of the EECs needs before the year 2000D.only 3% of the EECs needs even after the year 2000(4).Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?（分数：2.00）A.The EEC spends one billion pounds on imported energy.B.At the present level of research spending, it is difficult to make any signific
41、ant progress in the prevision of energy from the sun.C.The desired breakthrough could be obtained by the end of the next decade if investment were increased.D.The total yearly spending of the EEC on solar energy research amounted to almost 6 million dollars.(5).The application of advanced technology
42、 to research in solar energy would _.（分数：2.00）A.lead to a big increase in research fundingB.make it unnecessary to import oilC.make it possible to meet the future energy needs of the EECD.provide a much greater proportion of the Communitys future energy needs九、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Why bother with t
43、he study of history? What possible connections exist between an increasingly remote past and our own predicaments (困境) in the present? Can stories about other peoples in other places at any other times have any meaning in an age of vaulting (飞速发展的) technology and traumatizing (惊人) change? Is it reas
44、onable to think that anyone can benefit from the experiences of others in a presumably unprecedented (前所未有的) time when our political and economic systems falter (踉跄), and the nuclear, peril causes nightmares of dread? These questions hold more than rhetorical importance and compel serious answers. U
45、ndergraduates in all programs of study need to know what they can hope to learn and how their experiences will affect their capacity to think and act creatively in the future.Skeptics have often argued that a knowledge of history will not provide much help. The American industrialist Henry Ford char
46、acterized history as “bunk“. Although the observation probably tells more about the limitations of Fords mind that about the nature of history, other luminaries (名人) have expressed similar reservations. In the seventeenth century, the French scientist and mathematician Rene Descartes worried that un
47、due curiosity about the past would result in excessive ignorance of the present. Another Frenchman, Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, a philosopher and historian, described history as “a pack of tricks we play on the dead“. Although he meant the comment as an appeal for history written more accurat
48、ely, he inadvertently gave support to the cynical claim that historians invariably fall into one of three camps: those as George Wilhelm Fried Rich Hegel, a nineteeth century German, feared that the only thing we can learn from history is that no one learns anything from history.Undoubtedly the writ
49、ing of history is a perilous (危险的) venture. A common lament among historians is the fact that every day requires them to face up to their incomprehension of the world and their incapacity to interpret their evidence correctly. Surely they should rank among the humblest of people. Nevertheless, for many, the sheer joy of the endeavor makes the risk worthwhile. Some even have assigned to themselves important and useful functions. Most historians regard the study of history as a way for human beings to acquire s
