1、公共英语三级-286 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 are they talking about?（分数：1.00）A.Their best friend.B.Their favorite color.C.The clothes the woman is wearing.D.A present the man has bought.(2).Where are the two speakers?（分数：1.00）A.In a hotel.
2、B.At a dinner table.C.In the street.D.At the mans house.(3).Where will the woman go first?（分数：1.00）A.To the school.B.To a friends house.C.To the post office.D.Home.(4).What is Susan Gray?（分数：1.00）A.A writer.B.A teacher.C.A reporter.D.A student.(5).Who is the man most probably speaking to?（分数：1.00）A.
3、A shop assistant.B.A telephone operator.C.a waitress.D.A clerk.(1).How often will the womans son have piano lessons from next week on?（分数：1.00）A.Once a week.B.Twice a week.C.Three times a week.D.Four times a week.(2).What does the woman say about the lecture?（分数：1.00）A.It was a long lecture, but eas
4、y to understand.B.It was not as easy as she had thought.C.It was as difficult as she had expected.D.It was interesting and easy to follow.(3).What was the woman probably trying to do?（分数：1.00）A.Play a tape recorder.B.Take a picture.C.Repair a typewriter.D.Start a car.(4).What are they talking about?
5、（分数：1.00）A.The choice of courses.B.A day course.C.An evening course.D.Their work.(5).When did the second bus leave on Saturdays?（分数：1.00）A.At 7:30.B.At 8:00.C.At 8:30.D.At 9:00.三、Part B(总题数：4，分数：15.00)Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.（分数：4.00）(1).Who was the first to f
6、ind the gold in California?（分数：1.00）A.Sutter.B.Marshall.C.Bennet.D.A newspaperman.(2).Why did Sutter send Bennet to San Francisco?（分数：1.00）A.To ask the Governor for permission to make a home there.B.To make sure that any gold found on his land would belong to him.C.To prevent people from making a ho
7、me in the Sacramento Valley.D.To ask the Governor to keep a secret.(3).How did people come to California?（分数：1.00）A.By ship.B.By freight cars.C.By train.D.By both A and B.(4).Why did Sutter become poor?（分数：1.00）A.Because the new-comers took all the gold from his land.B.Because the new-comers killed
8、one of his sons.C.Because the new-comers seriously harmed him during the California Gold.D.Because the new-comers prevented him from making use of the wealth.Questions 15 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.（分数：4.00）(1).What are the mans hobbies?（分数：1.00）A.Running and thinking.B.
9、Running and jumping.C.Running and climbing.D.Running and skiing.(2).What is the main reason that the man runs every day?（分数：1.00）A.To think out some difficult problems.B.To do some cross-country running.C.To finish a course in physical training.D.To keep fit and healthy.(3).What is the man going to
10、do next year?（分数：1.00）A.Enter for the London Marathon.B.Do a cross-country running.C.Climb the Alps with his wife.D.Complete a course in snow and ice climbing.(4).What is the speakers main topic?（分数：1.00）A.Training for a professional athlete.B.His ways of physical training.C.How to do cross country
11、running.D.How to do mountain climbing.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.（分数：4.00）(1).When did the train he was travelling on arrive in Chicago?（分数：1.00）A.At 7:00.B.At 7:50.C.In time.D.Behind its time.(2).What did the conductor think it was better or the traveler to do?（
12、分数：1.00）A.To take a taxi to St.B.To take a bus to St.C.To carry his bags and hurry to the Union Station.D.To catch the 7:50 train to St.(3).What happened to the writer then?（分数：1.00）A.He managed to catch the train he needed.B.He failed to catch the train to St.C.As loon as he got on the train it beg
13、an to leave the station.D.Thanks to the porters help, he was in time for the train.(4).What is the best title for the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Late Again.B.A Helpful Conductor.C.At the Union Station.D.Conductor, Porter and I.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.（分数：3.00）(1).Why
14、did man have to track his target at a close range when using a short bow?（分数：1.00）A.Because it was too heavy.B.Because it did not bend easily.C.Because it did not shoot far.D.Because its string was short.(2).What does the passage tell us about the long bow?（分数：1.00）A.It went out of use 300 years ago
15、.B.It was invented after the short bow.C.It was discovered before fire and the wheel.D.Its still in use today.(3).What do we know about modem bows?（分数：1.00）A.They are accurate and easy to pull.B.Their shooting range is 40 yards.C.They are usually used indoors.D.They took 100 years to develop.四、Secti
16、on Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)TextToday, most countries in the world have canals. Many countries have built canals near the coast, and parallel (26) the coast. Even in the twentieth century, goods can be moved more cheaply by boat than by any other (27) of transport. These (28) make it possible for b
17、oats to travel (29) ports along the coast without being (30) to the dangers of the open. Some canals, such as the Suez and the Panama, save ships weeks of time by making their (31) a thousand miles shorter. Other canals permit boats to reach cities that are not (32) on the coast, still other canals
18、(33) lands where there is too much water, help to (34) fields where there is not enough water, and (35) water power for factories and mills. The size of a canal (36) on the kind of boats going through it. The canal must be wide enough to permit two of the largest boats using it to (37) each other ea
19、sily. It must be deep enough to leave about two feet of water (38) the keel of the largest boat using the canal. When the planet Mars was first (39) through a telescope, people saw that the round disk of the planet was criss-crossed by a (40) of strange blue-green lines. These were called “canals“ (
20、41) they looked the same as canals on earth (42) are viewed from an airplane. However, scientists are now (43) that the Martian phenomena are really not canals. The photographs (44) from space-ships have helped us to (45) the truth about the Martia “canals“.（分数：20.00）A.offB.withC.toD.byA.wayB.meansC
21、.methodD.approachA.waterwaysB.waterfrontsC.channelsD.pathsA.amongB.betweenC.inD.toA.revealedB.exposedC.openedD.shownA.tripB.journeyC.voyageD.routeA.lainB.stationedC.setD.locatedA.escapeB.drainC.dryD.leakA.waterB.wetC.soakD.irrigateA.furnishB.affordC.offerD.giveA.focusesB.basesC.dependsD.takesA.cross
22、B.passC.moveD.advanceA.downB.belowC.beneathD.offA.studiedB.researchedC.surveyedD.observedA.fewB.numberC.dealD.supplyA.althoughB.becauseC.soD.ifA.thatB.whereC.whenD.asA.exactB.definiteC.certainD.decisiveA.heldB.takenC.gotD.developedA.findB.exposeC.uncoverD.discover五、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六
23、、Part A(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Among the more colorful characters of Leadvilles golden age were H. A. W. Tabor and his second wife, Elizabeth McCourt, best known as “Baby Doe“. Their history is fast becoming one of the legends of the Old West. Horace Austin Warner Tabor was a school t
24、eacher in Vermont. With his first wife and two children he left Vermont by covered wagon in 1855 to homestead in Kansas. Perhaps he did not find farming to his liking, or perhaps he was lured by rumors of fortunes to be made in Colorado mines. At any rate, a few years later he moved west to the smal
25、l Colorado mining camp known as California Gulch, which he later renamed Leadville when he became its leading citizen. “Great deposits of lead are sure to be found here.“ he said.As it turned out, it was silver, not lead, that was to make Leadvills fortune and wealth. Tabor knew little about mining
26、himself, so he opened a general store, which sold everything from boots to salt, flour, and tobacco. It was his custom to “grubstake“ prospective miners, in other words, to supply them with food and supplies, or “grub“, while .they looked for ore, in return for which he would get a share in the mine
27、 if one was discovered. He did this for a number of years, but no one that he aided ever found anything of value.Finally one day in the year 1878, so the story goes, two miners came in and asked for “grub“. Tabor had decided to quit supplying it because he had lost too much money that way. These wer
28、e persistent, however, and Tabor was too busy to argue with them. “Oh, help yourself. One more time wont make any difference,“ He said and went on selling shoes and hats to other customers, the two miners took $17 worth of supplies, in return for which they gave Tabor a one-third interest in their f
29、indings. They picked a barren place on the mountainside and began to dig. After nine days they struck a rich vein of silver. Tabor bought the other shares of the two men, and so the mine belonged to him alone. This mine, known as the “Pittsburgh Mine,“ made $1,300,000 for Tabor in return for his $17
30、 investment.Later Tabor bought the Matchless Mine on another barren hillside just outside the town for $117,000. This turned out to be even more fabulous than the Pittsburgh, yielding $ 35,000 worth of silver per day at one time. Leadville grew. Tabor became its first mayor, and later became lieuten
31、ant governor of the state.（分数：10.00）(1).Leadville got its name for the following reasons EXCEPT _.（分数：2.00）A.because Tabor became its leading citizenB.because great deposits of lead is expected to be found thereC.because it could bring good fortune to TaborD.because it was renamed(2).The word “grubs
32、take“ in paragraph 2 means “ _.“（分数：2.00）A.to supply miners with food and suppliesB.to open a general storeC.to do ones contribution to the development of the mineD.to supply miners with food and supplies and in return get a share in the mine, if one was discovered(3).Tabor made his first fortune _.
33、（分数：2.00）A.by supplying two prospective miners and getting in return a one-third interest in the findingsB.because he was persuaded by the two miners to quit supplyingC.by buying the shares of the otherD.as a land speculator(4).The underlying reason for Tabors life career is _.（分数：2.00）A.purely acci
34、dentalB.based on the analysis of miners being very poor and their possibility of discovering profitable mining siteC.through the help from his second wifeD.he planned well and accomplished targets step by step(5).If this passage is the first part of an article, who might be introduced in the followi
35、ng part?（分数：2.00）A.Tabors life.B.Tabors second wife, Elizabeth McCourt.C.Other colorful characters.D.Tabors other careers.八、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Lacking a cure for AIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but in classrooms. Those with AIDS or those at high risk of AIDS s
36、uffer prejudice; they are feared by some people who find living itself unsafe, while others conduct themselves with a “bravado (冒险心理)“ that could be fatal. AIDS has afflicted a society already short on humanism, open handedness and optimism. Attempts to strike it out with the offending microbe are n
37、ot abetted(教唆)by preexisting social ills. Such concerns impelled me to offer the first university-level undergraduate AIDS course, with its two important aims:To address the fact that AIDS is caused by a virus, not by moral failure or societal collapse. The proper response to AIDS is compassion coup
38、led with an understanding of the disease itself. We wanted to foster (help the growth of) the idea of a humane society.To describe how AIDS tests the institutions upon which our society rests. The economy, the political system, science, the legal establishment, the media and our moral ethical philos
39、ophical attitudes must respond to the disease. Those responses, whispered, or shrieked, easily accepted or highly controversial, must be put in order if the nation is to manage AIDS. Scholars have suggested that how a society deals with the threat of AIDS describes the extent to which that society h
40、as the right to call itself civilized. AIDS, then, is woven into the tapestry(挂毯) of modem society; in the course of explaining that tapestry, a teacher realizes that AIDS may bring about changes of historic proportions. Democracy obliges its educational system to prepare students to become informed
41、 citizens, to join their voices to the public debate inspired by AIDS. Who shall direct just what resources of manpower and money to the problem of AIDS? Even more basic, who shall formulate a national policy on AIDS? The educational challenge, then, is to enlighten(启发) the individual and the societ
42、al, or public, responses to AIDS.（分数：10.00）(1).What is the passage mainly about?（分数：2.00）A.Why education must be offered about AIDS.B.How to achieve the aims of AIDS courses.C.Risks associeted with AIDS.D.Social responses to AIDS.(2).Why did the author offer the AIDS course?（分数：2.00）A.He wanted to t
43、each people about a cure for AIDS.B.People need to be taught how to avoid those with AIDS.C.He wanted to teach the students that AIDS resulted from moral failure.D.People take improper attitudes towards AIDS and those with or at high risk of AIDS.(3).The word “afflict“ in the third sentence of the f
44、irst paragraph most probably means _.（分数：2.00）A.benefitB.cause suffering toC.teachD.draw attention from(4).What does the author think is the correct response to AIDS?（分数：2.00）A.Fear and contempt.B.Optimism and bravado.C.Understanding and compassion.D.Resentment and avoidance.(5).Which of the followi
45、ng can best explain “AIDS tests the institutions upon which our society rests“ according to the passage?（分数：2.00）A.AIDS is a sign of moral failure and social collapse.B.AIDS indicates that our social systems have been very inefficient.C.The responses of a society to the threat of AIDS determines whe
46、ther and to what extent the society can be called civilized.D.The spreading of the fatal disease suggests that the nations resources have been wrongly used.九、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：10.00)People who do sleep research tell us that a person is a sort of “information processor.“ We have two ways to use the inf
47、ormation we get each day.The first process is used when we are awake. It takes place in the left side of the brain. It is this process that makes us do the things we have to do. It lets us put aside those things that are not a real part of our days work.The second process happens in the fight side o
48、f the brain. This process takes all those bits of information we did not use in the day. It turns them to dreams at night. “This process is our regular night shift work,“ says physiologist Rosalind Cartwright from the University of Illinois. “At night we put together the bits and pieces of our day,
49、so that we are ready to face the next day.“We have several dreams each night of our lives. About ten minutes after we fall asleep, we begin to go through four stages of sleep. Our sleep gets deeper and deeper. And it gets harder for us to wake up. At the end of the fourth and deepest stage, the process changes. We begin to come back up again through the same stages. The coming back up is called “rousal“ time. It lasts about ten to twenty minutes. We do not wake in this stage. Instead, we go through a stage of vivid dreams.In this stage we do not
