英语三级考试模拟试题(5) （2004年12月）
Part I: Listening Comprehension (15%)
Section A
Directions: In this ction, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken twice. After each question there will be a pau. During the pau you must read the four choices marked A), B), C), D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
1. A) The receptionist. B) The operator. C) The rvice maid. D) The hotel manager
2. A) 4:15 B) 4:40 C) 4:50 D) 4:45
3. A) In a department store B) In the man’ department.
C) In the toy department D) In a book store
4. A) Mild B) Hot C) Cold D) Warm
5. A) Two blocks B) Four blocks C) Three blocks D) Five blocks
6. A) To buy some new glass cups B) To buy a pair of new glass
C) To go to her boss’s office D) To go to new clas s
7. A) Buying a new car B) Buying a ud car
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C) Saving her money for long D) Getting a cond car
8. A) It was a great success B) It was a little noisy
C) She thought it was terrible D) She agreed with the man
9. A) He didn’t like it B) He didn’t attend it
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C) It was better than Professor Black’s D) It was not as a good as Professor Black’s
10. A) There are thirty-three students at it B) It lasts longer than it is suppod to24节气的谚语
C) The time was changed again D) It will end on the third of April Section B
Passage
Questions 11 to 12 are bad on the passage you have just heard海鲜菜单
11. A) To stay away from others B)To shoe their beauty
C) To warn other birds D) To remember the bad taste
12. A) Becau colors help them survive B) Becau colors help them show off
C) Becau colors help them move wings D) Becau colors help them change themlves
Section C Sport Dictation
注意：听力明白得的C节（Section C）为填充式听写，短文及题目(S1-S6)在试卷二(Test Paper Two)上。此刻请掏出试卷二做听写题。
How many languages exist in the world today? This is not a very easy question to answer, becau it’s difficult to distinguish languages from the different _______ of the same language. There are 5,000to 6,000 languages in the world today. However, 96% of the world’s _______ speaks only 4% o
f tho languages. Some languages have millions of speakers and Chine has over a ________. Other languages, however, have very few speakers. In Alaska there’s on ly one person left who speaks Eyak and she’s 83 years old. Many languages that people ud to speak around the world have now _______. Students of classics still learn dead languages such as ancient Greek and Latin, But they don’t speak them in their ________. Does this mean that languages which don’t belong to that 4% are eventually going to ________? Probably not. In Hawaii, some peoples speak the local languages that ud to be dead, so, in other words, there’s still hope.
Part II: Vocabulary and Structure (20%)时间流逝的句子唯美
13. People try to avoid public transportation delay by using their own cars, and
this _____Creates further problems.
A) in turn B) in part C) in effect D) in short
14. We need a monitor _______.
A) for whom everyone has confidence B)in whom everyone has confidence
C) whom everyone has confidence of D) whom everyone has confidence of
15. The man speaking at the platform was Mr. Simpson,______ the party was given.
A) in this honor B) for his honor C) in who honor D) for who honor
16. History is a record of mankind; however, different history _________it differently.
A) identify B) indicate C) illustrate D) interpret
17. Caught in the rain, I had to stand under a tree to avoid _______ wet.
A) getting B)get C) to get D) be gotten
18. The fire fighters sank down one by one, _______.
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C) all their strength exhausted D) all their strength be exhausted
19. New students spend hours in the library, trying to ______the system of arranging the books.
A) cross out B) work out C) t out D) put out
20. The man denied ___ any thing at the supermarket when he was questioned by the police.
A) to have stolen B ) to steal C )having been stealing D) having stolen
21. A _____ to this problem is expected to be found before long.
A) result B) respon C) solution D) ttlement
22. I don’t think it adv isable that all the important documents _______ in the president’s office.
A) must be locked B) will be locked C) are locked D) be locked
23. My boss emed to be in no _____ to discuss the important business deal.
A) attitude B) mood C) emotion D) feeling
24. When a person needs to take this medicine ______the directions first.
A)he has to read B) he must have read C) you have to read D)
you will be reading
25. Haven’t you enough ____ n that it’s unwi to go swimming just after a big meal?
A) normal B) general C) usual D) common
26. It was between 1830 and 1835 ____the modern newspaper was born.
A) which B) when C) that D) becau
27. Britain is proud of her great poets and dramatists, ____ Italy is proud of her
painters and sculptors, and Germany of her compors.
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A)just so B) just as C) so as D) so that
28. The teacher was critical ____ the way we were doing the experiment.
A) of B) that C) in D) with
29. I prefer his plan to yours ______ it is more practical and easier to be carried out.
A) for which B) for that C) in which D) in that
30. Becau of the rising cost, we spent ____ money on the project as had been planned.
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A) as twice more B) twice as much C) as twice much D) twice as more
31. John liked music very much, but when he went to the university he decided to
study medicine ____ of music.
A) instead B) despite C) in place D) in spite
32. It is said that the construction of our new library _____by the end of next year.
A) will complete B) will be complete C) will have been completed D) have completed
Part III: Reading Comprehension (40%) (35 minutes)
Passage One
About 150 years ago the children of a poor farmer who lived in South Africa found a pretty pebble（鹅卵石）on the bank of a river. The pebble shone brightly in spots. The children took the pebble home and showed it to their mother. Then they
tosd (扔) it aside. The next day a neighbor saw it and offered to buy it. The children and the mother told him that he could have it for nothing. Who ever heard of lling a pebble?
The pebble turned out to be a large diamond. No one had known that there are diamonds in South Africa. Today a large part of all the diamonds in the world come from a region not far from the place where the children found their bright pebble. Diamonds are crystals of carbon. Carbon is a very common material. Coal, for example, is made up mostly of carbon. But the carbon of coal is not in crystal form. Clear crystal of carbon — are very rare.
The world “diamond” comes from a Greek word meaning “the unconquerable”. The diamond got its name becau of its hardness. No other material is so hard. It is ud in tools for cutting and drilling into very hard substances. Some saws, for example, have tiny diamonds t in the teeth.
33. The children and their mother gave the pebble to their neighbor and asked nothing for it becau _____.
A) they were good neighbors B) they didn’t need money
C) they didn’t know it was a diamond D) they thought it silly to ll a pebble
34. For a long time, people didn’t know that _____.
A) diamonds are crystals of carbon B) diamond is the hardest of all substances
C) “diamond” is originally a Greek word D) there are diamonds in South Africa
35. The original meaning of the word “diamond” in Greek suggests _____.
A) hardness B) rareness C) crystal form D) bright spots
36. Diamond and coal are similar to each other in _____.
A) physical properties B) chemical composition C) brightness D) appearance
37. This passage can be best described as _____.
A) entertaining B) persuading C) informative D) expressive
