[大学英语考试复习资料]大学三级(A)模拟165

1、大学英语考试复习资料大学三级(A)模拟165大学英语考试复习资料大学三级(A)模拟165大学三级(A)模拟165Part Listening ComprehensionDirections: This part is to test your listening ability. It consists of 2 sections.Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked

2、 about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only ONCE. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and then decide which is the best answer. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 1.A.8:30.B.8:13.C.8:33.D.3:30.答案

3、:B解析M: Are we supposed to leave at 8:13 ?W: Im not sure. All I remember is that the flight number is 833.Q: What time does the man think theyll leave?2.A.The man did not study.B.The man is not nervous.C.The woman didnt study.D.The woman is as nervous as the man.答案:A解析M: Im not prepared for the test.

4、 Are you nervous?W: No, Im not. I studied.Q: Which is true?3.A.She doesnt want to ask Mr. Jones herself.B.She doesnt want to work for Mr. Jones.C.Mr. Jones may have broken the radio.D.Mr. Jones might fix the radio.答案:D解析M: My radio doesnt work. What do you think I should do?W: Why not call Mr. Jones

5、?Q: What does the woman mean?4.A.Smaller.B.Large.C.Same size.D.Slight.答案:A解析M: My coat is smaller than my brothers.W: Really? He always seemed much shorter than you.Q: How does the mans coat compare to his brothers?5.A.Clerk and customer.B.Doctor and patient.C.Policeman and motorist.D.Lawyer and cli

6、ent.答案:C解析W: Whats Wrong?M: You were speeding. May I have your drivers license.Q: Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers? (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 6.A.At the airport.B.At the hotel.C.At the restaurant.D.At the office.答案:B解析W: We dont seem to have a reservation for you.M: But my secreta

7、ry said that she had made reservation for me here. I phoned her from airport this morning.Q: Where did the conversation most probably take place?7.A.She likes jazz music.B.She needs 100 records.C.She bought a new house.D.She prefers clothing store.答案:A解析M: Yesterday we went to Jones house to listen

8、to records.W: I heard she had more than a hundred jazz records. Is that true?Q: What do we learn about Jone?8.A.kook for another seat.B.Repeat the question.C.Remain standing.D.Sit down.答案:D解析W: Would you mind if I sat here?M: Of course not.Q: What did the woman probably do?9.A.She prefers apple.B.Th

9、ere was nothing else to eat.C.Shes on a diet.D.Its only a snack.答案:B解析M: Why are you eating that apple?W: Its the only food in the house.Q: Why did the woman choose the apple?10.A.George and his sister.B.Georges family.C.The mans family.D.The mans grandfather.答案:A解析W: George and his sister are plann

10、ing to live in your old family house.M: No ones been there since Grandfather died.Q: Who will live in the house?Section BDirections: In this section you will hear a passage three times. During the first reading, you should listen carefully for a general idea of the whole passage. Then listen to the

11、passage again. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words missing according to what you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. There are 1 in the U. S.: If you have

12、to 2 several time zones in 12 hours or less, you may feel an upset of your 3 after the long flight. This is jet lag. Doctors say the best thing you can do is 4 and perhaps have a drink of water and rest at your hotel 5 . Larger airports with lots of 6 have employees who speak languages besides Engli

13、sh to help you, but smaller ones dont. You can bring 7 one quart of alcoholic beverages and one carton of cigarettes (200 cigarettes) into the U. S. 8 . If you bring more, you have to pay tax. If you lose something on the plane or cant find your 9 at the claim area, you should report it to your airl

14、ine. If you lose something in the airport, you should go to 10 . (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 1.答案: four time zones解析 11-20There are four time zones in the U. S.: If you have to fly through several time zones in 12 hours or less, you may feel an upset of your body clock after the long flight. This is jet la

15、g. Doctors say the best thing you can do is rest on the plane and perhaps have a drink of water and rest at your hotel when you arrive. Larger airports with lots of international traffic have employees who speak languages besides English to help you, but smaller ones dont. You can bring a total of o

16、ne quart of alcoholic beverages and one carton of cigarettes (200 cigarettes) into the U. S. duty free. If you bring more, you have to pay tax. If you lose something on the plane or cant find your baggage at the claim area, you should report it to your airline. If you lose something in the airport,

17、you should go to the lost and found. 2.答案: fly through3.答案: body clock4.答案: rest on tile plane5.答案: when you revive6.答案: international traffic7.答案: a total of8.答案: duty free9.答案: baggage10.答案: the lost and foundPart Reading ComprehensionDirection: There are 4 passages in this section. Each passage i

18、s followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should choose the best answer to each question.Task 1 Fifty - four teenagers came crashing through the double doors of the Easter High School choir(音乐) room one April afterno

19、on in 1987, wild with the news theyd heard over tile loudspeaker. They had been selected to compete at the International Youth and Music Festival in Vienna. To these young people from the inner city of Washington D.C. it sounded like a dream. Is it true, Mrs. Garrett? shrieked the usually dreamy Aye

20、sha Brock. Joyce Garrett wasnt smiling. How could she tell her award - winning singers that a golden voice wasnt enough to get you to Europe? Hadnt she spent 22 years in convincing the citys poorest children that it wasnt where you lived but what you did that counted? Yes, its true, she said slowly.

21、 Only 36 North 5merican choirs were selected. Its an honor just to have been invited. But Mrs. G, someone said, Are we going? Most of Joyces pupils had to work to pay for clothes, books, sometimes even food. They had about as much chance of going to Vienna as to the moon. Well see, she said. A year

22、from July is a long way off. Of course, they couldnt attend, Joyce told herself. Still, she showed the elegant, hand - written invitation to her neighbor Tom Howell, a local businessman. Something in Joyces voice told Howell this was special. He read the letter slowly. Joyce, he said, You are going

23、to accept this invitation! You get those youngsters ready, and well find a way to get them to Vienna. 1. When the youngsters heard the news, they _.A.couldnt believe itB.realized their dream had come trueC.became mad with joyD.rushed to the choir room答案:C解析 细节判断题。B)表示与事实相反，这些学生压根儿就没有想到他们会入选，A)、C)、D)

24、都是这些中学生听到消息的一些反应，但都是高兴得难以置信，高兴得往合唱室冲。2. Joyce Carrett was heavy -hearted at tile news because _.A.she was afraid they couldnt win at ViennaB.she thought they had no time to prepare well enough to ViennaC.she believed the invitation was just an honor onlyD.she knew they couldnt afford the trip答案:D解析

25、细节判断题。从文中第二段起，我们可以看到听到消息后，Garrett夫人百感交集，但更多的是考虑他们是否能接受(accept)得了这个邀请，她的大多数学生穷得靠打工给自己买衣服、书籍甚至食品，哪有钱支付到维也纳的费用?3. The sentence . it wasnt where you lived but what you did that counted can be best interpreted that _.A.nothing is more important than what you didB.one can decide not where he was born but

26、what he doesC.it was not where you came from but what you did that matteredD.you can number your actions but not your living place答案:C解析 词意辨析题。关键词是count。在本句中其含意为：重要、有价值。A)表达意思时有点偏激。4. From the passage we know that _.A.the school was situated in Washingtons Black ghettoB.Joyce was a young successful

27、music teacherC.the Music Festival in Vienna is to be held on April every yearD.most of Joyces pupils decided to raise money for the trip答案:A解析 细节判断题。有二十二年教龄，Garrett不会年轻，维也纳音乐节不是在四月而是在七月举行，根本都没提到学生募集款项去维也纳之事，倒是根据，学生窘迫经济状况可推测出A)。5. The phrase are going to accept in the first sentence of the last para.

28、 means _.A.are planning to acceptB.are to acceptC.will acceptD.are sure to accept答案:D解析 词意辨析题。be going to这一词组常用的词意是：打算、将要，另一个意思就是：很有可能。Task 2 In 1813 rumors of a threatened invasion of Washington had circulated widely. But no attack materialized, so military preparedness ceased. By 1814 the defensiv

29、e system for Washington was nonexistent except for a few troops near the city and a weak naval force. Month after month Congress had voted down resolutions to place the capital in a defensive posture, while the secretary of war kept concentrated on his invasion of Canada. The best plan for defense c

30、ame from the cabinet in July, when it proposed to defend Washington with an army of volunteers from all the states. The result was inadequate at best. Some of the men that reported for duty were told to go home and get better shoes and to bring back a butcher knife if they could not get a musket. On

31、 August i8, news reached the capital that a British fleet had sailed into the Patuxent River. The city was put on immediate alert. As the British army marched closer to the capital, 38 - year - old Brigadier General William Henry Winder was entrusted with defense of the city. His frustrations were m

32、any. Secretary of War John Armstrong, new to his office, still believed that the British force would not attack Washington; the quartermaster of the army was unable to supply axes for cutting trees to impede(阻止) the enemy advance; and Winders own troops were untrained, volunteer militiamen. In addit

33、ion, he got little consistent help from his superiors, who included President James Madison and Secretary of States James Monroe. He was an indefensible position, which led to one of Americas darkest days -that of August 24th, 1814. 1. In 1813 military preparedness stopped because _.A.the rumors of

34、a threatened invasion turned out to be wrongB.no British army carried out any attack on the cityC.the invasion of Washington was just a threat by the BritishD.the British army should no sign preparing for a war答案:B解析 细节判断题。第一段第二句：But no attack materialized，so military preparedness ceased，句中materiali

35、zed的词意很关键，考生未学，但同源的名词的意思已知、据此，在上下文中我们可猜测materialize意为：“成为事实、发生”。读懂了这句话，即可得到答案B)。2. The most important reason for the weak Washington defense is that _.A.only volunteers from the states defended the cityB.only a few troops and a weak naval force were gathered for the cityC.some of the volunteers were

36、 not well armedD.the big people didnt pay much attention to the defense答案:D解析 综合判断题。华盛顿失守的原因很多，本篇文章只是讨论其原因的一部分。A)、B)、C)、D)所列均可称为防守弱的原因，但什么是最主要的呢?略加思索，我们不难得出这样的结论：军政要员不相信战斗即将来临，轻视首都防守，不愿投入较多的正规力量。3. The Patzxent River was situated in the _ of Washington D. C.A.northeastB.northwestC.southeastD.southwe

37、st答案:C解析 推理题。从文中我们知道：当时的国防部长忙于入侵加拿大，根据常识我们可推断北域无英军入侵危险，再则英军一般会从东部沿海向内地推进，因此可推断Patuxent River在华盛顿的东南方。4. According to the passage which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?A.August 24th, 1814 was remembered as the one of the darkest days.B.Some top officers were not willing to be prepared against

38、 the war.C.The city was indefensible at the time.D.Winder was unqualified for the defense of the city.答案:D解析 细节判断题；文中分别谈到了A)、B)、C)三项所讲述的事实或观点，至于38岁的Winder准将，主要是谈他担任护城时任务有方方面面的麻烦困难，关于他本人的军事才能只字未提，也无处可推测 D)项所表示的观点。5. The tone in this passage can best be described as _.A.objectiveB.sentimentalC.indiffe

39、rentD.subjective答案:A解析 综合判断题。通读全文，我们可感觉到作者是在客观地、冷静地分析历史上华盛顿失守的原因，没有掺杂个人的感情和观点，但冷静并不等于冷漠。Task 3 Considered from the point of view of vocabulary, there are few, if any, pure languages. Historically, English has been well -known as a word borrower, but it is equally true that every Western European lan

40、guage has supplemented(增补) its lexicon by adoptions from other languages. In this respect then, English was like the other immigrant languages brought to the New World, and in a broader sense, like every other language that has ever existed. Loan words occur even in the languages of aboriginal peopl

41、es. Even Indo- European, the hypothetical(假设的) parent of most of the languages found in Europe today and many of those in western Asia, appears to have borrowed words some 4000 years ago from Finno-Ugric, and to have furnished others in return. In the same manner, American Indian languages soon pick

42、ed up European words like kabay for horse, and the international European vocabulary soon had words like canoe, tobacco, and hammock from the Indians. One great impetus toward word borrowing arises from the necessity of talking about new things, qualities, operations, concepts, and ideas. Inevitably

43、 the movement of a people to a markedly different environment not only creates a problem of communication but makes it an urgent requirement. Almost as soon as he struck land, Columbus seized by force several Indians on the first island in order that they might learn from us, and in like manner tell

44、 us about those things in these lands of which they themselves had knowledge; and the plan succeeded, for in a short time we understood them and they did us, sometimes by gesture and signs, sometimes by words; and it was a great advantage to us. None of the early reporters tell us, however, the answ

45、er to the most interesting question for language historians: What were those words (and gestures), and how did the interlocutors(对话者) put them together? 1. Which is the main topic of th6 first paragraph?A.English has been well -known as a word borrower.B.Ina broader sense, there are no pure language

46、s.C.Every Western European language has adopted words from other languagesD.There is no language that doesnt have borrowed words.答案:D解析 主旨判断题。第一段首句为topic sentence，其后都是讲叙不同语言相互借用词汇的事例。B)作为主题句失之偏颇。2. Indo-European mentioned in the paragraph is _.A.a new languageB.a very old languageC.a so-called ancie

47、nt languageD.a widely used language答案:C解析 细节判断题。细读第一段第五句可以获得答案。语言学家假想印欧语是印欧语系众多语言之父。印欧语是语言学家根据某些史实编写出来的一种语言，或许是根本不存在的语言。3. We can infer from the passage that _.A.everyone can find familiar words in any other languagesB.English was an immigrant language to the New WorldC.The necessity of communicatio

48、n gives rise to word borrowingD.Columbus successfully made the people understand each other答案:A解析 推断题。B)、C)、D)均是文中所提到的一事实，不需推断。因各种语言相互借鉴词汇，这些借用的词一般使用频率较高，这些词虽少，但每个人似乎都有机会碰到它们。4. The international European vocabulary refers to that of _.A.IndiansB.Indo - EuropeanC.Western European languagesD.Finno-Ug

49、ric答案:A解析 关系指代题。从第一段最后一句中我们可以看到，印地安语从英语中获得词汇，而英语反之也从印地安语中借用一些词汇。5. From reading we can guess that the following will talk around _.A.American EnglishB.different languagesC.Romance languageD.immigrant languages答案:A解析 语篇分析题。这篇文章虽然这两段似乎都不是以谈论英语语言为主题，但文中举例、引证偏向于用英语中的事例，我们可推断，这篇文章是以讲叙英语有关方面的事为主题的。Task 4

50、There was a time in early history of man when the days bad no names! The reason was quite simple: Men had not invented the week. In those days, the only division of times was the month, and there were too many days in the month for each of them to have a separate name. But when men began to build ci

51、ties, they wanted to have a special day on which to trade, a market day. Sometimes these market day were fixed at every tenth day, sometimes every seventh or every fifth day. The Babylonians decided that it should be every seventh day. On this day they didnt work, but met for trade and religious fes

52、tivals. The Jews followed their example, and kept every seventh day for religious purposes. In this way the week came into being. The Jews gave each of the seven days a name, but it was really a number after the Sabbath(安息日) day (which Was Saturday). When the Egyptians adopted the seven - day week,

53、they named the days after five planets, the sun and the moon. The Romans used the Egyptian names for their days of the week: the day of the sun, of the moon, of the planet Mars, of Mercury (水星), of Venus (木星), and of Saturn (土星). We get our names for the days not from the Romans but from the Anglo -

54、 Saxons, who called most of the days after their own gods. 1. In the early days there were no names for the days, because men _.A.had not yet created the idea of grouping seven days in a weekB.did not know what the word week meantC.considered it unnecessary to have the namesD.did not believe it was

55、the time to invent the week答案:A解析 由第一段的文意决定，2. In those days _.A.the smallest unit of time was the monthB.the smallest unit of time was the weekC.the year had been believed to be the only division of timesD.the months had no names either答案:A解析 根据第二段的首句可知，古代时间划分的惟一单位是月份，故排除其它三个选项。3. The week came int

56、o being when the Jews devoted _ to God.A.every tenth dayB.every seventh dayC.every fifth dayD.either A or E答案:B解析 第三段告诉我们，犹太人根据巴比伦人的决定，进而确立把每个第七天作为宗教日。4. Who began to call the days in a week after five planets, the sun and the moon?A.The Egyptians.B.The Romans.C.The Babylonians.D.The Anglo - Saxons.答案:A解析 根据第四段的首句判断。注意选项B)有迷惑性，但阅读后文便知，B)项所述的罗马人是在埃及人的基础上进一步点出五个行星的名字，这与题目有出入，故不能作为答案。5. Our present names for the days of the week are _.A.q