2006年1月浙江省大学英语三级考试试卷

2006年1月浙江省大学英语三级考试试卷 2006年1月浙江省大学英语三级考试试卷 7. A) Not moving this afternoon. B) Moving to the classroom. Part I Listening Comprehension C) Finding more students to help her. Section A D) Discussing this problem with more students. Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each 8. A) Tom is going to New York. conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. You will B) Tom has traveled all over the world. hear the conversation and the question only once. After each question C) Tom collects stamps. there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices D) Tom is going on vacation. marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then 9. A) Yes, it is too far to walk. mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line B) No, it is within walking distance. through the center. C) No, but you must take the subway. D) Yes, you must take a bus. 1. A) She wants to go to the laboratory. 10. A) 3 years old. B) 5 years old. B) She will go to the concert. C) 6 years old. D) 2 years old. C) She is going to study in the library. D) She wants to hear a lecture on American history. Section B 2. A) in two days. B) in six days. Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. The passage will be read C) in eight days. D)in ten days. twice. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions, which 3. A) He will not leave the school. will be read only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the B) He will stay at home most of the vacation. best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark C) He will go to a summer school. the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through D) He will stay at the school. the center. 4. A) The movie is not good. B) The movie is just what he expected. Passage One C) The movie is excellent. Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. D) The movie is worth the money. 11. A) 200 years ago. B) During the 1770s. 5. A) 1:10. B) 1:30. C) Soon after the Revolutionary War. D) In 1832. C) 1:50. D) 2:00. 12. A) California. B) Virginia. 6. A) In a library. B) In a post office. C) Georgia. D) Indiana. C) In a classroom. . D) In a bookstore. 13. A) Driving. B) Cooking. C) Nursing. D) Business management. Part II Vocabulary Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that Passage Two Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the 14. A) A reporter. B) A newsboy. Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. C) A librarian. C) An editor. 15. A) Because he knew the man. 21. The couple are unable to have children of their own, so they decided to B) Because the man was reading the article he had written. a daughter. C) Because the man wanted to buy that day’s newspaper. A) adopt B) adjust D) Because the man was reading the newspaper he had edited. C) adapt D) appoint 16. A) Reading. B) Walking. 22. I find this book of great in helping me get along well with others. A) wealth B) price C) Sleeping. D) Talking. C) usefulness D) value 23. I’m sure I have seen that man before but I can’t where. Passage Three Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. A) remind B) retell 17. A) They will stand up reluctantly. C) recall D) recognize B) They will offer her their seats after a while. 24. Convenience foods which are ready for cooking are in grocery stores. C) They will pretend not to see her. A) available B) capable D) Someone will get off the bus. C) acceptable D) probable 18. A) Equality with men. B) Male politeness. 25. They had a heated discussion on the topic but came to no . C) Equality in pay. D) Equality in politeness. A) end B) idea 19. A) Because the man should not hold the door open. C) result D) conclusion 26. In the past few years the school has a lot of money improving the B) Because the man treats the women as weak and inferior. C) Because the man shows too much politeness. teaching equipment. D) Because man often offend women in this way. A) cost B) paid 20. A) Men ought to make gestures of politeness towards women. C) spent D) taken B) Women ought to make gestures of politeness towards men. 27. The school bus got out of on the way to school this morning, so all the C) Women have achieved full equality with men. students were late. D) Men are beginning to treat women as equal human beings. A) work B) function C) power D) order 28. Road safety should be taught to young children to road accident. 37. —Mr. Smith hasn’t got married, has he? A) avoid B) refuse —Yes, he has. , he has a daughter already. C) deny D) ignore A) As a matter of fact B) As a rule 29. It is difficult to what the long-term effects of the reform will be. C) Instead D) However A) investigate B) inform 38. , the floor is wet. We have just cleaned it. C) broadcast D) predict A) Look around B) Look back 30. His novel is more interesting than any other novels he’s ever written. C) Look out D) Look down A) first B) latest 39. —Would you do me a favor and take me the box upstairs? C) former D) later — . 31. It’s time for us to take measures to stop water as it is getting more and A) My pleasure B) Never mind more serious. C) With pleasure D) I’m glad to hear that A) condition B) pollution 40. Henry tried many times to smoking but failed. C) standard D) population A) give out B) give in 32. Jack invited me to his birthday party but I didn’t his invitation. C) give off D) give up A) accept B) receive C) answer D) reply Part III Structure 33. We don’t think anyone can us with being irresponsible for the Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there students. are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that A) charge B) accuse best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the C) scold D) blame Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 34. To my horror, I found my drinking was starting to have a effect on my work. 41. I can’t stand him. He always talks as if he everything. A) know B) has known A) harmless B) negative C) unique D) positive C) knew D) had known 35. I don’t want to get in the argument about whom to blame. 42. I’m sorry, but there are for Sunday’s concert. A) interested B) involved A) no tickets available B) not tickets available C) absorbed D) focused C) no available tickets D) not available tickets 36. Wearing a bright-colored silk dress, she in the crowed. 43. All flights because of the terrible weather, the Smiths had to go back to A) stood out B) stood up the hotel. C) stood for D) stood by A) had been canceled B) being canceled C) having been canceled D) were canceled A) don’t I B) haven’t you 44. for your laziness, you could have passed the entrance examination. C) do I D) have you A) If it were not B) Had it not been 53. The foreign languages school has a large collection of books, are in C) Weren’t it D) If it had been not English. 45. Once upon a time, known by the name of Rip Van Winkle. A) many of them B) many ones A) a man lived there B) there lived a man C) many of which D) many books C) lived there a man D) lived a man 54. Do you think possible to master a foreign language within two 46. He said that he would take part in the oral English contest, is most months? unusual for him. A) this B) it A) this B) it C) that D) which C) that D) which 55. It was in this factory “West Lake” sewing machines were made. 47. —Do you want to see my driver’s license or my passport? A) where B) that —Oh, . C) in which D) there David speaks English very well. A) either one will do B) either does well 56. — C) all will do D) each will be fine — . 48. A language lab with 40 computers to the middle school as a gift. A) So he does, and so do you B) So does he, and so you do A) was given B) would have given C) So he does, and so you do D) So does he, and so do you C) were given D) had given 57. The wooden house is still in excellent condition it was built over 100 49. He to have the examination yesterday evening, but he went to the years ago. concert instead. A) since B) because A) would come B) must have come C) despite D) though C) need come D) should have come 58. I am strongly against his proposal that the plan . 50. Linda an essay about customs in China last week and I wonder if she A) be canceled B) will be canceled has finished it. C) to be canceled D) shall be canceled A) wrote B) has written 59. I want to know is how long it will take to finish the building. C) was writing D) had written A) That B) Which 51. Is this the washing-machine that you want ? C) What D) Whether A) to have been repaired B) is repaired 60. The project by the end of 2004 has benefited 100,000 people in the C) to be repaired D) will be repaired city. 52. I don’t think you have met him before, ? A) completed B) being completed C) having been completed D) to be completed A) Some birds fly mainly by day. B) Some birds fly mainly by night. Part IV Reading Comprehension C) Birds like to fly during daylight hours. Directions: There are 3 passages in this part, each passages is followed by some D) Birds depend on the sun or stars to guide them. questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four 62. What do we know about the experimental warbler? choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice A) It was set free for the experiment. and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single B) It had never flown freely outdoors.. line through the center. C) It had never been placed under the sun. D) It had lost its way in its daylight flight. Passage One 63. What do we know about warblers as a whole? Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage: A) They do not have intelligence. Why don’t birds get lost on their long migratory(迁徙的) flight? Scientists B) They tend to take the same route as other birds. have puzzled over this question for many years. Now they are beginning to fill in the C) They do not need to learn to fly in the right way. D) They cannot sense changes in the position of the moon. blanks. Not long ago, experiments showed that birds rely on the sun to guide them 64. What does the passage say about warblers’ sense of direction? during daylight hours. But what about birds that fly mainly by night? Tests with A) They get lost under star-filled sky. artificial(人造的) stars have proved conclusively that certain night-flying birds are B) They lose their way when it is too dark. able to follow stars in their long-distance flights. C) They are not able to see clearly at night. One such bird—a warbler—had spent its lifetime in a cage and had never flown D) They usually depend on clouds for direction. under a natural sky. Yet it showed an inborn ability to use stars for guidance. The 65. What does “fill in the blanks” in the first paragraph mean? bird’s cage was laced under an artificial star-filled sky at migration time. The bird A) “to do the exercise” B) “to take the test” tried to fly in the same direction as that taken by his outdoor cousins. Any change in C) “to know the right words” D) “to know the answer” the position of the artificial stars caused a change in the direction of his flight. Scientists think that warblers, when flying in daylight, use the sun for guidance. Passage Two But stars are apparently their main means of directed flight in the night. What do Questions 65 to 70 are based on the following passage: they do when stars are hidden by clouds? Apparently, they find their way by such How men first learned to invent words is unknown. All we really know is that landmarks as mountain ranges, coast lines and river courses. But when it is too dark men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and to see these, the warblers circle helplessly, unable to find their way. feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to 61. Which of the following is NOT true about migratory bird’s flight? represent those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. D) A poet knows more sounds and words than others. The power of words, then, lies in their associations — the things they bring up 70. What is the best title of the passage? A) Language and Its Use. B) Language and Human Experience. before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the happy and sad events of our C) Poet: A Master of Words. D) How Language Came into Being. past; the more we read and learn, the larger the number of words that mean Passage Three something to us becomes. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following passage: thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and feelings. This attractive In the 1800s, trains roared into stations. They were symbols of progress and use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of expansion. They played as much of a role in America’s history as presidents and words. He can express his meaning in words which sing like music, and, by their generals. position and association, can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose The first American railroads were built in the late 1820’s. The early railroads our words carefully and use them correctly, or they will make our speech dull and provided cheap transportation for shippers and travelers. To encourage the railroads silly. to expand into unsettled land, President Millard Fillmore signed a series of landgrant 66. Which of the following did men invent first? acts(土地拨增法案)in the 1850’s. These acts gave the railroad companies A) Words. B) Sounds. ownership of land that ran along the railways. In return for the land, the railroads C) Signs. D) Letters. carried government traffic at reduced rates. The railroad companies sold much of 67. Why did men invent language? their land to farmers and cattlemen, who then shipped their goods on the trains. A) To be different from animals. The importance of the railroads became clear during the Civil War. During the B) To make their ideas known to others. war, trains carried troops, arms, and supplies. One reason that the North won the war C) To make nice sounds for others to hear. is that it had more use of the railroads. D) To have something to write down with. Between 1865 and 1900, railroads grew rapidly. The first transcontinental(跨越 68. Which of the following is true of words according to the passage? 全洲的) route was completed in 1869. This track made easier for pioneers to cross A) Their power is beyond imagination. the Rocky Mountains and settle the West. And the railroads brought new people to B) They last longer than signs or sounds. the West even before the trains started running. Thousands of Chinese and Irish C) They remind people of their past experience. laborers helped to lay down the tracks. D) They enable people to live longer and read more. 71. When were the first American railroads built according to the passage? 69. Why does the author mention “poet” in the last paragraph? A) Around 1800. B) Around 1830. A) A poet is full of great thoughts and feelings. C) Around 1860. D) Around 1890. B) A poet is an example of good language users. 72. Which of the following is NOT a result of the landgrant acts of the 1850’s? C) A poet tells of the glad and sad events of his past. A) The railroads expanded into unsettled lands. B) Farmers and settlers received land for free. your imagination. Visit your local library and ask the children’s librarian to suggest C) The government could pay less for its railroad use. authors and titles kids love. D) Farmers and cattlemen bought land from the railroads. Make reading routine. (78) To get your child hooked on reading, set aside a 73. What was one of the reasons that the South was defeated in the Civil War? regular time each day to enjoy a book together. Fifteen to thirty minutes is fine — A) The South was short of military supplies. or whatever it takes to read a whole story or chapter. That’s enough time to give the B) Only the North owned railroads and trains. young reader a chance to settle down, focus — and enjoy. C) The South failed to make good use of railroads. Make good reading behavior. Your child watches you when you read. (79) If you D) The North used railroads to attack the Southern army. don’t seem to be enjoying yourself, you’re sending a message that reading isn’t 74. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage? much fun. No matter how tired you are, try not to drone. Put your heart into reading! A) Railroads grew rapidly between 1865 and 1900. Let the actor in your emerge! If you sound bored, you can’t expect your child to be B) Railroad construction created a lot of jobs. interested. C) Trains carried Chinese and Irish laborers to the West. Borrow or buy books whenever possible. Get into the habit of taking your D) The first railroad that reached the West was completed in 1866. children to the library and try to fill bookshelves at home. Give a book for every 75. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage? birthday and holiday. Encourage friends and relatives to do the same. (80) When you A) Railroads grew rapidly between 1865 and 1900. go out shopping and your child asks for something, buy a book. They’re cheaper B) Railroads played an important role in American history. than toys and a far better investment in your child’s future. C) Trains helped pioneers to cross the Rocky Mountains. th D) Trains controlled American economy in the 19 century. Part VI Translation from Chinese into English Directions: In this part there are five Chinese sentences, numbered 81 to 85. Part V Translation from English into Chinese Translate these sentences into English and write them on the Translation Directions: In this part there is a passage with 5 underlined sections, numbered 76 Sheet to 80. After reading the passage carefully, translate the underlined sections into Chinese. Remember to write your translation on the 81. 只要你们降价5,，我们就打算向你们大量定货。 Translation Sheet. 82. 孩子们喜欢言行一致的父母。 83. 通过社会实践，我们可以学到许多本上学不到的东西。 Children come to reading in different ways over different periods of time. (76) 84. 据报道美国总统将于明年二月访问中国。 Still, there is much parents can do to help their kids develop and enjoy a lifelong 85. — 我能不能把你的书带回家，明天还给你, interest in reading. —行。 Start with books that appeal to you. (77) Until you discover what your child likes to read, select books that you loved when you were small and new stories that strike