公共英语三级试题及答案.docx

1、公共英语三级试题及答案SECTION 1 Listening Comprehension(25 minutes)125略 SECTION Use of English(15 minutes) Directions： Read the following textChoose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A，B，C，or D on ANSWER SHEET 1 What might the house of the future be like? Grace can tellMore formally know

2、n as the Microsoft Home，her hightech devices，along with 26 in design and construction，will change the 27 we think about our homes You enter the house，and Graces 28 ，coming from hidden speakers，passes on your messages；In the kitchen，you set a bag of flour on the intelligently 29 stone counterGrace se

3、es what youre 30，and projects a list of flourbased food on the counter 31 you choose on，Grace repeats instructions tor cookingShe 32 knows whatS in the cupboard The day when your house、viii be like a family member is not that far offThis 33 0f seamless computing，in which technology is everywhere yet

4、 nowhere(34 when we want it)，is emphasized in most futurehome thinking Microsoft， 35 ，isnt the only one exploring 36 technology can make our homes more 37 and comfortableAt the Georgia Institute of Technology，scientists are 38 systems that will allow older people to continue living 39So Grandmas hom

5、e can be intelligently wired to 40 her patterns of wake，sleep and movement；family members would be 4l of any changesvia computer Does spying on Grandma sound 42 ? Director Beth Mynatt says “A good bit of our 43 has been working on how to convey information without 44 privacyWe also dont want tocreat

6、e 45 anxietyMaybe she just took a quiet day to read，and the system would have to recognize that”26 Apromotions Bapplications Cpractices Dadvances27 Away Bmanner Cstyle Dscope28Aimage Bfigure Cvoice Dsound29 Adisposed Bshaped Cengineered Dconditioned30 Asaying Bfeeling Csearching Ddoing32ABefore BOnc

7、e CSince DUnless32 Aeven Bthus Cyet Donly33Ahope Bpassion Cfaith Dnotion34 Aperhaps Bexcept Cprovided Despecially35 Atherefore Blikewise Chowever Dmoreover36 Ahow Bwhether Cwhat Dwhy37 Afashionable Bcomplicated Cefficient Dattractive38 Adecorating Bdesigning Cdelivering Ddebating39 Aindependently Be

8、nthusiastically Ccolorfully Dsatisfactorily40 Areceive Brecognize Crepresent Dreview41 Awarned Brelieved Cadvised Dinformed42 Ainteresting Bboring Cdisturbing Dappealing43 Aanalysis Bresearch Cconcern Dfocus44 Asacrificing Baffecting Cpreventing Dlosing45 Aunusual Bunfortunate Cuncertain Dunnecessar

9、ySECTION Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)PartADirections： Read the following three textsAnswerthe questions on each text by choosing A，B，CorDMarkyour answers on ANSWER SHEET 1 Text 1WheneverCatherine Brown， a 37-yearold journalist， and her friends，professionals in their 30s and early 40s，meet at aL

10、ondon caf6，their favorite topic ofconversation is relationships：mensreluctance to commit，wo mens independence，andwhen to have children-or，increasingly，whether to have them at all“With the years passing my chances of having a child godown，but I Wont malty anyone just to have achild，”saysBrownTo peopl

11、e like Brown，babiesare great_if the timing is rightButtheyre certainly not essential In much of the world，havingkids is no longer a given“Neverbefore has childlessness beenan understandable decision for women and men in so many societies，” says Frank Hakim at the LondonSchool of EconomicsYoungpeople

12、 are extending their childfreeadulthood by postponing children until they are well into their 30sor even40s and beyond A growing share are ending up with nochildren at allLifetime childlessness in westernGer-many has hit 30 percent among universityeducated women，and is rapidly rising among lowerclas

13、s menInBritain，thenumber of women remaining childless has doubled in 20 years The latesttrend of childlessness does not follow historic patternsFor centuries it was not unusual for a quarter of European women toremain childlessButin the pastchildlessnesswas usually the product of poverty ordisastero

14、f missingmen in times of warToday the decision to haveor not havea child is theresult of a complex combination of factors，includingrelationships，careerOpportunities，lifestyleand economics In some caseschildlessness among women can be seen as a quiet form ofprotestInJapan，supportfor working mothers h

15、ardly existsChildcare is expensive，men dont help out，andsome companies strongly discouragemothers from returning to work“In Japan，itscareer or child，”says writer KaoriHaishiIts not justwomen who are deciding against children；according to a re- cent study，Japanese men are even less inclined to marry

16、or want a childTheir motivations，though，may havemore to do with economic factors 46CatherineBrown and her friends feel that having children is not _ AtotallywiseBahuge problemCarational choiceDabsolutelynecessary47It Can beinferred that，formany women，havingbabies nowadays is _ Aahard commitmentBhelp

17、fulto their careerCessentialfor happinessDanunderstandable decision48In theold days。manywomen remained childless _Aasa quiet form of protestBbecauseof lack of supportCbecauseof unfortunate circumstancesDbecausethey lacked social responsibility49We learnthat childlessness at present _ AaffectsEurope

18、more than it does AsiaBproducesmore benefits than in the pastCismore a womans decision than a mansDismore complex in its cause than that in the past50According to the text，when a Japanese man decides not to have children，he probably feels unable to _ Ahelpwith houseworkBaffordto have a childCbea res

19、ponsible fatherDbalancework and familyText 2Faced with a missionCritical decision，who would you turn to for advice? Someone you had great confidence in，surelyBut several lines of research show that our instincts about where to mm to for counsel are often not completely correct My research look sat p

20、rejudices that affect how people use advice，including why they often blindly follow recommendations from people whoas far as they knoware as knowledgeable as they areIn studies I conducted with Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University，for example，I found mat people tend to overvalue advice when the p

21、roblem they readdressing is hard and toundervalue it when the problem iseasy In our experimentssubjects were asked to guess the weight of people in various pictures，some of which werein focus and some of which were unclearFor each picture，subjects guessed twice：the first time without advice and the

22、second time with input from another participantWhen me pictures were in focus，wefound，subjects tended to discount theadvice；apparently，theywere confident in their ability to guesscorrectlyWhen the pictures were unclear，subjectsleaned heavilyon me advice of others and seemed less secure about their i

23、nitialopinionBecausethey misjudged the value 0f the advice theyreceived-consistently overvaluing orundervaluing it depending on the difficulty of the problemour subjects did not make the best guesses overallThey would have done better if theyd considered the advice equally，and to a moderate degree，o

24、n both hard and easy tasks.Another advicerelated prejudice Ive found compels people to overvalue advice that they pay forn one study I conducted，subjects answered different sets of questions about American historyBefore answering some of the questionsThey could get advice on the correct answer from

25、another subject whom they knew was no more expert than they wereIn one version of the experiment，people could get advice for free，while in another version，they paid for itWhen they paid for advice，people tended to have firm belief in it，I suspect，by a combination of sunkcost prejudice and the nearly

26、 instinctual belief that cost and quality are linked 51In the face of a missioncritical decision，people tend to _ Atrust their own effortsBrely on research findingsCget affected by others opinionDseek help from the more knowledgable52Research shows that when faced with difficult problems people ofte

27、n _ Adiscount others adviceBoverlook others adviceCdisagree with others adviceDoverrely on others advice53The first experiment tries to prove how objective conditions _ Astrengthen peoples initial opinionBstrengthen peoples self-confidenceCinfluence peoples response to adviceDinfluence peoples guess

28、 of weight loss54It can be inferred that people are likely to _ Aundervalue free advice Bovervalue peers adviceCmisinterpretspecialists adviceDmisjudge their instinctual belief55The two experiments mentioned in the text reveal _ Ahowto follow othersadviceBhowto understand othersadviceCwhatcauses peo

29、ple to seek adviceDwhataffects peoples attitude to adviceText 3Top National Health Service(NHS)nurses will be able to earn $40，000 a year without leavingfrontline patient care in a modification to salary structures New“supernurse”grades will be created to enable the best staff to increasetheir salaries without having to move into management desk jobs Currently the most senior NHS nurses ca