成人英語三級考試試題及答案

　　一、單項選擇題

　　1. The city government has determined to get _____ with people who try to escape paying taxes.

　　A.rough B. tough C.rigid D. bold

　　2.Some concepts may be difficult to grasp chiefly because they may be unfamiliar or _____ ideas, opinions which we already hold.

　　A.in accordance with B. in conflict with C. in favor of D. in response to

　　3.The purpose of your resume is to _____ enough interest in you to have an employer contact you for an interview.

　　A.assemble B. generate C.yield D. gather

　　4. We'd better eliminate junk foods from our kitchen and keep a variety of high-quality foods _____ at all times.

　　A.available B. desirable C.enormous D. numerous

　　5. Faced with rapid inflation and _____ international and home markets, many firms have declared bankrupt.

　　A.lessening B. shortening C.shrinking D. withdrawing

　　參考答案

　　1.B)

　　考查形容詞語義及搭配。能與介詞with搭配的只有選項B)tough，get tough with/on sb.意為“對……采取堅決態(tài)度;對……采用強硬手段”。其余選項的意思分別是：選項A)rough意為“粗糙的;粗野的，粗暴的;粗略的，大致的”;選項C)rigid(行為觀點等)嚴格的，死板的，不易改變的;選項D)bold意為“勇敢的，無畏的;冒失的，魯莽的”。全句的意思是“政府部門決心采取強硬手段來懲治偷稅人員”。

　　2.B)

　　考查介詞短語的語義。四個選項的意思分別是：選項A)in accordance with依照，根據(jù);選項B)in conflict with與……相沖突;選項C)in favor of支持，贊同;選項D)in response to作為對……的反應(yīng)。根據(jù)題意可判斷出選項B)為正確答案。全句的意思為“一些觀念很難讓人領(lǐng)會主要是因為我們對其不熟悉或者是因為與我們原有的觀點相矛盾”。

　　3.B)

　　考查動詞的語義辨析。各選項的意思分別是：選項A)assemble意為“集合，聚集，召集;裝配”，如：The whole school assembled in the main hall.全校學(xué)生在大禮堂集合。Before you assemble the model plane, read the instructions.在你組裝模型飛機前，先讀說明書。選項B)generate意為“生成，產(chǎn)生(光、熱、電等);引起(興趣等)”，如：News of the Queen's visit is generating a lot of excitement.女皇來訪的消息使大家感到非常興奮。選項C)yield意為“生產(chǎn)，產(chǎn)生(利潤、回報等);投降，屈服”，如：His business yields big profits.他的生意利潤豐厚。選項D)gather意為“聚集，集合;收集，采集”，如：Many people gathered in the town square.很多人聚集在市政廣場。該題需注意選項B)和選項C)在搭配上的區(qū)別。根據(jù)題意，選項B)應(yīng)為正確答案。全句意思為是“簡歷就是要充分引起雇主對你的興趣，并達到進一步聯(lián)系面試的目的”。

　　4.A)

　　考查形容詞語義環(huán)境。四個選項的意思分別是：選項A)available現(xiàn)成可使用的，在手邊的，可利用的;選項B)desirable稱心如意的，值得有的，如I envy Jane because her job is so desirable.我很羨慕簡，因為她有一份很稱心的工作。選項C)enormous巨大的，極大的，龐大的;選項D)numerous許多的，很多的，如：This is a conclusion he has drawn from numerous facts.這是他從很多事實當中得出的結(jié)論。根據(jù)題干可判斷出選項A)應(yīng)為正確答案。全句的意思為“我們應(yīng)清除廚房里的垃圾食品，而使各種高質(zhì)量的食物隨手可及”。

　　5.C)

　　考查近義動詞的語義辨析。各選項的意思及用法分別是：選項A)lessening減少，減輕，側(cè)重指程度、重要性等的減輕。如：The defeat lessened our chances of winning the championship.此次失敗使我們奪冠的希望變得更加渺茫。lessen the burden of減輕負擔;選項B)shortening縮短，變短，如The days are beginning to shorten.天開始變短了。shorten the gap between縮小……之間的差距;選項C)shrinking使收縮，縮小，減少，側(cè)重指尺寸、大小等的變小。如：The number of students attending the lecture has shrunk.聽講座的學(xué)生人數(shù)減少了。Will this soap shrink woolen clothes?這種肥皂會使羊毛衣服縮水嗎?選項D)withdrawing收回，撤退，撤銷，如：After awhile， he withdrew his proposal.過了一會兒，他撤回了他的提議。根據(jù)題意可判斷出選項C)應(yīng)為正確答案。全句意思是“面對通貨膨脹和日益縮小的國際國內(nèi)市場，許多公司都已宜布破產(chǎn)”。

　　二、英譯漢翻譯

　　1.College students were a major force in the campaign， although participants of all ages were involved. Still， we cannot really credit a handful of individuals for the success of Earth Day. After all， a major message of Earth Day is that every single person has an important role in the environment.

　　盡管不同年齡的參與者都參與其中，大學(xué)生是這些運動的'主力軍。但是我們確實不能只把地球日的成功歸功于一小部分人。畢竟，地球日意味著每一個人在環(huán)境保護中都起著重要的作用。

　　2.Education plays a very important role in everybody‘s life. We go to school because we want to know more about the world around us and at the same time extend our horizons of thinking.

　　教育在每個人的生活中都扮演著一個非常重要的角色。我們上學(xué)是因為了解周圍的世界，同時也拓寬自己的視野。

　　3.The Internet allows schools to develop a large amount of learning material that is accessible for students online anytime. There are so many choices of courses and subjects or time frames that completing a program is not an issue for students anymore. We found that online education gives us excellent sources of information， saves our time， money and it is extremely convenient.

　　有了因特網(wǎng)，學(xué)校能夠開發(fā)出大量的學(xué)習(xí)材料以供學(xué)生隨時從網(wǎng)上獲取。在網(wǎng)上，學(xué)生對各種課程和時間段有多種選擇。因此，完成一項教育計劃對學(xué)生而言就不再成為問題了。我們發(fā)現(xiàn)，在線教育為我們提供了絕好的信息資源，節(jié)約了時間和金錢，而且十分方便。

　　4.I also feared getting caught; and I discovered that most of the time cheating was hard， stressful work. So I never became a master observer of cheaters， because students almost always see more than teachers do. What I learned was that cheaters often put themselves under more stress than honest students.

　　我還害怕被抓住，我發(fā)現(xiàn)作弊決非易事，還要常常提心吊膽。因此我對作弊并不老道，但學(xué)生們看到的總比老師多。我知道作弊的學(xué)生比誠實的學(xué)生壓力更大。

　　5.There is no contradiction in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of an actor. That is part of the technique of teaching， which demands that every now and then a teacher should be able to put on an act to enliven a lesson， correct a fault， or award praise.

　　此外，一名教師又應(yīng)該有一點兒象個演員，這與我剛才談到的品質(zhì)并不矛盾。演技就是教學(xué)技能的一部分，因為教師時不時應(yīng)該能夠通過表演來活躍課堂，糾正錯誤或者給予褒獎。

　　6.Languages， particularly English， are not immutable. Languages change. Languages borrow words and phrases from each other. English， in particular， is like a vacuum cleaner， sucking up words and phrases from other languages. English now includes borrowed words and phrases from over 350 languages.

　　語言，特別是英語，都不是永恒不變的。語言會變化。語言彼此借鑒用法。英語就像吸塵器，吸納了約350種語言中的詞匯。

　　7.Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties， but it was still not evident in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.

　　有的人(大腦)前部和側(cè)部的收縮——隨著細胞的死亡——在三十多歲時就能被觀察到了，但是也有些人直到六七歲依然不明顯。

　　8.Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain， which relate to intellect and emotion， and determine the human character.

　　計算機技術(shù)幫助研究人員獲得人腦前部和側(cè)部的準確體積，這是與人的智能和情緒有關(guān)的部分，而且也決定人的性格特點。

　　9.The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.

　　研究結(jié)果表明在農(nóng)村的人大腦收縮基本上比城市里的人要早。

　　10.White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are， however， as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker， bus driver and shop assistant.

　　在政府部門從事簡單重復(fù)工作的白領(lǐng)也像農(nóng)場工人、公共汽車司機和商店職員一樣大腦細胞容易收縮。