成人英语三级考试2020年模拟试卷4(总分65, 做题时间120分钟)Part Ⅰ Dialogue Completion1.Speaker A: Beach Motel. May I help you?Speaker B : ________.SSS_SINGLE_SELAThank you. I'd like to make a long distance call to New York.BYes. We need a double room for this weekend.CSorry, I don't think you can help us. Thank you anyway.DAll right. My name is David Jones and my room number is 301.2.Speaker A:Hello,Jane. How lucky to run into you! Can you and **e to dinner tomorrow evening?Speaker B: ________. I don't think we're going out.SSS_SINGLE_SELAI suppose I can'tBI'm afraid notCIt's my pleasureDI think so3.Speaker A: I'd like to buy the refrigerator, but I'm one hundred dollars short.Speaker B: ________ if you promise to give it back before this weekend.SSS_SINGLE_SELAI'll borrow you the moneyBI'll lend you the moneyCI'd lend you the moneyDI will have lent you the money4.Speaker A: Could you give me a ride to the conference center? My presentation is in about half an hour.Speaker B: ________. Have you checked with Bob? He seems to be on his way there about this time.SSS_SINGLE_SELAI'm sorry. Perhaps next time.BI'm glad to. But it's too late.CI'm afraid I am going to the opposite direction.DExcuse me, but I'm going to the conference center.5.Speaker A: Are you feeling better now?Speaker B : ________.SSS_SINGLE_SELAWell, not too better yet, thank youBWell, not too good yet. Better than I was thoughtCWell, it doesn't matter. I am all right nowDWell, never mind, I'm much better now6.Waiter: Welcome, sir. May I help you?Customer: ________.SSS_SINGLE_SELAThank you. I'll have fried tofu and stir-fried cauliflower.BYes, please. I'd like a hamburger and a chocolate shake.CSorry. I don't need your help, thank you.DIf you want to help me, I'll be glad to accept it.7.Johnny: Dear Tommy, why don't **e on holiday with us?Tommy : ________.SSS_SINGLE_SELAThat's very kind of you ! I'd love to.BHow dare you invite me? I won't go.CYeah, thanks anyway.DWhether I'll go or not is not your business, ok?8.Anna : Hi, Keith. How'sit going?Keith: ________. I lost my wallet, and it had all my ID and credit cards in it.SSS_SINGLE_SELANot too bad.BNot too good.CNot very well.DNot at all.9.Speaker A: You'd better take the umbrella with you. It looks likeit's going to rain.Speaker B: Thank you ________.SSS_SINGLE_SELAfor minding meBfor reminding meCfor remembering meDfor caring about me10.Speaker A:I'd love to come to your barbecue on Saturday but my cousin is arriving from Cali-fornia that day.Speaker B: That's no problem. The more the merrier. I'mglad ________.SSS_SINGLE_SELAI can hold such a barbecue for youByour cousin will be arriving from California thenCwe finally have a chance to get togetherDthat you're too busy to my barbecuePart Ⅱ Reading ComprehensionPassage OneIn 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this minimal selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another fourcents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cook's sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954， when he was selling milk shake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the unique appeal of the brother's fast food restaurants and bought the right to franchise other copies of their restaurants. The agreement struck included the right to duplicate the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches.Today McDonald's is literally a household name. Its names for its sandwiches **e to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 1976, Mcdonald's had over $1 billion in total sales. Its firsttwenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.SSS_SINGLE_SELThis passage is mainly about ________.Athe business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald.Bhow McDonald's became a billion-dollar business.CRay Kroc's business abilities.Dthe development of fast-food services.SSS_SINGLE_SELMac and Dick McDonald had experience in managing all of the following businesses except ________.Aa barbecue restaurantBa drive-inCan ice-cream parlorDa theaterSSS_SINGLE_SELWe can conclude from this passage that ________.AMac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy because they sold their idea to KrocBRay Kroc was a good businessmanCthe location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-inDforty years ago there were numerous fast-food restaurantsSSS_SINGLE_SELAs used in this passage, the word "minimal" means ________.AattractiveBmenialCbasicDnovelSSS_SINGLE_SELAs used this passage, the word unique" means ________.AaestheticBfinancialCethnicDunparalleledPassage TwoI first became aware of the unemployment problem in 1928. At that time I had **e back from Burman, where unemployment was only a word, and I had gone to Burma when I was still a boy and the post-war boom was not quite over. When I first saw unemployed men at close quarters, the thing that horrified and amazed me was to find that many of them were ashamed of being unemployed. I was very ignorant, but not so ignorant as to imagine that when the loss of foreign markets pushes two million men out of work, those two million are to blame. But at that time nobody cared to admit that unemployment was inevitable, because this meant admitting that it would probably continue.The middle classes were still talking about "lazy idle loafers on the dole(接受救济的二流子)" and saying that "these men could all find work if they wanted to," and naturally these opinions affected the working class themselves. I remember the shock of astonishment it gave me, when I first met with tramps and beggars, to find that afair proportion, perhaps a quarter, of these beings whom I had been taught to regard as cynical parasites(寄生虫), were decent young miners and cotton workers gazing at their destiny with the same sort of dumb amazement as an animal in trap. They simply could not understand what was happening to them. They had been brought up to work, but it seemed as if they were never going to have the chance of working again. In their circumstance it was inevitable, at first,that they should be filled with a feeling of personaldegradation.That was the attitude towards unemployment in those days: it was a disaster which happened to you as an individual and for which you were to blame.SSS_SINGLE_SELThe author did not learn of the unemployment problem until 1928 because ________.Ahe had spent his childhood in BurmaBpeople in Burma hardly talked about unemploymentCthe English economy collapsed after he had gone abroadDEngland had been enjoying economic prosperity while he was in BurmaMany of the unemployed felt ashamed of their condition because________.Athey imagined they were to blame for being out of workBnobody wanted to admit that unemployment was inevitableCthey had to admit that unemployment would probably continueDthey felt the middle classes were right to say they could find work if they wanted toSSS_SINGLE_SELAbout a quarter of the tramps and beggars the author met were________.Acynical parasitesBonce quite good at mining and making cottonClike animals in trapDyoung workers bewildered by what had happened to themSSS_SINGLE_SELThe reason why their unemployment so confused the young miners and cotton workers is that ________.Athey had been brought up on the assumption that they had work to doBthey had not previously realized how degrading it would feel to be out of workCthey were definitely not going to be able to work againDthey did not expect to be the objects of middle-class criticismIn the passage as a whole, the author's attitude to unemployment is ________.Athat it was a disaster for which the individuals were to blameBthe shock that it should have so degrading an effect on decent peopleCthe astonishment that the unemployed cannot understand what had happened to themDthe amazement that the loss of overseas trade can have such severe effects on the mining and cotton industriesPassage ThreeThe place of the child in society has varied for thousands of years and has been affected by different cultures and religions. In ancient times unwanted children were occasionally abandoned, put to death, exploited, or offered for religious sacrifices, and in any event a large percentage of them didn't survive their physically hazardous existence to achieve maturity.In Western civilization within the last few hundred years, there have been many changes in attitude toward the young. In agricultural Europe, and late with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the children of the poor worked long hours for little or no pay, and there was no public concern for their safety or welfare. Punishment could be cruel and severe, and sometimes religious passions were expressed violently with a view toward saving the child’s soul.By the eighteenth century the harsh, deterministic, doctrinal(教条的)methods began to show some change. Society slowly accordedchildren a role of importance. Books were written expressly for them and gradually laws were passed for their protection.In the past few decades parents have become more attentive to the needs of their children. Better health care is available and education is no longer reserved for a limited few. With so many now able to go to college, many educators feel that we have too many students and too **petent scholars. Some say the pendulum(钟摆)in child rearing has swung so far toward permissiveness that many children are growing up alienated(离间)from society and with no respect for law or parental authority.The tendency today is for teachers and parents to emphasizeindividual responsibility and to stress that educational goals for students should be tailored to their chosen vocations rather than provide a generalized higher education.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhat does the article say about children?AThey have always been the hope of mankind.BIn certain periods of history no one cared about them.CIn the mid-eighteenth century western attitudes toward children began to change.DThere were laws barring child labor during the industrial revolution.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhat does the article say about children in ancient times?AThey were often cruelly beaten.BAt times they were used as sacrificial offerings.CPeople who didn’t want children usually murdered them.DThough they were abused of neglected by their parents, children survived to adulthood with little difficulty.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhat changes have occurred in the past few decades with regard to the child's place in society?AChild raising has become more permissive.BPublic health care has improved so much that children now need no particular health care.CChildren are becoming more intelligent.DChildren are becoming more respectful toward their parents.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhat is the present trend in child discipline and education?AGiving as many young people as possible a popular generalized college education.BCreating more regimentation of the individual.CTeaching children to conform to rigorous rules.DTeaching children to conform to rigorous rules.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhich of the pollowing is implied but not directly stated in the passage?AMethods used to treat children in the past were worse than those at present.BThere are laws passed for protection of children.CParents pay more attention to the needs of their children.DMany books have been written for children.Passage Four"I do not wish to be hypocritical(虚伪), but the plain fact is-and we all know it to be true-that whenever we see a story in a newspaper concerning something we know about, it is more often wrong than right.” John Gordon.Seeing an inaccuracy in a newspaper report, one's often tempted to condemn that newspaper and its staff out of hand. How can mistakes occur when it is obvious that a paper must have elaborate checking systems to ensure the accuracy of its reports?To investigate the causes of factual mistakes, rather than twists of angle or opinion, a distinction must be made between "scheduled news" and "unscheduled news". With scheduled news-an election, a football match, a trial-a news editor can arrange in advance for one of the paper's reporters to be on the spot； in some cases, the reporterwill be aided by special handouts(新闻通报)for the press. But unscheduled news-a train or air crash, a suicide, a bank robbery, for example-is a different matter. How can a reporter with a deadline 30 minutes away estimate accurately the number of injured in a train crash that occurred at midnight in the heart of the country? Can anyone be depended upon to produce a precise assessment of the size of a crowd rushing wildly through city streets?The newsgathering machinery of newspapers is **plicated. A large newspaper usually has staff reporters in all the main cities of the country and also part-time correspondents(记者)who might be either freelance(自由职业的)journalists or on the staff of a provincial paper；they help to extend the net in order to catch the news before it's cold. Other important sources of news are the news agencies which are of great assistance in foreign matters, for a paper cannot, for obvious reasons, keep thousands of reporters all over the world just in case a story breaks in front of one of their noses.SSS_SINGLE_SELAccording to John Gordon, ________.Areaders are often too critical about the quality of papersBmistakes often occur in newspapersCreporters often lack a sense of responsibilityDnewspaper reports are not attractive enoughSSS_SINGLE_SELThe writer believe that factual mistakes in newspapers are probably due to the fact that ________.Ait is impossible for the reporter to be 100 accurate in reporting sudden eventsBsome reporters do not pay enough attention to background informationCbackground information given in advance can sometimes be misleadingDnews editor are not careful enough in checking the details of reports SSS_SINGLE_SELIt is a usual practice for newspapers to get foreign news from________.Afreelance journalistsBstaff of a provincial paperCreporters sent abroadDnews agenciesSSS_SINGLE_SELThe writer thinks that inaccuracy in the press ________.Ais inevitableBis intolerableCis to be eliminatedDis often ignored by readersSSS_SINGLE_SELThe writer cites the example of producing a precise assessment of the size of a crowd in order to ________.Aurge an improvement in checking systemsBwarn the crowd of hidden dangers in the streetCjustify the mistakes in newspapersmake known the hard work of reportersPart Ⅲ Vocabulary and Structure31.Although Anne is happy with her success she wonders ________ will happen to her private life.SSS_SINGLE_SELAthatBwhatCitDthis32.Wouldn't you rather your child ________ to bed early?SSS_SINGLE_SELAgoBwentCwould goDgoes33.Some diseases are ________ by certain water animals.SSS_SINGLE_SELAtransplantedBtransformedCtransportedtransmitted34.This kind of glasses manufactured by experienced craftsmen ________ Comfortably.SSS_SINGLE_SELAis wornBwearsCwearingDare worn35.The sale usually takes place outside the house, with the audience ________ on benches, chairs or boxes.SSS_SINGLE_SELAhaving seatedBseatingCseatedDhaving been seated36.Corn originated in the New World and thus was not known in Europe until Columbus found it ________ in Cuba.SSS_SINGLE_SELAbeing cultivatedBbeen cultivatedChaving cultivatedDcultivating37.The hopes, goals, fears and desires ________ widely between men and women, between the rich and the poor.SSS_SINGLE_SELAalterBshiftCtransferDvary38.I don't mind ________ the decision as long as it is not too late.SSS_SINGLE_SELAyou to delay makingByour delaying to makeCyour delaying makingDyou delay to make39.Niagara Falls is a great tourist ________, drawing millions of visitors every year.SSS_SINGLE_SELAattentionBattractionCappointmentDarrangement40.Mrs. Smith was so ________ about everything that no servants could please her.SSS_SINGLE_SELAspecificBspecialCpreciseDparticularPart Ⅳ Translation41.we all have strengths and weaknesses.A good manager concentrates on bringing out of each employee’s best side **bining those strengths so **plement each other. Since no one Person can have all the skills needed to successfully operate any organization,we need to build your team in a way that makes use of these skills.That is no mall matter. You must begin by knowing your team members.When you know people，you learn what motivates them and what de-motivates them.You learn how they interact with certain people and under certain conditions·You pay attention to their working style， how they get things done. Only with this kind of information can you get the most out of all people and merge their talents to get the most out of the team.SSS_TEXT_QUSTIPart Ⅴ Writing42.You are to write in no less than 120 words about the title “The Most Important Quality for a Person to Be Successful in the World Today”.You should bas e **position on the outline given in Chinese below：1.你认为在现在的世界上要想成功什么素质最重要?2.请举例说明你的理由。
