《大学英语3试题库.pdf》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《大学英语3试题库.pdf（66页珍藏版）》请在taowenge.com淘文阁网|工程机械CAD图纸|机械工程制图|CAD装配图下载|SolidWorks_CaTia_CAD_UG_PROE_设计图分享下载上搜索。
1、一、H a rv a rd U ni v e rs i t y na me d hi s t ori a n Dre w G i l pi n Fa u s t a si t s fi rs t fe ma l e pre s i d e nt on S u nd a y,e nd i ng a l e ngt hy a nds e c re t i v e s e a rc h t o fi nd a s u c c e s s or（接任者）t o L a w re nc eS u mme rs .T he s e v e n-me mb e r H a rv a rd Corpora t
2、 i on e l e c t e d Fa u s t,a not e d s c hol a r on H i s t ory of t he Ame ri c a n S ou t h a nd d e a n ofH a rv a rd?s R a d c l i ffe I ns t i t u t e for Ad v a nc e d S t u d y,a s t heu ni v e rs i t y s 2 8t h pre s i d e nt.T hi s i s a gre a t d a y,a nd ahi s t ori c d a y for H a rv a
3、 rd.J a me s R.H ou ght on,c ha i rma n of t hepre s i d e nt i a l s e a rc h c ommi t t e e,s a i d i n a s t a t e me nt.Dre wFa u s t i s a n i ns pi ri ng a nd a c c ompl i s he d l e a d e r,a s u pe rb s c hol a r,a d e d i c a t e d （献身的）t e a c he r,a nd a w ond e rfu l hu ma n b e i ng.”H
4、e r s e l e c t i on i s not e w ort hy gi v e n t he he a t e d d e b a t e s ov e rS u mme rs c omme nt s t ha t ge ne t i c d i ffe re nc e s b e t w e e n t he s e x e smi ght he l p e x pl a i n t he l a c k of w ome n i n t op s c i e nc e job s.Fa u s tha s b e e n d e a n of R a d c l i ffe
5、s i nc e 2 001,t w o y e a rs a ft e r t heforme r w ome n?s c ol l e ge w a s c omb i ne d i nt o t he u ni v e rs i t y a s are s e a rc h c e nt e r w i t h a mi s s i on t o s t u d y ge nd e r i s s u e s （性另l j 问题）.S ome profe s s ors ha v e qu i e t l y grou s e d t ha t t he 3 71-y e a r-ol
6、du ni v e rs i t y i s a ppoi nt i ng a fi ft h pre s i d e nt w ho i s not as c i e nt i s t.N o s c i e nt i s t ha s ha d t he t op job s i nc e J a me s Bry a ntCona nt re t i re d i n 1953;i t s l a s t fou r ha v e c ome from t he fi e l d sof c l a s s i c s,l a w,l i t e ra t u re a nd e c o
7、nomi c s.Fa u s t i s t he fi rs tHarvard president who did not receive a degree from theuniversity since Charles Chauncy,a graduate of CambridgeUniversity,who died in office in 1762.S he attended theUniversity of Pennsylvania.Teaching staff turned to herconstantly.said S heldon Hackney,a former pre
8、sident of theUniversity of Pennsylvania and historian who worked closelywith Faust.S he s very clear.S he has a sense of humor,butshe,s very strong-minded.You come to trust in her becauseshe,s so solid.”B、S he is a famous scholar from the American S outh.2、Lawrence S ummers held the view that.D、few
9、women make top scientists owing to genes3、Which might be the best title for the passage?A、Harvard named its 1st female president.4、This passage probably appears in a.D、newspaper report二、To be a good teacher,you need some of the gifts of a goodactor;you must be able to hold the attention and interest
10、 ofyour students;you must be a clear speaker,with a good,strong,pleasing voice which is fully under you control;and you mustbe able to act what you are teaching,in order to make itsmeaning clear.Watch a good teacher,and you will see that hedoes not move motionless before his class;he stands the whol
11、etime he is teaching;he walks about,using his arms,hands andfingers to help him in his explanation,and his face to expresshis feeling.Listen to him,and you will hear the loudness,thequality and musical note of his voice always changing accordingto what he is talking about.The fact that a good teache
12、r hassome of the gifts of a good actor doesn，t mean he will indeedbe able to act well on the stage,for there are very importantdifferences between the teacher，s word and the actor s.Theactor has to speak words which has been learnt by heart,he has1、A good t e a c h e r.A、knows how to hold the intere
13、st of his students2、In what way is a teacher(s work different from an actors?()C、he has to deal with unexpected situations.3、The main difference between students in class and theatreaudience is that().D、the students must take part in their teachers plays三、You have been badly injured in a car acciden
14、t.It isnecessary to give you a blood transfusion because you lost agreat deal of blood in the accident.However,special care mustbe taken in selecting new blood for you.If the blood is toodifferent from your own,the transfusion could kill you.Thereare four basic types of blood:A,B,AB,and 0.A simple t
15、estcan indicate a person，s blood type,which,like hair color andheight,is inherited from parents.Because of substancescontained in each type,the four groups must be transfusedcarefully.Basically,A and B cannot be mixed.A and B cannotreceive AB,but AB may receive A or B.0 can give to any othergroup;he
16、nce,it is often called the universal donor.For theopposite reason,AB is sometimes called the universal recipient.However,because so many reactions can occur in transfusions,patients usually receive only salt or plasma(liquid)untiltheir1、A good title for this passage is.C Human Blood Types2、The word“
17、hence in line 10 meansC、therefore3、In a blood transfusion,it is easiest to find the acceptabletype of blood for a person with the blood type ofC、AB4、The purpose of using salt and plasma before a bloodtransfusion is to allow time.B、for matching the blood to be transfused with the patient sblood5、M os
18、t Europeans have blood typeC、0四 In ancient times the most important examinations were spoken,not written.In the schools of ancient Greece and Rome,testingusually consisted of saying poetry aloud or giving speeches.In the European universities of the M iddle Ages,students whowere working for advanced
19、 degrees had to discuss questions intheir Field of study with people who had made a special studyof the subject.This custom exists today as part of the processof testing candidates for the doctors degree.Generally,however,modern examinations are written.The writtenexamination,where all students are
20、tested on the samequestions,was probably not known until the nineteenth century.Perhaps it came into existence with the great increase inpopulation and the dev1、In the M iddle Ages students D、never wrote exams2、The main idea of paragraph 2 is Dexaminations are now written and timed3、The kind of
21、 exam where students must select answers is.B objective4、M odern industry must have d e v e l o p e d.C around the19th century5、It may be concluded that t e s t i n g.C、has changedsince the M iddle Ages五 How can a single postage stamp be worth$16 800?Any mistakemade in the printing of a stamp raises
22、 its value to stampcollectors.A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has madethe stamp worth a million and a half times its original value.The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the Britishcolony M auritius,a small island in the Indian Ocean.In 184 7an order for stamps was sent to
23、 a London printer-M auritiuswas to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.Before the order was filled and delivered,a ball was plannedat M auritius Government House,and stamps were needed to sendout the invitations.A local printer was instructed to copy1、A postage stamp s value to co
24、llectors is raised if().C、a mistake is made in the printing2、The mistake in the locally printed postage stamps was in the().B、wordin3、$16 800 is the collectorJ s value of().C the TwopennyBlue4、Which one is implied but not stated?D,Collectors are constantly lookingfor stamps with mistakes.5、The best
25、title for this section is()B、The Twopenny Blue六、In the United S tates,30 percent of the adult populationhas a weight problem”.To many people,the cause is obvious:we eat too much.But scientific evidence does little to supportthis idea.Going back to the America of 1910,we find that peoplewere leaner t
26、han today,yet they ate more food.In those dayspeople worked harder physically,walked more,used machinesmuch less,and didnt watch TV.S everal modern studies,moreover,have shown that fatter people do not eat more onaverage than thinner people.In fact,some investigations,suchas a 1979 study of 3,54 5 L
27、ondon office workers,report that,on balance,fat people eat less than slimmer people.S tudiesshow that slim people are more active than fat people.A studyby a research group at S tanford University found the fol lowinginteresting fact:The more the man ran,the greater loss of bodyfat.The more they ran
28、,the greater their increase in foodintake.Thus,those who ran the most ate the most,yet lost thegreatest amount of body fat.1、What kind of physical problem do many adult Americansh a v e?C、They are too fat2、Based upon the statistics given in the article,supposethere are 500 adult Americans,about how
29、many of them will havea weight p r o b l e m?D 150.3、Is there scientific evidence to support that eating too muchis the cause of a weight p r o b l e m?C、There is hardly anyscientific evidence to support this.4、In comparison with the adult American population today,theAmericans of.A、ate more food an
30、d had more physicalactivities5、What have modern medical and scientific researches reportedto us?A、Fat people eat less food and are less active.七、M otor vehicles powered by the internal combustion enginesare responsible for over 80 percent of the deadly carbonmonoxide as well as the cancer-causing su
31、bstances in the air.Eighty-nine percent of the vehicles on the road inM assachusetts are privately owned and are often operated withonly one person in the car.If people would use publictransportation instead of their cars,air pollution levelscould be significantly lowered.Thirty percent of the land
32、indowntown Boston is devoted to cars.Where there are garages,there could be gardens.Where there are highways,there shouldbe homes and places to work and play.S tudies show that peopletoday show a greater hearing loss with age than ever before.M uch of this is due to car-horns,loud engines and genera
33、ltraffic noise.The cost of a personal car is high to theindividual.The average person pays about$2,000 per car peryear in gasoline,insurance,taxes,and maintenance.But forsociety as a whole,personal cars are a luxury we cannot afford.We pay in death from auto accidents,in poor health from airpollutio
34、n,in loss of hearing from noise pollution,and in thedestruction of our cities by the ever-increasing number ofhighways.1、It is that are the main cause of the air pollution inBoston.D、personal motor vehicles2、It is implied but not stated that.C、C garages have replaced most of the gardens in Boston3、A
35、ccording to the last paragraph,.D、society as a whole suffers much from the ever-increasingnumber of cars4、The writer*s purpose in writing this article is to.C、urge people to use private cars as less as possible5、The best title for this passage is“.”D、Public Transportation,A S olution to Air Pollutio
36、n八、Moscow,Russia(Space news)-The computer is a better chess player,insistedViktor Prozorov,the loser.It seemed as if it were laughing after every good move.I know Ishould have beaten it for the sake of mankind(人 类)，but I just couldnt win,he announcedand shook his head sadly.Prozorovs disappointment
37、was shared by several grand masterswho were present,some of whomwere so upset that they shouted at the machine.Manychess players said that this meant the end of chess championships(冠军)around the world,since the fun had been taken out of the game.The computer walked-or rather-rolledaway with 5 000 do
38、llars in prize money and limited its remarks to a set of noises and lights.1、Which of the following best gives the main idea of thisnewspaper article?()D Computer defeats man in chess!2、How did some of the grand masters feel about the chess gamebetween Prozorov and the computer?()D、They were unhappy
39、 thatthe cProzoro didnt play well.3、What was it that Prozorov felt most bitter(痛苦)about?()C、That he had lost to a machine.4、After wining the game,the computer()D、gave out some lightsandsounds5、M any chess players felt that playing with a computer would()B、make the game less interesting九、Under normal
40、 conditions,the act of communication requiresthe presence of at least two persons:one who sends and one whoreceives the communication.In order to communicate thoughtsand feelings,there must be a conventional system of signs orsymbols that mean the same to the sender and the receiver.Themeans of comm
41、unication are too numerous and varied forsystematic classification;therefore,the analysis must beginwith the means of receiving communication.Reception ofcommunication is achieved by our senses.S ight,hearing,andtouching seem to play the most important roles.S mell and tasteplay very limited roles,f
42、or they cannot receive intellectualexpression from fully developed systems of sings and symbols.Examples of visual communication are gesture and imitation.Although both frequently accompany speech,there are systemsthat rely solely on sight,such as those used by deaf,and dumbpersons.Another means of
43、communicating visually is by signalsof fire,smoke,flags,or flashing light.Feelings may be simplycommunicated by touch,such as by handshaking or backslapping,although a highly developed system of hand-stroking has enabledblind,deaf,and dumb persons to communicate intelligently.Whistling to someone,ap
44、plauding in a theater,and other formsof communication by sound rely upon the ear as a receiver.Themost fully developed form of auditory communication is,ofcourse,the spoken language.The means of communicationmentioned so far have two features in common:they last onlya short time,and the persons invo
45、lved must be relatively closeto each other.Therefore,all are restricted in time and space.1、Reception of c o m m u n i c a t i o n .C、involves use of thesenses2 Applauding is specifically mentioned as an example of.A、communication by sound3、Persons who cannot see,hear,or speak are able to communicat
46、et h r o u g h.D、hand-stroking4、The author specifically mentions that speech isD、the most developed form of communication based on hearing5、According to the passage,means of communicationC、have some limitations even if they are fully developed十、Prehistoric men and women enjoyed a more varied diet th
47、anpeople do now,since they ate species of plant and severalhundreds thousands types of living things.But only a tinypercentage of these were ever domesticated.M odern shops havehastened a trend towards specialization which began in theearliest days of agriculture.The food of the rich countrieshas be
48、come cheaper relative to wages.It is speedilydistributed in supermarkets.But the choice annually becomesless and less great.Even individual foods themselves becomemore standardized.We live in the world of carrot speciallyblunted in order to avoid making a hole in the bag,and thetomato grown to meet
49、a demand for a standard weight of weightingtomatoes to a kilo.S iri von Reis asks:Only the three majorcereals（谷物类食物）and perhaps ten other widely cultivatedspecies stand between famine and survival for the worlds humanpopulation and a handful of drug plants has served Westerncivilization for several
50、thousand years.A rather obviousquestion arises:Are we missing something?”After all,thereare 800 000 species of plant on earth.In prehistoric times people_.C had a wide-ranging diet2、M ost of us have come to e x p e c t.D food conforming to aset standard3、The specialization of food was started by_.B、