成人英语三级考试试题及答案
一、单项选择题
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
参考答案
1.B)
考查形容词语义及搭配。能与介词with搭配的只有选项B)tough，get tough with/on sb.意为“对……采取坚决态度;对……采用强硬手段”。其余选项的意思分别是：选项A)rough意为“粗糙的;粗野的，粗暴的;粗略的，大致的”;选项C)rigid(行为观点等)严格的，死板的，不易改变的;选项D)bold意为“勇敢的，无畏的;冒失的，鲁莽的”。全句的意思是“政府部门决心采取强硬手段来惩治偷税人员”。
2.B)
考查介词短语的语义。四个选项的意思分别是：选项A)in accordance with依照，根据;选项B)in conflict with与……相冲突;选项C)in favor of支持，赞同;选项D)in response to作为对……的反应。根据题意可判断出选项B)为正确答案。全句的意思为“一些观念很难让人领会主要是因为我们对其不熟悉或者是因为与我们原有的观点相矛盾”。
3.B)
考查动词的语义辨析。各选项的意思分别是：选项A)assemble意为“集合，聚集，召集;装配”，如：The whole school assembled in the main hall.全校学生在大礼堂集合。Before you assemble the model plane, read the instructions.在你组装模型飞机前，先读说明书。选项B)generate意为“生成，产生(光、热、电等);引起(兴趣等)”，如：News of the Queen's visit is generating a lot of excitement.女皇来访的消息使大家感到非常兴奋。选项C)yield意为“生产，产生(利润、回报等);投降，屈服”，如：His business yields big profits.他的生意利润丰厚。选项D)gather意为“聚集，集合;收集，采集”，如：Many people gathered in the town square.很多人聚集在市政广场。该题需注意选项B)和选项C)在搭配上的区别。根据题意，选项B)应为正确答案。全句意思为是“简历就是要充分引起雇主对你的兴趣，并达到进一步联系面试的目的”。
4.A)
考查形容词语义环境。四个选项的意思分别是：选项A)available现成可使用的，在手边的，可利用的;选项B)desirable称心如意的，值得有的，如I envy Jane because her job is so desirable.我很羡慕简，因为她有一份很称心的工作。选项C)enormous巨大的，极大的，庞大的;选项D)numerous许多的，很多的，如：This is a conclusion he has drawn from numerous facts.这是他从很多事实当中得出的结论。根据题干可判断出选项A)应为正确答案。全句的意思为“我们应清除厨房里的垃圾食品，而使各种高质量的食物随手可及”。
5.C)
考查近义动词的语义辨析。各选项的意思及用法分别是：选项A)lessening减少，减轻，侧重指程度、重要性等的减轻。如：The defeat lessened our chances of winning the championship.此次失败使我们夺冠的希望变得更加渺茫。lessen the burden of减轻负担;选项B)shortening缩短，变短，如The days are beginning to shorten.天开始变短了。shorten the gap between缩小……之间的差距;选项C)shrinking使收缩，缩小，减少，侧重指尺寸、大小等的变小。如：The number of students attending the lecture has shrunk.听讲座的学生人数减少了。Will this soap shrink woolen clothes?这种肥皂会使羊毛衣服缩水吗?选项D)withdrawing收回，撤退，撤销，如：After awhile， he withdrew his proposal.过了一会儿，他撤回了他的提议。根据题意可判断出选项C)应为正确答案。全句意思是“面对通货膨胀和日益缩小的国际国内市场，许多公司都已宜布破产”。
二、英译汉翻译
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.
尽管不同年龄的参与者都参与其中，大学生是这些运动的'主力军。但是我们确实不能只把地球日的成功归功于一小部分人。毕竟，地球日意味着每一个人在环境保护中都起着重要的作用。
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.
教育在每个人的生活中都扮演着一个非常重要的角色。我们上学是因为了解周围的世界，同时也拓宽自己的视野。
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.
有了因特网，学校能够开发出大量的学习材料以供学生随时从网上获取。在网上，学生对各种课程和时间段有多种选择。因此，完成一项教育计划对学生而言就不再成为问题了。我们发现，在线教育为我们提供了绝好的信息资源，节约了时间和金钱，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.
我还害怕被抓住，我发现作弊决非易事，还要常常提心吊胆。因此我对作弊并不老道，但学生们看到的总比老师多。我知道作弊的学生比诚实的学生压力更大。
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，一名教师又应该有一点儿象个演员，这与我刚才谈到的品质并不矛盾。演技就是教学技能的一部分，因为教师时不时应该能够通过表演来活跃课堂，纠正错误或者给予褒奖。
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.
语言，特别是英语，都不是永恒不变的。语言会变化。语言彼此借鉴用法。英语就像吸尘器，吸纳了约350种语言中的词汇。
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(大脑)前部和侧部的收缩——随着细胞的死亡——在三十多岁时就能被观察到了，但是也有些人直到六七岁依然不明显。
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.
计算机技术帮助研究人员获得人脑前部和侧部的准确体积，这是与人的智能和情绪有关的部分，而且也决定人的性格特点。
9.The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.
研究结果表明在农村的人大脑收缩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.
在政府部门从事简单重复工作的白领也像农场工人、公共汽车司机和商店职员一样大脑细胞容易收缩。
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