2016年公共英语考试三级阅读理解真题

　　Kate:

　　Why should I pay the difference between what the restaurant is willing to pay the employee and what an acceptable wage is? I do pay 20%, but I hate it. A friend of mine left Europe for New York City, found a job in a restaurant there and ended up making $5,500 a month. Enough above mini- mum wage? How about miners, construction workers, resident doctors, etc? Do they get tipped?

　　Patricia:

　　18 -20% for good service is today's standard. The restaurant and its employees arc too polite to tell you this or to put it on their menus, but that is their expectation and you need to understand that. I believe it is good manners to respect this. To do otherwise is to be openly rude. If you disagree, you arc wise to cat elsewhere, as you are hurting a hardworking professional.

　　Michael:

　　Tipping has gotten out of control. I always had thought it was 15%, and now suddenly servers have made it 20%. I tip 15%, and that's it. If the service is really superior, then I work higher from there. Interesting to be told ,“If you can't afford to tip 20%, then you should cat at home.” If all those people stayed away, the restaurant would not even be in business.

　　Now match the name of each person (36 - 40) to the appropriate statement.

　　Note: there are two extra statements.

　　Statements

　　36.Richard

　　37. Daniel38. Kate

　　39. Patricia

　　40. Michael

　　A. It's rude not to tip.

　　B. I do tip, though I don't like it.

　　C. Tipping shouldn't be compulsory.

　　D. Tips are essential to servers' survival.

　　E. If you don't tip, you are punishing the server.

　　F. I think the current tipping standard is too high.

　　G. My tip faithfully reflects how good the service is.

　　参考答案

　　36.G　　37.D　　38.B　　39.A　　40.F

　　Part C

　　Directions:

　　Read the following text from which five sentences have been removed. Choose from the sentences A-G the most suitable one to fill each numbered gap in the text (41-45). There are TWO extra sentences that you do not need to use. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

　　In 2009, the number of hungry people in the world reached one billion for the first time. It's difficult not to be shocked by the fact that more than one in seven people in the world do not have enough to eat.41Hunger kills more people per year than diseases such as AIDS, malaria and TB combined.

　　The UN estimates that almost two thirds of the world's hungry people are in Asia, which is of course the world' s most populous continent.42 Although this region has a much lower population than Asia, it has the highest percentage of hungry people. Almost all of the rest are in Latin America, North Africa and the Caribbean, In the richest regions of the world there are only a tiny number of people who don' t have enough to eat.

　　There are many reasons for world hunger. They include wars, droughts, floods, and the over- use of fanning land.43Many people also blame greedy businessmen for pushing up the prices of basic foods in the global market. But the most important reason, quite simply, is poverty, which has increased recently due to the financial crisis of 2008.

　　Although many people make the obvious point that there would be less hunger if the global population were smaller, few people would argue that there is not enough food to go around. 44 In the last 50 years, global food production has risen even more quickly than the global population. There are many areas of the world in which people generally have more than enough food.45The answer to world hunger, therefore, may be a balanced food distribution around the whole world. Everyone will have enough to eat, but not overeat.

　　A. The basic problem seems to be not a lack of food, but its distribution.

　　B. More than a quarter are in sub-Saharan Africa.

　　C. All these factors affect food production.

　　D. It takes the effort of every country to fight against world hunger.

　　E. In those places, obesity is a far bigger problem than hunger.

　　F. Those places need far more food than they actually get.

　　G. By the end of this year, more than 35 million people will have died as a result of not having enough to eat.

　　真题答案：

　　41.G　　42.B　　43.C　　44.A　　45.E

　　Part D

　　Directions:

　　Read the following text from which 10 words have been removed. Choose from the words A - 0 the most suitable one to fill each numbered gap in the text (46-55). There are FIVE extra words that you do not need to use. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

　　I can't believe the kind of rubbish that some people call art. Yesterday, my girlfriend dragged me to a modern art 46to see an exhibition she had read about in the paper. It was five or six so-called installations made of bits of plastic, wood and paper that 47 just to have been thrown on the floor. It was a mess, basically--just like the floor in my sister' s house when my two-year- old nephew' s left all his toys out, but less 48Come to think of it,49you had given those bits of plastic, wood and paper to my nephew, he could probably have50something just as good. I guess, sometimes, the cleaners end up throwing art like that in the bins at the end of the day,51 they must find it hard to work out what' s an exhibit and what' s just 52

　　I think that if a painting or an installation looks like something I could have done myself in fifteen minutes, it doesn't53to be called art. But when I say that, people like my girlfriend say I' m “uncultured.” I think a lot of the people who say they 54 the kind of stuff we saw yester- day are just pretending--deep down they know it' s rubbish but they don' t want to be the first one to admit it because, unlike me, they' re 55of being looked down on.

　　A.Afraid

　　B. appreciate

　　C. Because

　　D. Colorful

　　E. created

　　F. Deserve

　　G. dislike

　　H. gallery

　　I. if

　　J. litter

　　K. object

　　L. proved