公共英语三级考试试题五十八Word下载.docx

1、 all the efforts, they still take no （7） . Between 1978 and l983, the latest year for which figures are （8） , the number of people who didnt have breakfast increased （9） 33 percentfrom 8.8 million to 11.7 million （10） the Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America.For those who feel pain o

2、f （11） about not having breakfast, （12） , there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years （13） that, for adults especially, there may be nothing （14） with omitting break fast. Going （15） breakfast does not affect （16） . Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen El

3、izabeth College in London, （17） does giving people breakfast improve performance.（18） evidence relating breakfast to better health or （19） performance is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not （20） . The literature, says one researcher, Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the

4、 University of Texas, is poor.AdespiteBin spiteCthoughDhowever【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析：首先判定此处应填介词，排除C、D两项； in spite of意为“不管，不顾”，无in spite结构。第2题 thereforewhereasbut当位于句中时，只有however前后都可以带逗号。第3题 withoutwithfromout of此处指的应是不吃早餐。第4题 wrongrightcorrectincorrectThere be something/nothing wrong with.为固定用法

5、，此处意为：不吃早餐也无妨。第5题 bettergoodwellworseor前后为平行结构，即前后的词应为并列意思。第6题 peoplemenhumansadultsDnot构成转折，children与adults构成对比。第7题 startendmorningbeginat the start of the day为固定搭配，意为“一天的开始”。第8题 aboutintoupCbring up“抚养”；bring about“发生”；bring into“引进，吸收”。第9题 indicatereportannouncedeclare可由后句中的用词“may”推知。这一结论可能成立，也可能

6、不成立，不能断定，而选项B、C、D用词均过于肯定。第10题 atbyincrease by“增加了”。第11题 saidbelievedreportedtold此处意为：我们均被告知。第12题 someanynoall此句由but引导，说明其为转折过渡句。第13题 brunchbreakfastlunchsupperB全文一直在谈论的都是早餐的问题。第14题 performancehealthheartbrain由下一句中的“. does giving people breakfast improve performance”可知前后呈对比关系。第15题 availableusedgotest

7、imatedavailable“可用的，有效的”；use“使用，利用”；get“获得”，若选此词，则应用其被动式的现在完成时态；estimate“估计，评价”。第16题 afterbeforewhenas空格后为动名词形式，推知此处应填一介词，故排除C、D两项；A项after与句意相背。第17题 guilthappinesssadnesseagernessB、C、D项与题意不符。第18题 according tothroughaccording to“依据，按照”，强调所述信息与引述主体之间的从属关系。第19题 ScienceScientistScientificScientists名词前应用

8、形容词形式。第20题 notneithereithernorneither/not. nor为固定搭配，构成递进、对比关系。二、Reading Comprehension（共10小题,共20.0分）Read the following three textsAnswer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they supply him with wood and other products; they give hi

9、m shade; and they help to prevent droughts and floods.Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he

10、 has lost the best friends he had. 2000 years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the home country found itself faced floods and starvation.Even if a government realizes the importance of adequate supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade the villager to see this. The villager wants wood to cook his food with; and he can earn money by pr