公共英语三级考试真题及答案.docx

1、公共英语三级考试真题及答案2022年3月公共英语三级考试真题及答案SECTION 1 ListeningComprehension(25 minutes)125略 SECTION Use of English(15 minutes) Directions： Read the following textChoosethe best word or phrase for each numbered blank and markA，B，C，or D onANSWER SHEET 1 What might thehouse of the future be like? Gracecan tellMo

2、re formallyknown as the Microsoft Home，her hightech devices，along with 26 indesign and construction，will change the 27 we think about our homes You enter thehouse，and Graces 28 ，coming from hidden speakers，passes on your messages；Inthe kitchen，you set a bag of flour on theintelligently 29 stone coun

3、terGracesees what youre 30，and projects a list of flourbased food on the counter 31 you choose on，Gracerepeats instructions tor cookingShe 32 knows whatS in the cupboard The day whenyour house、viii be likea family member is not that faroffThis 33 0f seamless computing，in which technologyis everywher

4、e yet nowhere(34 when wewant it)，is emphasizedin most futurehome thinking Microsoft， 35 ，isnt the only one exploring 36 technology can make our homes more 37 andcomfortableAt theGeorgia Institute of Technology，scientists are 38 systems that will allowolder people to continue living 39SoGrandmas home

5、 can be intelligently wired to 40 her patterns of wake，sleep and movement；family members would be 4l of any changesvia computer Does spying on Grandma sound 42 ? Director Beth Mynatt says“A good bit ofour 43 has been working on how to convey informationwithout 44 privacyWe also dont want tocreate 45

6、 anxietyMaybe she just took a quiet day to read，and the system would have to recognizethat26 Apromotions Bapplications Cpractices Dadvances27 Away Bmanner Cstyle Dscope28Aimage Bfigure Cvoice Dsound29 Adisposed Bshaped Cengineered Dconditioned30 Asaying Bfeeling Csearching Ddoing32ABefore BOnce CSin

7、ce DUnless32 Aeven Bthus Cyet Donly33Ahope Bpassion Cfaith Dnotion34 Aperhaps Bexcept Cprovided Despecially35 Atherefore Blikewise Chowever Dmoreover36 Ahow Bwhether Cwhat Dwhy37 Afashionable Bcomplicated Cefficient Dattractive38 Adecorating Bdesigning Cdelivering Ddebating39 Aindependently Benthusi

8、astically Ccolorfully Dsatisfactorily40 Areceive Brecognize Crepresent Dreview41 Awarned Brelieved Cadvised Dinformed42 Ainteresting Bboring Cdisturbing Dappealing43 Aanalysis Bresearch Cconcern Dfocus44 Asacrificing Baffecting Cpreventing Dlosing45 Aunusual Bunfortunate Cuncertain DunnecessarySECTI

9、ON Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)PartADirections： Read the following three textsAnswerthe questions on each text by choosing A，B，CorDMarkyour answers on ANSWER SHEET 1 Text 1WheneverCatherine Brown， a 37-yearold journalist， and her friends，professionals in their 30s and early 40s，meet at aLondon

10、caf6，their favorite topic ofconversation is relationships：mensreluctance to commit，wo mens independence，andwhen to have children-or，increasingly，whether to have them at all“With the years passing my chances of having a child godown，but I Wont malty anyone just to have achild，saysBrownTo people like

11、Brown，babiesare great_if the timing is rightButtheyre certainly not essential In much of the world，havingkids is no longer a given“Neverbefore has childlessness beenan understandable decision for women and men in so many societies， says Frank Hakim at the LondonSchool of EconomicsYoungpeople are ext

12、ending their childfreeadulthood by postponing children until they are well into their 30sor even40s and beyond A growing share are ending up with nochildren at allLifetime childlessness in westernGer-many has hit 30 percent among universityeducated women，and is rapidly rising among lowerclass menInB

13、ritain，thenumber of women remaining childless has doubled in 20 years The latesttrend of childlessness does not follow historic patternsFor centuries it was not unusual for a quarter of European women toremain childlessButin the pastchildlessnesswas usually the product of poverty ordisasterof missin

14、gmen in times of warToday the decision to haveor not havea child is theresult of a complex combination of factors，includingrelationships，careerOpportunities，lifestyleand economics In some caseschildlessness among women can be seen as a quiet form ofprotestInJapan，supportfor working mothers hardly ex

15、istsChildcare is expensive，men dont help out，andsome companies strongly discouragemothers from returning to work“In Japan，itscareer or child，says writer KaoriHaishiIts not justwomen who are deciding against children；according to a re- cent study，Japanese men are even less inclined to marry or want a

16、 childTheir motivations，though，may havemore to do with economic factors 46CatherineBrown and her friends feel that having children is not _ AtotallywiseBahuge problemCarational choiceDabsolutelynecessary47It Can beinferred that，formany women，havingbabies nowadays is _ Aahard commitmentBhelpfulto the

17、ir careerCessentialfor happinessDanunderstandable decision48In theold days。manywomen remained childless _Aasa quiet form of protestBbecauseof lack of supportCbecauseof unfortunate circumstancesDbecausethey lacked social responsibility49We learnthat childlessness at present _ AaffectsEurope more than

18、 it does AsiaBproducesmore benefits than in the pastCismore a womans decision than a mansDismore complex in its cause than that in the past50According to the text，when a Japanese man decides not to have children，he probably feels unable to _ Ahelpwith houseworkBaffordto have a childCbea responsible

19、fatherDbalancework and family Text 2Faced with amissioncriticaldecision，who would you turn to for advice? Someone you had great confidence in，surelyBut several lines of research show thatour instincts about where to mm to for counsel are often not completely correct My research looksat prejudices th

20、at affect how people use advice，including why theyoften blindly follow recommendations from people whoas far as they knoware as knowledgeable as they areIn studies I conducted with Don Moore of Carnegie MellonUniversity，for example，I found matpeople tend to overvalue advice when the problem theyread

21、dressing is hard and to undervalue it when the problem iseasy In our experimentssubjects were asked to guess the weight of people in various pictures，some of which werein focus and some of which were unclearFor each picture，subjects guessed twice：the first time without advice and the second time wit

22、h input from another participantWhen me pictures were in focus，wefound，subjects tended to discount theadvice；apparently，theywere confident in their ability to guesscorrectlyWhen the pictures were unclear，subjectsleaned heavilyon me advice ofothers and seemed less secure about their initialopinionBec

23、ausethey misjudged the value 0f the advice theyreceived-consistently overvaluing orundervaluing it depending on the difficulty of the problemour subjectsdid not make the best guesses overallTheywould have done better if theydconsidered the advice equally，and to a moderate degree，on both hard andeasy

24、tasks.Another advicerelated prejudice Ive found compels people toovervalue advice that they pay forn one study Iconducted，subjectsanswered different sets of questions about American historyBeforeanswering some of the questionstheycould get advice on the correct answer from another subject whom they

25、knew was nomore expert than they wereIn one version of the experiment，people could get advice for free，while in another version，they paid for itWhen they paid foradvice，peopletended to have firm belief in it，Isuspect，by a combination of sunkcostprejudice and the nearly instinctual belief that cost a

26、nd quality are linked 51In theface of a missioncritical decision，peopletend to _ Atrusttheir own effortsBrelyon research findingsCgetaffected by others opinionDseekhelp from the more knowledgable52Researchshows that when faced with difficult problems people often _ AdiscountothersadviceBoverlookothe

27、rsadviceCdisagreewith othersadviceDoverrelyon othersadvice53The firstexperiment tries to prove how objective conditions _ Astrengthenpeoples initial opinionBstrengthenpeoples self-confidenceCinfluencepeoples response to adviceDinfluencepeoples guess of weight loss54It can beinferred that people are

28、likely to _ Aundervaluefree advice Bovervaluepeers adviceCmisinterpretspecialists adviceDmisjudgetheir instinctual belief55The twoexperiments mentioned in the text reveal _ Ahowto follow othersadviceBhowto understand othersadviceCwhatcauses people to seek adviceDwhataffects peoples attitude to advic

29、e Text 3Top National Health Service(NHS)nurses will be able to earn $40，000 a year without leavingfrontline patient care in a modification to salary structures New“supernursegrades will be created to enable the best staff to increasetheir salaries without having to move into management desk jobs Currently the most senior NHS nurses can earn a maximum$28，000 a year unless t