公共英语三级考试试题八.docx

1、公共英语三级考试试题八公共英语三级考试试题(八)一、Section Use of English（共20小题,共20.0分）Read the following text Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, Cot Don ANSWER SHEET 1 第1题 The evolution of artificial intelligence is now proceeding so rapidly that (1) the end of the century cheap computers

2、 (2) larger than portable typewriters will (3) that will be able to solve almost any (4) faster and more efficiently than we can. Intelligencein a machine, (5) in a human,is best (6) as the ability to solve complex problems swiftly. This (7) involve medical analysis and prescriptions, (8) legal matt

3、ers (9) short,replacing the profession of lawyers completely or in (10) war-games:in other words (11) governments whether (12) not to go to war. (13) computers have already intensified the deadlines of weapons,the prospect for the future is that they will (14) the more beneficial role of preventing

4、wars. (15) asked to esti- mate the chances of victory, the computer will analyze facts (16) from the life-long military expert with his optimistic sense and military enthusiasm.When the same figures are fed into the emotionless machine each to be weighed with (17) objective and then judged (18) each

5、 other, the (19) , far more often than (20) in human deci- sion-making, will be: You start this war you will lose.AinBforCasDat【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析in short简而言之，为固定搭配；for short简称；选项C、D均不可与short直接搭配。第2题 AinstallBhappenCexistDshow【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析上下文是关于电脑的出现。install安装；happen发生； show显示。

6、都不及exist“存在”贴切。第3题 AasBlikeCsameDsimilar【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析用“as+介宾”构成句子的补语，意为“象一样”，起补充说明作用。第4题 AmustBmightCmayDwill【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析此处考查情态动词的用法。must不合原意；B、C时态不符，只有may合适。第5题 AmakeBpossessCgetDassume【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析assume the role意为“担任角色”，选项A、B均不合题意。第6题 AandBorCstatingDbut

7、【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析“whether or not”为固定搭配，意为“是否”。第7题 AhavingBplayingCalsoDmaking【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析联系上下文，此处的意思是“制作战争游戏”。第8题 AtakenBconsideredCdefinedDthought【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析联系上下句，可推出此处是给机器的intelligence下定义。 taken当作；considered认为；thought想成为。第9题 AsolutionBresultCkeyDanswer【正确答案

8、】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析电脑经过反复考查之后应得出结果。solution解决方法； key关键；answer答案。均不符合文意。第10题 AforBwithCagainstDbetween【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析“judge with sth”意为“相互比较得出结论”。第11题 AdifferentlyBaccordinglyCdirectlyDconsistently【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析下文讲到电脑与人处理问题的方式不同。accordingly相应地；directly直接地；consistently一致地。均

9、不妥。第12题 AarguingBpromisingCtakingDadvising【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析战争是严肃的，参与不参战得有确凿的依据。故promising“担保”比advising“建议”更为贴切，选项A、C则显然不对。第13题 AatBbyCinDon【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析“by+时间”表示在某个时间之前，是一个时间段内；at the end是时间一个点；无C、D搭配。第14题 AnoBnotCsomeDany【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析“no+形容词比较级”表示“不更”；“not”一般不与

10、形容词搭配作定语；C、D显然不对。第15题 AUnlessBIfCWhileDThough【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析联系上下文，此处应表示转折的意思，而只有选项D合适。第16题 AyesBnotCnoDall【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析电脑得出的答案更为客观无情。它不会像人类作决定时说：“不”，而直接说“你会输”。第17题 AresolvingBissuingCsettingDfinishing【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析此处由下句的“replacing可知选A。第18题 AhotBcoldCgoodDbad【正确

11、答案】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析下文强调电脑办事客观，由第二段第一句话中“emotion- less可推知。第19题 AdifficultyBtroubleCcaseDproblem【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析solve后一般接problem。第20题 AAfterBBeforeCIfDWhile【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】解析此句是由if引导的条件状语从句，原句也可以转换为“If the computer is asked to estimate the chances of victory”。二、Reading Compreh

12、ension（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 第1题 On the night of May 7,1942, a plane took off from an Air Force base in England to stop Germa fighters over the English Channel. Pilot of the plane was Captain Thomas Nash. Looking eastwar

13、d, Nash saw twelve orange lights in a row ,moving at a fantastic rate of speed. As a sophisticated flyer, he had never seen anything like them. Thinking that they might be a new German weapon,he decided to chase them. But when he swung the plane around and headed directly for the lights, they vanish

14、ed.Captain Nash may have been the first to see such orange lights but he wasn t the last. His experience was repeated several times by pilots during World Warin Europe and the Far East. What were they? No one knows for sure,but there is an interesting theory to explain them. According to this theory,the orange lights are space animalsanimals specially adapted to life in the upper atmosphere just as some creature