普本 《大学英语》（三）
Part One: Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: From each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence.
1. He has a strong sense of justice and is ready at all times to ____ the truth.
A. stand up
B. stand for
C. stand up with
D. stand up for
2. Grandma always paid attention to the needs, wishes and feelings of those around her. She was the most _____ woman I’ve ever known.
A. artificial B. merry
C. considerate D brilliant
3. The changes our city _____ in the past few years are little short of miraculous.
A. catalogued B. underwent
C. inherited D furnished
4. The old couple decided to _____ a boy and a girl though they had three children of their own
A. adapt B. bring
C. receive D. adopt
5. He is respected and admired by people in the community since he treats all his customers ____.
A. like B. alike
C. likely D. liking
6. They determined to finish the task ____ of difficulties and dangers.
A. regarding B. regards
C. regarded D. regardless
7. If a fire alarm is sounded, all residents are requested to _____ in the courtyard.
A. assemble B. converge
C. crowd D. accumulate
8. You should come in person ____ ask someone else to come on behalf of you.
A. rather than B. other than
C. better than D. less than
9. We would _____ it if you would provide further information.
A. approve B. appreciate
C. appeal D. accord
10. NASA’s Mars program was set back when two apace craft failed up reaching Mars, one_____ up in the planet’s atmosphere and the other____ after software failure.
A. burned: disappeared B. burned: disappearing
C. burning; disappearing D burning; disappeared
11. Supplies are _____ in that region due to persistent draught.
A. thin B. slim
C. lean D. petty
12. How can they _____on half a loaf of bread every day?
A. get by B. get together
C. get ready D. get over
13. I am afraid I won’t be able to _____ to your party next week.
A. did it B. make it
C. get it D. arrive at
14. Many scientists have been____ the goal of a practical and economical way to use sunlight to split water molecules.
A. pursing B. chasing
C. reaching D. winning
15. The money I get from teaching the piano is a useful_____ to my ordinary income.
A. implement B. complement
C. supplement D. compliment
16. The boy has a lot of disadvantages, but _____ I think he is still a good boy.
A. on balance B. at balance
C. to balance D. in balance
17. According to the history, this hatred was _____ by racial prejudice
A. produced B. made
C. generated D created
18. She _____ herself as a man so she could fight on the battlefield.
A. decorate B. fabricate
C. mistook D disguised
19. Don’t try to ____ your wishes _____ us.
A. get…through B. impose….on
C. put… across D compel…to
20. I was so intent _____ my work that I didn’t notice the time.
A. on B. to
C. by D with
21. I'd have to say this could almost _____ a Western dish, and certainly it's a safe dish for almost everyone to eat.
A. pass on B. pass by
C. pass for D. pass into
22. If your monthly salary exceeds 10,000, you have to ____ 20% tax from the sum you receive.
A. designate B. repay
C. subtract D. snatch
23. Their friendship was ____ by shared adversity
A. produced B. created
C. forged D build
24. Key utilities in the UK including power stations, water plants, and transport systems are still far too _____ to flooding, a new report claims.
A. fragile B. vulnerable
C. tolerant D weak
25．Poor health can be a ____ to success.
A. barrier B. barren
C. barricade D bandage
26. The CEO has ____ Mr. Smith to act for him during his absence
A. assigned B. employed
C. authorized D. recommended
27． ______our tickets, we drove to the airport to board the plane
A. Having got B. Getting
C. Have got D. Have been getting
28. As the semester is drawing to an end, the student union is calling on all the students to ____ the temptation to cheat on exams.
A. refuse B. reject
C. resist D. resolve
29. He was granted special admission _____ his effort.
A. because B. on account of
C. to account of D due of
30. Obtaining a refund from the company is a _____ procedure.
A. complicated B. mixed
C. mingled D fixed
31. I hastily _____ my lessons the last night and sat for the exam.
A. went to B. went for
C. went into D went over
32. I always confuse the sisters: they look so_____.
A. alike B. same
C. similar D kind
33. As students _____observations, they are learning to collect and organize information.
A. give B. do
C. make D try
34. The injured was put _____close observation despite his constant protest.
A. under B. on
C. with D by
35. When I am angry, I find it best to____ myself ____ others for a while.
A. isolate….from B. take…from
C. put….into D join…in
36. Britain has a high level of unemployment, but the same _____ many other countries.
A. goes for B. goes to
C. goes over D goes by
37. She is determined to do____ all consequences.
A. in case of B. no matter
C. regardless of D. because of
38. I told you to ____ that vase _____, now you’ve broken it.
A. leave…alone B. keep…alone
C. put…alone D treat…alone
39. As it was getting colder and colder, their enthusiasm for doing sports in the morning _____.
A. fade out B. get out
C. come out D go out
40. Various preparation works for Shanghai Art Fair 2005 are_____.
A. in the way B. on the road
C. under way D by the way
41. Even when she didn’t say anything you could see she was _____ things _____ in her mind.
A. turning…over B. consider…over
C. turn…around D. consider…around
42. I am full of _____ to you for helping me.
A. gratitude B. thanks
C. felling D tear
43. The trade union issued a _____ opposing racial discrimination.
A. talk B. lecture
C. speech D statement
44. He delivered a speech ______all graduates on commencement day.
A. on behalf of B. for the interests of
C. in consideration of D. instead of
45. The teacher tried to_____ his students the necessity of being honest.
A. impress on B. convey to
C. talk to D put on
46. The students _____ in the classroom on Sunday to do a project together.
A. resembled B. assembled
C. joint D take part in
47. Her character is quite out of _____with her beauty.
A. time B. age
C. tune D tone
48. The company’s CEO’s post is still ____.
A. vacant B. empty
C. blank D bare
49. I can see in your mind that you really wish _____.
A. being left alone B. to be left alone
C. left D been left
50. A remote- controlled bomb exploded outside a hotel near the town square yesterday, ____ at least 12 people
A. having injured B. having been injured
C. injured D injuring
51. There is an _____ of rain this summer.
A. excess B. extreme
C. excuse D extent
52. The book contains some interesting passages about the author’s childhood. _____, it is rather dull.
A. For the last B. For the rest
C. For another D. For instance
53. This dish _____ of garlic.
A. smell B. smelled
C. smelling D smells
54. Her work stands out _____all the others in the class.
A. from B. to
C. by D in
55. The manager is very stubborn and he always _____ his own view.
A. clung to B. clings to
C. switch to D switched to
56. People will think of vast stretches of fields in quite and peaceful atmosphere when it _____life in the countryside.
A. goes to B. comes to
C. went to D came to
57. I suspect not _____ who loves the country would be happy living the way we do.
A. everyone B. someone
C. anyone D nobody
58______to live free someday, he managed to get trained in iron molding.
A. Determined B. Have determined
C. Determining D Be determined
59. A letter ____ today will probably reach the day after tomorrow
A. posted B. post
C. be posted D is posted
60. _____ to me that the names of their children were the names of flowers.
A. It occurred B. You occurred to it
C. It occurred to you D You occurred
61 You must employ someone to the project, otherwise it can' t be finished as scheduled.
A. overlook B. oversee
C. overwork D. overtake
62. I have no formal clothes for the occasion. Perhaps I can in a dark suit.
A. get by B. get through
C. get along D. get around
63.The general manager of the company is determined to take effective measures to make a marked in working conditions.
A. supplement B. preparation
C. improvement D. promotion
64.My parents have a farm in the countryside and I often help them the orchard and stack firewood.
A. shower B. sprinkle
C. scatter D. spray
65.People regularly buy to reduce uncertainty and to protect themselves from future disasters.
A. insurance B. assurance
C. premium D. guarantee
66. The description of what happens in the process of learning English is sometimes too .
A. complex to be understood B.difficult to be understood
C. complicated to understand D. complicated enough to understand
67 .The patient is seriously ill and is being kept under continuous .
A. observation B. watch
C.look D. examination
68. Without the support of the masses, the leading group is becoming increasingly .
A. separated B.isolated
C. divided D.parted
69.Medicare, another form of federal health insurance, pays a large part of the medical bills for the disabled, age.
A. on account of B. regardless of
C.owing to D.instead of
70. , Jim decided to go to the cinema.
A. His homework done B.Doing his homework
C. His homework being done D. His homework was done
71. As people's living standards improve, the health and beauty business is _ with more sophisticated products than ever before.
A. astonishing B. flourishing
C. exaggerating D. diminishing
72. As she matured as all artists, she __ realize that "all artists are a product of their culture."
A. came to B. kept to
C. took to D. went to
73. The of older persons is relatively low in developing countries, but it is growing much faster than in the West.
A. addition B. majority
C. percentage D. statistic
74. While freshmen are considered part of the academic elite, some of them appear to lack common sense __ following traffic regulations.
A. coming to B. when coming to
C.when it comes to D. when they come to
75. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough a fair deal afterwards.
A. being given B. been given
C. given D. to be given
76. At daybreak, they launched a offensive against the enemy.
A. fierce B. savage
C. wild D strong
77.The first flying machine of the Wrights', made of pieces of wood and cloth, looked too to fly.
A. creative B. delicate
C. complicated D. fragile
78. The steps of the museum had been by the feet of thousands of visitors.
A. worn down B. worn away
C. worn off D. worn out
79. We often patronize the local department store because it provides prompt __ ofgoods for the customers.
A. delivery B. arrival
C. service D. carriage
80.It's a wise and sensible decision to the head office from Londonto Cardiff.
A. change B. transfer
C. shift D. transplant
81. The contrast is so clear that I could tell the difference between the two paintings _____.
A. at glance
B. at one glance
C. at a glance
D. by a glance
82. Three people were killed in the bomb explosion, but police have not yet identified the
A .representative B. statistics
C.victims D. circumstances
83. He was ashamed. That feeling ___, and he was never comfortable in church after that.
A lingered B stalked
C.saturated D. flourished
84. I made___ use of my spare time, mixing with a lot of different people and practicing myEnglish.
A mobile B fierce
Cprofitable D. swift
85. The meeting was successful and ended with a(n) ___to step up cooperation between the six states of the region,
A. testimony B. pledge
C. evolution D.signature
86. We think it is wrong to single out any___of society for Aids testing.
A .spectrum B. section
C. mixture D.locality
87. "Hi, John, could you show me how to __ graphics with text on the same screen?"
A. fuse B. clone
C. merge D. mingle
88. What they have done is ___ two different types of entertainment, the circus and the rock concert.
A.dispose B. accord
C. adopt D.fuse
89. The school strives to treat pupils as individuals and to help each one to achieve their full .
A. curiosity B. genius
C.advantage D. potential
90. The thought of dying slowly and painfully______me. I really can't understand why so many people are opposed to euthanasia
A. terrifies B. curses
C. puzzles D. injures
Part Two: Reading Comprehension 40%
Directions: You will read four passages in this section and each will be followed by five questions or unfinished statements for each of them there are four choices marked ABC and D .You should decide on the best answer.
Passage One
Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed(配给) among buyers. The price system of the united States is a very complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a variety of services, including labor, professional transportation, and public-utility services, The interrelationships of all these prices make up the system of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.
If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is the amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller for a product or service or, in other words , that price is the money value of a product or service as a greed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but also the amount and the quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and the place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be sued, the credit terms and discounts that supply the transaction, guarantees on the product or price, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that comprise the total package being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.
1. According to the passage, the price system is related primarily to______.
A. products and services B. utilities and repairs
C .labor and education D. transportation and insurance
2.Which of the following is NOT a factor in the complete understanding of price?
A.instruction that come with the product.
B.The quality of the product.
C.The quantity of the product.
D.Warranties that cover the product.
3. The word “they” in the last sentence refers to______.
A.return privileges B.all the factors
C.buyer and seller D.money
4. Which of the following would most probably be the title of the passage?
A. The Inherent Weaknesses of the Price System.
B.The Complexities of the Price System.
C. Credit Terms in Transactions
D. Resource Allocation and the Public Sector
5. The word "evaluate" in the last sentence can best be replaced by ______.
A. decide B. understand
C choose D. favor
Passage Two
The traditional American Thanksgiving Day celebration goes back to 1621, In that year a special feast was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The colonists who had settled had left England because they felt denied of religious freedom. They came to the new land and faced difficulties in coming across the ocean. The ship, which carried them, was called the Mayflower. The north Atlantic was difficult to travel. There were bad storms. They were assisted in learning to live in the new land by the Indians who inhabited the region. The Puritans as they were called, had much to be thankful for .Their religious practices were no longer a source of criticism by the government. They learned to adjust their farming habits to the climate and soil .When they selected the fourth Thursday November for their Thanksgiving celebration, they invited their neighbors, the Indians, to join them in dinner and a prayer of gratitude for the new life. They recalled the group of 102 men, women, and children who left England. They remembered their dead who did not live to see the shores of Massachusetts, they reflected on the 65-day-journey which tested their strength
6.The tradition of a day of thanksgiving is______.
A.100 years old
B.200 years old
C.300 years old
D. 400 years old
7.why had they left England?
A, because of religious problems
B.to establish a new religion.
C.to learn farming
D.becuase of the Indians
8.The Mayflowers was______.
A.the city they left from
B.the city they arrived at
C.the ship they traveled in
D.the name of the Indian chief
9. The Indians had ______.
A. made life difficult for them
B.helped them to adjust
C taken their land
D.been too afraid to talk to them
10.The climate and soil in Massachusetts are______.
A.similar to that of England
B.different from that of England
C.similar to that of Plymouth
D.different from that of Plymouth.
Passage Three
In the early days of sea travel, seamen on longvoyages lived exclusively on salted meat and biscuits. Many of them died of scurvy(坏血病), a disease of the blood which causes swollen gums（齿龈）, livid（青黑色的）white spots on the flesh and general exhaustion. On one occasion, in 1535, an English ship arrived in Newfound land with itscrew desperately ill. The men's lives were saved by Iroquois Indians who gave them vegetable leaves to eat. Gradually it came to be realized that scurvy was caused by some lackin the sailors' diet and Captain Cook, on his long voyages of discovery to Australia andNew Zealand, established the fact that scurvy could be warded off by the provision of freshfruit for the sailors.
Nowadays it is understood that a diet which contains nothing harmful may yet result in serious disease if certain important elements are missing. These elements are called "vitamins''. Quite a number of such substances are known and they are given letters to identify them, A, B, C, D, and so on. Different diseases are associated with deficiencies of particular vitamins. Even a slight lack of Vitamin C, for example, the vitamin most plentiful in fresh fruit and vegetables, is thought to increase significantly our susceptibilityto colds and influenza,
The vitamins are necessary for a healthy body is normally supplied by a good mixed diet, including a variety of fruit and green vegetables. It is only when people try to live on a very restricted diet, say during extended periods of religious fasting（斋戒）, or when trying to lose weight, that it is necessary to make special provision to supply the missing vitamins.
1l.Scurvy is a disease that is provoked by______.
A. salted meat and biscuits
B. exhaustion
C. want of some essential substances
D. lack of fresh vegetables and fruits
12. In the last sentence of Paragraphl, "warded off" could probably be replaced by______.
A.got rid of B. killed C. avoided D.cleared away
13. To avoid such disease as scurvy, it ' s better for us______.
A.not to eat much salted meat
B.to supplement our diet with various vitamnin pills
C.to have more fresh fruit and vegetables