xx年公共英语三级模拟试题与答案
  Few went out in such a cutting and blinding wind.
  A.在如此刺骨的和刮得叫人睁不开眼睛的风里，很少有人出门。
  B.因为刺骨的风和刮得叫人睁不开眼睛的风，很少有人出门。
  C.寒风刺骨，刮得叫人睁不开眼睛。在这样恶劣的天气，很少有人出门。
  答案:C
  There’s been some dirty work with the club aounts and some money is missing.
  A.俱乐部的帐目有鬼，有些钱不知去向。
  B.俱乐部的帐目有卑劣的勾当，有些钱不知去向。
  答案:A
  当时我们已经变得像一家人那样亲密，东西不分你我，彼此可以把筷子伸到对方的碗里抢肉吃。
  A.At that time, we had bee as close as the members of one family. We were on very intimate terms. We could dig our chopsticks into each other’s bowls for choice pieces of meat.
  B.By now, we had bee very intimate. We made no distinction between each other’s things. We dug our chopsticks into each other’s bowls for choosing pieces of meat.
  C.We had e to be like one family by now, being on such intimate terms that we helped ourselves freely to each other’s things and sometimes could dig our chopsticks into each other’s bowls for choice pieces of meat.
  答案:C
  一切都考虑进去，她的建议似乎更切实可行。
  A.Everything is taken into consideration, her proposal seems more practicable.
  B.Everything taken into consideration, her proposal seems more practicable.
  C.Everything is taken into consideration; her proposal seems more practicable.
  答案:B
  但他性情不同，既不求官爵，又不交朋友，终日闭门读书。
  A.But he was eentric, did not look for an official post, did not even have any friends and studied behind closed doors all day.
  B.He was, however, eentric. He neither looked for an official post, nor had any friends, studying behind closed doors al day.
  C.But he was eentric, neither looked for an official post nor had any friends but studied behind closed doors all day.
  答案:B
  His preoupation with business left little time for his family.
  A.他全神贯注于事业，为他的家庭留下了很少的时间。
  B.他对事业的全神贯注留给他家庭的时间很少。
  C.他全神贯注于事业，因而与家人在一起的时间很少。
  答案:C
  他最终什么时候来，大家都吃不准。
  A.When he’ll finally turn up is not sure.
  B.Everybody is not sure when he’ll finally e.
  C.When he’ll finally turn up is anybody’s guess!
  答案:C
  … but Lady Southdown dismissed poor Briggs as quickly as decency permitted.
  A.无奈莎吴唐老太太不喜欢布里格斯，勉强留她住了几天，糊过面子，就急急的打发她走了。
  B.无奈莎吴唐老太太像体面所允许的那样快地把可怜的布里格斯打发走了。
三级 英语  C.但是莎吴唐老太太等到面子过得去的时候就很快的把可怜的布里格斯打发出门了。
  答案:A
  Failure to answer half the questions they asked made the police suspect him.
  A.由于他未能答复他们所问问题的一半，使得警察对他产生了疑心。
  B.他未能答复所问问题的一半，警察对他疑心了。
  C.未能答复他们所问问题的一半，使得警察对他起了疑心。
  答案:A
  这次展出还是老一套。
  A.The exhibit is the same old stuff.
  B.The exhibit is outmoded.
  C.The exhibit does not lend itself to much exciting variation.
  答案:C
  张先生腋下夹着一本字典，手里端着茶杯，一边踱着步一边哼着一首流行歌曲。
  A.Mr. Zhang carried a dictionary under his arm, held a cup in his hand, paced and hummed a tune.
  B.With a dictionary under his arm and a cup in his hand, Mr. Zhang was humming a popular tune as he paced.
  C.With a dictionary under his arm and a tea cup in his hand, Mr. Zhang was pacing while he hummed a popular tune.
  答案:B
  Every one of us, except my poor hoodwinked grandmother, heard of the bad news.
  A.我们每一个人，除了我那可怜的受蒙蔽的奶奶，都得知了这个不幸的消息。
  B.除了我那可怜的受蒙蔽的奶奶，我们大家都得知了这个不幸的消息。
  C.我们大家都得知了这一不幸的消息，只有我那可怜的奶奶，还蒙在鼓里。
  答案:C
  Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesn’t generally experience the atmospheric sound and lightning that can aompany those rains, it’s still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.
  The reason these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashi
ng up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when it’s actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think we see, we’d still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.
  Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two cloud or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, there’s enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second.
  Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval between the flash and the crash to learn how close they were to the actual spark.
  36. Aording to the author, in the area of the Central Valley, .