（五）12月英语三级考试试题
一、单项选择：
1.  We were all______the way he behaved at the meeting.
A.disappointed at      B.disabled by    C.dismissed from    D.discharged from
2.Don’t try to _____for Tom’s behavior.He won’t get away with it this time.
  A.make a search      B.make an effort    C. make a mistake  D.make an excuse
3.When he was asked about the missing camera,Jimmy________ever seeing it.
  A.opposed            B.denied        Cplained        D.refused
4.She arranged a party to help put the strangers at their _______.
  A.peace            B.ease              C  pleasure          Dfort
5.You can make your dreams come_______as long as you work hard.
  A.possible        B.actual            C.true        D.visible
6.The managing director took the ________for the accident,although it was not really his fault.
  A.guilt          B.blame          C.crime          D.charge
7.The key to our room was _____to a large plastic plate with the room number on it.
  A.joined        B.connected        C.related          D .attached
8.The restaurant near our campus is superior_______the one we went to last week.
  A.than        B.as              C.with            D.to
9.He made a ____sum of money in real estate and then invested it in the stock market.
  A.considerate        B.conscious      C.considerable        D conservative
10.Higher taxes are likely to _____importing expensive cars into the country.
  A.discourage          B.encourage      C.persuade        D.protect
11.Tom is kindhearted,thoughtful,hard working and clever._______I can’t speak too highly of him.
  A.As a result          B.By the way      C.In a word        D. On the contrary
12. It would make great ____for the parents to be involved in children’s activities.
  A.idea              B.meaning          C.significance        D.sense
13. President Bush, together with his wife and daughter, ______at the opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing.
  A.was present        B. is present        C. were present        D. are present
14.It was reported that only one tourist was fortunate to escape ____in the attack.
  A.killing              B.to be killed        C.having killed      D.being killed
15.________there are few jobs available in rural areas ,many young people move to the cities in search of employment.
  A.After              B.Although            C.Since              D.While
16.By the time I got to the cinema,all the tickets for”The Merchant of Venice”.______out.
  A.have been sold      B.had been sold        C.was sold            D.were sold
17.It is recommended that the project ______until all the preparations have been made.
  A.not be started        B.will not be started      C.is not started    D.is not to be started
18.I could have paid ______for the suit if the salesman had insisted,because I really wanted it.
  A.as much twice        B.much twice      C.twice as much    D.two times
19._______is often the case ,the calls from our customers are for help with their computer systems.
  A.As                  B.What            C.This            D.That
20.There was so much noise that the speaker couldn’t make himself_______.
  A.to hear            B.heard              C.hearing          D.being heard
PartⅡ  Reading Comprehension
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
四川交通大学
BEIJING, Aug.11(Xinhua)—Chinese weightlifter Chen Yanqing retailed her women’s 58kg Olympic title in Beijing on Monday with a total result of 244kg
Chen ,29,has become the first strongwoman in the world to successfully defend her Olym
pic title since the women’s weightlifting entered summer Olympics in Sydney eight years ago.
“The Athens gold belongs to me ,but this one belongs to all the people supporting me ,”she said.
Chen made her fame in 1997 by claiming the jerk(挺举) and total golds in the world championships and ruled the class by keeping breaking the world records.
Chen didn’t try to break the world record during her competition and she has an explanation.
“The world record in the snatch(抓举) and the total belongs to me ,so to win the gold was more important”, the veteran said.
It’s the third gold for the Chinese weightlifting team ,after ChenXiexia won the women’s 48kg class on Saturday and Long Qingquan claimed the title in the men’s 56kg class Sunday ,and the eighth gold for the Chinese delegation at the Games.