综合英语三考前复习资料

efforts are being directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.

If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steelworker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.

When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas station, and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.

The market may seem to be something abstract. But for each person or business who is making and selling something, it’s very real. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It’s telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.

1. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? A) Selling and Buying B) What Is the Market?

C) Everything You Do Is Producing for the Market D) What the Market Can Do for You? 2. All of the following acts are producing for the market EXCEPT ________. A) working in a bank C) attending a night school B) printing a book D) growing beans for sale 3. You are buying from the market when you ________. A) borrow a book from the library B) look after your children

C) drive to the seaside for a holiday D) dine at a restaurant

4. The word “real” in the last paragraph may most probably mean “________”. A) serious C) important B) true D) concrete

5. In what way is the market very real for each person or business who is making and selling something?

A) It tells you what to produce.

B) It tells you how to grow tomatoes.

C) It provides you with everything you need. D) It helps you save money.

Passage four

Questions1 to 5 are based on the following passage.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has defied (违背) the laws of gravity for seven and a half centuries. Every year, on June 19th, a professor from the University of Pisa climbs to the bell tower and measures the increase in the slant with special instruments. And every year the professor makes the same report: the tower has leaned a fraction of an inch more. Last summer, the 125-foot-high tower was leaning an incredible 15 feet out of line. Scientists say that unless a way is found to stop the tilt, the tower will collapse in less than 80 years.

The tower is leaning because the soft subsoil of Pisa will not support it. Its foundation is sinking into the soil at an angle, causing the tower to lean. Since a tremor could shake the foundation loose, the ringing of the tower’s bells was forbidden in 1959. Trucks are not allowed to pass in the neighborhood of the tower for this same reason.

1. The statement which best expresses the main idea of this passage is that ________. A) the Leaning Tower of Pisa is in increasing danger of collapsing B) every year a professor measures the increase in the tower’s slant C) the tower is leaning because the subsoil of Pisa will not support it D) there is only one way to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa

2. It can be inferred from the passage that last summer the tower was found tilted further by _____.

A) 15 feet C) a fraction of an inch B) more than one inch D) several inches

3. The tower tilts more and more because ________. A) the ringing of the bells causes a tremor B) there are passing trucks nearby C) it is built on soft soil

D) its foundation has been shaken loose

4. Why is the tower described as defying the laws of gravity? A) It had resisted shaking tremors for hundreds of years. B) It was built on soft ground.

C) It leans a fraction of an inch more every year.

D) Scientists think that it should have collapsed long ago.

5. Truck traffic has been forbidden in the neighborhood of the tower ______. A) to protect the drivers B) to prevent accidents

C) as a precaution against shaking tremors

D) because trucks damage the foundation

四、英译汉

1.. It is said that a new lock has been invented that can identify its owner by the smell of his or her body.

据说有人发明了一种锁，能够根据人体气味来识别它的主人。

2. Out of gratitude for the help of his teachers and classmates, he is determined to work hard and score highly.

他决心以优异的成绩来感谢老师和同学们的帮助。

3. She burst out crying when she heard that her lost daughter had been found.

当她得知女儿被找到了时，禁不住放声大哭了起来。

4. If you have any difficulties, don’t hesitate to come to see me.

如果你有困难，可以随时来找我。

5. He returned to his own motherland in the end.

他最后终于回到了他的祖国。

6. The teacher handed out a pencil to each student before the exam as the questions were to be answered in pencil.

考试前老师给每位学生一支铅笔，因为他们必须用铅笔答题。

7. The house is totally devoid of furniture.

这栋房子里没有任何家具

8. We are sorry to inform you that we cannot employ you right now. If there is a position vacant in the future, we will contact you.

很抱歉，我们现在不能聘用你。如果将来职位有空缺，我们会与你联系。

9. I told the boys off for making so much noise.

那些男孩太吵闹，我把他们骂了一顿。

10. Such things as needles and scissors should be kept out of the reach of children.

针、剪刀这类东西必须放在小孩够不着的地方。

五、汉译英

1.她似乎与新同学相处不好。(get along with)

She doesn’t seem to get along with her new classmates.

2.我与玛丽失去联系多年，但昨天我与她在电话里联系上了。（out of touch)

I’d been out of touch with Mary for years, but I managed to reach her by phone yesterday.

3.他决定立即着手这项复杂的工程。(resolve, work on)

He resolved to work on the complicated project immediately.

4.他们看见一位老人被对面驶来的汽车撞倒。(knock over)

They saw an old man knocked over by a car coming from the opposite direction.

5.母亲立刻派汤姆去叫医生。(send ... for)

Mother immediately sent Tom for the doctor.

6. 因为托马斯不安心工作，他的父母非常担忧。(settle down）

As Thomas couldn’t settle down in his job, his parents were very worried.

7. 我口袋里总装着各种各样的小东西。(bits and pieces)

I always have all kinds of bits and pieces in my pockets.

8. 由于人手不足，无法按期完成任务。(a shortage of)

Owing to the shortage of staff, the task could not be fulfilled on schedule.

9. 在经济萧条期间，公司遭遇到财政困难。(run into)

During the period of depression, the company was running into financial difficulties.

10. 我知道您现在忙极了。(desperately)

I know how desperately busy you are now..

六、作文

1、根据下面所给的题目用英语写出一篇不少于120字的作文。 On Making Friends 1人不能没有朋友 2.什么是真正的友谊 3.我自己如何交朋友

2、根据下面所给的题目用英语写出一篇不少于120字的作文。 Key Factors in Success

1.每个人都渴望在事业上取得成功。

2.取得成功的三大基本要素：勤奋、专注和坚持不懈。 3.伟人们都是凭借这三要素获得成功的。