2013年6月大学英语三级真题

The people who lived in Rome thousand years ago were already complaining about the noise in their city. They couldn’t sleep, they said, with all that（21）________ in the steets. For them, noise was（22）________ a disturbance. For us is has become a real（23）________ . We know that the sounds of an（24）________ city are loud enough to cause serious damage to the inhabitants’ (居民) （25）________ -- in the United States, one out of twenty has stuffered some hearing（26）________ . And all over the world the situation is（27）________ all the time, since noise increases with the population.

It has also increased enormously in the twentieth century（28）________________ . We live in an environment surrounded by loud planes, trucks, motorcycles, buses, electric tools, radios, ect. That roar day and night up to 90 or 100 decibels (分贝).

Unfortunately, the human ear does not judge clearly（29）________________ . A sound ten decibels louder than another one is felt as twice as loud, when in fact it is ten times louder. Since we cannot measure the increase or decrease of noice,（30）________________.

Mr. And Mrs. MacGregor live in a village near Inverness in the north of Scotland. One morning, they found a dog in their garden. They took the dog in, gave it some meat, and watched it go into a corner and go to sleep. They decided to let the animal stay overnight, and to took for its owner in the morning. Then they left home to pay a visit to their gaughter in Inverness.

They came home at about eleven. As they opened the front door, they were welcomed by a snarling (狂吠的) boxer, standing with bared teeth. Any attempt to calm the animal met with angrt barkinng. Soon all the neighbors were awake, and came out to offer helpful advice.

Then the fire brigade was called. They arrived at midnight. But all their attempts only made the dog more violent. They couldn’t get near it. The fire brigade gave up and called the police. When they arrived, it was one in the morning, and nearly all the villagers were gathered in the MacGregor’s garden. The police thought about it. They advised that the dog should be shot.

However, someone went for an expert dog handler. This expert arrived at two in the morning with a huge Alsatian. He said, “This won’t take long”

But it did. Two animals stood and stared and snarled at each other. It wan a draw.

Then a vet (兽医) was sent for. By the time he arrived, it was 4 a.m. He borrowed a rope, made a lasso (套索), and threw the loop over the boxer’s head.

He dragged it into the garden, stuck a needle in it, and put it to sleep. The police removed it.

MacGregor said, “This animal will make a wonderful watchdog. But the new owners must be prepared to stay indoors for a few days until the dog gets to know them.”

Nearly half of all marriages end in divorce. This surpring statistic makes many people think twice before tying a knot (结). This statistic also makes one wonder what cause a maariage to succeed. My parents have been married for thirty-three years, and though they’ve had their their ups and downs, they have had a wonderful relationship. Why has their marriage succeeded?

My parents have always expressed their love for each other. Thoughout their courtship (求婚) they did many wonderful things for each other: buying flowers, wreting letters, and sending surprises. They’ve continued these practices throughout their marriage as ways of showing love.

Another quality of my parents’ marriage is that they are flexible about their demands and expectations of each other. When I was four, Dad was laid off from his job. As a result, Mom entered the workforce. Although Dad was soon rehired, Mom enjoyed her job so much that she decided to keep is. Dad was a bit surprised, but he could see that is made her happy. If problems arose because of the time demands of their jobs, they worked through these problems—together.

My parents remain committed (忠诚的) to each other, even during difficult times. Early in their marriage, Dad was sent overseas as a communications specialist. He wrote home every now and then, but he didn’t see Mom for nine moths. Mom was home alone. Sometimes her single coworkers would encourage her to go out with them and have a good time. When I asked her why she didn’t, she told me that she had made a commitment to my father and she was living by that commitment. When they were reunited, they had nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to be angry with each other about. I have come to believe that their absolute commitment yo each other is, more than anything else, what has caused their marriage to work.

I noce heard someone say that marriage isn’t a fifty-fifty deal. It’s ninety-ten on both sides. Could that be the secret of a successful marriage? It seems to describe the one my parents have.

Marc, an intelligent and attractive boy, was 6years old when his parents came to our clinil. His family consisted of his father (37 years), his mother (30 years), himself (6 years), and his sister, Jill (4 years). His parents were well educated. They were both rather rational (理性的) people and also tried to raise their children in a rational and responsible way.

It appeared that, from babyhood, Marc loved external stimulation, but found it hard to amuse himself. When he could not yet wlke or crawl he easily became frustrated. He often wanted to achieve things that were outside his range. As Marc was his mother’s eldest child, she gave him, from birth on a lot of sttention. His mother was a competent but insecure woman. She felt increasingly inadequate as a mother because Marc was demanding and difficult to please, and received little support from her husband in the upbringing of the children. When Marc’s sister,Jill, was born, Marc continued demanding as much of his mother’s attention as he did before. However, it was no longer physically possible for her to give Marc what he wanted. The mother was very happy with her daughter; Jill happened to be a very easy child. For the first time she felt that taking care of a child was not necessarily a hard job. Marc developed an extreme jealousy. He occasionally showed sadistic (虐待狂的) behaviors toward his sister, which made the mother afraid to leave the children without her supervisiom (监管). The mother constantly tried to fulfill her children’s wishes, but primarily functioned as a peacekeeper. She developed angry and anxious feelings toward her son, because he increasingly spoiled the atmosphere at home with his concentrated on his work. On weekends, he sometimes took one child out (while the mother went away with the other child) to prevent the many scenes and quarrels that occurred when the family was together.

The European Commission has approved funding for 196 new projects under the second call for the LIFE+ programme (2007-2013), the European fund for the environment. The projects are from across the EU and ____46____ actions in the fields of nature conservation (保护), environmental policy, and information and communication. Overall, they ____47____ a total investment of €431 million, of which the EU ____48____ provide €207.5 million.

Following the ____49____ for proposals, which chosed in November 2008, the Commission ____50____ more than 600 proposals from pubic or ____51____ bodies from the 27 EU Menber States. Of these, 196 were ____52____ for co-funding through the programme’s three components: LIFE+Nature and Biodiversity, LIFE+ Environment Policy and Governance and LIFE+ Information and Communication.

LIFE+ Nature & Biodiversity ____53____ improve the conservation status of endangered species and habitates. LIFE+ Environment Policy & Governance projects are pilot projects that ____54____ to the development of innovative policy ideas, technogies, methods and instruments. LIFE+ Information and Communication projedts disseminate (散布) information and rise the profile of environmental issues, and ____55____ training and awareness-raising for the prevention of forest fires.

Adolescents (青少年) mirror the communication they see in their home. Most parents ____56____ to model how to ask for what you want in a clear and ____57____ way. They make assumptions that ____58____ they say something, their meaning is clear and specify. My husband has a memory of his mother ____59____ cross with him because she told him to “put the thing in the thing on the thing.” He had no idea ____60____ she wanted him to do. She knew exactly what she wanted him to do. She knew exactly what she wanted but he would have needed to be a ____61____ reader to get the correct message-that she ____62____ wanted him to put the bread in the bread-bin ____63____ the counter top.

Anger and criticism are closely linked ____64____ behind both emotions are needs that are not being met. ____65____ how family relationships could change if parents made ____66____ of an effort to take responsibility for what they ask, and if they judged their success by the ____67____ of their children. What would happen if a parent who ____68____ tells a child to shop slouching (没精打采地坐), ____69____ , “You look great when you sit up straight?” I suspect the positive message would be heard, ____70____ you?

When parents are ____71____ about what they want and children hear their requests, ____72____ anger disapper? No, and we wouldn’t want to ____73____ anger because it is one of the basic human emotions. What we will ____74____ is a growing self-awareness that makes for connnection-and that is where transformation ____75____ and love is nurtured and grows. Isn’t that what all parents want for themselves and for their children?

British children have to go to school between the ages of 5 and 16. in England and Wales the subjects taught in schools are laid down by the National Curriculum (课程), which was introduced in 1988 and sets out in detail the subjects that children should study and the levels of achievement they should reach by the ages of 7, 11, 14, and 16, when they are tested. The National Curriculum does not apply in Scotland, where each school decides what subjects it will teach.

At 16, students in England and Wales take GCSE exminations. These examinations are taken by students of all levels of ability in any a range of subjects and may involve a final examination, an assessment of work done during the two-year course, or both of these things. At to have A-levels in order to go to a university or polytechnic(综合技术大学).

In scotland, students take the SCE examinations. A year later, they can take examinations called HIGHS, sfter which they can either go straight to a university or spend a further year at school and take the Certificate od Sicth Year Studies. In Scotland the university system is different from that in England and Wales.