三月份公共英语三级考试阅读理解真题

　　35. We learn from the text that_______

　　A. the research findings need to be tested further

　　B. biologists are doing similar research on other animals

　　C. the animal world usually follows the same universal laws

　　D. biologists are applying their findings to other areas

　　Part B

　　Directions:

　　Read the texts from a magazine article in which five people talk about tipping in a restaurant. For questions 36-40, match the name of each person to one of the statements (A- G) given below.

　　Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

　　Richard:

　　I've always viewed tipping as a way of saying "thank you" to the one who serves me. I believe what is bad is when no tip is left at all. The better the service, the higher the tip. Unless the service is literally perfect, I never tip more than 10% of the bill. Much like the harder teachers in school, I never give an easy “A.”My assessment is honest.

　　Daniel:

　　A tip is a "thank you," but in truth, a tip is payment for service. 20% is a standard tip. Servers deserve it for their hard work. Restaurants will never pay more for labor unless they are forced to do so by new laws. Tips make up about 97% of a server's total income. Those tips are needed for survival. So, before servers are paid a living wage, tip 20%.

　　Kate:

　　Why should I pay the difference between what the restaurant is willing to pay the employee and what an acceptable wage is? I do pay 20%, but I hate it. A friend of mine left Europe for New York City, found a job in a restaurant there and ended up making $5,500 a month. Enough above mini- mum wage? How about miners, construction workers, resident doctors, etc? Do they get tipped?

　　Patricia:

　　18 -20% for good service is today's standard. The restaurant and its employees arc too polite to tell you this or to put it on their menus, but that is their expectation and you need to understand that. I believe it is good manners to respect this. To do otherwise is to be openly rude. If you disagree, you arc wise to cat elsewhere, as you are hurting a hardworking professional.

　　Michael:

　　Tipping has gotten out of control. I always had thought it was 15%, and now suddenly servers have made it 20%. I tip 15%, and that's it. If the service is really superior, then I work higher from there. Interesting to be told ,“If you can't afford to tip 20%, then you should cat at home.” If all those people stayed away, the restaurant would not even be in business.

　　Now match the name of each person (36 - 40) to the appropriate statement.

　　Note: there are two extra statements.

　　Statements

　　36.Richard

　　37. Daniel38. Kate

　　39. Patricia

　　40. Michael

　　A. It's rude not to tip.

　　B. I do tip, though I don't like it.

　　C. Tipping shouldn't be compulsory.

　　D. Tips are essential to servers' survival.

　　E. If you don't tip, you are punishing the server.

　　F. I think the current tipping standard is too high.

　　G. My tip faithfully reflects how good the service is.

　　Part C

　　Directions:

　　Read the following text from which five sentences have been removed. Choose from the sentences A-G the most suitable one to fill each numbered gap in the text (41-45). There are TWO extra sentences that you do not need to use. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

　　In 2009, the number of hungry people in the world reached one billion for the first time. It's difficult not to be shocked by the fact that more than one in seven people in the world do not have enough to eat.41Hunger kills more people per year than diseases such as AIDS, malaria and TB combined.

　　The UN estimates that almost two thirds of the world's hungry people are in Asia, which is of course the world' s most populous continent.42 Although this region has a much lower population than Asia, it has the highest percentage of hungry people. Almost all of the rest are in Latin America, North Africa and the Caribbean, In the richest regions of the world there are only a tiny number of people who don' t have enough to eat.

　　There are many reasons for world hunger. They include wars, droughts, floods, and the over- use of fanning land.43Many people also blame greedy businessmen for pushing up the prices of basic foods in the global market. But the most important reason, quite simply, is poverty, which has increased recently due to the financial crisis of 2008.

　　Although many people make the obvious point that there would be less hunger if the global population were smaller, few people would argue that there is not enough food to go around. 44 In the last 50 years, global food production has risen even more quickly than the global population. There are many areas of the world in which people generally have more than enough food.45The answer to world hunger, therefore, may be a balanced food distribution around the whole world. Everyone will have enough to eat, but not overeat.

　　A. The basic problem seems to be not a lack of food, but its distribution.

　　B. More than a quarter are in sub-Saharan Africa.

　　C. All these factors affect food production.

　　D. It takes the effort of every country to fight against world hunger.

　　E. In those places, obesity is a far bigger problem than hunger.

　　F. Those places need far more food than they actually get.

　　G. By the end of this year, more than 35 million people will have died as a result of not having enough to eat.

　　参考答案

　　26.A 27.B 　28.D　　29.A　　30.C

　　31.D　　32.A　　33.B　　34.C　　35.A

　　36.G　　37.D　　38.B　　39.A　　40.F

　　41.G　　42.B　　43.C　　44.A　　45.E