Key to Model Test Three
Part I Writing
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A Self-guided Tour Is Preferred for Me
①With the ceaseless increase of income and leisure time, travelling
has become the mainstream for people to relax themselves. ②However,
disagreements are when it comes to the choice of travelling modes. Some
people, especially the young tend to go on a self-guided tour, while others,
especially the old, prefer a package tour. ③From my own perspective, I
am in favor of a self-guided tour.
④In the first place, compared with the package tour which requires
the tourists to follow exactly the travel agency’s schedule, the self-guided
tour allows us to make our own itinerary. ⑤In the second place, while
we can only stay a very short time in each attraction following the
relatively tight package tour, it’s wiser to enjoy every landscape carefully
by joining a self-guided tour. ⑥Last but not least, forcing consumers to
purchase some commodities is commonplace in a package tour; by
contrast, if we are in a self-guided tour, certainly we don’t have to worry
about that problem.
⑦ To sum up, given the factors that I have just outlined above, I
prefer to travel on my own, which is more convenient and unconstrained.
①开门见山点明写作背景，旅游成为人们主
要的放松方式。
②引出主题——关于旅行方式的选择存在
争议，有人喜欢跟团游，有人喜欢自助游。
③表明自己的观点：喜欢自助游。
④ ⑤ ⑥ 用 In the first place, In the second
place, Last but not least 三个表示序 列 的 短
语，具体分析了选择自助游的三点原因。
⑦用 To sum up 总结上文，再次概括自己喜
欢自助游的原因——方便，自由。
加分亮点
mainstream（思想或行为的）主流；主要倾
向，主要趋势
relax 放松
itinerary 旅程，路线；旅行日程
commonplace 司空见惯的；常见的
outline 概述；略述
unconstrained 不受拘束的，不受强制的
Part II Listening Comprehension
Section A
News Report One
Houston has received over 120 centimeters of rain in just a few days. Many Houston neighborhoods are flooded.
(1)Many people decided to wait out Hurricane Harvey when it first hit southeast Texas on Friday. But after so much rain,
they found the water had entered their homes and they needed to leave. That is what happened on Monday to J.C. Spencer
and his wife Karen, who live in north Houston. With local police and fire department crews overwhelmed with life-saving
efforts, some Houston residents had trouble getting help. The Los Angeles Times newspaper reported that some Houston
residents calling 911 found out their call would not be answered for over two hours. So many residents turned to social
media websites and posted messages asking for help.(20)The Spencers had another idea. They called a restaurant where
they had dinner. When the Spencers explained their problem, the store’s manager sent her husband to their house on a boat.
The Spencers got on the boat and were taken to a safe place.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
1. What did people want to do when Hurricane Harvey first hit southeast Texas? A)
2. Whom did the Spencers turn to for help? D)
News Report Two
On one recent morning in the American state of Utah, 2-year-old twin boys Bowdy and Brock were playing in their
bedroom. The boys were climbing on a piece of furniture called a dresser.(4)They were trying to get into some empty
drawers and climb to the top of the dresser. But as they both tried to climb up, the large dresser fell down on top of them.
The accident was recorded on a camera the boys’ parents put in the bedroom. Some parents use these kinds of cameras to
watch their children playing in another room. One of the young boys, Bowdy, managed to escape from under the dresser.
