[外语类试卷]国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷10及答案与解析.doc

1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 10及答案与解析 Part A Directions: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer Questions 1-10 by circling TRUE or FALSE. You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE. You now have 1 minute to read Questions 1-10. 1 John was in a nursery school for one year. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 2 The work in the kind

2、ergarten includes story retelling, drawing, singing and studying. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 3 John went to Junior School at the age of five. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 4 Some children still have to take an exam called “eleven-plus“ nowadays. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 5 In Britain, secondary schools consist of gr

3、ammar schools, technical schools, comprehensive schools and academic schools. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 6 Most children go to a grammar school. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 7 Comprehensive schools can satisfy all levels of academic abilities. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 8 A private school was called a public school

4、in Britain. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 9 According to Martin, the riches have the priority choosing the best schools for their children. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 10 John thinks that if people give up some traditional ideas, every child will have a chance to go to college. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong Part B Direct

5、ions: You will hear 3 conversations or talks and you must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 11 What is the student interested in exactly? （ A） Japanese art. （ B） Chinese art. （ C） Influence of Chinese art on Japanese art. （ D） Interactions of Chine

6、se and Japanese arts. 12 How did Chinese art first come to Japan? （ A） Through Korean scholars. （ B） Through Japanese artists. （ C） Through Buddhist missionaries. （ D） Through Chinese artists. 13 When did Japanese art really take a form? （ A） In the 17th century. （ B） In the 9th century. （ C） In the

7、 10th century. （ D） In the 13th century. 14 What would a cooling trend in weather bring to the world? （ A） Floods along the sea coasts. （ B） A shortage of food and fuel. （ C） Unpredictable weather conditions. （ D） Disappointment to some climatologists. 15 What can be learned about the hypotheses of

8、climatologists? （ A） They are often quite accurate. （ B） They are not reliable. （ C） They are short-sighted. （ D） They generally fall into two categories. 16 What was characteristic of the “Little Ice Age“? （ A） Cold and damp climate. （ B） Change in geographic conditions. （ C） World-wide drought. （

9、D） Reduction of water resources. 17 When will overseas students enroll? （ A） 8th February. （ B） 16th February. （ C） 17th February. （ D） 18th February. 18 Where will the students go for their enrolment? （ A） In the Mathematics Faculty. （ B） In Room C6. （ C） In Room C859. （ D） On Level 9. 19 What must

10、 all students show at enrolment? （ A） A letter of acceptance from their faculty. （ B） Student cards. （ C） Their passports. （ D） Proof of level of English proficiency. 20 What cant the students do with their student cards? （ A） Borrow books from the library. （ B） Buy books on discounts at bookstores.

11、 （ C） Get medical care at the medical center. （ D） See films free of charge. Part C Directions: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer the questions or complete the notes in your test booklet for Questions 21-30 by writing NOT MORE THAN THREE words in the space provided on the right. You will h

12、ear the talk TWICE. You now have 1 minute to read Questions 21-30. 21 How many planets are there in the solar system revolving around the sun? 22 Which planet do people think is the most important one? 23 From which field of science do we learn a lot about the planets? 24 How long have astronomers s

13、tudied the planets and other objects in space? 25 What kind of new technology helped us a lot to study the planets? 26 Which planet is the closest planet to the sun? Mercury, Mars, Venus or Jupiter? 27 Mercury complete its orbit around the sun in only _. 28 How long does it take the Earth to rotate

14、on its own axis once? 29 Which planet is the easiest for people to see in the sky: Earth, Mercury, Venus or Jupiter? 30 Which is the largest one of all the planets? 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable wo

15、rd. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 31 Outwardly you may be on friendly terms with the people next door, but, if the truth (31) known, you would not think much of them. Their ways may be (32) enough, but they are not your ways. It is not hatred, far (33) envy; neither is it contempt exactly. O

16、nly you do not understand why they live as they (34). You (35) people by (36) social background. They were not brought up as you were not that they are to blame for that, but certain advantages that you had were (37) by them. Rude noises come from that house next door that you would not (38) from re

17、spectable people. Laughter late (39) night, when you want to sleep how coarse next door always (40), and what a (41) of songs! Why do they never try a new one? There (42) be new songs from time to time but you never hear them next door. Then there is that young woman who sings! What voices the peopl

18、e next door have. After a song is (43) it goes on next door. A popular song never dies. The people next door rescue it after it has been hounded off the street and warm it into (44) life. And so it goes. Everything they do shows just what sort of people they are. (45) at the things they hang out in

19、their garden. If your things looked like that you would at (46) keep them indoors. It is not that they are so old, but they were chosen with (47) monstrously bad (48) in the first place. What in the world do people want to (49) a house with things like that for? They must have cost enough, too, and

20、for that amount of money they could have bought but what is the (50) of talking? There are distinctions that you never can make people feel. Part A Directions: Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 51 Whe

21、n global warming finally came, it stuck with a vengeance. In some regions, temperatures rose several degrees in less than a century. Sea levels shot up nearly 400 feet, flooding coastal settlements and forcing people to migrate inland. Deserts spread throughout the world as vegetation shifted drasti

22、cally in North America, Europe and Asia. After driving many of the animals around them to near extinction, people were forced to abandon their old way of life for a radically new survival strategy that resulted in widespread starvation and disease. The adaptation was farming: the global-warming cris

23、is that gave rise to it happened more than 10,000 years ago. As environmentalists convene in Rio de Janeiro this week to ponder the global climate of the future, earth scientists are in the midst of a revolution in understanding how climate has changed in the past and how those changes have transfor

24、med human existence. Researchers have begun to piece together an illuminating picture of the powerful geological and astronomical forces that have combined to change the planets environment from hot to cold, wet to dry and back again over a time period stretching back hundreds of millions of years.

25、Most important, scientists are beginning to realize that the climatic changes have had a major impact on the evolution of the human species. New research now suggests that climate shifts have played a key role in nearly every significant turning point in human evolution: from the dawn of primates so

26、me 65 million years ago to human ancestors rising up to walk on two legs, from the huge expansion of the human brain to the rise of agriculture. Indeed, the human history has not been merely touched by global climate change, some scientists argue, it has in some instances been driven by it. The new

27、research has profound implications for the environmental summit in Rio. Among other things, the findings demonstrate that dramatic climate change is nothing new for planet Earth. The benign global environment that has existed over the past 10,000 years during which agriculture, writing, cities and m

28、ost other features of civilization appeared is a mere bright spot in a much larger pattern of widely varying climate over the ages. In fact, the pattern of climate change in the past reveals that Earths climate will almost certainly go through dramatic changes in the future even without the influenc

29、e of human activity, 51 Farming emerged as a survival strategy because man had been obliged _. （ A） to give up his former way of life （ B） to leave the coastal areas （ C） to follow the ever-shifting vegetation （ D） to abandon his original settlement 52 Earth scientists have come to understand that c

30、limate _. （ A） is going through a fundamental change （ B） has been getting warmer for 10,000 years （ C） will eventually change from hot to cold （ D） has gone through periodical changes 53 Scientists believe that human evolution _. （ A） has seldom been accompanied by climatic changes （ B） has exerted

31、 little influence on climatic changes （ C） has largely been effected by climatic changes （ D） has had a major impact on climatic changes 54 Evidence of past climatic changes indicates that _. （ A） human activities have accelerated charges of the Earths environment （ B） the Earths environment will re

32、main mild despite human interference （ C） the Earths climate is bound to change significantly in the future （ D） the Earths climate is unlikely to undergo substantial changes in the future 55 The message the author wishes to convey in the passage is that _. （ A） human civilization remains gorious th

33、ough it is affected by climatic changes （ B） mankind is virtually helpless in the face of the dramatic changes of climate （ C） man has to limit his activities to slow down the global warming process （ D） human civilization will continue to develop in spite of the changes of nature 56 Travel is at it

34、s best a solitary enterprise: to see, to examine, to assess, you have to be alone and unencumbered. Other people can mislead you; they crowd your meandering impressions with their own; if they are companionable they obstruct your view, and if they are boring they corrupt the silence with non-sequitu

35、rs, shattering your concentration with “Oh, look, its raining“ and “You see a lot of trees here“. Travelling on your own can be terribly lonely (and it is not understood by Japanese who, coming across you smiling wistfully at an acre of Mexican butter cups tend to say things like “Where is the rest

36、of your team?“), I think of evening in the hotel room in the strange city. My diary has been brought up to date; I hanker for company; what do I do? I dont know anyone here, so I go out and walk and discover the three streets of the town and rather envy the strolling couples and the people with chil

37、dren. The museums and churches are closed, and toward midnight the streets are empty. If I am mugged, I will have to apologize as politely as possible: “I am sorry, sir, but I have nothing valuable on my person“. Is there a surer way of enraging a thief and driving him to violence? It is hard to see

38、 clearly or to think straight in the company of other people. Not only do I feel self-conscious, but the perceptions that are necessary to writing are difficult to manage when someone close by is thinking out loud. I am diverted, but it is discovery, not diversion, that I seek. What is required is t

39、he lucidity of loneliness to capture that vision, which, however banal, seems in my private mood to be special and worthy of interest. There is something in feeling abject that quickens my mind and makes it intensely receptive to fugitive might also be verified and refined; and in any ease I had the

40、 satisfaction of finishing the business alone. Travel is not a vacation, and it is often the opposite of a rest. “Have a nice time“, people said to me at my send off at South Station, Medford. It was not precisely what I had hoped for. I craved a little risk, some danger, an untoward event, a vivid

41、discomfort, an experience of my own company, and in a modest way the romance of solitude. This I thought might be mine on that train to Limon. 56 Travelling companions are a disadvantage, according to the writer, because they _. （ A） give you the wrong impression about the journey （ B） distract you

42、from your reading （ C） intrude on your private observations （ D） prevent you from saying what you think 57 It has been assumed by Japanese that he _. （ A） belongs to a group of botanists （ B） is excessively odd to travel alone （ C） needs to be directed to his hotel （ D） has wandered away from his pa

43、rty 58 His main concern in the evenings was to _. （ A） take some physical exercise （ B） avoid being robbed in the street （ C） overcome his loneliness （ D） explore the sights of the city 59 The writer regards his friends farewell to him as _. （ A） inappropriate （ B） unsympathetic （ C） tactless （ D） c

44、ynical 60 We gather from the passage that his main purpose in travelling was to _. （ A） test his endurance （ B） prove his self-sufficiency （ C） experience adventure （ D） respond to new experiences 61 War may be a natural expression of biological instincts and drives toward aggression in the human sp

45、ecies. Natural impulses of anger, hostility, and territoriality are expressed through acts of violence. These are all qualities that humans share with animals. Aggression is a kind of innate survival mechanism, an instinct for self-preservation, that allows animals to defend themselves from threats

46、to their existence. But, on the other hand, human violence shows evidence of being a learned behavior. In the case of human aggression, violence cannot be simply reduced to an instinct. The many expressions of human violence are always conditioned by social conventions that give shape to aggressive

47、behavior. In human societies violence has a social function: It is a strategy for creating or destroying forms of social order. Religious traditions have taken a leading role in directing the powers of violence. We will look at the ritual and ethical patterns within which human violence has been dir

48、ected. The violence within a society is controlled through institutions of law. The more developed a legal system becomes, the more society takes responsibility for the discovery, control, and punishment of violent acts. In most tribal societies the only means to deal with an act of violence is reve

49、nge. Each family group may have the responsibility for personally carrying out judgment and punishment upon the person who committed the offense. But in legal systems, the responsibility for revenge becomes depersonalized and diffused. The society assumes the responsibility for protecting individuals from violence. In cases where they cannot be protected, the society is responsible for imposing punishment. In a state controlled legal system, individuals are removed from the cycle of revenge motivated by acts of vi