1、公共英语四级-3 及答案解析(总分：88.01，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、BPart A/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)BInformation about Booking a Flight /Ba business trip to 1.date of today 2.rate available for a round trip 3.planned return date 4.the travelers way of payment 5.（分数：5.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、
2、BPart B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)（分数：5.00）(1).What was Charles Darwins father?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).How many years did Charles Darwin attend Samuel Butlers private school?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).How old was Charles Darwin when he knew the names of all the animals around his homeland?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).What did Ch
3、arles Darwin study first in University of Edinburgh?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).When did Charles Darwin started his journey on board the Beagle?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BPart C/B(总题数：3，分数：9.00)（分数：4.00）(1).Which of the following does not contribute to Torontos healthy economy? A. A large local market. B. Tremendou
4、s opportunities for manufacturing and development. C. The diversified industrial base. D. Abundant capital.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The industries in the Toronto metropolitan area includes A. computer industries B. information related enterprises C. arts and culture industries D. travel service（分数：1.00）
5、A.B.C.D.(3).Many films for cinema and television are financed by A. Chicago companies B. New York companies C. United States companies D. Seattle companies（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).According to this monologue, which of the following is one of the fastest growing industries in Toronto? A. The Tornoto Stoc
6、k Exchange. B. The film industry. C. The Eaton Center. D. Port related industry.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：2.01）(1).How many people applied but didnt run the race? A. 16,000. B. 10,000. C. 67,000. D. 54,000.（分数：0.67）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is NOT true? A. Most competitors did not finish the rac
7、e within two hours. B. Most competitors were interested in the race. C. Most competitors were trying to run as fast as they could. D. Most competitors wanted to know if they could run 26 miles. （分数：0.67）A.B.C.D.(3).Where did one of the runners fall down? A. 50 meters from the end. B. 15 meters from
8、the end. C. 10 meters from the end. D. 5 meters from the end.（分数：0.67）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).Why did the woman open the door when someone knocked at it? A.Because she knew the two men. B.Because she thought it was her husband. C.Because she was waiting for them. D.Because she was afraid of them.（分数：1.
9、00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is NOT among the things taken by the robbers? A.A camera. B.A wallet with $200 in it. C.A watch. D.Some jewelry.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Why didnt the woman report soon after the robbers ran off? A.Because she fainted. B.Because she was too scared. C.Because her hus
10、band didnt allow her to. D.Because she was bound and gagged.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Industry has great influence on every aspect of the people in the world. The industrial societies have been extremely productive during the last two centuries. The economic advance has beenU
11、U 1 /U /U. People have noticed that during thisU U 2 /U /Ushort period of time, greater changes in peoplesU U 3 /U /Uhave occurred than in the thousands of years whichU U 4 /U /U.From about 8000 B. C. ,when the agriculturalU U 5 /U /Uof the human race began in 1776 A. D. , the beginning of the Ameri
12、can Revolution, peopleU U 6 /U /Uhardly any richer at all. The Americans of 1776 used the same energyU U 7 /U /Uas the Romans of I A. D. Both the ancient Romans and Americans of 200 years ago could travel about the same shortU U 8 /U /Uin a day. Both had about the same an num income and the same lif
13、eU U 9 /U /U.During the past 200 years the world population has increased 6 times, the annual worldU U 10 /U /Uhas increase 80 times, and the distance a person can travel hasU U 11 /U /Uup 1,000 times. There has al so been much recent progressU U 12 /U /Uart, culture, learning land science. Such cha
14、nges haveU U 13 /U /Uto a high rate of production andU U 14 /U /Uof the economy.Within the next 100 to 150 years, the earths resources, economistsU U 15 /U /U,will become veryU U 16 /U /U. Their fears are partlyU U 17 /U /U, but we Should not be afraid. Industrial civilizationU U 18 /U /Uto new know
15、ledge, we not onlyU U 19 /U /Unew forms of resources, but we also find ways toU U 20 /U /Utheir use. Advances modem knowledge can feed the hungry people of the world and improve their standard of living.（分数：20.00）(1). A. particular B. unique C. remarkable D. excessive（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. conside
16、rably B. relatively C. approximately D. normally（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. arrangements B. orders C. conceptions D. conditions（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. preceded B. exceeded C. led D. introduced（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. time B. era C. epoch D. century（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(6). A. evolved B. developed C. tamed
17、 D. grew（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(7). A. origins B. stores C. potentials D. sources（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(8). A. distance B. trip C. journey D. length（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(9). A. year B. period C. span D. spell（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(10). A. harvest B. output C. production D. outcome（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(11). A. amounted B. g
18、one C. built D. grown（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(12). A. in B. on C. about D. at（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(13). A. reduced B. brought C. led D. tamed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(14).A. influence B. independenceC. impact D. growth（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(15). A. fear B. suggest C. organize D. calculate（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(16). A. scare B.
19、rare C. inferior D. little（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(17). A. unreasonable B. excused C. convinced D. justified（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(18). A. applies B. refers C. adapts D. adopts（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(19). A. realizes B. creates C. substitutes D. carries（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(20). A. expand B. transform C. economize D. pro
20、pagate（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.六、BSection Readi(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、BPart A/B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)八、BPassage 1/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)In the 1920s demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted austerity (紧缩) programs to reduce their imports. The result was a s
21、harp drop in farm prices. This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, because farmers were no longer self-sufficient. They were paying for machinery, seed, and fertilizer, and they were also buying consumer goods. The prices of the items farmers bought remained constant,
22、 while prices they received for their products fell. These developments were made worse by the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and extended throughout the 1939s.In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Board was organized. It established the principle of direct interference wi
23、th supply and demand, and it represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stability for farmers. President Hoovers successor attached even more importance to this problem. One of the first measures proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took office in 1933 was t
24、he Agricultural Adjustment Act, which was subsequently passed by Congress. This law gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to reduce production through voluntary agreements with farmers who were paid to take their land out of use. A deliberate scarcity of farm products was planned in an effort
25、to raise prices. This law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on the grounds that general taxes were being collected to pay one special group of people. However, new laws were passed immediately that achieved the same result of resting soil and providing flood-control measures, but wh
26、ich were based on the principle of soil conservation. The Roosevelt Administration believed that rebuilding the nations soil was in the national interest and was not simply a plan to help farmers at the expense of other citizens. Later the government guaranteed loans to farmers so that they could bu
27、y farm machinery, hybrid (杂交) grain, and fertilizers.（分数：5.00）(1).What brought about the decline in the demand for American farm products? A. The impact of the Great Depression. B. The shrinking of overseas markets. C. The destruction caused by WWI. D. The increased exports of European countries.（分数
28、：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The chief concern of the American government in the area of agriculture in the 1920s was A. to increase farm production. B. to establish agricultural laws. C. to prevent farmers from going bankrupt. D. to promote the mechanization of agriculture.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The Agricultura
29、l Adjustment Act encouraged American farmers to A. reduce their scale of production. B. make full use of their land. C. adjust the prices of their farm products. D. be self-sufficient in agricultural production.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The Supreme Court rejected the Agricultural Adjustment Act because i
30、t believed that the Act A. might cause greater scarcity of farm products. B. didnt give the Secretary of Agriculture enough power. C. would benefit neither the government nor the farmers. D. benefited one group of citizens at the expense of others.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).It was claimed that the new law
31、s passed during the Roosevelt Administration were aimed at A. reducing the cost of farming. B. conserving soil in the long-term interest of the nation. C. lowering the burden of farmers. D. helping farmers without shifting the burden onto other taxpayers.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、BPassage 2/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00
32、)Signs of deafness bad given him great anxiety as early as 1778. For a long time he successfully concealed it from all but his mast intimate friends. The touching document addressed to his brothers in 1802, and known as his “Will“ should be read in its entirety. He reproached men for their injustice
33、 in thinking and calling him pugnacious, stubborn, and misanthropical when they did not know that for six years he had suffered from an incurable condition aggravated by incompetent doctors. He dwelled upon his delight in human society from which he had had so early to isolate himself, but the thoug
34、ht of which now filled him with dread as it made 14ira realize his loss, not in music but in all finer interchange of ideas. He requested that after his death his present doctor shall be asked to describe his illness and to Uappend/U it to his document in order that at least then the world might be
35、as far as possible reconciled with him. He left his brothers property, such as it was, if more conventional than the rest of the document.During the last twelve years of his life, his nephew was the cause of most of his anxiety and distress. His brother, Kaspar Karl died in 1815, leaving a widow and
36、 a son The boy turned out utterly unworthy of his uncles persistent devotion and gave him every cause for anxiety. He failed in all his examinations, including an attempt to learn some trade in the polytechnic school, whereupon he fell into the hands of the police for at- tempting suicide, and after
37、 being expelled from Vienna, joined the army. Beethovens utterly simple nature could neither educate nor understand a human being who was not possessed by the wish to do his best. His nature was passionately affectionate, and he has suffered all his life from the want of a natural outlet for it. He
38、had often been deeply in love and made no secret of it; there was no one that was not honorable and respected by society as showing the truthfulness and self-control of a great man. Beethovens orthodoxy in such matters has provoked the smiles of Philistines, especially when it showed itself in his o
39、bjections to Mozart, Don Giovanni and the grounds for selecting the subject of Fidelio for his own opera. The last thing that Philistines will never understand is that Ugenius is far too independent of convention to abuse it/U; and Beethovens life, with all its mistakes, its grotesqueness, and its p
40、athos, is as far beyond the shafts of Philistine wit as his art.（分数：5.00）(1).The sentence “genius is far too independent of convention to abuse it“ implies that _. A. an artist does not understand conventional morality B.Philistines expect geniuses to be morally conventional C. Beethoven lived withi
41、n a conventional moral code D. Don Giovanni abuses conventional standards（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Beethovens contemporaries thought that he was _. A. an isolationist B. inspired C. wealthy D. a good brother-in-law（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Beethoven was distressed by his nephews _ A. extravagance B. unwilling
42、ness to do his best C. joining the army D. failure to enter polytechnic school（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).According to the passage, what was the loss to Beethoven when he was deaf? A. His talent in music. B. His best friends. C. His delight in music. D. His talking with friends.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The wor
43、d “append“ in Paragraph I means _. A. to supply B. to offer C. to add to D. to imply（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、BPassage 3/B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Fireworks are a big part of Fourth of July celebrations in the United States, as hundreds of thousands of Americans enjoyed public pyrotechnic displays across the country
44、 Sunday night to celebrate the U.S. birthday. The holiday throws the spotlight on another annual campaign ,an effort to completely ban consumer fireworks in the United States.As Americans around the country watched July Fourth fireworks celebrations, debate has been simmering about whether individua
45、ls should be allowed to buy fireworks to celebrate privately. Seven U.S. states prohibit sales of all consumer fireworks. A coalition of groups, led by James Shannon, president of the non-profit fire safety group, the National Fire Protection Association, says that ban should be extended to include
46、the entire United States. “Those fireworks axe inherently dangerous products,“ he said. “There might be another problem with some of them being designed defectively, so that they are particularly dangerous. But even when theyre designed to do what theyre supposed to do and do it, they can be very, very dangerous products. “Other members of the coalition include the International Fire Chiefs Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, which has focused on the dangers fireworks pose to children.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent federal reg
