1、公共英语五级-(暂无语音，提供参考)6 及答案解析(总分：104.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Our Greatest PossessionMan is called in Greek the Zoon phonanta which means the(1) _. What (1) _makes humanity different from the rest of the animal world is its capacity for(2) _ (2) _a syst
2、em of sound signals. Human beings tend to use speech not for conveying messagesor expressing feelings but merely for establishing and sustaining(3) _ (3) _The(4) _of language is essentially a part of the modernization of language. (4) _Modern English is grammatically much simpler than its ancestor A
3、nglo-Saxon, and Italianand Spanish are much simpler than their mother(5) _ (5) _All of us say things we never said before, and without much(6) _effort; we (6) _are always inventing new things to say. That is file great human talent, which is based ona very simple peculiarity of the human brain-its c
4、apacity to think in(7) _. Man (7) _is able to separate specific sounds and oppose one to another.Although we are quite(8) _of the origins of human language, we know that (8) _when language first appeared, it was already fully(9) _. The system of symbols (9) _of the outside world was the(10) _to the
5、creation of inside worlds. Language is (10) _our greatest possession.Please move on to Section B Interview.（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、SECTION B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).According to Ellen, the increasing demand for hiring is due toA good economic envir
6、onment. B good majors in colleges.C the new policy on economy. D expansion of some large corporations.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?A Accounting, and finance graduates are easier to feud a job.B Srarting salary for engineering students are higher now.C Competiti
7、on among employers remains as fierce as before.D Employers plan to hire more grads this year than last year.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Why does Ellen suggest that students should not rely on the Internet?A Because it will reduce the chance Of getting a job.B Because it is full of fraud.C Because it will b
8、ecome the graduates only strategy.D Because it is a waste of time.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following is NOT Ellens advice to graduates?A Asking general questions about companies and requirements.B Being confident to take charge.C Getting familiar with the company before you go in there.D Be
9、ing aware of your interviewing skills.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).In Ellens opinion, electronic footprint canA help develop the graduates confidence.B bring a positive effect to job hunters.C get the graduates off the coach.D be tracked by prospective employers.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：3，分数：8.00)In
10、 this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.（分数：5.00）(1).How much is Guangdong Province going to invest to enlarge its drug abuse treatment center?A) 13 million US
11、 dollars. B) 12 million US dollars.C) 11 million US dollars. D) 10 million US dollars.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Who became Sir Edward?A) Edward Heath. B) John Thatcher. C) Edward Johnson. D) John Smith.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).How were an Italian soldier killed and two others injured?A) The injuries took pla
12、ce when their military jeep crashed Thursday near Nasiriyah.B) The injuries took place when their military jeep exploded Thursday near Nasiriyah.C) The injuries took place when their military jeep was attacked Thursday near Nasiriyah.D) The injuries took place when their military jeep turned upside
13、down Thursday near Nasiriyah.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which institute has brought its first charges against Saddam Hussein?A) The Iraqi government. B) The Iraqi state council.C) The Iraqi Special Tribunal. D) The U.S. military court.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).In which year was Saddams convoy attacked when he
14、travelled through the town of Dujayl?A) 1980. B) 1983.C) 1984. D) 1982.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.1.What is President Bushs proposal to help the sub-prime mortgage holders?A. Granting loans from the Central Bank.B. Waiving mortgage holders debts.C. Modernizing the Federal Housing Administration.D. Restructuri
15、ng companies that offer sub-prime loans.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：2.00）(1).Which of the following is CORRECT?A. Health authorities claimed the new swine flu already became fully pandemic.B. Personal hygiene is effective and essential to defend against swine flu.C. Both Hong Kong and Australia have confir
16、med cases of swine flu.D. The Japanese government has already stepped up surveillance at borders.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Personal hygiene enhancers include the following EXCEPT_.A. washing hands with soap and water B. using alcohol-based hand cleanersC. wearing masks whenever possible D. washing hands
17、regularly（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：4.00)She broke off with a little shudder. It was a relief to Framton Nuttel when the aunt bustled into the room with a whirl of apologies for being late in making her appearance.“I hope Vera has been amusing you?“ she sai
18、d.“She has been very interesting,“ said Framton.“I hope you dont mind the open window,“ said Mrs. Sappleton briskly. “My husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way. Theyve been out for snipe in the marshes today, so theyll make a fine mess over my poor
19、 carpets. So like you menfolk, isnt it?“She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. To Framton it was all purely horrible. He made a desperate but only partially successful effort to turn the talk on to a less ghastly topic; he wa
20、s conscious that his hostess was giving him only a fragment of her attention, and her eyes were constantly straying past him to the open window and the lawn beyond. It was certainly an unfortunate coincidence that he should have paid his visit on this tragic anniversary.“The doctors agree in orderin
21、g me complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in the nature of violent physical exercise,“ announced Framton, who laboured under the tolerably widespread delusion that total strangers and chance acquaintances are hungry for the least detail of ones infirmities, their
22、 cause and cure. “On the matter of diet they are not so much in agreement,“ he continued.“No?“ said Mrs. Sappleton, in a voice which only replaced a yawn at the last moment. Then she suddenly brightened into alert attention-but not to what Framton was saying.“Here they are at last!“ she cried. “Just
23、 in time for tea, and dont they look as if they were muddy up to the eyes!“Framton shivered slightly and turned towards the niece with a look intended to convey sympathetic comprehension. The child was staring out through the open window with a dazed horror in her eyes. In a chill shock of nameless
24、fear Framton swung round in his seat and looked in the same direction.In the deepening twilight three figures were walking across the lawn towards the window, they all carried guns under their arms, and one of them was additionally burdened with a white coat hung over his shoulders. A tired brown sp
25、aniel kept close at their heels. Noiselessly they neared the house, and then a hoarse young voice chanted out of the dusk: “I said, Bertie, why do you bound?“Framton grabbed wildly at his stick and hat; the hall door, the gravel drive, and the from gate were dimly noted stages in his headlong retrea
26、t. A cyclist coming along the road had to run into the hedge to avoid imminent collision.“Here we are, my dear,“ said the bearer of the white mackintosh, coming in through the window, “fairly muddy, but most of its dry. Who was that who bolted out as we came up?“A most extraordinary man, a Mr. Nutte
27、l,“ said Mrs. Sappleton, “could only talk about his illnesses, and dashed off without a word of goodbye or apology when you arrived. One would think he had seen a ghost.“I expect it was the spaniel,“ said the niece calmly. “He told me he had a horror of dogs. He was once hunted into a cemetery somew
28、here on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly dug grave with the creatures snarling and grinning and foaming just above him. Enough to make anyone lose their nerve.“Romance at short notice was her speciality.（分数：4.00）(1).It can be inferred from the p
29、assage that Mrs. Sappleton was all EXCEPTA courteous. B extroverted.C talkative. D deceitful.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which adjective can best describe Framtons feeling when talking with Mrs. Sappleton?A Apprehensive. B Churlish.C Glum. D Respectful.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The word “infirmities“ in the six
30、th paragraph probably meansA personalities. B behaviors. C ailments. D accomplices.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Framton dashed off without a word of goodbye or apology becauseA he could not bear Mrs. Sappletons chattering.B he suffered from a severe mental illness.C he was afraid of the brown spaniel.D he w
31、as horrified by the three men.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Children in the UK are not reading enough at home, favouring television and computer games instead, according to new research.The survey conducted earlier this month by Nestl Box Tops for Books, which asked parents about their chi
32、ldrens reading habits, found that half of UK children spend less than two hours reading per week. A further one in 10 had not read a book in the past month, and of those who do read regularly, one in four avoid non- fiction titles. More than half of the parents surveyed believed their children shoul
33、d read more non-fiction books.“It is essential that young children read at least one book a week and, in particular, educational books,“ said family counsellor Jenni Trent Hughes.But others believe such a stern approach to reading may not help children. “We can turn children off it by simply saying
34、its something they must be doing,“ said Amelia Foster, who runs Reading Connects for the National Literacy Trust, an organisation that encourages reading for pleasure to enhance classroom achievement.Ms Foster said the survey results might not give children enough credit. Previous studies have found
35、 that 75% of 11 to 18-year-olds enjoyed reading, and 83% read in their spare time.Past reading surveys have found distinct differences in the reading habits of boys and girls. Girls tend to be more enthusiastic about reading in general, but particularly fiction (perhaps helping to explain why Jacque
36、line Wilson, author of Sleepovers and Bad Girls, is the most borrowed author from public libraries), while boys are drawn to books about a place, subject, or hobby that interests them.Nicola Davies, author of Poo: A Natural History of the Unmentionable, said while working with underachieving boys sh
37、e found they responded to non-fiction better than fiction. “You can get them to write poetry but they wont read it,“ she said.Ms Davies would like to see childrens non-fiction take off in the way adult non-fiction has in recent years, thanks largely to titles like Longitude that employ strong narrat
38、ives. This may encourage boys to read more, she said.“Theres a lot of really crap non-fiction out there. Its absolute paint by numbers, pile them high, and sell them cheap. But its not really addressing the issue. Non-fiction as it is cutting off a whole route into reading, especially for boys,“ add
39、ed Ms Davies.But the consequences of these trends may run deeper. Some worry that steering clear of non-fiction may effect the development of a childs imagination, even going so far as to impact their future career choices.Nicola Jones credits her choice of studying zoology at university to her chil
40、dhood Encyclopedia Britannica. “There was this fantastic bit in the back on transparencies of human bodies, and it absolutely fired my imagination about the workings of the human body. Childrens imagination needs all sorts of fuel. And thats whats going to drive them, give them intrinsic motivation.
41、 Its what makes your intellectual cars go.“ For this reason Ms Jones is planning a conference next year that will address how non-fiction can be transformed into something more children will want to read.（分数：5.00）(1).Which of the following belongs to non-fiction?A. Encyclopedia. B. Novel. C. Poetry.
42、 D. Short story.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Whats the difference between girls and boys in their reading habits?A. Girls read extensively while boys focus on books of particular topics.B. Girls have better reading habits than boys.C. Girls are reading for enriching knowledge while boys are reading for fun.
43、D. Girls are more interested in fiction than boys.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What does Ms. Davies mean by saying “Non-fiction as it is cutting off a whole route into reading, especially for boys.“?A. Young people, especially boys cant easily get access to good books of non-fiction.B. A lot of good non-fic
44、tion books are coming out into the market.C. Such kind of non-fiction are eroding into the reading habits of young people especially boys.D. Non-fiction books have been isolated from our reading experience.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Whats the aim of Nicola Jones by quoting her personal experience in the l
45、ast paragraph?A. She emphasized the importance of imagination for children.B. She wants to prove that reading Encyclopedia is important for children.C. She wants to tell people how to stimulate childrens motivation.D. She proves that non-fiction can also fire the imagination of children.（分数：1.00）A.B
46、C.D.(5).Which of the following statements is true according to this passage?A. Most of the parents under survey think children should read more non-fiction than fiction.B. National Literacy Trust encourages children to treat. reading as a labor of love.C. The status-quo of books of non-fiction in t
47、he market is satisfying.D. Non-fiction contributes more than fiction to the development of childrens intellect.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The discovery of the Antarctic not only proved one of the most interesting of all geographical adventures, but created what might be called “the hero
48、ic age of Antarctic exploration“. By their tremendous heroism, men such as Shekleton, Scott, and Amundsen caused a new continent to emerge from the shadows, and yet that heroic age, little more than a century old, is already passing. Modern science and inventions are revolutionizing the techniques of former explorers, and, although still calling for courage and feats of endurance, future journeys into these icy wastes will probably depend on motor vehicles equipped with caterpillar traction rather than on
