1、公共英语五级-25 及答案解析(总分：110.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：1，分数：10.00)BDirections:/BThis section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are THREE parts in this section:
2、 Part A, Part B, and Part C.Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. NOT on the ANSWER SHEET. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you Will have 5 minutes to transfer your answers from your test booklet onto ANSWER SHEET 1.If
3、you have any questions, you may raise your hand NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started.Now look at Part A in your test booklet.BPart A/BYou will hear a passage. As you listen, answer Question 1 to 10 by circling BTitle/B or BFalse/B. You will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.B Y
4、ou now have 60 seconds to read Question 110./B（分数：10.00）(1).Mirror images is often different from the “felt images. “（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The “felt image“ is much more important because it helps you to be more confident.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).If you poke your tongue into a hole of your teeth, it feels
5、 very ring and slim.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).The “felt image“ lets you recognize your physical existence in the world.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).You can find your nose in the darkness because of your “felt image“.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Strokes may sometimes destroy all of the mirror image.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).I
6、f a man loses the ability to recognize his left side he will lose feeling on his both sides.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Stroke victims sometimes refuse to regard their injured sides as parts of their bodies because they are unwilling to admit their disabilities.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).A stroke victim can put
7、gloves on both his hands.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).The talk is mainly about the importance of “felt images“.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误二、BPart B/B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)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.B Questions 111
8、3 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 1113./B（分数：3.00）(1).The thesis of the passage is _ .（分数：1.00）A.nobody can be happier than those who have survived an air crashB.terrible news catches the attention of the audience more than ordinary newsC.in daily life ther
9、e are more good news than bad onesD.TV studios should offer more good news than bad ones(2).The authors attitude toward the letter senders is _ .（分数：1.00）A.in agreement with themB.satiricalC.fact seekingD.angry(3).Th fallacy the author makes in the passage is _ .（分数：1.00）A.to emphasize the negative
10、side of everythingB.to let the letter senders have it in their wayC.to call plain and ordinary things “good news“D.to give examples of “good news“ to counter make fun of the letter senderB Questions 1416 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 1416./B（分数：3.00）(1).T
11、he tramp was locked in the store _ .（分数：1.00）A.for his own mistakeB.due to a misunderstandingC.by accidentD.through an error of judgment(2).What action did the tramp take?（分数：1.00）A.He looted the store.B.He made himself at home.C.He went to sleep for 2 days.D.He had a Christmas party.(3).When the tr
12、amp was arrested, he _ .（分数：1.00）A.laughed at the policeB.looked forward to going to prisonC.took his bottles with himD.didnt make any fussB Questions 1720 are based on the following conversation. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 1720./B（分数：4.00）(1).According to the woman, why women are muc
13、h better at dealing with more than one thing at a time?（分数：1.00）A.She doesnt know the reason exactly.B.Because women are smarter than men.C.Because women have more things to deal with than men.D.Because men always refuse to deal with more than one thing at the same time.(2).Why are women much better
14、 at dealing with more than one thing at a time, but men are not as good?（分数：1.00）A.Because women have better abilities.B.Because men are not used to housework.C.Because men lack practice.D.Because men find it easy to concentrate on only one thing.(3).What do we know about the difference between men
15、and women in terms of personal relationships?（分数：1.00）A.It is easier to get along with women than with men.B.Women tend to reveal their feeling more easily.C.Personal relationships are more central to most mens lives.D.Its easier to establish personal relationships with women than with men.(4).Why d
16、oes the women refer to football?（分数：1.00）A.To illustrate mens interest.B.To illustrate that men usually do not touch upon anything important in talking about their work and interest.C.To prove men are mostly football fans.D.To show that men intentionally try to avoid talking about their true feeling
17、s.三、BPart C/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)You will hear a talk about American diet. As you listen, you must answer Questions 21-30 by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words in the space provided on the right. You will hear the talk TWICE.B You now have 60 seconds to read Questions 21-30./B（分数：10.00）(1).What is wrong w
18、ith the American diet?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).How much added sugar did each American consume in 1994?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).Name one or two foods that have been added too much sugar.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).When it comes to the sugar contained in the products, what do food labels only show?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).B
19、y doing what do the manufacturers try to conceal the exact amount of added sugar in their products?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).What does the largest single source of added sugar?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).What does the writer call the sodas the American teenagers consume?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).At most how much calori
20、es derived from added sugar is considered sound in the diet?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).Our body does not distinguish between added sugar and natural sugar in foods, does it?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).What kind of nutrition does added sugar contain?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Read the followin
21、g text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.For high-risk propositions yielding high returns, there is nothing to beat the handful companies marketing eternal life. U(31) /Uthe perceived rewards of being able to come hack to lifeU (32) /Us
22、ome point, the risks are huge: Who would want to chance a repeat of disco or Victorian mores, letU (33) /Umore meaningless millennium hype in 2999?There areU (34) /U, more immediate risks involved in the new business of cryonics, U(35) /Uis the deep freezing at death of human bodies for preservation
23、 and possible revival in future. The biggest problem is that, U(36) /Unow, it is impossible to freeze people and bring them back to life.On the other hand, if cryonicsU (37) /U, you were already dead anyway.U (38) /Uit comes from the same root, kryos, the Greek word for cold, cryonics is not to beU
24、(39) /Uwith the mainstream sciences of cryogenics or cryobiology. These involve freezing of metals or of simple organisms. Metals get strongerU (40) /Udeep freezing, while the freezing and thawing of cancerous tissues can be a good wayU (41) /Ukill it.U (42) /Ucryonics seeks to do the opposite. The
25、goal is to freeze a human head or an entire bodyU (43) /Uthe technology exists to do one of the following: graft a new bodyU (44) /Uthe head, clone a new personU (45) /Upreserved DNA, or heal a sick body that has been preserved. If this sounds like science fiction, U(46) /Uthe moment it is.Anyone wh
26、o hasU (47) /Uput beer in the freezer and then forgotten about it can grasp the problems facing cryonics enthusiasts today. Ice is less dense than water. U(48) /Uas beer left to freeze will eventually cause its container to burst, U(49) /Uthe ice that forms adds extra pressure, U(50) /Ufrozen cells
27、can risk being punctured when the liquid in them freezes.（分数：20.00）(1).（分数：1.00）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:_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:_五、BSection Readi(总题数：4，分数：25.00)Read the following texts answer the questions ac
28、company them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.BPart A/BBText 1/BOpinion polls are now beginning to show that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to make ways of sharing the available
29、employment more widely.But we need to further, We must ask some primary questions about the future of work. Would we continue to treat employment as the norm? Would we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can wor
30、k for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work?The industrial age has been the only period of human history during which most peoples work has taken the form of job
31、s. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could provide the prospect of a better future for work. University employment, as its history shows, has not meant eco
32、nomic freedom.Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and remov
33、ed work from peoples homes. Later, as transportation improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many peoples work lost all connection with their home lives and the place in which they lived.Meanwhile, employment put wom
34、en at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial time, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community, Now it became a custom for the husband to go out to be paid through employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations s
35、till assume this norm today and restrict more flexible sharing Of work roles between the sexes.It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excludeda problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and m
36、ore retired people want to live active lives.All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the idealist goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full time jobs.（分数：5.00）(1).Resear
37、ch carried out in the recent opinion polls shows that _ .（分数：1.00）A.available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the populationB.new jobs must be created in order to rectify high unemployment figuresC.available employment must be more widely distributed among the unemployedD.th
38、e nowaday high unemployment figures are a truth of life(2).The arrival of the industrial age in our historical evolution meant that _ .（分数：1.00）A.universal employment virtually guaranteed prosperityB.economic freedom came within everyones controlC.patterns of work were fundamentally changedD.peoples
39、 attitudes to work had to be reversed(3).The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries meant that _ .（分数：1.00）A.people were no longer legally entitled to own landB.people were driven to look elsewhere for means of supporting themselvesC.people were not adequately compensated for the loss of their la
40、ndD.people were badly paid for the work they managed to find(4).The effects of almost universal employment were overwhelming in that _ .（分数：1.00）A.the household and village community disappeared completelyB.men now travelled enormous distances to their places of workC.young and old people became sup
41、erfluous components of societyD.the work status of those not in paid employment suffered(5).The article concludes that _ .（分数：1.00）A.the creation of jobs for all is an impossibilityB.our efforts and resources in terms of tackling unemployment are insufficientC.people should begin supporting themselv
42、es by learning a practical skillD.we should help those whose jobs are only part-timeBText 2/BPaul Straussmann, retired vice president of Xerox, indicates in his book Iinformation Payoff/I that “almost half of the U. S. information workers are in executive, managerial, administrative and professional
43、 positions. “ He further states that “managers and professionals spend more than half of their time in communicating with each other. “In other words, people are a corporations most expensive resource. For a typical office, over 90 percent of the operating budget is for salaries, benefits and over h
44、ead. With this investment, is it any wonder that managers are focusing more and more attention on employee productivity? They realize that the paper jungle cannot be tamed simply by hiring more people. To receive a return on their investment, wise corporate executive officers are realizing what indu
45、strialists and agriculturists learned long agoefficient tools are essential for increased productivity.A direct relationship exists between efficient flow of information and the quality and speed of the output of the end product. For those companies using technology, the per document cost of informa
46、tion processing only a fraction of what it was a few years ago. The decreasing cost of computers and peripherals (equipment tied to the computer) will continue to make technology a cost-effective tool in the future. An example of this type of savings is illustrated in the case of the Western Divisio
47、n of General Telephone and Electronics Company (GTE). By making a onetime investment of 10 million to automate its facilities, management estimates an annual saving of （分数：5.00）(1).In the first paragraph, the author quotes Straussmanns words in order to make clear _ .（分数：1.00）A.the importance of communicative capa
