1、公共英语五级-46 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Listening (总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer Questions 1 to 5 by writing T (for True) or F (for False). You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE. （分数：5.00）(1).During the meal, the guest can leave a spoon in a soup
2、bowl or coffee cup.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The guest is supposed to use the side of his spoon inside out.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).Americans sometimes press food on the guest.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).After the meal, the guest should fold his napkin in the original folds.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).The talk implies tab
3、le manners are more or less similar in spite of different cultures.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：2，分数：6.00)Questions 1 3 are based on the following passage, listen and choose the best answer. （分数：3.00）(1).Where will televised lessons be given?（分数：1.00）A.In the classroom.B.The student“s home.C.In a c
4、entral building with some master studies.D.At the teacher“s home.(2).What will happen to the teacher“s desk?（分数：1.00）A.It will disappear.B.There will be electronic equipment on it.C.It will become a studio.D.It will be replaced by a computer.(3).How will the students talk with the teacher?（分数：1.00）A
5、.On individual intercom.B.On the telephone.C.Over the mike.D.In class.Questions 4 6 are based on the following passage, listen and choose the best answer. （分数：3.00）(1).How long did Nancy sleep a night?（分数：1.00）A.Six to seven hours.B.Five to six hours.C.Three to four hours.D.Two to three hours.(2).Wh
6、at did Nancy do in order to get to sleep?（分数：1.00）A.She listened to the radio in bed.B.She drank a glass of wine.C.She deliberately reduced time in bed.D.She stopped taking pills.(3).Who developed the nine-step treatment to help insommiacs cure themselves?（分数：1.00）A.The Johns Hopkins“ Sleep Disorder
7、s Center.B.Richard Allen.C.Arthur Allen.D.The Sleep Disorders Center of the City College of New York.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)You will hear a conversation. As you listen, you must answer Questions 1 5 by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words. （分数：5.00）(1).When does the man listen to the radio?（分数：1.00）_(2)
8、.What kind of programs does the man like?（分数：1.00）_(3).In what aspect should the new directors be careful when they set up the station?（分数：1.00）_(4).How often does the man think adverts should occur?（分数：1.00）_(5).How long should adverts last each time?（分数：1.00）_五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：30.00)Us
9、ing a public telephone may well be one of the minor irritations of life, demanding patience, determination and a strong possibility of failure together on occasion with considerable unpopularity. The hopeful 1 (shall we call him George?) waits till six o“clock in the evening to take 2 of the so-call
10、ed “cheap rates“ for a long distance call. The telephone box, with two broken panes of glass in the side, stands at the 3 of two main roads with buses, lorries and cars roaring past. It is pouring with rain as George 4 a queue of four depressed-looking people. Time passes slowly and seems to come to
11、 a standstill 5 the person immediately before George 6 on an endless conversation, pausing only to insert another coin every minute or so. Eventually the receiver is replaced and the caller leaves the 7 . George enters and picks up one of the directories inside, only to discover that someone unknown
12、 has tom out the 8 page he needs. Nothing for it but to dial Directory Enquiries. He waits patiently for a reply (while someone outside 9 repeatedly on the door) and finally notes down the number given. At last George can go 10 with his call. Just as he is starting to dial, however, the door opens a
13、nd an unpleasant-looking face peers in with the demand “can“t you hurry up?“. 11 such barbarity, George continues to dial and his unwanted companion withdraws. At last he hears the burr-burr of the ringing 12 , immediately followed by rapid pips demanding his money, but he is now so upset that he kn
14、ocks down the coins he has placed ready on the top of the box. Having at last located them, he dials again the pips are repeated and he hastily inserts the coins. A cold voice 13 him, “Grand Hotel, Chalfont Well.“ “I“ve an urgent message for a Mr. Smith who is a guest in your hotel. Could you put me
15、 through to him? I“m afraid I don“t know his room number.“ The response appears less than enthusiastic and a long silence 14 . George inserts more coins. Then the voice informs him, “I“ve been trying to locate Mr. Smith but the hall porter reports having seen him leave about a minute ago.“ Breathing
16、 heavily, George 15 the receiver, just as the knocking on the door starts again.（分数：30.00）六、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Part A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modem life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Fr
17、enchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops, and factories are discovering the greater efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-i
18、ncreasing output. Thus the “typical“ Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality. Some say that Fran
19、ce has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that “assembly-line life“ will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and
20、leisurely (but less productive) old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, rind the cultivation of the good things in lifeto joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local cafe? Since the late 1950“s life in Fr
21、ance has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of this competitive, g
22、oods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence. In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences,
23、 and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is preferable to the old.（分数：10.00）(1).Which of the following is not related to the new French way of life?（分数：2.00）A.Shorter lunch hour.B.Greater Efficiency.C.Ease of life.D.Personal uniqueness.(2).Which of the foll
24、owing is NOT true about modern Frenchmen?（分数：2.00）A.They prefer modern life style.B.They are more concerned with money.C.They enjoy assembly-line life.D.They are more competitive.(3).The passage suggested that _.（分数：2.00）A.Frenchmen used to live a graceful and leisurely lifeB.Frenchmen has lost thei
25、r graceful life styleC.Frenchmen are fed up with the smell of freshly picked applesD.Frenchmen enjoy strolling by the river(4).The critics of the new way of life _.（分数：2.00）A.are mostly young peopleB.are mostly university studentsC.are much concerned about this pursuit of material gainD.take careful
26、ly considerations before taking actions(5).Which should be the best title for this passage?（分数：2.00）A.Changes in the French Way of LifeB.Criticism of the New Life StyleC.The Americanization of FranceD.Features of the New Way of Life八、Part B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)For Investors wondering whether they should
27、dump their stocks because they need the money, I have only this to say. if you need the money today, you should have sold years ago. 1 For some people, drops as steep as we“ve seen in Asian markets in recent months are too much to take physically. I“m a big believer in the sleep-at-night theory. No
28、Investment is worth keeping if it robs you of your sleep. If you can“t stomach 50 per cent losses in your stock portfolio, get out now and save yourself a heart attack. You may not buy that mansion in Spain, but you“ll live to see your granddaughter“s graduation. 2 If you own stock in a company, but
29、 don“t know what it actually does to make a profit, you deserve to take a bath if the share price plunges. If your company doesn“t make money and has no reasonable prospect of doing so soon, sell. Buying things that have no intrinsic value is fun with, say, baseball cards. But this is real money we“
30、re talking about. Earnings and dividends paid out to stockholders are the only things that can tell you in the long term whether owning a stock is worthwhile. 3 Avoid sector and country funds. You will never lead the pack if you invest in global stock or bond funds, but you“ll never finish last, eit
31、her. As a dabbler at investing, how are you supposed to know whether now is a good time to buy a technology fund but a bad time to sell one investing in Thailand? Those decisions are best left to people who are paid to think about such things all day. 4 Most importantly, if you need the money in the
32、 next three to four years, look into buying bonds, either individually or through a mutual fund. Stocks in good businesses that are well run will eventually rise and outperform bonds, but maybe not as fast as you might need them to. Even if you plunge into the stock market without being precisely su
33、re why, its never too late to think about your holdings. Remember, the worst stocks not only keep falling but can approach zero. 5 A. For mutual-fund holders, the situation is a little different. You don“t need to know what the companies in your fund do. But there are a couple of rules to live by. B
34、. The biggest losers are those who refuse to jump off what is clearly a sinking ship. They predict the proud, valiant deaths, but they“re dead in the water all the same. C. Every week insurance companies receive premium payments customers. These payments can form a very large total running into mill
35、ions of dollars. The company does not leave the money in the bank. It invests in property, shares, farms and even antique paintings and stamps. Its aim is to obtain the best possible return on its investment. D. Even if you sleep soundly, the prospect of a potentially prolonged bear market begs the
36、most basic investment question: why do you own the stocks that you do? Now, more than at any other time in the past ten years, a few simple rules of investing apply: E. That advice holds whether the market is up or down. Even though a lot of novice investors claim they are in stocks “for the long ha
37、ul“, that often turns out to be nonsense. It is easy to be brave and keep buying during a bull market. But what if we“re in for mediocre stocks market gains for the next 10 years? F. Don“t pay obscene fees. Unless a fund under the same manager has consistently outperformed its peers for five years,
38、there is no reason to pay expenses of more than two per cent a year, or a front-end load of more than two to three per cent, anything more goes into nice vacations for your manager and posh leather sofas in his waiting room.（分数：10.00）九、Part C(总题数：1，分数：20.00)A=James Hargrove B=John Joe C=Sergeant Jac
39、kson Which black officer. staged in the car and radioed for help when seeing a robbery? 1 is a son of retired Los Angeles police officer? 2 believes that in most cases white and black officers would help each other in case of the danger? 3 thinks that the conflicts arising from being“ black in blue“
40、 can be humiliating? 4 said he and the white officers didn“t talk to each other for eight hours when at work? 5 thinks that the relationship between black officers and the black community has improved? 6 mentioned that black and white officers were partners on the job, but the story was different wh
41、en they were off duty? 7 said that when black officers took off their uniforms, whites would treat them as the ordinary black? 8 prefers to work in minority communities? 9 mentioned that they were asked to think of themselves as being blue rather than black? 10 James Hargrove He remembers the time h
42、e saw a robbery in progress in Manhattan. As a police officer, he wanted to jump out of his patrol car. As a black man in civilian clothes, carry a weapon, he knew better. So Patrolman Hargrove did what most other off-duty black police officers have been trained by instinct and by the job to do in s
43、uch situations: he stayed in the car and radioed for help. It underscores a more complex issue: how the pervasive stereotype of criminals as young black males may influence police officers“ responses. That point was illustrated in December in Prince Georges country, Md., when a black Washington, D.
44、C. police officer was shot and killed in his home by a white country police officer who mistook him for an armed burglar. In an interview, Patrolman Hargrove, who lives in a predominantly black section of the capital, said the conflicts and ambiguities that arise from being “black in blue“ can be hu
45、miliating and demoralizing. “When the white guys finish work, they go home to their white neighborhoods and the black guys go home to the black community.“ He continued, “You may be their partner on the job, but the minute you“re off duty, it“s a different story. It“s like you“ll find a bunch of whi
46、te cops hovering in the locker room snickering at somethingthen when you walk in they stop. Now what are you supposed to think?“ John Joe “I work in a white area on the West Side. Being black, in plain clothes, people might mistake me for a burglar and shoot me. It“s better for me to be in a black a
47、rea. Very few black officers work in white areas. The majority of the policeman in the station where I work are young whites,“ said John Joe. In an interview he said, “Most of us believe that regardless of personal likes, dislikes or prejudice, white officers would come to our aid and we would aid t
48、hem. And we share the view that the relationship between black police officers and the black community, where the black officer is sometimes regarded as a traitor and often shunned, has improved in recent years, in part because of attempts by black police officers to control the high incidence of crime in black neighborhoods.“ “We“re tied to the black community by this umbilical cord,“ he continued, “We can“t s
