1、公共英语五级-8 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 y
3、ou 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 conversation. As you listen, answer Question 1 to 10 by circling BTrue/B or BFalse/B. You will hear the conversation ONLY
4、ONCE.B You now have 60 seconds to read Question 110./B（分数：10.00）(1).Pauline failed to catch the flight because she forgot her visa at home.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The customs officials suggested that she go to London by taking a long-distance bus.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).It took her two hours to get down t
5、o London because the fog was too heavy.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Pauline spent 5 pounds in having her passport stamped.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).It was easy for her to get a flight out in London.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Pauline didnt go to Newcastle though the nearest flight was from there.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).Sh
6、e took a taxi back to Victoria Station.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).She stayed a night with one of her friends in London.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).Pauline means that it is expensive to take a taxi in a foreign country.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).Finally she took a taxi to the place that she had been looking for.（分数：1.
7、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 1113 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 1113./B（分数：3.00）(1).What did wome
8、n usually do before their marriage?（分数：1.00）A.They asked their parents for money.B.They stayed at home with their parents until marriage.C.They prepared to get married early.D.They did a lot of housework to earn some pocket-money from their parents.(2).Why did a lot of people feel pressure to have a
9、 family?（分数：1.00）A.Because there was too much quarrel between a couple.B.Because their parents lived with them.C.Because women were usually pregnant unexpectedly.D.Because they felt bored after marriage.(3).Why did the woman choose not to have children?（分数：1.00）A.Because there were some selfish reas
10、ons.B.Because she wished to pursue her dreams freely.C.Because she considered it reasonable.D.Because it has been accepted by most people.B Questions 1416 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 1416./B（分数：3.00）(1).How many constituencies is the country divided int
11、o for the General Election?（分数：1.00）A.653B.635C.365D.53(2).Which of the following are disqualified from voting in the House of Commons?（分数：1.00）A.criminals, lunatics and beggarsB.criminals, insane people and members of the House of LordsC.burglars, members of the House of Commons and lunaticsD.crimi
12、nal, lawyers and lunatics(3).On the day appointed for the election, where do voters have to go?（分数：1.00）A.the polling stationsB.the courtC.WestminsterD.The Royal Palace.B Questions 1720 are based on the following talk. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 1720./B（分数：4.00）(1).What degree did my
13、father get at college?（分数：1.00）A.A Bachelor Degree of Science.B.A Bachelor Degree of Arts.C.A four year degree in mathematics.D.A four year degree in physics.(2).Where did the man once study?（分数：1.00）A.At the university of New Jersey.B.At the university of Iowa.C.At the university of Kentucky.D.At t
14、he university of Virginia.(3).What was the mans response to his fathers repeated reminding?（分数：1.00）A.He was unwilling to follow his fathers instruction.B.He spent plenty of time improving his own IQs.C.He was indifferent to his fathers words.D.He was determined to receive higher education.(4).What
15、can be concluded from the text?（分数：1.00）A.I became a member the organization.B.I told my children of the importance of going to college.C.I was punished for my poor transcripts.D.I was the most upset reminder in my family.三、BPart C/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)You will hear a talk given by an educator about the
16、 rental system of the universities in the U. S. , Britain, Austria, Canada, and Australia. 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/seconds to read Questions 21-30./B（分数：10.00）(1
17、).Who is planning to introduce a rating system this summer for university students? （分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Summer students and conference participants are given _ in most United States universities.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).The history of Trinity College Dublin can be traced back to _ years ago.（分数：1.00）填空项
18、1:_(4).If you want a double room with bath in Trinity, you have to pay _ a person. （分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The London School of Economics and Political Science offers _ properties in London.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).You may find the information on the London School of Economics central accommodations on the _
19、 www. lse. ac. uk/vocations.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).A summer visitor can call Conference Services at (510) _ to get residence information about the University of California.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).Summer is a _ season in Montreal.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).Solin Hall is a (an) _ residence which has two and three b
20、edroom apartments suitable for families.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10)._ at the University of Sydney is known for its gardens.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word, Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Another early
21、Native American tribe inU (31) /Uis now the southwestern part of the United States was the Anasazi. By A. D. 800 the Anasazi Indians were constructing multistory pueblos-massive, stone apartment compounds. EachU (32) /Uwas virtually a stone town, U(33) /Uis why the Spanish would laterU (34) /Uthem p
22、ueblos, the Spanish wordU (35) /Utowns. These pueblos represent one of the Anasazis supreme achievements. At least a dozen large stone housesU (36) /Ushape below the bluffs of Chaco Canyon in northwest New Mexico. They were built with masonry walls more than a meter thick and adjoining apartments to
23、U (37) /Udozens, even hundreds, of families. The largest, later named Pueblo Bonito (Pretty Town) U(38) /Uthe Spanish, rose in five terraced stories, contained more than 800 rooms, and could have housed a population of 1,000 orU (39) /UBesides living quarters, eachU (40) /Uincluded one or more kivas
24、circular underground chambers faced with stone. They functionedU (41) /Usanctuaries where the elders met to plan festivals, perform ritual dances, settle pueblo affairs, U(42) /Uimpart tribal lore to the younger generation. SomeU (43) /Uwere enormous. Of the 30 or so at Pueblo Bonito, two measured 2
25、0 meters across. They contained niches for ceremonial objects, a central fire pit, and holes in the floor for communicatingU (44) /Uthe spirits of tribal ancestors.Each pueblo represented an astonishing amount of well-organized labor. Using only stone and woodU (45) /U, and without benefit of wheels
26、 or draft animals, the builders quarried ton upon ton of sandstoneU (46) /Uthe canyon walls, cut it into small blocks, hauled the blocks to the construction site, and fitted them together with mud mortar. Roof beams of pine or fir had to beU (47) /Ufrom logging areas in the mountain forests many kil
27、ometersU (48) /U. Then, to connect the pueblos and to giveU (49) /Uto the surrounding tableland, the architects laid out a system of public roads with stone staircases for ascending cliff faces. In time, the roads reachedU (50) /Uto more than 80 satellite villages within a 60 kilometer radius.（分数：20
28、.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)BPart A/BRead the following texts answer the questions accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answe
29、rs on ANSWER SHEET 1.BText 1/BTravel is at its 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 bor
30、ing they corrupt the silence with nonsequiturs, 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 cup
31、s tend to say things like “Where is the rest 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 don t know anyone here, so I go out and walk and discover the three streets of the town and rather envy
32、the strolling couples and the people with children. 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
33、 and driving him to violence?It is hard to see clearly or to think straight in the company of other people. Not only do I feel selfconscious, 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
34、diversion, that I seek. What is required is the 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 object that quickens my mind and makes it intensely receptive to“ fugitive might also be v
35、erified and refined; and in any case I had the 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
36、 risk, some danger, an untoward event, a vivid 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.（分数：5.00）(1).Travelling companions are a disadvantage, according to the writer, because they _ .（分数：1.00）A.give
37、 you the wrong impression about the journey.B.distract you from your reading.C.intrude on your private observations.D.prevent you from private observation.(2).It has been assumed by Japanese that he _ .（分数：1.00）A.belongs to a group of botanistsB.is excessively odd to travel aloneC.needs to be direct
38、ed to his hotelD.has wandered away from his party(3).His main concern in the evenings was to _ .（分数：1.00）A.take some physical exerciseB.avoid being robbed in the streetC.overcome his lonelinessD.explore the sights of the city(4).The writer regards his friends farewell to him as _ .（分数：1.00）A.inappro
39、priateB.unsympatheticC.tactlessD.cynical(5).We gather from the passage that his main purpose in traveling was to _ .（分数：1.00）A.test his enduranceB.prove his self-sufficiencyC.experience adventureD.respond to new experiencesBText 2/BThe United States has hosted the Olympic Games a record eight times.
40、 St. Louis, Los Angeles (twice) and Atlanta have been the sites of the summer Games while Lake Placid (twice). Squaw Valley and Salt Lake City in 2002 have welcome the winter Games.Ten U. S. cities have entered the process to become the candidate city for the 2010 Olympic Games which will be selecte
41、d by the U. S. Olympic Committee Board of directors. The U. S. city will then face competition from around the world with the International Olympic Committee making the final decision.The 10 cities have until the spring of 2000 to prepare their final bids for the USOC. Following site evaluations and
42、 the XLXth Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah (Feb. 8-24,2002), the U. S. Olympic candidate city will be elected in the fall of 2002 at the USOCs Board of Direction meeting. The closing date for all worldwide candidate cities to submit bids to the International Olympic will be in the winte
43、r of 2003. The IOC will then select the 2010 host city in the fall of 2005.“Our work can begin in the fall of 2002, allowing us to have a great bid and saving bid cities a tremendous amount of money by shortening the expensive international campaign,“ said Anita DeFrantz, an IOC vice president.The U
44、. S. Olympic Committee is also in the process of identifying a U. S. candidate city for the 2007 “Pan American Games. “The United States has previously hosted this event for countries in North, Central and South America in Chicago(1959) and Indianapolis(1987).The timeline approved by the USOC Board
45、for the cities registered and bidding to become the U. S. candidate city for the 2007 Pan American Games-Houston; Raleigh, N.C. ; San Antonio, Texas; and south Florida-calls for each citys final bids to be submitted to the USOC by September 1998. Following site evaluations, the USOC Board will selec
46、t the USAs 2007 bid city in the spring of 1999. The Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) will select the host city in 2002.USOC Executive Director Dick Schuhz explained that the USOCs objectives in setting up the timelines for the bid cities were: to maintain focus on the mission, pursue strategi
47、c initiatives, complete the Pan American Games bids before the Olympic Games bids, complete the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games and effort, and to then launch an international bid off the success of Salt Lake City.（分数：5.00）(1).Anita DeFrantz is _ .（分数：1.00）A.vice president of USOCB.president of IOCC.
