1、公共英语四级-129 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：1，分数：5.00)BPart A/BBDirections:/BI For Questions 15, you will hear an introduction about the life of Henry Alfred Kissinger. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to
2、you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. /IName Henry Alfred Kissinger Birthday May 27,1923Nationality _ 1.Birthplace GermanyMajor _ science 2.Degree Doctorate1938 Went to the United States 1943-1946
3、 Served in the US Army 1954-1969 Taught at _ University 3.1969 Entered _service 4.Experience_ Won Nobel Peace Prize 5.（分数：5.00）(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:_二、BPart B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)（分数：5.00）(1).Hippocrates has been regarded as the father of _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).What did Aristotl
4、e make a scientific study of?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).In which century did William Harvery make his discovery about the circulation of the blood?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Louis Pasteurs theories were about_.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The lecturer says the advances of the 20th century are _.than all the other periods
5、combined.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_三、BPart C/B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)Questions 11 13 are based on a dialogue between a traveller and a receptionist. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 13.（分数：3.00）(1).The man and his family are _.（分数：1.00）A.leaving for Boston in a few daysB.staying in Boston for a few daysC
6、.visiting their relatives in Boston in a few daysD.spending a few days in Boston for a job interview(2).The man has to_.（分数：1.00）A.register by writing his name and addressB.register for his suitcasesC.register for the tour arrangementD.register for the sake of security(3).The family plans to stay in
7、 Boston for _.（分数：1.00）A.three daysB.four daysC.five daysD.six daysQuestions 14 16 are based on a talk about graffiti, an art form for some people or violence for others. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 16.（分数：3.00）(1).What do womens liberation groups in Britain do with graffiti?（分数：1.0
8、0）A.Rally support for their movement.B.Liberate women from tedious housework.C.Claim their rights to equal job opportunities.D.Express their anger against sex discrimination.(2).What do some New Yorkers think of graffiti?（分数：1.00）A.It will bring a lot of trouble to the local people.B.It is a popular
9、 form of art.C.It will spoil the natural beauty of their surroundings.D.It is popular among rock stars.(3).Why does the speaker cite the example of graffiti in the London underground?（分数：1.00）A.To show that mindless graffiti can provoke violence.B.To show that Londoners have a special liking for gra
10、ffiti.C.To show that graffiti, in some cases, can constitute a crime.D.To show that graffiti can make the environment more colorful.Questions 17 20 are based on a radio interview about divorce. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 20.（分数：4.00）(1).What do we learn about the woman?（分数：1.00）A.S
11、he plans to divorceB.She has divorced several times.C.She is a mother of more than one.D.She is a strong advocate of feminism.(2).According to the woman, which of the following statements is true?（分数：1.00）A.Divorce is to be entered into seriously.B.Childrens needs are ignored after parents get divor
12、cedC.Most famous people look on divorce as a serious matter.D.A bad marriage is better for children than a divorce.(3).What does the woman think of fixing a marriage?（分数：1.00）A.Every means should be tried before some marriages are fixed.B.Fixing a marriage is like changing a tireC.A fixed marriage t
13、s not easily broken any more.D.Some marriages can never be fixed.(4).The woman thinks it more important for society to _.（分数：1.00）A.understand the choice of divorced peopleB.give more financial support to single mothersC.help divorced people share the loss and build a new lifeD.let single mothers sh
14、are the chance of a better marriage四、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)A person becomes part of the Christian community through baptism it is a matter of choiceU (21) /Ubirth. The Christian community is a gathered communityU (22) /Uwho believe that Jesus is the Christ and that they have salvationU (23)
15、/U. It is open to males and females of any age, race, orU (24) /U. A Christian is normally affiliated with a particular parish or congregation that isU (25) /Uthe care of a particular clergy-person A baptized person is usuallyU (26) /Ua Christian by all Christians everywhere: however, there may be s
16、ome additional requirements to meet if a personU (27) /Uto a church of a different tradition.Giving money and goods needed by othersU (28) /Ua part of Christian living. Some Christians engage in tithing, theU (29) /Uof 10 percent of their income to support the work of the church,U (30) /Uincludes ch
17、aritable services of those in need. Other Christians give smallerU (31) /Uof their income to the church but contribute either directly to those in need or to organizations that serve human beings or lower animals.Although some Christians believe the world will continue to become more evil until Chri
18、st returns to earth,U (32) /Uthink that theyU (33) /Uimprove the world. Christian service to God means,U (34) /U, not only charity to meet current needs but also altering institutions and structures of society in order toU (35) /Upoverty, illness, and injustices, For some Christians, the social impl
19、ications of the gospel are almost as important as the religion. John Woolman visited the slaveholders in the United States toU (36) /Uthem to free their slaves. Henry Ward Beecher openly supported a campaign to free all the slaves. Walter Rauschenbusch labored to improve living and working condition
20、s for poor people in cities. Albert Schweitzer brought modern medicine to people in Africa. Martin Luther King used theU (37) /Uresistance methodsU (38) /Uby Mohandas K. Gandhi to win recognition of civil right for black people of the United States. Mother Teresa worked to save abandoned children in
21、 Calcutta. These few examples give some idea of theU (39) /Uof activitiesU (40) /Uhave fostered to improve the living conditions of their fellow humans.（分数：20.00）A.rather thanB.rather than ofC.rather. than ofD.not ofA.of theseB.of thatC.of a personD.of thoseA.in his nameB.to his nameC.under the name
22、 ofD.in their nameA.nationB.countryC.nationalityD.nationalA.inB.ofC.underD.withA.acceptedB.acceptingC.accepting asD.accepted asA.chargesB.transformsC.turnsD.transfersA.isB.has long beenC.areD.have long beenA.donationB.givingC.sendingD.contributionA.thatB.whatC.whichD.in whichA.amountsB.numbersC.amou
23、ntD.numberA.fewB.some peopleC.many peopleD.many othersA.mayB.canC.mustD.are obliged toA.to himB.to themC.to herD.to usA.improveB.changeC.careD.alleviateA.talkB.persuadeC.sayD.convincedA.non-violentB.violentC.inviolentD.noviolentA.proceededB.pioneeredC.processedD.possessedA.varietyB.kindsC.sortsD.var
24、iousA.the poor peopleB.the blackC.JesusD.Christians五、BSection Readi(总题数：4，分数：20.00)BPassage 1/BWould you like to orbit the Earth inside the International Space Station? Now you can take a space holiday for a price This is due to a recant decision by top space officials of the United States, Russia,
25、Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency.Last April, American businessman Dennis Tito reportedly paid between twelve million and twenty million dollars to spend one week on the International Space Station NASA had strongly objected to the Russian plan to permit a civilian on the costly research v
26、ehicle After two years of negotiations, space officials have agreed on a process to train private citizens to take trips to the International Space Station.NASA recently agreed to conditions that will permit Russia to sell trips to the space station. The trips are planned by an American company call
27、ed Space Adventures Limited of Arlington, Virginia. The company calls itself “the worlds leading space tourism company“. The company has sold a space trip to Mark Shuttle- worth, a South African businessman. In April, Mr Shuttleworth will be launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakh
28、stan.Experts say the change in policy at NASA shows a new desire to use space vehicles for business and industrial purposes. In a speech to Congress last year, NASA official Michael Hawes said that the space agency had not considered civilian travel as one of the industries it wanted to develop, How
29、ever, Mr Hawes said that private space travel could now be clone as long as safety measures are observed carefully.Yet, the average citizen will not be able to travel into space in the near future. Space Adventures Limited sells a training program for space flight that costs two hundred thousand dol
30、lars. That price does not include the cost of the trip to the International Space Station. That holiday in space costs twenty million dollars,Candidates for adventure space travel trips must be in excellent health and must pass difficult health tests, They must receive a lot of training. Besides, go
31、od English can help you prepare for a space holiday. This is because all successful candidates who wish to travel to the International Space Station must be able to read and speak English.（分数：5.00）(1).At first. NASA is _ private citizens space travel.（分数：1.00）A.forB.againstC.indifferent toD.hesitant
32、 about(2).The time between American businessman Dennis Titos and a South African businessman Mark Shuttle worths space travel is _.（分数：1.00）A.one yearB.two yearsC.three yearsD.four years(3).NASA thinks space travellers must _ to do private space travel（分数：1.00）A.observe safety measures carefullyB.ha
33、ve a new desire to use space vehicles for civilian travelC.nagotiate with Russia or NASAD.be as rich as Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth(4).If a person really wants to go to the space station, he or she should spend _ in total.（分数：1.00）A.$ 200 000B.twelve million dollarsC.twenty million dollarsD.mo
34、re than twenty million dollars(5).Those who want to travel in the space should _.（分数：1.00）A.afford the expenses of the space tripB.pass the health check and physical trainingC.speak EnglishD.all of the aboveBPassage 2/BUntil the last few years, giant IBM was most workers ideal of a company with grea
35、t human relations. Getting a job there meant you were set for life at one of the most enlightened firms in the world.Company benefits sounded like a “whos who“ of worker-friendly programs. There was job security for life. You could leave work two hours early if you arrived two hours early. You could
36、 put children and elderly parents in IBM-paid care programs. You could go to graduate school full-time while still being paid. And there were no Uhourly/U workers. Everyone was considered important and mature, so everyone was paid a salary and didnt have to punch a time clock. The firm was one of th
37、e first to institute job enrichment programs; way before the term was even invented. Everything it did was aimed at making employees feel important. And for years IBM had a highly motivated work force.But things have changed. IBM chairman John Akers told a startled group of management trainees that
38、employees are “too damned comfortable at a time when the business is in crisis“. He also said there are “too many people standing around the water cooler waiting to be told what to do“.Obviously, Akers thought shock therapy was in order, Between an economic recession and competition, IBM suffered a
39、major drop m revenue in 1991. “What we need around here is a higher tension level,“ Akers said. So theyre making some changes at IBM. The firm slashed about 17 000 jobs. And suddenly IBM wants its managers to encourage certain workers to leave the firm.The whole situation is a dilemma for IBM. Polic
40、ies such as no layoffs have done a lot to motivate workers and make them loyal. Yet in a highly competitive world it may be unwise to let employees feel too secure.（分数：5.00）(1).IBM was viewed by most workers as _.（分数：1.00）A.a pressure cookerB.an elder-care centerC.a company caring human relationsD.a
41、 company with high efficiency(2).Time clock punch was not used in IBM because _.（分数：1.00）A.nobody liked itB.staff were trusted and valuedC.there were no hourly workersD.everyone was punctual(3).The word “hourly“ in the sentence “there were no hourly workers(Para. 2) means _.（分数：1.00）A.punctualB.full
42、-timeC.paid every hourD.paid according to hours of work(4).The ideal of IBM as a company began to change_.（分数：1.00）A.a few years agoB.a few months agoC.since 1990D.after John Akers became the General Manager(5).From this passage, we can conclude _.（分数：1.00）A.staff will work harder ii they are offere
43、d more benefitsB.punishment is a better motivator to staff than rewardC.the company must intensify its management to survive competitionsD.layoff is the best therapy for staff loyaltyBPassage 3/BDr Thomas Starzl, like all the pioneers of organ transplantation, had to learn to live with failure. When
44、 he performed the worlds first liver transplant 25 years ago, the patient, a three-year-old boy, died on the operating table. The next four patients didnt live long enough to get out of the hospital. But more determined than discouraged, Starzl and his colleagues went back to their lab at the Univer
45、sity of Colorado Medical School.They devised techniques to reduce the heavy bleeding during surgery, and they worked on better ways to pre- vent the recipients immune system from rejecting the organ an ever-present risk.But the triumphs of the transplant surgeons have created yet another tragic prob
46、lem: a severe shortage of donor organs. “As the results get better, more people go on the waiting lists and theres wider disparity between supply and need,“ says one doctor. The American Council on Transplantation estimated that on any given day 15 000 Americans are waiting for organs. There is no s
47、hortage of actual organs; each year about 5 000 healthy people die unexpectedly in the United States, usually in accidents. The problem is that fewer than 20 percent become donors.This trend persists despite laws designed to encourage organ recycling. Under the federal Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, a
48、 person can authorize the use of his organs after death by signing a statement. Legally, the next of kin can veto these posthumous gifts, but surveys indicate that 70 to 80 percent of the public would not interfere with a family members decision. The biggest roadblock, according to some experts, is that physicians dont ask for donations
