1、公共英语四级-名人(一)及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、BPart A/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)For Questions 1 5, you will hear a passage about Margaret Welch. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write
2、 only 1 word in each numbered box.Margaret Welchs Personal InformationYear of Birth UU 1 /U/UTransfer to Barnard University (Year) UU 2 /U/UFinal Degree UU 3 /U/UField Study in the South Pacific(Age) UU 4 /U/UMain Interest UU 5 /U/U（分数：5.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、BPart B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.0
3、0)For Questions 6 10, you will hear a monologue about Professor Stephen William Hawking. While you listen, complete the sentences and answer the questions. Use not more than 3 words for each answer.On what date was Professor Hawking born? UU 1 /U/UWhat was Professor Hawkings major at university? UU
4、2 /U/UIn 1989 Professor Hawking was made a _. UU 3 /U/UProfessor Hawkings discovery implies that the universe has no edge orboundary in _.UU 4 /U/UProfessor Hawking has an extensive programme of _. UU 5 /U/U（分数：5.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_四、BPart C/B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)You will hear three di
5、alogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.（分数：3.00）(1).What is John Stewart Mill? A. A historian. B. A composer. C. A philosopher. D. A mathematician.（分数：1.
6、00）A.B.C.D.(2).What has been found about children of unusual talent? A. Many of them are from middle-class families. B. There are more girls than boys among them. C. They are mostly born by natural childbirth. D. Their parents are usually ambitious and humorous.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What can be infer
7、red from the talk? A. Material wealth goes hand in hand with mental emptiness. B. Environment plays a decisive role in the development of prodigies. C. Success has not always brought happiness to prodigies. D. Public praise will help prodigies to find the value of their lives.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：4.
8、00）(1).Which of the following is true of Virginia Woolf? A. She was free to enter her fathers library. B. She often had different views from her classmates when she was in school. C. She learned more at home than her peers educated in school. D. She was the only person in her family who hadnt receiv
9、ed university education.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).When did Virginia Woolf write fictions? A. 19131951. B. 19121951. C. 19131941. D. 19121941.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which of the following is not included in her works mentioned in the passage? A. Feminist ideas. B. Poetry. C. Literary criticism. D. Stories.（
10、分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. Virginia Woolf was an inspiration to women of the nineteenth century. B. Virginia Woolf hated men and often blamed them in public. C. Virginia Woolf criticized men indirectly in her writings. D. Shakespeares sister could
11、nt choose what she wanted to do.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).Which of the following is true of Sammy Sosa? A. He was born in a poor family. B. He ran away from home at seven. C. His father passed away when he was eleven. D. He came back to the Dominican Republic in 1998.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why is
12、Sammy Sosa considered a hero in his home country? A. Because he won the Most Valuable Player in the National Baseball League of the Dominican Republic. B. Because he built a shopping center in his neighborhood in Chicago. C. Because he donated thousands of dollars to hospitals and charities in the U
13、.S. D. Because he made contributions to the people of the Dominican Republic.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A. Sammy Sosa visits his mother every year. B. Sammy Sosa built two houses for his mother. C. Sammy Sosa likes to spend time with his
14、family. D. Sammy Sosa kisses his mother whenever he hits a home run.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase marked A, B, C or D for each numbered blank.The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of t
15、hose hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is U U 1 /U /Uto say it anyway. He is that U U 2 /U /Ubird, a scientist who works independently U U 3 /U /Uany institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not U U 4 /U /Uthought to have a bacterial cause were actuall
16、y infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested.U U 5 /U /Uhe, however, might tremble at the U U 6 /U /Uof what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only U U 7 /U /Uthat one group of humanity is more intelligent than the
17、 others, but explains the process that has brought this about. The group in U U 8 /U /Uare a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural selection.This group generally do well in IQ test, U U 9 /U /U1215 points above the U U 10 /U /Uvalue of 100, and have contributed U U
18、 11 /U /Uto the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the U U 12 /U /Uof their elites, including several world-renowned scientists, U U 13 /U /UThey also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, U U 14 /U /U, have previo
19、usly been thought unrelated. The former has been U U 15 /U /Uto social effects, such as a strong tradition of U U 16 /U /Ueducation. The latter was seen as a (n) U U 17 /U /Uof genetic isolation. Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately U U 18 /U /UHis argument is that
20、the unusual history of these people has U U 19 /U /Uthem to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this U U 20 /U /Ustate of affairs.（分数：20.00）(1). A. selected B. prepared C. obliged D. pleased（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. unique B. particular C. special D. rare（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. of B.
21、 with C. in D. against（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. subsequently B. presently C. previously D. lately（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. Only B. So C. Even D. Hence（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(6). A. thought B. sight C. cost D. risk（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(7). A. advises B. suggests C. protests D. objects（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(8). A. pro
22、gress B. fact C. need D. question（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(9). A. attaining B. scoring C. reaching D. calculating（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(10). A. normal B. common C. mean D. total（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(11). A. unconsciously B. disproportionately C. indefinitely D. unaccountably（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(12). A. missions B. fort
23、unes C. interests D. careers（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(13). A. affirm B. witness C. observe D. approve（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(14). A. moreover B. therefore C. however D. meanwhile（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(15). A. given up B. got over C. carried on D. put down（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(16). A. assessing B. supervising C. administer
24、ing D. valuing（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(17). A. development B. origin C. consequence D. instrument（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(18). A. linked B. integrated C. woven D. combined（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(19). A. limited B. subjected C. converted D. directed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(20). A. paradoxical B. incompatible C. inevitable D. c
25、ontinuous（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.六、BSection Readi(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、BPart A/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Read the following text. Answer the questions below the text by choosing A, B, C or D.In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a de
26、ntist to transplant nine teeth int0 his jawhaving extracted them from the mouths of his slaves.Thats a far different image from the cherry-tree-chopping George most people remember from their history books. But recently, many historians have begun to focus on the roles slavery played in the lives of
27、 the founding generation. They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings. And only over the past 30 years have scholars examined history from the bottom up. Works of se
28、veral historians reveal the moral compromises made by the nations early leaders and the fragile nature of the countrys infancy. More significantly, they argue that many of the Founding Fathers knew slavery was wrongand yet most did little to fight it.More than anything, the historians say, the found
29、ers were hampered by the culture of their time. While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create.For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves.
30、 Owning slaves was “like having a large bank account,“ says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. The southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections for the “peculiar institution,“ including a clause that counted
31、a slave as three fifths of a man for purposes of congressional representation.And the statesmens political lives depended on slavery. The three-fifths formula handed Jefferson his narrow victory in the presidential election of 1800 by inflating the votes of the southern states in the Electoral Colle
32、ge. Once in office, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states, including three slave states.Still, Jefferson freed Hemingss childrenthough not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves. Washington, who had begun to believe that
33、 all men were created equal after observing the bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War, overcame the strong opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will. Only a decade earlier, such an act would have required legislative approval in Virginia.（分数：10.00
34、）(1).George Washingtons dental surgery is mentioned to _. A. show the primitive medical practice in the past B. demonstrate the cruelty of slavery in his days C. stress the role of slaves in the U.S. history D. reveal some unknown aspect of his life（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).We may infer from the second p
35、aragraph that _. A. DNA technology has been widely applied to history research B. in its early days the U.S. was confronted with delicate situations C. historians deliberately made up some stories of Jeffersons life D. political compromises are easily found throughout the U.S. history（分数：2.00）A.B.C.
36、D.(3).What do we learn about Thomas Jefferson? A. His political view changed his attitude towards slavery. B. His status as a father made him free the child slaves. C. His attitude towards slavery was complex. D. His affair with a slave stained his prestige.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the followin
37、g is true according to the text? A. Some Founding Fathers benefit politically from slavery. B. Slaves in the old days did not have the right to vote. C. Slave owners usually had large savings accounts. D. Slavery was regarded as a peculiar institution.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Washingtons decision to fre
38、e slaves originated from his _. A. moral considerations B. military experience C. financial conditions D. political stand（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.八、BPart B/B(总题数：1，分数：15.00)Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese.In his autobiography, Darwin himself speaks o
39、f his intellectual powers with extraordinary modesty. He points out that he always experiences much difficulty in expressing himself clearly and concisely, but U U 1 /U /UUhe believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about ev
40、ery sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations./U He disclaimed the possession of any great quickness of apprehension or wit, such as distinguished Huxley. U U 2 /U /UUHe asserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thoug
41、ht was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics./U His memory, too, he described as extensive, but hazy. So poor in one sense was it that be never could remember for more than a few days a single date or a line of poetry. U U 3 /U /UUOn the o
42、ther hand, he did not accept the charge made by some of his critics that, while he was a good observer, he had no power of reasoning./U This, he thought, could not be true, because the “Origin of Species“ is one long argument from the beginning to the end, and has convinced many able men. No one, he
43、 submits, could have written it without possessing some power of reasoning. He was willing to assert that “I have a fair share of invention, and of common sense or judgment, such as every fairly successful lawyer or doctor must have, but not, I believe, in any higher degree.“ U U 4 /U /UUHe adds hum
44、bly that perhaps he was “superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully.“/UWriting in the last year of his life, he expressed the opinion that in two or three respects his mind had changed during the preceding twenty or thirty year
45、s. Up to the age of thirty or beyond it poetry of many kinds gave him great pleasure. Formerly, too, pictures had given him considerable, and music very great, delight. In 1881, however, he said: “Now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I have also almost lost my tastes for pictures and music.“ U U 5 /U /UUDarwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness, but might possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character./U（分数：15.00）_
