1、公共英语五级-英语知识运用(五)及答案解析(总分：60.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：3，分数：60.00)It is difficult to find reliable body counts of suicides, and of course the rate (1) which people kill themselves (2) from place to place and from time to time. (3) , you can get some idea of the size of the problem (4) you realize that
2、every 30 minutes someone in the Untied States (5) suicide. And for every successful suicide there are probably three attempts (6) fail.Suicide statistics are notoriously unreliable (7) only because shame is attached (8) the act but also because people who successfully kill themselves have often trie
3、d and (9) several times before. One survey at a suicide center showed that 60 percent of those who finally (10) to kill themselves had made previous attempts. Also, (11) looks like an accident may actually be deliberate suicide. We know that more than 55,000 persons die each year in automobile accid
4、ents, (12) no one knows how many of these drivers consciously or unconsciously set (13) the conditions for a fatal crash. When car accidents were carefully (14) in one study, up to one-half of the dead drivers had numerous previous driving offenses; over half had also been drinking; and nearly half
5、were suffering (15) depression. Such self-destructive drivers were characterized as reckless, risk taking, impulsive persons who frequently got (16) the wheel after a violent argument.A survey of known suicides gave this description of the conditions in (17) self-destruction is most likely to occur:
6、 in the spring, in the late afternoon, on a Monday and at home. Suicide is (18) likely in the early morning in winter. (19) these details tell only part of the story. The finger on the trigger or the hand fumbling (20) the bottle of sleeping pills varies according to sex, marital status, and race.（分
7、数：20.00）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:_Despite all the progress towards job equality, women are still being victimized and discriminated (1) in the workplace. In the (2) year the Equal Opport
8、unities Commission has helped 1 800 people (3) pregnancy and maternity issues -and this is only a (4) of the true number, “We know that those (5) contact us are likely to be just the (6) of an iceberg,“ says EOC chairman Julie Mellor.Unscrupulous bosses try to avoid their legal (7) by giving a pregn
9、ant employee the cold (8) , telling her the job wont be there (9) she has had the baby or claiming ignorance of the law.“Its vital to get to know (10) your legal rights are“, says Sharon Sawyer, who won a sex discrimination (11) against stockbrokers Robson Cottrell and was awarded 10 000 (12) “If yo
10、u dont know, then people can walk all over you“.Sharon had worked as a contracts and checking clerk for nine years (13) she became pregnant. She says, “1 told them I was pregnant at three months and immediately began to (14) rube and offensive comments from one of the directors.“When I asked him abo
11、ut rights, I was told the company didnt recognise maternity leave. Throughout my (15) it continued. Id go home in tears.“Two weeks before giving birth to daughter Lydia, Sharon left work, hoping to return but unsure if she was able to. Her husband Stephen had written to the EOC, (16) told her she ha
12、d a case. It was eventually decided by a tribunal.“It was tough, but I would go (17) it all again,“ says Sharon. “They really thought they had done nothing wrong, and said it was up (18) them to run the company (19) they saw fit, (20) any regard for peoples rights./（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项
13、 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:_Children who grip their pens too close to the writing point are likely to be at a disadvantage in examinations, (1) to the first serious investigation into the way in which writing tec
14、hnique can dramatically affect educational achievement.The survey of 643 children and adults, aged from pre-school to 40-plus, also suggests (2) pen-holding techniques have deteriorated sharply over one generation, with teachers now paying far (3) attention to correct pen grip and handwriting style.
15、Stephanie Thomas, a learning support teacher (4) findings have been published, was inspired to investigate this area (5) she noticed that those pupils who had the most trouble with spelling (6) had a poor pen grip. While Ms. Thomas could not establish a significant statistical link (7) penholding st
16、yle and accuracy in spelling, she (8) find huge differences in technique between the young children and the mature adults, and a definite (9) between near-point gripping and slow, illegible writing.People who (10) their pens at the writing point also show other characteristics (11) inhibit learning,
17、 (12) as poor posture, leaning too (13) to the desk, using four fingers to grip the pen (14) than three, and clumsy positioning of the thumb (which can obscure (15) is being written).Ms.Thomas believes that the (16) between older and younger writers is (17) too dramatic to be accounted for simply by
18、 the possibility that people get better at writing as they grow (18) . She attributes it to a failure to teach the most effective methods, pointing out that the differences between (19) groups coincides with the abandonment of formal handwriting instruction in classrooms in the sixties. “The 30-year
19、olds showed a huge range of grips, (20) the over 40s group all had a uniform tripod grip./（分数：20.00）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:_公共英语五级-英语知识运用(五)答案解析(总分：60.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：3，分数：60.
20、00)It is difficult to find reliable body counts of suicides, and of course the rate (1) which people kill themselves (2) from place to place and from time to time. (3) , you can get some idea of the size of the problem (4) you realize that every 30 minutes someone in the Untied States (5) suicide. A
21、nd for every successful suicide there are probably three attempts (6) fail.Suicide statistics are notoriously unreliable (7) only because shame is attached (8) the act but also because people who successfully kill themselves have often tried and (9) several times before. One survey at a suicide cent
22、er showed that 60 percent of those who finally (10) to kill themselves had made previous attempts. Also, (11) looks like an accident may actually be deliberate suicide. We know that more than 55,000 persons die each year in automobile accidents, (12) no one knows how many of these drivers consciousl
23、y or unconsciously set (13) the conditions for a fatal crash. When car accidents were carefully (14) in one study, up to one-half of the dead drivers had numerous previous driving offenses; over half had also been drinking; and nearly half were suffering (15) depression. Such self-destructive driver
24、s were characterized as reckless, risk taking, impulsive persons who frequently got (16) the wheel after a violent argument.A survey of known suicides gave this description of the conditions in (17) self-destruction is most likely to occur: in the spring, in the late afternoon, on a Monday and at ho
25、me. Suicide is (18) likely in the early morning in winter. (19) these details tell only part of the story. The finger on the trigger or the hand fumbling (20) the bottle of sleeping pills varies according to sex, marital status, and race.（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：at）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：differs）解析：填空项 1:_
26、 （正确答案：Nonetheless/Nevertheless）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：if）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：commits）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：that）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：not）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：to）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：failed）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：managed）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：what）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：but）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：up）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：examined, analyzed）解析：填空项 1:_ （
27、正确答案：from）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：behind）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：which）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：least）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：But）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：with）解析：Despite all the progress towards job equality, women are still being victimized and discriminated (1) in the workplace. In the (2) year the Equal Opportunities Commission has
28、 helped 1 800 people (3) pregnancy and maternity issues -and this is only a (4) of the true number, “We know that those (5) contact us are likely to be just the (6) of an iceberg,“ says EOC chairman Julie Mellor.Unscrupulous bosses try to avoid their legal (7) by giving a pregnant employee the cold
29、8) , telling her the job wont be there (9) she has had the baby or claiming ignorance of the law.“Its vital to get to know (10) your legal rights are“, says Sharon Sawyer, who won a sex discrimination (11) against stockbrokers Robson Cottrell and was awarded 10 000 (12) “If you dont know, then peop
30、le can walk all over you“.Sharon had worked as a contracts and checking clerk for nine years (13) she became pregnant. She says, “1 told them I was pregnant at three months and immediately began to (14) rube and offensive comments from one of the directors.“When I asked him about rights, I was told
31、the company didnt recognise maternity leave. Throughout my (15) it continued. Id go home in tears.“Two weeks before giving birth to daughter Lydia, Sharon left work, hoping to return but unsure if she was able to. Her husband Stephen had written to the EOC, (16) told her she had a case. It was event
32、ually decided by a tribunal.“It was tough, but I would go (17) it all again,“ says Sharon. “They really thought they had done nothing wrong, and said it was up (18) them to run the company (19) they saw fit, (20) any regard for peoples rights./（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：against）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：past）解析
33、填空项 1:_ （正确答案：with）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：fraction / part）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：who）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：tip）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：responsibilities）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：shoulder）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：after）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：what）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：case）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：compensation）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：when）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：get / rec
34、eive）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：pregnancy）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：who）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：through）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：to）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：as）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：without）解析：Children who grip their pens too close to the writing point are likely to be at a disadvantage in examinations, (1) to the first serious investigation int
35、o the way in which writing technique can dramatically affect educational achievement.The survey of 643 children and adults, aged from pre-school to 40-plus, also suggests (2) pen-holding techniques have deteriorated sharply over one generation, with teachers now paying far (3) attention to correct p
36、en grip and handwriting style.Stephanie Thomas, a learning support teacher (4) findings have been published, was inspired to investigate this area (5) she noticed that those pupils who had the most trouble with spelling (6) had a poor pen grip. While Ms. Thomas could not establish a significant stat
37、istical link (7) penholding style and accuracy in spelling, she (8) find huge differences in technique between the young children and the mature adults, and a definite (9) between near-point gripping and slow, illegible writing.People who (10) their pens at the writing point also show other characte
38、ristics (11) inhibit learning, (12) as poor posture, leaning too (13) to the desk, using four fingers to grip the pen (14) than three, and clumsy positioning of the thumb (which can obscure (15) is being written).Ms.Thomas believes that the (16) between older and younger writers is (17) too dramatic
39、 to be accounted for simply by the possibility that people get better at writing as they grow (18) . She attributes it to a failure to teach the most effective methods, pointing out that the differences between (19) groups coincides with the abandonment of formal handwriting instruction in classroom
40、s in the sixties. “The 30-year-olds showed a huge range of grips, (20) the over 40s group all had a uniform tripod grip./（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：according）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：that）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：less）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：whose）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：after / when / because）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：also / always）解析：填空项
41、1:_ （正确答案：between）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：did）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：link / association / connection / correlation）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：grip / hold）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：which / that）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：such）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：close）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：rather）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：what）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：difference/contrast）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：far/much）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：older/up）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：age）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：but / while / whereas）解析：
