1、国家公共英语五级（听力理解）练习试卷 8及答案与解析 Part B Directions: 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. 1 What day is Mothers Day? （ A） The second Saturday in May. （ B） The second Sunday in May. （ C） The first Sunday in
2、May. （ D） The first Saturday in May. 2 What is one of the ways that American people honor their mothers on Mothers Day? （ A） They present their mothers with carnations. （ B） They send money to their mothers. （ C） They wear a carnation. （ D） They write a thank-you letter to their mothers. 3 What CANT
3、 you conclude from the passage? （ A） Miss Jarvis was devoted to her mother. （ B） Miss Jarvis knew many important persons. （ C） Miss Jarvis was very persistent. （ D） Miss Jarviss efforts were not in vain. 4 “AIDS has spread both numerically and geographically.“ What does the statement mean? （ A） The
4、disease has spread to many countries in the world. （ B） The disease has spread to large numbers of people. （ C） The disease has spread very fast in Africa. （ D） The disease has spread in number and from place to place. 5 How many people are now infected with the AIDS virus according to the passage?
5、（ A） 20, 000, 000. （ B） 18,000, 000. （ C） 28, 000, 000. （ D） 25,000, 000. 6 What is the passage mainly about? （ A） How AIDS spreads to Africa. （ B） How innocent people contract AIDS. （ C） What can be done to save innocent victims of AIDS. （ D） How HIV-positive persons develop AIDS. 7 What is the mai
6、n topic of the interview? （ A） The housing situation in Britain. （ B） Setting up new towns. （ C） How to solve housing problems in Britain. （ D） Providing houses for the homeless. 8 Mrs. Partridge said that many houses are in a “shocking state“. What does she mean? （ A） These houses are cold and leak
7、ing in winter. （ B） These houses do not have enough sanitation facilities. （ C） These houses are nearly falling down. （ D） These houses are the worst slums in Western Europe. 9 What does Mrs. Partridge blame the government for? （ A） Not planning to repair the old houses. （ B） Not spending money prop
8、erly on housing. （ C） Not providing enough money. （ D） Not discussing the housing problem. 10 Where does Mr. Pollard think the homeless people can go? （ A） To hotels. （ B） To new towns. （ C） To hostels. （ D） To empty buildings. 国家公共英语五级（听力理解）练习试卷 8答案与解析 Part B Directions: You will hear 3 conversatio
9、ns or talks and you must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 1 【听力原文】 Mothers Day is one of the national holidays in the United States. It is observed on the second Sunday in May. It is a day set aside for the purpose of honoring mothers. On that day
10、 mothers are usually given flowers and cards to celebrate the occasion. Children usually write “To the best mother in the world“, “Thinking of you on Mothers Day“, or “Thanks, Mom!“ and so on on the cards. It is a common practice for sons and daughters to wear a pink carnation if their mothers are s
11、till living and white if they are dead. Where does the idea for the holiday come from? We should give credit to Miss Anna Jarvis, a native of West Virginia. Her mother died in Philadelphia on May 9, 1905. And on the first anniversary of her mothers death she invited some friends to an informal memor
12、ial meeting. Again in 1907 a church service was held on her mothers death anniversary. Because of her efforts, Philadelphia observed the first Mothers Day on May 10, 1908. After that she began to write countless letters to very important persons and went to see many public men in order to plead for
13、the observance of the day. Thanks to her painstaking efforts, the state of Pennsylvania made it a state holiday in May, 1913, and in the same year the United States Congress recommended that the second Sunday in May be made a national holiday honoring motherhood. The holiday was officially proclaime
14、d by President Wilson, and the American people have observed Mothers Day ever since. 1 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 该题为细节题。录音的第二句话就告诉了我们母亲节的具体日期，“It is observed on the second Sunday in May. ” 【知识模块】 听力理解 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 该题为细节题。录音文本的第一段中列举了好几种庆祝母亲节的方式。最普 通的方式就是给母亲送花，送上写了各种感谢语的卡片，最后提到说在庆祝母亲节的普通 方式中还有这样一种，那就是如果他们
15、的母亲在世的话，那么儿子和女儿要佩戴粉红色的 康乃馨；如果母亲不在世的话，孩子们则要佩戴白色的康乃馨。而选项 A、 B、 D都不是 庆祝母亲节的方式。 【知识模块】 听力理解 3 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 录音的第二段提到了母亲 节的来历，提到了 Miss Jarvis。录音中提到了此人为 母亲举办的几次去世周年的纪念活动，我们可以得知她肯定很爱母亲。文中说她为了让这 一节日成为全国性的节日并且让其保留下来做过各种努力，例如给知名人士写过无数封的 信，拜访公众人物等。最终国会的批准使这一节日固定了下来。从这些内容我们可以得出 A、 C和 D所陈述的内容都是正确的，同样我们也可以从文章中推
16、断出来。 【知识模块】 听力理解 4 【听力原文】 Since the first reported case of AIDS in the United States in 1981, the disease has spread both numerically and geographically. According to the World Health Organization, 28 million people in the world already carry the AIDS virus. What is most alarming is that the disease
17、 is not only found in homosexuals, prostitutes or drug abusers, but also in innocent people, including children. In some countries in Africa, the situation is very serious indeed. The AIDS virus, now known as HIV, passes from mother to child in uterus, during birth, and possibly through breast-feedi
18、ng. Because of the high HIV-positive rates among pregnant African women, the AIDS epidemic among children will only grow worse. In Kinshasa, Zaire, for example, eight percent of the pregnant women in a prenatal clinic tested HIV-positive. As many as half the children born to HIV-positive mothers wil
19、l themselves be infected. Right now in some parts of Africa, five percent of new-borns are HIV-positive, and one-half to two-thirds of those will develop AIDS within two years. In Rwanda, for example, 22 percent of AIDS victims are children. And this year 6,000 Zambian children will be treated for A
20、IDS. Thus AIDS endangers not only this generation of Africans, but the next as well. Besides mother-to-child, AIDS is transmitted to innocent victims in another way. A European doctor in Zambia told this story: Robbers broke into the home of a family and, before escaping with the familys valuables,
21、shot the two daughters. In saving the young womens lives, doctors gave them blood transfusions. The blood, however, contained the AIDS virus. Now one of the sisters has AIDS and is dying, and the other is HIV-positive. It has been estimated that over 10 percent of Africans who are HIV-positive are b
22、elieved to have received the virus through infected blood. In Central Africa that could mean over half a million people. AIDS infects health care workers, too. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) not long ago reported three AIDS infections in health workers, whose skin was exposed to the blood of A
23、IDS patients and have become infected with the AIDS virus. They stressed that there is no evidence that the AIDS virus can pass through intact skin or spread by casual contact. While they do not know the exact route of transmission, CDC officials said that in these three cases the virus may have pas
24、sed through chapped or inflamed areas of unprotected skin. 4 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 本题为细节题。从这两个词 “numerically and geographically”我们可以得知一 个指数量，一个指地域。因此我们就可以知道这句话的意思是指感染艾滋病病毒的人越来 越多，地域分布得越来越广阔。 【知识模块】 听力理解 5 【 正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题为细节题。文章说携带艾滋病病毒的人数为 “28 million”。由此我们可知 C为正确答案。 【知识模块】 听力理解 6 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 从录音的
25、第一段我们可以得知这篇文章的主题是无辜的人是怎样被传染上了 艾滋病的。文章的后几段分别说了婴儿由于被母亲传染而得了艾滋病，无辜的人由于输血， 护工由于照顾艾滋病人而被传染。由这些我们可以知道整篇文章的主题是说无辜的人们都 是怎样被传染了艾滋病的。 【知识模块】 听力理解 7 【听力原文】 Interviewer: Mrs. Partridge, I understand that you are very concerned about the housing situation in Britain. Mrs. Partridge: Indeed I am. The government i
26、tself admits that there are more than two million houses which ought to be pulled down at once. It also admits that there are another two million in such a shocking state that it would be a waste of money to repair them. Interviewer: What do you mean by “shocking state“? Mrs. Partridge: I mean house
27、s that are in such a bad condition that they are permanently damp, or houses where youll find as many as five families sharing one tap and one toilet. Mr. Pollard: But what about all the good things that have been and are being done? What about the rebuilding of whole parts of cities like Sheffield
28、and Birmingham and Coventry not to mention the new towns? Mrs. Partridge: Thats all very fine and splendid, but its only one side of the picture. Im simply saying that were not doing enough. We can feel proud of what is good, but surely we shouldnt be proud that, for example, Glasgow is some times c
29、alled the biggest slum in Western Europe. Interviewer: What you are saying, in effect, Mrs. Partridge, is that the housing in this country isnt worthy of a welfare state. Mrs. Partridge: Exactly! According to government figures there are less than 20,000 homeless people, but thousands more are livin
30、g in such terrible conditions that they ought to be classed as homeless. It isnt that these people cant afford a reasonable rent. There just arent enough houses. Interviewer: Whom do you blame? Mrs. Partridge: The government, for not providing enough money, and the council for not spending properly
31、what there is. Mr. Pollard: Arent you being unfair to the local housing committees? Many of them do wonderful work. Mrs. Partridge: I agree, but that doesnt excuse councils that are inefficient and dont take enough interest. Dont you think it is shocking that in modern Britain there are still famili
32、es who have nowhere to live? Do you think its right that whole families should have to sleep in the ruins of empty buildings or under bridges or in railway station waiting-rooms? Mr. Pollard: But there are excellent hostels where they can go. Mrs. Partridge: In some towns, perhaps, Mr. Pollard, but
33、things are very different in many of our midland and northern industrial cities, and in parts of London. Even where there are places, some of the state-run homes for the homeless are less comfortable than prisons. In any case, my point is that we shouldnt need so many hostels for homeless families b
34、ecause there shouldnt be any homeless families! Interviewer: Mrs. Partridge, I think many people would say that you are exaggerating and drawing attention to the worst housing conditions instead of looking at the situation as a whole. Would you agree that you belong to a “pressure group“ which is tr
35、ying to bring pressure on the government to do something about the housing problem? Mrs. Partridge: If thats what belonging to a pressure group means, the answer is “yes“! But Im not exaggerating. Housing is the most serious problem of our welfare state. If it werent, would we hear so much about tha
36、t excellent charity Shelter, which does such wonderful work in finding homes for the homeless? 7 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 本题为推断题。需要我们对整段对话的内容有所了解。 【知识模块】 听力理解 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本题为细节题。从录音中 “I mean houses that are in such a bad condition that they are permanently damp, Or houses where youll find as many as fi
37、ve families sharing one tap and one toilet”我们我可以得知 “shocking state”指的是房子的卫生条件太差了。 【知识模块】 听力理解 9 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题为细节题。录音中提到 “Whom do you I blame?”“The government, for not providing enough money”。 【知识模块】 听力理解 10 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题为细节题。 Mr. Pollard说 “there are excellent hostels where they can go”。 【知识模块】 听力理解
