1、国家公共英语五级（阅读理解）练习试卷 2及答案与解析 Part A Directions: Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 0 Travel is at its best a solitary enterprise: to see, to examine, to assess, you have to be alone and unencumbered. Oth
2、er people can mislead you; they crowd your meandering impressions with their own; if they are companionable they obstruct your view, and if they art-boring they corrupt the silence with non-sequiturs, shattering your concentration with “Oh, look, its raining,“ and “You see it lots of trees here. “ T
3、raveling 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 cups 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
4、 up to date; I hanker for company: what do I do? I dont know anyone there, so I go out and walk and discover the three streets of the town and rather envy the strolling couples and the people with children. The museums and churches are closed, and toward midnight the streets are empty. If I am mugge
5、d, I will have to apologize as politely as possible, “I am sorry, sir, but I has nothing valuable on my person.“ Is there a surer way of enraging a thief and driving him to violence? It is hard to, we clearly or to think straight in the company of other people. Not only do I feel, self-conscious, bu
6、t 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 diversion, that I seek. What is requited is the lucidity of loneliness to capture that vision, which, however banal, seems in my private mood to
7、 be special and worthy of interest. There is something in feeling abject that quickens my mind and makes it intensely receptive to fugitive might also be verified 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 opposi
8、te 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 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 th
9、ought might be mine on that train to Limon. 1 Traveling companions are a disadvantage, according to the writer, because they _. （ A） give you the wrong impression about the journey （ B） distract you from your reading （ C） intrude on your private observations （ D） prevent you from saying what you thi
10、nk 2 It has been assumed by Japanese that he _. （ A） belongs to a group of botanists （ B） is excessively odd to travel alone （ C） needs to be directed to his hotel （ D） has wandered away from his party 3 His main concern in the evenings was to _. （ A） take some physical exercise （ B） avoid being rob
11、bed in the street （ C） overcome his loneliness （ D） explore the sights of the city 4 The writer regards his friends farewell to him as _. （ A） inappropriate （ B） unsympathetic （ C） tactless （ D） cynical 5 We gather from the passage that his main purpose in traveling was to _. （ A） test his endurance
12、 （ B） prove his self-sufficiency （ C） experience adventure （ D） respond to new experiences Part B Directions: In the following article some paragraphs have been removed. For Questions 66-70, choose the most suitable paragraph from the list A-F to fit into each of the numbered gaps. There is one para
13、graph which does not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 5 Between the end of the World War II and the early sixties, a baby boom occurred in the US, and people born during that period were known as the baby boomers. Bill Clinton is no doubt a typical representative of that
14、generation. Like the 1992 general elections, the presidential election of 1997 was not merely a skirmish between two political parties but also a generation war between the baby boomers and the G.I. generation represented by Bush and Dole. 16. _ William Jefferson Clinton was born on August 19, 1946,
15、 in the mountain city of Hope, Arkansas. In English, “hope“ means “xiwang“. 17. _ The family circumstances of Clintons childhood years were very unfortunate. Clintons own father died in a traffic accident 3 months before Clinton was born. His stepfather, Roger Clinton, was a habitual drunkard, which
16、 caused discord in the family. 18. _ Self-reliant, diligent and hard working, Clinton gained a good education. In the fall of 1964, he enrolled in Georgetown University in Washington D.C., and majored in international politics. After graduation, he won the famous Rhodes scholarship pursued advanced
17、studies for 2 years in Englands Oxford University. In 1971, he entered Yale Universitys law college and obtained a doctorate in law two years later. During his university days, Clinton actively participated in the students movement against the Vietnam War, avoided army enlistment, and took a trip to
18、 Moscow in 1970. 19. _ After leaving Yale, Clinton returned to his hometown in Arkansas where he began his political career. In 1974, when he was not quite 28, he formally campaigned for congress. His vivid and dramatic first attempt greatly threatened his opponents. Though defeated in his campaign,
19、 his political talent received confirmation in news and political circles, winning him the title of “child prodigy“. In 1976, Clinton won the post of State Attorney General. In 1978, he succeeded in his campaign for the Governorship and at 32 became the youngest governor in the history of the state
20、of Arkansas. In 1980, he lost to the Republicans in his campaign for re-election but two years later he staged a comeback, which won him the nickname of “undefeated kid“. 20. _ In October 1997, when Chinas president Jiang Zemin visited the US, he and president Clinton reached agreement in the settin
21、g up of a constructive, strategic partnership for the 21st century. President Clinton announced that he would move up his visit to China to the end of June in order to give a fresh stimulus to the development and improvement of Sino-US relations. A Such an experience helped Clinton become a man who
22、knew his own mind, had self-restrain and self-control, and was good at competition. B He kept the Governorship right up until January 1993, when he officially became the master of the White House. His first term of office expired in 1997, but he defeated republican Dole and was re-elected, and serve
23、d as president. C Clintons triumph signaled a shift of US political power from the older generation to the younger one, and might reflect developments of far reaching significance in todays American politics. D No wonder that later on Clintons supporters often called him “the man from the city of ho
24、pe“. E President Clinton has responded by making public apologies to US citizens, who, as recently as the 1950s, were used as guinea-pigs in recent experiments involving radiation and sexually transmitted diseases. F These experiences helped him mature early, but left him vulnerable to political con
25、troversies later, and branded him as a young liberal. 国家公共英语五级（阅读理解）练习试卷 2答案与解析 Part A Directions: Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 【知识模块】 阅读理解 1 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 mislead obstruct， corrupt， shattering
26、这些例子都可以得出这样的总结。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 2 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 这道题从 B、 D中选可能会有些阻碍。日本人说： Where is the rest of your team? 从中有可能会得到，最直接的结论就是认为他有同伴，只是没有同他们在一起，也就是所 表达的意思。至于 A，也有这个可能性，但只是一种推测，而且有些脱离原文。相比之下， D比较合适。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 “I hanker for company: what do I do?”“envy the strolling couples and the peopl
27、e with children ”这些都可以说明作者在夜晚是孤独的。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 4 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 这道题需要我们对送别的情景进行思考，朋友的送别一般都是善意的，作者 无需讥讽。所以 B、 C、 D都不太合适。作者只是认为： It was not precisely what I had hoped for即朋友并未理解他旅游的初衷。综上考虑， A最为恰当。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 5 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 作者独自旅行有几个需求， A、 B、 C可能都是，但都是片面的， D是概括性的。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 Part B Directions: In
28、 the following article some paragraphs have been removed. For Questions 66-70, choose the most suitable paragraph from the list A-F to fit into each of the numbered gaps. There is one paragraph which does not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 【知识模块】 阅读理解 6 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】
29、在该题的上文讲到第二次世界大战结束和 20世纪 60年代初，美国出现了一 次生育高峰， 克林顿就出生在那个时期，无疑是那代人的代表。因而1997年的总统大选可 看作是以克林顿为代表的出生在生育高峰期的那代人和以布什为代表的老一代人之争。在 选项 C中，讲到克林顿获胜标志着美国政权从老一代人转向年轻一代。上下内容紧密衔接， 从而判断 C为正确项。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 7 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 在该题的上文讲到克林顿出生在 “the mountain city of Hope”选项 D讲到难 怪克林顿的支持者把他称为 “the man from the city of Hope”从上
30、文引出下文，内容连贯。 因而 D为正确项。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 8 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 该题的上文讲到克林顿的童年家庭状况非常不幸，父亲死于车祸，继父又是 一个酒鬼。选项 A讲到这种经历帮助他成为一个有头脑、有自制力、善于竞争的人。这种 经历应该指上文提到的不幸的童年。因而 A为正确项。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 9 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 在该题之前讲述的是克林顿的大学教育经历。在选项 F中这些经历帮助他早 些成熟。此处的 “these experiences”应指上文提到的克林顿的大学教育经历，根据这一 线索，可判断 F为正确项。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 10 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 在该空白处之前讲述的是克林顿的政治生涯。作者按照时间顺序讲述克林顿 在不同时期的政治事业。在该题上文结尾处讲到克林顿 1982年再次当选为阿肯萨斯州的州 长。选项 B中讲到他一直任该州的州长直到 1993年 2月入住白宫和上文衔接。 【知识模块】 阅读理解
