1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 104及答案与解析 Part A Directions: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer Questions 1-10 by circling TRUE or FALSE. You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE. You now have 1 minute to read Questions 1-10. 1 Water is a kind of chemical substance. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 2 Water is as important as
2、 vitamins, minerals and proteins for life. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 3 Women have more fat cells so women have less water. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 4 Bone contains no water. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 5 Warm water cant cool us, but cold water can. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 6 Sugar in cold sweet drinks slows the liquid
3、from getting into the blood-stream. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 7 Fat cells block body heat from escaping quickly. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 8 A 15% -20% drop in body water can cause the blood system to fail. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 9 Health experts say that all kinds of people should drink at least about 2 liters
4、 of liquids every day. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 10 Meats also contain water. （ A） True （ B） Fasle 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. 11 What does the man do? （ A） A taxi-driver. （ B）
5、 A bus driver. （ C） A policeman. （ D） A tourist guide. 12 What does he like about his job? （ A） Money. （ B） Freedom. （ C） Knowing different people. （ D） Traveling a lot. 13 Those who visit London will certainly go to_. （ A） the Tower of London （ B） Harrods （ C） Buckingham Palace （ D） The Greenwich v
6、illage 14 According to the speaker, what are convenience goods? （ A） Commodities that people are in constant need of. （ B） Goods that are convenient to use or purchase. （ C） Items that people tend to buy under impulse. （ D） Items that have to be bought once a week. 15 What are the shopping goods tha
7、t are basically considered the same? （ A） Those that satisfy similar needs of the consumer. （ B） Those that consumers dont care where to buy. （ C） Those that consumers spend much time looking for. （ D） Those that can be found everywhere. 16 What is the characteristic of specialty goods? （ A） They ar
8、e goods that can be bought at a special price. （ B） They are special kinds of products. （ C） They are characterized in their brands. （ D） They need special efforts to get. 17 In which state was Emily Dickson born? （ A） Michigan. （ B） Ohio. （ C） Massachusetts. （ D） Washington. 18 When did Dickson go
9、to Boston for eye treatment? （ A） In 1848. （ B） In the early 1850s. （ C） In the late 1850s. （ D） In the early 1860s. 19 How many poems did Dickinson write? （ A） Almost 2, 000. （ B） Nearly 1, 000. （ C） 800 （ D） 1, 200. 20 What is Dickiasons particular form of self-publication? （ A） She ran her own pu
10、blishing house. （ B） She wrote her poems in her letters. （ C） She wrote to newspapers regularly. （ D） She recorded her poems in her diary. Part C Directions: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer the questions or complete the notes in your test booklet for Questions 21-30 by writing NOT MORE T
11、HAN THREE words in the space provided on the right. You will hear the talk TWICE. You now have 1 minute to read Questions 21-30. 21 Besides the form of reports, in what other forms can we give oral presentations? 22 Whats the essential point we should realize about speech and writing? 23 What can th
12、e listeners rely on when they are listening? 24 Whats one of the best ways to help your audience? 25 Besides the problem of speaking too fast, what else will make listening more difficult? 26 Before delivering the new information, what should the speaker give his audience? 27 After delivering the ne
13、w information, why should the speaker also give his audience some time? 28 What does repetition of ideas mean? 29 Whats the third method mentioned here to give the listener time to think? 30 Can you give an example of “filler words“ ? 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the fo
14、llowing text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 30 The most obvious purpose of advertising is to inform the consumer of available products or services. The second【 31】 _is to sell the product. The second purpose might be more important
15、to the manufacturers than the【 32】 _. The manufacturers go beyond only telling consumers about their products. They also try to persuade customers to buy the【 33】 _by creating a desire【 34】 _it. Because of advertisement, consumers think that they want something that they do not need. After buying so
16、mething, the purchaser cannot always explain why it was【 35】 _. Even【 36】 _the purchaser probably does not know why he or she bought something, the manufacturers【 37】 _. Manufacturers have analyzed the business of【 38】 _and buying. They know all the different motives that influence a consumer s purc
17、hase some rational and【 39】 _emotional. Furthermore, they take advantage of this【 40】 _. Why【 41】 _so many products displayed at the checkout counters in grocery stores? The store management has some good【 42】 _. By the time the customer is【 43】 _to pay for a purchase, he or she has already made rat
18、ional, thought-out decisions【 44】 _what he or she needs and wants to buy. The【 45】 _feels that he or she has done a good job of choosing the items. The shopper is especially vulnerable at this point. The【 46】 _of candy, chewing gum, and magazines are very attractive. They persuade the purchaser to b
19、uy something for emotional, not【 47】_motives. For example, the customer neither needs nor plans to buy candy, but while the customer is standing, waiting to pay money, he or she may suddenly decide to buy【 48】 _. This is exactly【 49】 _ the store and the manufacturer hope that the customer will【 50】
20、_. The customer follows his or her plan. 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. 50 When it comes to the slowing economy, Ellen Spero isnt biting her nails just yet. But the 47-year-old m
21、anicurist isnt cutting, filling or polishing as many nails as she d like to, either. Most of her clients spend $ 12 to $ 50 weekly, but last month two longtime customers suddenly stopped showing up. Spero blames the softening economy. “I m a good economic indicator, “ she says, “I provide a service
22、that people can do without when they re concerned about saving some dollars. “ So Spero is downscaling, shopping at middle-brow Dillard s department store near her suburban Cleveland home, instead of Neiman Marcus. “I dont know if other clients are going to abandon me, too. “ she says. Even before A
23、lan Greenspan s admission that America s red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already seen signs of the slowdown themselves. From car dealerships to gap outlets, sales have been lagging for months as shoppers temper their spending. For retailers, who last year took in 24 percent of
24、their revenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time. Already, experts say, holiday sales are off 7 percent from last year s pace. But dont sound any alarms just yet. Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about
25、 the economy s long-term prospects, even as they do some modest belt-tightening. Consumers say they re not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good. In Manhattan, “ there s a new gold rush happening in the $ 4 million to $ 10 million range, predom
26、inantly fed by Wall Street bonuses, “ says broker Barbara Corcoran. In San Francisco, prices are still rising even as frenzied overbidding quiets. “Instead of 20 to 30 offers, now maybe you only get two or three, “ says John Deadly, a Bay Area real-estate broker. And most folks still feel pretty com
27、fortable about their ability to find and keep a job. Many folks see silver linings to this slowdown. Potential homebuyers would cheer for lower interest rates. Employers wouldnt mind a little fewer bubbles in the job market. Many consumers seem to have been influenced by stock-market swings, which i
28、nvestors now view as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom. Diners might see an upside, too. Getting a table at Manhattan s hot new Alain Ducasse restaurant need to be impossible. Not anymore. For that, Greenspan but at least two attempts, according to the hospital, could have been vital. Their
29、 reasons seemed as mundane as the other happen-stances of suburban life. “ I was just sick of it all, “ One told a reporter, “ Everything in life. “ Most alarming, emergency-room doctor Frederick Lohse told a local reporter that several girls said they were part of a suicide pact. The hospital later
30、 backed away from this remark . But coming in the wake of at least sixteen suicide attempts over the previous few months, this sudden clusteralong with the influx of media has set this well-groomed suburb of 23, 000 on edge. At a town meeting last Wednesday night, Dr Simon Sobo, chief of psychiatry
31、at the hospital, told more than 200 parents and kids, “Were talking about a crisis that has really gotten out of hand. “Later he added, “There have been more suicide attempts this spring than I have seen in the 13 years I have been here. “ Sobo said that the girls he treated didnt have serious probl
32、ems at home or school. “Many of these were popular kids, “ he said, “ They got plenty of love, but beneath the reassuring signs, a swath of teens here are not making it. “ Some say that drugs, both pot and real drugs , are commonplace. Kids have shown up with LIFE SUCKS and LONG LIVE DEATH penned on
33、 their arms. A few girls casually display scars on their arms where they cut themselves . “ Youd be surprised how many kids try suicide, “ said one girl , 17. “ You dont want to put pain on other people; you put it on yourself. “She said she used to cut herself “just to release the pain“. Emily, 15,
34、 a friend of three of the girls treated in June, said one was having family problems, one was “upset that day “and the third was “just upset with everything else going on“. She said they werent really trying to kill themselves they just needed concern. As Sobo noted, “Whats going on in New Milford i
35、s not unique to New Milford. “The same underlying culture of despair could be found in any town. But teen suicide, he added, can be a “contagion“ . Right now New Milford has the bug and has it bad. 56 What is the main subject of the passage? （ A） Eight girls committed suicide in New Milford. （ B） Th
36、e village Green is not a charming place. （ C） Teenager suicide. （ D） Dr. Simon Sobos achievements. 57 In the 3rd sentence of the first paragraph the word “pressing“is closest in meaning to_. （ A） urgently important （ B） pushing （ C） inviting （ D） charming 58 What is NOT true about the eight girls? （
37、 A） They are all between 12 and 17. （ B） They have tried a variety of measures. （ C） They attend a suicide squad. （ D） All their attempts to commit suicide are vital. 59 Which of the statements about the teens is NOT true? （ A） They are ill-bred students in school. （ B） Some of them take “real drugs
38、“. （ C） Teens needs attention. （ D） A few casually display scars on their arms. 60 According to the passage, the teens in Village Green can be called_. （ A） depressed generation （ B） cool generation （ C） attractive generation （ D） prosperous generation 60 The history of responses to the work of the
39、artist Sandro Botticelli(1444 1510)suggests that widespread appreciation by critics is a relatively recent phenomenon. Writing in 1550, Vasari expressed an unease with Botticelli s work, admitting that the artist fitted awkwardly into his evolutionary scheme of the history of art. Over the next two
40、centuries, academic art historians defamed Botticelli in favor of his fellows Florentine, Michelangelo. Even when anti-academic art historians of the early nineteenth century rejected many of the standards of evaluation adopted by their predecessors, Botticelli s work remained outside of accepted ta
41、ste, pleasing neither amateur observers nor connoisseurs.(Many of his best paintings, however, remained hidden away in obscure churches and private homes.) The primary reason for Botticelli s unpopularity is not difficult to understand: most observers, up until the mid-nineteenth century, did not co
42、nsider him to be noteworthy, because his work, for the most part, did not seem to these observers to exhibit the traditional characteristics of the fifteenth-century Florentine art. For example, Botticelli rarely employed the technique of strict perspective and, unlike Michelangelo, never used chiar
43、oscuro. Another reason for Botticelli s unpopularity may have been that his attitude toward the style of classical art was very different from that of his contemporaries. Although he was thoroughly exposed to classical art, he showed little interest in borrowing from, the classical style. Indeed, it
44、 is paradoxical that a painter of large-scale classical subjects adopted a style that was. only slightly similar to that of classical art. In any case, when viewers began to examine more closely the relationship of Botticelli s work to the tradition of the fifteenth century Horentine art, his reputa
45、tion began to grow. Analyses and assessments of Botticelli made between 1850 and 1870 by the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, as well as by the writer Pater(although he, unfortunately , based his assessment on an incorrect analysis of Botticelli s personality), inspired a new appreciation of
46、Botticelli throughout the English-speaking world. Yet Botticelli s work, especially the Sistine frescoes, did not generate worldwide attention until it was finally subjected to a comprehensive and scrupulous analysis by Home in 1908. Home rightly demonstrated that the frescoes shared important featu
47、res with paintings by other fifteenth-century Florentines features such as skillful representation of anatomical proportions, and of the human figure in motion. However, Home argued that. Botticelli did not treat these qualities as ends in themselves rather, that he emphasized clear depletion of a s
48、tory, a unique achievement and one that made the traditional Florentine qualities less central. Because of Home s emphasis crucial to any study of art, the twentieth century has come to appreciate Botticelli s a-chievements. 61 Which of the following would be the best title for the text? （ A） The Ro
49、le of Standard Art Analyses and Appraisals （ B） Sandro Botticelli: From Rejection to Appreciation （ C） The History of Critics Responses to Art Works （ D） Botticelli and Florentine: A Comparative Study 62 We can learn from the text that art critics have a history of_. （ A） suppressing painters art initiatives （ B） favoring Botticelli s best paintings （ C） rejecting traditional art characteristics （ D） undervaluing Bot
