1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 114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 （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE （
2、A） TRUE （ B） FALSE （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE 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 Why is it necess
3、ary to give a coin to someone when you give him a present with a sharp edge or point? （ A） To specially celebrate his birthday. （ B） To express some special meaning which you dare not tell directly. （ C） To wish for a long-lasting friendship. （ D） To wish your friend good luck in his life. 12 Is Mol
4、lys uncle a superstitious person? （ A） He wasnt before, but now he has become one. （ B） Yes, he always believes in things which can bring him good or bad luck. （ C） Yes, he always says that its bad luck to walk under a ladder. （ D） No, he isnt, except when referring to walking under a ladder. 13 Acc
5、ording to Mollys grandmother, how many years of bad luck would be brought if she breaks a mirror? （ A） Ten years. （ B） Seven years. （ C） Five year. （ D） Seven weeks. 14 Which of the following statements about the telephone of the future is NOT true? （ A） It will be much more complex than the telepho
6、ne we use today. （ B） It will be more convenient to use than todays telephone. （ C） You will be able to dial great distances. （ D） There will be no busy lines. 15 The screens of televisions of the future will become_. （ A） extremely large （ B） as large as walls in home （ C） as large as the screens o
7、f movies （ D） as large as you wish 16 What will happen to the programs of television of the future? （ A） A11 TV sets can receive some programs without paying money in a certain area. （ B） You may pay for some special programs if you like. （ C） If you are interested in a certain subject, you may borr
8、ow some tapes about it. （ D） A11 of the above. 17 Which of the following is the acceptable table manner in Britain? （ A） You lift your soup bowl to your mouth. （ B） You make noise when drinking soup. （ C） You shouldnt raise your elbows to your shoulders. （ D） You shouldnt put your hands on the table
9、. 18 Which is considered as a good manner in Mexico? （ A） To put your hands on the table during the meal. （ B） To make noise in eating any kind of food. （ C） To eat your meal quickly and clearly. （ D） To put your elbows away from the table. 19 In Arab countries, what is considered very impolite? （ A
10、） Eating with left hand. （ B） Eating with a fork. （ C） Drinking soup noisily. （ D） Talking while eating. 20 Whats the main idea of the passage? （ A） An introduction of British table manners. （ B） Table manners and enjoyment. （ C） Different countries have different table manners. （ D） The importance
11、and details of table manners. 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 THAN THREE words in the space provided on the right. You will hear the talk TWICE. You now have 1 minute to re
12、ad Questions 21-30. 21 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 30 “How are you keeping?“ “Look (31)_ yourself. “ “Good Health. “ “Heres your health. “ “Health, wea
13、lth and happiness. “ “If youre healthy, youre (32)_. “ Its amazing how many greetings, wishes and general expressions turn on health. Health is something healthy people hardly ever think about (33)_theyre (34)_. When that happens they think about little else. Then their visits to the doctor, the hos
14、pital; if theyre really unwell, medicines, pills, bottles, ointments, injections, having their temperature taken, and the worry (35) expense. Well, (36)_least in Britain the last part isnt too bad under the National Health Service. This is a Government-enforced scheme whereby everyone pays in a smal
15、l percentage of their earnings each week (37)_month, and is then entitled to free medical treatment when they are ill. This doesnt include medicines, which have to be paid (38)_, but at a considerably reduced rate. Everybody (39)_ Britain is advised (40)_ have a local doctor. When a person moves (41
16、) a district, one of the first things they do is to find a (42) _doctor and get on his list or panel. There (43)_lists of NHS doctors in the local post offices and everybody has a (44)_card. Most British (45)_are already registered with a doctor and moving into a new district entails no more than fi
17、nding a new doctor and transferring (46)_ his panel. The National Health doctor will treat, and prescribe for, the more usual illnesses. Any cases that are beyond the scope of the local surgery he will (47)_to the nearest hospital. Again, in hospital, the(48)_ is free. The only drawback is that a gr
18、eat many people are in, or attending, hospital (49)_that most would-be patients have to go on a waiting list before they can (50)_ hospital treatment. 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
19、 1. 50 Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is partly to refer to things or processes which have no names in ordinary English, and partly to secure greater exactness in expression. Such special dialects, or jargon, are necessary
20、in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are
21、 very properly included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders. Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts and other occupations
22、, such as farming and fishing, that have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary is very old. It consists largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fibre of our language. Hence, though highly technical in many particular
23、s, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally understood than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, and philosophy have also become pretty familiar to cultivated person, and have contributed much to the popular vocabulary. Yet, every vocation still
24、possesses a large body of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political sciences and in the mechanic arts. Hence new terms are coined with
25、the greatest freedom, and abandoned with indifference when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a closed guild. The lawyer, the ph
26、ysician, the man of science, and the cleric associates freely with his fellow creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way. Furthermore, what is called popular science makes everybody acquainted with modern views and recent-discoveries. Any important experiment, though made in a re
27、mote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the newspapers, and everybody is soon talking about it as in the case of the Roentgen rays and wireless telegraphy. Thus, our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace. 51 The authors main purpose in writin
28、g the passage is to_. （ A） describe a phenomenon （ B） argue about a belief （ C） propose a solution （ D） stimulate an action 52 By saying that technical terms “on the outskirts of the English language than. “, the writer implies that_. （ A） they are used in the urban areas （ B） they are used in the r
29、ural areas （ C） they do not constitute the core of common speech （ D） they are not understood by English farmers 53 When the author refers to professions as no longer being “closed guilds“, he means that （ A） it is much easier to become a professional today than it was in the past （ B） there is more
30、 social intercourse between professionals and others （ C） popular science has told her secrets to the world （ D） anyone can now understand anything in a profession 54 It seems that the passage implies_. （ A） the English language is always becoming larger and larger （ B） the words of the English lang
31、uage are always changing （ C） one can never be sure what a word means without consulting an expert （ D） technical terms in most non-scientific fields have little chance of becoming part of the main body of the language in these scientific days 55 What may be the best title of this passage? （ A） The
32、Benefits of Some Jobs. （ B） Professions and Their Terms. （ C） Different Occupations. （ D） The Development of the English Language. 55 Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion a world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try to imagine the consequenc
33、es of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: knowing neither joy nor pleasure, neither anxiety nor fear, they would be as likely to repeat acts that hurt them as acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience because this emotionless w
34、orld would lack rewards and punishments. Society would soon disappear: people would be as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist; in a world without friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, or bonds among memb
35、ers of groups. Society s economic underpinnings would be destroyed; since earning $ 10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $ 10, there would be no incentive to work. In fact, there would be no incentives of any kind. For as we will see, incentives imply a capacity to enjoy them. In such a
36、 world, the chances that the human species would survive are next to zero, because emotions are the basic instrument of our survival and adaptation. Emotions structure the world for us in important ways. As individuals, we categorize objects on the basis of our emotions. True we consider the length,
37、 shape, size, or texture, but an objects physical aspects are less important than what it has done or can do to us hurt us, surprise us, anger us or make us joyful. We also use categorizations colored by emotions in our families, communities, and overall society. Out of our emotional experiences wit
38、h objects and events comes a social feeling of agreement that certain things and actions are “good“ and others are “bad“, and we apply these categories to every aspect of our social life from what foods we eat and what clothes we wear to how we keep promises and which people our group will accept. I
39、n fact, society exploits our emotional reactions and attitudes, such as loyalty, morality, pride, shame, guilt, fear and greed, in order to maintain itself. It gives high rewards to individuals who perform important tasks such as surgery, makes heroes out of individuals for unusual or dangerous achi
40、evements such as flying fighter planes in a war, and uses the legal and penal system to make people afraid to engage in an antisocial acts. 56 The reason why people might not be able to stay alive in a world without emotion is that （ A） they would not be able to tell the texture of objects （ B） they
41、 would not know what was beneficial and what was harmful to them （ C） they would not be happy with a life without love （ D） they would do things that hurt each others feelings 57 According to the passage, peoples learning activities are possible because they （ A） believe that emotions are fundamenta
42、l for them to stay alive （ B） benefit from providing help and support to one another （ C） enjoy being rewarded for doing the right thing （ D） know what is vital to the progress of society 58 It can be inferred from the passage that the economic foundation of society is dependent on_. （ A） the abilit
43、y to make money （ B） the will to work for pleasure （ C） the capacity to enjoy incentives （ D） the categorizations of our emotional experiences 59 Emotions are significant for mans survival and adaptation because_. （ A） they provide the means by which people view the size or shape of objects （ B） the
44、y are the basis for the social feeling of agreement by which society is maintained （ C） they encourage people to perform dangerous achievements （ D） they generate more love than hate among people 60 The emotional aspects of an object are more important than its physical aspects in that they_. （ A） h
45、elp society exploit its members for profit （ B） encourage us to perform important tasks （ C） help to perfect the legal and penal system （ D） help us adapt our behavior to the world surrounding us 60 “She was Americas princess as much as she was Britains princess, “ wrote the foreign editor of the no
46、rmally sharp Chicago Tribune a week after the death in Paris of Diana, Princess of Wales. He was not far off the mark. For Americans have indeed taken posthumous possession of Britains “Peoples Princess“. What was happening? How was it that a nation whose school children are taught in history class
47、to look down on the “tyranny“ of the English monarchy, suddenly appeared so supportive of a member of the British royal family? Why was it that numerous American commentators sought to expand into touch the rumour that Diana had planned to move to the United States to live? Part of the answer lies i
48、n Americas status as the celebrity culture par excellence. It is from their celebrities that many Americans derive their sense of nationhood. Their presidents must be celebrities in order to be elected. Writer and commentator Norman Mailer made the point after the last presidential election that Bil
49、l Clinton won because he projected the image of a Hollywood star, while Bob Dole lost because he came across as a supporting actor. What seems to have happened is that the inhabitants of the nation that produced Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley have found it almost impossible to accept that Princess Diana, the worlds biggest, classiest contemporary celebrity by far, should have come from another country. Even that, many seemed
