1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 143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 What are the spe
3、akers trying to do? （ A） Visit the new restaurant. （ B） Watch a parade. （ C） Have a picnic. （ D） Go to the beach. 12 How does the man feel about the rain? （ A） Excited. （ B） Confused. （ C） Afraid. （ D） Surprised. 13 What will the speakers probably do next? （ A） Go home. （ B） Go to a restaurant. （ C）
4、 Unpack the car. （ D） Put a dry blanket under the tree. 14 Which of the following statements about the telephone of the future is NOT true? （ A） It will be much more complex than the telephone we use today. （ B） It will be more convenient to use than todays telephone. （ C） You will be able to dial g
5、reat 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 of movies （ D） as large as you wish 16 What will happen to the programs of television of the future? （ A） A11 T
6、V 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 borrow some tapes about it. （ D） A11 of the above. 17 What role do most people in the manufacturing trades play? （
7、 A） Designers. （ B） Supervisors. （ C） Assistants. （ D） Employees. 18 Which of the following best characterizes the job of a semiskilled worker? （ A） Repetitive. （ B） Consistent. （ C） Exceptional. （ D） Complicated. 19 How are the working conditions for most manufacturing jobs? （ A） Disgraceful. （ B）
8、Forceful. （ C） Harsh. （ D） Monotonous. 20 Who are responsible for panning and directing the manufacturing process? （ A） Scientists and engineers. （ B） Management workers. （ C） Technicians. （ D） Public relation workers. Part C Directions: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer the questions or c
9、omplete 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 read Questions 21-30. 21 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text and fill e
10、ach of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 30 An economist is someone who knows a lot about how goods and wealth are produced and used. Food, for (31)_, is a kind of goods. Everyone eats food, but the average person does not think much (32) _ all the thi
11、ngs that must happen before (33) _ appears on his plate. Another example is the paper this article is printed on. (34) started as wood on a tree very far from (35)_. Men and machines made the wood (36) _paper, which had to be packaged and carried (37) _ trucks and put into stores. At every step in t
12、he process people had to be paid for their work; money had to (38) _used for buying and repairing the machines, and so on. Of course, everyone (39)_had to make (40) _, too. Even a very simple thing (41) _a piece of paper has a long story (42) _ it. Economists try to understand how all the parts of t
13、he long story are related. (43) _ economist learns how to guess (44) _ will happen in the future, as (45) _ as goods and prices are concerned. If fruit growers in Florida lose part of their crops (46) _ of bad weather this month, what will happen to the (47)_ of oranges in New York two months from (
14、48) _? If banks charge higher interest (49) _ loans to builders, how will that affect the cost of a new home? These are just a few of the questions economists learn how to (50) _. Would you like to be an economist? Part A Directions: Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany
15、them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 50 A very important world problem in fact, I think it may be most important of all the great world problems which face us at the present time is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on the land. The population of the world
16、today is about 4, 000, 000, 000. That is an enormous number, yet it is known quite accurately, because there are very few parts of the world which have not carried out a modern census. The important thing is not so much the actual population of twenty million about six months increase in world popul
17、ation. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So it takes the world about three months to add to itself a population which peoples that vast country. Let us take our own crowded country, England and Walesforty-five to fifty million people. This is just about a years supply. By th
18、is time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120. 000 extra people just about the population of the city of York. I am not talking about birth rate. This is net increase. To give you some idea of birth rate, look at the second hand of your watch. Every second, three babies
19、 are born somewhere in the world. Another baby! Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep up with the birth rate. This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. Unless something terrible happens, there will be as many as 7, 000, 000, 000 people on the surface of the e
20、arth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime. 51 The population of the world today is about_. （ A） 400 million （ B） 4 billion （ C） 400 million （ D） 40 billion 52 England and Wales_. （ A） have a bigger population problem than Australia （ B） have the same population increase
21、rate as Australia （ C） have the same number of people as the worlds yearly increase （ D） can supply Australia with a whole years increase of people 53 According to the author, Australia_. （ A） has a population of twenty million （ B） is a vast country that needs a bigger population （ C） constitutes o
22、ne-fourth of the worlds population increase every year （ D） has a population that happens to be one-fourth of the yearly world increase 54 The present net increase of world population is_. （ A） 180 per minute （ B） one per second （ C） 120, 000 per week （ D） too many to be counted 55 In the last parag
23、raph, what does the author probably imply by “something terrible“? （ A） Population explosion. （ B） Land shortage. （ C） Exhaustion of life supply. （ D） Natural disasters or wars. 55 Painting your house is like adding something to a huge communal picture in which the rest of the painting is done eithe
24、r by nature or by other people. The picture is not static; it changes as we move about, with the time of day, with the seasons, with new planting, new buildings and with alterations to old ones. Any individual house is just a fragment of this picture, nevertheless it has the power to make or mark th
25、e overall scene. In the past people used their creative talents in painting their homes, with great imagination and in varied but always subtly blending colors. The last vestiges of this great tradition can still be seen in the towns of the extreme west of Ireland. It has never been recognized as an
26、 art form, partly because of the physical difficulty of hanging a street in a gallery and partly because it is always changing, as paint fades and is renewed. Also it is a communal art which cannot be identified with any person, except in those many cases where great artists of the past found inspir
27、ation in ordinary street scenes and recorded them in paint. Following the principles of decoration that were so successful in the past, you should first take a long look at the house and its surroundings and consider possible limitations. The first concerns the amount of color and intensity in the d
28、aylight in Britain. Colors that look perfectly in keeping with the sunny, clear skies of the Mediterranean would look too harsh in the grayer light of the north. Since bright light is uncomfortable for the eyes, colors must be strong in order to be seen clearly. Viewed in a dimmer light they appear
29、too bright. It is easy to see this if you look at a brick house while the sun is alternately shining and then going behind a cloud. The brick work colors look much more intense when the sun is hidden. The second limitation is the colors of the surroundings: the colors which go best with Cotswold sto
30、ne and a rolling green countryside will be different from those that look best by the sea or in a red brick/ blue slate industrial town. In every area there are always colors that at once look in keeping. In many areas there are distinctive traditions in the use of color that may be a useful guide.
31、The eastern countries of England and Scotland, particularly those with a local tradition of rendering of plastering, use colors applied solidly over the wall. Usually only the window frames and doors are picked out in another color, often white or pale grey. Typical wall colors are the pink associat
32、ed with Suffolk and pate buffs. Much stronger colors such as deep earth red, orange, blue and green are also common. In the coastal villages of Essex, as well as inland in Hertfordshire, the house fronts of overlapping boards are traditionally painted black originally tarred like ships with windows
33、and doors outlined in white. In Kent these weather boarded houses are usually white. In stone areas of Yorkshire and farther north, color is rare: the houses are usually left in their natural color, though many are painted white as they probably all were once. 56 According to the passage, “painting
34、your house“ in the first sentence refers to_. （ A） making a picture of your house using paint （ B） putting paint on the outside of your house （ C） painting pictures in your house （ D） painting your rooms 57 The passage suggests that as any individual home is just a fragment of a huge communal pictur
35、e when you paint your house_. （ A） you should have your own unique way so as to avoid repetition （ B） you should take into account the fading of colors （ C） you should take general appearance of the area into consideration （ D） you should keep your house in harmony with what have already been painte
36、d in the picture 58 Which of the following statements is not the reason why the painting of houses has never been recognized as an art form? （ A） It is a communal piece of work which cannot be identified with any one person. （ B） It is impossible to display it to the gallery going public. （ C） It is
37、 not static. （ D） People tend to think that communal picture is only a street scene that has no artistic value. 59 The writer mentions the sunny, clear skies of the Mediterranean to show us that （ A） the climate of Britain is a long cry from that of the Mediterranean （ B） the bright colours chosen t
38、o paint a house in Mediterranean fit in well with the grayer light of Britain （ C） the different quality of light in Britain and in the Mediterranean results in different selection of colors （ D） the more intense the light is, the more beautiful the picture becomes 60 The writer has the opinion that
39、 when you paint your house, you will most likely choose （ A） the characteristic local colors （ B） your favorite colors （ C） the colors to your artistic taste （ D） the colors that fit in well with furniture 60 Car makers have long used sex to sell their products. Recently, however, both BMW and Renau
40、lt have based their latest European marketing campaigns around the icon of modern biology. BMWs campaign, which launches its new 3-series sports saloon in Britain and Ireland, shows the new creation and four of its earlier versions zigzagging around a landscape made up of giant DNA sequences, with a
41、 brief explanation that DNA is the molecule responsible for the inheritance of such features as strength, power and intelligence. The Renault offering, which promotes its existing Laguna model, employs evolutionary theory even more explicitly. The companys television commercials intersperse clips of
42、 the car with scenes from a lecture by Steve Jones, a professor of genetics at University College London. BMWs campaign is intended to convey the idea of development allied to heritage. The latest product, in other words, should be viewed as the new and improved scion of a long line of good cars. Re
43、naults message is more subtle. It is that evolution works by gradual improvements rather than sudden leaps (in this, Renault is aligning itself with biological orthodoxy). So, although the new car in the advertisement may look like the old one, the external form conceals a number of significant chan
44、ges to the engine. While these alterations are almost invisible to the average driver, Renault hopes they will improve the cars performance, and ultimately its survival in the marketplace. Whether they actually do so will depend, in part, on whether marketeers have read the public mood correctly. Fo
45、r, even if genetics really does offer a useful metaphor for automobiles, employing it in advertising is not without its dangers. That is because DNAs public image is ambiguous. In one context, people may see it as the cornerstone of modern medical progress. In another, it will bring to mind such con
46、troversial issues as abortion, genetically modified foodstuffs, and the sinister subject of eugenics. Car makers are probably standing on safer ground than biologists. But even they can make mistakes. Though it would not be obvious to the casual observer, some of the DNA which features in BMWs ads f
47、or its nice, new car once belonged to a woolly mammoth a beast that has been extinct for 10, 000 years. Not, presumably, quite the message that the marketing department was trying to convey. 61 The campaign staged by both BMW and Renault are to promote （ A） cars produced with brand-new technologies.
48、 （ B） cars modeled on DNA technology. （ C） cars which are improvements on the old ones. （ D） cars which have been face-lifted but otherwise remain little changed. 62 The difference between BMWs campaign and Renaults campaign is that （ A） BMWs campaign employs the metaphor of DNA while Renaults doesn
49、t. （ B） BMWs campaign emphasizes technological revolution while Renaults emphasizes technological evolution. （ C） BMWs campaign conveys improvement more explicitly than Renaults. （ D） BMWs campaign is a lot more expensive than Renaults. 63 It can be inferred that biological orthodoxy favors （ A） no change. （ B） gradual change. （ C） great change. （ D） destruction. 64 According to the author, the success of the campaigns may
