1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 171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 Though Paul is disabled, he managed to move around in the house. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE
2、2 Mr Miller enjoys doing things with his own hands. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE 3 The front door to his home does not open automatically. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE 4 Mr Miller bought his house simply because the flat he used to live in was too expensive. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE 5 Government buildings often have sp
3、ecial paths for those people handicapped. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE 6 Paul could reach all the switches because they were originally installed at the right height of him. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE 7 Do-it-Yourself has become one of Mr Millers hobbies. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE 8 Mr Miller had known a lot about car
4、pentry and electric wiring before he was engaged in do-it-yourself. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE 9 Mr Miller did changes on the house only for fun. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE 10 Mr Miller will buy a new house with the money he has won. （ A） TRUE （ B） FALSE Part B Directions: You will hear 3 conversations or talks
5、 and you must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 11 When a consumer finds that his purchase has a fault in it, what is the first thing he should do? （ A） Complain personally to the manager. （ B） Threaten to take the matter to court. （ C） Write a fir
6、m letter of complaint to the store of purchase. （ D） Show some written proof of the purchase to the store. 12 If a consumer wants a quick settlement of the problem, whom is it better to complain to? （ A） A shop assistant. （ B） The store manager. （ C） The manufacturer. （ D） A public organization. 13
7、How can the most effective complaint be made? （ A） Showing the fault item to the manager. （ B） Explaining exactly what is wrong with the item. （ C） Saying firmly that the item is of poor quality. （ D） Asking politely to change the item. 14 When was the American Football Association founded? （ A） In
8、1913. （ B） In 1930. （ C） In 1914. （ D） In 1917. 15 Which of the following records of the US football team is true? （ A） First place in the 3rd world Cup. （ B） Second place in the 4th World Cup. （ C） Third place in the 1st World Cup. （ D） Fourth place in the 2nd World Cup. 16 Where was the finals of
9、the World Cup in 1994 held? （ A） In England. （ B） In the USA. （ C） In Mexico. （ D） In France. 17 What does the speaker mainly discuss? （ A） The distribution of different species of amphibians. （ B） Possible reasons for reduction in the number of amphibians. （ C） The effects of environmental change o
10、n the fish industry. （ D） Guidelines for the responsible use of pesticides. 18 According to the speaker, how do developers contribute to the reduction of amphibian population? （ A） By taking over ponds. （ B） By constructing sewers. （ C） By building dams on rivers. （ D） By flooding marshes. 19 Accord
11、ing to the speaker, how do some pesticides get into ponds? （ A） They are applied to aquatic weeds by fish farming. （ B） Amphibians release them from their skin. （ C） Irresponsible dispose of them in ponds. （ D） They are washed into ponds by the rain. 20 According to the speaker, why do pesticides po
12、se a threat to amphibians? （ A） Pesticides can cause an amphibians skin to dry out. （ B） Pesticides kill the insects that amphibians depend on for food. （ C） Dissolved pesticides can easily enter amphibians bodies. （ D） Amphibians may eat plants that have been treated with pesticides. Part C Directi
13、ons: 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 read Questions 21-30. 21 Where did rice origin
14、ate? 22 What kind of grain did most Europeans eat 500 years ago? 23 What kind of grain could be found in American diet 500 years ago? 24 Who gave dairy products to the native Americans? 25 In which year did Columbus take chili pepper to Spain? 26 How long did it take for chili pepper to become popul
15、ar around the world? 27 Where cant chili pepper grow according to the talk? 28 What did Europeans think of potatoes? 29 What was potato used for in Europe at first? 30 In what part of the world is potato especially a favorite food? 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the follo
16、wing 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【 C1】 _is to sell the product. The second purpose might be more important to
17、the manufacturers than the【 C2】 _. The manufacturers go beyond only telling consumers about their products. They also try to persuade customers to buy the【 C3】 _by creating a desire【 C4】 _it. Because of advertisement, consumers think that they want something that they do not need. After buying somet
18、hing, the purchaser cannot always explain why it was【 C5】_. Even【 C6】 _the purchaser probably does not know why he or she bought something, the manufacturers【 C7】 _. Manufacturers have analyzed the business of【 C8】 _and buying. They know all the different motives that influence a consumer s purchase
19、 some rational and【 C9】 _emotional. Furthermore, they take advantage of this【 C10】 _. Why【 C11】 _so many products displayed at the checkout counters in grocery stores? The store management has some good【 C12】 _. By the time the customer is【 C13】 _to pay for a purchase, he or she has already made rat
20、ional, thought-out decisions【 C14】 _what he or she needs and wants to buy. The【 C15】_feels that he or she has done a good job of choosing the items. The shopper is especially vulnerable at this point. The【 C16】 _of candy, chewing gum, and magazines are very attractive. They persuade the purchaser to
21、 buy something for emotional, not【 C17】 _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【 C18】 _. This is exactly【 C19】 _the store and the manufacturer hope that the customer will【
22、 C20】 _. The customer follows his or her plan. 31 【 C1】 32 【 C2】 33 【 C3】 34 【 C4】 35 【 C5】 36 【 C6】 37 【 C7】 38 【 C8】 39 【 C9】 40 【 C10】 41 【 C11】 42 【 C12】 43 【 C13】 44 【 C14】 45 【 C15】 46 【 C16】 47 【 C17】 48 【 C18】 49 【 C19】 50 【 C20】 Part A Directions: Read the following texts and answer the que
23、stions 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 isn t biting her nails just yet. But the 47-year-old manicurist isn t cutting, filling or polishing as many nails as she d like to, either. Most of her cli
24、ents spend $ 12 to $ 50 weekly, but last month two longtime customers suddenly stopped showing up. Spero blames the softening economy. “Im a good economic indicator, “ she says, “I provide a service that people can do without when theyre concerned about saving some dollars. “ So Spero is downscaling
25、, 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 Alan Greenspan s admission that America s red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already
26、 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 their revenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time. A
27、lready, 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 the economy s long-term prospects, even as fiiey do some modest belt-tightening. Consumers say they r
28、e 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, predominantly fed by Wall Street bonuses, “ says broker Barbara Corcoran. In San Francisco, prices are still
29、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 comfortable about their ability to find and keep a job. Many folks see silver linings to this slowdown. Po
30、tential homebuyers would cheer for lower interest rates. Employers wouldn t mind a little fewer bubbles in the job market. Many consumers seem to have been influenced by stock-market swings, which investors now view as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom. Diners might see an upside, too. Gett
31、ing 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 reasons seemed as mundane as the other happen-stances of suburban life. “I was just sick of it all, “
32、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 backed away from this remark . But coming in the wake of at least sixteen suicide attempts over the previ
33、ous 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 at the hospital, told more than 200 parents and kids, “Were talking about a crisis that has really gotten
34、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 problems at home or school. “Many of these were popular kids, “he said, “They got plenty of love, but beneath t
35、he 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 their arms. A few girls casually display scars on their arms where they cut themselves. “Youd be surprised h
36、ow 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, a friend of three of the girls treated in June, said one was having family problems, one was “upset that day “and
37、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, “What s going on in New Milford is not unique to New Milford. “The same underlying culture of despair could be found in any town. But teen suicide,
38、 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） The village Green is not a charming place. （ C） Teenager suicide. （ D） Dr. Simon Sobos achievements. 57 In the 3rd se
39、ntence 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? （ A） They are all between 12 and 17. （ B） They have tried a variety of measures. （ C） They attend a suicide squad. （
40、 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“. （ C） Teens need attention. （ D） A few casually display scars on their arms. 60 According to the passage, the tee
41、ns 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 artist Sandro Botticelli(1444 - 1510)suggests that widespread appreciation by critics is a relatively recent phenome
42、non. 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 centuries, academic art historians defamed Botticelli in favor of his fellows Florentine, Michelangelo. Even when
43、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 taste, pleasing neither amateur observers nor connoisseurs.(Many of his best paintings, however, remained hidden awa
44、y 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 consider him to be noteworthy, because his work, for the most part, did not seem to these observers to exhibit the t
45、raditional characteristics of the fifteenth-century Florentine art. For example, Botticelli rarely employed the technique of strict perspective and, unlike Michelangelo, never used chiaroscuro. Another reason for Botticelli s unpopularity may have been that his attitude toward the style of classical
46、 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 is paradoxical that a painter of large-scale classical subjects adopted a style that was only slightly similar to
47、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 Florentine art, his reputation began to grow. Analyses and assessments of Botticelli made between 1850 and 1870 by the artists of the Pre-Rap
48、haelite 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 Botticelli throughout the English-speaking world. Yet Botticelli s work, especially the Sistine frescoes, did not ge
49、nerate 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 features 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 rath
