1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 32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 The mathematician has a college degree. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 2 The mathematician studi
2、ed science in Bronx High School of Science. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 3 The mathematician felt very lucky to learn some courses on new and modern scientific fields. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 4 The mathematician was not allowed to use the Columbia University libraries. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 5 The mathematici
3、an would like to study one by one a vast series of textbooks. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 6 The mathematician believes that there are two kinds of science. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 7 The mathematician thinks mathematics is both discovered and invented. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 8 The delightful book the mathemat
4、ician mentions was written by G.H. Hardy. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 9 The mathematician prefers to teach himself. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 10 The mathematician was delighted to be admitted to Columbus University. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong Part B Directions: You will hear 3 conversations or talks and you must a
5、nswer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 11 Mike often talks about _. （ A） the parties he went to. （ B） finding a place to live. （ C） his difficulties at his house. （ D） his friends house. 12 Mike wants to move, but he wants to live _. （ A） near the school
6、. （ B） by himself. （ C） in a quiet place. （ D） with his parents. 13 If Mike goes to live with Tom, he will prefer to have _. （ A） more food. （ B） more expense. （ C） more freedom. （ D） more noise. 14 Which is the suitable task that an au pair may do in the house? （ A） Decorating the house. （ B） Takin
7、g care of children. （ C） Painting the house. （ D） Mowing the lawn. 15 How much money should be given as pocket money for an au pair girl? （ A） 14 to 20 pounds a week. （ B） 15 to 20 pounds a week. （ C） 15 to 20 pounds a month. （ D） 20 to 40 pounds a month. 16 Which of the following is the appropriate
8、 nationality for an au pair girl? （ A） Japanese. （ B） Chinese. （ C） French. （ D） Russian. 17 When will both customers be free to travel? （ A） The first week of July. （ B） From the seventh to the twenty-third of July. （ C） From the first to the twenty-third of July. （ D） The whole month except for th
9、e last five days. 18 Which country did the two customers visit last year? （ A） Italy. （ B） Sweden. （ C） France. （ D） Portugal. 19 Why dont the customers want to go to Italy? （ A） Because them are too many young people. （ B） Because it would be too hot. （ C） Because they have been there. （ D） Because
10、 the dates dont suit them. 20 What is the mason that they dont like to go to Sweden? （ A） It is too expensive. （ B） It is too noisy. （ C） It has no beaches. （ D） It has no enough facilities. Part C Directions: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer the questions or complete the notes in your te
11、st 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 How much will a buyer be charged for a black Apples new MacBook laptop? 22 Price discrimination means charging some
12、buyers more than others for _ product or service. 23 Price discrimination is often fair among buyers, requiring those who are _ a greater share of sellers costs to shoulder a greater share of the burden. 24 Sellers costs per unit must _ with the number of units sold. 25 Pricing schemes enable compan
13、ies to attract more buyers and reduce the _ per buyer served. 26 Sellers offer _ only to buyers who are first willing to jump a hurdle of some sort. 27 From the sellers perspective, the perfect hurdle is one that can jump without difficulty but that other buyers find impossible to jump. 28 One of th
14、e best hurdles yet discovered is the airlines _. 29 Discount hurdles do not apportion costs among buyers _. 30 _, however, there appears to be at least rough justice in these and other hurdle schemes. 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text and fill each of the
15、numbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 31 Things must be going well in the parcels business. Consumers and companies continue to flock in droves to the internet to buy and sell things. FedEx reported its busiest period ever last December, (31) it handled almost
16、 9m packages in a single day. Online retailers also (32) new records in America. Excluding travel, some $82 billion was spent last year (33) things over the internet, 24% more than in 2004, (34) to COM Score Networks, which tracks consumer behavior. Online sales of clothing, computer software, toys,
17、 and home and garden products were all up (35) more than 30%. (36) most of this stuff was either posted or delivered (37) parcel companies. The boom is global, especially now that more companies are outsourcing production. It is becoming increasingly common for products to be (38) direct from factor
18、y to consumer. “The internet has had a profound effect (39) our business“, says David Abney, UPSs international president. UPS now (40) more than 14m packages worldwide every day. It is striking that postal firms (41) seen as obsolete because of the (42) of the internet are now finding salvation (43
19、) it. People are paying more bills online and sending more e-malls (44) of letters, but most post offices are making up (45) that thanks to e-commerce. (46) four years of profits, the United States Postal Service has cleared its $11 billion of (47). Both post officers and express-delivery firms have
20、 (48) a range of services to help ecommerce and eBays traders who listed a colossal 1.9 billion items (49) sale last year. (50) the most popular services are tracking numbers, which allow people to follow the progress of their deliveries on the internet. Part A Directions: Read the following texts a
21、nd answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 51 On an average of six limes a day, a doctor in Holland practices “active“ euthanasia: intentionally administering a lethal drug to a terminally ill patient who has asked to be relieved of su
22、ffering. Twenty times a day, life-prolonging treatment is withheld or withdrawn when there is no hope that it can affect an ultimate cure. “Active“ euthanasia remains a crime on the Dutch statute books punishable by 12 years in prison. But a series of court cases over the past 15 years has made it c
23、lear that a competent physician who carries it out will not be prosecuted. Euthanasia, often called “mercy killing“, is a crime everywhere in Western Europe. But more and more doctors and nurses in Britain, West Germany, Holland and elsewhere readily admit to practicing it, most often in the “passiv
24、e“ form of withholding or withdrawing treatment. The long simmering euthanasia issue has lately boiled over into a sometimes fierce public debate, with both sides claiming the mantle of ultimate righteousness. Those opposed to the practice see themselves up-holding sacred principles of respect for l
25、ife, while those in favor raise the banner of humane treatment. After years on the defensive, the advocates now seem to be gaining ground. Recent polls in Britain show that 72 percent of British subjects favor euthanasia in some circumstances. An astonishing 76 percent of respondents to a poll taken
26、 late last year in France said they would like the law changed to decriminalize mercy killings. Reasons for the latest surge of interest in euthanasia are not hard to find. Europeans, like Americans, are now living longer. The average European male now lives to the age of 72, women to almost 80. As
27、Derek Humphrey, a leading British advocate of “rational euthanasia“ says, “lingering chronic diseases have replaced critical illnesses as the primary cause of death“. And so the euthanasists have begun to press their case with greater force. They argue that every human being should have the right to
28、 “die with dignity“, by which they usually mean the right to escape the horrors of a painful or degrading hospitalization. Most advocates of voluntary euthanasia have argued that the right to die should be accorded only to the terminally and incurably ill, but the movement also includes a small mino
29、rity who believe in euthanasia for anyone who rationally decides to take his own life. That right is unlikely to get legal recognition any time in the near future. Even in the Netherlands, the proposals now before Parliament would restrict euthanasia to a small number of cases and would surround eve
30、n those with elaborate safeguards. 51 According to Paragraph 1, which of the following is not true? （ A） Active euthanasia is regarded as a crime by Dutch law. （ B） The doctor who carried out euthanasia will be charged. （ C） An unqualified doctor carrying out euthanasia will be accused. （ D） Active
31、euthanasia executives will be sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. 52 Euthanasia is often called “mercy killing“, which implies that _. （ A） people should show sympathy for a terminally ill patient. （ B） some doctors murder patients shielding themselves from mercy. （ C） humane treatment to dying pati
32、ents should be required. （ D） the dying patients are suffering from the pain and they dont want to live on. 53 Most advocates of voluntary euthanasia hold the opinion that _. （ A） only terminally ill patients can have euthanasia. （ B） if anyone who rationally decides to end his life, he can have eut
33、hanasia. （ C） people should respect for life. （ D） no matter what punishment they get, theyll carry out euthanasia to patients. 54 The authors attitudes towards euthanasia are _. （ A） positive. （ B） negative. （ C） objective. （ D） uncertain. 55 In Paragraph 2, “boiled over“ means _. （ A） bursting int
34、o. （ B） making the water hot enough to boil. （ C） causing great anger. （ D） fighting one another. 56 In the next century well be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms. When Dr. Frankenstein made his monster, he wrestled with the moral issu
35、e of whether he should allow it to reproduce, “Had I the right, for my own benefit, to inflict the curse upon everlasting generations?“ Will such questions require us to develop new moral philosophies? Probably not. Instead, well reach again for a time tested moral concept, one sometimes called the
36、Golden Rule and which Kant, the millenniums most prudent moralist, conjured up into a categorical imperative: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; heat each person as an individual rather than as a means to some end. Under this moral precept we should recoil at human cloning, because i
37、t inevitably entails using humans as means to other humans ends and valuing them as copies of others we loved or as collections of body parts, not as individuals in their own right. We should also draw a line, however fuzzy, that would permit using genetic engineering to cure diseases and disabiliti
38、es but not to change the personal attributes that make someone an individual (IQ, physical appearance, gender and sexuality)。 The biotech age will also give us more reason to guard our personal privacy. Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, got it wrong: rather than centralizing power in the hands of th
39、e state, DNA technology has empowered individuals and families. But the state will have an important role, making sure that no one, including insurance companies, can look at our genetic data without our permission or use it to discriminate against us. Then we can get ready for the breakthroughs tha
40、t could come at the end of the next century and the technology is comparable to mapping our genes: plotting the 10 billion or more neurons of our brain. With that information we might someday be able to create artificial intelligences that think and experience consciousness in ways that are indistin
41、guishable from a human brain. Eventually we might be able to replicate our own minds in a “dry ware“ machine, so that we could live on without the “wet ware“ of a biological brain and body. The 20th centurys revolution in infotechnology will thereby merge with the 21st centurys revolution in biotech
42、nology. But this is science fiction. Lets mm the page now and get back to real science. 56 Dr. Frankensteins remarks are mentioned in the text _. （ A） to give an episode of the DNA technological breakthroughs. （ B） to highlight the importance of a means to some everlasting ends. （ C） to show how he
43、created a new form of life a thousand years ago. （ D） to introduce the topic of moral philosophies incurred in biotechnology. 57 It can be concluded from the text that the technology of human cloning should be employed _. （ A） excessively and extravagantly. （ B） reasonably and cautiously. （ C） aggre
44、ssively and indiscriminately. （ D） openly and enthusiastically. 58 From the text, we learn that Aldous Huxley is of the opinion that _. （ A） DNA technology should be placed in the charge of individuals. （ B） government should assume less control over individuals. （ C） people need government to prote
45、ct their DNA information. （ D） old moral precepts should be abolished on human cloning. 59 Judged from the information in the last paragraph, the following part will talk about? （ A） The reflection upon biotechnological morality. （ B） The offensive invasion of our personal privacy. （ C） The inevitab
46、le change of IQs for our descendants. （ D） The present state of biotechnological research. 60 According to the last paragraph, “dry-ware“ is to “wet-ware“ as _. （ A） collective to “individual“. （ B） fictional to “factual“. （ C） mechanical to “corporeal“. （ D） temporary to “permanent“. 61 Many langua
47、ge teachers and learners tend to ask the question: Why should we teach or learn linguistics? Since linguistics is defined as the scientific study of language, it seems obvious that such a study would help a lot in language teaching and learning, although there is much difference between linguistics
48、and language teaching or learning in their attitudes towards language, their goals, and their methods. Language is viewed as a system of forms in linguistics, but it is regarded as a set of skills in the field of language teaching. Linguistic research is concerned with the establishment of theories
49、which explains the phenomena of language, whereas language teaching aims at the learners mastery of language. To bridge the gap between the theories of/linguistics and the practice of foreign language teaching, APPLIED LINGUISTICS serves as a mediating area which interprets the results of linguistic theories and makes them user-friendly to the language teacher and learner. Applied linguistics is conducive to foreign language teaching in two major aspects: Firstly, a
