1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 45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 Professor Wang went on a lecture tour to Edinburgh. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 2 Wang visite
2、d the lake area by himself. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 3 Mrs. Gross feels jealous of Wang as she herself has not visited Edinburgh. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 4 The British have more opportunities to see their country than foreign visitors. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 5 Mrs. Gross has never traveled by air before.
3、（ A） Right （ B） Wrong 6 It did cost Professor Wang much in taking and developing his photos. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 7 Wang is quite reluctant to show Mrs. Gross his pictures. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 8 Mrs. Gross says she is particularly impressed by a photo showing a castle. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 9 Pro
4、fessor Wang enriched his experience in Britain through his trip. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 10 Wang forgot the time and is almost late for his airplane. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 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 hea
5、r the recording ONLY ONCE. 11 What is the first guideline to investing? （ A） Developing a savings plan. （ B） Setting up a savings plan. （ C） Setting clear investing goals. （ D） Getting help from an expert. 12 Which investment did Mr. Boros NOT mention? （ A） Mutual funds. （ B） Bonds. （ C） Cash. （ D）
6、Certificate of deposits. 13 People should invest long term because _. （ A） the market has both up and down years （ B） you can earn bigger guaranteed returns （ C） 30% returns can be achieved （ D） the market can be affected by the weather 14 Which is NOT the purpose of the adult students taking part i
7、n adult programs? （ A） To finish their education. （ B） To learn job skills. （ C） To explore new interests. （ D） To develop their brains. 15 Which of the following is NOT mentioned in this talk? （ A） Montgomery College. （ B） The University of Arizona. （ C） Elder hostel. （ D） The departments of Agricu
8、lture and Defense. 16 Which of the following is true according to the talk? （ A） Adult education classes meet in school, public libraries, religious centers and nature science. （ B） Adults can take the classes by mail or on their computers providing by the University of Arizona Extended University.
9、（ C） Some adults explore new interests through learning job skills and speaking a foreign language. （ D） An agency in the Federal Department of Education offers classes in many subjects for adults. 17 Why is the woman doubtful about the holiday? （ A） They need a new car. （ B） They havent got time. （
10、 C） They need 500 extra. （ D） They are short of money. 18 Why is the man irritated? （ A） Because his wife thinks family holidays are best. （ B） Because his wife doesnt want to go on holiday. （ C） Because his wife doesnt think holidays are necessary. （ D） Because his wife wants to be in England for C
11、hristmas. 19 What does the woman suggest for their holiday? （ A） Going to Europe for their Christmas. （ B） Going to a hot and sunny place. （ C） Going to Barbados at Christmas. （ D） Staying at home and having a cup of coffee. 20 How does the mans attitude change during the conversation? （ A） From irr
12、itation to alarm. （ B） From anger to resignation. （ C） From optimism to frustration. （ D） From disappointment to acceptance. 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 word
13、s in the space provided on the right. You will hear the talk TWICE. You now have 1 minute to read Questions 21-30. 21 According to the speaker, there are _ symptoms of culture shock. 22 When did Oberg describe the stages of culture? 23 Oberg described the four stages of culture shock in _ culture. 2
14、4 In what stage does a person feel happy and excited in the host country? 25 The second stage of culture shock is called _ according to Oberg. 26 How does a person usually feel in the second stage of culture shock? 27 In which stage does the person begin to get used to the new culture? 28 A person u
15、sually feels _ when he experiences “re-entry crisis“. 29 _ provides people with knowledge and various experiences. 30 In summary, what is the speaker talking about? 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable wo
16、rd. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 31 To begin with, we are witnessing a (31) explosion of “solos“ people who live (32), outside a family altogether. Between 1970 and 1978, the number of persons aged fourteen (33) thirty-four who lived alone nearly tripled in the United State (34) from 1.5 mi
17、llion to 4.3 million. Today, (35) fifth of all households in the United States consists (36) a living solo. (37) are all these people losers or loners, forced into the solo life. Many deliberately choose it, at least for a time. Says a legislative aide to a Seattle councilwoman, “I (38) consider mar
18、riage if the right person came (39), but I would not give up my career (40) it“. Looking at an older slice of the population, we find a large number of formerly married people, living on their (41) and, in many eases, decidedly liking it. The growth of such groups (42) created a flourishing “singles
19、“ culture and a much publicized proliferation of bars, travel tours, and (43) services or products de- signed for the independent individual. Simultaneously, the real estate industry has come (44) with “singles only“ condominia, and has begun to respond to a (45) for smaller apartments and suburban
20、homes with fewer bedrooms. We are now experiencing a growth (46) the number of people living together (47) bothering about legal formalities. This group has more (48) doubled in the past decade. The practice has become so common that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has overthrow
21、n tradition and (49) its rules to permit such couples to occupy public housing. The courts are wrestling (50) the legal and property complications that spring up when such couples “divorce“. Part A Directions: Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C
22、 or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 51 Can the Internet help patients jump the line at the doctors office? The Silicon Valley Employers Forum, a sophisticated group of technology companies, is launching a pilot program to test online “virtual visits“ between doctors at three big local medica
23、l groups and about 6 000 employees and their families. The six employers taking part in the Silicon Valley initiative, including heavy hitters such as Oracle and Cisco Systems, hope that online visits will mean employees wont have to skip work to tend to minor ailments or to follow up on chronic con
24、ditions. “With our long commutes and traffic, driving 40 miles to your doctor in your hometown can be a big chunk of time“, says Cindy Conway, benefits director at Cadence Design Systems, one of the participating companies. Doctors arent clamoring to chat with patients online for free; they spend en
25、ough unpaid time on the phone. Only 1 in 5 has ever e-mailed a patient, and just 9 percent are interested in doing so, according to the research firm Cyber Dialogue. “We are not stupid“, says Stifling Somers, executive director of the Silicon Valley employers group. “Doctors getting paid is a critic
26、al piece in getting this to work“. In the pilot program, physicians will get $20 per online consultation, about what they get for a simple office visit. Doctors also fear theyll be swamped by rambling e-mails that tell everything but whats needed to make a diagnosis. So the new program will use tech
27、nology supplied by Healinx, an Alameda, Calif-based star-up. Healinxs “Smart Symptom Wizard“ questions patients and turns answers into a succinct message. The company has online dialogues for 60 common conditions. The doctor can then diagnose the problem and outline a treatment plan, which could inc
28、lude e-mailing a prescription or a face-to-face visit. Can e-mail replace the doctors office? Many conditions, such as persistent cough, require a stethoscope to discover whats wrong and to avoid a malpractice suit. Even Larry Bonham, head of one of the doctors groups in the pilot, believes the virt
29、ual doctors visits offer a “very narrow“ sliver of service between phone calls to an advice nurse and a visit to the clinic. The pilot program, set to end in nine months, also hopes to determine whether online visits will boost worker productivity enough to offset the cost of the service. So far, th
30、e Internets record in the health field has been underwhelming. The experiment is “a huge roll of the dice for Healinx“, notes Michael Barrett, an analyst at Internet consulting firm Forester Research. If the “Web visits“ succeed, expect some HMOs (Health Maintenance Organizations) to pay for online
31、visits. If doctors, employers, and patients arent satisfied, figure on one more E health star-up to stand down. 51 The Silicon Valley employers promote the E-health program for the purpose of _. （ A） rewarding their employees （ B） gratifying the local hospitals （ C） boosting worker productivity （ D）
32、 testing a sophisticated technology 52 What can be learned about the online doctors visits? （ A） They are a quite promising business. （ B） They are funded by the local government. （ C） They are welcomed by all the patients. （ D） They are very much under experimentation. 53 Of the following people, w
33、ho are not involved in the program? （ A） Cisco System employees. （ B） Advice nurses in the clinic. （ C） Doctors at three local hospitals. （ D） Oracle executives. 54 According to Paragraph 2, doctors are _. （ A） reluctant to serve online for nothing （ B） not interested in Web consultation （ C） too ti
34、red to talk to the patients online （ D） content with $20 paid per Web visit 55 Smart Symptom Wizard is capable of _. （ A） making diagnoses （ B） producing prescriptions （ C） profiling patients illnesses （ D） offering treatment plans 56 Many things make people think artists are weird. But the weirdest
35、 may be this: artists only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad. This wasnt always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happi
36、ness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworths daffodils to Baudelaires flowers of evil. You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery. But its not as if earlier times didnt know perpetual war, disaster and
37、 the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today. After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the e
38、mergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just all ideal but an ideology. People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and litera
39、cy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too. Today the messages the average Westerner is bombarded with are not relig
40、ious but commercial, and for ever happy Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda to lure us to open our wallets they make the very idea of hap
41、piness seem unreliable. “Celebrate!“ commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks. But what we forget what our economy depends on us forgetting is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greate
42、st joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. Its a me
43、ssage even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air. 56 By citing the examples of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that _. （ A） poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music （ B） art grows out of both positive and negative feelings
44、（ C） poets today are less skeptical of happiness （ D） artists have changed their focus of interest 57 The word “bummer“ (Line 4, Paragraph 5) most probably means something _. （ A） religious （ B） unpleasant （ C） entertaining （ D） commercial 58 In the authors opinion, advertising _. （ A） emerges in th
45、e wake of the anti-happy art （ B） is a cause of disappointment for the general public （ C） replaces tile church as a major source of information （ D） creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself 59 We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes _. （ A） happiness more
46、often than not ends in sadness （ B） the anti-happy art is distasteful but refreshing （ C） misery should be enjoyed rather than denied （ D） the anti happy art flourishes when economy booms 60 Which of the following is true of the text? （ A） Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery. （ B） Art p
47、rovides a balance between expectation and reality. （ C） People feel disappointed at the realities of modern society. （ D） Mass media are disinclined to cover disasters and deaths. 61 In the atmosphere, carbon dioxide acts rather like a one-way mirror the glass in the roof of a greenhouse which allow
48、s the suns rays to enter but prevents the heat from escaping. According to a weather experts prediction, the atmosphere will be 3 warmer in the year 2050 than it is today, if man continues to burn fuels at the present rate. If this warming up took place, the ice caps in the poles would begin to melt
49、, thus raising sea level several metres and severely flooding coastal cities. Also, the increase in atmospheric temperature would lead to great changes in the climate of the northern hemisphere, possibly resulting in an alteration of the earths chief food-growing zones. In the past, concern about a man-made warming of the earth has concentrated on the Arctic because the Antarctic is much colder and has a much thicker ice sheet. But the weather experts are now paying more attention t
