1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 47 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 interview is based on a sociological survey. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 2 People have w
2、rong images or stereotypes about all professions or jobs. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 3 Stereotypes may exert a bad influence on choosing a really suitable job. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 4 The survey was about what kind of jobs children want to do. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 5 The children investigated were given
3、twelve pairs of statements. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 6 The host wants to see the whole list of professions asked about in the survey. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 7 About 90% of the children associated electrical engineer with dirty work. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 8 According to the result, most children will not
4、 choose economist as career. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 9 Children may have no idea of their real work because they judge a job by its name. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 10 In most European countries an engineer is not an important profession. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong Part B Directions: You will hear 3 conversatio
5、ns or talks and you must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 11 What is the student interested in exactly? （ A） Japanese art. （ B） Chinese art. （ C） Influence of Chinese art on Korean art. （ D） Korean art. 12 When did Japanese art really take its for
6、m? （ A） In the 7th century. （ B） In the 9th century. （ C） In the 10th century. （ D） In the 13th century. 13 When did the influence of Chinese art come to an end? （ A） In the tenth century when the Chinese Empire was in a state of war and disintegration. （ B） In the thirteenth century after a new wav
7、e of Chinese influence on Japan art. （ C） In the early seventeenth century when the art of Japanese features was established. （ D） It continued and never came to an end according to the professor. 14 To start a new business, you should first _. （ A） get ahead of yourself （ B） explore the market （ C）
8、 know more about competitors （ D） forecast the lowest cost 15 Which of the following may be a potential competitor against an online magazine dealer? （ A） Another online dealer who sells the same magazine. （ B） A sales man who sells video CD and story books. （ C） A company which sells clothes, food,
9、 appliances, etc. （ D） An online company which provides computer repairing service. 16 From the talk we can infer that _. （ A） big businesses can sustain losses even if they make a mistake in selecting new products （ B） big businesses will be out of business if their new products are not welcomed by
10、 the market （ C） small businesses can adjust their management quite flexibly to suit the market （ D） small businesses can be flexible in deciding the price range for their new products 17 What is George Orwell mainly known as? （ A） A literary critic. （ B） A war correspondent. （ C） A volunteer in the
11、 Spanish Civil War. （ D） A novelist. 18 Where was George Orwell born? （ A） Spain. （ B） America. （ C） Burma. （ D） India. 19 What is most important in Orwells life? （ A） Although English, he was actually not born in England. （ B） He was a student of the famous English public school, Eton. （ C） He trie
12、d to enlighten and change society through his works. （ D） He worked as a policeman in Burma for five years. 20 What are the listeners going to do after the presentation? （ A） To ask the speaker questions. （ B） To discuss “ANIMAL FARM“. （ C） To write essays on Orwells life. （ D） To read the book “198
13、4“. 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 read Questions 21-30. 21 Pre
14、sident Kennedy died _ years before the day the speech was made. 22 Harvard University is situated in _. 23 _ is the largest city in the New England region. 24 How many presidents of the U.S. has graduated from Harvard? 25 How many students is studying in Harvard today according to the speaker? 26 Ha
15、rvard focused on educating men for the ministry, particularly _ in its earliest years. 27 When was Charles Elliot elected President of Harvard University? 28 Admission to Harvard is based on _ according to the speaker. 29 The 1800s are viewed as years of physical growth and _ for Harvard. 30 What st
16、udents on campus will increase according to Harvards recent policies? 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. 31 Old people are always saying that the young people
17、 are not (31) they were. The same comment is made (32) generation to generation and it is always (33). It has never been truer than it is today. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy (34) freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so (35) on their parents.
18、Events which the old generation remember vividly are (36) more than past history. This is as it should be. Every new generation is (37) from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed. The old always assume that they know best for the simple (38) that they have been (39) a
19、bit longer. They dont like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened. And this is precisely what the (40) are doing. They are questioning the assumptions of their elders and disturbing (41) complacency. They take leave to (42) that the older generation has created the best of all
20、possible worlds. What they reject more than anything (43) conformity. Office, hours, for instance, and nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldnt people work best (44) they were given complete freedom and responsibility? And what (45) the clothing? Who said that all the men in the world should (46)
21、 drab grey suits? If we turn our minds to more serious matters, who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics (47) by violent means? Why have the older generation so often used violence to (48) their problems? Why are they are so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their p
22、ersonal lives, so obsessed (49) mean ambitions and the desire to amass more and more material possessions? Can anything be right with the rat-race? Havent the old lost touch with all (50) is important in life? Part A Directions: Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them
23、by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 51 In January 1995, the world witnessed the emergence of a new international economic order with the launching of the World Trade Organization. The WTO, which succeeds the GAIT, is expected to strengthen the world trading system and to b
24、e more effective than the GATT in governing international trade in goods and services in many aspects. First, trade liberalization all over the world is expected to increase via the dramatic reductions in wade barriers to which the members of the WTO are committed. Under the WTO, members are require
25、d to reduce their tariff and non-tariffs on manufacturing goods. In addition, protecting domestic agricultural sectors from foreign competition will become awfully difficult in the new WTO system. Second, rules and regulations governing international trade will be more strongly enforced. Under the o
26、ld system of the GATT, there were many cases where trade measures, such as anti-dumping and countervailing duties, were intentionally used solely for protectionist reasons. The WTOs strengthened rules and regulations will significantly reduce the abusing of such trade measures by its member countrie
27、s. The WTO is also equipped with an improved dispute settlement mechanism. Accordingly, we expect to see a more effective resolution of trade disputes among the member countries in this new trade environment. Third, new multilateral rules have been established to cover areas which the GATT did not a
28、ddress, such as international trade in services and the protection of intellectual property rights. There still remain a number of problems that need to be resolved before international trade in services can be completely liberalized, and newly-developed ideas or technologies are fairly compensated.
29、 However, just the establishment of multilateral rules in these new areas is a distinguished contribution to the progress toward a global free trade system. Along with the launching of the WTO, this new era in world trade is characterized by a change in the structure of the world economy. Today, a w
30、orld-wide market for goods and services is rapidly replacing a world economy composed of relatively isolated national markets. Domestic financial markets have been integrated into a truly global system, and the multinational corporation is becoming a principle mechanism for allocating investment cap
31、ital and determining the location of production sites throughout much of the world. 51 Between WTO and GAIT_. （ A） WTO and GATT govern the international trade at the same time. （ B） WTO is the pre-existence of GATT. （ C） GATT is the pre-existence of WTO. （ D） GATT is more effective than WTO in some
32、aspects. 52 According to this passage, under the WTO_. （ A） measures of anti-dumping and countervailing were solely used for protectionist reason. （ B） it is still easy to protect domestic agricultural sectors from foreign competition. （ C） people can enjoy better life. （ D） members should reduce th
33、eir tariff and non-tariff on products. 53 Which of the following is NOT true about the WTO? （ A） WTO has made good preparation for liberalization of international trade in service. （ B） WTO ensures effective settlement of trade dispute. （ C） Under WTO, regulations concerning international trade can
34、be more strongly enforced. （ D） WTO covers intellectual property rights. 54 It can be inferred form this passage that_. （ A） under GATT some measures can not be effectively enforced. （ B） under GATT, the intellectual property right cannot be properly protected. （ C） it is not easy for a country to g
35、et absorbed by WTO. （ D） WTO cannot change the structure of world economy totally. 55 Which can be the best title for the passage? （ A） The Launching of WTO. （ B） The Influence on WTO. （ C） The Superiority of WTO over GATT. （ D） The Influence Caused by WTO. 56 Evolutionary theories. The Belgian Geor
36、ge Lemaitre proposed the idea that about 20,000 million years ago all the matter in the universeenough, he estimated, to make up a hundred thousand million galaxieswas all concentrated in one small mass, which he called the “primeval atom“. This primeval atom exploded for some reasons, sending its m
37、atter out in all directions, and as the expansion slowed down, a steady state resulted, at which time the galaxies formed. Something then upset the balance and the universe started expanding again, and this is the state in which the universe is now. There are variations on this theory: it may be tha
38、t there was no steady state. However, basically, evolutionary theories take it that the universe was formed in one place at one point in time and has been expanding ever since. Will the universe continue to expand? It may be that the universe will continue to expand for ever, but some astronomers be
39、lieve that the expansion will slow down and finally stop. Thereafter the universe will start to contract until all the matter in it is once again concentrated at one point. Possibly the universe may oscillate for ever in this fashion, expanding to its maximum and then contracting over again. The ste
40、ady-state theory. Developed at Cambridge by Hoyle, Gold and Bodi, the steady-state theory maintains that the universe as a whole has always looked the same and always will. As the galaxies expand away from each other, new material is formed in some ways between the galaxies and makes up new galaxies
41、 to take place of those which have receded. Thus the general distribution of galaxies remains the same. How matter could be formed in this way is hard to see, but no harder than seeing why it should all form in one place at one time. How can we decide which of these theories is closer to the truth?
42、The method is in principle quite simple. Since the very distant galaxies are thousands of millions of light years away, then we are seeing them as they were thousands of millions of years ago. If the evolutionary theory is correct, the galaxies were closer together in the past than they are now, and
43、 so distant galaxies ought to appear to be closer together than nearer ones. According to the steady-state theory there should be no difference. The evidence seems to suggest that there is a difference, that the galaxies were closer together than they are now, and so the evolutionary theory is parti
44、ally confirmed and the steady-state theoryin its original form at leastmust be rejected. 56 What do both theories assume to be true? （ A） That new material is continually being formed. （ B） That, in time, the universe will contract. （ C） That the universe is expanding at present. （ D） That “a big ha
45、ng“ started the expansion. 57 According to Lemaitre, the separate galaxies formed_. （ A） during a pause in the expansion of the universe. （ B） at the time of the primeval explosion. （ C） and will continue to form for ever. （ D） about 20,000 million years ago. 58 What is the basic difference between
46、the two classes of theories? （ A） It concerns the place and time of the formation of matter. （ B） It is whether the universe will continue lo expand or not. （ C） It is the current state of the universe. （ D） The variations on evolutionary theories cause the difference. 59 According to Hoyle and his
47、friends at Cambridge_. （ A） the explosion occurred much earlier than Lemaitre suggested. （ B） it is hard to see how matter could be formed in this way. （ C） the expansion of the universe is not a real one. （ D） new material is continually being created. 60 We see distant galaxies as they were long,
48、long ago because_. （ A） they were closer together then. （ B） the universe has always looked as the some. （ C） their light takes so long to reach us. （ D） they have travelled such a long way. 61 Steve Courtney wrote historical novels. Not, he was quick to explain, over-colourful love stories of the k
49、ind that made so much money for so many women writers, but novels sot, and correctly set, in historical periods. Whatever difference he saw in his own books, his readers did not seem to notice it, and his readers were nearly all women. He had studied in university, but he had been a particularly good student, and he had never afterwards let any academic knowledge he had achieved interfere with his writing. Helen, his wife, who did not have a very high opinion of her husbands ability as a novelist, had be
