1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 77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 Mr. Gallant has met Mr. Brown before. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 2 Mr. Brown likes to drink
2、tea better than coffee. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 3 Mr. Gallant lives on the West Coast or the U.S. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 4 Mr. Gallant says he was born in Utah. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 5 In the early days, there was only one theater in the town. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 6 The town developed mainly because o
3、f tourism. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 7 Housing is the most expensive in the U.S., but food prices aye reasonable. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 8 Mr. Gallants father was a soldier in the War. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 9 Mr. Gallant says that there used to be a wood near the shore. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 10 Mr. Galla
4、nt likes to see his interview to be published. （ 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 hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 11 The thesis of the passage is _. （ A） nobody can be happier than those w
5、ho have survived an air crash （ B） terrible news catches the attention of the audience more than ordinary news （ C） in daily life there are more good news than bad ones （ D） TV studios should offer more good news than bad ones 12 The authors attitude toward the letter senders is _. （ A） in agreement
6、 with them （ B） satirical （ C） fact seeking （ D） angry 13 Th fallacy the author makes in the passage is _. （ A） to emphasize the negative side of everything （ B） to let the letter senders have it in their way （ C） to call plain and ordinary things “good news“ （ D） to give examples of “good news“ to
7、counter make fun of the letter sender 14 The tramp was locked in the store _. （ A） for his own mistake （ B） due to a misunderstanding （ C） by accident （ D） through an error of judgment 15 What action did the tramp take? （ A） He looted the store. （ B） He made himself at home. （ C） He went to sleep fo
8、r 2 days. （ D） He had a Christmas party. 16 When the tramp was arrested, he _. （ A） laughed at the police （ B） looked forward to going to prison （ C） took his bottles with him （ D） didnt make any fuss 17 What degree did my father get at college? （ A） A Bachelor Degree of Science. （ B） A Bachelor Deg
9、ree of Arts. （ C） A four year degree in mathematics. （ D） A four year degree in physics. 18 Where did the man once study? （ A） At the university of New Jersey. （ B） At the university of Iowa. （ C） At the university of Kentucky. （ D） At the university of Virginia. 19 What was the mans response to his
10、 fathers repeated reminding? （ A） He was unwilling to follow his fathers instruction. （ B） He spent plenty of time improving his own IQs. （ C） He was indifferent to his fathers words. （ D） He was determined to receive higher education. 20 What can be concluded from the text? （ A） I became a member t
11、he organization. （ B） I told my children of the importance of going to college. （ C） I was punished for my poor transcripts. （ D） I was the most upset reminder in my family. Part C Directions: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer the questions or complete the notes in your test booklet for Qu
12、estions 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 Besides the form of reports, in what other forms can we give oral presentations? 22 Whats the essential point we should realize about
13、 speech and writing? 23 What can the listeners rely on when they are listening? 24 Whats one of the best ways to help your audience? 25 Besides the problem of speaking too fast, what else will make listening more difficult? 26 Before delivering the new information, what should the speaker give his a
14、udience? 27 After delivering the new information, why should the speaker also give his audience some time? 28 What does repetition of ideas mean? 29 Whats the third method mentioned here to give the listener time for think? 30 Can you give an example of “filler words“? 一、 Section II Use of English (
15、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 “Everything happens for the best“, my mother said (31) I faced disappointment. “If you carry on, one day something good will (32) “. And youll realize
16、 that it wouldnt have happened if not for that previous disappointment. Mother was right, (33) I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sport announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of every (34) -and got t
17、urned down every time. In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldnt risk hiring an inexperienced person. “Go out in the sticks(偏僻地区 ) and find a (35) station thatll give you a chance“, she said. I thumbed home to Dixon. Illinois. (36) there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my
18、father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to man- age its sports department. Since Dixon was (37) I had played high-school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me. (38) I wasnt hired. My disappointment (39) have shown. “Everything happens for the best“.
19、 Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport. Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already (40) an announcer. As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked (41). “How can a fellow get to be a spor
20、ts announcer if he (42) get a job in a radio station?“ I was (43) for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, “What was that you said about sports.? Do you know (44) about football?“ Then he stood me (45) a microphone and asked me to (46) an imaginary game. The preceding autumn, my team had won
21、 a game in the last 20 seconds with a 65-year run. I did a 15-minute buildup(宣传 ) to that play, and Peter told me I would be broadcasting Saturdays (47)! On my way (48), as I have many times since, I thought of my mothers words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen something (49) wou
22、ldnt have happened if not for that previous disappointment“. I often wonder what direction my life might have (50) if Id gotten the job at Montgomery Ward. Part A Directions: Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER
23、SHEET 1. 51 While its true that just about every cell in the body has the instructions to make a complete human, most of those instructions are inactivated, and with good reason. The last thing you want is for your brain cells to start producing stomach acid or your nose to turn into a kidney. The o
24、nly time cells truly have the potential to turn into any and all body parts is very early in a pregnancy, when so-called stem cells havent begun to specialize. Yet this untapped potential could be a terrific boon to medicine. Most diseases involve the death of healthy cells-brain cells in Alzheimers
25、, cardiac cells in heart disease, pancreatic cells in diabetes, to name a few. If doctors could isolate stem cells, then direct their growth, they might be able to furnish patients with healthy replacement tissue. It was incredibly difficult, but last fall scientists at the University of Wisconsin m
26、anaged to isolate stem cells and get them to grow into neural, muscle and bone cells. The process still cant be controlled, and may have unforeseen limitations. But if efforts to understand and master stem-cell development prove successful, doctors will have a therapeutic tool of incredible power. T
27、he same applies to cloning, which is really just the other side of the coin. True cloning, as first shown with Dolly the sheep two years ago, involves taking a developed cell and reactivating the genome within, resetting its developmental instructions to a pristine state. Once that happens, the reju
28、venated cell can develop into a full-fledged animal, genetically identical to its parent. For agriculture, in which purely physical characteristics like milk production in a cow or low fat in a hog have real market value, biological carbon copies could become routine within a few years. This past ye
29、ar scientists have done for mice and cows what Ian Wilmut did for Dolly, and other creatures are bound to join the cloned menagerie in the coming year. Human cloning, on the other hand, may be technically feasible but legally and emotionally more difficult. Still, one day it will happen. The ability
30、 to reset body cells to a pristine, undeveloped state could give doctors exactly the same advantages they would get from stem cells: the potential to make healthy body tissues of all sorts, and thus to cure disease. That could prove to be a tree “miracle cure“. 51 The passage mainly discusses _. （ A
31、） the cloning technology （ B） types of body cells （ C） stem cells （ D） methods of growing body tissues 52 The reason a nose is not likely to turn into a kidney is that _. （ A） cells in the nose do not contain instructions （ B） a nose does not contain brain cells （ C） instructions in a nose cell are
32、inactivated （ D） the stem cells have not been specialized 53 When stem cells specialize, they _. （ A） grow into body parts （ B） are destroyed （ C） are set back to a pristine state （ D） turn nose into kidney 54 The phrase “biological carbon copies“ (para. 4) refers to _. （ A） physical characteristics
33、 of real market value （ B） body tissues （ C） cloned animals （ D） stem cells 55 The author would most likely agree with which of the following statements? （ A） Human cloning is a technical impossibility. （ B） Human cloning may cause ethical concerns. （ C） Cloning contributes to understanding of stem
34、ceils. （ D） The potential medical values of cloning have been exaggerated. 56 Hotels were among the earliest facilities that bound the United States together. They were both creatures and creators of communities, as well as symptoms of the frenetic quest for community. Even in the first part of the
35、nineteenth century, Americans were already forming the habit of gathering from all comers of the nation for both public and private, business and pleasure purposes. Conventions were the new occasions, and hotels were distinctively American facilities making conventions possible. The first national c
36、onvention of a major party to choose a candidate for President (that of the National Republican Party, which met on December 12, 1831, and nominated Henry Clay for President) was held in Baltimore, at a hotel that was then reputed to be the best in the country. The presence in Baltimore of Barnums C
37、ity Hotel, a six-story building with two hundred apartments, helps explain why many other early national political conventions were held there. In the longer run, too. American hotels made other national conventions not only possible but pleasant and convivial. The growing custom of regularly assemb
38、ling from afar the representatives of all kinds of groups not only for political conventions, but also for commercial, professional, learned, and avocational ones in turn supported the multiplying hotels. By mid-twentieth century, conventions accounted for over a third of the yearly room occupancy o
39、f all hotels in the nation; about eighteen thousand different conventions were held annually with a total attendance of about ten million persons. Nineteenth-century American hotelkeepers, who were no longer the genial, deferential “hosts“ of the eighteenth-century European inn, became leading citiz
40、ens. Holding a large stake in the community, they exercised power to make it prosper. As owners or managers of the local “palace of the public“, they were makers and shapers of a principal community attraction. Travelers from abroad were mildly shocked by this high social position. 56 The word “boun
41、d“ in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _. （ A） led （ B） protected （ C） tied （ D） strengthened 57 The National Republican Party is mentioned in paragraph 1 as an example of a group _. （ A） from Baltimore （ B） of learned people （ C） owning a hotel （ D） holding a convention 58 The word “assembling“
42、 in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _. （ A） announcing （ B） motivating （ C） gathering （ D） contracting 59 It can be inferred from the passage that early hotel keepers in the United States were _. （ A） active politicians （ B） European immigrants （ C） professional builders （ D） influential citize
43、ns 60 Which of the following statements about early American hotels is NOT mentioned in the passage? （ A） Travelers from abroad did not enjoy staying in them. （ B） Conventions were held in them. （ C） People used them for both business and pleasure. （ D） They were important to the community. 61 The c
44、oncept of obtaining fresh water from icebergs that are towed to populated regions ot the world was once treated as a joke more appropriate to cartoons than real life. But now it is being considered quite seriously by many nations, especially since scientists have warned that the human race will outg
45、row its fresh water supply faster than it runs out of food. Glaciers are a possible source of fresh water that have been overlooked until recently. Three quarters of the Earths fresh water supply is still tied up in glacial ice, a reservoir of untapped fresh water so immense that it could sustain al
46、l the rivers of the world for 1,000 years. Floating on the oceans every year are 7,659 trillion metric tons of ice encased in 10,000 icebergs that break away from the polar ice caps, more than ninety percent of them from Antarctica. Huge glaciers that stretch over the shallow continental shelf give
47、birth to icebergs throughout the year. Icebergs are not like sea ice, which is formed when the sea itself freezes; rather, they are formed entirely on land, breaking off when glaciers spread over the sea. As they drift away from the polar region, icebergs sometimes move mysteriously in a direction o
48、pposite to the wind, pulled by subsurface currents. Because they melt more slowly than smaller pieces of ice, icebergs have been known to drift as far north as 35 degrees south of the equator in the Atlantic Ocean. To corral them and steer them to parts of the world where they are needed would not b
49、e too difficult. The difficulty arises in other technical matters, such as the prevention of rapid melting in warmer climates and the funneling of fresh water to shore in great volume. But even if the icebergs lost half of their volume in towing, the water they could provide would be far cheaper than that produced by desalination, or removing salt from water. 61 The main idea of the passage is about _. （ A） The movement of glaciers （ B） Icebergs as a source of fresh water （ C） Future wat
