1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 85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 People can only obtain information about the Seven Wonders of the World in the printed
2、encyclopedias. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 2 Ms. Lednicer encouraged kids to read and appreciate the tactile sense of picking up books. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 3 It was expensive to buy printed encyclopedias for Chris Witting, a father of two from Morton Grove, Illinois. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 4 Telling the
3、kids that everything in encyclopedias is on a little disk didnt surprise them in 1996. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 5 The kids were getting more and more dependent on computer and CD-ROM for information. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 6 Encyclopedias occupied too much space on the bookcase though being opened frequ
4、ently at the home of Chris Witting. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 7 The power of computer technology has attracted many high school students. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 8 In Megan Mullens eyes, CE-ROMS or the internet cant match the printed words in books. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 9 Mike goes to his local branch li
5、brary finding information through the Internet instead of using an encyclopedia. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 10 Mr. Kobasa believes that the move to electronic media is just the latest format change for information, but not the last. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong Part B Directions: You will hear 3 conversations o
6、r talks and you must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 11 Why is it necessary to give a coin to someone when you give him a present with a sharp edge or point? （ A） To specially celebrate his birthday. （ B） To express some special meaning which you
7、 dare not tell directly. （ C） To wish for a long-lasting friendship. （ D） To wish your friend good luck in his life. 12 Is Mollys uncle a superstitious person? （ A） He wasnt before, but now he has become one. （ B） Yes, he always believes in things which can bring him good or bad luck. （ C） Yes, he a
8、lways says that its bad luck to walk under a ladder. （ D） No, he isnt, except when referring to walking under a ladder. 13 According to Mollys grandmother, how many years of bad luck would be brought if she breaks a mirror? （ A） Ten years. （ B） Seven years. （ C） Five years. （ D） Seven weeks. 14 Why
9、does the woman call? （ A） Because she has a problem about her car. （ B） Because she wants to book a train ticket. （ C） Because she wants to know how she can go to Edinburgh. （ D） Because she wants to know how she can go to London. 15 How long does it take to go by train? （ A） About ten hours. （ B） F
10、ive hours. （ C） Eight hours. （ D） Fourteen hours. 16 How will the customer go there? （ A） By car. （ B） By plane. （ C） By coach. （ D） Not decided yet. 17 What is the main topic of this lecture? （ A） Bicycles and cars. （ B） Building codes. （ C） Energy conservation. （ D） New housing construction. 18 Wh
11、y is insulation required in new houses? （ A） To limit discussion on heating bills. （ B） To prevent heat loss. （ C） To determine the temperature in homes. （ D） To convert homes to electric heat. 19 What is the purpose of building new houses facing north or south? （ A） To avoid direct sunlight. （ B） T
12、o limit space used. （ C） To keep out the cold. （ D） To conform to other houses. 20 What has the city of Davis provided for bicycle riders? （ A） Special paths. （ B） Resurfaced highways. （ C） More parking space. （ D） Better street lighting. Part C Directions: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answe
13、r 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 What kind of fuse is usually fixed in a three-pin plug? 22 Among the
14、 three different colored wires contained in most cables, which is the live wire? 23 Which wire is not contained in a two-core cable? 24 As far as the covering of the cable is concerned, what kind of rubber is required for appliance involving high temperature? 25 What will happen to the appliance if
15、you make a mistake in wiring-up a three-pin plug? 26 Besides a pair of wire strippers and a little insulation tape, what are the other two basic tools you need in doing this job according to the speaker? 27 How long will you strip the flex so as to expose the three insulated wires? 28 Which screw mu
16、st you loosen first in order to fit the wires into the plug? 29 The green and yellow striped wire goes to _. 30 Which wire goes to the terminal with the fuse? 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Wr
17、ite your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 31 Hotels were (31) the earliest facilities (32) bound the United States together. They were both creatures and creators of communities, as (33) as symptoms of the frenetic quest for communities. (34) in the first part of the nineteenth century, Americans were alr
18、eady forming the (35) of gathering from all corners of the nation for both public and (36) business and pleasure purposes. Conventions were the new occasions, and hotels were distinctively American facilities (37) conventions possible. The first national convention of a major party to choose a (38)
19、for President (that of the 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 (39) Barnums City Hotel, a six-storey building with two hundred apartments, helps explain (40) many other early national political conventio
20、ns were held there. In the long run, too, American hotels made other national conventions not only possible (41) pleasant. The growing custom of regularly assembling (42) afar the representatives of all kinds of groups not only for political conventions, but also for commercial, professional, learne
21、d, and avocational (43) in (44) supported the multiplying hotels. By mid-twentieth century, conventions accounted (45) over a third of the yearly room occupancy of all (46) in the nation, about eighteen thousand different conventions were held annually (47) a total attendance of about ten million pe
22、rsons. Nineteenth-century American hotelkeepers, (48) were no longer the genial, deferential “hosts“ of the eighteenth-century European inn, became leading citizens. Holding a large stake in the community, they exercised power to make (49) prosper. As owners or managers of the local “palace of the p
23、ublic“, they were makers and shapers of a principal community attraction. Travelers from (50) were mildly shocked by this high social position. 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 SHEET 1. 51
24、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 GATT, is expected to strengthen the world trading system and to be more effective than the GATT in governing international trade in
25、 goods and services in many aspects. First, trade liberalization all over the world is expected to increase via the dramatic reductions in trade barriers to which the members of the WTO are committed. Under the WTO, members are required to reduce their tariff and non-tariffs on manufacturing goods.
26、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 old system of the GATT, there were many cases where trade measures
27、, 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 countries. The WTO is also equipped with an improved dispute settlement m
28、echanism. 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 address, such as international trade in services and the protectio
29、n 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. However, just the establishment of multilateral rules in these n
30、ew 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 world-wide market for goods and services is rapidly replacing a wo
31、rld 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 capital and determining the location of production sites throughout
32、much of the world. 51 Between WTO and GATT （ 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 aspects. 52 According to this passage, under the WTO. （ A） measures
33、 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 their tariff and non-tariffs on products. 53 Which of the following is
34、 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 be more strongly enforced. （ D） WTO covers intellectual property ri
35、ghts. 54 It can be inferred from 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 get absorbed by WTO. （ D） WTO cannot change the structure of world eco
36、nomy 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 George Lemaitre proposed the idea that about 20,000 million years ago all
37、 the matter in the universe enough, he estimated, to make up a hundred thousand million galaxies was all concentrated in one small mass, which he called the “primeval atom“. This primeval atom exploded for some reasons, sending its matter out in all directions, and as the expansion slowed down, a st
38、eady 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 that there was no steady state. However, basically, evolutionary theor
39、ies 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 believe that the expansion will slow down and finally stop. Thereafte
40、r 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 steady-state theory. Developed at Cambridge by Hoyle, Gold and Bodi, t
41、he 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 to take place of those which have receded. Thus the general distri
42、bution 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? The method is in principle quite simple. Since the very distant gal
43、axies 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 so distant galaxies ought to appear to be closer together than nea
44、rer 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 partially confirmed and the steadystate theory in its original form at l
45、east must 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 bang“ started the expansion. 57 According to Lemaitre, the separate
46、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 the two classes of theories? （ A） It concerns the place and time of
47、the formation of matter. （ B） It is whether the universe will continue to 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 friends at Cambridge （ A） the explosion occurred much earlier than Le
48、maitre 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, long ago because （ A） they were closer together then. （ B） the universe
49、 has always looked as the same. （ 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 kind that made so much money for so many women writers, but novels set, 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 a
