1、国家公共英语（五级）笔试模拟试卷 96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 All international chain schools teach many different languages. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 2
2、 One of the advantages of chain schools is that they are famous all over the world. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 3 The success of chain schools is to some extent because of their marketing and advertising. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 4 Chains dont produce their own course book material. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 5 A
3、ll chains can offer students the same type of course in different places. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 6 Students can enjoy a simple booking and enrolment procedure in some chains. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 7 Chain schools often change their locations. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 8 Studying in an English-speaking co
4、untry is a very effective way to learn English. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 9 Chains dont offer students the chance to pursue their study from one country to another. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong 10 Chains make learning flexible. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong Part B Directions: You will hear 3 conversations or talks and
5、 you must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 11 What does the man do? （ A） A taxi-driver （ B） A bus driver （ C） A policeman （ D） A tourist guide 12 what does he like about his job? （ A） Money （ B） Freedom （ C） Knowing different people （ D） Traveling
6、 a lot 13 Those who visit London will certainly go to_ （ A） the Tower of London （ B） Harrods （ C） Buckingham Palace （ D） The Greenwich village 14 According to the speaker， what are convenience goods? （ A） Commodities that people are in constant need of （ B） Goods that are convenient to use or purcha
7、se （ C） Items that people tend to buy under impulse （ D） Items that have to be bought once a week 15 What are the shopping goods that are basically considered the same? （ A） Those that satisfy similar needs of the consumer （ B） Those that consumers dont care where to buy （ C） Those that consumers sp
8、end much time looking for （ D） Those that Can be found everywhere 16 What is the characteristic of specialty goods? （ A） They are goods that can be bought at a special price （ B） They are special kinds of products （ C） They are characterized in their brands （ D） They need special efforts to get 17 W
9、hat does the speaker mainly discuss? （ A） The distribution of different species of amphibians. （ B） Possible reasons for reduction in the number of amphibians. （ C） The effects of environmental change on the fish industry. （ D） Guidelines for the responsible use of pesticides. 18 According to the sp
10、eaker, how do developers contribute to the reduction of amphibian population? （ A） By taking over ponds. （ B） By constructing sewers. （ C） By building dams on rivers. （ D） By flooding marshes. 19 According to the speaker, how do some pesticides get into ponds? （ A） They are applied to aquatic weeds
11、by fish farming. （ B） Amphibians release them from their skin. （ C） Irresponsible dispose of them in ponds. （ D） They are washed into ponds by the rain. 20 According to the speaker, why do pesticides pose a threat to amphibians? （ A） Pesticides can cause an amphibians skin to dry out. （ B） Pesticide
12、s kill the insects that amphibians depend on for food. （ C） Dissolved pesticides can easily enter amphibians bodies. （ D） Amphibians may eat plants that have been treated with pesticides. Part C Directions: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer the questions or complete the notes in your test
13、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 does the lecture mainly concern? 22 The changes in the U. S. A. in the 1960s began with the _ Right Movement. 23 W
14、hy did Americans have these movements in the early 1960s? 24 What was the name given to the generation that came of age during the 1960s? 25 When did the Womens Movement begin in the U. S. A. ? 26 Whats the Civil Rights Movement for? 27 List three traditional female occupations mentioned in the talk
15、. 28 What has given women an independence in forming a family? 29 What is the effect of the Womens Movement? 30 In what aspects does the speaker think all of these cultural changes are strengthened? 一、 Section II Use of English (15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text and fill each of the nu
16、mbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. 30 Pollution is a “dirty“ word. To pollute means to contaminate-topsoil or something by introducing impurities which make【 C1】 _unfit or unclean to use. Pollution comes in many forms. We see it, smell it,【 C2】 _it, drink it,
17、 and stumble through it. We literally lived in and breathe pollution, and【 C3】 _surprisingly,it is beginning to【 C4】 _our health,our happiness,and our civilization. Once we thought of pollution【 C5】 _meaning simply the smogthe choking, stinging, dirty【 C6】 _that hovers over cities. But air pollution
18、, while it is【 C7】_the most dangerous, is only one type of contamination among several【 C8】_attack the most basic life functions. Through the uncontrolled use of insecticides, man has polluted the land,【 C9】_the wildlife. By【 C10】 _sewage and chemicals into rivers and lakes, we have contaminated our
19、【 C11】 _water. We are polluting the oceans, too, kilting the fish and【 C12】 _depriving ourselves【 C13】 _an invaluable food supply. Part of the problem is our exploding【 C14】 _. More and more people are producing more wastes. But this problem is intensified by our “throw-away“ technology. Each year A
20、mericans【 C15】 _of 7 million autos, 20 million tons of waste paper, 25 million pounds of toothpaste tubes and 48 million cans. We throw away gum wrappers, newspapers, and paper plates. It is no longer wise to【 C16】 _anything. Today almost everything is disposable.【 C17】 _of repairing a toaster or a
21、radio, it is easier and cheaper to buy another one and discard the old,even【 C18】 _95 percent of its parts may still be functioning. Baby diapers,which used to be made of reusable cloth, are now paper throw-aways. Soon we will wear clothing made of【 C19】 _:“ Wear it once and throw it away“ will be t
22、he slogan of the fashionable consciousness. Where is this all to end? Are we turning the world into a gigantic dump,or is there hope that we can solve the pollution problem?【 C20】 _, solutions are in sight. A few of them are positively ingenious. 31 【 C1】 32 【 C2】 33 【 C3】 34 【 C4】 35 【 C5】 36 【 C6】
23、 37 【 C7】 38 【 C8】 39 【 C9】 40 【 C10】 41 【 C11】 42 【 C12】 43 【 C13】 44 【 C14】 45 【 C15】 46 【 C16】 47 【 C17】 48 【 C18】 49 【 C19】 50 【 C20】 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. 50 Not lo
24、ng ago, a mysterious Christmas card dropped through our mail slot. The envelope was addressed to a man named Raoul, who, I was relatively certain, did not live with us. The envelope wasnt sealed, so I opened it. The inside of the card was blank. Ed, my husband, explained that the card was both from
25、and to the newspaper deliveryman. His name was apparently Raoul, and Raoul wanted a holiday tip. We were meant to put a check inside the card and then drop the envelope in the mail. When your services are rendered at 4 a. m. , you cant simply hang around, like a hotel bellboy expecting a tip. You ha
26、ve to be direct. So I wrote a nice holiday greeting to this man who, in my imagination, fires The New York Times from his hike aimed at our front door, causing more noise with mere newsprint than most people manage with sophisticated black market fireworks. With a start, I realized that perhaps the
27、reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past. I honestly hadnt realized I was supposed to. This was the first time hed used the card tactic. So I got out my checkbook. Somewhere along the line, holiday tipping
28、went from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafia-style protection racket (收取保护费的黑社会组织 ) Several days later, I was bringing our garbage bins back from the curb when I noticed an envelope taped to one of the lids. The outside of the envelope said MICKEY. It had to be another tip reque
29、st, this time from our garbage collector. Unlike Raoul, Mickey hadnt enclosed his own Christmas card from me. In a way, I appreciated the directness. “I know you dont care how merry my Christmas is, and thats fine,“ the gesture said. “I want $ 30, or Ill forget to empty your garbage bin some hot sum
30、mer day.“ I put a check in the envelope and taped it back to the bin. The next morning, Ed noticed that the envelope was gone, though the trash hadnt yet been picked up: “Someone stole Mickeys tip !“ Ed was quite certain. He made me call the bank and cancel the check. But Ed had been wrong. Two week
31、s later, Mickey left a letter from the bank on our steps. The letter informed Mickey that the check, which he had tried to cash, had been cancelled. The following Tuesday morning, when Ed saw a truck outside , he ran out with his wallet. “Are you Mickey?“ The man looked at him with scorn. “Mickey is
32、 the garbageman. I am the recycling. “ Not only had Ed insulted this man by hinting that he was a garbageman, but he had obviously neglected to tip him. Ed ran back inside for more funds. Then he noticed that the driver of the truck had been watching the whole transaction. He peeled off another twen
33、ty and looked around, waving bills in the air. “Anyone else?“ Had we consulted the website of the Emily Post Institute, this embarrassing breach of etiquette (礼节 ) could have been avoided. Under “trash/recycling collectors“ in the institute s Holiday Tipping Guidelines, it says, “ $10 to $ 30 each.
34、“ You may or may not wish to know that your pet groomer, hairdresser, mailman and UPS guy all expect a holiday tip. 51 The newspaper deliveryman put a blank card inside the envelope because _. （ A） he forgot to write a few words on it （ B） he wanted the couple to send it back （ C） he used it to ask
35、for a Christmas tip （ D） he was afraid of asking for a tip in person 52 From the passage, we learn that the author （ A） didnt like Raouls way of delivering the paper （ B） didnt realize why Raoul delivered the paper that way （ C） didnt know that Raoul came very early in the morning （ D） didnt feel it
36、 necessary to meet Raoul when he came 53 According to the passage, the author felt to give Raoul a holiday tip. （ A） excited （ B） delighted （ C） embarrassed （ D） forced 54 Which of the following is CORRECT about Mickey, the garbage collector? （ A） He wrote a letter to the couple afterwards. （ B） He
37、failed to collect the money from the bank. （ C） He wanted the couple to send him a Christmas card. （ D） He collected both the cheek and the garbage that day. 55 Eds encounter with the recycling team shows that （ A） Ed was desperate to correct his mistake. （ B） Ed only wanted to give money to Raoul.
38、（ C） Ed was unwilling to tip the truck driver. （ D） Ed no longer wanted to give them money. 55 At 18, Ashanthi DeSilva of suburban Cleveland is a living symbol of one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century. Born with an extremely rare and usually fatal disorder that left her with
39、out a functioning immune system (the “bubble-boy disease“, named after an earlier victim who was kept alive for years in a sterile plastic tent), she was treated beginning in 1990 with a revolutionary new therapy that sought to correct the defect at its very source, in the genes of her white blood c
40、ells. It worked. Although her last gene-therapy treatment was in 1992, she is completely healthy with normal immune function, according to one of the doctors who treated her, W. French Anderson of the University of Southern California. Researchers have long dreamed of treating diseases from hemophil
41、ia to cancer by replacing mutant genes with normal ones. And the dreaming may continue for decades more. “There will be a gene-based treatment for essentially every disease,“ Anderson says, “within 50 years. “ Its not entirely clear why medicine has been so slow to build on Anderson s early success.
42、 The National Institutes of Health budget office estimates it will spend $ 432 million on gene-therapy research in 2005, and there is no shortage of promising leads. The therapeutic genes are usually delivered through viruses that don t cause human disease. “The virus is sort of like a Trojan horse,
43、“ says Ronald Crystal of New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College. “The cargo is the gene. “ At the University of Pennsylvanias Abramson Cancer Center, immunologist Carl June recently treated HIV pa tients with a gene intended to help their cells resist the infection. At Cornell Universit
44、y, researchers are pursuing gene-based therapies for Parkinsons disease and a rare hereditary disorder that destroys children s brain cells. At Stanford University and the Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers are trying to figure out how to help patients with hemophilia who today must in
45、ject themselves with expensive clotting drugs for life. Animal experiments have shown great promise. But somehow, things get lost in the translation from laboratory to patient. In human trials of the hemophilia treatment, patients show a response at first, but it fades over time. And the field has s
46、till not recovered from the setback it suffered in 1999, when Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year-old with a rare metabolic disorder, died after receiving an experimental gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. Some experts worry that the field will be tarnished further if the next people to benefit
47、 are not patients but athletes seeking an edge. This summer, researchers at the Salk Institute in San Diego said they had created a “marathon mouse“ by implanting a gene that enhances running ability; already, officials at the World Anti-Doping Agency are preparing to test athletes for signs of “gen
48、e doping“. But the principle is the same, whether youre trying to help a healthy runner run faster or allow a muscular-dystro-phy patient to walk. “Everybody recognizes that gene therapy is a very good idea,“ says Crystal. “And eventually its going to work. “ 56 The case of Ashanthi Desilva is menti
49、oned in the text to （ A） show the promise of gene-therapy （ B） give an example of modem treatment for fatal diseases （ C） introduce the achievement of Anderson and his team （ D） explain how gene-based treatment works 57 Andersons early success has （ A） greatly speeded the development of medicine （ B） brought no immediate progress in the research of gene-therapy （ C） promised a cure to every disease （ D） made
