1、公共英语(四级)2 及答案解析(总分：11.97，做题时间：120 分钟)一、Section I Listening(总题数：1，分数：1.00)The man says they dont have any proper conversation in his family because they spend too much time watching 1.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_二、PART B(总题数：1，分数：1.00)(1).At college, John is going to_.（分数：0.20）填空项 1:_(2).Thomas would probably go
2、 to America with_.（分数：0.20）填空项 1:_(3).Steven would like to be_.（分数：0.20）填空项 1:_(4).According to Simon, the kind of job that has more pleasant future is_.（分数：0.20）填空项 1:_(5).Peter thinks that job-hunting_.（分数：0.20）填空项 1:_三、PART C Direction(总题数：3，分数：3.00)(1).Why is Wilt Chamberlain considered a famous
3、 basketball player?（分数：0.33）A.Because he led his teams to many championships.B.Because he set as many as 65 different records.C.Because he still played the game after he retired.D.Because he didnt stop playing even when he was seriously injured.(2).What happened to Wilt Chamberlain in 1972?（分数：0.33）
4、A.He lost the final chance to win a championship.B.He was knocked out during one contest.C.He broke a bone in the wrist during a match.D.He was awarded with a $1.5 million house.(3).What was Wilt Chamberlain determined to do before he retired?（分数：0.33）A.To break the previous records.B.To buy a luxur
5、y house.C.To win one more championship for his team.D.To play against the New York team once again.(1).What do you know about George Daniels?（分数：0.33）A.He is one of the few remaining watchmakers in the world.B.He is the last of the great watchmakers.C.He is training young watchmakers.D.He thinks wat
6、chmaking will continue for another three centuries.(2).Which statement best describes George Daniels interest in watches?（分数：0.33）A.His interest in watches was strong because his father was a watchmaker.B.His interest in watches grew because he had to repair watches when he was in the army.C.His int
7、erest in watches started at school.D.His interest in watches is lifelong.(3).Which of the following statements is TRUE?（分数：0.33）A.All his watches are kept in museums.B.One of his watches is being kept in an American museum.C.All his watches are kept in American museums.D.One of his watches is kept i
8、n a British museum.(1).Considering natural resources, what should Americans do according to the passage?（分数：0.33）A.They should use less and waste less.B.They should try to help the developing countries with the conversation of resources.C.They should raise money in order to protect the natural resou
9、rces.D.They should be united as one to fight against the destruction of forests.(2).The value of competition works against the spirit of national cooperation is that_.（分数：0.33）A.it makes people suspicious of the governmentB.it causes people to suspect rather than trust each otherC.it makes it imposs
10、ible for people to cooperate on the local levelD.it encourages people to gain success through individual hard work(3).It can be inferred from the passage that_.（分数：0.33）A.Americans know shared sacrifice much better than othersB.other countries should sacrifice more for international cooperationC.Ame
11、rican cooperation is not as good on the national scale as at the local levelD.Americans will be successful in national cooperation in the 21st century四、Section II Use of E(总题数：1，分数：1.00)During the 1980s,unemployment and underemployment in some countries was as high as 90 percent. Some countries did
12、not 【21】 enough food; basic needs in housing and clothing were not 【22】 Many of these countries looked to the industrial processes of the developed countries 【23】 solutions. 【24】 , problems. cannot always be solved by copying the industrialized countries . Industry in the developed countries is high
13、ly automated and very 【25】 . It provides fewer jobs than labor-intensive industrial processes, and highly 【26】 workers are needed to 【27】 and repair the equipment. These workers must be trained 【28】 many countries do not have the necessary training institutions. Thus, the 【29】 of importing industry
14、becomes higher. Students must be sent abroad to 【30】 vocational and professional training. 【31】 ,just to begin training, the students must 【32】 learn English, French, German, or Japanese. The students then spend many years abroad, and 【33】 do not return home. All countries agree that science and tec
15、hnology 【34】 be shared. The point is: countries 【35】 the industrial processes of the developed countries need to look carefully 【36】 the costs, because many of these costs are 【37】 . Students from these countries should 【38】 the problems of the developed countries closely. 【39】 care, they will take
16、home not the problems of science and technology, 【40】 the benefits. （分数：1.00）A.generateB.raiseC.produceD.manufactureA.answeredB.metC.calculatedD.rememberedA.forB.withoutC.asD.aboutA.MoreoverB.ThereforeC.AnywayD.HoweverA.expensiveB.mechanicalC.flourishingD.complicatedA.giftedB.skilledC.trainedD.versa
17、tileA.keepB.maintainC.retainD.protectA.sinceB.soC.andD.yetA.chargeB.priceC.costD.valueA.acceptB.gainC.receiveD.absorbA.FrequentlyB.IncidentallyC.DeliberatelyD.EventuallyA.soonB.quicklyC.immediatelyD.firstA.someB.othersC.severalD.fewA.mightB.shouldC.wouldD.willA.adoptingB.conductingC.receivingD.adjus
18、tingA.toB.atC.onD.aboutA.opaqueB.secretC.sealedD.hiddenA.tackleB.learnC.studyD.manipulateA.InB.ThroughC.WithD.UnderA.exceptB.norC.orD.but五、Section III Reading(总题数：4，分数：4.00)It was not “the comet of the century“ experts predicted it might be. However, Kohoutek has provided a bonanza of scientific inf
19、ormation. It was first spotted 370 million miles from Earth, by an astronomer who was searching the sky for asteroids, and after whom the comet was named. Scientists who tracked Kohoutek the ten months before it passed the Earth predicted the comet would be a brilliant spectacle. But Kohoutek fell s
20、hort of these predictions, disappointing millions of amateur sky watchers, when it proved too pale to be seen with the unaided eye. Researchers were very happy nonetheless With the new information they were able to glean from their investigation of the comet. Perhaps the most significant discovery w
21、as the identification of two important chemical compounds methyl cyanide and hydrogen cyanide never before seen in comets, but found it the far reaches of interstellar space. This discovery revealed new clues about the origin of comets. Most astronomers agree that comets are primordial remnants from
22、 the formation of the solar system, but whether they were born between Jupiter and Neptune or much farther out toward interstellar space has been the subject of :much debate. If compounds no more complex than ammonia and methane, key components of Jupiter, were seen in comets, it would suggest that
23、comets form within the planetary orbits. But more complex compounds, such as the methyl cyanide found in Kohoutek, point to formation far beyond the planets; there the deep freeze of space has kept them unchanged. （分数：1.00）(1).Why was Kohoutek referred to as“ the comet of the century“?（分数：0.20）A.It
24、was thought to be extremely old.B.It passes the Earth once a century.C.Scientists predicted it would be very bright.D.Scientists have been tracking it for a century.(2).In what respect was Kohoutek a disappointment?（分数：0.20）A.It could be seen only through special equipment.B.It did not approach the
25、Earth.C.It did not provide valuable scientific information.D.It was moving too rapidly for scientists to photograph.(3).According to the passage, what is one major component of Jupiter?（分数：0.20）A.Hydrogen cyanide.B.Methyl cyanide.C.Hydrogen.D.Ammonia.(4).Which of the following questions is best answ
26、ered by information gained from Kohoutek?（分数：0.20）A.Where were comets formed?B.When were comets formed?C.Where was the solar system formed?D.How was the solar system formed?(5).What is the main topic of the passage?（分数：0.20）A.What was learned from Kohoutek?B.What was disappointing about Kohoutek?C.W
27、here Kohoutek was spotted?D.How Kohoutek was tracked?Education is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, most of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of educa
28、tion, modern states “ invest “ in institutions of learning to get back “interest“ in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders. Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out, punctuated by textbooks that purchasable wells of wisdom wha
29、t would civilization be like without its benefits? So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and defendants, marriages and births but our spiritual outlook would be different. We would lay less stress on “facts and figures“ and more on a good memory, on applied psychology
30、, and the capacity of a man is to get along with his fellow-citizens. If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of “college“ imaginable. Among tribal people all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all; it is taught to every memb
31、er of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equipped for life. It is the ideal condition of the “equal start“ which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain. In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all. T
32、here are no “illiterates“ if the term can be applied to peoples without a script while our own compulsory school attendance became law in Germany in 1642, in France in 1806, and in England in 1876, and is still non-existent in a number of “civilized“ nations. This shows how long it was before we dee
33、med it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the “happy few“ during the past centuries. Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means. All are entitled to an equal start. There is none of the hurry, which, in our society, often hampe
34、rs the full development of a growing personality. There, a child grows up under the ever-present attention of his parents and therefore the jungles and the savannahs know of no “juvenile delinquency“. No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children, and no father is con
35、fronted with his inability to “buy“ an education for his child. （分数：1.00）(1).Why do modern states invest in institutions of learning?（分数：0.20）A.To get a repayment for what an individuals education has cost.B.To get rewards for what they have spent.C.To charge interest.D.To give all the children free
36、 education.(2).How did the primitive people pass the accumulated knowledge on to the next（分数：0.20）A.They wrote the knowledge down on papers.B.They had the happy “few“ enjoy it.C.They taught it to those who have good memories.D.They had every one of tile tribe share it and orally passed it on.(3).For
37、mal education in modern societies _.（分数：0.20）A.makes sure there are no illiteratesB.comes into being relatively recentlyC.is enjoyed only by the noble peopleD.is free to everyone who is a citizen(4).According to the author, among tribal people, _.（分数：0.20）A.children have time to develop at their own
38、 paceB.the parents face the embarrassment not to be able to afford the childrens educationC.the parents neglect the growth of their childrenD.children can acquire knowledge by playing in the jungles(5).Which of the following is wrong?（分数：0.20）A.Our own compulsory school attendance first became law i
39、n German in 1642.B.equal start is the ideal modern education is trying to regain.C.The real equality of opportunity in education is only to be found in a modem society.D.An illiterate man in modem society is deprived of one of the greatest opportunities.No company likes to be told it is contributing
40、 to the moral decline of a nation. “Is this what you like to accomplish with your careers?“ an American senator asked Time Warner executives recently. “You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?“ At Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the
41、 latest manifestation of the soul-searching that has involved the company ever since the company was born in 1990. Its a self-examination that has, at different times, involved issues of responsibility ,creative freedom and the corporate bottom line. At the core of this debate is chairman Gerald Lev
42、in, 56, who took over from the late Steve Ross in the early 1990s. On the financial front, Levin is under pressure to raise the stock price and reduce the companys mountainous debt, which will increase to 17.3 billion after two new cable deals close. He has promised to sell off some of the property
43、and restructure the company, but investors are waiting impatiently. The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him. Levin has consistently defended the companys rap music on the grounds of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-Ts violent rap song Cop Killer,
44、 Levin described rap as a lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. “The test of any democratic society,“ he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, “lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latit
45、ude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be. We wont retreat when we face any threats.“ Levin would not comment on the debate last week, but there were signs that the chairman was backing off his hard-line stand, at least to some extent. During the discussion of rock singing v
46、erses at last months stockholders meeting, Levin asserted that “music is not the cause of societys ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students. But he talked as well about the “balanced struggle“ between creative freedom and social respons
47、ibility, and he proclaimed that the company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling of potentially objectionable music. The 15-member Time Warner board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy. But insiders say some of them have shown their concerns
48、 in this matter. “Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedoms under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited,“ says Luce. “I think it is perhaps the case that some people associated with the company have only recently come to realize this.“ （分数：1.00）(1).An American senator crit
49、icized Time Warner for（分数：0.20）A.its raising of the corporate stock price.B.its self-examination of the soul.C.its neglect of social responsibility.D.its emphasis on creative freedom.(2).The word “flap“ (Para. 3, line 1) here means（分数：0.20）A.controversy.B.fear.C.disaster.D.solution.(3).In 1992, Time Warner caused public outrage because it（分数：0.20）A.sacked workers as a result of restructuring.B.is
