1、公共英语二级-104 及答案解析(总分：95.02，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B第一部分 听力理解/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)B第一节/B听力理解第一节 听下面 5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。（分数：5.00）(1).What does the woman think about Jack?（分数：1.00）A.A He dances very well. B.B He might not really like dancing.
2、 C.C He enjoys watching people dance.(2).What does the man want to do?（分数：1.00）A.A He wants to look for his car. B.B He wants to give the woman a lift. C.C He wants to take the bus.(3).Whats the relationship between the speakers?（分数：1.00）A.A A polieeman and a tourist. B.B A salesman a the customer.
3、C.C Two friends.(4).Where does the woman work?（分数：1.00）A.A At school. B.B At the library. C.C At the cinema.(5).The woman likes her manager because he is _.（分数：1.00）A.A interesting B.B kind C.C nice二、B第二节/B(总题数：5，分数：15.00)听下面 5段对话或独自。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有 5秒
4、钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，各小题将给出 5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。（分数：3.00）(1).How much money did Rockfeller have?（分数：1.00）A.A Millions of dollars. B.B Hundreds of dollars. C.C Thousands of dollars.(2).What kind of room did Rockefeller want to sleep in?（分数：1.00）A.A The cheapest room. B.B His sons room. C.C The largest room
5、.(3).Who had a rich father?（分数：1.00）A.A Bockfellers son. B.B Roekfeller. C.C The manager.（分数：3.00）(1).Where is the man going?（分数：1.00）A.A His aunts home. B.B His school. C.C The city hall.(2).What does the girl do?（分数：1.00）A.A She carries the box. B.B She does nothing, C.C She opens the door for the
6、 boy.(3).What will they do in the evening?（分数：1.00）A.A Go shopping, B.B Go to a concert. C.C Go to the cinema.（分数：2.00）(1).Where is the bank office located in the hotel?（分数：1.00）A.A On the third floor. B.B On the ground floor. C.C On the second floor.(2).When is the hank open?（分数：1.00）A.A 9:30 a.m.
7、to3:00 p.m. B.B 9:30 a.m. to3:30 p.m. C.C 9:00 a.m. to3:00 p.m.（分数：4.00）(1).Where does the dialogue take place?（分数：1.00）A.A At the ticket office. B.B In Pittsburgh. C.C At the airport.(2).What do we know about the woman from the dialogue? A She will take the bus again this month. B She does not like
8、 this trip. C She has taken this trip before.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).What kind of ticket has the woman got?（分数：1.00）A.A A half-price ticket. B.B A one-way ticket. C.C A round-trip ticket.(4).Which of the following is NOT true? A The prices of many things have gone up in the last month. B The woman pays t
9、wenty dollars for the ticket. C The prices of the ticket have changed by two dollars.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.（分数：3.00）(1).What will there be after class?（分数：1.00）A.A A sports meeting. B.B A wonderful party. C.C A class meeting.(2).Who should be helped?（分数：1.00）A.A Mike. B.B Helen. C.C Bob.(3).Why cant Helen
10、come after class? A Because she has to do cleaning. B Because she has to meet Bob. C Because she has to come home and look after her mother.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.三、B第二部分 英语知识运用/B(总题数：15，分数：15.00)1.Our vacation was Yes, Iye never had _.（分数：1.00）A.greatly, a good vacationB.very good, the best vacationC.so gr
11、eat, a better vacationD.such great, the better vacation2.Can you come on Monday or Tuesday? Im afraid _ day is possible.（分数：1.00）A.anyB.someC.neitherD.either3.China has a large population than any of _countries in the world.（分数：1.00）A.the otherB.someC.some otherD.other4.They _ visit us a lot but the
12、y dont now.（分数：1.00）A.mustB.needC.canD.used to5.We had hoped that our team would win the game, but _ team played very well.（分数：1.00）A.any otherB.some otherC.every otherD.the other6.He is reading a novel but he _ a textbook.（分数：1.00）A.ought to readB.should be readingC.shouldnt have readD.may be readi
13、ng7.You need to make arrangements for a hotel room _ a few nights.（分数：1.00）A.duringB.withinC.inD.for8.Why do you drink so much coffee? Well, _ it doesnt keep me awake at night, I see no harm in it.（分数：1.00）A.forB.as far asC.as long asD.although9.The cost of my house is higher than _ of his.（分数：1.00）
14、A.anyB.costC.thatD.it10.If you are in difficulty, dont hesitate to ask_my help.（分数：1.00）A.toB.aboutC.fromD.for11.How foolish it is_her to believe _such a mans honesty!（分数：1.00）A.of. inB.for, inC.for, onD.of. on12.I forgot _ a letter to him, so I wrote to him just now.（分数：1.00）A.writingB.having wrote
15、C.to have writtenD.to write13.Do _ you are told.（分数：1.00）A.afterB.as ifC.whereD.as14.Only after being asked several times _ us the story of his strange life.（分数：1.00）A.he could tellB.then he toldC.did he tellD.he began to tell15.The railway station is only twenty _ walk from my home.（分数：1.00）A.minut
16、eB.minutesC.minutesD.minutes四、B第二节 完型填空/B(总题数：1，分数：20.00)阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。Mice in general are not well-liked, but a mouse named Mickey hasU (36) /Uthe hearts of millions. Movies about Mickey Mouse have beenU (37) /Uwith audience (观众),U (38) /Ueverywhere for more than f
17、orty years.Walt Disney,U (39) /Ucreated this lovable cartoon (卡通)U (40) /U, was born in Chicago in 1901. Later his family moved to a farm near Kansas City, where Walt worked for a timeU (41) /Ua newsboy. ButU (42) /Uhe really enjoyed was drawing pictures.Later, when Walt went back to Chicago he stud
18、ied cartooning at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. His education was interrupted when World War IU (43) /Uin 1914. Though he was notU (44) /Uold enough to join thd army, he wanted toU (45) /Uin some way. He joined the Red Cross and went to France, where he stayedU (46) /Uthe war was over.After the
19、war, Disney returned to Kansas City to work for a com- pany that made fairy (小妖精,仙女) story cartoons. This was the kind of work he liked best. He made up his mind toU (47) /Ubetter ways of making the cartoonsU (48) /U, so that the cartoon characters would seemU (49) /U. He bought an old movie camera
20、and made a few things in his garage. In 1923 heU (50) /Uhis elder brother, Roy, in Hollywood, California, where they soonU (51) /Utheir own company.Sound was just startingU (52) /Uin movies and Disney believed it had great possibilities. He quicklyU (53) /Usound to his cartoons. When he made Mickey
21、Mouse talk on the movie screen , audience wereU (54) /U. Mickey became a greatU (55) /Uwith both young and old.（分数：20.00）A.struckB.lostC.wonD.brokeA.popularB.knownC.leasedD.ailedA.fromB.mostlyC.clearlyD.almostA.becauseB.forC.whoD.heA.characterB.peopleC.paintingD.photoA.besidesB.asC.forD.withA.anyhow
22、B.thatC.whatD.somethingA.had passedB.broke outC.endedD.went onA.thenB.alreadyC.everD.yetA.helpB.workC.joinD.enterA.whenB.afterC.untilD.beforeA.searchB.giveC.findD.enjoyA.livelyB.moveC.well-knownD.appearA.aliveB.beautifulC.surprisingD.unforgettableA.invitedB.foundC.joined inD.agree withA.joined inB.s
23、et upC.invitedD.worked inA.reallyB.to be invitedC.immediatelyD.to be usedA.wantedB.addedC.tookD.referredA.disappointedB.delightedC.surprisingD.angryA.heroB.successC.welcomedD.beauty五、B第三部分 阅读理解/B(总题数：5，分数：20.00)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中选出最佳选项。BA/BWashingtonFor the first time in history, fewer th
24、an one American in four lives in the countryside, the US Census (人中普查) Bureau said on Tuesday. Last years census found 187.1 million Ameri cans lived in urban are compared with 61.7 million in rural area. Americas 200-year flight from the farm has produced crowded towns. Census number show threefour
25、ths of the people live on less than 3 percent of the land. There are more than 2 000 people per square mile (772 per square kilometers) in urban America. In the countryside, on average here are 18 people per square mile (seven per square kilometers).（分数：5.00）(1).Whats the percentage (百分数) of people
26、living in towns now?（分数：1.00）A.One-third.B.Smaller than one-fourth.C.Larger than three-fourths.D.Smaller than three-fourths.(2).Towns are now crowded because_.（分数：1.00）A.more and more people have moved from farms to townsB.the population is growing fastC.there are fewer farms nowD.there is only a li
27、ttle land for towns(3).How many times more people live in urban areas than in the countryside per square mile?（分数：1.00）A.About 2 000 timesB.About 18 timesC.More than 100 timesD.About 4 times(4).The word “urban“ must mean_, while “rural“ means（分数：1.00）A.of a town or city, of the countrysideB.poor, ri
28、chC.of the countryside, of a town or cityD.rich, poor(5).The best title for this piece of news can be _.（分数：1.00）A.American CensusB.Growing populationC.200-Year FlightD.Crowded TownsBB/BBeijings sky watchers will see with their own eyes a bright com- et (彗星) all night long. Comet e/1996 b2(Hyakutake
29、) was first observed by Hyakutake, a Japanese amateur (业余的) astronomer (天文学家), on January 30, 1996. It can be seen with the naked eyes (肉眼) over China, Europe and other northern areas at night through the last week of March and first ten days of April. On march 25, it was closed to the earth and the
30、 sun.What is more exciting is that there will be two more rare events in the sky, it is predicted (预言) that another comet, HaleBopp, found on July 23, 1995, by Americans Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, is expected to pass over the northern part of Heilongjiang province in March 1997. The comet, estimated
31、 to be 1015 kilometres in size, will not return for 3 000 years.What is even more rare is that a total solar eclipse (日蚀) is expected to occur on March 9, 1997, over Mongolia, Siberia and northern Heilongjiang province. When the sky turns dark, people should be able to see the eclipse and the bright
32、 comet HaleBopp at the same time.An observation (观察,评论) trip to Mohe, Heilongjiang Province, is being organized for the March 1997 sky events, as well as a nationwide astrophoto competition (竞赛).（分数：4.00）(1).Beijing sky watchers will be excited because _.（分数：1.00）A.they expect to see with their nake
33、d eyes the comet found by HyakutakeB.they will see a comet through a telescope for the first timeC.they have observed a comet by themselvesD.they expect to see the comet found by a Japanese amateur astronomer through a telescope(2).The two more exciting and rare sky events will occur in March, 1997
34、are_.（分数：1.00）A.a comet and a lunar eclipse (月蚀)B.comet Hale-Bopp and comet HyakutakeC.a comet found by two Americans and a solar eclipseD.a solar eclipse and comet Hyakutake(3).Which of the following statements is NOT true?（分数：1.00）A.March 25 was supposed to be the best time to observe comet Hyakut
35、ake.B.Comet Hale-Bopp and comet Hyakutake will pass over the northern part of Heilongjiang province in 1997.C.A nationwide astro-photo competition will be organized in March, 1997.D.The comet will not return for 3 000 years.(4).According to the newspaper article we learn that Hyakutake（分数：1.00）A.is
36、made to observe comets in the skyB.is an expert (专家) in astronomyC.has a great interest in astronomy (天文学)D.works as an astronomerBC/BThe winter holiday season is the most festive (欢乐的) time of the year. Students from elementary school through college have about two weeks vacation , beginning shortl
37、y before Christmas and ending soon after New Years Day. Many families go away for the holidays, but those who stay home have fun, too. There are many parties to cel- ebrate the birth of Christ and the arrival of the new year.The spirit of Christmas arrives about a month before the holiday itself. La
38、te in November, street lights and store windows are decorated (装饰) with Christmas colours of red and green.Stores depend on Christmas shoppers for about one-fourth of their yearly sales. Christmas is expensive. To earn extra money for gifts, inDecember many Americans get part-time jobs. Many people
39、make monthly bank deposits (存款)in special Christmas accounts so that they will have enough money for a nice Christmas.The most beautiful and meaningful parts of the holiday take place at home and in church. Many families go to church on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. After that, they gather ar
40、ound the tree and open their gifts. Then they sit down to enjoy a Christmas dinner turkey (火鸡) or ham, sweet potatoes, vegetables and cranberry sauce (酸果蔓酱).（分数：4.00）(1).How long does the Christmas holiday last?（分数：1.00）A.About two months.B.About 20 days.C.About two weeks.D.Two days.(2).According to
41、 the writer, to celebrate Christmas, people spend a lot of money and time on _.（分数：1.00）A.buying gifts for family membersB.going to churchC.writing letters and sending Christmas cardsD.preparing for the Christmas dinner(3).We can know from thd passage that _ like Christmas best.（分数：1.00）A.government
42、 officialsB.storekeepersC.teaehersD.secretaries(4).According to the article, people usually enjoy _ at Christmas dinner.（分数：1.00）A.turkeyB.fishC.chickenD.beefBD/BTake a look around on October 12, because it may seem a bit more crowded. On that day, or thereabouts, Earth s population will reach six b
43、illion. Although no one knows exactly when baby number six billion will arrive, the United Nations picked October 12 to mark the event, which is almost certain to occur before the end of 1999.Six billion is a milestone (里程碑). The 20th century began with world population under two billion. We ye adde
44、d the last billion people in only 12 years.Most of the increase these days takes place in the developing world. Birthrates have remained at low levels in Europe and North A- merica. In the developing world the over all rate of increase is 1.7 percent a year, which would double its population in 40 y
45、ears.（分数：2.00）(1).Which of the following statements is TRUE?（分数：1.00）A.The earth became crowded on October 12, 1999.B.Earths population has been doubled.C.Baby number six billion was born on October 12, 1999.D.The developing world may be responsible (应负负的) for the increasingly crowded world.(2).What
46、 is the best title for the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Global Population Reaches a MilestoneB.A Remarkable EventC.The Developing WorldD.Baby No. 6 BillionBE/BI was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz (爵士乐) concert last Friday. The advertisement (广告) in the paper said that you could buy tickets
47、 at the theatre box in Richland Hills any day be- tween 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9:00 to 5:00, the only time I could go to the theatre was during my 45 minutes lunch break. Unfortunately, the theatre is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills
48、is not very good. But if you are lucky (幸运的) , you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes wait- ing the bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip. So I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again the next day. On Thursday, my
