1、公共英语二级-553 及答案解析(总分：110.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、第一部分 听力理解(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、第一节(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).Whats the problem?（分数：1.00）A.The man cant drive,B.They are lost.C.The conference is over.(2).What is important for them to do?（分数：1.00）A.Practice together.B.Experience.C.Carry out instructions.(3).What does the m
2、an mean?（分数：1.00）A.He didnt have enough money to go to the concert.B.He arrived too late to hear the concert.C.He altered his plans suddenly.(4).Which of the following statements is true?（分数：1.00）A.Martin spoke last but not best.B.Martin spoke last and best.C.Even though last, Martin spoke fast.(5).
3、What is the mans problem?（分数：1.00）A.He cant find his new building.B.He is not accustomed to the large building.C.He had a bigger apartment before.三、第二节(总题数：5，分数：15.00)(1).What does the woman mean?（分数：1.00）A.He speaks too fast.B.He speaks too slowly.C.He doesnt speak to the point.(2).What does the wo
4、man mean about Mark?（分数：1.00）A.He is a thief.B.He is stupid.C.He is honest but capable of making a mistake.(3).What does the man want the woman to do?（分数：1.00）A.To play the piano.B.To give a performance.C.To sing a song.(1).Who is the woman?（分数：1.00）A.Lucy.B.Lucys sister.C.Lucys friend.(2).Which cla
5、ss is the woman looking for?（分数：1.00）A.The computer class.B.The English class.C.The computer and English classes.(1).Where is the man?（分数：1.00）A.On his way to Turners Street.B.In a bus to Turners Street.C.At the bus stop.(2).Why did the man ask the woman the way?（分数：1.00）A.Because he wanted to arriv
6、e at Turners Street on time.B.Because he didnt know where the bus stop was.C.Because he didnt know how to get to Turners Street.(3).How long does it take to get to Turners Street if the man walks?（分数：1.00）A.About one hour.B.About one hour and a half.C.About half an hour.(4).What advice did the woman
7、 give to the man?（分数：1.00）A.She told him to go by bus.B.She told him to walk there.C.She told him to wait for a bus.(1).Where does the man work?（分数：1.00）A.In a factory.B.In a hospital.C.On a farm.(2).When does be get up?A At about 6:11. BI At about 6:30. C At about 7:30.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(1).According
8、to the passage, what is it that almost everyone does on Sunday?（分数：1.00）A.Reading the Sunday paper.B.Going to church.C.Sleeping late in the morning.(2).When does the paper come?（分数：1.00）A.Late in the morning.B.In the afternoon.C.Before families get up.(3).What do men like to read from the passage?（分
9、数：1.00）A.The death notices.B.Sports.C.Clothes.(4).What kind of news do womens pages have?（分数：1.00）A.News about parties, clothes and marriages.B.Advice about food and health.C.All of the above.四、第二部分 英语知识运用(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、第一节 单项填空(总题数：15，分数：15.00)1.The _ has become extremely tense. A war could break
10、 out any time between the two sides.（分数：1.00）A.pollutionB.friendshipC.situationD.condition2.The news reporters hurried to the airport, only _ the film stars had left.（分数：1.00）A.to tellB.to be toldC.tellingD.told3.The palace was heavily guarded, because inside its walls _.（分数：1.00）A.where lived the Q
11、ueenB.lived the QueenC.there lived the QueenD.that lived the Queen4.Put on more clothes. You _ be feeling cold with only a shirt on.（分数：1.00）A.shouldB.wouldC.couldD.must5.I was half way back to the cottage where my mother lived _ Susan caught up with me.（分数：1.00）A.beforeB.whereC.whenD.that6.We recog
12、nized his voice _ he spoke on the radio.（分数：1.00）A.whileB.afterC.in caseD.the moment7.He hurried out of the classroom _ the class was over.（分数：1.00）A.a moment agoB.the momentC.at the momentD.the moment that8._, we couldnt work in the small room where there is no air conditioner.（分数：1.00）A.Being a ho
13、t dayB.It being a hot dayC.It being hot a dayD.Because the day being hot9._ are the days when teachers were looked down upon.（分数：1.00）A.GoneB.GoC.To goD.Going10._ the punishment was unfair, he accepted it without complaint.（分数：1.00）A.So long asB.Even thoughC.SinceD.While11.-Is Mrs White in the offic
14、e?-Yes, _ she is on duty, she must be there.（分数：1.00）A.sinceB.untilC.forD.if12.-What do you think of the songs?-In fact _ of them sounds beautiful.（分数：1.00）A.not allB.no oneC.not everyoneD.not every one13.-Dose Tom do his new job well?- _ his old job. How stupid! I think there is no hope for him.（分数
15、：1.00）A.No better thanB.Not better thanC.Not so well asD.No as well as14.Is that a book on farming? If so, I want to borrow _.（分数：1.00）A.thisB.oneC.itD.the one15.In order not to be disturbed, I spent three hours _ in my study.（分数：1.00）A.lockingB.lockedC.to lockD.being locked六、第二节 完型填空(总题数：1，分数：20.00
16、)Bringing Art into HospitalsThe medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the (36) in hospitals may play an important (37) to help patients to get better.As (38) of nationwide effort in Britain to bring (39) out (40) the museums and into (41) places, some of the countrys best artists
17、have (42) in to change older hospital and to soften the (43) edges of modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.These recent movements first (44) by one artis
18、t, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital on northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and (45) he should be enjoyed by a wider audience.A common hospital waiting room might have (46) 5 000 visitors each week, what a b
19、etter place to hold regular exhibitions of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out-patients waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to lie Britains first hospital artist, Senior was so much (47) that he was soon joined (48) a team of six young ar
20、t school graduates.The effect is (49) , now in file (50) and waiting rooms the visitors (51) a full view of fresh colors, playful images and restful countyards.The quality of the environment may (52) the used for expensive drugs when a patient is (53) from all illness. A study has shown that (54) wh
21、o halt a view onto garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared (55) patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.（分数：20.00）A.airB.environmentC.placeD.productA.roleB.actionC.wayD.senseA.memberB.roleC.partD.a personA.artB.musicC.worksD.booksA.ofB.forC.toD.inA.priva
22、teB.hospitalC.waiting roomD.publicA.calledB.been callingC.been calledD.to callA.hardB.splendidC.shortcomingsD.hardingA.movedB.setC.startedD.pushedA.forB.sinceC.thatD.thoughA.so many asB.as many asC.as much asD.sameA.in demandB.needC.demandD.requireA.inB.byC.forD.withA.strikingB.struckC.strikeD.being
23、 struckA.hospitalB.museumC.public placeD.passagesA.lookB.watchC.noticeD.experienceA.increaseB.fallC.reduceD.noA.recoveringB.restoringC.curingD.healingA.patientsB.peopleC.artistD.visitorsA.toB.withC.forD.between七、第三部分 阅读理解(总题数：0，分数：0.00)AWe walked so quietly that the nurse at the desk didnt even lift
24、 her eyes from the hook. Mum pointed to a big chair by the door and I knew she wanted me to have a seat. While I watched, mouth open in surprise, mum took off her hat and coat and gave them to me to hold. She walked quietly to the small room by the lift and took out a wet mop (拖把). She pushed the mo
25、p past the desk and as the nurse looked up, mum nodded and said, “Very dirty floors.“Yes. Im glad theyve finally decided to clean them,“ the nurse said. She looked at mum strangely and said, “But arent you working late?“Mum just pushed harder, each swipe (拖) of the mop taking her farther and farther
26、 down the hall. I watched until I couldnt see her and the nurse had turned back to write in the big book.After a long time mum came back. Her eyes were shining. She rapidly put the mop back and took my hand. As we turned to go out of the door, mum nodded politely to the nurse and said, “Thank you.“O
27、utside, mum told me: “Dagmar is fine. No fever.“You saw her, mum?“Of course. I told her about the hospital rides, and she will not expect us until tomorrow. Dad will stop worrying as well. Its a fine hospital. But such floors! A mop is no good. You need a brush./（分数：5.00）(1).When she took a mop from
28、 the small room what mum really wanted to do was _.（分数：1.00）A.to clean the floorB.to please the nurseC.to see a patientD.to surprise the story-teller(2).When the nurse talked to mum she thought mum was a _.（分数：1.00）A.nurseB.visitorC.patientD.cleaner(3).After reading the story what can we infer about
29、 the hospital?（分数：1.00）A.It is childrens hospital.B.It has strict rules about visiting hours.C.The nurses and doctors there dont work hard.D.A lot of patients come to this hospital every day.(4).Why did mother go to see Dagmar in the hospital?（分数：1.00）A.To give her some message about dad.B.To make s
30、ure her room was clean.C.To check that she was still there.D.To find out how she was.(5).Which of the following words best describes mum?（分数：1.00）A.Polite.B.Patient.C.Changeable.D.Clever.BMost of the animals have little connection with animals of a different kind, unless they hunt them for food. Som
31、etimes, however, two kinds of animals come together in a partnership (伙伴关系) which is good for both of them. You may see some birds sitting on the backs of sheep. This is not because they want a ride, but because they find easy food in the parasites (寄生虫) on sheep. The sheep allow the lairds to do so
32、 because they move the cause of discomfort. So although they can live without each other, they do better together.Sometimes an animal has a plant partner. The relationship develops until the two partners can not live without each other. This is so in the corals (珊瑚) of the sea. In their skins there
33、are tiny plants which act as “dustmen“, taking some of the waste products from the corals and giving in return oxygen which the animal needs to breathe. If the plants are killed, or are even prevented from receiving light so that they cannot live normally, the corals will die.（分数：4.00）(1).Some birds
34、 like to sit on a sheep because _.（分数：1.00）A.they can eat its parasitesB.they enjoy travelling with the sheepC.they depend on the sheep for existenceD.they find the position most comfortable(2).The underlined word “they“ in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to _.（分数：1.00）A.birds and pa
35、rasitesB.birds and sheepC.parasites and sheepD.sheep, birds and parasites(3).We learn from the text that corals depend on plants for _.（分数：1.00）A.comfortB.lightC.foodD.oxygen(4).What does the second paragraph mainly discuss?（分数：1.00）A.Some animals and plants depend on each other for existence.B.Some
36、 animals and plants develop their relationship easily.C.Some plants depend on each other for food.D.Some animals live better together.CWhen I was young, bedtime was always my favourite part of the day. Wearing soft pajamas and with Tom, my stuffed monkey, in my arms, I felt no pressure at all.I name
37、d Tom after my uncle when I compared Toms long arms and legs to his. One night I ran up to Uncle Tom at a family party and told him I had named my monkey after him. His eyebrows wrinkled in confusion, then a chuckle (咯咯笑) escaped his lips. I guessed he didnt understand how important it was to me.Eve
38、n if Uncle Tom didnt think my monkey was special, I certainly did. I dressed him in a white baby nightgown. My mother thought that Tom was the hest-dressed stuffed animal in the world. Yes, he was certainly a fashionable creature. The strong cologne (科隆香水) I used on him years ago made him still smel
39、l “pretty“.For a long time, Tom went everywhere with me. He was my best friend, and I told him everything. But when I turned twelve, I realized I was too old for stuffed animals. I thought people would think I was babyish, so I put him in the cupboard with the rest of my teddy bears and dolls. I beg
40、ged him to understand why I was doing this, but at the same time I longed to talk to him again.It took me several years to realize that it was OK to miss Tom. I know now that maturity (熟) doesnt only mean growing up and taking on more responsibility. It also means holding on to your childhood and ac
41、ting young sometimes.（分数：4.00）(1).Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?（分数：1.00）A.Bedtime used to be the writers favourite part of the day because of the stuffed monkey.B.Uncle Tom liked the stuffed monkey as much as the writer.C.The writer used to carry the monkey with her where
42、ver she went.D.Years later the writer realized that it was not wrong to miss Monkey Tom.(2).The writer loved Monkey Tom deeply because _.（分数：1.00）A.he could understand herB.he was a fashionable monkeyC.he could talk with herD.he was her must honest listener(3).We can learn from the text that the wri
43、ter believes _.（分数：1.00）A.keeping stuffed animals is babyishB.maturity doesnt mean growing up and taking on more responsibilityC.one should keep to his childhood and act young sometimes even when he has grown upD.human beings should be kind to animals(4).We can infer from the text that _.（分数：1.00）A.
44、the writer is still a teenagerB.the writer is now a middle-aged womanC.Monkey Tom got angry for being left aloneD.Uncle Tom has a monkey-like faceDWhatever our differences as human beings are, we all think were more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 perce
45、nt of our genetic (遗传的) structure with the simple worm.But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genuine (染色体组).To help them do this
46、, they turned to the worm. The nematode (线虫类的) worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it bett
47、er.What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make-up.Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go
48、 wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell
49、death.（分数：4.00）(1).Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has _.（分数：1.00）A.found that human beings are similar to the wormB.got the fact we share 40 percent of our genetic structure with the simple wormC.found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human bodyD.proved that cell death is programmed(2).People might be seriously ill if the cells in their body _.（分数：1.00）A.grow without being in
