1、公共英语二级-综合阅读蓄势待发(四)及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B阅读理解/B(总题数：5，分数：100.00)Baker had stolen some money, but the police had caught him and he had been put in prison. Now his trial (审判) was about to begin, and he felt sure that he would be found guilty (有罪的) and sent to prison for a long time.Then he disc
2、overed that an old friend of his was one of the members of the jury (陪审团) at his trial. He managed to see his friend secretly one day. He said to him, “Bill, I know I cannot hope to be found not guilty of having stolen the moneythat would be too much to expect. But I should be grateful (感激的) if you
3、could persuade the other members of the jury to add a strong recommendation (劝告) for mercy (仁慈) to their statement that they consider me guilty.“Well, Baker,“ answered Bill, “I shall certainly help you, but of course I cannot promise anything. The other eleven people look terribly strong-minded to m
4、e.“ Baker thanked him warmly for agreeing to help.The trial went on, and its time for the jury to make a final decision. It took them five hours, but in the end they found Baker guilty, with a strong recommendation for mercy.Of course, Baker was very pleased. When Bill visited him in prison, Baker t
5、hanked him warmly and asked him how he had managed to persuade the other members of the jury to recommend mercy.“Well, Baker,“ Bill answered, “As I thought, those eleven men were very difficult to persuade, but I managed it in the end by tiring them out. Do you know, those fools had all wanted to fi
6、nd you not guilty!“（分数：20.00）(1).We are told that Baker expected Bill to _. A. help him run away from prison B. make the jury lighten his punishment C. believe he was not guilty D. to make others believe that he was guilty（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why Bill could not promise anything? A. He thought Baker
7、was guilty. B. Bakers case was too serious. C. He did not want to help Baker. D. The other members might not listen to his recommendation.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Why did Baker feel pleased about the decision? A. He thought he deserved (应得) the punishment. B. Bill did what he had promised. C. He would b
8、e set free immediately. D. The punishment was less severe (严厉的) than expected.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The passage suggests that _. A. it was due to Bill that Baker was found guilty B. Bill persuaded the jury to set Baker free C. Bill asked his colleagues to recommend mercy D. Bill recommended severe pu
9、nishment to give Baker a lesson（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.The Earth has a force that pulls thing toward itself. We call this force gravity (地心引力). This is something we live with all the time, and we take it for granted and hardly ever think about it. But it is a most important factor (因素) in rocket (火箭) opera
10、tion and must overcome (克服) if we are to get anywhere in space, or off the ground at all.Take the throwing of a ball as an example. The harder the ball is thrown, the faster and higher it will go. What is the secret? Its speed. If we could throw the ball hard enough it would go up and up forever and
11、 never come down. The speed at which it would have to be thrown do this is known as escape speed. Of course, we cannot throw a ball hard enough because the speed required to escape completely from the Earths gravity is seven miles per second, or over twenty-five thousand miles per hour.Once a spacec
12、raft has reached escape speed, no further power is needed. A rocket aimed at the Moon, for instance, will “coast“ (滑行) the rest of the way because the Earths gravity cannot then pull it back, and there is no air resistance (阻力) in space to slow it down. This “coasting“ is known as “free fall“ Free f
13、all is an important feature (特点) of space travel: it would be impossible to carry enough fuel to provide powered flight all the time.（分数：20.00）(1).As there is always the Earths gravitational (地心力的) pull, people _. A. accept it without questioning it C. seldom think about how to use it B. never notic
14、e its presence D. often try to escape from it（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is the most important factor for a rocket to escape from the Earth? A. To travel as fast as it can. B. To reduce the air resistance. C. To overcome the Earths gravity. D. To carry enough fuel with it.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(3).How fast
15、 will a rocket go to escape completely from the Earths gravity? A. Seventy miles per second B. Seven thousand miles per hour C. Over twenty-five thousand miles per second D. Over twenty-five thousand miles per hour（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Why is it not necessary to provide powered flight in space all th
16、e time? A. Few spacecraft complete their flight operations. B. No further power is needed after the escape speed is reached. C. The spacecraft will be attracted by the Moon. D. “Free fall“ takes the place of the Earths gravitational pull.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.Trees are useful to man in three important wa
17、ys. They provide him with wood; they give him shade; they help prevent drought (干旱) and floods. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third one is the most important.Two thousand years ago, a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with whic
18、h to gain itself an empire (帝国). It gained the empire; however, its soil became poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.Even where a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade villagers t
19、o see Uthis/U. The villagers want wood to cook their food with; and they want to make money from trees, so they have cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them they have lost the best friends they had. And also, they are usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So
20、the forests slowly disappear (消失).This does not only mean that the villagers sons and grandsons have fewer trees. The results are even more serious: for where there are trees, their roots break up soilmake the rain inand also bind (结合) the soil, thus preventing its being washed away easily; but wher
21、e there were no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and carries away with it the rich topsoil. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing is left but useless desert.（分数：20.00）(1).What is the most important service of trees to man according to the passage? A. They help him to make money. B. They give him
22、 cool. C. They give him wood. D. They help him to stop drought and floods.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What does the word “this“ (line 2, para.3) mean? A. The importance of a plentiful supply of trees. B. Wood to cook food with. C. Much money by making charcoal or selling wood to the townsman. D. Too lazy o
23、r too careless to plant and look after new trees.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Land becomes desert after all trees are cut down because _. A. roots of trees break up the soil B. there are too many rainfalls C. strong winds bring a lot of sand D. there are no longer trees to keep the rain and protect the tops
24、oil（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The author tries to let us know _. A. the importance of trees to man B. the usage of tree wood C. the function of tree roots D. the close relation between trees and topsoil（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.An experimental treatment that causes AIDS patients to develop a dangerously high fever
25、 has shown promise as a way of prolonging (延长) and improving the patients life.Called the BioLogic-HT System, the new treatment lets doctors extract (抽出) the blood of a patient and heat it before putting it back into the body. The heated blood causes the patients body temperature to rise above 42 de
26、grees Celsius. In people with AIDS, that increase in temperature kills some heat-sensitive HIV, the virus (病毒) that most doctors say causes AIDS.Heating the blood of AIDS patients has been tried before. But during previous (以前的) attempts, the treatment caused deadly chemical changes in the blood. Th
27、e BioLogic-HT System prevents those changes from happening, allowing the heat to kill viruses with few ill side effects.Tests of BioLogic-HT treatment began on 36 patients earlier this year. The treatment takes about four hours, and the patient normally feels well enough to leave the hospital or cli
28、nic the following morning.So far, the patients who have had the treatment say they feel better and have developed no new opportunistic infections (机会致病菌的感染). The patients also have experienced about a 50% increase in the number of T cells in their bodies. T cells are key disease-fighting cells of th
29、e immune (免疫的) system and the main target (目标) of HIV.（分数：20.00）(1).This passage is mainly about _. A. a heat-sensitive virus B. a way of treating AIDS C. the immune system of the human body D. the function of high temperature（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The blood of the patient is _. A. heated with a singl
30、e injection (注射) B. heated by being circulated (循环) at a higher speed C. taken out from the body and then circulated through a heating system D. taken out from the body, heated outside and then put back into the body（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The previous attempts to use high temperature for treating AIDS
31、 failed because they _. A. caused chemical changes B. could not kill HIV effectively C. killed both HIV and healthy cells D. resulted in deaths（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The result of the experiment seems to be _. A. disappointing B. incomplete C. surprising D. successful（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.VeronicaBy Mary G
32、aitskill.Pantheon Books, $23.This attractively dark novel from the author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat anti Thin is narrated (叙述) by a former (从前的) Paris model who is now sick and poor. Her reflections (想法) on beauty and cruelty have clarity and an uncanny bite.On BeautyBy Zadie Smith.Penguin
33、Press, $25.95.In her new book, a cultural-politics novel set in a place like Harvard, the author of White Teeth brings everything to the table: a lovely wit and enormous (大量的) sympathy (共鸣) for the men, women and children who read her story.SaturdayBy lan McEwan.Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $26.As excit
34、ing and as carefully constructed as anything McEwan has written, this astringent (尖锐的) novel traces (描绘) a day in the life of an English neurosurgeon (神经外科医生) who comes face to face with senseless violence (暴力).De Kooning: An American MasterBy Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.Alfred A. Knopf, $35.A bri
35、lliant biography (传记), impressively researched and absorbingly written, of the talented immigrant (移民) who stood at the vortex (中心) of mid-20th-century American art.A History of Europe Since 1945By Tony Judt.Penguin Press, $39.95.Judts learned, truthfully detailed account (说明) of Europes recovery fr
36、om the wreckage (废墟) of World War presents a whole continent in panorama (全景) even as it sets off detonations (爆炸) of insight (洞察力) on almost every page.（分数：20.00）(1).Which of the following novels are written by Mary Gaitskill? A. Veronica and Bad Behavior B. Veronica and White Teeth C. On Beauty an
37、d White Teeth D. On Beauty and Two Girls, Fat and Thin（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(2).If youre fond of art, which of the following would you prefer? A. On Beauty B. Saturday C. Veronica D. De Kooning: An American Master（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The novels published by the same company are _. A. A History of Europe
38、Since 1945 and Saturday B. On Beauty and A History of Europe Since 1945 C. Veronica and On Beauty D. Saturday and De Kooning: An American Master（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. Zadie Smith is the author of both On Beauty and White Teeth. B. A Histo
39、ry of Europe Since 1945 is published by Penguin Press. C. Two authors finished De Kooning: An American Master together. D. On Beauty describes the stories that happened in Harvard.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.公共英语二级-综合阅读蓄势待发(四)答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B阅读理解/B(总题数：5，分数：100.00)Baker had stolen some money, but
40、the police had caught him and he had been put in prison. Now his trial (审判) was about to begin, and he felt sure that he would be found guilty (有罪的) and sent to prison for a long time.Then he discovered that an old friend of his was one of the members of the jury (陪审团) at his trial. He managed to se
41、e his friend secretly one day. He said to him, “Bill, I know I cannot hope to be found not guilty of having stolen the moneythat would be too much to expect. But I should be grateful (感激的) if you could persuade the other members of the jury to add a strong recommendation (劝告) for mercy (仁慈) to their
42、 statement that they consider me guilty.“Well, Baker,“ answered Bill, “I shall certainly help you, but of course I cannot promise anything. The other eleven people look terribly strong-minded to me.“ Baker thanked him warmly for agreeing to help.The trial went on, and its time for the jury to make a
43、 final decision. It took them five hours, but in the end they found Baker guilty, with a strong recommendation for mercy.Of course, Baker was very pleased. When Bill visited him in prison, Baker thanked him warmly and asked him how he had managed to persuade the other members of the jury to recommen
44、d mercy.“Well, Baker,“ Bill answered, “As I thought, those eleven men were very difficult to persuade, but I managed it in the end by tiring them out. Do you know, those fools had all wanted to find you not guilty!“（分数：20.00）(1).We are told that Baker expected Bill to _. A. help him run away from pr
45、ison B. make the jury lighten his punishment C. believe he was not guilty D. to make others believe that he was guilty（分数：5.00）A.B. C.D.解析：解析 细节题。题干意为“贝克希望比尔怎么做?”从文章第二段最后一句话“But I should be grateful if you could persuade the other members of the jury to add a strong recommendation for mercy to their
46、 statement that they consider me guilty.”可知，贝克希望比尔说服其他陪审员建议从轻量刑。所以本题的正确答案为 B。(2).Why Bill could not promise anything? A. He thought Baker was guilty. B. Bakers case was too serious. C. He did not want to help Baker. D. The other members might not listen to his recommendation.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D. 解析：解析
47、推断题。题干意为“为什么比尔不能做出许诺?”从文章第三段第二句话“The other eleven people look terribly strong-minded to me.”可知，比尔觉得其他 11个人特别不容易改变主意。因此可以推断出其他人不一定会听从比尔的建议。所以本题的正确答案为 D。(3).Why did Baker feel pleased about the decision? A. He thought he deserved (应得) the punishment. B. Bill did what he had promised. C. He would be se
48、t free immediately. D. The punishment was less severe (严厉的) than expected.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D. 解析：解析 推断题。题干意为“为什么贝克对宣判结果很满意?”从文章第一段第二句话和第四段第二句话可知，贝克认为他可能会被判入狱很长时间，但是后来贝克被判有罪的同时被建议从轻量刑。因此可以推知本题的正确答案为 D。(4).The passage suggests that _. A. it was due to Bill that Baker was found guilty B. Bill persuaded the jury to set Baker free C. Bill asked his colleagues to recommend mercy D. Bill recommended severe punishment to give Baker a lesson（分数：5.00）A. B.C.D.解析：解析 推断题。题干意为“文章中暗示了什么?”从文章最后一段最后一句话“Do you know, those fools had all wanted to find you not guilty!”可推知，是因为比尔，贝克才被判有罪的。所以本题的正确答案为 A。
