1、公共英语二级真题 2013 年 3 月及答案解析(总分：90.00，做题时间：120 分钟)一、第一部分 听 力(总题数：5，分数：5.00)1.Who joined the company recently? （分数：1.00）A.Some designers.B.An art director.C.Some photographers.2.What does the woman mean? （分数：1.00）A.She knows the manager.B.She just moved in here.C.She is a visitor.3.What did the woman do
2、last weekend? （分数：1.00）A.She took a walk.B.She went boating.C.She stayed at home.4.Where is National City Bank? （分数：1.00）A.On Elm Street.B.On Oak Street.C.On Poplar Street.5.What will Lisa do after work? （分数：1.00）A.Pick up her friends.B.Go for a drink with her friends.C.Meet her friends at a repair
3、shop二、第二节 听下面 5 段对话或独白(总题数：5，分数：15.00)听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 题。（分数：2.00）(1).What does the man think of the French restaurant? （分数：1.00）A.The menu is too old.B.Its too far away.C.The price is too high.(2).Why does the man want to eat in? （分数：1.00）A.Hes in a bad mood.B.Hes good at cooking.C.Hes tired of e
4、ating out.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 至第 10 题。（分数：3.00）(1).What is Tonys nationality? （分数：1.00）A.CanadianB.BritishC.French(2).Why has Tony come to China? （分数：1.00）A.To find his roots.B.To do banana trade.C.To seek a better life.(3).How does Tony find his experience in China? （分数：1.00）A.DisappointingB.InterestingC
5、.Crazy听下面一段对话，回答第 11 至第 13 题。（分数：3.00）(1).What are the speakers talking about? （分数：1.00）A.A company meeting.B.High school life.C.Old schoolmates.(2).What did Sally try to show her friends? （分数：1.00）A.She was successful in business.B.She was interested in Simon.C.She was very happy.(3).What do we kno
6、w about Simon Fox? （分数：1.00）A.He enjoys parties.B.He likes the woman.C.He is Sallys husband听下面一段对话，回答第 14 至第 16 题。（分数：3.00）(1).When is the report due? （分数：1.00）A.Today.B.Tomorrow.C.In three weeks.(2).How does the woman sound? （分数：1.00）A.SorryB.InterestedC.Unhappy(3).What is the relationship between
7、the speakers? （分数：1.00）A.Sister and brother.B.Boss and employee.C.Teacher and student.听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 题。（分数：4.00）(1).What is the meeting about? （分数：1.00）A.Moving to a new campus.B.Running a new school.C.Hiring new teachers.(2).What does the speaker say about the Agriculture students? （分数：1.00）A
8、.They need bigger places.B.They will stay where they are.C.They, 11 have their labs ready in a week.(3).What is the plan for the History Department? （分数：1.00）A.The students will move to the Law Building.B.Everybody will stay in the old building.C.The teachers will move later.(4).Who will be in the d
9、owntown building? （分数：1.00）A.Engineering students.B.Law students.C.Arts students.三、第二部分 英语知识运用(总题数：15，分数：15.00)6.Your new cell phone looks so handsome. May I have a look? _. You will like it. （分数：1.00）A.Sure, go aheadB.Not at allC.It doesnt matterD.Take it easy7.It is Dads birthday and we _ for a me
10、al to celebrate. （分数：1.00）A.have gone outB.were going outC.are going outD.have been going out8.Andy worked _ of all, so he always had the best performance in his class. （分数：1.00）A.hardB.the harderC.harderD.hardest9.How _ they be there already? They only left ten minutes ago. （分数：1.00）A.willB.canC.sh
11、ouldD.must10.I enjoyed reading the story by Sarah Peterson. It was rather sad, _. （分数：1.00）A.thoughB.insteadC.tooD.anyway11.Susans family lived a long way away, and she had no one to turn _. （分数：1.00）A.overB.toC.onD.in12._ his point, Kyle showed Ann the word in the dictionary. （分数：1.00）A.Just proveB
12、.Just to proveC.Just provingD.Just to have proved13.Is this _ first time youve flown on _ British Airways? （分数：1.00）A.the, /B.the, aC.a, theD./, a14.The company has opened a new factory, _ many skilled workers are hired. （分数：1.00）A.whichB.whereC.thatD.why15.We often feel _ when our efforts do not ac
13、hieve what we hoped they would. （分数：1.00）A.cut offB.let downC.put awayD.set up16.Clearly, he doesnt have a plan, _ he would have said something. （分数：1.00）A.butB.unlessC.orD.so17.The family reported their son _ the next morning after searching everywhere for a whole night. （分数：1.00）A.missesB.missedC.
14、to missD.missing18.I havent seen _ of those two films, so I dont mind which one we go to. （分数：1.00）A.eitherB.noneC.bothD.neither19.Ann and Billy _ together for 7 years when they decided to get married. （分数：1.00）A.will beB.are beingC.had beenD.have been20.My grandparents are both in their _ and they
15、are still living a healthy life. （分数：1.00）A.ninetiethB.ninetiesC.ninetyD.ninetys四、第二节 完形填空(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Pilot Cabuk was at the control seat calling out his climb checklist after taking off. Keeping him company in the copilots seat was the planes owner, Doug White. Cabuk began a _36_ call to air tr
16、affic controllers in Miami, but _37_ his voice lowered and his head fell to his chest. White _38_ him on the shoulder and tried _39_ him awake, but he was still. The plane was a mile above the earth, climbing up at a speed of 2, 000 feet per minute. And no one on board knew _40_ to get it safely to
17、the _41_. White got on the radio. “Miami,” he said in a trembling (颤抖的) voice, “Ive got to _42_ an emergency (紧急状态). My pilot fell ill and is in a terrible state. I need _43_ up here.” Nate Henkels took the _44_ at the Miami center. He was _45_; few aircraft had been as large as this one. Henkels in
18、structed White to _46_ at the height of 12, 000 feet. But the plane kept _47_. “Dont worry. Pull back gently.” Henkels said, fighting his own _48_. The “gently” part proved _49_. White turned left and moved around, which _50_ him on the proper course. “Youre doing well,” said Henkels. His _51_ voice
19、 had become Whites lifeline. Gradually White _52_ the plane and then dropped the landing gear (起落架). Fifteen minutes later, the plane was _53_ on the runway, shining under the Florida sun after a perfect _54_. Inside the Miami control center, _55_ broke out. （分数：20.00）A.warningB.particularC.nervousD
20、.regularA.suddenlyB.graduallyC.peacefullyD.rapidlyA.relaxedB.beatC.carriedD.tappedA.findingB.keepingC.shakingD.forcingA.whatB.howC.whereD.whenA.groundB.skyC.placeD.seatA.replyB.explainC.declareD.suggestA.helpB.medicineC.a doctorD.a captainA.voiceB.callC.timeD.numberA.shockedB.amazedC.ashamedD.annoye
21、dA.loadB.jumpC.measureD.stayA.droppingB.burningC.rockingD.movingA.illnessB.fearC.desireD.lonelinessA.interestingB.dangerousC.foolishD.effectiveA.changedB.allowedC.setD.deliveredA.anxiousB.urgentC.calmD.curiousA.savedB.loweredC.directedD.fixedA.sittingB.waitingC.racingD.turningA.flyingB.divingC.fight
22、ingD.landingA.a cryB.a fireC.laughtersD.cheers五、第三部分 阅读理解(总题数：5，分数：20.00)Text 1 Two years ago, Dimas Aliprandi and Elton Plaster didnt know of each others existence. Then they learned they had been switched (调换) at birth by mistake more than 20 years ago. The discovery didnt bring bitterness. Rather
23、, it led to the creation of a bigger family. The chain of events started with Dimas, who was always wondering why he did not look like the four sisters he grew up with. He was 14 when his doubts grew after watching a TV news report on babies getting switched at birth because of mistakes at hospitals
24、. He wanted to do a DNA test, but it was too expensive for the family. A decade later, Dimas did it on his own. The DNA test showed that he was not the birth son of the man and woman who had raised him. The news was a shock for his parents. They at first refused to believe the results, but eventuall
25、y decided to help him look for his biological parents. The search began at the Madre Regina Protmann Hospital where records were checked. The hospital searched its records and found Elton Plaster was bom there on the same day. The records led Dimas to the 35 - acre farm where Plaster lived with his
26、parents, Nilza and Adelson, in the town of Santa Maria de Jetiba, about 30 miles from the Aliprandi home in Joao Neiva. After tests, the Plasters discovered that Elton was the biological son of the man and woman that Dimas had been calling Mom and Dad for 24 years. Meanwhile, the couple Elton had al
27、ways regarded as tus biological parents were Dimas parents. About a year ago, Aliprandi and the parents who raised him accepted an offer from the Plasters to move to their farm, where they built a home. “This is the way it should be,” Adelson Plaster recently told Globo TV. “We are all together and
28、I now have two sons living and working here.” （分数：4.00）(1).Who was the first to discover the baby switch? （分数：1.00）A.Globo TV.B.The hospital.C.Elton Plaster.D.Dimas Aliprandi.(2).Where do the Aliprandis now live? （分数：1.00）A.In Sao Paulo.B.In Joao Neiva.C.In Santa Maria de Jetiba.D.In Madre Regina Pr
29、otmann.(3).What did the Aliprandis do when they knew about the baby switch? （分数：1.00）A.They went to Globo TV for more information.B.They helped Dimas find his birth parents.C.They switched the hospital9 s records.D.They took another DNA test.(4).Who are Elton Plasters biological parents? （分数：1.00）A.
30、The Plasters.B.The Aliprandis.C.Dimas and Elton.D.Nilza and Adelson.Text 2 Force of habit is a powerful thing. How else can I explain why I spend $ 200 per month for a package of the Internet, TV, and telephone - most of which I dont really need? My wife and I make most calls on our cell phones. We
31、dont watch much TV and nearly everything we want we could get online. So why not just pay for the Internet and forget the rest. My answers are totally unreasonable: Im 49 years old; this is how Ive always done things; change is hard. Most of the U. S. population is in this same situation. Nielsen re
32、cently reported that although online video (视频) viewing has risen 35 percent in the past year, 99 percent of TV viewing is still done on a traditional TV. But that is not the case for younger people, like my friend Dan Frommer, a 27-year-old writer for a Website. Frommer pulled the plug (插座) on cabl
33、e (有线的) TV in May 2008 and instead gets shows from the Internet by a Macintosh computer connected to his LCD television. He cannot get everthing hed like to see, but he has saved $ 1,500 on cable-TV bills. The next generationtodays young peoplewill likely never sign up for cable TV at all. This is t
34、errible news for cable companies. For decades they have had a wonderful business model, running the tollbooth (收费站) that stood between you and the shows. Now the Internet provides a way to get around the tollbooth, and cable companies are faced with a problem: do they welcome the Internet and try to
35、 make money online, or do they fight the Internet and try to delay the damage? The answer is to do both: delaying the trend with one hand while racing to develop workable Internet business models with the other. Problem is, even if the tollbooth stays up, it probably wont make as much money. The rul
36、e is that when the Internet hits an industry, wherever you used to make dollars, you now make cents. For cable companies, the good old days may soon be over. （分数：4.00）(1).Why do most people still watch traditional TV? （分数：1.00）A.They have signed up for it.B.They have no other choices.C.They are in t
37、he habit of doing so.D.They fail to see what they really like.(2).What do younger people usually do nowadays? （分数：1.00）A.Write for a website.B.Get connected with cable TV.C.Make money on the Internet.D.Use the Internet instead of cable TV.(3).According to the text, cable companies are threatened by
38、_. （分数：1.00）A.population growthB.peoples old habitsC.online video viewingD.cable company tollbooths(4).What is the problem faced by cable companies? （分数：1.00）A.How to improve tollbooths.B.How to make more money online.C.How to survive in an Internet age.D.How to design attractive programs.Text 3 The
39、 way people in the US travel to and from work has changed a lot in the last fifty years. Before the Second World War, most people lived in the town or the city where they worked. Almost everyone either walked to work or used a good inexpensive transportation system. Many of these systems were electr
40、ified and ran on tracks, so they used very little energy. After 1945, the United States government built many new roads and highways. People moved farther and farther from the cities where they worked because they could drive their cars on these new roads from their suburban (郊区的) homes to work in t
41、he city. Some of the big car makers also bought the electrified transportation systems so they could destroy them. As people stopped using public transportation, cities spent less money to fix old buses and trains or to buy new ones. Public transportation got worse and worse. In the late 1960s, peop
42、le found out that the increase in the use of cars led to many problems. There were always too many cars for the highway system, and terrible traffic problems developed. People were spending hours in traffic jams getting to and from work every day. In addition, the air in many cities became dirty bec
43、ause of pollution from millions of cars, and many people died in traffic accidents. As people began to get worried about how the use of cars was hurting the environment, cities began to spend more money on public transportation again so fewer people would have to drive cars. When gas became very exp
44、ensive in the mid-1970s, the number of people taking public transportation began to increase. Because it is terribly expensive to build new public transportation systems, it is very difficult to make big changes in the way people travel, but an increase in the use of public transportation has begun.
45、 （分数：4.00）(1).Why did some car companies buy and destroy public transportation systems? （分数：1.00）A.They were slower than cars.B.They were too old to be fixed.C.They were trying to build better ones.D.They wanted to sell more of their products.(2).When did people in the US start moving away from wher
46、e they work? （分数：1.00）A.Before World War I.B.After 1945.C.In the late 1960s.D.In the mid-1970s.(3).What makes it difficult to change peoples way of travelling? （分数：1.00）A.Lack of money.B.Shortage of gas.C.Poor quality of highways.D.Increased number of cars.(4).What kind of transportation does the au
47、thor seem to favour? （分数：1.00）A.Electric cars.B.Bicycles.C.Gas cars.D.Buses and trains.Text 4 New YorkBy studying blindfolded college students who move through grass to find a chocolate scented (有气味的)path by smelling, researchers say theyve found evidence of a human smelling ability that scientists
48、thought impossible. The study shows the human brain compares information it gets from each nostril (鼻孔) to determine where a smell is coming from. And it suggests dogs and mice and some other mammals (哺乳动物) do the same thing, unlike what most scientists have thought. People compare signals (信号) from
49、 each ear to determine the direction of a noise. But most scientists idea has been that mammals cant do it in the same way for smells, because their nostrils are too close together to get different signals. “We debunked that, said Noam Sobel of the University of California, Berkeley, who reported the new results Sunday with graduate student Jess Porter and others on the Website of the magazine Nature Neuroscience. The report isnt the first to suggest the two-
