1、公共英语四级(笔试)-52 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Listening(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Information about Michael JordanPhysically Michael Jordan feels 1 What did Michael Jordan want to play? 2 Jerry wanted him to take time as Jordan did in 3 He retired the first time when Phil Jackson was
2、 the 4 He wanted to continue to play a couple more years, but at the end of this season Jordan was mentally drained and 5 （分数：5.00）填空项 1:_三、Part B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Abraham Lincoln was born in 1 When Abraham Lincoln worked as a clerk in a store, he was 2 When Abraham Lincoln served customers, they usual
3、ly 3 Abraham Lincoln realized his mistake, so 4 Although the customer lived two or three miles away, Lincoln decided to walk there to 5 （分数：5.00）填空项 1:_四、Part C(总题数：3，分数：10.00)（分数：4.00）(1).Which of the following words or expressions is NOT correct to describe Diana?（分数：1.00）A.Compassionate.B.Average
4、 intelligence.C.Pretty.D.A millionaire.(2).When did Diana begin to be called Princess of Wales?（分数：1.00）A.1961.B.1981.C.1996.D.1918.(3).When did Diana and Prince Charles get divorced?（分数：1.00）A.1997.B.1995.C.1996.D.1993.(4).How did she win people“s heart?（分数：1.00）A.By her devotion to charity work an
5、d her compassion and humanity.B.By her wealth.C.By her beauty.D.By her title of Princess of Wales.（分数：3.00）(1).Mark Twain was famous as the following except _.（分数：1.00）A.a writerB.a lecturerC.a story tellerD.a teacher(2).When did Mark Twain meet the young man?（分数：1.00）A.When he was going home.B.When
6、 he was going to deliver a lecture.C.When he was going to meet his friend.D.When he was going to attend a lecture.(3).Why didn“t the old man get amused by Mark Twain“s funniest stories?（分数：1.00）A.Because he pretended not to hear the stories.B.Because he was sad at the moment.C.Because he was exhaust
7、ed.D.Because he had been deaf for many years.（分数：3.00）(1).According to the sociologist, all the following points are the factors in success except _.（分数：1.00）A.energy and ambitionB.hard workC.attitudeD.much natural talent(2).When Helen Keller was born, she was not _.（分数：1.00）A.blindB.deafC.healthyD.
8、dumb(3).How did Helen Keller become deaf and blind?（分数：1.00）A.She was struck by a high fever.B.She was involved in an accident.C.She was born deaf and blind.D.None of the above.五、Section Reading(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、Part A(总题数：1，分数：20.00)The Gentleman in WhiteIn 1859, Italy and France were at war with Au
9、stria, and Henry Dunant, a young Swiss gentleman, came upon one of their battlefields. For the first time in his life, Dunant saw how heartless war would be. Around him were suffering men untended and left to die where they fell. Henry Dunant went to work at once. Helped by several peasant women, he
10、 formed an ambulance service and set up headquarters in a little church. He treated the wounds of Frenchmen, Italians and Austrians alike. When he was asked why he did so, his answer showed a spirit of humanity that was not common in those days. “We are all brothers. A wounded enemy is an enemy no l
11、onger.“ With his band of assistants, Dunant helped to save many lives. The “gentleman in white“ (as Dunant was called because he wore a white suit) was looked upon by hundreds of wounded men as little short of an angel. When Dunant returned, he could not forget the needless suffering on the battlefi
12、eld. The more he thought of it, the more he felt that something must be done. He ended his book with the following questionwould it not be possible, in time of peace and quiet, to form relief societies to arrange for the care of the wounded in wartime by zealous, .volunteers? He thought of a great o
13、rganization that should be planned to take in many nations. It would do its work with the approval of all countries. And it must operate under a sign that all would know: its symbol would be a red cross against a white background. One man alone could hardly make this vision come true. But Henry Duna
14、nt resolved to do what he could. First of all he wrote a book to make the public see the need for this great organization. In the book he included a truthful account of what he had seen on the battlefield. The consequence was that readers were shocked by what he described. A wealthy lawyer, one of D
15、unant“s countrymen, was the first to act. He chose Dunant and four others to form the Committee of five, which was to look into the idea of an international society. After the investigation, all the nations of Europe were invited to a meeting in Geneva on October 26,1863, at which it was decided a r
16、elief society should be formed in each country. Then the Geneva Convention was made the following year. The nations that signed the Geneva Convention chose the red cross as the symbol for the international organization. Until his death in 1910, Dunant was always ready to look for a noble cause. And
17、when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time in 1901, the honor went to Dunant. No man has deserved it more than the founder of the Red Cross.（分数：20.00）(1).Why was Dunant looked upon as an angel by wounded men?（分数：4.00）A.Because he really came from the heaven to help.B.Because he wore a
18、 white suit.C.Because he helped to save many lives.D.Because he was goodlooking.(2).Why did Henry Dunant go to Italy?（分数：4.00）A.To do business.B.To travel about the country.C.To visit his friends.D.Not mentioned in the passage.(3).Dunant planned the organization with an intention to _.（分数：4.00）A.fun
19、ction only in EuropeB.get the approval of relief work from every countryC.stop warD.show his ability(4).In the passage, readers can“t learn _.（分数：4.00）A.when Henry Dunant diedB.why Dunant deserved the Nobel Peace PrizeC.when nations in Asia signed the Geneva ConventionD.that Dunant was a determined
20、man(5).“We are all brothers. A wounded enemy is an enemy no longer.“ The sentence showed that _.（分数：4.00）A.Dunant was a good soldierB.Dunant had no principle when he actedC.Dunant wanted to stop warD.Dunant had a spirit of humanity七、Part B(总题数：1，分数：15.00)How does your reading proceed? Clearly you tr
21、y to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar. 1 You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: wh
22、o is making the utterance, to whom, when and where. The ways of reading indicated here are without doubt kinds of comprehension. But they show comprehension to consist not just passive assimilation but of active engagement inference and problem-solving. You infer information you feel the writer has
23、invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and cues. 2 Conceived in this way, comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader. What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or “true“ meaning that can be read off and clocked for accuracy, or so
24、me timeless relation of the text to the world. 3 4 This doesn“t, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless. Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the pageincludin
25、g for texts that engage with fundamental human concernsdebates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values. How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it. 5 Such dimensions of read suggestas others introduced later
26、 in the book will also dothat we bring an implicit (often unacknowledged) agenda to any act of reading. It doesn“t then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller, more advanced or more worthwhile than another. Ideally, different kinds of reading inform each other, and act as useful refer
27、ence points for and counterbalances to one another. Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy or relationship to your surrounding textual environment. A. Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfils the requirement of a given course? Reading it si
28、mply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room. B. Such background material inevitably reflects who we are, factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age a
29、nd social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others. C. If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the contest. On the assumption that they will become relevant later, you make a
30、mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them. D. In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had. These might be the ones the author intended. E. You make further inferences, for instance, about h
31、ow the test may be significant to you, or about its validityinferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible. F. In plays, novels and narrative poems, characters speak as constructs created by the author, not necessarily as mouthpiece
32、s for the author“s own thoughts. G. Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text“s formal structures (so especially its language structures) and various ki
33、nds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.（分数：15.00）八、Section Writing(总题数：1，分数：45.00)1.Read the following text(s) and write an essay to1) summarize the main points of the text(s),2) make clear your own viewpoints, and3) justify your stand.In your essay, make
34、full use of the information provided in the text(s). If you use more than three consecutive words from the text(s), use quotation marks(“ “).You should write 160-200 words. NOBODY else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could put on a show like Steve Jobs. His product l
35、aunches, at which he would stand alone on a black stage and conjure up a “magical“ or “incredible“ new electronic gadget in front of an awed crowd, were the performances of a master showman. He spent his life packaging that magic into elegantly designed, easy to use products. He had been among the f
36、irst, back in the 1970s, to see the potential that lay in the idea of selling computers to ordinary people. In those days of green-on-black displays, when floppy discs were still floppy, the notion that computers might soon become ubiquitous seemed fanciful. But Mr. Jobs was one of a handful of pion
37、eers who saw what was coming. Mr. Jobs caught the computing bug while growing up in Silicon Valley. As a teenager in the late 1960s he cold-called his idol, Bill Hewlett, and talked his way into a summer job at Hewlett-Packard. But it was only after dropping out of college, travelling to India, beco
38、ming a Buddhist and experimenting with psychedelic drugs that Mr. Jobs returned to California to co-found Apple, in his parents“ garage, on April Fools“ Day 1976. Dropping out of his college course and attending calligraphy classes instead had, for example, given Mr. Jobs an apparently useless love
39、of typography. But support for a variety of fonts was to prove a key feature of the Macintosh. Mr. Jobs expected to sell “zillions“ of his new machines. But the Mac was not the mass-market success Mr. Jobs had hoped for, and he was ousted from Apple by its board. His remarkable second act began in 1
40、996 when Apple, having lost its way, acquired NEXT, and Mr. Jobs returned to put its technology at the heart of a new range of Apple products. And the rest is history: Apple launched the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, and became the world“s most valuable listed company. （分数：45.00）_公共英语四级(笔
41、试)-52 答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Listening(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Information about Michael JordanPhysically Michael Jordan feels 1 What did Michael Jordan want to play? 2 Jerry wanted him to take time as Jordan did in 3 He retired the first time when Phil Jackson was the 4 He
42、 wanted to continue to play a couple more years, but at the end of this season Jordan was mentally drained and 5 （分数：5.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：great.）解析： great. 听力原文 Mentally, I“m exhausted. I don“t feel I have a challenge. Physically I feel great. The last time I had other agendas, you know, and I knew I
43、wanted to play baseball and I felt at my age, it was a good opportunity and time to do it. You know, with the death of my father, and I was basically trying to deal with it. This time I“m at peace with a lot of those things and know from a career stand point right now I don“t have the mental challen
44、ges that I have had in the past to proceed as a basketball player. Actually I talked to Jerry last year once, say, as the season ended and I told Jerry at that time that mentally I was a little exhausted, I didn“t know if I would play next year. I wanted to put him on awareness so that he could poss
45、ibly prepare going to next season. And Jerry, once we had our conversation, wanted me to take time as I did in 93 to make sure that it was the right decision because it was going to be the final decision. And he encouraged me to wait until the time came to where I made that announcement. And in the
46、middle of that process, with the lockout, I wanted to support the players. I retired the first time when Phil Jackson was the coach. And I think even with Phil, the coach, I would have a tough time and mentally find a challenge for myself although he could somehow present challenges for me. Even tho
47、ugh in the middle of this season I wanted to continue to play a couple more years but at the end of this season I was mentally drained and tired. I will support the Chicago Bulls and I think the game itself is a lot bigger than Michael Jordan. I“ve been given an opportunity by people before me. To n
48、ame a few, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Doctor J, Jerry West. These guys played the game the way before Michael Jordan was born. Michael Jordan came on the heels of that activity. Mr. Stern and what he“s done gave me an opportunity to play the game of basketball and I played it to the best I could play. 解析：
49、 Baseball. 解析： 93. 解析： coach. 解析： tired. 三、Part B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Abraham Lincoln was born in 1 When Abraham Lincoln worked as a clerk in a store, he was 2 When Abraham Lincoln served customers, they usually 3 Abraham Lincoln realized his mistake, so 4 Although the customer lived two or three miles away, Lincoln decided to walk there to 5 （分数：5.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：a poor family.）解析： a poor family.
