1、公共英语四级(笔试)-57 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 Mark TwainMark Twain was born in the year of 1 His father died when he was about 2 He worked on newspapers as a 3 He travelled around the country giving lectures and earning enough mon
2、ey to go to 4 He didn“t travel much the last 10 5 （分数：5.00）填空项 1:_三、Part B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Over the years, more nonsense has been written about gesturing than about any other aspects of 1 There is nothing to the popular notion that public speakers must have a vast repertoire of 2 Whatever gestures you
3、 make should not draw attention to themselves and distract from 3 At this stage of your speaking career, you have many more important things to concentrate on than 4 In the meantime, make sure your hands do not upstage 5 （分数：5.00）填空项 1:_四、Part C(总题数：2，分数：10.00)（分数：5.00）(1).What is the main idea of t
4、he passage?（分数：1.00）A.Introducing expressions with “soap“.B.Introducing expressions with “opera“.C.Introducing most popular American expressions.D.Introducing popular political expressions.(2).What are the “soap“ expressions mentioned in the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Soap operas.B.Soap boxes.C.To soft-soap
5、 a person.D.All of the above.(3).What are soap operas?（分数：1.00）A.Soap operas are about unreal people with serious emotional problems.B.Soap operas are about real people with serious emotional problems.C.Soap operas are about unreal people without any emotional problems.D.Soap operas are about real p
6、eople without any emotional problems.(4).Today who is said to be on a soap box?（分数：1.00）A.Anyone who sells soap.B.Anyone who talks endlessly about a cause.C.Anyone who stands on a soap box.D.None of the above.(5).What does “to soft-soap a person“ mean?（分数：1.00）A.To try every means to gain a person“s
7、 support.B.To try to influence a person.C.To use kind words to get the person to do what you want.D.To send soft soap to people.（分数：5.00）(1).How long has Sarah been learning English?（分数：1.00）A.Six years.B.Six months.C.Sixteen years.D.Sixteen months.(2).According to Bill, who aim at an ideal pronunci
8、ation in English?（分数：1.00）A.Those who want to be teachers.B.Those who want to be interpreters.C.Those who want to be secretaries.D.Both A and B.(3).What does Sarah want to be in the future?（分数：1.00）A.A teacher.B.An interpreter.C.An editor.D.A doctor.(4).According to Bill, why don“t children want to
9、speak English with a native-speaker pronunciation?（分数：1.00）A.They want to be different from native-speakers.B.They can“t speak so well.C.They want to be the same as their friends.D.They aren“t taught to speak so.(5).What is the main reason given by Bill why adults find pronunciation difficult?（分数：1.
10、00）A.They are very shy.B.They want to keep their national identity.C.They are very anxious.D.They are affected by their own language habits.五、Section Reading(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、Part A(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Power of WordsWords are living things, the very bodies in which ideas and emotions become materialized.
11、Once an idea or an emotion has been put into words, it acquires infinitely more strength and persuasiveness than it possessed before. It is now a thing more than can be spoken and heard and visualized in imagination. By the power of the word, to an extraordinary extent, we can influence what happens
12、 to our lives. There is a famous old story about an optimist and a pessimist. A half-tumbler of water was placed before them for their inspection, and they were asked to describe what they saw. “I see,“ said the optimist cheerfully, “a glass that is half full.“ “I see,“ said the pessimist with a hea
13、vy sigh, “a glass that is half empty.“ There could hardly be a better example of the power of words, and of how word-choice can come to colour our whole mood and outlook. “Full“ is a grand word, but “empty“ is a lean, lonely word. If we say often enough how full things are, we grow more and more int
14、o a fullness of our own. If we say often enough how empty things are, we can make our life-adventure an emptiness indeed. It happens to everyone of us that we encounter in this life a variety of trials, troubles, disappointments and frustrations. It also happens to everyone of us that we encounter h
15、appinesses, rewards, and unexpected blessings. What balance we strikewhether we build on the blessings, and progress into an ever-increase of the good things on the positive side, or whether we magnify the miseries until our life sinks to what an old nurse of mine used to call a “depressingness“ on
16、the negative sidethis issue can depend to a surprising extent on what spirits we create with words. How often do we speak of the “agony“ of some small discomfort like a cut finger or a pinching pair of shoes? How often do we say, when we are a bit tired at the end of a hard day, that we are “pretty
17、nearly dead“? By the thousands we speak poison-words, doom-words, failure-words; and every time we do so we conjure each depressing idea a little farther into life. “It makes me sick,“ we say, and in that instant a little ghost of sickness is conjured into being to companion us. “Everything always h
18、appens to me.“ The words come easily. We think they drift away and are gone. But they are not. We have built a little ghost of bitterness to live with. And presently, little by little, the joy has gone out of our world, and now all we can see when we look at the half-full water glass is that it is h
19、alf empty. The dictionary is abundant in sunny words, healthy words, happy words, words to utter the good. There is plenty of good to be uttered, certainly. There has been a lot of causes for rejoicing in the lives of you and me. It is not suggested that we should never utter a syllable about the da
20、rk side of events. Of course not. But in building an attitude that has a healthiness and constructiveness about it, what kinds of words should we advise ourselves to use? It is simply a psychological fact that we can do immense good to ourselves, and can avoid a great deal of self-poisoning, just by
21、 taking a bit of care about what words we use. Out of words, in a very real sense, we build the picture of life that becomes our reality. By words we create the “powers“, dark or smiling, that company and rule us.（分数：20.00）(1).Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?（分数：4
22、.00）A.Words can carry ideas and emotions.B.Words make ideas more persuasiveness.C.Words make ideas and emotions visualized.D.Words can influence what happens to others.(2).What does the famous old story indicate?（分数：4.00）A.Word-choice reflects a person“s mood and outlook.B.People have different atti
23、tudes towards the world.C.They were given different experiments.D.They looked at the water from different distances.(3).What if we often see the “full“ aspect of things?（分数：4.00）A.We can live an adventurous life.B.We gradually grow into a fullness of our own.C.We will form wrong opinions.D.We are pe
24、ssimists.(4).What will be the result if we often speak doom-words?（分数：4.00）A.We are living a really happy life.B.We conjure each joyful idea a little farther into life.C.We conjure each depressing idea a little farther into life.D.We drive away the sadness in life.(5).What kind of words are healthy
25、and happy?（分数：4.00）A.Words to utter the good.B.Words having a good appearance.C.Words we utter spontaneously.D.Words about our real life.七、Part B(总题数：1，分数：15.00)A. With the drive of many women to strive to be equal with men, many women have chosen to work to prove themselves. While this is a worthy
26、goal, it can be accomplished in more meaningful ways. With this desire to work like men do, women have sacrificed the family in their pursuit. Do not take this as an attack upon women, because men in their pursuit of wealth have equally sacrificed their family to gain wealth. B. Governments, too, sh
27、ould embrace the potential of women. Women complain (rightly) of centuries of exploitation. Yet, to an economist, women are not exploited enough: they are the world“s most under utilized resource; getting more of them into work is part of the solution to many economic woes, including shrinking popul
28、ations and poverty. C. What is clear is that in countries such as Japan, Germany and Italy, which are all troubled by the demographics of shrinking populations, far fewer women work than in America, let alone Sweden. If female labor-force participation in these countries rose to American levels, it
29、would give a helpful boost to these countries“ growth rates. Likewise, in developing countries where girls are less likely to go to school than boys, investing in education would deliver huge economic and social returns. Not only will educated women be more productive, but they will also bring up be
30、tter educated and healthier children. More women in government could also boost economic growth: studies show that women are more likely to spend money on improving health, education, infrastructure and poverty and less likely to waste it on tanks and bombs. D. Furthermore, the increase in female em
31、ployment in the rich world has been the main driving force of growth in the past couple of decades. Those women have contributed more to global GDP growth than have either new technology or the new giants, China and India. Add the value of housework and child rearing, and women probably account for
32、just over half of world output. It is true that women still get paid less and few make it to the top of companies, but as prejudice fades over coming years, women will have great scope to boost their productivity-and incomes. E. Girls get better grades at school than boys, and in most developed coun
33、tries more women than men go to university. Women will thus be better equipped for the new jobs of the 21st century, in which brains count a lot more than brawn. In Britain far more women than men are now being trained to become doctors. And women are more likely to provide sound advice on investing
34、 their parents“ nest egg: surveys show that women consistently achieve higher financial returns than men do. F. Some people fret that if more women work rather than mind their children, this will boost GDP but create negative social externalities, such as a lower birth rate. Yet developed countries
35、where more women work, such as Sweden and America, actually have higher birth rates than Japan and Italy, where women stay at home. Others fear that women“s move into the paid labor force can come at the expense of children. Yet the evidence for this is mixed. For instance, a study by Suzanne Bianch
36、i at Maryland University finds that mothers spent the same time, on average, on childcare in 2009 as in 1965. The increase in work outside the home was offset by less houseworkand less spare time and less sleep. G. Even today in the modern, developed world, surveys show that parents still prefer to
37、have a boy rather than a girl. One longstanding reason why boys have been seen as a greater blessing has been that they are expected to become better economic providers for their parents“ old age. Yet it is time for parents to think again. Girls may now be a better investment. （分数：15.00）八、Section Wr
38、iting(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 full use of the information provided in the text(s). If you use more than three consecutive words from t
39、he text(s), use quotation marks(“ “).You should write 160-200 words. We use both words and body language to express our thoughts and opinions and to communicate with other people. We can learn about what a person is thinking by watching his or her body language. Words are important, but the way a pe
40、rson stands, folds his or her arms, or moves his or her hands can also give us information about his or her feelings. Just like spoken language, body language varies from culture to culture. Making eye contactlooking directly into someone“s eyesis in some countries a way to show interest. In other c
41、ountries, however, eye contact is rude or disrespectful. The thumbs-up gesture, meaning “great“ or “good job“ in the US is rude in Nigeria, but in Germany and Japan it means the number one. The “crazy“ gesture, moving the index finger in a circle in front of the ear, means “you have a phone call“ in
42、 Brazil. While there are many different interpretations of our body language, some gestures seem to be universal. Pressing one“s palms together and resting one“s head on the back of one“s hand while closing the eyes as if sleeping means “I am tired.“ A good way of saying “I am full“ is moving the ha
43、nd in circles over the stomach after a meal. Perhaps the best example of universally understood body language is the smile. A smile can help us get through difficult situation and find friends in a world of strangers. A smile can open doors and tear down walls. It can be used to express almost any e
44、motion. We can use a smile to apologize, to greet someone, to ask for help or to start a conversation. We can smile at ourselves in the mirror to make ourselves feel happier and stronger. And if we are feeling down or lonely, there is nothing better than to see the smiling face of a good friend. （分数
45、：45.00）_公共英语四级(笔试)-57 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 Mark TwainMark Twain was born in the year of 1 His father died when he was about 2 He worked on newspapers as a 3 He travelled around the country giving lectures and earning eno
46、ugh money to go to 4 He didn“t travel much the last 10 5 （分数：5.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：1835.）解析： 1835. 听力原文 Mark Twain, who wrote the story we are going to read, travelled quite a lot, often because circumstances, usually financial circumstances, forced him to. He was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, an
47、d moved to Hannibal, Missouri, with his family when he was about four years old. Most people think he was born in Hannibal, but that isn“t true. After his father died when he was about 12, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left so that he could earn more money. He worked for a while as a
48、 typesetter on various newspapers and then got a job as a river pilot on the Mississippi. Twain loved this job and many of his books show it. The river job didn“t last however, because of the outbreak of the Civil War. Twain was in the Confederate army for just two weeks, and then he and his whole c
49、ompany went west to get away from the war and the army. In Nevada and California, Twain prospected for silver and gold without much luck, but did succeed as a writer. When that happened, Twain travelled around the country giving lectures and earning enough money to go to Europe. Twain didn“t travel much the last 10 years of his life and he didn“t publish much either. Somehow his travels, even when forced, inspired his writings. Like many oth
