1、公共英语四级-2 及答案解析(总分：97.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、BPart A/B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)information about the States of the U.S. When the United States was formed, where were only 13 1The thirteen states declared the independence in 2In 1776, the 13 colonies fought a seven-year War of 3The thirt
2、y-seven other states were admitted to the mation as they gained enough 4The last two states to come in were Alaska and 5（分数：4.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、BPart B/B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Information about British Economy 6.7.8.9.British economy enjoyed 5 years of strong economic _.Average GDP gro
3、wth per year is _.The outlook for the British economy is _.The driving factor of this years economic growth is _.The most dynamic industry in recent years is _. 10.（分数：4.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_四、BPart C/B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)（分数：3.00）(1).The entrance rate of medical schools of the US in 20
4、01 was _. A. near 20% B. 30% C. near 50% D. 80%（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Students are ready to use their knowledge to begin helping sick people in a hospital at their_ year of college. A. first B. second C. third D. fourth（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The training program students begin seeking to enter during th
5、e fourth gear of medical school in a hospital is called _. A. a medical competition B. a treatment competition C. a medical treatment D. a medical residency（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：4.00）(1).What is the date today according to the talk? A. July 10th. B. July 11th. C. July 9th. D. July 8th.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.
6、D.(2).Why does Mr. Cotton call? A. He calls to cancel his reservation. B. He calls to change his ticket. C. He calls to check his ticket. D. He calls to cancel his reservation and make another.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the talk, which of the following is true? A. Mr. Cotton calls British air
7、lines. B. The July 12th plane is not available. C. Mr. Cotton chooses the economy class seat. D. Mr. Cotton likes the aisle seat.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following can be inferred from the talk? A. Mr. Cotton should come to the ticket office as soon as possible. B. Mr. Cotton gets the ticke
8、t at once. C. Mr. Cotton will get the ticket in the local post office. D. Mr. Cotton needs to go to the ticket office to get the ticket.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).What was the purpose of the professors experiments? A. To find out how clever monkeys were. B. To test the intelligence of different a
9、nimals. C. To compare the difference between man and the monkey. D. To find out how monkeys search for food.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why did the professor put the food in a small box? A. To give the monkey a surprise. B. To see how the monkey ate from a box. C. To see how soon the monkey could find it.
10、D. To find out how the monkey would open the box.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).How did the professor watch the monkey? A. By waiting outside the door. B. By waiting inside the door. C. By kneeling down at the door. D. By putting it in a small box.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)History books
11、 and Hollywood westerns have created stereotypes of both the Indians and their whiteU U 1 /U /UU U 2 /U /U, Indians have been portrayed as ignorant, murderingU U 3 /U /U; the whites, on the other hand, have beenU U 4 /U /Uas brave adventurers, struggling to make homes in a new and hostile land. It i
12、s not surprising thatU U 5 /U /Uthe years the Indians have developed a sense of personal and culturalU U 6 /U /Uand the whites a sense of superiority. These feelings areU U 7 /U /UevidentU U 8 /U /Uthe reservations. Government reservations have fostered a “paternalistic“ attitude of whites toward In
13、dians,U U 9 /U /UIndians have been encouraged to be dependent upon whites for food and survival. It should come as no surpriseU U 10 /U /UIndians, after years of isolation and dependency on reservations, oftenU U 11 /U /Umotivation and self-esteem.In an attempt toU U 12 /U /Ufrom a life of poverty a
14、nd unemployment, many IndiansU U 13 /U /Uto alcohol. Alcoholism is a major health problem on reservations and in some wayU U 14 /U /Uapproximately 80 percent of the families. As one Sioux Indian explained, “When youve got no job, no money, and a house with a dirt roof, youve got good reason to want
15、to get drunk.“Despair has even harsher consequences. The suicideU U 15 /U /Uamong Indian teenagers is four times the national average. Traditionally, Indian schools have tried to force children to forget their Indian language andU U 16 /U /Uin favor of white customs andU U 17 /U /U. As a result, man
16、y young people feel inferior to theU U 18 /U /Uwhite American and are ashamed of their Indian heritage.U U 19 /U /U, however, this deplorable situation has begun to changeU U 20 /U /Uthe efforts of sensitive teachers and school administrators.（分数：20.00）(1). A. fellows B. counterparts C. people D. fo
17、lks（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. Usually B. Habitually C. Historically D. Traditionally（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. savages B. primitives C. barbarians D. slaughters（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. explained B. referred C. described D. thought（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. within B. over C. for D. during（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(
18、6). A. security B. inferiority C. dignity D. awe（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(7). A. strikingly B. mainly C. particularly D. exceptionally（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(8). A. with B. in C. on D. at（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(9). A. for example B. however C. on D. that is（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(10). A. as B. thus C. when D. that（分数：1.00）A.
19、B.C.D.(11). A. lack B. need C. demand D. challenge（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(12). A. escape B. run C. flee D. turn（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(13). A. take B. resort C. turn D. switch（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(14). A. effects B. affects C. concerns D. influences（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(15). A. number B. rate C. figure D. ratio（分数：1.00
20、）A.B.C.D.(16). A. custom B. family C. culture D. tribe（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(17). A. values B. community C. languages D. education（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(18). A. common B. most C. ordinary D. average（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(19). A. Now that B. Recently C. Nowadays D. In the past（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(20). A. in B. with C.
21、 through D. by（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.六、BSection Readi(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、BPart A/B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)八、BPassage 1/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Lacking a cure for AIDS, society must offer education, not only by public pronouncement but also in classrooms. Those with AIDS or those at high risk of AIDS suffer prejudice; they ar
22、e feared by some people who find living itself unsafe, while others conduct themselves with a “bravado“ that could be fatal. AIDS has afflicted a society already short on humanism, open-handedness and optimism. Attempts to strike it out with the offending microbe are not abetted by pre-existing soci
23、al ills. Such concerns impelled me to offer the first university level undergraduate AIDS course, with its two important aims:To address the fact the AIDS is caused by a virus, not by moral failure of societal collapse. The proper response to AIDS is compassion coupled with an understanding of the d
24、isease itself. We wanted to foster (help the growth of) the idea of a humane society.To describe how UAIDS tests institutions upon which our society rests./U The economy, the political system, science, the legal establishment, the media and our moral ethical-philosophical attitudes must respond to t
25、he disease. Those responses, whispered, or shrieked, easily accepted or highly controversial, must be put in order if the nation is to manage AIDS. Scholars have suggested that how a society deals with the threat of AIDS describes the extent to which that society has the right to call itself civiliz
26、ed. AIDS, then, is woven into the tapestry of modern society; in the course of explaining that tapestry, a teacher realizes that AIDS may bring about changes of historic proportions. Democracy obliges its educational system to prepare students to become informed citizens, to join their voices to the
27、 public debate inspired by AIDS. Who shall direct just what resources of manpower and money to the problem of AIDS? Even more basic, who shall formulate a national policy on AIDS? The educational challenge, then, is to enlighten the individual and the societal, or public responses to AIDS.（分数：5.00）(
28、1).What is the passage mainly talking about? A. The necessity of the education about AIDS. B. How to achieve the aims of AIDS courses. C. Risks associated with AIDS. D. Social responses to AIDS.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why did the author offer the AIDS course? A. He wanted to teach people about a cure f
29、or AIDS. B. People need to be taught how to avoid those with AIDS. C. He wanted to teach the students that AIDS resulted from moral failure. D. People take improper attitudes towards AIDS and those with or at high risk of AIDS.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The word “afflict“ in the third sentence of the firs
30、t paragraph most probably means “_“. A. benefit B. cause suffering to C. teach D. draw attention from（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What does the author think is the correct response to AIDS? A. Fear and contempt. B. Optimism and bravado. C. Understanding and compassion. D. Resentment and avoidance.（分数：1.00）A
31、.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following can best explain “AIDS tests the institutions upon which our society rests“ according to the passage? A. AIDS is a sign of moral failure and social collapse. B. AIDS indicates that our social systems have been very inefficient. C. The responses of a society to the t
32、hreat of AIDS determines whether and to what extent the society can be called civilized. D. The spreading of the fatal disease suggests that the nations resources have been wrongly used.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、BPassage 2/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as “stee
33、ring the economy to a soft landing“ or “a touch on the brakes“, makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth. The link between interest rates and inflation is uncertain. And there are long, variable lags before policy changes have any effect on the economy. Hence th
34、e analogy that likens the conduct of monetary policy to driving a car with a blackened windscreen, a cracked rear-view mirror and a faulty steering wheel.Given all these disadvantages, central bankers seem to have had much to boast about of late. Average inflation in the big seven industrial economi
35、es fell to a mere 2.3% last year, close to its lowest level in 30 years, before rising slightly to 2.5% this July. This is a long way below the double-digit rates which many countries experienced in the 1970s and early 1980s.It is also less than most forecasters had predicted. In late 1994 the panel
36、 of economists which The Economist polls each month said that Americas inflation rate would average 3.5% in 1995. In fact, it fell to 2.6% in August, and is expected to average only about 3% for the year as a whole. In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate pre
37、dicted at the end of last year. This is no flash in the pan; over the past couple of years, inflation has been consistently lower than expected in Britain and America.Economists have been particularly surprised by favourable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since conventional meas
38、ures suggest that both economies, and especially Americas, have little productive slack. Americas capacity utilisation, for example, hit historically high levels earlier this year, and its jobless rate (5.6% in August) has fallen below most estimates of the natural rate of unemployment - the rate be
39、low which inflation has taken oft in the past.Why has inflation proved so mild? The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective. Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have up-ended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link bet
40、ween growth and inflation.（分数：5.00）(1).According to the text, making monetary policy changes A. is comparable to driving a car. B. is similar to carrying out scientific work. C. will not influence the economy immediately. D. will have an immediate impact on the inflation rate.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Fr
41、om the text we learn that A. there is a clear relationship between inflation and interest rates. B. the economy always follows particular trends. C. the current economic problems are entirely predictable. D. the present economic situation is better than expected.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The text suggest
42、s that A. the previous economic models are still applicable. B. an extremely tow jobless rate will lead to inflation. C. a high unemployment rate will result from inflation. D. interest rates have an immediate effect on the economy.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).By saying “This is no flash in the pan“ (Line 6
43、，Paragraph 3), the author implies that A. the low inflation rate will continue. B. the inflation rate will rise again. C. inflation will disappear entirely. D. there is no inflation at present.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).How does the author feel about the present situation? A. Tolerant. B. Indifferent. C.
44、Disappointed. D. Surprised.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、BPassage 3/B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)He landed in this country when he was 4 years old without a word of English, and there he has recently graduated with honors from Loyola Academy.An immigrant kid whose family rents an apartment in a city two-flat, he attended t
45、he North Shore school with full scholarship. All the aunts and uncles were so proud that they made their way from the old country or from various comers of this country to celebrate his graduation.A debate is raging about whether immigrant children first should be taught English, then their other su
46、bjects; or whether they should be taught other subjects in their native tongue as they are more gradually introduced to English over two to three years.California voters recently banished the gradual approachbilingual educationin favor of immersion in the English language. The Chicago Public Schools in February put a three-year deadline on moving into all English classes in most cases. But that was never an issue for this graduate, and it never came up for discussion at his party. Relatives and friends laughed and reminisced in their native tongue, inside and outsi
