1、公共英语四级-72 及答案解析(总分：91.00，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：5.00)Welchs Personal InformationPlace of Birth PhiladelphiaYear of Birth 1901Transfer to Barnard University (Year) 1920Major at University UU 1 /U/UFinal Degree Ph. DYear of Marriage 1928Growing Up In New Guinea
2、Published (Year)UU 2 /U/UField Study in the South Pacific (Age) UU 3 /U/UMain Interest UU 4 /U/UProfessorship at Columbia Started (Year) UU 5 /U/UDeath (Age) 77（分数：5.00）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：5.00)（分数：5.00）(1).What is the percentage of people who send cards to themse
3、lves on February 14？ _（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Why do some people send cards to themselves on February 14? _（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).How did the 1/10 of the persons get the cards on that day? _（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Which nation is the least romantic according to the passage? _（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).What is the bes
4、t gift for the French on February 14? _（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BPart C/B(总题数：4，分数：12.00)（分数：3.00）(1).The entrance rate of medical schools of the US in 2001 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
5、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 the 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 reside
6、ncy（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).What does the speaker say about bird watching? A. It is entertaining. B. It is a costly hobby. C. It takes lots of time. D. It requires training.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What does the speaker say about birds fed continually on the same spot? A. They can harm nearby plant
7、s. B. They may catch some disease. C. They fight each other for food. D. They may pollute the environment.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What does the speaker suggest we do in feeding birds in winter? A. Place the food on warmer spots. B. Use prepared feed mixtures only. C. Avoid using any contaminated food.
8、D. Continue the feeding till it gets warm.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).What does the man think about the weather where he now lives? A. Its too hot. B. Its too humid. C. It snows too much. D. It snows too little.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What does the conversation tell us about the new job the man is ta
9、lking about? A. It will offer him a better opportunity for career development. B. It requires a lot of experience in business management. C. He is quite confident that he can get it. D. He has to be interviewed twice for the job.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What does the man have to do next week? A. Be the
10、Director of a big company. B. Get a big raise in salary. C. Fly to Los Angeles for an interview. D. Go skiing in the mountains.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).What kind of person is called “mall rat“? A. One spends so much time at malls. B. One steals at malls. C. One sees dentists at malls. D. One ea
11、ts a lot at malls.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is NOT the reason why people like malls? A. They feel safe because malls have police station of private security guards. B. They can be served free meals after doing shopping. C. They can do about everything at malls. D. The weather insid
12、e is always fine.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).How many cars can be parked in the Mail of America? A. 350 B. 2750 C. 7500 D. 1965（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual ma
13、rriage U U 1 /U /Uin the United Statesabout 9 new marriages for every 1,000 peopleis U U 2 /U /Uhigher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is U U 3 /U /Uas widespread as it was several decades ago. U U 4 /U /Uof American adults who are married U U 5 /U /Ufrom 72 percent i
14、n 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried U U 6 /U /Utheir lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some U U 7 /U /Uin their lives. Experts U U 8 /U /Uthat about the same proportion of todays young adults w
15、ill eventually marry. The timing of marriage has varied U U 9 /U /Uover the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the U U 10 /U /Uof their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry U U 11 /U /Uthe first time
16、at an average of five years later than people U U 12 /U /Uin the 1950s. U U 13 /U /U, young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous U U 14 /U /Uin U. S. history. Todays later age of marriage is U U 15 /U /Uthe age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. U U 16 /U /U, a greater proportio
17、n of the population was married (95 percent) during the 1950s than at any time before U U 17 /U /U. Experts do not agree on U U 18 /U /Uthe “marriage rush“ of the late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a U U 19 /U /Uto the return of peaceful life and prosper
18、ity after 15 years of severe economic U U 20 /U /Uand war.（分数：20.00）(1). A. ratio B. rate C. percentage D. poll（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. potentially B. intentionally C. substantially D. randomly（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. not any longer B. no more C. not any more D. no longer（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).A. The
19、proportionB. A proportion C. The number D. A number（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. deteriorated B. declined C. deduced D. demolished（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(6). A. past B. passing C. throughout D. through（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(7). A. period B. level C. point D. respect（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(8). A. project B. plan C. promis
20、e D. propose（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(9). A. unexpectedly B. irregularly C. flexibly D. consistently（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(10). A. time B. year C. stage D. age（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(11). A. at B. in C. of D. for（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(12). A. do B. did C. marry D. married（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(13). A. Besides B. However C. Wher
21、eas D. Nevertheless（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(14). A. descendants B. ascendants C. generation D. population（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(15). A. in line with B. according to C. based on D. caused by（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(16). A. Moreover B. Likewise C. Similarly D. Therefore（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(17). A. and after B. or after C.
22、ever since D. or since（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(18). A. why B. how C. when D. what（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(19). A. refusal B. realization C. reality D. response（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(20). A. repression B. aggression C. depression D. restriction（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、
23、BPassage 1/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Scholastic thinkers held a wide variety of doctrines in both philosophy and theology, the study of religion. What gives unity to the whole Scholastic movement, the academic practice in Europe from the 9th to the 17th century, are the common aims, attitudes, and methods gen
24、erally accepted by all its members. The chief concern of the Scholastics was not to discover new facts but to integrate the knowledge already acquired separately by Greek reasoning and Christian revelation. This concern is one of the most characteristic differences between Scholasticism and modern t
25、hought since the Renaissance.The basic aim of the Scholastics determined certain common attitudes, the most important of which was their conviction of the fundamental harmony between reason and revelation. The Scholastics maintained that because the same God was the source of both types of knowledge
26、 and truth was one of his chief attributes, he could not contradict himself in these two ways of speaking. Any apparent opposition between revelation and reason could be traced either to an incorrect use of reason or to an inaccurate interpretation of the words of revelation. Because the Scholastics
27、 believed that revelation was the direct teaching of God, it possessed for them a higher degree of truth and certainty than did natural reason. In apparent conflicts between religious faith and philosophic reasoning, faith was thus always the supreme arbiter; the theologians decision overruled that
28、of the philosopher. After the early 13th century, Scholastic thought emphasized more the independence of philosophy within its own domain. Nonetheless, throughout the Scholastic period, philosophy was called the servant of theology, not only because the truth of philosophy was subordinated to that o
29、f theology, but also because the theologian used philosophy to understand and explain revelation.This attitude of Scholasticism stands in sharp contrast to the so-called double-truth theory of the Spanish-Arab philosopher and physician . His theory assumed that truth was accessible to both philosoph
30、y and Islamic theology but that only philosophy could attain it perfectly. The so-called truths of theology served, hence, as imperfect imaginative expressions for the common people of the authentic truth accessible only to philosophy. （分数：5.00）(1).With the Scholastics, the search for new knowledge
31、_. A. stopped completely B. slowed down C. advanced rapidly D. awaked gradually（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following best illustrates the relation between reason and revelation? A. They are simply identical. B. Revelation guides reason. C. They are occasionally contradictory. D. Reason is used
32、 to perfect revelation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 of the text that _. A. the position of philosophy as a humble servant was accepted B. religion had turned into a hamper to the functioning of philosophy C. philosophers often quoted revelation to support themselves D. ph
33、ilosophers were sometimes referred to in religious practice（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4). （分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following is most likely to be discussed in the part succeeding this text? A. Relations between St. T. Aquinas achievements and previous efforts. B. How St. T. Aquinas worked out the ba
34、lance in discussion. C. Other endeavors on the relationship of reason and revelation. D. Outstanding features of the mature period of Scholasticism.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、BPassage 2/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule to have it retold in identically the same w
35、ords, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and , if a parent can produce what in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, it is an improvement on the printed text, s
36、o much the better.A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had
37、not. Aggressive, destructive, sadistic impulses every child has and, on the whole their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rather a safety valve than an incitement to overt action. As to fears, there are, I think, well-authenticated cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy stor
38、y. Very often fear arises from the child who has heard the story only once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively tree, that giants,
39、 witches two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc., do not exist, and that, instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people. I must confess that they are so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do
40、not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick or coveting a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted girl-friend.No fairy, story ever claimed to be a description of
41、the external world and no sane child has ever believed that it was.（分数：5.00）(1).By saying that “read it out of a book“, the author here probably means _ . A. reading a book completely B. reading a book carefully C. adapting a book for a particular use D. adopting a book in a special way（分数：1.00）A.B.
42、C.D.(2).We can learn from the text that some people dislike fairy stories because _ . A. they will stir childrens cruelty to other people B. they will arouse childrens interest in learning C. they will lead children to nowhere D. they will influence childrens future life（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Accordin
43、g to the author, if we repeat a fairy story, children probably will _ . A. be frightened B. not be scared C. be satisfied D. not be content（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).We can learn from the text that the author _ with the people are not in favor of fairy stories. A. agress B. disagrees C. is satisfied D. ar
44、gues（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).It can be inferred from the text the author would probably _ . A. prohibit his child from listening to a horrible fairy story B. encourage his child to read an interesting fairy story C. teach his child how to value a fairy story D. allow his child to listen to an adapted fa
45、iry story（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、BPassage 3/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Du Bois was a sociological and educational pioneer who challenged the established system of education that tended to restrict rather than to advance the progress of black Americans. He challenged what is called the “Tuskegee machine“ of Booker T
46、. Washington, the leading educational spokesperson of the blacks in the US. A sociologist and historian, Du Bois called for a more determined and activist leadership than Washington provided.Unlike Washington, whose roots were the southern black agriculture, Du Boiss career spanned both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. He was a native of Massachusetts, received his undergraduate education from Fisk University in Nashville, did his graduate study at Harvard Universit
