1、公共英语四级-73 及答案解析(总分：101.00，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)（分数：5.00）(1).Number of languages in the world (approx) is _ .（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Number of people speaking English as their 1 st language is _ .（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).Number of words in Oxford Dictionary (appr
2、ox) is _ .（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Percentage of computer information in English is _ .（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).More than 1,000 languages spoken in _ .（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_三、BPart B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)（分数：5.00）(1).Whats the main topic of the talk?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).What must you do if you smell smoke at night?（分数：1.
3、00）填空项 1:_(3).Why is it necessary not to open a hot door?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).What is the most important thing to do when a fire appears?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).What is the telephone number everybody should remember?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BPart C/B(总题数：3，分数：12.00)（分数：4.00）(1).Which of the following is NOT men
4、tioned in the conversation to flavor the new product with? A. Tomato. B. Cheese. C. Chocolate. D. Fish.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What would be a good reason for the man to buy the product? A. Its low purchase price. B. Its wide availability. C. Its good nutritional value. D. Its high water content.（分数：1.
5、00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the woman, what is an advantage of the new product? A. Its bland flavoring is healthful. B. It can be stored a long time. C. It goes well with fish dishes. D. A high grade of fish is used in its preparation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).When will the new product be available? A. I
6、n a few weeks. B. In about two months. C. In about two years. D. In ten years.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：4.00）(1).Why did Peter go to the Union Trust Bank? A. To draw money that he had won in the contest. B. To stem money. C. To borrow money. D. To invest money.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What was Peters job? A.
7、 A banker. B. A runner. C. A mechanic. D. A pickpocket.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What did the guards do when Peter stared gathering the money? A. Yell out. B. Catch him. C. Call the police. D. Stood back and let him stuff the bills in his shirt and pants.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Why didnt Peter take more mon
8、ey from the bank? A. He had no more time. B. He had no more pockets. C. He was too tired. D. He thought it was enough.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：4.00）(1).Why do Southern farmers shift to planting sugar, peanuts and other kinds of crops? A. Because farmers dont think it a good way to raise cotton and tobac
9、co together. B. Because farmers find they can become richer only when they plant these things. C. Because if they just raise cotton and tobacco, the unstable price will probably cause them to suffer an economic loss. D. Because world prices for these things are relatively stable.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2)
10、.Floridas boom tourism industry owes much to _. A. its location in the South where there was once slavery B. its favorable weather C. its fishing production D. its natural resources（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The South doesnt produce _. A. steel B. machinery C. textile D. chemicals（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).We c
11、an find mining in _. A. Memphis B. Kentucky C. the Gulf of Mexico D. Florida（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Although many governments try to convince their respective subjects that atomic energy is an acceptable alternative U U 1 /U /Uthe burning of fossil fuels, no government has t
12、aken the least trouble to explain the dangers. Maybe they are U U 2 /U /Uthem. U U 3 /U /Uthe reason, the public must learn by experience, even though this U U 4 /U /Umay be catastrophic.While it is true that nuclear reactors do not produce visible smoke, it is certainly not U U 5 /U /Uthat they do
13、not pollute. And the pollution they produce is much more insidious precisely because it is U U 6 /U /U.U U 7 /U /Uinconvenient it may be for governments to publish all the facts, they have no moral excuse for not doing so, U U 8 /U /Uthey think they are acting in our best interest. At least some of
14、the facts are known, even though they are not widely reported.Nuclear reactors produce radioactive water and gases in vast U U 9 /U /U. What U U 10 /U /Uall this waste? It is U U 11 /U /Uconcrete tanks and stored on tank farms. It is U U 12 /U /Uin disused salt mines. It is run into fractured rock.
15、It is buried. It is U U 13 /U /Uabout in special trains. But even when dumped, it has to be kept U U 14 /U /Uby sprinklers to stop it from boiling. And the contents of the tanks are, of course, extremely corrosive. The efforts of a fracture in the tank or a failure of the cooling system would be U U
16、 15 /U /U.While every effort is made to U U 16 /U /Uthat radioactive wastes do not escape into the sea or U U 17 /U /Usupplies of drinking water, such a leakage would be too horrible U U 18 /U /Ucontemplate. But even then, governments would, presumably continue to belittle the hazards.It seems that
17、U U 19 /U /Ugovernments can get away with not telling the truth, they will continue to keep silent. Nevertheless the people U U 20 /U /Uto know the full facts. Do you know what happens to the radioactive waste in your country? No? Wellfind out!（分数：20.00）(1). A. for B. with C. to D. instead of（分数：1.0
18、0）A.B.C.D.(2). A. unaware of B. aware of C. unaware from D. aware from（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. However B. Whatever C. Whenever D. Wherever（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. experiment B. government C. danger D. experience（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. untrue B. unreal C. true D. distrue（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(6). A. visi
19、ble B. invisible C. divisible D. unlikable（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(7). A. However B. Whatever C. Whenever D. Wherever（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(8). A. even B. if even C. if D. even if（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(9). A. numbers B. quality C. quantities D. degree（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(10). A. happens B. happen to C. happened to D. h
20、appening to（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(11). A. put down B. put into C. put up D. put onto（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(12). A. stored B. storing C. being stored D. to be stored（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(13). A. transporting B. transport C. being transported D. transported（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(14). A. hot B. cooled C. cool D. to cool（
21、分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(15). A. disaster B. danger C. disasters D. disastrous（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(16). A. reassure B. ensure C. convince D. assure（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(17). A. in front of B. behind C. forward D. into（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(18). A. against B. that C. to D. too（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(19). A. as long as B. as w
22、ell as C. as good as D. as smart as（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(20).A. has a right B. with a rightC. having a right D. have a right（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)The demoralizing environment, decrepit (老朽的) building and minimal materials m
23、ake the high school experience for these children an Uphill battle. Merely graduating from such a high school is difficult, much less becoming a high-caliber science or engineering student. Schools with students from a higher socioeconomic level would not tolerate the obstacles I encountered daily.
24、Improvements need to be made efficiently and made soon, or the divisions among people in this country will only become more extreme.Of course, there are things that concerned citizens can do to help. Get involved with a school, especially one in a poor area. Volunteer to give a presentation or just
25、to spend time with the children. My students were excited to talk to an insurance salesperson who came to give a career exploration lecture. They not only were genuinely interested in the opportunities he described but also were amazed that such a man would donate an afternoon to them.Although those
26、 measures can help, they are not enough. For teaching to be effective, the entire environment of the inner city needs to be changed. Teaching someone the difference between velocity and acceleration is irrelevant if the person is hungry and scared. Programs that educate parents in child-rearing, org
27、anize low-income groups into cooperative units, fight drug trafficking and help to clean up the ghettos physically will improve the life in the community.The small alterations and “new“ proposals currently filling the newspapers are certainly not strong enough to transform a decaying and demoralized
28、 school structure that has been disintegrating for decades. Inner-city schools need so much more, and the children deserve so much more than our society is willing to give. Like many other people, I entered the teaching profession eager to investigate change and found many institutionalized obstacle
29、s in my way. It should not be so difficult to make a difference.（分数：5.00）(1).By saying “an uphill battle“, the author means _. A. a tough task B. a easy job C. an upgrade class D. climbing a hill（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).We can learn from the text that _. A. the political circle will offer the help to th
30、e high schools B. giving a presentation is beneficial to students C. teaching methods have to be changed D. students are afraid to talk to strangers（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The author believes that _. A. the divisions among people result from their property B. a high-caliber science student graduates fr
31、om a ordinary high school C. the small alterations should be done immediately D. the societys help to inner-city schools is inadequate（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).It is the authors opinion that _ will improve the life of inner city people. A. offering more education programs to students B. helping to clean
32、up the ghettos physically C. taking measures to help extreme poor students D. bringing up more engineering Students（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).It can be concluded from the authors remarks that _. A. we should educate more high schools students B. the obstacles in teachers way should be moved away C. the de
33、caying school buildings should be reconstructed D. we should build up more high schools in our city（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、BPassage 2/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The universities have trained the intellectual pioneers of our civilizationthe priests, the lawyers, the statesmen, the doctors, the men of science, and th
34、e men of letters. The conduct of business now requires intellectual imagination of the same type as that which in former times has mainly passed into those other occupations.There is one Ugreat difficulty which hinders all the higher types of human effort./U In modern times this difficulty has even
35、increased in its possibilities for evil. In any large organization the younger men, who are novices. must be set to jobs which consist in carrying out fixed duties in obedience to orders. No president of a large corporation meets his youngest employee at his office door with the offer of the most re
36、sponsible job which the work of that corporation includes. The young men are set to work at a fixed routine, and only occasionally even see the president as he passes in and out of the building. Such work is a great discipline. It imparts knowledge, and it produces reliability of character; also it
37、is the only work for which the young men, In that novice stage, are fit, and it is the work for which they are hired. There can be no criticism of the custom. but there may be an unfortunate effect: prolonged routine work dulls the imagination.The way in which a university should function in the pre
38、paration for an intellectual career, is by promoting the imaginative consideration of the various general principles underlying that career. Its students thus pass tutu their period of technical apprenticeship with their imaginations already practiced in connecting details with general principles.Th
39、us the proper function of a university is the imaginative acquisition of knowledge. Apart from this importance of the imagination, there is no reason why businessmen, and other professional men, should not pick up their facts bit by hit as they want them for particular occasions. A university is ima
40、ginative or it is nothingat least nothing useful.（分数：5.00）(1).What is a basic requirement for work in all professions according to the passage? A. Imagination. B. Reliability of character. C. Discipline. D. Obedience to orders,（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following serves best as the title of t
41、he passage? A. Limitations of the University. B. The Proper Function of the University. C. Importance of Intellectual Imagination. D. Foolery of Apprenticeship Period.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).In modern times the period of technical apprenticeship _. A. may have bad effects upon the young men B. can very
42、 well train the young men C. is a root cause of many evils D. is unnecessary for the employees and the business（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).If a university is to be of any use, it should prepare the students for an intellectual career by _. A. imparting knowledge and developing skills B. developing students
43、 independence in thinking C. disciplining the students in their subject fields D. promoting the imagination in connecting details with general principles（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What does the “great difficulty which hinders all the higher types of human effort“ mean? A. Prolonged and fixed routine work
44、in the apprenticeship period. B. The young employees seldom seeing the president of the company. C. Universities failure to get young people ready for future work. D. Young men having to obey orders in the early stage of their work.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、BPassage 3/B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)When the world was a s
45、impler place, the rich were fat, the poor were thin, and right-thinking people worried about how to feed the hungry. Now, in much of the world, the rich are thin, the poor are fat, and right-thinking people are worrying about obesity.Evolution is mostly to blame. It has designed mankind to cope with
46、 deprivation, not plenty. People are perfectly tuned to store energy in good years to see them through lean ones. But when bad times never come, they are stuck with that energy, stored around their expanding bellies.Thanks to rising agricultural productivity, lean years are rarer all over the globe. Modernday Malthusians, who used to draw graphs proving that the world was shortly going to run out of food, have gone rather quiet lately. According to the UN, the number of people short of food fell from 920m in 1980 to 799m 2
