1、公共英语四级-8 及答案解析(总分：93.00，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)John is a millionaire but he has no worries money brings because he has/is1His biggest wealth is his humor and his ability to2He feels sorry for some of the millionaires because they are3John Smith is a man f
2、ull of 4John Smith is a special “millionaire“ because he is rich in5（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 does “runoff“ mean?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).What characteristics can be of a flood?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).What is the passage mainly about?（分数：1.00）填空项
3、1:_(4).How much of all precipitation is runoff?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).What forms flood plain?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BPart C/B(总题数：4，分数：13.00)（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 kn
4、owledge 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 the fourth gear of medical school in a hospital is called _. A. a medical competition B. a treatment com
5、petition C. a medical treatment D. a medical residency（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).What does the speaker tells us about his mothers early childhood? A. She was born in a small town in southern Italy. B. They immigrated to America in 1962. C. They lived in Chicago. D. At 18, she graduated first in h
6、er high school class.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Who used her pictures in his monthly window display? A. A writer. B. A manger of a department store. C. A local photographer. D. A director of a magazine.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What does NOT the speaker say about his father? A. He was a quiet and intelligent m
7、an. B. He was 17 when he left Italy. C. Dad worked hard selling. D. He had much formal schooling.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).What accounts for the great strength of Janes novels? A. The social observations they contain. B. The deep feeling. C. The romantic love. D. The real experience.（分数：1.00）A.B
8、.C.D.(2).When did Jane Austen start to write? A. When she was teenager. B. When she was less than ten years old. C. When she was more than twenty. D. Not mentioned.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).When did she die? A. In 1811. B. In 1814. C. In 1817. D. In 1812.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：4.00）(1).What does the woman
9、want the man to read in the newspaper? A. An accident. B. A man. C. An old lady. D. A theft.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).How did the man mentioned in the newspaper try to win further trust from the victims? A. He flashed a card to people. B. He asked for a drink. C. He helped them fix the appliance. D. He h
10、elped them examine the appliance.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What is the warning from the police? A. Not to let anyone in unless they have an appointment. B. Ask for everyones ID card. C. Have no money at home. D. Put all money in the bank.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What does the woman speaker tell us about the
11、old lady? A. She went to the post office to draw her pension. B. She lost most of the pension. C. She lost a little. D. She was hurt by the man.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)How many different kinds of emotions do you feel? You may be U U 1 /U /Uto find that it is very hard to spe
12、cify all of them. Not only U U 2 /U /Uhard to describe in words, they are difficult to U U 3 /U /U. As a result, two people rarely U U 4 /U /Uall of them. However, there are a number of U U 5 /U /Uemotions that most people experience. When we receive something that we want, or something happens U U
13、6 /U /Uwe like, we usually feel joy or happiness. Joy is a positive and powerful emotion, U U 7 /U /Ufor which we all strive. It is natural to want to be happy, and all of us U U 8 /U /Uhappiness. As a general U U 9 /U /U, joy occurs when we reach a U U 10 /U /Ugoal or obtain a desired object. U U 1
14、1 /U /Upeople often desire different goals and objects, it is U U 12 /U /Uthat one person may find joy in repairing an automobile, U U 13 /U /Uanother may find joy in solving a math problem. Of course, we often share U U 14 /U /Ugoals or interests, and therefore we can experience joy together. This
15、may be in sports, in the arts, in learning, in raising a family, or in U U 15 /U /Ubeing together. When we have difficulty U U 16 /U /Udesired objects or reaching desired goals we experience U U 17 /U /Uemotions such as anger and grief. When little things get in our way, we experience U U 18 /U /Ufr
16、ustrations or tensions. For example, if you are dressing to go out U U 19 /U /Ua date, you may feel frustration when a zipper breaks or a button fails off. If you really want something to happen, and you feel it U U 20 /U /Uhappen, but someone or something stops it, you may become quite angry.（分数：20
17、.00）(1). A. shocked B. astounded C. surprised D. bewildered（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. emotional feelings are B. are emotional feelings C. the emotional D. is the emotional feeling（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. list B. recognize C. arrange D. understand（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. agree B. agree on C. agree with
18、 D. agree to（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. necessary B. vital C. essential D. basic（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(6). A. if B. what C. that D. when（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(7). A. one B. the one C. very one D. only one（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(8). A. search to B. search of C. search D. search for（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(9). A. practice B. r
19、ule C. law D. sense（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(10). A.desired B. desirous C. prospective D. fascinated（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(11). A. For B. When C. Since D. Being（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(12).A. understandingB. to understand C. understood D. understandable（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(13). A. however B. if C. while D. even though（分数：
20、1.00）A.B.C.D.(14). A. same B. common C. similar D. different（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(15). A. just B. only C. right D. even（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(16). A. of obtaining B. in obtaining C. with obtaining D. for obtaining（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(17). A. bad B. harmful C. uneasy D. negative（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(18). A. small B.
21、 little C. insignificant D. minor（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(19). A. on B. in C. for D. to（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(20). A. will B. shall C. should D. would（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 future of space exploration depends on many things. It
22、depends on how technology evolves, how political forces shape competition and partnerships between nations, and how important the public feels space exploration is. The near future will see the continuation of human space flight in Earths orbit and unpiloted space flight within the solar system. Pil
23、oted space flight to other planets, or even back to the moon, still seems far away. Any flight to other solar systems is even more distant, but a huge advance in space technology could drive space exploration into realms currently explored only by science fiction.The 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey
24、depicted commercial shuttles flying to and from a giant wheel-shaped space station in orbit around Earth, bases on the moon, and a piloted mission to Jupiter. The real space activities of 2001 will not match this cinematic vision, but the 21st century will see a continuation of efforts to transform
25、humanity into a spacefaring species.Perhaps the most difficult problem space planners face is how to finance a vigorous program of piloted space exploration, in Earths orbit and beyond. In 1998 no single government or international enterprise had plans to send people back to the moon, much less to M
26、ars. Such missions are unlikely to happen until the perceived value exceeds their cost.One belief shared by a number of space exploration experts is that future lunar and Martian expeditions should be aimed at creating permanent settlements. The residents of such outposts would have to “live off the
27、 land,“ obtaining such necessities as oxygen and water from the harsh environment. On the moon, pioneers could obtain oxygen by heating lunar soil. In 1998 the Lunar Prospector discovered evidence of significant deposits of ice, a valuable resource for settlers, mixed with soil at the lunar poles. O
28、n Mars, oxygen could be extracted from the atmosphere and water could come from buried deposits of ice.The future of piloted lunar and planetary exploration remains largely unknown. Most space exploration scientists believe that people will be on the moon and Mars by the middle of the 21st century,
29、but how they get there, and the nature of their visits, is a subject of continuing debate. Clearly, key advances will need to be made in lowering the cost of getting people off Earth, the first step in any human voyage to other worlds.（分数：5.00）(1).A flight to other solar systems will be made more po
30、ssible by A. technological breakthroughs. B. international co-operation. C. market competition. D. public pressure.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that human society will become increasingly A. worried about life on other planets. B. dependent on space tourism. C. accustomed
31、 to long-distance flights. D. associated with space exploration.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to this text, piloted space missions will need to be A. more exciting than earlier film versions. B. supported by international organizations. C. more cost-effective than they appear to be at present. D. f
32、inanced by individual governments.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).It is predicted that people who will live on other planets would have to A. appreciate the harsh conditions they encounter there. B. depend on the natural resources available there. C. take most daily necessities along with them. D. engage in sc
33、ientific research.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).It is difficult to send people to other planets because of A. lack of capacity of space exploration vehicles. B. the financial expenditure involved in space travel. C. controversial nature of space travel. D. the uncertain future of space exploration.（分数：1.00）A
34、.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 the men of letters. The conduct of business now requires intellectual imagination of the same type as that whic
35、h 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 increased in its possibilities for evil. In any large organization the younger men, who are novices. must be
36、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 responsible job which the work of that corporation includes. The young men are set to work at a fixed routine,
37、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 is the only work for which the young men, In that novice stage, are fit, and it is the work for which they ar
38、e 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 preparation for an intellectual career, is by promoting the imaginative consideration of the various general pri
39、nciples underlying that career. Its students thus pass tutu their period of technical apprenticeship with their imaginations already practiced in connecting details with general principles.Thus the proper function of a university is the imaginative acquisition of knowledge. Apart from this importanc
40、e 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 imaginative or it is nothingat least nothing useful.（分数：5.00）(1).What is a basic requirement for work in all pro
41、fessions 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 the passage? A. Limitations of the University. B. The Proper Function of the University. C. Importance of Inte
42、llectual 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 well train the young men C. is a root cause of many evils D. is unnecessary for the employees and the busine
43、ss（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 independence in thinking C. disciplining the students in their subject fields D. promoting the imagination i
44、n 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 in the apprenticeship period. B. The young employees seldom seeing the president of the company. C. Universit
45、ies 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：5.00)I am afraid to sleep. I have been afraid to sleep for the last few weeks. I am so tired that, finally, I do sleep, but only for a f
46、ew minutes. It is not a bad dream that wakes me; it is the reality I took with me into sleep. I try to think of something else.Immediately the woman in the marketplace comes into my mind. I was on my way to dinner last night when I saw her. She was selling skirts. She moved with the same ease and loveliness I often saw in the women of Laos. Her long black hair was as shiny as the black silk of the skirts she was selling. In her hair, she wore three silk ribbons, blue, green, and white. They reminded me of my childhood and how my girlfriends and I used to spend hours bra
