1、公共英语五级-1 及答案解析(总分：110.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are three parts in this section, Pa
2、rt A, Part B and Part C. Remember, while you are doing the test ,you should first put down your answers in your test booklet, NOT on the ANSWER SHEET. At the end of the listening comprehension section,you will have 5 minutes to transfer your answers from your test booklet onto ANSWER SHEET 1. BPart
3、A/BYou will hear a passage. As you listen, answer Questions 1 to 10 by circling True or False. You will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. （分数：10.00）(1).Some modem cities are usually famous for people who live a very long time.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).A simple diet high in vitamins and sugar but low in fat and
4、 chemicals benefits those people in Hunza.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).People in Russia are also famous for their longevity.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Shirali probably lived until 168;Tsurba probably lived until age 160.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).People in the Caucasus Mountains not only live long but also have a good
5、physical condition.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).One reason for the good health of the people in Vilcabamba must be the clean, beautiful environment.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).The diets of the people in the three regions are totally different.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Most people in the mountains of Eduador drink a lot
6、 of coffee and alcohol, but they still live long.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).Calories, natural food, mountains and the distance from modem cities are the only common things in the three regions.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).Physical exercises and freedom from worry might be the two most important secrets of longev
7、ity.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误二、BPart B/B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)You will hear 3 conversations or passages and you must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. （分数：3.00）(1).Which job does the woman suggest to the man?（分数：1.00）A.Baby-sitting.B.House-cleaning.C.House-sitti
8、ng.D.Mowing the lawn.(2).What/Who should students contact if they want to get a summer job?（分数：1.00）A.The Student Union.B.The Student Employment Office.C.The Workers Union.D.The Student Part-time Job Office.(3).What would happen to a student if his employer reports his improper behavior?（分数：1.00）A.H
9、e would be fired.B.He would not get his pay.C.He would not get another job.D.He would be fined.（分数：3.00）(1).What was the cause of the tragedy?（分数：1.00）A.Bad weather.B.Human error.C.Breakdown of the engines.D.Communications system failure.(2).How high are the mountains in Norweija?（分数：1.00）A.Two thou
10、sand feet.B.Twelve thousand feet.C.Twenty thousand feet.D.Twenty-two thousand feet.(3).What lesson could be drawn from the accident?（分数：1.00）A.Accurate communication is of utmost importance.B.Pilots should be able to speak several foreign languages.C.Air controllers should keep a close watch on the
11、weather.D.Cooperation between pilots and air controllers is essential.（分数：4.00）(1).In which state was Emily Dickson born?（分数：1.00）A.Michigan.B.Ohio.C.Massachusetts.D.Washington.(2).When did Dickson go to Boston for eye treatment?（分数：1.00）A.In 1848.B.In the early 1850s.C.In the late 1850s.D.In the ea
12、rly 1860s.(3).How many poems did Dickinson write?（分数：1.00）A.Almost 2,000.B.Nearly 1,000.C.800.D.1,200.(4).What is Dickinsons particular form of self-publication?（分数：1.00）A.She ran her own publishing house.B.She wrote her poems in her letters.C.She wrote to newspapers regularly.D.She recorded her poe
13、ms in her diary.三、BPart C/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)You will hear a talk. As you listen ,you must answer Questions 21 30 by writing NO MORE THAN THREEwords. You will hear the talk TWICE. （分数：10.00）(1).When did Dr. Huber get his own telescope?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Where was the interview conducted?（分数：1.00）填空项
14、1:_(3).What were the two things that interested Dr. Huber?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).When did Dr. Huber become interested in piano?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).Whats the common misconception about art and science?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).What do the study of science and the study of art require?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).Who d
15、o not probably notice the beauty of theoretical physics?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).What job did Dr. Huber compare physics to?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).What does Dr. Huber think accomplish the same objective?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).What does Dr. Huber compare the universe to?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数
16、：20.00)Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. Recent surveys show that Japanese youth have become a “Me Generation“ that rejects traditional values. “Around 1980 many Japanese,U (31) /Uyoung people abandoned the valu
17、es of economic success and beganU (32) /Ufor new sets of values toU (33) /Uthem happiness,“ writes sociologist Yasuhiro in Comparative Civilizations Review. Japanese youth are placing more importance on the individuals pursuit ofU (34) /Uand less on the values of work, family, and society. Japanese
18、students seem to be losing patience with work,U (35) /Utheir counterparts in the United States and Korea. In a 1993U (36) /Uof college students in the three countries, only 10% of the Japanese regardedU (37) /Uas a primary value compared with 47% of Korean students and 27% of American students. A gr
19、eaterU (38) /Uof Japanese aged 1824 also preferred easy jobsU (39) /Uheavy responsibility. The younger Japanese are showing less concern for family values as they pursue an inner world of private satisfaction. Data collectedU (40) /Uthe Japanese government in 1993 shows that only 23% of Japanese you
20、th are thinking about supporting their aged parents, in contrastU (41) /U63% of young Americans. It appears that many younger-generation Japanese areU (42) /Uboth respect for their parentsU (43) /Ua sense of responsibility to the family. Author Yoshizaki attributes the changeU (44) /UJapanese parent
21、s ! over-indulgence of their children, material affluence, and growingU (45) /Ufor private matters. The shiftU (46) /Uindividualism among Japanese is most pronounced amongU (47) /Uvery young.According to 1991 dataU (48) /Uthe Bunka Center of Japan, 50% of Japanese youth aged 1619 can be labeled “sel
22、f-centered“ compared with 33% amongU (49) /Uaged 25-29. To earn the self-centered label, the young people responded positively toU (50) /Uideas as “I would like to make decisions without considering traditional values“ and “I dont want to do anything I cant enjoy doing. “ （分数：20.00）(1).（分数：1.00）填空项
23、1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_五、BSection Readi(总题数：4，分数：25.00)BPart A/BRead the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark youranswers on ANSWER
24、 SHEET 1.BText 1/BNot long ago, a mysterious Christmas card dropped through our mail slot. The envelope was addressed to a man named Raoul, who, I was relatively certain, did not live with us. The envelope wasnt sealed, so I opened it. The inside of the card was blank. Ed, my husband, explained that
25、 the card was both from and to the newspaper deliveryman. His name was apparently Raoul, and Raoul wanted a holiday tip. We were meant to put a check inside the card and then drop the envelope in the mail. When your services are rendered at 4 a. m. , you cant simply hang around, like a hotel bellboy
26、 expecting a tip. You have to be direct. So I wrote a nice holiday greeting to this man who, in my imagination, fires The New York Times from his hike aimed at our front door, causing more noise with mere newsprint than most people manage with sophisticated black market fireworks. With a start, I re
27、alized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past. I honestly hadnt realized I was supposed to. This was the first time hed used the card tactic. So I got out my checkbook. Somewhere along th
28、e line, holiday tipping went from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafia-style protection racket (收取保护费的黑社会组织) Several days later, I was bringing our garbage bins back from the curb when I noticed an envelope taped to one of the lids. The outside of the envelope said MICKEY. It had
29、to be another tip request, this time from our garbage collector. Unlike Raoul, Mickey hadnt enclosed his own Christmas card from me. In a way, I appreciated the directness. “I know you dont care how merry my Christmas is, and thats fine,“ the gesture said. “I want $ 30, or Ill forget to empty your g
30、arbage bin some hot summer day.“ I put a check in the envelope and taped it back to the bin. The next morning, Ed noticed that the envelope was gone, though the trash hadnt yet been picked up: “Someone stole Mickeys tip !“ Ed was quite certain. He made me call the bank and cancel the check. But Ed h
31、ad been wrong. Two weeks later, Mickey left a letter from the bank on our steps. The letter informed Mickey that the check, which he had tried to cash, had been cancelled. The following Tuesday morning, when Ed saw a truck outside , he ran out with his wallet. “Are you Mickey?“ The man looked at him
32、 with scorn. “Mickey is the garbageman. I am the recycling. “ Not only had Ed insulted this man by hinting that he was a garbageman, but he had obviously neglected to tip him. Ed ran back inside for more funds. Then he noticed that the driver of the truck had been watching the whole transaction. He
33、peeled off another twenty and looked around, waving bills in the air. “Anyone else?“ Had we consulted the website of the Emily Post Institute, this embarrassing breach of etiquette (礼节) could have been avoided. Under “trash/recycling collectors“ in the institute s Holiday Tipping Guidelines, it says
34、, “ $10 to $ 30 each. “ You may or may not wish to know that your pet groomer, hairdresser, mailman and UPS guy all expect a holiday tip. （分数：5.00）(1).The newspaper deliveryman put a blank card inside the envelope because _.（分数：1.00）A.he forgot to write a few words on itB.he wanted the couple to sen
35、d it backC.he used it to ask for a Christmas tipD.he was afraid of asking for a tip in person(2).From the passage, we learn that the author（分数：1.00）A.didnt like Raouls way of delivering the paperB.didnt realize why Raoul delivered the paper that wayC.didnt know that Raoul came very early in the morn
36、ingD.didnt feel it necessary to meet Raoul when he came(3).According to the passage, the author felt to give Raoul a holiday tip.（分数：1.00）A.excitedB.delightedC.embarrassedD.forced(4).Which of the following is CORRECT about Mickey, the garbage collector?（分数：1.00）A.He wrote a letter to the couple afte
37、rwards.B.He failed to collect the money from the bank.C.He wanted the couple to send him a Christmas card.D.He collected both the cheek and the garbage that day.(5).Eds encounter with the recycling team shows that（分数：1.00）A.Ed was desperate to correct his mistake.B.Ed only wanted to give money to Ra
38、oul.C.Ed was unwilling to tip the truck driver.D.Ed no longer wanted to give them money.BText 2/BAt 18, Ashanthi DeSilva of suburban Cleveland is a living symbol of one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century. Born with an extremely rare and usually fatal disorder that left her wi
39、thout a functioning immune system (the “bubble-boy disease“, named after an earlier victim who was kept alive for years in a sterile plastic tent), she was treated beginning in 1990 with a revolutionary new therapy that sought to correct the defect at its very source, in the genes of her white blood
40、 cells. It worked. Although her last gene-therapy treatment was in 1992, she is completely healthy with normal immune function, according to one of the doctors who treated her, W. French Anderson of the University of Southern California. Researchers have long dreamed of treating diseases from hemoph
41、ilia to cancer by replacing mutant genes with normal ones. And the dreaming may continue for decades more. “There will be a gene-based treatment for essentially every disease,“ Anderson says, “within 50 years. “ Its not entirely clear why medicine has been so slow to build on Anderson s early succes
42、s. The National Institutes of Health budget office estimates it will spend $ 432 million on gene-therapy research in 2005, and there is no shortage of promising leads. The therapeutic genes are usually delivered through viruses that don t cause human disease. “The virus is sort of like a Trojan hors
43、e,“ says Ronald Crystal of New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College. “The cargo is the gene. “ At the University of Pennsylvanias Abramson Cancer Center, immunologist Carl June recently treated HIV pa tients with a gene intended to help their cells resist the infection. At Cornell Univers
44、ity, researchers are pursuing gene-based therapies for Parkinsons disease and a rare hereditary disorder that destroys children s brain cells. At Stanford University and the Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers are trying to figure out how to help patients with hemophilia who today must
45、inject themselves with expensive clotting drugs for life. Animal experiments have shown great promise. But somehow, things get lost in the translation from laboratory to patient. In human trials of the hemophilia treatment, patients show a response at first, but it fades over time. And the field has
46、 still not recovered from the setback it suffered in 1999, when Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year-old with a rare metabolic disorder, died after receiving an experimental gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. Some experts worry that the field will be tarnished further if the next people to benef
47、it are not patients but athletes seeking an edge. This summer, researchers at the Salk Institute in San Diego said they had created a “marathon mouse“ by implanting a gene that enhances running ability; already, officials at the World Anti-Doping Agency are preparing to test athletes for signs of “gene doping“. But the principle is the same, whether youre trying to help a healthy runner run faster or allow a muscular-d
