1、公共英语五级-24 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)BPart A/BI You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer Questions 1 to 10 by circling True or False. You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE.You now have 60 seconds to read Questions 110./I（分数：10.00）(1).A recent trial has got rid of Americ
2、ans interest in the problem of violence against women.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).Mr. Simpson has beaten his wife and Mrs. Simpson was afraid that he would kill her.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).Medical experts say lung cancer is the most serious health threat to American women.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Domestic violenc
3、e takes place only in poor families.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).A federal crime study shows that every year more than 4 thousand young American women are beaten severely.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Those men who believe in religions never beat their wives or girlfriends.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).In the past, governmen
4、t punished the wife beaters very seriously and severely.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Many women dare not take action against their husbands or boyfriends just because they are afraid they would face even greater violence if they did.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).A serious movement against domestic violence began in
5、the US in the mid 1970s.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).President Clinton signed a new crime bill to help stop violence against women not long ago.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误二、BPart B/B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)IQuestions 1113 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 1113./I（分数：3.00）(1).What sho
6、uld one do if he wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning?（分数：1.00）A.Change his energy cycle.B.Overcome his laziness.C.Get up earlier than usual.D.Go to bed earlier.(2).Why does the speaker suggest we rise with a yawn and stretch?（分数：1.00）A.Because it will help keep your energy
7、 for the days work.B.Because it will help you to control your temper early in the day.C.Because it will help you to concentrate on your routine work.D.Because it will keep your energy cycle under control all day.(3).Which of the following statements is NOT true?（分数：1.00）A.Getting off to work with a
8、minimum effort helps save ones energy.B.Dr. Kleiman explains why people reach their peaks at different hours of a day.C.Habit helps a person adapt to his own energy cycle.D.Children have energy cycles, too.IQuestions 1416 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 141
9、6./I（分数：3.00）(1).What is George Orwell mainly known as?（分数：1.00）A.A literary critic.B.A war correspondent.C.A volunteer in the Spanish Civil War.D.A novelist.(2).Where was George Orwell born?（分数：1.00）A.Spain.B.France.C.Burma.D.India.(3).What are the listeners going to do after the presentation?（分数：1
10、.00）A.To ask the speaker questions.B.To discuss Animal Farm.C.To write essays on Orwells life.D.To read the book, 1984.IQuestions 1720 are based on the following talk. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 1720./I（分数：4.00）(1).What does the speaker mainly discuss?（分数：1.00）A.The distribution of di
11、fferent species of amphibians.B.Possible reasons for reduction in the number of amphibians.C.The effects of environmental change on the fish industry.D.Guidelines for the responsible use of pesticides.(2).According to the speaker, how do developers contribute to the reduction of amphibian population
12、?（分数：1.00）A.By taking over ponds.B.By constructing sewers.C.By building dams on rivers.D.By flooding marshes.(3).According to the speaker, how do some pesticides get into ponds?（分数：1.00）A.They are applied to aquatic weeds by fish fanning.B.Amphibians release them from their skin.C.Irresponsible disp
13、ose of them in ponds.D.They are washed into ponds by the rain.(4).According to the speaker, why do pesticides pose a threat to amphibians?（分数：1.00）A.Pesticides can cause an amphibians skin to dry out.B.Pesticides kill the insects that amphibians depend on for food.C.Dissolved pesticides can easily e
14、nter amphibians bodies.D.Amphibians may eat plants that have been treated with pesticides.三、BPart C/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)（分数：10.00）(1).How many languages are used throughout the world today?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).How many major language families are there today?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).Which language family doe
15、s English belong to?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Which language belongs to the Indo-European language family, but is spoken throught South and Central America?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).Which language family includes most languages in the area of North Africa and the Middle East?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).How many speaker
16、s do Chinese dialects have?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).Whats the relation between Japanese and the Sino-Tibetan family like? (Fill in the blanks by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words)（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).Languages in the Polynesian family were spread by _ from islands to islands.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).Each group
17、of islands developed its own（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).You should also note that each major language family has several _ within it.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Thomas Aquinas, who knew more about education and persuasion than almost anybody who ever lived, once said that when you want
18、to convert someone to your view, you go over to U(31) /U he is standing, take him U(32) /U the hand (mentally speaking), and guide him to where U(33) /U want to go.You U(34) /U stand across the room and shout at him. You dont order him to U(35) /U over to where you are. You start where he is, and wo
19、rk from that position. U (36) /U the only way to get him to U(37) /U his attitude.I have never known a single passionate and prejudiced argument to win U(38) /U a person who disagreed with it, or U(39) /U to persuade a person who was neutral on the subject. The chief U(40) /U is that all passionate
20、and prejudiced arguments overstate their case and U(41) /U their opponents case.When you think that U(42) /U is wrong, and you disagree with him, the first U(43) /U is to determine in what U(44) /U he is right. This is right. For U(45) /U view can be entirely wrong, and everybody has a little piece
21、of truth by the tail. This is the piece we start with. We work from there, and concede as U(46) /U as we honestly can.A philosopher said that we have U(47) /U right to oppose a position until we can state that U(48) /U in a way that fully satisfies U(49) /U who hold it; until, indeed, we can make ou
22、t a better case for it than the proponent himself U(50) /U.（分数：20.00）(1).（分数：1.00）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:_填空项 1:_五、BSection Readi(总题数：3，分数：15.00)BText 1/BVisitors to St Pauls Cathedral are so
23、metimes astonished as they walk round the space under the dome to come upon a statue which would appear to be that of a retired gladiator meditating upon a wasted life. They are still more astonished when they see under it an inscription indicating that it represents the English writer, Samuel Johns
24、on. The statue is by Bacon, but it is not one of his best works. The figure is, as often in eighteenth-century sculpture, clothed only in a loose robe which leaves arms, legs and one shoulder bare. But the strangeness for us is not one of costume only. If we know anything of Johnson, we know that he
25、 was constantly iii all through his life; and whether we know anything of him or not we are apt to think of a literary man as a delicate, weak, nervous sort of person. Nothing can be further from that than the muscular statue. And in this matter the statue is perfectly right. And the fact which it r
26、eports is far from being unimportant. The body and the mind are inextricably interwoven in all of us, and certainly on Johnsons case the influence of the body was obvious and conspicuous. His melancholy, his constantly repeated conviction of the general unhappiness of human life, was certainly the r
27、esult of his constitutional infirmities. On the other hand, his courage, and his entire indifference to pain, were partly due to his great bodily strength. Perhaps the vein of rudeness, almost of fierceness, which sometimes showed itself in his conversation, was the natural temper of an invalid and
28、suffering giant. That at any rate is what he was. He was the victim from childhood of a disease which resembled St Vituss Dance. He never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when be walked it was like the struggling walk of one in irons. All accounts agree that his strange
29、gesticulations and contortations were painful for his friends to witness and attracted crowds of starers in the streets. But Reynolds says that he could sit still for his portrait to be taken, and that when his mind was engaged by a conversation the convulsions ceased. In any case, it is certain tha
30、t neither this perpetual misery, nor his constant feat of losing his reason, nor his many grave attacks of illness, ever induced him to surrender the privileges that belonged to his physical strength. He justly thought no character so disagreeable as that of a chronic invalid, and was determined not
31、 to be one himself. He had known what it was to live on fourpence a day and scorned the life of sofa cushions and tea into which well-attended old gentlemen so easily slip.（分数：5.00）(1).We understand from the passage that most eighteenth-century sculpture was _.（分数：1.00）A.done by a man called Bacon.B
32、.not very well made.C.loosely draped.D.left bare.(2).“The body and the mind are inextricably interwoven“ means they _.（分数：1.00）A.have little effect on each other.B.are confused by all of us.C.interact with each other.D.are mixed up in all of us.(3).The author says Johnson found it very difficult to
33、walk because _.（分数：1.00）A.he couldnt control his legs.B.he generally wore irons round his legs.C.people always stared at him.D.it hurt his friends to watch him.(4).Because Johnson was very strong physically he could _.（分数：1.00）A.expect to become insane.B.endure a lot of pain.C.claim certain benefits
34、.D.experience great unhappiness.(5).According to the passage, Johnson had _.（分数：1.00）A.never had enough money to live on.B.managed to live on tea only.C.lived frugally in the past.D.always lived in easy circumstances.BText 2/BRecent research has claimed that an excess of positive ions in the air hav
35、e an ill-effect on peoples physical or psychological health. What are positive ions? Well, the air is full of ions, electrically charged particles. But sometimes this balance becomes disturbed and a larger proportion of positive ions are found. This happens naturally before thunderstorms, earthquake
36、s or when winds such as the Mistral, Foehn, Hamsin or Sharav are blowing in certain countries. Or it can be caused by a build-up of static electricity indoors from carpets or clothing made of man-made fibres, or from TV sets, duplicators or computer display screens.When a large number of positive io
37、ns are present in the air many people experience unpleasant effects such as headaches, fatigue, irritability, and some particularly sensitive people suffer nausea or even mental disturbance. Animals are also found to be affected, particularly before earthquakes; snakes have been observed to come out
38、 of hibernation, rats to flee from their burrows, dogs howl and cats jump about unaccountably. This has led the US Geographical Survey to fund a network of volunteers to watch animals in an effort to foresee such disasters before they hit vulnerable areas such as California.Conversely, when large nu
39、mbers of negative ions are present, then people have a feeling of wellbeing. Natural conditions that produce these large amounts are near the sea, close to waterfalls or fountains, or in any place where water is sprayed, or forms a spray. This probably accounts for the beneficial effect of a holiday
40、 by the sea, or in the mountains with tumbling streams or waterfalls.To increase the supply of negative ions indoors, some scientists recommend the use of ionizes: small portable machines which generate negative ions. They claim that ionizes not only clean and refresh the air but also improve the he
41、alth of people sensitive to excess positive ions. Of course, there are the detractors, other scientists, who dismiss such claims and are skeptical about negative/positive ion research. Therefore people can only make up their own minds by observing the effects on themselves, or on others, of a negati
42、ve rich or poor environment. After all, it is debatable whether depending on seismic readings to anticipate earthquake is more effective than watching the cat.（分数：5.00）(1).What effect does excessive positive ionization have on some people?（分数：1.00）A.They think they are insane.B.They feel rather bad-
43、tempered.C.They become violently sick.D.They are too tired to do anything.(2).According to the passage, static electricity can be caused by _.（分数：1.00）A.using home-made electric goods.B.wearing clothes made of natural materials.C.walking on artificial floor coverings.D.copying TV programmes on a com
44、puter.(3).By observing the behaviour of animals, scientists may be able to _.（分数：1.00）A.prevent disasters.B.organize groups of people.C.predict earthquakes.D.control areas of California.(4).A high negative ion count is likely to be found _.（分数：1.00）A.near a pond with a water pump.B.close to a slow-f
45、lowing river.C.high in some barren mountains.D.by a rotating water sprinkler.(5).People should be able to come to a decision about ions in the air if they _.（分数：1.00）A.note their own reactions.B.move to a healthier area.C.observe domestic animals.D.watch how healthy people behave.BText 3/BThe man be
46、hind this notion, Jack Maple, is a dandy who affects dark glasses, homburgs(翘边帽) and two-toe shoes; yet he has become something of a legend in Americas police departments. For some years, starting in New York and moving on to high-crime spots such as New Orleans and Philadelphia, he and his business
47、 partner, John Linder have marketed a two-tier system for cutting crime.First, police departments have to sort themselves out: root out corruption, streamline their bureaucracy, and make more contact with the public. Second, they have to adopt a computer system called Comstat which helps them to analyze statistics on all major crimes. These are consta
