1、公共英语五级-32 (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)BPart A/BIYou will hear a conversation. As you listen, answer Questions 1 to 10 by circling BTrue/B or BFalse/B. You will hear the conversation BONLY ONCE/B.You now have 60 seconds to read Questions 110/I（分数：10.00）(1).The staff
2、members of the restaurant dont share in decision-making.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The owner, Paul, always has the final say when disagreement comes up.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).Alan has been with Paul for fifteen years.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Paul once lectured on cooking with practical demonstrations in Austral
3、ia and New Zealand.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).His lecture had been very popular.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Paul once wanted to set up his business in a competitive place.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).The restaurant used to be a farmhouse.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Paul feels all right keeping serving the same dishes.（分数：1.00）
4、A.正确B.错误(9).Alan may not want to have his recipe publicized.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).The woman is a journalist from a magazine.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误二、BPart B/B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)BQuestions 11 13 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 13./B（分数：3.00）(1).What does the speak
5、er suggest that the students should do during the term?（分数：1.00）A.Consult with her frequently.B.Use the computer regularly.C.Occupy the computer early.D.Wait for ones turn patiently.(2).What service must be paid for?（分数：1.00）A.Computer classes.B.Training sessions.C.Laser printing.D.Package borrowing
6、.(3).What is the talk mainly about?（分数：1.00）A.Computer lab services.B.College library facilities.C.The use of micro-computers.D.Printouts from the laser printer.Questions 14 16 are based on the following conversation. You now have 15 seconds to rend Questions 14 16.（分数：3.00）(1).What are the speakers
7、 trying to do?（分数：1.00）A.Visit the new restaurant.B.Watch a parade.C.Have a picnic.D.Go to the beach.(2).How does the man feel about the rain?（分数：1.00）A.Excited.B.Confused.C.Afraid.D.Surprised.(3).What will the speakers probably do next?（分数：1.00）A.Go home.B.Go to a restaurant.C.Unpack the car.D.Put
8、a dry blanket under the tree.Questions 17 20 are based on the following conversation. You may have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 20.（分数：4.00）(1).Whats the main topic of the conversation?（分数：1.00）A.A popular TV program.B.A breakthrough in technology.C.A recent purchase.D.A new electronic store.(2).
9、What does the woman suggest the man do?（分数：1.00）A.Research what TV set is best for him.B.Ask for a cheaper price on the TV.C.Try a different store.D.Be satisfied with what he has.(3).What will the man probably do as a result of the conversation?（分数：1.00）A.Watch less TV.B.Return the TV to the store.C
10、.Pay for the TV.D.Show the woman how to use the remote control.(4).Whats the mans attitude toward the TV?（分数：1.00）A.He would prefer a more expensive model.B.He is confused by the remote control.C.Hes eager to use it.D.He is not happy that he bought it.三、BPart C/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)（分数：10.00）(1).What do
11、 you know about Beethovens music talent when he was 7?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).How old was he when he was made assistant organist in Bonn?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).In which year did Beethoven meet his idol Mozart?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).What was Mozarts reaction after he heard Beethovens performance?（分数：1.00）填空项 1
12、:_(5).What did Beethoven think of Haydn s teaching?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).What was Beethovens personality?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).What can we learn about Beethoven from his style of composing?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).Which is the most popular of all his symphonies?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).How did Beethoven communica
13、te with others after he had lost his hearing?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).In which year did he die?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)“Everything happens for the best,“ my mother saidU (31) /UI faced disappointment. “If you carry on, one day something good willU (32) /U“. And youll realize that
14、 it wouldnt have happened if not for that previous disappointment.Mother was fight,U (33) /UI discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sport announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of everyU (34) /U-and got t
15、urned down every time.In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldnt risk hiring an inexperienced person. “Go out in the sticks (偏僻地区) and find aU (35) /Ustation thatll give you a chance,“ she said.I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois.U (36) /Uthere were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon,
16、 my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon wasU (37) /UI had played high-school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me.U (38) /UI wasnt hired.My disappointmentU (39) /Uhave shown. “Everything happens for
17、the best.“ Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the ear to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had alreadyU (40) /Uan announcer.As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I askedU (41) /U, “How can a fellow
18、get to be a sports announcer if heU (42) /Uget a job in a radio station?“I wasU (43) /Ufor the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, “What was that you said about sports? Do you knowU (44) /Uabout football?“ Then he stood meU (45) /Ua microphone and asked me toU (46) /Uan imaginary game.The prece
19、ding autumn, my team had won a game in the last 20 seconds with a 65-yard run. I did a 15-minute buildup (宣传) to that play, and Peter told me I would be broadcasting SaturdaysU (47) /U!On my wayU (48) /U, as I have many times since, I thought of my mothers words: “If you carry on, one day something
20、good will happen-somethingU (49) /Uwouldnt have happened if not for that previous disappointment.“I often wonder what direction my life might haveU (50) /Uif Id gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.（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
21、:_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/BIt is said that the mass media are the greatest organs for enlightenment that the world has yet seen; that in Britain, for instance, several million people see each issue of the current affairs program
22、, Panorama. It is true that never in human history were so many people so often and so much exposed to so many intimations about societies, forms of life, attitudes other than those which obtain in their own local societies. This kind of exposure may well be a point of departure for acquiring certai
23、n important intellectual and imaginative qualities, width of judgment, a sense of the variety of possible attitudes. Yet in itself such exposure does not bring intellectual or imaginative development. It is no more than the masses of a stone which lies around in a quarry and which may, conceivably,
24、go to the making of a cathedral. The mass media cannot build the cathedral, and their way of showing the stones does not always prompt others to build. For the stones are presented within a self-contained and self-sufficient world in which, it is implied, simply to look at them, to observe-fleetingl
25、y-individually interesting points of difference between them, is sufficient in itself.Life is indeed full of problems on which we have to-or feel we should try to-make decisions, as citizens or as private individuals. But neither the real difficulty of these decisions, nor their true and disturbing
26、challenge to each individual, can often be communicated through the mass media. The disinclination to suggest real choice, individual decision, which is to be found in the mass media is simply the product of a commercial desire to keep the customers happy. It is within the grain of mass communicatio
27、ns. The organs of the establishment, however well-intentioned they may be and whatever their form (the State, the Church, voluntary societies, political parties), have a vested interest in ensuring that the public boat is not violently rocked, and will so affect those who work within the mass media
28、that they will be led insensibly towards forms of production which, though the skin to where such enquiries might really hurt. They will tend to move, when exposing problems, well within the accepted clich-clich not to make a disturbing application of them to features of contemporary agitation of pr
29、oblems for the sake of the interest of that agitation in itself; they will therefore, again, assist a form of acceptance of the status quo. There are exceptions to this tendency, but they are uncharacteristic.The result can be found in a hundred radio and television programs as plainly as in the nor
30、mal treatment of public issues in the popular press. Different levels of background in the readers or viewers may be assumed, but what usually takes place is a substitute for the process of arriving at judgment. Programs such as this are noteworthy less for the “stimulation“ they offer than for the
31、fact that stimulation (repeated at regular intervals) may become a substitute for, and so a hindrance to, judgments carefully arrived at and tested in the mind and on the pulses. Mass communications, then, do not ignore intellectual matters; they tend to castrate them, to allow them to sit on the si
32、de of the fireplace, sleek and useless, a family plaything.（分数：5.00）(1).According to the passage, the mass media present us with（分数：1.00）A.insufficient diversity of information.B.too restricted a view of life.C.a wide range of facts and opinions.D.a critical assessment of our society.(2).The word “d
33、isinclination“ (line 3, para.2) implies that（分数：1.00）A.mass media are not capable of giving real choice and individual decision.B.mass media do not feel like giving real choice and individual decision.C.mass media do not manage to give red choice and individual decision.D.people do not expect to get
34、 real choice and decision from mass media.(3).The author uses the comparison with building a cathedral to show that（分数：1.00）A.worthwhile results do not depend on raw material only.B.the mediaeval world had different beliefs.C.great works of art require good foundations.D.close attention to detail is
35、 important.(4).Radio, TV and the press are criticized here for（分数：1.00）A.widening the gap between classes.B.assuming that everyones tastes are the same.C.failing to reach any definite conclusions.D.setting too intellectual a standard.(5).What is the authors final judgment on how mass communications
36、deal with intellectual matters?（分数：1.00）A.They regard them as unimportant.B.They see them as a domestic pastime.C.They consider them to be of only domestic interest.D.They rob them of their dramatic impact.BText 2/BFor the past six years, crime rates have been falling all over America. In some big c
37、ities, the fall has been extraordinary. Between 1994 and 1997 in New York city violent crime fell by 39% in central Harlem and by 45% in the once-terrifying South Bronx. The latest figures released by the FBI, for 1997, show that serious crime continued to fall in all the largest cities, though a li
38、ttle more slowly than in 1996.Violent crime fell by 5% in all, and by slightly more in cities with over 250,000 people. Property crimes have fallen, too, by more than 20% since 1980, so that the rates for burglary and car-theft are lower in America than they are in supposedly more law-abiding Britai
39、n and Scandinavia. And people have noticed. In 1994, 30% of Americans told pollsters that crime was the most important challenge facing the country. In 1997, only 15% thought so. Some cities police departments are so impressed by these figures, it is said, that they have lately taken to exaggerating
40、 the plunge in crime.Why this has happened is anyones guess. Many factors-social, demographic, economic, and political-affect crime rate, so it is difficult to put a finger on the vital clue. In May this year, the FBI itself admitted it had “no idea“ why rates were falling so fast.Politicians think
41、they know, of course. Ask Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York, why his city has made such strides in beating crime that it accounts for fully a quarter of the national decline. He will cite his policy of “zero tolerance“. This concept, which sprang from a famous article by two criminologists in Atl
42、antic Monthly in March 1982, maintains that by refusing to tolerate tiny infractions of the law-dropping litter, spray-painting walls-the authorities can create a climate in which crime of more dangerous kinds finds it impossible to flourish. The Atlantic article was called “Broken Windows“; if one
43、window in a building was left broken, it argued, all the others would soon be gone. The answer: mend the window, fast.The metro system in Washington DC, was the first place where zero tolerance drew public attention, especially when one passenger was arrested for eating a banana. The policy seemed a
44、bsurdly pernickety, yet it worked: in a better environment, peoples behavior improved, and crime dropped. Mr. Giuliani, taking this theme to heart, has gone further. He has cracked down on windscreen-cleaners, public urinators graffiti, and even jaywalkers. He has excoriated New Yorks famously sulle
45、n cabdrivers, and wants all New Yorkers to be nicer to each other. Tony Blair, visiting from London, has been hugely impressed.But is this cleanliness and civility the main reason why crime has fallen? It seems unlikely. “Zero tolerance“ can also be a distraction, making too many policemen spend too
46、 much time handing out littering tickets and parking fines while, some streets away, young men are being murdered for their trainers. It is localized, too: though lower Manhattan or the Washington metro can show the uncanny orderliness of a communist regime, other parts of the city-the areas of high
47、est crime maybe left largely untreated.William Bratton, New Yorks police commissioner until Mr. Giuliani fired him for stealing his thunder, has a different explanation for the fall in crime. It came about mainly, he believes, because he reorganized the police department and restored its morale: giving his officers better guns, letting them take more decisions for themselves
