1、公共英语五级-33 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Listening (总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer Questions 1 to 5 by writing T (for True) or F (for False). You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE. （分数：5.00）(1).Pompeii was taken over by the Romans in the first centu
2、ry A. D.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The eruption killed 2,000 people.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).In 1748 Charles III ordered the digging out of Pompeii to begin so as to make its country wealthy.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Today, when you go to Pompeii, you can see a heap of ruins.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).Most of the art tr
3、easures from Pompeii are displayed in the Naples National Museum.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：2，分数：6.00)Questions 1 3 are based on the following talk, listen and choose the best answer. （分数：3.00）(1).The proper title for this passage should be _.（分数：1.00）A.Investing in Our YouthB.A General Feature o
4、f Higher PrimatesC.The Higher Intelligence of HumansD.Why Do We Take So Long to Develop(2).Calvin thinks that the development process of humans is _.（分数：1.00）A.wholly beyond comprehensionB.limited by the size of the female pelvisC.primarily related to evolutionD.affected merely by two significant fa
5、ctors(3).According to this passage, _ the development of humans.（分数：1.00）A.the strategy of investing in youth plays a significant role inB.more-is-better strategy plays a key role inC.neoteny is the dominant factor affectingD.the innate drive to master language is the chief factor affectingQuestions
6、 4 6 are based on the following talk, listen and choose the best answer. （分数：3.00）(1).What is the talk concerned with?（分数：1.00）A.People living in India.B.The language the Indian used.C.The signals the Indians used.D.How Indians communicated between different tribes.(2).Which statement is TRUE?（分数：1.
7、00）A.When an Indian wanted to say “man“, he pointed to himself.B.When an Indian wanted to say “horse“, he rode his horse.C.When an Indian wanted to say “sun“, he pointed to the sky.D.Indians used sign language to find out whether a stranger was a friend or an enemy.(3).Which of the following was not
8、 used by Indians to make signals?（分数：1.00）A.A pony.B.Smoke.C.A mirror.D.Arrows.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)You will hear a talk. As you listen, you must answer Questions 1 5 by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words. （分数：5.00）(1).When did Christopher Columbus arrived in what is now called America?（分数：1.00）_(2)
9、.How did the Indians treat the early settlers?（分数：1.00）_(3).How did the Indians think of the land?（分数：1.00）_(4).How did the Indians react when the white began to take their land?（分数：1.00）_(5).How was the land the Indians were left with?（分数：1.00）_五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：30.00)A million years ha
10、ve been added to man“s evolutionary history. While anthropologist 1 estimated the age of Zinjanthrupus, the earliest toolmaking creature, 2 more than 600,000 years, a recent radioacitve dating measurement, based on volcanic rock samples 3 East Africa, where Zinjanthropus was 4 in 1959, now indicates
11、 that this 5 man may have roamed the earth 1, 750,000 years ago. The new date pushes evidence for the emergence of 6 makingone of the two essential attributes of humanityback 7 the Pliocene Age, and it seems to fit 8 easily into the picture of human evolution than the 600,000 year figure. The Zinjan
12、thropus was capable of walking erect, so that its hands were freed, and it had a brain large 9 to enable it to perform 10 simple tasks as making primitive cutting tools from quartz rock. The Zinjanthropus was not a 11 of the modern species, Homosapiens, but many anthropologists see in the creature a
13、 tube that could be very close to, if not actually in, the line of human evolution. The Zinjanthropus must be classified as a man albeit of a primitive type, because 12 animal species other than man both make and use tools. Anthropologists consider it probable that the larger brain and 13 intelligen
14、ce of modern man evolved as primitive manlike creatures learned to use tools and to 14 by speechthe other essential of humanity. Such a course of 15 seems more reasonable starting nearly two million years ago than it would at the faster evolutionary pace required if the process started only a half m
15、illion years ago.（分数：30.00）六、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Part A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)On July 4, 1776, a secret meeting of insurgent colonists in America passed the Declaration of Independence. War against the British had already been going on for over a year, so the declaration came as the climax o
16、f years“ stormy events in America. The impetus for the American Revolution was the treaty of Paris in 176a, which ended the struggle between the British and French for control over North America. Since the colonists no longer were frightened by the French, they ceased to rely upon the British for pr
17、otection and were not as submissive as they were formerly. On the other hand, the British regarded the colonies as a source of revenue and began to impose unfair taxes upon them. The Sugar Act in 1764 and the Stamp Act in 1765 were so eagerly opposed by discontented colonists that rioting broke out.
18、 The Stamp Act was repealed in 1776 as a result of the riots. The British continued their policy of taxation without collaboration with their once obedient subjects. The Townshend Acts (a series of taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea) created such disgust that the citizens of Boston attacked Britis
19、h soldiers who fired upon them. A new tea tax in 177a again consolidated Boston residents“ disagreement. About fifty men disguised as Indians boarded British ships and got rid of their cargo of tea in protest against the tea tax. That was the famous Boston Tea Party. In reprisal, the British abolish
20、ed the Bostonians“ right to self-rule, and by passing what were referred to as Intolerable Acts in Boston, they infuriated all of the colonies and caused them to unite in protest. Representatives from twelve colonies gathered in Philadelphia in 1774 to plan a stratagem to avoid British interference
21、in trade and to protest the infamy of taxation without representation. The British responded that the colonies were in rebellion, and, since nothing would soothe either side, both sides prepared for war.（分数：10.00）(1).When was the first violent protest against the British made?（分数：2.00）A.In 1764.B.In
22、 1765.C.In 1770.D.In 1773.(2).Why didn“t the colonists need the British after the Treaty of Paris?（分数：2.00）A.Because they were independent.B.Because they didn“t like to pay taxes.C.Because they made a treaty with the French.D.Because they didn“t need protection from an enemy.(3).Which statement is T
23、RUE according to the passage?（分数：2.00）A.The colonies refused to pay taxes since they were not allowed to take part in decision-making.B.The colonies were eager to become representatives in the parliament.C.The colonies thought it infamous to pay taxes with representation.D.The colonies would pay tax
24、es if they were allowed to take part in policy-making.(4).Which of the following statements is NOT true?（分数：2.00）A.The treaty of Paris in 1763 impelled the American Revolution.B.The Sugar Act and Stamp Act result in riots.C.The British abolished the Bostonians“ rights to self-rule as a punishment fo
25、r Bostonians“ protest against the tea tax.D.The riots resulted in the end of intolerable acts.(5).Which should be the best title for this passage?（分数：2.00）A.The American Revolution.B.The Temperament of the Colonists.C.The Cause of the American Revolution.D.The Effects of the American Revolution.八、Pa
26、rt B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)It has taken many a pick and shovel to prove to the unbelieving world that the history of Greece went back long before the year 776 B. C., the year with which historians used to begin it. But with Egypt the case has been different. The magic spades of archaeology have given us th
27、e whole lost world of Egypt. We know more about the vanished Egyptians than we know about the early Greeks and Romans, whose civilization died just yesterday. We know nearly everything there is to know. And one of the reasons is climate. 1 For nearly fifty centuries the Egyptians kept depositing in
28、the all-preserving soil everything their great civilization producedfood, dishes, clothing, furniture, jewelry, statues, ornaments, booktogether with the bodies of their dead. Is it any wonder that we have a complete record of their civilization? It has been estimated that in those 4,700 years, some
29、thing like 731,000,000 persons received burial, each with all the trappings his family could afford. Egypt is one vast cemetery out of which have come the richest treasures ever found by man. Even today, when so much has already been found, you may put your spade in any virgin soil and have a good c
30、hance of bringing something to light. 2 The discovery which caused all his excitement was made in the year 1799 by one of Napoleon“s soldiers. He was digging a trench when his spade struck something hard. He dug carefully all around the object and pulled it out. It was a flat stone, about the size o
31、f a sheet of an opened newspaper, and had curious writing on it. He wiped it off, but he could not make head or tail of the writing. However, he could recognize that some of the characters were like the mysterious symbols inscribed on the obelisks and tombs. The soldier decided it was something impo
32、rtant. He had no idea that before his eyes was one of the greatest treasures ever found by man. 3 There seemed to be no getting at the hieroglyphics. Snakes, geese, lions, heads, owls, hawks, beetles, bees, fish, palm leaves, lotus flowers, people squatting on their haunches, people with their hands
33、 raised over their heads, triangles, half-moons, knots, loopsnot one of them could be made out. One scholar after another had been obliged to come to the conclusion that he was beaten. There was just one way of solving the riddlethey must get hold of something written in both hieroglyphics and a lan
34、guage already known, and compare the two. 4 Getting to the bottom of the hieroglyphics was a much harder job than any of them had anticipated, however. One after another was forced to give up in despair. But the French scholar Jean Francois Champollion refused to be defeated. Stubbornly he stuck to
35、the task he had set for himself. 5 He little knew that he was only at the beginning of his difficulties. The Egyptians had used letters only for writing names. Other words they had written in various ways. Some signs stood for whole words, some for syllables, some for letters. The only path open to
36、Champollion was to keep on working with names, and this he did, searching the monuments for cartouches, as the little frames were called. It was slow, slow work, and twenty-three years after the Rosetta Stone was found, he had worked out only one hundred and eleven of the thousands of symbols. But i
37、t was a beginning, and already the mystery of Egypt was giving way before it. Victory over the whole was just a question of time. A. Before Napoleon wend down to Egypt for his campaign, he made plans to study the country as no one else had done, because he had been so impressed with its monuments. A
38、long with his army, he arranged to bring to Egypt a number of scholars whose business would be to tell the world about the wonders of the land. And then came a discovery which raised excitement to a pitch and sent thousands of curiosity seekers scurrying to Egypt. B. And now, here was the Rosetta St
39、one, answering the description exactly, a priestly decree written in Greek, in hieroglyphics, and in ancient Egyptian business script! The scholars were filled with joy, and, when in 1801 the stone was ceded to England and placed in the British Museum, they fell to work on the inscription immediatel
40、y. C. Egypt is the archaeologist“s paradisedig and you shall find. In Egypt, almost nothing rots, nothing spoils, nothing crumbles away. Dig up the most delicate carving, the finest substance, and you will find it fresh and perfect after thousands of years of lying in the sand, as though it had just
41、 come from the artist“s hand. The dry, desert soil keeps everything forever. D. This stonewhich we call the Rosetta Stone because it was found near the Rosetta arm of the Nilewas the magic key for which scholars had been sighing for centuries. Nothing had intrigued them like the hieroglyphics. If th
42、ey could only get to the bottom of those curious symbols, the curtain of time would roll back and they would be able to read all the forgotten history of Egyptians, learn all the manners and customs and thoughts of that once mighty people. But though they had puzzled and puzzled till they were weary
43、, they seemed no nearer the solution than when they began. E. The oldest stone buildings in the world are the pyramids. They have stood for nearly 5,000 years and it seems likely that they will continue to stand for thousands of years. There are over eighty of them scattered along the banks of Nile.
44、 F. He employed the method of working through proper names. Some of the signs on the Rosetta Stone were set off in a little frame. When he looked at the corresponding place in the Greek inscription, he saw written there the name of a pharaohPtolemy. The natural thing to conclude was that in the Egyp
45、tian writing, the word in the frame was likewise Ptolemy. The signs, he decided, stood for letters.（分数：10.00）九、Part C(总题数：1，分数：20.00)A=Charles B=Charles C=Charles Which king. came to the throne in 15257 1 was Emperor of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE? 2 did not become king until the monarchy was restored in
46、16607 3 was often forced to temporize in one place while he reached his goal elsewhere? 4 was dominated by his friend during the first years of his reign? 5 outlawed Luther? 6 wanted toleration for Roman Catholics? 7 wanted to reunite the Germans in a Catholic church? 8 was very fond of hunting? 9 w
47、as unable to compromise? 10 Charles (160049). Charles is the only English King who was tried and executed by his subjects. His father, James of Scotland, had succeeded his cousin ELIZABETH I as James of England, thus uniting Cue two kingdoms, and Charles himself came to the throne in 1625. During th
48、e first years of his reign Charles was dominated by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, his father“s favourite and his own close friend, whose advice led Charles into many difficulties. They waged war on both Spain and France, the expeditions against both countries being costly failures. Quarrels with Parliament soon started about Charles“s choice of councillors and commanders (in pa
