1、公共英语四级-142 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：1，分数：5.00)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, Part A, Part
2、B and Part C.Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1.If you have any questions, you may raise
3、your hand NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started.BPart A/BYou will hear a passage. Listen and complete the sentences in Questions 1 - 5 with the information you have heard. Write not more than 3 words in each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 secon
4、ds to read the tables below.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 full of 4John Smith is a special “millionaire“ because he is rich
5、 in5（分数：5.00）(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:_二、BPart B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)You will hear a passage about Hawaii. Answer Questions 6-10 while you listen. Use not more than 5 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the tables below.Where is
6、 Hawaii located? 6Who were the first Europeans or Americans to visit Hawaii?7When was Hawaii made a republic? 8When did the Japanese bomb the Pearl Harbor? 9What kind of right was brought to the Hawaiians since Hawaii was made the fiftieth state in the United States?10（分数：5.00）(1).（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_填空
7、项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、BPart C/B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to read your ans
8、wers. You will hear each piece once only.Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 - 13.（分数：3.00）(1).What does the lecture mainly discuss?（分数：1.00）A.Problems in learning English.B.Some of the problems that face learners of English.C.Foreign student
9、s problems in Britain.D.Language problems that face foreign students in Britain.(2).Why do students have difficulties in understanding English speech?（分数：1.00）A.Because they had very little chance to hear authentic English before.B.Because they have a limited vocabulary.C.Because they find it hard t
10、o pronounce English words correctly.D.Because they are especially weak in listening and speaking.(3).How, according to the speaker, can foreign students learn to speak English fluently?（分数：1.00）A.Express simple ideas.B.Think in English.C.Speak English as much as possible.D.Attend English classes.Que
11、stions 14-16 are based on the following monologue. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16.（分数：3.00）(1).What topic does the passage mainly discuss?（分数：1.00）A.Educational policy in the U.SB.Four levels of American education.C.The purposes of the four levels of education in the U.SD.The subjec
12、t offered at different levels of education.(2).Is school attendance required in the U.S.?（分数：1.00）A.Yes, it is required in the whole country.B.Yes, but only in some states.C.Yes, it is required in most states of the country.D.Yes, but not until children reach the age of 16.(3).At what levels are pro
13、grams of technical and vocational courses offered?（分数：1.00）A.The 1st and 2nd levels.B.The 2nd and 3rd levels.C.The 3rd and 4th levels.D.The 4th level only.Questions 17-20 are based on the following dialogue. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20.（分数：4.00）(1).What day of the week is it?（分数：
14、1.00）A.Thursday.B.Friday.C.Saturday.D.Sunday.(2).What is Michael planning to do on Sunday afternoon?（分数：1.00）A.Go out with some friends.B.Show his sister and brother-in-law around.C.Sleep all afternoon.D.Go to a football game.(3).Why does the woman think it is good that the test will be early?（分数：1.
15、00）A.They will have time to study for it.B.Afternoons are bad times for tests.C.After it, they can study for other exams.D.They can start planning for their semester break.(4).Which of the following is probably true of the woman?（分数：1.00）A.She has no or few plans for the weekend.B.Shed like to go ou
16、t with the man.C.She is going to be busy all Sunday.D.She is worried about her performance on the final.四、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase marked A, B, C or D for each numbered blank on ANSWER SHEET 1.Ira Carlin, worldwide media director of the wo
17、rlds U(21) /U advertising agency, McCann Erickson is quite candid about using fear to sell his message about the communications revolution.One prediction shows that 55 percent of advertising by volume will be carried on the Internet U(22) /U 2005. Consumers will have control and choice of communicat
18、ion; they will also have control over U(23) /U advertisements they watch, and how. “But that will only U(24) /U to the information enabled“, says Carlin. “Therell be an upstairs-downstairs schism. The widening U(25) /U between the information enabled and information disenabled is going to be a great
19、er social problem U(26) /U any seeming social problem weve ever had in the past, U(27) /U racial and U(28) /U problems.“Look at what is already happening, Carlin says. U(29) /U in Manhattan, he can choose the way he receives his daily news. He can open his front door and pick up his own personal cop
20、y of the New York Times. He can U(30) /U the radio station of the New York Times, and listen to the same news. “Or I can simply click into Uwww. newyorktimes. com/U on the Internet and get the print U(31) /U; or hear the audio files or see the video U(32) /U the New York Times stringers have supplie
21、d, through my computer. Its the same news, but I choose the media modality.“The revolution goes U(33) /U. Carlins computer can currently stream videos to him at 22 frames per second, U(34) /U the picture big enough to occupy one-quarter to one third of the monitor screen. “Six months from now, I gua
22、rantee it, I will be able to U(35) /U a full-screen video at 30 frames per second. That means Ill be watching television, but Ill be getting it U(36) /U a telephone connection.“ McCann Detroit, says Carlin, U(37) /U the worlds first video ad, in early 1997, on UPointcast. com/U is a free news and in
23、formation service, “fully U(38) /U by advertising“. It was U(39) /U in early 1996 and has 2.1 million subscribers in the U.S UPointcast. com/U uses a special software program to work out U(40) /U ads a person might be interested in, by monitoring their selection of news and information on the Net. “
24、I do a lot of technology and marketing work,“ says Carlin. “Because of that, the computer program thinks Im rich. It sends me stockbroker ads and technology ads.“（分数：20.00）A.largeB.largestC.largerD.the largestA.byB.atC.onD.inA.thatB.whichC.whoD.whatA.applyB.belongC.caterD.useA.differenceB.gapC.relat
25、ionshipD.distanceA.asB.toC.thatD.thanA.includeB.includingC.includedD.to includeA.economyB.economicC.economicalD.economicallyA.LivingB.LiveC.To liveD.LivedA.tune toB.turn inC.tune atD.turn onA.electronicallyB.electronicC.electronicsD.electronA.whoB.whereC.thatD.whatA.fartherB.furthestC.farthestD.furt
26、herA.atB.withoutC.withD.withinA.acceptB.admitC.recallD.receiveA.throughB.throughoutC.thoroughD.thoroughlyA.put onB.put offC.put outD.put upA.supportB.to supportC.supportedD.supportingA.set offB.set outC.set inD.set upA.thatB.whatC.whichD.who五、BSection Readi(总题数：5，分数：35.00)BPart A/BRead the following
27、 four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.BText 1/BThe American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending th
28、eir money in the market place for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and
29、services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of business men to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to pro
30、duce it.An important factor in a maket-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consume
31、rs and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers wil be eliminated from the market. If, on other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply o
32、ffered by sellers. Price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system.The important actor in a private-enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own poductive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produ
33、ce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.（分数
34、：5.00）(1).In the market-oriented economic system, _.（分数：1.00）A.consumers spend their money at willB.consumers spend their money in accordance with producers desireC.consumers actions in the marketplace have nothing to do with the businessmenD.consumers actions affect production greatly(2).How does p
35、rice system in the American economic system work?（分数：1.00）A.It only regulates the relative demands of consumers.B.It only influences the supplies of seller-producers.C.It regulates the relative demands of consumers and suppliers offered by seller-producers.D.Price doesnt rise or fall.(3).The passage
36、 is mainly about?（分数：1.00）A.American consumers.B.American seller-producers.C.American economic system.D.American price system.(4).Which of the following is true?（分数：1.00）A.The American economic system is organized around a basically public-owned enterprise.B.In a private-enterprise economy, individu
37、als are allowed to own productive resources.C.In the America economy, private property only contains the ownership of productive resources.D.None.(5).What are the private businessmen striving to do?（分数：1.00）A.To sell more goods.B.To advertise their products.C.To make profits.D.To improve quality.BTe
38、xt 2/BTom Sponson, at fifty-three, was a thoroughly successful man. He had married a charming wife and built himself a good house in a London suburb. His son, Bob, nineteen, was doing well at Oxford; his daughter, April, aged sixteen, who was at a good school, had no wish to use makeup, to wear low
39、frocks or to flirt. She still regarded herself as too young for these trifling amusements. Yet she was gay, affectionate and enjoyed life. All the same, for some time, Tom had been aware that he was working very hard for very little. His wife, Louise, gave him a peck in the morning when he left for
40、the office, and if she were not at a party, a quick kiss when he came home in the evening. Her life was completely filled with the children, her clothes, keeping her figure slim, the house clean and smart, with her bridge, her tennis, her friends and her parties.The chidren were even more preoccupie
41、d-the boy with his own work and his friends, the girl with hers. They were polite to Tom, but when he came into a room there was at once a feeling of constraint. When they were alone together he perceived that they were slightly embarrassed and changed the subject of their conversation, whatever it
42、was. Yet they did not seem to do this with their mother. He would find all three of them laughing at something and when he came in they would stop and gaze at him as if he had shot up through the floor.He said to himself, “it isnt only that they dont need me, but Im a nuisance to them. Im in the way
43、.“One morning, when he was just going to get into his car and his wife had come out to say goodbye, he suddenly made an excuse, saying, “Just a moment, Ive left a letter“ and went back to his desk, and then dashed out to the car and drove off, pretending to forget that goodbye had not been said.Imme
44、diately he felt that he could not stand any more of this existence; it was nonsense. His wife and children did not depend on the business any more; it could be taken over tomorrow and it would support all of them in comfort. Actually he would miss the business; it was his chief interest. But if he h
45、ad to give it up for the sake of freedom, a break in this senseless life, he could do even that. Yes, joyfully.As he circled Trafalgar Square, only a few hundred yards from his office, he told himself that he could not go on. It was as if at that moment when he had dodged the customary goodbye a con
46、tact had been broken. The conveyor belt which was his life had been stopped.An hour later he was in the train for Westford, a seaside place where he had once spent a summer holiday before his marriage. On the luggage rack was a new suitcase, containing pajamas, shoes, a new kit as for a holiday by t
47、he sea even new paper backs for a wet day.（分数：5.00）(1).Tom Sponsons daughter, April, was a satisfactory daughter although she was _.（分数：1.00）A.at the age when many girls begin to be a problem to their parentsB.still too young to be interested in boys or men and loveC.a worry to her father because sh
48、e took no interest in boysD.a normal, happy schoolgirl of sixteen(2).Louise Sponson was _.（分数：1.00）A.too old to care about her husband and moreB.neglectful of her husband and her houseC.too busy to take any notice of her husbands coming and goingD.absen-mindedly affectionate towards her husband(3).Tom Sponson felt that his children were busy with their own affairs and _.（分数：1.00）A.unfriendly to him and to their motherB.did not enjoy hi
