1、公共英语四级-316 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)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 m
2、an full of 4John Smith is a special “millionaire“ because he is rich in5（分数：5.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、Part B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Where is 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 Harbo
3、r? 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）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_四、Part C(总题数：3，分数：10.00)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
4、 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 students problems in Britain.D.Language problems that face foreign students in Britain.(2).Why do students have difficulties in understanding English speech?（分数：1.0
5、0）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 to pronounce English words correctly.D.Because they are especially weak in listening and speakin(3).How, according to the speaker, can foreign students learn
6、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.Questions 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：
7、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 subject 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
8、 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 programs 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.Ques
9、tions 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：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 b
10、rother-in-law around.C.Sleep all afternoon.D.Go to a football gam(3).Why does the woman think it is good that the test will be early?（分数：1.00）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 seme
11、ster 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 out with the man.C.She is going to be busy all Sunday.D.She is worried about her performance on the final.五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Ira Carlin, worldwide
12、 media director of the worlds (21) 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 (22) 2005. Consumers will have control and cho
13、ice of communication; they will also have control over (23) advertisements they watch, and how. “But that will only (24) to the information enabled“, says Carlin. “Therell be an upstairs-downstairs schism. The widening (25) between the information enabled and information disenabled is going to be a
14、greater social problem (26) any seeming social problem weve ever had in the past, (27) racial and (28) problems.“Look at what is already happening, Carlin says. (29) in Manhattan, he can choose the way he receives his daily news. He can open his front door and pick up his own personal copy of the Ne
15、w York Times. He can (30) the radio station of the New York Times, and listen to the same news. “Or I can simply click into www. newyorktimes. com on the Internet and get the print (31) ; or hear the audio files or see the video (32) the New York Times stringers have supplied, through my computer. I
16、ts the same news, but I choose the media modality.“The revolution goes (33) . Carlins computer can currently stream videos to him at 22 frames per second, (34) the picture big enough to occupy one-quarter to one third of the monitor screen. “Six months from now, I guarantee it, I will be able to (35
17、) a full-screen video at 30 frames per second. That means Ill be watching television, but Ill be getting it (36) a telephone connection.“ McCann Detroit, says Carlin, (37) the worlds first video ad, in early 1997, on Pointcast. com is a free news and information service, “fully (38) by advertising“.
18、 It was (39) in early 1996 and has 2.1 million subscribers in the U.S Pointcast. com uses a special software program to work out (40) ads a person might be interested in, by monitoring their selection of news and information on the Net. “I do a lot of technology and marketing work,“ says Carlin. “Be
19、cause 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.relationshipD.distanceA.asB.toC.thatD.thanA.includeB.includingC.inc
20、ludedD.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.furtherA.atB.withoutC.withD.withinA.acceptB.admitC.recallD.receive
21、A.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六、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Part A(总题数：0，分数：0.00)八、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The American economic system is organize
22、d around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their 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 i
23、n competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and 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 profit
24、s and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce 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 America
25、n economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers 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 elimina
26、ted from the market. If, on other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by sellers. Price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system.The important actor in a private-enterprise economy is that individuals are
27、allowed to own poductive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce 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
28、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：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 desi
29、reC.consumers actions in the marketplace have nothing to do with the businessmenD.consumers actions affect production greatly(2).How does price 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-produ
30、cers.C.It regulates the relative demands of consumers and suppliers offered by seller-producers.D.Price doesnt rise or fall.(3).The passage 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?
31、（分数：1.00）A.The American economic system is organized around a basically public-owned enterprise.B.In a private-enterprise economy, individuals are allowed to own productive resources.C.In the America economy, private property only contains the ownership of productive resources.D.Non(5).What are the
32、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.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Tom 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.
33、 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 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 sa
34、me, 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 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 clot
35、hes, keeping her figure slim, the house clean and smart, with her bridge, her tennis, her friends and her parties.The chidren were even more preoccupied-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
36、 constraint. When they were alone together he perceived that they were slightly embarrassed and changed the subject of their conversation, whatever it 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 an
37、d 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.“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 momen
38、t, 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.Immediately 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; i
39、t 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 had 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
40、 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 contact 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
41、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 the 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
42、 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 she 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.negl
43、ectful 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 his company
44、or want to talk to himC.were too shy and polite to himD.were awkward and bad-mannered(4).On the evidence of the passage as a whole, we can say that Tom Sponson was _.（分数：1.00）A.sensitive and troubledB.sensible and uneasyC.senseless and worriedD.sensual and difficult(5).Tom Sponson took the train for
45、 Westford with _.（分数：1.00）A.none daily necessitiesB.office workC.luggageD.his car十、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Conventional wisdom about conflict seems pretty much cut and dried. Too little conflict breeds apathy (冷漠) and stagnation (呆滞). Too much conflict leads to divisiveness (分裂) and hostility. Moderate
46、 levels of conflict, however, can spark creativity and motivate people in a healthy and competitive way.Recent research by Professor Charles R. Schwenk, however, suggests that the optimal level of conflict may be more complex to determine than these simple generalizations. He studied perceptions of
47、conflict among a sample of executives. Some of the executives worked for profit seeking organizations and others for not-for-profit organizations.Somewhat surprisingly, Schwenk found that opinions about conflict varied systematically as a function of the type of organization. Specially, managers in
48、not-for-profit organizations strongly believed that conflict was beneficial to their organizations and that it promoted higher quality decision-making than might be achieved in the absence of conflict.Managers of for-profit organizations saw a different picture. They believed that conflict generally
49、 was damaging and usually led to poor-quality decision making in their organizations. Schwenk interpreted these results in terms of the criteria for effective decision-making suggested by the executives. In the profit-seeking organizations, decision-making effectiveness was most often assessed in financial terms. The executives believed that consensus rather than conflic
