1、公共英语四级-429 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)Information about Booking a Flight a business trip to 1.date of today 2.rate available for a round trip 3.planned return date 4.the travelers way of payment 5.（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
2、、Part B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).In a sudden and unexpected development, the Dow-Jones Index fell by（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Among other deeper reasons for the fall is a belief that next weeks American trade figures（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).On October 19th last year, prices on the New York stock exchange suffered the
3、ir（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).The commission has made numerous proposals to regulate（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).The commission also wants a new high-level body to control American（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、Part C(总题数：3，分数：10.00)Questions 11-13 are based on the following dialogue. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11
4、-13.（分数：3.00）(1).Why did the woman open the door when someone knocked at it?（分数：1.00）A.Because she knew the two men.B.Because she thought it was her husband.C.Because she was waiting for them.D.Because she was afraid of them.(2).Which of the following is NOT among the things taken by the robbers?（分数
5、：1.00）A.A camera.B.A wallet with $ 200 in it.C.A watch.D.Some jewelry.(3).Why didnt the woman report soon after the robbers ran off?（分数：1.00）A.Because she fainted.B.Because she was too scared.C.Because her husband didnt allow her to.D.Because she was bound and gagged.Questions 14-16 are based on the
6、 following passage. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16.（分数：3.00）(1).Why do many people criticize TV programs in the U. S.?（分数：1.00）A.There are not enough programs to entertain.B.There are not enough programs to show the life of ordinary people.C.There are too many programs to educate.D.
7、There are not enough serious programs.(2).According to the speaker, who should be responsible for the lack of serious programs on TV?（分数：1.00）A.Businessman.B.TV set owner.C.TV station owner.D.The commercial TV system.(3).Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a kind of serious programs?（分数：1.00）
8、A.Programs of science.B.Programs of medicine.C.Programs of art.D.Programs of history.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 is Dr. Francis?（分数：1.00）A.A teacher of English in Cambridge.B.A specialist in computer science.C
9、.A consultant to a Scottish company.D.A British tourist to China.(2).What is the approximate temperature in Cambridge in summer?（分数：1.00）A.22.B.23.C.25.D.34.(3).Where does Dr. Francis suggest Li Ping should stay in Cambridge?（分数：1.00）A.With an English family.B.In a flat near the college.C.With a lan
10、guage teacher.D.In a student dormitory.(4).What is the point Dr. Francis is making when he mentions Ali?（分数：1.00）A.Some things cannot be learned from books.B.Foreign students are very much alike.C.Choice of where to live varies from person to person.D.Convenience is his first consideration in choosi
11、ng where to live.五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply (21) to all of us (22) the covers of books - but we must know how to avail ourselves (23) this treasure and how to get (24) from it. The
12、most (25) people all over the world, are (26) who have never discovered how (27) it is to read good books.I am very interested in people, in meeting them and (28) about them. Some of the most (29) people Ive met existed only in a Writers imagination, then (30) the pages of his book, and then, again,
13、 in my imagination. Ive found in books new friends, new societies, new words.If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who (31) in how. Who in the books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the way back to the first (32) in
14、 history; how (33) everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes (34) the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners to children.Reading can make our minds feel pleased, (35) means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness (36) you a good r
15、eader. Reading is (37) , not because the writer is telling you something, (38) because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works together with the (39) or even goes beyond his. Your experience, (40) his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you underst
16、and his.（分数：20.00）A.usefulB.newC.readableD.availableA.inB.atC.withinD.withA.ofB.withC.forD.inA.the moreB.the mostC.the muchD.the lessA.luckyB.fortunateC.unfortunateD.misfortuneA.theseB.thatC.thisD.thoseA.satisfiedB.dissatisfiedC.satisfyingD.dissatisfyingA.to find outB.finding outC.to findD.findingA.
17、remarkableB.notoriousC.hostileD.rudeA.onB.inC.offD.withA.likeB.andC.orD.asA.numberB.pointC.partD.figureA.recoversB.discoversC.uncoversD.coversA.toB.inC.untillD.intoA.thatB.whichC.whatD.asA.doB.convertC.imposeD.makeA.funB.funnyC.uninterestingD.exhaustingA.andB.forC.sinceD.butA.the authorB.the authors
18、C.I the compilerD.the compilersA.comparing withB.compared withC.comparing toD.compared by六、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Part A(总题数：0，分数：0.00)八、Passage 1(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Id like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes every evening right after the early evening news, all television broadcasti
19、ng in America be prohibited by law.Let us take a serious, reasonable look at what the results might be if such a proposal were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour. Without the distraction of TV, they might sit around together after dinner and actually communicate with one an
20、other. It is well known that many of our problems - everything, in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illness - are caused at least in part by failure to communicate. We do not tell each other what makes us feel disturbed. The result is emotional difficult
21、y of one kind or another. By using the quiet family hour to discuss our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better.On evenings when such talk is unnecessary, families could rediscover more active pastimes. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they
22、might take a ride together to watch the sunset, or they might take a walk together (remember feet?) and see the neighborhood with fresh, new eyes.With free time and no TV, children and adults might rediscover reading. There is more entertainment in a good book than in a month of typical TV programmi
23、ng. Educators report that the generation growing up with television can barely write an English sentence, even at the college level. Writing is often learned from reading. A more literate new generation could be a product of the quiet hour.A different form of reading might also be done, as it was in
24、 the past: reading aloud. Few hobbies bring a family closer together than gathering around and listening to mother or father read a good story. The quiet hour could become the story hour. When the quiet hour ends, the TV networks form our newly discovered activities.At first glance, the idea of an h
25、our without TV seems radical. What will parents do without the electronic baby-sitter? How will we spend the time? But it is not radical at all. It has been only twenty-five years since television came to control American free time. The people who are thirty-five and older can remember childhood wit
26、hout television, spent partly with radio - which at least involved the listeners imagination - but also with reading, learning, talking, playing games, inventing new activities. It wasnt that difficult. Honest. The truth is that we had a ball.（分数：5.00）(1).The failure to talk to each other causes all
27、 of the following EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.the high divorce rate.B.a real family hour.C.the generation gap.D.some forms of mental illness.(2).If we turned off TV for an hour, which of the following is NOT true?（分数：1.00）A.We would not have any problems.B.There would be a higher divorce rate.C.Families could
28、take a ride together.D.We would have a new view to neighborhood.(3).According to the author,（分数：1.00）A.TV is more entertaining than good books.B.good books are as entertaining as TV.C.good books are not so entertaining as TV.D.good books are more entertaining than TV.(4).Because young people nowaday
29、s dont read much,（分数：1.00）A.they find TV very entertaining.B.they have a lot of time for other pastimes.C.they have enough time to talk to one another.D.even college students cant write very well.(5).The idea of an hour without TV is NOT radical because（分数：1.00）A.TV is very popular among people for
30、only twenty-five years.B.TV is an electronic baby-sitter.C.we might get better shows.D.radio involves the listener s imagination.九、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Everyone of us lives and works on a small part of the earths surface, moves in a small circle, and of these acquaintances knows only a few intima
31、tely. Of any public event that has wide effects we see at best only a phase and an aspect. This is true that the eminent insiders, who draft treaties, make laws, and issue orders, are like those who have treaties framed on them, laws promulgated to them, orders given at them. Inevitably our opinions
32、 cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, many things, that we can directly observe. So they have to be pieced together out of what others have reported and what we can imagine. Yet even the eyewitness does not bring back a naive picture of the scene. For experience seems to show that he himsel
33、f brings something to the scene which later he takes away from it, that oftener than not what he imagines to be the account of an event is really a transfiguration of it. Few facts in consciousness seem to be merely given. Most facts in consciousness seem to be partly made. A report is the joint pro
34、duct of the knower and known, in which the role of the observer is always selective and usually creative. The facts we see depend on where we are placed, and the habits of our eyes.（分数：5.00）(1).The limited time and space which man occupies suggest, according to the paragraph,（分数：1.00）A.mans life is
35、also insignificant.B.mans opinions can not be accurate at all.C.human observations in general are all but partial.D.man cannot have any opinion.(2).Experts such as the so-called insiders（分数：1.00）A.usually have unbiased opinions.B.can also be prejudiced in their judgment.C.are reliable observers.D.do
36、 not have correct information at all.(3).The word “naive“ in “a naive picture of the scene“ most likely means（分数：1.00）A.uneducated.B.immature.C.pure and reliable.D.informal.(4).The latter part of the paragraph suggests that individual consciousness of the phenomenal world（分数：1.00）A.is always fallaci
37、ous.B.is always reliable.C.expresses a fusion of the subjective and the objective realities.D.shows a perfect reflection of what the world is.(5).By “selective“ and “creative“, the author means that the observer of an event（分数：1.00）A.collects preferred materials in order to create.B.selects with the
38、 intention to create new ideas.C.selects and creates unconsciously and simultaneously.D.selects and creates objects deliberately.十、Passage 3(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The fridge is considered necessary. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food list appeared with the label: “Store in the refrigerator.“I
39、n my fridgeless fifties childhood, 1 was fed well and healthy. The milkman came every day, the grocer, the butcher (肉商), the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times each week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus(剩余) bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothi
40、ng was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. Many well-tried techniques already existed - na
41、tural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling.What refrigeration did promote was marketing - marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the world in search of a good price.So most of the worlds fridges are to be found, not in the
42、tropics where they might prove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated house -
43、while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.The fridges effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been not important. If you dont believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and mm off your fridge next winter. You
44、may not eat the hamburgers, but at least youll get rid of that terrible hum.（分数：5.00）(1).The statement “In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily.“ suggests that（分数：1.00）A.the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties.B.the author was not accustomed
45、to fridges even in his fifties.C.there was no fridge in the authors home in the 1950s.D.the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s.(2).Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges?（分数：1.00）A.People would not buy more food than was necessary.B.Foo
46、d was delivered to people two or three times a week.C.Food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily.D.People had effective ways to preserve their food.(3).Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author?（分数：1.00）A.Inventors.B.Consumers.C.Manufacturers.D.Travelling salesmen.(4).Which
47、 of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridges negative effect on the environment?（分数：1.00）A.“Hum away continuously“.B.“Climatically almost unnecessary“.C.“Artificially-cooled space“.D.“With mild temperatures“.(5).What is the authors overall attitude toward fridges?（分数：1.00）A
48、.Neutral.B.Critical.C.Objective.D.Compromising.十一、Passage 4(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Although there had been various small cameras developed, it was not until George Eastman introduced the Kodak in 1888 that the mass appeal of photography attracted America and Europe and thereafter spread quickly to the far co
49、rners of the earth. Eastman called his new famous camera the Kodak for no particular reason except that he liked the word. It was easy to remember and could be pronounced in any language.An immediate consequence of Eastmans invention was a blizzard of amateur photographs that soon became known as snapshots. The word came from hunters jargon. When a hunter fired a gun from the
