1、公共英语四级-446 及答案解析(总分：91.00，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)（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)(1).What is the main part of the Golden Gate Bridge?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).How long is the main span of the Golden Gate Bridge between the to
2、wers?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).The Golden Gate Bridge has six（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).The Mackinac Bridge was finished（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).How many cars will be able to cross the bridge in a single year when a lower deck is added?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、Part C(总题数：3，分数：11.00)(1).What do we learn about the woman?A. Sh
3、e plans to divorce. B. She has divorced several times.C. She is a mother of more than one. D. She is a strong advocate of feminism.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the woman,which of the following statements is true?A. Divorce is to be entered into seriously.B. Childrens needs are ignored after par
4、ents get divorced.C. Most famous people look on divorce as a serious matter.D. A bad marriage is better for children than a divorce.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What does the woman think of fixing a marriage?A. Every means should be tried before some marriages are fixed.B. Fixing a marriage is like changing
5、 a tire.C. A fixed marriage is not easily broken any more.D. Some marriages can never be fixed.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The woman thinks it more important for society to_.A. understand the choice of divorced peopleB. give more financial support to single mothersC. help divorced people share the loss and
6、 build a new lifeD. let single mothers share the chance of a better marriage（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).According to common belief, in what way are the first child and the only child alike?A. Their parents pay a lot of attention to them.B. Their ability is the same.C. Their family have the same many people
7、.D. They are happy.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What do people usually say about middle children?A. They get a lot of attention. B. They are smart.C. They usually get ignored by families.D. They are powerful.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What do we learn about later children in a family from a recent study of birth
8、order?A. They are less principle.B. They stick to principles.C. They want to do things on their own.D. They dont like to take chances.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).In which situation Indians wouldnt use sign language according to the passage?A. When they wanted to kill an enemy.B. When they wanted to identif
9、y a stranger.C. When they wanted to tell the time of the day.D. When they wanted to send a message to a person far away.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following could NOT be used by Indians to make a signal?A. A small horse B. Cigarettes C. A mirror D. Fire arrows（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What would a
10、n Indian do when he wanted to show that he saw many animals?A. He would run away to hide.B. He would send signals with a mirror.C. He would set a fire.D. He would ride a small horse in a large circle.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?A. A small horse B.
11、 Mirror signalsC. Indian sign language D. Clever Indians（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Who won the World Cup 2006 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? (21) an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets (22) the detail.
12、 Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spots to (23) the news.Newspapers have one basic (24) , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (25) it.Radio, telegraph, television, and (26) inventions brought competition for
13、newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (27) , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the (28) and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers
14、are (29) and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers (30) of the latest news, todays newspapers (31) and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters.Newspapers influence readers economic choices
15、 (32) advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very (33) .Newspapers are sold at a price that (34) even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main (35) of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The (36) in selling advertising depends on a newspapers value
16、 to advertisers. This (37) in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper?Circulation depends (38) on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment (39) in a newspapers pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspapers value to readers as a
17、source of information (40) the community, city, county, state, nation, and world and even outer space.（分数：20.00）(1).A. Just when B. While C. Soon after D. Before（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).A. to give B. giving C. given D. being given（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).A. gather B. spread C. carry D. bring（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D
18、.(4).A. reason B. cause C. problem D. purpose（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).A. make B. publish C. know D. write（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(6).A. another B. other C. one another D. the other（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(7).A. However B. And C. Therefore D. So（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(8).A. value B. ratio C. rate D. speed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(9
19、).A. spread B. passed C. printed D. completed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(10).A. inform B. be informed C. to be informed D. informed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(11).A. entertain B. encourage C. educate D. edit（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(12).A. on B. through C. with D. of（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(13).A. forms B. existence C. contents D. pu
20、rpose（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(14).A. tries to cover B. manages to coverC. fails to cover D. succeeds in covering（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(15).A. source B. origin C. course D. finance（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(16).A. way B. means C. chance D. success（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(17).A. measures B. measured C. is measured D. was measure
21、d（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(18).A. somewhat B. little C. much D. something（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(19).A. offering B. offered C. which offered D. to be offered（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(20).A. by B. with C. at D. about（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.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)Some p
22、eople ought to defend the workaholic.These people are unjustly accused, abused, and defamed often, termed sick or morbid or on the border of pathology. About 30% of American business and commerce is carried on the shoulders of workaholics. The ratio might exist in art and science too.Workaholics are
23、 the achievers, the excelers. There is a national conspiracy against excellence and undue admiration of commonness and mediocrity. It is as if we are against those who make uncommon sacrifices because they enjoy doing something.Some famous psychologists say that the workaholic has an inferiority com
24、plex which leads to over-compensation. This is certainly not the case. Inferiority, or low esteem, describes laziness more accurately than it describes dedication.We do not seem to realize that very little excellence is achieved by living a well-balanced life. Edison, Ford, Einstein, Freud all had s
25、ingle-minded devotion to work whereby they sacrificed many things, including family and friendship. The accusation is made that workaholics bear guilt by not being good parents or spouses. But guilt can exist in the balanced life also. Think how many “normal“ people and middle-ages who have never do
26、ne anything well they are going to settle for less than what they could have become.（分数：5.00）(1).From this passage we know that workaholic is a term referring to thoseA. who enjoy work more than anything else.B. who make greater contributions than others.C. who make uncommon sacrifice in their perso
27、nal life.D. All of the above.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The authors main concern in this passage is toA. point out the role the workaholic plays in the American economy.B. defend people who are addicted to work.C. encourage us not to worry about our imperfection.D. consider the difficulties that confront
28、us at middle-age.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The author of the passage would most likely agree that the workaholicA. is mentally ill.B. performs an insignficant proportion of American business.C. will not have the regrets that many “normal“ people face at middle-age.D. suffers from low serf-esteem.（分数：1.00
29、）A.B.C.D.(4).According to this passage,_.A. Freud led a well-balanced life.B. workaholics can be helped.C. workaholics should be admired.D. so-called “normal“ people are truly the sick people among us.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).According to the author, one can hardly achieve excellence unless oneA. lives
30、an abnormal life.B. sacrifices friendship and family.C. has total devotion to work.D. ignores popular opinions.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The universities have trained the intellectual pioneers of our civilizationthe priests, the lawyers, the statesmen, the doctors, the men of scienc
31、e, and the men of letters. The conduct of business now requires intellectual imagination of the same type as that which in former times has mainly passed into those other occupations.There is one great difficulty which hinders all the higher types of human effort. In modern times this difficulty has
32、 even increased in its possibilities for evil. In any large organization the younger men, who are novices. must be set to jobs which consist in carrying out fixed duties in obedience to orders. No president of a large corporation meets his youngest employee at his office door with the offer of the m
33、ost responsible job which the work of that corporation includes. The young men are set to work at a fixed routine, and only occasionally even see the president as he passes in and out of the building. Such work is a great discipline. It imparts knowledge, and it produces reliability of character; al
34、so it is the only work for which the young men, In that novice stage, are fit, and it is the work for which they are hired. There can be no criticism of the custom. but there may be an unfortunate effect: prolonged routine work dulls the imagination.The way in which a university should function in t
35、he preparation for an intellectual career, is by promoting the imaginative consideration of the various general principles underlying that career. Its students thus pass tutu their period of technical apprenticeship with their imaginations already practiced in connecting details with general princip
36、les.Thus the proper function of a university is the imaginative acquisition of knowledge. Apart from this importance of the imagination, there is no reason why businessmen, and other professional men, should not pick up their facts bit by hit as they want them for particular occasions. A university
37、is imaginative or it is nothingat least nothing useful.（分数：5.00）(1).What is a basic requirement for work in all professions according to the passage?A. Imagination. B. Reliability of character.C. Discipline. D. Obedience to orders,（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following serves best as the title
38、of the passage?A. Limitations of the University. B. The Proper Function of the University.C. Importance of Intellectual Imagination. D. Foolery of Apprenticeship Period.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).In modern times the period of technical apprenticeship _.A. may have bad effects upon the young menB. can very
39、 well train the young menC. is a root cause of many evilsD. is unnecessary for the employees and the business（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).If a university is to be of any use, it should prepare the students for an intellectual career by _.A. imparting knowledge and developing skillsB. developing students ind
40、ependence in thinkingC. disciplining the students in their subject fieldsD. promoting the imagination in connecting details with general principles（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What does the “great difficulty which hinders all the higher types of human effort“ mean?A. Prolonged and fixed routine work in the
41、apprenticeship period.B. The young employees seldom seeing the president of the company.C. Universities failure to get young people ready for future work.D. Young men having to obey orders in the early stage of their work.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、Passage 3(总题数：1，分数：5.00)High-speed Internet provider At Hom
42、e Corp. is buying Excite Inc. , one of the leading destinations on the World Wide Web, for about $6.7 billion in stock in one of the largest Internet company deals. The deal announced today would surpass America Online Inc. s $4.2 billion acquisition of Netscape Communications Corp. last year. Based
43、 on closing stock prices Friday, Excite is worth about $ 3.4 billion, which would mean that At Home would be paying a huge premium. The deal could eventually give telecommunications giant AT there the deep freeze of space has kept them unchanged.（分数：5.00）(1).Why was Kohoutek referred to as “the come
44、t of the century“ ?A. It was thought to be extremely old.B. It passes the Earth once a century.C. Scientists predicted it would be very bright.D. Scientists have been tracking it for a century.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).In what respect was Kohoutek a disappointment?A. It could be seen only through special
45、 equipment.B. It did not approach the Earth.C. It did not provide valuable scientific information.D. It was moving too rapidly for scientists to photograph.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the passage, what is one major component of Jupiter?A. Hydrogen cyanide.B. Methyl cyanide.C. Hydrogen.D. Ammon
46、ia.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following questions is best answered by information gained from Kohoutek?A. Where were comets formed?B. When were comets formed?C. Where was the solar system formed?D. How was the solar system formed?（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What is the main topic of the passage?A. W
47、hat was learned from Kohoutek?B. What was disappointing about Kohoutek?C. Where Kohoutek was spotted?D. How Kohoutek was tracked?（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十二、Part B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(62) It is a well-known fact that there are constant conflicts among different groups of people, and that people tend to blame the
48、ir misfortunes on some outside groups for their misfortunes. What are the causes of group prejudice? There seems to be little doubt that one of the principal causes of prejudice is fear: in particular the fear that the interests of our own group are going to be endangered by the factions of another.
49、 (63) This is less likely to be the case in a stable, relatively unchanging society in which the members of different social and occupational groups know what to expect of each other, and know what to expect for themselves. In times of rapid social and economic change, however, new occupations and new social roles appear, and people start looking jealously at each other to see wheth
