1、公共英语四级-482 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)Why does the man come here? _1What subject do we know Professor Jameson teaches? _2What did the the woman do as Professor Jamesons assistant? _3Another advantage of doing the job is to learn how to_. _4Ap
2、proximately how much time does it take to do the grading and recording altogether in a week? _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、Part B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).Whats the main topic of the talk?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).What must you do if you smell smoke at night?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).Why is it necess
3、ary not to open a hot door?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).What is the most important thing to do when a fire appears?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).What is the telephone number everybody should remember?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、Part C(总题数：3，分数：10.00)(1).Why does the speaker say that radiation is similar to radio waves?A. Becaus
4、e both of them can be detected by human senses.B. Because both of them can be sensed by a radio receiver.C. Because both of them are harmful.D. Because both of them can only be detected by devices.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the passage, why does the cancer increase?A. Because people expose to
5、o much to the computer.B. Because people dont care about the low levels of radiation.C. Because the cells are killed by radiation.D. Because the cells produce themselves in an unusual way.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Radiation at low levels is harml
6、ess.B. Radiation produces cells in a strange way.C. Radiation can lead to cancer.D. Radiations damage is obvious.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?A. Cancer can be passed on to the next generation.B. Senior citizens are more vulnerable to the hurt of radiat
7、ion.C. The impact of radiation can be accessible over generations.D. Scientists have found out solutions to radiation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).How many flu deaths a year in the 1990s?A. 20,000 B. 26,000 C. 30,000 D. 36,000（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Dr. Fukuda and his colleagues reported that the virus was esp
8、ecially deadly in people overA. 55 B. 65 C. 75 D. 85（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the report, which of the following sentences is true?A. The only method of preventing the disease is to get flu vaccines.B. Dr. Morens was optimistic about the immediate future.C. As many as 87 percent of the 11,00
9、0 people who died from R. S. V. each year were 65 and older.D. The vaccine, which is made from a killed virus, can give people the flu.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.How do Software companies make business?（分数：3.00）(1).How do the basic market principles of competition and choice affect American life?A. People hav
10、e more options for air travel, phone service, but not for medical care and postal service.B. People have more options for cars but not for electricity.C. People have more options, which translates into unprecedented consumer power.D. People feel uneasy about a bewildering array of options.（分数：1.00）A
11、.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following statements is true?A. Business people love competition because competition leads to progress.B. Business people make great effort in plotting ways to avoid competition.C. Business people keep the price of their products low so that more people would buy their goods.
12、D. Business people keep their production high in order to show that their goods are better than others.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).How do Software companies make business?AThey attract the bargain shopper with low-priced “standard“ version.BThey attract the status conscious with a high priced “standard“ ve
13、rsion.CIn order to attract everyone,they have to keep price low.DBoth A they are feared by some people who find living itself unsafe, while others conduct themselves with a “bravado“ that could be fatal. AIDS has afflicted a society already short on humanism, open-handedness and optimism. Attempts t
14、o strike it out with the offending microbe are not abetted by pre-existing social ills. Such concerns impelled me to offer the first university level undergraduate AIDS course, with its two important aims.To address the fact the AIDS is caused by a virus, not by moral failure of societal collapse. T
15、he proper response to AIDS is compassion coupled with an understanding of the disease itself. We wanted to foster (help the growth of) the idea of a humane society.To describe how AIDS tests institutions upon which our society rests. The economy, the political sys- tem, science, the legal establishm
16、ent, the media and our moral ethical-philosophical attitudes must respond to the disease. Those responses, whispered, or shrieked, easily accepted or highly controversial, must be put in order if the nation is to manage AIDS. Scholars have suggested that how a society deals with the threat of AIDS d
17、escribes the extent to which that society has the right to call itself civilized. AIDS, then, is woven into the tapestry of modem society; in the course of explaining that tapestry, a teacher realizes that AIDS may bring about changes of historic proportions. Democracy obliges its educational system
18、 to prepare students to become informed citizens, to join their voices to the public debate inspired by AIDS. Who shall direct just what resources of manpower and money to the problem of AIDS? Even more basic, who shall formulate a national policy on AIDS? The educational challenge, then, is to enli
19、ghten the individual and the societal, or public responses to AIDS.（分数：5.00）(1).What is the passage mainly talking about?A. The necessity of the education about AIDS.B. How to achieve the aims of AIDS courses.C. Risks associated with AIDS.D. Social responses to AIDS,（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why did the
20、author offer the AIDS course?A. He wanted to teach people about a cure for AIDS.B. People need to be taught how to avoid those with AIDS.C. He wanted to teach the students that AIDS resulted from moral failure.D. People take improper attitudes towards AIDS and those with or at high risk of AIDS,（分数：
21、1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The word “afflict“ in the third sentence of the first paragraph most probably means “_“.A. benefit B. cause suffering toC. teach D. draw attention from（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What does the author think is the correct response to AIDS?A. Fear and contempt. B. Optimism and bravado.C. Und
22、erstanding and compassion. D. Resentment and avoidance.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following can best explain “AIDS tests the institutions upon which our society rests“ ac- cording to the passage?A. AIDS is a sign of moral failure and social collapse.B. AIDS indicates that our social systems h
23、ave been very inefficient.C. The responses of a society to the threat of AIDS determines whether and to what extent the society can be called civilized.D. The spreading of the fatal disease suggests that the nations resources have been wrongly used.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Signs of
24、 deafness had given him great anxiety as early as 1778. For a long time he successfully concealed it from all but his most intimate friends. The touching document addressed to his brothers in 1802, and known as his “Will“ should be read in its entirety. He reproached men for their injustice in think
25、ing and calling him pugnacious, stubborn, and misanthropical when they did not know that for six years he had suffered from an incurable condition aggravated by incompetent doctors. He dwelled upon his delight in human society from which he had had so early to isolate himself, but the thought of whi
26、ch now filled him with dread as it made him realize his loss, not in music but in all finer interchange of ideas. He requested that after his death his present doctor shall be asked to describe his illness and to append it to his document in order that at least then the world might be as far as poss
27、ible reconciled with him He left his brothers property, such as it was, if more conventional than the rest of the document.During the last twelve years of his life, his nephew was the cause of most of his anxiety and distress. His brother, Kaspar Karl died in 1815, leaving a widow and a son. The boy
28、 turned out utterly unworthy of his uncles persistent devotion and gave him every cause for anxiety. He failed in all his examinations, including an attempt to learn some trade in the polytechnic school, whereupon he fell into the hands of the police for attempting suicide, and after being expelled
29、from Vienna, joined the army. Beethovens utterly simple nature could neither educate nor understand a human being who was not possessed by the wish to do his best. His nature was passionately affectionate, and he has suffered all his life from the want of a natural outlet for it. He had often been d
30、eeply in love and made no secret of it; there was no one that was not honorable and respected by society as showing the truthfulness and self-control of a great man. Beethovens orthodoxy in such matters has provoked the smiles of Philistines, especially when it showed itself in his objections to Moz
31、art, Don Giovanni and the grounds for selecting the subject of Fidelio for his own opera. The last thing that Philistines will never understand is that genius is far too independent of convention to abuse it; and Beethovens life, with all its mistakes, its grotesqueness, and its pathos, is as far be
32、yond the shafts of Philistine wit as his art.（分数：5.00）(1).The sentence “genius is far too independent of convention to abuse it“ implies that_.A. an artist does not understand conventional moralityB. Philistines expect geniuses to be morally conventionalC. Beethoven lived within a conventional moral
33、 codeD. Don Giovanni abuses conventional standards（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Beethovens contemporaries thought that he was _.A. an isolationist B. inspiredC. wealthy D. a good brother-in-law（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Beethoven was distressed by his nephews _.A. extravagance B. unwillingness to do his bestC. joi
34、ning the army D. failure to enter polytechnic school（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).According to the passage, what was the loss to Beethoven when he was deaf?A. His talent in music. B. His best friends.C. His delight in music. D. His talking with friends.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The word “append“ in Paragraph 1 me
35、ans _.A. to supply B. to offerC. to add to D. to imply（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、Passage 3(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Du Bois was a sociological and educational pioneer who challenged the established system of education that tended to restrict rather than to advance the progress of black Americans. He challenged what is
36、 called the “Tuskegee machine“ of Booker T. Washington, the leading educational spokesperson of the blacks in the US. A sociologist and historian, Du Bois called for a more determined and activist leadership than Washington provided.Unlike Washington, whose roots were the southern black agriculture,
37、 Du Boiss career spanned both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. He was a native of Massachusetts, received his undergraduate education from Fisk University in Nashville, did his graduate study at Harvard University, and directed the Atlanta University Studies of Black American Life in the South. Du Boi
38、s approached the problem of racial relations in the United States from two dimensions: as a scholarly researcher and as an activist for civil rights. Among his works was the famous empirical sociological study, The Philadelphia Negro : A Social Study, in which he examined that citys black population
39、 and made recommendations for the school system. Du Boiss Philadelphia study was the pioneer work on urban blacks in America.Du Bois had a long and active career as a leader in the civil rights movement. He helped to organize the Niagara Movement in 1905, which led to the National Association for th
40、e Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), established in 1909. From 1910 until 1934, Du Bois edited The Crisis, the major journal of the NAACP. In terms of its educational policy, the NAACP position was that all American children and youth shouId have genuine equality of educational opportunity. This
41、 policy, which Du Bois helped to formulate, stressed the following themes: (1)public schooling should be free and compulsory for all American children; (2) secondary schooling should be provided for all youth; (3) higher education should not be monopolized by any special class or race.As a leader in
42、 education, Du Bois challenged not only the tradition of racial segregation in the schools but also the accornmodationist ideology of Booker T. Washington. The major difference between the two men was that Washington sought change that was evolutionary in nature and did not upset the social order, w
43、hereas Du Bois demanded immediate change. Du Bois believed in educated leadership for blacks, and he developed a concept referred to as the “talented tenth“, according to which 10 percent of the black population would receive a traditional college education in preparation for leadership.（分数：5.00）(1)
44、.Compared with B. T. Washington, Du Boiss political stand was _.A. less popular B. more radicalC. less aggressive D. more conservative（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the text, Du Bois worked as all of the following EXCEPT _.A. an editor B. an educatorC. a scholar D. an official（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3)
45、.It is Du Boiss belief that_.A. the blacks have a priority in terms of educationB. higher education should be free for all racesC. everyone has an equal right to educationD. development in education should be gradual（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following statements is true according to the text
46、?A. Washington would not appreciate the idea of overthrowing social order.B. Racial separation is an outcome of accommodationist ideology.C. Washington would not support determined activist leadership.D. The Philadelphia Negro is a book on blacks in American South.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).It can be infe
47、rred from the last paragraph that _.A. many blacks are prepared for leadershipB. Du Bois was in favor of “elite education“ for blacksC. Washington and Du Bois had never been friendsD. only the top 10 percent are worth educating（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十一、Passage 4(总题数：1，分数：5.00)In the relationship of educat
48、ion to business we observe today a fine state of paradox. On the one hand, the emphasis which most business places upon a college degree is so great that one can almost visualize the time when even the office boy will have his baccalaureate. On the other hand, we seem to preserve the belief that som
49、e deep intellectual chasm separates the businessman from other products of the university system. The notion that business people are quite the Philistines sounds absurd. For some reason, we tend to characterize vocations by stereotypes, none too flattering but nonetheless deeply imbedded in the national conscience; In the cast
