1、公共英语五级-104 及答案解析(总分：110.00，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：10.00)(1).Martin thought most people in New York get mugged sooner or later.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).Grace was not able to avoid being mugged.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).Martin decided to offer his muggers drugs because
2、he had more drug than money.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Grace thought most muggers were drug addicts.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).Martin did not take Graces advice.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Martin bought some heroin from his old friend.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).Martin saved himself properly from being mugged by the three me
3、n.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Martin assumed that most muggers were show business people.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).Drug pushing had turned Martin into a mugger.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).Lenny was a money addict.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)(1).What are the two speakers discussing?A. New technology for p
4、lant and animal breeding.B. Great concern for super-breeds.C. Desirable characteristics of new plants and animals.D. Advantages of traditional breeding approaches.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is the dark side of genetic engineering?A. The potential complexity of genetic engineering.B. The undeniable di
5、fficulty of the growth hormones research.C. The terrible strains of mice with human hormones.D. The possible diminishing of genetic variety.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What has genetic engineering brought about besides serious environmental questions?A. Unrelated species.B. Ethical considerations.C. Light-
6、emitting tobacco plants.D. New generations of super-mice.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 to 16.（分数：3.00）(1).What is the topic of the lecture?A. How to grow up earlier.B. How to choose ones descents.C. How to remain you
7、ng.D. How to follow a proper recipe.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).When did the speakers parents die?A. Young.B. At 67.C. Over 80.D. 92 years old.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What did the great-grandmother do after losing her spouse?A. Telling stories to sad gentlemen.B. Collecting proper recipes.C. Reading popular s
8、cience.D. Concerning womens higher education.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation between Dr. Smith and his student. You have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 to 20.（分数：4.00）(1).What is the conversation about?A. Apatent on life.B. A patent on invention.C. Buying
9、 patented animals.D. Paying royalties on the young of new species.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What has the US patent office recently said can be patented?A. Status of a commodity.B. Any animal except man.C. Manufactured goods.D. Any invention, like a car.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Dr. Smith finds the US patent o
10、ffices recent decision objectionable becauseA. man is also an animal.B. the decision fails to protect the investors.C. the patent office made an illegal decision.D. the animals are the common inheritance of the earth.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What is the interviewers response to Dr. Smiths comment on the
11、 US patent offices recent decision?A. Suspicion.B. Objection.C. Agreement.D. Indifference.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)It is customary to regard the course of history as a great rive
12、r, (31) its source in some small rivulet of the distant past, taking its rise (32) the plains of Asia, and flowing slowly down through the ages, gathering water fiom new tributaries on the way, (33) finally in our own days broadens majestically over the whole world. Men have even personified this (3
13、4) , made of it a being (35) develops of its own volition, following its own laws (36) the achievement of some preconceived goal. They have spoken of the “dialectic of ideas,“ and regarded men and whole civilizations (37) the passive instruments employed by this great being (38) the working-out of i
14、ts purposes. The observer not already committed to faith in such an interpretation finds (39) difficult to discern any such steady sweep in the course of human events, (40) above all he feels that to look upon humanity as a passive tool to which things are done and with which ends are (41) , is a fa
15、lsification of the cardinal fact that it is men (42) have made history and not history which has made men. Men have built up civilization, men have patiently and laboriously found (43) every way of doing things and toilingly worked out every idea that is today a part of our (44) from the past men wo
16、rking (45) every turn, to be sure, under the influences of their environment and with the materials at (46) , individual men and races and not even some such being as humanity. The complex of beliefs and ideals by (47) the modern world lives and with which it works is not a gift from the gods, (48)
17、ancient myth had it, (49) an achievement of a long succession of (50) .（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_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：5.0
18、0)In face of the numbers of people who are suffering anxiety attacks over AIDS, global warming, ozone sharp decline, and the proliferation of chemical weapons, you have a disturbingly large population easily influenced by the madness aroused with the arrival of the period of the second thousand year
19、s.Even supposedly sober observers are taking positions in the millenarian parade. Novelist, poet, and science writer Brad Leithauser is convinced the second millennium is going to bring a “psychological shift“ that will “literally redefine what it means to be a human being.“Leithauser believes that
20、global weather patterns will undergo random, even chaotic, changes produced by the dreaded greenhouse effect. In his novel Hence set around 2000, Leithauser visualizes religious leaders seizing on the resultant disturbances -flooded cities, soaring cancer rates, and what have you -and taking them as
21、 a sign that the end is near.At the same time, Leithauser thinks, a combination of high-speed living and runaway technology will serve further to alienate people from themselves. He predicts that invasive media will bring an inescapable large number of stimuli. In this atmosphere of “evershortening
22、collective memory,“ books will become pass. Indeed, any form of reflective solitude will become “quietly sinful,“ says a character in Leithausers novel, and seeking it out will require “almost an act of social defiance.“Economic expert Ravi Bartra is equally convinced that by the dawn of the second
23、millennium people will have undergone a thorough spiritual and economic transformation. He warns that the voices of the rich will soon superheat the global economy to the point of explosion and collapse, in the wake of which “society will border on chaos. There will be a polarization of society into
24、 two classes -the haves and the have-nots -and there will be a lot of crime and street demonstrations“ as the angry have-nots make strong claim for food, shelter, and social justice.But Batra, unlike Leithauser, sees the coming bimillennial breakdown as a sort of getting rid of sin by fire on the wa
25、y to a better world. From the ashes of economic and social collapse, he says, will rise a “higher consciousness“-a climate in which pornography, selfishness, and extreme concentration of wealth are reproached and society becomes “more concerned with the handicapped and the weaker.“ On the job, he fo
26、resees “far more democratic large factories, where employees not only sit on boards of directors but actually run companies.“ Meanwhile, discipline will capture the home-and-family front, with “children obeying their parents more, and more family stability, fewer divorces./（分数：5.00）(1).The first two
27、 paragraphs say that, faced with the various problems, people are likely to become crazy aboutA. the turn of the millennium.B. global warming and ozone depletion.C. disturbingly large population.D. the psychological shift.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).In the third paragraph, who think(s) those disturbances t
28、o be a sign of the impending end?A. Pessimistic meteorologists.B. You-the reader.C. Religious readers.D. Leithauser.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).In paragraph 4, line 4, the word “pass“ in this context meansA. essential.B. available.C. passable.D. obsolete.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).In the eyes of Ravi Batra, the
29、world of the second millennium would be one ofA. tragedy.B. disorder.C. economic explosion.D. wealth concentration.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Ravi Batra is different in attitude toward the arrival of the second millennium from Brad Leithauser in thatA. Leithauser is more positive.B. Batra is more optimist
30、ic.C. the former thinks more of the breakdownD. the latter tends to look at the bright side of things（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Print on paper is a little like democracy: the worst possible system except for all the others. Books are fragile, they are bulky, they are not easy to search
31、through. They are certainly not suited to computerization. Yet printed volumes have endured half a millennium as readable as the day they came off the press, whereas digital data a mere 30 years old may have vanished past hope of retrieval.The film Into the Future: On the preservation of knowledge i
32、n the Electronic Age is itself an object lesson in how fast digital information becomes obsolete. One of the pioneering interactive-media companies whose workers and products appear on screen ceased operations shortly after being fihned. All the software whose images define “the Internet“ is long si
33、nce replaced.How fast do archivists have to run to stay in the same place? Just plain data must be recopied onto new media every 10 years to stay ahead of physical deterioration and the junking of machines that can read outdated formats. Given this galloping obsolescence, it seems ironic that the fi
34、lms creators should have devoted a significant part of its time to the digitizing of paper archives. And yet they -and we -have no choice: the digital bug has infected us all, and interactive multimedia, with indexed and linked text, pictures and sound, have a convenience and impact that make conver
35、sion irresistible.The growing popularity of the World Wide Web offers some hope that publishers and archivists can format both old and new data in ways that will remain understandable for decades rather than months. But the Web brings its own complications. New, undescribed classes of collected info
36、rmation live on the Web in forms that confuse conventional notions of what a document is. How should -or can -such a single separate and independent existence be archived without potentially archiving the entire Web?Many Web pages are not even fixed documents in the most basic sense. Two users who a
37、sk their Web browsers to open the same “document“ may see quite different things on their screens. Besides, the fastest connections on the Internet transmit a mere 45 million bits per second, and so even a single snapshot of the trillion or more bytes available on the Web would take weeks of compute
38、r and network time. Meanwhile new sites spring up every day, and some existing sites change their information from minute to minute.In a sense, then, the Web has moved from a Newtonian to an Einsteinian model: it makes no more sense to speak of the state of the Web now than it does to speak of synch
39、ronizing clocks located far apart. By the time information has gone from here to there, it is already out of date.It seems strange that a medium intended for the widest possible distribution of knowledge should demonstrate the impossibility of acquiring complete information. Where the Web was once a
40、 map for finding useful information in the “real world,“ it is now a territory where that information, ever changing, resides.（分数：5.00）(1).From the first paragraph we know the writer thinksA. nothing of democracy.B. much of books.C. highly of all the others.D. better of digital data.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D
41、.(2).When the writer says of “given this galloping obsolescence“ (line 3, paragraph 3) he is referring toA. films.B. plain dada.C. paper archives.D. obsolete computers.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which of the following is not one of the World Wide Webs complications?A. Web browsers.B. Web pages as document
42、s.C. Data transmission capacity.D. Classes of collected information.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following is true?A. The Web is a map for the real world.B. The Web can provide complete information.C. The Web is the right place to store data.D. The Web can transmit far more than 45 million bits
43、 per second.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).A suitable title for this review could beA. The Electronic Age.B. Internet Complications.C. Print on Paper: Out of Date.D. Preserving the World.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：5.00)If Johnny cant write, one of the reasons may be a conditioning based on speed rathe
44、r than respect for the creative process. Speed is neither a valid test nor a proper preparation for competence in writing. It makes for gloominess, glibness, disorganization. It takes the beauty out of the language. It rules out respect for the reflective thought that should precede expression. It r
45、uns counter to the word-by-word and line-by-line reworking that enables a piece to be finely knit.This is not to minimize the value of genuine facility. With years of practice, a man may be able to put down words swiftly and expertly. But it is the same kind of swiftness that enables a cellist, afte
46、r having invested years of efforts, to negotiate an intricate passage from Haydn. Speed writing is for stenographers and court reporters, not for anyone who wants to use language with precision and distinction.Thomas Mann was not ashamed to admit that he would often take a full day to write 500 word
47、s, and another day to edit them, out of respect for the most difficult art in the world. Flaubert would ponder a paragraph for hours. Did it say what he wanted it to say not approximately but exactly? Did the words turn into one another with proper rhythm and grace? Were they artistically and secure
48、ly fitted together?Were they briskly alive, or were they full of fuzz and ragged edges? Were they likely to make things happen inside the mind of the reader, igniting the imagination and touching off all sorts of new anticipations? These questions are relevant not only for the established novelist but for anyone who attaches value to words as a medium of expression an
