1、公共英语五级-106 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).The salesman is demonstrating the new fax machine to a customer.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The customer wants to buy some fax machines for use only in the companys branch offices.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).The c
2、ustomer hasnt decided how many fax machines she is going to buy.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).At first the customer wants a discount of 20 percent.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).At first the salesman agrees to give the customer a discount of 12 percent.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).In order to be able to give the customer 15 p
3、ercent discount, the salesman says he must see his company manager.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).It is impossible for the customer to get a further discount.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).The salesman is prepared to extend the warranty period by one year.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).The fax machine company will promise to car
4、ry out repairs free of charge after one year if the customer loses business because of faulty machines.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).Once he receives a definite order with a deposit, the salesman says that he can deliver the machines in eight days.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)Questions 11 to 13
5、are based on the following talk on proverbs in some cultures. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 to 13.（分数：3.00）(1).What are the two speakers discussing?A. How proverbs are created.B. Why people dont use proverbs how.C. How proverbs are handed down.D. Why there are more proverbs in some cu
6、ltures.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why do the Americans have fewer proverbs now?A. They dont have a rich culture.B. They find proverbs too simple to explain things now.C. They dont like using proverbs.D. They think it unimportant to keep proverbs.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Who has a more developed culture accord
7、ing to the speaker?A. Mayans. B. Arabians.C. North American Indians. D. British.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 14 to 16 are based on a passage about supermarkets. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 to 16.（分数：3.00）(1).Why do people always spend more money than planned in supermarkets?A. The goo
8、ds are really cheap there.B. Supermarkets are attracting them by all means.C. There is something wrong with them.D. They have no choices but to spend more.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is considered a good supermarket environment?A. One in which you feel relaxed and comfortable.B. One that is clean and
9、quiet.C. One in which there is background music.D. One in which there wide aisle.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What is the function of background music?A. To cover up the unpleasant noise.B. To put people at ease.C. To keep people moving.D. A, B and C.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 17 to 20 are based on the foll
10、owing talk about good manner. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 to 20.（分数：4.00）(1).Which of the following is the acceptable table manner in Britain?A. You lift your soup bowl to your mouth.B. You make noise when drinking soup.C. You shouldnt raise your elbows to your shoulders.D. You shou
11、ldnt put your hands on the table.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which is considered as a good manner in Mexico?A. To put your hands on the table during the meal.B. To make noise in eating any kind of food.C. To eat your meal quickly and clearly.D. To put your elbows away from the table.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).In
12、 Arab countries, what is considered very impolite?A. Eating with left hand. B. Eating with a fork.C. Drinking soup noisily. D. Talking while eating.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Whats the main idea of the passage?A. An introduction of British table manners.B. Table manners and enjoyment.C. Different countrie
13、s have different table manners.D. The importance and details of table manners.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)(1).According to the FBI, how many robberies were solved by the police last year in terms of percentage?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).What is the percentage of burglaries reported to the poli
14、ce?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).How long have solution rates for these four crimes remained virtually unchanged?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Why are robberies solved more often than burglaries, larcenies or auto thefts?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).Why cannot the police convict most burglars?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).Whats the best
15、way to increase the closure rate?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).Whats the average auto theft loss in 1997?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).Whom will teenagers kill?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).How is the nature of murder now?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).In summary, what did the speaker talk about?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，
16、分数：20.00)The most obvious purpose of advertising is to inform the consumer of available products or services. The second (31) is to sell the product. The second purpose might be more important to the manufacturers than the (32) . The manufacturers go beyond only telling consumers about their product
17、s. They also try to persuade customers to buy the (33) by creating a desire (34) it. Because of advertisement, consumers think that they want something that they do not need. After buying something, the purchaser cannot always explain why it was (35) .Even (36) the purchaser probably does not know w
18、hy he or she bought something, the manufactures (37) . Manufacturers have analyzed the business of (38) and buying. They know all the different motives that influence a consumers purchase - some rational and (39) emotional. Furthermore, they take advantage of this (40) .Why (41) so many products dis
19、played at the checkout counters in grocery stores? The store management has some good (42) . By the time the customer is (43) to pay for a purchase, he or she has already made rational, thought - out decisions (44) what he or she needs and wants to buy. The (45) feels that he or she has done a good
20、job of choosing the items. The shopper is especially vulnerable at this point. The (46) of candy, chewing gum, and magazines are very attractive. They persuade the purchaser to buy something for emotional, not (47) motives. For example, the customer neither needs nor plans to buy candy, but while th
21、e customer is standing, waiting to pay money, he or she may suddenly decide to buy (48) . This is exactly (49) the store and the manufacturer hope that the customer will (50) . The customer follows their plan.（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
22、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：5.00)Car makers have long used sex to sell their products. Recently, however, both BMW and Renault have based their latest European marketing campaigns around the ic
23、on of modern biology.BMWs campaign, which launches its new 3-series sports saloon in Britain and Ireland, shows the new creation and four of its earlier versions zigzagging around a landscape made up of giant DNA sequences, with a brief explanation that DNA is the molecule responsible for the inheri
24、tance of such features as strength, power and intelligence. The Renault offering, which promotes its existing Laguna model, employs evolutionary theory even more explicitly. The companys television commercials intersperse clips of the car with scenes from a lecture by Steve Jones, a professor of gen
25、etics at University College London.BMWs campaign is intended to convey the idea of development allied to heritage. The latest product, in other words, should be viewed as the new and improved scion of a long line of good cars. Renaults message is more subtle. It is that evolution works by gradual im
26、provements rather than sudden leaps (in this, Renault is aligning itself with biological orthodoxy). So, although the new car in the advertisement may look like the old one, the external form conceals a number of significant changes to the engine. While these alterations are almost invisible to the
27、average driver, Renault hopes they will improve the cars performance, and ultimately its survival in the marketplace.Whether they actually do so will depend, in part, on whether marketeers have read the public mood correctly. For, even if genetics really does offer a useful metaphor for automobiles,
28、 employing it in advertising is not without its dangers. That is because DNAs public image is ambiguous. In one context, people may see it as the cornerstone of modern medical progress. In another, it will bring to mind such controversial issues as abortion, genetically modified foodstuffs, and the
29、sinister subject of eugenics.Car makers are probably standing on safer ground than biologists. But even they can make mistakes. Though it would not be obvious to the casual observer, some of the DNA which features in BMWs ads for its nice, new car once belonged to a woolly mammoth-a beast that has b
30、een extinct for 10, 000 years. Not, presumably, quite the message that the marketing department was trying to convey.（分数：5.00）(1).The campaign staged by both BMW and Renault are to promoteA. cars produced with brand-new technologies.B. cars modeled on DNA technology.C. cars which are improvements on
31、 the old ones.D. cars which have been face-lifted but otherwise remain little changed.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The difference between BMWs campaign and Renaults campaign is thatA. BMWs campaign employs the metaphor of DNA while Renaults doesnt.B. BMWs campaign emphasizes technological revolution while R
32、enaults emphasizes technological evolution.C. BMWs campaign conveys improvement more explicitly than Renaults.D. BMWs campaign is a lot more expensive than Renaults.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).It can be inferred that biological orthodoxy favorsA. no change. B. gradual change.C. great change. D. destruction
33、.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).According to the author, the success of the campaigns may depend onA. public perceptions of DNA.B. the explicitness with which DNA is incorporated into the campaigns.C. advances in genetic research.D. the affordability on the part of customers.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).BMWs campaign
34、 has mistakenly conveyed the idea ofA. revolution. B. extinction. C. poverty. D. stagnation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)It is interesting to reflect for a moment upon the differences in the areas of moral feeling and standards in the peoples of Japan and the United States. Americans divi
35、de these areas somewhat rigidly into spirit and flesh, the two being in opposition in the life of a human being. Ideally spirit should prevail but all too often it is the flesh that does prevail. The Japanese make no such division, at least between one as good and the other as evil. They believe tha
36、t a person has two souls, each necessary. One is the “gentle“ soul, the other is the “rough“ soul. Sometimes the person uses his gentle soul. Sometimes he must use his rough soul. He does not favor his gentle soul, neither does he fight his rough soul. Human nature in itself is good, Japanese philos
37、ophers insist, and a human being does not need to fight any part of himself. He has only to learn how to use each soul properly at the appropriate times. Virtue for the Japanese consists in fulfilling ones obligations to others. Happy endings, either in life or in fiction, are neither necessary nor
38、expected, since the fulfillment of duty provides the satisfying end, whatever the tragedy it inflicts. And duty includes a persons obligations to those who have conferred benefits upon him and to himself as an individual of honor. He develops through this double sense of duty a self discipline which
39、 is at once permissive and rigid, depending upon the area in which it is functioning.The process of acquiring this self-discipline begins in childhood. Indeed, one may say it begins at birth. Early is the Japanese child given his own identity! If I were to define in a word the attitude of the Japane
40、se toward their children I would put it in one succinct word- “respect“. Love? Yes, abundance of love, warmly expressed from the moment he is put to his mothers breast. For mother and child this nursing of her child is important psychologically.Rewards are frequent, a bit of candy bestowed at the ri
41、ght moment, an inexpensive toy. As the time comes to enter school, however, discipline becomes firmer. To bring shame to the family is the greatest shame for the child.What is the secret of the Japanese teaching of self-discipline? It lies, I think, in the fact that the aim or all teaching is the es
42、tablishment of habit. Rules are repeated over, and continually practiced until obedience becomes instinctive. This repetition is enhanced by the expectation of the elders. They expect a child to obey and to learn through obedience. The demand is gentle at first and tempered to the childs tender age.
43、 It is no less gentle as time goes on. but certainly it is increasingly inexorable.Now, far away from that warm Japanese home, I reflect upon what 1 learned there. What, I wonder, will take the place of the web of love and discipline which for so many centuries has surrounded the life and thinking o
44、f the people of Japan?（分数：5.00）(1).The authors purpose in the passage is to _.A. discuss the virtue of the Japanese peopleB. compare the two souls of peopleC. describe the process of acquiring self-disciplineD. reflect the moral feeling and standards of the Japanese people（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Accord
45、ing to the passage, people in Japan believe that a child is born _.A. with two souls which are fighting with each otherB. basically goodC. evilD. sinful（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Based on the information in the passage, what does the Japanese emphasize in the teaching of self-discipline?A. One s duty. B.
46、One s honour.C. One s permission, D. The two souls.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The author mentioned all of the following EXCEPT _.A. the Japanese attitude toward their childrenB. the virtue of the Japanese peopleC. the purpose of the teaching of self-disciplineD. the obligation of the American people（分数：1.
47、00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following about the Japanese aim of existence can be inferred from the passage?A. To live a happy life. B. To have a satisfactory job.C. To get promoted in work. D. To fulfill ones duty.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Human relations have commanded peoples attenti
48、on from early times. The ways of people have been recorded in innumerable myths, folk, tales, novels, poems, plays, and popular or philosophical essays. Although the full significance of a human relationship may not be directly evident, the complexity of feelings and actions that can be understood at a glance is surprisingly g
