1、公共英语五级-115 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).Dr. Wilson and Mr. Wang have known each other before.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).Wang prefers to live with an English family.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).Wang intends to study how computer is used for language tran
2、slation.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Back in his own country, Mr. Wang studied C-language and chemistry.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).Wang has some experience about CAD.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Dr. Wilson is satisfied with Wangs past experience.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).Wang has little knowledge of the phonetic processing sy
3、stem.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Wang decides to take courses and pass exams.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).Dr. Wilson suggests that Wang should extend his stay at the university.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).Dr. Wilson asks Wang to do a little more research before deciding on his project.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：3，分数：
4、10.00)(1).When a consumer finds that his purchase has a fault in it, what is the first thing he should do?A. Complain personally to the manager.B. Threaten to take the matter to court.C. Write a firm letter of complaint to the store of purchase.D. Show some written proof of the purchase to the store
5、.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).If a consumer wants a quick settlement of the problem, whom is it better to complain to?A. A shop assistant. B. The store manager.C. The manufacturer. D. A public organization.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).How can the most effective complaint be made?A. Showing the fault item to the man
6、ager.B. Explaining exactly what is wrong with the item.C. Saying firmly that the item is of poor quality.D. Asking politely to change the item.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).When was the American Football Association founded?A. In 1913. B. In 1930. C. In 1914. D. In 1917.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the foll
7、owing records of the US football team is true?A. First place in the 3rd world Cup. B. Second place in the 4th World Cup.C. Third place in the 1st World Cup. D. Fourth place in the 2nd World Cup.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Where was the finals of the World Cup in 1994 held?A. In England. B. In the US.C. In
8、Mexico. D. In France.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).Who is the speaker?A. A poet. B. A teacher.C. A student. D. An artist.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What was the discussion topic of the previous class meeting?A. New England mystery stories.B. Eighteenth-century English criticism.C. A comparison of poems of Dickinso
9、n and Whitman.D. The poems of Walt Whitman.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).How did Emily Dickinson differ from Walt Whitman?A. She published poems frequently. B. She seldom left home.C. She rived in an earlier era. D. She spoke a different language.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What will the class do now?A. Hear anothe
10、r report. B. Discuss one of Emily Dickinsons poems.C. Hear a lecture given by the teacher. D. Discuss poems they have written themselves.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)(1).Where did rice originate?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).What kind of grain did most Europeans eat 500 years ago?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(
11、3).What kind of grain could be found in American diet 500 years ago?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Who gave dairy products to the native Americans?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).In which year did Columbus take chili pepper to Spain?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).How long did it take for chili pepper to become popular around the wor
12、ld?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).Where cant chili pepper grow according to the talk?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).What did Europeans think of potatoes?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).What was potato used for in Europe at first?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).In what part of the world is potato especially a favorite food?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_五、Sec
13、tion Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)“Down-to-earth“ means someone or something that is honest, realistic and easy to deal with. It is a pleasure to find (31) who is down-to-earth. A person who is down-to-earth is easy to talk (32) and accepts other people as equals. A down-to-earth person is just the (33
14、) of someone who acts important or proud.Down-to-earth persons may be (34) members of society, of course. But they do not let their importance “ (35) to their heads“. They do not consider themselves to be better persons than (36) of less importance. Someone who is filled with his own importance and
15、pride, (37) without cause, is said to have “his nose in the air“. There is (38) way a person with his nose in the air can be down-to-earth.Americans (39) another expression that means almost the same as “down-to-earth“. The expression is “both-feet-on-the-ground“. Someone (40) both-feet-on-the-groun
16、d is a person with a good understanding (41) reality. He has what is called “common sense,“ he may have dreams, (42) he does not allow them to block his knowledge of (43) is real.The opposite kind of (44) is one who has his “head-in-the-clouds“. A man with his head-in-the-clouds is a dreamer (45) mi
17、nd is not in the real world.(46) , such a dreamer can be brought back to earth. Sharp words from teacher can usually (47) a day-dreaming student down-to-earth.Usually, the person who is down-to-earth is very (48) to have both feet on the ground. (49) we have both our feet on the ground, when we are
18、down-to-earth, we act honestly and openly (50) others. Our lives are like the ground below us, solid and strong.（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、P
19、art A(总题数：0，分数：0.00)八、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：5.00)When it comes to the slowing economy, Ellen Spero isnt biting her nails just yet. But the 47-year-old manicurist isnt cutting, filling or polishing as many nails as shed like to, either. Most of her clients spend $12 to $50 weekly, but last month two longti
20、me customers suddenly stopped showing up. Spero blames the softening economy. “Im a good economic indicator,“ she says, “I provide a service that people can do without when theyre concerned about saving some dollars.“ So Spero is downscaling, shopping at middle-brow Dillards department store near he
21、r suburban Cleveland home, instead of Neiman Marcus. “I dont know if other clients are going to abandon me, too.“ she says.Even before Alan Greenspans admission that Americas red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already seen signs of the slowdown themselves. From car dealerships to
22、gap outlets, sales have been lagging for months as shoppers temper their spending. For retailers, who last year took in 24 percent of their revenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time. Already, experts say, holiday sales are off 7 percent from last y
23、ears pace. But dont sound any alarms just yet. Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economys long-term prospects, even as they do some modest belt-tightening.Consumers say theyre not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own f
24、ortunes still feel pretty good. In Manhattan, “theres a new gold rush happening in the $4 million to $10 million range, predominantly fed by Wall Street bonuses,“ says broker Barbara Corcoran. In San Francisco, prices are still rising even as frenzied overbidding quiets. “Instead of 20 to 30 offers,
25、 now maybe you only get two or three,“ says John Deadly, a Bay Area real-estate broker. And most folks still feel pretty comfortable about their ability to find and keep a job.Many folks see silver linings to this slowdown. Potential homebuyers would cheer for lower interest rates. Employers wouldnt
26、 mind a little fewer bubbles in the job market. Many consumers seem to have been influenced by stock-market swings, which investors now view as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom. Diners might see an upside, too. Getting a table at Manhattans hot new Alain Ducasse restaurant need to be impos
27、sible. Not anymore. For that, Greenspan but at least two attempts, according to the hospital, could have been vital. Their reasons seemed as mundane as the other happen-stances of suburban life. “I was just sick of it all,“ one told a reporter, “Everything in life.“ Most alarming, emergency-room doc
28、tor Frederick Lohse told a local reporter that several girls said they were part of a suicide pact. The hospital later backed away from this remark. But coming in the wake of at least sixteen suicide attempts over the previous few months, this sudden clusteralong with the influx of mediahas set this
29、 well-groomed suburb of 23,000 on edge. At a town meeting last Wednesday night, Dr Simon Sobo, chief of psychiatry at the hospital, told more than 200 parents and kids, “Were talking about a crisis that has really gotten out of hand.“ Later he added, “There have been more suicide attempts this sprin
30、g than I have seen in the 13 years I have been here.“Sobo said that the girls he treated didnt have serious problems at home or school. “Many of these were popular kids,“ he said, “They got plenty of love, but beneath the reassuring signs, a swath of teens here are not making it.“ Some say that drug
31、s, Both pot and real drugs, are commonplace. Kids have shown up with LIFE SUCKS and LONG LIVE DEATH penned on their arms. A few girls casually display scars on their arms where they cut themselves. “Youd be surprised how many kids try suicide, “said one girl, 17.“ You dont want to put pain on other
32、people; you put it on yourself.“ She said she used to cut herself “just to release the pain“.Emily, 15, a friend of three of the girls treated in June, said one was having family problems, one was “upset that day “and the third was“just upset with everything else going on“. She said they werent real
33、ly trying to kill themselvesthey just needed concern. As Sobo noted, “Whats going on in New Milford is not unique to New Milford.“ The same underlying culture of despair could be found in any town. But teen suicide, he added, can be a “contagion“. Right now New Milford has the bugand has it bad.（分数：
34、5.00）(1).What is the main subject of the passage?A. Eight girls committed suicide in New Milford.B. The village Green is not a charming place.C. Teenager suicide.D. Dr. Simon Sobos achievements.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).In the 3rd sentence of the first paragraph the word “pressing“ is closest in meaning
35、to _.A. urgently important B. pushingC. inviting D. charming（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What is NOT true about the eight girls?A. They are all between 12 and 17. B. They have tried a variety of measures.C. They attend a suicide squad. D. All their attempts to commit suicide are vital.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).W
36、hich of the statements about the teens is NOT true?A. They are ill-bred students in school. B. Some of them take “real drugs“.C. Teens need attention. D. A few casually display scars on their arms.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).According to the passage, the teens in Village Green can be called _.A. depressed
37、generation B. cool generationC. attractive generation D. prosperous generation（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The history of responses to the work of the artist Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510) suggests that widespread appreciation by critics is a relatively recent phenomenon. Writing in 1550,
38、Vasari expressed an unease with Botticellis work, admitting that the artist fitted awkwardly into his evolutionary scheme of the history of art. Over the next two centuries, academic art historians defamed Botticelli in favor of his fellows Florentine, Michelangelo. Even when anti-academic art histo
39、rians of the early nineteenth century rejected many of the standards of evaluation adopted by their predecessors, Botticellis work remained outside of accepted taste, pleasing neither amateur observers nor connoisseurs. (Many of his best paintings, however, remained hidden away in obscure churches a
40、nd private homes.)The primary reason for Botticellis unpopularity is not difficult to understand: most observers, up until the mid-nineteenth century, did not consider him to be noteworthy, because his work, for the most part, did not seem to these observers to exhibit the traditional characteristic
41、s of the fifteenth-century Florentine art. For example, Botticelli rarely employed the technique of strict perspective and, unlike Michelangelo, never used chiaroscuro.Another reason for Botticellis unpopularity may have been that his attitude toward the style of classical art was very different fro
42、m that of his contemporaries. Although he was thoroughly exposed to classical art, he showed little interest in borrowing from the classical style. Indeed, it is paradoxical that a painter of large-scale classical subjects adopted a style that was only slightly similar to that of classical art.In an
43、y case, when viewers began to examine more closely the relationship of Botticellis work to the tradition of the fifteenth century Florentine art, his reputation began to grow. Analyses and assessments of Botticelli made between 1850 and 1870 by the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, as well as
44、by the writer Pater (although he, unfortunately, based his assessment on an incorrect analysis of Botticellis personality), inspired a new appreciation of Botticelli throughout the English-speaking world. Yet Botticellis work, especially the Sistine frescoes, did not generate worldwide attention unt
45、il it was finally subjected to a comprehensive and scrupulous analysis by Home in 1908. Home rightly demonstrated that the frescoes shared important features with paintings by other fifteenth-century Florentinesfeatures such as skillful representation of anatomical proportions, and of the human figu
46、re in motion. However, Home argued that Botticelli did not treat these qualities as ends in themselvesrather, that he emphasized clear depletion of a story, a unique achievement and one that made the traditional Florentine qualities less central. Because of Homes emphasis crucial to any study of art
47、, the twentieth century has come to appreciate Botticellis achievements.（分数：5.00）(1).Which of the following would be the best title for the text?A. The Role of Standard Art Analyses and AppraisalsB. Sandro Botticelli: From Rejection to AppreciationC. The History of Critics responses to Art WorksD. B
48、otticelli and Florentine: A Comparative Study（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).We can learn from the text that art critics have a history of _.A. suppressing painters art initiatives B. favoring Botticellis best paintingsC. rejecting traditional art characteristics D. undervaluing Botticellis achievements（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The vie
