1、公共英语五级-127 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 passenger got the non-smoking section.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The first stewardess showed him to fasten his safety belt.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).His seat was not by the window.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Anoth
2、er stewardess will tell him further instructions after he is seated.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).His ears feel strange because of the air pressure.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Passengers may not unfasten their seat belts at any time.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).They cant see a movie until after dinner.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).
3、The stewardess brought him wine to drink.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).He would like to read the New York Times while waiting for dinner.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).The toilet is at right back to the rear of the plane.（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 are based on the following talk about
4、 music. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 to 13.（分数：3.00）(1).Which of the following is not a place where most original classical music was written?A. Russia B. Australia C. Italy D. Germany（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What do we call music that comes from a particular culture?A. Jazz music. B. Cl
5、assical music.C. Traditional music. D. Rock music.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which instrument is not used to play jazz music?A. Saxphone. B. Piano. C. Violin. D. Trumpet.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 14 to 16 are based on a monologue about stages of sleep. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 to 16.（
6、分数：3.00）(1).Whats the topic of the passage?A. Reasons for Peoples Sleep B. Four Stages of SleepC. Reasons for Sleepwalking D. A Sleep Experiment（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).At which stage is sleep called dozing?A. stage four B. stage three C. stage two D.stage one（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What happens during sta
7、ge four?A. People cant sleepwalk.B. Your body becomes very relaxed.C. You can still be awakened without difficulty.D. If you are awakened, you might feel very perplexed.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following talk about Clinton. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 to
8、20.（分数：4.00）(1).What memorandum did President William J. Clinton issue?A. On enhancing learning and education through technology.B. On Federal programs.C. On new opportunities that technology provides.D. On financial support for life long learning.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What actually was being emphasi
9、zed by the president?A. Tax credits. B. Students tuition.C. Lifelong learning for Americans. D. Success in Americas new economy.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).In which year, about 40 percent of adults aged 17 and above participated in adult education program?A. 1995. B. 1996. C. 1994. D. 1992.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D
10、.(4).How many adults above 16 enrolled in adult education in 1996?A. Over 50 million. B. Over 5 million.C. Over 44 million. D. Over 4 million.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)(1).Besides the functions as a vital entertainment medium, what else can people use a TV as?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).When
11、was the Open University founded in Britain?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).Whom did the Open University encourage to study?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).How can students send in assignments to their tutors?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).What subjects do such study programmes mainly include?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).In such countries as A
12、ustralia and New Zealand, what language courses are also popular?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).What emphasis do teachers put on the open-learning Chinese courses in New Zealand?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).When can students contact the tutors via a phone hotline?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).If a student wants to be successful
13、in open learning, how should he be?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).Whats the speakers attitude towards the “open learning“ method of study?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)An economist is someone who knows a lot about how goods and wealth are produced and used. Food, for (31) , is a kind of
14、goods. Everyone eats food, but the average person does not think much (32) all the things that must happen before (33) appears on his plate.Another example is the paper this article is printed on. (34) started as wood on a tree very far from (35) . Men and machines made the wood (36) paper, which ha
15、d to be packaged and carried (37) trucks and put into stores. At every step in the process people had to be paid for their work; money had to (38) used for buying and repairing the machines, and so on. Of course, everyone (39) had to make (40) , too. Even a very simple thing (41) a piece of paper ha
16、s a long story (42) it. Economists try to understand how all the parts of the long story are related.(43) economist learns how to guess (44) will happen in the future, as (45) as goods and prices are concerned. If fruit growers in Florida lose part of their crops (46) of bad weather this month, what
17、 will happen to the (47) of oranges in New York two months from (48) ? If banks charge higher interest (49) loans to builders, how will that affect the cost of a new home?These are just a few of the questions economists learn how to (50) . Would you like to be an economist?（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空
18、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：5.00)A new era is upon us. Call it what you will: the service economy, the information age, the know
19、ledge society. It all translates to a fundamental change in the way we work. Already we re partly there. The percentage of people who earn their living by making things has fallen dramatically in the Western world. Today the majority of jobs in America, Europe and Japan(two thirds or more in many of
20、 these countries) are in the service industry, and the number is on the rise. More women are in the work force than ever before. There are more part-time jobs. More people are self-employed. But the breadth of the economic transformation cant be measured by numbers alone, because it also is giving r
21、ise to a radical new way of thinking about the nature of work itself. Long-held notions about jobs and careers, the skills needed to succeed, even the relation between individuals and employers of all these are being challenged.We have only to look behind us to get some sense of what may lie ahead.
22、No one looking ahead 20 years possibly could have foreseen the ways in which a single invention, the chip, would transform our world thanks to its applications in personal computers, digital communications and factory robots. Tomorrow s achievements in biotechnology, artificial intelligence or even
23、some still unimagined technology could produce a similar wave of dramatic changes. But one thing is certain: information and knowledge will become even more vital, and the people who possess it, whether they work in manufacturing or services, will have the advantage and produce the wealth. Computer
24、knowledge will become as basic a requirement as the ability to read and write. The ability to solve problems by applying information instead of performing routine tasks will be valued above all else. If you cast your mind ahead 10 years, information services will be predominant. It will be the way y
25、ou do your job.（分数：5.00）(1).A characteristic of the information age is that _.A. the service industry is relying more and more on the female work forceB. manufacturing industries are steadily increasingC. people find it harder and harder to earn a living by working in factoriesD. most of the job opp
26、ortunities can now be found in the service industry（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).One of the great changes brought about by the knowledge society is that _.A. the difference between the employee and employer has become insignificantB. peoples traditional concepts about work no longer hold trueC. the importanc
27、e of high technology has been overlookedD. people have to change their jobs from time to time（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).By referring to computers and other inventions, the author means to say that _.A. people should be able to respond quickly to the advancement of technologyB. future achievements in techn
28、ology will bring about inconceivable dramatic changesC. the importance of high technology has been overlookedD. computer science will play a leading role in the future information services（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The future will probably belong to those who _.A. possess and know how to make use of infor
29、mationB. give full play to their brain potentialC. involve themselves in the service industriesD. cast their mind ahead instead of looking back（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. Computers and the Knowledge SocietyB. Service Industries in the Modern
30、 SocietyC. Features and Implications of the New EraD. Rapid Advancement of Information Technology（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Managers spend a great deal of their time in meetings. According to Henry Mintzberg, in his book, The Nature of Managerial Work, managers in large organizations sp
31、end only 22 per cent of their time on meetings. So what are the managers doing in those meetings? There have conventionally been two answers. The first is the academic version: Managers are coordinating and controlling, making decisions, solving problems and planning. This interpretation has been la
32、rgely discredited because it ignores the social and political forces at work in meetings.The second version claims that meetings provide little more than strategic sites for corporate gladiators to perform before the organizational emperors. This perspective is far more attractive, and has given ris
33、e to a large, and often humorous, body of literature on gamesmanship and posturing in meetings.It is, of course, true that meeting rooms serve as shop windows for managerial talent, but this is far from the truth as a whole. The suggestion that meetings are actually battle grounds is misleading sinc
34、e the feelings of meetings has far more to do with comfort than conflict. Meetings are actually vital props, both for the participants and the organization as a whole.For the organization, meetings represent recording devices. The minutes of meetings catalogue the change of the organization, at all
35、levels, in a more systematic way than do the assorted memos and directives which are scattered about the company. They enshrine the minutes of corporate history, they itemize proposed actions and outcomes in a way which makes one look like the natural culmination of the other.The whole tenor of the
36、minutes is one of total premeditation and implied continuity. They are a sanitized version of reality which suggests a reassuring level of control over events. What is more, the minutes record the debating of certain issues in an official and democratic forum, so that those not involved in the proce
37、ss can be assured that the decision was not taken lightly.As Dong Bennett, an administrative and financial manager with Allied Breweries, explains: “Time and effort are seen to have been invested in scrutinizing a certain course of action. “Key individuals are also seen to have put their names behin
38、d that particular course of action. The decision can therefore proceed with the full weight of the organization behind it, even if it actually went through “on the nod“. At the same time, the burden of responsibility is spread, so that no individual takes the blame.Thus, the public nature of formal
39、meetings confers a degree of legitimacy on what happens in them. Having a view pass unchallenged at a meeting can be taken to indicate consensus.However, meetings also serve as an alibi for action, as demonstrated by one manager who explained to his subordinates: “I did what I could to prevent it -
40、I had our objections minutes in two meetings. “ The proof of conspicuous effort was there in black and white.By merely attending meetings, managers buttress their status, while non-attendance can carry with it a certain stigma. Whether individual managers intend to make a contribution or not, it is
41、satisfying to be considered one of those whose views matter. Ostracism, for senior managers, is not being invited to meetings.As one cynic observed, meetings are comfortingly tangible: “Who on the shop floor really believes that managers are working when they tour the works? But assemble them behind
42、 closed doors and call it a meeting and everyone will take it for granted that they are hard at work. “ Managers are being seen to earn their corn.Meetings provide managers with another form of comfort too-that of formality. Meetings follow a fixed format: Exchanges are ritualized, the participants
43、are probably known in advance, there is often a written agenda, and there is a chance to prepare. Little wonder then, that they come as welcome relief from the upheaval and uncertainty of life outside the meeting room.Managers can draw further comfort from the realization that their peers are every
44、bit as bemused and fallible as themselves. Meetings provide constant reminders that they share the same problems, preoccupations and anxieties, that they are all in the same boat. And for those who may be slightly adrift, meetings are ideal occasions for gently pulling them round.As Steve Styles, th
45、e process control manager(life services)at Legal General puts it: “The mere presence of others in meetings adds weight to teasing or censure and helps you to round up the strays. “ Such gatherings therefore provide solace and direction for the management team a security blanket for managers.Meetings
46、 do serve a multitude of means as well as ends. They relieve managerial stress and facilitate consensus. For the organization, they have a safety-net-cum-robber-stamping function without which decisions could not proceed, much less gather momentum. In short, meetings are fundamental to the well-bein
47、g of managers and organizations alike.（分数：5.00）(1).Why are the minutes of meetings important for a company?A. They provide a clear history of the firm and its evolution.B. They concentrate scattered memos and directives in one synthetic document.C. They reflect decision-making and control over compa
48、ny life.D. They record any individual disagreements with company decisions.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why do managers consider it important to be invited to meetings?A. They can impress their superiors.B. All the important company decisions are made at meetings.C. It makes them feel that their opinions are of importance to others.D. They can
