1、公共英语五级-132 及答案解析(总分：113.00，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).Zhang Hong is planning to go to the United States in the spring semester.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).Zhang Hong doesnt have difficulties with word order.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).Zhang Hong doesnt like English d
2、rills.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Zhang Hong used to study English and play mah-jongg to kill time.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).Mr. Anderson suggested that she use a VCD player instead of a tape recorder.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Mr. Anderson and Zhang Hongs English teacher have the same opinions on many things concern
3、ing English learning.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).Mr. Anderson agrees that British English and American English are a6out the same.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Mr. Anderson implies that Americans dont call their apartment a flat.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).Zhang Hong finds it a big problem to tell the difference between t
4、he spellings in American English and British English.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).Mr. Anderson think that the difference in American English and British English prevents Americans and Englishmen from understanding each other.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：4，分数：13.00)(1).Where is the man going to make a pres
5、entation?A. At an automobile factory.B. At an electrical engineering class.C. At a meeting of a public speaking club.D. At a conference on industrial automation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is the origin of the traditional image of robots?A. Industrial specification. B. Computer development.C. Scientif
6、ic drawings. D. Science fiction.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the woman, why are robots becoming more widely used?A. They are smarter than human worker.B. They are more productive than human workers.C. They are very durable.D. They are easy to design.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).According to the woman,
7、what governs the clothes we wear?A. A desire to express oneself and show ones wealth.B. Individual taste and love for beauty.C. Love for beauty and a desire to impress other people.D. Individual taste and a desire to express oneself.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Judging by the extraordinarily warm clothes so
8、me people wear, what might we learn about them?A. They may be homesick and feel insecure.B. They are either cold or very sick.C. They may try to attract other peoples attention.D. They want to protect themselves from physical injuries.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What is the relationship between the man and
9、 the woman in the dialogue?A. Reporter and fashion designer.B. Husband and wife.C. Shop assistant and customer.D. Teacher and student.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).What is ADD?A. Overly active and unable to control their behavior.B. Forget easily and never seem to finish task.C. A chemical imbalance in the b
10、rain.D. Learning disabilities.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which is one of the side effects of drags?A. Lack of self-control.B. Morality problems.C. Sight problems.D. Weight loss.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The United States and Finland have dramatic differences with AD
11、HD among older children and teenagers.B. The American children are rarely treated with medicine, while medication is widely used in Finland.C. Rates and signs of ADHD are about the same in children in Finland as in the United States.D. The study found that two-third of the Finnish children diagnosed
12、 with ADHD had deficits in short-term, memory and self-control.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).Where did classical music originate?A. In Asia.B. In Africa.C. In Europe.D. In Australia.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).“Blues“ and “Enke“ are example of what kinds of music?A. Traditional music.B. Folk music.C. Classical musi
13、c.D. Rock music.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).In what way is jazz music different from other kinds of music?A. It is very inspiring and exciting.B. It doesns need wind instrument.C. It is a combination of folk music and rock music.D. It has a different kind of rhythm.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What kind of instrum
14、ents are used in rock music?A. Electric instruments.B. Chemical instruments.C. Medical instruments.D. Probing instruments.（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 was the Open Univers
15、ity 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 Australia and New Zea
16、land, 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 in open learning, ho
17、w 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)If mothers could choose the sex of their children, a disproportionate number of boys would undoubtedly be (31) at first but the sex ration a
18、t birth would ultimately even out. (32) to new findings of a national survey released yesterday.The survey (33) questioned 5981 married women (34) their sex preferences in children, indicated that most would prefer their first-born to be a boy (35) by a girl (36) the second child.Thus, in the United
19、 States at least, the survey indicates that counter to the fears of some, the ability to select the sex of offspring would not greatly distort the ultimate sex ratio of the population.The survey findings, a part of the 1970 National Fertility Study, also (37) that (38) the time they were questioned,
20、 at least half of currently married women (39) to leave sex selection to nature (40) than use some new technology to predetermine the (41) of their children.The National Fertility Study, first done in 1966, is based (42) national random sample of married women under 45 years of age living in the Uni
21、ted States.If left to (43) the national sex ratio (44) birth is 105 boys to 100 girls, with an approximately equal chance that a family with two children would have the following combinations: boy-girl, girl-boy, boy-boy or girl-girl.The survey findings, published in the current(May 10) (45) of the
22、journal Science, indicate that (46) sex selection were readily available and widely used, (47) would be a temporary“20 per cent excess of male births. “This would occur mainly (48) most women who have not yet had children would select a boy as their first-born, giving a birth ratio of 189 boys to 10
23、0 girls.Then, as these women select girls as their second child, the sex ratio would ultimately balance out. Among women who have already started their families, the survey showed that in subsequent births they would seek to balance the sexes of their children, (49) would have little if any effect (
24、50) the national sex ratio.（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：5.00)Gene therapy and gene-based drugs are two
25、ways we could benefit from our growing mastery of genetic science. But there will be others as well. Here is one of tile remarkable therapies on the cutting edge of genetic research that could make their way into mainstream medicine in the coming years.While its true that just about every cell in th
26、e body has the instructions to make a complete human, most of those instructions are inactivated, and with good reason: the last thing you want for your brain cells is to start churning out stomach acid or your nose to turn into a kidney. The only time cells truly have the potential to turn into any
27、 and all body parts is very early in a pregnancy, when so called stem cells havent begun to specialize.Yet this untapped potential could be a terrific boon to medicine. Most diseases involve the death of healthy cells - brain cells in Alzheimers, cardiac cells in heart disease, pancreatic cells in d
28、iabetes, to name a few; if doctors could isolate stem cells, then direct their growth, they might be able to furnish patients with healthy replacement tissues.It was incredibly difficult, but last fall scientists at the University of Wisconsin managed to isolate stem cells and get them to grow into
29、neural, gut, muscle and bone cells. The process still cant be controlled, and may have unforeseen limitations; but if efforts to understand and master stem-cell development prove successful, doctors will have a therapeutic tool of incredible power.The same applies to cloning, which is really just th
30、e other side of the coin; true cloning, as first shown with the sheep Dolly several years ago, involves taking a developed cell and reactivating the genome within, resetting its developmental instructions to a pristine state. Once that happens, the rejuvenated cell can develop into a full fledged an
31、imal, genetically identical to its parent.For agriculture, in which purely physical characteristics like milk production in a cow or low fat in a hog have real market value, biological carbon copies could become routine within a few years. This past year scientists have done for mice and cows what I
32、an Wilmut did for Dolly, and other creatures are bound to join the cloned menagerie in the coming year.Human cloning, on the other hand, may be technically feasible but legally and emotionally more difficult. Still, one day it will happen. The ability to reset body cells to a pristine, undeveloped s
33、tate could give doctors exactly the same advantages they would get from stem cells: the potential to make healthy body tissues of all sorts, and thus to Cure diseases. That could prove to be a true “miracle cure“.（分数：5.00）(1).The writer holds that the potential to make healthy body tissues will _.A.
34、 aggravate moral issues of human cloningB. bring great benefits to human beingsC. help scientists decode body instructionsD. involve employing surgical instruments（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The word “rejuvenated“ (Line 3, Para. 5) most probably means _.A. modified B. re-collected C. classified D. reactiva
35、ted（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The aim of the research at the University of Wisconsin is _.A. to isolate stem cells and to get them grow into different cellsB. to show the effects of gene therapiesC. to show us the advantages of human cloningD. to test the limitations of tissue replacements（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D
36、.(4).Which of the following is true according to the text?A. The principle of gene therapy is applicable to that of cloning.B. The isolation of stem cells is too difficult to be feasible.C. It is reasonable for all body instructions to be activated.D. Cloned animals will eventually take control of t
37、he world.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Towards the genetic research, the authors attitude can best be said to be that of _.A. frustration B. indifference C. amazement D. opposition（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)How do we measure the economic return to higher education? Typically it is calculated as
38、the difference between average wages of college graduates and those who have not graduated from college. In 1997, for example, college graduates earned an average of 40, 508 versus just 23, 970 for non-college graduates. Based on these income levels, the economic return to a college education is app
39、roximately 69 percent, the difference between the two income levels. But this simple calculation ignores the fact that college graduates tend to come from higher socioeconomic levels, are more highly motivated, and probably have higher IQs than non graduations. Although these factors influence inc0m
40、es, they are not the result of college attendance. Therefore the result of the study is an overstatement of the returns to higher education.More sophisticated analyses adjust for these extraneous influences. For instance economists Orley Ashenfelter and Alan Krueger, estimate that each year of post-
41、high school education results in a wage premium of between 15 and 16 percent. Their study is particularly relevant because they examined the earnings differences for identical twins with different education levels, allowing them to control for genetic and socioeconomic factors. Other research puts t
42、he wage premium for college graduates at nearly 50 per cent.Unfortunately, you cant spend a college wage premium. Income levels for the average college graduate have stagnated. After adjusting for inflation, the average income of college graduates holding full-time jobs rose by only 4. 4 per cent be
43、tween 1979 and 1997, or at a minuscule annual rate of 0.2 percent. At the same time, workers with only high-school degrees saw their real income plummet by 15 percent. Bottom line: the much-ballyhooed college wage “premium“ is due primarily to the fall in inflation-adjusted salaries of workers who h
44、avent been to college.In fact, if you dont go on to graduate school or are not among the top graduates at one of the nations elite colleges, chances are your sky-high tuition is buying you no economic advantage whatsoever. In recent decades the flood of graduates has been so great that an increasing
45、 proportion have found themselves, within a few years, working as sales clerks, cab drivers, and in other jobs that do not, require a college degree.In 1995, approximately 40 percent of people with some college education-and 10 percent of those with a college degreeworked at jobs requiring only high
46、-school skills. Thats up from 30 percent and 6 percent, respectively, in 1971.（分数：5.00）(1).The traditional calculation of the economic return to higher education is inaccurate because_.A. it doesnt take into account the changing economic situationsB. it involves small samplesC. it failed to incorpor
47、ate some aspects which themselves might have added to the earnings of college graduatesD. it does not specify whether non-college graduates have high-school degrees（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What does the author mean when he says “you cant spend a college wage premium“ (para. 3)?A. College graduates tend
48、to stash money away.B. The economic returns for college graduates have decreased since 1979.C. The economic returns to higher education have not increased very much since 1979.D. College graduates could hardly earn enough to pay high living cost.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The economic re
