1、公共英语五级-149 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).Some modem cities are usually famous for people who live a very long time.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).A simple diet high in vitamins and sugar but low in fat and chemicals benefits those people in Hunza.（分数
2、：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).People in Russia are also famous for their longevity.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Shirali probably lived until 168; Tsurba probably lived until age 160.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).People in the Caucasus Mountains not only live long but also have a good physical condition.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).One
3、reason for the good health of the people in Vilcabamba must be the clean, beautiful environment.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).The diets of the people in the three regions are totally different.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Most people in the mountains of Eduador drink a lot of coffee and alcohol, but they still live
4、long.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).Calories, natural food, mountains and the distance from modern cities are the only common things in the three regions.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).Physical exercises and freedom fro/n worry might be the two most important secrets of longevity.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：3，分数：10.
5、00)(1).Which job does the woman suggest to the man?A. Baby-sitting. B. House-cleaning.C. House-sitting. D. Mowing the lawn.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What/Who should students contact if they want to get a summer job?A. The Student Union. B. The Student Employment Office.C. The Workers Union. D. The Studen
6、t Pan-time Job Office.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What would happen to a student if his employer reports his improper behavior?A. He would be fired. B. He would no! get his pay.C. He would not get another job. D. He would be fined.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 14 16 are based on the following conversation. Yo
7、u now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 16.（分数：3.00）(1).What was the cause of the tragedy?A. Bad weather. B. Human error.C. Breakdown of the engines. D. Communications system failure.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).How high are the mountains in Norweija?A. Two thousand feet. B. Twelve thousand feet.C. Twent
8、y thousand feet. D. Twenty-two thousand feet.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What lesson could be drawn from the accident?A. Accurate communication is of utmost importance.B. Pilots should be able to speak several foreign languages.C. Air controllers should keep a close watch on the weather.D. Cooperation betw
9、een pilots and air controllers is essential.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 17 20 are based on the following passage. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 20.（分数：4.00）(1).In which state was Emily Dickson born?A. Michigan. B. Ohio.C. Massachusetts. D. Washington.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).When did Dicks
10、on go to Boston for eye treatment?A. In 1848. B. In the early 1850s.C. In the late 1850s. D. In the early 1860s.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).How many poems did Dickinson write?A. Almost 2,000. B. Nearly 1,000.C. 800. D. 1,200.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What is Dickinsons particular form of self-publication?A. She
11、 ran her own publishing house. B. She wrote her poems in her letters.C. She wrote to newspapers regularly. D. She recorded her poems in her diary.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)(1).When did Dr. Huber get his own telescope?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Where was the interview conducted?（分数：1.00）填空项 1
12、:_(3).What were the two things that interested Dr. Huber?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).When did Dr. Huber become interested in piano?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).Whats the common misconception about art and science?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).What do the study of science and the study of art require?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).Who do
13、 not probably notice the beauty of theoretical physics?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).What job did Dr. Huber compare physics to?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).What does Dr. Huber think accomplish the same objective?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).What does Dr. Huber compare the universe to?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1
14、，分数：20.00)Recent surveys show that Japanese youth have become a “Me Generation“ that rejects traditional values.“Around 1980 many Japanese, (31) young people abandoned the values of economic success and began (32) for new sets of values to (33) them happiness, “ writes sociologist Yasuhiro in Compar
15、ative Civilizations Review. Japanese youth are placing more importance on the individuals pursuit of (34) and less on the values of work, family, and society.Japanese students seem to be losing patience with work, (35) their counterparts in the United States and Korea. In a 1993 (36) of college stud
16、ents in the three countries, only 10% of the Japanese regarded (37) as a primary value compared with 47% of Korean students and 27% of American students. A greater (38) of Japanese aged 18-24 also preferred easy jobs (39) heavy responsibility.The younger Japanese are showing less concern for family
17、values as they pursue an inner world of private satisfaction. Data collected (40) the Japanese government in 1993 shows that only 23% of Japanese youth are thinking about supporting their aged parents, in contrast (41) 63% of young Americans, It appears that many younger-generation Japanese are (42)
18、 both respect for their parents (43) a sense of responsibility to the family. Author Yoshizaki attributes the change (44) Japanese parents over-indulgence of their children, material affluence, and growing (45) for private matters.The shift (46) individualism among Japanese is most pronounced among
19、(47) very young. According to 1991 data (48) the Bunka Center of Japan, 50% of Japanese youth aged 16-19 can be labeled “self-centered“ compared with 33% among (49) aged 25-29. To earn the self-centered label, the young people responded positively to (50) ideas as “I would like to make decisions wit
20、hout considering traditional values“ and “I dont want to do anything I cant enjoy doing. /（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、
21、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Not long ago, a mysterious Christmas card dropped through our mail slot. The envelope was addressed to a man named Raoul, who, I was relatively certain, did not live with us. The envelope wasnt sealed, so I opened it. The inside of the card was blank. Ed, my husband, explained t
22、hat the card was both from and to the newspaper deliveryman. His name was apparently Raoul, and Raoul wanted a holiday tip. We were meant to put a check inside the card and then drop the envelope in the mail. When your services are rendered at 4 a.m. , you cant simply hang around, like a hotel bellb
23、oy expecting a tip. You have to be direct.So I wrote a nice holiday greeting to this man who, in my imagination, fires The New York Times from his bike aimed at our front door, causing more noise with mere newsprint than most people manage with sophisticated black market fireworks.With a start, I re
24、alized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m.wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past. I honestly hadnt realized I was supposed to. This was the first time hed used the card tactic. So I got out my checkbook. Somewhere along the
25、 line, holiday tipping went from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafia-style protection racket (收取保护费的黑社会组织).Several days later, I was bringing our garbage bins back from the curb when I noticed an envelope taped to one of the lids. The outside of the envelope said MICKEY. It had t
26、o be another tip request, this time from our garbage collector. Unlike Raoul, Mickey hadnt enclosed his own Christmas card from me. In a way, I appreciated the directness. “I know you dont care how merry my Christmas is, and thats fine, “ the gesture said. “I want $30, or Ill forgetto empty your gar
27、bage bin some hot summer day. “I put a check in the envelope and taped it back to the bin. The next morning, Ed noticed that the envelope was gone, though the trash hadnt yet been picked up: “Someone stole Mickeys tip! “ Ed was quite certain. He made me call the bank and cancel the check.But Ed had
28、been wrong. Two weeks later, Mickey left a letter from the bank on our steps. The letter informed Mickey that the check, which he had tried to cash, had been cancelled. The following Tuesday morning, when Ed saw a truck outside, he ran out with his wallet. “Are you Mickey?“The man looked at him with
29、 scorn. “Mickey is the garbageman. I am the recycling. “ Not only had Ed insulted this man by hinting that he was a garbageman, but he had obviously neglected to tip him. Ed ran back inside for more funds. Then he noticed that the driver of the truck had been watching the whole transaction. He peele
30、d off another twenty and looked around, waving bills in the air. “Anyone else?“Had we consulted the website of the Emily Post Institute, this embarrassing breach of etiquette (礼节) could have been avoided. Under “trash/recycling collectors“ in the institutes Holiday Tipping Guidelines, it says, “$10
31、to $30 each. “ You may or may not wish to know that your pet groomer, hairdresser, mailman and UPS guy all expect a holiday tip.（分数：5.00）(1).The newspaper deliveryman put a blank card inside the envelope because _.A. he forgot to write a few words on it B. he wanted the couple to send it backC. he u
32、sed it to ask for a Christmas tip D. he was afraid of asking for a tip in person（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).From the passage, we learn that the author _.A. didnt like Raouls way of delivering the paperB. didnt realize why Raoul delivered the paper that wayC. didnt know that Raoul came very early in the mor
33、ningD. didnt feel it necessary to meet Raoul when he came（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the passage, the author felt _ to give Raoul a holiday tip.A. excited B. delightedC. embarrassed D. forced（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following is CORRECT about Mickey, the garbage collector?A. He wrote
34、a letter to the couple afterwards.B. He failed to collect the money from the bank.C. He wanted the couple to send him a Christmas card.D. He collected both the cheek and the garbage that day.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Eds encounter with the recycling team shows that _.A. Ed was desperate to correct his mi
35、stake. B. Ed only wanted to give money to Raoul.C. Ed was unwilling to tip the truck driver. D. Ed no longer wanted to give them money.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)At 18, Ashanthi DeSilva of suburban Cleveland is a living symbol of one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th ce
36、ntury. Born with an extremely rare and usually fatal disorder that left her without a functioning immune system (the “bubble-boy disease“, named after an earlier victim who was kept alive for years in a sterile plastic tent), she was treated beginning in 1990 with a revolutionary new therapy that so
37、ught to correct the defect at its very source, in the genes of her white blood cells. It worked. Although her last gene-therapy treatment was in 1992, she is completely healthy with normal immune function, according to one of the doctors who treated her, W.French Anderson of the University of Southe
38、rn California. Researchers have long dreamed of treating diseases from hemophilia to cancer by replacing mutant genes with normal ones. And the dreaming may continue for decades more. “There will be a gene-based treatment for essentially every disease, “ Anderson says, “within 50 years. “Its not ent
39、irely clear why medicine has been so slow to build on Andersons early success. The National Institutes of Health budget office estimates it will spend $432 million on gene-therapy research in 2005, and there is no shortage of promising leads. The therapeutic genes are usually delivered through virus
40、es that dont cause human disease. “The virus is sort of like a Trojan horse, “ says Ronald Crystal of New York Presbyterian/Weill Coruell Medical College. “The cargo is the gene. “At the University of Pennsylvanias Abramson Cancer Center, immunologist Carl June recently treated HIV patients with a g
41、ene intended to help their cells resist the infection. At Cornell University, researchers are pursuing gene-based therapies for Parkinsons disease and a rare hereditary disorder that destroys childrens brain cells. At Stanford University and the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers are tr
42、ying to figure out how to help patients with hemophilia who today must inject themselves with expensive clotting drugs for life. Animal experiments have shown great promise.But somehow, things get lost in the translation from laboratory to patient. In human trials of the hemophilia treatment, patien
43、ts show a response at first, but it fades over time. And the field has still not recovered from the setback it suffered in 1999, when Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year-old with a rare metabolic disorder, died after receiving an experimental gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. Some experts worr
44、y that the field will be tarnished further if the next people to benefit are not patients but athletes seeking an edge. This summer, researchers at the Salk Institute in San Diego said they had created a “marathon mouse“ by implanting a gene that enhances running ability; already, officials at the W
45、orld Anti-Doping Agency are preparing to test athletes for signs of “gene doping“. But the principle is the same, whether youre trying to help a healthy runner run faster or allow a muscular-dystrophy patient to walk. “Everybody recognizes that gene therapy is a very good idea, “ says Crystal. “And
46、eventually its going to work. /（分数：5.00）(1).The case of Ashanthi Desilva is mentioned in the text to _.A. show the promise of gene-therapyB. give an example of modern treatment for fatal diseasesC. introduce the achievement of Anderson and his teamD. explain how gene-based treatment works（分数：1.00）A.
47、B.C.D.(2).Andersons early success has _.A. greatly speeded the development of medicineB. brought no immediate progress in the research of gene-therapyC. promised a cure to every diseaseD. made him a national hero（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which of the following is true according to the text?A. Ashanthi ne
48、eds to receive gene-therapy treatment constantly.B. Despite the huge funding, gene researches have shown few promises.C. Therapeutic genes are carried by harmless viruses.D. Gene-doping is encouraged by world agencies to help athletes get better scores.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The word “tarnish“ ( line 4, paragraph
