1、公共英语五级-151 及答案解析(总分：111.00，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).It was hard to picture the semi-opaque milk in Shrek I.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).Henrik Jensens technique to model milk was improved in The Lord of the Rings.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).When light moves through
2、milk, its intensity disappears from the spot.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Moller shines light on yogurt to see how the patterns vary with air bubble size.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).You may pollute the product if you sample milk or yogurt in a large scale.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Moller used to think the technique did
3、nt involve much science.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).Jensen has mastered the technique to model the difference between whole and skimmed milk.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Whole milk contains more fat globules than protein clumps.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).Jensen and Moller work together to improve milk quality.（分数：1.00）A
4、.正确B.错误(10).The same technique can be used in monitoring ocean and atm0sphere change.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：3，分数：11.00)(1).What does the conversation mainly discuss?A. How to care for precious metals.B. A standard unit for measuring weight.C. The value of precious metals.D. Using the metric s
5、ystem.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).How was the weight used?A. To check the accuracy of scales.B. To calculate the density of other metals.C. To observe changes in the atmosphere.D. To measure amounts of rainfall.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Why was it necessary to replace the old standard weight?A. Someone spilled
6、water on it.B. Someone lost it.C. It was made of low quality metal.D. The standard for measuring had changed.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What does Dr. Smith probably think about the cost of the new weight?A. It is a small amount to pay for so much precious metal.B. It is difficult to judge the value of suc
7、h an object.C. It is reasonable for an object with such an important function.D. It is too high for such a light weight.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).What is “bus bunching“?A. The phenominon that a number of buses arrive at a stop simultaneously.B. The phenominon that a number of buses are delayed at the sam
8、e time.C. The phenominon that a number of buses are running on the same street at the same time.D. The situation that a bus has more than the usual number of passengers on board.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is the situation during the 1960s like?A. It was the only time in history when the English were
9、particularly obsessed with queueing.B. The longest bus queue was seen at Sloane Street.C. The longest bus queue was seen at Battersea Park.D. 137A bus ran the shortest route in London.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What was the difficulty London Transport was in during the 1960s?A. Its staff was in need of pr
10、e-post training.B. They were in need of a qualified staff.C. Its staff was in lack of teamwork.D. Its staff did its job playfully.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).An object rolling uphill is only an illusion because_.A. the road is not vertical enoughB. the abnormal visual clues there mislead youC. the level ho
11、rizon is usually obscuredD. both B and C（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following description is true of an object rolling uphill?A. Mystery. B. Supernatural phenomenon.C. Natural irregularity. D. Magnetic gravity.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Whether an object rolling uphill is a supernatural phenomenon d
12、epends on whether_.A. it can be detected with sensitive equipmentB. it can be easily explained by scienceC. it can be detected with visual clues nearbyD. it can be detected with false perspective（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What can best enable us to sense which way is up?A. Visual clues.B. Balance mechanis
13、m in our inner ears.C. False perspective.D. Horrizon.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)(1).What did the speaker talk about last time?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).What does the talk mainly concern?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).What does the speaker refer activity of any organization to?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).What d
14、oes business concern usually do?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).What advantages does work have?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).What is behavioral management based on?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).Why should a manager study behavioral management?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).According to the speaker, what does a manager have to treat everyone
15、of his staff as?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).It sounds a bit unscientific that a good manager is _ rather than _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).Behavioral management is very useful but is not _ like scientific management.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)For high-risk propositions yielding high retur
16、ns, there is nothing to beat the handful companies marketing eternal life. (31) the perceived rewards of being able to come back to life (32) some point, the risks axe huge: Who would want to chance a repeat of disco or Victorian mores, let (33) more meaningless millennium hype in 2999?There are (34
17、) , more immediate risks involved in tile new business of cryonics, (35) is the deep freczing at death of human bodies for preservation and possible revival in future. The biggest problem is that, (36) now, it is impossible to freeze people and bring them back to life.On the other hand, if cryonics
18、(37) , you were already dead anyway.(38) it comes from the same root, kryos, the Greek word for cold, cryonics is not to be (39) with the mainstream sciences of cryogenics or cryobiology. These involve freezing of metals or of simple organisms. Metals get stronger (40) deep freezing, while the freez
19、ing and thawing of cancerous tissues can be a good way (41) kill it.(42) cryonics seeks to do the opposite. The goal is to freeze a human head or an entire body (43) the technology exists to do one of the following: graft a new body (44) the head, clone a new person (45) preserved DNA, or heal a sic
20、k body that has been preserved. If this sounds like science fiction, (46) the moment it is.Anyone who has (47) put beer in the freezer and then forgotten about it can grasp the problems facing cryonics enthusiasts today, lee is less dense than water. (48) as beer left to freeze will eventually cause
21、 its container to burst, (49) the ice that forms adds extra pressure, (50) frozen cells can risk being punctured when the liquid in them freezes.（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、Sec
22、tion 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)Opinion polls are now beginning to show that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably hero to stay. This means we shall have to make ways of sharing the available employment more w
23、idely.But we need to go further. We must ask some primary questions about the future of work. Would we continue to treat employment as the norm? Would we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselve
24、s, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work?The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most peoples work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial
25、age may now be coaling to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could provide the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.Empl
26、oyment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from peopl
27、es homes. Later, as transportation improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many peoples work lost all connection with their home lives and the place in which they lived.Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvanta
28、ge. In pre-industrial time, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to be paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm tod
29、ay and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excludeda problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want t
30、o live active lives. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the idealist goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full time jobs.（分数：5.00）(1).Research carried out in the re
31、cent opinion polls shows thatA. available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the population.B. new jobs must be created in order to rectify high unemployment figures.C. available employment must be more widely distributed among the unemployed.D. the nowaday high unemployment fi
32、gures are a truth of life.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The arrival of the industrial age in our historical evolution meant thatA. universal employment virtually guaranteed prosperity.B. economic freedom came within everyones control.C. patterns of work were fundamentally changed.D. peoples attitudes to work
33、 had to be reversed.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries meant thatA. people were no longer legally entitled to own land.B. people were driven to look elsewhere for means of supporting themselves.C. people were not adequately compensated for the loss of their land.D. pe
34、ople were badly paid for the work they managed to find.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The effects of almost universal employment were overwhelming in thatA. the household and village community disappeared completely.B. men now travelled enormous distances to their places of work.C. young and old people became
35、 superfluous components of society.D. the work status of those not in paid employment suffered.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The article concludes thatA. the creation of jobs for all is an impossibility.B. our efforts and resources in terms of tackling unemployment are insufficient.C. people should begin sup
36、porting themselves by learning a practical skill.D. we should help those whose jobs are only part-time.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here
37、to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-resp
38、ecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighbourhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centres of production and work?The industrial age has been the on
39、ly period of human history in which most peoples work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better fu
40、ture for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for th
41、emselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from peoples homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many peoples work lost all connection with their hom
42、e lives and the places in which they lived.Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of
43、 the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excludeda
44、problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the utopian goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping
45、many people to manage without full-time jobs.（分数：5.00）(1).Research carried out in recent opinion polls shows that _.A. available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the populationB. new jobs must be created in order to rectify high unemployment figuresC. available employment mus
46、t be more widely distributed among the unemployedD. the present high unemployment figures are a fact of life（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The article suggests that we should now re-examine our thinking about the future of work and _.A. be prepared to admit that being employed is not the only kind of workB. c
47、reate more factories in order to increase our productivityC. set up smaller private enterprises so that we in turn can employ othersD. be prepared to fill in time at home by taking up hobbies and leisure activities.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The arrival of the industrial age in our historical evolution me
48、ant that _.A. universal employment virtually guaranteed prosperityB. economic freedom came within everyones graspC. patterns of work were fundamentally changedD. peoples attitudes to work had to be reversed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries meant that _.A. people were no longer le
