1、公共英语五级-152 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).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 about 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：3，分数：10.00)(1).What is the main topic of this lectur
5、e?A. Bicycles and cars. B. Building codes.C. Energy conservation. D. New housing construction.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why is insulation required in new houses?A. To limit discussion on heating bills.B. To prevent heat loss.C. To determine the temperature in homes.D. To convert homes to electric heat.（分
6、数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What is the purpose of building new houses facing north or south?A. To avoid direct sunlight. B. To limit space used.C. To keep out the cold. D. To conform to other houses.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What has the city of Davis provided for bicycle riders?A. Special paths. B. Resurfaced h
7、ighways.C. More parking space. D. Better street lighting.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).Where did the man see the woman yesterday?A. On television. B. At registration.C. In class. D. At work.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is the major advantage of the distance-learning course?A. It allows students to meet students
8、 from other schools.B. It allows more flexibility in students schedules.C. It promotes the concept of self-learning.D. It doesnt require any examination.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What does the man think is a disadvantage of the course?A. It will increase the class sizeB. It requires too much travelling.C
9、. It limits interaction among students.D. It will encourage students to watch too much TV.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).Why did the woman go to see her doctor?A. She was coming down with something. B. She wanted some advice on prevention.C. She felt a little embarrassed. D. She went there for a medical check
10、up.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What might be the woman according to the dialogue?A. A patient. B. A mother. C. A student. D. A traveller.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Why did the man suggest that the woman go to the university health center?A. To get an X-ray examination. B. To get some exercise.C. To stay there fo
11、r further treatment. D. To get immunized.（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:_(3).What kind of grain could be found in American diet 500 years ago?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Who used
12、 dairy product first in history?（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 world?（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 E
13、uropeans 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、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)In some societies it is the custom for parents to arrange the marriages o
14、f their children. Often the bride and groom will not be (31) for their opinion in this matter, and sometimes they do not even meet each other (32) the day of the wedding.Most Americans find the idea of arranged (33) difficult to understand or accept. They believe that two people should marry for lov
15、e, after a period of dating and courtship. During that period, the prospective marriage partners are supposed to (34) enough about each other to decide (35) or not they will be able to build a successful marriage.In the United States marriages are seldom formally arranged, but quite a lot of informa
16、l arranging goes on before two people (36) husband and wife. People who get married are (37) to each other by friends. (38) friends have already decided that the two people are right for each other and arrange for them to meet. Friends have such great influence; their approval of a dating or mating
17、partner is very (39) .Families also exert open and subtle (40) on their children to influence their (41) of marriage partners. Parents often arrange dates for their own children. Also, they can meet the perfect marriage prospect for their son or (42) through business relationships. Since parents oft
18、en (43) their children financially, they feel that they have the (44) to help the bride and groom select (45) they will live, what type of furniture they will purchase, and (46) their life-style will be like.To a large (47) , social class determines the choices of a marriage partner in the United St
19、ates. Marriages are usually arranged (48) people of similar religious, ethnic and financial, backgrounds. Despite what we see in the movies, the son of a bank president (49) marries or even meets a coal miners daughter. Americans may not accept or understand arranged marriages, (50) marriages in the
20、 United States are arranged nevertheless.（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)Opinion polls are now beginn
21、ing to show that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to make ways of sharing the available employment more widely.But we need to go further. We must ask some primary questions about the future of work. Would we c
22、ontinue 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 ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well
23、as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work?The industrial age has been the only period of human history during 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
24、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.Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependen
25、t 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 peoples homes. Later, as transportation improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer d
26、istances to their places of employment until, eventually, many peoples work lost all connection with their home lives and the place in which they hived.Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial time, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village
27、 community. Now it became a custom for the husband to go out to be paid through employment, leaving the unpaid work of 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 wh
28、ose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded-a 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 so
29、me 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).The arrival of the industrial age in our historical evolution meant thatA. universal employment virtually guaranteed prosper
30、ity.B. economic freedom came within everyones control.C. patterns of work were fundamentally changed.D. peoples attitudes to work had to be reversed.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries meant thatA. people were no longer legally entitled to own land.B. people were drive
31、n to look elsewhere for means of supporting themselves.C. people were not adequately compensated for the loss of their land.D. people were badly paid for the work they managed to find.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The effects of almost universal employment were overwhelming in thatA. the household and villag
32、e community disappeared completely.B. men now travelled enormous distances to their places of work.C. young and old people became superfluous components of society.D. the work status of those not in paid employment suffered.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The article concludes thatA. the creation of jobs for a
33、ll is an impossibility.B. our efforts and resources in terms of tackling unemployment are insufficient.C. people should begin supporting 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.(5).Research carried out in the recent opinion poll
34、s 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 figures are a truth
35、 of life.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Stockbrokers are agents who buy and sell stocks, shares and other securities for their clients. They are paid commission. Jobbers, on the other hand, buy and sell securities in large quantities. They are the wholesalers. The jobbers are always to be f
36、ound in the same spot in the London Stock Exchange. They congregate according to the type of security they specialize in. So you can find all the jobbers dealing with rubber shares in one place, those interested in shipping another, those concerned with mining in another, and so on. Jobbers make a p
37、rofit like any other dealer. They usually quote two prices; they are prepared to buy any reasonable quantity of that share at the lower price, and to sell at the higher price. These prices vary, of course, from day to day and even hour to hour, according to the demand.Perhaps a broke wants to sell f
38、ive hundred shares in XYZ Pharmaceuticals for a client. He looks for the jobbers who deal in pharmaceutical shares. He asks the price of XYZ Pharmaceuticals, without saying whether he wishes to buy or sell. The jobber quotes him two pricesperhaps 75/79. This means that he will buy quantities of that
39、 share at 75 pence each, and sell them at 79 pence each. The broker then goes on to other jobbers and asks them the same question.Eventually he chooses the best offer. The two men make a verbal agreement (nothing is written at this stage) and from that moment the brokers client is the owner of those
40、 shares. When he goes back to his office, the broker has to write out a “contract note“, which he sends to his client. This records the price, his commission, the tax on the transaction, and so on. For payment, both the buyer and the seller must sign transfer forms; these are sent to XYZ Pharmaceuti
41、cals for registration. Later, the buyer gets a certificate of the shares. The deal is now complete.The London Stock Exchange has always been famous as a place for men. only, and women used to be strictly forbidden to enter. But the world is changing day by day, and even the Stock Exchange, which see
42、med to be a mans castle, is gradually opening its doors to the other sex. On 16th November, 1971, a great decision was taken. The Stock Exchange Council (the body of men that administers the Stock Exchange) decided that Women should be allowed on to the new trading floor when it opened in 1973. But
43、the “castle“ had not been completely conquered. The first girls to work in “The House“ were not brokers or jobbers. They were neither allowed to become partners in stockbroking firms, nor to be authorized dealers in stocks and shares. They were simply junior clerks and telephone operators. Women hav
44、e been trying to get into the Stock Exchange for many years. Several votes have been taken in “The House“ to see whether the members would be willing to allow women to become members, but the answer has always been “NO“. There have been three refusals of this kind since 1967. Now women are admitted,
45、 although in a very junior capacity. Two firms of jobbers made an application to the Stock Exchange Council to be allowed to employ girl clerks. Permission was finally given. A member of the Stock Exchange explained, after this news had been given, “The new floor is going to be different from the ol
46、d one. All the jobbers will have their own stands, with space for a telephone and typewriters. Therefore there will have to be typists and telephone operators. So women must be allowed in.“ This decision did not mean a very great victory in the war for equal rights for women. However, it was a step
47、in the right direction. The Chairman of the Stock Exchange said, “I think that the opening of the new building will eventually lead to women being allowed to have full membership of the Stock Exchange. It is only a matter of time; it must happen“.（分数：5.00）(1).According to the text, what is the Stock
48、 Exchange?A. A large house where stockbrokers live.B. A place where jobbers and stock brokers meet, to buy and sell shares.C. A house in London, where stockbrokers are paid commission by their clients.D. A place where jobbers make a very large profit.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the text, whats the job of a stock broker?A. He pays commission.B. He deals in se
