1、公共英语五级-161 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).Mirror images is often different from the “felt image“.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The “felt image“ is much more important because it helps you to be more confident.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).If you poke your ton
2、gue into a hole of your teeth, it feels very thin and slim.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).The “felt image“ lets you recognize your physical existence in the world.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).You can find your nose in the darkness because of your “felt image“.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).Strokes may sometimes destroy all of
3、the mirror image.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).If a man loses the ability to recognize his left side he will lose feeling on his both sides.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Strokes victims sometimes refuse to regard their injured sides as part of their bodies because they are unwilling to admit their disabilities.（分数：1.
4、00）A.正确B.错误(9).A stroke victim can put gloves on both his hands.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).The talk is mainly about the importance of “left image“.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)(1).Why so many residential burglaries happen?APeople do not lock their doors when they pop out even for 5 minutes.BT
5、he security systems in their house are not sophisticated enough.CPeople have formed a wrong opinion of burglars robbing habits.DPeople are somewhat careless about the security systems in their home.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).How long will police respond to an alarm or call in rural or suburban areas?AFour
6、teen minutes. BLonger than fourteen minutes.CThree quarters. DFifty minutes.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the talk, which of the following statements is NOT true?AMany burglars break into residential houses without using force because the doors are not locked.BResidents should fit in break-resis
7、tant glass for the sake of safety.CSome burglars can break into a house even when the glass is break-resistant.DPeople should make very sure that each door is locked when they go out even for a very short period of time.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).What is the brain compared to?AAn automobile engine. BA tel
8、ephone exchange.CPump. DMind.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is mind according to the talk?AInstruction. BA kind of activity.CLogical thinking. DA function of nervous system.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Where does the importance of activity of mind lie?AIn motion.BIn peoples thinking and communication with others
9、.CIn peoples heart.DIn animals thinking.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What can be concluded from the talk?AIn common conversations, people express their ideas in mind not only through spoken language, but also body gestures.BPeople usually keep silent in order to make the listeners think in a conversation.CP
10、eople only communicate with oral language.DBody gestures are more important than oral language in a conversation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).What is true about organically grown foods?AThere is no doubt that they are the best foods.BSome people hold opposite opinions toward the absolute advantages of the f
11、oods.CSome people dont like the foods at all.DThe market food products are as safe and nutritious as the organic foods.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What do you know about the typical North American diet?AIt is a variation of organically grown foods.BIt has been welcomed by more and more people.CIt is greatl
12、y welcomed by women in North America.DIt is not safe and nutritious.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What can be concluded from the talk?AConsumers should buy organic foods if they can afford.BNatural foods should be advocated widely because they are both safe and nutritious.CIn many cases consumers are misled
13、in believing only organic foods are the best.DConventionally grown foods are not nutritious as the organic foods.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)(1).As a grown-up, how does the speaker see herself in the mirror?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Who has a great influence on the speakers liking to look int
14、o the mirror?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).It was not the _ that her granny meant when she said “Women cant be seen“.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).What duty has her granny fulfilled through years of toil?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).Even though she could see herself in the mirror of the dressing table, she was never visible in
15、the _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).What can the speaker do that her granny could not have dreamed of?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).What is the misconception that is still dominating many peoples minds?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).What are women expected to be when men are encouraged to compete and to assert themselves?（分数：1.00
16、）填空项 1:_(9).Whose responsibility is it to let women see themselves in the mirror of society?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).What does the passage mainly talk about?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Psychologists take contrastive views of how external rewards, from (31) praise to cold cash, af
17、fect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, (32) research the relation (33) actions and their consequences argue that rewards can improve performance at work and school. Cognitive researchers, who study various aspects of mental life, maintain (34) rewards often destroy creativity (35) encouraging
18、 dependence (36) approval and gifts from others.The latter view has gained many supporters, especially (37) educators. But the careful use of small monetary rewards sparks (38) in grade-school children, suggesting (39) properly presented inducements indeed aid inventiveness, (40) to a study in the J
19、une issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.“If kids know theyre working for a (41) and can focus (42) a relatively challenging task, they show the most creativity,“ says Robert Eisenberger of the University of Delaware in Newark. “But its easy to kill creativity by giving rewards
20、for (43) performance or creating too (44) anticipation for rewards. “A teacher (45) continually draws attention to rewards or who hands (46) high grades for ordinary achievement ends up (47) discouraged students, Eisenberger holds. (48) an example of the latter point, he notes growing efforts at maj
21、or universities to tighten grading standards and restore failing (49) . In earlier grades, the use of so-called token economies, in (50) students handle challenging problems and receive performance-based points toward valued rewards, shows promise in raising effort and creativity, the Delaware psych
22、ologist claims.（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)I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling o
23、ff a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not h
24、ave come to love life as I do if I hadnt been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I dont mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.Life, I believe,
25、asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in mea potential to
26、 live, you might call itwhich I didnt see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadnt been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. Wh
27、en I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that. an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, int
28、ricate pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was mocking me and I was hurt. “I cant use this. “ I said. “T
29、ake it with you,“ he urged me, “and roll it around. “ The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around!“ By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible playing baseball. At Philadelphias Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a succe
30、ssful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start. It was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bit
31、terness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.（分数：5.00）(1).We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _.Athe author lost his sight because of a car crashBthe author wouldnt love life if the disaster didnt happenCthe disaster made the author appreciate
32、what he hadDthe disaster strengthened the authors desire to see（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Whats the most difficult thing for the author?AHow to adjust himself to reality.BBuilding up assurance that he can find his place in life.CLearning to manage his life alone.DTo find a special work that suits the auth
33、or.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch“ in paragraph 3 means that the author _.Awould sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his lifeBwas paralyzed and stayed in a rocking chairCwould lose his will to struggle against difficultiesDwould sit in a chair and stay
34、 at home（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man _.Ahurt the authors feeling.Bgave the author a deep impression.Cdirectly led to the invention of ground ball.Dinspired the author.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).According to the passage, which of the follo
35、wing is correct?AThe author set goals for himself but only invited failure most of the time.BThe author suggested not trying something beyond ones ability at the beginning.CThe bitterness of failure prevented the author from trying something out of reach.DBecause of his limitations, the author tried
36、 to reach one goal at a time.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Britains emissions of greenhouse gases, blamed by many scientists for contributing to global warming, have fallen by 14 percent since 1990, according to the latest government report.British lakes and rivers are also on the road to
37、recovery from acid rain poisoning, following successful curbs to air pollution from cars and heavy industry.The report by the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) attributed the drop in greenhouse gas emissions to several factors including, the introduction of catalytic converters on cars
38、, a move toward low sulphur and lead-free petrol and a switch to gas from coal and oil in power generation.Environment Minister Michael Meacher said the downward trend was welcome, but warned of complacency.“Even though these figures are encouraging, we must not be complacent. There are still signif
39、icant problems where we need to do more, for example, to further reduce greenhouse gases and harmful pollutants (污染物) such as ammonia and particulate matter,“ he said in a statement.The government has a target to cut greenhouse gases by 23 percent by 2010 on 1990 levels. This is almost double the ta
40、rget of 12.5 percent to which the UK is committed under the Kyoto Protocol and there are signs that emissions are rising as generators return to using coal-fired power stations in the face of rising natural gas prices.The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said substantial curb
41、s on sulphur dioxide emissions across the UK and Europe had cut acid rain by half over the last 12 years. “Damaged freshwater lakes and streams are showing signs of recovery,“ it said.But DEFRA warned of a new threat. “Nitrogen oxides and ammonia are the main air pollutants that must be tackled to s
42、top future damage. “The bulk of Britains ammonia emissions come from farm animal manure (粪肥), causing over-enrichment of land and waterways, said the report. Certain species rampage unchecked through this ultra-fertile environment, smothering the slower growing plants beneath them and choking stream
43、s and rivers. Nitrogen oxides enter the atmosphere from car exhausts and industry, creating health-damaging ozone and contributing to acid rain.（分数：5.00）(1).According to the passage, Britain has achieved success in all of the following EXCEPT _.Areducing emissions of greenhouse gasesBrecovering lake
44、s and rivers from pollutionCpreventing acid rain from fallingDcurbing air pollution from cars and heavy industry（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following has Britain NOT done to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases?AIntroduced catalytic converters on cars.BEncouraged use of low sulphur and lead-
45、free petrol.CReplaced coal and oil with gas in power generation.DClosed down some heavy industry factories.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The word “complacent“ (Para. 5) can be best replaced by _.Adisappointed BdiscouragedCsatisfied Dexcited（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What is UKs committed target under the Kyoto Pro
46、tocol to cut greenhouse gases by 2010?ATo cut by 23% on 1990 levels. BTo cut by 25% on 1990 levels.CTo cut by 12.5% on 1990 levels. DTo cut by 50% on 1990 levels.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The bulk of ammonia emissions coming from farm animal manure may _.Amake land and waterways ultra-fertile Bsmother th
47、e growing of plantsCcreate health damaging ozone Dcontribute to acid rain（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Recently, Congressional Democrats introduced legislation to make it easier for older workers to win age discrimination lawsuits. Age discrimination remains a significant work- place issue.In recent ten years, 15.79 percent of cases brought to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were described as successful claims. While this number is small given the number of workers covered by the Age Discrimination in Employm
