1、公共英语五级-170 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).The salesman is demonstrating the new fax machine to a customer.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The customer wants to buy some fax machines for use only in the companys branch offices.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).The c
2、ustomer hasnt decided how many fax machines she is going to buy.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).At first the customer wants a discount of 20 percent.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).At first the salesman agrees to give the customer a discount of 12 percent.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).In order to be able to give the customer 15 p
3、ercent discount, the salesman says he must see his company manager.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).It is impossible for the customer to get a further discount.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).The salesman is prepared to extend the warranty period by one year.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).The fax machine company will promise to car
4、ry out repairs free of charge after one year if the customer loses business because of faulty machines.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).Once he receives a definite order with a deposit, the salesman says that he can deliver the machines in eight days.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)(1).Why do fish far
5、m operators want to have their fish labeled organic?A. It will bring better sales.B. It will save some wild fish.C. It will be good to people health.D. It will make fishing easier.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is NOT mentioned if fish are to be labeled organic?A. Controlled conditions.
6、B. Pollution free water.C. Organic diet.D. Sound packaging.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which of the following is TRUE?A. Fish started to be sold with the organic label a few years ago in the US.B. The US government has adopted guidelines recommended by an advisory committee.C. The issue of labeling fish or
7、ganic wont be solved very soon.D. The American fishing industry is beginning to lose patience.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).What are the speakers doing?A. Visiting the new restaurant.B. Watching a parade.C. Having a picnic.D. Going to the beach.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).How does the man feel about the rain?A. Exc
8、ited. B. Confused.C. Afraid. D. Surprised.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What will the speakers probably do next?A. Go home.B. Go to a restaurant.C. Unpack the car.D. Put a dry blanket under the tree.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).What is the main problem caused by the usual way of plowing?A. The crops blooming period
9、is delayed. B. The roots of crops are cut off.C. The topsoil is seriously damaged. D. The growth of weeds is accelerated.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What does the speaker say about Low Till Farming?A. Its a new way of applying chemical fertilizer.B. Its an improved method of harvesting crops.C. Its a creat
10、ive technique for saving labor.D. Its a farming process limiting the use of plows.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Where is Low Till Farming becoming popular?A. In areas with few weeds and unwanted plants.B. In areas with a severe shortage of water.C. In areas lacking in chemical fertilizer.D. In areas dependen
11、t on imported food.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).How many people depend on local rice and food in South Asia currently?A. More than 150 million people.B. Less than 150 million people.C. About 1 O0 million people.D. About 120 million people.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)(1).According to the speaker
12、, who should enjoy the right of Academic Freedom?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).A teachers employment depend on _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).When were religious tests for graduation, fellowships, and teaching positions abolished in Britain?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Where did violations of the right of academic freedom grea
13、tly increase during the first haft of the 20th century?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).When did Tennessee abolish the state law that forbade the teaching of the theory of evolution in the public schools?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).What did many institutions of higher learning require from university teachers in the ear
14、ly 1950s?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).What happened to those professors who protested American participation in the Vietnam War?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).What was under way in higher education by 1973, when U. S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).In the early 1970s, what problems also harmed t
15、he Academic Freedom in American institutions of higher education?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).For what reason did the U. S. government impose severe restraints on the publication of research results in 1980s?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)There is a difference between science and techno
16、logy. Science is a method of answering theoretical (31) ; technology is a method of (32) practical problems (and sometimes creating new problems out ofthe “solutions“). Science has to do with discovering the facts and relationships (33) observable phenomena in nature and with establishing theories t
17、hat serve to organize (34) facts and relationships; technology has to do (35) tools, techniques, and procedures for implementing the findings of science. Another distinction between science (36) technology has to do with the progress in each.Progress (37) science excludes the human factor. And this
18、is justly so. Scientists, (38) seek to comprehend the universe and know the truth within the highest degree of accuracy and certainty cannot pay attention to their own or other peoples likes or (39) or to popular ideas about the fitness of things. What scientists discover may shock or anger people -
19、 as (40) Darwins theory of evolution. But even an unpleasant truth is more than likely to be useful; besides, we have the option of refusing to (41) it! But hardly so with technology; we do not have the option of refusing to (42) the sonic boom produced by a supersonic aircraft (43) overhead; we do
20、not have the option of refusing to breathe polluted (44) ; and we do not have the option of living in a non-atomic age. Unlike science, progress in (45) must be measured in (46) of the human factor. Technology must be our slave and not the reverse. The legitimate purpose of technology is to serve pe
21、ople people in (47) , not merely some peoples and future generations, not merely (48) who presently wish to gain advantage (49) themselves. Technology must be humanistic (50) it is to lead to a better world.（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:
22、_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)While its true that just about every cell in the body has the instructions to make a complete human, most of those instructions are inactivated, and with good rea
23、son. The last thing you want is for your brain cells to start producing stomach acid or your nose to turn into a kidney. The only time ceils truly have the potential to turn into any and all body parts is very early in a pregnancy, when so-called stem cells havent begun to specialize.Yet this untapp
24、ed 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 diabetes, to name a few. If doctors could isolate stem cells, then direct their growth, they might be able to furnish pat
25、ients with healthy replacement tissue. It was incredibly difficult, but last fall scientists at the University of Wisconsin managed to isolate stem cells and get them to grow into neural, muscle and bone cells. The process still cant be controlled, and may have unforeseen limitations. But if efforts
26、 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 the other side of the coin. True cloning, as first shown with Dolly the sheep two years ago, involves taking a developed cell a
27、nd reactivating the genome within, resetting its developmental instructions to a pristine state. Once that happens, the rejuvenated cell can develop into a full-fledged animal, genetically identical to its parent.For agriculture, in which purely physical characteristics like milk production in a cow
28、 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 Ian Wilmut did for Dolly, and other creatures are bound to join the cloned menagerie in the coming year.Human cloning, on the othe
29、r 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 state could give doctors exactly the same advantages they would get from stem cells: the potential to make healthy body tissues of
30、 all sorts, and thus to cure disease. That could prove to be a tree “miracle cure“.（分数：5.00）(1).The passage mainly discusses _ .A. the cloning technologyB. types of body cellsC. stem ceilsD. methods of growing body tissues（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The reason a nose is not likely to turn into a kidney is
31、that_ .A. cells in the nose do not contain instructionsB. a nose does not contain brain cellsC. instructions in a nose cell are inactivatedD. the stern cells have not been specialized（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).When stem cells specialize, they _ .A. grow into body partsB. are destroyedC. are set back to a
32、pristine stateD. turn nose into kidney（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The phrase “biological carbon copies“ (para. 4) refers to_ .A. physical characteristics of real market valueB. body tissuesC. cloned animalsD. stem cells（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The author would most likely agree with which of the following stat
33、ements?A. Human cloning is a technical impossibility.B. Human cloning may cause ethical concerns.C. Cloning contributes to understanding of stem cells.D. The potential medical values of cloning have been exaggerated.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)For Immanuel Kant. the Enlightenment could b
34、e captured in two small words: sapere aude “dare to think“. When 3.500 individuals professionally devoted to this proposition are gathered under one roof, as happened at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston this week. the effect may be more of Babel than of 18th-gentury discourse. Modern
35、philosophy speaks a bewildering variety of languages, from analytic logic to existentialism, poststructuralism, semiotics and the wilder shores of ecofeminism, and there is a fair degree of apartheid between its practitioners.Hence the temptation to view the discipline as too rarefied and “academic“
36、 for mere mortals.Britons are notoriously wary of theory; the national prejudice is well captured by Kiplings “If you can think and not make thoughts your master .“ Isaiah Berlin captured British hearts with his tongue-in-cheek remark that he had turned to political thought because “philosophy can o
37、nly be done by very clever people“. This is one of the few European countries where almost no school teaches philosophy. Yet in this age of uncertainty, when todays vocational training may be tomorrows passport to redundancy, “dare to think“ should be the motto pinned on the wall of every undergradu
38、ate room and recruitment agency. Philosophy is making a modest comeback in British universities, and not before time.The great virtue of philosophy is that it teaches not what to think, but how to think. It is the study of meaning, of the principles underlying conduct, thought and knowledge. The ski
39、lls it hones are the ability to analyse, to question orthodoxies and to express things clearly. However arcane some philosophical texts may beand not everybody can come to grips with the demands of Austrian logical positivismthe ability to formulate questions and follow arguments is the essence of e
40、ducation.It can also be studied at many levels. In the US, where the number of philosophy graduates has increased by 5 per cent a year during the 1990s, only a very few go on to become philosophers. Their employability, at 98.9 per cent, is impressive by any standard. Philosophy has always been a go
41、od training for the law; but it is equally useful for computer scientists. In this country, the Higher Education Statistics Survey puts philosophy of science right up with medicine in its employment record for graduates.Philosophy is, in commercial jargon, the ultimate “transferable work skill“. Tha
42、t is not the only argument for expanding philosophy departments and encouraging sixth-formers to read Plato, or John Stuart Mill on liberty. Chris Woodhead, the Chief Inspector of Schools, has cautioned against an obsession with the narrowly vocational. Lecturing the Confederation of British Industr
43、y on the “sly utilitarianism“ of employers, he defends a liberal education as needing “no justification beyond the satisfaction and enjoyment that it brings“. Teenagers waiting for their A level results and pondering degree courses should consider philosophy. It is rewarding in itself; and it could
44、nowadays be the passport to a successful, varied career.（分数：5.00）(1).What is implied by the Babel effect in the first paragraph?A. There are more philosophers now than before.B. Modern philosophers speak different languages.C. Modern philosophy is highly subdivided.D. There is less interaction among
45、 modern philosophers.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What do the quotes of Kipling and Isaiah Berlin in paragraph 2 show?A. British people have prejudice against philosophy.B. Philosophy Used to be regarded too difficult for people.C. Politics is easier to master than philosophy.D. People will be enslaved by p
46、hilosophical thoughts.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Why is philosophy of vital significance to education?A. Because it offers fundamental values to education.B. Because it trains creativity by advocating sapere aude.C. Because its arcane texts are beneficial to students.D. Because philosophy graduates can fi
47、nd better jobs.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What do the statistics of US philosophy graduates illustrate?A. Philosophy is good for every discipline in university.B. Fewer people choose to become philosophers.C. Philosophy graduates can adapt to various jobs.D. Philosopher and doctor are two ideal jobs for g
48、raduates.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following statements does NOT express Chris Woodheads opinion?A. Sixth formers should be encouraged to study philosophy.B. Philosophy is essential to multi-level education.C. Current education is too pragmatic.D. It is unnecessary to justify liberal education.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.十、Text 3(总题数：
