1、公共英语五级-172 及答案解析(总分：103.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)William Faulkner was born in Oxford, Miss. He had (1) education, then he joined the British Royal Air Force in Canada because he was too short. After the war he stayed at the University of Mississippi
2、 and began to publish poems or essays. In New Orleans, he met Sherwood Anderson, who helped him a lot.With the publication of Sartor is (1929), he found Yoknapatawpha (2) , a regional myth of 200 - year - long history, which was written in a (3) but often baroque style and considered as a (4) Among
3、all novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I lay Dyig (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom (1936), received much critical (5) .Apart from the creation of long novels, Faulkner often used short stories to fill (6) in the historical development of Yoknapatawpha County.
4、 During the 1930s he was off and on in Hollywood as a script writer, but his works for film are not accounted as being of much (7) .For his literary accomplishments he was (8) a Nobel Prize in 1950 and he made a brief but important statement about his belief in the Nobel (9) Speech:“I believe that m
5、an will not merely endure: he will (10) . /（分数：10.00）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:_三、SECTION B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)（分数：5.00）(1).Old Fred does something stupid because _.A. he has some mental problemsB. he is too old to know what he is doingC. he wants to have a good
6、 ChristmasD. he has got into the habit of stealing（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).British police are not armed. The average policeman _.A. doesnt really think about itB. dislike it very muchC. worries about it greatlyD. wants a reform（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The interviewee feels that the English people love _.A.
7、violence B. compromise C. forearms D. police（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Once a man _.A. threatened the policeB. took some hostagesC. robbed a bankD. locked himself in a house（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What was the most important factor in solving that mans problem?A. Power.B. Skill.C. Patience.D. Weapons.（分数：1.0
8、0）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：3，分数：5.00)（分数：2.00）(1).According to the news, which of the following statements is TURE?A. Currently still not many Indians have access to high-speed Internet connectivity.B. Wireless broadband connectivity might be an answer to Indias problem.C. A majority of Internet user
9、s are finding wireless broadband very helpful.D. An international telecom service provider has already deployed WiMax infrastructure in 55 Indian cities.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is the advantage of WiMax, according to the news?A. Its the standard infrastructure in most big cities in the world.B. A
10、lot of corporate leaders are willing to Invest in this technology.C. It can skip connections to the Internet by the DS, links and cable modems.D. The technological problems involved can be solved locally.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：2.00）(1).What happened to Sonny?A. He was injured in the head. B. He hit a
11、tree.C. He was lost. D. He died in a car accident.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Mr. Bono was all of the following EXCEPT _.A. a press secretary B. an entertainer C. a congress man D. a popular singer（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.1.Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the news?A. The US government has sen
12、t dive teams to help in the recovery effort.B. The bridge located in Hennepin County collapsed on Wednesday.C. The Sheriff transferred the casualties in the collapse to other states.D. The National Transportation Safety Board took pictures of the wreckage.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，
13、分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Rupert Murdoch once described them as the “rivers of gold“the lucrative classified advertising revenues that flowed into big newspaper groups, But the golden rivers are being diverted online as the Internet breaks the grip that local and regional newspapers once held o
14、ver their advertising markets.Typically, a local newspaper would expect to get some 80% of its revenue from advertising, of which around two-thirds would come from classifieds. But last year in the San Francisco Bay area, job ads worth some $ 60 million were lost from newspapers to the web, reckons
15、Classified Intelligence, a consultancy. Emap, a British publisher, recently gave warning of a 30% decline in recruitment ads in one of its titles, Nursing Times, following the launch of a free web site for jobs in Britains National Health Service.The Internet has become the fastest-growing advertisi
16、ng medium. Online ad revenues reached $ 5.8 billion in the first six months of this year in America, up 26% on the same period last year, according to a joint study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Coopers. In Britain, online ad revenues surged by 62% in the same period to almost 500 millio
17、n ($ 870 million).Search advertisingthe small text-ads that appear alongside Google and Yahoo Searches account for 40% of the online ad market. Another 20% goes to display ads and 18% to classified advertising. But search advertising can also work like a small ad and will increasingly challenge prin
18、t classifieds as websites provide localized and more elaborate services for online users.Perhaps the most significant development came on November 16th, when Google started up a prototype service called Google Base. It offers a searchable database of free listings, including small ads which can be n
19、arrowed down to postal regions. Among its first offerings were used ears. In no time, Google could challenge eBay, whose own auction listings now work much like a giant classified Web site-especially with its “buy-it-now“ options. But eBay charges sellers. Even so, it sold more than 450 million item
20、s in the three months to September 30th, for almost $11 billion.In response, most print publishers are expanding online. Mr. Murdoch is buying websites including Property finder and MySpace, a social-networking site. Newspaper groups have teamed up to jointly operate websites to compete with Monster
21、 for recruitment ads. But the online operators are expanding too. eBay, for instance, is building a global network of classified sites under the Kijiji brand. It also has a stake in the popular Craigs-list which, having soaked up so many listings around its San Francisco home, is now frightening oth
22、er newspapers as it expands its free ads service to other cities around the world.（分数：5.00）(1).By saying “the golden rivers are being diverted“ in Line 3 of Paragraph 1, the author means _.A. newspapers earn a lot from adsB. the money flows like rivers into websitesC. newspapers began to share the a
23、d revenues with web sitesD. web sites took away many ad revenues from newspapers（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the text, newspaper is losing profits in job ads because _.A. their prices are too high B. the employment rate is quite goodC. Internet company provides free services D. competition amon
24、g newspapers is tight（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The challenge that newspapers faced from the web site is _.A. the display ads and the classified adsB. the classified ads and the small text-adsC. the small text-ads that appear alongside search enginesD. the localization of website and more elaborate servic
25、e（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).It can be inferred that eBay _.A. has a prototype service B. has similar ads service like GoogleC. is featured by its auction listings D. offers a searchable database of free listings（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What can be predicted from the last paragraph?A. Newspapers are now operat
26、ing their own websites.B. Websites begin to enter the traditional newspaper business.C. Competition on ads will be tighter in the future.D. Newspapers might also provide free ads service.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Replying to our Christmas “good guru guide“, Peter Drucker, the grand old
27、 man of management theory, speculated that the word “guru“ had become popular only because “charlatan“ was too long a word for most headlines. Few people are easier to ridicule than management gums. Irrepressible self-publicists and slavish fashion-merchants, they make a splendid living out of recyc
28、ling other peoples ideas (“chaos management“ ), coining euphemisms (“downsizing“ ) and laboring the obvious (“managing by wandering around“ or the customer is king“ ). Their books draw heavily on particular case studies often out-of-date ones that have nasty knack of collapsing later. And their idea
29、s change quickly. Tom Peters, once a self-confessed sycophant to the corporate behemoth is now an apostle of the small, chaotic, “virtual“ organization.Gums do have their uses, however. Begin with the circumstantial evidence. In America, where management theories are treated with undue reverence, bu
30、siness is bouncing back. In Germany, where business schools hardly exist and management theory is widely seen as an oxymoron, many companies are in trouble. German business magazines are suddenly brimming with articles about “downsizing“ and “business process re-engineering“ . In Japan firms are onc
31、e again turning to business theories from America just as their fathers learnt after the Second World War from American quality control techniques. Coincidence does not prove causation: American firms were just as much in love with gums when they were doing badly. But the fact that Germans and Japan
32、ese are paying attention again does offer some clues. The most important point in favor of management theories is that they are on the side of change. In 1927 a group of psychologists studying productivity at Western Electrics Hawthorne factory in Illinois found that workers increased their output w
33、henever the level of lighting was changed, up or down. At the very least, theorists can make change easier by identifying problems, acting as scapegoats for managers or simply making people think. A vested interest in change can lead to faddism. But, taken with a requisite dose of scepticism, it can
34、 be fine complacency-shaker.A second argument for gurus relates to knowledge. The best management theorists collect a lot of information about what makes firms successful. This varies from the highly technical, such as how to discount future cash flow, to softer organizational theories. Few would di
35、spute the usefulness of the first. It is in the second area the land of “flat hierarchies and“ multi-functional teams“ that gums have most often stumbled against or contradicted each other. This knowledge is not obviously providing a strategic recipe for success: there are too many variables in busi
36、ness, and if all competitors used the same recipe it would automatically cease to work. But it does provide something managers want: information about, and understanding of, other companies experience in trying out tactics thinner management structures, handing power to workers, performance-related
37、pay, or whatever.A good analogy may be with diets. There is no such thing as the “correct“ diet, but it is clear that some foods, in some quantities, arc better for you than others: and it is also likely that the main virtue of following a diet is not what you eat but the fact that it forces you to
38、think about it. If management diets come with a lot of hype and some snake-oil, so be it.（分数：4.00）(1).Which of the following is the most suitable in meaning for the word“ guru“ in the passage?A. philosopher. B. company boss. C. worker. D. management theorist.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The second paragraph
39、 seems to suggest that Germans_.A. have no business schoolsB. never discuss management theoryC. are beginning to realize the importance of management theoryD. refuse to accept American values（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The 1927 study case described in the second paragraph is used to_.A. illustrate the usef
40、ulness of management theorists B. demonstrate the efficiency of management theoristsC. show the important role of psychologists D. reveal the flexibility of the workers（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following titles is the most appropriate for the passage?A. In Defense of the Guru. B. A Sharp Wor
41、d for the Guru.C. the Weakness of the Guru. D. Gurus a Guarantee for Success.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The study of philosophies should make our own ideas flexible. We are all of us apt to take certain general ideas for granted, and call them common sense. We should learn that other pe
42、ople have held quite different ideas, and that our own have started as very original guesses of philosophers.A scientist is apt to think that all the problems of philosophy will ultimately be solved by science. I think this is true for a great many of the questions on which philosophers still argue.
43、 For example, Plato thought that when we saw something, one ray of light came to it from the sun, and another from our eyes and that seeing was something like feeling with a stick. We now know that the light comes from the sun, and is reflected into our eyes. We don t know in much detail how the cha
44、nges in our eyes give rise to sensation. But there is every reason to think that as we learn more about the physiology of the brain, we shall do so, and that the great philosophical problems about knowledge are going to be pretty fully cleared up.But if our descendants know the answers to these ques
45、tions and others that perplex ns today, there will still be one field of which they do not know, namely the future. However exact our science, we cannot know it ns we know the past. Philosophy may be described as argument about things of which we are ignorant. And where science gives us a hope of kn
46、owledge it is often reasonable to suspend judgment. That is one reason why Marx and Engels quite rightly wrote to many philosophical problems that interested their contemporaries.But we have got to prepare for the future, and we cannot do so rationally without some philosophy. Some people say we hav
47、e only got to do the duties revealed in the past and laid down by religion, and god will look after the future. Other say that the world is a machine and the course of future events is certain, whatever efforts we may make. Marxists say that the future depends on ourselves, even though we are part o
48、f the historical process. This philosophical view certainly does inspire people to very great achievements. Whether it is true or not, it is powerful guide to action.We need a philosophy, then, to help us to tackle the future. Agnosticism easily becomes an excuse for laziness and conservatism. Wheth
49、er we adopt Marxism or any other philosophy, we cannot understand it with-out knowing something of how it developed. That is why knowledge of the history of philosophy is important to Marxists, even during the present critical days.（分数：5.00）(1).What is the main idea of this passage?A. The argument whether philosophy will ultimately be solved by
