1、公共英语五级-189 及答案解析(总分：112.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、BPart A/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)（分数：10.00）(1).The speaker knows a few Chinese students.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).The speaker thinks most Chinese students in USA are trying hard to adjust themselves to the American life.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).I
2、nteractions with Americans tend to be limited to relatively formal, academic settings.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Only those who have spent years in the United States can talk freely with American friends about sophisticated subjects such as race relations and popular music.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).Chinese stu
3、dents say they cant join the extracurricular and social activities because of financial reasons.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).The speaker does not think the reasons given by Chinese students about lack of social activities are grounded.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).Most Chinese students try to get to know the foreign
4、 country from the inside.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).The role of a cultural interpreter is as important as that of being an engineer or biologist.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).Many Chinese students who have studied in the United States return to China to contribute to their homelands development.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(1
5、0).The 21st century Chinese students in the United States will recognize their crucial function in the process of furthering U. S. -China understanding.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、BPart B/B(总题数：4，分数：12.00)（分数：3.00）(1).According to the woman, for how long will the mans package get to Columbia? A. About seven
6、days. B. Over seven days. C. Almost eight days. D. Nearly ten days.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).How can the man know that his friend has received the package? A. By telephoning his friend. B. By writing him a letter. C. By checking the post offices records. D. By the signature of his friend on the return re
7、ceipt.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What did the woman say about the overnight delivery services? A. They are not as good as the post office, but they are faster. B. They provide services both within and outside the United States. C. They rarely lose packages but they do not insure them. D. Although their ch
8、arge is higher, their services are as good.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).What is the reason given for using less sugar? A. For the sake of our eyes. B. For the sake of hair. C. For the sake of our livers. D. For the sake of our weight.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following attacks the tooth its
9、elf? A. Acid. B. Saliva. C. Carbohydrates. D. Plaque.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The speaker suggests choosing snacks carefully for _. A. an accurate information. B. an inaccurate statement. C. an inaccurate information. D. an accurate statement.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).Whats the main purpose of the t
10、alk7 A. To introduce the concept of inflation. B. To discuss the causes of inflation. C. To review yesterdays lecture on inflation. D. To argue in favor of inflation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the lecture, what is inflation? A. Rising prices. B. Fixed income. C. Real income. D. Cost of living
11、.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Who benefits most from inflation? A. Persons who have salaries according to long-term contracts. B. Persons who own businesses. C. Persons with old-age pensions. D. Persons with slow-rising incomes.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：3.00）(1).Which of the following statements about the teleph
12、one of the future is NOT true? A. It will be much more complex than the telephone we use today. B. It will be more convenient to use than todays telephone. C. Yon will be able to dial great distances. D. There will be no busy lines.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The screens of televisions of the future will _
13、. A. become screens of movie theaters B. become as large as walls in home C. have no change D. become smaller（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What will happen to the programs of televisions of the future? A. All TV sets can receive some programs without paying money in a certain area. B. You may pay for some sp
14、ecial programs if you like. C. If you are interested in a certain subject, you may borrow some video tapes about it. D. All of the above.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、BPart C/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)（分数：10.00）(1).Whats the average increase per year of foreign student population in the period between 1985 and 1990 in
15、terms of percentage?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Which area of the world contributed to an increase between 94/95 and 95/96?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).When will the speaker talk about the economic and political changes?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).What will the speaker discuss first?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).Where do the three la
16、rgest groups of students come from?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).Whats the number of students from Malaysia?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).Which is the most popular major of study?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).Whats the percentage of students in business and management?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).In terms of academic levels, in which lev
17、el do we find the smallest number?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).In brief, what did the speaker talk about?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_五、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)If youve been on campus for very long, Im certain that youve already heard about this course. You may know that last semester about fiftyU U 1 /U /Uof the
18、students enrolled in my course failed it. Let me explain how this cameU U 2 /U /Ubefore you jump to anyU U 3 /U /U. In the firstU U 4 /U /U, since this is a composition class, I expect my students to follow certain rulesU U 5 /U /Uformality. Unfortunately, students today dislike having to follow rul
19、es of any kind, especially those which they may feel to be unnecessary. ForU U 6 /U /U, I ask that each of your papersU U 7 /U /Utyped and centered on the paper correctly. I count off points for various kinds of mistakes. A misspelled word will cost you 5 points. Youve lost 25 points if youveU U 8 /
20、U /Ufive words. If you writeU U 9 /U /Uincomplete sentence, youve lost 10 points. If you give me two complete sentences as one without adequate punctuation, youve lost 15 points. I do not accept lateU U 10 /U /UYou will receive a zero for any theme which you fail to submit onU U 11 /U /UI expect, yo
21、u to read each assignment. To make certain that you have read the assignment, IU U 12 /U /Ugive you a short unannounced quiz from time toU U 13 /U /U. This class meets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. You will have a total of six major tests throughout theU U 14 /U /U. Your final grade will be b
22、asedU U 15 /U /Uan average of these major tests, the pop tests,U U 16 /U /Ueight written themes. If you have any questions at any time, you can see me on Tuesday. My office isU U 17 /U /Uthe second floor of this building. YourU U 18 /U /Ufor Wednesday is to read Hemingways short story on page 55. Fr
23、iday will be the last class day of this week, so you can expect to write a short in class theme for me then. ThatsU U 19 /U /Ufor today. IllU U 20 /U /Uyou on Wednesday.（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
24、项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_六、BSection Readi(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、BPart A/B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)八、BText 1/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Travel is at its best a solitary enterprise: to see, to examine, to assess, you have to be alone and unencumbered. Other people can mislead you; they crowd your meandering impressions with their own
25、; if they are companionable they obstruct your view, and if they are boring they corrupt the silence with nonsequiturs, shattering your concentration with “Oh, look, its raining,“ and “You see a lot of trees here“. Travelling on your own can be terribly lonely (and it is not understood by Japanese w
26、ho, coming across you smiling wistfully at an acre of Mexican butter cups tend to say things like “Where is the rest of your team?“). I think of evening in the hotel room in the strange city. My diary has been brought up to date; I hanker for company; what do I do? I don t know anyone here, so I go
27、out and walk and discover the three streets of the town and rather envy the strolling couples and the people with children. The museums and churches are closed, and toward midnight the streets are empty. If I am mugged, I will have to apologize as politely as possible:“ I am sorry, sir, but I have n
28、othing valuable on my person. “ Is there a surer way of enraging a thief and driving him to violence?It is hard to see clearly or to think straight in the company of other people. Not only do I feel selfconscious, but the perceptions that are necessary to writing are difficult to manage when someone
29、 close by is thinking out loud. I am diverted, but it is discovery, not diversion, that I seek. What is required is the lucidity of loneliness to capture that vision, which, however banal, seems in my private mood to be special and worthy of interest. There is something in feeling object that quicke
30、ns my mind and makes it intensely receptive to“ fugitive might also be verified and refined; and in any case I had the satisfaction of finishing the business alone. Travel is not a vacation, .and it is often the opposite of a rest. “Have a nice time,“ people said to me at my send-off at South Statio
31、n, Medford. It was not precisely what I had hoped for. I craved a little risk, some danger, an untoward event, a vivid discomfort, an experience of my own company, and in a modest way the romance of solitude. This I thought might be mine on that train to Limon.（分数：5.00）(1).Travelling companions are
32、a disadvantage, according to the writer, because they _ . A. give you the wrong impression about the journey. B. distract you from your reading. C. intrude on your private observations. D. prevent you from private observation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).It has been assumed by Japanese that he _ . A. belong
33、s to a group of botanists B. is excessively odd to travel alone C. needs to be directed to his hotel D. has wandered away from his party（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).His main concern in the evenings was to _ . A. take some physical exercise B. avoid being robbed in the street C. overcome his loneliness D. ex
34、plore the sights of the city（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The writer regards his friends farewell to him as _ . A. inappropriate B. unsympathetic C. tactless D. cynical（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).We gather from the passage that his main purpose in traveling was to _ . A. test his endurance B. prove his self-suffici
35、ency C. experience adventure D. respond to new experiences（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.九、BText 2/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Few words are more commonly used in our modern world than the word modern itself. The modernity of manufactured articles, of institutions, of attitudes, of works of art is constantly brought to our a
36、ttention.We ourselves may well be judged by whether we are modern or not; indeed, many people go to considerable lengths to make quite certain that they will be accepted as modern modern in their dress, their behaviour, their beliefs. And yet, we may ask, must not earlier generations have felt preci
37、sely the same? Surely men throughout history must have recognized themselves as modern. Surely innovators like Julius Caesar, Peter the Great or Oliver Cromwell saw themselves as breaking with the past, as establishing a new order. (Must they not also have shared our awareness of the significance of
38、 what is modern?) What is modern is distinct from what belongs to the past and men in earlier times must have experienced this sense of distinctiveness. Men cannot escape, and never have been able to escape, from an awareness of change. But reflection will tell us that our awareness of change, our s
39、ense of distinctiveness, is very different from that of our distant ancestors. Change for us is more, much more, than the change brought about by the passing of time, by important events or by the actions of outstanding individuals or groups of people. We make use of change and are ourselves a part
40、of a process of change. Change for us has become modernization and modernization implies both direction and consciousness. Change is something we seek, something that has no end.This consciousness of change and this desire to direct change derives from the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Th
41、e term revolution is usually applied to an historical event, an event we can place in time. We can normally speak of a time before the revolution and a time after the revolution. But the Industrial Revolution, although it had a beginning, has never come to an end. It is a process which cannot stop.
42、It is a process which effects more and more people in more and more ways. We may argue that it is a process directed by men and this would be true if we look at the details of the process. But the whole process is, as yet, beyond control. We can decide the direction of modernization to some extent b
43、ut we cannot decide to halt it. This has led to a disturbing situation. What we boast of as modern or up-to-date today, will be old-fashioned or out-of-date tomorrow. The noisy insistence that something is modern often conceals fear of the knowledge that it will inevitably soon be superseded. Again,
44、 the very fact that modernization has one direction only and involves every member of society permits only two attitudes: acceptance or rejection. The desire to change or modify the world we live in implies acceptance, since the world is a world of change. Rejection of modernization may, therefore,
45、lead to a sense of the world as unreal and meaningless, and this, in turn, to a breakdown, either individual or social.（分数：5.00）(1).It is suggested that the word modern is _ today. A. very vulgar B. in frequent use C. insufficiently precise D. used by the common people（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Great inno
46、vators throughout history _. A. gave decisive commands in the past B. destroyed the past when they saw it C. realized they had not destroyed the past D. were conscious of changing the course of history（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Our awareness of change is different from that of our predecessors because _. A. we have changed on purpose B. they were not modern enough C. moderni
