1、公共英语五级-195 及答案解析(总分：103.00，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：9.00)（分数：9.00）(1).The salesman is demonstrating the new fax machine to a customer.（分数：0.90）A.正确B.错误(2).The customer wants to buy some fax machines for use only in the company“s branch offices.（分数：0.90）A.正确B.错误
2、(3).The customer hasn“t decided how many fax machines she is going to buy.（分数：0.90）A.正确B.错误(4).At first the customer wants a discount of 20 percent.（分数：0.90）A.正确B.错误(5).At first the salesman agrees to give the customer a discount of 12 percent.（分数：0.90）A.正确B.错误(6).In order to be able to give the cus
3、tomer 15 percent discount, the salesman says he must see his company manager.（分数：0.90）A.正确B.错误(7).It is impossible for the customer to get a further discount.（分数：0.90）A.正确B.错误(8).The salesman is prepared to extend the warranty period by one year.（分数：0.90）A.正确B.错误(9).The fax machine company will prom
4、ise to carry out repairs free of charge after one year if the customer loses business because of faulty machines.（分数：0.90）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：0.90）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：4，分数：12.00)（分数：3.00）
5、(1).What“s the topic of the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Reason“s for People“s SleepB.Four Stages of SleepC.Reasons for SleepwalkingD.A Sleep Experiment(2).At which stage is sleep called dozing?（分数：1.00）A.Stage four.B.Stage three.C.Stage two.D.Stage one.(3).What happens during stage four?（分数：1.00）A.People can
6、“t sleepwalk.B.Your body becomes very relaxed.C.You can still be awakened without difficulty.D.If you are awakened, you might feel very perplexed.（分数：3.00）(1).Where is the man going to make a presentation?（分数：1.00）A.At an automobile factory.B.At an electrical engineering class.C.At a meeting of a pu
7、blic speaking club.D.At a conference on industrial automation.(2).What is the origin of the traditional image of robots?（分数：1.00）A.Industrial specification.B.Computer development.C.Scientific drawings.D.Science fiction.(3).According to the woman, why are robots becoming more widely used?（分数：1.00）A.T
8、hey are smarter than human worker.B.They are more productive than human workers.C.They are very durable.D.They are easy to design.（分数：3.00）(1).Which of the following statements about the telephone of the future is NOT true?（分数：1.00）A.It will be much more complex than the telephone we use today.B.It
9、will be more convenient to use than today“s telephone.C.Yon will be able to dial great distances.D.There will be no busy lines.(2).The screens of televisions of the future will _.（分数：1.00）A.become screens of movie theatersB.become as large as walls in homeC.have no changeD.become smaller(3).What wil
10、l happen to the programs of televisions of the future?（分数：1.00）A.All TV sets can receive some programs without paying money in a certain area.B.You may pay for some special 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.
11、（分数：3.00）(1).The reasons why games fascinate students are the following statements except that _.（分数：1.00）A.they do not know how it will turn out.B.the reasons are something that need not exist.C.their lives are exactly like games.D.the games are exciting.(2).How does drama resemble game?（分数：1.00）A.
12、There is something unfolding before the spectator.B.They take place in freedom.C.There really are things that are worthy for their own sakes.D.All the above.(3).Life cannot be properly lived and games cannot be properly played unless _.（分数：1.00）A.we know how they get along.B.we come to grips with li
13、fe as most people do.C.we actually live a higher life than ordinarily do.D.we see something more worthy in it.四、Part C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)（分数：10.00）(1).American scientists in variety of disciplines continue to struggle to start 1.（分数：1.00）(2).According to Rush Holt, America is producing 1 and engineers
14、than they can use productively.（分数：1.00）(3).What countries does Rush Holt compare with America?（分数：1.00）(4).Whom does Rush Holt think should be better supported?（分数：1.00）(5).What is the problem of accomplishing graduate programs?（分数：1.00）(6).The impact of foreign scientists on job market is 1.（分数：1.
15、00）(7).How can America encourage study for foreign students?（分数：1.00）(8).What is the protectionist viewpoint?（分数：1.00）(9).America obviously can“t prevent other countries from 1.（分数：1.00）(10).What has been done traditionally better in America? 1.（分数：1.00）五、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)These days
16、 we are so accustomed to telegraph messages 1 it is hard for us to imagine the excitement that was felt in the nineteenth century when the first cables were laid, Cable 2 proved to be immensely difficult. The cable 3 was laid in the autumn of 1850 carried the first telegraph messages 4 England and F
17、rance had a very short life. The day after, a fisherman “caught“ the cable by mistake. Thinking that the copper wire at the centre of the thick cable was gold, he cut a piece 5 to show his friends. However, a new cable was put down and 6 news could travel quickly across Europe. But there was 7 to wa
18、y of sending messages between Europe and America. When the Atlantic Telegraph Company was formed in 1856, a serious 8 was made to “join“ Europe to America with no less 9 2,300 miles of cable. As 10 single ship could carry such a weight, the job was shared by two sailing vessels, the Agamemnon and th
19、e Niagara. The intention was 11 after setting out in opposite directions, they should 12 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean 13 the two cables would be connected together. But the ships had 14 covered 300 miles when the cable broke. In 1858, a second attempt was made. This time, greatly hindered by
20、storms, the ships were again unsuccessful. There was great rejoicing a few months later, when after the combined efforts of both ships, Britain and America were at last connected by cable and the Queen of England was able to speak 15 the President of the United States. This cable, 16 only lasted ele
21、ven weeks. 17 attempts were postponed until 1864 when Brunel“s steamship, the Great Eastern, set forth. This powerful ship did the whole job 18 itself, but again messages could not travel freely 19 the cable developed a fault. While it was being mended, it broke and 1,300 mile of it lay on the ocean
22、 floor. But two years later the Great Eastern completed a highly successful journey and 20 then it has become possible to send messages to all parts of the world.（分数：20.00）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)In face of the numbers of people who are suffer
23、ing anxiety attacks over AIDS, global warming, ozone sharp decline, and the proliferation of chemical weapons, you have a disturbingly large population easily influenced by the madness aroused with the arrival of the period of the second thousand years. Even supposedly sober observers are taking pos
24、itions in the millenarian parade. Novelist, poet, and science writer Brad Leithauser is convinced the second millennium is going to bring a “psychological shift“ that will “literally redefine what it means to be a human being.“ Leithauser believes that global weather patterns will undergo random, ev
25、en chaotic, changes produced by the dreaded greenhouse effect. In his novel Hence set around 2000, Leithauser visualizes religious leaders seizing on the resultant disturbances -flooded cities, soaring cancer rates, and what have you -and taking them as a sign that the end is near. At the same time,
26、 Leithauser thinks, a combination of high-speed living and runaway technology will serve further to alienate people from themselves. He predicts that invasive media will bring an inescapable large number of stimuli. In this atmosphere of “evershortening collective memory,“ books will become pass. In
27、deed, any form of reflective solitude will become “quietly sinful,“ says a character in Leithauser“s novel, and seeking it out will require “almost an act of social defiance.“ Economic expert Ravi Bartra is equally convinced that by the dawn of the second millennium people will have undergone a thor
28、ough spiritual and economic transformation. He warns that the voices of the rich will soon superheat the global economy to the point of explosion and collapse, in the wake of which “society will border on chaos. There will be a polarization of society into two classes -the haves and the have-nots -a
29、nd there will be a lot of crime and street demonstrations“ as the angry have-nots make strong claim for food, shelter, and social justice. But Batra, unlike Leithauser, sees the coming bimillennial breakdown as a sort of getting rid of sin by fire on the way to a better world. From the ashes of econ
30、omic and social collapse, he says, will rise a “higher consciousness“-a climate in which pornography, selfishness, and extreme concentration of wealth are reproached and society becomes “more concerned with the handicapped and the weaker.“ On the job, he foresees “far more democratic large factories
31、, where employees not only sit on boards of directors but actually run companies.“ Meanwhile, discipline will capture the home-and-family front, with “children obeying their parents more, and more family stability, fewer divorces.“（分数：5.00）(1).The first two paragraphs say that, faced with the variou
32、s problems, people are likely to become crazy about（分数：1.00）A.the turn of the millennium.B.global warming and ozone depletion.C.disturbingly large population.D.the psychological shift.(2).In the third paragraph, who think(s) those disturbances to be a sign of the impending end?（分数：1.00）A.Pessimistic
33、 meteorologists.B.You-the reader.C.Religious readers.D.Leithauser.(3).In paragraph 4, line 4, the word “pass“ in this context means（分数：1.00）A.essential.B.available.C.passable.D.obsolete.(4).In the eyes of Ravi Batra, the world of the second millennium would be one of（分数：1.00）A.tragedy.B.disorder.C.e
34、conomic explosion.D.wealth concentration.(5).Ravi Batra is different in attitude toward the arrival of the second millennium from Brad Leithauser in that（分数：1.00）A.Leithauser is more positive.B.Batra is more optimistic.C.the former thinks more of the breakdownD.the latter tends to look at the bright
35、 side of things九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Imagine eating everything delicious you want - with none of the fat. That would be great, wouldn“t it? New “fake fat“ products appeared on store shelves in the United States recently, but not everyone is happy about it. Makers of the products, which contain a co
36、mpound called olestra, say food manufacturers can now eliminate fat from certain foods. Critics, however, say the new compound can rob the body of essential vitamins and nutrients and can also cause unpleasant side effects in some people. So it“s up to consumers to decide whether the new fat-free pr
37、oducts taste good enough to keep eating. Chemists discovered olestra in the late 1960s, when they were searching for a fat that could be digested by infants more easily. Instead of finding the desired fat, the researchers created a fat that can“t be digested at all. Normally, special chemicals in th
38、e intestines “grab“ molecules of regular fat and break them down so they can be used by the body. A molecule of regular fat is made up of three molecules of substances called fatty acids. The fatty acids are absorbed by the intestines and bring with them the essential vitamins A, D, E, and K. When f
39、at molecules are present in the intestines with any of those vitamins, the vitamins attach to the molecules and are carried into the bloodstream. Olestra, which is made from six to eight molecules of fatty acids, is too large for the intestines to absorb. It just slides through the intestines withou
40、t being broken down. Manufacturers say it“s that ability to slide unchanged through the intestines that makes olestra so valuable as a fat substitute. It provides consumers with the taste of regular fat without any bad effects on the body. But critics say olestra can prevent vitamins A, Dp E, and K
41、from being absorbed. It can also prevent the absorption of carotenoids, compounds that may reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, etc. Manufacturers are adding vitamins A, D, E, and K as well as carotenoids to their products now. Even so, some nutritionists are still concerned that people might e
42、at unlimited amounts of food made with the fat substitute without worrying about how many calories they are consuming.（分数：4.00）(1).We learn from the passage that olestra is a substance that_ .（分数：0.80）A.contains plenty of nutrientsB.renders foods calorie-free while retaining their vitaminsC.makes fo
43、ods easily digestible“D.makes foods fat-free while keeping them delicious(2).The result of the search for an easily digestible fat turned out to be_.（分数：0.80）A.commercially uselessB.just as anticipatedC.somewhat controversialD.quite unexpected(3).Olestra is different from ordinary fats in that_.（分数：
44、0.80）A.it passes through the intestines without being absorbedB.it facilitates the absorption of vitamins by the bodyC.it helps reduce the incidence of heart diseaseD.it prevents excessive intake of vitamins(4).What is a possible negative effect of olestra according to some critics?（分数：0.80）A.it may
45、 impair the digestive system.B.It may affect the overall fat intake.C.It may increase the risk of cancer.D.It may spoil the consumers“ appetite.(5).Why are nutritionists concerned about adding vitamins to olestra?（分数：0.80）A.It may lead to the over-consumption of vitamins.B.People may be induced to e
46、at more than is necessary.C.The function of the intestines may be weakened.D.It may trigger a new wave of fake food production.十、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Not too many decades ago it seemed “obvious“ both to the general public and to sociologists that modem society has changed people“s natural relations,
47、 loosened their responsibilities to kin and neighbors, and substituted in their place superficial relationships with passing acquaintances. However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the “obvious“ is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a
48、smaller proportion of your neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community. But, for the most part, this fact has few significant consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else. Even in very large cities, people mainta
49、in close social ties within small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ between more and less urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than are big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friendships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Nor are residents of large communities any likelier to display psychological symptoms of stress
