1、公共英语五级-51 及答案解析(总分：140.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：80.00)The shore is an ancient world, for 1 long as there has been an earth and sea 2 , has been this place of the meeting of land and 3 . Yet it is a world that keeps alive the sense 4 continuing creation and of the relentless drive
2、of life. Each time 5 I enter it, I gain some new awareness of its beauty and its deeper meanings, sensing that intricate fabric of life 6 which one creature is linked with another, and each with its surroundings. 7 my thoughts of the shore, one place stands apart for its revelation of exquisite beau
3、ty. It is a pool hidden within a cave 8 one can visit only rarely and briefly when 9 lowest of the year“s low tides fall below it, and perhaps from that 10 fact it acquires some of its special beauty. Choosing such a tide, I hoped 11 a glimpse of the pool. The ebb was 12 fall early in the morning. I
4、 knew that 13 the wind held from the northwest and no interfering swell ran in 14 a distant storm the level of the sea should drop below the entrance 15 the pool. There had been sudden ominous showers in the night, with rain 16 handfuls of gravel flung on the roof. When I looked out into the 17 morn
5、ing the sky was full of a gray dawn light but the sun had not yet risen. Water and air were pallid. Across the bay 18 moon was a luminous disc in the western sky, suspended 19 the dim line of distant shorethe full August moon, drawing the tide to the low, low levels of the threshold of the alien sea
6、 world. As I watched, a gull flew by, above the spruces. Its breast was rosy 20 the light of the unrisen sun. The day was, after all, to be fair.（分数：80.00）二、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Part A(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：5.00)England“s binge-drinking habit is one of the most entrenched in
7、Europeeven Roman invaders wrote about it with horror. Many feared that the habit would worsen after the relaxation of licensing hours last November. Doctors, academics and newspapers were joined in opposition by the police and judges, who warned that the reforms were “close to lunacy“. The governmen
8、t disagreed and abolished a restrictive regime first imposed during the First World War by David Lloyd George, the prime minister, who wanted to prevent munitions workers from getting too drunk. While ministers never denied that Britons had an unhealthy attitude to liquor, they argued that much of t
9、he crime and disorder that blighted city streets at night was caused by hordes of drunkards rolling out of pubs and clubs at the same time and fighting for the same taxi home. They cited the wartime experience in Australia, where an early closing time had led to a phenomenon dubbed the “six o“clock“
10、s swill“, in which people drank themselves silly against the clock. The hope was that, once hours were relaxed, Britons would adopt more civilised, continental habits, sipping delicately at glasses of Chablis rather than downing ten pints. Were the optimists or the pessimists right? Since the law wa
11、s changed, around two-thirds of licensed premises have extended their opening times, most by an hour or so. (Fewer than 1 percent were granted a 24-hour licence.) That smoothed the 11p. m. and 2 a. m. chuck-out peaks and filled in some of the troughs. Local authorities in several large, lively citie
12、s, including Birmingham, Nottingham and Manchester, report that the streets are no more disorderly than before. One popular drinkers“ street in Birmingham has seen a dramatic drop in crime (although that may also be because businesses, fearing the worst, paid for street wardens). In London, most str
13、ikingly, there has not been a single month since the drinking laws were relaxed when more violent crimes were recorded than in the same month a year earlier. That is also true in Westminster, where many of the capital“s pubs and clubs are clustered. Overall levels of violence in the borough have fal
14、len by 12 percent in the ten months since November 2005, compared with the same period a year before. The police remain cautious about such positive signs, saying it is still too early to tell what effect liberalisation will have on crime. They point out that local forces have diverted time and mone
15、y to police late-night drinking, and have been given extra cash by the government. That will run out on Christmas Eve, at which point things may become trickier. In the meantime, pessimists are marshalling new, more ambitious arguments. Martin Plant of the University of the West of England maintains
16、 that freer drinking can lead to long-term problems that are not immediately apparent. Iceland“s capital, Reykjavik, softened drinking laws seven years ago. While policing became easier, more drunkards pitched up at hospital and drink-driving rates soared.（分数：5.00）(1).The following statements are tr
17、ue EXCEPT that（分数：1.00）A.the English indulgence in alcohol even horrified Roman invaders.B.the police and judges were in favor of the relaxation of licensing hours.C.the government did away with a law regulating drinking hours last year.D.World War I first saw the implementation of the law regulatin
18、g drinking hours.(2).Why did the government want to reform the drinking-hour restrictions?（分数：1.00）A.To follow the example of Australia.B.To change Britons“ attitude to alcohol.C.To reduce the amount of alcohol consumed.D.To reduce crime rates caused by drinking.(3).What happens now in big cities?（分
19、数：1.00）A.Hordes of drunkards flood out of pubs at 11p. m. and 2 a. mB.More licenses are granted to pubs and clubs.C.There are fewer criminal offences related to drinking.D.Things are different in London from other big cities.(4).The police hold the view that（分数：1.00）A.the changes are due to more pol
20、ice efforts rather than the reform.B.extension of drinking hours has produced a negative outcome.C.the government obscures the truth by providing extra money.D.the success of the reform can only be guaranteed with more government input.(5).Those who do not see a good prospect of the drinking reform（
21、分数：1.00）A.are trying to find more effective solutions.B.are convinced that the reform will lead to more violent crimes.C.believe that there should be adequate medical service for the drunkards.D.believe that softened drinking laws may produce negative long-term effects.五、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)It was
22、late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it, but my cursor had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked (用力猛拉) the battery out. Unfortunatel
23、y, Windows had been in the midst of a delicate and crucial undertaking. The next morning, when I turned my computer back on, it informed me that a file had been corrupted and Windows would not load. Then, it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD. I opened the special drawer where I
24、keep CDs, but no Windows CD in there. I was forced to call the computer company“s Global Support Centre. My call was answered by a woman in some unnamed, far-off land. I find it annoying to make small talk with someone when I don“t know what continent they“re standing on. Suppose I were to comment o
25、n the beautiful weather we“ve been having when there was a monsoon at the other end of the phone? So I got right to the point. “My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants to fix itself, but I don“t have the Windows Setup CD.“ “So you“re having a problem with your Windows Setup CD.“ S
26、he has apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was attempting to cover for her inattention. It quickly became clear that the woman was not a computer technician. Her job was to serve as a gatekeeper, a human shield for the technicians. Her sole duty, as far as I could
27、tell, was to raise global stress levels. To make me disappear, the woman gave me the phone number for Windows“ creator, Microsoft. This is like giving someone the phone number for, I don“t know, North America. Besides, the CD worked; I just didn“t have it. No matter how many times I repeated my stor
28、y, we came back to the same place. She was calm and resolutely polite. When my voice hit a certain decibel (分贝), I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician. “You don“t have the Windows Setup CD, ma“am, because you don“t need it,“ he explained cheerfully. “Windows came preinsta
29、lled on your computer!“ “But I do need it.“ “Yes, but you don“t have it.“ We went on like this for a while. Finally, he offered to walk me through the use of a different CD, one that would erase my entire system. “Of course, you“d lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos.“ It was like offer
30、ing to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. “You might be able to recover them, but it would be expensive.“ He sounded delighted. “And it“s not covered by the warranty (产品保证书)!“ The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full. I hung up the phone and drove my computer to a small
31、, friendly repair place I“d heard about. A smart, helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldn“t be a problem. An hour later, he called to let me know it was ready. I thanked him, and we chatted about the weather, which was the same outside my window as it was outside his.（分数：5.00）(1).Why
32、did the author shut down her computer abruptly?（分数：1.00）A.She had saved what she had written.B.She couldn“t move the cursor.C.The computer refused to work.D.The computer offered to repair itself.(2).Which of the following is the author“s opinion about the woman at the Global Support Centre?（分数：1.00）
33、A.She sounded helpful and knowledgeable.B.She was there to make callers frustrated.C.She was able to solve her computer problem.D.She was quick to pass her along to a technician.(3).According to the passage, the solution offered by the technician was _.（分数：1.00）A.effectiveB.economicalC.unpracticalD.
34、unacceptable(4).“It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache“ in the last but one paragraph means that _.（分数：1.00）A.the technician“s proposal would make things even worseB.the technician“s proposal could eventually solve the problemC.files stored on her computer were like a sa
35、feD.erasing the entire system was like curing a headache(5).It can be inferred from the passage that the differences between the Global Support Centre and the local repair shop lie in all the following EXCEPT _.（分数：1.00）A.efficiencyB.locationC.Setup CDsD.attitude六、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：5.00)At dawn one mo
36、rning in early May, Sean Cosgrove is stashing piles of maps, notes and photocopied documents in his gym bag before heading for West Milford High, a rural school in northernmost New Jersey. On his 30-minute commute, the young former investment banker tries to dream up new ways of lifting the monument
37、ally forgettable Mexican War off the textbook page and into his students“ imaginations. Can he invoke the storied memories of Robert E. Lee, who cut his first military exploits on the plains of Veracuzor will he be met with thundering responses of “Who“s Lee“? Should he raise James K. Polk out of th
38、e mystic chords of memory, and hope, for a nanosecond, that the kids will care about the first U.S. president who stepped aside because he“d accomplished everything he wanted? Let“s think some more. Well, there“s always the Alamo. And hey, isn“t that the teachers“ parking lot up ahead? It“s never an
39、 easy task. These big kids in big jeans and ball caps, come to his history classes believing that history is about as useful as Latin. Most are either unaware or unimpressed that the area“s iron forges once produced artillery cannon for George Washington“s army. Their sense of history orbits more na
40、rrowly around last month“s adventures on “Shop Rite Strip“, the students“ nickname for downtown West Milford, once a factory town, now a Magnet for middle-class vacationers. Cosgrove looks uncommonly glum as he thumbs through a stack of exams in the teachers“ lounge. “I can“t belive anyone in my cla
41、ss could think John Brown was the governor of Massachusetts, “moans Cosgrove, 28, pointing to one student“s test paper. He had to be sleeping for days on end. The same morning, students in his college bound class could name only one U. S. Supreme Court justiceClarence Thomas. All his wit, energy and
42、 beyond-the-textbook research can“t completely reverse the students“ poor preparation in history, their lack of general knowledge, their numbness to the outside world. It“s the bane of history teachers at every level. When University of Vermont professor James Loewen asked his senior social-science
43、majors who fought in the Vietnam War, 22 percent answered North and South Korea. Don“t these kids even go to the movies?（分数：5.00）(1).What did Cosgrove do before he became a teacher teaching history?（分数：1.00）A.A clerk working in a gym.B.A man running a bank.C.A sportsman.D.A historian.(2).On the way
44、to school, Cosgrove _.（分数：1.00）A.was deep in thought of his pastB.was thinking of who Lee wasC.was thinking of how to teach his classD.was having a talk with another passenger(3).It can be inferred from the passage that _.（分数：1.00）A.the task for Cosgrove is quite heavyB.the students are enthusiastic
45、 about history studyC.the students have little interest in history studyD.West Milford once was a factory town(4).Which of the following is true according to this passage?（分数：1.00）A.Only the students in high school were poor in history study.B.Only college students could not study history well.C.Stu
46、dents at every level have poor knowledge of history.D.All American“s knowledge of history was poor.(5).What“s the meaning of the word “bane“ in the 6th line of the last paragraph?（分数：1.00）A.Headache.B.Ban.C.Pleasure.D.Opportunity.七、Part B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)It was a cold day. I sat in my room writing le
47、tters. I glanced out of the window. In the window directly opposite me stood Herr Stroh, gazing blatantly upon me. I was annoyed at his interest. I pulled down the blind and switched on the light to continue my writing. But the drawn blind and the artificial light irritated me, and suddenly I didn“t
48、 see why I should“t write my let- tees by daylight without being stared at. I switched off the light and released the blind. Herr Stroh had gone. I concluded that he had taken my action as a signal of disapproval, and I settled back to write. 1 I left my room and went down to complain to Frau Lublon
49、itsch. “She“s gone to the market,“ Gertha said. “She“s 11 be back in half an hour.“ 2 “I shah tell Fran Chef, “she said. Something in her manner made me ask, “Has this ever happened before?“ “Once or twice this year, “she said.“ I“ll speak to Frau Chef. “And she added, with her music-hall grimace, “He was probably counting your eyelashes.“ 3 For nearly an hour I sat patiently at the window. Herr Sroh rested his arm now and again, but he did not leave his seat. I could see him clearly, although I think I imagined the grin on his face as, from time to time, he ra
