1、公共英语五级-83 及答案解析(总分：110.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Liste(总题数：1，分数：10.00)BPart A/BI You will hear Dr Wilson, a professor of linguistics, talk about formal and informal language. As you listen, answer Questions 1 to 10 by circling TRUE or FALSE. You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE.You now have 1 minute to r
2、ead Questions 1 to 10./I（分数：10.00）(1).Languages have two general levels of usage: a correct level and an incorrect level（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).People usually use formal language when they first meet someone.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).We tend to speak formally with colleagues.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Formal lang
3、uage is used in all kinds of writings.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).Formal language and informal language are different in many ways.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).People usually use more words to sound more polite.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).The sentence “Bob is crazy about that music“ is acceptable in conversation between
4、patients and doctors.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).The word “cop“ is informal for “police officer“.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).People were probably more formal in the past than today.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).The best way to learn the difference between formal and informal English is to observe and interact with native
5、 speakers.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误二、BPart B/B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)Questions 11 to 13 are based on a conversation between two college students about sharing a flat. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 to 13.（分数：3.00）(1).Mike is worried about _.（分数：1.00）A.the parties he went toB.finding a place to liveC.
6、his difficulties at his houseD.his friends house(2).Mike wants to move, but he wants to live _.（分数：1.00）A.near the schoolB.by himselfC.in a quiet placeD.with his parents(3).According to Mary, what shouldnt Mike do after moving to the shared flat?（分数：1.00）A.Share the expenses with others.B.Buy his ow
7、n food.C.Sing aloud in his own room.D.Leave the front door open.Questions 14 to 16 are based on a conversation between a woman and her doctor. You now trove 15 seconds to read Questions 14 to 16.（分数：3.00）(1).Why did the woman go to see her doctor?（分数：1.00）A.She was coming down with something.B.She w
8、anted some advice on prevention.C.She felt a little embarrassed.D.She went there for a medical checkup.(2).What might be the woman according to the dialogue?（分数：1.00）A.A patient.B.A mother.C.A student.D.A traveller.(3).Why did the man suggest that the woman go to the university health center?（分数：1.0
9、0）A.To get an X-ray examination.B.To get some exercise.C.To stay there for further treatment.D.To get immunized.Questions 17 to 20 are based on a conversation between a couple about their holiday budget. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 to 20.（分数：4.00）(1).Why is the woman doubtful about
10、the holiday?（分数：1.00）A.They need a new car.B.They havent got time.C.They need 500 extra.D.They are short of money.(2).Why is the man irritated?（分数：1.00）A.Because his wife thinks family holidays are best.B.Because his wife doesnt want to go on holiday.C.Because his wife doesnt think holidays are nece
11、ssary.D.Because his wife wants to be in England for Christmas.(3).What does the woman suggest for their holiday?（分数：1.00）A.Going to Europe for their Christmas.B.Going to a hot and sunny place.C.Going to Barbados at Christmas.D.Staying at home and having a cup of coffee.(4).How does the mans attitude
12、 change during the conversation?（分数：1.00）A.From irritation to alarm.B.From anger to resignation.C.From optimism to frustration.D.From disappointment to acceptance.三、BPart C/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)（分数：10.00）(1).President Kennedy died _ years before the day the speech was made.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Harvard Un
13、iversity is situated in _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3)._ is the largest city in the New England region.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).How many presidents of the US has graduated from Harvard?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).How many students is studying in Harvard today according to the speaker?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).Harvard focused o
14、n educating men for the ministry, particularly _ in its earliest years.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).When was Charles Elliot elected President of Harvard University?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(8).Admission to Harvard is based on _ according to the speaker.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(9).The 1800s are viewed as years of physical gro
15、wth and _ for Harvard.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(10).What students on campus will increase according to Harvards recent policies?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)PerhapsU (31) /Uare far more wives that I imagine who take it forU (32) /Uthat housework is neither satisfying nor even important onc
16、e the basic demands of hygiene and feeding have beenU (33) /U. But home and family is the one realm inU (34) /Uit is really difficult to shake free of ones upbringing and create new values. My parents house was impeccably kept; cleanlinessU (35) /Ua moral and social virtue, and personal untidiness,
17、visibly old clothes, or long male hair provoked biting jocularity. If thatU (36) /U been all, maybe I could have adapted myselfU (37) /Uhousework onU (38) /Ueasygoing, utilitarian basis, refusing the moral overtones but still believing in it as something constructiveU (39) /Uit is part of creating a
18、 home. But at the same time my mother used to resentU (40) /Uit, called it drudgery, and convinced me that it wasnt lit activity for an intelligent being.I was the only child, and once I was at school there was noU (41) /Uwhy she should have continuedU (42) /Uher will to remain housebound, unless, a
19、s I suspect, my father would not hear of her having a job of her own.I can now begin to understand why a woman in a small suburban house, with no infants to lookU (43) /U, who does notU (44) /Ureading because she has not had much of an education, and who is intelligentU (45) /Uto find neighborly chi
20、t-chat boring, should carry the pursuit of microscopic specks of dust to theU (46) /Uof fanaticism in anU (47) /Uto fill hours and salvage her self-respect. My parents had not even the status-seeking impetus to send me to university that Joes had; my motherU (48) /Ume to be “a nice quiet person who
21、wouldnt be noticedU (49) /Ua crowd“, and it was feared that university educationU (50) /Uin ingratitude (independence).（分数：20.00）(1).（分数：1.00）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:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_五、BSection Readi(总
22、题数：3，分数：15.00)BText 1/BCloning shakes us all to our very souls. For humans to consider the cloning of one another forces them all to question the very concepts of right and wrong that make them all human. The cloning of any species, whether they are human or non-human, is wrong. Scientists and ethic
23、ists alike have debated the implications of human and non-human cloning extensively since 1997 when scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland produced Dolly. No direct conclusions have been drawn, but compelling arguments state that cloning of both human and non human species results in harmful
24、 physical and psychological effects on both groups.The possible physical damage that could be done if human cloning became a reality is obvious when one looks at the sheer loss of life that occurred before the birth of Dolly. Less than ten percent of the initial transfers survive to be healthy creat
25、ures. There were 277 trial implants of nuclei. Nineteen of those 277 were deemed healthy while the others were discarded. Five of those nineteen survived, but four of them died within ten days of birth of severe abnormalities. Dolly was the only one to survive. Even Ian Wilmut, one of the scientists
26、 accredited with the cloning phenomenon at the Roslin Institute agrees, “the more you interfere with re production, the more danger there is of things going wrong.“ The psychological effects of cloning are less obvious, but nonetheless, very plausible. In addition to physical harms, there are worrie
27、s about the psychological harms to cloned human children. One of those harms is that cloning creates serious issues of identity and individuality.Human cloning is obviously damaging to both the family and the cloned child. It is harder to convince that non-human cloning is wrong and unethical, but i
28、t is just the same. Western culture and tradition has long held the belief that the treatment of animals should be guided by different ethical standards than the treatment of humans. Animals have been seen as non-feeling and savage beasts since time began. Humans in general have no problem with seei
29、ng animals as objects to be used whenever it becomes necessary. But what would happen if humans started to use animals as body for growing human organs? What if we were to learn how to clone functioning brains and have them grow inside of chimps? Would non-human primates, such as a chimpanzee, who c
30、arried one or more human genes via transgenic technology, be defined as still a chimp, a human, a subhuman, or something else? If defined as human, would we have to give it rights of citizenship? And if humans were to carry non-human transgenic genes, would that alter our definitions and treatment o
31、f them? Also, if the technology were to be so that scientists could transfer human genes into animals and vice versa, it could create a worldwide catastrophe that no one would be able to stop.（分数：5.00）(1).The arguments that cloning will have harmful effects _.（分数：1.00）A.are very convincingB.have for
32、ced people to stop cloningC.have forced people to question the concept of cloningD.have compelled people to debate the implications of cloning(2).How many of those trial implants fail to survive?（分数：1.00）A.277.B.276.C.19.D.4.(3).Which of the following statements is NOT true?（分数：1.00）A.Cloning may le
33、ad to the loss of identity.B.The cloned human children may have some psychological problems.C.The psychological effects of cloning may be overlooked.D.Genetic uniqueness is important.(4).What is the major problem with using animals as body for growing human organs?（分数：1.00）A.Animals will no longer b
34、e savage.B.Humans will be as savage as animals.C.A clear line will be missing between humans and animals.D.Animals will have to be given rights of citizenship.(5).The writer thinks that cloning is wrong _.（分数：1.00）A.ethicallyB.morallyC.psychologicallyD.ethically and morallyBText 2/BThe making of cla
35、ssifications by literary historians can be a somewhat risky enterprise. When Black poets are discussed separately as a group, for instance, the extent to which their work reflects the development of poetry in general should not be forgotten, or a distortion of literary history may result. This cauti
36、on is particularly relevant in an assessment of the differences between Black poets at the turn of the century (19001909) and those of the generation of the 1920s. These differences include the bolder and more forthright speech of the later generation and its technical inventiveness. It should be re
37、membered, though, that comparable differences also existed for similar generations of White poets.When poets of the 1910s and 1920s are considered together, however, the distinctions that literary historians might make between “conservative“ and “experimental“ would be of little significance in a di
38、scussion of Black poets, although these remain helpful classifications for White poets of these decades. Certainly differences can be noted between “conservative“ Black poets such as Countee Cullen and Cluade Mckay and “expert mental“ ones such as Jean Toomer and Langston Hughes. But Black poets wer
39、e not battling over old or new styles, rather, one accomplished Black poet was ready to welcome another, whatever his or her style, for what mattered was racial pride.However, in the 1920s Black poets did debate whether they should deal with specifically racial subjects. They asked whether they shou
40、ld only write about Black experience for a Black audience or whether such de ands were restrictive. It may be said, though, that virtually all these poets wrote their best poems when they spoke out of racial feeling, race being, as James Weldon Johnson rightly put it, “perform the thing the Negro po
41、et knows best“.At the turn of the century, by contrast, most Black poets generally wrote in the conventional manner of the age and expressed noble, if vague emotions in their poetry. These poets were not unusually gifted, though Roscoe Jamison and G. M. McClellen may be mentioned as exceptions. They
42、 chose not to write in dialect, which, as Sterling Brown has suggested, “meant a rejection of stereotypes of Negro life“, and they refused to write only about racial subjects. This refusal had both a positive and a negative consequence. As Brown observes, “Valuably insisting that Negro poets should
43、not be confined to issues of race, these poets committed an error. they refused to look into their hearts and write.“ These are important insights, but one must stress that this refusal to look within was also typical of most White poets of the United States at the time. They, too, often turned from
44、 their own experience and consequently produced not very memorable poems about vague topics, such as the peace of nature.（分数：5.00）(1).It can be inferred from the passage that classifying a poet as either conservative or experimental would be of “little significance“ when discussing Black poets of th
45、e 1910s and the 1920s because _.（分数：1.00）A.these poets wrote in very similar stylesB.these poets all wrote about nature in the same wayC.these poets were fundamentally united by a sense of racial achievement despite differences in poetic styleD.such a method of classification would fail to take acco
46、unt of the influence of general poetic practice(2).According to the passage, an issue facing Black poets in the 1920s was whether they should _.（分数：1.00）A.seek a consensus on new techniques of poetryB.write exclusively about and for BlacksC.withdraw their support from a repressive societyD.turn away
47、 from social questions to recollect the tranquility of nature(3).The author quotes Sterling Brown in the fourth paragraph in order to _.（分数：1.00）A.present an interpretation of some Black poets that contradicts the authors own assertion about their acceptance of various poetic stylesB.introduce a distinction between Black poets who used dialect and White poets who did notC.di
