1、公共英语五级-英语知识运用(三)及答案解析(总分：40.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：2，分数：40.00)A convenient point of departure is provided by the famous ClarkTrimble experiments of 1935. Clark-Trimble was not primarily a physicist, and his great (1) of the Graduated Hostility of Things was made almost accidentally. (2) some resear
2、ch into the relation between periods of the day and human bad temper, Clark-Trimble, a leading Cambridge psychologist, came to the (3) that low human dynamics in the early morning could not sufficiently (4) the apparent hostility of things at the breakfast table the way honey gets. (5) the fingers,
3、the unfoldability of newspapers, etc. in the experiments which finally confirmed him in this view, (6) which he demonstrated before the Royal Society in London, Clark-Trimble arranged four hundred pieces of carpet in ascending degrees of quality, (7) coarse matting to priceless Chinese silk. Pieces
4、of toast and marmalade, graded, weighed, and measured, were then dropped on each (8) of carpet, and the marmaladedownwards incidence was statistically (9) . The toast fell right-side-up every time on the cheap carpet, (10) when the cheap carpet was screened from the rest (in (11) case the toast didn
5、t know that Clark-Trimble had other and better carpets), and it fell marmalade-downwards every time on the Chinese silk. (12) remarkable of all, the marmalade-downwards incidence for the intermediate grades was (13) to vary exactly with the quality of carpet.The success of these experiments naturall
6、y switched ClarkTrimbles attention to further research on resistentia, a fact which was directly (14) for the tragic and sudden end to his career (15) he trod on a garden rake at the Cambridge School of Agronomy. (16) the meantime, Noys and Crangenbacker had been doing some notable work in America.
7、Noys (17) out literally thousands of experiments, in which subjects of all ages and sexes, sitting in chairs of every conceivable kind, dropped various kinds of pencils. In only three cases (18) the pencil come to rest within easy reach. Crangenbackers work in the social-industrial field, on the rel
8、ation of human willpower to specific problems such as (19) a train or subway will stop with the door opposite you on a crowded platform, or whether there will be a mail box (20) on your side of the street, was attracting much attention.（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
9、:_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:_In a world where it gets more and more difficult to move or surprise readers who are (1) or wearied by their (2) to images of violence, conflict and strife, writers have a more difficult task if they want to shake
10、us (3) of complacency. Knopf is a publisher (4) for producing exciting first novels, but first-time authors are often obsessed (5) finding new ways of (6) under our increasingly thick skin. Sometimes, (7) , the most outrageousincidents in contemporary fiction read like gimmicks a game of “guess the
11、shocking secret“.Anne-Marie MacDonalds wonderful novel, Fall on Your Knees, not only avoids the (8) of first novels, it has created a voice which pierces the (9) of cynicism that surrounds us. Yes, it is often shocking with its insistence (10) stark images, but it is also a sensitive (11) of comedic
12、, tragic and, surprisingly, romantic stories. What ultimately sets (12) Fall on Your Knees is the (13) of the narrative voice. This voice acts (14) a Greek chorus which speaks directly to you, directing your gaze and compelling your involvement. Always using the present tense, the action is (15) inf
13、initely more dramatic and immediate. A compassionate, independent voice, MacDonald herself told me it has a strong connection to Cape Breton, where the novel is mostly (16) She had in mind her fathers tone when he told ghost stories, a slow and measured cadence that (17) a tale full of sweetness, sa
14、dness and terror, a tone which brings the story into each persons “own private world“, (18) being obtrusive. A recurring motif in Fall on Your Knees is that of guardian angels; I came to think of this voice as the guardian angel of the novel it is not in the (19) of passing judgement, but it tries t
15、o protect its charges by showing us what is going on inside them, by reminding us how imperfect the human mind is and how illusory our memories sometimes (20) out to be. As we learn in the book, “Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable./（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_
16、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:_公共英语五级-英语知识运用(三)答案解析(总分：40.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、填空题(总题数：2，分数：40.00)A convenient point of departure is provided by the famous ClarkTrimble experiments of 1935. Clark-Trimble was not primarily a
17、physicist, and his great (1) of the Graduated Hostility of Things was made almost accidentally. (2) some research into the relation between periods of the day and human bad temper, Clark-Trimble, a leading Cambridge psychologist, came to the (3) that low human dynamics in the early morning could not
18、 sufficiently (4) the apparent hostility of things at the breakfast table the way honey gets. (5) the fingers, the unfoldability of newspapers, etc. in the experiments which finally confirmed him in this view, (6) which he demonstrated before the Royal Society in London, Clark-Trimble arranged four
19、hundred pieces of carpet in ascending degrees of quality, (7) coarse matting to priceless Chinese silk. Pieces of toast and marmalade, graded, weighed, and measured, were then dropped on each (8) of carpet, and the marmaladedownwards incidence was statistically (9) . The toast fell right-side-up eve
20、ry time on the cheap carpet, (10) when the cheap carpet was screened from the rest (in (11) case the toast didnt know that Clark-Trimble had other and better carpets), and it fell marmalade-downwards every time on the Chinese silk. (12) remarkable of all, the marmalade-downwards incidence for the in
21、termediate grades was (13) to vary exactly with the quality of carpet.The success of these experiments naturally switched ClarkTrimbles attention to further research on resistentia, a fact which was directly (14) for the tragic and sudden end to his career (15) he trod on a garden rake at the Cambri
22、dge School of Agronomy. (16) the meantime, Noys and Crangenbacker had been doing some notable work in America. Noys (17) out literally thousands of experiments, in which subjects of all ages and sexes, sitting in chairs of every conceivable kind, dropped various kinds of pencils. In only three cases
23、 (18) the pencil come to rest within easy reach. Crangenbackers work in the social-industrial field, on the relation of human willpower to specific problems such as (19) a train or subway will stop with the door opposite you on a crowded platform, or whether there will be a mail box (20) on your sid
24、e of the street, was attracting much attention.（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：discovery）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：During）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：conclusion）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：explain）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：between）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：and）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：from）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：piece）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：analysed）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：except）解
25、析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：which）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：Most）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：found）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：responsible）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：when）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：In）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：carried）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：did）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：whether）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：anywhere）解析：In a world where it gets more and more difficult to move or su
26、rprise readers who are (1) or wearied by their (2) to images of violence, conflict and strife, writers have a more difficult task if they want to shake us (3) of complacency. Knopf is a publisher (4) for producing exciting first novels, but first-time authors are often obsessed (5) finding new ways
27、of (6) under our increasingly thick skin. Sometimes, (7) , the most outrageousincidents in contemporary fiction read like gimmicks a game of “guess the shocking secret“.Anne-Marie MacDonalds wonderful novel, Fall on Your Knees, not only avoids the (8) of first novels, it has created a voice which pi
28、erces the (9) of cynicism that surrounds us. Yes, it is often shocking with its insistence (10) stark images, but it is also a sensitive (11) of comedic, tragic and, surprisingly, romantic stories. What ultimately sets (12) Fall on Your Knees is the (13) of the narrative voice. This voice acts (14)
29、a Greek chorus which speaks directly to you, directing your gaze and compelling your involvement. Always using the present tense, the action is (15) infinitely more dramatic and immediate. A compassionate, independent voice, MacDonald herself told me it has a strong connection to Cape Breton, where
30、the novel is mostly (16) She had in mind her fathers tone when he told ghost stories, a slow and measured cadence that (17) a tale full of sweetness, sadness and terror, a tone which brings the story into each persons “own private world“, (18) being obtrusive. A recurring motif in Fall on Your Knees
31、 is that of guardian angels; I came to think of this voice as the guardian angel of the novel it is not in the (19) of passing judgement, but it tries to protect its charges by showing us what is going on inside them, by reminding us how imperfect the human mind is and how illusory our memories some
32、times (20) out to be. As we learn in the book, “Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable./（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：cynical）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：exposure）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：out）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：known / renowned）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：with）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：getting）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：then）解析：填
33、空项 1:_ （正确答案：pitfalls）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：veneer）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：on）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：mixture）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：apart）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：strength）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：like）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：rendered）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：set）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：promised）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：without）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：business）解析：填空项 1:_ （正确答案：turn）解析：
