1、公共英语五级真题(3)及答案解析(总分：110.00，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：10.00)（分数：10.00）(1).Women generally need less fiber than men.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).Studies show that fiber can help lose weight.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).Daily intake of six kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables can
2、help meet the minimum fiber requirement.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).People who do not get enough fiber from food should take fiber supplements.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).People suffering high blood sugar can be freed from medication if they take a fiber-rich diet.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).It is hard to find the most
3、suitable fiber supplement on the market.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(7).Man-made fiber is as good as natural fiber.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(8).Both soluble and insoluble fibers help lower blood pressure.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(9).Although a fiber supplement is not medicine, instructions for taking it should be observed.（分数
4、：1.00）A.正确B.错误(10).It is advised that fiber supplements and medicine be taken at the same time.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误三、Part B(总题数：3，分数：10.00)Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following radio program “Science around Us“. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 to 13. （分数：3.00）(1).Why does Dr. Johns
5、on suggest building a greenhouse near a power station?（分数：1.00）A.It is convenient to get electricity.B.It helps to clean the air.C.The exhaust from the plant can be made use of.D.The wasteland around the station can be made use of.(2).Which of the following can be used as fertilizer?（分数：1.00）A.Waste
6、 fuel from the power plant.B.Raw materials used to produce electricity.C.Waste water from the power plant.D.Carbon dioxide produced from burning fuel.(3).Why does Dr. Johnson want to use a gas-burning plant?（分数：1.00）A.It generates more hot air.B.It produces more carbon dioxide.C.It does not dump sul
7、fur dioxide into the air.D.It does not release pollutants into the air.Questions 14 to 16 are based on an interview between Annabel Short and Phil Wells, Chief Executive of the Fairtrade Foundation, about his role in giving Third World traders a better deal. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions
8、 14 to 16. （分数：3.00）(1).What was Mr. Wells doing when he learned about fair trade?（分数：1.00）A.Studying ecology.B.Working at a museum.C.Founding the friends of the Earth.D.Selling tradecraft products.(2).What is the next task for fair trade?（分数：1.00）A.To carry out studies on consumers.B.To involve big
9、 companies in fair trade.C.To find out more about its existing market.D.To improve the quality of fair trade products.(3).What did Mr. Wells find out about the local people on his second visit to the tea estate?（分数：1.00）A.They made complaints about fair trade.B.They began to have trust in fair trade
10、.C.They became dependent on fair trade.D.They wanted to join the Fairtrade Foundation.Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following interview with Lawrence Lessig, a law professor and director of Public Library of Science (PLoS, an open-access journal publisher) about intellectual property issues. Y
11、ou now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 to 20. （分数：4.00）(1).What is special about open-access journals?（分数：1.00）A.A higher frequency of citation.B.A collection of valuable data.C.Hard-won prominence.D.Established reputation.(2).What does the woman say is the possible result of the new policy?（分数
12、：1.00）A.Some magazines may close down.B.It may provoke criticism from scientists.C.More funding will be offered to scientists.D.Research results will have to be published on a new system.(3).What does Lessig think of the open-access system?（分数：1.00）A.Taxpayers have to pay as much as usual.B.The cost
13、s depend on the research results.C.The costs will be considerably reduced.D.Publishing will be made much easier.(4).What does Lessig say should be done concerning intellectual property expansion?（分数：1.00）A.Revise regulations.B.Expand the restriction.C.Identify the harm.D.Make no new restrictions.四、P
14、art C(总题数：1，分数：10.00)（分数：10.00）(1). Due to historical reasons, people in the Czech Republic lacked 1. （分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2). What kind of organization did Ivo Jupa work for seven years ago? （分数：1.00）(3). Ivo Jupa“s job used to focus on collecting donations from 1. （分数：1.00）(4). The seminar Ivo Jupa vi
15、sited by accident completely 1. （分数：1.00）(5). What was the percentage of people who did not donate because they were never asked to? （分数：1.00）(6). The mobile operators agreed to charge only the running costs because they thought it was a 1. （分数：1.00）(7). The area hit by a storm in Slovakia in 2004 w
16、as the Czech people“s 1. （分数：1.00）(8). Ivo Jupa is now planning to spread DMS to 1. （分数：1.00）(9). For a decade, Ivo Jupa has been in charge of 1. （分数：1.00）(10). Ivo Jupa was moved when he heard that several men drinking in a bar sent DMSs for the disaster-stricken people in 1. （分数：1.00）五、Section Use
17、 of Eng(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Among the raft of books, articles, jokes, romantic comedies, self-help guides and other writings discussing marriage, some familiar ideas often crop up. Few appear more often than the 1 that many old couples look alike. You have probably seen it beforetwo elderly people walkin
18、g hand-in-hand down the street or sitting at a care, 2 each other so strongly that they could be siblings. Do these couples actually look alike, and if 3 what has caused them to develop this way? A study published in the March 2006 issue of Personality and Individual Differences may have the 4 Twent
19、y-two people, divided equally 5 male and female, 6 in the study. They were asked to judge the looks, personalities and ages of 160 married couples. The participants viewed photographs of men and women separately and were 7 told who was married to 8 The subjects consistently judged people who were ma
20、rried 9 being similar 10 appearance and personality. The researchers also found that couples who had been together longer appeared 11 similar. This result 12 itself may not seem surprising, but the study also offered some answers on 13 couples may look alike. To start, consider that life experiences
21、 can end up 14 reflected physically. Someone 15 is happy and smiles more will develop the facial muscles and wrinkles related to smiling. The years of experience of an elderly couple“s marriage, happy 16 not, would then be reflected in their 17 Genetic influences are 18 factor. A past study showed t
22、hat genetically similar people have better marriages. Such families have 19 incidents of child abuse and a lower rate of miscarriages. People also appear to be more selfless 20 involved with genetically similar partners.（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
23、：1，分数：5.00)On the heels of its recent decision to criminalize consumers who rip songs from albums they have purchased to their computers ( or iPods), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has now gone one step further and declared that “remembering songs“ using your brain is criminal
24、copyright infringement. “The brain is a recording device,“ explained RIAA president Cary Sherman. “The act of listening is an unauthorized act of copying music to that recording device, and the act of recalling or remembering a song is unauthorized playback.“ The RIAA also said it would begin sendin
25、g letters to tens of millions of consumers thought to be illegally remembering songs, threatening them with lawsuits if they do not settle with the RIAA by paying monetary damages. In order to avoid engaging in unauthorized copyright infringement, consumers will now be required to immediately forget
26、 everything they have just hearda skill already mastered by the former US President George Bush. To aid in these memory wiping efforts, the RIAA is teaming up with Big Pharma to include free psychotropic prescription drugs with the purchase of new music albums. Consumers are advised to swallow the p
27、ills before listening to the music. The pills block normal cognitive function, allowing consumers to enjoy the music in a more detached state without the risk of accidentally remembering any songs (and thereby violating copyright law). Consumers caught humming their favorite songs will be charged wi
28、th a more serious crime: The public performance of a copyrighted song, for which the fines can reach over $250,000 per incident. “Humming, singing and whistling songs will not be tolerated,“ said Sherman. Consumers attempting to circumvent the RIAA“s new memory-wiping technology by actually remember
29、ing songs will be charged with felony crimes under provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Act, passed in 1998, makes it a felony crime to circumvent copyright protection technologies. The RIAA“s position is that consumers who actually use their brains while listening to music are vi
30、olating the DMCA. With this decision, the RIAA now considers approximately 72% of the adult U. S. population to be criminals. Putting them all in prison for copyright infringement would cost US taxpayers an estimated $683 billion per yearan amount that would have to be shouldered by the remaining 28
31、% who are not imprisoned. The RIAA believes it could cover the $ 683 billion tab through royalties on music sales. The problem with thatthe 28% remaining adults riot in prison do not buy music albums. That means album sales would plummet to nearly zero, and the US government (which is already deep i
32、n debt) would have to borrow money to pay for all the prisons. When asked whether he really wants 72 % of the US population to be imprisoned for ripping music CDs to their own brains, Sherman shot back, “You don“t support criminal behavior, do you? Every person who illegally remembers a song is a cr
33、iminal. We can“t have criminals running free on the streets of America. It“s an issue of national security.“（分数：5.00）(1).What does the phrase “copying music to that recording device“ (para. 1, line 6) mean?（分数：1.00）A.Ripping music to their PCs.B.Recalling or remembering a song.C.Unauthorized playbac
34、k of a song.D.Criminal copyright violation.(2).Which of the following best summarizes Paragraph 3?（分数：1.00）A.The absurdity of the RIAA“s memory-wiping efforts.B.The possibility of cooperation between the RIAA and Big Pharma.C.The effectiveness of the new prescription pills.D.The necessity to take me
35、asures against the violation of copyright law.(3).The following will be criminal acts EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.humming a song in public.B.going to the public performance of a song.C.using your brain while listening to a song.D.accidentally remembering a copyrighted song.(4).What will the RIAA“s decision lea
36、d to?（分数：1.00）A.Crime rates in the US will rise sharply.B.Much will be gained through royalties on music sales.C.The US government will get even deeper in debt.D.Only 28% of the total music albums could be sold out.(5).What category does this essay fall into?（分数：1.00）A.News report.B.Satire.C.Review.
37、D.Humour.九、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The threat of diseases such as influenza or tuberculosis re-emerging in virulent form has been a common theme in recent years. That threat is not limited to human airwaves, our food plants get sick too, and just as human diseases evolve to evade antibiotics, so the di
38、seases that strike our crops evolve to sidestep the resistance genes we have bred into them. For the vast majority of the calories the world eats, the key crop is grain. A ruinous wheat disease we have not had to worry about since the 1950s is making a comeback, and unless we are very lucky, we will
39、 not have sufficient defences to protect crops everywhere in the world against it in time. That stem rust would evolve and return to plague us was inevitable, but our lack of preparation to ward it off was not. Research into stem rust was bound to tail off once the disease seemed beaten, but the wor
40、ld let down its guard too far, for ideological reasons. In the 1980s governments of industrialized countries, especially the UK and US, started to lose patience with the “multilateral“ agencies that engineered much of the global progress in agriculture after the Second World War. Each government wan
41、ted the agencies to dance only to its tune. This included the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, the global network of labs that created the “Green Revolution“. The CGIAR remains the leading, sometimes only source of agricultural research devoted to global good rather than p
42、rivate profit. “Multilateral“ funding meant these labs received income from rich donors with no strings attached. Researchers at the labs were able to spend the money the way they thought bestincluding the unglamorous task of making sure that crops“ disease resistance kept pace with the diseases. Ho
43、wever, for more than two decades, donors have been cutting this funding in favour of only financing projects allied to their own interests. As wheat stem rust re-emerged in 1999, the main CGIAR wheat lab was entering a major funding crisis, and ended up sacking a quarter of its scientists. It has ta
44、ken until now to beg enough money to fight the disease. There are now signs that donors may be moving back to more open-ended funding, which is to be encouraged. They should also increase their derisory funding for this vital research: stem rust is poised to teach us the dangers of complacency. The
45、world population is predicted to rise by another 3 billion by 2050, yet increases in food production have stagnated, technological fixes are spent, and global warmingand the return of diseases like stem rustlook likely to take back many of the gains we have made. Food security affects political secu
46、rity, and one of the first regions to suffer from stem rust will be the volatile Middle East, including Iraq. Agricultural research for the public good is the only way to provide that security. It is certainly cheaper than building armies.（分数：5.00）(1).The human and crop diseases once under control h
47、ave come back again because（分数：1.00）A.antibiotics do not work anymore.B.human diseases spread to plants.C.there is genetic resistance in them.D.human interventions no longer work.(2).In the battle against the re-emergence of stem rust, the author（分数：1.00）A.does not see a positive prospect of it.B.fe
48、els that humans are very unfortunate.C.sees no need to worry about it.D.foresees possible defences against it.(3).Multilateral research institutions have not functioned properly since the 1980s（分数：1.00）A.when the disease of stem rust was brought under control.B.when a lot of progress was made in agr
49、icultural research.C.because some member countries only care about their own benefits.D.because they failed to meet the needs of each member country.(4).According to the author, the research labs have failed to fight stem rust because（分数：1.00）A.there is insufficient funding for the research.B.few scientists would undertake the unglamorous task.C.experienced scientists left for better-paid jobs.D.little work has been done by the scientists in the field.(5).Which of the following is the best title for the article?（分数：1.00）A.Rusting CropsB.Rusting DefencesC.Decreasin
