1、国家公共英语五级（听力理解）练习试卷 14及答案与解析 Part B Directions: You will hear 3 conversations or talks and you must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 1 Do people lock their happening of many residential burglaries? （ A） People do not lock their doors when they pop
2、out even for 5 minutes. （ B） The security systems in their house are not sophisticated enough. （ C） People have formed a wrong opinion of burglars robbing habits. （ D） People are somewhat careless about the security systems in their home. 2 How soon will police respond to an alarm or call in rural o
3、r suburban areas? （ A） Fourteen minutes. （ B） Longer than fourteen minutes. （ C） Three quarters. （ D） Fifty minutes. 3 According to the talk, which of the following statements is NOT true? （ A） Many burglars break into residential houses without using force because the doors are not locked. （ B） Res
4、idents should fit in break-resident glass for the sake of safety. （ C） Some burglars can break into a house even the glass is break-resident. （ D） People should make very sure that each door is locked when they go out even for a very short period of time. 4 What is true about organically grown foods
5、? （ A） There is no doubt that they are the best foods. （ B） Some people hold opposite opinions toward the absolute advantages of the foods. （ C） Some people dont like the foods at all. （ D） The market food products are as safe and nutritious as the organic foods. 5 What do you know about the typical
6、 North American diet? （ A） It is a variation of organically grown foods. （ B） It has been welcomed by more and more people. （ C） It is greatly welcomed by women in North America. （ D） It is not safe and nutritious. 6 What can be concluded from the talk? （ A） Consumers should buy organic foods if the
7、y can afford. （ B） Natural foods should be advocated widely because they are both safe and nutritious. （ C） In many cases consumers are misled in believing only organic foods are the best. （ D） Conventionally grown foods are not nutritious as the organic foods. 7 What is the brain compared to? （ A）
8、An automobile engine. （ B） A telephone exchange. （ C） Pump. （ D） Mind. 8 What is mind according to the talk? （ A） Instruction. （ B） A kind of activity. （ C） Logical thinking. （ D） A function of nervous system. 9 Where does the importance of activity of mind lie? （ A） In motion. （ B） In people “s thi
9、nking and communication with others. （ C） In peoples heart. （ D） In animals thinking. 10 What can be concluded from the talk? （ A） In common conversations, people express their ideas in mind not only through spoken language, but also body gestures. （ B） People usually keep silent in order to make th
10、e listeners think in a conversation. （ C） People only communicate with oral language. （ D） Body gestures are more important than oral language in a conversation. 国家公共英语五级（听力理解）练习试卷 14答案与解析 Part B Directions: You will hear 3 conversations or talks and you must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C
11、 or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. 1 【听力原文】 Many residential burglaries occur because of widespread misconceptions. For example, while people typically worry about nighttime thefts, almost half of residential break-ins happen during the day, when homes are vacant because owners are workin
12、g. Moreover, robbing a house probably takes less time than many people think. “Most burglars get in and out in less than ten minutes,“ says Jean O Nell, director of research and policy at the National Crime Prevention Council in Washington, D.C. And thieves are well aware that, even for properties w
13、ith sophisticated security systems, time is on their side. Police can take five to 45 minutes to respond to an alarm or call, especially in rural or suburban areas where they may have considerable distance to cover. To protect your home, you have to lock doors and windows when you go out, even if yo
14、ure just going out to walk the dog or have a quick chat with a neighbor down the streets. Its easy to get sidetracked and be gone longer than you may have expected. More than half of all break-ins happen without force, in many cases through an unlocked door. So, also keep external doors bolted when
15、youre home. Supplement your locks with deadbolts having at least one-inch throws. If you have doors with glass panels, consider replacing the glass with polycarbonate plastic, which is transparent but break-resistant. Otherwise, a burglar can simply smash the glass and turn the lock. 1 【正确答案】 C 【试题解
16、析】 文章的第一句就做了说明 “Many residential burglaries occur because of widespread misconceptions. ” 【知识模块】 听力理解 2 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文可以推测 “Police Can take 5 to 45 minutes to respond to an alarm or call. especially in rural or suburban areas where they may have considerable distance to cover. ”在农 村或郊区所花的时间要比在
17、市区花的时间长。 【知识模块】 听力理解 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 只有 C选项在文中没有提到，所以答案就是 C。 【知识模块】 听力理解 4 【听力原文】 Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocators of organic foods (a term whose meaning v
18、aries greatly) frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others. The growing interest of consumers in the safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims tha
19、t the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims tha
20、t eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore. Almost daily the public is besieged by advocates of “no-aging“ diets, new vitamins and other wonder foods. Ther
21、e are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains, and the like. As a result, many consumers are likely to buy organic foods which c
22、ost more than conventionally grown foods even though some of them have a very limited income. 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 文中关键句是 “The advantage claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. ” 【知识模块】 听力理解 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 文中关键句是 “The growing interest of con
23、sumers in the safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. ” 【知识模块】 听力理解 6 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 该题有一定难度，须将录音最后一部分听完才能做出正确的判断。“Almost daily the public is besieged by advocates of even though some of them have a very limited income.” 【知识模块】 听力理解 7 【听力原文】 What
24、do we think with? Only the brain? Hardly. The brain is like a telephone exchange. It is the switchboard, but not the whole system. Its function is to receive incoming signals, make proper connections, and send the messages through to their destination. For efficient service, the body must function a
25、s a whole. But where is the “mind“? Is it in the brain? Or perhaps in the nervous system? After all, can we say that the mind is in any particular place? It is not like the leg or even the brain. It is a function, an activity Aristotle, twenty-three hundred years ago, observed that the mind was to t
26、he body what cutting was to the ax. When the ax is not in use, there is no cutting. If this activity is necessary for thinking, it is also necessary for carrying thought from one person to another. Observe how people go about the business of ordinary conversation. If you have never done this painsta
27、kingly, you have a surprise in store, for good conversationalists are almost constantly in motion. Their heads are continually nodding and shaking sometimes so vigorously that you wonder how their necks can stand the strain. Even the legs and feet are active. As for the hands and arms, they are seld
28、om still for more than a few seconds at a time. These people, remember, are not making speeches. They are merely common folk trying to make others understand what they have in mind. They are not conscious of movement. Their speech is not studied. They are just human creatures in a human environment,
29、 trying to adapt themselves to a social situation. Yet they converse, not only with oral language, but with visible actions that involve practically every muscle in the body. In short, because people really think all over, a speaker must talk all over if he succeeds in making people think. 7 【正确答案】
30、B 【试题解析】 该题要紧紧抓住 the brain is compared to后边的词组的发音。 【知识模块】 听力理解 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 原文中提到 “It(mind)is a function， an activity” 所以我们可以知道 mind是大 脑的一种 activity。 【知识模块】 听力理解 9 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 文章中的关键句是 “If this activity is necessary for thinking, it is also necessary for carrying thought from one person to another.” 【知识模块】 听力理解 10 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 文中关键句是 “Yet they converse， not only with oral language， but with visible actions that involve practically every muscle in the body. ” 【知识模块】 听力理解
