[语言类考试复习资料大全]公共英语五级模拟38

1、书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。祝愿天下莘莘学子：学业有成，金榜题名！语言类考试复习资料大全公共英语五级模拟38公共英语五级模拟38Section Listening ComprehensionDirections: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are th

2、ree parts in this section, Part A, Part B and Part C. Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet, NOT on the ANSWER SHEET. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer your answers from your test book

3、onto ANSWER SHEET 1. If you have any questions, you may raise your hand NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started. Now, look at Part A in your test booklet. Part A You will hear a conversation between a newspaper correspondent, Mr. Brown, and an old man, Mr. Gallant, of a sea

4、side town. As you listen, answer Questions 1 - 10 by circling True or False. You will hear the conversation ONLY ONCE. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 1. Mr. Gallant has met Mr. Brown before.答案:B解析 1-10Brown: Good afternoon, Mr. Gallant. Im Jack, Jack Brown.Gallant: Good afternoon. So you are Mr. eh .Brown: Br

5、own.Gallant: Oh, sure. Ah, Im afraid Im old.Brown: Oh, no, youre not. What a nice garden you have here!Gallant: Yes, it is beautiful. Thank you. Why not have a seat?Brown: Thank you.Gallant: Tea or coffee?Brown: I think I prefer tea.Gallant: So, you want to know something about the changes happed he

6、re in the past decades.Brown: Yes. Few people living here know as much as you do nowadays.Gallant: Well . . . many of the old dwellers have moved away because of the changes that have happened here. You know, this beach used to be a lot less crowded then.Brown: When did you move here?Gallant: Mm . 1

7、933, right after the Crisis when my father lost his job.Brown: What was your father then, Mr. Gallant.?Gallant: He worked in a factory.Brown: Why did your father chose here, by the way?Gallant: I dont know for sure. Probably he couldnt find a job elsewhere.Brown: Thats reasonable. Is this the house

8、that you first moved in?Gallant: Yes. We built it all by ourselves. Nice house it is.Brown: I would also say so.Gallant: I remember I used to sit here all alone and watch the waves shining and the sun go down. It was very quiet, very peaceful no transistor radios playing rock music, no traffic noise

9、, no jet planes shrieking.Brown: It must be very enjoyable living in such an environment.Gallant: You bet. In those days, all you could hear were the waves coming into shore. It used to be a lot cleaner too.Brown: You mean the water？Gallant: The beach as well. You didnt see any cans or bottles of ju

10、nk like that just some pieces of wood from the sea.Brown: How about the town?Gallant: The town was different too. Of course, it was a lot smaller then. There were some shops, and a few banks, and a movie theater, and thats about all. You didnt have all these fancy hotels and stores back then.Brown:

11、But I saw many buildings along the shore when I drove here.Gallant: They were newly built in the past decades. In those days when I was young, there were no apartment buildings. Most people lived in small wooden houses, painted all white and pretty.Brown: When did all that happen?Gallant: All that c

12、hanged after the war. Soldiers who were based here came back and settled down. They started to raise their families and the population grew. And then the tourists started coming.Brown: When was that?Gallant: Early seventies if I remember right. More and more every year. That s when they began to bui

13、ld all those hotels here each one bigger than the next. All of them like monsters looking out to sea and waiting for the next planeload of tourists.Brown: But tourism has brought economic progress with it?Gallant: Of course, tourist money meant more jobs, but it also meant more roads, more cars, mor

14、e pollution, and higher prices. Have you been to the supermarket2 Have you checked out the prices7 Did you know that we have the highest food prices in the U. S. ?Brown: I didn t know that.Gallant: Well, that is not all. We ye also got the highest housing costs. You certainly have looked in the news

15、paper. It s unbelievable. An average person just cant buy a house here any more. You have to be a millionaire. While you call this progress, I would call it changes. Well, you can have it, progress I mean. Ill take the good old days, without changes.Brown: Yeah, many people enjoy the past a lot more

16、 than they do the present. One more question, by the way, where did your family move here from?Gallant: From Utah, near Salt Lake City.Blown: Why didnt your father join the war?Gallant: He was not healthy enough for that.Brown: Its been very nice talking to you, Mr. Gallant.Gallant: Nice to talk to

17、you too.Brown: You wont urge me to publish this interview, will you?Gallant: No, no. But I look forward to reading it.Brown: Thank you. Good-bye.Gallant: Bye.2. Mr. Brown likes to drink tea better than coffee.答案:A3. Mr. Gallant lives on the West Coast of the U.S.答案:A4. Mr. Gallant says he was born i

18、n Utah.答案:B5. In the early days, there was only one theater in the town.答案:A6. The town developed mainly because of tourism.答案:B7. Housing is the most expensive in the U.S., but food prices are reasonable.答案:B8. Mr. Gallant s father was a soldier in the War.答案:B9. Mr. Gallant says that there used to

19、 be a wood near the shore.答案:B10. Mr. Gallant likes to see his interview to be published.答案:APart B 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. Questions 11 - 13 are basic on the following talk. You now hav

20、e 15 seconds to read Questions 11 - 13. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 1. The speech tells us that to solve the problem of getting sunburned, we shouldA.stay out of the sun.B.apply soothing dressing to the skin.C.not expose our skin to sunlight too long at the beginning.D.stay away from the actinic rays.答案:C解

21、析 11-13 Today well go on to the second part of the Skin Protection Series. Last time I said something about the importance of keeping our skin clean, and today I 11 give a talk on sunburn, followed by a talk on skin diseases next week. Sunburn is a very common skin problem, especially in summer. The

22、 rays of sunlight are of several different kinds. Some of them, called actinic rays, cause the chemical changes that make photography possible and also cause your skin to become red and burned if you are exposed to them too long. Serious sunburns often occur at the beaches and on snow-covered mounta

23、ins, where the glare of the sun is reflected back from the sand and water or snow and ice. Other rays of sunlight, called ultraviolet rays, supply needed Vitamin D to your body. Therefore it is helpful to your health to be in the sunlight but dangerous or at least unpleasant if you overexpose to the

24、 actinic rays which causes the condition known as sunburn. Hazy days also are dangerous, because the sunlight can burn the skin even when it has to come through clouds. The problem is solved by exposing the body to sunlight gradually, for example, 15 minutes the first day, and a few minutes more eac

25、h day after that, until the skin has a brown appearance that is called a suntan. People with fair skins have to be much more careful than people with darker skins. Children and babies have very tender skin that burns easily. If a person does get a sunburn he or she should stay out of the sun. A soot

26、hing dressing, applied to the burned skin, may help to relieve the pain. 2. We learn from the talk that it is easy to get a serious sunburn at the beaches becauseA.the sunlight is fiercer at the beaches than elsewhere.B.the skin gets the glare of the sun reflected back from the water and sand.C.the

27、ultraviolet rays there are much stronger.D.the sunlight can also get through the cloud.答案:B3. The next talk of the Skin Protection Series will beA.on skin diseases.B.on the protection of children s skin.C.on how to relieve the pain of the skin.D.on the relations between sunlight and Vitamin D needed

28、 by our body.答案:A Questions 14 - 16 are based on the following conversation. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 - 16. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 4. What is the relation of the two speakers?A.Husband and wife.B.Policeman and driver.C.Passerby and driver.D.Doctor and patient.答案:A解析 14-16Man: Were

29、you hurt?Woman: Fortunately, no. But I was really frightened.Man: I believed so. Have a good rest today.Woman: I will, dear. Don t worry. Please don t tell Mom about it. She is too old to understand.Man: No, I wont. When did it happen, by the way?Woman: 8:30 in the morning.Man: Where?Woman: Well, at

30、 the corner of Pine Street and Beach Road.Man: That is to say you didnt even turn to the Beach Road.Woman: No. I was waiting on Pine Street for the blue car to pass, but when I found that it was slowing down instead of passing, I thought the driver was so nice as to let me out. But when I started to

31、 move forward, I suddenly realized that he wasnt slowing down for me.Man: You should ve been more patient.Woman: But thats nothing to do with patience. He was actually going to turn into Pine Street! I couldnt believe my eyes!Man: Then?Woman: Then, he swooped around the corner and ran straight into

32、me.Man: Didnt you see the signal?Woman: Signal? He didnt give any signal or anything.Man: Did you give the signal?Woman: Of course I did.Man: But why were the rear lights also damaged?Woman: Well, behind the blue car there was another car, a sports car too, which was driving close to it. When the bl

33、ue car slowed down to turn, the sports car was too close to slow down or to overtake, and so it bumped into the blue car and pushed it further forward, and it again pushed my car backward into the wall. Oh, my poor red car!5. Why were the taillights of the red car also damaged?A.Because it drove bac

34、kward to let the blue car pass and bumped into the wall.B.Because the blue car was too fast to stop and therefore pushed it backward into the wall.C.Because the blue car was pushed by the sports car and it again pushed the red car backward into the wall.D.Because the sports car overtook too narrowly

35、 and pushed the red car backward into the wall.答案:C6. Why did the red car start to move forward instead of waiting for the blue car to pass ?A.Because the woman thought she could manage to turn the corner.B.Because the woman was afraid the sports car would further block the corner.C.Because the wome

36、n was not patient enough to wait longer.D.Because the woman thought the blue car was polite enough to let her turn.答案:D Questions 17 - 20 are based on the following talk. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 - 20. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 7. Big Top isA.a high tent.B.the name of a circus.C.one o

37、f the tings.D.a chariot.答案:A解析 17-20 Today Ill give you a talk on circus in ancient time. After the talk, we are going to watch a 20-minute video show of Sanduyak Great Circus. A circus is a big show in which there are many different acts put on by acrobats, clowns and other performers, dogs, horses

38、, and wild animals of many kinds. The show is given in a huge, high tent called a Big Top. On the ground there are one or more circle-shaped areas, called rings, in which the main acts are put on. There may be one, two or three rings. The biggest circuses are three-ring circuses, with three differen

39、t acts, usually going on at the same time. Circuses go back more than two thousand years, to Roman time. Roman circuses were held in open arenas, usually U-shaped. Rows of seats rose on the sides of the arenas, as they do in a modern circus tent. On the ground inside the arena was a wide track for c

40、hariot races, which was the favorite attraction of the circus. The chariots were pulled by horses. Sometimes there were four horses hitched to each chariot, but in most races there was three horses to each chariot. Another great favorite in the Roman circuses was a fight between a man and an animal.

41、 Sometimes the man, called a gladiator, fought a bear. Other times he fought a lion, or some other wild animal. The circuses in Rome were always held on the eight festival days throughout the year. There were four circus arenas in Rome. The most famous one was the Circus Max-imus. It was rebuilt man

42、y times after fire destroyed the rows of wooden seats. The emperors or rulers often made changes in the decorations of the arena to suit their fancies. Before the decline of Rome the circuses had become very ornate and colorful. They looked almost as gaudy then as the modem circus does today. 8. The

43、 Roman rulers often made changes in the decoration of the Circus Maximus becauseA.they rebuilt it every year.B.fire often destroyed it.C.they wanted it to suit their fancies.D.it was a religious rule.答案:C9. A gladiator is a person whoA.once ruled Rome.B.fought a bear or other wild animal.C.drove a c

44、hariot.D.conducted circus shows on the eight festival days.答案:B10. After the talk the students willA.go to see the circus show by Sanduyak Great Circus.B.visit the famous Circus Maximus.C.watch a short video show on television.D.see a horse race.答案:CPart C You will hear a talk given by a university

45、lecturer. As you listen, you must answer Questions 21 - $0 by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words in the space provided on the right. You will hear the talk TWICE. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 1. Where did tulip originally, grow?答案:Near East.解析 21-30 Botanical gardens and arboreta once wielded enormous influen

46、ce in the world. Until our day, plants were practically the only source of drugs, and, as a result, professors of medicine like Gesner were also botanists who used university gardens under their supervsion for the training of medical students. Medicines were not the only product of these gardens. So

47、me botanists also made it a practice to cultivate, disseminate, and study exotic plants received from explorers around the world, and many of these plants later assumed enormous economic importance. The tulip, now considered the typical flower of Holland and one of its chief exports, was introduced

48、to the botanical gardens from the Near East, in the sixteenth century. Natural rubber is one of the most spectacular examples of the influence that botanical gardens can exert on the fate of an industry and of a region. The tree Hevea Brasilienses grows naturally in several parts of the Amazonian va

49、lley, and the rubber obtained from it was shipped to the industrial nations through the Brazilian port of Manaus. Although Manaus lies in the heart of the Amazonian rain forest, the rubber trade was so intense between 1890 and 1920 this relatively small city became one of the richest and most develo

50、ped in the world. It was the first Latin American city to have electric light. Majestic buildings and homes, churches and cathedrals and a complex system of sewers and floating docks were built there nearly overnight. In the meantime, English botanists learned to cultivate H. Brazilienses in greenho

51、uses and began distributing seeds and seedlings to several Southeast Asian countries. Plantation rubber was so readily produced in Malaysia that large quantities of it could be exported as early as 1910. Shortly after, it completely displaced the natural rubber of Brazil and Manaus became a ghost to

52、wn. Today, directors of botanical gardens and arboreta no longer engage in activities so economically urgent as the preparation of medical drugs, the propagation of tulips, and the transfer of hevea trees from one tropical Country to another were in their times. In our era, their contributions could

53、 never make or break the fate of cities or countries. These days, the gardens simply try to appeal to the general public by displaying plant species under attractive conditions at suitable times of year. While these traditional contributions to science and to the public are important and deserve app

54、reciation botanical gardens and arboreta could serve an even more essential purpose by involving themselves more directly in solving certain contemporary problems, a task for which they have unique qualifications. Indeed, they could yet become as vital to the world as they were in the time of Gesner

55、, or in the heyday of Manaus. There are clear signs that several botanical gardens and arboreta have already begun to evolve in this way. At the Kew Gardens, for example, the emphasis has long been on the collection of wild plant species and on taxonomy. But the new director of Kew, Arthur Bell, is

56、a biochemist who has stated that one of his main concerns will be to use the garden s facilities for improving patterns of agriculture, in developing countries. There are many other fields of endeavor for the new botany, and one of the most urgent is the study of injured ecosystems. In most cases, h

57、owever, damaged ecosystems will require more direct human intervention for their successful recovery. This is already happening in Israel; but the reclamation of strip-mined areas in this country will certainly present problems of greater complexity and magnitude. Moreover, it is probably a mistake to assume, as many do, that the best environment is an untouched stretch of virgin land and that reclaiming a wasteland necessarily means returning it to its original state. Practically all existing ecosystems that humans find desirable were produced by profo