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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115公共英语五级模拟115Section 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
2、THREE 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 bo
3、oklet 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 talk. As you listen, answer Question 1 to 10 by circling True or False. You will hear the t
4、alk ONLY ONCE. You now have 60 seconds to read Question 110. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 1. Recurrent education is designed for full-time students to gain knowledge outside their school study.答案:B解析 1-10 Recurrent education is instruction for men and women who no longer go to school full time. It is also c
5、alled continuing education or adult education. Recurrent education includes classes, correspondence courses, discussion groups, lectures, reading programs, and other organized learning activities. It does not include such pastimes as reading or watching television, though they also may be educationa
6、l. In the United States, about 50 million Americans-more than a fourth of the adult population-participate in some form of recurrent education. Men and women enroll in some form of recurrent education activities for a variety of reasons. Many take part to improve their job skills-to get new jobs or
7、to advance in the ones that they already have. Some people want to learn such skills as pottery making or speed reading to use in their leisure time. Others participate simply for the joy of learning and may not plan to use the knowledge in any specific way. Many of these people study such subjects
8、as art, literature, and philosophy. Still other adults attend classes to meet people and to make new friends. There are many motives for recurrent education. Recurrent education differs in several ways from the education of children. Most adults want to learn a skill they can use immediately. Childr
9、en go to school to learn general skills they will use after they grow up. Also, adults have more experience and knowledge than children do, and the teaching in recurrent education is naturally more advanced. For example, a teacher might use more group discussions with a class of adults. Most childre
10、n receive free schooling, but most adults pay for much or all of their instruction. As a result, adult education must provide programs that adults are interested in. There are four chief sources of recurrent education; public schools, colleges and universities, private schools, and the government. M
11、any business companies, churches, libraries, museums, park systems, and other organizations also provide educational programs for adults. Two major testing programs enable adults to take examinations to earn credit for the equivalent of a high school or college education. These programs are the Gene
12、ral Educational Development Test (or GED) and the more advanced College Level Examination Program (or CLEP). The GED is administered by the departments of education of all the 50 states and of several Canadian provinces. Adults who pass the test receive a high school equivalency certificate which is
13、 often considered the equivalent of a high school diploma. The CLEP test enables adults to earn credits that can be applied toward a college degree. 2. Recurrent education also provides learners such pastimes as reading or watching television.答案:B3. In the United States, more than a fourth of the ad
14、ult population join some form of recurrent education.答案:A4. Pottery making or speed reading are the recurrent education activities some people long to get in their leisure time.答案:A5. People enroll-in some form of recurrent education activities to use the knowledge they learn.答案:B6. The teaching in
15、recurrent education is more advanced than the teaching children receive from school.答案:A7. A teacher often uses group discussions with children in school.答案:B8. Except the four chief sources of recurrent education, no other organizations provide recurrent education for adults.答案:B9. Adults can earn
16、credit for the equivalent of a high school or college education by GED or CLEP.答案:A10. Recurrent education is a means through which adults get the chance to arm themselves with skills, knowledge and entertain themselves in their leisure time.答案:APart B You will hear 3 conversations or talks and you
17、must answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear the recording ONLY ONCE. Questions 1113 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 1113. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 1. Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because _ .A.t
18、he hunters wanted to see the picturesB.the painters were animal loversC.the painters wanted to show imaginationD.the pictures were thought to be helpful答案:D解析 11-13 People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They use
19、d to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human being
20、s have always wanted to tell stories in pictures. About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the New East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these pe
21、ople used became a kind of alphabet. The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pic
22、tures are like modem comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it. By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived i
23、n the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this sys
24、tem and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world. These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams
25、. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting. 2. The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for al
26、l the following reasons EXCEPT that _ .A.the former was easy to writeB.there were fewer signs in the formerC.the former was easy to pronounceD.each sign stood for only one sound答案:C3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A.The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet.B.The Egyptians li
27、ked to write comic-strip stories.C.The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.D.The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians.答案:A Questions 14-16 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 1416. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 4. Why are the private land
28、s surrounding Glacier National Park so important?A.They function as a hunting preserve.B.They are restricted to government use.C.They are heavily populated.D.They contain natural habitats of threatened species.答案:D解析 14-16 Glacier National Park in Montana shares boundaries with Canada, an American I
29、ndian reservation, and a national forest. Along the North Fork of the Flat head River, the park also borders about 17,000 acres of private lands that are currently used for ranching, timber, and agriculture. This land is an important part of the habitat and migratory routes for several endangered sp
30、ecies that frequent the park. These private lands are essentially the only ones available for development in the region. With encouragement from the park, local landowners initiated a land-use planning effort to guide the future of the North Fork. The park is a partner in an interlocal agreement tha
31、t calls for resource-managing agencies to work together and with the more than 400 private owners in the area. A draft plan has been prepared, with objective of maintaining traditional economic uses but limiting new development that would damage park resources. Voluntary action by landowners, in coo
32、peration with the park and the country, is helping to restrict small-lot subdivisions, maintain wildlife corridors, and minimize any harmful impact on the environment. The willingness of local landowners to participate in this protection effort may have been stimulated by concerns that congress woul
33、d impose a legislative solution. Nevertheless, many local residents want to retain the existing character or the area. Meeting between park officials and landowners have led to a dramatically improved understanding of all concerns. 5. The relationship between park officials and neighboring landowner
34、s may best be described as _ .A.indifferentB.intimateC.cooperativeD.disappointing答案:C6. It can be inferred from the passage that a major interest of the officials of Glacier National Park is to _ .A.limit land development around the parkB.establish a new park in MontanaC.influence national legislati
35、onD.settle border disputes with Canada答案:A Questions 1720 are based on the following talk. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 1720. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 7. The author refers to the impact of railroads before the late 1860s as limited because _ .A.the track did not take the direct route from o
36、ne city to the next.B.passengers and freight had to transfer to other modes of transportation to reach western destinationsC.passengers preferred stagecoachesD.railroad travel was quite expensive答案:B解析 17-20 Before the mid-1860s, the impact of the railroads in the United States was limited, in the s
37、ense that the tracks ended at this Missouri River, approximately the center of the country. At the point the trains turned their freight, mail, and passengers over to steamboats, wagons, and stagecoaches. This meant that wagon freighting, stage-coaching, and steam-boating did not come to an end when
38、 the first train appeared; rather they became supplements or feeders. Each new end-of-track became a center for animal drawn or waterborne transportation. The major effect of the railroad was to shorten the distance that had to be covered by the older, slower, and more costly means. Wagon freighters
39、 continued operating throughout the 1870s and 1880s and into the 1890s. Although over constantly shrinking routes, and coaches and wagons continued to crisscross the West wherever the rails had not yet been laid. The beginning of a major change was foreshadowed in the late 1860s, when the Union Paci
40、fic Railroad at last began to build westward from the Central Plains city of Omaha to meet the Central Pacific Railroad advancing eastward from California through the formidable barrier of the Sierra Nevada. Although President Abraham Lincoln signed the original Pacific Railroad Bill in 1862 and a r
41、evised, financially much more generous version in 1864, little construction was completed until 1865 on the Central Pacific and 1866 on the Union Pacific. The primary reason was skepticism that a Railroad built through so challenging and thinly settled a stretch of desert, mountain, and semiarid pla
42、in could pay a profit. In the words of an economist, this was a ease of premature enterprise, where not only the cost of construction but also the very high risk deterred private investment. In discussing the Pacific Railroad Bill, the chair of the congressional committee bluntly stated that without
43、 government subsidy no one would undertake so unpromising a venture; yet it was a national necessity to link East and West together. 8. What can be inferred about coaches and wagon freighters as the railroad expanded?A.They developed competing routes.B.Their drivers refused to work for the railroads
44、.C.They began to specialize in private investment.D.There were insufficient numbers of trained people to operate them.答案:D9. Why does the author mention the Sierra Nevada?A.To argue that a more direct route to the West could have been taken.B.To identify a historically significant mountain range in
45、the West.C.To point out the location of a serious train accident.D.To give an example of an obstacle faced by the central Pacific.答案:D10. The word subside is closest in meaning to _ .A.persuasionB.financingC.explanationD.penalty答案:BPart C You will hear a talk about computers. As you listen, you must
46、 answer Questions 21-30 by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words in the space provided on the right. You will hear the talk TWICE. You now have 60 seconds to read Questions 21-30. (如需获取本MP3听力录音请搜索标题名) 1. Computers can process _ at great speed.答案: highly complex information解析 21-30 There are at present ov
47、er one quarter of a million computers in the world. Basically, a computer is a device for storing and processing information, or data as it is called. People have found ways of doing these things for thousands of years, of course. But computers can process highly complex information at great speed.
48、Because of this they are transforming many aspects of lives. The development of microprocessors-you heard about their manufacture earlier-has speeded up this change even more. Microprocessors make it possible for computers to work much faster and to be made much smaller. So any particular computer can also be made more complex without taking up too much room. Computers are now being used in an