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公共英语五级-127
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Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following talk about music. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 to 13.
Music is often divided into several categories, or groups. Some of the categories are. classical music, traditional music, rock music, and jazz music.
The first kind, classical music, refers to orchestra music that originated in Europe a few hundred years ago. Most of the original classical music was composed, or written, in Italy, Germany, Austria, or Russia. Beethoven and Bach were two famous composers of classical music. Classical music is usually played by a variety of string instruments, such as the violin, and by a variety of wind instruments such as the flute.
The second type of music is traditional music. Traditional music is music that comes from a particular culture. Every culture has its own special forms of traditional music. For example, "blues" music is one kind of traditional music in the United States and "enka&
A. Russia
B. Australia
C. Italy
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P: Phew! I had to run all the way to make it.
S: You are a little late. May I see your boarding pass
P: Let me see. Where did I put it Oh, here it is. I hope I got the non-smoking section. I was in such a hurry.
S: Yes, you did. It’s seat 32 C on the aisle.
P: Miss, this is my first flight. I wonder if you could show me the ropes.
S: Don’t be embarrassed! Everyone has to make their first flight sometime. I’d be glad to. That’s what we are here for.
P: Thanks, I don’t even know how to find my seat.
S: They are all numbered. Just go straight back and another stewardess will show you where to sit and how to fasten your safety belt.
P: And then
S: Then listen to the intercom for further instructions.
P: Thank you.
S: You are welcome. I’ll come back later to see that you are OK.
P: Thanks again. (Later)
S: Hello there. How are you doing
P: -
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Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following talk about Clinton. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 to 20.
In January 1998, President William J. Clinton issued an Executive memorandum on enhancing learning and education through technology in which he directed Federal programs that provide financial support for lifelong learning to adapt to the new opportunities that technology provides. He also called for a Federal government-wide effort to explore how Federal programs can better support the use of technologies for lifelong learning. A few weeks later, in his state of the Union address, the president commended the Congress for passing a lifelong learning tuition tax credit which he had proposed, and he offered new initiatives to enable Americans to continue their education. In November, 1997, Vice-president Albert Gore, Jr. addressed a national conference on "Creating a Nation of Lifelong Learners", where he spoke of the importance of life-long learni
A. On enhancing learning and education through technology.
B. On Federal programs.
C. On new opportunities that technology provides.
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[填空题]has been broadly characterized by its openness to trade and foreign investment 71. ______
has a strong link with the U. S. economy 72. ______
was severely impaired in its economy by the crisis in and beyond Southeast Asia 73. ______
called for reform in economic and financial structures, which was particularly true during the crisis in South-east Asia 74. ______
has strengthened links with the Southern part of China 75. ______
wants to lower inter-provincial trade barriers to strengthen internal deregulation 76. ______
is the one where the lack of stability in economy, society and politics blocked its economic development 77. ______
was a special Administrative Region within one country with a high degree of autonomy 78. ______
takes advantage of market both at home and abroad 79. ______
is a very liberal WTO member or actively involved in the work in WTO 80. ______
- [简答题]You have read an article in a magazine which states, "People should never be satisfied with the existing state of affairs. They should always want something novel and something different. "
Write an article entitled Dissatisfactions Propel the Society Forward to clarify your own points of view towards this issue. You should use your own ideas, knowledge or experience to generate support for your argument and include an example.
You should write no less than 250 words. Write your article on ANSWER SHEET 2.
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Questions 14 to 16 are based on a monologue about stages of sleep. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 to 16.
No one knows exactly why we sleep. But scientists have learned a lot about how we sleep. From sleep experiments, scientists have learned that there are four different stages of sleep.
When you first fall asleep, your heart starts to beat more slowly and your breathing slows down. If something wakes you, you might not think that you had been asleep. Some people call this kind of sleep dozing. Scientists call it stage one sleep.
Next, if you are not awakened, you drift into a deeper sleep. Your pulse and breathing become even slower than they were during stage one sleep. But you can still be awakened quite easily. If you take a cat nap, you probably will not get any further than this stage of sleep, which is called stage two.
If you sleep longer than about twenty minutes, you go into the third stage of sleep. Your body is very relaxe
A. Reason’s for Peoples Sleep
B. Four Stages of Sleep
C. Reasons for Sleepwalking
D. A Sleep Experiment- [单项选择]
Managers spend a great deal of their time in meetings. According to Henry Mintzberg, in his book, The Nature of Managerial Work, managers in large organizations spend only 22 per cent of their time on meetings. So what are the managers doing in those meetings There have conventionally been two answers. The first is the academic version: Managers are coordinating and controlling, making decisions, solving problems and planning. This interpretation has been largely discredited because it ignores the social and political forces at work in meetings.
The second version claims that meetings provide little more than strategic sites for corporate gladiators to perform before the organizational emperors. This perspective is far more attractive, and has given rise to a large, and often humorous, body of literature on gamesmanship and posturing in meetings.
It is, of course, true that meeting rooms serve as shop windows for managerial talent, but this is far from the truth a
A. At their desks.
B. In meetings.
C. On visits to company production areas.
D. On business trips.- [简答题]
In an age when television is a vital entertainment medium, more and more people are using it as a study aid. In Britain, the Open University, founded in 1969, encourages homebased students to study for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees using a combination of television and radio programmes and correspondence work, where students send in assignments to their tutors and have them returned after assessment.
The Open University has no formal entrance requirements for its students and is designed particularly for people who have missed out on a formal tertiary education because of lack of money or opportunity in the past. Study programmes may include marketing, and business management; in countries such as Australia and New Zealand, language courses in Spanish, French and Mandarin are also popular. Those who promote the television courses talk of the opportunity it gives for people to learn "in their own place, at their own pace and in their own time. "- [单项选择]
A new era is upon us. Call it what you will: the service economy, the information age, the knowledge society. It all translates to a fundamental change in the way we work. Already we’ re partly there. The percentage of people who earn their living by making things has fallen dramatically in the Western world. Today the majority of jobs in America, Europe and Japan(two thirds or more in many of these countries) are in the service industry, and the number is on the rise. More women are in the work force than ever before. There are more part-time jobs. More people are self--employed. But the breadth of the economic transformation can’t be measured by numbers alone, because it also is giving rise to a radical new way of thinking about the nature of work itself. Long--held notions about jobs and careers, the skills needed to succeed, even the relation between individuals and employers of all these are being challenged.
We have only to look behind us to get some sen
A. people should be able to respond quickly to the advancement of technology
B. future achievements in technology will bring about inconceivable dramatic changes
C. the importance of high technology has been overlooked
D. computer science will play a leading role in the future information services- [填空题]
From her vantage point she watched the main doors swing open and the first arrivals pour in. Those who had been at the head of the line paused momentarily on entry, looked around curiously, then quickly moved forward as others behind pressed in. Within moments the central public area of the big branch bank was filled with a chattering, noisy crowd. The building, relatively quiet less than a minute earlier, had become a Babel. Edwina saw a tall heavy-set black man wave some dollar bills and announce loudly, "I want to put my money in the bank. "
66. ______
It seemed as if the report about everyone having come to open an account had been accurate after all.
Edwina could see the big man leaning back expansively, who was still holding his dollar bills. His voice cut across the noise of other conversations and she heard him proclaim, "I’m in no hurts. There’s something I’d like you to explain. "
Two other desks were- [填空题]
An economist is someone who knows a lot about how goods and wealth are produced and used. Food, for (31) , is a kind of goods. Everyone eats food, but the average person does not think much (32) all the things that must happen before (33) appears on his plate.
Another example is the paper this article is printed on. (34) started as wood on a tree very far from (35) . Men and machines made the wood (36) paper, which had to be packaged and carried (37) trucks and put into stores. At every step in the process people had to be paid for their work; money had to (38) used for buying and repairing the machines, and so on. Of course, everyone (39) had to make (40) , too. Even a very simple thing (41) a piece of paper has a long story (42) it. Economists try to understand how all the parts of the long story are related.
(43) economist learns how to guess (44- [单项选择]
Painting your house is like adding something to a huge communal picture in which the rest of the painting is done either by nature or by other people. The picture is not static; it changes as we move about, with the time of day, with the seasons, with new planting, new buildings and with alterations to old ones. Any individual house is just a fragment of this picture, nevertheless it has the power to make or mark the overall scene. In the past people used their creative talents in painting their homes, with great imagination and in varied but always subtly blending colors. The last vestiges of this great tradition can still be seen in the towns of the extreme west of Ireland. It has never been recognized as an art form, partly because of the physical difficulty of hanging a street in a gallery and partly because it is always changing, as paint fades and is renewed. Also it is a communal art which cannot be identified with any person, except in those many cases where great artists
A. It is a communal piece of work which cannot be identified with any one person.
B. It is impossible to display it to the gallery--going public.
C. It is not static.
D. People tend to think that communal picture is only a street scene that has no artistic value. - [简答题]You have read an article in a magazine which states, "People should never be satisfied with the existing state of affairs. They should always want something novel and something different. "