湖北省宜昌市公共英语五级(笔试)测试卷(含答案)学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、1.Listening Comprehension(15题)1. Those who visit London will certainly go to_A.the Tower of LondonB.HarrodsC.Buckingham PalaceD.The Greenwich village2. What job did Dr. Huber compare physics to?3.听力原文： Yesterday we discussed the problem of rising prices, or, in the economists terms, inflation. We noted that, during periods of inflation, all prices and incomes do not rise at the same rate. Some incomes rise more slowly than the cost of living, and a few do not rise at all. Other incomes rise more rapidly than the cost of living.We concluded that persons with fixed incomes, for example, the elderly who depend upon pensions, and persons with slow-rising incomes as, for example , an employee with a salary agreed to in a long-term contract, will be most seriously affected by inflation. Please remember that while their dollar incomes, stay the same, the cost of goods and services rises, and in effect, real income decreases, that is, they are able to purchase less with the same amount of money.We also talked about the fact that stockholders and persons with business interests and investments would probably benefit most from inflation, since high prices would increase sales receipts, and profits would likely rise faster than the cost of living.And now, before we begin todays lecture, are there any questions about the term, inflation or any of the examples given in our discussion so far?Whats the main purpose of the talk?A.To introduce the concept of inflation.B.To discuss the causes of inflation.C.To review yesterdays lecture on inflation.D.To argue in favor of inflation.4. Whats the essential point we should realize about speech and writing?5. What will the speaker discuss first?6. Wang decides to take courses and pass exams.A.True B.Fasle7. A 15% -20% drop in body water can cause the blood system to fail.A.True B.Fasle8. Why are students enthusiastic for positions in student organizations?A.Because they hate the constant pressure and strain of their study.B.Because they will then be able to stay longer in the university.C.Because such positions help them hunt better jobs.D.Because such positions are usually well paid.9. What kind of grain did most Europeans eat 500 years ago?10. According to the speaker, why do pesticides pose a threat to amphibians?A.Pesticides can cause an amphibians skin to dry out.B.Pesticides kill the insects that amphibians depend on for food.C.Dissolved pesticides can easily enter amphibians bodies.D.Amphibians may eat plants that have been treated with pesticides.11. What is the relationship between the man and the woman in the dialogue?A.Reporter and fashion designer.B.Husband and wife.C.Shop assistant and customer.D.Teacher and student.12. How long did the journey take from England to India in the old days?13. A simple diet high in vitamins and sugar but low in fat and chemicals benefits those people in Hunza.A.Right B.Wrong14. People like the changes in the organization of the companyA.Right B.Wrong15. According to the woman, why are women much better at dealing with more than one thing at a time,but men are not as good?A.Because women have better abilities.B.Because men are not used to housework.C.Because men lack practice,D.Because men find it easy to concentrate on only one thing.二、2.Use of English(10题)16.【C4】17.(41)18.(44)19.(37)20.【C5】21.(47)22.(39)23.【C6】24.【C17】25.(50)三、3.Reading Comprehension(15题)26.At 18, Ashanthi DeSilva of suburban Cleveland is a living symbol of one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century. Born with an extremely rare and usually fatal disorder that left her without a functioning immune system(the bubble-boy disease , named after an earlier victim who was kept alive for years in a sterile plastic tent), she was treated beginning in 1990 with a revolutionary new therapy that sought to correct the defect at its very source, in the genes of her white blood cells. It worked. Although her last gene-therapy treatment was in 1992, she is completely healthy with normal immune function, according to one of the doctors who treated her, W. French Anderson of the University of Southern California. Researchers have long dreamed of treating diseases from hemophilia to cancer by replacing mutant genes with normal ones. And the dreaming may continue for decades more. There will be a gene-based treatment for essentially every disease, Anderson says, within 50 years. It s not entirely clear why medicine has been so slow to build on Andersons early success. The National Institutes of Health budget office estimates it will spend $ 432 million on gene-therapy research in 2005, and there is no shortage of prom