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2017公共英语二级考试试题及答案解析
2017年上半年公共英语考试已经于3月18、19日顺利开考，下面是小编整理的公共英语二级试题，希望能帮到大家!
短文理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的[A]、[B]、[C]和[D]四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Text l
Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe(订阅) to as many as two or three newspapers. But why do people read newspapers?
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown (****) or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in far away countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. There are weather reports, radios, television and film guides, book reviews, stories and, of course, advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also very important. Money earned from advertise- ments makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.
Newspapers often have information on gardening, cooking and fashion as well as a small but very popular section on jokes and cartoons( 漫画 ).
21. What is the text about?
A. Advertisements are the most important part in newspapers.
B. It introduces newspapers past and today and its contents.
C. There is a lot of useful information on newspapers.
D. People like newspapers very much.
22. The habit of reading newspapers is________.
A. uncommon in the world
B. not popular in U. S. A.
C. widespread in the world
D. found among a few families
23. The section on jokes and cartoons is________.
A. read only by children
B. of no value
C. not helpful
D. read by many people
Text 2
"New York City is not America. " That's what American friends are sure to you when you ar- rive. "You must see Boston, visit Niagara Falls, go to Virginia, fly down to Florida, and so on; but first, of course, you will want to see New York. It is not the capital city of the United States(that is Washington, D.C. , where the President lives) or even the capital city of New York State(that is Albany), but many people call it 'the greatest city on earth'."
The five parts, or boroughs, of New York City are Manhattan, Queen, Bronz, Richmond and Brooklyn. Although Manhattan is not all of New York, it is the heart of the city. It is an island, which is only about 13 miles long and 2 miles wide. From the air its shape looks like a long finger, and from the sea it's just like the picture we all know. Those tall, straight buildings--the skyscrap- ers-packed so close together on that island of rocks are sometimes seen in the distance through a veil of early morning mist. You have imagined it so often that now it's difficult to believe this beautiful sight is real, and unless your heart is as hard as a stone, excitement will lake it beat a lit- tle faster.Perhaps "greatest", "tallest", "longest", "biggest", "brightest", are words you will find most often in the city guide books.
24.How many places in America are mentioned in this passage besides New York City?
A.6.
B.4.
C.7.
D.5.
25. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
A. Manhattan is the centre of New York City.
B. New York City is made up of five parts.
C. New York looks like a long finger from the air.
D. Manhattan is an island.
26. In the second paragraph, "excitement will make it beat a little faster" here "it" refers to________.
A. this beautiful sight
B. you
C. your heart
D. New York City
Text 3
Pepys and his wife Jane had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666. They were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow(微弱的光) of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o'clock on the Sunday moning, its glow had become so bright that Jane woke her husband to watch .it. Pepys slipped on his dressing-gown and went to the window to watch it. It seemed fairly far away, and after a time he went back to bed. When he got up in the morning, it looked, though the fire was dying down, as though he could still see some flames. So he set to work to tidy his room and put his things back where he wanted them.
While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard the fire was a bad one; hundreds of houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to the Tower of London and climbed upon a high part of the build- ing so that he could see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning. The man of the Tower told him that the fire had started in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane(小巷) ; the baker's house had caught fire from the over-beated oven(烤箱)and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, as it is said, at Pie Corner.
27. What is the passage about?
A. The Great Fire of London.
B. Who was the first to discover the fire.
C. What Pepys was doing during the fire.
D. The losses caused by the fire.
28.They were up very late because______.
A. it was Sunday morning
B. they were not very sleepy
C. they were preparing for the dinner
D. they saw the great fire start
29. In the sentence" Pepys slipped on his dressing-gown. "" slip on" means________.
A. to be wearing
B. to be pushing
C.to take off
D.to put on
30. Why did the flames spread quickly?
A. The oven became very hot.
B. The houses were close together.
C. The baker did nothing to stop it.
D. The baker's house was burning quickly.
答案及解析
21.B
【题型】主旨题
【解析】本文首先介绍了过去和现在的报纸，紧接着说了报纸的内容，可知选B是最符合题意的`。
22.C
【题型】推断题
【解析】根据文章第一句Almost every family buys at least one copy of anewspaper every day.可知，看报纸的习惯在世界上很广泛。
23.D
【题型】细节题
【解析】由文章最后一段…but very popular section on jokes arid car-toons.可知，笑话和漫画很受欢迎，因此推断有很多人看。
24.A
【题型】细节题
【解析】除了New York City，文中还提到了Boston，Niagara Falls，Virginia，Washington，D.C.和Albany。一共6个地方。
25.C【题型】细节题
【解析】由文章第二段一、二、三句可知，A、B、D项均正确。由第四句From the air its shape looks like a long finger.可知是Manhattan lookslike a long finger from the air，而非New York。
26.C
【题型】语义题
【解析】由文中…and unless your heart is as hard as a stone，excitementwill make it beat a little faster.可知，it是指your heart。
27.A
【题型】主旨题
【解析】通过对文章的分析，可知本文记叙了伦敦的大火。而B、C、D三项文中只是提到，而非文章主旨，故不能选择。
28.C
【题型】细节题
【解析】题干问“他们晚上待到很晚是为了_______”。由第一段第二句They were up very late on the Saturday evening，getting everything readyfor the next day…可知是为第二天的宴会做准备。
29.D
【题型】语义题
【解析】由下文…and went to the window to watch it.可知要去窗户那儿看火光，要穿上睡衣才行。to be wearing表示穿着的状态;to takeoff“脱下”;to be pushing“正在推”，均不符合文义。
30.B
【题型】推断题
【解析】题干问“大火为什么迅速蔓延?”由文章第二段倒数第二句…and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrowlane.中的“narrow lane”可推知，这是一个狭窄的小巷，房子一定挨得很紧。
补全文章
There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding.31 The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else.32Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don' t have any difficulty in .gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.
The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely un- derstand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader' s understanding.33Otherwise one per- son could never learn from another. Here "learning" means understanding more, not remembering more information.
What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding.34Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Sec-ond, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, success of communication is achieved.
35It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for under- standing or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.
A. The writer should have a better communicating skill.
B. Such communication between unequals must be possible.
C. We can get access to the content of those materials easily.
D. The writer must be "superior" to the reader in understanding.
E. Thus, we can employ the word "reading" in two distinct senses.
F. Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.
G. Besides gaining information and understanding, there' s another goal of reading-enter-tainment.
答案及解析
31.E【解析】根据第二段第一句的“The first sense is the one...”和第三段第一句的“The second sense is the one in which we…”可知E选项符合题意。故选E项。
32.C【解析】下文中提到“Such materials may increase our store of infor-marion，but they cannot improve our understanding.”，而且选项C也提到了materials一词，故选C项。
33.B【解析】前面两句中说作家的作品中有些读者不知道的内容，是需要读者认真领会的'，因而作家与读者在知识上是不对等的(une.quals)。空格后的句子Otherwise one person could never leam fromanother.表示“否则一个人不可能从另一个人那里学到东西”，该句也解释了unequals(两个水平不同的人)的含义。同时，从行文上看，空前一句提到了communicating，而只有B项中的suchcommunication与之衔接紧密。
34.D【解析】D选项The writer must be“superior”to the reader in under-standing(作者必须比读者的理解力强)与本段第二句“First，thereis inequality in understanding.”相符。故选D项。
35.G【解析】下文内容是上文内容的一个延续，与上文为递进关系，所以用besides开头。本段后面出现了两次entertainment也提示答案为G项。
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的[A]、[B]、[C]和[D]四个选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was the district sports meeting. My foot still hadn't healed(痊愈)from a(n)36injury. I had37whether or not I should attend the meeting. But there I was,38for the 3,000-metre run.
"Ready... set... " The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed39me. I felt40as I fell farther and farther behind.
"Hooray!" shouted the crowd. It was the loudest41I had ever heard at a meeting. The first-place runner was two laps ( 圈 ) ahead of me when she crossed the finish line.
"Maybe I should42," I thought as I moved on.43, I decided to keep going. Dur- ing the last two laps, I ran44and decided not to45in track next year. It wouldn't be worth it,46my foot did heal.
When- I finished, I heard a cheer--47 than the one I'd heard earlier. I turned around and48, the boys were preparing for their race. "They must be cheering for the boys. "I was leaving49several girls came up to me. "Wow, you've got courage !" one of them told me."Courage? I just50a race !" I thought."I would have given up on the first lap," said another girl. "We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?"
Suddenly, I regained51I decided to52track next year. I realized strength and courage aren't always53in medals and victories, but in the54we overcome(战胜). The strongest people are not always the people who win,55the people who don't give up when they lose.
36.A. slighter
B. worse
C. earlier
D. heavier
37.A. expected
B. supposed
C. imagined
D. doubted
38.A. late
B. eager
C. ready
D. thirsty
39.A. from behind
B. ahead of
C. next to
D. close to
40.A. ashamed
B. astonished
C. excited
D. frightened
41.A. cheer
B. shout
C. cry
D. noise
42.A. slow down
B. drop out
C. go on
D. speed up
43.A. Therefore
B. Otherwise
C. Besides
D. However
44.A. with delight
B. with fear
C. in pain
D. in advance
45.A. play
B. arrive
C. race
D. attend
46.A. even if
B. only if
C. unless
D. until
47. A. weaker
B. longer
C. lower
D. louder
48.A. well enough
B. sure enough
C. surprisingly enough
D. strangely enough
49.A. while
B. when
C. as
D. since
50.A. finished
B. won
C. passed
D. lost
51.A. cheer
B. hope
C. interest
D. experience
52.A. hold on
B. turn to
C. begin with
D. stick with
53.A. measured
B. praised
C. tested
D. increased
54.A. sadness
B. struggles
C. diseases
D. tiredness
55. A.or
B.nor
C.and
D.but
答案及解析
36.C.【考点】形容词辨析
【解析】根据语境，应知是运动会之前的脚伤未痊愈，earlier“之前的，较早的”。故本题选C。
37.D
【考点】动词辨析
【解析】作者的脚受伤了，使她对于是否参加比赛有些犹豫不决。doubt“怀疑，迟疑”。故本题选D。
38.C
【考点】形容词辨析
【解析】ready for sth.“为…做准备”，并非怀着渴望心情(eager或thirsty)。
39.B
【考点】介词短语辨析
【解析】from behind“从后面”;ahead of“超过…”;next to“接着…”;close to“紧挨着…”。由下文Ifellfarther andfarther behind可知选B。
40.A
【考点】上下文语义的衔接
【解析】从句意思是作者落在了别人后面，因此很羞愧，ashamed“羞愧的`”符合题意，故本题选A。
41.A
【考点】名词辨析
【解析】cheer表示人群的欢呼声或为运动员加油的喊声;shout“呼喊，喊叫声”;cry“哭声”;noise“噪声”。根据语境可知选A。
42.B
【考点】动词短语辨析
【解析】由上文可知，作者比第一名慢了两圈，觉得很丢脸，想中途放弃。drop out“放弃，退出”。故本题选B。
43.D
【考点】副词辨析
【解析】therefore“所以”;otherwise“否则”;besides“除了”;however表示转折关系。drop out和keep going构成转折关系。故本题选D。
44.C
【考点】名词短语的辨析
【解析】因为作者有脚伤，因此跑得很痛苦。in pain“在痛苦之中”。故本题选C。
45.C
【考点】动词辨析
【解析]play“玩耍”;arrive“到达”，与原文意思不符;race“赛跑”，是不及物动词;attend是及物动词，后应加宾语。
语法填空
It was a sunny day. A little boy' s father was sitting on the couch, drinking a beer while watc. hing56basketball match. Seeing this, the boy rushed to his father and shouted, "Daddy, show me how to play catch!" The father, stating57the television screen, replied, "Let me finish watching the match. Play outside and come back in five minutes. "
"Okay, Daddy !" said the boy, running out of the room. Five minutes later, the boy returnee58(scream), "Daddy, Let's play catch now!"
By this time, the father had opened another cold beer and another match was beginning.59(patient) with the boy' s interruption, the dad brought a magazine to his son. On the covet of the magazine was a large picture of the world. The father, who was angry and60( both- er), began tearing the magazine cover into small61. Then, the father turned to his boy and said, "Son, once you put this picture back together, we can play catch, but do not interrupt me a- gain62you finish. "
A few minutes later, the boy returned and said, "I have finished, Daddy! Can we play catcbnow?"63( surprise), the father glanced towards his child, and64lay the magazine with the world pieced perfectly together in his small hands. The dad asked his child how he put the world together so quickly.
"65was simple," said the boy. "On the back of the world was the picture of a person,and once I put the person together, that' s when the world came together. "
答案及解析
56.【答案】a
【解析】本题考查冠词。语境表示父亲正在看一场篮球比赛，故应在单数可数名词match前加冠词a，泛指“一场比赛”。
57.【答案】at
【解析】本题考查介词。这里用stare at表示“盯着…看”。故填at。
58.【答案】screaming
【解析】本题考查非谓语动词。本空所在句子的两个动词return和scream之间没有连词，因此本空用现在分词作伴随状语。故填scream的现在分词形式screaming。
59.【答案】Impatient
【解析】本题考查形容词转换。由本段内容可知，父亲对孩子是极不耐烦的，这里应该用形容词短语impatient with作状语，表示“对…不耐烦”。
60.【答案】bothered
【解析】本题考查动词语态。语境表示父亲很生气，很恼火，动词both—er在这里用被动语态be bothered表示“被打扰”。
61.【答案】pieces
【解析】本题考查名词搭配。这里用tear…into pieces表示“把…撕成碎片”。
62.【答案】until/before
【解析】本题考查状语从句。语境表示“在你做完之前不要来打扰我”，故用until或before引导时间状语从句。
63.【答案】Surprised
【解析】本题考查非谓语动词。父亲惊讶地看向自己的'孩子。sat-prised表示“感到惊讶的”。
64.【答案】there
【解析】本题考查句式。这里用there lay句式表示“…就在那里放着”。
65.【答案】It/That/This
【解析】本题考查代词。这里用代词it，that或this指代前面提到的“把这些碎片粘贴到一起”。
改写对话
66.阅读下面的对话，根据其内容写一篇有关该调查的'说明文。要求：
1.所写短文应与对话相关内容意义相符，涵盖其要点。
2.用你自己的语言来表达，可以改写对话中的句子，但不可以照抄原句。
注意：词数80词左右。
Tina:What are you reading, Chris?
Chris:A report about a recent Harris poll. They asked people in different countries how they spend their spare time.
Tina:Sounds interesting. But I spend so much time working that I don' t have much time.left for leisure activities.
Chris: Exactly. The report says the average working hours for Americans is 50 hours a week.
Tina: And we also have to sleep, eat, and take care of our families.
Chris: Still, having time to relax and pursue your hobbies is important.
Tina: Yeah, I agree. So what do people do in their free time?
Chris: Americans read the most in their spare time.
Tina: Yeah, you can often see people with books on the subway or while waiting for the bus.
Chris: The NO. 2 popular activity is watching TV.
Tina: I totally understand that. Don' t you just want to sit there and let go of all complicated thoughts?
Chris: Right. People in the U. K. also ranked watching TV and videos as their favorite spare time activity. The next thing they love is listening to the radio.
Tina: Oh, the British. They love their radios.
Chris: And they love their pubs, too. Their favorite outdoor activity is going to the pub.
答案：
66.参考范文
A recent Harris poll studied how people in different countries spend their free time.Many people don’t have much time for leisure activities because in average，the Americans spend 50 hours a week working.And after that， they love reading the most，and also spend time watching TV.People in the U.K.spend most of their free time watching TV and listening to the radi0. They also like to go to the pub in their spare time.
应用文写作
67.为了丰富外国留学生的生活，你校学生会将举行一次“音乐周”活动。请你以组织者的.身份写一个书面通知书，有关内容如下：
时间：5月第一周;
活动：演唱流行歌曲;
乐器演奏：古典和民间音乐;
音乐比赛：听歌曲片段，然后猜出处;
地点：届时通知;
参加者请于4月20日前报名;
书面通知应写成一篇连贯的短文;
可以适当增加细节;
注意：词数80词左右。
.参考范文
N0TICE
Dear students
The Students’Union has decided to organize a music week.It will be held in the first week of May.The activities include singing pop songs and playing classical and folk music.Bring your own musical instruments， please.A music contest will be held too.The students taking part in the con— test will listen to a part of a song or a piece of music，and then guess where it comes from.If you’d like to take part in the music week，please come and sign up for it before April 20th.The place for the activities will be an— nounced later，come to the great fun!
Students’Union
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