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1、2021广西公共英语考试真题卷（5）本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.The piano and violin are girls’ instruments. Drums and trumpets are for boys. According to Psychologists Susan O’neil and Michael Bottome, children have very clear ideas about which musical inst

2、ruments they should play. They found that despite the best efforts of teachers, these ideas have changed very little over the past decade. They interviewed 153 children, aged between 9 and 11, from schools in northwest England. They asked them to identify four musical instruments and then say which

3、they would like to play most and which they would least like to play. They also asked the children for their views on whether boys or girls should not play any of the four instruments. The piano and violin were both ranked more favorably by girls than by boys, while boys preferred the drums and trum

4、pets, There was a broad agreement between boys and girls on which instruments each sex should play and the masons varied. And while almost half of all boys said they avoided certain instruments because they were too difficult to play. Only 15 percent of girls gave that as a reason. Earlier studies i

5、ndicated that very young school children aged between 5 and 7, showed no bias in choosing musical instruments. But their tastes become more clear between the ages of 8 and 10. One survey of 78 teachers suggested that after that age, both boys and gifts begin to restrict themselves to the so-called m

6、ale or female instruments.Why do many of the boys avoid certain instruments ()ABecause they find it not challenging enough to play them.BBecause they consider it important to be different from girls.CBecause they find them too hard to play.DBecause they think it silly to play them.2.M: Well, madam,

7、the first and the most important thing I have to tell you is that there is really nothing seriously wrong with you, physically that is. The analyst’s report shows that basically you are very fit.W: So, why is it that I’m always so nervous. tense. ready to jump on anybody-my husband, chil

8、dren, and colleaguesM: I think your condition has a lot to do with your habits.W: HabitsM: Yes. now tell me, madam, you smoke, don’t youW: Yes, I’m afraid I do, doctor.M: And, very heavily, I imagine.W: Yes, quite heavily.M: What do you eat normallyW: I’m a good eater. Yes, I&rsquo

9、;d say I’m a good eater. But usually, I don’t eat breakfast.M: That’s bad for your health. I think you should get up early and have breakfast. And, another question, do you get up earlyW: No, I usually get up at 9:00 a. m. I get up late because I go to bed too late. I stay up late

10、watching TV till the midnight.M: What sport do you usually doW: I don’t like sports. But sometimes I play cards with some friends, that may be my sport.M: I think, madam, for your health, you’d better change your way of life.The patient, according to the analysts report, is().Aphysically

11、 ill.Bmentally ill.Cfit.Dnervous.3.Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equatio

12、ns quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit bad

13、ges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is intelligent. Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.If you are happy

14、, if you live each moment for everything it’s worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose u

15、nhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N. B. D. -Nervous Break Down.Intelligent people do not have N. B. D. It’s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they kno

16、w how to deal with the problems of their lives.You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any socia

17、l context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events, which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to mak

18、e it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N. B. D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don’t measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rar

19、e.It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree().Amay result in one’s inability to solve complex real-life problems.Bdoes not indicate one’s ability to write properly worded documents.Cmay make one mentally sick and physically weak.Ddoes not mean that one is highly intel

20、ligent.4.Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own. (21) the turn of the century when jazz (爵士乐) was born, America had no prominent (22) of its own. No one knows exactly when jazz was (23) , or by whom. But it began to be (24) in the early 1900s. Jazz is America’s con

21、tribution to (25) music. In contrast to classical music, which (26) formal European traditions. Jazz is spontaneous and free-form. It bubbles with energy, 27 moods, interests, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s, jazz (28) like America. And (29) it does today.The (30) of this music are as inter

22、esting as the music (31) , American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today were the Jazz (32) . They were brought to the Southern states (33) slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long (34) . When a Negro died, his friends and relatives (35) a procession to carry the b

23、ody to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the (36) . On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion, (37) on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Death had removed one of their (38) , but the living were glad to be alive. The band p

24、layed (39) music, improvising (即兴表演) on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes (40) at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of Jazz.21().ABeforeBAtCInDOn5.Education is primarily the responsibility of the states. State constitutions set up certain standards

25、and rules for the establishment of school. State laws require children to go to school until they reach a certain age. The actual control of the schools, however, is usually a local matter.The control of the schools does not usually come directly from the local government. In each of the three types

26、 of city government, public schools are generally quite separate and independent. They cooperate with local officials but are not dominated by the municipal government. Most Americans believe that schools should be free of political pressures. They believe that the separate control of the school sys

27、tems preserves such freedom.Public schools are usually maintained by school districts. The state often sets the district boundaries. Sometimes the school district has the same boundaries as the city. Sometimes it is larger than the city.In the South, county boards of education members are elected. I

28、n some places they are appointed by the mayor or city council. The state legislature decides which method should be used.Most district boards of education try to give all pupils a chance to get a good education. A good education prepares a person to live a better life. It helps him to become a bette

29、r citizen.Nearly all states give financial aid to local school districts. State departments of education offer other kinds of aid. States offer help with such things as program planning and the school districts.The federal government also helps. The National Defense Education Act allows school distr

30、icts to get financial aid for certain purposes. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 added many other kinds of financial help. But neither the state nor the federal government dictates school policy. This is determined by local school boards.How did the state control education ()ABy se

31、tting up certain standard and rules.BBy requesting the children to go to schools until they are of certain age.CEither A or B.DBoth A and B.6.Karen Rusa was a 30-year-old woman and the mother of four children. For the past several months Karen had been experiencing repetitive thoughts that centered

32、around her children’s safety. She frequently found herself imagining that a serious accident had occurred; she was unable to put these thoughts out of her mind. On one such occasion she imagined that her son, Alan, had broken his leg playing football at school. There was no reason to believe t

33、hat an accident had occurred, but she kept thinking about the possibility until she finally called the school to see if Alan was all right. Even after receiving their assurance that he had not been hurt, she described herself as being somewhat surprised when he later arrived home unharmed. Karen als

34、o noted that her daily routine was seriously hampered by an extensive series of counting work that she performed throughout each day. Specific numbers had come to have a special meaning to her; she found that her preoccupation with these numbers was hampering her ability to perform everyday activiti

35、es. One example was grocery shopping. Karen believed that if she selected the first item on the shelf, something terrible would happen to her oldest child. If she selected the second item, some unknown disaster would fall on her second child, and so on for the four children. Karen’s preoccupat

36、ion with numbers extended to other activities, most notable the pattern in which she smoked cigarettes and drank coffee. If she had one cigarette; she believed that she had to smoke at least tour in a row, or one of her children would be harmed in some way. If she drank one cup of coffee, she felt c

37、ompelled to drink tour. Karen acknowledged the unreasonableness of these rules, but, nevertheless, maintained that she felt more comfortable. When she observed them earnestly, when she was occasionally in too great a hurry to observe these rules, she experienced considerable anxiety, in the form of

38、a subjective feeling of dread and fear. She described herself as tense, uneasy, and unable to relax during these periods. The occurrence of rarely minor accidents does not reduce her belief that she had been directly responsible because of her inability to observe the rules about number.Which of the

39、 following statements, if tree, could most probably cure Karen of the illness ()AHer children were all right.BShe had a job having little to do with numbers.CShe went to a psychoanalyst.DShe gave up smoking and drinking coffee.7.Jane Brown, has been married for 12 years, she has three children and l

40、ives in a suburb outside Columbus, Ohio. When her youngest child reached school age, Jane decided to go back to work. She felt that she should contribute to the household finances. Her salary could make the difference between the financial struggle and a secure financial situation for her family. Ja

41、ne also felt bored and frustrated in her role as a home maker and wanted to be more involved in life outside her home. Jane was worried about the children’s adjustment to the new situation, but she arranged for them to go to stay with a woman nearby after school each afternoon. They seemed to

42、be .happy with the arrangement. The problem seemed to be between Jane and her husband Bill.When Jane was at home all day, she was able to clean the house, go grocery shopping, wash the clothes, take care of the children and cook the two or three meals each day. She was very busy, of course, but she

43、succeeded in getting everything done. Now these same things need to be done, but Jane has only evenings and early mornings to do them. Both Jane and Bill are fired when they arrived at home at six p. m. Bill is accustomed to sitting down and reading the paper or watching TV until the dinner is ready

44、. This is exactly what Jane feels like doing, but someone has to fix the dinner, and Bill expects it to be Jane. Jane is becoming very angry at Bill’s attitude. She feels that they should share the household jobs. But Bill feels that everything should be the same as it was before she went back

45、 to work.How did Jane spend her days before she went back to work ()AWatching TV.BTaking good care of her husband.CDoing housework.DReading newspaper.8.In the 1920s demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted austerity (紧缩) programs

46、to reduce their imports. The result was a sharp drop in farm prices. This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, because farmers were no longer self-sufficient. They were paying for machinery, seed, and fertilizer, and they were also buying consumer goods. The prices of

47、the items farmers bought remained constant, while prices they received for their products fell. These developments were made worse by the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and extended throughout the 1939s.In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Board was organized. It establis

48、hed the principle of direct interference with supply and demand, and it represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stability for farmers. President Hoover’s successor attached even more importance to this problem. One of the first measures proposed by President Frank

49、lin D. Roosevelt when he took office in 1933 was the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which was subsequently passed by Congress. This law gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to reduce production through voluntary agreements with farmers who were paid to take their land out of use. A deliberate scarcity of farm products was planned in an effort to raise prices. This law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on the grounds that gen