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1、2021年湖北省咸宁市公共英语五级(笔试)模拟考试(含答案)学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、1.Listening Comprehension(15题)1.Part CDirections: You will hear a talk. As you listen, answer the questions or complete the notes in your test booklet for Questions 21-30 by writing NOT MORE THAN THREE words in the space provided on the right. You w
2、ill hear the talk TWICE.You now have 1 minute to read Questions 21-30.听力原文： Today we take it for granted that the mail will be delivered daily at our doorBut many years ago it might have been placed in a tree trunk or underneath a rockIn the early days of the mail no one could be sure about where or
3、 when it would arriveAt the southern tip of Africa there was once a post office under a rockIn the old days the route from England to India was around the Cape of Good HopeThe journey was stormy and dangerousIt took six long monthsSailors often wished to send mail homebut they seldom met ships bound
4、 back to EnglandSo at the cape the sailors would go ashoreThey headed for a certain large stoneOn the stone were scratched the words “Look hereunder for letters”They would leave their letters thereknowing that the next homeward-bound ship would stop and pick them upThere was another post office like
5、 this at the southern tip of South AmericaDuring the gold rush days，boats sailed around Cape Horn to CaliforniaAt Cape Horn was a keg nailed to a postBoats coming from the east coast would send a small boat ashore to this post officeThey picked up any letters in the kegAt the same time they mailed l
6、etters home that boats sailing east could pick upIn the state of Washington stands the stump of a huge cedarIt，too，was once a post officeSettlers needed a place for the mail carriers to leave their lettersTheir houses were so widely scattered that the mail carrier could not reach all of themand the
7、post office was far away over rough roadsSo the settlers found a tree that stood where several trails crossedThey cut the tree down ten feet from the groundhollowed it outand covered it with a roofInside, they nailed a row of wooden boxesEach box was marked with a familys nameThe mail carrier could
8、leave letters there for everyone for miles aroundFor the first few years after the English colonists carne to America，there was no regular postal servicePeople gave their letters to any traveler who happened to be going in the right directionOften they gave them to a peddler or a traveling shoemaker
9、When the traveler reached the town where the letter was going，he might stop at an innHe would leave the letters thereBut there they stayed until the person they were addressed to happened to come by and stopped at the innWhat about places like Virginia where there were very few inns? People who wish
10、ed to send letters would leave them at one of the large plantationsThe owners of the plantation would then send the letters on to a neighborThe neighbor would do the sameIt was a slow mail systemAfter many years，regular mail carriers on horseback were hiredThey went from one big town to anotherBetwe
11、en New York and Boston，for examplethere was one “postrider” a monthHe traveled only by day and took two weeks for the tripOften the postrider left all the mail for a whole town at a crossroads storeIt still took many weeks for a letter to reach the person It was addressed toFinally，about two hundred
12、 years ago，Benjamin Franklin was made postmaster for all the coloniesHis first act was to make a long journey to find out the best routes for carrying the mailThen he set up a line of post station between the northern and southern coloniesHe ordered his postriders to travel by night as well as by da
13、yFranklins postriders could carry more letters in a shorter time from one colony to anotherThe letter service helped the young American colonies learn more about each otherThey learned that they were all interested in the same thingsThis gave them the feeling of unity that later helped them win thei
14、r independence2. MD is the absolute head of the company.A.True B.Fasle3. Mr. Miller will buy a new house with the money he has won.A.True B.Fasle4. One of the advantages of chain schools is that they are famous all over the world.A.Right B.Wrong5.听力原文： The expression, lame duck, can be heard in almo
15、st any American town or city, especially where people discuss politics. Most often, they use it to describe a politician who has come to the end of his power.There are a number of ideas as to where lame duck came from, though the picture of a lame duck is clear enough; a duck that has had its wings
16、cut, or its feet injured, and can no longer walk like a healthy one.The term seems to have come into the American language after the Civil War of 1861-1865. One explanation is that it came from the language of hunters who felt that it was foolish to waste powder or time on a dead duck. And a lame duck is close to being a dead duck.Another
