1、专业八级-100 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、WRITING(总题数：6，分数：100.00)1.Directions: Some people believe that the earth is being harmed (damaged) by human activity. Others feel that human activity makes the earth a better place to live. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your
2、answer. （分数：15.00）_2.Directions: Some people spend their entire lives in one place. Others move a number of times throughout their lives, looking for a better job, house, community, or even climate, which do you prefer: staying in one place or moving in search of another place? Use reasons and speci
3、fic examples to support your opinion. （分数：15.00）_3.Directions: You have received a gift of money. The money is enough to buy either a piece of jewelry you like or tickets to a concert you want to attend. Which would you buy? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. （分数：15.00）_4.Direc
4、tions: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Attending a live performance (for example, a play, concert, or sporting event) is more enjoyable than watching the same event on television. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. （分数：15.00）_5.Directions: Do you agree
5、or disagree that progress is always good? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. （分数：20.00）_6.Directions: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? With the help of technology, students nowadays can learn more information and learn it more quickly. Use specific reason
6、s and examples to support your answer. （分数：20.00）_专业八级-100 答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、WRITING(总题数：6，分数：100.00)1.Directions: Some people believe that the earth is being harmed (damaged) by human activity. Others feel that human activity makes the earth a better place to live. What is your opinion? U
7、se specific reasons and examples to support your answer. （分数：15.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 Does Human Activity Improve or Damage the Earth?In a certain of people“s opinion the earth is damaged by human activity. As an environmentalist, I strongly support this notion. Human activity has damaged natural envir
8、onment and almost exhausted natural resources. Modern industry needs more and more resources, including minerals, fuels and water. So we confront of the serious problems such as the lack of fuels and water. Ecological balance is damaged because factories occupy many places where animals and plants l
9、ive. More and more buildings are constructed and forests become less and less. If we cannot recognize these problems and solve them soon, we would finally lose the environment suitable for our living. (One effect of human activity is climate change. Human industrial activity has emitted millions of
10、tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Therefore, a hole has been breached in the South Pole“s ozone, the protective layer which keeps the earth cool. This hole in the ozone in turn melts the polar ice caps which raises sea levels. It is not inconceivable to imagine some of the world“s great ci
11、ties such as Venice, Barcelona, Shanghai and New York may disappear. The loss of these cities would definitely not make the Earth a better place to live.) The side effect of global warming is the climate disorder it has resulted in. The Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the recent deadly Cyclone Nargis
12、 in Myanmar that took thousands of lives within hours, more and more devastating disasters are caused by climate change and if no measurements are taken, millions of innocent people will lose their lives. (Besides, human activity encroaches upon wild areas, slowly destroying the beautiful natural wo
13、rld around us. The natural world, including scenery and wildlife, is one of the most enjoyable things about life on earth. Mountains are more beautiful than anything man could build, and forests are more enjoyable than shopping malls. Joni Mitchell said in a song, “they paved paradise, and put up a
14、parking lot“ and I believe this is exactly what human activity does to the quality of our life here on earth.) So as to stop or at least decelerate these disasters, the first thing we need to do is to realize the seriousness of these problems, and the fact that we are to be blamed for their happenin
15、g. It is our careless and irresponsible activity that causes all the troubles we are now having, and we must now do whatever it takes to prevent the deterioration of the situation. Alternative energy like electricity or bio-diesel must be put into use, factories must conform themselves to the standa
16、rd of gas emission, and most importantly, strong actions must be taken against deforestation. Only with our hands joint together, can we save our earth and actually, ourselves. (To sum up, our current model of human activity destroys not only the joys of the natural world, but even destroys the joys
17、 of some of the world“s greatest cities. For this reason I believe human activity does not make life on earth more pleasant, but rather damages the earth and as a result, humans themselves.)2.Directions: Some people spend their entire lives in one place. Others move a number of times throughout thei
18、r lives, looking for a better job, house, community, or even climate, which do you prefer: staying in one place or moving in search of another place? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. （分数：15.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 Staying in One Place or Moving in Search for Another Place?It see
19、ms strange that it is not unusual for siblings to represent both of these phenomena, one sibling spending his or her entire life in one place, the other one moving around many times throughout the years. My sister and her husband have lived in the same house for 35 years, whereas I have both needed
20、to, and chosen to, move around more than a dozen times. There are three main reasons. First of all, when I was a newly-wed young woman, my husband was transferred overseas by his company. This was the beginning of a very successful career which led to five moves within 15 years, to five different co
21、untries. With all this moving around people sometimes thought my husband was in the military, and I would have to explain that every time he was given a promotion, we needed to move. It could indeed be said that the moving was all in the line of work and duty. Secondly, after I returned to the U.S.
22、and finished my MBA, I began what is called, “climbing the corporate ladder.“ This means devoting oneself wholeheartedly to one“s career, going wherever one“s career should dictate. Therefore, my moves were not so much in order to search for a better job, but because I had found a better job which r
23、equired me to move. In the process of climbing the corporate ladder, I changed jobs a number of times, looking for advancement and new challenges, as well as ways to increase and improve my skills. Another reason is that moving to some other place, I would encounter new people. Each neighborhood has
24、 a distinct personality. When I move to that neighborhood, I would meet the shopkeepers and residents that shape that personality. I may even adopt part of their manner as my own so I could be recognized as part of that community. To sum up, for me, the rewards and benefits of moving and living in d
25、ifferent places around the world and around the country far outweighed the disadvantages. With a positive attitude, living in different places can, indeed, be one of life“s most interesting and rewarding experiences.3.Directions: You have received a gift of money. The money is enough to buy either a
26、 piece of jewelry you like or tickets to a concert you want to attend. Which would you buy? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. （分数：15.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 How to Deal with a Gift of Money?As we all know, jewelry is a very good investment as well as permanent, and fashionable, too
27、. Jewelry like a gold bracelet for example is a very good investment. It counts for women (and for men, too) to have gold jewelry. If you have some serious financial problem, you could always set your jewelry to help you over any rough spots. You could not sell your used concert ticket. Jewelry, unl
28、ess you sell it, is permanent. You always have it to wear. Each time you put it on, you will remember the day you bought it. It will give you pleasure for years and years. You could not wear the ticket stub from the concert. Fashionable as jewelry, I would feel very smart wearing a beautiful gold br
29、acelet or diamond pin. People would comment and tell me how much they loved my jewelry. They would compliment me on my good taste. Jewelry would represent my richness. I would have a good investment which is permanent and fashionable. Then, when someone invites me to a concert (and pays for my ticke
30、t), I will have something beautiful to wear.4.Directions: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Attending a live performance (for example, a play, concert, or sporting event) is more enjoyable than watching the same event on television. Use specific reasons and examples to support y
31、our opinion. （分数：15.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 Live Performance or Television Broadcast, Which Is More Enjoyable?Do you like watching TV? Do you watch it regularly? If a living performance is available what, do you think, will you choose, watching TV or attending the performance? But if I were you I will pr
32、efer the latter. To begin with, live performances offer you realistic experiences, instead of mere electronic images on a flat screen. For example, just imagine watching an exciting soccer match live in the stadium with 80 thousand people, surrounded by deafening shouts and cheers, with the smell of
33、 fresh cut grass filling up your nostrils. You get shoved and pushed around for a bit, but within seconds you suddenly find yourself in a choir of your fellow fans, singing the team song at the top of your lungs. All of these are integral parts of the football experience which cannot be expressed by
34、 television. At a live performance, you experience the event as well as “live“ the event. Another unique advantage of live performances is the opportunity to communicate with other people. Instead of sitting in front of a metal device and passively taking in whatever it shows, at a live performance,
35、 you are actually part of the ongoing event yourself and sharing the experience with a great number of others together. In a live concert, for example, people greet the performers with applause from time to time. This type of communication between musicians and audiences is hardly plausible via tele
36、vision. The most unpleasant of telecast is that the viewers have very limited control over how the event is presented. A biased commentator, for instance, can kill the fun of a whole match. Nevertheless, watching it on television, you have no other choice but to follow the commentator“s ramblings an
37、d accustom yourself to his or her commentary. To sum up, no matter how big and modern your TV set is, there is just no comparison when it comes to live performances.5.Directions: Do you agree or disagree that progress is always good? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. （分数：20.0
38、0）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 Is Progress Always Good?It is impossible to stop progress just as the march of time can“t be stopped. There is no doubt that progress has brought us many wonderful things, such as convenience, improved health, and more leisure time. Nevertheless, everything has its drawbacks and so
39、 I do not believe that we can say that progress is always good. Modern industry brings us more convenient life. But at the same time, some problems appear. For example, “the greenhouse effect“ is a very serious problem that scientists try to solve it as early as possible. It increases the earth temp
40、erature and some icebergs melt and the sea level becomes higher and higher gradually. Maybe someday the sea will swallow some big cities nearby the sea. Progress makes the speed of life faster and faster because of the usage of computers and automatic machines. People have to work faster than before
41、 and it makes them nervous. More and more physical and psychological problems disturb people“s life. Many people do not have time for recreation. These are just a few examples of the drawbacks of progress. That is not to say that we should fight against progress, for it brings us many wonderful adva
42、ntages as well. We should simply be aware of the effects that progress has on us and strive to diminish its negative influences. Last but not least, progress is inevitable.6.Directions: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? With the help of technology, students nowadays can learn mo
43、re information and learn it more quickly. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. （分数：20.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 Technology, Students“ Helper or Not?Technology has greatly improved the way we get information. Every person, including teachers and students, supervisors and staff members,
44、has become accustomed to its company, and gotten numerous benefits from it. For example, with the help of technology, students nowadays can learn more information and learn it more quickly, not only in their academic study but also in their social lives. Technology has lessened the physical barriers
45、 to communication and allowed students to interact on a more extensive scale. The handy cell phone enables students to keep in close contact with each other and makes it much more convenient to discuss assignments or collaborate on projects. The invention of electronic dictionaries has greatly reduc
46、ed the time students spend in looking up the paper dictionary page after page, and has made vocabulary building more efficient. Moreover, students with access to the internet have opportunities to make friends with peers in other countries. More information about foreign cultures and local issues can be exchanged, which will expand their knowledge and broaden their scope to a great extent. Technology can enrich students“ social
