1、专业八级-106 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、WRITING(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.Directions: If you could ask a famous person one question, what would you ask? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. （分数：20.00）_2.Directions: Many students have to live with roommates while going to school or uni
2、versity. What are some of the important qualities of a good roommate? Use specific reasons and examples to explain why these qualities are important. （分数：20.00）_3.Directions: Some people think governments should spend as much money as possible exploring outer space (for example traveling to the moon
3、 and other planets). Other people disagree and think governments should spend this money for our basic needs on Earth. Which of these two opinions do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. （分数：20.00）_4.Directions: Do you agree or disagree with the following statemen
4、t? Teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn. Give specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. （分数：20.00）_5.Directions: You have been told that dormitory rooms at your university must be shared by two students. Would you rather have the university assign a student
5、 to share a room with you, or would you rather choose your own roommate? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer. （分数：20.00）_专业八级-106 答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、WRITING(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.Directions: If you could ask a famous person one question, what would you ask? Why? Use specific
6、 reasons and details to support your answer. （分数：20.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 If You Could Ask a Famous Person One Question, What Would You Ask?If I had the opportunity to sit down and meet one of my idols or heroes, I could come up with hundreds of questions to find out what they did to get where they are
7、 therefore, if I had the chance to meet one of them, I would probably ask a question about their specific field. Foremost, if the person is a political leader, the question would undoubtedly relate to political events, especially public policy issues, as an example, if I meet either of the candidate
8、s running for president of the USA, there would be no more appropriate question to ask than “What would be your top priority in governing the USA if you win the election?“ This is the most important question you could ask because it would be their main way of convincing people to vote for them, and
9、therefore win the upcoming elections. If the question asked were something like “What“s your favorite food?“ or “Can you tell me something about your personal plans for the future?“ it would sound somewhat stupid. Nevertheless, for a popular entertainer, this kind of question is right on the mark. I
10、f the famous person I“m talking to is from the scientific domain, I think I would be more curious as to how he/she achieved success in their particular field. In such a competitive area, being a successful researcher or theoretician, sage Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, or Gregor Mendel,
11、 cannot be a simple matter of luck. So what are the other indispensable characteristics that helped them to achieve so much and how did they utilize these inborn or learned traits? Only by knowing the answer can we sincerely appreciate their contributions and maybe even define a successful life dire
12、ction for ourselves. After all, as a sports lover, I am quite eager to know if there are some special training techniques that the most successful sports stars use. Take my favorite sport, table-tennis, for example. One of the most important reasons that the Chinese national table-tennis team is a p
13、erennial champion in this game is that they have their own highly-effective and secret training methods. So I would never miss out on an opportunity to seek out the truth and ask a famous player how they train. To sum up, it is hard to decide which kind of question should be asked when meeting a fam
14、ous person unless we take their background into consideration. In other words, I would have to answer this on a case by case basis.2.Directions: Many students have to live with roommates while going to school or university. What are some of the important qualities of a good roommate? Use specific re
15、asons and examples to explain why these qualities are important. （分数：20.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 What Makes a Good Roommate?We become more independent and learn more life experience while live without families, but your roommates. However, to live with other people is neither easy nor difficult. You shoul
16、d learn how to be a good roommate, basically. Foremost, a good roommate should be open and willing to communicate. There are always issues regarding rent, bills, food and household duties, guests, privacy, noises, sharing and borrowing, to name a few, and interests and hobbies of roommates are not a
17、lways the identical. There will always be conflicts among roommates. When problems or conflicts arise, roommates must openly discuss the issue and quickly reach a solution to the problem. In addition, a successful roommate situation requires good communication. Take time to talk frequently to each o
18、ther; chatting with each other helps keep up the basic relationship which can provide the underpinning for a harmonious relationship. Therefore open and willing to communicate is the first important quality of a good roommate. What“s more, an important quality of a good roommate is considerate and u
19、nderstanding. A good roommate understands what you need. He is a good friend and a good listener, and offer you help when you need it. Certainly, you should not depend on your roommate to satisfy all your social needs. Make other friends and get involved in activities is also important, and could le
20、ave more private time for your roommate. The third important quality of a good roommate is that he should be a hard worker, and have the desire to do better. As we know, roommates will always influence each other in some ways. As an old Chinese proverb, one who mixes with vermilion will turn red, on
21、e who touches pitch shall be defiled therewith. So like choosing a friend, it is very important to choose a roommate who has good qualities. After all, some roommates eat and socialize separately and barely get to know each other. They never become friends. Also, if your roommate possesses the above
22、-mentioned qualities, your residential life will be peaceful and enjoyable.3.Directions: Some people think governments should spend as much money as possible exploring outer space (for example traveling to the moon and other planets). Other people disagree and think governments should spend this mon
23、ey for our basic needs on Earth. Which of these two opinions do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. （分数：20.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 Spending Money on EarthWhen we see photographs of starving children, it“s hard to say that we should spend billions of dollars on space e
24、xploration. But that“s just what we should do. Children don“t need to be starving, but we do need to explore space. Right now, we have enough money to feed every person on earth. Children are starving because of mismanagement of resources and simple human greed. Those are problems we can solve right
25、 here on earth. That shouldn“t stop our need to find out what“s beyond our own solar system. Firstly, space exploration requires a great deal of money and offers little immediate return. Spending money on immediate human needs, on the other hand, can have a big effect with relatively little investme
26、nt. In other words, the money will be more useful if spent here on earth. Secondly, spending money at home is that space is not the answer to all our problems. Experiments done in outer space may lead to medical breakthroughs, but if we do not solve basic sanitation and other health problems, diseas
27、e will continue to threaten human lives. Thirdly, space exploration is a long-term project, but the threat of some problems on Earth is immediate. If we do not solve our environmental and health problems soon, we may become extinct long before we find another habitable planet. In short, although spa
28、ce exploration is a valuable endeavor and should be supported, it should not receive all the money available. There are many other areas of research and development on earth that also require funding. And the benefit of giving money to them is greater and more immediate.4.Directions: Do you agree or
29、 disagree with the following statement? Teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn. Give specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. （分数：20.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 Should Teachers Be Paid According to How Much Their Students Learn?Some communities have decided to base e
30、valuations of teachers on students“ test scores. It“s these evaluations that determine how much teachers will be paid. I don“t think this is a very good idea for several reasons. Firstly, how can we judge whether a student learns a little or a lot? Consider the modern evaluation systems, there is no
31、 fair and effective way to assess how much a student learns. Some people might be in favor of using examinations to test a student, however, it is already well known that the marks one gets doesn“t necessarily equate to the knowledge one acquires. Besides, it is inadequate to associate a teacher“s p
32、ay with the performance of their student, since it cannot be quantified. Secondly, even if there did exist some way to evaluate a single student“s academic performance, it would still be impossible to decide the teacher“s salary based on that. As a teacher, they certainly have more than one student,
33、 and the students they teach may vary widely in their capacity for learning. History provides us with numerous examples of this Confucius, an ancient Chinese philosopher, taught 3,000 students, only 72 of whom are of any historical note. Socrates, the famous Ancient Greek philosopher, also had count
34、less students during his life, but only one, Plato, is still widely known today. How, also, do we calculate how much should have been paid to Confucius or Socrates? Neither the prominent students nor the mediocre ones can provide an impartial answer. Besides academic knowledge, teachers also have th
35、e indispensable responsibility of teaching moral virtues to students. If we put too much emphasis on knowledge alone, there may arise some unwanted extreme situations. A teacher might be so hungry for a raise that he/she only focuses on academic teaching and neglects to instill moral virtues, which
36、not only would do harm to the individual students, but also put the whole society in danger in the long run, because the development of a society depends on both knowledge and moral values. In conclusion, though nowadays the society might be a little wealth-focused, it still can not link a teacher“s
37、 pay with how much his/her students“ learn for lacking feasibility and real meaning. If it is inadequate to assess a teacher based on the academic achievements of their students, it is impossible to assess the morality of their students, as morality cannot be tested in a classroom but can only be te
38、sted in real life situations and interactions. Therefore, I believe it is impossible to fairly pay a teacher based on what their students learn.5.Directions: You have been told that dormitory rooms at your university must be shared by two students. Would you rather have the university assign a stude
39、nt to share a room with you, or would you rather choose your own roommate? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer. （分数：20.00）_正确答案：()解析：参考范文 Choosing a RoommateIt is ordinary for university students to share their dormitory rooms with another student, and at some universities this i
40、s required. Since the two students will spend a great deal of time together and must share a small space, it is essential that they be able to get along. For this reason, if I had to share a room, I would rather choose my own roommate than let the university assign one to me. By choosing my own room
41、mate, I would be able to live with someone with whom I am already familiar. While I look forward to making many new friends at university, I know that not everyone is easy to live with. What“s more, I would rather live with someone I already know well. Choosing my own roommate would also allow me to
42、 live with someone whose habits are compatible with my own. This would make it easier for us to share the limited space of a dormitory room. And if some misunderstanding or problem should occur, I would be better able to deal with it if I knew my roommate well. Letting the university choose my roommate might mean that I would have to live with someone I couldn“t get along with. That could have a bad effect on my studies during my first year. To sum up, I would prefer to choose my own roommate at university.
