1、专业八级-130 (1)及答案解析(总分：96.98，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数：3，分数：17.00)BComing Home: Life After Studying Abroad/BMany returnees who have studied abroad may sufferre-entry culture shock when they go back to their home-town.Here some positive ways of dealing with the returnculture shock are introduced.
2、B. TheU (1) /Uof Re-Entry/B (1) _Re entry is onesU (2) /Uexperience of re-adjusting to (2) _life in ones home culture after living abroad.For many study abroad returnees, it is more difficult toadjust to their home culture than theU (3) /U. (3) _B. Some Common Re-Adjustment Issues/B1. Personal growt
3、h and changeWhen you come back, you have changed in many ways becauseyou have experienced more freedom andU (4) /Uliving abroad. (4) _You have to adjust your new self to your old home.2. New Knowledge and SkillsWhen living abroad, you might develop new competenciesincluding new knowledge, skills and
4、U (5) /U. (5) _Some returnees feel frustrated if they feel these skillsare of little use once they return home.3. Relationships With Family and FriendsPersonal changes of returnees affect their families andfriends who show little interest in hearing about their newexperiences and attempt to make the
5、mU (6) /Uto what (6) _they once were.B. U(7) /UDealing with Re-Entry Problems/B (7) _1. Talk with people who understandU (8) /U, for (8) _example, other returnees.2. Share your experiences withU (9) /Ustudy abroad (9) _students or write an article for some publications.3. BeU (10) /U. You may get in
6、volved in work where (10) _international experiences and perspectives are appreciated.（分数：10.00）(1).（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_BSECTION B/BI In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that fol
7、low. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview./I（分数：4.98）(1).According to Dr. Neil, in what way is fam
8、ily life different now?（分数：0.83）A.Parents are not as good as they used to be.B.More people are getting remarried after divorce.C.There are more one-parent or single-parent families.D.More people approve of mothers going out to work.(2).Which of the following is NOT mentioned as substitute parents?（分
9、数：0.83）A.Group leaders.B.Television.C.Baby-sitters.D.Play groups.(3).According to the interview, all of the following are the roles of primary teachers EXCEPT（分数：0.83）A.helping children to acquire good habits.B.reinforcing what the parents are doing,C.starting children reading and writing.D.informin
10、g children of different messages.(4).According to Dr. Neil, what is the most noticeable effect of smaller families?（分数：0.83）A.There is less mixing of ages in smaller families.B.Children can get more affection from their parents,C.Children can live in a more loving environment.D.Children are able to
11、enjoy better living condition.(5).According to the interview, Dr. Neils attitude toward substitute parents is that（分数：0.83）A.substitutes can take the responsibilities of parents,B.its acceptable to let substitutes look after children.C.perhaps substitutes can play a better role than parents.D.parent
12、s should be cautious to choose substitutes._I Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions. Now listen to the news./I（分数：2.00）(1).Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is blamed for（分数：0.50）A.g
13、etting involved in a bribery.B.dealing in an illegal transaction.C.endangering national security.D.being negligent of his duty.(2).Michael Chertoff defends himself asserting that he made the deal because（分数：0.50）A.Arabic terrorists will not attack the USA any more.B.it is essential to maintain an ac
14、tive trading environment.C.there is no need to block a companys control over terminals.D.it is not fair to cut off business with foreign companies._二、BPART READING (总题数：7，分数：20.00)BTEXT A/BTheodoric Voler had been brought up, from infancy to the confines of middle age, by a fond mother whose chief s
15、olicitude had been to keep him screened from what she called the coarser realities of life. When she died she left Theodoric alone in a world that was as real as ever, and a good deal coarser than he considered it had any need to be. To a man of his temperament and upbringing even a simple railway j
16、ourney was crammed with petty annoyances and minor discords, and as he settled himself down in a second- class compartment role September morning he was conscious of ruffled feelings and general mental discomposure.He had been staying at a country vicarage, the inmates of which had been certainly ne
17、ither brutal nor bacchanalian, but their supervision of the domestic establishment had been of that lax order which invites disaster. The pony carriage that was to take him to tile station had never been properly ordered, and when the moment for his departure drew near, the handyman who should have
18、produced the required article was nowhere to be found. In this emergency Theodoric, to his mute but very intense disgust, found himself obliged to collaborate with the vicars daughter in the task of harnessing the pony, which necessitated groping about in an ill-lighted outbuilding called a stable,
19、and smelling very like oneexcept in patches where it smelled of mice.As the train glided out of the station Theodorics nervous imagination accused himself of exhaling a weak odour of stable yard, and possibly of displaying a mouldy straw or two on his unusually well-brushed garments. Fortunately the
20、 only other occupation of the compartment, a lady of about the same age as himself, seemed inclined for slumber rather than scrutiny; the train was not due to stop till the terminus was reached, in about an hours time, and the carriage was of the old-fashioned sort that held no communication with a
21、corridor, therefore no further travelling companions were likely to intrude on Theodorics semiprivacy. And yet the train had scarcely attained its normal speed before he became reluctantly but vividly aware that he was not alone with the slumbering lady; he was not even alone in his own clothes.A wa
22、rm, creeping movement over his flesh betrayed the unwelcome and highly resented presence, unseen but poignant, of a strayed mouse, that had evidently dashed into its present retreat during the episode of the pony harnessing. Furtive stamps and shakes and wildly directed pinches failed to dislodge th
23、e intruder, whose motto, indeed, seemed to be Excelsior; and the lawful occupant of the clothes lay back against the cushions and endeavoured rapidly to evolve some means for putting an end to the dual ownership. Theodorlc was goaded into the most audacious undertaking of his life. Crimsoning to the
24、 hue of a beetroot and keeping an agonised watch on his slumbering fellow traveller, he swiftly and noiselessly secured the ends of his railway rug to the racks on either side of the carriage, so that a substantial curtain hung athwart the compartment. In the narrow dressing room that he had thus im
25、provised he proceeded with violent haste to extricate himself partially and the mouse entirely from the surrounding casings of tweed and half-wool.As the unravelled mouse gave a wild leap to the floor, the rug, slipping its fastening at either end, also came down with a heart-curdling flop, and almo
26、st simultaneously the awakened sleeper opened her eyes. With a movement almost quicker than the mouses, Theodoric pounced on the rug and hauled its ample folds chin-high over his dismantled person as he collapsed into the farther corner of the carriage. The blood raced and beat in the veins of his n
27、eck and forehead, while he waited dumbly for the communication cord to be pulled. The lady, however, contented herself with a silent stare at her strangely muffled companion. How much had she seen, Theodoric queried to himself; and in any case what on earth must she think of his present posture?（分数：
28、4.00）(1).The word “solicitude“ in the first paragraph probably means（分数：1.00）A.great animosity,B.excessive concern.C.much inducement.D.reasonable pretext.(2).Which of the following does NOT describe Theodorics feeling when he was on the train?（分数：1.00）A.Uneasy.B.Fretful.C.Irritated.D.Slack.(3).Which
29、 of the following statements is TRUE about the lady of the compartment?（分数：1.00）A.She looked out of the train window.B.She intended to talk with Theoforic.C.She had fallen into a deep sleep.D.She looked at Theoforic up and down.(4).Theoforie did all the following to get the mouse out of his clothes
30、EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.pressing the mouse between his fingers.B.putting his feet down onto the ground.C.moving from side to side or up and down.D.undressing himself to catch the mouse.1.BTEXT B/BMeteorologists routinely tell us what next weeks weather is likely to be, and climate scientists discuss what m
31、ight happen in 100 years. Christoph Schar, though, ventures dangerously close to that middle realm, where previously only the Farmers Almanac dared go, what will next summers weather be like? Following last years tragic heat wave, which directly caused the death of tens of thousands of people, the q
32、uestion is of burning interest to Europeans. Schar asserts that last summers sweltering temperatures should no longer be thought of as extraordinary. “The situation in 2002 and 2003 in Europe, where we had a summer with extreme rainfall and record flooding followed by the hottest summer in hundreds
33、of years, is going to be typical for future weather patterns,“ he says.Most Europeans have probably never read Sehars report (not least because it was published in the scientific journal Nature in the dead of winter) but they seem to be bracing themselves for the worst. As part of its new national “
34、heat-wave plan“, France issued a level-three alert when temperatures in Provence reached 34 degrees Celsius three days in a row; hospital and rescue workers were asked to prepare for an influx of patients. Italian government officials have proposed creating a national registry of people over 65 so t
35、hey can be herded into air-conditioned supermarkets in the event of another heat wave. Londons mayor has offered a 100,000 pound reward for anybody who can come up with a practical way of cooling the citys underground trains, where temperatures have lately reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius. (The mon
36、ey hasnt been claimed.) Global warming seems to have permanently entered the European psyche.If the public is more aware, though, experts are more confused. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hammered out its last assessment in 2001, scientists pulled together the latest research and
37、 made their best estimate of how much the Earths atmosphere would warm during the next century. There was a lot they didnt know, but they were confident theyd be able to plug the gaps in time for the next report, due out in 2007. When they explored the fundamental physics and chemistry of the atmosp
38、here, though, they found something unexpected: the way the atmosphereand, in particular, cloudsrespond to increasing levels of carbon is far more complex and difficult to predict than they had expected. “We thought wed reduce the uncertainty, but that hasnt happened,“ says Kevin Trenberth, a climate
39、 scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of the next IPCC report. “As we delve further and further into the science and gain a better understanding of the true complexity of the atmosphere, the uncertainties have gotten deeper.“This doesnt mean, of course, that th
40、e world isnt warming. Only the biased or the deluded deny that temperatures have risen, and that human activity has something to do with it. The big question that scientists have struggled with is how much warming will occur over the next century? With so much still unknown in the climate equation,
41、theres no way of telling whether warnings of catastrophe are overblown or if things are even more dire than we thought.Why do scientists like Schar make predictions? Because, like economists, its their job to hazard a best guess with the resources at hand-namely, vast computer programs that simulate
42、 what the Earths atmosphere will do in certain circumstances. These models incorporate all the latest research into how the Earths atmosphere behaves. But there are problems with the computer models. The atmosphere is very big, but also consists of a multitude of tiny interactions among particles of
43、 dust, soot, cloud droplets and trace gases that cannot be safely ignored. Current models dont have nearly the resolution they need to capture what goes on at such small scales.Scientists got an inkling that something was missing from the models in the early 1990s when they ran a peculiar experiment
44、. They had the leading models simulate warming over the next century and got a similar answer from each. Then they ran the models again-this time accounting for what was then known about cloud physics._BTEXT B/BMeteorologists routinely tell us what next weeks weather is likely to be, and climate sci
45、entists discuss what might happen in 100 years. Christoph Schar, though, ventures dangerously close to that middle realm, where previously only the Farmers Almanac dared go, what will next summers weather be like? Following last years tragic heat wave, which directly caused the death of tens of thou
46、sands of people, the question is of burning interest to Europeans. Schar asserts that last summers sweltering temperatures should no longer be thought of as extraordinary. “The situation in 2002 and 2003 in Europe, where we had a summer with extreme rainfall and record flooding followed by the hotte
47、st summer in hundreds of years, is going to be typical for future weather patterns,“ he says.Most Europeans have probably never read Sehars report (not least because it was published in the scientific journal Nature in the dead of winter) but they seem to be bracing themselves for the worst. As part of its new national “heat-wave plan“, France issued a level-three alert when temperatures in Provence reac
