1、专业八级-13 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数：4，分数：20.00)B Body Systems/BA body system refers to a group of organs, which are parts of the body that do a special job, such as the heart, lungs and kidneys.Ten major body systems in the human body:1) the skeletal system, which includes the bo
2、nes and the (1) _ (1) _tissues.2) the muscle system, which plays the role of moving the body, pushingthe food through the body and making the blood (2) _ (2) _3) the nervous system which is made up of the brain, the spinal(3) _and the nerves. (3) _4) the (4) _system which comprises of the stomach an
3、d the (4) _intestines and (5) _food to provide energy for the body. (5) _5) the respiratory system which consists of the windpipe and(6) _and takes air into the body. (6) _6) the circulatory system which includes the blood, the heart, and all theblood (7) _ (7) _7) the (8) _system made up of the kid
4、neys and bladder. (8) _8) the lymphatic system.9) the endocrine system composed of special (9) _which give (9) _out hormones.10) the (10) _system consisting of organs involved in making (10) _new human beings.（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
5、:_BSECTION B/BI 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：5.00）(1).According to Kelvin, which of the following is TRUE?（分数：1.00）A.Customers go to the bar to buy
6、 their drinks.B.Customers have to queue for drinks at the bar.C.Customers have to wait for someone to take their orders.D.A waitress normally comes to the tables to take orders or money.(2).Which of the following is TRUE of the service at a bar?（分数：1.00）A.A customer has to tip the waitress.B.A custo
7、mer has to pay each time he gets drinks.C.A customer has to pay for all the drinks when he is leaving.D.A customer has to sit at the table to wait for their turn to be served.(3).The following are served in pubs EXCEPT _.（分数：1.00）A.alcoholicsB.spiritsC.fruit juicesD.milk(4).According to Kelvin, cord
8、ials refer to _.（分数：1.00）A.carbonated waterB.soft drinksC.strong and sweet drinksD.mineral water(5).Which of the following is NOT TRUE of VAT?（分数：1.00）A.VAT is the acronym of Value Added Tax.B.VAT is a tax charged on most goods in Britain.C.VAT is not charged on different services in Britain.D.A for
9、eigner can get VAT back when he leaves Britain under the Retail Export Scheme.BSECTION C/BI Questions 6 to 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question.Now listen to the news./I（分数：3.00）(1).How many people were killed in the ser
10、ies of bomb explosions in Madrid?（分数：1.00）A.90.B.190.C.120.D.1,200.(2).According to the Spanish government, who were responsible for the bomb explosions?（分数：1.00）A.Eta.B.al-Qaida.C.the supporters of the opposing party.D.the terrorists from the Middle East.(3).Where did the explosions take place?（分数：
11、1.00）A.In some train stations.B.In some business areas.C.In the suburbs of Madrid.D.In the downtown of Madrid.I Questions 9 to 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question.Now listen to the news./I（分数：2.00）(1).Mr. Greenspan war
12、ned that _.（分数：1.00）A.protectionism would hurt AmericaB.glohalization would be harmful to AmericaC.more and more people would lose their jobsD.the prices would increase by 12 percent(2).According to Greenspan, what is essential to the economic success of a country?（分数：1.00）A.Improvement in everyday
13、life.B.Improvement in educational system.C.Lower wages and more working hours.D.More experienced workers and technicians.二、BPART READING (总题数：9，分数：20.00)BTEXT A/BWhat kind of magic can make an 800-page novel seem too short? Whatever it is, debut author Susanna Clarke is possessed by it, and her asto
14、nished readers will surely hope she never recovers. Her epic history of an alternative, magical England is so beautifully realized that not one of the many enchantments Clarke chronicles in the book could ever be as potent or as quickening as her own magnificent narrative.It is 1806, and Gilbert Nor
15、rell is the only true magician in England. He sets out to restore the practice of magic to a nation that has not seen it for more than 300 years. But there is an odd and fateful twist to Norrells character: he is as scholarly and insufferably pedantic as he is gifted. In short, Norrell is the most b
16、oring and unmagical person imaginable. This is Clarkes masterstroke, the necessary touch of ordinary candleshine in the midst of all the uncanny fairy light she dispenses.Enter Jonathan Strange, the intuitive magicianthe naturalwho can improvise in a flash what Norrell has gleaned from long study. S
17、trange becomes Norrells pupil, but soon the tension between their styles mounts to a breaking point. The two men realize that they have a fundamental disagreement about how to approach the mysterious and terrifying sources of English magic, in the face of which even Albus Dumbledore might find himse
18、lf unnerved.Just as Norrell and Strange apprentice themselves to a Golden Age of medieval magicians, Clarke tethers her craft to the great 19th-century English masters of the novel, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. The book offers not only an Austen-like inquiry into the fine human line between ridi
19、culous flaw and serious consequence, but also a Dickensian flow of language in which a comical surplus of detail rings at last with certain and inevitable significance.This elixir of literary influences gives the story its delightful texture. But there is so much more to Jonathan Strange but it is n
20、ot forgivable.Take this, for example: “National citizenship is inherently exclusionary.“ So no foreigners need ever apply for naturalisation, then. And“ . public anxiety about migration . is usually based on a rational understanding of the value of British citizenship and its incompatibility with ov
21、er-porous borders“. Straight from the lexicon of the far right. And best of all: “You can have a welfare state provided that you are a homogenous society with intensely shared values.”These are extracts from an article in the Observer, penned by the liberal intellectual Goodhart, who is just one of
22、several liberal thinkers now vigorously making what they consider a progressive argument against immigration. It goes like this: the more diverse a society, the less likely its citizens are to share common values; the fewer common values, the weaker the support for vital institutions of social solid
23、arity, such as the welfare state and the National Health Service.There are perfectly good reasons to worry about how we respond to immigration, not least the downward pressure on workers wages; the growth of racial inequality; and the exploitation of illegals. But the answer to these problems is not
24、 genteel xenophobia, but trade union rights, backed by equality and employment law.The xenophobes should come clean. Their argument is not about immigration at all. They are liberal Powellites; what really bothers them is race and culture. If todays immigrants were white people from the old Commonwe
25、alth, Goodhart and his friends would say that they pose no threat because they share Anglo-Saxon values.Unfortunately for liberal Powellites, the real history of the NHS shatters their fundamental case against diversity. The NHS is a world-beating example of the way that ethnic diversity can create
26、social solidarity. Launched by a Welshman, built by Irish labourers, founded on the skills of Caribbean nurses and Indian doctors, it is now being rescued by an emergency injection of Filipino nurses, refugee ancillaries and antipodean medics. And it remains 100% British.Virtually all of our public
27、services have depended heavily on immigrants. Powell was forced to admit as much when, as minister for health he advertised for staff in the Caribbean. His new admirers will discover that a rapidly depopulating Europe will have no choice but to embrace diversity.For the moment, however, the liberal
28、Powellites are gaining support in high places. Their ideas are inspired by the work of the American sociologist Putnam, a Downing Street favourite. He purports to show that dynamic, diverse communities are more fragmented than stable, monoethnic ones. But the policy wonks have forgotten that Putnams
29、 research was conducted in a society so marked by segregation that even black millionaires still live in gated ghettoes.The prime minister still seems uneasy on the issue. Last week, he wavered uncertainly between backing his pro-immigration home secretary, and a defensive response to Howards goadin
30、g that the government was in a mess on the topic.Oddly enough, this is a place in the arena of world politics where the PM does not stand shoulder to shoulder with Bush. The Spanish-speaking former governor of Texas recently announced that he would “regularise“ the status of millions of illegal Mexi
31、can immigrants who had slipped across the border to work. Its the kind of massive amnesty that would send the Daily Express into conniptions.Even more peculiar, the prime minister appears to be ignoring not only Blunkett but also his new best friend, the Labour mayor of London, Livingstone, and Scot
32、lands first minister, McConnell. London wants more immigrants to keep pace with its booming economy, Scotland wants them to boost its ageing work force. Yet the liberal Powellites still seem prepared to confront a Bush-Blunkett-Livingstone-McConnell axis, because they are scared witless by the far r
33、ight. They hope that by appeasing racism, theyll make it go away. But this is a beast with an insatiable appetite.The French discovered that too late; the thuggish National Front is now Frances second largest party, with one in five likely to vote for them in upcoming local elections. Liberal secula
34、rists who joined in the assault on the rights of French Muslims now have to find a convincing explanation for their cowardice, which has also betrayed the freedom of expression of French Jews and Christians.In Holland, this spinelessness has ended up as straight leftwing racism. The previously liber
35、al Dutch establishment is now pushing an asylum policy so extreme even the Sun was moved to criticise it.The line up that favours managed migration and diversityBlunkett, McConnell, Livingstone, Bush and the Sunshare one quality that the PM should envy more than any other at present., they are all p
36、opular with the public. Maybe the government ought to pay more heed to this focus group than the ones that see scary foreigners on every street corner.Perhaps we should also be creating an even more progressive immigration policy, for example offering easier admission to those who will bring their s
37、kills to the depopulated regions of the north. The Americans will next year offer more work permits to IT whizzkids from India than ever before; and before the middle of the century, the world s strongest economy will become its most ethnically diverse. Our own population is still over 92% white; we
38、 shouldnt be duped by anxious faint-hearts into becoming an all-white backwater._BTEXT B/BNice people do racism too. Liberal commitment to a multi-ethnic Britain is wilting. Some very nice folk have apparently decided that the nations real problem is too many immigrants of too many kinds. Faced with
39、 a daily onslaught against migrants it may be understandable to give in to populist bigotry; but it is not forgivable.Take this, for example: “National citizenship is inherently exclusionary.“ So no foreigners need ever apply for naturalisation, then. And“ . public anxiety about migration . is usual
40、ly based on a rational understanding of the value of British citizenship and its incompatibility with over-porous borders“. Straight from the lexicon of the far right. And best of all: “You can have a welfare state provided that you are a homogenous society with intensely shared values.”These are ex
41、tracts from an article in the Observer, penned by the liberal intellectual Goodhart, who is just one of several liberal thinkers now vigorously making what they consider a progressive argument against immigration. It goes like this: the more diverse a society, the less likely its citizens are to sha
42、re common values; the fewer common values, the weaker the support for vital institutions of social solidarity, such as the welfare state and the National Health Service.There are perfectly good reasons to worry about how we respond to immigration, not least the downward pressure on workers wages; th
43、e growth of racial inequality; and the exploitation of illegals. But the answer to these problems is not genteel xenophobia, but trade union rights, backed by equality and employment law.The xenophobes should come clean. Their argument is not about immigration at all. They are liberal Powellites; wh
44、at really bothers them is race and culture. If todays immigrants were white people from the old Commonwealth, Goodhart and his friends would say that they pose no threat because they share Anglo-Saxon values.Unfortunately for liberal Powellites, the real history of the NHS shatters their fundamental
45、 case against diversity. The NHS is a world-beating example of the way that ethnic diversity can create social solidarity. Launched by a Welshman, built by Irish labourers, founded on the skills of Caribbean nurses and Indian doctors, it is now being rescued by an emergency injection of Filipino nur
46、ses, refugee ancillaries and antipodean medics. And it remains 100% British.Virtually all of our public services have depended heavily on immigrants. Powell was forced to admit as much when, as minister for health he advertised for staff in the Caribbean. His new admirers will discover that a rapidl
47、y depopulating Europe will have no choice but to embrace diversity.For the moment, however, the liberal Powellites are gaining support in high places. Their ideas are inspired by the work of the American sociologist Putnam, a Downing Street favourite. He purports to show that dynamic, diverse commun
48、ities are more fragmented than stable, monoethnic ones. But the policy wonks have forgotten that Putnams research was conducted in a society so marked by segregation that even black millionaires still live in gated ghettoes.The prime minister still seems uneasy on the issue. Last week, he wavered uncertainly between backing his pro-immigration home secretary, and a defensive response to Howards goading that the government wa
