1、专业八级-155 (1)及答案解析(总分：97.03，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数：3，分数：17.00)BSome Problems Facing Learners of English/BAlthough many English learners have got high scores in an Englishtest such as IELTS or TOEFL, they still face some problems concerningits learning. Here wed like to talk about some of the
2、 problems and tryto come up with suggestions on how to overcome them.B. Psychological Problems/B1. the 1st reason: fear ofU (1) /U (1) _the solution:not to look too far aheadconcentrate on increasing knowledge and developing ability2. the 2nd reason: separation from the family andU (2) /U (2) _the s
3、olution:enjoyU (3) /Utime heals nostalgia (3) _B. Cultural Problems/B1. practical problemsU (4) /U (4) _moneyfoodweather2. problems difficult to definethe reason: the British way of lifeU (5) /U, habits and traditions) (5) _the solution: be open-minded andU (6) /U (6) _B. Linguistic Problems/B1. pro
4、blems regardingU (7) /U1) difficulties in understanding English-speaking people (7) _3 reasons:fast speed of speecha variety of accentsdifferent styles of speech2) ways of overcoming the difficultiesattendU (8) /U (8) _use a language laboratorylisten to English programsmeet and speak with native spe
5、akers of English2. problems regarding speaking1) difficulties: knowing what to say but not knowing how to say itin English2) solutionsU (9) /Uthe language (9) _think in English instead of translatingpractice speaking as much as possibleimitate the educated peoplesU (10) /U (10) _（分数：10.00）(1).（分数：1.
6、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 follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interv
7、iew. At the end of the interview you will be given I0 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview./I（分数：5.00）(1).The interviewer used to care about all the following things EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.doing well in some sports.B.having good body-image looking.C.wearing a
8、ppropriate clothes.D.being popular with other kids.(2).Which of the following is NOT an example of the relationships girls attach importance to?（分数：1.00）A.Their relationships with classmates.B.Their relationships with parents.C.Their relationships with teachers.D.Their relationships with boys.(3).Wh
9、en girls have limitations in face of pressure, they might（分数：1.00）A.stop trying hard.B.suffer from indignation.C.end up crying out.D.accept the fact calmly.(4).Parents should be aware of the hidden stress of their daughters when（分数：1.00）A.the girls are irritable sometimes.B.the girls are exhausted s
10、omeday.C.the girls say they hate school.D.the girls lie and play truant.(5).One way for the girls to thrive in the age of pressure is to（分数：1.00）A.develop intangible ideas.B.set touchable goals.C.forget about their stress.D.talk with their parents.BSECTION C/BI In this section you will hear everythi
11、ng ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.Questions 6 and 7 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
12、news./I（分数：2.03）(1).What did the government intend to do in the beginning?（分数：0.29）A.To greatly restrict public smoking.B.To ban smoking in all public places.C.To supervise smoking in some bars.D.To ban public smoking in England.(2).The staff who work in public places would favor the ban because（分数：
13、0.29）A.they dont have to inhale foul air.B.they dont have to serve smokers.C.they will get more tips from non-smokers.D.there will be a rise on their salaries._二、BPART READING (总题数：7，分数：20.00)BTEXT A/BIn the evenings, they go to the mall. Once a week or more. Sometimes, they even leave the dinner di
14、shes in the sink so they will have enough time to finish all the errands. The father never comeshe hates shopping, especially with his wife. Instead, he stays at home to read the paper and put around his study. To do things that the other dads must be doing in the evenings. To summon the sand to com
15、e rushing in and plug up his ears with its roaring silence.Meanwhile, the mother arms herself with returns from the last trip. Her two young daughters forget games of flashlight tag or favorite TV shows and strap on tennis shoes and seatbelts: and theyre off. On summer nights, when its light until a
16、fter the fireflies arrive, the air is heavy and moist. The daughters unroll their windows and stick the whole of their heads out into the slate blue sky, feeling full force the sweaty, honey suckle air. In the cold mall, their rubber soles squeak on shiny linoleum squares. The younger daughter tries
17、 not to step on any cracks. The older daughter keeps a straight-ahead gazer her sullen eyes count down each errand as its done.It is not until the third or, on a good night, the fourth errand that the trouble begins. The girls have wandered over to examine rainbow beach towels, perhaps, or some kind
18、 of pink ruffled bedspread. The mothers voice finds them from a few aisles away.Dinner squirms in the daughters stomachs. Now comes that what-if-I-threw-up-right-this-second? or where-is-a-rabbit-hole-for-me-to-fall-into? feeling that they get around this time of evening, at the mall. The older one
19、shakes her ponytails at the younger one. Her blue eyes hiss the careful-dont-cry warning, but the younger ones cheeks only get redder. Toe by toe, the daughters edge towards housewares where they finger lace placemats or trace patterns in the store carpet with sneakered soles. The mothers voice stil
20、l finds them, shaking with rage. Finally, heels slapping in her sandals, she strides towards them and then keeps going. They follow, catching her word-trail, “Stupid people. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I HATE stupid people.“ Its the little skips between steps the younger one takes to keep up with her mo
21、thers long, angry legs. Its the car door slamming and the seat belt buckle yanked into place. Its those things that tell the daughters how the next few hours will go.In the car, the older one sighs and grinds her back teeth. The younger one feels her face get hotter and her eyes start to swell. She
22、stares at an ice cream stain on the back of the front seat and sees a pony, a flower, and a fairy in that splash of chocolate mint chip. The mother begins on both at once. “And when we get home, if your shoes are still in the TV room, Im throwing them out. Same for books. No more shit house. No more
23、 lazy, ungrateful kids.“ And so on and so on through the black velvet sky and across the Hershey bar roads. On into the house with a slap or two. “Youll be happy when Im in my grave,“ wails at them as they put on their nightgowns and brush their teeth. The older one sets a stone jaw and the younger
24、one tries not to sob as she opens wide, engulfing her small hand and scrubbing each and every molar.The father is not spared. The volcanic mother saves some up just for him. “Fucking lousy husband. Do-nothing father.“ And on like that for an hour or so more. Then in the darkest part of the night, it
25、s bare feet and cool hands on a small sweaty forehead. Kisses and caresses and “Sorry Mom got a little mad.“ Promises for that pink ruffled bedspread or maybe a new stuffed animal. Long fingers rake through the younger ones curls. “Tomorrow evening, well get you some kind of treat. Right after dinne
26、r, well go to the mall.“（分数：5.00）(1).From the first paragraph, we get the impression that（分数：1.00）A.the father is inert.B.their life is bustling.C.the evenings are exciting.D.the mother is constantly nagging.(2).According to the passage, the two daughters seem to（分数：1.00）A.enjoy the evenings shoppin
27、g in the beginning.B.be reluctant to run errands with the mother.C.enjoy browsing various kinds of items.D.be glad to help their mother with housework.(3).The word “squirms“ in the fourth paragraph probably means（分数：1.00）A.moves.B.squirts.C.wriggles.D.digests.(4).Which of the following adjectives do
28、es NOT describe the mother?（分数：1.00）A.Irritable.B.Remorseful.C.Amiable.D.Discontented.(5).Which category of writing does the text belong to?（分数：1.00）A.Narration.B.Description.C.Persuasion.D.Exposition.1.BTEXT B/BFor one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing, America seemed ready to make pea
29、ce with the SAT. When the University of California several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants not to buy it, the College Board junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what?), created a writing sec
30、tion (including producing an essay), added tougher math questions and more reading analysisand had everybody talking about the new-and-improved SAT.Then the first students to take SAT: The Sequel were seen stumbling out of the testing centers as if they had just run a marathon, and all the happy tal
31、ks ended. With the three hours and 45 minutes stretching to five hours with breaks and instructions, it got worse. Nobody is sure how, but moisture in some SAT answer sheets caused pencil marks to bleed or fade, producing more than 5,000 tests with the wrong scores. Even after that was fixed, severa
32、l universities reported a sharp drop in their applicants average scores, which many attributed to exhaustion, and more colleges told applicants they would no longer have to take the SAT.All of which stoked interest in the ACT, the SATs less famous and less feared rival based in Iowa City, Iowa. The
33、shorter test is now becoming a welcome alternative for many high schoolers who no longer see a need to endure the usual SAT trauma. “I think the ACT is a true player in the college-admissions game these days, “says Robyn Lady, until recently a college counselor at Thomas Jefferson High School for Sc
34、ience and Technology. Although most Jefferson students still take the SAT, the number of ACTs there has tripled in the last two years. Its a shift that, if it continues, could change the balance of entrance-test power, since the Fairfax County, Va., magnet sends more kids to the Ivy League than almo
35、st any other U. S. school.The SAT, with a maximum 2,400 points, and the ACT, with a maximum 36 points, are scored differently, but otherwise are no more different from each other than American football differs from the Canadian version. Students usually do equally well on each. The SATs new 25-minut
36、e essay is required, while the ACTs essay is optional. The SAT is three hours and 45 minutes long. The comparable ACT is three hours and 25 minutes. The SAT has three sections: critical reading, math and writing. The ACT has math, science, reading and English sections, plus optional writing. The ACT
37、 with the writing test costs $43, more than the SATs $ 41.50, hut the ACT is only $29 without the writing section.Several high-school guidance counselors say they assume the ACT, with 1.2 million test takers in the class of 2005 compared with 1.5 million for the SAT, will eventually catch up, in par
38、t because so many educators are advising their students to try both. Wendy Andreen, counselor at Memorial Senior High School in Houstonwhere the SAT has been supremesays she tells students every year they should take both tests to be safe, and many are beginning to listen, with ACTs up 18 percent si
39、nce 2002. Deb Shaver, director of admissions at Smith College, says counselors are steering students to the ACT “because there is less hysteria surrounding the ACTs, and students feel less stressed about taking the test.“The mistakes made in the scoring of the October 2005 SAT by Pearson Educational
40、 Measurement, the College Boards subcontractor, have not been forgotten, counselors say. The SAT suffered from damaging news stories as details of the errors came out bit by bit. In the end, 4,411 students had scores reported to colleges that were lower than they actually earned and had to be correc
41、ted; 17 percent of the corrections were for more than 40 points. College Board president Gaston Caperton apologized, saying the mishap “brings humility, and humility makes us more aware, empathetic and respectful of others.“But many counselors, who often complain about the New York City-based nonpro
42、fits influence over their students futures, say they have their doubts. “I think the College Board sees this as a purely technical problem that they can solve through purely technical means,“ says Scott White, a counselor at Montclair (N. J. ) High School. “I dont think they appreciate the damage th
43、at was done to their already shaky credibility.“_BTEXT B/BFor one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing, America seemed ready to make peace with the SAT. When the University of California several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants n
44、ot to buy it, the College Board junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what?), created a writing section (including producing an essay), added tougher math questions and more reading analysisand had everybody talking about the new-and-improved SAT.Then t
45、he first students to take SAT: The Sequel were seen stumbling out of the testing centers as if they had just run a marathon, and all the happy talks ended. With the three hours and 45 minutes stretching to five hours with breaks and instructions, it got worse. Nobody is sure how, but moisture in som
46、e SAT answer sheets caused pencil marks to bleed or fade, producing more than 5,000 tests with the wrong scores. Even after that was fixed, several universities reported a sharp drop in their applicants average scores, which many attributed to exhaustion, and more colleges told applicants they would no longer have to take the SAT.All of which stoked interest in the ACT, the SATs less famous and less feared rival based in Iowa City, Iowa. The shorter test is now becoming a welcome alternative f
