1、专业八级-186 (1)及答案解析(总分：94.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、BSECTION A/B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)B Oral Presentation/BOne of the ways that teachers use to involve their students more actively in the learning process is U U 1 /U /Useminars. In a seminar, students are expected to give oral presentat
2、ions.There are two main stages involved in presenting a seminar paper. One is the U U 2 /U /Ustage; the other is the presentation stage. In the latter stage you can do this by U U 3 /U /Ucopies of the paper in advance to all the participants, if possible. Otherwise the paper will have to be read alo
3、ud to the group.When you use the first method, you must not simply read the whole paper aloud because:1. if the paper is fairly long, there may not be enough time for U U 4 /U /U2. there may be U U 5 /U /Uof comprehension when one is listening.3. it can be very U U 6 /U /Ulistening to something bein
4、g read aloud.To make your oral presentation clear and easy to understand, you must follow several things. Decide on a U U 7 /U /U. for your talk. Deliver your speech slowly. Concentrate on the main points. Speak from the U U 8 /U /U. Pro- vide thinking time before and after each important new item b
5、y pausing, U U 9 /U /Uand using filler words. Look at your audience while you are speaking. Make a strong U U 10 /U /Uby repeating your main points briefly. （分数：10.00）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:_三、BSECTION B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)（分数：5.00）(1).For most people who h
6、ave sleeping troubles, which of the following is the most usual cause? A. Their room is not cozy. B. They are busy and occupied. C. They have chronic disease. D. They take a nap after lunch.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is the advice Dr. Getsy gives those who struggle with insomnia due to the health con
7、dition? A. Lying in bed as long as possible. B. Taking some sleeping pills to relax. C. Staying awake as long as they can. D. Scheduling when to be away or asleep.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).People should stay away from caffeine after lunch because A. its effect may linger for almost 10 hours. B. it distur
8、bs the way people feel in daytime. C. it accelerates heartbeat and respiration. D. they may want to take a catnap.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following is TRUE about taking a nap? A. Napping for 2 hours is better than for 40 minutes. B. It does not revive you if the nap lasts too long. C. You
9、should never take a nap after lunch. D. The longer you sleep, the better you will feel.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following is NOT one of Dr. Getsys tips on fighting sleeping troubles? A. Create a comfortable sleeping environment. B. Prioritize sleep if you are haunted by sleeplessness. C. Cl
10、imb into bed early and lie awake to relax. D. Show perseverance and prepare for a long battle.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、BSECTION C/B(总题数：3，分数：6.00)（分数：2.00）(1).According to Magdalena Alvarez, at least_survivors died hours after the accident. A. 19 B. 26 C. 6 D. 153（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the followin
11、g statements about the crash is TRUE? A. The number.of casualties was 153 on Wednesday. B. There accident killed 172 passengers on board. C. The crash took place when the plane was landing. D. The crash was caused probably by the engine fire.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：2.00）(1).What is the feature of TATP?
12、 A. It is an simple explosive. B. It is a military explosive. C. It is made in U.S. factories. D. It can be easily made indoors.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Richard Reid tried to bomb a plane with the bomb_. A. provided by terrorists B. stolen from the military C. made according to the methods shown in Inte
13、rnet D. made in his lab（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：2.00）(1).The protest near Seoul was _. A. effective B. in vain C. violent D. under control（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The free trade talks will _. A. achieve expected results B. last another 3 years C. resume in December D. come to an end next year（分数：1.00）A.B.C.
14、D.五、BPART READING (总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、BTEXT A/B(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Among the great cities of the world, Kolkata (formerly spelt as Calcutta), the capital of Indias West Bengal, and the home of nearly 15 million people, is often mentioned as the only one that still has a large fleet of hand-pulled rickshaws.
15、 Rickshaws are not there to haul around tourists. Its the people in the lanes who most regularly use rickshaws - not the poor but people who are just a notch above the poor. They are people who tend to travel short distances, through lanes that are sometimes inaccessible to even the most daring taxi
16、 driver. An older woman with marketing to do, for instance, can arrive in a rickshaw, have the rickshaw puller wait until she comes back from various stalls to load her purchases, and then be taken home. People in the lanes use rickshaws as a 24-hour ambulance service. Proprietors of cafes or comer
17、stores send rickshaws to collect their supplies. The rickshaw pullers told me their steadiest customers are school children. Middle-class families contract with a puller to take a child to school and pick him up; the puller essentially becomes a family retainer. From June to September Kolkata can ge
18、t torrential rains. During my stay it once rained for about 48 hours. Entire neighborhoods couldnt be reached by motorized vehicles, and the newspapers showed pictures of rickshaws being pulled through water that was up to the pullers waists. When its raining, the normal customer base for rickshaw p
19、ullers expands greatly, as does the price of a journey. A writer in Kolkata told me, “When it rains, even the governor takes rickshaws.“ While I was in Kolkata, a magazine called India Today published its annual ranking of Indian states, according to such measurements as prosperity and infrastructur
20、e. Among Indias 20 largest states, Bihar finished dead last, as it has for four of the past five years. Bihar, a few hundred miles north of Kolkata, is where the vast majority of rickshaw pullers come from. Once in Kolkata, they sleep on the street or in their rickshaws or in a dera-a combination of
21、 garage and repair shop and dormitory managed by someone called a sardar. For sleeping privileges in a dera, pullers pay 100 rupees (about $2.50) a month, which sounds like a pretty good deal until youve visited a dera. They gross between 100 and 150 rupees a day, out of which they have to pay 20 ru
22、pees for the use of the rickshaw and an occasional 75 or more for a payoff if a policeman stops them for, say, crossing a street where rickshaws are prohibited.A 2003 study found that rickshaw pullers are near the bottom of Kolkata occupations in income, doing better than only the beggars. For someo
23、ne without land or education, that still beats trying to make a living in Bihar. There are people in Kolkata, particularly educated and politically aware people, who will not ride in a rickshaw,because they are offended by the idea of being pulled by another human being or because they consider it n
24、ot the sort of thing people of their station do or because they regard the hand-pulled rickshaw as a relic of colonialism. Ironically,some of those people are not enthusiastic about banning rickshaws. The editor of the editorial pages of Kolkatas Telegraph-Rudrangshu Mukherjee, a former academic who
25、 still writes history books - told me, for instance, that he sees humanitarian considerations as coining down on the side of keeping hand-pulled rickshaws on the road. “I refuse to be carried by another human being myself,“ he said, “but I question whether we have the right to take away their liveli
26、hood.“ Rickshaw supporters point out that when it conies to demeaning occupations, rickshaw pullers are hardly unique in Kolkata. When I asked one rickshaw puller if he thought the governments plan to rid the city of rickshaws was based on a genuine interest in his welfare, he smiled, with a quick s
27、hake of his head - a gesture I interpreted to mean, “If you are so naive as to ask such a question, I will answer it, but it is not worth wasting words on.“ Some rickshaw pullers I met were resigned to the imminent end of their livelihood and pin their hopes on being offered something in its place.
28、As migrant workers, they dont have the political clout enjoyed by, say, Kolkatas sidewalk hawkers, who, after supposedly being scaled back at the beginning of the modernization drive, still clog the sidewalks, selling absolutely everything - or, as I found during the 48 hours of rain, absolutely eve
29、rything but umbrellas. “The government was the government of the poor people,“ one sardar told me. “Now they shake hands with the capitalists and try to get rid of poor people.“ But others in Kolkata believe that rickshaws will simply be confined more strictly to certain neighborhoods, out of the vi
30、ew of World Bank traffic consultants and California investment delegations - or that they will be allowed to die out naturally as theyre supplanted by more modem conveyances. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, after all, is not the first high West Bengal official to say that rickshaws would be off the streets
31、 of Kolkata in a matter of months. Similar statements have been made as far back as 1976. The ban decreed by Bhattacharjee has been delayed by a court case and by a widely held belief that some retraining or social security settlement ought to be offered to rickshaw drivers.It may also have been del
32、ayed by a quiet reluctance to give up something that has been part of the fabric of the city for more than a century. Kolkata, a resident told me, “has difficulty letting go.“ One day a city official handed me a report from the municipal government laying out options for how rickshaw pullers might b
33、e rehabilitated. “Which option has been chosen?“ I asked, noting that the report was dated almost exactly a year before my visit. “That hasnt been decided,“ he said. “When will it be decided?“ “That hasnt been decided,“ he said.（分数：6.00）(1).According to the passage, rickshaws are used in Kolkata mai
34、nly for the following purposes EXCEPT A. taking foreign tourists around the city. B. providing transport to school children. C. can-ying store supplies and purchases.D. carrying people over short distances.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following statements best describes the rickshaw pullers fro
35、m Bihar? A. They come from a relatively poor area. B. They are provided with decent accommodation. C. Their living standards are very low in Kolkata. D. They are often caught by policemen in the streets.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).That “For someone without land or education, that still beats trying to make
36、 a living in Bihar“(4th paragraph)means that even so, A. the poor prefer to work and live in Bihar. B. the poor from Bihar fare better than back home. C. the poor never try to make a living in Bihan D. the poor never seem to resent their life in Kolkata.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).We can infer from the pas
37、sage that some educated and politically aware people A. hold ,nixed feelings towards rickshaws. B. strongly support the ban on rickshaws. C. call for humanitarian actions for rickshaw pullers. D. keep quiet on the issue of banning rickshaws.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following statements conv
38、eys the authors sense of humour? A. “. - not the poor but people who are just a notch above the poor.“ (2nd paragraph) B. “., which sounds like a pretty good deal until youve visited a dera.“ (4th paragraph) C. Kolkata, a resident told me, “has difficulty letting go.“ (7th paragraph) D. “.or, as I f
39、ound during the 48 hours of rain, absolutely everything but umbrellas.“ (6th paragraph)（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(6).The dialogue between the author and the city official at the end of the passage seems to suggest A. the uncertainty of the courts decision. B. the inefficiency of the municipal government. C.
40、the difficulty of finding a good solution. D. the slowness in processing options.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、BTEXT B/B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Children in the UK are not reading enough at home, favouring television and computer games instead, according to new research.The survey conducted earlier this month by Nestle
41、Box Tops for Books, which asked parents about their children s reading habits, found that half of UK children spend less than two hours reading per week. A further one in 10 had not read a book in the past month, and of those who do read regularly, one in four avoid non-fiction titles. More than hal
42、f of the parents surveyed believed their children should read more non-fiction books.“It is essential that young children read at least one book a week and, in particular, educational books,“ said family counsellor Jenni Trent Hughes.But others believe such a stem approach to reading may not help ch
43、ildren. “We can mm children off it by simply saying it s something they must be doing,“ said Amelia Foster, who runs Reading Connects for the National Literacy Trust, an organisation that encourages reading for pleasure to enhance classroom achievement.Ms Foster said the survey results might not giv
44、e children enough credit. Previous studies have found that 75% of 11 to 18-year-olds enjoyed reading, and 83% read in their spare time.Past reading surveys have found distinct differences in the reading habits of boys and girls. Girls tend to be more enthusiastic about reading in general, but partic
45、ularly fiction (perhaps helping to explain why Jacqueline Wilson, author of Sleepovers and Bad Girls, is the most borrowed author from public libraries), while boys are drawn to books about a place, subject, or hobby that interests them.Nicola Davies, author of Poo: A Natural History of the Unmentio
46、nable, said while working with underachieving boys she found they responded to non-fiction better than fiction. “You can get them to write poetry but they won t read it;“ she said.Ms Davies would like to see children s non-fiction take off in the way adult non-fiction has in recent years, thanks lar
47、gely to titles like Longitude that employ strong narratives. This may encourage boys to read more, she said.“There s a lot of really crap non-fiction out there. It s absolute paint by numbers, pile them high, and sell them cheap. But it s not really addressing the issue. Non-fiction as it is cutting
48、 offa whole route into reading, especially for boys,“ added Ms Davies.But the consequences of these trends may run deeper. Some worry that steering clear of non-fiction may effect the development of a child s imagination, even going so far as to impact their future career choices.Nicola Jones credits her choice of studying
