1、专业八级-26 及答案解析(总分：95.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数：1，分数：10.00)BThe American Tax System/BGovernments raise revenues through taxation. A tax is a (1) _ payment to government. In the Unites States, taxes (1) _ fall into three main categories: a. Taxes on personal or corporation income;b. Taxes on w
2、ealth, including ownership and (2) _; (2) _ c. Taxes on activities, including consumption, production, employment, etc.Each year in April, taxpayers sort their previous years income and expense records to prepare their income tax (3) _. They are allowed to take specific types (3) _of deductions and
3、(4) _. A deduction applies if (4) _they donate to the Red Cross, their (5) _ or other (5) _(6) _ organizations. (6) _Property taxes are levied primarily on land and (7) _. Death taxes are levied on (7) _(8) _ by the federal government and on inheritances by (8) _ some state governments. Besides, gif
4、t taxes are levied on the transfer of assets.Sales taxes are levied on the (9) _ prices of items. (9) _Sometimes, the federal government may impose a value-added tax.Social security taxes, which are (10) _ taxes levied (10) _by the federal government, are collected to finance social insurance progra
5、ms.（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:_二、BSECTION B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).Mike _ that playing baseball is a lifetime career.（分数：1.00）A.agreesB.disapprovesC.hopesD.doubts(2).Mike began to play baseball at _.（分数：1.00）A.24B.27C.18D.20(3).Mike went to Mexico to
6、play the winter season primarily because _.（分数：1.00）A.it helped him earn extra moneyB.his season was overC.he needed more experienceD.he could improve his skills(4).For a playoff player, the whole season lasts _ months.（分数：1.00）A.6B.8C.10D.11(5).What does Mike find most attractive in baseball?（分数：1.
7、00）A.It is a spectator sport.B.It is fun to win.C.It is what he exactly likes.D.It is a professional sport.三、BSECTION C/B(总题数：2，分数：5.00)(1).There are new concerns about the _ of the U.S. economic expansion.（分数：1.00）A.durationB.momentumC.prospectD.future(2).In the past _ years, the economy has been g
8、rowing owing to tax cuts and Federal Reserve interest rate cuts.（分数：1.00）A.2B.3C.4D.5(3).There seems to be _ the consumer spending drops.（分数：1.00）A.general pessimism aboutB.some doubt aboutC.different interpretations ofD.much optimism aboutIQuestions 9 to 10 are based on the following news. At the e
9、nd 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).According to the report, the contest will last _ days.（分数：1.00）A.oneB.twoC.fourD.six(2).The chief purpose of the contest is to _.（分数：1.00）A.make computer users aware of hackingB.train hac
10、king expertsC.enlighten people on how to prevent computer attacksD.display the harms of hacking四、BPART PROOFREA(总题数：10，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:_五、BPART READING (总题数：2，分数：2.00)11.The water jar mentioned in the second paragraph can NOT be described
11、 as _.（分数：1.00）A.light in weightB.made by a Native AmericanC.an example of fine artD.an object to be used12.“Yucca“ (in the second paragraph) is most probably _.（分数：1.00）A.a paintB.a brush used in paintingC.an object with a pointed endD.a plant六、BTEXT B/B(总题数：3，分数：3.00)13.The author focuses primaril
12、y on _.（分数：1.00）A.two competing scientific models concerning the suns magnetic fieldB.an overview of some recent scientific developments in solar physicsC.the reasons why a problem in solar physics has not yet been solvedD.the difficulties involved in linking terrestrial climate with solar activity1
13、4.According to the passage, for which of the following reasons are the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Chinese records important?（分数：1.00）A.They contradict the theory of the Maunder minimum.B.They suggest that the Maunder minimum cannot be related to climate.C.They verify the existence
14、 of a span of unusual cold worldwide during the Maunder minimum.D.They show that the European observations are of dubious statistical significance.15.On which of the following assumptions is based the belief, that tree-ring thicknesses show links between solar periodicity and terrestrial climate?（分数
15、：1.00）A.Solar-activity cycle existed m its present form during the period in question.B.Average tree-ring thickness varies from species to species.C.Tree-ring thickness varies with changes in terrestrial climate.D.Both terrestrial climate and solar-activity cycle randomly affect tree-ring thickness.
16、七、BTEXT C/B(总题数：3，分数：3.00)16.The author seems to imply that _.（分数：1.00）A.humans are responsible for the problemB.hunting limits and regulations should be liftedC.the birds have a strong capability to surviveD.the Canada geese are a better species than the snow geese17.The sharp rise of the snow gees
17、e population is mainly caused by_.（分数：1.00）A.lack of natural enemiesB.great care of wildlife preservationistsC.favorable conditions in their winter habitatD.changes in their migration patterns18.According to the author, if the marshes are destroyed,_.（分数：1.00）A.the snow geese will be in dangerB.the
18、agriculture of the area will sufferC.the Canada geese will replace the snow geeseD.the snow geese may move to breed in Minnesota八、BTEXT D/B(总题数：3，分数：3.00)19.Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Mechanization of work has little changed the conditions of women
19、.B.Mechanization revolutionizes a societys traditional values and customary roles of its members.C.Mechanization of work creates new jobs that did not exist previously.D.Womens work has changed considerably in the past 200 years.20.It can be inferred from the passage that, before the Industrial Revo
20、lution, most women worked in_.（分数：1.00）A.textile millsB.private householdsC.OfficesD.schools21.The increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the 20th century was NOT due to_.（分数：1.00）A.their economic necessityB.more women employersC.shortage of single women workersD.high
21、marriage rates九、BTEXT E/B(总题数：2，分数：2.00)22.Which of the following does NOT pertain to the “support services“ mentioned in the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Telecommunications systems.B.Universities for training business administrators.C.Sources of industrial tools.D.Reservoir of labor force.23.It can be inferr
22、ed from the passage that countries currently industrializing _.（分数：1.00）A.have to find untapped foreign marketsB.are mainly poorer countries of AsiaC.must grapple with more difficulties than todays developed countries used to faceD.have to train large numbers of managers, accountants, ere十、BTEXT F/B
23、(总题数：2，分数：2.00)24.We get the impression that the author seems _ Hardys impulses as a writer.（分数：1.00）A.amazed atB.critical ofC.fed up withD.interested in25.The most appropriate title for the passage could be _.（分数：1.00）A.Under the Greenwood Tree: Hardys Ambiguous TriumphB.The Real and the Strange: T
24、he Novelists Shifting RealmsC.Hardys Novelistic Impulses: The Problem of ControlD.Divergent Impulses: The Issue of Unity in the Novel十一、BSECTION B/B(总题数：1，分数：1.00)26.Leopards are NOT likely to be found in_.（分数：1.00）A.EuropeB.AsiaC.Latin AmericaD.Africa十二、BTEXT H/B(总题数：3，分数：3.00)27.According to the p
25、assage, prostitution falls into the category of_.（分数：1.00）A.index crimeB.professional crimeC.white-collar crimeD.victimless crime28.Hijacking of cargo is a(n)_.（分数：1.00）A.professional crimeB.organized crimeC.index crimeD.white-collar crime十三、BTEXI I/B(总题数：2，分数：2.00)30.According to the passage, which
26、 is the real reason for people to move from rural to urban areas?（分数：1.00）A.Adequate job opportunities.B.Better public facilities.C.Very poor economic conditions in rural settlements.D.An increase in rural population.31.In 1991, New York was the worlds _urban area.（分数：1.00）A.largestB.second largestC
27、.third largestD.fourth largest十四、BTEXT J/B(总题数：3，分数：3.00)32.What has NOT been controlled at all as regards water pollution?（分数：1.00）A.Industrial polluters.B.Sewage.C.Rain runoff.D.Toxic substances.33.According to the passage, highway building_.（分数：1.00）A.has quickenedB.has been discouragedC.should b
28、e encouragedD.has been taxed at a lower rate34.An example of “soft“ energy mentioned in this passage is _.（分数：1.00）A.solar energyB.windC.natural gasD.gasoline十五、BTEXT K/B(总题数：1，分数：1.00)35.BThe 60 Most-Recommended Novels and Short Stories/B1. Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice (BR, 1813) / 2. Baldwin,
29、 James, Go Tell It on the Mountain (AM, 1953) / 3. Bellow, Saul, Seize the Day (AM, 1956) / 4. Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre (BR, 1847) / 5. Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights (BR, 1847) / 6. Camus, Albert, The Stranger (FR, 1942) / 7. Carroll, Lewis, Alice s Adventures in Wonderland (BR, 1865) / 8. Ca
30、ther, Willa, My Antonia (AM, 1918) / 9. Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote (SP, 1605, 1607) / 10. Chopin, Kate, The Awakening (AM, 1899) / 11. Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (BR, i902 ) / 12. Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage (AM, 1895) / 13. Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe (BR, 1719) / 14.
31、Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations (BR, 186061)/ 15. Dostoevski, Feodor, Crime and Punishment (RU, 1866) / 16. Eliot, George, The Mill on the Floss (BR, 1860) / 17. Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man (AM, 1947) / 18. Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury (AM, 1929) / 19. Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones
32、(Br, 1749) / 20. Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby (AM, 1925) / 21. Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary (FR, 1857) / 22. Forster, E. M., A Passage to India (BR, 1924) / 23. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (CO, 1967) / 24. Golding, William, Lord of the Flies (BR, 1954) / 25.
33、Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the D Urbervilles (BR, 1891) / 26. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter (AM, 1850) / 27. Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms (AM, 1929) / 28. Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God (AM, 1937) / 29. Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World (BR, 1932) / 30. James, Henry,
34、 The Turn of the Screw (AM, 1898) / 31. Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (IR, 1916) / 32. Kafka, Franz, The Trial (CZ, 1925) / 33. Lawrence, D. H., Sons and Lovers (BR, 1913) / 34. Lewis, Sinclair, Babbitt (AM, 1922) / 35. Malamud, Bernard, The Assistant (AM, 1957) / 36. Mann, T
35、homas, Death in Venice (GE, 1912) / 37. Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick (AM, 1851) / 38. Morrison, Toni, Sula (AM, 1973) / 39. OConnor, Flannery, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (AM, 1955) / 40. Olsen, Tillie, Tell Me a Riddle (AM, 195660) / 41. Orwell, George, Animal Farm (BR, 1945) / 42. Paton, Alan, Cry,
36、the Beloved Country (SA, 1948 ) / 43. Poe, Edgar Allan, Great Tales and Poems (AM, 1839-45) / 44. Salinger, J. D., The Catcher in the Rye (AM, 1951)/ 45. Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe (BR, 1820) / 46. Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (BR, 1818) / 47. Stelnbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath (AM, 1939) / 48. Swi
37、ft, Jonathan, Gulliver s Travels (BR, 1726) / 49. Thackeray, William Makepeaee, Vanity Fair (BR, 184748) / 50. Tolstoy , Leo , War and Peace (RU, 186569) / 51. Turgenev, Ivan, Fathers and Sons (RU, 1862) / 52. Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (AM, 1886) / 53. Updike, John, Rabbit, Run
38、 (AM, 1961) / 54. Voltaire, Candide (FR, 1759) / 55. Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five (AM, 1969) / 56. Walker, Alice, The Color Purple (AM, 1982) / 57. Welty, Eudora, Thirteen Stories (AM, 1956) / 58.Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence (AM, 1920) /59. Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse (BR, 1927
39、) /60. Wright, Richard, Native Son (AM, 1940)（分数：1.00）十六、BPART TRANSLAT(总题数：1，分数：10.00)36.运用幽默的至高技艺要求我们保持冷静的头脑，临场应变，从容镇定，不慌不忙。如此才能妙语惊人，产生具有生命力的幽默。事事都求自然，幽默也是如此。有准备的幽默当然能应付一些场合，但难免有人工斧凿之嫌；临场发挥的幽默才更为技巧，更见风致。临场发挥是一种技巧，更是一种智慧，它需要冷静和睿智。在各种晚会、文艺演出中，许多主持人和演员临场应变、妙语惊人，给晚会的欢乐气氛推波助澜，也赢得了观众的掌声和喜爱。（分数：10.00）_十七
40、、BSECTION B ENGLI(总题数：1，分数：10.00)37.Ever since the ancient Romans imposed their language on neighboring barbarians, the teaching of Latin has been inseparable from cultural politics. In the Middle Ages, Latin was the preserve of the Church, whose leaders believed that the language was inherently hol
41、ier than the vernacular, and who used Latin as a means of establishing a distance between priests and their parishioners. In the Renaissance, the classics were seen as a beneficial source of eternal, universal truths“From Cicero Ive learned to be myself,“ an Italian humanist announcedand such a beli
42、ef persisted well into the nineteenth century. The argument for the improving qualities of Latin is still made by the American Classical League, which points to studies showing that schoolchildren who have studied Latin achieve higher standardized test scores than their non- Latinist peers.（分数：10.00
43、）_十八、BPART WRITING(总题数：1，分数：20.00)38.BCollege Students Should (Not) Take Part-time Jobs/BIn the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you hav
44、e written to a natural conclusion or a summary.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.（分数：20.00）_专业八级-26 答案解析(总分：95.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数
45、：1，分数：10.00)BThe American Tax System/BGovernments raise revenues through taxation. A tax is a (1) _ payment to government. In the Unites States, taxes (1) _ fall into three main categories: a. Taxes on personal or corporation income;b. Taxes on wealth, including ownership and (2) _; (2) _ c. Taxes o
46、n activities, including consumption, production, employment, etc.Each year in April, taxpayers sort their previous years income and expense records to prepare their income tax (3) _. They are allowed to take specific types (3) _of deductions and (4) _. A deduction applies if (4) _they donate to the Red Cross, their (5) _ or other (5) _(6) _ organizations. (6) _Property taxes are
