1、专业八级-66 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Take a taxi in Shanghai and you will pay mom than you would for a ride of (1)_ distance in Beijing. (1)_ Buy a beer at an international bar in Shanghai. and the same holds true. Go out for an Italian, German or French meal and ditto.
2、 And yet, according to a survey released yesterday by Mercer Human (2)_ Consulting, (2)_ Beijing is the most expensive city on the Chinese mainland. “There arc some things that might be more expensive in Shanghai, but the (3)_ we have is based on a basket of goods,“ (3)_ said Ilya Bonick, Mercer s r
3、egional head of information services. Mercers cost of living survey is one of a handful of annual reports produced by international (4)_. (4)_ it rakes into consideration such things as housing, food, (5)_, clothing, household goods and transportation. (5)_ Meals of noodles or jiaozi are not include
4、d in the report whereas products (6)_ are likely to buy and are available in all the cities surveyed, such as Coca-Cola and Pantene shampoo. (6)_ This year, Hong Kong, the most expensive Chinese city, took ninth (7)_. (7)_ The top three in the world are Tokyo, Osaka and London. The good news is that
5、 Chinese cities are getting cheaper, driven by a US dollar (8)_ in value. (8)_ “Chinese cities have dropped significantly in the rankings as the (9)_ is pegged to the US dollar and has therefore been affected by the dollars depreciation,“ said Marie-Laurence Sepede, Mercers research manager, in a re
6、lease. (9)_ “The shift in the China ranking is the most surprising,“ Bonick said. “We have seen it become more (10)_.“ (10)_ Another factor for the drop, said Bonick, is the wider availability of products the company uses to measure.（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
7、空项 1:_填空项 1:_二、BSECTION B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).Whats Miss Patty Chings problem?（分数：1.00）A.To be a keen photographer is too costly.B.She has to develop 10 rolls of films.C.All her films were vanished.D.After the trip, she was too tired to choose a good photo service.(2).According to Denis, if we want
8、to get the consumers right, we should_.（分数：1.00）A.spend more moneyB.complain to the managerC.fight for themD.wait for a sale(3).The Consumer of the Month is_.（分数：1.00）A.DenisB.WendyC.PattyD.Alvin(4).When the store had a sale, the belt which Mr. Alvin Lok liked priced at _（分数：1.00）A.$100B.$150C.$200D
9、.$300(5).Which of the following items is true?（分数：1.00）A.Miss Patty Chings tour lasted 3 weeks.B.Top-class Photo services compensated Miss Ching because the judge ordered them to pay compensation.C.According to Wendy, the problem with sale prices is that the reductions may not be enough.D.Mr. Alvin
10、Lok was surprised because at the sale the price of the belt had reduced by only fifty dollars.三、BSECTION C/B(总题数：2，分数：5.00)(1).What did Yasukuni shrine claim?（分数：1.00）A.It claimed that the 40 Class-A war criminals were no longer war criminals in Japan.B.It claimed that the Far East Sentence was not
11、justC.The war criminals should be no longer regarded as criminals.D.The government should not grant pensions to criminals.(2).Which statement was not true?（分数：1.00）A.Japan had revised related taws to grant pension to the family of these convicted war criminals.B.Some people at home and abroad called
12、 Yasukuni to establish new memorial to separate war criminals from ordinary war deadC.Koizumi took office in 2001.D.Yasukuni hadnt make response to the call of separating war criminals from ordinary head.(3).What can you learn about Yasukuni from the news?（分数：1.00）A.Japans Prime Minister pays annual
13、 visit to itB.It is urging Japanese politicians to continual visitsC.Many Asian country strongly protest establish new memorial for the war deadD.Koizumi is in favor of separating the war criminals from ordinary deadIQuestions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, yo
14、u will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following questions. Now listen to the news./I（分数：2.00）(1).Which one is not true according to the content of the news?（分数：1.00）A.This was the first congressional visit to the prison.B.The lawmakers ate the same launch given to detainees.C.A Senata del
15、egation was visiting next weekend.D.The prison was under criticism this spring.(2).The lawmakers feared_（分数：1.00）A.terrorists among the detainees could not be found out.B.interrogators in the prison would abused and tortured the detainees.C.the White House and Pentagon wouldnt improve the conditions
16、 there.D.the United States image was hurt because of the prison.四、BPART READING (总题数：5，分数：20.00)BTEXT A/BIt used to be said that English people take their pleasure sadly. No doubt this would still be true if they had any pleasure to take, but the price of alcohol and tobacco in my country has provid
17、ed sufficient external causes for melancholy. I have sometimes thought that the habit of taking pleasure sadly has crossed the Atlantic, and I have wondered what it is that makes so many English-speaking people somber in their outlook in spite of good health and a good income.In the course of my tra
18、vels in the American I have been impressed by a kind of fundamental malaise which seems to me extremely common and which poses difficult problems for the social reformer. Most social reformers have held the opinion that, if poverty were abolished and there were no more economic insecurity, the mille
19、nnium would have arrived. But when I look at the face of people in opulent cars, whether in your country or in mine, I do not see that look of radiant happiness which the aforesaid social reformers had led me to expect. In nine cases out of ten, I see instead a look of boredom and discontent and an
20、almost frantic longing for something that might tickle the jaded palate.But it is not only the very rich who suffer in this way Professional men very frequently feel hopeless thwarted. There is something that they long to do or some public object that they long to work for. But if they were to indul
21、ge their wishes in these respects, they fear that they would lose their livelihood. Their wives are equally unsatisfied, for their neighbor, Mrs. So-and-So, has gone ahead more quickly, has a better car, a larger apartment and grander friends.Life for almost everybody is a long competitive snuggle w
22、here very few can win the race, and those who do not win are unhappy. On social occasions when it is de rigueur to seem cheerful, the necessary demeanor is stimulated by alcohol. But file gaiety does not ring true and anybody who has just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose melancholy
23、.One finds this sort of thing only among English-speaking people. A Frenchman while he is abusing the Government is as gay as a lark. So is an Italian while he is telling you how his neighbor has swindled him. Mexicans, when they are not actually starving or actually being murdered, sing ad dance an
24、d enjoy sunshine and food and drink with a gusto which is very rare north of the Mexican frontier. When Andrew Jackson conquered Pensacola from the Spaniards, it was Sunday. She pointed out the scandal to her husband, who decreed that cheerfulness must cease forthwith. And it did.When I try to under
25、stand what it is that prevents so many American from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two muses, of which one goes much deeper than the other. The one that goes least deep is the necessity for subservience in some large organization, If you are an energetic man with
26、strong views as to the fight way of doing the job with which you are concerned, you find yourself invariable under the orders of some big man at the top who is elderly, weary and cynical. Whenever you have a bright idea, the boss puts a stopper on it. The more energetic you are and the more vision y
27、ou have, the more you will suffer from the impossibility of doing any of the things that you feel ought to be done; When you go home and moan to your wife, she tells you that you are a silly fellow and that if you became the proper sort of yes- man your income would soon be doubled, ff you try divor
28、ce and remarriage it is very unlikely that there will be any change in this respect. And so you are condemned to gastric ulcers and premature old age.It was not always so. When Dr. Johnson complied his dictionary, he compiled it as he thought fit. When he felt like saying oats is food for men in Sco
29、tland and horses in England, he said so. When he defined a fishing-rod as a stick with a fish at one end and a fool at the other, there was nobody to point out to him that a remark of this sort would damage the sale of his great work among fishermen. But if, in the present day, you are (let us say)
30、a contributor to an encyclopedia, there is an editorial policy which is solemn, wise, gad prudent, which allows no room for jokes, no place for personal preferences and no tolerance for idiosyncrasies. Everything has to be flattened out except where the prejudices of the editor am concerned. To thes
31、e you must conform, however, little you may share them. And so you have to be content with dollars instead of creative satisfaction. And the dollars, alas. leave you sad.This brings me to major cause of unhappiness, which is that most people in America act not on impulse but on some principle, and t
32、hat principles upon which people act are usually faxed upon a false psychology and a false ethic. There is a general theory as to what makes for happiness and this theory is false. Life is concerned as a competitive struggle in which felicity consists in getting ahead of your neighbor. The joys whic
33、h are not competitive are forgotten.Now, I will not for a moment deny that getting ahead of your neighbor is delightful, but it is not the only delight of which human beings are capable. There are innumerable things which are not competitive. It is possible to enjoy food and drink without having to
34、reflect that you have a better cook and better wine merchant than your former friends whom you are learning to cold- shoulder. It is possible to be fond of your wife and your children without reflecting how much better she dressed than Mrs. So-and-So and how much better they are at athletic than the
35、 children of that old stick-in-the-mud Mr. Such-and-Such. There are those who can enjoy music without thinking how cultured other ladies in their womens club will be thinking them There are even people who can enjoy a fine day in spite of the fact that the sun shines on everybody. All these simple p
36、leasures are destroyed as soon as competitiveness gets the upper hand.But it is not only competitiveness that is the trouble. I could imagine a person who has turned against competitiveness and can only enjoy after conscious rejection of the competitive element- Such a person, seeing the sunshine in
37、 the morning, says to himself, “Yes, I may enjoy this and indeed I must, for it is a joy open to all.“ And however bored he may become with the sunshine he goes on persuading himself that he is enjoying it because he thinks he ought to.“But,“ you will ask, “are you maintaining that our actions ought
38、 to be governed by moral principles? Are you suggesting that every whim and every impulse should he given free rein? Do you consider that if So-and-Sos nose annoys you by being too long, that gives you a fight to tweak it? “Sir,“ you will continue with indignation,“ your doctrine is one which would
39、uproot all the sources of morality and loosen all the bonds which hold society together. Only self-restraint, self-repression, iron self-control make it possible to endure the abominable beings among whom we have to live, No, sir! Better misery and gastric ulcers than such chaos as your doctrine wou
40、ld produce.I will admit at once that there is force in this objection. I have seen many noses that I should have liked to tweak, but never once have I yielded to the impulse. But this, like everything else, is a matter of degree. If you always yield to impulse, you are mad. If you never yield to imp
41、ulse, you gradually dry up and very likely become mad to boot. In a life which is to be healthy and happy, impulse, though mot allowed to nm riot, must have sufficient scope to remain alive and to preserve that variety and diversity of interest which is natural to a human being. A life lived on a pr
42、inciple, no matter what is too narrowly determined, too systematic and uniform, to be happy. However much you care about success, you should have times when you are merely enjoying life without a thought of subsequence. However proud you .may be, as president of a womens club, of your impeccable cul
43、ture, you should not be ashamed of reading a low-brow book if you want to. A life which is all principle is a life on rail. The rails may help toward rapid locomotion, but preclude the joy of wandering. Man spent some million years wandering before he invented rails, and his happiness still demands
44、some race of the earlier ages of freedom.（分数：5.00）(1).In the writers opinion, in England alcohol and tobacco may_.（分数：1.00）A.make people indulge in pleasuresB.lead to despondencyC.pose touchy problems for social reformersD.throw a heavy burden on the countrys welfare program(2).What opinions do most
45、 social reformers hold?（分数：1.00）A.Once poverty were rooted out, people would really enjoy their livesB.If economic security were obtained, one would grow fidgety and berserkC.An ideal society is the one in which all the people were no longer afraid of poverty.D.Great happiness and human perfection c
46、ould be arrived at if and only if people learned to be content.(3).Who are easy to feel melancholy according to the writer?（分数：1.00）A.MexicansB.professionalC.English-speaking peopleD.B and C(4).What is the main cause of unhappiness for many Americans in the writers view?（分数：1.00）A.Life is a long com
47、petitive struggle, very few lucky people can win the race and attain happiness.B.Lack of freedom and stimuli makes people unsatisfied with life.C.People tend to act on dubious principles.D.Peoples obsession of getting ahead of theft neighbors.(5).What solution does the writer suggest to dispel melan
48、choly mood?（分数：1.00）A.cultivate wide interestB.balance impulse and principleC.strive for success and enjoy its gainD.A and BBTEXT B/BWestern tattooists work with a special electrical instrument, something like a dentists drill. It holds a number of very fine needles, which, for the purpose of reproducing the approved drawing, ac dipped, in black ink. When the current is switched on, and the instrument passed rapidly over the outline, the action of the needles drives the ink into the skin. The tattooist is constantly wiping
