1、专业八级-263 (1)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)BBen Buchanan and A Magic Book/B The Texas teen is devouring the 672 pages of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince written by J. K. Rowling. When Buchanan got the first Harry Potter book in 1998, he was struggling with difficul
2、ty in reading. But when his mom read the first chapter aloud to him, he was determined to conquer his first “real“ book. B. The success of Rowling s books:/B 1) over(1) _ of Rowling s books printed in U.S (1)_ 2) kids reading and (2)_ each title fervently. (2)_ However, whether all of this hype of c
3、ountdowns and midnight trips to book stores translates into a lifelong reading habit remains unclear. B. Our society now needed a reading renaissance:/B 1) A study shows: adult (3) _ have dropped 10 percentage points. (3)_ A. the loss of readers possiblly (4) _to the booming world of technology; (4)
4、_ B. (5) _offer experience that can t be gained from these other sources. (5)_ 2) Thr facts reflect: fewer kids are reading for (6) _ (6)_ A. This (7) _retreat from books not taken a toll on reading ability. (7)_ B. this indicates a poor future in reading ability development-the very reason why many
5、 educators are hoping the Harry Potter series can work some (8)_. (8)_ B. The Harry Potter series has “broken the rules“:/B 1) the book was as exciting as a video game; 2) 59 percent of U.K. kids think the books have (9) _their reading skills; (9) _ 3) (10) _say the books are the reason they read mo
6、re. (10)_ Part of the allure of The Harry Potter is the thrilling story, with well-developed characters and an avalanche of magical moments.（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)Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview with a c
7、hief-editor. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following questions. Now listen to the interview.（分数：5.00）(1).What subject is Mr. Pitt good at?（分数：1.00）A.Art.B.French.C.German.D.Chemistry.(2).What does Mr. Pitt NOT do in his spare time?（分数：1.00）A.Doing a b
8、it of acting and photography.B.Going to concerts frequently.C.Playing traditional jazz and folk music.D.Travelling in Europe by hitch-hiking.(3).When asked what a managers role is, Mr. Pitt sounds_.（分数：1.00）A.confidentB.hesitantC.resoluteD.doubtful(4).What does Mr. Pitt say he would like to be?（分数：1
9、.00）A.An export salesman working overseas.B.An accountant working in the company.C.A production manager in a branch.D.A policy maker in the company.(5).Which of the following statements about the management trainee scheme is TRUE?（分数：1.00）A.Trainees are required to sign contracts initially.B.Trainee
10、s performance is evaluated when necessary.C.Trainees starting salary is 870 pounds.D.Trainees cannot quit the management scheme.三、BSECTION C/B(总题数：2，分数：5.00)IQuestions 6 Norway s Johann Olay Koss, who set three new world records during the 1994 Winter Olympics; and Dan Jansen of the United States, w
11、ho dominated speed skating for more than ten years from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, capping his success with a gold medal and a world record in the 1000-meter long-track race at the 1994 Olympics. Successful female speed skaters include Germanys Gunda Niemann, who won seven all- around world cha
12、mpionship titles between 1991 and 1998, and Bonnie Blair of the United States, who won a total of five Olympic gold medals in the 1988, 1992, and 1994 Olympics. Blair was also the first woman to skate 500 meters in less than 39 seconds.（分数：3.00）(1).Who was the first skater to successfully complete a
13、 double axel and a triple jump in competition?（分数：1.00）A.American athlete Jackson Haines.B.Norway s Sonja Henie.C.American skater Dick Button.D.Dutch skater Jaap Eden.(2).What does the article mainly want to tell us?（分数：1.00）A.History of skating.B.Development of skating.C.Skating tendencies.D.Skatin
14、g.(3).From the passage we can infer that_（分数：1.00）A.many people have dedicated to the skatingB.modem speed skating will become more and more quickC.figure skating will be further innovated and improvedD.more and more people like skating nowBTEXT D/BWe come in different colors: red, black, white, yel
15、low and brown, have a variety of political systems, social systems, religious views or none at all; we are different intellectually, have different educational systems, different socio-economic classes; psychologically we are normal, abnormal, neurotic, psychotic, we speak different languages, and h
16、ave different customs and costumes.Studying human beings biologically and physiologically leads us to very different conclusions about how alike or different we are from each other. Very different indeed, every human being on the planet, all 5.3 billion of us, has the same number of bones, of the sa
17、me type, serving the same purposes; each of us has 46 chromosomes, 23 from each parent, and these chromosomes, genes and the DNA and RNA of which they are integral parts, are in every single human being; every cell, every membrane, every tissue, and every organ is the same everywhere. We all have a
18、heart, a circulatory system, 2 lungs, a liver, 2 kidneys, a brain and nervous system, a reproductive system, digestive and excretory systems, musculature, in short, we are the same biologically and our bodies perform the same functions everywhere on the planet. And as we learned in Shakespeares The
19、Merchant of Venice, if you prick us, any of us, “do we not bleed“? Of course we do, and we bleed red blood no matter what the color of our skin, or the language we speak, the clothing we wear, the gods we worship, or our geographical home. Man is of a piece biologically; all equally effective organi
20、sms whether Amazon Indian, Australian aborigine, Parisian artist, Greek sailor, Chinese student, American astronaut, Russian soldier, or Palestinian citizen.Well then, you ask, how is that so many groups of people disparage other groups, persecute them, and claim superiority over them? Why is it tha
21、t some groups of people still hunt animals, wear little or no clothing, have little or no technology, while others are very sophisticated in their technology, industry, transportation, communication, food gathering and storage? It is, of course, a matter of culture and the civilization that emerges
22、and evolves from it. Though man is man everywhere, where he lives, when he lives there, with whom he lives there, all affect how he lives: that is, what he believes, what he wears, his customs, his gods, his rituals, his myths and literature, his language and his institutions. These are man-made art
23、ifacts that each group develops over time, living together, facing the same problems, needing and desiring the same things. They are his culture, his identity.The interactions of two powerful forces in all human life: nature (biology) and nurture (culture and civilization), shape us. Each culture ha
24、s its own distinctive ways of seeing, feeling, thinking, speaking, believing, and just as no two humans are identical in all respects, so no two cultures are identical in all respects. But, wherever humans have lived and live today, there is culture with all of its elements embedded in a civilizatio
25、n that expresses that core of thought and feeling in its language, its institutions and other social organizations. All civilizations and the cultures that nourish them have hierarchies, social institutions, language, art of all kinds, religion or a system of spiritual beliefs of some kind, laws, cu
26、stoms, rituals (other than religious) and ceremonies.A study of anthropology and make it very clear that humans have created divisions and exacerbated superficial external difference for their own ulterior purposes whether political, social, economic or religious. The truth is that we are much more
27、alike in very basic ways than we are different. If you wear one type of garment and I wear another, we both wear some kind of garment. Our culture demands it. If you speak one language and I another, we both speak so that others will understand us; we must communicate with each other. Nothing is gai
28、ned by overemphasizing differences, but much is lost, If we understood our differences as cultural variations of our basic, universal humanity it could restore sanity and peace to this often turbulent world. Muslims and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Serbs and Croats, blacks and whites, we are all
29、 human and need the same things to survive and to thrive.Different does not mean inferior or superior; it does not mean better or worse; right or wrong. It means only that artificial distinctions have been made by society, and these have denied our universal humanity that is cell deep and incontrove
30、rtible. Differences produce variety of thought, feeling, and action and that can be very stimulating to peaceful and creative solutions to human problems.Can we accept our biological brotherhood and put aside our man-made, artificial, cultural enmities? What men have made, their culture and civiliza
31、tions, men can unmake, can improve. What would be gained if we did that? What would be lost?（分数：3.00）(1).Which of the following is NOT mentioned?（分数：1.00）A.Racial difference.B.Civilization difference.C.Cultural difference.D.Biological difference.(2).From the last paragraph we can deduce that_.（分数：1.
32、00）A.differences mainly come from cultureB.differences can be neglectedC.we will gain nothing if giving up differencesD.we will lose anything if keeping differences(3).The best title for this passage could be _.（分数：1.00）A.Every One Is Created EqualB.Culture And CivilizationC.Human DifferencesD.Cultu
33、ral DifferencesBTEXT E/BConcern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modem fife, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappear
34、ing. Offices, shops, and factories are discovering the great efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output. Thus the “typical“ Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of
35、only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality.Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer prod
36、ucts. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that “assembly-line life“ will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (but less productive) old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the goo
37、d things in life-to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local cafe?Since the late 1950s life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new wa
38、y of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of this competitive, goods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence.In spite of the critics, howev
39、er, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modem economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modem, industrial France is preferable to the old.（分数：5.00）(1).Which of th
40、e following is a feature of the old French way of life?（分数：1.00）A.Leisure, elegance, and efficiency.B.Elegance, efficiency, and taste.C.Leisure, elegance, and taste.D.Elegance, efficiency, and taste.(2).Which of the following is NOT true about Frenchmen?（分数：1.00）A.Many of them prefer the modem life
41、style.B.They actually enjoy working at the assembly line.C.They are more concerned with money than before.D.They are more competitive than the old generation.(3).The passage suggests that_.（分数：1.00）A.in pursuing material gains the French are suffering losses elsewhereB.its now unlikely to see a Fren
42、chman enjoying a stroll by the riverC.the French are fed up with the smell of freshly picked applesD.great changes have occurred in the life style of all Frenchmen(4).Which of the following is true about the critics?（分数：1.00）A.Critics are greater in number than people enjoying the new way of life.B.
43、Student critics are greater in number than critics in other fields.C.Student critics have, on occasion, resorted to violent means against the trend.D.Critics are concerned solely with the present and not the future.(5).Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Change
44、s in the French Way of Life.B.Criticism of the New Life Style.C.The Americanization of France.D.Features of the New Way of Life.五、BPART GENERAL (总题数：10，分数：10.00)1.Henry James was regarded as one of the pioneers of _, and had great influence on the age that followed.（分数：1.00）A.black humourB.existenti
45、al novelC.psychoanalytical novelD.psychological novel2.Idioms adjectival in nature function as _.（分数：1.00）A.adjectivesB.attributesC.modifiersD.words3.Walt Whitman helped to promote the development of_.（分数：1.00）A.sonnetB.coupletC.blank verseD.free verse4.Grammatical context refers to _ in which a wor
46、d is used.（分数：1.00）A.vocabularyB.grammarC.semantic patternD.syntactic structure5.“To err is human, to forgive, divine“, “A little learning is a dangerous thing“ are taken from the poems written by _.（分数：1.00）A.John MiltonB.Fransis BaconC.William ShakespeareD.Alexander Pope6.In the United States, it
47、is the _ that formulates foreign policy and prepares laws for the home front.（分数：1.00）A.PresidentB.CongressC.Supreme CourtD.Democratic Party7.The best known Australian animal is_.（分数：1.00）A.bearB.kangarooC.hareD.elephant8.The Federal Government s the central government of the United States. It is di
48、vided into three branches: the Executive, the Legislative, and the _.（分数：1.00）A.JudicialB.JustifiedC.LawD.Judicious9.In Britain the real power was in _.（分数：1.00）A.the MonarchB.the Home of LordsC.the House of CommonsD.the Queen10.The head of the British Government is the_.（分数：1.00）A.QueenB.Prime MinisterC.Governor in GeneralD.Queen Regent六、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:_
