1、专业八级-267 (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)There are two common set images of the Australian male: a) theU (1) /Uand Neanderthal male - great for a bill and a laugh. b)U (2) /U- a businessman who conceals the dorsal fin of a shark under a grey suit. Characters of Australi
2、ans: . NotU (3) /Uby nature, refer to each other onU (4) /U, and speak their minds. . Men tend to get together to relax -U (5) /Uand going to the footy. . A typical Australian partyU (6) /Umen and women. . Greeting. InU (7) /U, men shake hands with others but women usually do not shake hands with ot
3、her women. With good friends, malesU (8) /Ueach other on the shoulder, women kiss one another. . Being invited to a party: The host or the hostess introduces you to others; it isU (9) /Uto bring gifts at the first meeting. . Being modest aboutU (10) /Uyour own horn and achievements.（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_
4、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).What makes many people believe that our future energy demands will easily be met?（分数：1.00）A.The progress in developing alternative energy.B.The abundant deposit.C.The development of technology.D.All of th
5、e above.(2).Compared to alternative energy, one of the disadvantages of fossil fuels is _.（分数：1.00）A.mining is difficultB.it costs a lot of money to preserveC.they are difficult to be processedD.they are non-renewable(3).By what is the nuclear energy primarily generated?（分数：1.00）A.Blowing.B.Splittin
6、g atoms.C.Joining atoms.D.None of the above.(4).According to some estimates, at most for how long can we use the fossil fuel reserves?（分数：1.00）A.20-50 years.B.50-100 years.C.100-120 years.D.200-500 years.(5).According to the conversation, the use of fossil fuels _.（分数：1.00）A.should be banned in orde
7、r to save energyB.brings some side effectsC.causes the earths temperature riseD.should not be blamed for the pollution of environment三、BSECTION C/B(总题数：2，分数：5.00)(1).Mr. William Perrey _.（分数：1.00）A.was nominated for Defense SecretaryB.was member of the Senate Arms Services CommitteeC.was concerned b
8、y the growing tension on the Korean PeninsulaD.is Deputy-Secretary of Defense(2).The US Senate Arms Services Committee _.（分数：1.00）A.held confirmation hearing for Mr. PerreyB.may have to decide whether to impose sanctions on North KoreaC.made discussions on whether to deploy Patriot Defense system to
9、 South KoreaD.made discussions on whether to deploy a single nuclear device to South Korea(3).Which of the following statements about William Perrey is NOT true?（分数：1.00）A.He is very concerned about the North Koreas nuclear program.B.He favors aggressive diplomacy to resolve the crisis.C.He thinks U
10、S troops should continue to join UN peace-keeping missions.D.He thinks large American units should not remain under US command.I Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end 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
11、).What caused the Minnesota River to run out of its bank?（分数：1.00）A.The heavy snowfall.B.The melting snow and heavy rain.C.The tropical storm.D.The dike has been destroyed.(2).Which of the following is TRUE?（分数：1.00）A.People evacuated from their homes can return now.B.Flood waters are receding in al
12、l parts of the upper mid-western United States.C.Flooding is expected to continue for a few more days.D.There was a record snowfall last year.四、BPART READING (总题数：5，分数：20.00)BTEXT A/BA full moon was shining down on the jungle. Accompanied only by an Indian guide, the American explorer and archaeolog
13、ist Edward Herbert Thompson - thirteen hundred years after the Mayas had left their cities and made a break for the country farther north-was riding through the New Empire that they had built for themselves, which had collapsed after the arrival of the Spaniards. He was searching for Chichen-Itza, t
14、he largest, most beautiful, mightiest, and most splendid of all Mayan cities. Horses and men had been suffering intense hardships on the trail. Thompsons head sagged on his breast from fatigue, and each time his horse stumbled he all but fell out of the saddle. Suddenly his guide shouted to him. Tho
15、mpson woke up with a start. He looked ahead and saw a fairyland.Above the dark treetops rose a mound, high and steep, and on top of the mound was a temple, bathed in cool moonlight. In the hush of the night it towered over the treetops like the Parthenon of some Mayan acropsolis. It seemed to grow i
16、n size as they approached. The Indian guide dismounted, unsaddled his horse, and rolled out his blanket for the nights sleep. Thompson could not tear his fascinated gaze from the great structure. While the guide prepared his bed, be sprang from his horse and continued on foot. Steep stairs overgrown
17、 with grass and bushes, and in part fallen into ruins, led from the base of the mound up to the temple. Thompson was acquainted with this architectural form, which was obviously some kind of pyramid. He was familiar, too, with the function of pyramids as knows in Egypt. But this Mayan version was no
18、t a tomb, like the Pyramids of Gizeh. Externally it rather brought to mind a ziggurat, but to a much greater degree than the Babylonian ziggurats it seemed to consist mostly of a stony fill providing support for the enormous stairs rising higher and higher, towards the gods of the sun and moon.Thomp
19、son climbed up the steps. He looked at the ornamentation, the rich reliefs. On top, almost 96 feet above the jungle, he surveyed the scene. He counted one - two - three - a halfdozen scattered buildings, halfhidden in shadow, often revealed by nothing more than a gleam of moonlight stone.This, then,
20、 was Chichen-Itza. From its original status as advance outpost at the beginning of the great trek to the north, it had grown into a shining metropolis, the heart of the New Empire. Again and again during the next few days Thompson climbed on to the old ruins. “I stood upon the roof of this temple on
21、e morning,“ he writes, “just as the first rays of the sun reddened the distant horizon. The morning stillness was profound. The noises of the night had ceased, and those of the day were not yet begun. All the sky above and the earth below seemed to be breathlessly waiting for something. Then the gre
22、at round sun came up, flaming splendidly, and instantly the whole world sang and hummed. The birds in the trees and the insects on the ground sang a grand Te Deum. Nature herself taught primal man to be a sunworshipper and man in his heart of hearts still follows the ancient teaching.“Thompson stood
23、 where he was, immobile and enchanted. The jungle melted away before his gaze. Wide spaces opened up, processions crept up to the temple site, music sounded, palaces became filled with revelling, the temples hummed with religious adjuration. He tried to recognise detail in the billowing forest. Then
24、 suddenly he was no longer bemused. The curtain of fancy dropped with a crash; the vision of the past vanished. The archaeologist had recognised his task. For out there in the jungle green he could distinguish a narrow path, barely traced out in the weak light, a path that might lead to Chichen-Itza
25、s most exciting mystery: the Sacred Well.（分数：4.00）(1).The territory which Thompson was exploring _.（分数：1.00）A.had been abandoned by the Mayas about thirteen hundred years previouslyB.had been occupied and developed by the Mayas about thirteen hundred years beforeC.had been deserted by the Mayas as s
26、oon as the Spaniards arrivedD.was conquered by the Mayas thirteen hundred years ago(2).What was Thompsons first reaction to the scene ahead?（分数：1.00）A.He remained in the saddle for several minutes spellbound.B.He immediately jumped down and went forward.C.He waited until his bed was ready and then d
27、ismounted.D.He rode to the mound and stared at the structure before him.(3).Thompson believed that man is instinctively a sun-worshipper because _.（分数：1.00）A.the worship of the sun-god had clearly been the function of the templeB.all living things celebrate the sunriseC.the sunrise is the most magni
28、ficent of all phenomenaD.it is natural for man to worship the sun and he has always done so(4).What abruptly ended Thompsons dream of the past?（分数：1.00）A.The realization that this wag only a time-consuming fantasy.B.The glimpse of an important clue to future discovery.C.A resolution derived from his
29、 fantasy that he must learn more about this great past city.D.The locating of the mysterious Sacred Welt.BTEXT B/BAs every ancient mariner knew, traveling by sail is a simple way to go. Though the winds could be fickle and the boats pokey, the energy source that moved the ship was free, plentiful an
30、d renewable. Now the same technology that conquered the oceans of Earth may conquer the ocean of space.This week a Russian and American consortium will announce plans for an April launch of the first so-called solar-sail vehicle, a multicasted spacecraft that will use sunlight to push itself along.
31、To a public raised on smoke-and-fire rocketry, the idea of drawing energy straight from space seems fanciful. To the people behind the new ship, however, the technology is not only sensible but inevitable, the easiest way to reinvent the business of cosmic travel. “This allows us to use very little
32、fuel to fly very great distances,“ says Bud Schurmeier, a former NASA engineer and an adviser to the project. “Its an intriguing concept.“The idea behind solar sailing is simple. Although light is made of massless particles called photons, such ephemeral things exert real pressure, especially when t
33、hey flow so close a source as the sun. Attach a sail of lightweight Mylar or other material to a spacecraft, set it up in the path of that outrushing energy, and you ought to be able to move in almost any direction.NASA has a keen interest in solar sailing and had budgeted $ 5 million to investigate
34、 17 possible missions. It may select one as early as next month. But while the space agency has been mulling plans, the people behind the new ship, dubbed Cosmos I, have been getting set to fly. The project is the brainchild of Russias Babakin Space Center, near Moscow, and the Planetary Society in
35、Pasadena, Calif., a think tank founded in 1979 by astronomer Carl Sagan and others. The two groups had long been developing plans for a solar-sail mission but got the cash to make it happen only last year when Ann Druyan, Sagans widow and head of the Media Company Cosmos Studios, and Joe Firmage, th
36、e founder of US Web, threw their names and about $ 4 million behind the effort. “I had talked to people about solar sailing before,“ says Lou Friedman , former engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and director of the Planetary Society,“ but between the Russians capabilities and Anns
37、 vision, I knew this one would click.“The spacecraft is a 3-ft. metal with eight 35-ft. metallic wings. Mylar petals sprout from it - though the prototype used in the April launch will have just two petals. Mounted atop a reconfigured Russian ICBM and launched from a sub in the Barents Sea, the Cosm
38、os I will fly to an altitude of 260 miles, where it will deploy the wings and float for a minute of so. If all goes well, the wings will then be jettisoned and the sphere aerobraked back to Earth, its bounce-down on Russian soil cushioned by air bags.By some measures, this cosmic lob shot is not tha
39、t impressive, but for solar-sail scientists, the engineering is everything. Few doubt that when sunlight strikes the wings, the spacecraft will accelerate; the key is building wings that can open and pivot, allowing the ship to tack into the solar stream. If this mission works, a more ambitious orbi
40、tal flight, using the eight-paneled craft, is set for the end of the year. The space-craft could circle Earth for months, surfing the sun until de signers shut it down. “There will be a grandeur to it, “says Druyan, “a 70-ft. sail that will be visible to the whole planet.“Grandeur aside, critics won
41、der if solar sails have a future. The technique is problematic in Earth orbit, since the changing position of sun relative to the space-craft makes constant tacking necessary. Sailing is best used for as the crow-flies shots to neighboring planets. Even in these cases, progress can be slow, since su
42、nlight exerts, at most, 2 lbs. of pressure per square haft-mile, requiring a year or more to rev a spacecraft to interplanetary speeds. Worse, beyond Jupiter, sunlight flickers out almost entirely; to go any farther would require energy beamen from Earth orbit, perhaps by giant laser howitzers. “Non
43、e of these things has been tested, “says Mel Monte-merlo, one of NASAs solar-sailing chiefs. “We have a long way to go.“Whether that will continue to seem such a long way may depend on the spring-time flight of Cosmos I. A successful mission has a way of making impossible technologies seem possible
44、- a big burden for a small rocket that will, for one day at least, carry the hopes of the worlds space community.（分数：4.00）(1).What is the energy source of this so-called solar-sail vehicle?（分数：1.00）A.Sunlight.B.Nuclear.C.Wind.D.Electricity.(2).What does “brainchild“ in Paragrapth 4 mean?（分数：1.00）A.P
45、atent.B.Invention.C.Hope.D.Pride.(3).Which of the following correctly describes Cosmos I?（分数：1.00）A.It is a 3-ft. metal pod.B.It has eight 35-ft. metallic wings.C.It can fly an altitude above 260 miles.D.When it flies back to Earth, it will fall into pieces.(4).What can be inferred from the passage?
46、（分数：1.00）A.Most scientists are confident that the spacecraft will work well.B.A more ambitious orbital flight will follow this mission.C.The author is quite sure that this mission will make impossible technologies seem possible.D.The key of the engineering of Cosmos I is building wings that can open
47、 and pivot.BTEXT C/BIn April 1995, a young Chinese chemistry student at Beijing University lay dying in a Beijing hospital. She was in a coma, and although her doctors had performed numerous tests, they could not discover what was killing her. In desperation, a student friend posted an SOS describin
48、g her symptoms to several medical bulletin boards and mailing lists on the Intermet. Around the world, doctors who regularly checked these electronic bulletin boards and lists responded immediately.In Washington D. C., Do, John Aldis, a physician with the U.S. Department of State, saw the message from China. Using the Internet, he forwarded the message to colleagues in America. Soon an international group of doctors joined the e-mail discussion. A diagnosis emerged - the woman might have been poisoned with thallium, a m
