1、专业八级-268 (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)In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after th
2、e mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. BSECTION A/BComplete the gap-filling task. Same of the gaps below may require a maximum of T
3、HREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is(are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes. BComing Home: Life After Studying Abroad/BMany returnees who have studied abroad may suffer re-entry culture shock when they go back to their home town. Here some positi
4、ve ways of dealing with the return culture shock are introduced.BI. TheU (1) /U of Re-Entry/B (1) _Re-entry is ones U(2) /U experience of re-adjusting to (2) _life in ones home culture after living abroad.For many study abroad returnees, it is more difficult toadjust to their home culture than the U
5、(3) /U. (3) _BII. Some Common Re-Adjustment Issues/B1. Personal growth and changeWhen you come back, you have changed in many ways becauseyou have experienced more freedom and U(4) /U living abroad. (4) _You have to adjust your new self to your old home.2. New Knowledge and SkillsWhen living abroad,
6、 you might develop new competenciesincluding new knowledge, skills and U(5) /U. (5) _Some returnees feel frustrated if they feel these skillsare of little use once they return home.3. Relationships with Family and FriendsPersonal changes of returnees affect their families andfriends who show little
7、interest in hearing about their newexperiences and attempt to make them U(6) /U to what (6)_ they once were.BIII. U(7) /U Dealing with Re-Entry Problems/B (7) _1. Talk with people who understand U(8) /U, for example, (8) _other returnees.2. Share your experiences with U(9) /U study abroad (9) _stude
8、nts or write an article for some publications.3. Be U(10) /U. You may get involved in work where (10) _international experiences and perspectives are appreciated.（分数：10.00）(1).（分数：1.00）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)In this section
9、you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five que
10、stions. Now listen to the interview. （分数：5.00）(1).According to Dr. Neil, in what way is family life different now?（分数：1.00）A.Parents are not as good as they used to be.B.More people are getting remarried after divorce.C.There are more one-parent or single-parent families.D.More people approve of mot
11、hers going out to work.(2).Which of the following is NOT mentioned as substitute parents?（分数：1.00）A.Group leaders.B.Television.C.Baby-sitters.D.Play groups.(3).According to the interview, all of the following are the roles of primary teachers EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.helping children to acquire good habits.
12、B.reinforcing what the parents are doing.C.starting children reading and writing.D.informing children of different messages.(4).According to Dr. Neil, what is the most noticeable effect of smaller families?（分数：1.00）A.There is less mixing of ages in smaller families.B.Children can get more affection
13、from their parents.C.Children can live in a more loving environment.D.Children are able to enjoy better living condition.(5).According to the interview, Dr. Nells attitude toward substitute parents is that（分数：1.00）A.substitutes can take the responsibilities of parents.B.its acceptable to let substit
14、utes look after children.C.perhaps substitutes can play a better role than parents.D.parents should be cautious to choose substitutes.三、BSECTION C/B(总题数：4，分数：5.00)Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two qu
15、estions. Now listen to the news. （分数：2.00）(1).Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is blamed for（分数：1.00）A.getting involved in a bribery.B.dealing in an illegal transaction.C.endangering national security.D.being negligent of his duty.(2).Michael Chertoff defends himself asserting that he ma
16、de the deal because（分数：1.00）A.Arabic terrorists will not attack the USA any more.B.it is essential to maintain an active trading environment.C.there is no need to block a companys control over terminals.D.it is not fair to cut off business with foreign companies.1.In this section you will hear every
17、thing ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet. Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. （分数：1.00）A.
18、B.C.D.2. Question 10 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. （分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3. Question 9 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questi
19、on. Now listen to the news. （分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、BPART READING (总题数：7，分数：20.00)In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your answer sheet. BTEXT A/BTheodoric Voler had been brought up, from infa
20、ncy to the confines of middle age, by a fond mother whose chief solicitude had been to keep him screened from what she called the coarser realities of life. When she died she left Theodoric alone in a world that was as real as ever, and a good deal coarser than he considered it had any need to be. T
21、o a man of his temperament and upbringing even a simple railway journey was crammed with petty annoyances and minor discords, and as he settled himself down in a second-class compartment one September morning he was conscious of ruffled feelings and general mental discomposure.He bad been staying at
22、 a country vicarage, the inmates of which had been certainly neither brutal nor bacchanalian, but their supervision of the domestic establishment had been of that lax order which invites disaster. The pony carriage that was to take him to the station had never been properly ordered, and when the mom
23、ent for his departure drew near, the handyman who should have produced the required article was nowhere to be found. In this emergency Theodoric, to his mute but very intense disgust, found himself obliged to collaborate with the vicars daughter in the task of harnessing the pony, which necessitated
24、 groping about in an ill-lighted outbuilding called a stable, and smelling very like oneexcept in patches where it smelled of mice.As the train glided out of the station Theodorics nervous imagination accused himself of exhaling a weak odour of stable yard, and possibly of displaying a mouldy straw
25、or two on his unusually well brushed garments. Fortunately the only other occupation of the compartment, a lady of about the same age as himself, seemed inclined for slumber rather than scrutiny; the train was not due to stop till the terminus was reached, in about an hours time, and the carriage wa
26、s of the old fashioned sort that held no communication with a corridor, therefore no further travelling companions were likely to intrude on Theodorics semiprivacy. And yet the train had scarcely attained its normal speed before he became reluctantly but vividly aware that he was not alone with the
27、slumbering lady; he was not even alone in his own clothes.A warm, creeping movement over his flesh betrayed the unwelcome and highly resented presence, unseen but poignant, of a strayed mouse, that had evidently dashed into its present retreat during the episode of the pony harnessing. Furtive stamp
28、s and shakes and wildly directed pinches failed to dislodge the intruder, whose motto, indeed, seemed to be Excelsior; and the lawful occupant of the clothes lay back against the cushions and endeavoured rapidly to evolve some means for putting an end to the dual ownership. Theodoric was goaded into
29、 the most audacious undertaking of his life. Crimsoning to the hue of a beetroot and keeping an agonised watch on his slumbering fellow traveller, he swiftly and noiselessly secured the ends of his railway rug to the racks on either side of the carriage, so that a substantial curtain hung athwart th
30、e compartment. In the narrow dressing room that he had thus improvised he proceeded with violent haste to extricate himself partially and the mouse entirely from the surrounding casings of tweed and half-wool.As the unravelled mouse gave a wild leap to the floor, the rug, slipping its fastening at e
31、ither end, also came down with a heart-curdling flop, and almost simultaneously the awakened sleeper opened her eyes. With a movement almost quicker than the mouses, Theodoric pounced on the rug and hauled its ample folds chin-high over his dismantled person as he collapsed into the farther corner o
32、f the carriage. The blood raced and beat in the veins of his neck and forehead, while he waited dumbly for the communication cord to be pulled. The lady, however, contented herself with a silent stare at her strangely muffled companion. How much had she seen, Theodoric queried to himself; and in any
33、 case what on earth must she think of his present posture?（分数：4.00）(1).The word “solicitude“ in the first paragraph probably means（分数：1.00）A.great animosity.B.excessive concern.C.much inducement.D.reasonable pretext.(2).Which of the following does NOT describe Theodorics feeling when he was on the t
34、rain?（分数：1.00）A.Uneasy.B.Fretful.C.Irritated.D.Slack.(3).Which of the following statements is TRUE about the lady of the compartment?（分数：1.00）A.She looked out of the train window.B.She intended to talk with Theoforic.C.She had fallen into a deep sleep.D.She looked at Theoforic up and down.(4).Theofo
35、ric did all the following to get the mouse out of his clothes EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.pressing the mouse between his fingers.B.putting his feet down onto the ground.C.moving from side to side or up and down.D.undressing himself to catch the mouse.4.BTEXT B/BMeteorologists routinely tell us what next weeks
36、weather is likely to he, and climate scientists discuss what might happen in 100 years. Christoph Schar, though, ventures dangerously close to that middle realm, where previously only the Farmers Almanac dared go: what will next summers weather be like? Following last years tragic heat wave, which d
37、irectly caused the death of tens of thousands of people, the question is of burning interest to Europeans. Schar asserts that last summers sweltering temperatures should no longer be thought of as extraordinary. “The situation in 2002 and 2003 in Europe, where we had a summer with extreme rainfall a
38、nd record flooding followed by the hottest summer in hundreds of years, is going to be typical for future weather patterns,“ he says.Most Europeans have probably never read Schars report (not least because it was published in the scientific journal Nature in the dead of winter) but they seem to be b
39、racing themselves for the worst. As part of its new national “heat-wave plan“, France issued a level-three alert when temperatures in Provence reached 34 degrees Celsius three days in a row; hospital and rescue workers were asked to prepare for an influx of patients. Italian government officials hav
40、e proposed creating a national registry of people over 65 so they can be herded into air-conditioned supermarkets in the event of another heat wave. Londons mayor has offered a 100,000 pound reward for anybody who can come up with a practical way of cooling the citys underground trains, where temper
41、atures have lately reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius. (The money hasnt been claimed.) Global warming seems to have permanently entered the European psyche.If the public is more aware, though, experts are more confused. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hammered out its last assessme
42、nt in 2001, scientists pulled together the latest research and made their best estimate of how much the Earths atmosphere would warm during the next century. There was a lot they didnt know, but they were confident theyd be able to plug the gaps in time for the next report, due out in 2007. When the
43、y explored the fundamental physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, though, they found something unexpected: the way the atmosphereand, in particular, cloudsrespond to increasing levels of carbon is far more complex and difficult to predict than they had expected. “We thought wed reduce the uncertai
44、nty, but that hasnt happened,“ says Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of the next IPCC report. “As we delve further and further into the science and gain a better understanding of the true complexity of the atmosphere, the uncertai
45、nties have gotten deeper.“This doesnt mean, of course, that the world isnt warming. Only the biased or the deluded deny that temperatures have risen, and that human activity has something to do with it. The big question that scientists have struggled with is how much warming will occur over the next
46、 century? With so much still unknown in the climate equation, theres no way of telling whether warnings of catastrophe are overblown or if things are even more dire than we thought.Why do scientists like Schar make predictions? Because, like economists, its their job to hazard a best guess with the
47、resources at hand-namely, vast computer programs that simulate what the Earths atmosphere will do in certain circumstances. These models incorporate all the latest research into how the Earths atmosphere behaves. But there are problems with the computer models. The atmosphere is very big, but also c
48、onsists of a multitude of tiny interactions among particles of dust, soot, cloud droplets and trace gases that cannot be safely ignored. Current models dont have nearly the resolution they need to capture what goes on at such small scales.Scientists got an inkling that something was missing from the models in the early 1990s when they ran a peculiar experiment. They had the leading models simulate warming over the next century and got a similar answer from each. Then they ran
