1、专业八级-295 (1)及答案解析(总分：99.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数：1，分数：10.00)BSECTION A/BIn 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 t
2、ask after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, youll be given two minutes to check your notes, and another10 minutes to complete the gap-filling task.Now listen to the mini-lecture.Complete the gap-filling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of THREE words. Make .sure the word
3、(s) you fill .in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes.BStructure of the Canadian Government/BCanada is a former British colony. There are manysimilarities and differences in the political conditionsbetween the two countries.B. Both countries have the s
4、ame official head of state,i.e. ,(1)_/B (1) _In Canada, the official head is represented by a(2)_, who, when heads of state visit Canada, (2) _will first greet them before they are welcomed by(3)_ (3) _B. The biggest difference between Canada and the/B B UK is that Canada is a (4) _/B (4) _1) Canada
5、 has ten provinces and (5) _ (5) _territories, each with their own government. These localgovernments all have a great deal of power.2) Canada was the first political community tocombine federalism with a(n) (6) _ model of (6) _government, which is labeled with “strength, order and(7)_“. (7) _B. The
6、 Canadian parliament consists of the House/BBof Commons and the Senate./B1) The MPs in the House of Commons ale electedto represent different electoral districts ,which are based on (8)_ rather than geographic size. (8) _ 2) The senators am not elected. They are (9) (9) _ by the Governor General to
7、represent theregions more equally. The Senate is (10)_ to the (10)_House of Lords in the UK（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 you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. listen carefully and then answer th
8、e questions that follow.Questions 1 to 5 are based on a conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following 5 questions.Now listen to the conversation.（分数：5.00）(1).According to the dialogue, what class is Prof. Green teaching?（分数：1.00）A.Literatu
9、re.B.History.C.Economics.D.Psychology.(2).The assignment in week three should（分数：1.00）A.focus on the change in the lifestyle of peasants from 1930 to 1940.B.be one to two pages long.C.be a brief response to Stephens novel.D.focus on the living conditions of peasants during the 1930s.(3).What does Pr
10、ofessor Green say about the Bibliography?（分数：1.00）A.It is unnecessary at all.B.It is necessary if the essay is a long one.C.He says nothing about it.D.It is definitely necessary if students quote an author.(4).When is the third writing assignment due?（分数：1.00）A.By the end of the third week.B.By the
11、end of the fifth week.C.By the end of the seventh week.D.By the end of the ninth week.(5).How many chapters does the class have to read each week?（分数：1.00）A.Five.B.Ten.C.FifteenD.Eight.三、BSECTION C/B(总题数：2，分数：4.00)In this section, you will hear everything ONCE ONLY, Listen carefully and then answer
12、the questions that follow.Questions 6 to 7 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 questions.Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).According to Mr. Blair, EU must _ if it is to survive.（分数：0.40）A.change its constitutionB.chan
13、ge the present economic systemC.adapt itself to the changing timesD.launch a long-term budget(2).Mr. Blair has been accused by others of _.（分数：0.40）A.wanting to destroy Europes welfare state.B.destroying capitalism across the continent.C.encouraging political integration among EU members.D.changing
14、the existing European social models._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 of the two questions.Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).According to the news, which of the following is NOT true?（分数：1.00）A.The explosio
15、n detected is the most distant one ever witnessed.B.The explosion detected is the most ancient one ever witnessed.C.The explosion detected is typical of the birth of a massive star.D.The explosion is the most powerful in the universe.(2).The energy sent out by the exploding star is_.（分数：1.00）A.100 t
16、imes the energy sent out by the Sun in a year.B.100 million times the energy sent out by the Sun in a year.C.100 million times the energy sent out by the Sun in a day.D.100 billion times the energy sent out by the Sun in a day.四、BPART READING (总题数：7，分数：20.00)In this section there are several reading
17、 passage followed by a total of twenty multiple-choice questions. Read the passage and then mark your answers on your answer sheet.BTEXT A/BManners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in t
18、he dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought to. In fact, it is saddening to note that if a man does offer his seat to an older woman, it is nearly a Continental man or one from the older generation.This question of giving up seats
19、 in public transport is much argued about by young men, who say that, since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserve to be treated with courtesy and that those who go out m work should take their turn in the rat race like anyone else. Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as
20、 men. Even if it is not agreed, however, that young men should stand up for younger women, the fact remains that courtesy should be shown to the old, the sick and the burdened. Are we really so lost to all ideals of unselfishness that we can sit them indifferently reading the paper or a book, saying
21、 to ourselves “First come, first served,“ while a gray-haired woman, a mother with a young child or a cripple stands? Yet this is all too often seen.Conditions in travel are realty very hard on everyone, we know, but hardship is surely no excuse. Sometimes one wonders what would have been the behavi
22、or of these stout young men in a packed refugee train on its way to a prisoncamp during the War. Would they have considered it only right and their proper due to keep the best places for themselves then?Older people, tired and irritable from a day s work, are not angle, either far from it. Many a br
23、isk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes. One cannot commend this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse.If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in, however, it seems imperative, not only
24、 that communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite. All over cities, it seems that people are too fired and too rushed to be polite. Shop assistant won t bother to assist, taxi-drivers growl at each other as they da
25、sh dangerously round comers, bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have had time to get on or off the bus, and so on and so on. It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration.（分数：5.00）(1).From what you have read, would
26、you expect manners to improve among people _?（分数：1.00）A.who are physically weak or crippledB.who once lived in a prison-camp during the WarC.who live in big modem citiesD.who live only in metropolitan cities(2).What is the writer s opinion concerning courteous manners towards women?（分数：1.00）A.Now th
27、at women have claimed equality, they no longer need to be treated differently from men.B.It is generally considered old-fashioned for young men to give up their seats to young women.C.“Ladies first“ should be universally practiced.D.Special consideration ought to be shown to them.(3).What does the a
28、uthor try to convey by giving the example of stout young men in a packed refugee train during the War?（分数：1.00）A.Young men do not need to consider their behaviour during War time.B.Young men need to care more about themselves during War time.C.Conditions in travel are really very hard during War tim
29、e.D.Young men should not use hardship as an excuse for their bad behaviour.(4).According to the author, communication between human beings would be smoother if_.（分数：1.00）A.people were more considerate towards each otherB.people were not so tired and irritableC.women were treated with more courtesyD.
30、public transport could be improved(5).What is the possible meaning of the word “deterioration“ in the last paragraph?（分数：1.00）A.worsening of general situationB.lowering of moral standardsC.declining of physical constitutionD.spreading of evil conduct1.BTEXT B/BIt was eleven o clock that night when M
31、r. Pontellier returned from Klein s hotel. He was in an excellent humor, in high spirits, and very talkative. His entrance awoke his wife, who was in bed and fast asleep when he came in, He talked to her while he undressed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered durin
32、g the day. From his trousers pockets he took a fistful of crumpled bank notes and a good deal of silver coin, which he piled on the bureau indiscriminately with keys, knife, handkerchief, and whatever else happened to be in his pockets, she was overcome with sleep, and answered him with little half
33、utterances.He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him, and valued so little his conversation.Mr. Pontellier had forgotten the bonbons and peanuts for the boys. Notwithstanding he loved them very mu
34、ch, and went into the adjoining room where they were resting comfortably. The result of his investigation was far from satisfactory. He turned and shifted the youngsters about in bed. One of them began to kick and talk about a basket full of crabs.Mr. Pontellier returned to his wife with the informa
35、tion that Raoul had a high fever and needed looking after. Then he lit a cigar and went and sat near the open door to smoke it.Mrs. Pontellier was quite sure Raoul had no fever. He had gone to bed perfectly well, she said, and nothing had ailed him all day. Mr. Pontellier was too will acquainted wit
36、h fever symptoms to be mistaken. He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother s place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with
37、his brokerage business. He could not be in two places at once; making a living for his family on the street, and staying at home to see that no harm befell them. He talked in a monotonous, insistent way.Mrs. Pontellier sprang out of bed and went into the next room. She soon came back and sat on the
38、edge of the bed, leaning her head down on the pillow. She said nothing, and refused to answer her husband when he questioned her. When his cigar was smoked out he went to bed, and in half a minute he was fast asleep.Mrs. Pontellier was by that time thoroughly awake. She began to cry a little, and wi
39、ped her eyes on the sleeve of her peignoir; Blowing out the candle, which her husband had left burning, she slipped her bare feet into a pair of satin mules at the foot, of the bed and went out on the porch, where she sat clown in the wicker chair and began to rock gently to and fro.It was then past
40、 midnight. The cottages were all dark. A single faint light gleamed out from the hallway of the house. There was no sound abroad except the hoofing of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour It broke like a mournful lullaby
41、upon the night.The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontelliers eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them. She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to tile shoulder of her uplifted arm. Turning, she thrust her face, steaming and
42、wet, into the bend of her arm, and she went on erying there, not earing any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms. She could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have to have weighed much against t
43、he abundance of her husband s kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self-understood.An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate ill some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled, her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing ac
44、ross her soul s summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood, She did not sit there inwardly upbraiding her husband, lamenting at Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself. The mosquitoes made merry over her, bi
45、ting her firm, round arms and nipping at her bare insteps.The little stinging, buzzing imps succeeded in dispelling a mood which might have held her there in the darkness half a night longer._BTEXT B/BIt was eleven o clock that night when Mr. Pontellier returned from Klein s hotel. He was in an exce
46、llent humor, in high spirits, and very talkative. His entrance awoke his wife, who was in bed and fast asleep when he came in, He talked to her while he undressed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered during the day. From his trousers pockets he took a fistful of cr
47、umpled bank notes and a good deal of silver coin, which he piled on the bureau indiscriminately with keys, knife, handkerchief, and whatever else happened to be in his pockets, she was overcome with sleep, and answered him with little half utterances.He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him, and valued so little
