1、专业八级-309 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)To see how big carriers could control the online world, you must understand its structures. Earthlink gives Jennifer access to the Internet, much in the way than an onramp puts a driver on the national highway system. Earthlink is a
2、 local Internet service provider, and it will send the (1) _ to an Internet “(2) _ 1 _ provider“,to route it along its way. 2 _ These Internet players typically own and lease long-haul fiber-optic cables spanning a large region. They also own the communications gear that directs (3) _ over the Inter
3、net. They connect to each other to exchange data between 3 _ their customers, like the highway system over which most of the freight of the Internet travels to reach its (4) _ Now, instead of the National Science Foundation, there are many of them 4 _ that-link together to provide the global (5) _,t
4、hat is the Internet. The problem was, as the Internet grew, the public points became overbnr- 5 _ dened and traffic showed at these bottlenecks. So they started making arrangements with each other. And they arent changing peers now, but there is a lot of discussion about whether they should. And the
5、 industry has not figured out how to (6) _ who owes what to whom if fees should be changed. Since the Internet was (7) _,it has grown by leaps and bounds into a 6 _ remarkably successful commmunications medium without government (8) _ 7 _ -and most want to stay that way. But the Internet has matured
6、 to a 8 _ point that more uniform rules are needed to (9) _ competition. Those who can afford to pay the price can become peers. Peering would be 9 _ determined by the (10) _ rather than by a private company with its own competitive interests. 10 _（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:_
7、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).The interviewer believes that _.（分数：1.00）A.advertising cant be a kind of lyingB.advertising must be a kind of lyingC.advertising is most likely to be a kind of lyingD.advertising may be a kind of lying(2).How many years has this advertisin
8、g man been in the ad. business for?（分数：1.00）A.Fifteen years.B.Sixteen years.C.Fourteen years.D.Ten years.(3).What kind of work does he find most interesting?（分数：1.00）A.Making ad. plans.B.Selling products successfully.C.Developing new markets.D.Making a new product.(4).What does advertising function
9、as according to this ad. man?（分数：1.00）A.A determiner that leads people to bring the product into their lives.B.A complete lie that leads people to buy the product.C.As a stable walue which makes people believe what the product has.D.As a promotion which makes people aware of the new product.(5).What
10、 will determine that people will continue to use the product?（分数：1.00）A.The products own worth.B.The products design.C.The products advertising.D.The products price.三、BSECTION C/B(总题数：2，分数：5.00)(1).How did this accident happen?（分数：1.00）A.The train was controled by outlaws.B.The bus went past a stop
11、sign.C.The train went past a stop sign.D.The bus hit the oncoming train itself.(2).How was the bus driver?（分数：1.00）A.He was dead.B.He was injured.C.He was gone.D.It was not clear.I Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following news from tile VOA. At the end of the news item, you will b, given 10 seco
12、nds to answer each question. Now listen to the news./I（分数：3.00）(1).Which programme is season finale top-rated prime-time drama?（分数：1.00）A.“Youll never forget “.B.“ER”.C.“Law or Cousin Tara, who moved to another state; or even, Grandma, whom we see once or twice a year, from the other side of the cou
13、ntry?For many of us, the concept of family is a lot narrower than it used to be. Today children go away to college, and take up careers wherever opportunity seems greatest. So instead of growing up in an extended family, with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins involved in our day-to-day lives,
14、many of us are truly connected only to our parents and siblings. Many kids today knew little of the lives of relatives outside the nuclear family, and dont care deeply about them.Whether were aware of it or not, this estrangement creates a void. “People have an inherent need to feel connected,“ says
15、 Joy Browne, a psychologist and talkshow host in the U.S. “And theyll do it in what- ever ways are easiest for them. “When family members are distant, what could be easier than forming a connection to celebrities-especially glamorous, public- spirited ones like the Kennedys“.This sort of false intim
16、acy isnt new, of course. People wept when Rudolph Valentime died in 1926 and when the Lindberghs lost their baby in 1932. Its natural and in most ways harmless to identify with the famous. But todays combination of busy lives, fragmented families and saturation media coverage of celebrities. means t
17、his is the only intimacy many of us experience outside our immediate family. And thats unhealthy, because these celebrity relationships are not two way.For that, we need to stay connected to our own families. Well never turn back the clock to keep families from scattering. But parents can help by te
18、lling their kids stories about their grandparents, aunts and cousins, and by keeping the relatives informed of the kidslatest activities and interests.Technology can encourage more frequent, more casual contact. Its no chore to dash off an email to Granddad.Better yet, take a vacation with members o
19、f your extended family-and not at anyones home. A week or so of relaxed interaction can be a great way to turn up family ties. And when tragedy happens, theres no substitute for family. Because no matter how much we cry for the Kennedys, they cant be there to cry for us.Thank you for todays program.
20、 Now lets listen to a song.（分数：5.00）(1).The author is _.（分数：1.00）A.talking on the phoneB.talking on the televisionC.talking on the radioD.talking on the platform(2).Many children know little of the lives of relatives because _.（分数：1.00）A.they have no timeB.they are from the nucleus familyC.they have
21、 never met them beforeD.they don t like them(3).Who is Joe Brown?（分数：1.00）A.He is an expert in mental workings.B.He is an actor.C.He is a writer on the importance of friends and relatives.D.He is a clinical psychologist and talk show host.(4).People form a close connection to celebrities not because
22、 _.（分数：1.00）A.they have busy livesB.they live far away from their relatives and friendsC.they cannot escape media coverage of celebritiesD.they work with those celebrities(5).The purpose of the passage is to _.（分数：1.00）A.stay connected to our own families and relativesB.remain intimate with celebrit
23、iesC.stop crying for celebritiesD.learn how to love both families and celebritiesBTEXT B/BSince the Titanic vanished beneath the frigid waters of the North Atlantic 85 years ago, nothing in the hundreds of books and films about the ship has ever hinted at a connection to Japan - until now. Director
24、James Camerons 200 million epic Titanic premiered at the Tokyo International Fihn Festival last Saturday. Among the audience for a glimpse of Hollywoods costliest film ever descendants of the liners only Japanese survivor.The newly rediscovered diary of Masabumix Hosono has Titanic enthusiasts in a
25、frenzy, the document is scrawled in 4,300 Japanese character on a rare piece of RMS Titanic stationery. Written as the Japanese bureaucrat steamed to safety in New York aboard the ocean liner Carpathia, which rescued 706 survivors, the account and other documents released by his grandchildren last w
26、eek offer a fresh - and poignant - reminder of the emotional wreckage left by the tragedy.Hosono, then 42 and an official at Japans Transportation Ministry, was studying railway networks in Europe. He boarded the Titanic in Southampton, en route home via the US. According to Hosonos account, he was
27、awakened by a loud knock on the door of his second - class deck with the steerage passengers. Hosono tried to race back upstairs, but a sailor blocked his way. The Japanese feigned ignorance and pushed past. He arrived on deck to find lifeboats being lowered into darkness, flares bursting over the s
28、hip and an eerie human silence. He wrote:“ Not a single passenger would howl or scream.“Yet Hosono was screaming inside. Women were being taken to lifeboats and men held back at gunpoint. “I tried to prepare myself for the last moment with no agitation, making up my mind not to do any- thing disgrac
29、eful as a Japanese,“ he wrote. “But still I found myself looking for and waiting for any possible chance of survival.“ Then an officer shouted, “Room for two more “ Hosono recalled:“ I myself was deep in desolate thought that I would no more be able to see my beloved wife and children.“ Then he jump
30、ed into the boat.When Hosono arrived in Tokyo two months later, he was met with suspicion that he had survived at someone elses expense. The culture of shame was especially strong in prewar Japan. In the face of rumors and bad press, Hosono was dismissed from his post in 1914. He worked at the offic
31、e part -time until retiring in 1923. His grandchildren say he never mentioned tile Titanic again before his death in 1939.Even then, shame continued to haunt the family. In newspapers, letters and even a school textbook, Hosono was denounced as a disgrace to Japan. Readers Digest reopened the wound
32、in 1956 with an a- bridged Japanese version of Walter Loads best seller. A Night to remember, which described , Anglo - Saxons“ as acting bravely on the Titanic, while “Frenchmen, Italians, Americans, Japanese and Chinese were disgraceful.“ Citing his fathers diary, one of Hosonos sons, Hideo, launc
33、hed a letter -writing campaign to restore the family name. But nobody in Japan seemed to care.The diary resurfaced last summer. A representative for a US foundation that plans to hold an exhibition of Titanic artifacts in Japan next August found Hosonos name on a passenger list. A search led him to
34、Ha-ruomix Hosono, a well- known composer, and to his cousin Yuruoi, Hideos daughter. She revealed that she had her grandfathers dairy as well as a collection of his letters and postcards. “I was floored,“ says Mixchael Findley, cofounder of the Titanic International Society in the US “This is a fant
35、astic, fresh new look at the sinking and the only one written on Titanic stationery immediately after the disaster.“The information allows enthusiasts to rearrange some historical minutes, such as which lifeboat Hosono jumped into. More chilling, the account confirms that the crew tried to keep fore
36、igners and third - class passengers on the ships lower deck, effectively ensuring their name. Tile diary cannot correct injustice, but Hosonos family hopes it will help clear his name2 The Titanic foundation also hopes to capitalize on the diary and the movie to promote its upcoming exhibition. To t
37、hat end, Haruomix Hosono, the composer, has been asked to give a talk at next months public premiere of Titanic! The diary cannot, of course, match Camerons fictionalized epic for drama and intrigue. But at least Masabumix Hosonos tale really happened.（分数：5.00）(1)._ was among the descendants of the
38、Liner s only Japanese survivor.（分数：1.00）A.Masabumix Hosono.B.Yuriko.C.Cameron.D.RMS.(2).Why was Masabumix denounced as a disgrace to Japan?（分数：1.00）A.Because he killed some people on the Titanic.B.Because he was then an official.C.Because he was dismissed from his ministry post.D.Because the culture
39、 of shame was too strong.(3).In the sentence “Women were being taken to lifeboats and men held back at gunpoint“ ( paragraph 4),the phrase“ hold back“ has the meaning of _.（分数：1.00）A.keep backB.keep tipC.keep onD.keep to(4).What important role did the diary really play?（分数：1.00）A.It corrected injust
40、ice.B.It was as vivid as the movie “Titanic“.C.It proved what Masabumix said was tree.D.It made the Japanese believe what Masabumix had said.(5).In the sentence “Even then, shame continued to haunt the family“ (paragraph 6), the word “haunt“has the meaning of _.（分数：1.00）A.occur toB.often occur toC.h
41、untD.attackBTEXT C/BPrimary ColorsThe movie Primary Colors is about a grey-haired, gravel-voiced, doughnut-loving Governor from a Southern American state who is running in a US presidential campaign. He has a colourful past that is in danger of grabbing frontpage deadlines and a no-nonsense lawyer w
42、ife, whose accent would be right at home in a prestigious Chicago law school. The similarities with president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary seem hard to ignore.The book Primary Colors, published under the byline “Anonymous“, became best-seller when it came out not long after the 1992 American pr
43、esidential election in which Clinton was elected to the White House. It appeared to be a thinly veiled account of what happened during that campaign. But Mike Nichols, the director of Primary Colors the movie, insists that there is no direct relationship between fiction and fact.John Travolta, who p
44、lays governor Jack Stanton, agrees. He says that of course there are elements of Clinton in the movie character, but then there are also elements of previous presidents-Jimmy Carter, Ronaid Reagan, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy.Emma Thompson, the British actress who, as Stantons with, masters
45、an educated Chicago accent for her role, says the idea that Primary Colors is a straight rerun of real life is far to simplistic, and it annoys her to hear of their production talked about in his way.“The movie may have connections with the Clintons but it is fiction,“ she says. “It deserves to be r
46、eviewed and written about seriously. “The furthest she will go is to admit:“ You couldnt have the film without the Clintons, without the Kennedys, without the media, without any of us.“The film scored well at the box office and critics were enthusiastic about the performances from Travolta and Thoms
47、on and co-stars Kathy Bates, as a political fixer, Larry Hagman, as Stantons principal political opponent, Billy Bob Thornton, as a political strategist, and Adrian Lester, as Stantons aide.Director Nichols admits to having had some worries about the spillover of real-life scandal on his film, “Of c
48、ourse we were concerned when the Monica Lewinsky business became frontpage news. Life moved along with us in a war we did not expect. But we made this film as an entertainment, and that is how people eventually saw it.“Movie-goers in America were constantly reminded that Primary Colors was about them as much as it was about the Clintons or any other high-profile political couple. “Its about American politics, life, marriage, fidelity, infidelity-and doughnuts.“（分
