1、专业八级-324 (1)及答案解析(总分：99.01，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 to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a
2、 gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-lecture. Use the blank paper for note-taking.Complete the gap-filling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically 2) stating every U(2) /U represents $10 of the p
3、resent value of the company; (2) _3) owning a share signifies-a part owner of the company. Stock price increases when U(3) /U is good and the value of the company (3) _jumps.1) the U(4) /U $600 invested$1,800 in value at present (4) _2) $10 per share originally U (5) /U each currently (5) _. Stock p
4、rice falls when business is worse and the value of the company drops.1) U(6) /U of $1,800 a low point of $300 (6) _2) $30 per share $5 per share. How to buy stocks?1) to find a U(7) /U buying and selling stock for other people; (7) _2) the stockbrokers entering a stock market;3) the stockbrokers inq
5、uirement of other brokers about your buying;4) the stockbrokers U(8) /U of the stock purchase; (8) _5) to pay the bill the amount of purchase they have been replaced by prairie chicken, great blue herons, coyote, deer, collared lizards, bobcats and, of course, cattle.The route starts in the tiny ran
6、ch town of Cassoday (population 130), where the dirt Main Street has a few weathered 19th-century wooden buildings housing an antiques store and a car popular with cowboys, truck drivers and bikers. It then goes through a handful of small towns and past the tallgrass prairie preserve to Council Grov
7、e, a former staging area on the Santa Fe Train.But what this ribbon of a highway offers most is wide-open space. For dramatic effect, visit at sunset when the sky is awash in reds, purples and blues.Of late, tourist amenities have been beefed up in Flint Hills, especially in Chase County, made famou
8、s by William Least Heat-Moons 1991 book “PrairyEarth.“ In Cottonwood Falls, with about 1,000 residents, the two-block shopping district is dominated by the grand Chase County Courthouse, the oldest country courthouse (1873) still in use in Kansas. Made of native honey-hued limestone with a red mansa
9、rd roof, it resembles a small chateau.In small shops along Broadway Street, a bumpy road paved in red brick, you can find Western gear at Jim Bell that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has something sweet and bright, which suggests that it is surrounded by a land of fr
10、uits. It is a very agreeable little city; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should suppose, in better humor with themselves and less disposed to envy the responsibilities of bigger places. It is truly the capital of its smiling province; a region of easy abundance, of good li
11、ving, of genial, comfortable, optimistic, rather indolent opinions. Balzac says in one of his tales that the real Tourangeau will not make an effort, or displace himself even, to go in search of a pleasure; and it is not difficult to understand the sources of this amiable cynicism. He must have a va
12、gue conviction that he can only lose by almost any change. Fortune has been kind to him: he lives in a temperate, reasonable, sociable climate, on the banks, of a river which, it is true, sometimes floods the country around it, but of which the ravages appear to be so easily repaired that its aggres
13、sions may perhaps be regarded (in a region where so many good things are certain) merely as an occasion for healthy suspense. He is surrounded by fine old traditions, religious, social, architectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his
14、 admirable country is more characteristically national. Normandy is Normandy, Burgundy is Burgundy, Provence is Provence; but Touraine is essentially France. It is the land of Rabelais, of Descartes, of Balzac, of good books and good company, as well as good dinners and good houses. George Sand has
15、somewhere a charming passage about the mildness, the convenient quality, of the physical conditions of central France, “son climat souple et chaud, ses pluies abondantes et courtes.“ In the autumn of 1882 the rains perhaps were less short than abundant; but when the days were fine it was impossible
16、that anything in the way of weather could be more channing. The vineyards and orchards looked rich in the fresh, gay light; cultivation was everywhere, but everywhere it seemed to be easy. There was no visible poverty; thrift and success presented themselves as matters of good taste. The white caps
17、of the women glittered in the sunshire, and their well-made sabots clicked cheerfully on the hard, clean roads. Touraine is a land of old chateaux, a gallery of architectural specimens and of large hereditary properties. The peasantry have less of the luxury of ownership than in most other parts of
18、France; though they have enough of it to give them quite their share of that shrewdly conservative look which, in the little, chaffering, place of the market-town, the stranger observes so often in the wrinkled brown masks that surmount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the ol
19、d French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a reflection of the splendor still glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of
20、 the Renaissance. The Loire gives a great “style“ to a landscape of which the features are not, as the phrase is, prominent, and carries the eye to distances even more poetic than the green horizons of Touraine. It is a very fitful stream, and is sometimes observed to run thin and expose all the cru
21、dities of its channel, a great defect certainly in a river which is so much depended upon to give an air to the places it waters. But I speak of it as I saw it last full, tranquil, powerful, bending in large slow curves, and sending back half the light of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view
22、of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from that elevation one lovely Sunday morning, through a mild glitter of autumn sunshine, it seemed the very model of a generous, beneficent stream. The most channing part of Tours is naturally the shade
23、d quay that overlooks it, and looks across too at the friendly faubourg of Saint Symphorien and at the terraced heights which rise above this. Indeed, throughout Touraine, it is half the charm of the Loire that you can travel beside it. The great dike which protects it, or, protects the country from
24、 it, from Blois to Angers, is an admirable road; and on the other side, as well, the highway constantly keeps it company. A wide river, as you follow a wide road, is excellent company; it heightens and shortens the way._TEXT BI am ashamed to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; t
25、hat remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has something sweet and bright, which suggests that it is surrounded by a land of fruits. It is a very agreeable little city; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should suppose, in better humor with themselves
26、and less disposed to envy the responsibilities of bigger places. It is truly the capital of its smiling province; a region of easy abundance, of good living, of genial, comfortable, optimistic, rather indolent opinions. Balzac says in one of his tales that the real Tourangeau will not make an effort
27、, or displace himself even, to go in search of a pleasure; and it is not difficult to understand the sources of this amiable cynicism. He must have a vague conviction that he can only lose by almost any change. Fortune has been kind to him: he lives in a temperate, reasonable, sociable climate, on t
28、he banks, of a river which, it is true, sometimes floods the country around it, but of which the ravages appear to be so easily repaired that its aggressions may perhaps be regarded (in a region where so many good things are certain) merely as an occasion for healthy suspense. He is surrounded by fi
29、ne old traditions, religious, social, architectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristically national. Normandy is Normandy, Burgundy is Burgundy, Provence is Provence; but Touraine is essentiall
30、y France. It is the land of Rabelais, of Descartes, of Balzac, of good books and good company, as well as good dinners and good houses. George Sand has somewhere a charming passage about the mildness, the convenient quality, of the physical conditions of central France, “son climat souple et chaud,
31、ses pluies abondantes et courtes.“ In the autumn of 1882 the rains perhaps were less short than abundant; but when the days were fine it was impossible that anything in the way of weather could be more channing. The vineyards and orchards looked rich in the fresh, gay light; cultivation was everywhe
32、re, but everywhere it seemed to be easy. There was no visible poverty; thrift and success presented themselves as matters of good taste. The white caps of the women glittered in the sunshire, and their well-made sabots clicked cheerfully on the hard, clean roads. Touraine is a land of old chateaux,
33、a gallery of architectural specimens and of large hereditary properties. The peasantry have less of the luxury of ownership than in most other parts of France; though they have enough of it to give them quite their share of that shrewdly conservative look which, in the little, chaffering, place of t
34、he market-town, the stranger observes so often in the wrinkled brown masks that surmount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a reflection of the splendor still glitters in the current of the Loire. Some
35、of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the Renaissance. The Loire gives a great “style“ to a landscape of which the features are not, as the phrase is, prominent, and carries the eye to
36、distances even more poetic than the green horizons of Touraine. It is a very fitful stream, and is sometimes observed to run thin and expose all the crudities of its channel, a great defect certainly in a river which is so much depended upon to give an air to the places it waters. But I speak of it
37、as I saw it last full, tranquil, powerful, bending in large slow curves, and sending back half the light of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from that elevation one lovely Sunday morning, thro
38、ugh a mild glitter of autumn sunshine, it seemed the very model of a generous, beneficent stream. The most channing part of Tours is naturally the shaded quay that overlooks it, and looks across too at the friendly faubourg of Saint Symphorien and at the terraced heights which rise above this. Indee
39、d, throughout Touraine, it is half the charm of the Loire that you can travel beside it. The great dike which protects it, or, protects the country from it, from Blois to Angers, is an admirable road; and on the other side, as well, the highway constantly keeps it company. A wide river, as you follo
40、w a wide road, is excellent company; it heightens and shortens the way.（分数：5.00）(1).From this essay, we can see all of the following EXCEPT that _.（分数：1.00）A.Touraine is an area frequently devastated by floodsB.Touraine is surrounded by a land of fruitsC.the peasantry here are worse off than in most
41、 other parts of FranceD.the peasantry here are more conservative(2).Touraine features all of the following except _.（分数：1.00）A.the shaded quayB.the LoireC.the great dikeD.French history.(3).As the author sees it, _.（分数：1.00）A.the Loire is a wide river which follows a wide roadB.that you can travel b
42、eside the Loire reduces the charm of itC.people here hate to see the Loire exposing all the crudities of its channelD.the Loire is always full, tranquil, and powerful(4).Which of the following word is not proper for Touraine?（分数：1.00）A.Prominent.B.Green.C.Amiable.D.Taste.(5).“In the autumn of 1882 t
43、he rains perhaps were less short than abundant; but when the days were fine it was impossible that anything in the way of weather could be more charming.“ This tells us that _.（分数：1.00）A.the rainfall of that autumn was scarceB.weather during that period was utterly terribleC.although the rains were
44、a little more than enough, weather sometimes was the finestD.the abundant rains flooded the region with terrible weather accompanying2.BTEXT C/BThis spring, disaster loomed in the global food market. Precipitous increases in the prices of staples like rice (up more than a hundred and fifty percent i
45、n a few months) and maize provoked food riots, toppled governments, and threatened the lives of tens of millions. But the bursting of the commodity bubble eased those pressures, and food prices, while still high, have come well off the astronomical levels they hit in April. For American, the drop in
46、 commodity prices has put a few more bucks in peoples pockets; in much of the developing world, it may have saved many from actually starving. So did the global financial crisis solve the global food crisis?Temporarily, perhaps. But the recent price drop doesnt provide any long-term respite from the
47、 threat food shortages or future price spikes. Nor has it reassured anyone about the health of the global agricultural system, which the crisis revealed as dangerously unstable. Four decades after the Green Revolution, and after waves of market reforms intended to transform agricultural production,
48、were still having a hard time insuring that people simply get enough to eat, and we seen to be vulnerable to supply shocks than ever.It wasnt supposed to be this way. Over the past two decades, countries around the world have moved away from their focus on “food security“ and handed market forces a
49、greater rote in shaping agricultural policy. Before the nineteen-eighties, developing countries had so-called “agricultural marketing boards“, which would buy commodities from farmers at fixed prices (prices high enough to keep farmers farming), and then store them in strategic reserves that could be used in the event of bad harvests or soaring import pric
