1、专业八级-331 及答案解析(总分：97.03，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 task
2、after the 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. Complete the gap-filling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of THREE
3、 words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes. Americas Legislators Back to School Week. Time The third week of September is the U(1) /U of Americas Legislators Back to School Week. . How to do The NCSL provides educati
4、onal materials about our system of U(2) /U. NCSL contracted with TPACT to design a U(3) /U study of the programs impact. . Purpose To evaluate the impact of the Americas Legislators Back to School Program on U(4) /U students understanding and appreciation of representative democracy. To get young pe
5、ople to take part in the U(5) /U of the change. Explain how they U(6) /U. Young peoples ideas can influence the U(7) /U process. Dealt with a U(8) /U that they argued would harm the environment. . Impact A teacher in South Dakota said his class learned a lot about U(9) /U from a visit by a state law
6、maker. The evaluation of this program shows it results in significantly higher levels of understanding and U(10) /U of representative democracy among middle school students.（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 th
7、is section 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 followi
8、ng five questions. （分数：5.00）(1).According to the news, most poor people cannot do all of the following EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.growing enough food.B.feeding their families.C.buying enough necessities.D.feeding their fowl.(2).The reason for the 800 million people going to bed hungry is that（分数：1.00）A.there
9、is no enough food for everyone.B.they have no access to grow or buy food.C.they are lazy and dont want to grow food.D.they are used to receiving others aid.(3).Which of the following is NOT a task of WFP as a humanitarian relief organization?（分数：1.00）A.Communicate with donors.B.Assess the beneficiar
10、ies needs.C.Get food to the right people.D.Contact regional authorities.(4).According to Ms. Bertini, in the mission to end hunger, women play（分数：1.00）A.a decisive role.B.a minor role.C.an important role.D.no role at all.(5).The greatest challenge in delivering food to people who need it is to（分数：1.
11、00）A.raise the resources and delivering food to poor people.B.convince people to contribute more food and money.C.help people improve their well-being over the long term.D.devote more energy to those who are still most at risk.三、BSECTION C/B(总题数：1，分数：2.00)In this section you will hear everything ONC
12、E ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet. Questions 6 and 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. （分数：2.03）(1).Who was ta
13、ken hostage in one of Brazils most dangerous jails?（分数：0.29）A.The prisoners relatives.B.The prisoners friends.C.The officials of the jail.D.The guards of the jail.(2).According to the news, the incident happened mainly because of（分数：0.29）A.the maltreatment of the inmates.B.the poor living conditions
14、.C.the transfer of a gang leader.D.the sentence of a murderer._四、BPART READING (总题数：7，分数：20.00)BIn 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. /BBTEXT A/B“The landscape seen from
15、our windows is certainly charming,“ said Annabel; “those cherty orchards and green meadows, and the river winding along the valley, and the church tower peeping out among the elms, they all make the most effective picture. Theres something dreadfully sleepy and languorous about it, though ; stagnati
16、on seems to be the dominant note. Nothing ever happens here; seedtime and harvest, an occasional outbreak of measles or a mildly destructive thunderstorm, and a little election excitement about once in five years, that is all that we have to modify the monotony of our existence. Rather dreadful, isn
17、t it?“ “On the contrary,“ said Matilda, “I find it soothing and restful: but then, you see, Ive lived in countries where things do happen, ever so many at a time, when youre not ready for them happening all at once. “That, of course, makes a difference,“said Annabel. “I have never forgotten,“ said M
18、atilda, “the occasion when the Bishop of Bequar paid us an unexpected visit; he was on his way to lay the foundation-stone of a mission-house or something of the sort. “ “I thought that out there you were always prepared for emergency guests turning up, “said Annabel. “I was quite prepared for half
19、a dozen Bishops,“said Matilda, “but it was rather disconcerting to find out after a little conversation that this particular one was a distant cousin of mine, belonging to a branch of the family that had quarreled bitterly and offensively with our branch about a Crown Derby dessert service; they got
20、 it, and we ought to have got it, in some legacy, or else we got it and they thought they ought to have it, I forget which; anyhow, I know they behaved disgracefully. “ “It was rather trying, but you could have left your husband to do most of the entertaining. “ My husband was fifty miles up-country
21、, talking sense, or what he imagined to be sense, to a village community that fancied one of their leading men was a were-tiger. “ “A what tiger? A were-tiger; youve heard of were-wolves, havent you, a mixture of wolf and human being and demon? Well, in those parts they have were-tigers, or think th
22、ey have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking so. However, as we gave up witchcraft prosecutions about three hundred years ago, we dont like to have other people keeping on our discarded practices; it doesnt seem respectf
23、ul to our mental and moral position. “ “ I hope you werent unkind to the Bishop, “said Annabel. “Well, of course he was my guest, so I had to be outwardly polite to him, but he was tactless enough to rake up the incidents of the old quarrel, and to try to make out that there was something to be said
24、 for the way his side of the family had behaved; even if there was, which I dont for a moment admit, my house was not the place in which to say it. I didnt argue the matter, but I gave my cook a holiday to go and visit his aged parents some ninety miles away. The emergency cook was not a specialist
25、in curries, in fact, I dont think cooking in any shape or form could have been one of his strong points. I believe he originally came to us in the guise of a gardener, but as we never pretended to have anything that could be considered a garden he was utilized as assistant goatherd, in which capacit
26、y, I understand, he gave every satisfaction. When the Bishop heard that I had sent away the cook on a special and unnecessary holiday he saw the inwardness of the man oeuvre, and from that moment we were scarcely on speaking terms. If you have ever had a Bishop with whom you were not on speaking ter
27、ms staying in your house, you will appreciate the situation. “ Annabel confessed that her life story had never included such a disturbing experience. （分数：5.00）(1).All of the following adjectives describe Annabels impression of the landscape EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.languid.B.repressive.C.enchanting.D.boring
28、.(2).Which of the following statements is NOT true of Matilda?（分数：1.00）A.She enjoys the peace of the place where she is.B.The visit of a Bishop left a deep impression on her.C.Her life story is quite different from Annabels.D.She is on good terms with a lot of Bishops.(3).Which of the following can
29、we infer from the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Many people tend to practise witchcraft.B.Matildas husband knows the visiting Bishop.C.Matildas husband may be one of the priesthood.D.Matilda doesnt believe that there are were-tigers.(4).The phrase“ rake up“ in the seventh paragraph probably refers to（分数：1.00）A
30、.bring to light.B.keep away from.C.chatter on about.D.keep dark.(5).What do we know about the emergency cook from the passage?（分数：1.00）A.His parents lived ninety miles away.B.He did well in tending Matildas livestock.C.He had planned to work as a cook in Matildas.D.He cooked a dish with cun-ies for
31、the Bishop.1.BTEXT B/BKimiyuki Suda should be a perfect customer for Japans car makers. Hes a young (34) , successful executive at an internet-services company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable income. He used to own Toyotas Hilux Surf, a sport utility vehicle. But now he uses mostly subways and
32、 trains. “Its not inconvenient at all,“ he says. Besides, “having a car is so 20th century. “ Suda reflects a worrisome trend in Japan; the automobile is losing its emotional appeal, particularly among the young, who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic gadgets. While minicars and lu
33、xury foreign brands are still popular, everything in between is slipping. Last year sales fell 6.7 percent7.6 percent if you dont count the minicar market. There have been larger one-year drops in other nations: sales in Germany fell 9 percent in 2007 thanks to a tax hike. But analysts say Japan is
34、unique in that sales have been eroding steadily over time. Since 1990, yearly new-car sales have fallen from 7.8 million to 5.4 million units in 2007. Alarmed by this state of decay, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association launched a comprehensive study of the market in 2006. It found a widen
35、ing wealth gap, demographic changesfewer households with children, a growing urban populationand general lack of interest in cars led Japanese to hold their vehieles longer, replace their cars with smaller ones or give up car ownership altogether. “Japans automobile society stands at a crossroads,“
36、says Ryuichi Kitamura, a transport expert and professor at Kyoto University. He says he does not expect the trend to be reversed, as studies show that the younger Japanese consumers are, the less interested they are in having a car. JAMA predicts a further sales decline of 1.2 percent in 2008. Some
37、analysts believe that if the trend continues for much longer, further consolidation in the automotive sector (already under competitive pressure) is likely. Japanese demographics have something to do with the problem. The countrys urban population has grown by nearly 20 percent since 1990, and most
38、city dwellers use mass transit (the countrys system is one of the best developed in the world) on a daily basis, making it less essential to own a car. Experts say Europe, where the car market is also quite mature, may“ be in for a similar shift. But in Japan, the “demotorization“process, or kuruma
39、banare, is also driven by cost factors. Owning and driving a car can cost up to $500 per month in Japan, including parking fees, car insurance, toll roads and various taxes. Taxes on a $17, 000 ear in Japan are 4.1 times higher than in the United States, 1.7 times higher than in Germany and 1.25 tim
40、es higher than in the U. K. , according to JAMA. “Automobiles used to represent a symbol of our status, a Western, modern lifestyle that we aspired for,“ says Kitamura. For todays young people, he argues, “such thinking is completely gone. “ Cars are increasingly just a mobile utility; the real cons
41、umer time and effort goes into picking the coolest mobile phones and personal computers, not the hippest hatchback. The rental-car industry has grown by more than 30 percent in the past eight years, as urbanites book weekend wheels over the Internet. Meanwhile, government surveys show that spending
42、on cars per household per year fell by 14 percent, to $600, between 2000 and 2005, while spending on Net and mobile-phone subscriptions rose by 39 percent, to $1,500, during the same period. For Japanese car companies, the implications are enormous. “Japan is the worlds second largest market, with a
43、 17 to 18 percent share of our global sales. Its important,“ says Takao Katagiri, corporate vice president at Nissan Motor Co. The domestic market is where Japanese carmakers develop technology and build their know-how, and if it falters, it could gut an industry that employs 7.8 percent of the Japa
44、nese work force. While surging exports, particularly to emerging markets, have more than offset the decline in domestic sales so far, companies are looking for ways to turn the tide. Nissan, for example, is trying to appeal to the digital generation with promotional blogs and even a videogame. A rac
45、ing game for Sonys PlayStation, for example, offers players the chance to virtually drive the companys latest sporty model, the GT-Ra new marketing approach to create buzz and tempt them into buying cars. Toyota Motors has opened an auto mall as part of a suburban shopping complex near Tokyo, hoping
46、 to attract the kinds of shoppers who have long since stopped thinking about dropping by a car dealership. Its a bit akin to the Apple strategy of moving electronics out of the soulless superstore, and into more appealing and well-trafficked retail spaces. It worked for Apple, but then Apple is so 21st century. _BTEXT B/BKimiyuki Suda should be a perfect customer for Japans car makers. Hes a young (34) , successful executive at an internet-services company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable income. He used to own Toyotas Hilux Surf, a sport utility vehicle. But now he
