1、专业八级-376 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A MINI-LECTU(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 co
2、mplete a gap-filling task 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. Some of the gaps may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (ar
3、e) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task. Use the blank sheet 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 and
4、 semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes.People usually communicate by spoken and written language, yet they can also communicate without words and this kind of communication often is more important than getting the content of the message across. Body language falls into this category o
5、f communication. Need for body language1) When connecting with a person, we have to make it clear how the content of a spoken message needs to be U U 1 /U /U.And how we do this tells something about U U 2 /U /Ubetween people.2) Often U U 3 /U /Uare inadequate for this purpose, and therefore we use b
6、ody language.e.g. looking someone in the eyes means something different than not looking someone in the eyes. Functions and features of body language1) Body language decides to a large extent U U 4 /U /Uof our communication, and therefore we shouldlearn to use our body language for a purposelearn to
7、 understand and explain body language of others2) How we can explain body language depends onsituationculturerelationship we have with the personU U 5 /U /Uof the other3) Body language is interlinked withspoken languagea whole pattern of U U 6 /U /Ufrom a person4) Body language signs can U U 7 /U /U
8、each other tomake a meaning clearstrengthen the meaning of what we communicate5) Some groups have developed a whole specific body language which can be very explicit in its meaning and is used to communicate where the use of words may be difficult or dangerous. Specific use of body language1) Body l
9、anguage is used especially to express feelings.People may give out double messages: one message in words and an U U 8 /U /Umessage in body language.Most people believe more steadily their impression of how a person acts through body language than what is said through words.People tend to U U 9 /U /U
10、the spoken words if they do not correspond with the body language.2) How we come across to someone is decided only for a small part by the words we speak but for a large part by our body language.To leave a good impression, it is important for us to know andcontrol our body language.The person on th
11、e receiving end of our body language will have a feeling or impression difficult to describe, which is called U U 10 /U /U. （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:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、SECTION B INTERVIEW(总题数：1，分数：5.00)In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen c
12、arefully and then answer the questions that follow.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 questions. Now listen to the interview. （分数：5.00）(1).Which of the following statements is TRUE about Professor
13、Kimballs survey? A. Some people dont want to take it because its too time-consuming. B. The results might not be objective enough. C. The survey aims to measure Americans happiness. D. The survey has been conducted for three months.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following statements about happine
14、ss is NOT true according to Professor Kimball? A. The English word “happenstance“ is about luck that happens by chance. B. Happiness means good luck in many languages. C. Happiness as a kind of feeling is relatively long-lasting. D. Peoples feeling of happiness goes back to normal quickly.（分数：1.00）A
15、.B.C.D.(3).Professor Kimball thinks the strong dip in peoples happiness after the earthquake in Pakistan _. A. shows that people all over the world care about Pakistan B. demonstrates earthquakes great influence C. doesnt make any sense because the survey results arent justified D. makes sense becau
16、se everyone cares about other human beings（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Whats Professor Kimballs attitude towards Richard Laird and his book on happiness? A. Positive. B. Negative. C. Indifferent. D. Ambiguous.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).“Hedonic adaptation“ means that _. A. life is influenced by peoples feeling of
17、 happiness B. peoples feeling of happiness usually dips after news events C. the happiness goes back to normal after a while D. the happiness depends on how well ones life is going（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C NEWS BROAD(总题数：2，分数：5.00)In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen careful
18、ly and then answer the questions that follow.（分数：2.00）(1).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. The news is mainly about _ rebuilding the World Trade Center. A. the schedule for B. difficul
19、ties in C. suggestion provided on D. clearing of obstacles to语音下载（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Question 7 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. The Government of German is going to _. A. implement a rescue pac
20、kage B. withdraw money from Greece C. drive Greece out of the Eurozone D. give more money to Greece before May 9语音下载（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 8 to 9 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. （分数：3.00）(
21、1).Why did British force strike the police building in Basra? A. Because some civil prisoners were planning to break the prison. B. Because they found a major Iraqi criminal in the building. C. Because they heard there would be planned executions. D. Because they heard there would be an attack.（分数：1
22、.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following statements is TRUE? A. The Iraqi army supported the crime unit. B. British force killed no one. C. The police unit demolished the building during the attack. D. The police unit has been accused of committing many crimes.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Question 10 is based
23、 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. According to the news, James Brown _. A. used to be a shoemaker B. grew up in a well-to-do family C. supported the Civil Rights Movement D. was the God Father of Blues语音下
24、载（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、BPART READING (总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、BTEXT A/B(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Since ancient times it has been known that Uyour word is a cause set in motion./U In fact, the universe itself is claimed to have emanated from a single primordial sound. In the science of yoga, it is believed that certain Sa
25、nskrit words, known as mantras, can bring about magical results, thus you can secure abundance with a certain mantra, peace with another, and so on. On a more practical level, your word still remains highly potent.With your words, you can wound someone, sending them into spirals of defeat, and with
26、your words you can heal someone, raising them up from a dismal place to soaring hope and motivation. In fact, the entire field of self-improvement is the transmission of words that will assist others to get a firm perspective and move forward with their lives, fulfilling their dreams and desires.On
27、a personal level, too, your words affect you. What you say to yourself about anyone or anything affects you, too. If you speak well of someone or something, you bring more of that harmony into your life. And if you speak ill of someone or something, you bring more of that frustration and anger and c
28、onflict into your life.Psychological literature often speaks of numerous cases where a parents words, spoken casually, can affect the destiny of a child. And the most potent words that a parent can use to affect a child are those spoken at the time of dying since these are the last words, and the mo
29、ment is so highly-charged and the awareness so acute, these words become an imperative that the child now feels obligated to never disown.Words are further charged with the emotion behind them. The stronger the emotion, the more highly charged the words. Many a love affair has fallen by the wayside
30、because of emotionally charged words, which are later regretted.Despite all this, people use words with the utmost casualness. People wreck their own lives and that of others through the careless use of words. They also accept the words of others as a given truth, when, in fact, all comments by othe
31、rs are merely opinion.The most marvelous aspect of words is how they can bend time. The brilliantly crafted words of Shakespeare or the eloquence of Martin Luther King still shape our lives. Words are so sacred that whole buildings are used to archive them and make them available for reading.A perso
32、n can rise from poverty to wealth, from sickness to health, and from loneliness to loving companionship simply through exposing themselves to the most beneficial stream of words.Words not only steal hearts, but shape reality as well. The earth can be a better place because of your choice of words. Y
33、ou can fill lives with the miracles of your words. You can be an agent for positive change and bring out the best in yourself and others simply by how you use words. Words are psychic shape-shifters; use them wisely.（分数：6.00）(1).By saying “your word is a cause set in motion“, the author means _. A.
34、words are changeable from time to time B. words can have great influence on other things C. the same word can have different meanings for different people D. words can lead to both good and bad results（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the author, words can _. A. kill people B. show peoples defeat C.
35、 give people hope D. change the speaker himself（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which is TRUE about the last words at the time of parents dying? A. They are often more influential on children than those spoken casually. B. They are full of sorrow and misery. C. Childrens awareness of parents words is always acu
36、te. D. These words are imperative for children with great sense of obligation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).According to the fifth and sixth paragraph, the author implies that _. A. peoples emotions are influenced by the words they say B. people should use words with more carefulness C. people should only ac
37、cept words which are truths rather than opinions D. what people experience directly decides what they speak（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).It can be concluded from the passage that great words _. A. may be less influential as time passes by B. may improve peoples life C. can change the world D. can change time
38、（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(6).Better choice of words can do all of the following EXCEPT _. A. shaping reality B. making life better C. bringing about positive change D. fulfilling dreams（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、BTEXT B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)“When I direct Shakespeare,“ theatrical innovator Peter Sellars once said, “the
39、first thing I do is go to the text for cuts. I go through to fmd the passages that are real heavy, that really are not needed, places where the language has become obscure, places where there is a bizarre detour. And then I take those moments, those elements, and I make them the centerpiece, the cor
40、e of the production.“In the sober matter of staging Shakespeare, such audaciousness is hard to resistthough a lot of Chicago theatre-goers have been able to. Typically, a third of the people who have been showing up at the Goodman Theatre to see Sellars ingenious reworking of The Merchant of Venice
41、have been walking out before the evening is over. Its no mystery, why? The evening isnt over for nearly four hours. Beyond that, the production pretty much upends everything the audience has come to expect from one of Shakespeares most troubling but reliable entertaining comedies.The play has been t
42、ransplanted from the teeming, multicultural world of 15th century Venice, Italy, to the teeming, multicuttural world of 1994 Venice Beach, California, where Sellars lives when he isnt setting Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, putting King Lear in a Lincoln Continental or deconstructing other classic p
43、lays and operas. Shylock, along with the plays other Jews, is black. Antonio, the merchant of the title, and his kinsmen are Latinos. Portia, the wealthy maiden being wooed by Antonios friend Bassanio, is Asian. But the racial shuffling is just one of Sellars liberties. The stage is furnished with l
44、ittle but office furniture, while video screens simulcast the actors in close-up during their monologues, (and, in between, display seemingly unrelated Southern California scene, from gardens and swimming pools to the L.A. riots). Cries of anguish come from the clowns, and the playfully romantic fin
45、al scene, in which Portia teases Bassanio for giving away her ring to the lawyer she played in disguise, is re-imagined as the darkest, most poisonously unsettling passage in the play.Some of this seems to be sheer perversity, but the real shock of Sellars production is how well it works both theatr
46、ically and thematically. The racial casting, for instance, is a brilliant way of defusing the plays anti-Semitismturning it into a metaphor for prejudice and materialism in all its forms. Paul Butler is a hardhearted ghetto businessman who, even when he is humiliated at the end, never loses his cool
47、 or stoops for pity.UWrongheaded and tortuous/U as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The “news of the Rialto“ becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylocks trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions Elaine Tses overwrought Portia, for instancethe actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeares poetry and Sellars stunt driving. For the rest of us, its a wild ride.（分数：5.00）(1).Whats the main topic of the passage? A. The Merchant of Ve
