1、专业八级-381 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A(总题数：1，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(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).Which is the correct information about the Best 361 Colleges survey carried out by the Princeton Revie
2、w?（分数：1.00）A.They have reached up to 3,500 students to put best 361 colleges this year.B.The results are based on the feedback of the college students and their teachers.C.Its a qualitative survey of the students experience both academically, as well as outside the classroom.D.They have taken the ad
3、vice of many experts in higher education.(2).Which school ranks No. 1 in the list?（分数：1.00）A.HarvardB.Reed CollegeC.PrincetonD.Yale(3).Which of the following statements about Reed College is correct?（分数：1.00）A.It enjoys greatest national reputations.B.It has 13,000 students.C.The student to faculty
4、ratio is about ten to one.D.The professors were great inside the classroom, though they are not as great outside the classroom.(4).Why are students the happiest with their financial aid packages in Princeton University?（分数：1.00）A.Because it is the least expensive private school.B.Because it is match
5、ing any aid that the student needs, once they have been admitted to the university.C.Because it is a super competitive school.D.Because it has a beautiful campus, great food, great dorms, great library, overall quality of lif(5).Which school tops the list based on reaching out to the gay community?（
6、分数：1.00）A.New College of Florida,B.University of Florida.C.University of Wisconsin.D.Ohio University.四、SECTION C(总题数：4，分数：5.00)Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given I0 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).Whi
7、ch of the following statements about the command change of troops is true?（分数：1.00）A.The US will take command from Afghanistan military as many as 12,000 troops.B.The command change would complete the expansion of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.C.The overall American forc
8、e level in Afghanistan will increase after the command change.D.The Command change took place a few days ago.(2).Why was Brent Bennett held in prison for more than two years?（分数：1.00）A.Because he was found guilty of torturing Afghan suspects in an unofficial anti-terrorism operationB.Because he said
9、 that American and Afghan officials supported his activities.C.Because he flew out of Afghanistan on Saturday.D.Because he helped one of the other two men get free in April1.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. N
10、ow listen to the news.The oil prices will decrease sharply in the long run mainly because_.（分数：1.00）A.the worlds biggest oil companies will launch a large price competitionB.new fuels will take the place of oilC.new technology in extracting oil will be usedD.British and German governments will bring
11、 the price down2.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.Why was Charles Taylor accused of crimes against humanity?（分数：1.00）A.Because he has waged many wars.B.Because he supported rebels in Si
12、erra Leone in the 1990s.C.Because he has wrongly prosecuted war crime suspects.D.Because he started the civil war in the 1990s.3.Question 8 is 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.Why were t
13、here hundreds of mourners in the Australian city of Newcastle who gathered to mourn the death of twenty people killed in bombings last year?（分数：1.00）A.Because Newcastle is the home of three of the victims.B.Because these people died in Newcastle last year.C.Because four Islamist fighters have been f
14、ound guilty of involvement in the bombings in Newcastle.D.Because Newcastle is the city where there are many friends and relatives of the victims.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with
15、women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes.The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recogni
16、zed it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with this rule, it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the vicinity of Corn
17、hill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnsons lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of Kings Chapel. Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlemen
18、t of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weatherstains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World. Like all that pertai
19、ns to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grassplot, much overgrown with burdock, pigweed, apple-peru and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so ea
20、rly borne the black flower of civilized society a prison. But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in
21、, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gi
22、gantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, or whether, as there is fair authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson as she entered the prison- door; we shall not take upon us to determine. Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narr
23、ative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of h
24、uman frailty and sorrow.（分数：5.00）(1).The atmosphere of the story in the very beginning is_.（分数：1.00）A.joyousB.gloomyC.lightD.auspicious(2).The founders of a new colony found it necessary to build a_.（分数：1.00）A.parkB.marketC.houseD.jail(3).The prison-house mentioned in the second paragraph must be_.（
25、分数：1.00）A.of a long historyB.of new oneC.of delicate designD.of fashionable design(4).The rose-bush is a symbol of_.（分数：1.00）A.Natures inhumanityB.Mans inhumanityC.Natures sympathyD.Harshness of society(5).The story that the author is going to tell may be a story of_.（分数：1.00）A.sadnessB.happinessC.j
26、oyD.kindness七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)In many classrooms around the country, teachers are emphasizing, and periodically testing, students reading fluency, the current buzzword in reading instruction. The problem is that speed isnt the only element to fluency, educators said. Key elements are also accur
27、acy and expressiveness.“The food was delectable“ is different from “the food was detestable,“ and Shakespeare should not sound like a chemistry textbook.It is a complicated process teaching students to recognize enough words and read at a consistent rate so they can spend their time concentrating on
28、 meaning rather than decoding, educators said. And when tackling a book such as “The Giver,“ one that deals with a boys discovery that his utopian world comes at the expense of the stifling of intellectual and emotional freedom, meaning is critical.“Fluent readers are readers who know how to dig int
29、o a book and pull out just what they are looking for whether it is information, a part with strong language, a part with good character development, or just a chance to read for fun,“ said Susan Marantz, a longtime teacher now at a suburban school in Columbus, Ohio.Yet a combination of politics, ins
30、ufficient teacher development and an inherent difficulty in capturing all aspects of fluency have led to questionable instruction practices, according to Richard Allington, a reading researcher and University of Tennessee professor.Many students are asked by teachers to reread the same passages over
31、 and overoften with constant interruptions from the teacher. And some struggling readers are given books including textbooksthat are above their reading level and soon become a source of frustration.“You can make any adult a disfluent reader by giving them books that are too hard and jump in and int
32、errupt them a lot,“ Allington said. “ What do you think it does to kids?“As a result, some kids are motivated to read only to beat a test clock, he and other researchers said.“The more important question to ask is: Are teachers focusing on all three parts of fluency?“ Beers, vice president elect of
33、the National Council of Teachers of English, wrote in an e-mail. “When fluency is only about building automaticity (and therefore speed), then some (teachers) do mistakenly believe that the point of reading is fast decoding. Thats no more the best measure of a skilled reader than fast driving is the
34、 best measure of skilled driver.“The current interest in reading fluency illustrates the complexities in the long national argument about how best to teach reading, dubbed the “reading wars.“Advocates of phonics and literature-based instruction have been at odds for years, with the argument only int
35、ensifying after a controversial 2000 report by the National Reading Panel. Many reading experts said the panel relied on a limited set of studies that supported, among other things, intensive drilling in phonics. Reading fluency also was one of the key areas for instruction, along with phonemic awar
36、eness and phonics instruction, comprehension, teacher education and computer technology. President Bush used the report as a basis for Reading First, a program to improve reading scores that became the centerpiece of his No Child Left Behind law.Although fluency had long been identified by experts a
37、s important, it then became a hot issue.Reading researchers began devising programs to help teachers improve students fluency. And although there was no consensus definition of fluency, panels approving Reading First money accepted programs that used tools that stressed reading speed, according to s
38、ome educators. A report by the Department of Educations inspector general this month slammed the grant-approval processing, saying it was riddled with problems and conflicts of interest.The result, said fluency expert Tim Rasinski of Kent State University, was a message sent to schools to concentrat
39、e on speed. “The influence of No Child Left Behind has been such that even schools that arent Reading First schools are doing periodic (speed reading) testing of kids,“ he said.In Ottumwa, Iowa, Evans Middle School did it a different way. Evans was declared a school in need of improvement in reading
40、 in 2004, and Principal Davis Eidahl said he adopted a program focused on reading fluency using a model constructed by Rasinski aimed at improving comprehension.Some students, he said, came into the school reading fast but understanding little.“They read so fast, with no punctuation and no expressio
41、n that wed go back and ask comprehension questions and they werent very successful answering them.“ he said.To slow them down and teach them to talk with expression and comprehension, various exercises were used, including having children read passages to each other and listen to how they sound when
42、 reading, asking students to repeat passages, and adding 45 more minutes of reading time each day, he said.Now, 71 percent of the kids are reading at grade level, up from 58 percent two years ago. What worked, Eidahl said, was addressing all aspects of fluency, maintaining consistency and most impor
43、tantly, having a quality teacher.“ It all comes down to the teacher,“ he said.“ Its people, not programs./（分数：5.00）(1).In the second paragraph, the word “delectable“ is_“ detestable“.（分数：1.00）A.synonym withB.antonym withC.irrelevant toD.similar to(2).It can be inferred from the passage that “Giver“
44、is a book which_.（分数：1.00）A.contains many new and difficult wordsB.has many levels of meaningC.is easy to readD.is about a boys discovery(3).National Reading Panel focuses on_.（分数：1.00）A.accuracyB.speedC.comprehensionD.expressiveness(4).According to the author, “No Child Left Behind Law“ is_.（分数：1.0
45、0）A.objective in setting its goalB.partial in its basisC.useful in addressing reading issuesD.improving the reading scores of the students(5).It can be inferred from the passage that the key element in improving the reading ability of children lies in_.（分数：1.00）A.No Child Left Behind LawB.all kinds
46、of experimentsC.the students awareness of their shortcomingsD.the teachers guidance八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)In sixteenth-century Italy and eighteenth-century France, waning prosperity and increasing social unrest led the ruling families to try to preserve their superiority by withdrawing from the lowe
47、r and middle classes behind barriers of etiquette. In a prosperous community, on the other hand, polite society soon absorbs the newly rich, and in England there has never been any shortage of books on etiquette for teaching them the manners appropriate to their new way of life.Every code of etiquet
48、te has contained three elements; basic moral duties; practical rules which promote efficiency; and artificial, optional graces such as formal compliments to, say, women on their beauty or superiors on their generosity and importance.In the first category are considerations for the weak and respect f
49、or age. Among the ancient Egyptians the young always stood in the presence of older people. Among the Mponguwe of Tanzania, the young men bow as they pass the huts of the elders. In England, until about a century ago, young children did not sit in their parents presence without asking permission.Practical rules are helpful in such ordinary occ
