1、专业八级-396 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)Chinese CalligraphyCalligraphy, the writing of characters, is one of the four traditional Chinese arts and has developed over centuries in the history of China. Today it still has a place in museums. .
2、Roles of calligraphy A. a means of communication B. a way of expressing the 1 of nature . Characteristics of calligraphy A. Calligraphy as an expressive art: to 2 the identity of a man. B. Calligraphy as a practical fine art: to be used as ornaments. . Benefits of practicing calligraphy A. getting o
3、ne“s subconsciousness exercised B. bringing about 3 between the mind and the body C. enabling one to enjoy healthy life and longevity . Five basic script types in Chinese calligraphy A. the Seal Script the oldest style, making a signature-like impression generally used in 4 today B. the Official or
4、Clerical Script Characters appear 5 : strokes often start thin and end thick. still common in printing because of its elegance C. the Regular Script Characters are regular, written 6 . most widely used and the most legible D. the Running Script Strokes may run into one another. Characters are less 7
5、 . E. the Cursive Script a flowing style with few angular lines Strokes are altered or removed for smooth writing or 8 purpose. . Status and influence of calligraphy A. an important 9 for imperial court to select officials B. an art unique to Asian cultures C. a source of inspiration to 10 （分数：10.00
6、）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)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. （分数：5.00）(1).Why are there so many corporate abuses to
7、day?（分数：1.00）A.Because there always appears the bubble market.B.Because there is a healthy stock market.C.Because there is an emphasis on higher stock price and earnings.D.Because the economy is developing too fast.(2).How does the man feel about current business world?（分数：1.00）A.It is a total mess.
8、B.There are really just a few bad apples in the cart.C.Outright fraud and crime represent the entire business world.D.Most business people are dishonest and indecent.(3).What“s the widespread problem of this short-term profit push?（分数：1.00）A.It is about crime and fraud.B.It is about distorting the a
9、ccounting rules within legal limits.C.It is about managing earnings.D.It“s about the new legislation.(4).In the man“s opinion, Jack Welch of G.E. partly made his name by _（分数：1.00）A.creating the new concept of managed earning.B.committing fraud.C.managing large body of staff.D.firing 125,000 workers
10、.(5).What does the man imply about the new legislation?（分数：1.00）A.It would cause the stock price down.B.The conference committee on Capitol Hill will not make such a rule.C.The President would not agree with it, at least recently.D.That is the reason why the stock market is surging.四、SECTION C(总题数：3
11、，分数：5.00)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. The results of the new free trade deal between the U.S. and South Korea are all the following EXCEPT that _（分数：1.00）A.it will create at least 70,000 jobs for Americ
12、a.B.it will ensure security on the peninsula.C.it will boost exports of American goods up to $11bn every year.D.it will help double US exports in the next five years.Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
13、（分数：2.00）(1).What leads to the shutdown of several Spanish airports?（分数：1.00）A.The air traffic controllers“ sickness.B.Unfavorable weather conditions.C.The dispute over air traffic controllers“ hours and conditions.D.The irresponsibility of the airline company.(2).What is the reaction of the governm
14、ent?（分数：1.00）A.It has heavily condemned the air traffic controllers.B.It might allow the military to take control of the airspace.C.It will encourage people not to go out.D.Not mentioned.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to
15、answer the questions. （分数：2.00）(1).Why is the film-maker sentenced to six years in jail?（分数：1.00）A.Because he makes blue films which are banned in Iran.B.Because his films reflect the negative side of Iranian society.C.Because he is publicly antisocial.D.He“s sentenced wrongly.(2).Which of the follo
16、wing statements is INCORRECT about Jafar Panahi?（分数：1.00）A.This is the second time for his arrestment.B.He is an internationally well-known film-maker.C.He is banned from making films any more.D.He cannot leave Iran for the next 20 years.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Will
17、iam Shakespeare described old age as “second childishness“ sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste. In the case of taste he might, musically speaking, have been even more perceptive than he realized. A paper in Neurology by Giovanni Frisoni and his colleagues at the National Center for Research and Care o
18、f Alzheimer“s Disease in Brescia, Italy, shows that one form of senile dementia can affect musical desires in ways that suggest a regression, if not to infancy, then at least to a patient“s teens. Frontotemporal dementia is caused, as its name suggests, by damage to the front and sides of the brain.
19、 These regions are concerned with speech, and with such “higher“ functions as abstract thinking and judgment. Frontotemporal damage therefore produces different symptoms from the loss of memory associated with Alzheimer“s disease, a more familiar dementia that affects the hippocampus and amygdala in
20、 the middle of the brain. Frontotemporal dementia is also rarer than Alzheimer“s. In the past five years the center in Brescia has treated some 1,500 Alzheimer“s patients; it has seen only 46 with Frontotemporal dementia. Two of those patients interested Dr. Frisoni. One was a 68-year-old lawyer, th
21、e other a 73-year-old housewife. Both had undamaged memories, but displayed the sorts of defect associated with Frontotemporal dementia a diagnosis that was confirmed by brain scanning. About two years after he was first diagnosed, the lawyer, once a classical music lover who referred to pop music a
22、s “mere noise“, started listening to the Italian pop band “883“. As his command of language and his emotional attachments to friends and family deteriorated, he continued to listen to the band at full volume for many hours a day. The housewife had not even had the lawyer“s love of classical music, h
23、aving never enjoyed music of any sort in the past. But about a year after her diagnosis she became very interested in the songs that her 11-year-old granddaughter was listening to. This kind of change in musical taste was not seen in any of the Alzheimer“s patients, and thus appears to be specific t
24、o those with Frontotemporal dementia. And other studies have remarked on how Frontotemporal dementia patients sometimes gain new talents. Five sufferers who developed artistic abilities are known. And in another lapse of musical taste, one woman with the disease suddenly started composing and singin
25、g country and western songs. Dr. Frisoni speculates that the illness is causing people to develop a new attitude towards novel experiences. Previous studies of novelty-seeking behavior suggest that it is managed by the brain“s right frontal lobe. A predominance of the right over the left frontal lob
26、e, caused by damage to the latter, might thus lead to a quest for new experience. Alternatively, the damage may have affected some specific neural circuit that is needed to appreciate certain kinds of music. Whether that is a gain or a loss is a different matter. As Dr. Frisoni puts it in his articl
27、e, De Gustibus Non Disputandum Est. Or , in plainer words, there is no accounting for taste.（分数：4.00）(1).For Shakespeare, old age is the “second childishness“ for they have the same _（分数：1.00）A.favorite.B.memory.C.experience.D.sense.(2).Which one is NOT a symptom of Frototemporal dementia?（分数：1.00）A
28、.The loss of memory.B.The loss of judgment.C.The loss of abstract thinking.D.The loss of speech.(3).From the two patients mentioned in the passage, it can be concluded that _（分数：1.00）A.their command of language has deteriorated.B.their emotional attachments to friends and family are being lost.C.Fro
29、ntotemporal dementia can bring new gifts.D.Frontotemporal dementia can cause patients to change their musical tastes.(4).From the passage, it can be inferred that _（分数：1.00）A.the damage of the left frontal lobe may affect some specific neural circuit.B.the lawyer patient has the left frontal lobe da
30、maged.C.the damage of the left frontal lobe decreased the appreciation of certain kinds of music.D.every patient has the same taste.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)When you buy a gallon of organic milk, you expect to get tasty milk from happy cows who haven“t been subjected to antibiotics, hormones or pestic
31、ides. But you might also unknowingly be getting genetically modified cattle feed. Albert Straus, owner of the Straus Family Creamery in the small northern California town of Marshall, decided to test the feed that he gives his 1,600 cows last year and was alarmed to find that nearly 6% of the organi
32、c corn feed he received from suppliers was “contaminated“ by genetically modified (GM) organisms. Organic food is, by definition, supposed to be free of genetically modified material, and organic crops are required to be isolated from other crops. But as GM crops become more prevalent, there is litt
33、le that an organic farmer can do to prevent a speck of GM pollen or a stray GM seed from being blown by the wind onto his land or farm equipment and, eventually, into his products. In 2006, GM crops accounted for 61% of all the corn planted in the U.S. and 89% of all the soybeans. “I feared that the
34、re weren“t enough safeguards,“ Straus says. So Straus and five other natural food producers, including industry leader Whole Foods, announced last week that they would seek a new certification for their products, “non-GMO verified“, in the hopes that it will become a voluntary industry standard for
35、GM-free goods. A non-profit group called the Non-GMO Project runs the program, and the testing is conducted by an outside lab called Genetic ID. In a few weeks, Straus expects to become the first food manufacturer in the country to carry the label in addition to his “organic“ one. With Whole Foods i
36、n the ring, the rest of the industry will soon be under competitive pressure to follow. Earning the non-GMO label, at least initially, requires nearly as much effort as getting certified organic. To root out the genetically modified corn, Straus spent several months and about $10,000 testing, re-tes
37、ting and tracing back his products: from his own dairy“s milk, to other dairies that supply some of his milk, to the brokers who sell them feed, to their mills that grind the corn, to farmers who grow it. To put the GM-free label on his ice cream, Straus will have to trace the chickens that provided
38、 the egg yolks, the grain used in the alcohol that carries his vanilla extract and the soy lecithin used as an emulsifier for his chocolate chips. So why bother? The organic and natural foods industry sees a huge opportunity in telling consumers even more about what“s in their food. Few consumers wo
39、uld think about the pesticides and hormones in conventional foods without the organic alternative to remind them. Similarly, genetically modified crops have become so prevalent in the U.S. that chances are you“ve been buying and eating them for years. You just wouldn“t know it from the label: the U.
40、S. Department of Agriculture, unlike agencies in Europe and Japan, do not require GM foods to be labeled. While scientists have not identified any specific health risks from eating GM foods, anti-GM activists say there is not enough research yet into their long-term risks or impact on biodiversity.
41、By telling consumers loud and clear which products are GM-free, organic-food producers will give them one more reason to choose organic. Says Jeffrey Smith, a longtime activist against genetically modified food: “The people served by the organic industry are very sensitive to GMO.“ And, the industry
42、 hopes, willing to pay to avoid it.（分数：5.00）(1).Faced with the prevalence of GM crops, organic farmers _（分数：1.00）A.have sought new certifications for their GM-free products.B.can do nothing to stop their crops from being polluted by GM factors.C.can get huge profits by selling their GM-free goods.D.
43、have done a lot to safeguard their GM-free goods.(2).What“s the real meaning of the phrase “in the ring“ (Line 6, Para. 3)?（分数：1.00）A.Getting the ring as a symbol of the non-GMO label.B.Fighting with other companies in a boxing ring.C.Calling other companies to apply for the non-GMO certification.D.
44、Competing with other companies for the non-GMO certification.(3).The author quotes the example of Straus in Para. 4 to show _（分数：1.00）A.the whole process of applying for the non-GMO certification.B.the great efforts for getting the certified non-GMO certification.C.the efforts Straus made to earn th
45、e non-GMO label.D.the great efforts Straus made to get certified organic.(4).Which of the following is TRUE according to the last paragraph?（分数：1.00）A.Organic producers bother their customers with the non-GMO label.B.Organic food may remind customers of what“s in conventional foods.C.It is well know
46、n that GM foods have negative effect on biodiversity.D.The U.S. Department of Agriculture encourages the prevalence of GM crops.(5).Which of the following best describes the development of the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Introducing the issue describing the actual status citing ways to deal with the issue of
47、fering reasons.B.Describing the actual status introducing the issue citing ways to deal with the issue offering reasons.C.Introducing the issue citing ways to deal with the issue describing the actual status offering reasons.D.Describing the actual status offering reasons introducing the issue citin
48、g ways to deal with the issue.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Mark Twain“s instructions were quite clear: his autobiography was to remain unpublished until 100 years after his death. You couldn“t imagine a writer doing something like that these days. Who could resist a pay cheque in the here and now for defe
49、rred immortality in the hereafter? More to the point, could any modern writer be certain their lives would still be interesting to anyone so long after their death? Hubris never came into Twain“s calculations. He was the American writer, the rags-to-riches embodiment of the American dream, and it never seems to have occurred to him that his popularity
