1、专业八级-580 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).According to the talk show hostess, creative industries in the UK often attract_.（分数：1.00）A.young peop
2、leB.old peopleC.postgraduatesD.graduates(2).According to Mr. Smith, which of the following statements is CORRECT?（分数：1.00）A.One needs to work as a carpenter before doing film-editing.B.Useful contacts should be purchased by money.C.One must work very hard if he/she wants to start up a creative caree
3、r.D.The more one gets established, the fewer contacts one will hav(3).According to Mr. Smith, his social life_.（分数：1.00）A.is organized outside of his field of workB.is often established upon work collaborationsC.is rather confined to his own familyD.is indeed humdrum because he is completely on his
4、own(4).According to Mr. Smith, what has changed his way of work so that it doesnt matter where he is working?（分数：1.00）A.The personal computer.B.The Internet.C.The advanced filming technology.D.The broadban(5).During the interview, Mr. Smith indicates that_.（分数：1.00）A.the creative industries in the U
5、K are attracting creative talents from abroadB.the creative industries are less competitive than the traditional industriesC.those who plan to take up creative jobs should be determined and focusedD.creative job holders always earn much more than those in other industries四、SECTION C(总题数：3，分数：5.00)1.
6、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.What is the main idea of the news item?（分数：1.00）A.India will market its low-cost computers abroad.B.India has developed a type of computer that sells at
7、a very low price.C.The devices in the computer were engineered by Taiwan.D.India decides to have its computers manufactured in Taiwan.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.Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(
8、1).Why is the Irans Supreme Leader urging his countrymen to work harder?（分数：1.00）A.Because Iran suffered from more severe economic sanctions from the U.S. and U.N.B.Because the Iranian government was planning to stop selling oil to the U.S.C.Because the Iranian government already stopped selling oil
9、 in euros.D.Because the European Union already approved of a new package of sanctions.(2).Which of following is NOT mentioned in terms of imposing economic sanctions on Iran?（分数：1.00）A.The U.S.B.The U.N.C.The European Union.D.NATO.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the
10、 news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).Which of the following is CORRECT?（分数：1.00）A.Health authorities claimed the new swine flu already became fully pandemic.B.Personal hygiene is effective and essential to defend against swine flu.C.Bot
11、h Hong Kong and Australia have confirmed cases of swine flu.D.The Japanese government has already stepped up surveillance at borders.(2).Personal hygiene enhancers include the following EXCEPT_.（分数：1.00）A.washing hands with soap and waterB.using alcohol-based hand cleanersC.wearing masks whenever po
12、ssibleD.washing hands regularly五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Benjie Goodhart is in his late 30s, adores his partner and has a young son. But the thought of marriage has paralyzed him with fear. And its all thanks to his parents perfect marriage. Benjie Goodheart felt the
13、pressure of wanting an idealized version of his parents relationship.According to Christine Northam, a relationship counselor with Relate. “Its like having a terribly clever elder brother at schoolit sets a competitive standard,“ she says. “Its a normal anxiety about a big change, and youve got the
14、added pressure of wanting an idealized version of your parents relationship. “It seems such anxiety is not uncommon. “As much as its hard to cope with parents being imperfect, cheating, splitting,“ says therapist Tracey Cox, “it is sometimes harder to be presented with the ideal happy marriage.“ Avy
15、 Joseph is a cognitive behavioral therapist and founder of CityMinds. “Its quite common for people to put pressure on themselves,“ he says, “if theyve grown up in an environment where, in their view, things have been perfect. “Overcoming these fears involves accepting your marriage may not be perfec
16、t, but if it isnt you will cope. Just because something isnt perfect doesnt mean its worthless. And if your marriage ends in divorce, it doesnt define you as a failure. “Your own worth isnt dependent on the success of your marriage,“ says Joseph. Working at Relate, Christine Northam knows no marriag
17、e is perfect. “I dont know anybody who is 100% happy with their marriage. Most marriages go through ups and downs. Youre idealizing it. You have a false impression of what real marriage is like. Most married people hate each other at times, frankly. You cant be perfectly in love all the time.“ So ma
18、rriage is not the happy ending of the fairy-tales. I love the fact that, 44 years after they married, my parents still hold hands, make each other giggle, and tease each other. But they would doubtless balk at the idea that their marriage is perfect. Mum suffers from terrible vertigo, yet Dad persis
19、ts in taking enormous detours every holiday through a mountain range. Dad could spend a week looking at a ruined church, whereas Mum could do the Acropolis in five minutes flat. Hundreds more took place along the recurring themes of what time to leave for the airport (Mum, six hours before a flight;
20、 Dad, six minutes), how to pour a drink (Mum, fill a large glass to the brim; Dad, quarter-fill a thimble) and how best to pass leisure time (Mum, bulk-buying from catalogue companies; Dad, reading every column inch of the newspaper).They arent perfect. They just love each other enough to deal with
21、the imperfections. As Cox says: “What they are good at is having faith, loving each other and finding compromises to make them both happy. No one breezes through (marriage) without working at it.“ And yes, I would hope to have a marriage as successful as theirs. But I know it will take some work. Im
22、 ready for that. I finally got down on one knee this year. After waiting for the perfect romantic moment, I realized it would probably never come. I had prevaricated long enough. So I asked her on the spur of the moment, while I was unpacking the shopping from the car, with Wendy in a bath towel sta
23、nding in our driveway asking why Id put Fred in the boot of the car (hed insisted) while he banged on the rear windscreen, pronouncing loudly about his latest fecal production. The proposal wasnt on a moonlit beach or over a candlelit dinner, but slap bang in the minutiae of everyday life, in alt it
24、s hilarious, glorious ridiculousnessand because of the person she is, Wendy loved it. And so it is that I find myself marching towards my impending nuptials, eyes wide open, resolve secure, safe in the knowledge that I am punching well above my weight with the woman who will be my wife. Benjie and W
25、endy were married last Saturday.（分数：5.00）(1).Benjie Goodhart is afraid of being married because_.（分数：1.00）A.his parents have a perfect marriageB.his parents hare a terrible marriage and have divorcedC.he is afraid of a big change in his lifeD.he feels pressure of maintaining a perfect marriage(2).Ac
26、cording to experts, why do people feel the pressure of having a perfect marriage?（分数：1.00）A.Because people fear that their marriage will not be satisfactory.B.Because if a marriage ends in divorce, it means that they are a failure.C.Because they want to compete with others their happy marriage.D.All
27、 of them.(3).What does “balk“ mean in the third paragraph?（分数：1.00）A.acceptB.refuse to complyC.suspectD.challenge(4).According to the last paragraph, all of the following statements are correct EXCEPT_.（分数：1.00）A.No marriage is perfect but they know how to deal with the imperfections.B.A happy marri
28、age needs the great efforts from both parties.C.Only a few people have smooth marriage without efforts.D.A happy marriage needs the compromise from both parties.(5).The authors proposal of marriage can be described as_.（分数：1.00）A.romanticB.realisticC.plainD.exciting七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)New data re
29、leased today from the Partnership for a Drug Free America suggest that not only are girls now drinking more than boys, they turn to drugs and alcohol for more serious reasons as well. The report, which analyzed results from the 2009 Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS), a survey of teen attitu
30、des and behaviors, shows that the number of middle-and high-school girls who say they drink has increased by 11 percent in the past year. Boys have stayed at about the same level, hovering around 52 percent.These numbers are more indicative of a long-term trend than a sudden uptick. In 2005 the rate
31、 of girls who had used alcohol in the past year as surveyed by the partnership hit 57 percent, only to fall back to 55 percent in 2007 and 53 percent in 2008. (During that same time, boys continued to fall within a couple of percentage points of 50 percent, but the changes were not statistically sig
32、nificant. )These arent the only data to note issues involving girls and drinking. According to Monitoring the Future, an ongoing study that monitors the habits and attitudes of young Americans, the number of high-school students who admitted being drunk in the previous 30 days has changed dramatical
33、ly for boys compared with girls. In 1998, 39 percent of boys reported being drunk in the previous 30 days, compared with 26.6 percent of girls. Ten years later, in 2008, 29.2 percent of boys reported being drunk during the 30-day period, while girls stayed relatively steady at 26.2 percent. “The num
34、bers go down for boys and girls, but they go down much more dramatically for boys,“ says Amelia Arria, director of the center on young adult health and development at the University of Maryland, School of Public Health. “It represents a 25 percent decrease for boys, but only a 1 percent decrease for
35、 girls. Girls are staying kind of level, and boys are dropping. “For years, boys were the focus of underage-drinking interventions, but for the past decade, researchers have seen a close in the gender gap. Researchers speculate that more products devoted to making drinking easier and tastierthe suga
36、r-laden beverages known as alco-popsare a factor. “Theres a whole new raft of products that have come out in the last 10 to 12 years that were oriented to young females,“ says David Jerigan, executive director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth. “Alcohol now gets sold to girls as a functio
37、nal food: it gets sold with calorie information, a drink of fitness, a drink with health benefits. “But girls may be less concerned about their figure than they are about, well, everything else. The Partnership for a Drug Free America results also show that girls are more likely to associate drugs a
38、nd alcohol with a way to avoid problems and relieve stress. (Boys, on the other hand, show dramatic increases in seeing drugs and alcohol as social lubricants, in 2009 compared with 2008, they were 16 percent more likely to see them as a way to make socializing easier, and 23 percent more likely to
39、label drinking as a necessary ingredient for a party. )Teen girls are more likely to be attuned to their feelings, says Leslie Walker, M.D., director of adolescent medicine at Seattle Childrens Hospital, and therefore may seek alcohol as a way to self-medicate. “Girls tend to be more internalized wi
40、th issues that are happening anyway. It makes sense that if they have some stress and things that they are dealing with, theyre going to take care of themselves instead of reaching out. “Recent research on the adolescent brain has shown significant differences between males and females. Arria says,
41、“Girls tend to be more sensitive to emotional stress, neurologically. Girls mature a little bit earlier in parts of the brain; boys develop later in those areas.“ That increased sensitivity, she says, combined with more relaxed attitudes and easier access to alcohol, may explain the difference in bo
42、ys and girls when it comes to drinking.Its also possible that the more developed emotional brain allows girls to be more self-aware and honest about their motivations than boys. “I think early on, girls are more willing to admit negative emotions than boys,“ says Eric Wagner, professor at the Robert
43、 Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work at Florida International University.“They might be drinking for the same reasons as boys, but boys are much less likely to admit those reasons.“ In his interventions with high-school students, says Wagner, kids are still very much drawn to traditiona
44、l gender stereotypes, with boys associating drinking with a type of macho culture.The stress of figuring out gender roles, of doing well in school, and of the larger social and economic realities has led this generations teenagers to be more anxious than previous generations, says Walker. “Its a par
45、ticularly stressful time for kids right now. Theyre seeing their parents stressed right now about the economy and jobs and thinking, what is there going to be for me?“Adults, says Walker, often minimize the stress felt by their children, which can seem trivial compared with grown-up problemsafter al
46、l, kids dont have to worry about paying the mortgage. But to teenagers, that stress is very real, and the coping mechanisms they use to deal with that stress set a lifelong pattern. “Theyre learning the tools right then for what theyre going to use to handle adversity for the rest of their lives.“ A
47、nd as more and more studies show the danger of alcohol on developing brains, its important that the tools they use now wont damage them later.（分数：5.00）(1).Which of the following best indicates the main idea of the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Teen girls are drinking more than boys for different reasons.B.Meas
48、ures should be taken to relieve the stress and worries of teen girls.C.Teen girls are feeling more stress than boys.D.Teen girls are drinking mainly for fun.(2).we can learn from the third paragraph that_.（分数：1.00）A.more girls reported being drunk in the previous month than boys ten years agoB.more
49、girls reported being drunk in the previous month than boys ten years laterC.both girls and boys witness an increase in the drinking population in the past ten yearsD.boys witness a greater decrease in the drinking population than girls in the past ten years(3).Which of the following is NOT the reason for girls drinking?（分数：1.00）A.More alco
