1、专业八级-901 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)Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to an
2、swer each of the following five questions. Now. listen to the interview.（分数：5.00）(1).What did Richard consider when choosing his product?（分数：1.00）A.Whether the suppliers could respond quickly to demand.B.Whether customers would be worried about the price.C.Whether product could be distributed around
3、 the world easily.D.Whether the market growth is stable.(2).According to Richard, what has been an important element in Bookstores success?（分数：1.00）A.Attracting good staff.B.The many new ideas that were generated.C.His knowledge of computer software.D.Raising enough funds.(3).What was Bookstores sal
4、es revenue at the end of 1997?（分数：1.00）A.120 million dollars.B.230 million dollars.C.310 million dollars.D.340 million dollars.(4).Why is Bookstores customer service so successful?（分数：1.00）A.The company is able to offer any book title in print.B.The company deals with complaints in a positive way.C.
5、The company gives priority to orders from regular customers.D.The company is able to offer fast delivery.(5).Bookstore can perform better than its competitors because（分数：1.00）A.its distribution network is more efficient.B.it has a wider share of the international market.C.its staff have a personal i
6、nvestment in the company.D.its prices are cheaper.四、SECTION C(总题数：3，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. Now listen to the news.Which of the following statements is true?（分数：1.00）A.The wounded woman wa
7、s dead on the way to the hospital.B.In the second shooting, the man was deadly wounded.C.The police have no evidence to show the shootings were gang-related.D.The condition of the child in the first shooting is not available this morning.Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end
8、of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions. Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).What is the problem with the space shuttle?（分数：1.00）A.Two of the ceramic tiles were damaged.B.Some gap fillers popped up.C.The space shuttle was over-heated by high-speed friction
9、with the atmosphere.D.The engine of the space shuttle was out of control.(2).According to the schedule, the space shuttle will return to the earth on.（分数：1.00）A.Monday.B.Tuesday.C.Thursday.D.Friday.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10
10、seconds to answer each of the two questions. Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).The tea industry declined in India due to the following reasons EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.falling demand.B.increasing popularity of soft drinks.C.high production costs.D.lower wages paid to domestic tea growers.(2).Which of the
11、following words can best describe the prospect of tea industry in India?（分数：1.00）A.Promising.B.Tough.C.UnprediCtable.D.Bright.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：6.00)As a contemporary artist, Jim Dine has often incorporated other peoples photography into his abstract works. But, th
12、e 68-year-old American didnt pick up a camera himself and start shooting until he moved to Berlin in 1995-and once he did, he couldnt stop. The result is a voluminous collection of images, ranging from early-20th-century-style heliogravures to modern-day digital printings, a selection of which are o
13、n exhibition at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris. They are among his most prized achievements. “ I make photographs the way I make paintings, “says Dine, “but the difference is, in photography, its like lighting a fire every time.“Though photography makes up a small slice of Dines v
14、ast oeuvre, the exhibit is a true retrospective of his career. Dine mostly photographs his own artwork or the subjects that he has portrayed in sculpture, painting and prints including Venus de Milo, ravens and owls, hearts and skulls. There are still pictures of well-used tools in his Connecticut w
15、orkshop, delightful digital self-portraits and intimate portraits of his sleeping wife, the American photographer Diana Miehener. Most revealing and novel are Dines shots of his poetry, scribbled in charcoal on walls like graffiti. To take in this show is to wander through Dines life:his childhood o
16、bsessions, his loves, his dreams. It is a poignant and powerful exhibit that rightly celebrates one of modern arts most intriguing-and least hyped-talents.When he arrived on the scene in the early 1960s, Dine was seen as a pioneer in the pop-art movement. But he didnt last long; once pop stagnated,
17、Dine moved on. “Pop art had to do with the exterior world, “he says. He was more interested, he adds, in “what was going on inside me. “He explored his own personality, and from there developed themes. His love for handcrafting grew into a series of artworks incorporating hammers and saws. His Obses
18、sion with owls and ravens came from a dream he once had. His childhood toy Pinocchio, worn and chipped, appears in some self-portraits as a red and yellow blur flying through the air.Dine first dabbled in photography in the late 1970s, when Polaroid invited him to try out a new large-format camera a
19、t its head-quarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He produced a series of colorful, out-of-focus self-portraits, and when he was done, he packed them away. A half dozen of these images-in perfect condition-are on display in Paris for the first time. Though masterful, they feel flat when compared with
20、 his later pictures.Dine didnt shoot again until he went to Berlin in the mi he opens himself physically and emotionally before the lens. He says such pictures are an attempt to examine himself as well as“ record the march of time, what gravity does to the face in everybody. Im a very willing subjec
21、t.“ Indeed, Dine sees photography as the surest path to self-discovery: “Ive always learned about myself in my art, “he says. “But photography expresses me. Its me. Me. “The Paris exhibit makes that perfectly clear.（分数：6.00）(1).According the Dine, the difference between painting and photography is t
22、hat（分数：1.00）A.the latter requires more insight.B.the former needs more patience.C.the latter arouses great passions in him.D.the former involves more indoor work.(2).The word “oeuvre“ in the second paragraph probably means（分数：1.00）A.all the works of an artist.B.all the efforts of an artist.C.an arti
23、sts great potential.D.an artists great talent.(3).Which o the following photographs of Dines leaves the deepest impression on the author?（分数：1.00）A.Pictures of graffiti on walls.B.Photographs of his poetry.C.Shots of his well-used tools.D.Pictures of ravens and owls.(4).What does the author think of
24、 Dines self-portraits in the late 1970s?（分数：1.00）A.Their connotative meanings are not rich enough.B.They are not so exquisite as his later works.C.They reflect themes of his childhood dreams.D.They are much better than his later pictures.(5).All of the following field has Dine ever set foot in EXCEP
25、T（分数：1.00）A.a new style of painting.B.a silver-gelatin process.C.an old style of printing.D.Jungian psychoanalysis.(6).What is the main idea of the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Jim Dines exhibit is a true retrospective of his career.B.The author tells us Jim Dines life stories as an artist.C.Jim Dine is disti
26、nguished for his colorful self-portraits.D.In a revealing exhibit, Jim Dine points his lens inward.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Britains east midlands were once the picture of English countryside, alive With flocks, shepherds, skylarks and buttercups-the stuff of fairytales. In 1941 George Marsh left scho
27、ol at the age of 14 to work as a herdsman in Nottinghamshire, the East Midlands countryside his parents and grandparents farmed. He recalls skylarks nesting in cereal fields, which when accidentally disturbed would fly singing into the sky. But in his lifetime, Marsh has seen the color and diversity
28、 of his native land fade. Farmers used to grow about a ton of wheat per acre; now they grow four tons. Pesticides have killed off the insects upon which skylarks fed, and year-round harvesting has driven the birds from their winter nests. Skylarks are now rare. “Farmers kill anything that affects pr
29、oduction, “says Marsh. “Agriculture is too efficient.“Anecdotal evidence of a looming Crisis in biodiversity is now being reinforced by science. In their comprehensive surveys of plants, butterflies and birds over the past 20 to 40 years in Britain, ecologists Jeremy Thomas and Carly Stevens found s
30、ignificant population declines in a third of all native species. Butterflies ate the furthest along-71 percent of Britains 58 species are shrinking in number, and some, like the large blue and tortoiseshell, are already extinct. In Britains grasslands, a key habitat, 20 percent of all animal, plant
31、and insect species are on the path to extinction. Theres hardly a corner of the countrys ecology that isnt affected by this downward spiral.The problem would be bad enough if it were merely local, but its not: because Britains temperate ecology is similar to that in so many other parts of the world,
32、 its the best microcosm scientists have been able to study in detail. Scientists have sounded alarms about species extinction in the past, but always specific to a particular animal or place-whales in the 1980s or the Amazonian rain forests in the 1990s. This time, though, the implications are much
33、wider. The Amazon is a “biodiversity hot spot“ with a unique ecology. But in Britain, “the main drivers of change are the same processes responsible for species declines worldwide, says Thomas. The findings, published in the journal Science, provide the first clear evidence that the world is in the
34、throes of a massive extinction. Thomas and Stevens argue that we are facing a loss of 65 to 95 percent of the worlds species, on the scale of an ice age or the meteorite that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.If so, this would be only the sixth time such devastation had occurred
35、in the past 600 million years. The other five were associated with one-off events like the ice ages, a volcanic eruption or a meteor. This time, ecosystems are dying a thousand deaths-from overfishing and the razing of the rain forests, but also from advances in agriculture. The British study, for i
36、nstance, finds that one of the biggest problems is nitrogen pollution. Nitrogefi is released when fossil fuels burn in cars and power plants-but also when ecologically rich heath-lands are plowed and fertilizers are spread. Nitrogen-rich fertilizers fuel the growth of tall grasses, which in turn ove
37、rshadow and kill off delicate flowers like harebells and eyebrights.Even seemingly innocuous practices are responsible for vast ecological damage. When British farmers stopped feeding horses and cattle with hay and switched to silage, a kind of preserved short grass, they eliminated a favorite nesti
38、ng spot of corncrakes, birds known for their raspy nightly mating calls; corncrake populations have fallen 76 percent in the past 20 years. The depressing list goes on and on.Many of these practices are being repeated throughout the world, in one form or another, which is why scientists believe that
39、 the British study has global implications. Wildlife is getting blander. “We dont know which species are essential to the web of life so were taking a massive risk by eliminating any of them, “ says David Wedin, professor of ecology at the University of Nebraska. Chances are well be seeing the resul
40、ts of this experiment before too long.（分数：6.00）(1).From the first paragraph, we get the impression that George Marsh（分数：1.00）A.cherishes his adolescence memories.B.thinks highly of the efficiency of agriculture.C.may not have happy memories of past time.D.cannot remember his adolescence days.(2).Whi
41、ch of the following statements is TRUE of Jeremy Thomas and Carly Stevenss surveys?（分数：1.00）A.They reported the results of the surveys to the government.B.There were no such comprehensive surveys done before.C.The surveys show there are more plant species extinct.D.Other ecologists will do more surv
42、eys based on theirs.(3).What is the difference between todays ecological change and the five changes in ancient times?（分数：1.00）A.Species like the dinosaurs brought the ice ages to an end.B.A volcanic eruption might lead to a great catastrophe.C.Todays change is mainly caused by agricultural advances
43、.D.Todays change attributes to a multitude of reasons.(4).The word “innocuous“ in the fifth paragraph probably means（分数：1.00）A.arbitrary.B.legendary.C.harmless.D.lethal.(5).According to David Wedin, the extinction of many species are caused by human beings（分数：1.00）A.arrogance.B.ignorance.C.nonchalan
44、ce.D.blunder.(6).The most suitable title for the passage would be（分数：1.00）A.Nitrogen Pollution.B.Ecological Issues.C.Goodbye, Skylarks.D.Agricultural Advances.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Our public debates often fly off into the wild blue yonder of fantasy. So its been with the Federal Communications Com
45、missions new media-ownership rules. Were told that, unless the FCCs decision is reversed, it will worsen the menacing concentration of media power and that this will-to exaggerate only slightly-imperil free speech, the diversity of opinion and perhaps democracy itself. All this is more than overwrou
46、ght; it completely misrepresents reality.In the past 30 years, media power has splintered dramatically; people have more choices than ever. Travel back to 1970. There were only three major TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC); now, theres a fourth (Fox). Then, there was virtually no cable TV; now, 68 percent
47、 of households have it. Then, FM radio was a backwater; now there are 5, 892 FM stations, up from 2, 196 in 1970. Then, there was only one national newspaper (The Wall Street Journal); now, there are two more (USA Today and The New York Times).The idea that “big media“ has dangerously increased its
48、control over our choices is absurd. Yet much of the public, including journalists and politicians, believe religiously in this myth. They confuse size with power. Its true that some gigantic media companies are gettingeven bigger at the expense of other media companies. But its not true that their p
49、ower is increasing at the publics expense.Popular hostility toward big media stems partly from the growing competition, which creates winners and losers-and losers complain. Liberals dont like the conservative talk shows, but younger viewers do. A June poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that viewers from the ages of 18 to 29 appro
