1、专业八级-904 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)Take a taxi in Shanghai and you will pay more than you would for a ride of (1) _ distance in Beijing. (1) _.Buy a beer at an international bar in Shanghai, and the same holds true. Go out for an Italian
2、, German or French meal and ditto.And yet, according to a survey released yesterday by Mercer Human (2) _ Consulting, (2) _.Beijing is the most expensive city on the Chinese mainland. “There are some things that might be more expensive in Shanghai, but the (3) _ we have is based on a basket of goods
3、,“ (3) _.said Ilya Bonick, Mercers regional head of information services. Mercers cost of living survey is one of a handful of annual reports produced by international (4) _. (4) _.It takes into consideration such things as housing, food, (5) _, clothing, household goods and transportation. (5) _.Me
4、als of noodles or jiaozi are not included in the report whereas products (6) _ are likely to buy and are available in all the cities surveyed, such as Coca-Cola and Pantene shampoo. (6) _.This year, Hong Kong, the most expensive Chinese city, took ninth (7) _. (7) _.The top three in the world are To
5、kyo, Osaka and London. The good news is that Chinese cities are getting cheaper, driven by a US dollar (8) _ in value. (8) _.“Chinese cities have dropped significantly in the rankings as the (9) _ is pegged to the US dollar and has therefore been affected by the dollars depreciation,“ said Marie-Lau
6、rence Sepede, Mercers research manager, in a release. (9) _.“The shift in the China ranking is the most surprising,“ Bonick said. “We have seen it become more (10) _.“ (10) _.Another factor for the drop, said Bonick, is the wider availability of products the company uses to measure.（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_
7、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 conversation you will be give 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.（分数：5.00）(1).Whats Miss Patty Chi
8、ngs problem?（分数：1.00）A.To be a keen photographer is too costly.B.She has to develop 10 rolls of films.C.All her films were vanished.D.After the trip, she was too tired to choose a good photo servic(2).According to Denis, if we want to get the consumers right, we should _.（分数：1.00）A.spend more moneyB
9、.complain to the managerC.fight for themD.wait for a sale(3).The Consumer of the Month is _.（分数：1.00）A.DenisB.WendyC.PattyD.Alvin(4).When the store had a sale, the belt which Mr. Alvin Lok liked priced at _.（分数：1.00）A.$100B.$150C.$20OD.$300(5).Which of the following items is true?（分数：1.00）A.Miss Pat
10、ty Chings tour lasted 3 weeks.B.Top-class Photo services compensated Miss Ching because the judge ordered them to pay compensation.C.According to Wendy, the problem with sale prices is that the reductions may not be enough.D.Mr. Alvin Lok was surprised because at the sale the price of the belt had r
11、educed by only fifty dollars.四、SECTION C(总题数：2，分数：5.00)Questions 6 to 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following questions.Now listen to the news.（分数：3.00）(1).What did Yasukuni shrine claim?（分数：1.00）A.It claimed that t
12、he 40 Class-A war criminals were no longer war criminals in Japan.B.It claimed that the Far East Sentence was not just.C.The war criminals should be no longer regarded as criminals.D.The government should not grant pensions to criminals.(2).Which statement was not true?（分数：1.00）A.Japan had revised r
13、elated laws to grant pension to the family of these convicted war criminals.B.Some people at home and abroad called Yasukuni to establish new memorial to separate war criminals from ordinary war deadC.Koizumi took office in 2001.D.Yasukuni hadnt make response to the call of separating war criminals
14、from ordinary dea(3).What can you learn about Yasukuni from the news?（分数：1.00）A.Japans Prime Minister pays annual visit to itB.It is urging Japanese politicians to continual visitsC.Many Asian country strongly protest establish new memorial for the war deadD.Koizumi is in favor of separating the war
15、 criminals from ordinary deadQuestions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following questions.Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).Which one is not true according to the content of the news?（分数：1.00）A.This was the
16、first congressional visit to the prison.B.The lawmakers ate the same launch given to detainees.C.A Sonata delegation was visiting next weekend.D.The prison was under criticism this sprin(2).The lawmakers feared _.（分数：1.00）A.terrorists among the detainees could not be found out.B.interrogators in the
17、 prison would abused and tortured the detainees.C.the White House and Pentagon wouldnt improve the conditions there.D.the United States image was hurt because of the prison.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)It used to be said that English people take their pleasure sadly. No
18、doubt this would still be true if they had any pleasure to take, but the price of alcohol and tobacco in my country has provided sufficient external causes for melancholy. I have sometimes thought that the habit of taking pleasure sadly has crossed the Atlantic, and I have wondered what it is that m
19、akes so many English-speaking people somber in their outlook in spite of good health and a good income.In the course of my travels in the American I have been impressed by a kind of fundamental malaise which seems to me extremely common and which poses difficult problems for the social reformer. Mos
20、t social reformers have held the opinion that, if poverty were abolished and there were no more economic insecurity, the millennium would have arriver But when I look at the face of people in opulent cars, whether in your country or in mine, I do not see that look of radiant happiness which the afor
21、esaid social reformers had led me to expect In nine cases out of ten, I see instead a look of boredom and discontent and an almost frantic longing for something that might tickle the jaded palate.But it is not only the very rich who suffer in this way. Professional men very frequently feel hopeless
22、thwarted. There is something that they long to do or some public object that they long to work for. But if they were to indulge their wishes in these respects, they fear that they would lose their livelihood. Their wives am equally unsatisfied, for their neighbor, Mrs. So-and-So, has gone ahead more
23、 quickly, has a better car, a larger apartment and grander friends.Life for almost everybody is a long competitive struggle where very few can win the race, and those who do not win are unhappy. On social occasions when it is de rigueur to seem cheerful, the necessary demeanor is stimulated by alcoh
24、ol. But the gaiety does not ring true and anybody who has just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose melancholy.One finds this sort of thing only among English-speaking people. A Frenchman while he is abusing the Government is as gay as a lark. So is an Italian while he is telling you h
25、ow his neighbor has swindled him. Mexicans, when they are not actually starving or actually being murdered, sing ad dance and enjoy sunshine and food and drink with a gusto which is very rare north of the Mexican frontier. When Andrew Jackson conquered Pensacola from the Spaniards, it was Sunday. Sh
26、e pointed out the scandal to her husband, who decreed that cheerfulness must cease forthwith. And it did.When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many American from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes, of which one goes much deeper than the other.
27、 The one that goes least deep is the necessity for subservience in some large organization, If you are an energetic man with strong views as to the right way of doing the job with which you are concerned, you find yourself invariable under the orders of some big man at the top who is elderly, weary
28、and cynical. Whenever you have a bright idea, the boss puts a stopper on it. The mom energetic you are and the more vision you have, the more you will suffer from the impossibility of doing any of the things that you feel ought to be done. When you go home and moan to your wife, she tells you that y
29、ou are a silly fellow and that if you became the proper sort of yes- man your income would soon be doubled, If you try divorce and remarriage it is very unlikely that there will be any change in this respect. And .so you are condemned to gastric ulcers and premature old age.It was not always so. Whe
30、n Dr. Johnson complied his dictionary, he compiled it as he thought fit. When he felt like saying that oats is food for men in Scotland and horses in England, he said so. When he defined a fishing-rod as a stick with a fish at one end and a fool at the other, there was nobody to point out to him tha
31、t a remark of this sort would damage the sale of his great work among fishermen. But if, in the present day, you are (let us say) a contributor to an encyclopedia, there is an editorial policy which is solemn, wise, and prudent, which allows no room for jokes, no place for personal preferences and n
32、o tolerance for idiosyncrasies. Everything has to be flattened out except where the prejudices of the editor are concerned. To these you must conform, however, little you may share them. And so you have to be content with dollars instead of creative satisfaction. And the dollars, alas, leave you sad
33、.This brings me to major cause of unhappiness, which is that most people in America act not on impulse but on some principle, and that principles upon which people act are usually faxed upon a false psychology and a false ethic. There is a general theory as to what makes for happiness and this theor
34、y is false. Life is concerned as a competitive struggle in which felicity consists in getting ahead of your neighbor. The joys which are not competitive are forgotten.Now, I will not for a moment deny that getting ahead of your neighbor is delightful, but it is not the only delight of which human be
35、ings are capable. There are innumerable things which are not competitive. It is possible to enjoy food and drink without having to reflect that you have a better cook and better wine merchant than your former friends whom you are learning to cold- shoulder. It is possible to be fond of your wife and
36、 your children without reflecting how much better she dressed than Mrs. So-and- So and how much better they are at athletic than the children of that old stick-in-the-mud Mr. Such-and-Such. There are those who can enjoy music without thinking how cultured other ladies in their womens club will be th
37、inking them. There are even people who can enjoy a fine day in spite of the fact that the sun shines on everybody. All these simple pleasures are destroyed as soon as competitiveness gets the upper hand.But it is not only competitiveness that is the trouble. I could imagine a person who has turned a
38、gainst competitiveness and can only enjoy after conscious rejection of the competitive element. Such a person, seeing the sunshine in the morning, says to himself, “Yes, I may enjoy this and indeed I must, for it is a joy open to all.“ And however bored he may become with the sunshine he goes on per
39、suading himself that he is enjoying it because he thinks he ought to.“But,“ you will ask, “are you maintaining that our actions ought to be governed by moral principles?“ Are you suggesting that every whim and every impulse should be given free rein? Do you consider that if So-and-Sos nose annoys yo
40、u by being too long, that gives you a right to tweak it?“ “Sir,“ you will continue with indignation,“ your doctrine is one which would uproot all the sources of morality and loosen all the bonds which hold society together. Only self-restraint, self-repression, iron self-control make it possible to
41、endure the abominable beings among whom we have to live, No, sir! Better misery and gastric ulcers than such chaos as your doctrine would produce.I will admit at once that there is force in this objection. I have seen many noses that I should have liked to tweak, but never once have I yielded to the
42、 impulse. But this, like everything else, is a matter of degree. If you always yield to impulse, you are mad. If you never yield to impulse, you gradually dry up and very likely become mad to boot. In a life which is to be healthy and happy, impulse, though mot allowed to run riot, must have suffici
43、ent scope to remain alive and to preserve that variety and diversity of interest which is natural to a human being. A life lived on a principle, no matter what, is too narrowly determined, too systematic and uniform, to be happy. However much you care about success, you should have times when you ar
44、e merely enjoying life without a thought of subsequence. However proud you may be, as president of a womens club, of your impeccable culture, you should not be ashamed of reading a low-brow book if you want to. A life which is all principle is a life on rail. The rails may help toward rapid locomoti
45、on, but preclude the joy of wandering. Man spent some million years wandering before he invented rails, and his happiness still demands some reminiscence of the earlier ages of freedom.（分数：5.00）(1).In the writers opinion, in England alcohol and tobacco may _.（分数：1.00）A.make people indulge in pleasur
46、esB.lead to despondencyC.pose touchy problems for social reformersD.throw a heavy burden on the countrys welfare program(2).What opinions do most social reformers hold?（分数：1.00）A.Once poverty were rooted out, people would really enjoy their livesB.If economic security were obtained, one would grow f
47、idgety and berserk.C.An ideal society is the one in which all the people were no longer afraid of poverty.D.Great happiness and human perfection could be arrived at if and only if people learned to be content.(3).Who are easy to feel melancholy according to the writer?（分数：1.00）A.MexicansB.profession
48、alC.English-speaking peopleD.B and C(4).What is the main cause of unhappiness for many Americans in the writers view?（分数：1.00）A.Life is a long competitive struggle, very few lucky people can win the race and attain happiness.B.Lack of freedom and stimuli makes people unsatisfied with life.C.People tend to act on dubious principles.D.Peoples obsession of getting ahead of their neighbors.(5).What solution does the writer suggest to dispel melancholy mood?（分数：1.00）A.cultivate wide interestB.balance impulse and principleC.strive for success and enjoy its gainD.A and B七、TEXT B(
