1、专业八级-1005 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)How to Write a Book Review. The definition of a book reviewA. a descriptive and critical or evaluative account of a bookB. a summary of content and an analysis of structure. Two approaches to book revi
2、ewingA. the descriptive review giving the essential (1) about a bookB. the critical review describing and evaluating the book. Basic requirements and minimum essentialsA. Knowledge of the book (2) B. Mastery of the genre in the workC. Description, not a summary of the bookD. Something about, not a b
3、iography of, the authorE. (3) appraisal. Five preliminary mechanical stepsA. Reading the book (4) B. Noting effective passages for quotingC. Noting your impressions as you readD. (5) what you have readE. Aiming at achieving a single impression. Starting the outlineA. Getting an over-all grasp of the
4、 organizationB. Determining the central point to be madeC. Eliminating (6) or irrelevaneiesD. Filling in gaps or omissions. Making the draftA. The opening paragraph-in a position of emphasis, and-setting the (7) of the paperB. The main body-being (8) organized by the outline-logical development of t
5、he central pointC. The concluding paragraph-summing up or (9) -making the final judgment-introducing no new ideas. (10) the draftA. Correcting all mistakes in grammar and punctuationB. Looking for unity, organization and logical developmentC. Verifying quotations for accuracy and checking the refere
6、nces（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 Dr. Adams, what should we have as an attainable goal of language learning?A. Speaking as fluently as a native speaker.B. Gaining proficiency in a foreign language.C. Learnin
7、g a language well within a month.D. Learning words without active use of them.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is Dr. Adams suggestion to tap your learning potential?A. Following what a role model does. B. Learning new words in contexts.C. Knowing your own ways of learning. D. Reciting ne
8、w vocabularies loudly.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).If you favor reading illustrated books to learn a language, you are primarilyA. an auditory learner. B. a visual learner.C. a tactile learner. D. an unusual learner.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).When watching movies to learn English, you should NOTA. turn on the cap
9、tions for reference.B. watch in the most relaxed possible way.C. pause when encountering new expressions.D. use an English-English dictionary.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).According to the interview, which of the following helps to better understand different accents?A. Following classroom instructions. B. W
10、atching plenty of movies online.C. Breaking down cultural barriers. D. Backpacking around the world.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：4，分数：5.00)Questions 6 and 7 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.（
11、分数：2.00）(1).According to Magdalena Alvarez, at least _ survivors died hours after the accident.A. 19 B. 26 C. 6 D. 153（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following statements about the crash is TRUE?A. The number of casualties was 153 on Wednesday.B. There accident killed 172 passengers on board.C. Th
12、e crash took place when the plane was landing.D. The crash was caused probably by the engine fire.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.1.Question 8 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.According to the news, which of the
13、following statements is TRUE?A. Humphrey Lyttelton is known to the radio listeners as a weather broadcaster.B. Humphrey Lyttelton sought his fame as a guitar player and band leader in the 1940s.C. Humphrey Lyttelton produced his first British jazz record which entered the top 20.D. Humphrey Lyttelto
14、n continued recording and touring with his band until 1970s.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.Question 9 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.More than two hundred years ago, the bagpipes were prohibited asA. noisy n
15、uisances. B. arms involved in wars.C. anti-social pipes. D. national instruments.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3.Question 10 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.According to the news, UEFAA. could not agree with S
16、ir Blatter, the president of FIFA.B. insisted on restricting the number of foreign players.C. attributed the success of English teams to foreign players.D. proposed a limit of five foreign players in each team.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)If you want to
17、see what it takes to set up an entirely new inmancial center (and what is best avoided), head for Dubai. This tiny, sun-baked patch of sand in the midst of a war-torn and isolated region started with few advantages other than a long tradition as a hub for Middle Eastern trade routes.But over the pas
18、t few years Dubai has built a new financial center from nothing. Dozens of the worlds leading financial institutions have opened offices in its new financial district, hoping to grab a portion of the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf. Some say there is more hype than business, but few big fi
19、rms are willing to risk missing out.Dealmaking in Dubai centers around The Gate, a cube-shaped structure at the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). A brainchild of the ruling A1-Maktoum family, the DIFC is a tax-free zone for wholesale financial services. Firms licensed for it
20、are not approved to serve the local financial market. The DIFC aims to become the leading wholesale financial centre in the Gulf, offering one-stop shopping for everything from stocks to sukuk (Islamic) bonds, investment banking and insurance. In August the Dubai bourse made a bid for a big stake in
21、 OMX, a Scandinavian exchange operator that also sells trading technology to many of the worlds exchanges.Dubai may have generated the biggest splash thus far, but much of the Gulf region has seen a surge of activity in recent years. Record flows of petrodollars have enabled governments in the area
22、to spend billions on infrastructure projects and development. Personal wealth too is growing rapidly. According to Capgemini and Merrill Lynch, the number of people in the Middle East with more than $1m in financial assets rose by nearly 12% last year, to 300,000.Qatar, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi also ha
23、ve big aspirations for their financial hubs, though they keep a lower profile than Dubai. They, too, are trying to learn from more established financial centers what they must do to achieve the magic mix of transparent regulation, good infrastructure and low or no taxes. Some of the fiercest competi
24、tion among them is for talent. Most English-speaking professionals have to be imported.Each of the Gulf hubs, though, has its own distinct characteristics. Abu Dhabi is trying to present itself as a more cultured, less congested alternative to neighboring Dubai, and is building a huge Guggenheim mus
25、eum. Energy-rich Qatar is an important hub for infrastructure finance, with ambitions to develop further business in wealth management, private equity, retail banking and insurance. Bahrain is well established in Islamic banking, but it is facing new competition from London, Kuala Lumpur and other h
26、ubs that have caught on to Islamic finance. “If youve got one string to your bow and suddenly someone takes it away, youre in trouble,“ says Stuart Pearce of the Qatar Financial Centre about Bahrain.Saudi Arabia, by far the biggest economy in the Gulf, is creating a cluster of its own economic zones
27、, including King Abdullah City, which is aimed at foreign investors seeking a presence in the country. Trying to cut down on the number of “suitcase bankers“ who fly in from nearby centers rather than live in the country, the Saudis now require firms working with them to have local business licenses
28、. Yet the bulk of the regions money is still flowing to established financial centers in Europe, America and other parts of Asia.The financial hubs there offer lessons for aspiring centers in other parts of the developing world. Building the confidence of financial markets takes more than new skyscr
29、apers, tax breaks and incentives. The DIFC, for instance, initially suffered from suspicions of government meddling and from a high turnover among senior executives. Trading on its stock market remains thin, and the government seems unwilling to float its most successful companies there. Making the
30、desert bloom was never easy.（分数：5.00）(1).According to the passage, Dubai has built a new financial centerA. because of its innate advantages over other countries.B. thanks to the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf.C. from its past tradition as a trade center in the Gulf.D. for its a war-torn
31、and isolated region in the world.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the passage, which of the following about Dubai is INCORRECT?A. It enjoys record flows of petrodollars. B. Personal wealth too is growing rapidly.C. It is the biggest economy in the Gulf. D. Billions are spent on infrastructure.（分数：1
32、.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The fiercest competition among the countries aspiring for their financial hubs isA. regulation. B. infrastructure. C. tax. D. talent.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following is NOT true about Saudi Arabia?A. It is building a cluster of its own economic zones.B. It is trying to dec
33、rease the number of “suitcase bankers“.C. It is very strict about granting local business licenses.D. It cant attract the bulk of the regions money to flow in.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).By saying “making the desert bloom was never easy“ in the last paragraph, the author meansA. new skyscrapers need to be
34、built to guarantee the confidence of financial markets.B. cutting on taxes and giving more incentives brings the confidence of financial markets.C. the government is trying to bring the confidence of financial markets down.D. it takes great efforts to build the confidence and prosperity of financial
35、 markets.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Most people have experienced the feeling, after a taxing mental work-out, that they cannot be bothered to make any more decisions. If they are forced to, they may do so intuitively, rather than by reasoning. Such apathy is often put down to tiredness,
36、 but a study published recently in Psychological Science suggests there may be more to it than that. Whether reason or intuition is used may depend simply on the decision-makers blood-sugar level-which is, itself, affected by the process of reasoning.E. J. Masicampo and Roy Baumeister of Florida Sta
37、te University discovered this by doing some experiments on that most popular of laboratory animals, the impoverished undergraduate. They asked 121 psychology students who had volunteered for the experiment to watch a silent video of a woman being interviewed that had random words appearing in bold b
38、lack letters every ten seconds along the perimeter of the video. This was the part of the experiment intended to be mentally taxing. Half of the students were told to focus on the woman, to try to understand what she was saying, and to ignore the words along the perimeter. The other half were given
39、no instructions. Those that had to focus were exerting considerable self-control not to look at the random words.When the video was over, half of each group was given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it and half was given a glass of lemonade with sugar substitute. Twelve minutes later, when the glu
40、cose from the lemonade with sugar in it had had time to enter the students blood, the researchers administered a decision-making task that was designed to determine if the participant was using intuition or reason to make up his mind.The students were asked to think about where they wanted to live i
41、n the coming year and given three accommodation options that varied both in size and distance from the university campus. Two of the options were good, but in different ways: one was far from the campus, but very large; the other was close to campus, but smaller. The third option was a decoy, simila
42、r to one of the good options, but obviously not quite as good. If it was close to campus and small, it was not quite as close as the good close option and slightly smaller. If it was far from campus and large, it was slightly smaller than the good large option and slightly farther away.Psychologists
43、 have known for a long time that having a decoy option in a decision-making task draws people to choose a reasonable option that is similar to the decoy. Dr. Masicampo and Dr. Baumeister suspected that students who had been asked to work hard during the video and then been given a drink without any
44、sugar in it would be more likely to rely on intuition when making this decision than those from the other three groups. And that is what happened; 64% of them were swayed by the decoy. Those who had either not had to exert mental energy during the showing of the video or had been given glucose in th
45、eir lemonade, used reason in their decision-making task and were less likely to be swayed by the decoy.It is not clear why intuition is independent of glucose. It could be that humans inherited a default nervous system from other mammals that was similar to intuition, and that could make snap decisi
46、ons about whether to fight or flee regardless of how much glucose was in the body.Whatever the reason, the upshot seems to be that thinking is, indeed, hard work. And important decisions should not be made on an empty stomach.（分数：5.00）(1).The word “taxing“ in the first paragraph meansA. firing. B. i
47、mposing taxation. C. paying taxation. D. relaxing.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).In E. J. Masicampo and Roy Baumeisters study, about students who received no instructions in the video watching were given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it.A. 121 B. 60 C. 30 D. 15（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which group of students
48、tended to be swayed by the decoy, according to the study?A. The no-watching-instructions group that had been given glucose in their lemonade.B. The no-watching-instructions group having been given sugar substitute in their lemonade.C. The mental-energy-exerting group that had been given glucose in t
49、heir lemonade.D. The mental-energy-exerting group that had been given sugar substitute in their lemonade.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following is NOT true, according to the study?A. Peoples blood-sugar level is affected by the process of reasoning.B. Whether people resort to reasoning or intuition may depend on their blood-sugar level.C. Both reasoning and intuition are certainly affe
