1、专业八级-1017 及答案解析(总分：105.00，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)FashionWith the progression of the human society, people areincreasingly demanding their clothes to be beautiful as well as(1) _Today fashion business has become one of the 1. _worlds busiest activitie
2、s.There are three things to be considered by a fashiondesigner. First, the silhouette, namely, the (2) _of a 2. _dress. The central point of a silhouette is the (3) _. The 3. _second most important point is the hemline.Second, the(4)_,which can be both (5) _ 4. _5. _and(6)_. The latter usually wears
3、 longer, washes more 6. _easily and do not wrinkle as much as the former.Third, the color. The color of a dress used to be decided bythe(7)_and the time of day when the dress was worn. 7. _Nowadays, fashion designers have become more(8)_in 8. _the use of color.Today, the fashion design has become on
4、e of the worldsbusiest businesses. The work of a famous designers is (9) 9. _ everywhere. Anti with the speed of moderncommunications, fashion is now almost(10)_ 10. _（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).Which of the following,
5、 statements is CORRECT?A. Toastmasters was originally set up to train speaking skills.B. Toastmasters only accepts prospective professional speakers.C. Toastmasters accepts members from the general public.D. Toastmasters is an exclusive dub for professional speakers.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The followin
6、g are job benefits by joining Toastmasters EXCEPTA. becoming familiar with various means of communication.B. learning how to deliver messages in an organized way.C. becoming aware of audience expectations.D. learning bow to get along with friends.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Toastmasters general approach to
7、 training can be summarized asA. practice plus overall training. B. practice plus lectures.C. practice plus voice training. D. practice plus speech writing.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Toastmasters aims to train people to be all the following EXCEPTA. public speakers. B. grammar teachers.C. masters of cerem
8、onies. D. evaluators.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The interview mainly focuses onA. the background information.B. the description of training courses.C. the requirements of public speaking.D. the overall personal growth.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：4，分数：5.00)(1).Which of the following statements about t
9、he US trade is TRUE?A. The gap between its import and export narrowed.B. The Commerce Department shows great concern.C. What it imports has outnumbered what it exports.D. Only the government concerns about the trade deficit.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The United States trade deficit is a political problem
10、because congressmen thinkA. American people feel lost for the trade deficit.B. American job opportunities are taken away by others.C. American people will lose their prestige and privileges.D. there is a fierce competition between America and Asian countries.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.1.To ease restrictions i
11、mposed on Palestinians living in the West Bank, Israel plans to _.A. remove road blocksB. allow more Palestinians to travel to IsraelC. remove trade barriersD. provide food for Palestinian refugees（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons carried out an explosion in Istanbul because they were
12、 A. willing to resume its armed campaign against the Turkish government. B. anxious to prevent a rebel leader from being sentenced to death. C. dissatisfied with detention conditions of a Kurdish rebel leader. D. eager to declare a unilateral fire and attack Turkish civilians.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3.Befo
13、re Luxembourg goes to the polls, which country has already expressed their unwillingness to accept the treaty?A. Germany. B. Switzerland.C. Spain. D. France.（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)He is waiting for the airline ticket counter when he first notices t
14、he young woman. She has glossy black hair pulled tightly into a knot at the back of her head and carries over the shoulder of her leather coat a heavy black purse. She wears black boots of soft leather and her beauty quickens his heart beat.The airline clerk interrupts. The man gives up looking at t
15、he woman he thinks she may be about twenty-five and buys a round-trip, coach class ticket to an eastern city.His flight leaves in an hour. To kill time, the man steps into one of the airport cocktail bars and orders a scotch and water. While he sips it he catches sight of the black-haired girl in th
16、e leather coat. She is standing near a Travelers Aid counter, deep in conversation with a second girl, a blond in a cloth coat trimmed with gray fur. He wants somehow to attract the brunettes attention, to invite her to have a drink with him before her own flight leaves for wherever she is traveling
17、, but even though he believes for a moment she is looking his way he cannot catch her eye from out of the shadows of the bar. In another instant the two women separate; neither of their direction is toward him. He orders a second Scotch and water.When next he sees her, he is buying a magazine to rea
18、d during the flight and becomes aware that someone is jostling him. At first he is startled that anyone would be so close as to touch him, but when he sees who it is he musters a smile.“Busy place,“ he says.She looks up at him is she blushing? and an odd grimace crosses her mouth and vanishes. She m
19、oves away from him and joins the crowds in the terminal.The man is at the counter with his magazine, but when he reaches into his back pocket for his wallet the pocket is empty. Where could I have lost it? He thinks. His mind begins enumerating the credit cards, the currency, the membership and iden
20、tification cards; his stomach chums with something very like fear. The girl who was so near to me, he thinks and all at once he understands that she has picked his pocket.What is he to do? He still has his ticket, safely tucked inside his suitcoat he reaches into the jacket to feel the envelope, to
21、make sure. He can take the flight, call someone to pick him up at his destination since he cannot even afford bus fare conduct his business and fly home. But in the meantime he will have to do something about the lost credit cards call home, have his wife get the numbers out of the top desk drawer,
22、phone the card companies so difficult a process, the whole thing suffocating. What shall he do?First, find a policeman, tell what has happened, describe the young woman, damn her. He grits his teeth. He will probably never see his wallet again.He is trying to decide if he should save time for talkin
23、g to a guard near the X-ray machines when he is appalled and elated to see the black-haired girl. She is seated against a front window of the terminal, taxis and private cars moving sluggishly beyond her in the gathering darkness: she seems engrossed in a book. A seat beside her is empty, and the ma
24、n occupies it.“Ive been looking for you,“ he says.She glances at him with no sort of recognition. “1 dont know you,“ she says.“Sure you do.“She sighs and puts the book aside. “Is this all you characters think about picking up girls like we were stray animals? What do you think I am?“You lifted my wa
25、llet,“ he says. He is pleased to have said “lifted“, thinking it sounds wordier than stole or took or even ripped off.“I beg your pardon?“ the girl says.“I know you did at the magazine counter. If youll just give it back, we can forget the whole thing. If you dont, then Ill hand you over to the poli
26、ce.“She studies him, her face serious. “All right,“ she says. She pulls the black bag onto her lap, reaches into it and draws out a wallet.He takes it from her. “Wait a minute,“ he says. “This isnt mine.“The girl runs, he bolts after her until he hears a womans voice behind him:“Stop, thief! Stop th
27、at man!“Ahead of him the brunette disappears around a comer and in the same moment a young man in a marine uniform puts out a foot to trip him up. He falls hard, banging knee and elbow on the tile floor of the terminal, but manages to hang on to the wallet which is not his.The wallet is a womans, fa
28、t with money and credit cards, and it belongs to the blonde in the fur- trimmed coat the blonde he has earlier seen in conversation with the criminal brunette. She, too, is breathless, as is the police man with her.“Thats him,“ the blonde girl says. “He lifted my billfold.“It occurs to the man that
29、he cannot even prove his own identity to the policeman.Two weeks later - the embarrassment and rage have diminished, the family lawyer has been paid, the confusion in his household has receded the wallet turns up without explanation in one mornings mail. It is intact, no money is missing, all the ca
30、rds are in place. Though he is relieved, the man thinks that for the rest of his life he will feel guilty around policemen, and ashamed in the presence of women.（分数：5.00）(1).What can be inferred from the beginning of the story?A. The man was single.B. The man was attracted by the girl.C. The girl pa
31、id no attention to the man.D. The man knew the girl.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The word “brunette“ in the third paragraph refers to _.A. the girl in leather coatB. the girl in cloth coatC. the pretty woman in gray furD. the pretty woman in fashion magazine clothes（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Before the man lost h
32、is wallet, he had seen the black-haired girl _.A. only once B. twice C. three times D. four times（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The man sat beside the black-haired girl to _.A. accost her B. arrest herC. threaten her D. ask for his wallet back（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).It can be inferred that _.A. the man was put i
33、nto prisonB. the man was sued for stealingC. the man convinced the policeman of the truth at the airportD. the girl was arrested at last（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：2，分数：8.00)At last her efforts bore fruit. Burton was appointed to Santos, in Brazil, where Isabel might also go. They made their farew
34、ell rounds and Isabel learnt Portuguese while she packed up. At Lisbon three-inch cock roaches seethed about the floor of their room. Isabel was caught off her guard, but Burton was brutal,“ I suppose you think you look very pretty, standing on that chair and howling at those innocent creatures.“ Is
35、abels reaction was typical. She reflected that of course he was right; if she had to live in a country full of such creatures, and worse, she had better pull herself together. She got down and started lashing out with a slipper. In two hours she had got a bag of ninety-seven.On arrival in Brazil she
36、 found that Portuguese fauna had been nothing. Now there were spiders, as big as crabs. In the matter of tropical diseases it seems to have ranked with darkest Africa; there were slaves, too, and in a society where men drank brandy for breakfast, no one condemned the habit of chaining mad slave to t
37、he roof-top as a sort of domestic pet, or clown. There was cholera too, and the less dramatic but agonizing local boils,“ so close you could not put a pin through them.“The Emperor found the new Consul and his wife a great addition to the country, and once again Burtons wonderful conversation held h
38、is audience spellbound. But chic Brazilians looked askance at Isabel wading barefoot in the streams, bottling snakes, painting and doing up a mined chapel, or accompanying Richard on expeditions to the virgin interior. There were gymnastics and cold baths, and Mass and market, “helping Richard with
39、Literature“ (his writing was always in capitals to her) and the wearisome pages of Foreign Office reports she was always so loyal and dutiful in copying out for him.About now, a note of sadness creeps into Isabel s letters home. We sense an immense loneliness behind the courage with which she always
40、 faced life. Richard was going through a particularly trying phase. The explorer was dying hard, strangled in office tape. He would cut loose and disappear for weeks at a time, returning as bitter and restless as when he left. It was she who held everything together and kept up the facade, both with
41、 the Foreign Office, who were constantly making the most awkward enquiries, and the local society, who were equally curious. There were few diversions for her.Richard preferred discussing metaphysics and astronomy with the Capuchin monks to going to the local dances. She was learning now to be self-
42、sufficient, to manage, unobtrusively, the practical side of their lives, and to rough it, both physically and emotionally. She had to combine the shadow-like devotion of the Oriental woman with a fighting spirit seldom found in women, and certainly not in most Victorian women.（分数：3.00）(1).We can con
43、clude that Isabel Burton _.A. had been trying to get her husband a job in a place where she could go with himB. had been trying to get her husband a job in BrazilC. was always trying to plant fruit trees from BrazilD. was always trying to make great efforts in Brazil（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).When her hus
44、band laughed at her reaction, Isabel decided _.A. to hit her husband with a slipperB. to carry on calmly with what she was doingC. to pull herself towards the chair she was standing onD. to calm down and behave sensibly（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Although he was employed by Foreign Office, Richard Burton w
45、as _.A. interested in becoming a monk or an emplorerB. very interested in his work and a number of other thingsC. bored by his work and his dutiesD. bored by his work and his many other interests and activities（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.In sixteenth-century Italy and eighteenth-century France, waning prosperi
46、ty and increasing social unrest led the ruling families to try to preserve their superiority by withdrawing from the lower and middle classes behind barriers of etiquette. In a prosperous community, on the other hand, polite society soon absorbs the newly rich, and in England there has never been an
47、y shortage of books on etiquette for teaching them the manners appropriate to their new way of life.Every code of etiquette has contained three elements: basic moral duties; practical rules which promote efficiency; and artificial, optional graces such as formal compliments to, say, women on their b
48、eauty or superiors on their generosity and importance.In the first category are consideration for the weak and respect for age. Among the ancient Egyptians the young always stood in the presence of older people. Among the Mponguwe of Tanzania, the young men bow as they pass the huts of the elders. In England, until about a century ago, young children did not sit in their parents presence without asking permission.Practical rules are helpful in such ordinary occurrences of social life as making proper introductions at parties or oth
