1、专业八级-1031 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)Getting an Associate Degree Online. General informationA. Duration: (1) (1)_B. Field: most area of studyC. Time: before a bachelors or masters degree. Benefits of online an associates degreeA. Open doo
2、rs for better jobsB. Promise (2) (2)_C. Can get at home. A few things youll need to doA. Decide where to study:The Place to find a database for information: U.S. News and (3) (3)_B. Do some research1. (4) (4)_2. Verify the schools reputation: look at feedback of (5) (5)_3. Verify the schools (6) (6)
3、_Authorities: The U.S. Department of Educations Office of Postsecondary EducationThe Council for Higher Education AccreditationC. Look at the details of the program1. Frequency of classes2. (7) (7)_3. Career prospect. Financial aidA. Check with your online institution to see if there are (8) (8)_B.
4、Check with your (9) to see if there is a tuition reimbursement program.(9)_C. Apply:1. Fill out the FAFSA form2. Note (10) of federal and state submissions: earlier than anticipated (10)_3. Check with your schools financial advisors about any non-federal grants available.（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项
5、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 answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview.（分数：5.00）(1).What is NOT mentioned as part of
6、 the preparation that needs to be made before marriage?A. Learn about the religious conviction of your spouse.B. Ask about the future plans of your spouse.C. Talk about childrens education.D. Get on well with the family members.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What does the example of cell phone show?A. Women m
7、ight get more aggressive after marriage.B. A bad habit might become worse after marriage.C. Women speak differently on the phone before and after marriage.D. Speaking loudly on the phone is a very annoying habit.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which is mentioned about extra-marital affairs by Mark Barondess?A.
8、 It is not taken seriously now.B. More people tend to cheat on their partners in the country.C. There are more women than men who are involved in extra-marital affairs now.D. It is the secret to a happy marriage.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).According to Mark, divorce rate for the second marriages is higher
9、most likely because_.A. people dont learn lessons from their first marriagesB. there is a hidden pattern governing marriage and divorceC. they dont treat marriage seriously enoughD. they didnt make a pre-nuptial agreement（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following is NOT mentioned as potential reade
10、rs of the book in the interview?A. Mother whose daughter is going to get married.B. Someone who is going to get married.C. People who are contemplating marriage.D. People who are thinking about divorce.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：3，分数：5.00)Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At t
11、he end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).When is North Korea planning to send their satellite?A. On the 100th birthday of their former party leader.B. On April 11th.C. In mid-April.D. On Monday.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Chinas atti
12、tude toward DPRKs satellite launch plan can be described as_.A. concernedB. condemningC. disappointedD. disapproving（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.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 foll
13、owing is NOT true about the tsunami?A. The tsunami struck after dawn.B. Several British tourists were killed.C. The number of casualties is not definite.D. The tsunami occurred off the American coast.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, yo
14、u will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).What does Ukraine pledge to do in the summit?A. To eliminate uranium from the country by the year of 2012.B. To convert several nuclear facilities into civil use.C. To turn highly enriched uranium into low enrich
15、ed uranium.D. To cut the use of highly enriched uranium.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What is the main purpose of the nuclear summit?A. Tightening the protection of nuclear bombs.B. Raising the awareness of potential nuclear threat.C. Preventing nuclear proliferation.D. Fighting against terrorism.（分数：1.00）A.
16、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)Have all-male clubs lost their cachet? A decade ago, the testosterone fortress of the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia was a battlefront of the feminist movement. Now, as the club contemplates a historic first offer of membership t
17、o a womanVirginia “Ginni“ Rometty, Chief Executive Officer of IBM, which is a sponsor of this weeks Masters Tournamentthe most remarkable part of the story is that this time theres a near-universal consensus.“A lot is different now,“ says Ilene Lang, President and Chief Executive Officer of Catalyst
18、, a global firm that studies women in business. “To most people looking at this, it just seems silly.“ Yet silly or not, Lang says its about time Augusta got on the distaff side of history. “It is still discrimination,“ she says, “and its ridiculous.“Rometty has stayed mum on whether shell getor eve
19、n covetsthe boxy green blazer that the club has awarded to her four predecessors at IBM. At a press event Wednesday, Augusta Chairman Billy Payne, who called Tiger Woods a disappointment for his 2010 sex scandal, dodged questions about Rometty. Meanwhile, President Obama and Mitt Romney said they be
20、lieve women should be admitted, and Callista Gingrich expressed interest in becoming a member.The notion of women fighting to get into the old boys club seems almost quaint now, when every socioeconomic indicator shows female fortunes on the rise, while men, it seems, devote more and more time to se
21、xting naughty photos. Augusta is one of the few remaining bastions of a particularly anachronistic kind of male privilege, where men of means enjoy golf, whisky, and whatever other private pleasures they take in the company of their own sex.Less than one percent of Americas golf clubs are still clos
22、ed to women. Most big-city social groups have opened their doors, as have most country clubs and secret societies. Those that havent carry enough stigma that politicians regularly resign from them before running for officeas Mike Bloomberg did with New Yorks Brook Club before he ran for mayor.“Certa
23、inly, I think the mainstream is less accepting of this kind of discrimination,“ says Sally Frank, a law professor who successfully sued Princetons all-male eating clubs while a student at the university in the 1980s. Furthermore, the social aspect of male-only clubs is hardly as tantalizing as it on
24、ce was. Does any powerful woman actually long to participate in the ritualistic cross-dressing that passes for entertainment at VIP man-camp Bohemian Grove?Still, admission for Rometty does matter. Says Martha Burk, who led the campaign against Augusta in 2002: “What I fear is that Augusta will come
25、 up with some kind of half-baked solution, such as not letting her in now but maybe waiting a year or two when all this female stuff blows over.“But the “female stuff“ likely wont blow over. Rometty, whose true passion is scuba diving, is in increasingly feminine company in the C-suite, which includ
26、es the CEOs of HP, Xerox, and Pepsi. If Augusta National clings to its no-estrogen policy, will it really be able to maintain its white-hot power status for much longer? You cant make deals on the back nine when all the CEOs are at the bottom of the ocean, swimming with sharks. (From Newsweek; 572 w
27、ords)（分数：5.00）(1).What is Romettys attitude towards joining Augusta?A. She doesnt show her standpoint.B. She feels it an honour to be admitted.C. She thinks that its another kind of gender discrimination.D. She has an aversion about the club.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).“Bastions“ in the fourth paragraph is
28、 an example of_.A. overstatement B. metaphorC. pun D. simile（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).We can infer from the passage that New Yorks Brook Club is_.A. an all male club B. politically orientedC. a club with stigma D. not well managed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Most womens attitude towards joining all-male clubs is
29、_.A. enthusiastic B. uninterestedC. disapproving D. resentful（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What does “estrogen“ most probably mean?A. No male is allowed. B. No female is allowed.C. No colored people is allowed. D. No business is allowed.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)I was taken by a friend one afte
30、rnoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall grey curtains which enclosed it on all sides, and presently through the thick folds of those curtains children came dancing in, singly, or in pairs, till a whole troop often or twelve were assembled. They we
31、re all girls; none, I think, more than fourteen years old, one or two certainly not more than eight. They wore but little clothing, their legs, feet and arms being quite bare. Their hair, too, was unbound; and their faces, grave and smiling, were so utterly dear and joyful, that in looking on them o
32、ne felt transported to some Garden of Hesperides, where self was not, and the spirit floated in pure ether. Some of these children were fair and rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice, though they had evi
33、dently had the highest and most careful training. Each flight and whiffing movement seemed conceived there and then out of the joy of beingdancing had surely never been a labour to them, either in rehearsal or performance. There was no tiptoeing and posturing, no hopeless muscular achievement; all w
34、as rhythm, music, light, air, and above all things, happiness. Smiles and love had gone to fashioning of their performance; and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces and from their clever white turnings of their limbs.Amongst themthough all were delightfulthere were two who especially
35、riveted my attention. The first of these two was the tallest of all the children, a dark thin girl, in whose every expression and movement there was a kind of grave, fiery love.During one of the many dances, it fell to her to be the pursuer of a fair child, whose movements had a very strange soft ch
36、arm; and this chase, which was like the hovering of a dragon-fly round some water-lily, or the wooing of a moonbeam by the June night, had in it a most magical sweet passion. That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had the queerest power of symbolizing all longing, and moving ones
37、heart. In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour, and ever arrested at the very movement of conquest, one seemed to see the great secret force that hunts through the world, on and on, tragically unresting, immortally sweet.The other child who particularly enchanted me was the smalles
38、t but one, a brown-haired fairy crowned with a half moon of white flowers, who wore a scanty little rose-petal-coloured shift that floated about her in the most delightful fashion. She danced as never child danced. Every inch of her small head and body was full of the scared fire of motion; and in h
39、er little pas seul she seemed to be the very sprit of movement, one felt that Joy had flown down, and was inhabiting there; one heard the rippling of Joys laughter. And, indeed, through all the theatre had risen a rustling and whispering; and sudden bursts of laughing rapture.I looked at my friend;
40、he was trying stealthily to remove something from his eyes with a finger. And to myself the stage seemed very misty, and all things in the world lovable; as though that dancing fairy had touched them with tender fire, and made them golden.God knows where she got that power of bringing joy to our dry
41、 hearts: God knows how long she will keep it! But that little flying Love had in her the quality that lies deep in colour, in music, in the wind, and the sun, and in certain great works of artthe power to set the heart free from every barrier, and flood it with delight.（分数：5.00）(1).From this passage
42、, it can be inferred that_.A. the dancing girls are all very beautifulB. the girls come from all over the worldC. the two tallest girls are the outstanding dancersD. the girls performance is very successful（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following statements contains a metaphor?A. and smiles and l
43、ove shone from every one of their faces.B. which was like the hovering of a dragonfly round some water-lily.C. That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had.D. In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the author, the tallest girl amo
44、ng the children_.A. danced with a serious expressionB. was a dark and rounded girlC. acted as a hovering dragonflyD. pursued her love in the dance（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The sentence “. to myself the stage seemed very misty.“ in the 5th paragraph implies that the author_.A. did not get a good seatB. wa
45、s short-sightedC. was a bit sleepy.D. was just too moved.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following is NOT the point of the last paragraph?A. To describe how fantastic the dance is.B. To express his gratefulness to God.C. To show his deep feeling after seeing the dance.D. To share with readers his
46、understanding of the dance.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)For many a frazzled parent, bedtimetheir childrens, that isis the best part of the day. But it can be hard to ease snooze-averse kids into bed, and now a new study confirms that this is an age-old problem: children have consistently
47、gotten less sleep than recommended guidelines, for at least the past 100 years.Researchers from the University of South Australia did some historical spelunking, looking for every study about sleep duration in children beginning from the end of the 19th century through 2009. They discovered 300 such
48、 studies, dating all the way back to a French paper from 1897, and found that both age-specific recommendations for appropriate sleep and the amount of time kids actually spend in dreamland both declined at similar rates: 0.71 minutes per year for recommendations versus 0.73 minutes per year for actual sleep duration, according to the study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Across the board, children got about 37 minutes less sleep than was recommended.Another constant: societal hand-wringing over childrens lack of sleep and a tendency to blame the hectic pace o
