1、专业八级-1043 及答案解析(总分：106.00，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)The Importance of QuestionsFor non-native speakers of English who want to participate ingroup discussions, it is important to be able to ask questions in order toresolve their difficulties. Causes of B
2、reakdowns in (1) (1) _1. On students part insufficient command over the (2) of English (2) _ poor pronunciation2. On teachers part uncertainty of whether his student has asked a question the students (3) to employ the correct question form (3) _ the teacher interprets the question as a comment diffi
3、culties arising even when the student employs an/a (4) (4) _question form the teacher may not know about the (5) of the student (5) _Difficulty. Specific Questions1. Begin questions with an/a (6) . (6) _2. Be careful to (7) the exact point. (7) _. Another Reason for the Correct Use of (8) Politeness
4、 (8) _1. The students uses the imperative (9) the question form (9) _when he is nervous or struggling with new subject matter.2. The teacher may interpret it as (10) and feel angry. (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).Wh
5、at strikes the woman most about the male robber is his _.A. clothes B. age C. physique D. appearance（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The most detailed information about the woman robber is her _.A. manners B. talkativeness C. height D. jewelry（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The interviewee is believed to be a bank _.A. re
6、ceptionist B. manager C. customer D. cashier（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following about the two robbers is NOT true?A. Both were wearing dark sweaters. B. Neither was wearing glasses.C. Both were about the same age. D. One of them was marked by a scar.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).After the incident th
7、e interviewee sounded _.A. calm and quiet B. nervous and numb C. timid and confused D. shocked and angry（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：4，分数：6.00)(1).The man Mr. Cheney accidentally shot and injured isA. a doctor. B. a secretary.C. a lawyer. D. a leader.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The Bush Administration
8、has been accused by Harry Reid ofA. being covert. B. shielding Dick.C. being dishonest. D. attacking the victim.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).According to Bush, The United States will help African nations strengthen their _.A. stock markets B. motor industry C. financial markets D. medicine factories（分数：1.00
9、）A.B.C.D.(2).U.S. President urged the U.S. Congress to play a key role in the fight against _ in Africa.A. starvation B. AIDS C. discrimination D. unemployment（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.1.Why was Charles Taylor accused of crimes against humanity?A. Because he has waged many wars.B. Because he supported rebels
10、 in Sierra Leone in the 1990s.C. Because he has wrongly prosecuted war crime suspects.D. Because he started the civil war in the 1990s.（分数：1.00）_2.As to counter-terrorism on Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, U.S. Secretary of Defense A. showed his worry. B. showed his concern. C. expressed his doubt. D.
11、 expressed his satisfaction.（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：2，分数：5.00)As in the field of space travel, so in undersea exploration new technologies continue to appear. They share a number of similarities with each other-as well as some important differences.Manned sub
12、mersibles, like spaceships, must maintain living conditions in an unnatural environment. But while a spaceship must simply be sealed against the vacuum of space, a submersible must be able to bear extreme pressure if it is not to break up in the deep water.In exploring space, unmanned vehicles were
13、employed before astronauts. In undersea exploration, on the other hand, men paved the way, and only recently have unmanned re- mote-operated vehicles (ROVs) been put to use.One reason for this is that communicating with vehicles in orbit is much easier than talking to those underwater. A vacuum is a
14、n ideal medium for radio communications, but underwater communications are limited to much slower sound waves. Thus, most undersea vehicles-particularly ROVs-operate at the end of long ropes.For a similar reason, knowing where you are undersea is much more difficult than in space. A spaceships posit
15、ion can be located by following its radio signal, or by using telescopes and radar. For an undersea vehicle, however, a special network of sonar devices must be laid out in advance on the ocean floor in the area of a dive to locate the vehicles position.Though undersea exploration is more challengin
16、g than outer space in a number of aspects, it has a distinct advantage, going to the ocean depths doesnt require the power necessary to escape Earths gravity. Thus, it remains far less expensive.（分数：2.00）(1).People did not begin to use unmanned vehicles in undersea exploration until recently because
17、 of_.A. the communication problem B. the movement of wavesC. the ocean depths D. the problem of vacuum（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?A. New techniques are continually developed and new machines invented for undersea exploration.B. If not well built, a sub
18、mersible is most likely to get crushed in deep water.C. A submersible, when manned, looks very like a spaceship.D. In certain respects undersea exploration is often faced with the same problem as the space exploration.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Scotland Yards top fingerprint expert, Detective Chief superinten
19、dent Gerald Lamhourne had a request from the British Museums Prehistoric department to force his magnifying glass on a mystery somewhat outside my usual beat. This was not a question of Whodunit, but Who Was lt. The blunt instruments, he pored over were the antlers of red deer, dated by radio-carbon
20、 examination as being up to 5,000 years old. They were used as mining picks by Neolithic man to hack flints and chalk, and the fingerprints he was looking for were of our remote ancestors who had last wielded them.The antlers were unearthed in July during the British Museums five-year-long excavatio
21、n at Grimes Graves. near Therford, Norfolk, a 93 acre site containing more than 600 vertical shafts in the chalk some 40 feet deep. From artifacts found in many parts of Britain it is evident that flint was extensively used by Neolithic man as he slowly learned how to farm land in the period from 3,
22、 000 to 1, 500 B. C.Flint was especially used for ax-heads to clear forests for agriculture, and the quality of the flint on the Norfolk site suggests that the miners there were kept busy with many orders.What excited Mr. CT. Sieveking, the museums deputy director of the excavations, was the dried m
23、ud still sticking to some of them. “Our deduction is that the miners coated the base of the antlers with mud so that they could get a better grip,“ he says. “The exciting possibility was that fingerprints left in this mud might at last identify as individuals as people who have left few relics, who
24、could not read or write, but who may have had much more intelligence than had been supposed in the past.“Chief Superintendent Lambourne, who had “assisted“ the British Museum by taking the fingerprints of a 4, 000-year-old Egyptian mummy, spent two hours last week examining about 50 antlers. On some
25、 he found minute marks indicating a human hand-that part of the hand just below the fingers where most pressure would be brought to bear the wielding of a pick.After 25 years specialization in the Yards fingerprints department, Chief Superintendent Lambourne knows all about ridge structures-technica
26、lly known as the “tri-radiate section“.It was his identification of that part of the hand that helped to incriminate some of the Great Train Robbers. In 1995 he discovered similar handprints on a bloodstained tee-maker on a golf-course where a woman had been brutally murdered. They eventually led to
27、 the killer, after 4, 065 handprints had been taken.Chief Superintendent Lamboure had agreed to visit the Norfolk site during further excavations next summer, when it is hoped that further hand-marked antlers will come to light, But he is cautious about the historic significance of his findings.“Fin
28、gerprints and handprints are unique to each individual but they can tell nothing about the age, physical characteristics, even sex of the person who left them,“ he says. “Even the finger prints of gorilla could be mistaken for those of a man. But if a number of imprinted antlers are recovered from g
29、iven shafts on this site I could at least determine which antlers were handled by the same man, and from there might be deduced the number of miners employed in a team.“As an indication of intelligence I might determine which way up the miners held the antlers and how they wielded them.“To Mr. Sieve
30、king and his museum colleagues, any such findings will be added to their dossier of what might appear to the layman as trivial and unrelated facts but from which might emerge one day an impressive new image of our remote ancestors. (620)（分数：3.00）(1).What was the aim of the investigation referred to
31、in the passage?A. To provide some kind of identification of a few Neolithic met.B. To find out more about the period when the antlers were used.C. To discover more about the purpose of the antlers.D. To learn more about the types of men who used the antlers.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What had been the pri
32、ncipal use of the antlers?A. To obtain the material for useful tools.B. To prepare the fields for cultivation.C. To help in removing trees and bushes so that land could be cultivated.D. To make many objects useful in everyday life.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The idea that mud was applied to the antlers del
33、iberately was _.A. the result of an inspired guessB. a possibility based on reasoning from factsC. an obvious conclusionD. a conclusion based on other similar cases（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)The bizarre antics of sleepwalkers have puzzled police, perplexed scientists, and fascinated wri
34、ters for centuries. There is an endless supply of stories about sleepwalkers. Persons have been said to climb on steep roofs, solve mathematical problems, compose music, walk through plate-glass windows, and commit murder in their sleep.How many of these stories have a basis in fact, and how many ar
35、e pure fakery? No one knows, but if some of the most sensational stories should be taken with a barrel of salt, others are a matter of record.In Revere, Massachusetts, a hundred policemen combed a waterfront neighborhood for a lost boy who left his home in his sleep and woke up five hours later on a
36、 strange sofa in a strange living room, with no idea how he had got there.There is an early medical record of a somnambulist who wrote a novel in his sleep. And the great French writer Voltaire knew a sleepwalker who once got out of bed, dressed himself, made a polite bow, danced a minuet, and then
37、undressed and went back to bed.At the University of Iowa, a student was reported to have the habit of getting up in the middle of the night and walking three-quarters of a mile to the Iowa River. He would take a swim and then go back to his room to bed.The worlds champion sleepwalker was supposed to
38、 have been an Indian, Pandit Ramrakha, who walked sixteen miles along a dangerous road without realizing that he had left his bed. Second in line for the title is probably either a Vienna housewife or a British farmer. The woman did all her shopping on busy streets in her sleep. The farmer, in his s
39、leep, visited a veterinarian miles away.The leading expert on sleep in America claims that he has never seen a sleepwalker. He is Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman, a physiologist at the University of Chicago. He is said to know more about sleep than any other living man, and during the last thirty-five years
40、has lost a lot of sleep watching people sleep. Says he, “Of course, I know that there are sleepwalkers because I have read about them in the newspapers. But none of my sleepers ever walked, and if I were to advertise for sleepwalkers for an experiment, I doubt that Id get many takers.“Sleepwalking,
41、nevertheless, is a scientific reality. Like hypnosis, it is one of those dramatic, eerie, awe-inspiring phenomena that sometimes border on the fantastic. It lends itself to controversy and misconceptions. What is certain about sleepwalking is that it is a symptom of emotional disturbance, and that t
42、he only way to cure it is to remove the worries and anxieties that cause it. Doctors say that somnambulism is much more common than is generally supposed. Some have estimated that there are four million somnambulists in the United States. Others set the figure even higher. Many sleepwalkers do not s
43、eek help and so are never put on record, which means that an accurate count can never be made.The simplest explanation of sleepwalking is that it is the acting out of a vivid dream. The dream usually comes from guilt, worry, nervousness, or some other emotional conflict. The classic sleepwalker is S
44、hakespeares Lady Macbeth. Her nightly wanderings were caused by her guilty conscience at having committed murder. Shakespeare said of her, “The eyes are open but their sense is shut. “The age-old question is: ls the sleepwalker actually awake or asleep? Scientists have decided that he is about half-
45、and-half. Like Lady Macbeth, he has weighty problems on his mind. Dr. Zeida Teplitz, who made a ten-year study of the subject, says, “Some people stay awake all night worrying about their problems. The sleepwalker thrashes them out in his sleep. He is awake in the muscular area, partially asleep in
46、the sensory area.“ In other words, a person can walk in his sleep, move around, and do other things, but he does not think about what he is doing.There are many myths about sleepwalkers. One of the most common is the idea that its dangerous or even fatal to waken a sleepwalker abruptly. Experts say
47、that the shock suffered by a sleepwalker suddenly awakened is no greater than that suffered in waking up to the noise of an alarm clock. Another mistaken belief is that sleepwalkers are immune to injury. Actually most sleepwalkers trip over rugs or bump their heads on doors at some time or other.（分数
48、：4.00）(1).According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?A. There is no accurate figure of the number of sleepwalkers.B. Stories of sleepwalkers are all fantasies.C. Sleepwalkers can be considered half awake in their sleep.D. Voltaire knew a sleepwalker who once danced a minuet in sleep.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Dr. Kleitman _.A. has lost so much sleep that he is now suffering from insomniaB. has conducted experiments on sleepwalkersC. has slept more than any other living man of his
