1、专业八级-975 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)The History of American IndiansWhen Europeans discovered the Western hemisphere, they discovered a race of people.(1) _ called them Indians. (1) _I shall have something to say about their(2) _and early
2、history, (2) _the(3) _. for them of European settlement in the New World, the part they have played in American history, (3) _their number, distribution and condition today. Most scholars believe that the homeland of the Indians was eastern Asia.They migrate to North America along a land(4) _from Si
3、beria to Alaska. (4) _The Indians were a(5) _people. (5) _They lived in(6) _, spoke many languages, and gained their living in different ways. (6) _(7) _revolutionized their hunting and warfare. (7) _Whiskey corrupted them.(8) _changed the lives of some Indians. (8) _The Indians were under pressure
4、to take(9) _in the great French and British War of the eighteen century. (9) _The Indians made many efforts to prevent the advance of the frontier. In(10) _, (10) _a great uprising against the British began under a Michigan Indian leader.（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
5、 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).Mr Fischer believes that _（分数：1.00）A.those gloomy forecasts is ab
6、out to become trueB.EU enlargement and its Constitution must be carded out at the same timeC.EU people will accept the Constitution calmlyD.Constitution must be ratified by 15 EU country(2).Fischer doesnt agree with the critics, because he believe the constitution brings benefit for EU except that _
7、（分数：1.00）A.the decisions can be taken more easily.B.EUs relationship to the member states is clearly regulatedC.the voting procedures in the European Council have become more elaborateD.the role of the Commission President has been define(3).According to Fischer, what is the most important thing abo
8、ut the EU Constitution?（分数：1.00）A.The Tax Articles in the Basic LawB.The procedures are becoming clearC.The threat of terrorismD.The fundamental rights have been defined clearly.(4).Fischer pointed out that _（分数：1.00）A.EU people are hostile to ConstitutionB.EU has dual nature which would be preserve
9、d for a long timeC.the Greens just did the right thing in attracting citizenD.the EU Parliament should elect the Commission President from its own ranks(5).Which statement is not true?（分数：1.00）A.In Fischers opinion, EU Constitution will resolve many problems remained unresolved for ten yearsB.EU Con
10、stitution will make the EU more effectiveC.Core Europe can be used to describe the present EUD.Fischer now is a Foreign Minister四、SECTION C(总题数：2，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 each of the following quest
11、ions.Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).Haler Group bid for Maytag is _（分数：1.00）A.1.75 billionB.18.5 billionC.16.4 billionD.1.3 billion(2).Which statement is not true?（分数：1.00）A.This is the biggest takeover battle for ChinaB.Chinas bid will probably trigger a costly biding competition over the comp
12、any UnacalC.The U.S is planning forbidding Chinese companys bids for U.S companyD.Unocal has agreed to be sold to another American oil companyQuestions 8 to 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer each of the following questions.Now lis
13、ten to the news.（分数：3.00）(1).Whats the effect of the US slowdown?（分数：1.00）A.Cutting into demand for Nokias handsets.B.Promote other economies.C.Many firms break down.D.Many handsets dont sell.(2).So far, how many percent of sales growth this quarter?（分数：1.00）A.20%B.10%C.40%D.80%(3).Why has the rate
14、of new phone purchases slowed in Europe?（分数：1.00）A.Because of the warning about salesB.Because the customers are reluctant to trade up to new handsetsC.Because of cutting into demand for handsetsD.Because of the U.S slowdown五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Paula Jones case a
15、gainst Bill Clinton is now, for all possible political consequences and capacity for media sensation, a fairy routine lawsuit of its kind. It does, however, have enormous social significance. For those of us who care about sexual harassment, the matter of Jones v. Clinton is a great conundrum. Consi
16、der: if Jones, the former Arkansas state employee, proves her claims, then we must face the fact that we helped to elect someone - Bill Clinton - who has betrayed us on this vital issue. But if she is proved to be lying, then we must accept that we pushed onto the public agenda an issue that is vene
17、rable to manipulation by alleged victims. The skeptics will use Jones case to cast doubt on the whole cause.Still, Ms Jones deserves the chance to prove her case; she has a right to pursue this claim and have the process work. It will be difficult: these kinds of cases usually are, and Ms. Jones tas
18、k of suing a sitting president is harder than most.She does have one thing sitting on her side: her case is in the courts. Sexual-harassment claims are really about violations of the alleged victims civil rights, and there is no better forum for determining and assessing those violations - and findi
19、ng the truth - than federal court. The judicial system can put aside political to decide these complicated issues. That is a feat that neither the Senate Judicial nor ethics committees have been able to accomplish- witness the Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood affairs. One lesson: the legal arena, no
20、t the political one, is the place to settle these sensitive problems.Some have argued that the people (the “feminists“) who rallied around me have failed to support Jones. Our situations, however, are quite different. In 1991 the country was in the middle of a public debate over whether Clarence Tho
21、mas should be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Throughout that summer, interest groups on both sides weighed in on his nomination. It was a public forum that invited a public conversation. But a pending civil action - even one against the president - does not generally invite that kind of public enga
22、gement.Most of the public seems content to let the process move forward. And given the conundrum created by the claim, it is no wonder that many (“feminists“ included) have been slow to jump into the Jones-Clinton fray. But people from all walks of life remain open to her suit. We dont yet know whic
23、h outcome we must confront: the president who betrayed the issue or the woman who used it. Whichever it is, we should continue to pursue sexual harassment with the same kind of energy and interest in eliminating the problem that we have in the past, regardless of who is the accused or the accuser. T
24、he statistics show that about 40 percent of women in the work force will encounter some form of harassment. We cant afford to abandon this issue now.（分数：5.00）(1).What is the word “conundrum“ in the first paragraph mean?（分数：1.00）A.dilemmaB.a kind of musical instrumentC.a easy thingD.comfortable condi
25、tion(2).According to the passage, the Paula Jones case was _.（分数：1.00）A.nothing important.B.very significant.C.doubtful.D.vulnerabl(3).The federal courts are much better than the Senate Judicial or ethics committees in determining and assessing those violations because _.（分数：1.00）A.the federal court
26、s have much bigger power.B.the federal courts are forum for determining and assessing those violations.C.the federal courts are more impartial.D.the federal courts are political aren(4).According to the passage, the issue of sexual harassment must be dealt with seriously because _.（分数：1.00）A.the out
27、come is not known.B.most of the public is not content.C.many have been slow to jump into the Jones-Clinton fray.D.as many as 40% of women in the work force will encounter it.(5).According to the passage, sexual harassment is to _.（分数：1.00）A.violate politics.B.violate the Supreme Court.C.cast doubt o
28、n the whole issue.D.violate civil rights.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)In his essay “The Parable of the Tapeworm,“ Mario Vargas Llosa argues that at the heart of the writers will to write is rebellion, a “rejection and criticism of life as it is.“ Moreover, he speculates, it is even possible that good lite
29、rature may inspire actual acts of rebellion when the reader compares the better world of the book to the relative junk heap of real life. Whether or not this is universally true, its an attractive idea, and, in its way, a comforting one. Language is a lever that might move the enormous weight of the
30、 fickle, war-torn world we live in. Its free, universal and highly portable: better than plastic bomb and difficult to govern.Vargas Llosas idea is also, of course, a writerly sort of realpolitik, a wish that a good novel - or story or poem - can literally remake history. When Luis Alberto Urrea beg
31、an his epic novel, “The Hummingbirds Daughter,“ 20 years ago, the United States was in the first phase of a conservative backlash, the culture wars were gathering steam, and the left felt itself to be under a dark cloud. Two decades later, the situation seems even graver: the culture wars are more i
32、ntense and the left feels under not a cloud but an anvil.With the election of a new, deeply conservative pope, Urreas timing couldnt be better: his main character, Teresita, is a saint as envisioned not in the marble reaches of the Vatican but in the populist pueblos of liberation theology, a Mexica
33、n saint of dust and blood, with lice in her hair and dirt under her fingernails. Poor, illegitimate, illiterate and despised, Teresita is the embodiment of the dictum that the last shall be first, and her ascension over the course of 500 pages is a myth that is also a charmingly written manifesto.Ur
34、rea, who was born in Tijuana to an American mother and a Mexican father, is the author of 10 previous books of nonfiction, fiction and poetry; the best known of these are probably “The Devils Highway“ and “Across the Wire,“ nonfiction accounts of hardscrabble lives on the Mexican-United States borde
35、r. For “The Hummingbirds Daughter,“ he reached back into his own family history, or what he calls “a family folk tale.“ Teresa Urrea, known in the novel as Teresita, was a distant relative and, as Urrea discovered, the subject of some earlier scholarship, an “influential“ series of newspaper article
36、s in the 1930s and at least one other novel. Urreas book re-imagines her story on a grand scale, as a mix of leftist hagiography, mystical bildungsroman and melancholic national anthem.The half-Indian child of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Teresita, born in 1873 with a red triangle on her forehead, i
37、s also possessed of a supernatural gift for healing that becomes much stronger as she grows up, and stronger still after suffering a terrible assault that kills her. She rises from the dead and begins to perform miracles. The sick, the halt and the dying gather around her, and so do Mexican revoluti
38、onaries. “Everything the government does,“ Teresita preaches to them, “is morally wrong.“ This democratic groundswell inevitably results in a showdown with the Mexican authorities.Teresitas endurance - and survival - are literally and spiritually linked to the struggles of Mexico itself, a struggle
39、that Urrea sees firmly from the bottom up. “God is a worker, like us,“ Huila, an aged curandera, instructs the young Teresita. “He made the world - he didnt hire poor Indios to build it for him! God has workers hands. Just remember - angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers./（分数：4.00）(1).In the f
40、irst paragraph, literature is compared to plastique because _.（分数：1.00）A.both of them are portable.B.both of them are difficult to govern.C.both of them can be used in rebellion.D.both are them are highly influential.(2).Concerning the main character of the novel, which of the following is NOT true?
41、（分数：1.00）A.She is a relative of the writer.B.She is an embodiment of self-made hero.C.She had been studied or written about before this novel.D.She is a saint coming from the grass roots.(3).What does the writer mean by saying “angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers“? Which of following is NOT
42、true?（分数：1.00）A.This draws God closer to the workers and encourages them.B.This is to inspire the young Teresita that she should believe in the workers and depend on them.C.This is a challenge to the orthodoxy ideas that true religion belongs to the upper class.D.This is saying that God is hardworki
43、ng and does not indulge in playin(4).Which conclusion drawn from the passage is NOT true?（分数：1.00）A.The novel is about workers and for the workers.B.The book is religious and uses religion to inspire readers.C.The book is an inspiring and happy ode to personal struggle.D.The book is focused on the l
44、ives and struggles of the Mexicans.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately its a dream that was, a twilit memory of the Golden Age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promis
45、e of paradise regained has become a key to the Democratic Party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U. S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor is
46、going to keep growing. No fiddling with the tax code, retreat to protectionism or job training for jobs that arent there is going to stop it. Income equality is a hopeless cause in the U. S. “Liberalism would be less depressing if it had a more attainable end.“ Kaus writes,“ a goal short of money eq
47、uality.“ Liberal Democrats should embrace an aim he calls civic equality. If government cant bring everyone into the middle class, let it expand the areas of life in which everyone, regardless of income, receives the same treatment. National health care, improved public schools, universal national s
48、ervice and government financing of nearly all election campaigns, which would freeze out special-interest money - there are the unobjectionable components of his enlarged public sphere.Kaus is right to fear the hardening of class lines, but wrong to think the stresses can be relieved without a continuing effort to boost income for the bottom half.“ No, we cant tell them theyll be rich,“ he admits.“ Or even comfortably well off. But we can offer them at least a material minimum and a good shot at climbing up the ladder, And w
