1、专业八级-997 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)Five Common Mistakes in Conversations and Their Solutions. Not listeningA. Problem: most people dont listen-wait eagerly for their turn to talk-only care for themselvesB. Solutions-Avoid (1) question.-L
2、isten to the content. Asking (2) A. Problems-conversation sounds like an interrogation-you dont have much to contributeB. Solutions- (3) questions with statements. Poor deliveryA. Problems-Speak too fast and unclear.-Speak lowly and breathlessly.-Speak (4) B. Solutions-Slow down.-Speak loudly.-Do no
3、t (5) .-Dont use a monotone voice.-Try to use pauses.-Improve your (6) , e. g. laughter, posture, etc. Talking about a weird or (7) topicA. ProblemB. Solutions-Steer clear of topics such as bad health or relationships, crappy job or boss, serial killers, technical lingo that only you and some other
4、guy understands.-Avoid talking about religion and (8) . Being boringA. Problem: clinging to one topic for hoursB. Solutions-Lead an interesting life, and focus on (9) .-Be genuinely interested, and make the conversation feel more (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
5、:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、SECTION B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).Which of the following is TRUE about the safety of putting photos online?A. Do not copy or paste pictures to your website.B. Sanitizing your photos online guarantees their safety.C. Compared with emails, websites are safer to share photos.D. Even your fr
6、iends may use your photos for a bad purpose.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What should be taken into account when deciding the way of supervision over the child?A. The childs academic performance. B. The childs character and personality.C. The childs computer skills. D. The childs willingness to communicate.（
7、分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What should the children do to ensure the possession of their sites?A. Frequently change their passwords of online accounts.B. Put their photos online frequently and randomly.C. Guarantee the decency of language on their sites.D. Use their real full name for their online account.
8、（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).To monitor their childrens online behavior, parents should NOTA. keep updated with current internet applications.B. split the bill with their children for going online.C. get the password of their childs online account.D. ask their kids to watch the language on their sites.（分数：1
9、.00）A.B.C.D.(5).As children grow up, their online photos and webpages may be viewed by authority from the fields ofA. academic and professional. B. military and supervisory.C. health-care and educational. D. political and economic.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：4，分数：5.00)1.Question 9 is based on t
10、he following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.When voting, the minorities agreed to cut the legal time limit for abortion toA. 24 weeks. B. 12 weeks. C. 23 weeks. D. 22 weeks.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.Question 10 is based on the f
11、ollowing news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.Together with Hurricane Elida, there have been _ storms in this season.A. fifteen B. two C. forty D. five（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the e
12、nd of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).General Ban Ki-moon is urging the Burmese government toA. hold the constitutional referendum.B. allow in foreign search and rescue teams.C. accept international aid right away.D. adopt John
13、Holmes suggestions.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).John Holmes thought that the Burmese government could be more _ following the constitutional referendum.A. naive B. feasible C. open D. elastic（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3.Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 secon
14、ds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.What is the main idea of the news item?A. Mr. Olmert was confirmed of having taken bribes from a Jewish American businessman.B. Mr. Olmert was suspected of taking bribes and the inquiries might affect the peace process.C. Mr. Olmert, the head of gover
15、nment, deflected the peace efforts with the Palestinians.D. Mr. Olmert would resign because he took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.（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)Is there anything more boring than hearing about someone elses dream? And is there
16、 anything more miraculous than having one of your own? The voluptuous pleasure of Haruki Murakamis enthralling fictions-full of enigmatic imagery, random nonsense, and profundities that may or may not hold up in the light of day-reminds me of dreaming. Like no other author I can think of, Murakami c
17、aptures the juxtapositions of the trivial and the momentous that characterize dream life, those crazy incidents that seem so vivid in the moment and so blurry and preposterous later on. His characters live ordinary lives, boiling pasta for lunch, riding the bus, and blasting Prince while working out
18、 at the gym. Then suddenly and matter-of-factly, they do something utterly nuts, like strike up a conversation with a coquettish Siamese cat. Or maybe mackerel and sardines begin to rain from the sky. In Murakamis world, these things make complete, cock-eyed sense.Like many of Murakamis heroes, Kafk
19、a Tamura in Kafka on the Shore has more rewarding relationships with literature and music than with people. (Murakamis passion for music is infectious; nothing made me want to rush out and purchase a Bralmas CD until I read his Sputnik Sweetheart.) On his 15th birthday, Kafka runs away from his Toky
20、o home for obscure reasons related to his famous sculptor father. His choice of a destination is arbitrary. Or is it? “Shikoku, I decide. Thats where Ill go. The more I look at the map-actually every time I study it-the more I feel Shikoku tugging at me.“On the island of Shikoku, Kafka makes himself
21、 a fixture at the local library, where he setties into a comfortable sofa and starts reading The Arabian Nights: “Like the genie in the bottle they have this sort of vital, living sense of play, of freedom that common sense cant keep bottled up.“ As in a David Lynch movie, all the library staffers a
22、re philosophical eccentrics ready to advance the surreal narrative. Oshima, the androgynous clerk, talks to Kafka about (inevitably) Kafka and the merits of driving while listening to Schubert (“a dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to som
23、e utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while Im driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right there“). The tragically alluring head librarian, Miss Saeki, once wrote a hit song called “Kafka on the Shore“-and may or may not be Kafkas long-lost mother. Alarmingly, she also s
24、tars in his erotic fantasies.In alternating chapters, Murakami records the even odder antics of Nakata, a simpleminded cat catcher who spends his days chatting with tabbies in a vacant Tokyo lot. One afternoon, a menacing dog leads him to the home of a sadistic cat killer who goes by the name Johnni
25、e Walker. Walker ends up dead by the end of the encounter; back in Shikoku, Kafka unaccountably finds himself drenched in blood. Soon, Nakata too begins feeling an inexplicable pull toward the island.If this plot sounds totally demented, trust me, it gets even weirder than that. Like a dream, you ju
26、st have to be there. And, like a dream, what this dazzling novel means-or whether it means anything at all-we may never know.（分数：5.00）(1).What is “Kafka on the Shore“?A. It is a fiction written by a head librarian Miss Saeki.B. It is an autobiographical novel of Kafka Tamura.C. It is a movie adapted
27、 from Haruki Murakamis book.D. It is the name of a hit song in a novel under the same name.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the author, which of the following is NOT true about Haruki Murakamis novels?A. They bring the sensory pleasure to the author.B They are full of imagination without any profun
28、dities.C. They juxtapose the trivial with the momentous.D. They are similar in characteristics to dreams.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about Kafka?A. He is familiar with literature and music.B. He has a good relationship with his father.C. He leave
29、s Tokyo for Shikokn at his teens.D. He often goes to the local library on Shikoku Island.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The word “demented“ in the last paragraph refers toA. crazy. B. interesting. C. fancy. D. boring.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What is the writers tone in this passage?A. Approving. B. Criticizing. C
30、. Ironical. D. Neutral.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)It was said by Sir George Bernard Shaw that “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.“ My first personal experience of this was when I worked as a camp counselor for two months in 2000 in Summer Camp run by t
31、he Boy Scouts of America, as part of an international leader exchange scheme. Before I went, all the participants ha the scheme were given a short list of words that are in common use in the UK which Americans would either be confused by or would even offend them. I memorized the words and thought “
32、Ill cope“.When I finally arrived in the States three months later, I realized that perhaps a lifetime of watching American television was not adequate preparation for appreciating and coping with the differences between American and British speech. In the first hour of arriving at the camp I was exp
33、osed to High School American English, Black American English and American English spoken by Joe Public, all every different to each other. Needless to say, I did cope in the end. The Americans I met were very welcoming and helpful, and I found they were patient with me when I made a social faux pas
34、when I used an inappropriate word or phrase.Upon my return I began to wonder whether anyone had documented the differences between American and British English. I found several books on the subject but often these were written in a dry and academic way. I felt that I could do better and use my sense
35、 of humor and personal experiences to help people from both sides of Atlantic to communicate more effectively when they meet.My research into the subject led me to several conclusions.Firstly, American English and British English are covering, thanks to increased transatlantic travel and the media.
36、The movement of slang words is mostly eastwards, though a few words from the UK have been adopted by the Ivy League fraternities. This convergent trend is a recent one dating from the emergence of Hollywood as the predominant film making center in the world and also from the Second World War when la
37、rge numbers of American GIs were stationed in the UK. This trend was consolidated by the advent of television. Before then, it was thought that American English and British English would diverge as the two languages evolved. In 1789, Noah Webster stated that: “Numerous local causes, such as a new co
38、untry, new associations of people, new combinations of ideas ha the arts and some intercourse with tribes wholly unknown in Europe will introduce new words into the American tongue.“ He was fight, but his next statement has since been proved to be incorrect. “These causes will produce in the course
39、of time a language in North America as different from the modern Dutch, Danish and Swedish are from the German or from one another.“Webster had underrated the amount of social intercourse between England and her former colony. Even before Webster had started to compile his dictionary, words and expr
40、essions from the America had already infiltrated the British language, for example “canoe“ and “hatchet“.Secondly, there are some generalizations that can be made about American and British English which can reveal the nature of the two nations and their peoples. British speech tends to be less gene
41、ral, and directed more, in nuances of meaning, attendant murmurings and pauses, carries a wealth of shared assumptions and attitudes. In other words, the British are preoccupied with their social status within society and speak and act accordingly to fit into the social class they aspire to. This is
42、 particularly evident when talking .to someone from “the middle class“ when he points out that he is “upper middle class“ rather than “middle class“ or “lower middle class“. John Major (the former UK Prime Minister) may have said that we are now living in a “classless society“ but the class system s
43、till prevails. At that moment both he and the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair, were talking about capturing the “middle England“, “middle class vote“ as the key to winning the next general election. American speech tends to be influenced by the over-heated language of much of the media, which i
44、s designed to attach an impression of exciting activity to passive, if sometimes insignificant events. Yet, curiously, really violent activity and life-changing events are hidden in blind antiseptic tones that serve to disguise the reality. Two examples come readily to mind-the US Military with thei
45、r “friendly fire“ and “collateral damages“ and the business world with their “downsizing“. British people tend to understatement whereas Americans towards hyperbole. A Briton might respond to a suggestion with a word such as “Terrific! “ only if he is expressing rapturous enthusiasm, whereas an Amer
46、ican might use the word merely to signify polite assent.Thirdly, The American language has less regard than the British for grammatical form, and will happily bulldoze its way across distinctions rather than steer a path between them. American English will casually use one form of a word for another
47、, for example turning nouns into verbs or verbs and nouns into adjectives.（分数：5.00）(1).The sentence “England and America are two countries separated by the same language“ in the fast paragraph implies thatA. England and America used to be one country but were separated by the language.B. England and
48、 America share the same language but the language separates them.C. England and America share the same language but show differences in the language use.D. British English and American English are almost the same in the two countries.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The author decided to write about the differe
49、nces between American and British English toA. support the statement of Bernard Shaw. B. describe his personal experiences.C. show his sense of humor. D. help peoples communication.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which of the following does NOT contribute to the convergent trend of American English and British English?A. More international travel between the two
