1、专业八级-1076 及答案解析(总分：98.00，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)Chinese AmericansChinese Americans are an ethnic minority in theUS. They used to be discriminated.1. The history of Chinese immigrants1) The first group of Chinese arrived during theCalifornia (1) _ in
2、1849. Their success invited (1)_envy. They had to earn a living by doing the (2)_ (2)_for the white miners, setting up restaurants, working asfarmhands or as (3) (3)_2) The second group of Chinese arrived in theearly (4)_as laborers to construct the (4)_(5)_ (5)_3) After World War Two, more Chinesew
3、ere permitted to settle in America.4) Todays Chinese Americans are mostly the (6) (6) _ of the first two groups of immigrants.2. Some of their noteworthy characteristics as partof their traditional culture1) (7)_family ties (7) _2) respect for the elders3) a feeling of (8)_to the family (8) _4) high
4、 regard for (9) _ (9) _5) willingness to work hardThese characteristics contribute to their success invarious professions. As Americans attitudes towardminorities and ethnic differences have changed inrecent years, Chinese Americans have gained (10) (10) _ in the American society.（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空
5、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).According to Dr. Neil, in what way is family life different now?A. Parents are not as good as they used to be.B. More people are getting remarried after divorce.C. There are more one-parent or single-parent fa
6、milies.D. More people approve of mothers going out to work.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is NOT mentioned as substitute parents?A. Group leaders. B. Television.C. Baby-sitters. D. Play groups.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to the interview, all of the following are the roles of primary
7、 teachers EXCEPTA. helping children to acquire good habits.B. reinforcing what the parents are doing.C. starting children reading and writing.D. informing children of different messages.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).According to Dr. Neil, what is the most noticeable effect of smaller families?A. There is les
8、s mixing of ages in smaller families.B. Children can get more affection from their parents.C. Children can live in a more loving environment.D. Children are able to enjoy better living condition.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).According to the interview, Dr. Nells attitude toward substitute parents is thatA. s
9、ubstitutes can take the responsibilities of parents.B. its acceptable to let substitutes look after children.C. perhaps substitutes can play a better role than parents.D. parents should be cautious to choose substitutes.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：3，分数：6.00)(1).The Award for Best Director in th
10、e dramatic category goes toA. The Director of Monty Pythons Spamalot.B. the Director of The Light in the Piazza.C. Dong Hughes.D. Edward Albee.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The writer of _ received a special Lifetime Achievement Award.A. Monty Pythons Spamalot.B. Doubt, A Parable.C. A delicate Balance.D. The
11、 Light in the Piazza.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).What is the precondition of receiving bailout plan for Greek?A. Cutting spending and increasing taxes.B. Reconstructing the government.C. Fulfilling its financial obligations.D. Winning the support of the public.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The major difference betw
12、een the ruling parties and a field of smaller parties lies in_.A. the bailout planB. the austerity measuresC. the willingness to form a coalition governmentD. the managerial style（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(1).The tapes of the Apollo 11 mission were first stored inA. a U. S. government archives warehouse.B. a
13、 NASA ground tracking station.C. the Goddard Space Flight Centre.D. none of the above places.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What does the news item say about Richard Nafzger?A. He is assigned the task to look for the tapes.B. He believes that the tapes are probably lost.C. He works in a NASA ground receiving
14、site.D. He had asked for the tapes in the 1970s.（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 the young woman. She has glossy black hair pulled tightly into a knot at the back of her head and carries over
15、 she shoulder of her leather coat a heavy black purse. She wears black boots of soft leather and her beauty quickens his heart beat.The man gives up looking at the womanhe thinks she may be about twenty-fiveand buys a round-trip, coach class ticket to an eastern city.His flight leaves in an hour. To
16、 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 the leather coat. She is deep in conversation with a second girl, a blond in a cloth coat trimmed with gray fur. He wants somehow to attract th
17、e brunettes attention, to invite her to have a drink with him before her own flight leaves for wherever she is traveling, 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
18、their direction is toward him.When next he sees her, he is buying a magazine to read 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
19、up at him, and an odd grimace crosses her mouth and vanishes. She moves away 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 enumerati
20、ng the credit cards, the currency, the membership and identification cards; his stomach churns with something very like fear. The girl who was so near to me, he thinksand 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 sui
21、t coathe reaches into the jacket to feel the envelope, to make sure. He can take the flight, call someone to pick him up at his destination. But in the meantime he will have to do something about the lost credit cardscall home, have his wife get the numbers out of the top desk drawer, phone the card
22、 companiesso difficult a process, the whole thing suffocating. What shall he do?First, find a policeman, tell what has happened, describe the young woman. He grits his teeth. He will probably never see his wallet again.He is trying to decide if he should save time for talking to a guard near the X-r
23、ay machines when he is appalled and elated to see the black-haired girl. She seems engrossed in a book. A seat beside her is empty, and the man occupies it.“Ive been looking for you,“ he says.She glances at him with no sort of recognition. “I dont know you,“ she says.“Sure you do.“She sighs and puts
24、 the book aside. “Is this all you characters think aboutpicking up girls like we were stray animals? What do you think I am?“You lifted my wallet,“ 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 kno
25、w you didat 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 police.“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.
26、 “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 that 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
27、, 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, fat with money and credit cards, and it belongs to the blonde in the fur-trimmed coatthe blonde he has earlier seen in conversation with the criminal brunette. Sh
28、e, 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 he cannot even prove his own identity to the policeman.Two weeks laterthe embarrassment and rage have diminished, the family lawyer has been paid, the confusion i
29、n his household has recededthe wallet turns up without explanation in one mornings mail. It is intact, no money is missing, all the cards 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
30、.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 paid 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
31、 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 found out his wallet was missing, 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-ha
32、ired girl to _.A. accost her B. arrest her C. threaten her D. ask for his wallet back（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _.A. the man was put into prisonB. the man was sued for stealingC. the man convinced the policeman of the truth at the airportD. the girl was arre
33、sted at last（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Meteorologists routinely tell us what next weeks weather is likely to he, and climate scientists discuss what might happen in 100 years. Christoph Schar, though, ventures dangerously close to that middle realm, where previously only the Farmers Alm
34、anac dared go: what will next summers weather be like? Following last years tragic heat wave, which directly caused the death of tens of thousands of people, the question is of burning interest to Europeans. Schar asserts that last summers sweltering temperatures should no longer be thought of as ex
35、traordinary. “The situation in 2002 and 2003 in Europe, where we had a summer with extreme rainfall and record flooding followed by the hottest summer in hundreds of years, is going to be typical for future weather patterns,“ he says.Most Europeans have probably never read Schars report (not least b
36、ecause it was published in the scientific journal Nature in the dead of winter) but they seem to be bracing themselves for the worst. As part of its new national “heat-wave plan“, France issued a level-three alert when temperatures in Provence reached 34 degrees Celsius three days in a row; hospital
37、 and rescue workers were asked to prepare for an influx of patients. Italian government officials have proposed creating a national registry of people over 65 so they can be herded into air-conditioned supermarkets in the event of another heat wave. Londons mayor has offered a 100,000 pound reward f
38、or anybody who can come up with a practical way of cooling the citys underground trains, where temperatures have lately reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius. (The money hasnt been claimed.) Global warming seems to have permanently entered the European psyche.If the public is more aware, though, experts
39、 are more confused. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hammered out its last assessment in 2001, scientists pulled together the latest research and made their best estimate of how much the Earths atmosphere would warm during the next century. There was a lot they didnt know, but they
40、 were confident theyd be able to plug the gaps in time for the next report, due out in 2007. When they explored the fundamental physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, though, they found something unexpected: the way the atmosphereand, in particular, cloudsrespond to increasing levels of carbon is
41、far more complex and difficult to predict than they had expected. “We thought wed reduce the uncertainty, but that hasnt happened,“ says Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of the next IPCC report. “As we delve further and further in
42、to the science and gain a better understanding of the true complexity of the atmosphere, the uncertainties have gotten deeper.“This doesnt mean, of course, that the world isnt warming. Only the biased or the deluded deny that temperatures have risen, and that human activity has something to do with
43、it. The big question that scientists have struggled with is how much warming will occur over the next century? With so much still unknown in the climate equation, theres no way of telling whether warnings of catastrophe are overblown or if things are even more dire than we thought.Why do scientists
44、like Schar make predictions? Because, like economists, its their job to hazard a best guess with the resources at hand-namely, vast computer programs that simulate what the Earths atmosphere will do in certain circumstances. These models incorporate all the latest research into how the Earths atmosp
45、here behaves. But there are problems with the computer models. The atmosphere is very big, but also consists of a multitude of tiny interactions among particles of dust, soot, cloud droplets and trace gases that cannot be safely ignored. Current models dont have nearly the resolution they need to ca
46、pture what goes on at such small scales.Scientists got an inkling that something was missing from the models in the early 1990s when they ran a peculiar experiment. They had the leading models simulate warming over the next century and got a similar answer from each. Then they ran the models again-t
47、his time accounting for what was then known about cloud physics.（分数：6.00）(1).It can be inferred from the first paragraph thatA. climate scientists are contemptuous of weather forecast.B. it is a venture to forecast what weather is like tomorrow.C. Schar has the audacity to do what others seldom do.D
48、. Schar has made gloomy predictions on future weather.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The expression “bracing themselves for the worst“ in the second paragraph probably meansA. sneering at the impending difficulties.B. cheering themselves up for the worst situation.C. preparing themselves for the worst situation.D. having a total disregard for the coming difficulties.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What problem did the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change meet when they studied the earth atmosphere?A. They found the clouds reaction to the carbon level of the
