1、专业八级分类模拟432及答案解析 (总分：62.42，做题时间：90分钟)一、PART READING COMPR(总题数：1，分数：30.00)SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are four passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the on
2、e that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE High in a smooth ocean of sky floated a dazzling, majestic sun. Fragments of powdery cloud, like spray flung from a wave crest, sprinkled the radiant, lake-blue heaven. Relaxed on a bundle of hay in a corner o
3、f a meadow bathed in sunlight, Paul lay dreaming. A gentle breeze was stirring the surrounding hedges; bees moved, humming thoughtfully, from scarlet poppy to purple thistle; a distant lark, invisible in blue light, was flooding the vast realm of the sky with glorious song, as the sun was flooding t
4、he earth with brilliance. Beyond the hedge a brook tinkled over softly-glowing pebbles. Butterflies hovered above nodding clover. An ant was busily exploring the uncharted territory of Pauls suntanned wrist. A grasshopper skidded briskly over his ankle. And the blazing sun was steadily scorching his
5、 fair freckled face to bright lobster, red. Neither sun, nor grasshopper, nor ant, however, was able to arouse him. Not even when a fly started crawling over his face did he open his eyes. For Paul was a thousand miles away, in a world of eternal snow and ice. Across the towering mountain range, a b
6、itter gale was screaming furiously as with one hand he gripped a projecting knob of rock while with his axe he hacked out the next narrow foothold in the rock. As their infallible guide, he was leading his gallant party of climbers up a treacherous, vertical wall of rock towards the lofty peak above
7、, hitherto unconquered by man. A single slip, however trivial, would probably result in death for all of them. To his right he could glimpse the furrowed glacier sweeping towards the valley, but he was far too absorbed in his task to appreciate fully the scene around or even to be aware of a view of
8、 almost unearthly beauty. A sudden gust of wind nearly tore him from the ledge where he was perched. Gradually he raised his foot, tested the new foothold on the sheer rock wall, transferred his weight, and signaled to the climbers below. Not until a tractor started working in the next field did he
9、become conscious of his far from icy surroundings. He sat up, wiped his forehead with his handkerchief, glanced at his watch and sighed in resignation. He had a headache through sleeping in the hot sun, a pain in his shoulder from carrying his rucksack; his legs felt stiff and his feet ached. With n
10、o enthusiasm whatever he pulled the bulging rucksack over his shoulders and drew a large-scale map from his pocket. At the far end of the meadow two slates in the wall, which at this point replaced the hedge, indicated a stile, and beyond he could faintly see a thin thread of path which dwindled and
11、 finally disappeared as it climbed the steep slope of the down, quivering in the glare of the sun. The whole of Nature seemed to be luxuriating in warmth, sunshine and peace. Wherever he looked, leaves on twigs, grass blades, flower petals, all were sparkling in sunlight. Fifteen miles off, over the
12、 ridge, across a broad valley and then over a higher, even steeper range of hills lay the youth hostel: supper, company, a cool dip in the river. With a momentary intense longing for ice-axe, blizzard, glacier and heroic exploit (none of which was at all familiar to him), Paul strode off unwillingly
13、 to less dramatic but equally heroic achievement in the tropical heat of an English sun. PASSAGE TWO The need for a satisfactory education is more important than ever before. Nowadays, without a qualification from a reputable school or university, the odds of landing that plum job advertised in the
14、paper are considerably shortened. Moreover, ones present level of education could fall well short of future career requirements. It is no secret that competition is the driving force behind the need to obtain increasingly higher qualifications. In the majority of cases, the urge to upgrade is no lon
15、ger the result of an insatiable thirst for knowledge. The pressure is coming from within the workplace to compete with ever more qualified job applicants, and in many occupations one must now battle with colleagues in the reshuffle for the position one already holds. Striving to become better educat
16、ed is hardly a new concept. Wealthy parents have always been willing to spend the vast amounts of extra money necessary to send their children to schools with a perceived educational edge. Working adults have long attended night schools and refresher courses. Competition for employment has been arou
17、nd since the curse of working for a living began. Is the present situation so very different to that of the past? The difference now is that the push is universal and from without as well as within. A student at secondary school receiving low grades is no longer as easily accepted by his or her peer
18、s as was once the case. Similarly, in the workplace, unless employees are engaged in part-time study, they may be frowned upon by their employers and peers and have difficulty even standing still. In fact, in these cases, the expectation is for careers to go backwards and earning capacity to take an
19、 appreciable nosedive. At first glance, the situation would seem to be laudablea positive response to the exhortation by a former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, for Australia to become the clever country. Yet there are serious ramifications according to at least one educational psychologist. Dr. Brendan
20、 Gatsby has caused some controversy in academic circles by suggesting that a bias towards what he terms paper excellence might cause more problems than it is supposed to solve. Gatsby raises a number of issues that affect the individual as well as society in general. Firstly, he believes the extra w
21、orkload involved is resulting in abnormally high stress levels in both students at secondary school and adults studying after working hours. Secondly, skills which might be more relevant to the undertaking of a sought-after job are being overlooked by employers interviewing candidates without qualif
22、ications on paper. These two areas of concern for the individual are causing physical and emotional stress respectively. Gatsby also argues that there are attitudinal changes within society to the exalted role education now plays in determining how the spoils of working life are distributed. Individ
23、uals of all ages are being driven by social pressures to achieve academic success solely for monetary considerations instead of for the joy of enlightenment. There is the danger that some universities are becoming degree factories with an attendant drop in standards. Furthermore, our education syste
24、m may be rewarding doggedness above creativitythe very thing Australians have been encouraged to avoid. But the most undesirable effect of this academic paper chase, Gatsby says, is the disadvantage user pays higher education confers on the poor, who invariably lose out to the more financially favor
25、ed. Naturally, although there is agreement that learning can cause stress, Gatsbys comments regarding university standards have been roundly criticized as alarmist by most educationists who point out that, by any standard of measurement, Australias education system overall, at both secondary and ter
26、tiary levels, is equal to that of any in the world. PASSAGE THREE It takes a while, as you walk around the streets of Nantes, a city of half a million people on the banks of the Loire River, to realize just what it is that is odd. Then you get it: There are empty parking lots, which is highly unusua
27、l in big French towns. Two decades of effort to make life more livable by dissuading people from driving into town has made Nantes a beacon for other European cities seeking to shake dependence on the automobile. The effects were clear recently during Mobility Week, a campaign sponsored by the Europ
28、ean Union that prompted more than 1,000 towns across the Continent to test ways of making their streets, if not car-free, at least manageable. That is an awfully difficult problem, acknowledges Joel Crawford, an author and leader of the car free movement picking up adherents all over Europe. You can
29、t take cars out of cities until there is some sort of alternative in place. But there are a lot of forces pointing in the direction of a major reduction in car use, like the rise in fuel prices, and concerns about global warming. Last week, proclaiming the slogan In Town, Without My Car! hundreds of
30、 cities closed off whole chunks of their centers to all but essential traffic. Nantes closed just a few streets, preferring to focus on alternatives to driving so as to promote Clever Commuting, the theme of this years EU campaign. Volunteers pedaled rickshaws along the cobbled streets, charging pas
31、sengers $1.20 an hour; bikes were available for free; and city workers encouraged children to walk to school along routes supervised by adults acting as Pied Pipers and picking up kids at arranged stops. The centerpiece is a state-of-the-art tramway providing service to much of the town, and a netwo
32、rk of free, multistory parking lots to encourage commuters to park and ride. Rene Vincendo, a retired hospital worker waiting at one such parking lot for his wife to return from the city center, is sold. To go into town, this is brilliant, he says. I never take my car in now. It is not cheap, though
33、. Beyond the construction costs, City Hall subsidizes fares to the tune of 60 million euros ($72 million) a year, making passengers pay only 40 percent of operating costs. That is the only way to draw people onto trams and buses, says de Rugy, since Nantes, like many European cities, is expanding, a
34、nd commuters find themselves with ever-longer distances to travel. The danger, he warns, is that the further you go down the route of car dependence, the harder it is to return, because so many shops, schools and other services are built beyond the reach of any financially feasible public-transport
35、network. This, adds de Rugy, means that transport policy is only half the answer. Urban planners and transport authorities have to work hand in hand to ensure that services are provided close to transport links. The carrot-and-stick approach that Nantes has takencutting back on parking in the town c
36、enter and making it expensive, while improving public transporthas not reduced the number of cars on the road. But it has put a brake on the increase we would have seen otherwise and that other European cities have seen, says Dominique Godineau, head of the citys mobility department. PASSAGE FOUR Is
37、nt it amazing how one person, sharing one idea, at the right time and place can change the course of your lifes history? This is certainly what happened in my life. When I was 14, I was hitchhiking from Houston, Texas, through El Paso on my way to California. I was following my dream, journeying wit
38、h the sun. I was a high school dropout with learning disabilities and was set on surfing the biggest waves in the world, first in California and then in Hawaii, where I would later live. Upon reaching downtown El Paso, I met an old man, a bum, on the street corner. He saw me walking, stopped me and
39、questioned me as I passed by. He asked me if I was running away from home, I suppose because I looked so young. I told him, Not exactly, sir, since my father had given me a ride to the freeway in Houston and given me his blessings while saying, It is important to follow your dream and what is in you
40、r heart, son. The bum then asked me if he could buy me a cup of coffee. I told him, No, sir, but a soda would be great. We walked to a comer malt shop and sat down on a couple of swiveling stools while we enjoyed our drinks. After conversing for a few minutes, the friendly bum told me to follow him.
41、 He told me that he had something grand to show me and share with me. We walked a couple of blocks until we came upon the downtown El Paso Public Library. We walked up its front steps and stopped at a small information stand. Here the bum spoke to a smiling old lady, and asked her if she would be ki
42、nd enough to watch my things for a moment while he and I entered the library. I left my belongings with this grandmotherly figure and entered into this magnificent hall of learning. The bum first led me to a table and asked me to sit down and wait for a moment while he looked for something special a
43、mongst the shelves. A few moments later, he returned with a couple of old books under his arms and set them on the table. He then sat down beside me and spoke. He started with a few statements that were very special and that changed my life. He said, There are two things that I want to teach you, yo
44、ung man, and they are these: Number one is to never judge a book by its cover, for a cover can fool you. He followed with, I bet you think Im a bum, dont you, young man? I said, Well, uh, yes, I guess so, sir. Well, young man, Ive got a little surprise for you. I am one of the wealthiest men in the
45、world. I have probably everything any man could ever want. I originally come from the Northeast and have all the things that money can buy. But a year ago, my wife passed away, bless her soul, and since then I have been deeply reflecting upon life. I realized there were certain things I had not yet
46、experienced in life, one of which was what it would be like to live like a bum on the streets. I made a commitment to myself to do exactly that for one year. For the past year, I have been going from city to city doing just that. So, you see, dont ever judge a book by its cover, for a cover can fool
47、 you. Number two is to learn how to read, my boy, for there is only one thing that people cant take away from you, and that is your wisdom. At that moment, he reached forward, grabbed my right hand in his and put them upon the books hed pulled from the shelves. They were the writings of Plato and Ar
48、istotleimmortal classics from ancient times. The bum then led me back past the smiling old woman near the entrance, down the steps and back on the streets near where we first met. His parting request was for me to never forget what he taught me.（分数：29.92）(1).All of the following failed to wake Paul
49、up EXCEPT the -|_|-. (PASSAGE ONE)（分数：1.36）A.sunB.grasshopperC.flyD.tractor(2).What did the ant on Pauls wrist feel about it? (PASSAGE ONE)（分数：1.36）A.It was a new area for discovery.B.It was very large.C.It was very dangerous.D.It was unattractive.(3).All of the following are similarities between Pauls dream and the journey ahead of him EXCEPT that -|_|-. (PASSAGE ONE)（分数：1.36）A.the
