1、专业八级模拟616及答案解析 (总分：142.42，做题时间：90分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A MINI-LECTU(总题数：1，分数：30.00)Why Learning Spanish?The importance of Spanish is growing in Europe. Spanish, with 400 million speakers, is the fourth most commonly spoken language in the world. In addition to this, there a
2、re many other reasons for us to learn Spanish. . Better understanding of English Many English words have 1 origins English and Spanish share similar 2 . 3 Many Spanish-speaking people are no long confined in 4 states, Florida and New York City . Travel People who speak Spanish will have more 5 exper
3、iences when travelling . Cultural understanding Help us understand how other people 6 Offer us a wealth of modem and traditional 7 . Help people learn other languages Prepare us for learning other languages, such as 8 Share some characteristics with Russian and German: 9 and extensive conjugation Ja
4、panese: 10 . Its easy to learn Its vocabulary is 11 Englishs Written Spanish is almost 12 Basic grammar is straightforward . 13 Expanded professional opportunities in medicine, education, 14 , and communications or tourism . Its fun Successfully speaking in another tongue is 15 （分数：30.00）三、SECTION B
5、 INTERVIEW(总题数：2，分数：25.00)（分数：20.00）A.The research conducted by Newsweek Magazine.B.The research conducted by the Friedman School.C.The Nurses Health Study.D.The California Teacher Study.A.It is time range of the study.B.It is the number of women followed.C.It is the result of the study.D.It is decr
6、ease rate of disease.A.High level of some kind of hormone.B.Poor physical health.C.A grumpy lifestyle.D.A family history of breast cancer.A.It is to have exercise at once.B.It is to go to see the doctor.C.It is to have a good working team.D.It is to go for your family.A.Because she wants to keep sli
7、m.B.Because she wants to cure breast cancer.C.Because she wants to avoid Alzheimer.D.Because she wants to confirm her research result.（分数：5.00）A.9 years.B.19 years.C.20 years.D.30 years.A.Alexis is good at acting and singing.B.Alexis plays a leading role in every film he acts.C.Alexis is an easy-goi
8、ng and passionate actor.D.Alexiss craft in acting needs to be improved.A.When he was 9.B.When he was 20.C.When he was 18.D.When he was 22.A.His interest in acting.B.His talent in acting.C.His cute appearance.D.The directors remarks.A.Severe and impromptu.B.Severe and tedious.C.Severe and easy.D.Seve
9、re and inordinate.四、PART READING COMPR(总题数：1，分数：30.00)SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are several 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 one that you think
10、 is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE Education is an important theme in youth athletics in the US. Young kids, energetic, rambunctious, cooped up in class, yearn for the relative freedom of the football field, the basketball court, the baseball diamond. They lon
11、g to kick and throw things and tackle each other, and the fields of organized play offer a place in which to act out these impulses. Kids are basically encouraged, to beat each other up on the football field. Yet for all the chaos, adult guidance and supervision are never far off, and time spent on
12、the athletic fields is meant to be productive. Conscientious coaches seek to impart lessons in teamwork, self-sacrifice, competition, gracious winning and losing. Teachers at least want their students worn out so theyll sit still in reading class. By the time children start competing for spots on ju
13、nior high soccer teams or tennis squads, the kid gloves have come off to some extent. The athletic fields become less a place to learn about soft values like teamwork than about hard self-discipline and competition. Competitiveness, after all, is prized highly by Americans, perhaps more so than by o
14、ther peoples. For a child, being cut from the hockey team or denied a spot on the swimming is a grave disappointmentand perhaps an opportunity for emotional or spiritual growth. High school basketball or football teams are places where the ethos of competition is given still stronger emphasis. Altho
15、ugh high school coaches still consider themselves educators, the sports they oversee are not simple extensions of the classroom. They are important social institutions, for football games bring people together. In much of the US they are events where young people and their elders mingle and see how
16、the community is evolving. For the best players, the progression from little league to junior high to high school leads to a scholarship at a big-name college and maybe, one day, a shot at the pros. College athletes are ostensibly student-athletes, an ideal that suggests a balance between the intell
17、ectual rigors of the university and the physical rigors of the playing field. The reality is skewed heavily in favor of athletics. One would be hard-pressed to show that major US college sports are about education. Coaches require far too much of players time to be truly concerned with anything othe
18、r than performance in sport. Too often, the players they recruit seem to care little about school themselves. This was not always the case. UniversitiesPrinceton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Yalewere the birthplaces of American football and baseball; educationthe formation of characterwas an important par
19、t of what those coaches and players thought they were achieving. In 1913, when football was almost outlawed in the US, the games most prominent figures traveled to Washington and argued successfully that football was an essential part of the campus experience and that the nation would be robbed of i
20、ts boldest young men, its best potential leaders, if the game were banned. The idea that competitive sports build character, a Western tradition dating from ancient Greece, has evidently fallen out of fashion in todays U.S. Educators, now prone to see the kind of character shaped by football and bas
21、ketball in a dark light, have challenged the notion that college sports produce interesting people. Yet, prominent athletes, such as boxer Muhammad All and basketball star Charles Barkley, deliberately distanced themselves from the earlier ideal of the athlete as a model figure. Todays US athlete is
22、 thus content to be an entertainer. Trying to do something socially constructive, like being a role model, will make you seem over earnest and probably hurt your street credibility. When I was a kid, my heroes played on Saturdays: they were high school players and college athletes. Pro football game
23、s, broadcast on Sunday afternoons, were dull and uninspiring by comparison. After all, why would God schedule anything important for Sunday? Youve got school the next day. Although I certainly couldnt have articulated it at the time, I think I must already have sensed that throwing a ball or catchin
24、g passes was a fairly pointless thing to be good at. In the grand scheme, it was a silly preparation for a job. Yet playing sports was not pointless; the point, however, was that you were learning somethinga disposition, a certain virtue, a capacity for arduous endeavorthat might be of value when yo
25、u later embarked upon a productive career as a doctor or a schoolteacher or a businessman. The optimism of those Saturday afternoons was contagious. I still feel that way today. PASSAGE TWO Mohamed Nasheed, the dapper young president of the Maldives, thinks the jasmine revolutionaries of the Arab wo
26、rld may have something to learn from his own small countrys transition to democracy. The Indian Ocean archipelago, which has historical ties to the Arab world, saw the ouster of its own strongman, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, just two years ago. Mr. Gayoom had ruled as president for three decades, jailing
27、and torturing his opponents along the way, until he was eventually persuaded in 2008, after popular protests, to hold a free electionand then to respect its result, which brought the opposition to power. The relatively orderly transition did not produce an entirely smooth outcome. Opposition lawmake
28、rs have since been able to block the governments policies, leading to the resignation of the cabinet in protest. But even such disagreements are resolved peacefully. We are in the process of consolidating our democracy says Mr. Nasheed, on a visit to Delhi for a conference on promoting liberal gover
29、nance in South Asia. For so many years Maldivian rulers tried to emulate society in Egypt, he argues; now the Egyptians should return the favour . He urges them not to rush to an election, without first allowing time for the formation of stable political parties. Elections should be held only after
30、a constitution is in place. Mr. Nasheed notes that since its first multi-party presidential elections the Maldives has also held a parliamentary poll and then local elections. We are a 100% Muslim country. We feel if democracy can survive in the Maldives it can survive in other Islamic countries. Is
31、lam and democracy are not in conflict. Asked if Mr. Gayoom, who seems to show an interest in returning to politics, should be prosecuted for previous wrongdoing, Mr. Nasheed disagrees. He reckons that vengeance against the previous leader would be counterproductive. Not all is going swimmingly. Isla
32、mic radicals, as in North Africa, are a worry. Individuals from the Maldivesfrustrated young menhave been arrested while training with extremists in Pakistan. One of the terrorists who attacked Indias commercial capital, Mumbai, in November 2008, killing some 170 people was rumoured to be Maldivian.
33、 (Most of the attackers were Pakistani; Mr. Nasheed says he has seen no evidence to prove there was any Maldivian among them.) But the president argues that the religious extremism which flourished under authoritarian rule is now weakening under democracy. When political space is available, then lib
34、eral forces will be able to organise themselves and win the support of the people. He points out that in last years local elections radical Islamic parties won just 2% of the vote. Next he wants liberal Muslims to take initiatives to outsmart the radicals: it is time for an ideological confrontation
35、, with South Asian Muslims learning tactics from moderate and liberal Muslims from farther East: Malaysia and Indonesia. Mr. Nasheed plans to play host to a conference on the topic, probably later this year. It helps that the Maldives also has resources to alleviate poverty. Tourism and the local fi
36、shing industry are flourishing. Income per person, at $4,200 per year, is the highest of any country in South Asiaand is enough that the Maldives is no longer classified in the least developed category. How much any of its success can be replicated in the larger countries of north Africa or the Pers
37、ian Gulf is open to debatethe Maldives are home to just 350,000 people, and its democracy cannot be considered to be robust until many years have passed. But even a small example of success should be a welcome model for the revolutionaries on the other side of the Arabian Sea. PASSAGE THREE If you w
38、ant to see what it takes to set up an entirely new financial center (and what is best avoided), head for Dubai. This tiny, sun-baked patch of sand in the midst of a war-torn and isolated region started with few advantages other than a long tradition as a hub for Middle Eastern trade routes. But over
39、 the past few years Dubai has built a new financial center from nothing. Dozens of the worlds leading financial institutions have opened offices in its new financial district, hoping to grab a portion of the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf. Some say there is more hype than business, but fe
40、w big firms are willing to risk missing out. Dealmaking in Dubai centers around The Gate, a cube-shaped structure at the heart of the Dubai international Financial Centre (DIFC). A brainchild of the ruling Al-Maktoum family, the DIFC is a tax-free zone for wholesale financial services. Firms license
41、d for it are not approved to serve the local financial market. The DIFC aims to become the leading wholesale financial centre in the Gulf, offering one-stop shopping for everything from stocks to sukuk (Islamic) bonds, investment banking and insurance. In August the Dubai bourse made a hid for a big
42、 stake in OMX, a Scandinavian exchange operator that also sells trading technology to many of the worlds exchanges. Dubai may have generated the biggest splash thus far, but much of the Gulf region has seen a surge of activity in recent years. Record flows of petrodollars have enabled governments in
43、 the area to spend billions on infrastructure projects and development. Personal wealth too is growing rapidly. According to Capgemini and Merrill Lynch, the number of people in the Middle East with more than $1m in financial assets rose by nearly 12% last year, to 300,000. Qatar, Bahrain and Abu Dh
44、ahi also have big aspirations for their financial hubs, though they keep a lower profile than Dubai. They, too, are trying to learn from more established financial centers what they must do to achieve the magic mix of transparent regulation, good infrastructure and low or no taxes. Some of the fierc
45、est competition among them is for talent. Most English-speaking professionals have to be imported. Each of the Gulf hubs, though, has its own distinct characteristics. Abu Dhabi is trying to present itself as a more cultured, less congested alternative to neighboring Duhai, and is building a huge Gu
46、ggenheim museum. Energy-rich Qatar is an important hub for infrastructure finance, with ambitions to develop further business in wealth management, private equity, retail banking and insurance. Bahrain is well established in Islamic banking, hut it is facing new competition from London, Kuala Lumpur
47、 and other hubs that have caught on to Islamic finance. If youve got one string to your bow and suddenly someone takes it away, youre in trouble, says Stuart Pearce of the Qatar Financial Centre about Bahrain. Saudi Arabia, by far the biggest economy in the Gulf, is creating a cluster of its own eco
48、nomic zones, including King Abdullah City, which is aimed at foreign investors seeking a presence in the country. Trying to cut down on the number of suitcase bankers who fly in from nearby centers rather than live in the country, the Saudis now require firms working with them to have local business licenses. Yet the bulk of the regions money is still flowing to established financial centers in Europe, America and other parts of Asia. The financial hubs there offer lessons for aspiring centers in other parts of the developing world. Building the confidence of f
