1、专业英语八级词汇-14及答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)The girls in this sixth grade class in East Palo Alto, California,all have the same access to computers with boys, but researchers say, (1) by the time they get to high school, they are victims of what theresearchers call major new gender gap in technology. Jani
2、ce (2) Weinman of the American Association of University Women says,Girls tend to be more comfortable than boys with the computer. (3) They use it more for word processing rather than for problem solving,rather than to discover new ways which to understand information. (4) After re-examining a thous
3、and studies, the American Associationof University Women researchers found that girls make up only a smallpercentage of students in computer science classes. Girls consistent (5) rate themselves significantly lower than boys in their ability andconfidence in using computers. And they use computers o
4、ften than (6) boys outside the classroom. An instructor of a computer lab sayshes already noticed some differences. Charles Cheadle of Cesar ChavezSchool says, Boys are not so afraid they might do something what (7) will harm the computer, whereas girls are afraid they might break itanyhow. Six year
5、s ago, the software company Purple Moon noticed (8) that girls computer usage was falling after boys. Karen Gould says, (9) One reason girls told us they dont like computer games is not thattheyre too violent, or too competitive. Girls just said theyre incredible (10) boring. /（分数：20.00）填空项1:_填空项1:_
6、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:_It may look like just another playgroup, and a unique (1) educational center in Manhattan is really giving babies somethingto talk about. Its a school to teach languages to babies andyoung children by games, songs-some of the classes also have (2) arts
7、 and crafts, said Francois Thibaut, the founder of the LanguageWorkshop for Children, a place babies become bilingual. (3) Children as young as few months are exposed to French andSpanish after many of them can even speak English. Educators use (4) special songs and visual aids to ensure that when a
8、 child is ready totalking, the languages will not be so foreign. Children have a unique (5) capacity to learn many languages at the same time, said Thibaut.Already at nine months, a child can say the differences between (6) the sounds he or she has heard since birth and the sounds he or shenever hea
9、rd yet. Thibaut says the best time to expose children (7) to language is from birth to 3 years old. For the last 30 years, theschool has been using what it calls the Thibaut Technique, a systemthat combines language lessons to childs play. (8) Depending on the age group, classes run from 45 minutes
10、up to2 hours. Even when students are not in class, the program is designedto make sure the learning continue at home. Tapes and books are (9) including so kids can practice on their own. (10) （分数：20.00）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:_填空项1:_填空项1:_Although all the arts are essentially
11、autonomous, owing tothe different materials and techniques which they employ with, there (1) is clearly a kind of bond between them. We speak of the architectureof a symphony, and call architecture, in return, frozen music. (2) Again, we say that certain writing has a sculptural quality,and sometime
12、 describe a piece of sculpture as a poem in stone. (3) Admittedly, much of the phraseology which traffic between (4) the arts is pure metaphorical, being concerned only with the (5) effect of a work of art. Thus, in calling a statue a poem in stone,we merely indicate that its effect on us is that im
13、palpable kind we (6) normally receive from poetry; we do not make an objective statementabout the sculptors intention or technical procedure. Such a metaphor,while useful descriptive purposes, cannot help us to gain a deeper (7) understanding of the nature of art.On the other hand, comparison betwee
14、n one art and another cannot (8) help towards this end, when the comparison is not metaphorical, butanalogical, being concerned with the artists intention and technicalprocedure. Thus, when we speak of the architecture of a fugue, we aretaking an objective statement that its composer has constructed
15、 it by methods (9) analogous to those of the Architect-that he has grouped masses ofnon-representational material (tone instead of stone) into significantform, governing by the principles of proportion, balance, and symmetry; (10) and this throws some light on a particular type of music.（分数：20.00）填空
16、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:_填空项1:_Parkour is a physical activity that is difficult to categorize.It is often mis-categorized as a sport and an extreme sport; however, (1) parkour has no set of rules, team work, formal hierarchy, orcompetitiveness. Most experienced practitione
17、rs think of parkour a (2) discipline closer to martial arts. According to David Belle, thephysical aspect of parkour is going over all the obstacles in (3) your path as you would be in an emergence. You want to move m (4) such a way, with any movement, as to help you gain the mostground on someone o
18、r something, whether escaping from it orchasing toward it. Thus, when faced with a hostile confrontationwith a person, one will be able to speak, fight, or flee. As if martial arts (5) are a form of training for the fight, parkour is a form of trainingfor the flight. Because of its uniquely nature,
19、it is often said that parkour (6) is in its own category.A characteristic of parkour is efficiency. Practitioners move notonly as rapidly as they can, but also in the most direct and effective way (7) possible; a characteristic that distinguishes from the similar practice (8) of free running, which
20、places more emphasis in freedom of movement, (9) such as acrobatics. Efficiency also involves avoid injuries, short and (10) long-term, part of why parkours unofficial motto is to be and to last.（分数：20.00）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:_填空项1:_填空项1:_In social situations, the classic I
21、ntention Movement is thechair-grasp. Host and guest have been talking for some time,but now the host has an appointment to keep and can get away. (1) His urge to go is held in check by his desire not be rude to his (2) guest, if he did not care of his guests feelings he would simply (3) get up out o
22、f his chair and to announce his departure. This is (4) what his body wants to do, therefore his politeness glues his body (5) to the chair and refuses to let him raise. It is at this point that he (6) performs the chair-grasp Intention Movement. He continues totalk to the guest and listen to him, bu
23、t leans forward and graspsthe arms of the chair as about to push himself upwards. This is (7) the first act he would make if he were rising . If he were not (8) hesitating, it would only last the fraction of the second. He would (9) lean, push, rise, and be up. But now, instead, it lasts much longer
24、.He holds his readiness-to-rise post and keeps on holding it. It is (10) as if his body had frozen at the get-ready moment.（分数：20.00）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:_填空项1:_填空项1:_专业英语八级词汇-14答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)The girls in this sixth grade class in East Palo Alto, California,all
25、have the same access to computers with boys, but researchers say, (1) by the time they get to high school, they are victims of what theresearchers call major new gender gap in technology. Janice (2) Weinman of the American Association of University Women says,Girls tend to be more comfortable than b
26、oys with the computer. (3) They use it more for word processing rather than for problem solving,rather than to discover new ways which to understand information. (4) After re-examining a thousand studies, the American Associationof University Women researchers found that girls make up only a smallpe
27、rcentage of students in computer science classes. Girls consistent (5) rate themselves significantly lower than boys in their ability andconfidence in using computers. And they use computers often than (6) boys outside the classroom. An instructor of a computer lab sayshes already noticed some diffe
28、rences. Charles Cheadle of Cesar ChavezSchool says, Boys are not so afraid they might do something what (7) will harm the computer, whereas girls are afraid they might break itanyhow. Six years ago, the software company Purple Moon noticed (8) that girls computer usage was falling after boys. Karen
29、Gould says, (9) One reason girls told us they dont like computer games is not thattheyre too violent, or too competitive. Girls just said theyre incredible (10) boring. /（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：withas）解析：解析 the same.as.为固定搭配，意为“和一样的”，与原文意思相符，因此将介词with改为as。填空项1:_（正确答案：在major之前加a）解析：解析 gap为可数名词，因此在原文中应该
30、用不定冠词a加以限定。填空项1:_（正确答案：moreless）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“和男孩相比，女孩更不习惯使用电脑”，刚此将more改为less。填空项1:_（正确答案：在which之前加in）解析：解析 which引导的应该是以ways为先行词的定语从句，而定语从句想要表达的是“以新的方式来了解信息”，因此应该在关系代词which之前加上介词in。填空项1:_（正确答案：consistentconsistently）解析：解析 用于限定谓语动词rate的应该是副词，因此将形容词consistent改为副词consistently。填空项1:_（正确答案：在often之前加less
31、）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“和男孩相比，她们在教室之外更少利用电脑”，由其中表示比较的than可知，应该在often之前加上比较级less。填空项1:_（正确答案：whatthat）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“男孩不太担心他们可能做一些会损害电脑的事”，其中puter应该是修饰something的定语从句，因此将what改为关系代词that，且该关系代词在从句中作主语。填空项1:_（正确答案：anyhowsomehow）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“女孩担心自己可能不知何故就弄坏了电脑”，因此将意为“总之”的anyhow改成意为“不知何故”的somehow。填空项1:_（正确答案：aft
32、erbehind）解析：解析 fall behind为固定搭配，意为“落后”，与原文意思相符，因此将after改为behind。填空项1:_（正确答案：incredibleincredibly）解析：解析 用于修饰形容词boring的应该是副词，因此将incredible改为副词incredibly。It may look like just another playgroup, and a unique (1) educational center in Manhattan is really giving babies somethingto talk about. Its a schoo
33、l to teach languages to babies andyoung children by games, songs-some of the classes also have (2) arts and crafts, said Francois Thibaut, the founder of the LanguageWorkshop for Children, a place babies become bilingual. (3) Children as young as few months are exposed to French andSpanish after man
34、y of them can even speak English. Educators use (4) special songs and visual aids to ensure that when a child is ready totalking, the languages will not be so foreign. Children have a unique (5) capacity to learn many languages at the same time, said Thibaut.Already at nine months, a child can say t
35、he differences between (6) the sounds he or she has heard since birth and the sounds he or shenever heard yet. Thibaut says the best time to expose children (7) to language is from birth to 3 years old. For the last 30 years, theschool has been using what it calls the Thibaut Technique, a systemthat
36、 combines language lessons to childs play. (8) Depending on the age group, classes run from 45 minutes up to2 hours. Even when students are not in class, the program is designedto make sure the learning continue at home. Tapes and books are (9) including so kids can practice on their own. (10) （分数：2
37、0.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：andbut）解析：解析 原文中的“它可能看起来像是另一个幼儿游戏组”和“曼哈顿一个独特的教育中心确实在给予婴儿可说的东西”之间应该是转折关系，因此将表示并列关系的and改为but。填空项1:_（正确答案：bywith）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“它是一所通过游戏、歌曲教婴幼儿语言的学校”，因此将介词by改为with。填空项1:_（正确答案：在place之后加Where）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“一个婴幼儿变得会说两种语言的地方”，其中babies become bilingual应该是place的定语从句，其关系副词where不可省略，因此在place
38、之后加上where。填空项1:_（正确答案：afterbefore）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“几个月大的孩子在他们还不能说英语之前就接触法语和西班牙语”，因此将意为“在之后”的after改为before。+填空项1:_（正确答案：talkingtalk）解析：解析 be ready to do sth为固定搭配，意为“准备做某事”，与原文相符，因此将动词现在分词talking改为动词原形talk。填空项1:_（正确答案：saytell）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“分辨之间的差别”，因此将意为“说”的say改成可表示“分辨”的tell。填空项1:_（正确答案：在never之前加has）解析
39、：解析 由并列连词and可知，前后两个分句应该使用相同的时态，即现在完成时，因此在never之前加上助动词has。填空项1:_（正确答案：towith）解析：解析 combine.with.为固定搭配，意为“将与相结合”，与原文意思相符，因此将to改为with。填空项1:_（正确答案：continuecontinues）解析：解析 the learning.at home是make sure的宾语从句，应使用正常时态，因此将continue改为continues。填空项1:_（正确答案：includingincluded）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“磁带和书被包含在内”，其中include和
40、tapes and books之间应该是被动关系，因此将including改为过去分词included。Although all the arts are essentially autonomous, owing tothe different materials and techniques which they employ with, there (1) is clearly a kind of bond between them. We speak of the architectureof a symphony, and call architecture, in return,
41、frozen music. (2) Again, we say that certain writing has a sculptural quality,and sometime describe a piece of sculpture as a poem in stone. (3) Admittedly, much of the phraseology which traffic between (4) the arts is pure metaphorical, being concerned only with the (5) effect of a work of art. Thu
42、s, in calling a statue a poem in stone,we merely indicate that its effect on us is that impalpable kind we (6) normally receive from poetry; we do not make an objective statementabout the sculptors intention or technical procedure. Such a metaphor,while useful descriptive purposes, cannot help us to
43、 gain a deeper (7) understanding of the nature of art.On the other hand, comparison between one art and another cannot (8) help towards this end, when the comparison is not metaphorical, butanalogical, being concerned with the artists intention and technicalprocedure. Thus, when we speak of the architecture of a fugue, we aretaking an objective statement that its composer has constructed it by methods (9) analogous to those of the Architect-that he has grouped masses ofnon-
