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1、专业八级-521 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)Ten Tips for Reducing Stress While in CollegeStress is something you can control. Follow these ten tips to learn how to control it.1. Most Importantly: Dont Stress About Being Stresseda)the best way to

2、handle stress: not get more stressed about beingstressed;b)If youre stressed out, (1) it and figure out how to handle it.2. Get Some Sleepa)Getting more sleep can help your mind refocus, (2) , andrebalance.b)One good nights sleep can be all you need.3. Get Some FoodGo to eat something that is (3) .

3、4. Get Some Exercisea)Exercise doesnt necessarily have to be violent;b)It can mean a (4) , 30-minute walk.5. Get Some Quiet Timea) (5) in college is rare.b)Finding a few quiet moments is necessary.6. Get Some Social Timea)Your brain is like a muscle which needs (6) b) Having a social life is an impo

4、rtant part of your college experience.7. Get Some FunTry to figure out how to make the stressful thing a little more(7) . 8. Get Some DistanceIts okay to take a step back and focus on yourself for a little while,especially if you are stressed and your (8) are at risk.9. Get a Little Helpa)Dont be af

5、raid to make an appointment if you think it will help.b)It may help you realize that what you are so stressed about areactually pretty (9) .10. Get Some Perspectivea)College life can be (10) b)Keep your eye on the prize and then head out and change theworld !（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项

6、 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).Which of the following tasks is NOT involved in Robertas work?（分数：1.00）A.To maximize efficiency.B.To minimize stress.C.To urge them to be punctual,D.To organize the work in an effective way.(2).What is Robertas view towards punctua

7、lity?（分数：1.00）A.Its important.B.Its not important.C.Its ambiguous.D.It depends.(3).With whom do you need to set time limits?（分数：1.00）A.Everyone.B.The persistent latecomers.C.People who arrive occasionally late.D.New acquaintances.(4).Which of the following is NOT advised by Roberta?（分数：1.00）A.If you

8、re looking on something important, decline your visitor politely.B.The people in Latin would be depressed when being turned down.C.Americans would not feel offended when being refused.D.When people are interrupted, they should always defend their time.(5).How should one arrange the pleasant task and

9、 the unpleasant task?（分数：1.00）A.He should do them at the same time.B.He should do them according to the time-limit.C.He should do the unpleasant one first.D.He should do the pleasant one when relaxed.四、SECTION C(总题数：3，分数：5.00)1.Under the deal agreed with the European parliament, bonuses bankers may

10、get as low as（分数：1.00）A.20 percent of bonus in cash immediately.B.30 percent of bonus in shares immediately.C.30 percent of bonus in hedge fund immediately.D.50 percent of bonus in hedge fund immediately.Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be give

11、n 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).Where does the financial support of Electro Optic Systems laser tracking technology come from?（分数：1.00）A.Australian government.B.Australian National University.C.Germany government.D.American institutions.(2).The laser-trackin

12、g technology is developed to（分数：1.00）A.blow big pieces of junk into tiny lacks.B.burn out any space junk it can track.C.warn astronauts and satellites of potential danger.D.move away the junk from satellites orbits.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you

13、will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).At the 18th International AIDS conference in Vienna, activists want to draw attention to the issue of（分数：1.00）A.male homosexual relationships.B.female homosexual relationships.C.unprotected sex between men and wome

14、n.D.pregnant women with AIDS.(2).Khan says scientific data on the effects of HIV on MSM（分数：1.00）A.give technical assistance to AIDS patients.B.take 20 years of many doctors efforts.C.are from his personal study.D.come later than they should.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)“

15、Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one,“ wrote Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the search firms founders, in a letter to investors ahead of its stock market flotation in 2004. Since then, Google has burnished its reputation as one of the quirkiest companies on the planet. T

16、his year alone it has raised eyebrows by taking a stake in a wind-energy project off the east coast of America and by testing self-driving cars, which have already covered over 140,000 miles (225,000km) on the countrys roads.Google has been able to afford such flights of fancy thanks to its amazingl

17、y successful online-search business. This has produced handsome returns for the firms investors, who have seen the company transform itself in the space of a mere 12 years from a tiny start-up into a behemoth with a $180 billion market capitalization that sprawls across a vast headquarters in Silico

18、n Valley known as the Googolplex. Google also stretches across the web like a giant spider, with a leg in everything from online search and e-mail to social networking and web-based software applications, or apps.Much of its growth has been organic, but Google has also splashed out on some sizeable

19、acquisitions. In 2006 it paid $1.7 billion for You Tube, a website that lets people post videos of their children, kittens and Lady Gaga impersonations. The following year it snapped up Double-Click, an online-advertising network, for $ 3.1 billion. More deals are likely. Google is bidding for Group

20、 on, a trendy e-commerce business, using some of the $ 33 billion sitting in its coffers.All this has turned Google into a force to be reckoned with. But now the champion of the unorthodox is faced with two conventional business challenges. The first involves placating regulators, who fret that it m

21、ay be abusing its considerable power. On November 30th the European Union announced a formal investigation into claims that Google has been manipulating search results to give an unfair advantage to its own servicesa charge the firm vigorously denies. In America, Google faces a similar investigation

22、 in Texas and is also battling with a bunch of online-travel companies who have been lobbying the government to veto its recent purchase of ITA Software, a company that provides data about flights.The other challenge facing Google is how to find new sources of growth. In spite of all the experiments

23、 it has launched, the firm is still heavily dependent on search related advertising. Last year this accounted for almost all of its $ 24 billion of revenue and $ 6.5 billion of profit. Acquisitions such as You Tube have deepened rather than reduced the firms dependence on advertising. Steve Ballmer,

24、 the boss of Googles arch-rival Microsoft, has derided the search company for being “a one trick pony“.Ironically, investors biggest worry is that Google will end up like Microsoft, which has failed to find big new sources of revenue and profit to replace those from its two ageing ponies, the Window

25、s operating system and the Office suite of business software. That explains why Googles share price has stagnated. “The market seems to believe this could be like Microsoft version two,“ says Mark Mahoney, an analyst at Citigroup. News of the formal EU antitrust enquiry will no doubt invite further

26、comparisons with Mr. Ballmers firm, which fought a long and bruising battle with European regulators.Is such a comparison fair? Those who think it is point to several changes that could damage Google. The first is the rise of new ways in which people can find information online. They include social

27、networks such as Facebook, which saw traffic to its site in America surpass that to Googles sites earlier this year, and apps offered by Apple and other firms that help people find information without using a web browser.（分数：5.00）(1).The authors attitude towards Googles unconventionality is（分数：1.00）

28、A.disapproval.B.approval.C.neutral.D.ambiguous.(2).The word “behemoth“ in the second paragraph probably means（分数：1.00）A.colossus.B.corporation.C.pioneer.D.leader.(3).Google did all the following EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.acquiring different companies.B.developing software applications.C.actively probing into

29、 new industries.D.setting foot in various Internet areas.(4).The future of Google is expected to be（分数：1.00）A.bleak.B.promising.C.uncertain.D.unknown.(5).Which is the best title of the passage?（分数：1.00）A.The Prosperity of Giant GoogleB.The Tough Days of Giant GoogleC.How Is Google Different from Oth

30、ers?D.How Long Will Googles Magic Last?七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Not so long ago television was scary. It was held to turn children into imbeciles, make men violent and corrupt political discourse. Books tried to alert people to the menace in their living rooms: the best of them was Neil Postmans Amusi

31、ng Ourselves to Death, published in 1985. Musicians vilified TV in songs like “She Watch Channel Zero“ and “Television, the Drug of the Nation“.These clays newspapers are filled with tales of Facebook stalkers, Craigslist killers, cyber-bullying and screen addiction. E-mail, bogs and YouTube, not te

32、levision, are held responsible for the degradation of politics. As the Internet grabs attention, television has become more pitied than feared. A Google search on the phrase “threat from television“ turns up some 500 results, many of them historical. “Threat to television“ generates eight times as m

33、any.Much of this is misguided. People spend more time watching television now than they did when rappers attacked it with songs. As a thorough study by the Council for Research Excellence has shown, Americans spend more time watching television than they spend surfing the web, sending e-mails, watch

34、ing DVDs, playing computer games, reading newspapers and talking on mobile phones put together. Television is not disappearing. But nor is it the only star in the sky.The Internet, both fixed and mobile, poses a growing challenge to television. It lures advertisers with promises of precision: why pa

35、y huge sums to scatter a message among millions of people when you can target the few who seem to be interested in your product? To consumers it promises choice, engagement and a low (or no) price. And the Internet has powerful backers. Despite all that hand-wringing over the dangers of technology,

36、governments from South Korea to Sweden seem to regard universal fast broadband as a human right, to be paid for out of general taxation.With the important exception of sport, early attempts to deliver TV content over the web and mobile phones have proved unprofitable. The worst mistakes are now bein

37、g put right. But it is doubtful that the economics of online or mobile video will ever be as attractive as the economics of traditional television. As video goes online, a world of restricted choice and limited advertising space turns into one where both are available in almost endless quantities. M

38、ore supply means lower prices.Technology also competes for attention. Although families still gather around the TV set as they have done for decades, they now bring electronic distractions with them. Nielsen reckons that 13% of people who watched the Academy Awards ceremony this year went online dur

39、ing the programmed, up from 9% last year. The multitask did not appear to gravitate to entertainment websites. Google and Facebook topped the list of websites visited during the Oscars, just as they did during the Super Bowl and the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.For the biggest TV shows, t

40、echnology is a boon. Social-networking websites create chatter around reality-TV programmers, increasing awareness and drawing viewers. Television executives have long endeavored to create “water-cooler“ shows which people will talk about at work the next day. Chris Silverman, president of Internati

41、onal Creative Management, a talent agency, says Facebook and Twitter function a bit like large digital water-coolers. As audiences fragment, the big shows ability to draw huge numbers of eyeballs at a specific time becomes ever more valuable to advertisers.For shows of middling popularity, including

42、 many scripted dramas and comedies, life is harder. Big shows are crowding out smaller ones, partly because of the amplifying effects of social media and partly because of the spread of digital video recorders, which make it easy to watch nothing but hits. Online video nibbles at their audience, too

43、. How to survive in this world of giant competitors and new distractions? One answer is to involve viewers more in programmers. Television is extremely good at creating characters and gripping stories. It is much less good at encouraging people to engage with those stories. Simon Cowbell has proved

44、that people will vote for contestants in talent shows.Television is supreme at holding the attention of a large number of people for long periods. Other gadgets divert people from the box, but not nearly as much as TV diverts them from all those other gadgets. And technology has undermined some of t

45、elevisions biggest competitors, notably newspapers. In a world of fragmenting audiences, if TV can combine scale with specificity, become more responsive to its audience and learn to aim adverts more precisely, it will continue to thrive.（分数：5.00）(1).It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs

46、that（分数：1.00）A.people regard television as a plague.B.people prefer television to the Internet.C.the quality of television programs is improving.D.people blame the Internet for some social problems.(2).Advertisements on the Internet have all the following advantages over TV ads EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.guar

47、antee of quality.B.easy availability.C.the competitive price.D.freedom of choice.(3).As to the attempts to deliver TV content over the web, the authors attitude is（分数：1.00）A.strongly disapproving.B.slightly disapproving.C.fairly impartial.D.very objective.(4).A TV program with a high audience rating

48、 will（分数：1.00）A.give the producer some comfort,B.bring great economic benefits.C.be well spoken of by the audience.D.be sustainable and long-tasting.(5).The passage is written to inform us that（分数：1.00）A.TV outweighs the Internet in that the former attracts more audience,B.the Internet has brought m

49、uch more social problems than that TV has.C.TV, the last remaining mass medium, should engage with its audience.D.other mass media have been defeated by new means of media today.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Every morning at four-thirty, sixty concrete trucksfrom Brooklyn, from Queens, from New Jersey race in the dark over bridges and through tunnels and converge at the intersection of West and