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1、专业英语八级(阅读)-试卷121及答案解析 (总分:44.00,做题时间:90分钟)一、READING COMPREHENSIO(总题数:11,分数:44.00)1.PART II READING COMPREHENSION_2.SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested
2、 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._The sudden death of an admired public person always seems an impossibility. People ascribe invulnerability, near immortality to our centers of attention. John Kennedy dies, and it could not happen. John Lennon dies, an
3、d it could not happen. Elvis, and Grace Kelly, and shock after shock. And now this death of a young woman by whom the world had remained shocked from the moment she first appeared before it, whose name contained the shadow of her end: Princess Di. But who would have believed it? People thought every
4、 thought that could be thought about Diana, but not death. She was beauty, deaths opposite. Beauty is given not only a special place of honor in the world but also a kind of permanence, as if it were an example of the tendency of nature to perfect itself, and therefore something that once achieved,
5、lives forever. Her life never seemed as tragic as it was often made outjust sad, and a little off. She married the wrong man. Her in-laws could be vindictive. For every photographer eager to capture a picture of her in one of those astonishing evening gowns or hats, another was hiding in the bushes
6、ready to bring her down. One cannot think of any public statement of hers that was especially brilliant or witty. She was more innocent than clever; even her confession of an affair to a reporter sounded girlish. If pressed, few could say exactly what it was that made her so important, especially to
7、 people outside England, except for the fact that one could not take ones eyes off the woman. Yet that was no small thing. Diana was someone one had to look at, and such a person comes along once in a blue moon. She had a soft heart; that was evident. She had a knack for helping people in distress.
8、And all such qualities rose in a face that everyone was simply pleased to see. In a way, she was more royal than the royals. She had a higher station than the Queen of England; she was the nominal young monarch of her own country and of every other place in the world. She was the sentimental favorit
9、e figurehead, who was authorized to sign no treaties, command no armies, make no wars. All she had was the way she looked and sounded and behaved. No model or actress could hold a candle to her. She was the image every child has of a princessthe one who can feel the pea under the mattresses, who kis
10、ses the frog, who lets down her hair from the tower window. Her marriage was gone long before her death. As the years went on, it is likely that there would have been other romances after Dodi Al Fayed to tickle the throngs. Exactly how her life would have progressed is hard to imagine. She would ha
11、ve continued to be a good mother and a worker for the ill and the poor: she would have been pictured from time to time at a dinner party or on a boat. In older age she might have become the Kings mother, welcomed back into the royal family at a time of life that is automatically accorded status. How
12、 would she have looked? The hair whiter, the skin a bit more lined, but the eyes would still have had that sweet mixture of kindness and longing. By then the story of her and Charles, the scandals and accusations, might have been lost in smoke. Yet if people now were asked how they will remember Dia
13、na, what picture among the thousands they will hold in their mind, it would not be Diana at an official ceremony, or with a boyfriend, or even with her children. It would be her on the day of her wedding, when all the world was glad to be her subject and when she gave everyone who looked at her the
14、improbable idea that life was beautiful.(分数:8.00)(1).The authors main purpose of mentioning John Kennedy, John Lennon, Elvis and Grace Kelly in the first paragraph is to_.(分数:2.00)A.show that Dianas death is as sudden and unexpected as theirsB.illustrate that Diana was as prominent and popular as th
15、ey wereC.express how regretful people felt for the loss of DianaD.imply that people could not accept the fact that they had died(2). That in the first sentence of Paragraph Five refers to_.(分数:2.00)A.any of Dianas brilliant or witty public statementsB.Dianas innocent confession of an affair to a rep
16、orterC.what made Diana so importantD.the fact that one could not take ones eyes off Diana(3).Which of the following word is used literally, NOT metaphorically?(分数:2.00)A.Moon (Paragraph Five).B.Candle (Paragraph Six).C.Smoke (Paragraph Seven).D.Subject (Paragraph Eight).(4).The author does NOT menti
17、on Princess Dianas_.(分数:2.00)A.outer and inner beautyB.personal lifeC.charitable heartD.political influencesWe all know that we dont get enough sleep. But how much sleep do we really need? Until about 15 years ago, one common theory was that if you slept at least four or five hours a night, your cog
18、nitive performance remained intact; your body simply adapted to less sleep. But that idea was based on studies in which researchers sent sleepy subjects home during the daywhere they may have sneaked in naps and downed coffee. Enter David Dinges, the head of the Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory at
19、 the Hospital at University of Pennsylvania, who has the distinction of depriving more people of sleep than perhaps anyone in the world. In what was the longest sleep-restriction study of its kind, Dinges and his lead author, Hans Van Dongen, assigned dozens of subjects to three different groups for
20、 their 2003 study: some slept four hours, others six hours and others, for the lucky control group, eight hours for two weeks in the lab. Every two hours during the day, the researchers tested the subjects ability to sustain attention with whats known as the psychomotor vigilance task, or P. V. T.,
21、considered a gold standard of sleepiness measures. During the P. V. T., the men and women sat in front of computer screens for 10-minute periods, pressing the space bar as soon as they saw a flash of numbers at random intervals. Even a half-second response delay suggests a lapse into sleepiness, kno
22、wn as a microsleep. The P. V. T. is tedious but simple if youve been sleeping well. It measures the sustained attention that is vital for pilots, truck drivers, astronauts. Attention is also key for focusing during long meetings; for reading a paragraph just once, instead of five times; for driving
23、a car. It takes the equivalent of only a two-second lapse for a driver to veer into oncoming traffic. Not surprisingly, those who had eight hours of sleep hardly had any attention lapses and no cognitive declines over the 14 days of the study. What was interesting was that those in the four-and six-
24、hour groups had P. V. T. results that declined steadily with almost each passing day. Though the four-hour subjects performed far worse, the six-hour group also consistently fell off-task. By the sixth day, 25 percent of the six-hour group was falling asleep at the computer. And at the end of the st
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