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1、专业英语八级(作文)-试卷109及答案解析 (总分:10.00,做题时间:90分钟)一、WRITING(总题数:5,分数:10.00)1.PART V WRITING(分数:2.00)_2.Singles Day has been hailed as another victory by modern society in terms of commercialism. Businessmen view it as a gold mine for money-digging while the netizens sing high praise for the conveniences it
2、brings us. How should we view this newly man-made festival? Read the excerpt carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the authors opinion; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and l
3、anguage quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Lets not Discount Human Touch Next Nov. 11 I had a punishing days shopping recently. In less than an hour, I bought 12 liter-cartons of milk, the same number of boxes of breakfast cereal, 10 hairy crabs, a dozen
4、 pairs of socks, and a replacement laptop power cable. The next day it was all delivered straight to my door, neatly packed and alive. Welcome to Chinas most efficient and expanding industry: Online shopping. When I left Edinburgh, the above list might have meant a whole weekend of much blood, sweat
5、 and irritation. In Beijing, however, the opposites apply. I am embarrassed to say, my list was all bought sitting in bed. This is the ultimate in modern convenience and a gold mine for the delivery and retail sectors. But I cant help thinking its becoming a killer for society. Retailers across Chin
6、a will no doubt be toasting another bumper Nov. 11 shopping festival. Alibaba reported that about 91.2 billion yuan was spent on Nov. 11. That was 60 percent higher than the 57. 1 billion yuan it took on Nov. 11 last year. In my view, festivals are about mingling with happy people, listening to musi
7、c, enjoying each others company. Theyre not about sitting boggled in front of a PC, laptop, tablet or mobile, essentially spending for the sake of spending. In just five years, Nov. 11 has become commercialism on a vulgar scalemuch like Christmas has in the West. In Edinburgh, I lived in Stockbridge
8、. Theres a 40-year-old cheese shop, a delicatessen, a hardware store, a stationer, two small supermarkets, a butcher, a fresh-fish shop, even a chocolatier: All within striking distance of each other. At the weekend, families stroll about with armfuls of real shopping bags, having conversations with
9、 real neighbors, actually interacting with their fellow Edinburgers. I fully appreciate not everyone has this luxury of such quirky shop windows on their doorsteps. Being able to source thousands of online goods, conveniently from home is amazing and impressive. But have we all become just too used
10、to clicking a mouse than using our own two feet to go out for a nice piece of old-fashioned retail therapy? I feel weve already got to the point that choosing this rather slothful keyboard opinion is a breeding ground for a more sedentary and unsociable society. What about actual shops? Already, mil
11、lions are being shuttered around the world. And those that do survive may very well be run by artificially intelligent shop assistant applications or robotsnot much chat over the counter in those. Indoors, too, all-purpose robots are already doing the housework. Sensors in future could also obviate
12、other chores, with your fridge and cupboards programmed to place orders for you.I would rather like not having my life ruled by electronicsespecially those I cant look in the eye, or say hello to. So, instead of Nov. 11, how about Get Off Your Posterior, and Go and Do Something for Yourself Day? Wri
13、te your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.(分数:2.00)_3.Ubiquitous, addictive and transformative, smartphones become a necessity of our daily lives. Along with the conveniences smartphones bring us, worries about the negative effects of them have never stopped. In the following excerpt, the author gives h
14、is views on smartphones. Read the excerpt carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the authors opinion; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow
15、the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Planet of the Phones The dawn of the planet of the smartphones came in January 2007, when Steve Jobs, Apples chief executive, in front of a rapt audience of Apple acolytes, brandished a slab of plastic, metal and silicon not much bigger than a Ki
16、t Kat. This will change everything, he promised. For once there was no hyperbole. Just eight years later Apples iPhone exemplifies the early 21st centurys defining technology. Smartphones matter partly because of their ubiquity. They have become the fastest-selling gadgets in history, outstripping t
17、he growth of the simple mobile phones that preceded them. They outsell personal computers four to one. Today about half the adult population owns smartphones; by 2020, 80% will. Smartphones have also penetrated every aspect of daily life. The average American is buried in one for over two hours ever
18、y day. Asked which media they would miss most, British teenagers pick mobile devices over TV sets, PCs and games consoles. Nearly 80% of smartphone-owners check messages, news or other services within 15 minutes of getting up. The bedroom is just the beginning. Smartphones are more than a convenient
19、 route online, rather as cars are more than engines on wheels and clocks are not merely a means to count the hours. Much as the car and the clock did in their time, so today the smartphone is poised to enrich lives, reshape entire industries and transform societiesand in ways that Snap-chatting teen
20、agers cannot begin to imagine. As with all technologies blessed by smartphones, this future conjures up a host of worries. Some, such as text neck (hunching over a smartphone stresses the spine) are surely transient. Others, such as dependencysmartphone users exhibit nomophobia when they happen to f
21、ind themselves empty-handedare a measure of utility as much as addiction. After all, people also hate to be without their wheels or their watch. The greater fear is over privacy. The smartphone turns the person next to you into a potential publisher of your most private or embarrassing moments. Many
22、 app vendors, who know a great deal about you, sell data without proper disclosure; mobile-privacy policies routinely rival Hamlet for length. And if leaked documents are correct, GCHQ, Britains signals-intelligence agency, has managed to hack a big vendor of SIM cards in order to be able to listen
23、in to peoples calls. If spooks in democracies are doing this sort of thing, you can be sure that those in authoritarian regimes will, too. Smartphones will give dictators unprecedented scope to spy on and corral their unwilling subjects. By their nature, seminal technologies ask hard questions of so
24、ciety, especially as people adapt to them. Smartphones are no different. If citizens arent protected from prying eyes, some will suffer and others turn their backs. Societies will have to develop new norms and companies learn how to balance privacy and profit. Governments will have to define what is
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