[外语类试卷]专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷223及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷 223及答案与解析 一、 PART III LANGUAGE USAGE 0 Changes in the technology of communication are occurring so rapidly that we human beings now move through a cloud of messages as densely as a locust-storm. Every new device increases【 M1】 _ the speed and the outreach of the last, and young people
2、 are now governed by the gadgets in their hands, which dont merely contain their lives and also to a great extent dictate them.【 M2】 _ Of course, the print media still exist. There are old-fashioned people like myself who make a living by writing things, and old-fashioned people like you, who suppor
3、t us by reading, or at any rate buy, what we write. But maybe its only people like us【 M3】 _ who are able really to regret for the changes that are sweeping【 M4】 _ away so much that we depended upon. The rest of the world is caught up in the torrent of gadgets, each new model is designed to【 M5】 _ r
4、elieve its owner of one more source of spiritual exercise or one【 M6】 _ more obstacle to fun. Memory now exists behind a screen. Very few is stored in our heads, and our recollections drift in cyberspace【 M7】 _ like asteroids, unconnected to the orbit in which we move. Written letters are a thing of
5、 past, and essays are downloaded【 M8】 _ from the sites devoted to them. Research means surfing the web, and as for social life this is a matter of tweeting and twittering as one drifts through cyberspace. Facebook friendships bubble up in a moment, and consist of a mutual agreement between strangers
6、 to【 M9】 _ put themselves on display. More and more does it seem that putting yourself on display is what it is all about, which there is【 M10】 _ nothing more to love and friendship than being mutually visible. 1 【 M1】 2 【 M2】 3 【 M3】 4 【 M4】 5 【 M5】 6 【 M6】 7 【 M7】 8 【 M8】 9 【 M9】 10 【 M10】 10 Lang
7、uage is fantastically complex. Its built-in means of combining and recombining(nesting)of its various levels have【 M1】 _ suggested to many leading linguists that language is theoretically infinite though not practical so in everyday usage.【 M2】 _ It almost sounds too complex to be able to detect any
8、 significant leveling out of language any more than one could detect by observation that the sun is burning itself out. As far as I am conscious no linguist seriously purports that【 M3】 _ the restructuring process of language overrides the streamlining process resulted in a qualitative positive deve
9、lopment of【 M4】 _ language. If we decide that language did originally develop, possibly evolving animal communication, we can only do【 M5】 _ so by assuming evolution to be a universally valid principle This type【 M6】 _ of a priori reasoning was the basic fallacy of pre-Nineteenth Century “speculativ
10、e grammar“ which was pre-scientific in modern【 M7】 _ sense of the word. However, the observable data neither indicate that such a【 M8】 _ period of pre-historic development even existed, nor they【 M9】 _ suggest a cause of the subsequent state of equilibrium or process of simplification that would hav
11、e to have come into operation at some time after such a pre-historic development. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prominent linguists of the twentieth century, has indicated that human language and animal communication are not even comparative entities, they are so【 M10】 _ different. 11 【 M1】 12 【 M2】
12、 13 【 M3】 14 【 M4】 15 【 M5】 16 【 M6】 17 【 M7】 18 【 M8】 19 【 M9】 20 【 M10】 20 Poetry doesnt matter to most people. One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 21st century, when music videos and satellite television offer daunting competition for poems, which demand a good deal of attention and
13、considerate analytic skills, as【 M1】 _ well as some knowledge of the traditions of poetry. In the 19th century, poets like Scott, Byron, and Longfellow had huge audiences around the world. Their works were best sellers, yet they were cultural heroes as well. But readers had few【 M2】 _ choices in tho
14、se days. One imagines, perhaps false, that people【 M3】 _ actually liked poetry. It provided them with narratives that entertained and inspired. They gave them words to attach to their【 M4】 _ feelings. They enjoyed folk ballads, too. In the sense, music and【 M5】 _ poetry joined hands. In the 20th cen
15、tury, something went to amiss. Poetry became【 M6】 _ “difficult“. That is, poets began to reflect the complex of modern【 M7】 _ culture, its fierce disjunctions. The poems of Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle and T.S. Eliot asked a lot of the reader, including a range of cultural references to topics when e
16、ven in the early 1900s had【 M8】 _ become little known. To read Pound and Eliot with easy, for【 M9】 _ instance, one needed some knowledge of Greek and Latin poetry. That kind of learning had been fairly common among educated readers in the past. The same could be said for most readers in the【 M10】 _
17、20th century or today, when education has become more democratized and the study of the classics has been relegated to a small number of enthusiasts. 21 【 M1】 22 【 M2】 23 【 M3】 24 【 M4】 25 【 M5】 26 【 M6】 27 【 M7】 28 【 M8】 29 【 M9】 30 【 M10】 30 Whom can you trust these days? It is a question posed by
18、 David Halpern of Cambridge University, and the researchers at the Downing Street Strategy Unit who take an interest in “social capital“. In intervals they go around asking people in assorted【 M1】 _ nations the question: “Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted?“ The result
19、s are fascinated. The conclusion that leaps from the【 M2】 _ figures and into sensational headlines are that social dislocation,【 M3】 _ religious decline, public scandals, family fragmentation and the fear of crime have made us more trusting. Comparative surveys【 M4】 _ over 40 years suggest that Brit
20、ish trustfulness had halved: in the【 M5】 _ 1950s 60 per cent of us answered “yes, most people can be trusted“, in the 1980s 44 per cent, today only 29 per cent. Trust levels also continue to fall in Ireland and the US meanwhile, the Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Dutch express tremendous confidence i
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