[外语类试卷]专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷287及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级(改错)模拟试卷 287及答案与解析 一、 PART III LANGUAGE USAGE 0 A longtime aide to President Bush who wrote occasional guest columns for his hometown newspaper resigned on Friday evening after admitted that he had repeatedly plagiarized from other writers.【 S1】 _ The White House called his actions unaccepted.
2、 The aide, Tim【 S2】 _ Goeglein, worked for Mr. Bush since 2001, as a liaison to social【 S3】 _ and religious conservatives, an important component of the presidents political base. Mr. Goeglein was influential in decisions on a range of question important to that constituency, including stem【 S4】 _ c
3、ell research, abortion and faith-based initiatives. A blogger in Mr. Goegleins hometown, Fort Wayne, Ind. , found the plagiarism. “This is not acceptable, and we are being disappointed in Tims【 S5】 _ actions,“ a White House spokeswoman, Emily Lawrimore, said Friday morning, hours before Mr. Goeglein
4、 resigned. “ He is offered no excuses, and he agrees it was wrong. “ Mr. Goeglein,【 S6】 _ 44, is small known outside Washington. He is a familiar figure to【 S7】 _ conservatives and evangelical Christians, who knew him as a spokesman for Gary L. Bauer, the conservative who ran as president【 S8】 _ in
5、2000. When Mr. Bauer dropped out the race, Mr. Goeglein【 S9】 _ signed on with Mr. Bush, eventually becoming a top aide to Karl Rove, the chief political strategist. He was the eyes and ears of the White House in the world of religion conservatives and an emissary【 S10】 _ to that world for Mr. Rove a
6、nd the president. 1 【 S1】 2 【 S2】 3 【 S3】 4 【 S4】 5 【 S5】 6 【 S6】 7 【 S7】 8 【 S8】 9 【 S9】 10 【 S10】 10 In the house where I grew up, it was our custom to leave the “on the latch“ at night. No one carried keys. Today doors do not stay unlocked, thus for part of an evening.【 S1】 _ The era of leaving t
7、he front door open has gone forever. It has been replaced of by locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and【 S2】 _ trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm. Many suburban families even have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly building in so n
8、o one can pry the doors open.【 S3】 _ A recent public-service advertisement by an insurance company featured not actuarial charts or a picture of a childs bicycle with【 S4】 _ padlock attached to it. It is the insurance companies which pay for stolen goods, but【 S5】 _ who is going to pay for that the
9、new atmosphere of distrust and fear is【 S6】 _ doing to our way of life? Who is going to make the psychological【 S7】 _ payment for the transformation of America from the Land of Free to the Land of the Lock? For some reason we are satisfied when we think we are well- protected ; it does not occur us
10、to ask ourselves: Why are we having【 S8】 _ to barricade ourselves for our neighbors and fellow citizens, and【 S9】 _ when, exactly, did this start to take over our lives? Even a decade ago, most private businesses had a policy of free access. Thus, today you have to carry some kind of access card【 S1
11、0】 _ to your company. Maybe the security guard at the front desk knows your face and will wave you in most days, but the fact remains that the business your work for feels threatened enough to keep outsiders away via these “keys“. 11 【 S1】 12 【 S2】 13 【 S3】 14 【 S4】 15 【 S5】 16 【 S6】 17 【 S7】 18 【 S
12、8】 19 【 S9】 20 【 S10】 20 Misery may love company, but this was ridiculous. More than a million IBM stockholders last week took a nightmare ride on a stock they had long trusted. IBM had been sliding all year recent【 S1】 _ hitting 10-year lows, but after the company announced last Tuesday that it wou
13、ld, among other things, slash another 25,000 jobs, the stock took a historic rise. In 48 hours, it lost 11 points, or almost【 S2】 _ 18 percent of its value, closing Wednesday at 51. On Friday it hit other new low. Big Board officials camped out on the exchange floor【 S3】 _ to prevent chaotic, land b
14、rokers fielded frantic calls from investors【 S4】 _ in various stages of disbelief and agony. “ Theyre screaming and hollering,“ said Carol Komskis of York Securities. They are saying, “Things like this just dont happen in America. “ Stock prices that rise and fall are anything new; thats what【 S5】 _
15、 makes a market. But Big Blue had always epitomized the blue-chip stock on that Americans could count to send the kids to college or【 S6】 _ help retire in the style. Some investors may be in blissful【 S7】 _ ignorant; pension funds across the country are heavily invested in【 S8】 _ IBM.(The New York S
16、tate Employee Pension Funds lonely hold【 S9】 _ 3. 6 million shares.)But the charm of stocks like IBM, General Motors and Westinghouse was that you could feel secure in buying them even you did not know “ earnings“. Such stock made【 S10】 _ generations of Americans faithful capitalists. “This was the
17、kind of stock that created wealth for a lot of people in this country. “ Says Jonathan Pond, a Boston-based financial counselor and author. 21 【 S1】 22 【 S2】 23 【 S3】 24 【 S4】 25 【 S5】 26 【 S6】 27 【 S7】 28 【 S8】 29 【 S9】 30 【 S10】 30 Bill Gates may be one of the smartest guys in the country, but eve
18、n hes annoyed at having to remember a sort of personal passwords for activities like withdrawing money and going online. He also thinks theyre secure. At last weeks Comdex computer【 S1】 _ convention in Las Vegas, the Microsoft CEO railed the password as【 S2】 _ a “ weak link“. One of his proposed sol
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