英语专业八级阅读试卷143及答案解析

1、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._If Shakira, a Colombian pop star, marries her boyfriend, the Spanish national footballer Gerard Pique, the only unusu。

2、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._If you are a youngish man who sits on a European corporate board, you should worry: the chances are that your chairma。

3、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._Driving along South Street, where the Los Angeles sprawl meets sprawling Orange County, you enter and leave Cerritos 。

4、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 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 immo。

5、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._Social circumstances in Early Modern England mostly served to repress womens voices. Patriarchal culture and ins。

6、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._The average U. S. household has to pay an exorbitant amount of money for an Internet connection that the rest of the 。

7、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._Distant indeed seem the days when the two great rivals of commercial aviation, Boeing and Airbus, would use big air s。

8、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._As I ponder whom it might be that I would consider a role model, I realized that there are a lot of people I know per。

9、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the。

10、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._When the Viaduct de Millau opened in the south of France in 2004, this tallest bridge in the world won worldwide comp。

11、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._Cruelty to animals, it is said, is often a precursor to graver crimes. So would there not be some usefulness to a reg。

12、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._Of all the extraordinary events in the life of John Paul II, few can compare with the 21 minutes he spent in a cell i。

13、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._Theres this great recurring Saturday Night Live skit from several years back where Phil Hartman play。

14、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._There are around 6,000 languages in the world today. At least there were until January of 2001. Then Carlos Westez di。

15、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._In last weeks Tribune, there was an interesting letter from Mr. J. Stewart Cook, in which he suggested that the 。

16、otes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 0 Chemistry plays an important part in our life. The【 1】 _ of a clock, 【 1】_ the clothes we wear, and our leather shoes are all made【 2】 _. 【 2】_ the water we drink is chemic。

17、2.SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task._。

18、2.我一直认为大学校长是高瞻远瞩、指导学术与教育大方向的决策人，而不是管馒头稀饭的保姆，但这也暂且不提。
这一类型的教育者的用心，毋庸置疑，当然是善意的。
问题是，我们论“事”的时候，用心如何根本不重要，重要的事实际的后果，而教育的后果何其严重！在这种过度呵护的幼稚教育下成长的大学生，遇事时，除了“泪眼汪汪”之外又能做些什么呢？ 教育者或许会说：这些学生如果进大学以前，就已经学好自治自律的话，我就不必要如此提之携之，喂之哺之；就是因为基础教育没教好，所以我办大学的人不得不教。
虽然是亡羊补牢，总比不教好。
（分数：2.00）_3.金圣叹说过： “人生三十不仕，不当再仕，五十不娶，不当再娶。
何则?用非其时也。
”这一种说法，可代表中国人一般的普通思想。
中国人的事业观，最羡慕“少年得志”，最伤感“大器晚成”。
为了这个原因，便是有所成就的人，到了五十以上，便有退休的意思。
六十七十的人若还在事业上努力，就有抽身不得的。

19、ur suggested answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. 0 As video game giants like Sony and Microsoft touted their new gizmos at the Tokyo Game Show this week, industry executives had more than the coming holiday sales season on their minds. Apples recent foray into video games with the iPhone, the iPod Touch and its ever-expanding online App Store is causing as much hand-wringing among old industry players as the global economic slump, whi。

20、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 answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer._As video game giants like Sony and Microsoft touted their new gizmos at the Tokyo Game Show this week, industry execu。