2014年专业八级考试试题(八)

专业八级考试试题(八) 一、Listening Comprehension (News Broadcast)（共5小题,共4.0分）In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow. 第1题   Haler Group' bid for Maytag is ______ A ＄1.75 billion B ＄18.5 billion C ＄16.4 billion D ＄1.3 billion 【正确 答案 八年级地理上册填图题岩土工程勘察试题省略号的作用及举例应急救援安全知识车间5s试题及答案 】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 [听力原文]   An ＄18.5 billion bid for Unocal made Thursday by one of the largest state-controlled oil companies in China is the latest symbol of the country's growing economic clout and of the soaring ambitions of its corporate giants. The unsolicited bid by China National Offshore Oil Corp, or CNOOC, initiated the first-ever big takeover battle by a Chinese company for a U.S. corporation. It also may be a watershed in Chinese corporate behavior and demonstrates the increasing influence of Wall Street's bare-knuckled hostile- takeover tactics in Asia. CNOOC's bid, which comes two months after Unocal agreed to be sold to Chevron, an American oil giant, for ＄16.4 billion, is expected to trigger a potentially costly bidding war over California-based Unocal, a large, independent oil company. Moreover, the bid is likely to provoke a fierce debate in Washington about U.S. trade policies with China and the role of the two governments in the growing trend of deal making between companies in both countries. A consortium of investors led by Haler Group, one of the biggest Chinese companies, made a bid this week to acquire Maytag, the American appliance giant, for ＄1.3 billion, surpassing an earlier bid made by a group of American investors. Last month, Lenovo Group, the largest computer maker in China, completed its ＄1.75 billion deal to acquire IBM's legendary personal computer business, creating the third-largest computer maker after Dell and Hewlett-Packard 第2题 Which statement is not true? A This is the biggest takeover battle for China B China's bid will probably trigger a costly biding competition over the company Unacal C The U.S is planning forbidding Chinese company's bids for U.S company D Unocal has agreed to be sold to another American oil company 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 第3题   What's the effect of the US slowdown? A Cutting into demand for Nokia's handsets. B Promote other economies. C Many firms break down. D Many handsets don't sell. 【正确答案】：A 【本题分数】：0.7分 【答案解析】 [听力原文]   The king has taken a knock. Nokia warned that the U. S. slowdown is now extending to other economies, and said that is cutting into demand for Nokia's handsets, and for its growing mobile infrastructure business. In April, a more optimistic Nokia said it was on course for a 20 percent sales growth this quarter. That forecast has been cut in half. Tuesday's warning knocked a whopping ＄3l billion off Nokia's market cap. Nokia joins rivals Motorola and Ericsson in warning about sales. The rate of new phone purchases has slowed dramatically in Europe, with customers reluctant to trade up to new handsets. 第4题 So far, how many percent of sales growth this quarter? A 20% B 10% C 40% D 80% 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：0.7分 第5题 Why has the rate of new phone purchases slowed in Europe? A Because of the warning about sales B Because the customers are reluctant to trade up to new handsets C Because of cutting into demand for handsets D Because of the U.S slowdown 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：0.7分 二、Reading Comprehension (Comprehension)（共20小题,共20.0分）In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on Answer Sheet Two. 第1题 Manners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought to. In fact, it is saddening to note that if a man does offer his seat to an older woman, it is nearly a Continental man or one from the older generation. This question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued about by young men, who say that, since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserve to be treated with courtesy and that those who go out to work should take their turn in the rat race like anyone else. Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as men. Even if it is not agreed, however, that young men should stand up for younger women, the fact remains that courtesy should be shown to the old, the sick and the burdened. Are we really so lost to all ideals of unselfishness that we can sit there indifferently reading the paper or a book, saying to ourselves "First come, first served," while a gray-haired woman, a mother with a young child or a cripple stands? Yet this is all too often seen. Conditions in travel are really very hard on everyone, we know, but hardship is surely no excuse. Sometimes one wonders what would have been the behavior of these stout young men in a packed refugee train on its way to a prison- camp during the War. Would they have considered it only right and their proper due to keep the best places for themselves then? Older people, tired and irritable from a day's work, are not angle, either— far from it. Many a brisk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes. One cannot commend this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse. If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in, however, it seems imperative, not only that communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite. All over cities, it seems that people are too tired and too rushed to be polite. Shop assistant won’t bother to assist, taxi-drivers growl at each other as they dash dangerously round corners, bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have had time to get on or off the bus, and so on and so on. It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration. From what you have read, would you expect manners to improve among people______? A who are physically weak or crippled B who once lived in a prison-camp during the War C who live in big modern cities D who live only in metropolitan cities 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节判断题。伞文的讨论重点是大城市中人们的礼貌问题，而基本上没有涉及其它方面的问题，所以答案C正确。 第2题 What is the writer's opinion concerning courteous manners towards women? A Now that women have claimed equality, they no longer need to be treated differently from men. B It is generally considered old-fashioned for young men to give up their seats to young women. C "Ladies first" should be universally practiced. D Special consideration ought to be shown to them. 【正确答案】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节判断题。文章引用了别人的观点，即有人认为既然妇女已经要求平等，她们就不应该要求男人向他们显示关怀，而作者却认为“Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as men．”即妇女们从来没有声明她们在体力h 和男人是平等的(因而向女人提供帮助是有益的)。 第3题 What does the author try to convey by giving the example of stout young men in a packed refugee train during the War? A Young men do not need to consider their behaviour during War time. B Young men need to care more about themselves during War time. C Conditions in travel are really very hard during War time. D Young men should not use hardship as an excuse for their bad behaviour. 【正确答案】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节判断题。在第三段中，作者用一个假想的例子来讽喻现代年轻人不谦止的行为举止。作者认为困难不应作为不良行为的借口，由此暗指在现代文明社会人们更应该学会礼让。A、B和C三项都不符合作者想法，只有答案D是正确的。 第4题 According to the author, communication between human beings would be smoother if______. A people were more considerate towards each other B people were not so tired and irritable C women were treated with more courtesy D public transport could be improved 【正确答案】：A 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节判断题。最后一段作者认为，如果人们想使城市成为居住的理想地方，那么似乎有两件事情是紧急的：交通运输应该被改进，人们之间也应该互相照顾体谅。 第5题 What is the possible meaning of the word" deterioration" in the last paragraph? A worsening of general situation B lowering of moral standards C declining of physical constitution D spreading of evil conduct 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 词义对应题。deterioration是全文所描述的情况的 总结 初级经济法重点总结下载党员个人总结TXt高中句型全总结.doc高中句型全总结.doc理论力学知识点总结pdf 。全文讨论的是礼貌行为，足和道德标准相关的，因此答案B lowering of moral standards(道德水准的降低)是正确答案。 第6题 It was eleven o'clock that night when Mr. Pontellier returned from Klein's hotel. He was in an excellent humor, in high spirits, and very talkative. His entrance awoke his wife, who was in bed and fast asleep when he came in. He talked to her while he undressed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered during the day. From his trousers pockets he took a fistful of crumpled bank notes and a good deal of silver coin, which he piled on the bureau indiscriminately with keys, knife, handkerchief, and whatever else happened to be in his pockets, she was overcome with sleep, and answered him with little half utterances. He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him, and valued so little his conversation. Mr. Pontellier had forgotten the bonbons and peanuts for the boys. Notwithstanding he loved them very much, and went into the adjoining room where they were resting comfortably. The result of his investigation was far from satisfactory. He turned and shifted the youngsters about in bed. One of them began to kick and talk about a basket full of crabs. Mr. Pontellier returned to his wife with the information that Raoul had a high fever and needed looking after. Then he lit a cigar and went and sat near the open door to smoke it. Mrs. Pontellier was quite sure Raoul had no fever. He had gone to bed perfectly well, she said, and nothing had ailed him all day. Mr. Pontellier was too will acquainted with fever symptoms to be mistaken. He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room. He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business. He could not be in two places at once; making a living for his family on the street, and staying at home to see that no harm befell them. He talked in a monotonous, insistent way. Mrs. Pontellier sprang out of bed and went into the next room. She soon came back and sat on the edge of the bed, leaning her head down on the pillow. She said nothing, and refused to answer her husband when he questioned her. When his cigar was smoked out he went to bed, and in half a minute he was fast asleep. Mrs. Pontellier was by that time thoroughly awake. She began to cry a little, and wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her peignoir. Blowing out the candle, which her husband had left burning, she slipped her bare feet into a pair of satin mules at the foot of the bed and went out on the porch, where she sat down in the wicker chair and began to rock gently to and fro. It was then past midnight. The cottages were all dark. A single faint light gleamed out from the hallway of the house. There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour. It broke like a mournful lullaby upon the night. The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier’ s eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them. She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm. Turning, she thrust her face, steaming and wet, into the bend of her arm, and she went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms. She could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have to have weighed much against the abundance of her husband's kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self-understood. An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly upbraiding her husband, lamenting at Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself. The mosquitoes made merry over her, biting her firm, round arms and nipping at her bare insteps. The little stinging, buzzing imps succeeded in dispelling a mood which might have held her there in the darkness half a night longer. Mr. Pontellier came back in a/an ______state of mind. A excited B exasperated C depressed D dejected 【正确答案】：A 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节推断题。第一段里说Mr. Pontellier半夜回来时处于：“…He was in an excellent humor，in high spirits，and very talkative”状态，可见他很excited。 第7题 Mr. Pontetlier felt extremely frustrated because______. A his wife overslept B his wife greeted late C his wife was indifferent to his talk D his wife showed too much interest in his talk 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节推断题。故事的第二段说“He thought it very discouraging that his wife，who was the sole object of his existence，evinced so little interest in things which concerned him，and valued so little his conversation”，从这句话可知 Mr. Pontellier感到很沮丧是因为他妻子对白己讲的话一点也不重视，故答案C正确。 第8题 Mr. Pontellier scolded his wife for ______. A she neglected their children B she abused their children C she seldom played with them D she failed to clean the room their children slept in 【正确答案】：A 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节推断题。第六段第一句“He reproached his wife with her inattention，her habitual neglect of the children” (他责备妻子粗心大意，对孩子常常疏忽照顾)，从这句话可知答案A正确。 第9题 Mrs. Pontellier cried ______after she was reproached by her husband. A little B a lot C moderately D controllably 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节推断题。故事的第十段说“The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier’ s eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them”可推断Mrs. Pontellier哭的很伤心，故选B。 第10题 Mrs. Pontellier was seized by a sense of ______after she awoke at midnight. A joy B hostility C depression D tolerance 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节推断题。第十一段第一句说“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness，filled her whole being with a vague anguish．她感到“一股无法描述的压抑来自内心某个不熟悉的角落，这使她的内心充满无名的痛苦，这痛苦就如同影子一样掠过她灵魂的夏日”，从这段话可推断答案C正确。 第11题 Teachers and other specialists in early childhood education recognize that children develop at different rates. Given anything that resembles a well-rounded life — with adults and other children to listen to, talk to, do things with — their minds will acquire naturally all the skills required for further learning. Take for example, reading. The two strongest predictors of whether children will learn to read easily and well at school are whether they have learned the names and the sounds of letters of the alphabet before they start school. That may seem to imply that letter names and sounds should be deliberately taught to young children, because these skills will not happen naturally. But in all the research programs where they have done just that — instructed children, rehearsed the names and sounds over and over — the results are disappointing. The widely accepted explanation is that knowledge of the alphabet for it to work in helping one to read, has to be deeply embedded in the child's mind. That comes from years of exposure and familiarity with letters, from being read to, from playing with magnetic letters, drawing and fiddling with computers. So parents can do some things to help, although many do these things spontaneously. Instead of reading a story straight through, the reader should pause every so often and ask questions but not questions which can be answered by a yes or no. Extend their answers, suggest alternative possibilities and pose progressively more challenging questions. And with arithmetic do not explicitly sit down and teach children about numbers, but all those early years count when walking up steps. Recite nursery rhymes. Talk to children. Say this is a led apple, thru is a green one. Please get three eggs out of the fridge for me The technical term in vogue for this subtle structuring of children's early learning is "scaffolding". Based on recent extensions of the work of the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky the idea is that there are things a child may be almost ready to do. Anna, for example, cannot tie a shoelace by herself, but if an adult or a competent child forms one of the loops for her, she will soon learn to do the rest. Applying this concept to older children, one wonderful teacher has her children keep lists of "Words I can Almost Spell". While this has all the hallmarks of common sense, it represents a significant change of emphasis from the idea of Piaget, which have dominated the theory of early childhood learning. The child in Piaget's theory looks, more than anything, like a little scientist — exploring the environment, observing, experimenting, thinking and slowly coming to his or her conclusions about how the world works. The image is of a rather solitary pursuit with all the real action in the child's head. The Vygotsky model re-introduces all the people who also inhabit the child's world — parents, care-givers, relatives, siblings and all those other children at play or school. They are not simply noise, clattering in the background while the child's developing mind struggles on its own. The cognitive development of the child, that is, the learning of colors or numbers or letters — depends on learning how to interact socially, how to learn from the people (as well as the things) in the environment. What is important is that the child develops the range of social skills — being able to express a preference, knowing how to take rums, being able to stand up for themselves, being able to get into a group, being able to make decisions, being able to share, having confidence to go off on their own. These all require careful nurturing. No one is telling parents not to think about their children’ s development It is just that it is more important to think about a child's desire to chat and the importance of social behavior and play activity, than the actually more trivial markers of intellectual achievement such as being the first kid in the group to cut a circle that looks like a circle. When children begin their schooling, they will learn to read quickly if previously ______. A letter names and sounds are deliberately taught to them B parents read stories very often without frustrating the children with questions C they have never learned letters D they play with letters unconsciously 【正确答案】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 第三段最后一句话说，That comes from years of exposure and familiarity with letters，from being read to，from playing with magnetic letters，drawing and fiddling with computers．这就是说要在游戏等当中不知不觉地教孩子识字，所以选D。 第12题 The word "scaffolding" in the sixth paragraph indicates ______according to the context. A framework B stage C capital punishment D scathing 【正确答案】：A 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 scaffolding在这里的意思是“架构”，在同样这句话中出现了structuring这个词，可以推定scaffolding的意思是frame，所以选A。 第13题 When the writer discusses Piaget's theory, ______. A he is in favour of it B he is critical of it C his view is balanced D he strongly despises it 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 第七段中提到Vygotsky的理论是a significant change of emphasis from the idea of Piaget，后者统治了多年的早期教育理论。从篇幅上看，作者着重谈的是Vygotsky的理论，可见Piaget是被作为对立面提出来的，有批判的味道。另外这段的的最后一句话提到solitary pursuit，可见Piaget理论下的孩子是学得很艰难的。所以B答案反映了作者的倾向。 第14题 Vygotsky’ s theory is different from Piaget's in that the former mom emphasizes on the child's ______. A exploration B achievement C interaction D nurturing 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 第八段的最后一句话总结时提到了Interact这个词，所以选C。 第15题 Which is the best title of the passage? A Vygotsky's Theory B Good Qualities in a Student C Children Develop Differently D How to Raise a Bright Child 【正确答案】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 这是就整体提问的题，Vygotsky’ s Theory只是文章后一部分的重点，不能涵盖整篇文章，所以A不对。文章的侧重点是讲成年人如何培育孩子，所以B不对。C的侧重点也是在孩子身上，反映不出成人的作用和任务，所以只有D包括了问题的双方。 第16题 With its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject matter and widely-varying methods of treatment, the crime novel could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of literature, or, at least, as a distinct, even though a slightly disreputable, offshoot of the traditional novel. The detective story is probably the most respectable (at any rate in the narrow sense of the word) of the crime species. Its creation is often the relaxation of university teachers, literary economists, scientists or even poets. Fatalities may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, but the world in which they happen, the village, seaside resort, college or studio, is familiar to us, if not from our own experience, at least in the newspaper or the lives of friends. The characters, though normally realized superficially, are as recognizably human and consistent as our less intimate associates. A story set in a more remote environment, African jungle, or Australian bush, ancient China or gas-lit London, appeals to our interest ill geography or history, and most detective story writers are conscientious in providing a reasonably authentic background. The elaborate, carefully assembled plot, despised by the modern intellectual critics and creators of significant novels, has found refuge in the murder mystery, with its sprinkling of clues, its spicing with apparent impossibilities, all with appropriate solutions and explanations at the end. With the guilt of escapism from real life nagging gently, we secretly revel in the unmasking of evil by a vaguely super-human detective, who sees through and dispels the cloud of suspicion which has hovered so unjustly over the innocent. Though its villain also receives his rightful deserts, the thriller presents a less comfortable and credible world. The sequence of fist fights, revolver duels, car crashes and escapes from gas-filled cellars exhausts the reader far more than the hero, who, suffering from at least two broken ribs, one black eye, uncountable bruises and a hangover, can still chase and overpower an armed villain with the physique of a wrestler. He moves dangerously through a world of ruthless gangs, brutality, a vicious lust for power and money and, in contrast to the detective tale, with a near-omniscient arch-criminal whose defeat seems almost accidental. Perhaps we miss in the thriller the security of being safely led by our imperturbable investigator past a score of red herrings and blind avenues to a final gathering of suspects when an unchallengeable elucidation of all that has bewildered us is given and justice and goodness prevail. All that we vainly hope for from life is granted vicariously. The crime novel may be regarded as______. A a not quite respectable form of the conventional novel B not a true novel at all C related in some ways to the historical novel D an independent development of the novel 【正确答案】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 细节推理题，问对于犯罪小说的定位。根据题干中的关键词“crime novel”，首先就定位到文章的第一段，第一段实际上就是对犯罪小说(crime novel)的一个综述，通过理解，首先就可以排除掉B“根本不是小说”和C“与历史小说有某些关联”，这两点明显与第一段的内容无关，比较难判断的是在A“传统小说中某种不很高雅的(文学)形式”和D“—种独立发展的小说形式”，支持A的根据是句中的一个补语“even though a slightly disreputable尽管是有点不太光彩”，支持D的根据是“could make a legitimate claim be regarded as a separate branch of literature，or，at least, ..off shoot of the traditional novel或可理直气壮地要求被视为文学的一个独立分支，或者至少是传统小说中的一个支派”，但我们可以从D的根据中注意到作者建议(could)犯罪小说为“文学的一个独立分支”或“传统小说中的一个支派”，这与D完全川符，且同时否定了A中将犯罪小说完全划入传统小说的说法，所以最终选定D为正确答案。 第17题 The text suggests that intellectuals write detective stories because A the stories are often in fact very instructive B they enjoy writing these stories C the creation of these stories demands considerable intelligence D detective stories are an accepted branch of literature 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 事实细节题，问知识分子们创作侦探小说的原因。题干中的第一个关键词detective stories可以定位到第二段，再根据第二个关键词intellectuals(知识分子们)定位到第二段的“university teachers，literary economists，scientists or even poets”这些人的共集就是“知识分子们”，找到这里后，题目就很好做了，因为文中说“Its (detective story’s) creation is often the relaxation of...(intellectuals)”其意是：侦探小说的创作是知识分子们放松和娱乐的结果。由此我们选定B“他们喜欢写这些故事”为正确答案。由其它选项都找不到相关依据。 第18题 What feature of the detective story is said to disqualify it from respectful consideration by intellectual critics? A The many seeming impossible events. B The fact that the guilty are always found out and the innocent cleared. C The existence of a neat closely-knit story. D The lack of interest in genuine character revelations. 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 事实细节题，问侦探小说的哪一个特征使共丧火了文学评论家尊重和关注。定位方法与上题一样，根据大概念的关键词detective story定位于第二段，再根据具体的关键词intellectual critics定位到“The elaborate，carefully assembled plot，despised by the modern intellectual critics...为现代文学评论家们所轻视的、精心组织的情节……”这里的主语“精心组织的情节”与选项C“The existence of a neat closely-knit story”的同义替换，所以C为正解。 第19题 One of the most incredible characteristics of the hero of a thriller is ______. A his exciting life B his amazing toughness C his ability to escape from dangerous situations D the way he deals with his enemies 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 事实细节题，问惊悚小说中的主人公身上最令人难以置信的特征是什么。首先根据关键词thriller确实答案应在第三段，然后再根据关键词hero找到句子“hero, who，suffering from...cans still chase and overpower an armed villain主人公经受了(种种磨难)……依然能迫到并战胜武装的恶棍”，这符合B，“主人公不同一般的坚韧”的意思。而其它几个选项：A“刺激的生活”从文章中看不出来，C“从危险境地中逃脱的能力”和D“对付敌手的方式”都只是其某一方面的特征，但都不如B有特色，所以最终选定B为答案。 第20题 In what way are the detective story and thriller unlike? A In introducing violence. B In providing excitement and suspense. C In appealing to the intellectual curiosity of the reader. D In ensuring that everything comes right in the en 【正确答案】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 归纳理解题，问侦探小说和惊悚小说的差异。需要在理解第二段和第三段主要内容的基础上，归纳这两种小说的不同特点从而找出差异。解题进可以使用排除法：选项A“引导人接触暴行”不成立，因为本文介绍侦探小说时未交待这种类型小说中是否有“暴行”、如何描写的；B“给人兴奋和悬念”不对的原因是两种小说中都有这些内容，并不是差异；C“对读者智力上的好奇心有兴趣”也找不到根据；只有最后一项D“最终都有一个圆满的结果”能在文章的倒数第二句找出根据，原文是“Perhaps we miss in the thriller...也许在惊悚小说中我们找不到……”，而这些找不到的内容却正是侦探小说中有的，这正好是两者的差异所在，两者相比时，对miss一词要有一定的敏感度。 三、Listening Comprehension ( Interview )（共5小题,共5.0分）the next questions are based on an interview with an architect. At the end of the interview you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following questions. Now listen to the interview. 第1题   Which of the following is NOT among the criteria of the 100 most powerful women in the world? A the amount of money they control B their previous jobs C their public profile D their attitude toward the press 【正确答案】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分 【答案解析】 [听力原文]  Ann Curry: For a 3rd consecutive year, Forbes Magazine has selected tile 100 most powerful women in the world. Chana Schoenbergcr is an associate editor at Forbes Magazine. Ann Curry: Chana, good morning. Chana: Good morning. Ann Curry: Thank you lot joining us. Let's talk about your criteria first because you're talking about the most powerful women in the world. Chana: Well, we're looking at three things. We're looking at the amount of money that they control, we're looking at their resume, their job. their previous jobs, and we're also looking at their public profile, and their press entrance. For example, No. 1 on the list is German chancellor Angela Merkel, and No.2 is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Ann Curry: Ok, and I’m noticing; some of them might be predictable, but some of these people on the list, maybe most of us have not heard of. For example, at No.76, you have Angela Ahrendts. Why did you put her on the list? Chana: Angela Ahrendts is the chief executive of Burberry. She's brand new to the job and her predecessor Rose Marie Bravo was also on our list last year when she had this job. Burberry is a very important fashion company and of course, as women, we hive the brand. It's so exciting to have her on the list. In addition, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the senator is on the list at No. 18, which is predictable, but what may be somewhat surprising to the pubic is Laura Bush at 43. Ann Curry: Well, there conies my question. Why is Hillary Rodham Clinton way up on the list and someone like Laura Bush at 43? Chana: Well. it's interesting, because if a question I get asked all the time is, all, you know, if there were a woman President of the US, would she be No. 17 And the answer is if there were a woman President, she'll probably be No. 1. And right now Hillary is the woman who is poised to possibly be the Democratic nominee and maybe even to be the President, so that makes her extremely powerful, much more powerful than an ordinary senator would be. Ann Curry: Speaking of women presidents, Michelle Bachelet, she's the President of Chile, she's the first woman ever elected president of a South American nation, And you have her at No. 17. Chana: She's a really big deal, and she's only the second female president in all of Latin America. She was a political dissident. She was jailed, She was exiled, you know, her family was jailed. She's a doctor and so for her to become President of Chile. it's a huge cheer. The Chileans were so excited about seeing her on this list. Apparently, they were all dancing in the street. It's good to see that. Ann Curry: You also have at No. 22, the chief executive and president of eBay, Margaret Whitman, and she's got to be pretty influential. Chana: Well, she's also one of the richest women in the world, one of tile richest people in the world and she's built the company. She's not a founder, but she came in anti built this company into a powerhouse for the online world, one of the most successful companies on the Internet. Um, and also I should probably mention that there are a lot of newswomen on this list including Meredith Vieira, who's gonna be coming and taking the role of the Today Show in a week from Wednesday. Ann Curry: Now why did you put Meredith Vieira on the list when she's sort of in between? Chana: Well, it's a good question. Many people have asked, why did you put Meredith Vieira on the list when she's sort of in between? Is it because she's going to be taking the role of the Today Show or is it because of what she's already dome over tile course of her many years in this profession? Well, I would say it's a recognition of her accomplishments, but it's also because she's taking over this great show. And so many people will be watching her. She's going to be so influential in what she says. and she is an award-winning newswoman but she's also spent nine years on the View. I don’t have to tell you about this, but she's very connected with viewers she's told her personal stories, her own struggles, and the audience is really connected with her, so she's going to have a lot of power. Ann Curry: And she's at 69 now. I’m guessing that her number's gonna rise as time goes on. Ann Curry: Thank you so much Chana. Chana: Thank you. 第2题 Who is an unpredictable candidate among the women of this year? A Angela Merkel B Condoleezza Rice C Angela Ahrendts D Rose Marie Bravo 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 第3题 The Chileans felt ______when they saw Michelle Bachelet on this list. A angry B excited C indifferent D surprised 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 第4题 Which of the following statement is true about Margaret Whitman? A She's one of the richest women in the world. B She's a founder of eBay. C She helped build eBay into the second most successful companies on the Internet. D She's at No. 20 on the list of the 100 most powerful women in the worl 【正确答案】：A 【本题分数】：1.0分 第5题 Which of the following reasons CANNOT explain why Meredith Vieira was on the list of the 100 most powerful women in the world? A Because she's going to be taking the role of the Today Show from Wednesday. B Because she's accomplished a lot over the course of her many years in this profession. C Because she's going to be so influential in what she does. D Because she is an award-winning newswoman, and she's spent nine years on the view. 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 none、四（共Listening Comprehension ( Mini-Lecture )小题,10共分）10.0 第1题 The Effectiveness of a Person 1. believe there is no such thing as (1) , so the solution is (2) when it is optimum or close to the best.  2. believe (3) of life, the universe,  people, etc, is relatively good If we believe that people are evil, we may react Io them (4) .  When we believe they do (5) , from a good intention,  then we begin to understand them better. 3. seek only obtaining a result, a decision, a change, not to (6) .  Losing is the (7) .  Therefore. it cannot be good or bad, it’s where we start off from. 4. believe there is no failure or success, only (8) . The Effective person obtain feedback not failure or success. 5. act with integrity and honesty. And sometimes telling the truth is (9) ,  as when this causes great upset in the other person for no good reason. By putting aside our childish definitions, we can understand and live (10) . and reap all the benefits.  【正确答案】： 答案:perfection [本题分数]： 1.0 分 【答案解析】 [听力原文] 1-10 The Effectiveness of a Person Today, we shall talk about the 5 key elements that contribute to the effectiveness of a person in modern society. An effective man or woman is expected to acquire the following qualities. First of all, an effective person should believe there is no such thing as perfection. Actually this is a self evident truth. There is nothing in the world that is perfect. Those who believe in perfection cause misery for themselves and others. They believe that there is nothing else for them to do because things are perfect already. Alternatively, people who believe in perfection, believe that nothing is good enough because it is not perfect. Effective people know there is always something else which can be done to improve things, and by the same token that they will never actually make something perfect, so the solution is acceptable when it is optimum. There are optimum solutions, not perfect ones. Secondly, an effective person should believe the basic intention of life, the universe, people, etc, is relatively good. People always believe that they are right and are doing good, from their own perspective. Even the most evil person from our perspective believes he or she is doing right. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be doing what they are doing! No one holds a false belief. No one says," I believe this", and add," but I know it is false." They always believe they are right. Even a person who says they are evil. believes what they are doing is right and good. If we believe that people are evil, we may become frightened of them and react to them unpleasantly, and they in turn will behave worse to us. When we believe that things are basically good, then we begin to understand them better. If we think someone is evil, we will imagine that we cannot influence them or we will try to influence from our belief-value that they are bad. This will never be effective, because they believe they are good, and doing what is right, so they will never relate to our belief that they are bad. By believing they do, even bad things, from a good intention we can better understand them and begin to influence them, because we take the trouble to understand them and how they think, rather than to fight them head on in terms of the values of good and bad. Thirdly, an effective person should seek only obtaining a result, a decision, a change, not to win or lose. When we seek to win, we become anxious about the result. We may procrastinate and do nothing to win because we might lose. The effective person, because they can happily win or lose, and because they seek a result, they do not fear asking for what they want or doing what they think will lead to their goal. This does not mean that the effective person doesn’t want to win, or sometimes lose. It means that they know that without getting a decision, taking action or non-action, that they are losing already. Losing is the normal state. Therefore, it cannot be good or bad, it’s where we start off from. So by taking action or non-action or getting the decision they have nothing to lose, and can only gain, if not on this occasion, then in the future. Here we have an irony, that by seeking to win, we increase our likelihood of losing. Fourthly, an effective person should believe there is no failure or success, only feedback, knowledge. This belief links to the previous one. The Effective person does not fear failure, because he Or she does not believe in failure or success. They obtain feedback. This does not mean that the Effective person doesn’t want to succeed. It means that they will succeed because they seek feedback. This leads to the next belief. Last but not the least, ma effective person should act with integrity and honesty. One of the great secrets of a successful and happy life is to act with integrity and honesty. When we were little children we were told we should be honest, and we were told this meant telling the truth. We were given this simple meaning because we were too young and inexperienced to fully understand the success technique of honesty and integrity. Of course, telling the truth got us into a lot of trouble. Even adults will say," Well, I was telling the truth. It was right." Of course, telling the truth is important and is a big part of integrity and honesty. But it clearly means more than this, and telling the truth is not an essential part. Moral qualities, that is, ways of living our life successfully, are good. And sometimes telling tile truth is bad, as when this causes great upset in the other person for no good reason. This is not acting with honesty and integrity! Although it is better to tell the truth, it is not always better to tell it! Some people are verbally incontinent and will tell you everything, even personal things, and this is not behaving with integrity and honesty. Today, we talked about the five qualities of the effectiveness of a person; of course, no one can properly define these concepts, we all know what they mean. By putting aside our childish definitions, we can understand and live these concepts and reap all the benefits. 第2题 【正确答案】： 答案:acceptable 第3题 【正确答案】： 答案:the basic intention 第4题 【正确答案】： 答案:unpleasantly / negatively 第5题 【正确答案】： 答案:bad things 第6题 【正确答案】： 答案:win or lose 第7题 【正确答案】： 答案:the normal state 第8题 【正确答案】： 答案:feedback 第9题 【正确答案】： 答案:bad 第10题 【正确答案】： 答案:these concepts none、五（共Proofreading and Error Correction小题,10共分）10.0 第1题 There are many a career in which the increasing emphasis is (1) ______ in specialization. You find these careers in engineering, in (2) ______ production, in statistical work, and in teaching. And there (3) ______ is an increasing demand for people who are capable lo take (4) ______ in a great area at a glance, people who perhaps do not know too much about any one field. There is, in the other words, (5) ______ a demand for people who are capable of seeing the forest rather than the trees, making general judgment. We can call (6) ______ these people "generalists". And these" generalists" are particular (7) ______ needed for position in administration, where it is his job to (8) ______ see that other people do the work, where they have to plan for other people, to organize other people's work, to begin it and judge it. The generalist understands one field; his concern is with (9) ______ technique and tools. He is a "trained" man; and his education background is properly technical or professional. The generalist deals with people; his concern is with leadership, with planning, and on direction giving. He is an "educated" man: and the (10) ______ humanities are his strongest foundation. 【正确答案】： 答案:are—is，many a是复数概念，但谓语动词需要用单数形式。 第2题 【正确答案】： 答案:in—on，emphasis后面接介词on。 第3题 【正确答案】： 答案:And—But，因为上下句子之间的逻辑关系不是并列而是转折关系。 第4题 【正确答案】： 答案:capable—able，be able to do是固定搭配，而capable的固定搭配是be capable of。 第5题 【正确答案】： 答案:in the other words —in other words，in other words是固定短语，the应该去掉。 第6题 【正确答案】： 答案:making—of making、从句who are capable of后接两个动名词短语做宾语，一个是seeing the forest…，一个是of making general judgment。 第7题 【正确答案】： 答案:particular—particularly,修饰动词needed需要用副词形式。 第8题 【正确答案】： 答案:his—their，因为主语是“generalists”，故用复数形式。 第9题 【正确答案】： 答案:generalist—specialist，该句讲的是“专家”(understands one field)的概念，故逻辑错误。 第10题 【正确答案】： 答案:on—with，因为concern with后面有三个并列平行宾语，介词都是with。 六、Chinese to English （本大题1小题．每题10.0分，共10.0分。Translate the following underlined part of the text into English. ） 第1题 我常常听人说，他想读一点书，苦于没有时间。我不太同意这种说法。不管他是多么忙，他总不至于忙得一点时间都抽不出来。一天当中如果抽出一小时来读书，一年就有365小时，十年就有3650小时，积少成多，无论什么研究都会有惊人的成绩。零碎的时间最可宝贵，但也最容易丢弃。我记得陆放翁有两句诗：“呼僮不应自升火，待饭未来还读书。”这两句诗给我的印象很深。待饭未来的时候是颇难熬的，用来读书岂不甚妙？我们的时间往往于不知不觉中被荒废掉。例如，现在距开会还有50分钟，于是什么事都不做了，磨磨蹭蹭，50分钟便打发掉了。如果用这时间读几页书，岂不较为受用。   【正确答案】： 答案: Often I hear a person say that he intends to read some books but is short of time. However I disagree to this kind of wording. No matter how busy he may appear, he can not be too occupied to possess any time. If he finds an hour to read everyday, he will have 365 hours yearly and 3650 hours in ten years. Accumulating bit by bit, no matter what subject he studies, he will result in extraordinary achievements. Odd hours appear the most precious but they are likely to disappear easily. I remember Lu Fangweng’ s two verses: "Calling tile boy servant without response I made fire myself, and engaged in some reading while waiting for the meal". Deeply these two verses impressed me. Waiting for a meal to come is very tedious? but how wonderful it is to do some reading! Our time is often abandoned unconsciously. If there is, for example, fifty minutes to go before a meeting is started, you may dismiss your time. But if you read a couple of pages is there anything more pleasant? 七、English to Chinese （本大题1小题．每题10.0分，共10.0分。Translate the following underlined part of the text into Chinese. ） 第1题 I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. Being in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I have never found a companion that was as friendly as solitude. We are for the most part lonelier when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our homes. A man thinking or working is always alone. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellow men. The really diligent student in one of the crowded rooms of a college is as a hermit in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, weeding or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed. But when he comes home at night. he cannot be alone. He must be where he can see "the folks", and he thinks, repay himself for his day's solitude. So he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without boredom and the "blues". But he does not realize that the student, although in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods. 【正确答案】： 答案: 我发现用大部分时间来独处是有益的。与人相处，哪怕是跟最好的人相处，也很快就会让人厌倦和消耗精力。我喜欢独处。我还从来没有找到比孤独更亲近的朋友。我们到海外人群中漫游时，人都比我们独自在家时更孤独。当人思考和工作时，总是独自一人的。衡员孤单的并不是人与人之间相隔的空间距离。真正勤勉的学生，哪怕他处于校园人群喧闹的一个房间内，也如沙漠中的隐士一样。农夫能在田间或林中独自工作一整天，锄草或劈柴都不觉得孤单，因为他在工作着。但当他晚上回家，他就不能在独处了。他必须处于能看到家人的地方，而且他在想，这是对他一整天独处的回报。 八、Writing（本大题1小题．每题20.0分，共20.0分。 ） 第1题 Through his famous character Hamlet Shakespeare said, "To be or not to be, that is a question." For hundreds of years, people have never stopped giving explanations and definitions to the saying. There seems to have had no consensus on the interpretation of the saying. Write an essay of about 400 words entitled: Six Famous Words giving your own understanding of the saying and stating whether you agree or disagree with him. Six Famous Words In the first part of your writing you should state your opinion in respond to Shakespeare's view, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details (or examples). In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 【正确答案】：答案: Six Famous Words — William Lyon Phelps "To be or not to be." Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be—to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: "I think, therefore I am." But the best definition of existence I ever saw was one written by another philosopher who said: "To be is to be in relations." If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations. Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned—poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs— you are dead. Contrariwise, it is tree that every time you acquire a new interest—even more. a new accomplishment—yon increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in a large variety of subjects can remain unhappy; the real pessimist is the person who has lost interest. Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts, new friends. What is supremely true of living objects is no less true of ideas, which arc also alive. Where your thoughts are, there will your life be also. If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow circumscribed life. But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China; if you are interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people; if you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination. To be or not to be—to live intensively and richly, or merely to exist, that depends on ourselves. Let us widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let us live! 九、General Knowledge（本大题10小题．每题1.0分，共10.0分。 There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet. ） 第1题 Kangaroo means ______in the native language of Aborigines. A. "I know' B. "I love" C. "I don’t know" D. "Run" 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 第2题 The native people of New Zealand are ______. A. Maoris B. Indians C. Aborigines D. Celts 【正确答案】：A 【本题分数】：1.0分 第3题 ______is the scientific study of the internal structure of words and of the rules by which words are formed. A. Semantics B. Syntax C. Pragmatics D. Morphology 【正确答案】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分 第4题 American Transcendentalism attaches great importance to ______. A. Inspiration B. Imagination C. Intuition D. Reason 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 第5题 The name Heathcliff probably appears in ______. A. Tess B. Wuthering Heights C. Bleak House D. Jane Eyre 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 第6题 Tower of London used to be a ______. A. supermarket B. park C. prison D. garden 【正确答案】：C 【本题分数】：1.0分 第7题 ______proposed TG grammar. A. Hymes B. Chomsky C. Halliday D. Saussure 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 第8题 ______is William Shakespeare's hometown. A. Canterbury B. Stratford-on-Avon C. Liverpool D. London 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 第9题 The allusion "A Pound of Flesh" comes from Shakespeare's ______. A. Hamlet B. The Merchant of Venice C. King Lear D. Othello 【正确答案】：B 【本题分数】：1.0分 第10题 The minimal phonological unit is ______. A. phoneme B. morpheme C. root D. syllable 【正确答案】：A 【本题分数】：1.0分 跟多试卷请访问《做题室》www.zuotishi.com