专业八级-1052及答案解析.doc

1、专业八级-1052 及答案解析(总分：96.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Take a taxi in Shanghai and you will pay more than you would for a ride of (1) _ distance in Beijing. (1) _.Buy a beer at an international bar in Shanghai, and the same holds true. Go out for an Italian

2、, German or French meal and ditto.And yet, according to a survey released yesterday by Mercer Human (2) _ Consulting, (2) _.Beijing is the most expensive city on the Chinese mainland. “There are some things that might be more expensive in Shanghai, but the (3) _ we have is based on a basket of goods

3、,“ (3) _.said Ilya Bonick, Mercers regional head of information services. Mercers cost of living survey is one of a handful of annual reports produced by international (4) _. (4) _.It takes into consideration such things as housing, food, (5) _, clothing, household goods and transportation. (5) _.Me

4、als of noodles or jiaozi are not included in the report whereas products (6) _ are likely to buy and are available in all the cities surveyed, such as Coca-Cola and Pantene shampoo. (6) _.This year, Hong Kong, the most expensive Chinese city, took ninth (7) _. (7) _.The top three in the world are To

5、kyo, Osaka and London. The good news is that Chinese cities are getting cheaper, driven by a US dollar (8) _ in value. (8) _.“Chinese cities have dropped significantly in the rankings as the (9) _ is pegged to the US dollar and has therefore been affected by the dollars depreciation,“ said Marie-Lau

6、rence Sepede, Mercers research manager, in a release. (9) _.“The shift in the China ranking is the most surprising,“ Bonick said. “We have seen it become more (10) _.“ (10) _.Another factor for the drop, said Bonick, is the wider availability of products the company uses to measure.（分数：10.00）填空项 1:_

7、填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、SECTION B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)(1).According to Chitra,_characters are considered to be not well depicted.A. imaginary B. lifeless C. unexciting D. emotionless（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Its universally agreed that good literatureA. contains lots of

8、 issues. B. arouses readers thinking.C. contains a central theme. D. arouses readers understanding.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).When writing “Queen of Dreams“, Chitra indicates thatA. she declined a lot of interviews. B. she has little idea of the protagonist.C. she has revised the novel many times. D. she

9、met the characters in real life.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following about students in the multicultural program is CORRECT?A. They come from the same culture and background.B. They write in their own mother languages.C. They bring their own cultures into their writing.D. They have accents of

10、 their mother tongues.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?A. Creative writing is highly objective.B. People who can create unique characters are needed.C. Queen of Dreams is Chitras latest novel.D. Its not easy to be critical about our own writing.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、S

11、ECTION C(总题数：3，分数：5.00)(1).Wahid wanted to fire _.A. a cabinet member B. the national police chief C. a lawmaker D. a Muslim scholar（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Some senior legislators accused Wahid of _.A. violating the congress by embazzlementB. violating the constitution by hiring the chief without consu

12、lting congressC. violating the congress by firing the chief without consulting lawmakersD. violating the constitution by firing the chief without consulting parliament（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).When did Wahid claim to fire Bimantoro?A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Thursday. D. On Wednesday.（分数：1.00）A.

13、B.C.D.1.The investigation was dangerous because _.A. the mine was badly damagedB. the ventilation system was brokenC. the mine was too deepD. the safety facility was destroyed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.Who will not attend the summit organized by the ASEAN?A. Heads of state.B. Heads of government.C. Represen

14、tatives of international organizations.D. Peace lovers.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Internet advertising is booming. The industry has gone from $ 9.6 billion in revenue in 2001 to $ 27 billion this year, according to Piper J affray, an investment bank. A

15、nd it is still early days. The internet accounts for only 5% of total spending on advertising, but that figure is expected to reach at least 20% in the next few years. The single largest category within this flourishing industry, accounting for nearly half of all spending, is “pay-per-click advertis

16、ing, which is used by firms both large and small to promote their wares.It works like this. Advertisers bid on keywords that they believe potential customers will be interested in. This enables Internet firms such as Google, the market leader, and Yahoo!, its smaller rival, to display advertisements

17、 alongside the results of Internet searches. Somebody searching for a particular type of wine, for example, might see advertisements from wine merchants. Google, Yahoo! and other firms also place ads on affiliates websites-so wine merchants advertisements might also appear on a wine-appreciation sit

18、e. The advertiser pays only when a consumer clicks on an ad; the owner of the website where the ad was displayed then receives a small commission.The benefits of the pay-per-click approach over traditional advertising are obvious. Since advertisers pay only to reach the small subset who actually res

19、pond to an advertisement, the quality of the leads generated is very high, and advertisers are prepared to pay accordingly. The price per click varies from $ 0.10 to as much as $ 30, depending on the keyword, though the average is around $ 0.50.But as pay-per-click advertising has grown into a huge

20、industry, concern has mounted over so-called “click fraud“-bogus clicks that do not come from genuinely interested customers. It takes two main forms. If you click repeatedly on the advertisements on your own website, or get other people or machines to do so on your behalf, you can generate a stream

21、 of bogus commissions. Click fraud can also be used by one company against another: clicking on a rival firms advertisements can saddle it with a huge bill. Bogus clicks are thought to account for around 10% of all click traffic, though nobody knows for sure.Bill Gross, the entrepreneur who pioneere

22、d the pay-per-click model back in 1998, was aware of the problem even then. He installed a three-layered defence system: a filter to weed out clicks from known fraudsters at the outset, statisticians and software to spot suspicious click patterns, and co-operation with advertisers to enable them to

23、analyse the leads generated and sound the alarm if necessary.But generally the industry adopted a rather cavalier attitude to click fraud. Eric Schmidt, the boss of Google, caused uproar a few months ago when he seemed to suggest that the “perfect economic solution“ to click fraud was to “let it hap

24、pen“. He was responding to a theoretical question during a debate at Stanford University, but his response reinforced the perception that Google had higher priorities than addressing the problem.Such a flippant attitude has not gone down well with advertisers, who are up in arms about the problem. S

25、ome have even resorted to legal action. Google reached a settlement in March with Lanes Gifts and Collectibles, a gift shop based in Arkansas, and agreed to offer refunds to advertisers who claim they have been charged for bogus clicks. Such refunds are capped at $ 90m, however, so many observers th

26、ink Google got off lightly. And in June Yahoo! promised to intensify its efforts to fight click fraud as part of a settlement with CheckMate, a fraud-detection firm. As well as offering refunds for clicks determined to be fraudulent, Yahoo! agreed to appoint a “traffic-quality advocate“ to voice adv

27、ertisers concerns within the company.In the wake of these legal challenges, Google and Yahoo! recently joined a working group at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), which will establish standards for pay-per-click advertising, including the introduction of industry-funded auditing and certific

28、ation, by the middle of 2009. “I believe Google and Yahoo! are now taking the issue very seriously,“ says David Jones, chief executive of Euro RSCG, an advertising company. But Rishad Tobaccowala, head of innovation at Publicis, one of the worlds biggest advertising groups, says it is too early to s

29、ay whether the measures being taken against click fraud will be Enough to satisfy advertisers.（分数：4.00）(1).We can infer from the sentence “And it is still early days“ in the first paragraph thatA. Internet advertising is very promising and profitable.B. Internet advertising is newly-developed and pr

30、oblematic.C. whether Internet advertising will grow remains a question.D. people cannot predict the future of Internet advertising.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The word “saddle“ in the fourth paragraph probably meansA. encumber. B. charge. C. associate. D. tie.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).All of the following were

31、taken as measures to guard against click fraud EXCEPTA. the collaboration between an enterpriser and advertisers.B. the installation of a defense system.C. the application of certain software.D. the employment of some statisticians.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following adjectives can best summ

32、arize advertisers reaction to Eric Schmidts let-it-hap pen attitude?A. Nonchalant. B. Wrathful. C. Disdainful. D. Repulsive.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Paris: Thanks to a French insurance company, brides and bridegrooms with cold feet no longer face financial disaster from a canceled wed

33、ding. For a small premium, they can take out a policy protecting them from love gone away or anything else that threatens to rain on their big day.Despite Frances economic woes, the amount of money spent on weddings is rising 5-10 per cent a year. And people in the Paris region now dish out an avera

34、ge of 60,000 francs on tying the knot. But life is unpredictable and non-refundable, so French insurers have stepped in to ease the risk, finding their own little niche in the business of love. They join colleagues in Britain, where insurers say wedding cancellation policies have been around for abo

35、ut a decade.About 5 per cent of insured weddings there never make it to the altar. Indeed, better safe than sorry.“ Obviously there are some who are superstitious, but in general people like the idea,“ said Jacqueline Loeb, head of a Parisian insurance company.In the past six weeks, she has sold 15

36、policies at a premium of about 3 per cent of the amount a client wants to be insured for.These careful customers, she said, have included a man who was worried his fiancee would have an allergic attack on her wedding day and a woman whose future mother-in-law was gravely ill.The policy covers those

37、and other nuptial impediments: an accident that forces a cancellation of a wedding, an unexpected change of venue for the reception, damage caused at it, and even honeymoons that dont happen. As for the ultimate deal-breaker, cold feet, they are also insured-but only until eight days before the cere

38、mony. British insurers, however, said they wouldnt touch that clause with a stick. Steve Warner, sales director of Insure Expo-Sure in London, says the six policies he sells each week in the wedding season protect against things like damaged wedding dresses, illness and death, but not changes of hea

39、rt.“ Disinclination to marry is not covered,“ he said. Ms Loed, who says hers is the only French agency offering wedding policies, said she started the service last December.A chateau outside Paris that hosts receptions was taking a beating from last-minute cancellations, and approached Ms Loed to s

40、ee if there wasnt some way of protecting itself. She obliged, then started advertising with caterers and wedding departments in large department stores, and the idea has taken off nicely.“ We respond to a need,“ she said.（分数：4.00）(1).Whats the main purpose of the passage?A. To thank a French insuran

41、ce company for what has been done.B. To explain how a French insurance company works.C. To tell brides and bridegrooms what to do before getting married.D. To ask husband and wife-to-be to take out an insurance policy.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The cost for people in the Pads region on weddings last year

42、was probably _.A. 50,000 francs B. 57,000 francs C. 60,000 francs D. 63,000 francs（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The policy covers the following EXCEPT _.A. unwillingness of marriage B. suspension of honeymoonC. changes of place for wedding D. sudden death（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).“About 5 per cent of insured wedd

43、ings there never make it to the altar.“ The sentence implies 5 per cent of insured couples _.A. failed to go to the church B. didnt change the place for weddingC. didnt get married at all D. didnt hold the wedding ceremony in a church（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：5.00)For many a frazzled parent

44、, bedtimetheir childrens, that isis the best part of the day. But it can be hard to ease snooze-averse kids into bed, and now a new study confirms that this is an age-old problem: children have consistently gotten less sleep than recommended guidelines, for at least the past 100 years.Researchers fr

45、om the University of South Australia did some historical spelunking, looking for every study about sleep duration in children beginning from the end of the 19th century through 2009. They discovered 300 such studies, dating all the way back to a French paper from 1897, and found that both age-specif

46、ic recommendations for appropriate sleep and the amount of time kids actually spend in dreamland both declined at similar rates: 0.71 minutes per year for recommendations versus 0.73 minutes per year for actual sleep duration, according to the study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Across

47、 the board, children got about 37 minutes less sleep than was recommended.Another constant: societal hand-wringing over childrens lack of sleep and a tendency to blame the hectic pace of modem life.“We found that indeed kids are sleeping less,“ says senior author Tim Olds, a professor of health scie

48、nces at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, who studies health and how we use our time. “People are always recommending kids sleep more than they do.“Over the 112 years the study covered, children lost about 75 minutes of shut-eye: in 1897, experts were recommending that kids sleep 1 hr. 15 min. more than that was advised in 2009.Whats perhaps most eye-opening is the researchers observation that sleep recommendations are pretty subjective; theres just not that much empirical evidence about how much sleep children actually need.So, how m