专业八级模拟595及答案解析.doc

1、专业八级模拟595及答案解析 (总分：173.92，做题时间：90分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A MINI-LECTU(总题数：1，分数：60.00)Suggestions of Reading Activities. Three 1 phases of reading before reading in the course of reading after reading . Pre-reading activities finding 2 to make comprehension easier we-reading d

2、iscussion activities to ease cognition being aware of the 3 for reading consideration of different types of reading skills: skimming, scanning, extensive reading, 4 understanding the 5 of the material . Suggestions for during-reading activities A. Tips of 6 : summarizing, reacting, questioning, 7 ,

3、evaluating, involving own experiences B. My suggestions: making predictions making selections combining 8 to facilitate comprehension focusing on significant pieces of information making use of 9 or guessing breaking words into their 10 reading in 11 learning to pause 12 . Post-reading suggestions A

4、 Depending on the goal of reading penetrating 13 meshing new information B. 14 discussing summarizing giving questions filling in 15 writing reading notes role-playing （分数：60.00）三、SECTION B INTERVIEW(总题数：2，分数：32.50)（分数：20.00）A.It is very adventurous.B.It is very sensual.C.It is very private.D.It is

5、 very interesting.A.She is an educator.B.She is a relationship expert.C.She is a web owner.D.She is a single woman.A.Because they are worthy of memorizing.B.Because they are vivid.C.Because they are heart-breaking.D.Because they are educational.A.Losing weight.B.Preparing herself mentally.C.Going on

6、line.D.Accepting the rejection.A.She should be more cautious.B.She should be more open-minded.C.She should view it as a shame.D.She should view it as a chance to learn.（分数：12.50）A.They dont think much of being healthy.B.They think regular exercise might improve their health.C.They think they could s

7、tay healthy without any exercise.D.They find outdoor activities benefit them most.A.Mental diseases.B.Sleep problems.C.High blood pressure.D.Heart problems.A.Healthy working attitude.B.Reducing risk of cancer.C.Cultivating a healthy sleeping mode.D.Alleviating headache.A.Endurance exercise.B.Flexibi

8、lity exercise.C.Cardiovascular exercise.D.Strength training.A.A stronger heart.B.Stronger muscles.C.An energetic lifestyle.D.The low risk of depression.四、PART READING COMPR(总题数：1，分数：30.00)SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are four passages followed by fourteen multiple choice

9、 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 and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE (1)A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For

10、 my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in summer the prairie is an anvils edge. The grass turns brittle and brown, and it cracks beneath y

11、our feet. At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire. Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time. Loneliness is

12、 an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, yo

13、u think, is where Creation was begun. (2)I returned to Rainy Mountain in July. My grandmother had died in the spring, and I wanted to be at her grave. She had lived to be very old and at last infirm. Her only living daughter was with her when she died, and I was told that in death her face was that

14、of a child. (3)I like to think of her as a child. When she was born, the Kiowas were living the last great moment of their history. For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas a

15、nd Cimarron. In alliance with the Comanches, they had ruled the whole of the southern Plains. War was their sacred business, and they were among the finest horsemen the world has ever known. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never u

16、nderstood the grim, unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry. When at last, divided and illprovisioned, they were driven onto the Staked Plains in the cold rains of autumn, they fell into panic. In Palo Duro Canyon they abandoned their crucial stores to pillage and had nothing then but their lives. I

17、n order to save themselves, they surrendered to the soldiers at Fort Sill and were imprisoned in the old stone corral that now stands as a military museum. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years, but she must have known from birth the affliction of d

18、efeat, the dark brooding of old warriors. (4)Her name was Aho, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America. Her forebears came down from the high country in western Montana nearly three centuries ago. They were a mountain people, a mysterious tribe of hunters whose language has n

19、ever been positively classified in any major group. In the late seventeenth century they began a long migration to the south and east. It was a journey toward the dawn, and it led to a golden age. Along the way the Kiowas were befriended by the Crows, who gave them the culture and religion of the Pl

20、ains. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground. They acquired Tai-me, the sacred Sun Dance doll, from that moment the object and symbol of their worship, and so shared in the divinity of the sun. Not least, they acquired the sense of destiny, therefore c

21、ourage and pride. When they entered upon the southern Plains they had been transformed. No longer were they slaves to the simple necessity of survival; they were a lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves, hunters and priests of the sun. According to their origin myth, they entered the w

22、orld through a hollow log. From one point of view, their migration was the fruit of an old prophecy , for indeed they emerged from a sunless world. (5)My grandmother had a reverence for the sun, a holy regard that now is all but gone out of mankind. There was a wariness in her, and an ancient awe. S

23、he was a Christian in her later years, but she had come a long way about, and she never forgot her birthright. As a child she had been to the Sun Dances; she had taken part in those annual rites, and by them she had learned the restoration of her people in the presence of Tai-me. She was about seven

24、 when the last Kiowa Sun Dance was held in 1887 on the Washita River above Rainy Mountain Creek. The buffalo were gone. In order to consummate the ancient sacrificeto impale the head of a buffalo bull upon the medicine treea delegation of old men journeyed into Texas, there to beg and barter for an

25、animal from the Goodnight herd. She was ten when the Kiowas came together for the last time as a living Sun Dance culture. They could find no buffalo; they had to hang an old hide from the sacred tree. Before the dance could begin, a company of soldiers rode out from Fort Sill under orders to disper

26、se the tribe. Forbidden without cause the essential act of their faith, having seen the wild herds slaughtered and left to rot upon the ground, the Kiowas backed away forever from the medicine tree. That was July 20, 1890, at the great bend of the Washita. My grandmother was there. Without bitternes

27、s, and for as long as she lived, she bore a vision of deicide. PASSAGE TWO (1)When Tom awoke in the morning, he wondered where he was. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and looked around. Then he comprehended. It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep per

28、vading calm and silence of the woods. Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded upon great Natures meditation. Beaded dewdrops stood upon the leaves and grasses. A white layer of ashes covered the fire, and a thin blue breath of smoke rose straight into the air. Joe and Huck still slept. (2)Now, far

29、away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard. Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and life manifested itself. The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the mu

30、sing boy. (3)Tom stirred up the other pirates and they all clattered away with a shout, and in a minute or two were stripped and chasing after and tumbling over each other in the shallow limpid water of the white sandbar. They felt no longing for the little village sleeping in the distance beyond th

31、e majestic waste of water. A vagrant current or a slight rise in the river had carried off their raft, but this only gratified them, since its going was something like burning the bridge between them and civilization. (4)They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous; and t

32、hey soon had the camp-fire blazing up again. Huck found a spring of clear cold water close by, and the boys made cups of broad oak or hickory leaves, and felt that water, sweetened with such a wildwood charm as that, would be a good enough substitute for coffee. While Joe was slicing bacon for break

33、fast, Tom and Huck asked him to hold on a minute; they stepped to a promising nook in the river-bank and threw in their lines; almost immediately they had reward. Joe had not had time to get impatient before they were back again with some handsome bass, a couple of sun-perch and a small catfishprovi

34、sions enough for quite a family. They fried the fish with the bacon, and were astonished; for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before. They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is; and they reflected little upon what a sauce open-air sl

35、eeping, open-air exercise, bathing, and a large ingredient of hunger make, too. (5)They lay around in the shade, after breakfast, while Huck had a smoke, and then went off through the woods on an exploring expedition. They tramped gayly along, over decaying logs, through tangled underbrush, among so

36、lemn monarchs of the forest, hung from their crowns to the ground with a drooping regalia of grape-vines. Now and then they came upon snug nooks carpeted with grass and jeweled with flowers. (6)They found plenty of things to be delighted with, but nothing to be astonished at. They discovered that th

37、e island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closest to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide. They took a swim about every hour, so it was close upon the middle of the afternoon when they got back to camp. They we

38、re too hungry to stop to fish, but they fared sumptuously upon cold ham, and then threw themselves down in the shade to talk. But the talk soon began to drag, and then died. The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boy

39、s. They fell to thinking. A sort of undefined longing crept upon them. This took dim shape, presentlyit was budding homesickness. Even Finn the Red-Handed was dreaming of his doorsteps and empty hogsheads. But they were all ashamed of their weakness, and none was brave enough to speak his thought. P

40、ASSAGE THREE (1)The robots are coming. The second decade of the 21st century will see the rise of a mechanised army that will revolutionise private and public life just as radically as the Internet and social media have shaken up the past 10 years. Or so says Marina Gorbis, futurologist and head of

41、Californian thinktankThe Institute for the Future (IFTF). The IFTF is one of the worlds most venerable thinktanks and has been plotting the course of the future for corporate and government clients since it was spun off from the RAND Corporation in 1968. (2)Gorbis says robots will increasingly domin

42、ate everything from the way we fight wars to our work, lives and even how we organize our kitchens. Robots are likely to prompt a political storm to equal the row over immigration as they increasingly replace workers, says Gorbis. But its not all bad news. When IBMs Deep Blue became the first comput

43、er to beat chess grand master Gary Kasparov people said thats it, computers are smarter than people. she says. But it didnt mean that at all. It means they are processing things faster not that they are thinking better. Working together, she believes, robots and humans will be able to create a world

44、 of new possibilities impossible before our new industrial revolution. (3)Gorbis says the robots are already here. The US military is backing the development of a four legged mechanical pack-carrying robot, called the BigDogs. Guided by its own sensors, BigDog can navigate treacherous terrain carryi

45、ng 150kg on its back. In the air, robot drones are stalking targets in Afghanistan; remote controlled helicopters are ferrying supplies. (4)Military technology from the Roman road to the Internet has a habit of hitting the mainstream, and robots are already spreading their influence. Robots may soon

46、 do building work. The University of South Carolina has developed a system called Contour Crafting that allows machines to construct buildings in layers guided by computers. The system can reduce construction times and costs by 75%, according to USC. (5)In South Korea, robots assist teachers in lang

47、uage classes, repeating words and phrases over and over and assessing how well they are parroted back. Google is working on cars that drive themselves. What is that other than a robot. says Gorbis. Amazon and shoe retailer Zappos huge warehouses are organized by an army of squat orange robots design

48、ed by Kiva Systems. (6)Inevitably the rise of the robots will put people out of work. Gorbis believes that this and other trends will mean unemployment will remain around 10% in many parts of the developed world over the coming years. (7) We are in transition. It is similar to when we mechanised agriculture . After that we went through a period of high unemployment as people transitioned to new kinds of jobs. People learned to do other things, she says. (8)There is potential for a huge backlash. But once a technology is invented, it is very rare that it disappears. You can dela