专业八级模拟607及答案解析.doc

1、专业八级模拟607及答案解析 (总分：133.10，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：30.00)English as a Global Language. English is a global language Its widely used in economic, political, and scientific fields, and in 1 English as a global language is bad news for 2 - Writers wil

2、l write in English to reach a(n) 3 . The positive impacts of English as a global language In 4 area: a medium of communication In 5 : a language commonly used in lecture-rooms or lecture-conferences In English Language Teaching: English-speaking countries 6 from the spread of English . The negative

3、impacts of English as a global language Inequality in language and 7 - e.g.: classroom a. Students who dont speak fluent English tend to be 8 b. Students who speak fluent English tend to 9 Social inequality - International conference: English speaking people are usually 10 Linguistic power - Native

4、English speakers will be more 11 than non-native English speakers - Native speakers have a(n) 12 Linguistic 13 - English speakers are less 14 to learn other languages and cultures Linguistic death - The existence of a global language may lead to 15 and the death of other languages （分数：30.00）三、SECTIO

5、N B INTERVIEW(总题数：2，分数：17.50)（分数：5.00）A.Great advancement.B.No improvement.C.Success.D.Failure.A.Liberia.B.Sierra Leone.C.Syria.D.Sudan.A.The progress of the disease is slowing.B.There are not enough operational efforts on the ground.C.Patients are not recovering.D.The efforts around treatment and c

6、ontainment are not working.A.The health care infrastructures are very weak.B.The spread wasnt contained more quickly some months ago.C.The USAIDs Office didnt take enough donation.D.People are afraid to provide treatment.A.Because health workers are also highly vulnerable to the infection of Ebola.B

7、.Because treatment workers can open up more treatment facilities by training.C.Because the disease is outpacing the operational efforts on ground.D.Because health workers are unwilling to step forward and help.（分数：12.50）A.Tuition fees.B.Food and lodging.C.Inheritances.D.Characters.A.Personal income.

8、B.Taxes.C.Real estate.D.Stocks.A.Life insurance.B.Health insurance.C.Unemployment insurance.D.Auto insurance.A.Marriage is beneficial to all of your insurances.B.Marriage is sustained by the money you owned.C.Marriage is more economical than being single.D.Marriage has nothing to do with finance.A.T

9、he less discussion the better.B.The more discussion the better.C.You may consult parents.D.You may consult an advisor.四、PART READING COMPR(总题数：1，分数：34.00)SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple cho

10、ice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. PASSAGE ONE (1) Not long ago there lived in uptown New York, in a small almost meager room, though crowded with books, Leo Finkle, a rabbinical student in the Yeshivah University. F

11、inkle, after six years of study, was to be ordained in June and had been advised by an acquaintance that he might find it easier to win himself a congregation if he were married. Since he had no present prospects of marriage, after two tormented days of turning it over in his mind, he called in Piny

12、e Salzman, a marriage broker whose two-tine advertisement he had read in the Forward. (2) The matchmaker appeared one night out of the dark fourth-floor hallway of the gray stone rooming house where Finkle lived, grasping a black, strapped portfolio that had been worn thin with use. Salzman, who had

13、 been long in the business, was of slight but dignified build, wearing an old hat, and an overcoat too short and tight for him. He smelled frankly of fish, which he loved to eat, and although he was missing a few teeth, his presence was not displeasing, because of an amiable manner curiously contras

14、ted with mournful eyes. His voice, his lips, his wisp of beard, his bony fingers were animated, but give him a moment of repose and his mild blue eyes revealed a depth of sadness, a characteristic that put Leo a little at ease although the situation, for him, was inherently tense. (3) He at once inf

15、ormed Salzman why he had asked him to come, explaining that his home was in Cleveland, and that but for his parents, who had married comparatively late in life, he was alone in the world. He had for six years devoted himself almost entirely to his studies, as a result of which, understandably, he ha

16、d found himself without time for a social life and the company of young women. Therefore he thought it the better part of trial and errorof embarrassing fumblingto call in an experienced person to advise him on these matters. He remarked in passing that the function of the marriage broker was ancien

17、t and honorable, highly approved in the Jewish community, because it made practical the necessary without hindering joy. Moreover, his own parents had been brought together by a matchmaker. They had made, if not a financially profitable marriagesince neither had possessed any worldly goods to speak

18、ofat least a successful one in the sense of their everlasting devotion to each other. Salzman listened in embarrassed surprise, sensing a sort of apology. Later, however, he experienced a glow of pride in his work, an emotion that had left him years ago, and he heartily approved of Finkle. (4) The t

19、wo went to their business. Leo had led Salzman to the only clear place in the room, a table near a window that overlooked the lamp-lit city. He seated himself at the matchmaker side but facing him, attempting by an act of will to suppress the unpleasant tickle in his throat. Salzman eagerly unstrapp

20、ed his portfolio and removed a loose rubber band from a thin packet of much-handled cards. As he flipped through them, a gesture and sound that physically hurt Leo, the student pretended not to see and gazed steadfastly out the window. Although it was still February, winter was on its last legs, sig

21、ns of which he had for the first time in years begun to notice. He now observed the round white moon moving high in the sky through a cloud menagerie (动物园), and watched with half-open mouth as it penetrated a huge hen, and dropped out of her like an egg laying itself. Salzman, though pretending thro

22、ugh eye-glasses he had just slipped on, to be engaged in scanning the writing on the cards, stole occasional glances at the young mans distinguished face, noting with pleasure the long severe scholars nose, brown eyes heavy with learning, sensitive yet ascetic lips, and a certain almost hollow quali

23、ty of the dark cheeks. He gazed around at shelves upon shelves of books and let out a soft, contented sigh. (5) When Leos eyes fell upon the cards, he counted six spread out in Salzmans hand. (6) So few? he asked in disappointment. (7) You wouldnt believe how many cards I got in my office, Salzman r

24、eplied. The drawers are already filled to the top, so I keep them now in a barrel, but is every girl good for a new rabbi? (8) Leo blushed at this, regretting all he had revealed of himself in a curriculum vitae he had sent to Salzman. He had thought it best to acquaint him with his strict standards

25、 and specifications, but in having done so, felt he had told the marriage broker more than was absolutely necessary. (9) He hesitantly inquired, Do you keep photographs of your clients on file? (10) First comes family, amount of dowry, also what kind promises, Salzman replied, unbuttoning his tight

26、coat and settling himself in the chair. After comes pictures, rabbi. (11) Call me Mr. Finkle. Im not yet a rabbi. (12) Salzman said he would, but instead called him doctor, which he changed to rabbi when Leo was not listening too attentively. (13) Salzman adjusted his horn-rimmed spectacles, gently

27、cleared his throat and read in an eager voice the contents of the top card: (14) Sophie P. Twenty four years. Widow one year. No children. Educated high school and two years college. Father promises eight thousand dollars. Has wonderful wholesale business. (15) Also real estate. On the mothers side

28、comes teachers, also one actor. Well known on Second Avenue. (16) Leo gazed up in surprise. Did you say a widow? (17) A widow dont mean spoiled, rabbi. She lived with her husband maybe four month. He was a sick boy she made a mistake to marry him. (18) Marrying a widow has never entered my mind. (19

29、) This is because you have no experience. A widow, especially if she is young and healthy like this girl, is a wonderful person to marry. She will be thankful to you the rest of her life. Believe me, if I was looking now for a bride, I would marry a widow. (20) Leo reflected, then shook his head. (2

30、1) Salzman hunched his shoulders in an almost imperceptible gesture of disappointment. He placed the card down on the wooden table and began to read another; (22) Lily H. High school teacher. Regular. Not a substitute. Has savings and new Dodge Car. Lived in Paris one year. Father is successful dent

31、ist thirty-five years. Interested in professional man. Well Americanized family. Wonderful opportunity. (23) I knew her personally, said Salzman. I wish you could see this girl. She is a doll. Also very intelligent. All day you could talk to her about books and theater and what not. She also knows c

32、urrent events. (24) I dont believe you mentioned her age? (25) Her age? Salzman said, raising his brows. Her age is thirty-two years. (26) Leo said after a while, Im afraid that seems a little too old. (27) Salzman let out a laugh. So how old are you, rabbi? (28) Twenty-seven. (29) So what is the di

33、fference, tell me, between twenty-seven and thirty-two? My own wife is seven years older than me. So what did I suffer?Nothing. If Rothschilds a daughter wants to marry you, would you say on account her age, no? (30) Yes, Leo said dryly. (31) Salzman shook off the no in the yes. Five years dont mean

34、 a thing. I give you my word that when you will live with her for one week you will forget her age. What does it mean five yearsthat she lived more than somebody who is younger? On this girl, God bless her, years are not wasted. Each one that it comes makes better the bargain. (32) What subject does

35、 she teach in high school? (33) Languages. If you heard the way she speaks French, you will think it is music. I am in the business twenty-five years, and I recommend her with my whole heart. Believe me, I know what Im talking, rabbi. (34) Whats on the next card? Leo said abruptly. PASSAGE TWO (1) I

36、n the cloudless early hours of July 27, two tiny fishing boats drifted across the Mediterranean Sea. Crammed aboard were 733 would-be migrants, including 59 children under the age of 5. Most were from the impoverished and despotically ruled northeast Afriean nation of Eritrea. They carried with them

37、 only biscuits and a few plastic bottles of water, and few of them knew how to swim. None wore life jackets. They had pushed off from the Libyan shore at about midnight, along with a third boat that was now missing. Their destination was the Italian island of Sicily, 300 miles away. Most of the migr

38、ants had no idea how long their journey might last, though a few had been told by their smugglers that they could expect to reach Italy in six to eight hours. In reality, at the boats current speed, such a voyage would take at least six days, long past the point when almost all those onboard would h

39、ave perished from dehydration or exposure. For the crossing, the migrants paid an average of $1,500. (2) These 733 passengers were only the latest participants in a deadly drama that has been unfolding in the Mediterranean this year. After a decade of steady escalation, the flood of migrants into Eu

40、rope has now reached a crisis point, with at least a quarter-million making the journey so far this summer. Most have sought to escape the poverty of sub-Saharan Africa or the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and their two principal entry points are Italy and Greece. (3) By far the most perilous

41、 route is the Libya-Italy sea crossing, where more than 2,500 people have perished since March. In the worst incident, in late April, a grotesquely overladen fishing trawler capsized and sank within sight of a rescue ship; of the estimated 800 migrants aboard, only 28 were saved. (4) Largely in resp

42、onse to that tragedy, a handful of rescue vesselsnotably those operated by the medical-relief organization Mdecins Sans Frontires (M. S. F.)now patrol the waters off Libya in hopes of intercepting the boats. (5) For those attempting this crossing, the perils begin long before they get on the boats.

43、The very lawlessness that has made Libya a smugglers haven also means the migrants are prey to the rival criminal bands and tribal militias that now roam the nation. Many of those on the fishing boats had their personal Libyan horror stories: rape, torture, kidnappings that ended only when their fam

44、ilies back home wired whatever money was left to cover their ransom. In their desperation to escape, even the risk of dying at sea seemed a better alternative. For this voyage, the smugglers squeezed dozens of passengers down into the boats four-foot holds, where they could only lie flat as even mor

45、e passengers were forced in on top of them. (6) Those who are not Muslim are especially vulnerable. In Libya, Nuhami Kidane, 26, was refused medical treatment after a car accident when doctors noticed the rosary tattoo on her hand. Kidane, who asked that her face be concealed to protect her family,

46、hoped to reach England and earn a nursing degree. I can read, I can write and Im very smart, she said. There is nothing left in Eritrea, so this is why I made the journey. Her hopes sank, however, as the sun rose higher. When I saw there was nothing around us, she recalled, I thought, O.K., we are f

47、inished, this is all ending now. It had been six hours since the migrants first set off. Food and water were running out, and soon the situation grew even worse. From down in the hold came cries that the boat was beginning to leak. (7) At 9 a. m., the migrants saw a ship in the distance and began to

48、 wave their arms frantically. An hour later, a small rigid-hulled inflatable boat, or RIB, approached. It made a series of slow passes around the two fishing boats for 20 minutes while a man onboard used a bullhorn to address the migrants in English and Arabic. Stay calm, he said. You are about to be rescued. The RIB had been launched from the Bourbon Argos, a retrofitted offshore supply ship chartered by M. S. F., which rushed to the area after receiving a distress call about the fishing boats. The c