专业八级模拟614及答案解析.doc

1、专业八级模拟614及答案解析 (总分：116.60，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：15.00)In the United States, charter schools provide alternatives to 1 public schools. Unlike most public schools, charters dont usually have an enrollment boundary and can recruit students from a l

2、arger geographic area. . Features of charter schools 1) admission process no 2 a random method like a 3 2) many different shapes to cater to 4 to offer a thematic or specialized curriculum to provide an alternative to regular public school 3) location more likely to be found in 5 areas 4) 6 run by l

3、arge and small companies, parents, teachers, community groups and nonprofit organizations 5) size most charter schools are new and 7 6) academic results Charter schools dont necessarily produce better academic results than regular public schools. . Funding of charter schools 1) mostly from the state

4、 generally based on their 8 2) also from grants and additional donations for ambitious programs not fully funded by state/district formulas 3) also a limited amount of 9 to help start new charter schools 4) Funding for facilities can be a 10 for charter schools. . 11 of charter schools 1) authorize

5、rs 12 that grant schools their charter, and monitor their performance including charter boards, school boards and 13 2) key reasons for schools close They cant recruit enough students. They cant find a 14 to operate. They cant manage their 15 （分数：15.00）三、SECTION B INTERVIEW(总题数：2，分数：10.00)Now, liste

6、n to Part One of the interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview. （分数：5.00）A.Thanksgiving Day.B.Easter.C.Christmas.D.Halloween.A.Its elaborate.B.Its simpler than past.C.Its nothing special.D.Its too plain.A.Real roses are more fragrant.B.Real roses can show their social status

7、C.Real roses are fresh.D.Real roses can better show their love.A.She is the first woman chef.B.She is the First Lady.C.She is the first woman artist.D.She is the first woman chief.A.The grandson of Andrew Wyeth.B.The grandson of N. . Wyeth.C.The son of N. . Wyeth.D.The American actor.Now listen to

8、Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview. （分数：5.00）A.Shakespeares book.B.Henry Mayhews book.C.John Miltons book.D.A book on survival.A.The book Shakespeare can keep one away from struggling to survive in a big city.B.Beginners in language learning usually f

9、eel good about themselves after class.C.The demand for English Language Teaching is not as massive as before.D.Andrew is pessimistic about ELT in the future as it is influenced by the drive to learn.A.The drive to learn is more important than ELT.B.He is pessimistic about its future.C.He is not cert

10、ain about it.D.He is studying it now.A.There was more emphasis on logic in the 1960s.B.More humanistic approaches are needed.C.Language teaching changes as societies change.D.Changes in the West are not relevant in other societies.A.The social background.B.The teachers.C.The schools.D.The researcher

11、s.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 choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answe

12、r. PASSAGE ONE (1) Amy Tans work as a technical writer turned her into a workaholic who spent ninety hours a week at her job. In her late thirties, after an unsuccessful attempt at a cure through psychological counseling, Tan decided to cure herself by taking jazz piano lessons and joining the Squaw

13、 Valley Community of Writers, a weekly group, where she wrote her first fiction. At first she tried to write from a non-Chinese perspective because she thought that Chinese people could not get their work published in the United States. Later she realized that writing about the events of her own lif

14、e could be therapeutic. In 1987 G. P. Putnam bought her short story Rules of the Game and the outline of the novel. Within four months she finished the rest of the stories, which turned into The Joy Luck Club . The book made The New York Times best-seller list in spring 1989 and stayed on the list f

15、or nine months. It also won the 1989 Bay Area Book Reviewer Award for Best Fiction and the Best Book for Young Adults Award from the American Library Association. (2) Tan refuses to be pegged a mother-daughter expert, but both The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen Gods Wife center around the love and an

16、tagonism between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American daughters. In real life Tan and her mother experienced similar emotional turmoil. Daisy Tan had high expectations for her daughter. Amy Tan recalls that as a child she was expected to grow up to be a neurosurgeon by profession with the ho

17、bby of concert pianist. She also remembers her mothers disappointment when she changed her undergraduate major from premed to English. Like Waverly Jong in The Joy Luck Club , who always felt inadequate in the face of her mother, Amy Tan was pressured by Daisy Tans standards. When The Joy Luck Club

18、was fourth on The New York Times best-seller list, for instance, Daisy remarked that Amy should have aimed for first, explaining that Amy was so talented she deserved to be the best. (3) Yet Tan wrote The Joy Luck Club mainly for Daisy, fulfilling a vow she made when her mother was hospitalized and

19、nearly died of a heart attack in 1986, an event that forced Tan to face the possibility of losing her mother. In her dedication Tan writes, You asked me once what I would remember. This and much more, an effort to reassure her mother that she and her stories will not be forgotten. (4) The true spiri

20、t of The Joy Luck Club is a hope against hopelessness and a battle to create ones own space. Suyuan describes the joy luck spirit when she tells June, It is not that we have no hearts or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already

21、 lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness? The women of the club choose to withstand physical hardship with their carnivalesque spirit. Both the Kweilin and Sa

22、n Francisco versions of The Joy Luck Club are more than social gatherings of women; they are support networks. Whereas in China the hope of joy holds back the fear of the war, in San Francisco it helps the immigrant women to survive the equally terrifying experiences of culture transplantation. To t

23、he American daughters, however, the mah-jongg-playing Joy Luck Club seems to be, as June remarks, a shameful Chinese custom, like the secret gathering of the Ku Klux Klan or the tom-tom dances of TV Indians preparing for wars. This association of her mothers invention with racist practices and stere

24、otyping indicates Junes misunderstanding and mistrust of her Chinese heritage. Only after her mothers death and a trip to China does June come to realize the significance of joy and luck. (5) Like June, Tan herself used to distrust joy and luck. In fact, for most of her life she felt jinxed because

25、of all her tragic losses. She also felt dissatisfied with her Asian looks and with her mothers lack of progress in the New World. Like June, Tan had to make a trip to China to recognize the Chineseness inside her fully. In 1987, when she and her husband accompanied Daisy Tan on a visit to China, she

26、 experienced a magical moment of homecoming: It was just as my mother said: As soon as my feet touched China, I became Chinese. At the same time Tan realized how American she really was. No matter how she attempted to blend in, she always stood out among the Chinese. She emerged from the trip better

27、 equipped than before to cope with her double heritage and hybrid identity. PASSAGE TWO (1) The first person (Name Withheld): I work for a company that doles out a paltry amount of sick days and paid time off. Because I was nearing the end of the year and had already put in a holiday vacation reques

28、t and bought plane tickets, I hung on to one day to last the rest of the year. (2) I caught a bit of a sniffle but soldiered through work because I wanted to keep from using my final day, just in case of a true emergency. But my sneezes and coughs started to meet with some angry glances, and one co-

29、worker took to passing my desk while holding a tissue over her face. (3) O. K.message received loud and clear. Its not polite of me to possibly make co-workers sick. But I really couldnt afford to take any days without pay. What should I have done in this situation, put co-workers at risk or put my

30、finances at risk? (4) Heres Dr. Appiahs two cents: When youre suffering from a cold, and even for a few days after your symptoms are gone, you should keep hand sanitizer around and use it regularly before touching anything in the office. And you should avoid uncovered sneezes. Those two things will

31、significantly reduce your chance of passing on the virus. (I spent eight months studying medicine once. This and Google make me an authority on such questions.) So far as the ethics go: You ought to take reasonable measures to keep from passing on infections to co-workers, and staying home is a good

32、 way of doing that. (5) This is not just a matter of etiquette (as your use of the word polite suggests). Banking your sick days as youre doing is selfish, though understandable. Certainly your firms policy may need rethinking. For one thing, it could be bad business. If people are coming to work wh

33、ile infectious because they need to keep sick days for when things get really dire, more employees are going to fall ill than would happen with a more generous policy. That means more people working under par, which reduces productivity. You would need to know more to figure out what the net effect

34、would be, but a stingy sick-day policy might well be costlier to the firm than a more generous policy that kept the office a healthier place. Of course, your firm should think about the health of its workers in terms of their best interests as well as its productivity costs. Perhaps you should sugge

35、st that they revisit the matter from both perspectives. (6) The second person (Name Withheld): My brother and I disagree about his right to a government benefit. My brother has been employed by the United States government for nine years. Before this, he worked at private companies. He has a college

36、 degree and borrowed money from the government in order to fund his education. He graduated 15 years ago but did not always stay current with his student loans. In fact, he doesnt manage money well. About six years ago, I helped him by paying his credit-card debts so that he only had to pay off his

37、student loans. The way I understand student loans is that after 10 years, they should all be paid off. (7) Recently, I learned that he still has his student loans, and that if he makes payments for another year, he can apply for a loan-forgiveness program: The government will wipe out the rest of hi

38、s loan balance. I find this really annoying. I asked why he did not just pay off the loans as he could afford to do so. He is single with no dependents and makes a very good income. (8) My argument with him is that even though the loan-forgiveness program is a benefit that he has as a government emp

39、loyee, it is really meant for people who are financially in need of itlike teachers, who do not make high salaries. He likened the program to receiving stocks when you work in a start-up and asked me if I would pass this up. I dont think this is the same thing. Then he compared it to people joining

40、the Army and getting an educational scholarship for the years of service. I still do not think this is the same. My logic is this: He had his loans before he became a government worker. People joining the Army have a contractual agreement with the government before they start the job. I am all for p

41、eople who take low-paying government jobs using this benefit. It is meant for them. (I also think that by funding this program, the government has to take from another program, as there isnt unlimited money.) (9) I borrowed money years ago for both my undergraduate and graduate degrees. I paid it al

42、l back (early, of course) and really appreciated having access to funds that allowed me to obtain my education. My family immigrated to the United States, and we did take advantage of the federal programs available to help us get on our feet. But I believe once youre on your feet, you shouldnt dip i

43、nto funding that was designed and intended for people who need it. Am I wrong? (10) Heres Dr. Appiahs two cents: Its hard to design programs that help only a targeted group of people with real need. So lots of tax advantages and other government benefits are available to people who could do without

44、them. Plenty of older people dont need Social Security to get by, even to live well. Thats no reason for them not to take it. Government employees, even well-paid ones, often earn less than people doing comparable jobs in the private sector. Provided they follow the rules, they should feel free to t

45、ake advantage of whatever benefits are available to them. As for consequences, your brothers debt forgiveness will fall within the rounding error of the programs budget. No one who needs help wont get it because he does. (11) Society is a vast scheme of rules and provisions. They cannot map precisel

46、y onto what their beneficiaries need or deserve. And its not up to us as individuals to tailor them to our personal situations. Forgive your improvident brother for having his loans forgiven. (12) Third person (Name Withheld): At the conclusion of a meal at one of the better restaurants in Manhattan

47、 the owner brought out a final, unexpected course as a gift to us: a huge, beautiful shish kebab, grilled chopped meat on twin skewers. I quipped, Thats enough meat to feed the entire terrorist army. The owner laughed, but two much younger friends with me did not. They were upset by what they said

48、was my insensitivity. The shish-kebab incident occurred about 10 days after the terrorist attack in Paris, and my young friends said they were too shaken by the events to find anything humorous in terrorists, that living in Manhattan meant living with the fear that this could happen here. They said a remark such as mine was likely to offend people. I am about twice their age, and I was astonished. To me, making fun of the enemy is acceptable, patriotic and even necessary, a minor but effective means of diminishing any aura of invincibility. (I