专业英语八级（改错）-试卷208及答案解析.doc

1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷208及答案解析 (总分：80.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、LANGUAGE USAGE(总题数：4，分数：80.00)1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）_It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem

2、threatens itespecially in Americathe sort of nasty headlines that 1inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: datainsecurity. Leave, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, 2and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, informa

3、tion protection is now high on the bosss agenda in businesses with every variety. 3 Several massive leakages of customer and employer data this 4yearfrom organizations as diverse as Time Warner, the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of Califo

4、rnia, Berkeleyhave left managers hurriedlypeer into their intricate IT systems and business processes in 5the search of potential vulnerabilities. 6 Data is becoming an asset which needs to be guarded as many 7as any other asset, says Haim Mendelson of Stanford Universitys business school. The abili

5、ty to guard customer data is the key tomarket value, what the board is responsible for on behalf of 8shareholders. Indeed, just like there is the concept of Generally 9Accepted Accounting Principles(GAAP), perhaps it is time for GASP, Generally Accepted Security Practices, suggested Eli Noamof New Y

6、orks Columbia Business School. Setting up the proper 10investment level for security, redundancy and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one, he says.（分数：20.00）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:_填空项1:_Wholly aside from aesthetic and moral considerations, fashion is an

7、economic absurdity, and there is little to be said in its favor. Nevertheless, we can appreciate the wisdom in Gina Lombrososbelief the enormous stress which women lay on everything pertaining 1with clothes and the art of personal adornment is connected with the 2tendency to crystallize sentiment in

8、to an object. Woman symbolizes every important event in her life by a special dress; and a jewel or abeautiful gown means to a woman that an official decoration means to 3a man. The temptation of dress is the last step in the ceremony to the novice 4has to submit before entering the cloister. The me

9、mory of the gown which she might have worn was the strongest temptation that assailed St.Catherine before she took her solemn vowsa gown, embroidering 5with gold and stars, like that her sisters had worn, which her 6grandchildren would have gazed with eyes filled with wonder and 7admiration. If a wo

10、mans clothes cost the family and society a little time,money and activity, they allow woman, independent in lies and 8calumnies, to triumph and come to the fore outside of mans worldand competition. They allow woman to satisfy with her desire to be 9the first in the most varied fields by giving her

11、the illusion that she isthe first, and at the same time enable her rival to have the same 10illusion. Clothes absorb some of womans activity which might otherwise be diverted to more or less worth-while ends; they give woman real satisfaction.（分数：20.00）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:

12、_填空项1:_填空项1:_Predicating the future is a risky business for a scientist. It is safe to say, that the global AIDs epidemic will get much worse before it gets any better. Sadly, this modern plague will be with us for several generations, despite of major scientific advances. 1 As of January 2000, the

13、AIDS epidemic had claimed 15million lives and left 40 million people leaving with a viral infection 2that slowly but relentlessly erodes the immune system. Accountingof more than 3 million deaths in the past year alone, the AIDs virus 3has become the deadly microbe in the world. In Africa nearly a 4

14、dozen countries have a rate higher than 10% , including foursouthern African nations which a quarter of the people are infected. 5This is like condemning 16,000 people each day to a slow and miserable death. Unfortunately, the AIDs story has not been all gloom and 6doom. Less than two years after AI

15、Ds was recognized, the guiltyagenthuman immunodeficiency virus, or HIVidentified. We 7now know more about HIV than about any other virus, but 14 AIDS 8drugs have been developed and licensed in the U. S. and western Europe. The epidemic continues to rage, however, in south America, Eastern Europe and

16、 sub-Saharan Africa. By the year 2025, AIDs will have been by far the major killer of young Africans, decreasinglife expectant to as low as 40 years in some countries and single- 9handedly erasing the public health gains of the past 50 years. It is Asia, with its huge population at risk, where will

17、have the 10biggest impact on the global spread of AIDS. The magnitude of the incidence could range from 100 million to 1 billion, depending largely on what happens in India and China.（分数：20.00）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:_填空项1:_专业英语八级（改错）-试卷208答案解析 (总分：80.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、LANG

18、UAGE USAGE(总题数：4，分数：80.00)1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）_解析：It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problemthreatens itespecially in Americathe sort of

19、nasty headlines that 1inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: datainsecurity. Leave, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, 2and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the bosss agen

20、da in businesses with every variety. 3 Several massive leakages of customer and employer data this 4yearfrom organizations as diverse as Time Warner, the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California, Berkeleyhave left managers hurriedlypee

21、r into their intricate IT systems and business processes in 5the search of potential vulnerabilities. 6 Data is becoming an asset which needs to be guarded as many 7as any other asset, says Haim Mendelson of Stanford Universitys business school. The ability to guard customer data is the key tomarket

22、 value, what the board is responsible for on behalf of 8shareholders. Indeed, just like there is the concept of Generally 9Accepted Accounting Principles(GAAP), perhaps it is time for GASP, Generally Accepted Security Practices, suggested Eli Noamof New Yorks Columbia Business School. Setting up the

23、 proper 10investment level for security, redundancy and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one, he says.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：itthem）填空项1:_（正确答案：LeaveLeft）填空项1:_（正确答案：with一of）填空项1:_（正确答案：employeremployee）填空项1:_（正确答案：peerpeering）填空项1:_（正确答案：the去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：manymuch）填空项1:_（正确答案：whatw

24、hich）填空项1:_（正确答案：likeas）填空项1:_（正确答案：up一去掉up）解析：解析：介词冗余。set up是固定搭配，意思是“建立，成立”，通常指成立某组织、机构，而此处意思是“设定，确定”，用set即可。这句话的意思是“为信息的安全、备份以及恢复设定适当的投资水平是一个管理问题而不是技术问题。”Wholly aside from aesthetic and moral considerations, fashion is an economic absurdity, and there is little to be said in its favor. Neverthele

25、ss, we can appreciate the wisdom in Gina Lombrososbelief the enormous stress which women lay on everything pertaining 1with clothes and the art of personal adornment is connected with the 2tendency to crystallize sentiment into an object. Woman symbolizes every important event in her life by a speci

26、al dress; and a jewel or abeautiful gown means to a woman that an official decoration means to 3a man. The temptation of dress is the last step in the ceremony to the novice 4has to submit before entering the cloister. The memory of the gown which she might have worn was the strongest temptation tha

27、t assailed St.Catherine before she took her solemn vowsa gown, embroidering 5with gold and stars, like that her sisters had worn, which her 6grandchildren would have gazed with eyes filled with wonder and 7admiration. If a womans clothes cost the family and society a little time,money and activity,

28、they allow woman, independent in lies and 8calumnies, to triumph and come to the fore outside of mans worldand competition. They allow woman to satisfy with her desire to be 9the first in the most varied fields by giving her the illusion that she isthe first, and at the same time enable her rival to

29、 have the same 10illusion. Clothes absorb some of womans activity which might otherwise be diverted to more or less worth-while ends; they give woman real satisfaction.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：belief一that）填空项1:_（正确答案：withto）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhat）填空项1:_（正确答案：to一which）填空项1:_（正确答案：embroideringembroidered）填

30、空项1:_（正确答案：thatthose）填空项1:_（正确答案：gazed一at）填空项1:_（正确答案：in一of）填空项1:_（正确答案：with去掉with）填空项1:_（正确答案：enableenabling）解析：解析：动词形式错误。此处enable与giving并列，同为介词by的宾语，应该把enable改成enabling。Predicating the future is a risky business for a scientist. It is safe to say, that the global AIDs epidemic will get much worse

31、before it gets any better. Sadly, this modern plague will be with us for several generations, despite of major scientific advances. 1 As of January 2000, the AIDS epidemic had claimed 15million lives and left 40 million people leaving with a viral infection 2that slowly but relentlessly erodes the i

32、mmune system. Accountingof more than 3 million deaths in the past year alone, the AIDs virus 3has become the deadly microbe in the world. In Africa nearly a 4dozen countries have a rate higher than 10% , including foursouthern African nations which a quarter of the people are infected. 5This is like

33、 condemning 16,000 people each day to a slow and miserable death. Unfortunately, the AIDs story has not been all gloom and 6doom. Less than two years after AIDs was recognized, the guiltyagenthuman immunodeficiency virus, or HIVidentified. We 7now know more about HIV than about any other virus, but

34、14 AIDS 8drugs have been developed and licensed in the U. S. and western Europe. The epidemic continues to rage, however, in south America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. By the year 2025, AIDs will have been by far the major killer of young Africans, decreasinglife expectant to as low as 40

35、 years in some countries and single- 9handedly erasing the public health gains of the past 50 years. It is Asia, with its huge population at risk, where will have the 10biggest impact on the global spread of AIDS. The magnitude of the incidence could range from 100 million to 1 billion, depending la

36、rgely on what happens in India and China.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：of去掉of）填空项1:_（正确答案：leavingliving）填空项1:_（正确答案：offor）填空项1:_（正确答案：deadlydeadliest）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichwhere或whichin）填空项1:_（正确答案：UnfortunatelyFortunately）填空项1:_（正确答案：identified一was）填空项1:_（正确答案：butand）填空项1:_（正确答案：expectant一expectancy）填空项1:_（正确答案：wherethat）解析：解析：强调句型错误。这里是强调句型，强调的成分是句子的主语Asia，而不是状语，所以应该使用that。with its huge population at risk为插入语，分析句子结构时可忽略。