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1、专业英语八级（改错）-试卷216及答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、LANGUAGE USAGE(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.PART III LANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）_A longtime aide to President Bush who wrote occasional guest columns for his hometown newspaper resigned on Friday eveningafter admitted that he had repeatedly plagiarized from other write

2、rs. 1The White House called his actions unaccepted. The aide, Tim 2Goeglein, worked for Mr. Bush since 2001, as a liaison to social 3and religious conservatives, an important component of the presidents political base. Mr. Goeglein was influential in decisionson a range of question important to that

3、 constituency, including stem 4cell research, abortion and faith-based initiatives. A blogger in Mr. Goegleins hometown, Fort Wayne, Ind. , found the plagiarism.This is not acceptable, and we are being disappointed in Tims 5actions, a White House spokeswoman, Emily Lawrimore, said Friday morning, ho

4、urs before Mr. Goeglein resigned. He isoffered no excuses, and he agrees it was wrong. Mr. Goeglein, 644, is small known outside Washington. He is a familiar figure to 7conservatives and evangelical Christians, who knew him as aspokesman for Gary L. Bauer, the conservative who ran as president 8in 2

5、000. When Mr. Bauer dropped out the race, Mr. Goeglein 9signed on with Mr. Bush, eventually becoming a top aide to Karl Rove, the chief political strategist. He was the eyes and ears of theWhite House in the world of religion conservatives and an emissary 10to that world for Mr. Rove and the preside

6、nt.（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:_In the house where I grew up, it was our custom to leave the on the latch at night. No one carried keys. Today doors do not stay unlocked, thus for part of an evening. 1The era of leaving the front door open has gone forever. I

7、t has beenreplaced of by locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and 2trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm. Many suburban families even have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly building in so no one can pry the doors open. 3 A recent publ

8、ic-service advertisement by an insurance companyfeatured not actuarial charts or a picture of a childs bicycle with 4padlock attached to it. It is the insurance companies which pay for stolen goods, but 5who is going to pay for that the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is 6doing to our way of lif

9、e? Who is going to make the psychological 7payment for the transformation of America from the Land of Free to the Land of the Lock? For some reason we are satisfied when we think we are well-protected ; it does not occur us to ask ourselves: Why are we having 8to barricade ourselves for our neighbor

10、s and fellow citizens, and 9when, exactly, did this start to take over our lives? Even a decade ago, most private businesses had a policy offree access. Thus, today you have to carry some kind of access card 10to your company. Maybe the security guard at the front desk knows your face and will wave

11、you in most days, but the fact remains that the business your work for feels threatened enough to keep outsiders away via these keys.（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:_Misery may love company, but this was ridiculous. More than a million IBM stockholders last week

12、took a nightmare ride on astock they had long trusted. IBM had been sliding all year recent 1hitting 10-year lows, but after the company announced last Tuesday that it would, among other things, slash another 25,000 jobs, thestock took a historic rise. In 48 hours, it lost 11 points, or almost 218 p

13、ercent of its value, closing Wednesday at 51. On Friday it hitother new low. Big Board officials camped out on the exchange floor 3to prevent chaotic, land brokers fielded frantic calls from investors 4in various stages of disbelief and agony. Theyre screaming and hollering, said Carol Komskis of Yo

14、rk Securities. They are saying, Things like this just dont happen in America. Stock prices that rise and fall are anything new; thats what 5makes a market. But Big Blue had always epitomized the blue-chipstock on that Americans could count to send the kids to college or 6help retire in the style. So

15、me investors may be in blissful 7ignorant; pension funds across the country are heavily invested in 8IBM.(The New York State Employee Pension Funds lonely hold 93. 6 million shares.)But the charm of stocks like IBM, General Motors and Westinghouse was that you could feel secure in buyingthem even yo

16、u did not know earnings. Such stock made 10generations of Americans faithful capitalists. This was the kind of stock that created wealth for a lot of people in this country. Says Jonathan Pond, a Boston-based financial counselor and author.（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

17、项1:_填空项1:_Bill Gates may be one of the smartest guys in the country, but even hes annoyed at having to remember a sort of personal passwords for activities like withdrawing money and going online.He also thinks theyre secure. At last weeks Comdex computer 1convention in Las Vegas, the Microsoft CEO

18、railed the password as 2a weak link. One of his proposed solutions are biometrics, the 3measuring of unique characteristics like the fingerprints and the irisof the eye for the purpose of verifying identification. 4 That delighted about the dozen or so companies that brought 5biometric technology to

19、 Comdex. Mostly start-ups, they came toVegas shopping schemes to identify you in your hands, your eyes, 6your voice, even the way you type. We want to see a biometrics row in every CompUSA, right next to joysticks and printers. Says Kevin Corson of True Touch, a maker of software that works with var

20、ious forms of the technology. Comdex attendants eagerly lined on at the counter of IriScan, a 7firm based in Marlton, N. J. , to hold a scannerit looked a bit like a hair dryerabout three inches from their eyes. The device works by taking a video image of the iris, breaking the image into circularfr

21、ameworks and analyzed the unique patterns within each area. The 8company says theres only a one-in-10 chances that two peoples iris 9will match in its system. A company called Identicator, in San Bruno, Calif. , is aiming a little lowerat your forefingers. The company licenses its scanners to Compaq

22、 and other companies, which combine them with keyboards and mice or sell them as $100 stand-alone units that you can put into your computer. 10（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216答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、LANGUAGE USAGE(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.PART III L

23、ANGUAGE USAGE（分数：20.00）_解析：A longtime aide to President Bush who wrote occasional guest columns for his hometown newspaper resigned on Friday eveningafter admitted that he had repeatedly plagiarized from other writers. 1The White House called his actions unaccepted. The aide, Tim 2Goeglein, worked f

24、or Mr. Bush since 2001, as a liaison to social 3and religious conservatives, an important component of the presidents political base. Mr. Goeglein was influential in decisionson a range of question important to that constituency, including stem 4cell research, abortion and faith-based initiatives. A

25、 blogger in Mr. Goegleins hometown, Fort Wayne, Ind. , found the plagiarism.This is not acceptable, and we are being disappointed in Tims 5actions, a White House spokeswoman, Emily Lawrimore, said Friday morning, hours before Mr. Goeglein resigned. He isoffered no excuses, and he agrees it was wrong

26、. Mr. Goeglein, 644, is small known outside Washington. He is a familiar figure to 7conservatives and evangelical Christians, who knew him as aspokesman for Gary L. Bauer, the conservative who ran as president 8in 2000. When Mr. Bauer dropped out the race, Mr. Goeglein 9signed on with Mr. Bush, even

27、tually becoming a top aide to Karl Rove, the chief political strategist. He was the eyes and ears of theWhite House in the world of religion conservatives and an emissary 10to that world for Mr. Rove and the president.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：admitted一admitting）填空项1:_（正确答案：unaccepted一unacceptable）填空项1:

28、_（正确答案：worked一had）填空项1:_（正确答案：question一questions）填空项1:_（正确答案：being一去掉being）填空项1:_（正确答案：offered一offering）填空项1:_（正确答案：small一little）填空项1:_（正确答案：asfor）填空项1:_（正确答案：out一of）填空项1:_（正确答案：religion一religious）解析：解析：词性混用。conservatives是名词，前面应该是形容词，所以religion应该改为religious。In the house where I grew up, it was our c

29、ustom to leave the on the latch at night. No one carried keys. Today doors do not stay unlocked, thus for part of an evening. 1The era of leaving the front door open has gone forever. It has beenreplaced of by locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and 2trip wires hooked up to a police sta

30、tion or private guard firm. Many suburban families even have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly building in so no one can pry the doors open. 3 A recent public-service advertisement by an insurance companyfeatured not actuarial charts or a picture of a childs bicycle with

31、 4padlock attached to it. It is the insurance companies which pay for stolen goods, but 5who is going to pay for that the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is 6doing to our way of life? Who is going to make the psychological 7payment for the transformation of America from the Land of Free to the L

32、and of the Lock? For some reason we are satisfied when we think we are well-protected ; it does not occur us to ask ourselves: Why are we having 8to barricade ourselves for our neighbors and fellow citizens, and 9when, exactly, did this start to take over our lives? Even a decade ago, most private b

33、usinesses had a policy offree access. Thus, today you have to carry some kind of access card 10to your company. Maybe the security guard at the front desk knows your face and will wave you in most days, but the fact remains that the business your work for feels threatened enough to keep outsiders aw

34、ay via these keys.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：thuseven）填空项1:_（正确答案：of去掉of）填空项1:_（正确答案：buildingbuilt）填空项1:_（正确答案：orbut）填空项1:_（正确答案：whichthat）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhat）填空项1:_（正确答案：psychologicaIpsychic）填空项1:_（正确答案：occur一to）填空项1:_（正确答案：foragainst）填空项1:_（正确答案：ThusHowever）解析：解析：衔接副词误用。前一句说“就在十年前，大部分私人公司都是允许自由出入的”，下旬

35、说“今天你要去公司，必须携带一个通行证”。由此可见，二者是强烈的转折关系，因此使用However。Misery may love company, but this was ridiculous. More than a million IBM stockholders last week took a nightmare ride on astock they had long trusted. IBM had been sliding all year recent 1hitting 10-year lows, but after the company announced last Tu

36、esday that it would, among other things, slash another 25,000 jobs, thestock took a historic rise. In 48 hours, it lost 11 points, or almost 218 percent of its value, closing Wednesday at 51. On Friday it hitother new low. Big Board officials camped out on the exchange floor 3to prevent chaotic, lan

37、d brokers fielded frantic calls from investors 4in various stages of disbelief and agony. Theyre screaming and hollering, said Carol Komskis of York Securities. They are saying, Things like this just dont happen in America. Stock prices that rise and fall are anything new; thats what 5makes a market

38、. But Big Blue had always epitomized the blue-chipstock on that Americans could count to send the kids to college or 6help retire in the style. Some investors may be in blissful 7ignorant; pension funds across the country are heavily invested in 8IBM.(The New York State Employee Pension Funds lonely

39、 hold 93. 6 million shares.)But the charm of stocks like IBM, General Motors and Westinghouse was that you could feel secure in buyingthem even you did not know earnings. Such stock made 10generations of Americans faithful capitalists. This was the kind of stock that created wealth for a lot of peop

40、le in this country. Says Jonathan Pond, a Boston-based financial counselor and author.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：recentrecently）填空项1:_（正确答案：risedive）填空项1:_（正确答案：otheranother）填空项1:_（正确答案：chaoticchaos）填空项1:_（正确答案：anythingnothing）填空项1:_（正确答案：thatwhich）填空项1:_（正确答案：the去掉the）填空项1:_（正确答案：ignorantignorance）填空项1:

41、_（正确答案：lonelyalone）填空项1:_（正确答案：even一ifthough）解析：解析：连词误用。主句意思是“像IBM、通用汽车和西屋电气公司这类股票的魅力在于你买了之后感觉到安全”，从句说“即使你不懂得赚钱”。可见主句与从句之间是让步关系，因此使用even if或者even though。even表递进且不能引导从句，不符合文意。Bill Gates may be one of the smartest guys in the country, but even hes annoyed at having to remember a sort of personal passw

42、ords for activities like withdrawing money and going online.He also thinks theyre secure. At last weeks Comdex computer 1convention in Las Vegas, the Microsoft CEO railed the password as 2a weak link. One of his proposed solutions are biometrics, the 3measuring of unique characteristics like the fin

43、gerprints and the irisof the eye for the purpose of verifying identification. 4 That delighted about the dozen or so companies that brought 5biometric technology to Comdex. Mostly start-ups, they came toVegas shopping schemes to identify you in your hands, your eyes, 6your voice, even the way you ty

44、pe. We want to see a biometrics row in every CompUSA, right next to joysticks and printers. Says Kevin Corson of True Touch, a maker of software that works with various forms of the technology. Comdex attendants eagerly lined on at the counter of IriScan, a 7firm based in Marlton, N. J. , to hold a scannerit looked a bit like a hair dryerabout three inches from their eyes. The device works by taking a video