专业英语八级40及答案解析.doc

1、专业英语八级40及答案解析 (总分：77.02，做题时间：130分钟)一、PART I LISTENING (总题数：1，分数：1.00)An intelligent person will not allow himself to be influenced by advertisements. Instead, he will, first of all, try to get to know about the (1) 1regulating them. Secondly, he will try to make sure whether he can believe in advert

2、isements. Honest advertisements can be extremely useful because they save a lot of time and (2) 2by putting sellers in touch with buyers in a quick and simple way. The dishonest advertiser hopes to sell his goods quickly to make a large profit before (3) 3 begin. There are also semi-dishonest advert

3、isers who make (4) 4for their products which they know perfectly well to be incapable of (5) 5. With no advertising, (6) 6 would be sold, so the cost of each article would be higher. The more you advertise, the more (7) 7you can afford to sell your products. As advertisers become more and more exper

4、t at their work, they appeal to all (8) 8to increase sales: greed, (9) 9, love of a bargain, fear of the disapproval of other people, etc. However, more and more customers are also becoming suspicious of and (10) 10to high-powered advertising. This is producing a deliberately modest type of advertis

5、ement. （分数：1.00）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:_二、SECTION B INTERVI(总题数：1，分数：1.00)(1).What was education like in Professor Wangs days?（分数：0.20）A.Students worked very hard.B.Students felt they needed a second degree.C.Education was not career-oriented.D.There were many spe

6、cialized subjects.(2).According to Professor Wang, what is the purpose of the present-day education?（分数：0.20）A.To turn out an adequate number of elite for the society.B.To prepare students for their future career.C.To offer practical and utilitarian courses in each programme.D.To set up as many tech

7、nical institutions as possible.(3).In Professor Wangs opinion, technical skills（分数：0.20）A.require good education.B.are secondary to education.C.dont call for good education.D.dont conflict with education.(4).What does Professor Wang suggest to cope with the situation caused by increasing numbers of

8、fee-paying students?（分数：0.20）A.Shifting from one programme to another.B.Working our ways to reduce student number.C.Emphasizing better quality of education.D.Setting up stricter examination standards.(5).Future education needs to produce graduates of all the following categories EXCEPT（分数：0.20）A.tho

9、se who can adapt to different professions.B.those who have a high flexibility of mind.C.those who are thinkers, historians and philosophers.D.those who possess only highly specialized skills.三、SECTION C NEWS BR(总题数：2，分数：1.00)(1).Which of the following was NOT on the agenda of the G20 meeting?（分数：0.2

10、5）A.Iraq debts.B.WTO talks.C.Financial disasters.D.Possible sanctions.(2).The G20 is a(n) _organization.（分数：0.25）A.internationalB.EuropeanC.regionalD.Asian(1).According to the news item,_.（分数：0.17）A.both the dollar and the euro were strongB.both the dollar and the euro were weakC.the dollar was stro

11、ng while the euro was weakD.the dollar was weak while the euro was strong(2).There were worries about the political and economic outlook of the European Union,_.（分数：0.17）A.for both France and the Netherlands rejected the EU constitution in referendumsB.for EU jobs growth of last month was the worst

12、in 21 monthsC.for EU manufacturing activity was the slowest in almost two yearsD.for the euro was down a quarter of a percent against the yen(3).What was British attitudes towards a referendum on the EU constitution?（分数：0.17）A.Call off the plan of referendum.B.Cancel the plan of referendum.C.Go on w

13、ith the plan of referendum.D.Put aside the plan of referendum.四、PART II GENERAL K(总题数：10，分数：10.00)2. The words kid, child, offspring are examples of_.（分数：1.00）A.dialectal synonyms.B.stylistic synonyms.C.emotive synonyms.D.collocational synonyms.3. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?（分数：1.

14、00）A.William Wordsworth.B.George Elliot.C.George G. Byron.D.Percy B. Shelley.4.The Declaration of Independence was written by_.（分数：1.00）A.Thomas Jefferson.B.George Washington.C.Alexander Hamilton.D.James Madison.5.William Butler Yeats was a(n) _ poet and playwright.（分数：1.00）A.AmericanB.CanadianC.Iri

15、shD.Australian6.The word tail once referred to the the tail of a horse, but now it is used to mean the tail of any animal. This is an example of_.（分数：1.00）A.widening of meaning.B.narrowing of meaning.C.meaning shift.D.loss of meaning.7. The distinction between parole and langue was made by_.（分数：1.00

16、）A.Halliday.B.Chomsky.C.Bloomfield.D.Saussure.8.The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT_.（分数：1.00）A.lexical.B.syntactic.C.phonological.D.psycholinguistic.9. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?（分数：1.00）A.T.S.Eliot.B.D. H.Lawrence.C.Theodo

17、re Dreiser.D.James Joyce.10. Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers?（分数：1.00）A.The Aborigines.B.The Maori.C.The Indians.D.The Eskimos.11. The Prime Minister in Britain is head of_.（分数：1.00）A.the Shadow Cabinet.B.the Parliament.C.the Opposition.D.the Cabinet.五、PA

18、RT III READING (总题数：4，分数：4.00)Riccis Operation Columbus Ricci, 45, is now striking out on perhaps his boldest venture yet. He plans to market an English-language edition of his elegant monthly art magazine, FMR, in the United States. Once again the skeptics are murmuring that the successful Ricci ha

19、s headed for a big fall. And once again Ricci intends to prove them wrong. Ricci is so confident that he has christen quest Operation Columbus and has set his sights on discovering an American readership of 300,000. That goal may not be too far- fetched. The Italian edition of FMR the initials, of c

20、ourse, stand for Franco Maria Ricci is only 18 months old. But it is already the second largest art magazine in the world, with a circulation of 65,000 and a profit margin of US $ 500,000. The American edition will be patterned after the Italian version, with each 160-page issue carrying only 40 pag

21、es of ads and no more than five articles. But the contents will often differ. The English-language edition will include more American works, Ricci says, to help Americans get over an inferiority complex about their art. He also hopes that the magazine will become a vehicle for a two-way cultural exc

22、hange what he likes to think of as a marriage of brains, culture and taste from both sides of the Atlantic. To realize this version, Ricci is mounting one of the most lavish, enterprising and expensive promotional campaigns in magazine-publishing history. Between November and January, eight jumbo je

23、ts will fly 8 million copies of a sample 16-page edition of FMR across the Atlantic. From a warehouse in Michigan, 6.5 million copies will be mailed to American subscribers of various cultural, art and business magazines. Some of the remaining copies will circulate as a special Sunday supplement in

24、the New York Times. The cost of launching Operation Columbus is a staggering US $5 million, but Ricci is hoping that 600% of the price tag will be financed by Italian corporations. To land in America Columbus had to use Spanish sponsors, reads one sentence in his promotional pamphlet. We would like

25、Italians. Like Columbus, Ricci cannot know what his reception, will be on foreign shores. In Italy he gambled and won on a simple concept: it is more important to show art than to write about it. Hence, one issue of FMR might feature 32 full-colour pages of 17th-century tapestries, followed by 14 pa

26、ges of outrageous eyeglasses. He is gambling that the concept is exportable. I dont expect that more than 30% of my readers., will actually read FMR, he says. The magazine is such a visual delight that they dont have to. Still, he is lining up an impressive stable of writers and professors for the A

27、merican edition, including Noam Chomsky, Anthony Burgess, Eric Jong and Norman Mailer. In addition, he seems to be pursuing his own eclectic vision without giving a moments thought to such established competitors as Connosisseur and Horizon. The Americans can do almost everything better than we can,

28、 says Ricci, But we (the Italians) have a 2,000 year edge on them in art. （分数：0.99）(1).Ricci intends his American edition of FMR to carry more American art works in order to（分数：0.33）A.boost Americans confidence in their art.B.follow the pattern set by his Italian edition.C.help Italians understand A

29、merican art better.D.expand the readership of his magazine.(2).Ricci is compared to Columbus in the passage mainly because（分数：0.33）A.they both benefited from Italian sponsors.B.they were explorers in their own ways.C.they obtained overseas sponsorship.D.they got a warm reception in America(3).We get

30、 the impression that the American edition of FMR will probably（分数：0.33）A.carry many academic articles of high standardB.follow the style of some famous existing magazines.C.be read by one third of American magazine readers.D.pursue a distinctive editorial style of its own.The Welsh language has alwa

31、ys been the ultimate marker of Welsh identity, but a generation ago it looked as if Welsh would go the way of Manx, once widely spoken on the Isle of Man but now extinct. Government financing and central planning, however, have helped reverse the decline of Welsh. Road signs and official public docu

32、ments are written in both Welsh and English, and schoolchildren are required to learn both languages. Welsh is now one of the most successful of Europes regional languages, spoken by more than a half million of the countrys three million people. The revival of the language, particularly among young

33、people, is part of a resurgence of national identity sweeping through this small, proud nation. Last month Wales marked the second anniversary of the opening of the National Assembly, the first parliament to be convened here since 1404. The idea behind devolution was to restore the balance within th

34、e union of nations making up the United Kingdom. With most of the people and wealth, England has always had bragging rights. The partial transfer of legislative powers from Westminster, implemented by Tony Blair, was designed to give the other members of the club-Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wale

35、s-a bigger say and to counter centrifugal forces that seemed to threaten the very idea of the union. The Welsh showed little enthusiasm for devolution. Whereas the Scots voted overwhelmingly for a parliament, the vote for a Welsh assembly scraped through by less than one percent on a turnout of less

36、 than 25 percent. Its powers were proportionately limited. The Assembly can decide how money from Westminster or the European Union is spent. It cannot, unlike its counterpart in Edinburgh, enact laws. But now that it is here, the Welsh are growing to like their Assembly. Many people would like it t

37、o have more powers. Its importance as a figurehead will grow with the opening, in 2003, of a new debating chamber, one of many new buildings that are transforming Cardiff from a decaying seaport into a Baltimore-style waterfront city. Meanwhile a grant of nearly two million dollars from the European

38、 Union will tackle poverty. Wales is one of the poorest regions in Western Europe-only Spain, Portugal, and Greece have a lower standard of living. Newspapers and magazines are filled with stories about great Welsh men and women, boosting self-esteem. To familiar faces such as Dylan Thomas and Richa

39、rd Burton have been added new icons such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, the movie star, and Bryn Terfel, the opera singer. Indigenous foods like salt marsh lamb are in vogue. And Wales now boasts a national airline, Awyr Cymru. Cymru, which means land of compatriots, is the Welsh name for Wales. The red d

40、ragon, the nations symbol since the time of King Arthur, is everywhereon T-shirts, rugby jerseys and even cell phone covers. Until very recent times most Welsh people had this feeling of being second-class citizens, said Dyfan Jones, an 18-year-old student. It was a warm summer night, and I was sitt

41、ing on the grass with a group of young people in Llanelli, an industrial town in the south, outside the rock music venue of the National Eisteddfod, Waless annual cultural festival. The disused factory in front of us echoed to the sounds of new Welsh bands. There was almost a genetic tendency for la

42、ck of confidence, Dyfan continued. Equally comfortable in his Welshness as in his membership in the English-speaking, global youth culture and the new federal Europe, Dyfan, like the rest of his generation, is growing up with a sense of possibility unimaginable ten years ago. We used to think: We ca

43、nt do anything, were only Welsh. Now I think thats changing. （分数：1.00）(1).According to the passage, devolution was mainly meant to_.（分数：0.20）A.maintain the present status among the nations.B.reduce legislative powers of England.C.create a better state of equality among the nations.D.grant more say t

44、o all the nations in the union.(2).The word centrifugal in the second paragraph means_.（分数：0.20）A.separatist.B.conventional.C.feudal.D.political.(3).Wales is different from Scotland in all the following aspects EXCEPT_.（分数：0.20）A.peoples desire for devolution.B.locals turnout for the voting.C.powers

45、 of the legislative bodyD.status of the national language.(4).Which of the following is NOT cited as an example of the resurgence of Welsh national identity?（分数：0.20）A.Welsh has witnessed a revival as a national language.B.Poverty-relief funds have come from the European Union.C.A Welsh national air

46、line is currently in operation.D.The national symbol has become a familiar sight.(5).According to Dyfan Jones, what has changed is_.（分数：0.20）A.people s mentality.B.pop culture.C.town s appearance.D.possibilities for the people.Richard, King of England from 1189 to 1199, with all his characteristic v

47、irtues and faults cast in a heroic mould, is one of the most fascinating medieval figures. He has been described as the creature and embodiment of the age of chivalry. In those days the lion was much admired in heraldry, and more than one king sought to link himself with its repute. When Richards contemporaries called him Coeur de Lion (The Lionheart), they paid a lasting compliment to the king of