专业英语八级词汇-15及答案解析.doc

1、专业英语八级词汇-15及答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)When John answered the doorbell recently, he was ratherastonished to see what he had purchased on the Internet onlytwo days before sitting on his doorstep. I never expected to get (1) my books so quickly, he told Business Weekly.Tommy shared Johns experience. He

2、 said online shoppingwas very good and always offered comparatively lower prices thanordinary retailer stores. Along with the rapidly developing (2) IT industry, online shopping is attracting the interest of moreand more people.The general manager of the Electronic Business Departmentof Federal Soft

3、ware Co. Ltd., said online shopping had tremendousmarket potential giving the large population. The company established (3) an online shopping center for Internet surfers. More than 14,000 kindsof goods are available, including computers, software, books anddaily necessity. Daily visitors to the sit

4、e surged froml0,000 in March (4) to 30,000 in June, and that figure is likely to multiple. (5) Industry experts say that because of the lack of appropriate paymenttools, online shopping is still at a primitive stage. The application ofonline payment marks up a milestone for the development of the on

5、line (6) industry. However, problems such as a limited pot of Internet users, (7) comparatively high charges on Internet surfing and traditional views (8) on shopping have hindered the development of online shopping.Federal Software Co. Ltd. plans to invest U.S. $24 million on its (9) shopping websi

6、te. They are going to seek cooperation with domesticand oversea companies to extend the variety of online products. (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:_The worst thing about television and radio is that it save us (1) the trouble of entertaining ourselves. A hu

7、ndred of years ago, before all (2) these devices were invented, if a person wanted to entertain himselfby a song or a piece of music, he would have to do the singing (3) himself or pick up a violin and play it. Now, all he has to do is turn (4) the radio or TV. Today, we sing songs to our children u

8、ntil they areabout two; we read simple books to them till they are about five, so once (5) they have learnt to read themselves, we become deaf. Were alive onlywith the sound of the TV and the stereo. (6) Before TV became so common, to keep children entertained, mothers hadto do a good number of sing

9、ing and tell children endless tales. People spoke (7) a language; they sang it; they recited it; it is something they could feel. (8) Professional actors performance is extraordinarily revealing, but Istill prefer my own reading, because its mine. For the same reason, peoplefind karaoke liberated. I

10、t is almost the only electronic thing that gives them (9) back their own voice. Even their voices are hopelessly out of tune, at least (10) it is meaningful self-entertainment.（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:_Office jobs are among the positions hardest hit by com

11、putation.Word processors and typists will lose about 93,000 jobs the next (1) few years, while 57,000 secretarial jobs will vanish. Today, manyexecutives type their own memos and carry their secretaries in thepalms of their hands. But not anyone who loses a job will end up (2) in the unemployment li

12、ne. Many will shift to grown positions (3) within their own companies. When new technologies shook up thetelecom business, telephone operator Judy Dougherty pursuedretraining. She is now communications technician, earning about (4) $ 64,000 per year.To succeed in the new job market, you must be able

13、 to handlecomplex problem. Indeed, all but one of the 50 highest-paying (5) occupations-air-traffic controller-demands at least a bachelors degree. (6) For those with just a high school diploma, its going to get tougherto find a well-paying job. Since less factory and clerical jobs will be (7) avail

14、able, whats left will be the jobs that computation cant kill: computerscant clean offices, or care Alzheimers patients. But, since most people (8) have the skills to fill those positions, the wages stay painfully low, means (9) computation could drive an even deeper wedge between the rich and poor.T

15、he best advice now: never stop learning, and keep with new technology. (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:_Thirty-one million Americans are over 60 years of age, andtwenty-nine million of them are health, busy, productive citizens. (1) By the year 2030, one of

16、every five people in the United States will (2) be over 60. Older people are members of the fastest-growing majority (3) in this country. Many call this the graying of America. In 1973, agroup called the Gray Panthers was organized. This group is made (4) of young and old citizens. They are trying t

17、o treat with the special (5) problems of growing old in America. The Gray Panthers know thatmany elderly people have healthy problems: some cannot walk well; others (6) cannot see or hear well; some have financial problems-prices are goingup fast that the elderly cant afford the food, clothing, and

18、housing they (7) need. Some old people are afraid and have safety problems. Others haveemotional problems. Many elderly are lonely because of the death of ahusband and a wife. The Gray Panthers know another fact, too. Elderly (8) people want to be as independent as possible. So, the Gray Panthers ar

19、elooking at ways to solve the special problems of the elderly. They (9) want to help elders to stay youthfully at heart. (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:_In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharplyseparated and where many household tasks are

20、 shared in a greater or (1) lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. Thepattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions make for equality, and (2) this in turn leads to less sharing. If the process goes too far, mans (3) role will be regarded as less important-and that has happe

21、ned in somecase. It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. (4) That we need is the recognition that bringing up children involves a (5) partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists,social workers, and specialists of the family are becoming more aw

22、are (6) of the part men play and they have decided that women should not (7) receive all the credit-not all the blame. We have almost given up sayingthat a womans place is the home. We are beginning, therefore, to analyze (8) mens place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Thef

23、amily is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay up (9) rules, because each family needs to work its own ways for solving its (10) own problems.（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:_专业英语八级词汇-15答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)When John answered the doorbell

24、 recently, he was ratherastonished to see what he had purchased on the Internet onlytwo days before sitting on his doorstep. I never expected to get (1) my books so quickly, he told Business Weekly.Tommy shared Johns experience. He said online shoppingwas very good and always offered comparatively l

25、ower prices thanordinary retailer stores. Along with the rapidly developing (2) IT industry, online shopping is attracting the interest of moreand more people.The general manager of the Electronic Business Departmentof Federal Software Co. Ltd., said online shopping had tremendousmarket potential gi

26、ving the large population. The company established (3) an online shopping center for Internet surfers. More than 14,000 kindsof goods are available, including computers, software, books anddaily necessity. Daily visitors to the site surged froml0,000 in March (4) to 30,000 in June, and that figure i

27、s likely to multiple. (5) Industry experts say that because of the lack of appropriate paymenttools, online shopping is still at a primitive stage. The application ofonline payment marks up a milestone for the development of the online (6) industry. However, problems such as a limited pot of Interne

28、t users, (7) comparatively high charges on Internet surfing and traditional views (8) on shopping have hindered the development of online shopping.Federal Software Co. Ltd. plans to invest U.S. $24 million on its (9) shopping website. They are going to seek cooperation with domesticand oversea compa

29、nies to extend the variety of online products. (10) （分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：在never之前加had）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“我从未想过这么快就能拿到我的书”，是对过去事实的假设，因此应使用虚拟语气，在never之前加had。填空项1:_（正确答案：retailerretail）解析：解析 “零售商店”应该用retail store来表示，而非retailer store。填空项1:_（正确答案：givinggiven）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“考虑到众多的人口，在线购物有巨大的市场潜力”，因此应将giving改

30、成意为“考虑到”的介词given。填空项1:_（正确答案：necessitynecessities）解析：解析 necessity在此意为“必需品”，为可数名词，因此应使用复数形式necessities。填空项1:_（正确答案：multiplemultiply）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“这一数字很可能会增加”，因此将常用作形容词的multiple改为动词multiply。填空项1:_（正确答案：去掉up）解析：解析 mark意为“标记，表明”时，为及物动词，而短语mark up意为“提高价格”，与原文不符，因此去掉up。填空项1:_（正确答案：potpool）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“

31、有限的上网人数”，而pot表示容器，想要表示人的集合体应用名词pool。填空项1:_（正确答案：onfor）解析：解析 通常用介词for弓i出征收费用的对象，因此此处将on改为for。填空项1:_（正确答案：onin）解析：解析 invest.in为固定搭配，意为“投资于”，符合原文意思。填空项1:_（正确答案：extendexpand）解析：解析 extend意为“延伸、伸长或扩展(某物)到较大程度或最大长度”，而原文想要表达的是“拓展在线产品的种类”，因此将extend改成意为“扩大，增加”的expand。The worst thing about television and radio

32、 is that it save us (1) the trouble of entertaining ourselves. A hundred of years ago, before all (2) these devices were invented, if a person wanted to entertain himselfby a song or a piece of music, he would have to do the singing (3) himself or pick up a violin and play it. Now, all he has to do

33、is turn (4) the radio or TV. Today, we sing songs to our children until they areabout two; we read simple books to them till they are about five, so once (5) they have learnt to read themselves, we become deaf. Were alive onlywith the sound of the TV and the stereo. (6) Before TV became so common, t

34、o keep children entertained, mothers hadto do a good number of singing and tell children endless tales. People spoke (7) a language; they sang it; they recited it; it is something they could feel. (8) Professional actors performance is extraordinarily revealing, but Istill prefer my own reading, bec

35、ause its mine. For the same reason, peoplefind karaoke liberated. It is almost the only electronic thing that gives them (9) back their own voice. Even their voices are hopelessly out of tune, at least (10) it is meaningful self-entertainment.（分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：itthey）解析：解析 it指代的是television and r

36、adio，因此应将其改为表示复数概念的they。填空项1:_（正确答案：去掉hundred之后的of）解析：解析 hundred在表示具体数字时后面应直接接限定的名词，因此去掉多余的of。填空项1:_（正确答案：bywith）解析：解析 entertain sbwith sth为固定搭配，意为“利用某事物娱乐某人”，符合原文意思，因此将介词by改为with。填空项1:_（正确答案：在turn之后加on）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“打开收音机或电视”，因此在turn之后应加上on，用短语turn on来表示“打开”。填空项1:_（正确答案：soand）解析：解析 原文中的“我们在他们五岁左右前

37、给他们读简单的书”和“一旦他们学会自己读书，我们就变成聋子了”之间应该是递进关系，因此将表因果关系的so改为and。填空项1:_（正确答案：withto）解析：解析 be alive to sth为固定搭配，意为“注意到某事物，对某事物敏感”，与原文意思相符，因此将with改为to。填空项1:_（正确答案：numberdeal）解析：解析 a number of在表示“许多，大量”时通常用于限定复数可数名词，而singing为不可数名词，因此应将number改为deal，即用a good deal of来限定singing。填空项1:_（正确答案：iswas）解析：解析 整句话中其他分句采用的

38、都是一般过去时，因此将此处的is改为was，使该分句的时态统一为一般过去时。填空项1:_（正确答案：liberatedliberating）解析：解析 liberated一般用作定语，表示“解放的，不受传统思想束缚的”，而原文想要表达的是“人们发现卡拉OK很放松”，因此将liberated改为现在分词形式的liberating。填空项1:_（正确答案：在Even之后加ifthough）解析：解析 原文中的“他们的声音走调”和“至少它是有意义的自我娱乐”之间应该是转折让步关系，因此在even之后加上if或though来表示“尽管”。Office jobs are among the positi

39、ons hardest hit by computation.Word processors and typists will lose about 93,000 jobs the next (1) few years, while 57,000 secretarial jobs will vanish. Today, manyexecutives type their own memos and carry their secretaries in thepalms of their hands. But not anyone who loses a job will end up (2)

40、in the unemployment line. Many will shift to grown positions (3) within their own companies. When new technologies shook up thetelecom business, telephone operator Judy Dougherty pursuedretraining. She is now communications technician, earning about (4) $ 64,000 per year.To succeed in the new job ma

41、rket, you must be able to handlecomplex problem. Indeed, all but one of the 50 highest-paying (5) occupations-air-traffic controller-demands at least a bachelors degree. (6) For those with just a high school diploma, its going to get tougherto find a well-paying job. Since less factory and clerical

42、jobs will be (7) available, whats left will be the jobs that computation cant kill: computerscant clean offices, or care Alzheimers patients. But, since most people (8) have the skills to fill those positions, the wages stay painfully low, means (9) computation could drive an even deeper wedge betwe

43、en the rich and poor.The best advice now: never stop learning, and keep with new technology. (10) （分数：20.00）填空项1:_（正确答案：在the之前加over）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“文字处理人员和打字人员在未来几年将失去九万三千份工作”，因此应该在the next few years之前加上介词over，用来引导时间状语。填空项1:_（正确答案：anyoneeveryone）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“不是每个失去工作的人都会最终失业”，因此此处应将意为“任何人”的anyone改成意为“每个人”的everyone。填空项1:_（正确答案：growngrowing）解析：解析 原文想要表达的是“公司内部增加的职位”，故此处不存在被动关系，因此将grown改为现在分词形式growing作positions的定语。填空项1:_（正确答案：在now之后加a）解析：解析 technician为可数