1、专业八级-370 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPART LISTENIN(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A MINI-LECTU(总题数：1，分数：10.00)In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to co
2、mplete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Some of the gaps may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (ar
3、e) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.Complete the gap-filling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and
4、semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes.With the explosion of excitement about the Internet, there seems to be another type of addiction that has invaded the human psyche.I. Internet addiction or computer addiction: what to name the phenomenon?1) Interact Addiction DisorderSome people s
5、eem to be too excited about the Internet.2) Computer AddictionMany people are attached only to their computers and dont care about the Internet.3) Cyberspace Addictionan addiction to U U 1 /U /Uof experience created through computer engineeringmany subtypes with U U 2 /U /U some are game and competi
6、tion oriented some fulfill more U U 3 /U /U some are an extension ofworkaholicism. Normal enthusiasm and abnormal preoccupation: where to draw the line?1) Addictions can be healthy, unhealthy or a U U 4 /U /Uhealthy: an outlet for learning, creativity and self-expressionunhealthy: serious disturbanc
7、es in ones ability to function in U U 5 /U /U2) With no official psychological or psychiatric diagnosis of an Internet or Computer Addiction, there are only definitions of the constellation of U U 6 /U /Uthat constitutes such addictions in different ways. Problematic addiction and healthy Internet u
8、se: the speakers premise1) problematic addiction: when they have U U 7 /U /Utheir cyber life from face-to-face life2) healthy Interact use: U U 8 /U /Uthe face-to-face and cyberspace worlds3) “bringing in the real world“an important principle for helping people who are addictively U U 9 /U /Uin cybe
9、rspacea powerful tool for intervening with people who are addicted to U U 10 /U /Uin cyberspace （分数：10.00）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:_三、SECTION B INTERVIEW(总题数：1，分数：5.00)In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the
10、 questions that follow.Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. （分数：5.00）(1).What is the decoration of the East Room like? A. Its elaborate. B. Its simpler than pa
11、st. C. Its nothing special. D. Its too plain.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why do they use real roses according to Laura? A. Real roses are more fragrant. B. Real roses can show their social status. C. Real roses are fresh. D. Real roses can better show their love.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Whats Donna Greens main
12、 responsibility? A. To help decorate the White House. B. To do the White House Christmas card. C. To guide visitors to the White House during the Christmas. D. To illustrate the decorations of the White House.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The White House during Christmas this year is very different in that _
13、. A. its much prettier B. its more elegant C. everything is fresh and real D. everything is brand new（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following is NOT mentioned by Laura as something Americans have a difficult time doing? A. Criticizing President Bush. B. Having family members deployed in Iraq. C.
14、Worrying about their family members in Iraq. D. Watching American troops in Iraq.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C NEWS BROAD(总题数：2，分数：5.00)In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following news. At t
15、he end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. （分数：3.00）(1).The Maersk Alabama is owned by _. A. Kenya B. Denmark C. America D. Somalia（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to Andrew Mwangura, how can the deadlock be resolved quickly? A. Denmarks . P.
16、 Moller-Maersk contact with pirates directly. B. The crew disabled the ship and overpowered the pirates. C. Give pirates enough money immediately. D. Use a lot of third parties to be part of the negotiation team.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news i
17、tem, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. Which of the following is NOT the result of Yahoos issue? A. Scott Thompson lost his position in the company. B. Ross Levinson took place of Scott Thompson. C. Mr. Loeb will be appointed a company director. D. The chie
18、f executive was found padding his academic credentials.语音下载（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 9 to 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. （分数：2.00）(1).The new taxes are used to _. A. sort out troubled fir
19、ms B. pay for bailouts C. avoid the risk of each firms activities D. increase the employees pay（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).If governments want to raise more money, they can put in an additional tax on _ firstly. A. financial institutions B. products of companies C. profits of companies D. employees salarie
20、s（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、BPART READING (总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、BTEXT A/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is t
21、he most important assignment confronting American journalismto make clear to the reader the problems of the day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing (with the possible exception of such scribbling as society and club new
22、s) as “local“ news, because any event in the international area has a local reaction in manpower draft, in economic strain, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life.There is in journalism a widespread view that when you embark on interpretation, you are entering choppy and dangerous waters, the swi
23、rling tides of opinion. This is nonsense.The opponents of interpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall confine themselves to the “facts“. This insistence raises two questions: what are the facts? And: are the bare facts enough?As to the first query, consider how a so-called “factual“ s
24、tory comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space allotment being necessarily restricted, he selects the ten, which he considers most important. This is Judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall constitute the lead of the
25、 piece. This is important decision because many readers do not proceed beyond the first paragraph. This is Judgment Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has a large impact, or on page twenty-four, where it has little. Judgment Numb
26、er Three.Thus, in the presentation of a so-called “factual“ or “objective“ story, at least three judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation, in which reporter and editor, calling upon their general background, and their “news neutralism“, arrive
27、 at a conclusion as to the significance of the news.The two areas of judgment, presentation of the news and its interpretation, are both objective rather than subjective processesas objective, that is, as any human being can be. (Note in passing: even though complete objectivity can never be achieve
28、d, nevertheless the ideal must always be the beacon on the murky news channels.) If an editor is intent on slanting the news, he can do it in other ways and more effectively than by interpretation. He can do it by the selection of those facts that prop up his particular plea. Or he can do it by the
29、pay he gives a story promoting it to page one or demoting it to page thirty.（分数：5.00）(1).Readers expect all of the following from newspapers EXCEPT _. A. how to interpret news B. interpretations of news C. community news D. international news（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).It can be inferred from the passage t
30、hat _. A. news of local areas will no longer be reported B. interpretation of news always involves editors bias C. American journalism is in lack of objectivity D. there is a higher requirement for the content of news today（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What can be inferred about the opponents of interpretati
31、on? A. They have a higher requirement for the objectivity of news than supporters do. B. They have a narrow understanding of what facts mean. C. They doubt that news can be factual. D. They dont believe in the validity of interpreted news.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).In what way are presentation and interpr
32、etation of news alike? A. They are both subjective. B. They are both difficult to do. C. They both involve judgments by reporters and editors. D. They both help keep the objectivity of news.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The passage is mainly about _. A. how to select news B. how to interpret news C. requirem
33、ents for news interpretation D. the objectivity of news interpretation（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、BTEXT B/B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)When I was 14 years old and very impressed with my teenage status, I set for myself a very special goalthat to differentiate me from my friends. My goal was a project that I undertook eve
34、ry day after school for several months. It began to when I stealthily made my way into the local elementary schoolhorror of horrors should I be seen; I was now in junior high. I identified myself as a graduate of the elementary school, and being taken under wing by a favorite fifth grade teacher, I
35、was given a small bundle from a locked storerooma bundle that I quickly dropped into a bag, lest anyone see me walking home with something from the “little kids“ school.I brought the bundle home proudly. I walked into the living room, and one by one, emptied the bag of basic reading books. They were
36、 thin books with colorful covers and large print. The words were monosyllabic and repetitive. I sat down to the secret task at hand. “All right,“ I said authoritatively to my 70-year-old grandmother, “today we begin our first reading lesson.“ For weeks afterwards, my grandmother and I sat patiently
37、side by side roles reversed as she, with a bit of difficulty, sounded out every word, then read them again, piece by piece, until she understood the short sentences. When she slowly repeated the full sentence, we both would smile and clap our handsI felt so pound, so grown up.My grandmother was born
38、 in a rocky little Greece farming village where nothing much grew. She never had the time to go to school. As she was the oldest child, she was expected to take care of her brother and sister, as well as the house and acclimating exceptions, and her father scratched out what little he could form fro
39、m the soil. So, for my grandmother, schooling was out. But she had big plans for herself. She had heard about America. About how rich you could be. How people on the streets would offer you a dollar just to smell the flower you were carrying. About how everyone lived in nice housesnot stone huts on
40、the side of mountainsand had nice clothes and time for school. So my grandmother made a decision at 14just a childto take a long and sickening 30-day sea voyage alone to the United States. After lying about her age to the passport officials, who would shake their heads vehemently at anyone under 16
41、leaving her family, and after giving her favorite gold earrings to her cousin, saying “In America, I will have all the gold I want“, my young grandmother put herself on a ship. She landed in New York in 1916. No need to repeat the story of how it went for years. The streets were not made of gold. Pe
42、ople werent interested in smelling flowers held by strangers. My grandmother was a foreigner. Alone. A young girl who worked hard doing piecework to earn money for meals. No leisure time, no new gold earringsand no school. She learned only enough English to help her in her daily business.English cam
43、e slowly. My grandmother had never learned to read. She could make out a menu, but not a newspaper. She could read a street sign, but not a shop directory. She could read only what she needed to read as, through the years, she married, had five daughters, and helped my grandfather with his restauran
44、t. So when I was 14the same age that my grandmother was when she left her family, her country, and everything she knewI took it upon myself to teach my grandmother something, something I already knew how to do. Something with which I could give back to her some of the things she had taught me. And i
45、t was slight repayment for all she taught me. How to cover the fig tree in tar paper so it could survive the winter. How to cultivate rose bushes and magnolia trees that thrived on her little piece of property. Best of all, she had taught me my ethnic heritage.First, we phonetically sounded out the
46、alphabet. Then, we talked about vowelsEnglish is such a difficult language to learn. I hadnt even begun to explain the different sounds “gh“ could make. We were still at the basics. Every afternoon, we would sit in the living room, my grandmother with an afghan converting her knees, giving up her cr
47、ocheting for her reading lesson. I, with the patience that can come only from love, slowly coached her from the basic reader to the second-grade reader, giving up my telephone gossiping. Years later, my grandmother still hadnt learned quite enough to sit comfortably with a newspaper or magazine, but
48、 it felt awfully good to see her try. How we used to laugh at her pronunciation mistakes. She laughed more heartily than I. I never knew whether I should laugh. Here was this old woman slowly and carefully sounding out each word, moving her lips, not saying anything aloud until she was absolutely sure, and then, loudly, happily saying
