1、专业八级-883 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)The American FamilyWell learn the American families from the followingfive aspects:1. Family structures1) Immediate family, consisting of parentsand children2) (1) _ familyconsisting of parents, (1) _ch
2、ildren, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc.2. The emphasis on individual freedomThe primary propose of a family is to (2) _ (2) _the happiness of individual members. Family name andhonor are (3) _ important. (3) _3. The role of the childEmphasis on the individual may affect children intwo ways:Child
3、ren nay get more attention and more power;Children may not get enough attention due tothe fact that both parents are (4) _. (4) _4. (5) _ in the family (5) _5. Family values1) clearly traditional valuesrespecting ones (6) _ (6) _being (7) _ for ones actions (7) _having faith in Godrespecting authori
4、tymarried to (8) _ for life (8) _leaving the world in better shape2) newer valuesgiving (9) _ to other members of (9) _the familyrespecting people for themselvesdeveloping greater skill in communicatingones feelingsrespecting ones childrenliving up to ones (10) _ as (10) _an individual（分数：10.00）填空项
5、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(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Questions 1 to 5 are based on a conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following 5 questions.Now listen to the conversation.（分数：5.00）(1).What is the c
6、onversation mainly about?（分数：1.00）A.The location of the Economics office.B.Course arrangement.C.Facilities and teaching faculty.D.School regulations and restrictions.(2).What is the possible relationship of the two speakers?（分数：1.00）A.Two students.B.Two teachers.C.A student and a teacher.D.A student
7、 and a director.(3).According to the conversation, Mary will probably meet Dr. Roberts at（分数：1.00）A.3 p.mB.4 p. m.C.5 p.mD.8:45 a.m. the next day.(4).The course requirements of the School of Economics cover all the following EXCEPT（分数：1.00）A.90% of lecture attendance.B.tutorial once a week.C.a 3,000
8、-word essay.D.a closed book exam.(5).Mary is suggested to get the core books of the course by（分数：1.00）A.buying them.B.borrowing them front tile library.C.borrowing them from the Closed Reserve.D.reading them in the Closed Reserve.四、SECTION C(总题数：3，分数：5.00)Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following
9、news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).What presents a barrier to Turkeys joining the EU?（分数：1.00）A.The fact that Turkey is predominately a Muslim country.B.The fact that Turkey has a big population.C.Th
10、e fact that Turkey refused to recognize Cyprus.D.The fact that Cyprus prevent Turkey from joining the EU.(2).According to the news, which of the following is TRUE?（分数：1.00）A.As an EU member, Turkey enjoys privileges.B.Cyprus is not an EU member.C.Turkey will be admitted into EU with half membership.
11、D.There are 25 EU members.1.Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.Which of the following statements is TRUE?（分数：1.00）A.America has won the championship five times so far.B.Canada won the seco
12、nd prize at this contest.C.The questions asked at the contest are all about geography.D.The three winners have different ideas about their future careers.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.
13、Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).According to Dr. Shear, complicated grief（分数：1.00）A.results from the death of a beloved one.B.is an intense feeling lasting six months or longer.C.is an intense feeling lasting three months or longer.D.is hard to cure.(2).The new therapy（分数：1.00）A.is quite effecti
14、ve as compared with the traditional therapy.B.combines medical treatment and psychotherapy.C.focuses on personal development.D.doesnt allow the patients to talk about the death of the loved one.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)In the eighteenth century, Japans feudal overlor
15、ds, from the shogun to the humblest samurai, found themselves under financial stress. In part, this stress can be attributed to the overlords failure to adjust to a rapidly expanding economy, but the stress was also due to factors beyond the overlords control. Concentration of the samurai in castle
16、towns had acted as a stimulus to nude. Commercial efficiency, in turn, had put temptations in the way of buyers. Since most samurai had been reduced to idleness by years of peace, encouraged to engage in scholarship and martial exercises or to perform administrative tasks that took little time, it i
17、s not surprising that their tastes and habits grew expensive. Overlords income, despite the increase in rice production among their tenant farmers, failed to keep pace with their expenses. Although shortfalls in overloads income resulted almost as much from laxity among their tax collectors (the nea
18、rly inevitable outcome of hereditary office-holding) as from their higher standards of living, a misfortune like a fire or flood, bringing an in crease in expenses or a drop in revenue, could put a domain in debt to the city rice-brokers who handled its finances. Once in debt, neither the individual
19、 samurai nor the shogun himself found it easy to recover.It was difficult for individual samurai overlords to increase their income because the amount of rice that farmers could be made to pay in taxes was not unlimited, and since the income of Japans central government consisted in part of taxes co
20、llected by the shogun from his huge domain, the government too was constrained. Therefore, the Tokugawa shoguns began to look to other sources for revenue. Cash profits from government-owned mines were already on the decline because the most easily worked deposits of silver and gold had been exhaust
21、ed, although debasement of the coinage had compensated for the loss. Opening up new farmland was a possibility, but most of what was suitable had already been exploited and further reclamation was technically unfeasible. Direct taxation of the samurai themselves would be politically dangerous. This
22、left the shoguns only commerce as a potential source of government income.Most of the countrys wealth, or so it seemed, was finding its way into the hands of city merchants. It appeared reasonable that they should contribute part of that revenue to ease the shoguns burden of financing the state. A m
23、eans of obtaining such revenue was soon found by levying forced loans, known as goyo-kin; although these were not taxes in the strict sense, since they were irregular in timing and arbitrary in amount, they were high in yield. Unfortunately, they pushed up prices. Thus, regrettably, the Tokugawa sho
24、guns search for solvency for the government made it increasingly difficult for individual Japanese who lived on fixed stipends to make ends meet.（分数：5.00）(1).Which is the authors attitude toward the samurai discussed in the first paragraph?（分数：1.00）A.Warmly approving.B.Mildly sympathetic.C.Bitterly
25、disappointed.D.Harshly disdainful.(2).Which is the major mason fur the financial problems experienced by Japans feudal overlords?（分数：1.00）A.Profits from mining had declined.B.Spending had outdistanced income.C.The samurai had concentrated in castle-towns.D.The coinage had been sharply debase(3).The
26、reason that individual samurai did not find it easy to recover from debt is _.（分数：1.00）A.taxes were irregular in timing and arbitrary in amountB.the Japanese government had failed to adjust to the needs of a changing economyC.there was a limit to the amount in taxes that farmers could be made to pay
27、D.the domains of samurai overlords were becoming smaller and poorer as government revenues increased(4).Which could best be substituted for the word “THIS“ in the last sentence of the second paragraph?（分数：1.00）A.The search of Japans Tokugawa shoguns for solvency.B.The unfairness of the tax structure
28、 in eighteenth-century Japan.C.The difficulty experienced by both individual samurai and the shogun himself in extricating themselves from debt.D.The difficulty of increasing government income by other means.(5).According to the passage, the actions of the Tokugawa shoguns in their search for solven
29、cy for the government were regrettable because those actions _.（分数：1.00）A.resulted in the exhaustion of the most easily worked deposits of silver and goldB.raised the cost of living by pushing up pricesC.were far tower in yield than had originally been anticipatedD.acted as deterrent to trade七、TEXT
30、B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:“Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! Thats all right!“ He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the othe
31、r side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.Mr. Pontellier, unable to read his newspaper with any degree of comfort, arose with an expression and an exclamation of disgust. He walked down the gallery and across the narrow “bridges“ which connected the
32、 Lebrun cottages one with the other. He had been seated before the door of the main house. The parrot and the mockingbird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished. Mr. Pontellier had the privilege of quitting their society when they ceased to be en
33、tertaining.He stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one from the main building and next to the last. Seating himself in a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of reading the newspaper. The day was Sunday; the paper was a day old. The Sund
34、ay papers had not yet reached Grand Isle. He was already acquainted with the market reports, and he glanced restlessly over the editorials and bits of news which he had not had time to read before quitting New Orleans the day before.Mr. Pontellier wore eye-glasses. He was a man of forty, of medium h
35、eight and rather slender build; he stooped a little. His hair was brown and straight, parted on one side. His beard was neatly and closely trimmed.Once in a while he withdrew his glance from the newspaper and looked about him. There was more noise than ever over at the house. The main building was c
36、alled “the house,“ to distinguish it from the cottages. The chattering and whistling birds were still at it. Two young gifts, the Farival twins, were playing a duet from “Zampa“ upon the piano. Madame Lebrun was bustling in and out, giving orders in a high key to a yard-boy whenever she got inside t
37、he house, and directions in an equally high voice to a dining-room servant whenever she got outside. She was a fresh, pretty woman, clad always in white with elbow sleeves. Her starched skins crinkled as she came and went. Farther down, before one of the cottages, a lady in black was walking demurel
38、y up and down, telling her beads. A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudetets lugger to hear mass. Some young people were out under the water-oaks playing croquet. Mr. Pontelliers two children were theresturdy little fellows of four and five. A quadroon nu
39、rse followed them about with a faraway, meditative air.Mr. Pontellier finally lit a cigar and began to smoke, letting the paper drag idly from his hand. He fixed his gaze upon a white sunshade that was advancing at snails pace from the beach. He could see it plainly between the gaunt trunks of the w
40、ater-oaks and across the stretch of yellow chamomile. The gulf looked far away, melting hazily into the blue of the horizon. The sunshade continued to approach slowly. Beneath its pink-lined shelter were his wife, Mrs. Pontellier, and young Robert Lebrun. When they reached the cottage, the two seate
41、d themselves with some appearance of fatigue upon the upper step of the porch, facing each other, each leaning against a supporting post.“What folly! to bathe at such an hour in such heat!“ exclaimed Mr. Pontellier. He himself had taken a plunge at daylight. That was why the morning seemed long to h
42、im.“You are burnt beyond recognition,“ he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage. She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her lawn sleeves above the wrists. Looking at them reminde
43、d her of her rings, which she bad given to her husband before leaving for the beach. She silently reached out to him, and he, understanding, took the rings from his vest pocket and dropped them into her open palm. She slipped them upon her fingers; then clasping her knees, she looked across at Rober
44、t and began to laugh. The rings sparkled upon her fingers. He sent back an answering smile.“What is it?“ asked Pontellier, looking lazily and amused from one to the other. It was some utter nonsense; some adventure out there in the water, and they both tried to relate it at once. It did not seem hal
45、f so amusing when told. They realized this, and so did Mr. Pontellier. He yawned and stretched himself. Then he got up, saying he had half a mind to go over to Kleins hotel and play a game of billiards.“Come go along, Lebrun,“ he proposed to Robert. But Robert admitted quite frankly that he preferre
46、d to stay where he was and talk to Mrs. Pontellier.“Well, send him about his business when he bores you, Edna,“ instructed her husband as he prepared to leave.“Here, take the umbrella,“ she exclaimed, holding it out to him. He accepted the sunshade, and lifting it over his head descended the steps a
47、nd walked away.“Coming back to dinner?“ his wife called after him. He halted a moment and shrugged his shoulders. He felt in his vest pocket; there was a ten-dollar bill there. He did not know; perhaps he would return for the early dinner and perhaps he would not. It all depended upon the company wh
48、ich he found over at Kleins and the size of “the game.“ He did not say this, but she understood it, and laughed, nodding good-by to him.Both Children wanted to follow their father when they saw him starting out. He kissed them and promised to bring them back bonbons and peanuts.（分数：5.00）(1).Which of the following adjectives best describe Mr. Pontellier?（分数：1.00）A.EnergeticB.RobustC.Good-humoredD.Inactive(2).In Mr. Pontelliers minds eye, his wife is _.（分数：1.00）A.an independent personB.an object of considerable valueC.an understanding womanD.an unreliable woman(3)
