1、专业八级-1016 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)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 semantically acceptable. You may refer to
2、your notes.People usually communicate by spoken and written language, yet they can also communicate without words and this kind of communication often is more important than getting the content of the message across. Body language falls into this category of communication. Need for body language1) W
3、hen connecting with a person, we have to make it clear how the content of a spoken message needs to be (1) .And how we do this tells something about (2) between people.2) Often (3) are inadequate for this purpose, and therefore we use body language. e.g. looking someone in the eyes means something d
4、ifferent than not looking someone in the eyes. Functions and features of body language1) Body language decides to a large extent (4) of our communication, and therefore we should learn to use our body language for a purpose learn to understand and explain body language of others2) How we can explain
5、 body language depends on situation culture relationship we have with the person (5) of the other3) Body language is interlinked with spoken language a whole pattern of (6) from a person4) Body language signs can (7) each other to make a meaning clear strengthen the meaning of what we communicate5)
6、Some groups have developed a whole specific body language which can be very explicit in its meaning and is used to communicate where the use of words may be difficult or dangerous. Specific use of body language1) Body language is used especially to express feelings.People may give out double message
7、s: one message in words and an (8) message in body language. Most people believe more steadily their impression of how a person acts through body language than what is said through words. People tend to (9) the spoken words if they do not correspond with the body language.2) How we come across to so
8、meone is decided only for a small part by the words we speak but for a large part by our body language. To leave a good impression, it is important for us to know and control our body language. The person on the receiving end of our body language will have a feeling or impression difficult to descri
9、be, which is called (10) .（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(总题数：1，分数：5.00)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 i
10、nterview.（分数：5.00）(1).Which of the following statements is TRUE about Professor Kimballs survey?A. Some people dont want to take it because its too time-consuming.B. The results might not be objective enough.C. The survey aims to measure Americans happiness.D. The survey has been conducted for three
11、 months.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following statements about happiness is NOT true according to Professor Kimball?A. The English word “happenstance“ is about luck that happens by chance.B. Happiness means good luck in many languages.C. Happiness as a kind of feeling is relatively long-lastin
12、g.D. Peoples feeling of happiness goes back to normal quickly.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Professor Kimball thinks the strong dip in peoples happiness after the earthquake in Pakistan _.A. shows that people all over the world care about PakistanB. demonstrates earthquakes great influenceC. doesnt make any
13、sense because the survey results arent justifiedD. makes sense because everyone cares about other human beings（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Whats Professor Kimballs attitude towards Richard Laird and his book on happiness?A. Positive. B. Negative. C. Indifferent. D. Ambiguous.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).“Hedonic ad
14、aptation“ means that _.A. life is influenced by peoples feeling of happinessB. peoples feeling of happiness usually dips after news eventsC. the happiness goes back to normal after a whileD. the happiness depends on how well ones life is going（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：4，分数：5.00)1.Question 7 i
15、s 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.The Government of German is going to _.A. implement a rescue packageB. withdraw money from GreeceC. drive Greece out of the EurozoneD. give more money to Greece bef
16、ore May 9（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Questions 8 to 9 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).Why did British force strike the police building in Basra?A. Because some civil prisoners were planning t
17、o break the prison.B. Because they found a major Iraqi criminal in the building.C. Because they heard there would be planned executions.D. Because they heard there would be an attack.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The Iraqi army supported the crime unit.B. British
18、force killed no one.C. The police unit demolished the building during the attack.D. The police unit has been accused of committing many crimes.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.Question 10 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 t
19、o the news.According to the news, James Brown _.A. used to be a shoemakerB. grew up in a well-to-do familyC. supported the Civil Rights MovementD. was the God Father of Blues（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3.Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to ans
20、wer the question. Now listen to the news.The news is mainly about _ rebuilding the World Trade Center.A. the schedule for B. difficulties in C. suggestion provided on D. clearing of obstacles to（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Since ancient times it has been
21、 known that your word is a cause set in motion. In fact, the universe itself is claimed to have emanated from a single primordial sound. In the science of yoga, it is believed that certain Sanskrit words, known as mantras, can bring about magical results, thus you can secure abundance with a certain
22、 mantra, peace with another, and so on. On a more practical level, your word still remains highly potent.With your words, you can wound someone, sending them into spirals of defeat, and with your words you can heal someone, raising them up from a dismal place to soaring hope and motivation. In fact,
23、 the entire field of self-improvement is the transmission of words that will assist others to get a firm perspective and move forward with their lives, fulfilling their dreams and desires.On a personal level, too, your words affect you. What you say to yourself about anyone or anything affects you,
24、too. If you speak well of someone or something, you bring more of that harmony into your life. And if you speak ill of someone or something, you bring more of that frustration and anger and conflict into your life.Psychological literature often speaks of numerous cases where a parents words, spoken
25、casually, can affect the destiny of a child. And the most potent words that a parent can use to affect a child are those spoken at the time of dying since these are the last words, and the moment is so highly-charged and the awareness so acute, these words become an imperative that the child now fee
26、ls obligated to never disown.Words are further charged with the emotion behind them. The stronger the emotion, the more highly charged the words. Many a love affair has fallen by the wayside because of emotionally charged words, which are later regretted.Despite all this, people use words with the u
27、tmost casualness. People wreck their own lives and that of others through the careless use of words. They also accept the words of others as a given truth, when, in fact, all comments by others are merely opinion.The most marvelous aspect of words is how they can bend time. The brilliantly crafted w
28、ords of Shakespeare or the eloquence of Martin Luther King still shape our lives. Words are so sacred that whole buildings are used to archive them and make them available for reading.A person can rise from poverty to wealth, from sickness to health, and from loneliness to loving companionship simpl
29、y through exposing themselves to the most beneficial stream of words.Words not only steal hearts, but shape reality as well. The earth can be a better place because of your choice of words. You can fill lives with the miracles of your words. You can be an agent for positive change and bring out the
30、best in yourself and others simply by how you use words. Words are psychic shape-shifters; use them wisely.（分数：6.00）(1).By saying “your word is a cause set in motion“, the author means _.A. words are changeable from time to timeB. words can have great influence on other thingsC. the same word can ha
31、ve different meanings for different peopleD. words can lead to both good and bad results（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the author, words can _.A. kill people B. show peoples defeatC. give people hopeD. change the speaker himself（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Which is TRUE about the last words at the time o
32、f parents dying?A. They are often more influential on children than those spoken casually.B. They are full of sorrow and misery.C. Childrens awareness of parents words is always acute.D. These words are imperative for children with great sense of obligation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).According to the fift
33、h and sixth paragraph, the author implies that _.A. peoples emotions are influenced by the words they sayB. people should use words with more carefulnessC. people should only accept words which are truths rather than opinionsD. what people experience directly decides what they speak（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.
34、(5).It can be concluded from the passage that great words _.A. may be less influential as time passes byB. may improve peoples lifeC. can change the worldD. can change time（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(6).Better choice of words can do all of the following EXCEPT _.A. shaping realityB. making life betterC. bring
35、ing about positive changeD. fulfilling dreams（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)“When I direct Shakespeare,“ theatrical innovator Peter Sellars once said, “the first thing I do is go to the text for cuts. I go through to find the passages that are real heavy, that really are not needed, places
36、where the language has become obscure, places where there is a bizarre detour. And then I take those moments, those elements, and I make them the centerpiece, the core of the production.“In the sober matter of staging Shakespeare, such audaciousness is hard to resistthough a lot of Chicago theatre-g
37、oers have been able to. Typically, a third of the people who have been showing up at the Goodman Theatre to see Sellars ingenious reworking of The Merchant of Venice have been walking out before the evening is over. Its no mystery, why? The evening isnt over for nearly four hours. Beyond that, the p
38、roduction pretty much upends everything the audience has come to expect from one of Shakespeares most troubling but reliable entertaining comedies.The play has been transplanted from the teeming, multicultural world of 15th century Venice, Italy, to the teeming, multicultural world of 1994 Venice Be
39、ach, California, where Sellars lives when he isnt setting Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, putting King Lear in a Lincoln Continental or deconstructing other classic plays and operas. Shylock, along with the plays other Jews, is black. Antonio, the merchant of the title, and his kinsmen are Latinos.
40、Portia, the wealthy maiden being wooed by Antonios friend Bassanio, is Asian. But the racial shuffling is just one of Sellars liberties. The stage is furnished with little but office furniture, while video screens simulcast the actors in close-up during their monologues, (and, in between, display se
41、emingly unrelated Southern California scene, from gardens and swimming pools to the L. A. riots). Cries of anguish come from the clowns, and the playfully romantic final scene, in which Portia teases Bassanio for giving away her ring to the lawyer she played in disguise, is re-imagined as the darkes
42、t, most poisonously unsettling passage in the play.Some of this seems to be sheer perversity, but the real shock of Seltars production is how well it works both theatrically and thematically. The racial casting, for instance, is a brilliant way of defusing the plays anti-Semitismturning it into a me
43、taphor for prejudice and materialism in all its forms. Paul Butler is a hardhearted ghetto businessman who, even when he is humiliated at the end, never loses his cool or stoops for pity.Wrongheaded and tortuous as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The “news of the Rialto“ b
44、ecomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylocks trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped fight out of Court TV. With a few exceptions Elaine Tses overwrought Portia, for instancethe actors strike a nice balance between Shakes
45、peares poetry and Sellars stunt driving. For the rest of us, its a wild ride. （分数：5.00）(1).Whats the main topic of the passage?A. The Merchant of Venice adapted by SellarsB. Success of the newly performed The Merchant of VeniceC. Peter Sellarss artistic styleD. The shooting of Shakespeares The Merch
46、ant of Venice（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).When directing Shakespeare, Sellars usually _ the original texts.A. selects the key moments inB. abridgesC. completely changesD. keeps（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What can be inferred about Sellarss The Merchant of Venice?A. The adaptation is awkward and meaningless. B. It
47、is popular with Chicago theater-goers. C. It is not favored by the audience.D. It meets the audiences expectation.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).It can be concluded from the passage that Shakespeares original text of The Merchant of Venice _.A. is much more difficult to understand B. is always clear in langua
48、geC. presents a negative viewpoint towards the SemiticsD. is not as popular as his tragedies（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The phrase “wrongheaded and tortuous“ in the last paragraph means _.A. misleading B. illogical C. complicated D. inappropriate（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.八、TEXT C(总题数：1，分数：3.00)To keep the wheels of industry, we manufacture consumer goods in endless quantities, and, in the process, are rapidly exhausting our resources. But this is only half the problem. What do we do with manufactured products when they are worn out? They must be disposed of, but how and where?Unsightly junkyards full of
