1、专业英语八级23及答案解析 (总分：76.99，做题时间：120分钟)一、PART I LISTENING (总题数：1，分数：1.00) The Rise of RP Historical reasons Received pronunciation was originally associated with a【1】spoken in the region between central England and London, including Oxford and Cambridge. Its survival was due to its use by the【2】in the 1
2、4th century and by university students in the【3】Ages. Its rise in importance resulted from its application in government and official documents. The prestige of its【4】pattern of pronunciation came about with its use in【5】schools in the 19th century. As a result, its【6】is accepted by television and t
3、he radio, the professions and teaching English as a foreign language. Three characteristics of RP 1) its speakers dont regard themselves as connected with any geographical region; 2) RP is largely used in England; 3) RP is a class accent, associated with【7】social classes. Its present status Decline
4、in the prestige of RP is the result of a) loss of monopoly of education by the privileged; b) 【8】 of high education in the post-war period. However, it still retains its eminence among certain professional people. There is a rise in the status of all【9】accents. We are moving towards the【10】position:
5、 general acceptance of all regional accents and absence of a class accent that transcends all regions. （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).Employees in the US are paid for their time. This means that they are supposed to （分数：0.20
6、）A.work hard while their boss is around.B.come to work when there is work to be done.C.work with initiative and willingness.D.work through their lunch break.(2).One of the advantages of flexible working hours is that（分数：0.20）A.pressure from work can be reduced.B.working women can have more time at h
7、ome.C.traffic and commuting problems can be solved.D.personal relationships in offices can be improved.(3).On the issue of working contracts in the US, which statement is NOT correct?（分数：0.20）A.Performance at work matters more than anything else.B.There are laws protecting employees working rights.C
8、.Good reasons must be provided in order to fire workers.D.Working contracts in the US are mostly short-term ones.(4).It can be assumed from the interview that an informal atmosphere might be found in（分数：0.20）A.small firms.B.major banks.C.big corporations.D.law offices.(5).The interview is mainly abo
9、ut _ in the USA.（分数：0.20）A.office hierarchiesB.office conditionsC.office rules.D.office life.三、SECTION C NEWS BR(总题数：2，分数：1.00)(1).1In the recent three months, Hong Kongs unemployment rate has （分数：0.25）A.increased slowly.B.decreased gradually.C.stayed steady.D.become unpredictable.(2).1According to
10、the news, which of the following statements is TRUE?（分数：0.25）A.Business conditions have worsened in the past three months.B.The past three months have seen a declining trend in job offers.C.The rise of unemployment rate in some sectors equals the fall in others.D.The unemployment rate in all sectors
11、 of the economy remains unchanged.(1)._US soldiers have been killed in Iraq since President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended.（分数：0.25）A.1170B.1530C.1668D.1669(2).Besides US, _suffered the greatest loss of army men in Iraq.（分数：0.25）A.Great BritainB.BulgariaC.ItalyD.Poland四
12、、PART II GENERAL K(总题数：10，分数：10.00)1. William Sidney Porter known as O. Henry, is most famous for_.（分数：1.00）A.his poems.B.his plays.C.his short stories.D.his novels.2. The distinction between parole and langue was made by_.（分数：1.00）A.Halliday.B.Chomsky.C.Bloomfield.D.Saussure.3. _is the capital city
13、 of Canada.（分数：1.00）A.VancouverB.OttawaC.MontrealD.York4. The President during the American Civil War was_.（分数：1.00）A.Andrew Jackson.B.Abraham Lincoln.C.Thomas Jefferson.D.George Washington.5. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?（分数：1.00）A.Arbitrariness.B.Productivi
14、ty.C.Cultural transmission.D.Finiteness.6. Syntax is the study of_.（分数：1.00）A.language functions.B.sentence structures.C.textual organization.D.word formation.7. U. S. presidents normally serve a(n)_term.（分数：1.00）A.two-yearB.four-yearC.six-yearD.eight-year8. The capital of New Zealand is_.（分数：1.00）A
15、.Christchurch.B.Auckland.C.Wellington.D.Hamilton.9. 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.10. The novel Emma is written by_.（分数：1.00）A.Mary Shelley.B.Charlotte Bronte.C.Elizabeth C. Gaskell.D.Jan
16、e Austen.五、PART III READING (总题数：4，分数：4.00)The senior partner, Oliver Lambert, studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper. He had the brains, the ambition, the good looks. And he was hungry; with his background, he h
17、ad to be. He was married, and that was mandatory. The firm had never hired an unmarried lawyer, and it frowned heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract. He had a degree in accounting, passed the CPA exam the first time he took it and wanted to be a tax
18、 lawyer, which of course was a requirement with a tax firm. He was white, and the firm had never hired a black. They managed this by being secretive and clubbish and never soliciting job applications. Other firms solicited, and hired blacks. This firm recruited, and remained lily white. Plus, the fi
19、rm was in Memphis, and the top blacks wanted New York or Washington or Chicago. McDeere was a male, and there were no women in the firm. That mistake had been made in the mid-seventies when they recruited the number one grad from Harvard, who happened to be a she and a wizard at taxation. She lasted
20、 four turbulent years and was killed in a car wreck. He looked good, on paper. He was their top choice. In fact, for this year there were no other prospects. The list was very short. It was McDeere, or no one. The managing partner, Royce McKnight, studied a dossier labeled Mitchell Y. McDeere- Harva
21、rd. An inch thick with small print and a few photographs; it had been prepared by some ex-CIA agents in a private intelligence outfit in Bethesda. They were clients of the firm and each year did the investigating for no fee. It was easy work, they said, checking out unsuspecting law students. They l
22、earned, for instance, that he preferred to leave the Northeast, that he was holding three job offers, two in New York and one in Chicago, and that the highest offer was $76,000 and the lowest was $68,000. He was in demand. He had been given the opportunity to cheat on a securities exam during his se
23、cond year. He declined, and made the highest grade in the class. Two months ago he had been offered cocaine at a law school party. He said no and left when everyone began snorting. He drank an occasional beer, but drinking was expensive and he had no money. He owed close to $23,000 in student loans.
24、 He was hungry. Royce McKnight flipped through the dossier and smiled. McDeere was their man. Lamar Quin was thirth-two and not yet a partner. He had been brought along to look young and act young and project a youthful image for Bendini, Lambert & Locke, which in fact was a young firm, since most o
25、f the partners retired in their late forties of early fifties with money to burn. He would make partner in this firm. With a six-figure income guaranteed for the rest of his life, Lamar could enjoy the twelve-hundred-dollar tailored suits that hung so comfortably from his tall, athletic frame. He st
26、rolled nonchalantly across the thousand-dollar-a-day suite and poured another cup of decaf. He checked his watch. He glanced at the two partners sitting at the small conference table near the windows. Precisely at two thirty someone knocked on the door. Lamar looked at the partners, who slid the res
27、ume and dossier into an open briefcase. All three reached for their jackets. Lamir buttoned his top button and opened the door. （分数：1.00）(1).Which of the following is NOT the firms recruitment requirement?（分数：0.25）A.Marriage.B.BackgroundC.Relevant degree.D.Male.(2).The details of the private investi
28、gation show that the firm（分数：0.25）A.was interested in his family backgroundB.intended to check out his other job offers.C.intended to check out his other job offers.D.was interested in any personal detail of the man.(3).According to the passage, the main reason Lamar Quin was there at the interview
29、was that （分数：0.25）A.his image could help impress McDereer.B.he would soon become a partner himself.C.he was good at interviewing applicants.D.his background was similar to McDereers.(4).We get the impression from the passage that in job recruitment the firm was NOT（分数：0.25）A.selective.B.secretive.C.
30、perfunctory.D.racially biasedThe banners are packed, the tickets booked. The glitter and white overalls have been bought, the gas masks just fit and the mobile phones are ready. All that remains is to get to the parties. This week will see a feast of pan-European protests. It started on Bastille Day
31、, last Saturday, with the French unions and immigrants on the streets and the first demonstrations in Britain and Germany about climate change. It will continue tomorrow and Thursday with environmental and peace rallies against President Bush. But the big one is in Genoa, on Friday and Saturday, whe
32、re the G8 leaders will meet behind the lines of 18,000 heavily armed police. Unlike Prague, Gothenburg, Cologne or Nice, Genoa is expected to be Europes Seattle, the coming together of the disparate strands of resistance to corporate globalisation. Neither the protesters nor the authorities know wha
33、t will happen, but some things are predictable. Yes, there will be violence and yes, the mass media will focus on it. What should seriously concern the G8 is not so much the violence, the numbers in the streets or even that they themselves look like idiots hiding behind the barricades, but that the
34、deep roots of a genuine new version of internationalism are growing. For the first time in a generation, the international political and economic condition is in the dock. Moreover, the protesters are unlikely to go away, their confidence is growing rather than waning, their agendas are merging, the
35、 protests are spreading and drawing in all ages and concerns. No single analysis has drawn all the strands of the debate together. In the meantime, the global protest movement is developing its own language, texts, agendas, myths, heroes and villains. Just as the G8 leaders, world bodies and busines
36、ses talk increasingly from the same script, so the protesters once disparate political and social analyses are converging. The long-term project of governments and world bodies to globalise capital and development is being mirrored by the globalisation of protest. But what happens next? Governments
37、and world bodies are unsure which way to turn. However well they are policed, major protests reinforce the impression of indifferent elites, repression of debate, overreaction to dissent, injustice and unaccountable power. Their optionsapart from actually embracing the broad agenda being put to them
38、are to retreat behind even higher barricades, repress dissent further, abandon global meetings altogether or, more likely, meet only in places able to physically resist the masses. Brussels is considering building a super fortress for international meetings. Genoa may be the last of the European sup
39、er-protests. （分数：0.99）(1).According to the context, the word parties at the end of the first paragraph refers to（分数：0.33）A.the meeting of the G8 leaders.B.the protests on Bastille Day.C.the coming pan-European protests.D.the big protest to be held in Genoa.(2).According to the passage, economic glob
40、alisation is paralleled by（分数：0.33）A.the emerging differences in the global protest movement.B.the disappearing differences in the global protest movement.C.the growing European concern about globalisation.D.the increase in the number of protesters.(3).According to the last paragraph, what is Brusse
41、ls considering doing?（分数：0.33）A.Meeting in places difficult to reach.B.Further repressing dissent.C.Accepting the protesters agenda.D.Abandoning global meetings.The biggest problem facing Chile as it promotes itself as a tourist destination to be reckoned with, is that it is at the end of the earth.
42、 It is too far south to be a convenient stop on the way to anywhere else and is much farther than a relatively cheap half-days flight away from the big tourist markets, unlike Mexico, for example. Chile, therefore, is having to fight hard to attract tourists, to convince travelers that it is worth c
43、oming halfway round the world to visit. But it is succeeding, not only in existing markets like the USA and Western Europe but in new territories, in particular the Far East. Markets closer to home, however, are not being forgotten. More than 50% of visitors to Chile still come from its nearest neig
44、hbor, Argentina, where the cost of living is much higher. Like all South American countries, Chile sees tourism as a valuable earner of foreign currency, although it has been far more serious than most in promoting its image abroad. Relatively stable politically within the region, it has benefited f
45、rom the problems suffered in other areas. In Peru, guerrilla warfare in recent years has dealt a heavy blow to the tourist industry and fear of street crime in Brazil has reduced the attraction of Rio de Janeiro as a dream destination for foreigners. More than 150,000 people are directly involved in
46、 Chiles tourist sector, an industry which earns the country more than US $ 950 million each year. The state-run National Tourism Service, in partnership with a number of private companies, is currently running a worldwide campaign, taking part in trade fairs and international events to attract visit
47、ors to Chile. Chiles great strength as a tourist destination is its geographical diversity. From the parched Atacama Desert in the north to the Antarctic snowfields of the south, it is more than 5,000km long. With the Pacific on one side and the Andean mountains on the other, Chile boasts natural attractions. Its beaches are not up to Caribbean standards but resorts such as Vina del Mar are generally clean and unspoilt and have a high standard of services. But the t
