1、专业英语八级（改错）模拟试卷 216（无答案）一、PART III LANGUAGE USAGE0 A longtime aide to President Bush who wrote occasional guest columns for his hometown newspaper resigned on Friday eveningafter admitted that he had repeatedly plagiarized from other writers.【S1】_The White House called his actions unaccepted. The aid
2、e, Tim【S2】_Goeglein, worked for Mr. Bush since 2001, as a liaison to social【S3】_and religious conservatives, an important component of the presidents political base. Mr. Goeglein was influential in decisionson a range of question important to that constituency, including stem【S4】_cell research, abor
3、tion and faith-based initiatives. A blogger in Mr. Goegleins hometown, Fort Wayne, Ind. , found the plagiarism.“This is not acceptable, and we are being disappointed in Tims【S5】_actions,“ a White House spokeswoman, Emily Lawrimore, said Friday morning, hours before Mr. Goeglein resigned. “ He isoffe
4、red no excuses, and he agrees it was wrong. “ Mr. Goeglein,【S6 】_44, is small known outside Washington. He is a familiar figure to【S7】_conservatives and evangelical Christians, who knew him as aspokesman for Gary L. Bauer, the conservative who ran as president【S8 】_in 2000. When Mr. Bauer dropped ou
5、t the race, Mr. Goeglein【S9 】_signed on with Mr. Bush, eventually becoming a top aide to Karl Rove, the chief political strategist. He was the eyes and ears of theWhite House in the world of religion conservatives and an emissary【S10】_to that world for Mr. Rove and the president.1 【S1】2 【S2】3 【S3】4
6、【S4】5 【S5】6 【S6】7 【S7】8 【S8】9 【S9】10 【S10】10 In the house where I grew up, it was our custom to leave the “on the latch“ at night. No one carried keys.Today doors do not stay unlocked, thus for part of an evening.【S1 】_The era of leaving the front door open has gone forever. It has beenreplaced of b
7、y locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and【S2】_trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm. Many suburban families even have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly building in so no one can pry the doors open.【S3】_A recent public-service adverti
8、sement by an insurance companyfeatured not actuarial charts or a picture of a childs bicycle with【S4】_padlock attached to it.It is the insurance companies which pay for stolen goods, but【S5 】_who is going to pay for that the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is【S6 】_doing to our way of life? Who i
9、s going to make the psychological【S7】_payment for the transformation of America from the Land of Free to the Land of the Lock?For some reason we are satisfied when we think we are well-protected ; it does not occur us to ask ourselves: Why are we having【S8】_to barricade ourselves for our neighbors a
10、nd fellow citizens, and【S9】_when, exactly, did this start to take over our lives?Even a decade ago, most private businesses had a policy offree access. Thus, today you have to carry some kind of access card【S10】_to your company. Maybe the security guard at the front desk knows your face and will wav
11、e you in most days, but the fact remains that the business your work for feels threatened enough to keep outsiders away via these “keys“.11 【S1】12 【S2】13 【S3】14 【S4】15 【S5】16 【S6】17 【S7】18 【S8】19 【S9】20 【S10】20 Misery may love company, but this was ridiculous. More than a million IBM stockholders la
12、st week took a nightmare ride on astock they had long trusted. IBM had been sliding all year recent【S1】_hitting 10-year lows, but after the company announced last Tuesday that it would, among other things, slash another 25,000 jobs, thestock took a historic rise. In 48 hours, it lost 11 points, or a
13、lmost【S2】_18 percent of its value, closing Wednesday at 51. On Friday it hitother new low. Big Board officials camped out on the exchange floor【S3】_to prevent chaotic, land brokers fielded frantic calls from investors【S4】_in various stages of disbelief and agony. “ Theyre screaming and hollering,“ s
14、aid Carol Komskis of York Securities. They are saying, “Things like this just dont happen in America. “Stock prices that rise and fall are anything new; thats what【S5 】_makes a market. But Big Blue had always epitomized the blue-chipstock on that Americans could count to send the kids to college or【
15、S6】_help retire in the style. Some investors may be in blissful【S7】_ignorant; pension funds across the country are heavily invested in【S8】_IBM.(The New York State Employee Pension Funds lonely hold【S9 】_3. 6 million shares.)But the charm of stocks like IBM, General Motors and Westinghouse was that y
16、ou could feel secure in buyingthem even you did not know “ earnings“. Such stock made【S10】_generations of Americans faithful capitalists. “This was the kind of stock that created wealth for a lot of people in this country. “ Says Jonathan Pond, a Boston-based financial counselor and author.21 【S1】22
17、 【S2】23 【S3】24 【S4】25 【S5】26 【S6】27 【S7】28 【S8】29 【S9】30 【S10】30 Bill Gates may be one of the smartest guys in the country, but even hes annoyed at having to remember a sort of personal passwords for activities like withdrawing money and going online.He also thinks theyre secure. At last weeks Comde
18、x computer【S1】_convention in Las Vegas, the Microsoft CEO railed the password as【S2】_a “ weak link“. One of his proposed solutions are biometrics, the【S3】_measuring of unique characteristics like the fingerprints and the irisof the eye for the purpose of verifying identification.【S4】_That delighted
19、about the dozen or so companies that brought【S5】_biometric technology to Comdex. Mostly start-ups, they came toVegas shopping schemes to identify you in your hands, your eyes,【S6 】_your voice, even the way you type. “ We want to see a biometrics row in every CompUSA, right next to joysticks and prin
20、ters. “ Says Kevin Corson of True Touch, a maker of software that works with various forms of the technology.Comdex attendants eagerly lined on at the counter of IriScan, a【S7 】_firm based in Marlton, N. J. , to hold a scannerit looked a bit like a hair dryerabout three inches from their eyes. The d
21、evice works by taking a video image of the iris, breaking the image into circularframeworks and analyzed the unique patterns within each area. The【S8】_company says theres only a one-in-10 chances that two peoples iris【S9】_will match in its system.A company called Identicator, in San Bruno, Calif. ,
22、is aiming a little lowerat your forefingers. The company licenses its scanners to Compaq and other companies, which combine them with keyboards and mice or sell them as $100 stand-alone units that you can put into your computer.【S10】_31 【S1】32 【S2】33 【S3】34 【S4】35 【S5】36 【S6】37 【S7】38 【S8】39 【S9】40 【S10】
