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英语专业八级考试全真试题附答案<
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TEXT A
I remember meeting him one
evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell
all my papers and
was coming home in
the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New
York when the workers
were
pouring
homeward
in
the
twilight.
I
marched
among
thousands
of
tired
men
and
women
whom
the
factory
whistles
had
unyoked.
They
flowed
in
rivers
through
the
clothing
factory
districts, then down along the avenues
to the East Side.
I met my
father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a
hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat
standing by a banana cart. He looked so
lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me,
and
his face lit with his sad,
beautiful smile -Charlie Chaplin's smile.
He
offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial
that my father sell his bananas, not give them
away.
He thought I was shy, and coaxed
and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It
smelled of
wet straw and snow.
He
shrugged his shoulders.
It was true. The
work crowds pushed home morosely over the
pavements. The rusty sky darkened
over
New York building, the tall street lamps were lit,
innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated
trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing
in the great city stopped for my father's bananas.
makes my throat
sore. Anyway, I'm ashamed of yelling, it makes me
feel like a fool.
I had
eaten one of his bananas. My sick conscience told
me that I ought to pay for it somehow. I
must remain here and help my father.
But I yelled and
yelled. My father, standing by, spoke occasional
words of praise, and said I was a
wonderful
yeller.
Nobody
else
paid
attention.
The
workers
drifted
past
us
wearily,
endlessly;
a
defeated
army
wrapped
in
dreams
of
home.
Elevated
trains
crashed;
the
Cooper
Union
clock
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burned above us; the sky
grew black, the wind poured, the slush burned
through our shoes. There
were
thousands
of
strange,
silent
figures
pouring
over
the
sidewalks
in
snow.
None
of
them
stopped to buy bananas.
I yelled and yelled, nobody listened.
My
father
tried
to
stop
me
at
last.
he
said
smiling
to
console
me,
was
wonderful
yelling. Mikey. But it's plain we are
unlucky today! Let's go home.
I was frantic, and almost in tears. I
insisted on keeping up my desperate yells. But at
last my father
persuaded me to leave
with him.
11.
A.
sent out
B. released
C.
dispatched
D. removed
12. Which of the following in the first
paragraph does NOT indicated crowds of people?
nds of
B. Flowed
C. Pouring
D. Unyoked
13. Which of the following
is intended to be a pair of contrast in the
passage?
A. Huge crowds and lonely
individuals.
B. Weather conditions and
street lamps.
C. Clattering trains and
peddlers' yells.
D. Moving crowds and
street traffic.
14. Which
of the following words is NOT suitable to describe
the character of the son?
A.
Compassionate
B. Responsible
C. Shy
D. Determined
15. What is the theme of
the story?
A. The misery of the factory
workers.
B. How to survive in a harsh
environment.
C. Generation gap between
the father and the son.
D. Love between
the father and the son.
16.
What is the author's attitude towards the father
and the son?
A. Indifferent
B. Sympathetic
C.
Appreciative
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D. Difficult to tell
TEXT B
When former President
Ronald Reagan fell and broke his hip two weeks
ago, he joined a group of
more than
350,000 elderly Americans who fracture their hips
each year. At 89 and suffering from
advanced Alzheimer's disease, Reagan is
in one of the highest-risk groups for this type of
accident.
The incidence of hip
fractures not only increases after age 50 but
doubles every five to six years as
the
risk
of
falling
increases.
Slipping
and
tumbling
are
not
the
only
causes
of
hip
fractures;
weakened bones
sometimes break spontaneously. But falling is the
major cause, representing 90%
of all
hip fractures.
These
injuries
are
not
to
be
taken
lightly.
According
to
the
American
Academy
of
Orthopedic
Surgeons, only 25% of those who suffer
hip fractures ever fully recover; as many as 20%
will die
within 12 months. Even when
patients do recover, nearly half will need a cane
or a walker to get
around.
When it comes to hip fractures, the
most dangerous place for elderly Americans, it
turns out, is
their homes; nearly 60%
of these dangerous spills will occur in ore around
the patient's domicile.
This isn't all
bad news, however, because a few modifications
could prevent a lot of accidents.
The first thing to do is to get rid of
those throw rugs that line hallways and entrances.
They often
fold over or bunch up,
turning them into booby traps for anyone shuffling
down the hall.
Entering
and
leaving
the
house
is
a
particularly
high-risk
activity,
which
is
why
some
experts
suggest removing any
doorsills higher than 1/2 in. if the steps are
bare wood, you can increase
traction by
applying non-slip treads.
Because many seniors suffer from poor
balance (whether from neurological deficits or
from the
inner-ear
problems
that
increase
naturally
with
aging),
it
also
helps
to
install
grab
bars
and
handrails in bathrooms and along
hallways.
The bedroom is
another major hazard area that can be made much
safer with a few adjustments.
Avoid
stain sheets and comforters, and opt for non-slip
material like wool or cotton. Easy access
to devices is important, so place a
lamp, telephone and flashlight near the bed within
arm's reach.
Make
sure
the
pathway
between
the
bedroom
and
bathroom
is
completely
clear,
and
install
a
night-light along the route for those
emergency late-night trips.
It's a good idea to rearrange the
furniture throughout the house, so that the paths
between rooms
are
free
of
obstructions.
Also,
make
sure
telephone
and
appliance
cords
aren't
strung
across
common walkways,
where they can be tripped over.
In addition to these physical
precautions, there are the health precautions
every aging body should
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take. Physical and eye
examinations, with special attention to cardiac
and blood-pressure problems,
should be
performed annually to rule out serious medical
conditions. Blood pressure that's too low
or an irregular heartbeat can put you
at risk for fainting and falling. Don't forget to
take calcium
and vitamin D, two
critical
factors in developing strong
bones. Finally, enrolling in an exercise
programme
at
your
local
gym
can
improve
agility,
strength,
balance
and
coordination
-
all
important
skills that can keep you on your feet and off the
floor.
17. The following
are all specific measures to guard against
injuries with the EXCEPTION of
A.
removal of throw rugs.
B. easy access
to devices
C. installation of grab bars
D. re-arrangement of furniture
18. In which paragraph does
the author state his purpose of writing?
A. The third paragraph
B.
The first paragraph
C. The last
paragraph
D. The last but one paragraph
19. The main purpose of the
passage is to
A. offer advice on how to
prevent hip fractures
B. emphasize the
importance of health precautions
C.
discuss the seriousness of hip fractures.
D. identify the causes of hip
fractures.
TEXT C
In his classic novel,
his cousin on a tour of the city he is
building. He describes the broad streets, rows of
houses, a
teeming metropolis. But his
cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a
forest.
the beauties and improvements
which you were to show me?
see them.
them in his mind, and they as concrete
to him as if they were already constructed and
finished.
Cooper
was
illustrating
a
distinctly
American
trait,
future-mindedness:
the
ability
to
see
the
present
from the vantage point of the future; the freedom
to feel unencumbered by the past and
more emotionally attached to things to
come. As Albert Einstein once said,
is
always becoming, never being.
20. The third paragraph examines
America's future-mindedness from the _________
perspective.
A. future
B.
realistic
C. historical
D.
present
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21.
According
to
the
passage,
which
of
the
following
is
NOT
brought
about
by
future-mindedness?
A.
Economic stagnation
B. Environmental
destruction
C. High divorce rates
D. Neglect of history
22. The word
A. appreciate
B. praise
C. shun
D. ridicule
23.
According
to
the
passage,
people
at
present
can
forecast
________
of
a
new
round
of
future-
mindedness.
A. the nature
B.
the location
C. the variety
D. the features
24. The author predicts in the last
paragraph that the study of future-mindedness will
focus on
A. how it comes into being
B. how it functions
C. what
it brings about
D. what it is related
to.
TEXT D
number of human societies
men's sureness of their sex role is tied up with
their right, or ability, to
practice
some activity
that women are not
allowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has to
be
underwritten by preventing women
from entering some field or performing some
feat.
This is the conclusion
of the anthropologist Margaret Mead about the way
in which the roles of
men and women in
society should be distinguished.
If talk and print are considered it
would seem that the formal emancipation of women
is far from
complete. There is a flow
of publications about the continuing domestic
bondage of women and
about
the
complicated
system
of
defences
which
men
have
thrown
up
around
their
hitherto
accepted
advantages, taking sometimes the obvious form of
exclusion from types of occupation
and
sociable groupings, and sometimes the more subtle
form of automatic doubt of the seriousness
of women's pretensions to the level of
intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed,
bring to the
business of running the
world.
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There are a good many
objective pieces of evidence for the erosion of
men's status. In the first
place,
there
is
the
widespread
postwar
phenomenon
of the
woman Prime
Minister,
in
India,
Sri
Lanka and Israel.
Secondly, there is the very large
increase in the number of women who work,
especially married
women and mothers of
children. More diffusely there are the
increasingly numerous convergences
between male and female behaviour: the
approximation to identical styles in dress and
coiffure,
the sharing of domestic
tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of
hitherto exclusively male
leisure-time
activities.
Everyone
carries
round
with
him
a
fairly
definite
idea
of
the
primitive
or
natural
conditions
of
human life. It is
acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons
than of archaelology, but that
does
not
matter
since
it
is
not
significant
as
theory
but
only
as
an
expression
of
inwardly
felt
expectations of people's sense of what
is fundamentally proper in the differentiation
between the
roles of the two sexes. In
this rudimentary natural society men go out to
hunt and fish and to fight
off the
tribe next door while women keep the fire going.
Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to
the man, who sets about courtship with
a club.
25. The phrase
A. are confident in their ability to
charm women.
B. take the initiative in
courtship.
C. have a clear idea of what
is considered
D. tend to be more
immoral than women are.
26.
The third paragraph does NOT claim that men
A. prevent women from taking up certain
professions.
B. secretly admire women's
intellect and resolution.
C. doubt
whether women really mean to succeed in business.
D. forbid women to join certain clubs
and societies.
27. The
third paragraph
A. generally agrees
with the first paragraph
B. has no
connection with the first paragraph
C.
repeats the argument of the second paragraph
D. contradicts the last paragraph
28. At the end of the last
paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in
order to
A. show that men are stronger
than women
B. carry further the ideas
of the earliest paragraphs
C. support
the first sentence of the same paragraph
D. disown the ideas he is expressing
29. The usual idea of the
cave man in the last paragraph
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