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专业英语八级42
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[单项选择]William Butler Yeats was a(n) _________ poet and playwright.
A. American
B. Canadian
C. Irish
D. Australian
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[多项选择]The Internet is about to take off in China. As many as 9 million people are on line, a number that is estimated to hit 20 million by the end of 2000. It is predicted that this phenomenal growth will have great impact on our society and economy. Choose one aspect of our society or economy where you think the impact will be most strongly felt, and write an essay of about 300 words entitled
THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON...
In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statment , and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
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[单项选择]________had been planned to raise to help lift Africa from poverty.
A. 20 billion dollars
B. 80 billion dollars
C. 100 billion dollars
D. 120 billion dollars
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[单项选择] The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by______.
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[填空题]1. Skill to ask questions
1) be aware of the human nature:readiness to answer others’’
questions regardless of (1)________
2) start a conversation with some personal but unharmful questions
e.g. questions about one’’s (2)________ job
questions about one’’s activities in the (3)________
3) be able to spot signals for further talk
2. Skill to (4)________ for answers
1) don’’t shift from subject to subject
―sticking to the same subject: signs of (5)________ in conversation
2) listen to (6)________of voice
―If people sound unenthusiastic, then change subject.
3) use eyes and ears
―steady your gaze while listening
3. Skill to laugh
Effects of laughter:
ease people’’s (7)________
―help start (8)________
4. Skill to part
1) importance: open up possibilities for future friendship or contact
2) ways:
―men: a smile, a (9)________
―women: same as (10)________ now
―how to express pleasure in meeting someone
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[简答题] 在人际关系问题上我们不要太浪漫主义。人是很有趣的,往往在接触一个人时首先看到的都是他或她的优点。这一点颇像是在餐馆里有餐的经验。开始吃头盘或冷碟的时候,印象很好。吃头两个主菜时,也是赞不绝口。愈吃愈趋于冷静,吃完了这顿宴席,缺点就都找出来了。于是转喜为怒,转赞美为责备挑剔,转首肯为摇头。这是因为,第一,开始吃的时候你正处于饥饿状态,而饿了吃糖甜加蜜,饱了吃蜜也不甜。第二,你初到一个餐馆,开始举筷时有新鲜感,新盖的茅房三天香,这也可以叫做“陌生化效应”吧。
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[单项选择]________has initiated the plan to raise money for the poverty-stricken Africa.
A. British Chancellor of the Exchequer
B. British Prime Minister
C. GMTV and The Observer
D. US President
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[单项选择]Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bront
A. Oliver Twist.
B. Middlemarch.
C. Jane Eyre.
D. Wuthering Heights.
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[单项选择]Which of the following CANNOT be seen as a difference between Brazilian and American negotiators
A. Americans prepare more points before negotiations.
B. Americans are more straightforward during negotiations.
C. Brazilians prefer more eye contact during negotiations.
D. Brazilians seek more background information.
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[单项选择]Janet’’s attitude towards the Americanized style as a model for business negotiations is________.
A. supportive
B. negative
C. ambiguous
D. cautious
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[单项选择]The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively EXCEPT________.
A. the Anglos.
B. the Celts.
C. the Jutes.
D. the Saxons.
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[单项选择] _________is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines. ______.
A. Free verse
B. Sonnet
C. Ode
D. Epigram
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[单项选择] The capital of New Zealand is______.
A. Christchurch.
B. Auckland.
C. Wellington.
D. Hamilton.
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[单项选择] Farmers in the developing world hate price fluctuations. It makes it hard to plan ahead. But most of them have little choice: they sell at the price the market sets. Farmers in Europe, the U.S. and Japan are luckier: they receive massive government subsidies in the form of guaranteed prices or direct handouts. Last month U.S. President Bush signed a new farm bill that gives American farmers $190 billion over the next 10 years, or $83 billion more than they had been scheduled to get, and pushes U.S. agricultural support close to crazy European levels. Bush said the step was necessary to "promote farmer independence and preserve the farm way of life for generations". It is also designed to help the Republican Party win cotrol of the Senate in November’’s mid-term elections.
Agricultural production in most poor countries accounts for up to 50% of GDP, compared to only 3% in rich countries. But most farmers in poor countries grow just enough for themselves and their families. Thos
A. in the developing world
B. in Japan
C. in Europe
D. in America
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[单项选择]Which group of people seems to be the most straightforward
A. The British.
B. Germans.
C. Americans.
D. Not mentioned.
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[单项选择] The miserable fate of Enron’’ s employees will be a landmark in business history, one of those awful events that everyone agrees must never be allowed to happen again. This urge is understandable and noble: thousands have lost virtually all their retirement savings with the demise of Enron stock. But making sure it never happens again may not be possible, because the sudden impoverishment of those Enron workers represents something even larger than it seems. It’’s the latest turn in the unwinding of one of the most audacious promises of the 20 century.
The promise was assured economic security―even comfort―for essentially everyone in the developed world. With the explosion of wealth that began in the 19th century it became possible to think about a possibility no one had dared to dream before. The fear at the center of daily living since caveman days―lack of food, warmth, shelter―would at last lose its power to terrify. That remarkable promise became reality in many ways. Gove
A. Because the company has gone bankrupt.
B. Because such events would never happen again.
C. Because many Enron workers lost their retirement savings.
D. Because it signifies a turning point in economic security.
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[单项选择] ________is the capital city of Canada.
A. Vancouver
B. Ottawa
C. Montreal
D. York
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[单项选择]The Declaration of Independence was written by________.
A. Thomas Jefferson.
B. George Washington.
C. Alexander Hamilton.
D. James Madison.
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[单项选择] Getting to the heart of Kuwaiti democracy seems hilariously easy. Armed only with a dog-eared NEWSWEEK ID, I ambled through the gates of the National Assembly last week. Unscanned, unsearched, my satchel could easily have held the odd grenade or an anthrax-stuffed lunchbox. The only person who stopped me was a guard who grinned and invited me to take a swig of orange juice from his plastic bottle.
Were I a Kuwaiti woman wielding a ballot, I would have been a clearer and more present danger. That very day Parliament blocked a bill giving women the vote; 29 M.P.s voted in favour and 29 against, with two abstentions. Unable to decide whether the bill had passed or not, the government scheduled another vote in two weeks―too late for women to register for June’’s municipal elections. The next such elections aren’’t until 2009.
Inside the elegant, marbled Parliament itself, a sea of mustachioed men in white robes sat in green seats, debating furiously. The ruling emir has pushe
A. Foreign tourists.
B. Women protestors.
C. Foreign journalists.
D. Members of the National Assembly.
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Japanese negotiators
A. Reserved.
B. Prejudiced.
C. Polite.
D. Prudent.
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[单项选择] Which of the following statements about the man is TRUE
A. He was a 31-year-old student from Frankfurt.
B. He was piloting a two-seat helicopter he had stolen.
C. He had talked to air traffic controllers by radio.
D. He threatened to land on the European Central Bank.
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[单项选择] Hostility to Gypsies has existed almost from the time they first appeared in Europe in the 14th century. The origins of the Gypsies, with little written history, were shrouded in mystery. What is known now from clues in the various dialects of their language, Romany, is that they came from northern India to the Middle East a thousand years ago, working as minstrels and mercenaries, metalsmiths and servants. Europeans misnamed them Egyptians, soon shortened to Gypsies. A clan system, based mostly on their traditional crafts and geography, has made them a deeply fragmented and fractious people, only really unifying in the face of enmity from non-Gypsies, whom they call gadje. Today many Gypsy activists prefer to be called Roma, which comes from the Romany word for "man". But on my travels among them most still referred to themselves as Gypsies.
In Europe their persecution by the gadje began quickly, with the church seeing heresy in their fortune-telling and the state seeing anti-soc
A. are engaged in traditional crafts.
B. call themselves Roma.
C. live under a clan system.
D. face external threats.
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[单项选择] The man stole the aircraft mainly because he wanted to______.
A. destroy the European Central Bank.
B. have an interview with a TV station.
C. circle skyscrapers in downtown Frankfurt.
D. remember the death of a US astronaut.
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[单项选择] The speech act theory was first put forward by_______.
A. D.M. K. Halliday.
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[简答题] I agree to some extent with my imaginary English reader. American literary historians are perhaps prone to view their own national scene too narrowly, mistaking prominence for uniqueness. They do over-phrase their own literature, or certainly its minor figures. And Americans do swing from aggressive over-phrase of their literature to an equally unfortunate, imitative deference. But then, the English themselves are somewhat insular in their literary appraisals. Moreover, in fields where they are not preeminent―e. g. in painting and music― they too alternate between boasting of native products and copying those of the Continent. How many English paintings try to look as though they were done in Paris; how many times have we read in articles that they really represent an English "tradition" after all.
To speak of American literature, then, is not to assert that it is completely unlike that of Europe. Broadly speaking, America and Europe have kept step. At any given moment the travel
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[单项选择] Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet
A. William Wordsworth.
B. George Elliot.
C. George G. Byron.
D. Percy B. Shelley.
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[单项选择]According to the news item, worldwide oil price________.
A. has risen considerably recently
B. has fallen considerably recently
C. has been considerably low recently
D. has been considerably high recently
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[单项选择]According to Janet, the factor that would most affect negotiations is________.
A. English language proficiency
B. different cultural practices
C. different negotiation tasks
D. the international Americanized style
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[简答题] The University as Business
A number of colleges and universities have announced steep
tuition increases for next year—much steeper than the current, very
low, rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed because of
a loss in value of university endowments heavily investing in common S1.______
stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that
maximizes its net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income; S2.______
and increasingly the outlook of universities in the United States is
indistinguishable from those of business firms. The rise in tuitions S3.______
may reflect the fact economic uncertainty increases the demand for S4.______
education. The biggest cost of being in the school is foregoing S5.______
income from a job (this is primarily a factor in graduate-and-profes-
sional-school tuition) ; the poor one’’s job prospects, the more sense S6.______
it makes to