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专业英语八级19
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[单项选择] The Prime Minister in Britain is head of______.
A. the Shadow Cabinet.
B. the Parliament.
C. the Opposition.
D. the Cabinet.
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[单项选择]International Olympic Committee believes what ________has done is relatively far from ideal.
A. London
B. Madrid
C. Moscow
D. Paris
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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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[简答题] We use language primarily as a means of communication with
other human beings. Each of us shares with the community in
which we live a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing S1.______
conventions as to the way in which words should be arranged to S2.______
convey a particular message; the English speaker has in his dis- S3.______
posal a vocabulary and a set of grammatical rules which enables S4.______
him to communicate his thoughts and feelings, in a variety of
styles, to the other English speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, S5.______
both that which he uses actively and that which he recognises, in-
creases in size as he grows old as a result of education and S6.______
experience.
But, whether the language store is relatively small or large, the
system remains no more than a psychological reality for the indi-
vidual , unless he has a means of expressing it in terms able to be
seen b
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[单项选择] The fox really exasperated them both. As soon as they had let the fowls out, in the early summer mornings, they had to take their guns and keep guard; and then again as soon as evening began to mellow, they must go once more. And he was so sly. He slid along in the deep grass; he was difficult as a serpent to see. And he seemed to circumvent the girls deliberately. Once or twice March had caught sight of the white tip of his brush, or the ruddy shadow of him in the deep grass, and she had let fire at him. But he made no account of this.
The trees on the wood-edge were a darkish, brownish green in the full light―for it was the end of August. Beyond, the naked, copper-like shafts and limbs of the pine trees shone in the air. Nearer the rough grass, with its long, brownish stalks all agleam, was full of light. The fowls were round about--the ducks were still swimming on the pond under the pine trees. March looked at it all, saw it all, and did not see it. She heard Banford speaki
A. cunning
B. fierce
C. defiant
D. annoying
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[单项选择] Which of the following is NOT Professor McKay’’s view
A. People change in old age a lot more than at the age of 21.
B. There are as many sick people in old age as in middle age.
C. We should not expect more physical illness among old people.
D. We should not expect to find old people unattractive as a group.
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[填空题] Study Activities in University
In order to help college and university students in the process of learning, four key study activities have been designed and used to encourage them to make knowledge their own.
1. Essay writing: central focus of university work esp. in the humanities, e.g 【1】
benefits:l) Helping to select interesting content in books and to express understanding. 2) Enabling teachers to know progress and to offer【2】. 3) miliarizing students with exam forms.
2. Seminars and classroom discussion: another form to internalize knowledge in specialized contexts.
benefits: l)【3】enables you to know the effectivess of and others’’ response to your speechimmediately. 2) Within the same period of time, more topics can be dealt with thanin 【4】. 3) The use of a broader range of knowledge is encouraged.
3. Individual tutorials:a substitute for group discussion.
format: from teacher【5】to flexible conversation, benefit: encouraging ideas and inter
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[单项选择] What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of______.
A. reference.
B. meaning.
C. antonymy.
D. context.
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[单项选择] The words "kid, child, offspring" are examples of______.
A. dialectal synonyms.
B. stylistic synonyms.
C. emotive synonyms.
D. collocational synonyms.
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[单项选择] Professor McKay is __________towards the tendency of more parents living apart from their children.
A. negative
B. positive
C. ambiguous
D. neutral
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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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[多项选择]All of us would agree that in order to be successful in the present-day society, we university graduates have to possess certain personal qualities that can enable us to realize our aim. What do you think is the most important personal quality of a university graduate Write a composition of about 300 words on the following topic:
THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSONAL QUALITY OF A UNIVERSITY STUDENT
In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, 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 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] The only popular belief that Professor McKay is unable to provide evidence against is _______.
A. old-age sickness.
B. loose family ties.
C. poor mental abilities.
D. difficulties in maths.
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[单项选择] Who were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers
A. The Aborigines.
B. The Maori.
C. The Indians.
D. The Eskimos.
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[单项选择] ________is the state church in England.
A. The Roman Catholic Church
B. The Baptist Church
C. The Protestant Church
D. The Church of England
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[单项选择] 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. 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-day’’s 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 coming 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 neighbor, 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
A. geographical location.
B. guerrilla warfare.
C. political instability.
D. street crime.
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[单项选择]________of London still have much to improve.
A. Achievable budget
B. Financial support
C. Planning
D. Transport system
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[单项选择] The President during the American Civil War was______.
A. Andrew Jackson.
B. Abraham Lincoln.
C. Thomas Jefferson.
D. George Washington.
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[单项选择] According to Professor McKay’’s report, _______.
A. family love is gradually disappearing.
B. it is hard to comment on family feeling.
C. more children are indifferent to their parents.
D. family love remains as strong as ever.
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[单项选择] Social change is more likely to occur in heterogeneous societies than in homogeneous ones, simply because there are more diverse points of view available in the former. There are more ideas, more conflicts of interest, and more groups and organizations of different persuasions. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and tolerance in heterogeneous societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision rather than subjecting them to authority. In a quite homogeneous society, there are fewer occasions for people to perceive the need or the opportunity for change, because everything seems to be the same and, if not satisfactory, at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily (1) in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; (2) in what has been learned later in life rather than
A. the number of opportunities offered.
B. the nature of conflicts of interest.
C. the awareness of the need for change.
D. the role of social organizations.
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[简答题] Possession for its own sake or in competition with the rest of the neighborhood would have been Thoreau’’s idea of the low levels. The active discipline of heightening one’’s perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high. What he saved from the low was time and effort he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he would put into feeding himself only as much effort as would keep him functioning for more important efforts.
Effort is the gist of it. There is no happiness except as we take on life-engaging difficulties. Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfaction we get from a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties. Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when he spoke of "the pleasure of taking pains". The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless.We demand difficulty even in our games. We demand it because w
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[单项选择] The University in transformation, edited by Australian futurists Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley, presents some 20 highly varied outlooks on tomorrow’’s universities by writers representing both Western and non-Western perspectives. Their essays raise a broad range of issues, questioning nearly every key assumption we have about higher education today.
The most widely discussed alternative to the traditional campus is the Internet University—a voluntary community to scholars/teachers physically scattered throughout a country or around the world but all linked in cyberspace. A computerized university could have many advantages, such as easy scheduling, efficient delivery of lectures to thousands or even millions of students at once, and ready access for students everywhere to the resources of all the world’’s great libraries.
Yet the Internet University poses dangers, too. For example, a line of franchised courseware, produced by a few superstar teachers, marketed u
A. he is in favor of it.
B. his view is balanced.
C. he is slightly critical of it.
D. he is strongly critical of it.
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[单项选择] What is the purpose of Professor McKay’’s report
A. To look into the mental health of old people.
B. To explain why people have negative views on old age.
C. To help correct some false beliefs about old age.
D. To identify the various problems of old age.
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[单项选择] Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century
A. T.S.Eliot.
B. D. H.Lawrence.
C. Theodore Dreiser.
D. James Joyce.
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[单项选择] The distinction between parole and langue was made by______.
A. Halliday.
B. Chomsky.
C. Bloomfield.
D. Saussure.
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[简答题] 中国科技馆的诞生来之不易。与国际著名科技馆和其他博物馆相比,它先天有些不足,后天也常缺乏营养,但是它成长的步伐却是坚实而有力的。它在国际上已被公认为后起之秀。
世界上第一代博物馆属于自然博物馆,它是通过化石、标本等向人们介绍地球和各种生物的演化历史。第二代博物馆属于工业技术博物馆,它所展示的是工业文明带来的各种阶段性结果。这两代博物馆虽然起到了传播科学知识的作用,但是,它们把参观者当成了被动的旁观者。
世界上第三代博物馆是充满全新理念的博物馆。在这里,观众可以自己去动手操作,自己细心体察。这样,他们可以更贴近先进的科学技术,去探索科学技术的奥妙。
中国科技馆正是这样的博物馆。它汲取了国际上一些著名博物馆的长处,设计制作了力学、光学、电学、热学、声学、生物学等展品,展示了科学的原理和先进的科技成果。