专业英语八级模拟试卷644(题后含答案及解析)

专业英语八级模拟试卷644 (题后含答案及解析)

题型有：1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION 2. READING COMPREHENSION 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 4. PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION 5. TRANSLATION 6. WRITING

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)

SECTION A MINI-LECTUREDirections: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

听力原文： Advertising Media in the United States Newspapers are the oldest advertising medium in the United States. The newspaper, with its fresh stream of news and features, stimulates a high degree of reader interest every day. Housewives often buy papers for the advertisements as much as for the editorial content. They use the retail ads as shopping guides. Classified ads provide an important service for those who are seeking a job, an apartment or house, or a special service. Newspapers are useful for both local and national advertising. Magazines are another important medium for advertisers. Many magazines are printed on high quality paper, which makes it possible to run unusually attractive ads in color. Mass-circulation magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, and Reader’s Digest, reach millions of readers and are used mainly by national advertisers. There are many consumer magazines .that are highly specialized. They appeal to a wide variety of interests, such as sports, gardening, boating, dress-making, and many others. In addition, a variety of farm, business, trade, and professional magazines are read by a limited, but stable, audience. These specialized publications offer a select market for advertisers. Medical journals, for instance, carry a large amount of advertising for new drugs and equipment. Radio is a particularly appealing medium to advertisers because it has an audience all day long. People at home listen to the radio while they relax or prepare meals. Drivers often listen to the radio on the way to or from work. Many people carry transistor radios to picnics, sports events, and other outings. Radio advertising can be used for national and local campaigns. Spot commercials, or brief sales messages on a local station are used to strengthen the advertiser’s sales effort in a specific area. Network radio is used for larger campaigns. However, there has been a decline in the use of network radio advertising since the advent of television. Television has been a major advertising medium since it first became available on a network basis in 1948. The great advantage of television advertising is that it combines the powerful selling features of the newspaper, the radio, and the motion picture. Television advertising is costly and therefore can be used only by

large enterprises. A national may regularly sponsor a network television show that is seen by millions of viewers throughout the country. In addition, advertisers may purchase spot commercials on local stations. Point-of-sale advertising includes in-store banners, window posters, counter cards, shelf cards, tags, leaflets, and other printed matter. It informs shoppers that the items they have seen or heard advertised elsewhere can be bought at a particular location. This type of advertising is especially important in self-service stores, where there are no salespeople to guide or persuade the shopper. Direct-mail advertising includes all advertising material sent by mail to lists of prospective customers. The wide variety of material used includes form letters, catalogs, pamphlets, brochures, samples, and even attention-getting novelties. A great part of direct mail advertising is known more specifically as mail-order advertising. The mail-order advertiser uses this technique to get orders for his products or services directly by mail, without the bell? of salesmen or retail stores. Companies that sell directly by mail also run advertisements, usually with an order coupon included, in magazines and newspapers. Outdoor advertising includes all forms of advertising messages that are presented near thoroughfares or in public places,such as baseball parks. Most prominent among the variety of devices used in outdoor advertising are highway billboards and electric signs. Building walls are also frequently used for advertising. An outdoor advertisement must present to message in very few words so that it can be read quickly by passersby or motorists. Other advertising media include car cards placed in public vehicles; theater programs; industrial films; book jackets; giveaways, such as calendars with the company’s name on them; skywriting; and leaflets distributed by hand. Advertising is often used to obtain leads that are followed up by either salesmen or sales literature. In such cases the ads invite readers or listeners to write to the company for more information about the product or service being offered. Experience has proved that those who respond to such ads are good prospects. Now, you have 2 minutes to check your notes, and then complete the gap-filling task on Answer Sheet One in ten minutes. (a 12-minute interval)

Advertising Media in America In the United States, there are many media for advertising.The oldest kind is the newspaper.【1】_________ ads it carries help 【1】_________ people seek jobs, houses or services. Magazines may run unusually attractive ads in color.Magazines like Time and Reader’s Digest are

good for nationaladvertising due to their【2】_________ Highly specialized, 【2】_________ 【3】_________ magazines appeal to a wide variety of interests, such 【3】_________ as sports, boating and dress-making. They are read by a limitedbut【4】_________ audience. 【4】_________ Radio is a favorite choice to advertisers because it has anaudience【5】_________ . Radio advertising can be used for national 【5】_________ and local campaigns.【6】_________ radio is used for larger 【6】_________ campaigns. Yet its use has declined since the【7】_________ of 【7】_________ television, which, as a major medium, can combine

thepowerful selling features of the newspaper, the radio and the【8】_________

【8】_________ 【9】_________ advertising includes in-store banners, window 【9】_________ posters, leaflets and other printed matters. Other modes of

advertising include direct-mail advertising【which involves sending advertising materials by mail to listsof【10】_________ customers】, outdoor advertising, and so forth. 【10】_________

1． 【1】

正确答案：Classified

2． 【2】

正确答案：mass circulation

3． 【3】

正确答案：consumer

4． 【4】

正确答案：stable

5． 【5】

正确答案：all day long

6． 【6】

正确答案：network

7． 【7】

正确答案：advent/use

8． 【8】

正确答案：motion picture

9． 【9】

正确答案：Point-of-sale

10． 【10】

正确答案：prospective

SECTION B INTERVIEWDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.

听力原文： The first era in American urban history extended from the early 17th century to about 1840.Throughout those years, the total urban population remained small and so were the cities. At the first federal census in 1790, city dwellers made up nearly 5. 1% of the total population and only 2 places had more than 25,000 inhabitants. Fifty years later, only 10.8% of the nation’s population fell into the urban category and only one city — New York — contained more than 50,000 people. Largely because of the unsophisticated modes of transportation, even the more popular places in the early 19th century remained small enough that people easily walked from one end of the city to the other in those days. Though small by modern standards, these walking cities, as it were, performed a variety of functions in those days. One was economic. Throughout the pre-modern era, this part of the urban life remained so overwhelmingly commercial that almost every city owed its development to trade. Yet city dwellers concerned themselves not only with promoting agricultural activities in their rural areas. They also collected and processed goods from these areas and then distributed them to other cities. From the beginning then and increasingly in the 18th and early 19th centuries, cities served as centres of both commerce and simple manufacturing. Apart from the economic functions, the early cities also had important non-economic functions to play. Since libraries, museums, schools, and colleges were built and needed people to go there to visit or to study, cities and the larger early towns, with their concentrations of population, tended to serve as centres of educational activities and the points from which information was spread to the countryside. In addition, the towns with people of different occupational, ethnic, racial and religious affiliations became focuses of formal and informal organizations, which were set up to foster the security and to promote the interests and influence of each group. In these days, the pre-industrial city in America functioned as a complex and varied organising element in American life, not as a simple, homogeneous and static unit. The vitality of these early cities was reinforced by the nature of their location and by the process of town spreading. Throughout the pre-industrial period of American history, the cities occupied sites on the eastern portion of the then largely undeveloped continent and the settlement of countryside generally followed the expansion of the towns in that region. The various interest groups in each city tended to compete with their counterparts in other cities for economic, social and political control, first of nearby and later of more distant and larger areas. And always there remained the undeveloped regions to be developed through the establishment of new towns by individuals and groups. These individuals and groups sought economic opportunities or looked for a better social, political or religious atmosphere. In this sense, the city still helped the development of

the successions of urban frontiers. Well, this kind of circumstance made Americans one of the most political and self-conscious city-building peoples of their time. It did not result in a steadily urbanizing society in the sense that decade by decade an even larger proportion of population lived in cities. In 1690, an estimated 9—10% of American colonists lived in urban settlements. A century later, that is, the end of the 18th century, though 24 places had 2, 500 persons or more, city dwellers accounted for only 5.1%of the total population. For the next 30 years, the proportion remained relatively stable and it was not until 1830 that the urban figure moved back up to the level of 1690. In short, as the number of cities increased after 1690, they sent larger numbers of people into the countryside. Then they returned. Nonetheless, the continuous movement of people into and out of the cities made life in the many but relatively small places lively and stimulating.

11． According to the passage, during the 18th and 19th centuries cities were small in size mainly because

A．the urban pupulation was stable. B．few people lived in cities. C．transport was backward. D．it was originally planned.

正确答案：C

12． Cities survived in those days largely as a result of A．the trade activities they undertook.

B．the agricultural activities in the nearby areas. C．their relatively small size.

D．the non-economic roles they played.

正确答案：A

13． Cities survived in those days largely as a result of A．the trade activities they undertook.

B．the agricultural activities in the nearby areas. C．their relatively small size.

D．the non-economic roles they played.

正确答案：D

14． Urban people left cities for the following reasons EXCEPT A．more economic opportunities.

B．a freer social and political environment. C．more educational opportunities.

D．a more relaxed religious environment.

正确答案：C

15． Why did the early cities fail to grow as quickly as expected throughout the 18th century?

A．Because the countryside attracted more people. B．Because cities did not increase in number. C．Because the functions of the cities changed. D．Because the number of city people was stable.

正确答案：A

SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.

听力原文： Host: The Japanese prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, is preparing for his international debut, which begins in the United States Saturday. During the summit with U.S. President George W. Bush, Mr. Koizumi is expected to stress commonalities over differences. CNN’s Marina Kamimura explains. Marian Kamimura, Tokyo Bureau Chief: Tokyo says that the primary goal of the Japanese prime minister’s inaugural tour is to establish a close personal relationship with other leaders. [Koizumi is] a newcomer to international circles. Officials say that’s [establishing ties is] particularly true of Junichiro Koizumi’s first step, the U.S. president’s retreat in Camp David. Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese Prime Minister: The invitation to visit Camp David shows a favorable feeling on the part of the U.S.

16． What’s the main purpose of the prime minister? A．Establish a ship factory.

B．Establish a close relationship with other leaders. C．Establish a membership of the Bureau. D．Nothing to do.

正确答案：B

17． To show ______, the U.S. invites the Koizumi. A．their friendship

B．their favorable feeling C．their politeness D．their hospitality

正确答案：B

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)Directions: In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice

questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.

According to reports in major news outlets, a study published last week included a startling discovery: the nation’s Jewish population is in shrinking. The study, the National Jewish Population Survey, found 5.2 million Jews living in the United States in 2000, a drop of 5 percent, or 300,000 people, since a similar study in 1990．What’s truly startling is that the reported decline is not true. Worse still, the sponsor of the $6 million study, United Jewish Communities, knows it. Both it and the authors have openly admitted their doubts. They have acknowledged in interviews that the population totals for 2000 and 1990 were reached by different methods and are not directly comparable. The survey itself also cautions readers, in a dauntingly technical appendix, that judgment calls by the researchers may have led to an undercount. When the research director and project director were asked whether the data should be construed to indicate a declining Jewish population, they flatly answered no. In addition, other survey researchers interviewed pointed to other studies with population estimates as high as 6.7 million. Despite all this, the two figures—5.2 million now, 5.5 million then—are listed by side in the survey, leaving the impression that the population has shrunk. The result, predictably, has been a rash of headlines trumpeting the illusionary decline, in turn touching off jeremiads by rabbis and. moralists condemning the religious laxity behind it. Whether out of ideology, ego, incompetence or a combination of all three, the respected charity has invented a crisis. United Jewish Communities is the coordinating body for a national network of Jewish philanthropies with combined budgets of $2 billion. Its population surveys carry huge weight in shaping community policy. This is not the first time the survey has set off a false alarm. The last one, conducted by a predecessor organization, found that 52 percent of American Jews who married between 1985 and 1990 did so outside the faith. That number was a fabrication produced by including marriages in which neither party was Jewish by anyone’s definition, including the researchers. Its publication created a huge stir, inspiring anguished sermons, books and conferences. It put liberals on the defensive, emboldened conservatives who reject full integration into society and alienated ordinary folks by the increasingly xenophobic tone of Jewish communal culture. The new survey, to its credit, retracts that figure and offers the latest survey has spawned a panic created by the last one. So why did the organization flawed figures once again? Some scholars who have studied the survey believe the motivation then came partly out of a desire to shock straying Jews into greater observance. It’s too early to tell if that’s the case this time around. What is clear is the researchers did their job with little regard to how their data could be misconstrued. They used statistical models and question formats that, while internally sound, made the new survey incompatible with the previous one. For example, this time the researchers divided the population of 5.2 million into two groups—”highly involved” Jews and “people of Jewish background” — and posed most questions only to the first group. As a result,

most findings about belief and observance refer only to a subgroup of American Jews, making comparisons to the past impossible. We can’t afford to wait a decade before these figures are revised. The false population decline must be corrected before it further sours communal discourse. The United Jewish Communities owes it to itself and its public to step forward and state plainly what it knows to be true: American Jews are not disappearing.

18． According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true about the National Jewish Population Survey?

A．It found a decline of 300,000 Jews in ten years. B．It was carried out by United Jewish Communities.

C．This is the first time United Jewish Communities has made mistakes in the population survey.

D．The reported decline is not reliable.

正确答案：C

解析：作者在第四段介绍了” United Jewish Communities这一组织，并说到This is not the first time the survey has set off a false alarm.

19． How does the population survey get it wrong in 2000?

A．The population total in 2000 was reached by different method from that in 1990.

B．There might be some problems with the judgment calls by the researchers. C．United Jewish Communities offered not enough financial support to the survey.

D．It is the result of the rash of headlines leaving the impression that the population has declined.

正确答案：B

解析：答案在第二段：judgment calls by the researchers may have led to an undercount.

20． Rabbis and moralists consider the Jewish population decline as the result of ______.

A．Jewish negligence of their religious belief B．Jewish incompetence in America C．Jewish self-esteem

D．the combination of all the three above

正确答案：A

解析：答案在第三段：rabbis and moralists condemning the religious laxity behind it.

21． It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A．United Jewish Communities is sponsored by a single company

B．population surveys by United Jewish Communities are important in shaping community policy of the Jewish in America

C．the researchers did their job with high responsibility D．American Jewish reject full integration into society

正确答案：B

解析：第四段：Its population surveys carry huge weight in shaping community policy. 本题亦可用排除法排除3个错误选项。

22． When the author is talking about the Jewish Population Survey, he seems ______.

A．to believe the shrinking of the Jews in America

B．to support the rejection of full integration into society C．to blame United Jewish Communities

D．to be willing to tolerate the fault of United Jewish Communities

正确答案：C 解析：文章的主要内容是揭示调查所得出的犹太人口下降谬论并指出其负面影响。

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.

23． The chief reason for early settlers to come to the New Continent was______.

A．to seek better opportunity B．to escape religious persecution C．to satisfy the urge for adventure D．Both A and B

正确答案：D 涉及知识点：美国国家概况

24． Which of the following is NOT the characteristic of conversational implicature?

A．Calculability. B．Cancellability. C．Non-detachability. D．Changeablity.

正确答案：D

解析：会话含义的特征包括Calculability(可推导性)，Cancellability(可取消性)，Non-detachability(不可分离性)和Non—conventionality(非规约性)。 知识模

块：语用学

25． The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to______.

A．The Great Gatsby B．The Sun Also Rises C．Moby Dick

D．The Adventures of Huckberry Finn

正确答案：D

解析：这部作品是The Adventures of Huckberry Finn《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》。它被认为是马克·吐温最成功的作品之一，在文学史和西方文明史上享有重要地位。以上的评论为海明威所作。The Great Gatsby作者为F．Scott Fitzgerald。The Sun Also Rises作者为海明威。Moby Dick作者为Herman Melville。

26． William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A．normal contemporary speech patterns B．humble and rustic life as subject matter

C．elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

D．intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience

正确答案：A

解析：本题考查英国文学作家知识。威廉·华兹华斯(William Wordsworth)是英国19世纪浪漫主义诗人，他的诗以描写平民生活和自然、田园风光景色闻名，文笔朴素清新，不同与新古典主义的平板风格。

27． ______ are the earliest inhabitants of the British islands. A．Anglo-Saxons and Celts B．English C．Welsh D．Scots

正确答案：A 解析：英伦三岛上最早的居民包括盎格鲁—萨克逊人和凯尔特人。盎格鲁—萨克逊人是英格兰人的祖先而苏格兰、威尔士和爱尔兰人则属于凯尔特人。

28． ______ is considered as the founder of American drama. A．Miller B．O’Neill C．Williams D．Faulkner

正确答案：B

29． There are ______ political divisions on the island of Great Britain. A．one B．two C．three D．four

正确答案：C 解析：本题考查英国政党知识。英国政党呈现三足鼎立局面。英国工党(Labor Party)成立于1906年2月 15日，是英国的主要政党之一。保守党(Conservative Party)是英国最大的右翼政党，代表英国垄断资本家、大地主和贵族的利益，支持者一般来自企业界和富裕阶层。自由民主党(The Liberal Democrat Party)目前是英国仅决于工党和保守党的第三大政党之一，代表中小资产阶级和企业主的利益。

30． The objective of the Chartist Movement was democratic rights for all men, and it took its name from “______”.

A．The Bill of Rights

B．The Agreement of the People C．The People’s Charter D．The Great Charter

正确答案：C

31． Which part in America is the earliest to be found and taken over by early settlers?

A．The Atlantic and GulfCoastal Plain. B．The Appalachians and their foothills. C．The interior lowlands. D．The Cordillera.

正确答案：A

解析：最早被早期定居者发现和占领的地方是大西洋及其沿岸平原。

32． ______is generally regarded as the beginning of modem world history. A．The Renaissance

B．The English Reformation C．The English Civil War D．the Glorious Revolution

正确答案：C

PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)Directions: Proofread the given passage. The passage contains TEN errors. Each

indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:(1)For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.(2)For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write t

Psycholinguistics is the name given to the study of the psychological processes involved in language. Psycholinguists study understanding,production, and remembering language, and hence are concerned with 【M1】______listening, reading, speaking, writing, and memory for language. One reason why we take the language for granted is that it usually 【M2】______happens so effortlessly, and, most of time, so accurately. 【M3】______Indeed, when you listen to someone speaking, or looking at this page, 【M4】______you normally cannot help but understand it. It is only in exceptionalcircumstances we might become aware of the complexity 【M5】______involved; if we are searching for a word but cannot remember it;if a relative or colleague has had a stroke which has influenced 【M6】______their language; if we observe a child acquire language; if 【M7】______we try to learn a second language ourselves as an adult; or if we are visually impaired or hearing-impaired or if we meetanyone else who is. As we shall see, all these examples 【M8】______of what might be called “ language in exceptional circumstances “reveal a great deal about the processes evolved in speaking, 【M9】______listening, writing, and reading. But given that language processeswere normally so automatic, we also need to carry out careful 【M10】______experiments to get at what is happening.

33． 【M1】

正确答案：production--producing

解析：非谓语动词错误。由于前后结构并列的几个词均为动名词，而production为produce的名词形式，应该改为其动名词producing。此句意为“语言心理学家们研究理解、创造、记住语言”。

34． 【M2】

正确答案：the—／

解析：冠词冗余。此处的language表泛指，前面不需要定冠词来限定，且由于上文中出现的language均没有the修饰，根据前后一致，去掉the。

35． 【M3】

正确答案：of∧—the

解析：冠词缺失。most of the time表示“绝大多数时间，在很多时候”，time前面需有定冠词the来限定。

36． 【M4】

正确答案：looking--look

解析：动词形式错误。由于or是并列连词，此处动词形式应该与前句中的listen保持一致。因此用动词原形look。此句意为“当你听某人说话，或者正在看这一页的时候……”。

37． 【M5】

正确答案：circumstances∧—that

解析：连词缺失。该句为It is…that强调句式，缺少连词that。此句意为“只有在某些异常情况下我们才会意识到语言的复杂性”。

38． 【M6】

正确答案：had一／

解析：时态错误。此句意为“如果有一位亲戚或同事患了中风而影响了他的语言能力”。这里的时态应该用一般现在时，与前后的并列分句的时态保持一致。

39． 【M7】

正确答案：their—his

解析：代词错误。由于句子主语为a relative or colleague，表选择，为单数，且不为泛指，故后面相应的物主代词也为单数形式his。

40． 【M8】

正确答案：anyone—someone

解析：代词混淆。此处句意为“如果我们遇到某个人……”，很明显，此处并非泛指任何人，且anyone一般用于否定句和疑问句中，someone一般用于肯定句中，故将anyone改为someone。

41． 【M9】

正确答案：evolved一involved 解析：动词混淆。involved in的意思是“涉及……”，其为固定搭配，而evolve的意思是“发展，进化”，不符合句意。该句意为“……揭示了许多涉及听、说、读、写的过程”。

42． 【M10】

正确答案：were—are

解析：时态错误。该句意为“但考虑到语言过程通常情况下是非常无意识的……”，该句并非表示过去的情况，应该用一般现在时，故将were改为are。

PART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISHDirections: Translate the following text into English.

43． 在这同时，要进一步办好国家企业再就业服务中心。企业再就业服务中心要向下岗职工按时足额发放基本生活费，并代他们缴纳社会保险金。对确有困难的中西部地区和老工业基地，中央财政将继续给予支持。不过，各地领导部门要引导职工转变择业观念，努力开拓就业门路，搞好职业培训，使更多的下岗职工尽早实现再就业。 各级政府要通力合作，加强督促检查，保证各项再就业政策落实到位。我们要鼓励和引导有条件的企业实行主辅分离，转岗分流安置富余人员，创办独立核算、自负盈亏的经济实体。在做好上述工作的同时，我们要积极推进改革，逐步形成独立于企业事业单位之外、奖金来源多渠道、管理服务社会化的、有中国特色的社会保险体系。

正确答案： Meanwhile, the operation of reemployment centers for SOEs must be farther improved. These centers should provide basic living expenses to laid-off workers on schedule and in full, and play the premiums for the social welfare insurance of these workers as well. Allocations from the central government budget will continue to support the central and western regions and old industrial bases whose financial problems are truly serious. However, local authorities should help these workers to be more open-minded in their selection of jobs, work hard to create jobs, develop vocational training programs for laid-off workers, and help more people find work quickly. Governments at all levels should cooperate wholeheartedly to strengthen supervision and inspection, making sure that various policies of reemployment are fully implemented. Whenever possible, enterprises should be encouraged and advised to separate their primary business activities from secondary ones, find other positions for their redundant workers within the enterprises, and set up new economic entities with independent accounting and responsibility for their own profits and losses. While the above-mentioned tasks are to be well performed, we should also advance reforms to gradually form a social security system with Chinese characteristics. The system will be run independent of the employer, having diversified fun- ding sources and offering management and services provided by social institutions other than the employer.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESEDirections: Translate the following text into Chinese.

44． However, by being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. They all went on to learn Latin and Greek and splendid things like that. But I was taught English. We were considered such dunces that we could learn only English. Mr Somervell—a most delightful man, to whom my debt is great—was charged with the duty of teaching the stupidest boys the most

disregarded thing—namely, to write mere English. He taught it as no one else has ever taught it. Not only did we learn English parsing thoroughly, but we also practiced continually English analysis. He took a fairly long sentence and broke it up into its components by means of black, red, blue, and green inks. We did it almost daily. As I remained in the Third Form three times as long as anyone else, I had three times as much of it. I learned it thoroughly. Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence—which is a noble thing. And when in after years my school fellows who had won prizes and distinction for writing such beautiful Latin poetry and pithy Greek epigrams had to come down again to common English, to earn their living or make their way, I did not feel myself at any disadvantage.

正确答案： 然而，我在最低的年级待了这么久，比起那些比较聪明的学生来，倒获得了很大的好处。他们都去学习拉丁语、希腊语之类的高深的东西，而我却在学习英语。我们被视为智力迟钝的学生，只配学习英语。萨默维尔先生——一个令我感激不尽的、十分讨人喜欢的老师——负责教授最愚笨的学生最令人看不起的课程，即用英文写作。他采取了与众不同的教学方法。我们不仅彻底地学会了句法分析，而且不断地练习英文分析。他找来一个相当长的句子，然后用黑色、红色、蓝色、绿色墨水把它们分解成一个个成分。这是一种训练。我们几乎天天练。因为我在四年级三班待的时间是别人的三倍，所以我所受的这种训练也是别人的三倍。我掌握得很彻底。就这样，普通英语句子的基本结构便深入到我的骨髓里——这可是件了不起的事。在以后的岁月里，我那些曾因写出漂亮的拉丁文诗歌和精辟的希腊文警句而获得奖赏和盛誉的同学，为了谋生或发迹，又不得不回头补习日常英语时，我觉得自己一点儿都不亏。

PART VI WRITING (45 MIN)Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic.

45． Nowadays, network games are popular among college students. Many play network games in their spare time for relaxation. There are also many who are so obsessed with network games that they play truant, and others even commit crimes for one reason or another. What do you think of network games’! Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: Should Network Games Be Banned in College? In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

正确答案： Should Network Games Be Banned in College? It is a prevailing practice that university students play network games in their spare time for relaxation. Some teachers and parents hold the negative opinion that many students are so obsessed with network games that they play truant, and others even commit crimes for one reason or another. Others don’t agree. As far as I am concerned, the

critical point is whether the students can keep a balance between study and games. Some thought that playing network games will cost a lot of time and energy, which should otherwise be devoted to their academic study. After all,time is limited for college students and it’s the most fundamental duty for them to study and lay a solid foundation in knowledge. And the content of the network games is sometimes violent and bloody,which is not suitable for students. It is also reported that some students are so addictive to the network games that they even don’t go to class and sit in front of the computers all day long. Their worries and considerations are justified, but we should not give up eating for choking. First, life in college is not easy. Students have to work hard to learn and at the same time they have much pressure from their parents or others. Playing network games will help them to relax and be immersed in a virtual world. The rest of heart is important in the modern society. Second, students will learn more about teamwork in the network games. People in a team cooperate and help each other to win the game. The experience is vivid and works better than any lecture. Third, students meet different people on the Internet, and learn to get along with them in different ways. It may endow the very student with the ability to establish a better personal relationship with other people,which means a lot when they enter the society. To sum up,for university students,the priority should be given to academic study. A poor performance in achievement tests won’t make us competitive in the future. But all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Appropriate rest and relaxation in the network games world will refresh a person and help him to learn something. The college students are all adults, and they know clearly what they should do and what they shouldn’t, and have the ability to control their behaviors. So they must strike a

balance between study and network games,and give due weight to the studies. 涉及知识点：WRITING