1996年专业英语八级真题.docx

1、1996年专业英语八级真题一、ListeningComprehension（NewsBroadcast）（共5小题,共5.0分）In this section, you will hear several newsitems. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions thatfollow. 第1题The man was convicted for Adishonesty. Bmanslaughter. Cmurder. D having a gun【正确答案】 ：B 【本题分数】：1.0分第2题Which of the fo

2、llowing is TRUE?A Mark Eastwood had a license for arevolver. B Mark Eastwood loved to go to noisyparties. C Mark Eastwood smashed the windows of ahouse. D Mark Eastwood had arecord.【正确答案】 ：D 【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】听力原文 Questions 1112 A man who fired three shots into a crowded birthday party killing one ma

3、n and wounding two other people has been sentenced to 60 years inprison. 36-year-old Mark Eastwood was in court for sentencing today after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter, but not guilty ofmurder. Mark Eastwood snapped after being kept awake for four successive nights by noisy parties yards

4、away form hishome. He took a loaded revolver and fired three shots through the window of a house in the southwestern part of thecity. A 2S-year-old man at the party died after being hit in the head, two other people were seriouslywounded. The court was told that Eastwood had a lengthy criminal recor

5、d for dishonesty and he was keeping a gun without alicense. Sentencing him to 60 years in prison,Mr. Justice Dawson said, no one must be allowed to kill innocent people and not to be severelypunished.第3题How many missing American servicemen have been positively confirmed dead in Vietnam so far?A67. B

6、280. C84. D1648.【正确答案】 ：B 【本题分数】：1.0分第4题According to the search operation commander, the recovery of the missing Americans is slowed down because A the weather conditions areunfavorable. B the necessary documents areunavailable. C the sites areinaccessible. D some local people aregreedy.【正确答案】 ：D 【本

7、题分数】：1.0分第5题According to the news, Vietnam may be willing to help America mainly because of A its changed policy towardsAmerica. B recent internationalpressure. C its desire to have the US trade embargolifted. D the impending visit by a senior US militaryofficer.【正确答案】 ：C 【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】听力原文 Quest

8、ions 1315 A 23-day search operation that begins Thursday will include 84 Americans and their Vietnamese counterparts split in the eightteams. The spokesman for the operation said four of the teams are currently in the midst of a dryseason. The spokesman said Vietnam turned over 67 sets of remains wh

9、ich the Vietnamese believed to be of Americans last year, the most since it began returning such remains in the early 1980s. Vietnam first allowed American search teams into the country in 1988 and the first consisted of just threemen. Vietnam has turned over hundreds of sets of remains since the en

10、d of the war in1975. So far 280 such sets have been positively identified as the remains of missingAmericans. The remains are examined by forensic specialists at theU.S. military laboratory inHawaii. The fates of more than 2,200 American servicemen who are missing in southeast Asia remain unsolveD 1

11、,648 of those are listed as missing in Vietnam or itswaters. In an interview with the Associated Press, Major General Thomas Needham, the search operation commander, said he was pleased with the process being made to account for the missingmen. He said he and his teams were allowed to go wherever th

12、ey wished inVietnam. General Needham said he constantly pushed the Vietnamese to find and hand over more documents about the missingmen. General Needham said that he didnt believe the Vietnamese government was holding backremains. However, he said some individuals who had come across remains were ho

13、lding them back in the hope of being paid forthem. TheU.S. does not pay forremains. In the related development, theU.S. military announced Wednesday that Admiral Charles Lawson, the commander-in-chief of the Pacific, will visit Vietnam beginning January 16th. Admiral Lawson will visit the American M

14、issing-in-Action Office in Hanoi, discuss the issue with the Vietnamese officials and travel south to observe theexcavations. Admiral Lawson will become the highest rankingU.S. military officer to visit Vietnam since the end of theWar. Admiral Lawsons visit and extensive search come at a time when o

15、fficials in Washington say the question of theU.S. trade embargo against Vietnam is under activereview. Ann Butler for VOA news,Bangkok.二、Reading Comprehension （Comprehension）（共15小题,共15.0分）In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggeste

16、d answers marked A, B, C andD. Choose the one that you think is the bestanswer. Mark your answers on Answer SheetTwo. 第1题TEXT A Staying Healthy on Holiday 1 Do people who choose to go on exotic, far-flung holidays deserve free health advice before they travel?And even if they pay, who ensures that t

17、hey get good, up-to-date information?Who, for that matter, should collect that information in the first place?For a variety of reasons, travel medicine in Britain is a responsibility nobodywants. As a result, many travelers go abroad iii prepared to avoid seriousdisease. 2 Why is travel medicine so

18、unloved?Partly theres an identityproblem. Because it takes an interest in anything that impinges on the health of travelers, this emerging medical specialism invariably cuts across the traditionaldisciplines. It delves into everything from seasickness, jet lag and the hazards of camels to malaria an

19、dplague. But travel medicine has a more serious obstacle toovercome. Travel clinics are meant to tell people how to avoid ending up dead or in a tropical diseases hospital when they come home, but it is notoriously difficult to get anybody pay out money for keeping peoplehealthy. 3 Travel medicine h

20、as also been colonized by commercial interests, the vast majority of travel clinics in Britain are run by airlines or travelcompanies. And while travel concerns are happy to sell profitable injections, they may be less keen to spread bad news about travelers diarrhea in Turkey, or to take the time t

21、o spell out preventive measures travelers couldtake. The NHS finds it difficult to define travelers health,says Ron Behrens, the only NHS consultant in travel any tropical medicine and director of the travel clinic of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases inLondon. Should it come within the NHS or shou

22、ld it be paid for?Its a gray area, and opinion issplit. No one seems to have any responsibility for defining its role, hesays. 4 To compound its low status in the medical hierarchy, travel medicine has to rely on statistics that are patchy atbest. In most cases we just dont know how many Britons con

23、tract diseases when abroadAnd even if a disease is linked to travel there is rarely any information about where those afflicted went, what they are, how they behaved, or which vaccinations they had This shortage of hard facts and figures makes it difficult to give detailed advice to people, informat

24、ion that might even save theirlives. 5 A recent leader in the British Medical Journal arguedTravel medicine will emerge as a credible discipline only if the risks encountered by travelers and the relative benefits of public health interventions are well defined in terms of their relative occurrence,

25、 distribution andcontrol.Exactly how much money is wasted by poor traveladvice. The real figure is anybodys guess, but it could easily run intomillions. Behrens gives oneexample. Britain spends more than 1 million each year just on cholera vaccines that often dont work and so give people a false sen

26、se ofsecurity: Information on the prevention and treatment of all forms of diarrhea would be a better priority, hesays. Travel medicine in Britain is A not something anyone wants torun. B the responsibility of thegovernment. C administered by privatedoctors. D handled adequately by travelagents.【正确答

27、案】 ：A 【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】此题为细节理解题。据第1段第4句可知。“Travel medicine in Britain is a responsibility nobody wants”的意思与A较为接近，而其他三个答案明显不符。第1段最后1句也可帮助排除后三个选择。第2题The main interest of travel companies dealing with travel medicine is to A prevent people from fallingill. B make money out ofit. C give advice on specif

28、iccountries. D get the government to pay forit.【正确答案】 ：B 【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】此题为细节理解题。据第3段第1句可知，所谓commercial interests即表示“为赚钱所驱动”。第3段第2句中的profitable injections也可进一步证明，同时可帮助排除A与C。D不相关。第3题In Behrens opinion the question of who should run travel medicine A is for the government todecide. B should be left

29、to specialisthospitals. C can be left to travelcompanies. D has no clear and simpleanswer.【正确答案】 ：D 【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】此题为细节理解题。据第3段最后3句可知。第4题People will only think better of travel medicine if A it is given more resources by thegovernment. B more accurate information on its value isavailable. C the g

30、overnment takes over responsibility from theNHS. D travelers pay more attention to the advice theyget.【正确答案】 ：B 【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】 此题为一般推理题。据第4段最后1句可推断。如果能给人们提供详细的建议以及可拯救他们性命的信息，当然会让人们满意。第5段中间以及最后1句也可支持此选择。C与D找不到支持。难点解析 far-flung遥远的，广泛分布的，覆盖面大的delve into探索，钻研colonize使聚居，在开拓殖民地，此处意为“注入，进入”。patchy零散的，拼

31、凑而成的those afflicted那些患者第5题TEXT B The Historical Background of Social Psychology 1 While the roots of social psychology lie in the intellectual soil of the whole western tradition, its present flowering is recognized to be characteristically an Americanphenomenon. One reason for the striking upsurge of social psychology in the United St