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1、英语专业八级考试模拟试题（一）来源：http:/ 日期：2008-02-19 阅读 1944 次 作者:24EN_TEMPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSIONPART II PROOFREADING some who did sent too many: 50,000 words instead of 500 is a record, according Dr Nicholls. There remains the dinner-party game of whos out. That is a game that the reviewers have played an

2、d will continue to play. Criminals were my initial worry. After all, the original edition of the DNB boasted: Malefactors whose crimes excite a permanent interest have received hardly less attention than benefactors. Mr. John Gross clearly had similar anxieties, for he complains that, while the murd

3、erer Christie is in, Crippen is out. One might say in reply that the injustice of the hanging of Evans instead of Christie was a force in the repeal of capital punishment in Britain, as Ludovie Kennedy (the author of Christie entry in Missing Persons) notes. But then Crippen was reputed as the first

4、 murderer to be caught by telegraphy (he had tried to escaped by ship to America). It is surprising to find Max Miller excluded when really not very memorable names get in. There has been a conscious effort to put in artists and architects from the Middle Ages. About their lives not much is always k

5、nown. Of Hugo of Bury St. Edmunds, a 12th-century illuminator whose dates of birth and death are not recorded, his biographer comments:“ Whether or not Hugo was a wall-painter, the records f his activities as carver and manuscript painter attest to his versatility“. Then there had to be more women,

6、too (12 per cent, against the original DBNs 3), such as Roy Strongs subject, the Tudor painter Levina Teerlinc, of whom he remarks:“ her most characteristic feature is a head attached to a too small, spindly body. Her technique remained awkward, thin and often cursory“. Doesnt seem to qualify her as

7、 a memorable artist. Yet it may be better than the record of the original DNB, which included lives of people who never existed (such as Merlin) and even managed to give thanks to J. W. Clerke as a contributor, though , as a later edition admits in a shamefaced footnote, “except for the entry in the

8、 List of Contributors there is no trace of J. W. Clerke“.14. The writer suggests that there is no sense in buying the latest volume _A) because it is not worth the price.B) because it has fewer entries than before.C) unless one has all the volumes in his collection.D) unless an expanded DNB will com

9、e out shortly.15. On the issue of who should be included in the DNB, the writer seems to suggest that _A) the editors had clear rules to follow.B) there were too many criminals in the entries.C) the editors clearly favoured benefactors.D) the editors were irrational in their choices.16. Crippen was

10、absent from the DNB _A) because he escaped to the U.S.B) because death sentence had been abolished.C) for reasons not clarified.D) because of the editors mistake.17. The author quoted a few entries in the last paragraph to _A) illustrate some features of the DNB.B) give emphasis to his argument.C) i

11、mpress the reader with its content.D) highlight the people in the Middle Ages.18. Throughout the passage, the writers tone towards the DNB was _A) complimentary.B) supportive.C) sarcastic.D) bitter.TEXT CMedical consumerism like all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly is designed to be unsati

12、sfying. The prolongation of life and the search for perfect health (beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But as any geriatric ward shows, that i

13、s not the same as to confer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy. Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean. What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its

14、 future turned into one of bestowing meagre increments of unenjoyed life! It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources not least medical ones, like illegal steroids are now invested to shave records by milliseconds And, it goes without saying, the logical e

15、xtension of longevism the “abolition“ of death would not be a solution but only an exacerbation. To air these predicaments is not anti-medical spleen a churlish reprisal against medicine for its victories but simply to face the growing reality of medical power not exactly without responsibility but

16、with dissolving goals. Hence medicines finest hour becomes the dawn of its dilemmas. For centuries, medicine was impotent and hence unproblematic. From the Greeks to the Great War, its job was simple: to struggle with lethal diseases and gross disabilities, to ensure live births, and to manage pain.

17、 It performed these uncontroversial tasks by and large with meagre success. Today, with mission accomplished, medicines triumphs are dissolving in disorientation. Medicine has led to vastly inflated expectations, which the public has eagerly swallowed. Yet as these expectations grow un-limited, they

18、 become unfulfillable. The task facing medicine in the twenty-first century will be to redefine its limits even as it extend its capacities.19. In the authors opinion, the prolongation of life is equal to _A) mobility.B) deprivation.C) autonomy.D) awareness.20. In the second paragraph a comparison i

19、s drawn between _A) medicine and life.B) resources and energies.C) predicaments and solutions.D) athletics and longevism.英语专业八级考试模拟试题（一）来源：http:/ 日期：2008-02-19 阅读 1946 次 作者:24EN_TEMTEXT DThe biggest problem facing Chile as it promotes itself as a tourist destination to be reckoned with, is that it i

20、s 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-days flight away from the big tourist markets, unlike Mexico, for example. Chile, therefore, is having to fight hard to attract tourists, to convince tr

21、avellers 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

22、 come from its nearest neighbour, 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 politically within th

23、e region, it has benefited from the problems suffered in other areas. In Peru, guerrilla warfare in recent years has dealt a heavy blow to the tourist industry and fear of street crime in Brazil has reduced the attraction of Rio de Janeiro as a dream destination for foreigners. More than 150,000 people are directly involved in Chiles tourist sector, an industry which earns the country more than US950 million each year. The state-run National Tourism Service, in partnership with a number of private companies,