专业八级-595

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专业八级-595
[多项选择] Write a composition of about 400 words on this issue:
Should Raising Pets Be Banned
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 a natural conclusion or 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.
Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
[单项选择]According to the text, learning to control your nervousness can ______.

A. enhance professional rewards
B. provoke sympathy in your audience
C. result in professional success
D. prevent you lying to an audience
[单项选择]Which of the following is one way in which Nevelson's art illustrates her theory as it is expressed in paragraph 4

A. She sculpts in wood rather than in metal or stone
B. She paints her sculptures and frames them in boxes.
C. She makes no preliminary sketches but rather allows the sculpture to develop as she works.
D. She puts together pieces of ordinary objects once used for different purposes to make her sculptures.
[单项选择]The passage focuses primarily on ______.

A. a general tendency in twentieth-century art
B. the work of a particular artist
C. the artist influences on women sculptors
D. materials used by twentieth-century sculptors
[单项选择]The author seems m suggest that traditional values ______.

A. play an insignificant role in solving social problems
B. are helpful to the elderly when they sue their children
C. are very important in preserving Asian uniqueness
D. are significant in helping the Bill get approved
[多项选择]一切都是虚荣，人人皆爱虚荣．女人极其虚荣，男人也不甘落后—如果可能，他们则变本加厉。孩子也不例外，尤其是女孩子。其中一个正敲着我的腿，她想知道我对她的新鞋有何看法。坦白地说，这两只鞋并不怎么样，它们既不对称也没有曲线美，看上去有种无法形容的臃肿(同时我也相信它们穿在了错误的脚上)。但我没有这样说，她想要的不是批评而是奉承；虽然我觉得有失体面，但还是把她的鞋大大夸了一通。除此以外，什么也不能让这个固执己见的小天使满意。有一次，我试着像个朋友一样，委婉而推心置腹地规劝她，结果并不乐观。
[单项选择]______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A. Jane Eyre
B. Emma
C. Wuthering Heights
D. She Walks in Beauty
[单项选择]The passage is primarily concerned with problems of ______.

A. music and art
B. society and population
C. history and economics
D. theology and philosophy
[单项选择]What do you think the underlined phrase "look the part" in paragraph 7 means

A. You dress according to your income.
B. You dress according to the situation.
C. You dress in a business suit.
D. You dress like an actor.
[单项选择]A primary feature of Marxism is the stress on ______.

A. studying the lessons of history to formulate plans for the eventual victory of communism over capitalism
B. the development and management of the material wealth of a government or community
C. the need m move ahead with the implementation of the communist philosophy by violent means
D. the eventual compromise between communism and the Western world
[单项选择]The Victorian Age was largely an age of ______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.

A. poetry
B. drama
C. prose
D. novel
[填空题]
[简答题]She was very handsome, with a certain fine, rich coloring that belongs to the healthy brunet type. She was quite composed, as she idly stroked the satiny coat of the cat that lay curled in her lap, and she occasionally sent a slow glance into the shadow where her companion sat. They were talking low, of indifferent things which plainly were not the things that occupied their thoughts. She knew that he loved her--a frank, blustering fellow without guile enough to conceal his feelings, and no desire to do so. For two weeks past he had sought her society eagerly and persistently. She was confidently waiting for him to declare himself and she meant to accept him. The rather insignificant and unattractive Brantain was enormously rich; and she liked and required the entourage which wealth could give her.
[单项选择]By quoting the growing percentage points of the aged in the population, the author seems to imply that ______.

A. the country will face mounting problems of the old in future
B. the social welfare system would be under great pressure
C. young people should be given more moral education
D. the old should be provided with means of livelihood
[单项选择]Which of the following statements is CORRECT

A. Filial responsibility in Singapore is enforced by law.
B. Fathers have legal obligations to look after their children.
C. It is an acceptable practice for the old to continue working.
D. The Advisory Council was dissatisfied with the problems of the ol
[单项选择]The author indicates that the typical communist ______.

A. is more interested in the success of communism than in the welfare of his own family
B. has the same fundamental interests as the non communist
C. has the authoritative--if not arrogant--opinion about the advantages of communism over capitalism.
D. is afraid to express his true beliefs for fear of punishment
[单项选择]The author regards Nevelson's sculpture in the art world as "remarkable" (Line 2, Par
[单项选择]The writer's attitude toward the Communist Revolution is one of ______.

A. scholarly objective
B. righteous indignation
C. hardheaded materialism
D. unnecessary oversimplification
[单项选择]That a state of communism is to be preceded by socialism is ______.
[单项选择]The author quotes Hilton Kramer in paragraph 2 most probably in order to illustrate ______.
[单项选择]Australia, which is one of the world's developed countries, has become rich through ______.

A. manufacturing industries
B. farming and mining
C. service industries
D. forestry and fishing
[单项选择]The Maintenance of Parents Bill ______.

A. received unanimous support in the Singapore Parliament
B. was believed to solve all the problems of the elderly poor
C. was intended to substitute for traditional values in Singapore
D. was passed to make the young more responsible to the old
[单项选择]The author believes that a child ______.

A. should practice what the Hindoos preach
B. frequently faces vital problems better than grownups do
C. prefers to be a barbarian than to be a prince
D. hardly ever knows his true origin
[单项选择]What is the author's attitude to high-tech equipment

A. Laudatory.
B. Qualified Positivity.
C. Cautionary.
D. Negativ
[单项选择]The statement "There is more politeness in women's language." is a view of ______.

A. pragmatics
B. historical linguistics
C. sociolinguistics
D. psycholinguistics
[单项选择]The English Civil War in the 17th century is also called ______.

A. the Puritan Revolution
B. the second Magna Carta
C. the Long Parliament
D. the Anglican War
[单项选择]The first immigrants in American history came from ______, some running away from religious and political persecution and some coming as adventures from Europe for a better life.

A. England and Germany
B. England and Ireland
C. England and the Netherlands
D. England and Spain
[单项选择]Which of the following words is NOT a derivative

A. Physician.
B. Facial.
C. Unify.
D. Nicer.
[单项选择]The theme of Thanksgiving has always been ______.

A. friendship and happiness
B. peace and plenty
C. cooperation and rich reward
D. love and happiness
[单项选择]In some languages like ______, pitch variations are meaning distinctive. Therefore they are called tone languages.

A. Chinese
B. English
C. French
D. German
[单项选择]The author thinks that if the Bill becomes law, its effect would be ______.

A. indirect
B. unnoticed
C. apparent
D. straightforward
[单项选择]The passage implies that human beings ______.

A. believe in fairy tales
B. are immoral if they are lazy
C. should be bold and fearless
D. cannot distinguish the true from the untrue
[单项选择]World War I broke out on June 28th, ______.

A. 1914
B. 1917
C. 1815
D. 1918
[单项选择]At the end of the passage, the author seems to imply that success of the Bill depends upon ______.

A. strict enforcement
B. public support
C. government assurance
D. filial awareness