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专业八级考试试题及答案解析(五)

一、Listening Comprehension (News Broadcast)（共4小题,共4.0分）In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow. 第1题

The recent fluctuation of the stock market in New York was due to A Greenspan's remarks. B the slack US business. C the excessive optimism. D the weakened US economy. 【正确答案】：A

【本题分数】：1.0分

【答案解析】

[听力原文]

The stock market in New York has drifted up and down after comments from the chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan who said the recent falls on the world market could be salutary in the long term. The market rose by more than 100 points in the first hour of trading, but fell back after Mr Greenspan's remarks. He told the congressional committee that the U. S. economy should not be threatened by market problems in the Southeast Asia and said the economy was robust.

Mr Greenspan said that even after the recovery on Wall Street, many investors were less wealthy than they had been a week ago. But it was a salutary event. The head of the U.S. Central Bank implied that there had been an excessive optimism about the future of share prices and the recent decline might cool things down. If it hadn't been in Southeast Asia, something else would eventually have brought about this week's events. Mr Greenspan traced the origins of the Asian crisis in some details. There'd been an explosion in the flow of money into the region and this has helped fuel unsustainable property boom. Bank borrowed abroad and lent too much to the construction industry. When the project went sour, they had to meet their foreign currency borrowings with their own currencies devalued.

本题难度不大。新闻一开始即讲到由于格林斯潘(Greenspan)的一席话纽约股市出现动荡。原文中drift up and down即为fluctuate。

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第2题

Which of the following statements does NOT apply to the origins of the Asian crisis?

A Too much money had flown into the region. B The region's own currency had been devalued. C Investors are less wealthy than they used to be.

D The construction industry had consumed too much bank loan. 【正确答案】：C

【本题分数】：1.0分

【答案解析】

本题考查同时领悟多条信息的能力。四个选项中只有C项内容不是Asian crisis的理由。 第3题

Over the past ten years, the sharp increase in the sale of personal computers was due to

A better computer graphics and sound.

B the enhanced version of the Pentium processor. C the success of the world's first microprocessor. D successful sales of Intel chips and Microsoft softwar 【正确答案】：D

【本题分数】：1.0分

【答案解析】

[听力原文]

Intel based in California has gone from strength to strength since launching the world's first microprocessor, the brains inside a computer a quarter of a century ago. More than 80% of computers now use Intel chips. This success combined with the dominance of the software provided by Microsoft has helped fuel the steep rise in the sale of personal computers seen over the past ten years. Intel profits in the first three months of this year were more than 1.9 billion dollars compared with just under 900

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million over the same period in 1996. Intel is putting much of this down to the success of the MMX launched in January and the enhanced version of the Pentium processor and enabling better computer graphics and sound. But at the same time, Intel warned that revenue in the next three months would be flat and competition is becoming more fierce as smaller rivals in the United States launch chips reckoned to be just as efficient but cheaper.

the steep rise in the sale of personal computers over the past ten years是两方面的原因促成的：一是Intel chips的大范围使用(即文中的this success)；二是微软软件在市场的主导地位(dominance)。 第4题

According to the passage, Intel's profits in the next few months A may not be that great. B would be greater than before. C would certainly be less than before. D would certainly be the same as befor 【正确答案】：A

【本题分数】：1.0分

【答案解析】

本题的答题关键在于理解…revenue in the next three months would be flat…，特别是对flat的理解。 二、Reading Comprehension (Comprehension)（共20小题,共20.0分）In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on Answer Sheet Two. 第1题

Harry Truman didn't think his successor had the right training to be president. \sit there all day saying 'do this, do that, ' and nothing will happen.\Truman was wrong about Ike. Dwight Eisenhower had led a fractious alliance -- you didn't tell Winston Churchill what to do --in a massive, chaotic war. He was used to politics. But Truman's insight could well be applied to another, even more venerated Washington figure: the CEO-turned cabinet secretary.

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