2008年英语专业八级真题与答案(1)

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　　D. The national symbol has be a familiar sight.

　　15. According to Dyfan Jones what has changed is
　　A. people's mentality. √
　　B. pop culture.
　　c. town's appearance.
　　D. possibilities for the people.

　　Text B

　　getting to the heart of Kuwaiti democracy seems hilariously easy. Armed only with a dog-eared NEwSwEEK ID, I ambled through the gates of the National Assembly last week. unscanned, unsearched, my satchel could easily have held the odd grenade or an anthrax-stuffed lunchbox. The only person who stopped me was a guard who grinned and invited me to take a swig of orange juice from his plastic bottle.

　　were I a Kuwaiti woman wielding a ballot, I would have been a clearer and more present danger. That very day Parliament blocked a bill giving women the vote; 29 m.P.s voted in favour and 29 against, with two abstentions. unable to decide whether the bill had passed or not, the government scheduled another vote in two weeks- too late for women to register for June's municipal elections. The next such elections aren't until 2009. Inside the elegant, marbled Parliament itself, a sea of mustachioed men in white robes sat in green seats, debating furiously. The ruling emir has pushed for women's political rights for years. Ironically, the democratically elected legislature has thwarted him. Traditionalists and tribal leaders are opposed. Liberals fret, too, that Islamists will let their multiple wives vote, swelling conservative ranks. “when I came to Parliament today, people who voted yes didn't even shake hands with me,” said one Shia clerc. “why can't we respect each other and work together?” www.gaofen123.com

　　why not indeed? By gulf standards, Kuwait is a democratic superstar. Its citizens enjoy free speech （as long as they don't insult their emir, naturally） and boast a Parliament that can actually pass laws. unlike their Saudi sisters, Kuwaiti women drive, work and travel freely. They run multibillion-dollar businesses and serve as ambassadors. Their academic success is such that colleges have actually lowered the grades required for make students to get into medical and engineering courses. Even then, 70 percent of university students are females.

　　In Kuwait, the western obsession with the higab finds its equivalent. At a fancy party for NEwSwEEK's Arabic edition, some Kuwaiti women wore them. others opted for tight, spangled, sheer little numbers in peacock blue or parrot orange. For the party's entertainment, Nancy Ajram, the Arab world's answer to Britney Spears, sang passionate songs of love in a white mini-dress. She couldn't dance for us, alas, since shaking one's body onstage is illegal in Kuwait. That didn't stop whole tables of men from raising their camera-enabled mobile phones and clicking her picture. You'd think not being able to vote or dance in public would anger Kuwait's younger generation of women. To find out, I headed to the malls-Kuwait's archipelago of civic freedom. Eager to duck

　　Strict parents and the social taboos of dating in public. young Kuwaitis have taken to cafes, beaming flirtatious infrared e-mails to one another on their cell photos. At Starbucks in the glittering Al Sharq mall, I found only tables of men, puffing cigarettes and grumbling about the service .At Pizza Hut, I thought I'd got an answer after encountering a young woman who looked every inch the modern suffragette—drainpipe jeans,strappy sliver high-heeled sandals and a higab studded with purple rhinestones. But, no, miriam Al-Enizi, 20,studying business administration at Kuwait university, doesn't think women need the vote.“ men are better at politics than women,”she explained, adding that women in Kuwait already have everything they need. wee to democracy, Kuwait style.

　　16. According to the passage, which of the following groups of people might be viewed as being dangerous by the guards?
　　A. Foreign tourists.
　　B. women protestors.√
　　c. Foreign journalists.
　　D. members of the National Assembly.

　　17. The bill giving women the vote did not manage to pass because
　　A. Different interest groups held different concerns.√
　　B.Liberals did not reach consensus among themselves.
　　c. Parliament was controlled by traditionalists.
　　D.Parliament members were all conservatives.

　　18. what is the role of the 4th and 5th paragraphs in the development of the topic?
　　A. To show how Kuwaiti women enjoy themselves.
　　B. To describe how women work and study in Kuwait.
　　c. To provide a contrast to the preceding paragraphs.√
　　D. To provide a contrast to the preceding paragraphs.

　　19. which of the following is NoT true about young Kuwaiti women?
　　A. They seem to be quite contented.
　　B. They go in for western fashions.
　　c. They desire more than modern necessities.√
　　D. They favour the use of hi-tech products.

　　Text c

　　Richard, King of England from 1189 to 1199, with all his characteristic virtues and faults cast in a heroic mould, is one of the most fascinating medieval figures. He has been described as the creature

　　and embodiment of the age of chivalry, In those days the lion was much admired in heraldry, and more than one king sought to link himself with its repute. when Richard's contemporaries called him" coeur de Lion"（The Lion heart）, they paid a lastingpliment to the king of beasts. Little did the English people owe him for his services, and heavily did they pay for his adventures. He was in England only twice for a few short months in his ten years' reign; yet his memory has always English hearts, and seems to present throughout the centuries the pattern of the fighting man. In all deeds of prowess as well as in large schemes of war Richard shone. He was tall and delicately shaped strong in nerve and sinew, and most dexterous in arms. He reioiced in personalbat, and regarded his opponents without malice as necessary agents in his fame He loved war, not so much for the sake of glory or political ends, but as other men love science or poetry, for the excitement of the struggle and the glow of victory. By this his whole temperament was toned; and united with the highest qualities of the militarymander, love of war called forth all the powers of his mind and body.

　　Although a man of blood and violence, Richard was too impetuous to be either treacherous on habitually cruel. He was as ready to forgive as he was hasty to offend; he was open-handed and munificent to profusion; in war circumspect in design and skilful in execution; in political a child, lacking in subtlety and experience. His political alliances were formed upon his likes and dislikes; his political schemes had neither unity nor clearness of purpose. The advantages gained for him by military geoids were flung away through diplomatic ineptitude. when, on the jouthey to the East, messina in Sicily was won by his arms he was easily persuaded to share with his polished, faithless ally, Philip Augustus, fruits of a victory which more wisely used might have foiled the French King's artful schemes. The rich and tenable acquisition of cyprus was cast away even more easily than it was won. His life was one magnificent parade, which, when ended, left only an empty plain. www.gaofen123.com

　　In 1199, when the difficulties of raising revenue for the endless war were at their height, good news was brought to King Richard. It was said there had been dug up near the castle of chaluz, on the lands of one of his French vassals, a treasure of wonderful quality; a group of golden images of an emperor, his wife, sons and daughters, seated round a table, also of gold, had been unearthed. The King claimed this treasure as lord paramount. The lord of chaluz resisted the demand, and the King laid siege to his small, weak castle. on the third day, as he rode daringly, near the wall. confident in his hard-tried luck, a bolt from a crossbow struck him in the left shoulder by the neck. The wound, already deep, was aggravated by the necessary cutting out of the arrow-head. gangrene set in, and coeur de Lion knew that he must pay a soldier's debt. He prepared for death with fortitude and calm, and in accordance with the principles he had followed. He arranged his affairs, he divided his personal belongings among his friends or bequeathed them to charity. He declared John to be his heir, and made all present swear fealty to him. He ordered the archer who had shot the fatal bolt, and who was now a prisoner, to be brought before him. He pardoned him, and made him a jpgt of money. For seven years he had not confessed for fear of beingpelled to be reconiled to Philip, but now he received the offices of the church with sincere and exemplary piety, and died in the forty-second year of his age on April 6, 1199, worthy, by the consent of all men, to sit with King Arthur and Roland andother heroes of martial romance at some Eternal round Table, which we trust the creator of the universe in Hisprehension will not have forgotten to provide.

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