专业八级分类模拟329

1、 专业八级分类模拟 329(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、writing(总题数：6，分数：100.00)1.题目要求：in a frantic society where efficiency is put great emphasis on, maybe it is high timewe should take a breath and think about the bad consequences brought about by the head-spinninglife. in the following excerpt, the author presents h

2、is opinion on the slow lifestyle versus thefast one. read the excerpt carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which youshould:1. summarize briefly the authors opinion;2. give your comment.marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and languagequal

3、ity. failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.fast-free livingwhat americans would do if they were serious about stopping to smell the flowers? is the americanlifestyle slowing down, in a response to national trauma and the onset of war? judging fromcommentaries by cult

4、ural analysts and newspaper columnists, the answer is yes.a boston globe editorial looked back on a hard year: but it brought growth, too, and a deeperunderstanding of just how fragile life is, and what we often take for grantedthe kiss goodbyein the morning, the chat with a friend, the saturday soc

5、cer gameis what matters most. anobservation from the washingtonpost: people seem to walk more slowly. they are off their brisk,self-important stride. motorists are driving better. they lay off their horns. they dont jumplights. from the dallas morning news: americans are experiencing a sort of cocoo

6、ning of theheart, cultural experts say. theyre using this time to reconnect with their families andfriends.if americans really were beginning to slow down, the contemporary simplicity movement would notbe adding another meeting or two a month to our schedules. the antidote to a frenetic work lifewou

7、ldnt be something called power leisure.the celebration of the new slowness may not reflect reality, but it surely does reflect some degreeof yearning. yet there may be a few bold steps we should take to get us on the path to fast-freeliving.backpacks. the task of slowing the country down must begin

8、with efforts aimed at prevention. itshould begin early, as an inspection of any schoolchilds backpack will reveal. these encumbrancestypically have a capacity of one and a haft cubic feet and hold loads of forty pounds. the contents,unpacked and spread out like a gis battle kit, represent hyper-achi

9、evement in microcosm. a simpleyet revolutionary reform would be to decree that the capacity of school backpacks be reduced bytwo thirds.drive-thru windows. the whole point of these amenities is speed, and without interventiondrive-thru service will only get faster. according tothe futurist, mcdonald

10、s will soon introducee-mail billing at some of its drive-thru facilities in southern california. other chains areexperimenting with an e-z pass system, similar to the one used for bridge and highway tolls; atransponder in the car would permit purchases to be deducted automatically from prepaid accou

11、nts.electric light. another issue related to biorhythms is the seemingly inexorable drift toward a24/7 economy. the rule of thumb is that if anything can be done twenty-four hours a day, it willbe; daycare centers and dentists offices are now open at midnight. almost by definition, themaintenance of

12、 basic diurnal rhythms is essential to a humane way of life. political arithmeticmay forever doom a significant rise in the gasoline tax, but what about levying a ten-cent-a-watt tax on light bulbs? one happy consequence might be a shift back to daytime baseball.computer keyboards. yes, computers ha

13、ve made many aspects of modern life more tolerable, enablingstupendous feats of calculation, storage and management. but they are also an attractive nuisance,putting unimaginable amounts of sheer capabilityto buy, to pry, to surf, to meddleinto thehands of people unaccustomed to its wise use. one wa

14、y would be to decide that every computer musthave two separate keyboardsone with all the vowels and the other with the consonants.the measures outlined above would be a start. should more impetus be needed, we could ban cupholders from ears, demand that breaking news be delivered only by mail, and a

15、dd a ball and a striketo the standard at-bat. if americans intend to take slowness seriously, they need to start pickingup the pace.（分数：16.50）_正确答案：()解析：高分范文slow down and take a deep breatha glance of the american society may give you an illusion that the nation has opted to slow downdue to a series

16、 of reasons such as war trauma or a deeper understanding of life. yet, the authorof the above excerpt points out that the verdict about this slow life is incorrect. moreover,he offers four measures for fast-free living. firstly, school work should be reduced. secondly,service speed should be slowed

17、down. thirdly, daytime cycle should be stuck to. and finally, thethreshold for computers should be raised.historian stephen kern once pointed out the nature of technology-induced revolution, assertingthat its sole purpose is to alter notions of speed, distance and the pace of social change. thesewor

18、ds still mirror the life we are living nowa life that is not meant to slow down at all, despiteadvice from social engineers and soul-cultivators.riding on the frantic roller coaster, we sometimes knowingly or negligently miss the main aimof our life. home-cookedcomfort food gives way to fast food se

19、rved in mcdonalds; a nice scrollover the shops on weekends yields to on-line shopping; a little chat over a cup of coffee withour friends seems like a luxury we cannot afford. all these scenes are nothing but a snapshotof our head-spinning life, yet we are so meddled in it that we lose the perspecti

20、ve of where weare heading for.its time to halt our frenetic chase after the meaningless hyper-power in every walk of ourlife. after all, life is not simply a tally of the gold mines we spend our whole life painstakinglydigging, but rather a heaven that can be seen simply through a wild flower. for t

21、hat enlightenment,we need to slow down and take a deep breath in this roaring world. the option is yours!2.题目要求：a unique social phenomenon exists exclusively in chinachunyun, or spring festivaltravel rush. the following excerpt is about how a foreign reporter views this issue. read theexcerpt carefu

22、lly and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:1. summarize briefly the content of the excerpt;2. give your comment.marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and languagequality. failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss o

23、f marks.tootling back to the villagethe lunar new year holiday shows the strength of rural ties.it is often described as the worlds biggest recurring movement of people: a 40-day period spanningthe lunar new year, during which astonishing numbers of people travel to join distant family members to ce

24、lebrate the spring festival. officials call this period chunyun, or springtransportation. the term evokes horror in the minds of many: trains are so jammed that the onlyplace to sit is on lavatory floors. this year the projected number of journeys on public transportduring chunyun, which will end on

25、 march 15th, is nearly 2.9 billion, a 10% increase over thecomparable period a year ago. yet there are reasons to be a little less gloomy about what thisentails.the numbers suggest that despite rapid urbanization, the pull of the countryside remains strong.many of the journeys involve mingong, or pe

26、asant workers, as the nearly 300m migrants from thecountryside who work in urban areas are often snootily called. their families are often divided.children stay in the villages, because a fragmented social-security system makes it difficultfor migrants to enjoy subsidized education and health care i

27、n the cities. many migrants thinkit a good idea that some relatives remain: the stay-behinds can help retain land-use rights whichmight come in handy for the migrants if urban work dries up. the authoritiesthemselves are keenfor migrants to keep this backstop.but migration patterns are changing. wan

28、g kan of the china institute of industrial relations saysthat, during chunyun, trips between provinces have been declining. this is because migrants areoften working closer to home, thanks to the relocation of some industries away from the coastto inland provinces where labour is cheaper. we can see

29、 the emergence of more regional hubs,says mr. wang. no longer is the chunyun rush so concentrated in the biggest and wealthiest cities.analyzing chunyun data is difficult. xiaohui liang of renmin university of china says thatcompanies have recently begun providing private long-distance coach transpo

30、rt for their workers.these trips do not get counted in officialstatistics. other workers, hesays, get counted twiceif they go by train to a regional hub and from there continue by bus to their hometowns.a singleworker doing this in both directions would account for four chunyun journeys.the growth o

31、f an urban middle class further complicates the picture. journeys made by holidaytourists, with no rural reunion in mind, are on the rise. researchers had long felt it safe toassume that trips taken on pricey high-speed trains were made by such travellers. but accordingto mr. wang, migrant workers a

32、re increasingly opting for the speed and comfort of the more expensivetrains. this, he says, suggests that the purchasing power of migrants is on the rise. some areeven heading back to their villages in newly bought cars (perhaps with paying passengers to offsetsome of the cost).one source of data o

33、n this years travel rush is alibaba, an e-commerce firm which has analysedthe sale of train tickets through alitrip, its online travelbusiness. ina new trend this year,the company says, some families are migrating in reverse for their holiday reunions. alibaba saysthere has been a tremendous increas

34、e in the number of elderly parents travelling from theirrural homes to industrial centres, such as the southern city of guangzhou,to spend the festivalwith their children. that implies that some migrants are now proud enough of their new urban homesto begin showing off.（分数：16.50）_正确答案：()解析：高分范文sprin

35、g festival travel rushthe definitely unique occurrence in china, chunyun, or the spring festival travel rush can beranked as the largest scale of annual human migration. despite rapid urbanization, the allureof returning to the hometown for spring festival, the tradition that has been cherished sinc

36、eancient times, is stronger than anything else. the peasant workers contribute most to chunyun as they work in economically vibrant cities whileleaving their families behind. moreover, journeys made by holiday tourists are increasing. however,the relocation of some industries from coastal cities to

37、inland provinces helps ease the flow.furthermore, the elderly parents travel from the countryside to the cities to reunite with theirchildren. this reverse route also helps slow down the frantic chunyun.in my opinion, fruit of urbanization though chunyun appears to be, it embodies the familial value

38、we have been cherishing for centuries. in spite of the higher travel costs, the expectedextravagant spending on gifts and other festival items and the bumpy road back home in terms ofseveral pratfalls in securing a train ticket, most chinese people choose to drop any businessat hand just to desperat

39、ely go back home in hope of celebrating the most solemn festival withtheir families. the hubbub on the crowded and often suffocating coaches and trains can never quenchtheir burning nostalgia for long-departed homes. their pampering spending on their familiesmirrors a champion of love even though th

40、e money may well be earned painstakingly through travailover many furiously sleepless nights in sweatshops.in china whose social welfare epitomizes its fair coverage of every citizen, some systems suchas hukou and the soaring housing prices in cities have successfully shunned migrant workers fromset

41、tling in their workplaces, thus resulting in this gushing rush. so a generously defined socialwelfare system might be a panacea for this swelling in travel, or chunyun is doomed a chronicfight-or-flight issue.3.题目要求：a lightly mockery word has been coined to define the single female group above theav

42、erage age for marriageleftover women. is this a personal business or a social issue? readthe excerpt carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:1. summarize briefly the authors opinion;2. give your comment.marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficienc

43、y, organization and languagequality. failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.young, single and what about it?in her tiny flat, which she shares with two cats and a flock of porcelain owls, chi yingyingdescribes her parents as wanting to be the controlling shareholders

44、in her life. even when shewas in her early 20s, her mother raged at her for being unmarried. at 28, ms. chi made the mostcourageous decision of my life and moved into her own home. now 33, she relishes the privacyata price: her monthly rent of 4,000 yuan swallows nearly half her salary.in many count

45、ries, leaving the family home well before marriage is a rite of passage. but in chinachoosing to live alone and unmarried is eccentric verging on taboo. chinese culture attaches aparticularly high value to the idea thatfamilies should live together. yetever more people areliving alone.in the decade

46、to 2010, the number of single-person households doubled. today, over 58m chineselive by themselves, according to census data, a bigger number of one-person homes than in america,britain and france combined. solo dwellers make up 14% of all households.the pattern of chinese living alone is somewhat d

47、ifferent from that in the west, because tensof millions of (mainly poor) migrant workers have moved away from home to find work in moreprosperous regions of china; many in this group live alone, often in shoeboxes. yet for the mostpart, younger chinese living alone are from or among the better-off.

48、freedom and new wealthhave broken chinas traditional family structures, says jing jun of tsinghua university in beijing.for the better-educated under-30-year-olds, the more money they have, the more likely they areto live alone. rich parts of china have more non-widowed single dwellers: in beijing a

49、 fifth ofhomes house only one person. the marriage age is rising, particularly in big cities such as shanghaiand guangzhou, where the average man marries after 30 and the average woman at 28, older than their american counterparts. divorce rates are also increasing, though they are still much lowert

50、han in america. more than 3.5m chinese couples split up each year, which adds to the number ofsingle households.for some, living alone is a transitional stage on the way to marriage, remarriage or familyreunification. but for a growing number of people it may be a permanent state. in cities, manyedu

51、cated, urban women stay single, often as a positive choicea sign of rising status and betteremployment opportunities. rural areas, by contrast, have a skewed sex ratio in which men outnumberwomen, a consequence of families preferring sons and aborting female fetuses or abandoning babygirls. the cons

52、equence is millions of reluctant bachelors.in the past, adulthood in china used to, almost without exception, mean marriage and havingchildren within supervised rural or urban structures. now a growing number of chinese live beyondprying eyes, able to pursue the social and sexual lives they choose.l

53、iving alone does not have to mean breaching social normsphones and the internet make it easierthan ever to keep in touch with relations, after all. yet loosening family ties may open up spacefor new social networks, interest groups, even political aspirations.for now those who live alone are often s

54、ubject to mockery. unmarried females are labelled leftoverwomen; unmarried men, bare branchesfor the family tree they will never grow. an online groupcalled women living alone is stacked with complaints about being told to get a boyfriend.（分数：16.50）_正确答案：()解析：高分范文my views on leftover womenin this ne

55、arly magical room, amid balmy air from the outside and whirling lectures within, youcan hear a group of smartly-dressed women chatting. this is not a party of women of misandry butrather, fresh-baked believers with a redoubled commitment to the world and to themselves.dubbed as leftovers, a somewhat

56、 derogatory term that categorizes single women who willinglystay out of marriage, these women detach themselves from pushy parents and prying eyes. livingin a tradition-abound country where value is highly attached to family, living alone yet unmarriedis eccentric. yet more adopt solo-dwelling for s

57、everal reasons. first, migrant workers move awayfrom home to work in more vibrant cities. second, the richer generation live alone in pursuitof freedom. third, the increasing divorce rate contributes to solo-dwelling. interesting though,many well-educated urban women stay single permanently while the rural areas abound in reluctantbachelors owing to imbalance in gender. whatever the case, living alone can