英语专业八级考试全真试题(4)

2021年1月26日发(作者：小括号)
英语专业八级考试全真试题
(4)
TEXT G




First read the question.





33.
The
following
passage
emphasizes
the
role
of
___
in
health
conservation.





A. advertising B. research C. governments D. taxation




Now go through TEXT G quickly to answer question 33.





Most of the ill health we suffer could be prevented if people made
more effo rt to change their life styles. Instead many people continue to
smoke,
to
drink
excessively
and
to
eat
unbalanced
diets.
How
can
governments
help
people
conserv
e
their
health
and
avoid
premature
death?





Well, many of the measures which need to be taken are primarily a
matter
of
new
legislation
and
need
not
be
expensive.
One
of
the
first
preventive health m easures should be an increase in taxes on tobacco to
the point at which consumpt ion falls off. The aim should be to raise the
same
amount
of
revenue
from
a
decr
easing
number
of
people.
In
the
short term such a policy could even raise extra money which should then
be spent on subsidizing sport so that advertising tobacc o through sports
sponsorship could be banned.





Legislation
is
badly
needed
to
ban
all
advertising
of
tobacco
products as i t persuades people to smoke more and so is in a large part
responsible for the i ll health and thousands of premature deaths caused
by cancer of the lung. Other measures should be enforced, such as a much
tougher
health
warning
on
cigarette
packets,
and
tobacco
companies
should be made to contribute to research into a c ure for lung cancer.





Alcoholism could be prevented by making wines, spirits and strong
beers
mor
e
expensive
and
the
revenue
raised
could
be
used
to
set
up
clinics to help the p eople who already have a drink problem and want to
give
up.
Similarly
all
advert
ising
of
alcohol
should
be
banned
and
compensation paid to families of alcoholic s who die of cirrhosis of the
liver.

A country’s food and agricultural policy should also be based on
a coheren t health policy. For political reasons it is considered important
to
have
a
relat
ively
cheap
supply
of
eggs,
cheese
and
milk,
the
very
foods
which
are
blamed
as
the
cause
of
heart
disease
when
eaten
in
excess. And even if it is disputed that excess animal fat is detrimental to
health, foods could be labelled with the av erage percentage of different
fats
so
that
consumers
who
wanted
to
reduce
their
saturated
fat
intake
would be able to do so easily.





Much more could be done to improve people’s diet in Britain and
everyone s h ould be encouraged to eat the types of food which are good
for health. Current r esearch on the nutritional value of foods should be
freely
available
and
the
gov
ernment
should
control
the
advertising
of
“rubbish” food. A programme of healt h education and lessons on sensible
eating could be started in the schools with th e Government’s backing.





TEXT H




First read the question.






34. The passage is primarily ___ in the development of the thesis.




A. persuasive B. descriptive
C. narrative D. expository






Now go through TEXT H quickly to answer question 34.




The
question
remains:
must
we
conform?
Or
can
we,
somehow,
resist the power s that conspire to domesticate us? And if so, with what
arms are we to redeem ou r almost-lost manhood? Where are we to find
the weapons of resistance?





I believe that the question of conformity, in the long run, answers
itself. I think that if there was a possibility, once, of a yes or no
——
if at
one time humans could decide “we must conform” or “we must not” ——

that possibilit y ha s been lost in the long reaches of evolution, far back
along
the
corridors
of
Ti
me.
The
simple
truth
is
that
we
cannot
conform.

Built
into
man,
is
an
instinct.
I
have
chosen
to
call
it
the
“instinct
of
rebellion”,
since
it
reveals
itself
as
a
drive
or
urge
toward
mastery
over
ever
y
obstacle,
natural
or
man-made,
that
stands
as
a
barrier
between
man
and
his
dis
tant,
perhaps
never- to-be-achieved
but
always striven after goals. It is this in stinct that underwrites his survival,
this
instinct
from
which
he
derives
his
na
ture:
a
great
and
powerful
dynamic
that
makes
him
what
he
is
——
restless,
seekin
g,
curious,
forever
unsatisfied,
eternally
straggling
and
eventually
victorious.
Because of the instinct of rebellion man has never been content with the
limits of his body; it has led him to extend his senses almost infinitely, so
that his fingers now probe space, his eyes magnify the nuclei of atoms,
and
his
ears
det
ect
whispers
from
the
bottoms
of
seas.
Because
of
the
instinct
of
rebellion
man
has
never
been
content
with
the
limits
of
his
mind; it has led him to inquire th e secrets of the universe, to gather and
learn and manipulate the fabulous inven tory of the cosmos, to seek the
very mysteries of creation.





Man is a rebel. He is committed by his biology not to conform, and
herein
lies
the
paramount
reason
for
the
awful
tension
he
experiences
today
in
relation
to
Society.
Unlike
other
cream
of
earth,
man
cannot
submit, cannot surrender hi s birthright of protest, for rebellion is one of
his essential dimensions. He ca n not deny it and remain man. In order to
live he must rebel. Only total annihila tion of humanity as a species can
eliminate this in-built necessity. Only with t he death of the last man will
the revolt that is the essence of his nature also die.




TEXT I




First read the questions.






35. According to the census prediction, the average male Americans
will b e expected to live up to ___ years of age by 2050.




A.73.3 B.75.1 C.81.3 D. 83.6






36. Crime experts predict that in the near future crime rates will first
decrease in ___.




A. South and Southwest B. North and Northeast






C. Southwest and Midwest D. Northeast and Midwest




Now go through TEXT I quickly to answer questions 35 & 36.





If past is prologue, then it ought to be possible to draw some modest
concl
usions
about
the
future
from
the
wealth
of
data
about
America’s
present.
Will
t
h
e
rate
continue
to
fall?
Will
single-person
households
actually swamp the tradit ional family?
All projections, of course, must
be
viewed
with
a
healthy
dose
of
skeptici
sm.
Nonetheless,
the
urge to
make sense of what lies ahead is inescapable. After the 1980 census, the
Census Bureau decided for the first time to venture some f orecasts of its
own
for
the
decades
to
come.
Working
from
what
America
already
k
nows about itself, the bureau’s experts and other demographers offer an
irresis tible, if clouded, crystal ball among their visions.





According
to
the
census
projections,
female
life
expectancy
will
increase
from
78.3
years
in
1981
to
81.3
in
the
year
2005.
The
life
expectancy
of
America
n
men
will
grow
from
70.7
for
babies
born
in
1981 to 73.3 years in by t he year 2050, women will have a life
expectancy of 83.6 years and men of at leas t 75.1.
Annual population
growth will slow to almost nothing by 2050. In fact, the Census Bureau
predicts that the rate of natural increase will be negative after 2035; only