专四专八考试

【单选题】Thatfellowisclever；hehas.（）
A.brain
B.abrain
C.thebrain
D.brains

【分析解答题】科学就是探求真理。在探求真理的过程中，人们对客观规律的认识要经过艰苦曲折的过程。常常有这样的情形：由于研究的角度不同，掌握资料的差异，认识方法的不同，就会出现“横看成岭侧成峰，远近高低各不同”的情况，以至引起学术上的争论。因此，有作为的科学工都把反对的意见看作对自己的莫大的帮助，把对自己的批评当作最珍贵的友谊。正如歌德所说，“我们赞同的东西使我们处之泰然，我们反对的东西才使我们的思想获得丰产。”这都是因为，赞同的意见未必正确，反对的意见未必错误。退一步说，即使错误的反对意见，对自己的科学研究也是很有好处的。（258 words）

【单选题】Flying across the country the other day, I sat next to a retiredAir Force colonel, and we had a pleasant conversation about love of flying, travel and grandchildren and for him, of retirement itself. "Yeah," he said, "there’s only one thing that would make me give this up. "
"What’s that "
"If Hillary or Jan Fonda runs for president, I’m going to work full time to beat her. "
I told him I knew Hillary. She doesn’t even need a last name now.And she’s no Jane Fond
A、
"Well," I concluded before we began talking about planes and kids again, "I think you are going to get your chance. I think she’s going to run. "
I once wrote, with total sincerity, that I thought Hillary RodhamClinton had the political instincts of a stone. I also wrote that I thought she had marginalized her husband’s chances of being an important president.
He blew that by naming his wife to head the task force to work out a national plan, and she decided to work in secret with battalions of "experts" who came up with a plan four times as long as theEuropean constitution.
Then, after taking her lumps for that, she decided to run, as aDemocrat, for the US Senate from New York, a state she had always thought was a nice place to visit.
She is now far and away theDemocratic front-runner for president in 2008. Her national numbers are getting better, inch by inch, day by day. Now, a slight majority—52 percent in a couple of polls—say they are likely or very likely to vote for Hillary for president. True, 47 percent, including my friend the colonel, still say "Never. "But her national approval-disapproval rate is now about 55 to 39, compared with 46 to 48 for PresidentBush.
The odds are still against her. So are most of the odds-makers, beginning with Joe Klein of Time Magazine, chronicler of theClintons in fact and fiction. He believes a Hillary candidacy will polarize the country the way the reign of theClintons polarized us in the 1990s.
The word "polarize" in the last paragraph probably means ______.
A、personalize
B．popularize
C．unite into one group
D．divide into opposing sides

【单选题】this pAssAgE is most likEly to BE______ .
A．A DrAmA rEviEw
B．A novEl rEviEw
C．A CommEnt on lACk oF pArEntAl lovE or ChilDrEn
D．A CommEnt on story writing stylEs

【单选题】______ him tomorrow
A、Why not to call on
B、Why don’t call on
C、Why not calling on
D、Why not call on

【单选题】ApplE’s lAunCh oF thE ipAD is A gAmBlE in morE wAys thAn onE. to stArt with, it’s oBviously A BEt thAt thErE ArE millions oF pEoplE looking For A nEw wAy to surF thE wEB, wAtCh moviEs, AnD rEAD mAgAzinEs.But it’s Also A morE FunDAmEntAl gAmBlE; nAmEly, thAt pEoplE will pAy For quAlity. stArting At FivE hunDrED DollArs, thE ipAD is signiFiCAntly morE ExpEnsivE thAn its CompEtitors.ButApplE’s Assumption is thAt, iF thE ipAD is Also signiFiCAntly BEttEr, pEoplE will hAppily shEll out For it (As thEy AlrEADy Do For ipoDs, iphonEs, AnD mACs).
ForApplE, "BuilD it AnD thEy will pAy" is BusinEss As usuAl.But it’s not A univErsAl BusinEss truth. on thE ContrAry, CompAniEs likE ikEA, h. & m., AnD thE mAkErs oF thE FlipviDEo CAmErA ArE Flourishing not By sElling proDuCts or sErviCEs thAt ArE "FAr BEttEr" thAn AnyonE ElsE’s But By sElling things thAt ArEn’t BAD AnD Cost A lot lEss. thEsE proDuCts ArE muCh BEttEr thAn thE ChEAp stuFF you usED to Buy, AnD thEy tEnD to BE AppEAlingly stylED, But, unlikEApplE, thE CompAniEs ArEn’t trying to BuilD thE BEst mousEtrAp out thErE. instEAD, thEy’rE EngAgED in thE "gooD-Enough rEvolution." For thEm, thE kEy to suCCEss isn’t ExCEllEnCE. it’s wEll-priCED ADEquACy.
thEsE two strAtEgiEs mAy look ComplEtEly DiFFErEnt, But thEy hAvE onE CruCiAl thing in Common: thEy Don’t tArgEt thE Amorphous BloB oF ConsumErs who mAkE up thE miDDlE oF thE mArkEt. pArADoxiCAlly, ignoring thEsE pEoplE hAs turnED out to BE A grEAt wAy oF gEtting lots oF CustomErs, BECAusE, in mAny BusinEssEs, high-AnD low-EnD proDuCErs ArE tAking morE AnD morE oF thE mArkEt. in FAshion, Both h. &m. AnD hErmEs hAvE prospErED During thE rECEssion.
whilE thE high AnD low EnDs ArE thriving, thE miDDlE oF thE mArkEt is in trouBlE. prEviously, suCCEssFul CompAniEs tEnDED to BE AttrACtED towArD whAt historiAns oF rEtAil hAvE CAllED thEBig miDDlE, BECAusE thAt’s whErE most oF thE CustomErs wErE. thEsE DAys, thEBig miDDlE is looking morE likE "thE mushy miDDlE". thE CompAniEs thErE—sony,DEll, gEnErAl motors, AnD thE likE—FinD thEmsElvEs squEEzED From Both siDEs. thE proDuCts mADE By miDrAngE CompAniEs ArE nEithEr ExCEptionAl Enough to justiFy prEmium priCEs nor ChEAp Enough to win ovEr vAluE-ConsCious ConsumErs.
this DoEsn’t mEAn thAt CompAniEs ArE going to ABAnDon thE iDEA oF BEing All things to All pEoplE. iF you’rE AlrEADy in thE miDDlE oF thE mArkEt, it’s hArD to shiFt FoCus—As g.m. hAs DisCovErED、AnD thE AllurE oF A Big mArkEt shArE is oFtEn hArD to rEsist, EvEn iF it DoEsn’t trAnslAtE into proFits.ACCorDing to onE EstimAtE, nokiA hAs nEArly twEnty timEsApplE’s mArkEt shArE, But thE iphonE AlonE mAkEs Almost As muCh monEy As All nokiA’s phonEs ComBinED、
it CAn BE inFErrED From thE thirD pArAgrAph thAt
A、mAyBE thErE is A shrinking miDDlE-EnD mArkEt.
B、high-EnD mArkEt is morE Flourishing thAn othErs.
C．miDDlE-EnD mArkEt is thE tArgEt oF Big CompAniEs.
D．low-EnD mArkEt tEnDs to BE ignorED By CompAniEs.