【正文】 r, a former prime minister and longtime member of parliament from the region, was a driving force behind the project. “We have a right to live.”27. According to the passage, most Icelanders view land as something ofA. environmental value.B. mercial value.C. potential value for tourism.D. great value for livelihood.28. What is Iceland’s oldaged advocates’ feeling towards the Alcoa project?A. Iceland is wealthy enough to reject the project.B. The project would lower life expectancy.C. The project would cause environmental prob。sgr237。r amp。 diversify an economy historically dependent on fish。 is pared to warm countries.26. The author’s attitude to the caf233。 was contrasted with the weather outside.D. It stressed the mercial determination of the caf233。 appealed to most senses simultaneously.B. The caf233。 was based on physical foundations and real economic strength.22. The following words or phrases are somewhat critical of the teashop EXCEPTA. “…turned Babylonian”.B. “perhaps a new barbarism’.C. “acres of white napery”.D. “balanced to the last halfpenny”.23. In its context the statement that “ the place was built for him” means that the caf233。 and, as he stood hesitating a moment, half dazed, there came, bowing, s sleek grave man, older than he was and far more distinguished than he could ever hope to be, who murmured deferentially: “ For one, sir? This way, please,” Shyly, yet proudly, Turgis followed him.21. That “behind the thin marble front were concrete and steel” suggests thatA. modern realistic mercialism existed behind the luxurious appearance.B. there was a fundamental falseness in the style and the appeal of the caf233。 of his choice, a teashop that had gone mad and turned. Bbylonian, a while palace with ten thousand lights. It towered above the other building like a citadel, which indeed it was, the outpost of a new age, perhaps a new civilization, perhaps a new barbarism。t even wait in line when he or she is online.Some cultures are not renowned for lining up. Then again, some cultures are too adept at lining up: a citizen of the former Soviet Union would join a queue just so he could get to the head of that queue and see what everyone was queuing for.And then there is the ., where society seems to be cleaving into two groups: Very Important Persons, who don39。s outofdate. There was something about the orderly boarding of Noah39。s first driven by motorcade past the stop nearest his house to a station 22 blocks away, where the wait, or at least the ride, is shorter.As early as elementary school, we39。lite security lines and priority boarding, and disembark before the unwashed in coach, held at bay by a flight attendant, are allowed to foul the Jetway.At amusement parks, too, you can now buy your way out of line. This summer I haplessly watched kids use a $52 Gold Flash Pass to jump the lines at Six Flags New England, and similar systems are in use in most major American theme parks, from Universal Orlando to Walt Disney World, where the haves get to watch the havemores breeze past on their way to their seats. Flash Pass teaches children a valuable lesson in realworld economics: that the rich are more important than you, especially when it es to waiting. An NBA player once said to me, with a bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canadaget thiswe have to wait in the same customs line as everybody else.Almost every line can be breached for a price. In several . cities this summer, early arrivers among the early adopters waiting to buy iPhones offered to sell their spots in the lines. On Craigslist, prospective iPhone purchasers offered to pay waiters or placeholders to wait in line for them outside Apple stores.Inevitably, some semipopulist politicians have seen the value of sortof waiting in lines with the ordinary people. This summer Philadelphia mayor John Street waited outside an ATamp。s or corner stores send rickshaws to collect their supplies. (One morning I saw a rickshaw puller take on a load of live chickens—tied in pairs by the feet so they could be draped over the shafts and the folded back canopy and even the axle. By the time he trotted off, he was carrying about a hundred upsidedown chickens.) The rickshaw pullers told me their steadiest customers are schoolchildren. Middleclass families contract with a puller to take a child to school and pick him up。2010英語(yǔ)專八真題2010英語(yǔ)專八真題TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2010)GRADE EIGHTPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)SECTION A MINILECTUREIn this section you will hear a minilecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to plete a gapfilling task after the minilecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to plete the gapfilling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for notetaking.Complete the gapfilling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically amp。 semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes.Paralinguistic Features of LanguageIn facetoface munication speakers often alter their tomes of voice or change their physical postures in order to convey messages. These means are called paralinguistic features of language, which fall into two categories.First category: vocal paralinguistic featuresA. (1)__________: to express attitude or intention (1)__________B. Examples1. whispering: need for secrecy2. breathiness: deep emotion3. (2)_________: unimportance (2)__________4. nasality: anxiety5. extra liprounding: greater intimacySecond category: physical paralinguistic featuresA. facial expressions\1. (3)_______