问答题The following is a transcript of a statement made by a recording industry executive at an industry conference: “The music recording industry is suffering grave economic losses due to the widespread piracy of digital music. This fate was an inevitable
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The following is a transcript of a statement made by a recording industry executive at an industry conference: “The music recording industry is suffering grave economic losses due to the widespread piracy of digital music. This fate was an inevitable result of the industry’s misguided decision to switch from the analogue format of vinyl records to the digital formats used today on compact disks and computer files. Copying a vinyl record requires expensive and bulky machinery, whereas anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can start up a music piracy business. To boost music revenues, the recording industry should switch entirely back to the analogue format of vinyl records. Also, I can state with complete authority that music just sounds better on a vinyl record.” Discuss how well-reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion, be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative examples or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
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第1题：
The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries
A heavy industry becomes more energy-intensive.
B income loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices.
C manufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed.
D oil price changes have no significant impact on GDP.
正确答案：D
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第2题：
Which of the following is not true of British iron and steel industry?（）
- A、Britain.s steel industry is declining.
- B、No more new discoveries of iron ore have been found in Britain.
- C、Supplies of iron ore are now mostly foreign.
- D、Compared with newer plants in the world,Britain.s steelworks are not efficient.
正确答案:B -
第3题：
幼稚产业（infant industry）
正确答案: 指处于成长阶段尚未成熟、但具有潜在优势的产业。农业不需要保护，成熟工业也不需要保护，只有那些尚未成熟的，但是却具有潜在优势的幼稚产业才需要保护，保护是有时限的，其目的是发展本国的工业，使得这些幼稚产业在保护期成长起来，再取消保护后能够和国际上其它同类产业相竞争。 -
第4题：
单选题The author’s reaction to the statement by the Ministry of Business and Industry is ______.Adisapproving
Backnowledging
Cnoncommittal
Dsuspicious
正确答案： D解析：
作者态度题。面对丹麦工商部发行的小册子上对丹麦的种种赞扬，第二段最后一句提到了丹麦存在的skinhead graffiti on buildings （Foreigners Out of Denmark!）的标志，下水道里塞着碎啤酒瓶和醉倒在公园里的青少年的情形，可知作者对小册子所说的内容持怀疑态度。suspicious怀疑的，猜疑的。noncommittal不表态的；不确定的。 -
第5题：
问答题Practice 21Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition of no less than 150 words on the topic: Tourist industry in China. Study the following outline cardinally and write your composition on the COMPOSITION SHEET.Outline:1. The great importance of tourist industry for China;2. Problems with China’s management of our tourist industry;3. Your suggestions on how to improve travel management, especially the travel in big holidays.正确答案：
【参考范文】
Tourist Industry in China With our tourist industry achieving tremendous progress, some serious problems occur accordingly and remain to be solved urgently. For example, Blind building of hotels and tourist resorts around the interesting places causes air and water pollution.
To tackle these problems, My suggestions are as follow. First of all, try our best to update our transportation and communication systems. More convenience in traffic will bring us more income from tourism. Secondly, more places of historical interests and scenery spots are to be explored to let foreign friends see more exciting things than just clay-warriors and horses in Xi’an or Summer Place in Beijing. Thirdly, our food and hotel industry should be greatly pushed forward to attract more foreign guests.
Therefore, I suggest the relative departments launch a campaign to improve the tourism quality. Only when our tourism is attractive enough can we push our country into one of the top tourism countries in the world.解析： 暂无解析 -
第6题：
问答题Directions: Tourism is a multibillion dollars industry that supports economic development. But people hold different views about it. Write a composition about 160 words entitled Tourism—a Blessing or a Misfortune?based on the following points: different interpretations about tourism, and your opinion. Now write the composition on the AnswerSheet.正确答案：
Tourism—a Blessing or a Misfortune? With the development of the economic and the improvement of people’s living standard, millions of people want to travel to other places by take advantage of their free time. So whether the tourism is a blessing or a misfortune become a social problem, drawing a lot of attentions. People's attitude towards tourism varies.
Some people claim that we can get benefit from tourism, both from the perspective of individual and our country. Firstly we can broaden our horizon. While we visit a new place, we can know their own cultures, such their clothes, foods, festivals and so on. Secondly, we can enrich our knowledge. By visiting historical sites, we can obtain much information about the history, geography, languages and so on. Thirdly, we can relax our mood. Traveling can give us the chance to see the beautiful view and return to the nature. For one nation, tourism can help us to get a lot of external funding, promote the local economy, and show our traditional culture in a good way.
On the other hand, tourism has many disadvantages. It can cause series pollution problems, such as the white pollution, water pollution and air pollution. Too many tourists will produce a large number of rubbish and bring a lot of noises. It will be the main reason for pollution. Some tourists will not protect our heritages carefully by uncivilized behaviors.
In my opinion, tourism has both advantages and disadvantages. If all the people can be a civilized tourist, we can get more advantages than disadvantages. The tourism will be a blessing not a misfortune.解析： 暂无解析 -
第7题：
单选题It seems obvious that you don"t give away your product for free but this is exactly what indie rock group The Crimea did earlier this year. The band"s reasoning goes like this: more people will download the free album than would pay for it. Therefore more people will heat. The Crimea"s music. These people will then pay money for concerts by the band and perhaps buy a T-shirt or other merchandise. If the band play regular concerts to crowds of 200 or 300 people they can make more money than they would from sales of a CD. There will always be some people who want something they can hold in their hands so they will release the CD into the shops too—but making money through sales of their music isn"t the top priority. The story illustrates the creative thinking going on in the music business in response to dramatic changes over the last few years in the way that people buy music. Sales of music digitally—to computer, phones and MP3 players rose to $2 billion in 2006—an increase of almost 100 percent on the previous year—yet overall record company sales are down. People are simply not buying CDs in record shops in anything like the numbers they used to. This trend looks set to continue, so the big question for the music industry is whether they can successfully manage the move to being primarily a digital industry without profits falling to unacceptable levels. There are both positive and negative signs. On the plus side, more and more people are buying music on mobile phones, which allows people to make impulse purchases—they can buy a song as soon as they hear it. Research by the UK mobile operator 3 suggested that 75 percent of 16 to 24-year-olds wanted to buy a track they liked as soon as they heard it. With so much competition for people"s disposable income, a product that you can sell immediately is a big advantage. The bad news for record companies, however, is the amount of music that is downloaded illegally. Piracy—usually in the form of cheaply copied CD—has long been an issue for the music business but the Internet means music can be copied and distributed freely through file-sharing sites on a large scale than ever before. It is this situation that leads bands to start giving away their music for free and promises to make the next few years a very interesting time in the music business.What effect has the Internet had on music piracyAIt has made it easier to fight piracy.
BIt has increased the number of pirate CDs available.
CIt has made it easier to illegally copy music.
DIt has reduced the number of pirate CDs available.
正确答案： B解析： [解析] 推理判断题。题干的大意是：互联网对音乐盗版有什么影响从文中第五段第二句“the Internet means music can be copied and distributed freely through file-sharing on a large scale than ever before”可知，互联网使得非法拷贝音乐更容易，故选项C正确。 -
第8题：
单选题The main cause of the layoffs in the pottery industry is _____.Athe increased value of the pound
Bthe economic recession in Asia
Cthe change in people’s way of life
Dthe fierce competition at home and abroad
正确答案： D解析：
细节推论题。题目询问制瓷工业裁员的原因。文章第三段讲到瓷器业的萧条是有社会根源的，罗伊尔·德尔顿的发言人承认，他们公司在追逐“快餐”这一时代潮流上的脚步有些缓慢。这与C项“生活方式的变化内容”相同，故C为答案。 -
第9题：
单选题The Recording Industry Association of AmericaApersuaded people to download its music from the Internet.
Bis trying to stop people stealing their music stored in the computer.
Cstarted suing people playing their music to the public.
Dhas taken effective measures to dissuade people downloading music from the Internet.
正确答案： C解析：
录音中指出去年年中以来美国唱片工业协会开始控诉那些使大量歌曲在网上能被下载的人，结果在网上交换音乐文件的人数降低了一般，从网上下载歌曲的人也减少了75%，因此选项D符合录音内容。dissuade劝阻，劝止。
【录音原文】
The number of people swapping music files online has dropped by half, and the number of people downloading files on any given day has dropped 75 percent since the middle of last year, when the Recording Industry Association of America started suing people accused of making large numbers of songs available for downloading. -
第10题：
单选题The estimates in Economic Outlookshow that in rich countries ______.Aheavy industry becomes more energy-intensive
Bincome loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices
Cmanufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed
Doil price changes have no significant impact on GDP
正确答案： D解析：
细节题。第四段第五句指出，Economic Outlook 中的评价是“if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP”，说明油价由13美元上升到22美元，对于富裕国家来说，石油进口的增长只占GDP的0.25到0.5%，也就是说，对于富裕国家来说，油价的变化不会对GDP有太大的影响。第四段第二句提到，重工业对石油的依赖有所下降，故排除A项。第四段第一句提到，发达国家也不像过去那样依赖石油，所以对石油的波动也不是那么敏感。由此可排除B项和C项。 -
第11题：
单选题According to the passage, which of the following has nothing to do with coffee?ALiterature.
BNewspapers.
CThe insurance industry.
DThe oil industry.
正确答案： A解析：
结合选项，在原文里我们发现文中第三段提到受到咖啡影响的行业，其中有insurance industry（保险业），literature（文学），newspapers（报纸），works of great composers（作曲家的工作），唯独没有提到石油工业，因此D项与咖啡无关，故答案选D。 -
第12题：
单选题Which of following is the best title for the passage?AImproving Women's Self-confidence through Exercises
BThe Traditional Gym Industry Is Losing Its Customers
CThe Fitness Industry Is Looking for New Directions
DSpecialized Gyms Designed for Overweight People
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第13题：
Which of the following has the largest demand for water?（ ）
[A] Agriculture.
[B] Industry.
[C] Offices.
[D] Family life.
正确答案：A
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第14题：
If there is a conflict in policy for data retention， which of the following should the technician adhere to FIRST？（）
- A、Industry best practices
- B、Company policy
- C、International standards
- D、Local legal requirements
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第15题：
单选题What would be an appropriate title for the passage?ASupporting Tobacco is Bad Economics
BTobacco Industry and Its Economic Profits
CSmoking and Health
DThe Cost of Smoking
正确答案： A解析：
录音开头便指出烟草不但致命，而且会耗尽国库。多国研究证明烟草业带来的所谓经济利益只是幻觉和误导而已。接着录音中分析了烟草业对国家经济带来的严重损失，因此选项A符合录音主要内容，可作录音题目。 -
第16题：
单选题The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries ______.Aheavy industry becomes more energy-intensive
Bincome loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices
Cmanufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed
Doil price changes have no significant impact on GDP
正确答案： B解析：
细节题。第四段第五句指出，Economic Outlook 中的评价是“if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP”，说明油价由13美元上升到22美元，对于富裕国家来说，石油进口的增长只占GDP的0.25到0.5%，也就是说，对于富裕国家来说，油价的变化不会对GDP有太大的影响。第四段第二句提到，重工业对石油的依赖有所下降，故排除A项。第四段第一句提到，发达国家也不像过去那样依赖石油，所以对石油的波动也不是那么敏感。由此可排除B项和C项。 -
第17题：
单选题The service industry is also called _____.Asubsidiary industry
Blight industry
Csecondary industry
Dtertiary industry
正确答案： D解析：
服务业也称第三产业，指不生产物质产品的行业，或者说是指除第一、二产业以外的其他行业。 -
第18题：
单选题With the rapid（） economic growth in China， the logistics industry is greatly。Aexpanding
Bexploring
Cexploding
正确答案： B解析： 暂无解析 -
第19题：
单选题Which of the following statements is true of the tobacco industry?ATobacco is bad for people’s health but good for the national economy.
BTobacco has had a favourable economic impact in many countries in recent years.
CDeveloped countries such as UK and the U.S. should transfer their technology in the tobacco industry to the developing countries.
DTobacco industry is bad for the economy for rich and poor countries alike.
正确答案： A解析：
录音中指出世界银行的一项研究估计每年因吸烟导致的全球净亏损达到2万亿美元，其中一半的亏损出现在发展中国家，由此可知另一半的亏损在发达国家，因此不管对于发展中国家或发达国家来说烟草业都对国家经济不利。 -
第20题：
问答题What makes funeral business a strange industry?正确答案： Family operators or independents take a large proportion in funeral business.解析：
细节题。由题干关键词可定位到文章第二段。该段第二句冒号后的内容解释了殡葬服务业是一个奇特产业的原因，即85％的殡仪馆是归家族或独立的公司所有。 -
第21题：
问答题The following is a transcript of a statement made by a recording industry executive at an industry conference: “The music recording industry is suffering grave economic losses due to the widespread piracy of digital music. This fate was an inevitable result of the industry’s misguided decision to switch from the analogue format of vinyl records to the digital formats used today on compact disks and computer files. Copying a vinyl record requires expensive and bulky machinery, whereas anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can start up a music piracy business. To boost music revenues, the recording industry should switch entirely back to the analogue format of vinyl records. Also, I can state with complete authority that music just sounds better on a vinyl record.” Discuss how well-reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion, be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative examples or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.正确答案：【参考范文】
The recording industry executive argues that in order to stem the tide of economic losses due to digital music piracy, the music recording industry should abandon the digital format entirely in favor of the old analogue format of vinyl records. While the executive does address a significant current problem for the music industry, the logic of his argument and the conclusion he reaches are both fundamentally flawed. Not only do the premises of his argument fail to support adequately his conclusion, but his conclusion would, if implemented, do more harm to the music industry than is currently inflicted by piracy.
To begin with, his premises are flawed. It is inaccurate to characterize the effects of digital formats on the music industry as “grave economic losses” when in fact the music industry has reaped far higher revenues by selling music in digital format—primarily compact disks— than it ever earned in the old analogue days of vinyl. Also, his somewhat irrelevant statement that “music just sounds better on vinyl” is supported only by his personal authority, which in this context cannot reasonably be characterized as “complete.” Finally, his assumption that switching to vinyl records will halt music piracy due to technical complications is inherently flawed, because those vinyl records could very easily be recorded onto digital formats and then distributed over the Internet. His chosen solution does not actually solve his specified problem.
The executive’s most fundamental error, however, is his failure to distinguish between stopping piracy and boosting revenue. Although his plan of reverting to an obsolete technology might, in a small way, impede the efforts of those who would use digital music unethically, it is more likely that it would result in far greater economic losses to the industry than are currently inflicted by piracy. The industry has switched overwhelmingly to digital formats because they offer a number of benefits both to the industry and to the consumer. For the industry, digital music is easier to produce and far less costly to distribute than bulky vinyl records. For consumers, digital formats such as compact disks and MP3s are far easier to store, sort through, and carry around than older analogue formats. For the whole industry to switch back to vinyl records would be like cutting off its nose to spite its face.
For the reasons stated above, the executive’s argument simply does not hold up. If he were truly serious about addressing the problem of digital music piracy, his time would be better spent investigating technological ways to make digital formats more resistant to piracy. This essay would earn a high score in the 5 to 6 range. The writer shows that he understands the argument being presented, but is not convinced by it for a number of reasons. He goes on to point out a series of flaws in the argument, and then to suggest an alternative approach to the question. By pointing out two potentially fatal flaws—the executive’s plan will not necessarily stop piracy, and it may harm the industry more than it can help it—the author presents a compelling case that the executive’s argument is fundamentally flawed. 解析： 暂无解析 -
第22题：
单选题Based on the tone and content of the passage, it is most likely which of the following?AA book review in a journal intended for astrophysics professionals
BA movie review in an entertainment industry publication
CA book review in a science magazine aimed at a general audience
DA book review in a newspaper
EA transcript of a talk given at a science fiction convention dedicated to “the poetry of space”
正确答案： D解析：
推断题。文章中没有运用大量专业名词，而且是对Egbert Larson的书进行的评读，故可以推测本文是面向大众的一片书评文章，故本题选C项。 -
第23题：
单选题What do most studies show?AA decline in the tobacco industry would lead to more unemployment.
BThe rate of employment has nothing to do with the tobacco industry.
CIncrease in tobacco production will result in the decline of employment.
DThe workforce may be better off with a reduced tobacco industry.
正确答案： B解析：
大多数有关烟草业产生所有经济影响的严肃分析表明，烟草业的衰退并不会引起就业量的减少，实际上随着烟草业行业就业的减少，整体的就业水平可能保持不变或甚至有所增加，选项D与录音的意思一致。 -
第24题：
单选题Which of the following statement is true?AThe author believes that a born naturalist cannot be a scientist.
BThe author's brothers and sisters were good at music and languages.
CThe author read a lot of books about the natural world and the oil industry.
DThe author spent a lot of time working on riddles.
正确答案： B解析：
细节题。A项属于无中生有，文中只提到“博物学家”是天生的，而“科学家”是后天培养的。并没有说天生的博物学家能否成为科学家。B项可以根据第一段的“Unlike them，I had no ear for music and languages，1 was not an early reader and I could not do mental enthusiastic”得出。C项属于对文章的误解。第三段的“burning the midnight oil”是“开夜车，点灯夜读”的意思，而非“石油工业”。D项迷惑性较大。它是对第三段“Suddenly you fancy you see the answer to the riddle”的误解。文章原意是作者通过大量的调查探索，会有所顿悟，故而解开谜团，而不是花大量的时间解谜。故B项为正确答案。