专业八级-313 (1)

专业八级-313 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟) 一、{{B}}PART Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION{{/B}}(总题数：1，分数：10.00)

{{B}}Irish Riverdance{{/B}} Riverdance displays modern Irish culture while it is based on an old, influential culture with a love of complicated stories and poetic styles and prevailing from the 6th century to the 9th century. {{B}}ⅠThe development of Riverdance{{/B}} 1) With (1) ______ starting in the 9th century this ever-influential culture (1) ______ declined and never recovered indeed. The traditional love of story and song existed in a form the peasants liked and without a distinctive Irish style till the (2) ______ beginning at the end of the 19th century. (2) ______ 2) The Irish love of music has succeeded in surviving the change from Irish, (3) ______ to the language of the invader and has once more begun to blos (3) ______ som and become influential outside the country. 3) Irish music was reduced to being the language used in the countryside and (4) ______ as people moved to the cities, for young city people didn't like (4) ______ "peasant music". However, this has begun to change and since the 1980' s has taken off. Many top singers in the world are Irish and quite a number of people are working for the music industry in Ireland. Riverdance is an ex- pression of that (5) ______ and that ability to understand the new. (5) ______ {{B}}Ⅱ Riverdance is also a kind of (6) ______ interesting pop song.{{/B}} (6) ______ 1) It uses song and dance to tell the story of a people whose spirit the Great Famine broke. As a result of this famine, two million people died or left Ireland by 1851 and (7) ______ continued to decrease until 1961. (7) ______ 2) People with ideas left for (8) ______ The Irish in Ireland became hopeless (8) ______ and unconfident and much of its modem culture is about the sadness of that time and the sorrow of saying goodbye to those who left. There is (9) ______ (9) ______ for this saying goodbye--"American Wake". 3) The leaving didn't cease until the 1970' s because Independence in 1921 was followed by a civil war and an economic depression. Now it is common to see along (10) ______ from that time falling into ruin. (10) ______

{{B}}Irish Riverdance{{/B}} Riverdance displays modern Irish culture while it is based on an old, influential culture with a love of complicated stories and poetic styles and prevailing from the 6th century to the 9th century. {{B}}ⅠThe development of Riverdance{{/B}} 1) With (1) ______ starting in the 9th century this ever-influential culture (1) ______ declined and never recovered indeed. The traditional love of story and song existed in a form the peasants liked and without a distinctive Irish style till the (2) ______ beginning at the end of the 19th century. (2) ______ 2) The Irish love of music has succeeded in surviving the change from Irish, (3) ______ to the language of the invader and has once more begun to blos (3) ______ som and become influential outside the country. 3) Irish music was reduced to being the language used in the countryside and (4) ______ as people moved to the cities, for young city people didn't like (4) ______ "peasant music". However, this has begun to change and since the 1980' s has taken off. Many top singers in the world are Irish and quite a number of people are working for the music industry in Ireland. Riverdance is an ex- pression of that (5) ______ and that ability to understand the new. (5) ______ {{B}}Ⅱ Riverdance is also a kind of (6) ______ interesting pop song.{{/B}} (6) ______ 1) It uses song and dance to tell the story of a people whose spirit the Great Famine broke. As a result of this famine, two million people died or left Ireland by 1851 and (7) ______ continued to decrease until 1961. (7) ______ 2) People with ideas left for (8) ______ The Irish in Ireland became hopeless (8) ______ and unconfident and much of its modem culture is about the sadness of that time and the sorrow of saying goodbye to those who left. There is (9) ______ (9) ______ for this saying goodbye--"American Wake". 3) The leaving didn't cease until the 1970' s because Independence in 1921 was followed by a civil war and an economic depression. Now it is common to see along (10) ______ from that time falling into ruin. (10) ______

（分数：10.00） 填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：the invasions） 解析： [听力原文]1-10 Good morning, everyone. Today, we are going to talk about Irish Riverdance. Riverdance is an expression of modern Irish culture, but it is based on a culture, which had its golden era from the 6th to the 9th century. Before that period, Irish culture was oral and based on a love of complicated stories and poetic styles. But in the 6a century something wonderful happened--writing was introduced by missionaries. From then on, the culture of Ireland began to develop in ways impossible before and had considerable influence in northern Europe in the period up till the 9th century. With the invasions which began in the 9th century this golden age collapsed and there never was any real recovery. There were no wealthy kings to sponsor the poets and scholars so the traditions survived only in a form which the peasants liked. The love of story and song did not die but no real attempt was made to find a distinctive Irish style until the end of the 19th century when Irish Nationalism began to influence writers, in English called Anglo-Irish literature. There are many famous writers from that period. There is also William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Beckett, all of whom have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In all, Ireland has received the Nobel Literature Prize four time. When you consider we have only a population half the size of Beijing you see how unusual that is. Now, let me talk about the music. The Irish love of music has succeeded in surviving the change from Irish, the native language, to the language of the invader and bas once more begun to blossom and become influential outside the country. Irish music was reduced to being the language of the country people and was dying out as people moved to the cities, Young city people did not want to listen to "peasant music" although we were