专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷216
选择题
(1)In September 1919, the year after the end of World War I, a German captain named Karl Mayr, who ran a propaganda unit in charge of educating demobilized soldiers in nationalism and scapegoating, received an inquiry from a soldier named Adolf Gemlich about the army\’s position on \\
1.The Simon Wiesenthal Center bought the Gemlich tetter for the following reasons EXCEPT _____.(D)
A. the letter is the first document to show Hitler’s hatred for Jews.
B. the letter is valuable for knowing about Holocaust.
C. the Wiesenthal Center wants to display it to the public.
D. the Wiesenthal Center wants to raise mysteriousness around the letter.
解析：由第6段末可知，D所述是该机构高价收购信件可能产生的意想不到的后果(unintended conse-quences)，并非该机构的本意，故D为答案。
2.The italicized word \\(B)
A. identified sth. to be fake
B. proved sth. to be real
C. verified sth. to be valid
D. claimed sth. to be natural
解析：根据上下文的推断，笔迹专家Charles Hamilton Jr．因鉴别了伪造的希特勒日记而成名，因此这里他应该也是鉴别希特勒签名的真假，而只有B(认定这个签名是否为真的)最符合文意。
3.Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of Paragraph Six?(C)
A. How the letter could be used to understand Hitler’s thoughts.
B. The letter will not change historians’ views about Hitler.
C. The importance of me letter and the doubts about the Center’s purchase.
D. The purchase of the letter will make it more mysterious.
解析：第6段的前半部分阐述了Gemlich letter的重要作用和价值，后半部分则指出历史学家对Wiesenthal Center高价购买这封信的疑虑，故应选C。
(1)Last Friday morning, Britain awoke to the devastation of war. The destruction came not in villages leveled and lives destroyed, but in me annihilation of a political party. Though Labour still retains control of Parliament, Tony Blair\’s party was reduced to a smoking ruin in nationwide council elections.
(2)It\’s a sorry end for Mr. Blair, who says he\’s ready to step down after a decade as prime minister. The man who re-invented me socialist Labour Party into a modern, third-way political dynamo now sees the Iraq war dismantling one of the most formidable political machines in British history.
(3)When anger fades and regret settles in, historians will judge the Iraq war a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. Blair is not the first leader to disregard the complicated political history of the Middle East, but Britons expected better of tins deeply intelligent man. Despite all the evidence of perfidy, he seems to have had a noble purpose, but that makes his failure all the more tragic. He believed that Britain, because of its historical status, was duty-bound to intervene and that it was uniquely placed to act as a moderating influence on President Bush. Mr. Bush, however, was immune to moderation. British statecraft was crushed by American adventurism.
(4)The Iraq fiasco muddles the assessment of Blair\’s otherwise enormously successful prime ministership. Without the war, Labour would still dominate the polls, and the fate of the Tory Party leader David Cameron would look painfully similar to that of his three hapless predecessors. The past 10 years have brought genuine Labour dominance, and the Tories no longer seem to be the natural party of government.
(5)That achievement will in time come to dwarf the Iraq debacle. The Blair decade will rightly be seen as a revolution
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