[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷15及答案与解析.doc

1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 15及答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. 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 complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture.

2、When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 1 Chemistry plays an important part in our life. The 【 1】 _ of a clock, the clothes we wear, and our leather

3、 shoes are all made 【 2】 _. The water we drink is chemically purified. The glass and 【 3】 _ of the mirror, the manufacturing of light bulbs, the paint and plaster on our walls require chemistry. The cooking, digestion and assimilation of the food are all chemical 【 4】 _ The construction of an automo

4、bile may require many kinds of chemically made 【 5】 _ Chemistry and its 【 6】 _ have helped us to live longer. The science of medicine also 【 7】 _ heavily upon chemistry. And with 【 8】 _ and antiseptics, surgery is no longer crude and limited. Our increasing knowledge of the chemical 【 9】 _ that take

5、 place in the human body results in great strides in modern medicine. Fortunately, most of us do not need a profound knowledge of chemistry, but some understanding of chemistry should be a part of the 【 10】 _ of every educated person. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10

6、 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

7、Now listen to the interview. 11 Old Fred does something stupid because _. （ A） he has some mental problems （ B） he is too old to know what he is doing （ C） he wants to have a good Christmas （ D） he has got into the habit of stealing 12 British police are not armed. The average policeman _. （ A） does

8、nt really think about it （ B） dislike it very much （ C） worries about it greatly （ D） wants a reform 13 The interviewee feels that the English people love _. （ A） violence （ B） compromise （ C） forearms （ D） police 14 Once a man _. （ A） threatened the police （ B） took some hostages （ C） robbed a bank

9、 （ D） locked himself in a house 15 What was the most important factor in solving that mans problem? （ A） Power. （ B） Skill. （ C） Patience. （ D） Weapons. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow

10、. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What did Yasukuni shrine claim? （ A） It claimed that the 40 Class-A war criminals were no longer war criminals in Japan. （ B） It claimed that the Far East Sentence was not just. （ C） The war criminals should be

11、no longer regarded as criminals. （ D） The government should not grant pensions to criminals. 17 Which statement was not true? （ A） Japan had revised related laws to grant pension to the family of these convicted war criminals. （ B） Some people at home and abroad called Yasukuni to establish new memo

12、rial to separate war criminals from ordinary war dead （ C） Koizumi took office in 2001. （ D） Yasukuni hadnt make response to the call of separating war criminals from ordinary dead. 18 What can you learn about Yasukuni from the news? （ A） Japans Prime Minister pays annual visit to it （ B） It is urgi

13、ng Japanese politicians to continual visits （ C） Many Asian country strongly protest establish new memorial for the war dead （ D） Koizumi is in favor of separating the war criminals from ordinary dead 19 Which one is not true according to the content of the news? （ A） This was the first congressiona

14、l visit to the prison. （ B） The lawmakers ate the same launch given to detainees. （ C） A Sonata delegation was visiting next weekend. （ D） The prison was under criticism this spring. 20 The lawmakers feared _. （ A） terrorists among the detainees could not be found out. （ B） interrogators in the pris

15、on would abused and tortured the detainees. （ C） the White House and Pentagon wouldnt improve the conditions there. （ D） the United States image was hurt because of the prison. 21 Eliots interested in poetry in about 1902 with the discovery of Romantic. He had recalled how he was initiated into poet

16、ry by Edward Fitzgeralds Omar Khayyam at the age of fourteen. “It was like a sudden conversion“, he said, an “overwhelming introduction to a new world of feeling.“ From then on, till about his twentieth year of age (1908), he took intensive courses in Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Rossetti and Sw

17、inburne. It is, no doubt, a period of keen enjoyment. At this period, the poem, or the poetry of a single poet, invades the youthful consciousness and assume complete possession for a time. The frequent result is an outburst of scribbling which we may call imitation. It is not deliberate choice of a

18、 poet to mimic, but writing under a kind of daemonic possession by one poet. Thus, the young Eliot started his career with a mind preoccupied by certain Romantic poets. His imitative scribbling survives in the Harvard Eliot Collection, a part of which is published as Poems Written in Early Youth. “A

19、 Lyric“ (1905), written at Smith Academy and Eliots first poem ever shown to anthers eye, is a straightforward and spontaneous overflow of a simple feeling. Modeled on Ben Johnson, the poem expresses a conventional theme, and can be summarized in a single sentence: since time and space are limited,

20、let us love while we can. The hero is totally self-confident, with no Prufrockian self-consciousness. He never thinks of retreat, never recognizes his own limitations, and never experiences the kind of inner struggle, which will so blight the mind of Prufrock. “Song: When we came home across the hil

21、l“ (1907), written after Eliot entered Harvard College, achieved about the same degree of success. The poem is a lovers mourning of the loss of love, the passing of passion, and this is done through a simple contrast. The flowers in the field are blooming and flourishing, but those in his lovers wre

22、ath are fading and withering. The point is that, as flowers become waste then they have been plucked, so love passes when it has been consummated. The poem achieves an effect similar to that of Shelleys “when the lamp is shattered“. The form, the dictation and the images are all borrowed. So is the

23、carpe diem theme. In “Song: The Moonflower Opens“ (1909), Eliot makes the flower-love comparison once more and complains that his love is too cold-hearted and does not have “tropical flowers/ With scarlet life for me“. In these poem, Eliot is not writing in his own right, but the poets who possessed

24、 him are writing through him. He is imitating in the usual sense of the word, having not yet developed his critical sense. It should not be strange to find him at this stage so interested in flowers: the flowers in the wreath, this mornings flowers, flowers of yesterday, the moonflower which opens t

25、o the moth - not interested in them as symbols, but interested in them as beautiful objects. In these poems, the Romantics did not just work on his imagination; they compelled his imagination to work their way. Though merely fin-de-siecle routines, some of these early poems already embodied Eliots m

26、ature thinking, and forecasted his later development. “Before Morning“ (1908) shows his awareness of the co-habitation of beauty and decay under the same sun and the same sky. “Circles Palace“ (1909) shows that he already entertained the view of women as emasculating their male victims or sapping th

27、eir strength. “On a Portrait“ (1909) describes women as mysterious and evanescent, existing “beyond the circle of our thought“. Despite all these hints of later development, these poems do not represent the Eliot we know. Their voice is the voice of tradition and their style is that of the Romantic

28、period. It seems to me that the early Eliots connection with Tennyson is especially interesting, in that Tennyson seems to have foreshadowed Eliots own development. 21 Eliot was wrapped up in _when he began to write poems. （ A） Edward Fitzgeralds poems （ B） Romantic poets （ C） Classical literature （

29、 D） Romantic literature 22 Who invited Eliot to poem when he was a child? （ A） Ezra Pound （ B） Whitman （ C） Franklin （ D） Edward Fitzgerald 23 Which of the following statement is NOT true of Eliots first poem? （ A） It was written at Smith Academy. （ B） It was modeled on Ben Johnson. （ C） It was incl

30、uded in Poems Written in Early Youth. （ D） It expresses the theme that a common persons mind is loaded with inner struggle. 24 Which of the following is NOT Eliots poem? （ A） Song: When we came home across the hill （ B） Song: The Moonflower Opens （ C） Fin-de-siecle （ D） before Morning 25 The article

31、 is primary concerned with _. （ A） comparing the early poems by Tennyson and Eliot. （ B） illustrating Eliots talent as a young artist. （ C） introducing some background knowledge of Eliot. （ D） representing Eliots early style and his connection with Romantic poets. 26 Yesterday, when Lil Kim was sent

32、enced to a year and a day in prison for lying to a grand jury, it seemed like more proof that rappers just cant stay out of jail. The conventional wisdom is that for hip-hop stars, theres a connection between crime and credibility. Every time some rapper poses for a mug shot, there is a chorus of co

33、mmentators ready to declare that its all a publicity stunt. The sentencing of Lil Kim comes after two months when two rappers faced more serious charges. On June 17 the Philadelphia rapper Cassidy turned himself in to the police, who were looking for him as a suspect in a shooting that killed one ma

34、n and wounded two others. Less than two weeks later, Cassidys second album, “Im a Hustla“, arrived in stores; it makes its debut at No. 5 on this weeks Billboard album chart. And in May, the emerging Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane surrendered in connection with the slaying of a rapper from Macon, Ga., na

35、med Pookie Loc; the arrest came the same day as the release of his new album, “Trap House“ (Big Cat). Gucci Mane, who was jailed, has said that the killing was self-defense and has suggested that Pookie Loc was connected to his foe and former collaborator Young Jeezy, from the Atlanta group Boyzn da

36、 Hood, which released its thrilling self-titled debut album on June 21; Jeezys highly anticipated solo debut is due on July 26. Its clear that many rappers find themselves embroiled in violence, but its also clear that Radric Davis had plenty to worry about even before he became a Southern sensation

37、 named Gucci Mane: he had previously been convicted on cocaine charges. And while a high-profile arrest certainly wont scare off hip-hop fans, it wont usually drive them to the record shops, either. Billboard said the arrest gave Gucci Mane a “big boost on the charts,“ but in fact his album made its

38、 debut at No. 101. Thats not a very strong showing, especially considering the popularity of Gucci Manes breakout hit, “Icy,“ a regional favorite that became a BET favorite, too. The strange truth is that being arrested or going to prison -even for murder -isnt likely to have much effect on a rapper

39、s reputation. When Lil Kim makes her inevitable return, shell inevitably have some rhymes about her time inside. But although some fans might admire her for not testifying against her friends (in hip-hop, as elsewhere, loyalty counts for a lot), it is by no means clear that jail will help her career

40、. For a rapper, having your name printed in the police blotter is likely merely to reinforce whatever perceptions fans already have. 26 The Philadelphia rapper Cassidy _. （ A） released his first album alter his arrest. （ B） was arrested and hence the sale of his album sharply declined. （ C） delivere

41、d himself to the police. （ D） was caught by the police. 27 The arrest of Gucci Mane _. （ A） will scare off the fans. （ B） will drive them to the stores to buy his album. （ C） both A and . （ D） neither A nor . 28 After reading the passage, we learn that _. （ A） the author believes that crime will cer

42、tainly promote the rappers album. （ B） the conventional wisdom of crime s connection with credibility is always true. （ C） being put into jail will not necessarily help a rappers career. （ D） being put into jail may change the perceptions fans already have. 29 Elizabeth was fortunate to be born in t

43、he lull flush of Renaissance enthusiasm for education. Women had always been educated of course, for had not St. Paul said that women were mens equals in the possession of a soul? But to the old idea that they should be trained in Christian manners and thought was now added a new purpose: to quicken

44、 the spirit and train them in the craft and eloquence of the classical authors of Greece and Rome. Critics were not wanting, morbidly obsessed with the weaknesses of the sex- its love of novelty and inborn tendency to vice - to think women dangerous enough without adding to their subtlety and forwar

45、dness; but they were not able to stem the tide. Henry VIIs mother was one of the first to indicate the new trend. She knew enough French to translate “The Mirror of God for the Sinful Soul“ and was the patron of Caxton, the first English printer, and a liberal benefactor to the universities. Sir Tho

46、mas Mores daughters studied Greek, Latin, philosophy, Astronomy, Physic, Arithmetic, Logic, Rhetoric and Music. In his household women were treated as mens equals in conversation and wit, and scholars boasted of them in letters to friends abroad. The movement was strengthened from abroad by Catherin

47、e of Aragon, Henry VIIIS Spanish Queen. In the Spain of her childhood ladies were the friends of scholars Vives, one of the most refreshing figures in the history of education, to write a plan of studies for the education of her daughter Mary. This was the heritage into Which the sharp-witted child

48、Elizabeth entered. At six years old, it was said, she was precociously intelligent and had as much gravity as if she had been forty. Little is known of her education until her tenth year, when she became the pupil of the Cambridge humanists, Roger Ascham and William Grindall, but she was already lea

49、rning French and Italian and must have been well grounded in Lation. Ascham helped her to form that beautiful Italian hand she wrote on all special occasions and with him she spent the morning on Greek, first the New Testament and then the classical authors, translating them first into English and then back into the original. The afternoons were given over to Latin, and she also studied Protestant theology, kept up her Fren