[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷29及答案与解析.doc

1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 29 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. 0 How to Conduct Employment Interviews Generally speaking, the purpose of employment interviews are three-f

3、old: a. to match a candidate with a job; b. to explain job requirements and responsibilities; c.to promote the company to【 1】 _ 【 1】 _ An interviewer, the【 2】 _ between a job applicant 【 2】_ and the company, needs to know the kinds of information applicants want to know about the company. Also he ne

4、eds to play down their powerful role so as to put the interviewee【 3】 _ 【 3】_ An interview has an【 4】 _ , a body, and a conclusion. 【 4】_ For a start, it is helpful to create a comfortable atmosphere. One can address individuals by name or exchange a firm shake, but asking too many【 5】 _ questions m

5、ay be misleading. 【 5】_ For the body part, here are some guidelines: a. Be careful of your own【 6】 _ ; 【 6】 _ b. Waste no time; c. Avoid trick or【 7】 _ questions; 【 7】 _ d. Do not ask questions that violate the law; e. Give the applicant the opportunity to【 8】 _ 【 8】 _ After the question session, th

6、e interviewer needs to come up with a【 9】 _ and inform the applicant of decision 【 9】_ procedures. When closing the interview, he or she should not build【 10】 _ hopes or discourage the applicant. 【 10】_ 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Direc

7、tions: 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. Now listen to the interview. 11

8、When visiting companies, Kevins objective is to _. （ A） improve staff productivity （ B） identify problem areas （ C） retrain weak management （ D） manage the company 12 Difficulties at Criterion Glass stemmed from lack of attention to （ A） competitors designs （ B） quality of merchandise （ C） consumer

9、demand （ D） craftsmanship of product 13 Kevin blames his early business difficulties on _. （ A） inexperience with new companies （ B） lack of knowledge of the financial sector （ C） bad advice from established organizations （ D） lack of advice 14 He defends his unusual personal style by saying that _.

10、 （ A） it is important in business to make a strong impression （ B） image and ability are equally important （ C） most business people are too serious and traditional （ D） his business ideas are more important than his appearance 15 His final advice to people starting in business is to _. （ A） make ev

11、ery effort to prevent mistakes （ B） find the best sources of information （ C） maintain a positive attitude at all times （ D） take risks SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of e

12、ach news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 At first, the Queens attitude towards the mobile phones was that she felt_. （ A） annoyed （ B） angry （ C） a bit of laugh （ D） somewhat confused 17 At last the Queen decided to_. （ A） hold a more splendid royal ball （ B） admit the

13、 staff to use of the mobile phones when they are on duty （ C） follow the ban of mobile phones at royal dinners （ D） get rid of the old budgie 18 In the new wave of suicide bombings, _have been injured and _have been killed. （ A） more than 80;at least 180 （ B） more than 118;at least 18 （ C） more than

14、 180;at least 80 （ D） more than 118;at least 80 19 Which place was not attacked in Saturday? （ A） Police headquarter （ B） Hospital （ C） Gas station （ D） Power station 20 Which statement is not true? （ A） The police said they still couldnt isolate the casualties form each site. （ B） The tanker wasnt

15、searched by police. （ C） The tankers driver was probably an accomplice. （ D） The tanker was parked in the center of the city. 20 It was hard to find anyone left standing after the governments strange case against nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee came crashing to the ground last week. No one was bleeding

16、 so heavily as the FBI and its director, Louis Freeh, whose top agent gave up some of his testimony against the 2-year-old Los Alamos engineer. But there was rubble everywhere you looked. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, whose department had ignored security at Los Alamos for years, was walking aro

17、und in a daze. Rescue workers were still searching for Attorney General Janet Reno and her deputy, Eric Holder, who were trying to explain why they had suddenly agreed to drop 58 of 59 charges against a man once accused of stealing the “crown jewels “of Americas nuclear factory. When master survival

18、ist Bill Clinton came out of hiding, it was to confide to reporters that he had “always had reservations“ about some aspects of the case words that recalled the way he ducked responsibility for the Waco fiasco in 1998. And though the neighbors in White Rock, N. M. put out flags last Wednesday and we

19、lcomed Lee home with a big backyard party on Barcelona Avenue, the man at the center of the wreckage still has a lot of explaining to do. Lee won back his freedom only after pleading guilty to a single felony count of mishandling national-defense information, which means he downloaded the equivalent

20、 of 400, 000 pages of classified data about the U. S. nuclear-weapons program onto an unsecured computer system and then transferred them to high-volume cassettes. Lee had refused to spell out why he spent an estimated 40 hours over 70 days downloading all that data, what he did with much of it or w

21、hy he tried repeatedly to enter a restricted area after losing his security clearanceonce, around 3: 30 a. m. on Christmas Eve. As part of his plea agreement, Lee promised to explain everything to investigators. He will never again be able to vote, however, Or serve on a jury. But the real damage fr

22、om the Lee case isnt the leaks from national labs or the mystery of secrets that got away. Instead, the case makes it harder to believe that in America at least, the governmem will always ensure that the punishment fits the crime. The Wen Ho Lee story began in 1995, when a walk-in source gave the CI

23、A a document from the Peoples Republic of China that claimed Chinese weapons designers had obtained specific and highly classified details of an American nuclear warhead known as the W-88. Not everyone in the intelligence community was convinced the document was genuine. The Department Of Energy and

24、 the FBI, which handles spy catching, quickly learned that several agencies and some defense contractors had information about the W-88, and concluded that the leak had probably occurred at the weapons lab at Los Alamos, where most of the data were stored. DOE officials compiled a list of about 12 p

25、eople who had both access to the material and contact with Chinese officials and scientists. On the list was Wen Ho Lee. Finding out spies is hard. To stand a chance of putting them behind bars, you almost have to catch them in the act of forking over secrets. But in the Los Alamos case, the damage

26、was already done, and so agents had to find a way to “walk the cat back, “as they like to say, and prove the crime in retrospect. That makes spy catching even harder, but the FBI didnt do itself any favors. Bureau sources admit that when the probe was opened in May 1996, it was left to second- strin

27、g agents. “It was dumb and dumber, “says a bureau veteran. “They put the wrong people to investigate it, and they didnt give it sufficient oversight from headquarters. “ 21 From the sentence “Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, whose department had ignored security at Los Alamos for years, was walking

28、 around in a daze. “, we know that_. （ A） Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was chiefly responsible for the case （ B） Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was in a great angry （ C） Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was losing his mind in dealing with the case （ D） Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was defe

29、ated severely 22 According to the article, the trial to Wen Ho Lee was mainly co ducted by_. （ A） Energy Secretary Bill Richardson （ B） the Department Of Energy and the FBI （ C） the American government （ D） master survivalist Bill Clinton 23 What was the Wen Ho Lees real or true behaviour probably a

30、gainst the law? （ A） He stole the “crown jewels“ of Americas nuclear factory. （ B） He had given the data of specific and highly classified details of an American nuclear warhead known as the W-88 to China. （ C） He had mishandled national-economy information. （ D） He downloaded the equivalent of 400,

31、 000 pages of classified data about the U. S. nuclearweapons program onto an unsecured computer system and then transferred them to high-volume cassettes. 23 A college student becomes so compulsive about cleaning his dorm room that his grades begin to slip. An executive living in New York has a mort

32、al fear of snakes but lives in Manhattan and rarely goes outside the city where he might encounter one. A computer technician, deeply anxious around strangers, avoids social and company gatherings and is passed over for promotion. Are these people mentally ill? In a report released last week, resear

33、chers estimated that more than half of Americans would develop mental disorders in their lives, raising questions about where mental health ends and illness begins. In fact, psychiatrists have no good answer, and the boundary between mental illness and normal mental struggle has become a baffle line

34、 dividing the profession into two viscerally opposed camps. On one side are doctors who say that the definition of mental illness should be broad enough to include mild conditions, which can make people miserable and often lead to more severe problems later. On the other are experts who say that the

35、 current definitions should be tightened to ensure that limited resources go to those who need them the most and to preserve the professions credibility with a public that often scoffs at claims that large numbers of Americans have mental disorders. The question is not just philosophical: where psyc

36、hiatrists draw the line may determine not only the willingness of insurers to pay for services, but the future of research on moderate and mild mental disorders. Directly and indirectly, it will also shape the decisions of millions of people who agonize over whether they or their loved ones are in n

37、eed of help, merely eccentric or dealing with ordinary life struggles. “This argument is heating up right now, “said Dr. Darrel Regier, director of research at the American Psychiatric Association, “because were in the process of revising the diagnostic manual, “the catalog of mental disorders on wh

38、ich research, treatment and the profession itself are based. The next edition of the manual is expected to appear in 2010 or 2011, “and theres going continued debate in the scientific community about what the cut-points of clinical disease are, “Dr. Regier said. Psychiatrists have been searching for

39、 more than a century for some biological marker for mental disease, to little avail. Although there is promising work in genetics and brain imaging, researchers are not likely to have anything resembling a blood test for a mental illness soon, leaving them with what they have always had: observation

40、s of behavior, and patients answers to questions about how they feel and how severe their condition is. Severity is at the core of the debate. Are slumps in mood bad enough to make someone miss work? Does anxiety over social situations disrupt friendships and play havoc with romantic relationships?

41、Insurers have long incorporated severity measures in decisions about what to cover. Dr. Alex Rodriguez, chief medical officer for behavioral health at Magellan Health Services, the countrys largest managed mental health insurer, said that Magellan used several standardized tests to rate how much a p

42、roblem is interfering with someones life. The com- pany is developing its own scale to track how well people function. “This is a tool that would allow the therapist to monitor a patients progress from session to session, “he said. Although the current edition of the American Psychiatric Association

43、s catalog of mental disorders includes severity as a part of diagnosis, some experts say these measures are not tough or specific enough. Dr. Smart Kirk, a professor of social welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has been critical of the manual, gives examples of what could, und

44、er the current diagnostic guidelines, qualify as a substance abuse disorder: a college student who every month or so drinks too much beer on Sunday night and misses his chemistry class at 8 a. m. Monday, lowering his grade; or a middle-aged professional who smokes a joint now and then drives to a re

45、staurant, risking arrest. “Although perhaps representing bad judgment, “Dr. Kirk wrote in an e-mail message, these cases “would not be seen by most people as valid examples of mental illness, and they shouldnt: be because they represent no underlying, internal, pathological mental state. “ Separatin

46、g the heavies from the lightweights-by asking, say, “Did you ever go to a doctor for your problem, or talk to anyone about it? “-has a significant effect on who counts as mentally impaired. 24 The main controversial problem discussed in this passage is_. （ A） the severity of mental illness. （ B） the

47、 health-keeping of ordinary people. （ C） the treatment of mentally impaired people. （ D） the dividing line between mental health and illness. 25 The sentence in the ninth paragraph, “researchers are not likely to have anything resembling a blood test for a mental illness soon“means that_. （ A） menta

48、l illness can not be diagnosed by blood test. （ B） there is not a definite criterion for mental illness. （ C） researchers do not like to use blood test. （ D） techniques have gained enough progress but are still not enough for mental illness. 26 Concerning Dr. Kirks stand on the problem, which of the following statements is NOT true? （ A） In his opinion, the college student and the professional he refers to should not be considered mentally ill. （ B） Those people who do not have underlying and pathological mental state.