[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷342及答案与解析.doc

1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 342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 Sports Sponsorship . Introduction At present it is very common that companies and 【 1】 like to sponsor sp

3、orts events. 【 1】 _ . Reasons to sponsor sports events A. to get【 2】 throughout the world. 【 2】 _ B. to【 3】 money as they can get reductions in 【 3】 _ the tax they have to pay . Elements in deciding events to sponsor A. the perfect【 4】 between the products 【 4】 _ and the sports event to be sponsored

4、 B. the maximum product【 5】 in media 【 5】 _ . Points to be considered A. Popularity of the event International sports events are big【 6】 【 6】 _ events which get extensive coverage on TV and in the press B. Identification of the potential【 7】 【 7】 _ Aiming at the right audience is. most important for

5、 smaller events. C. Advantages of sponsorship Advantages are longer-term. People are expected to respond【 8】 【 8】 _ to the products promoted and be more likely to buy them. Advertising is【 9】 the mind. 【 9】 _ Sponsorship is better than straight advertising: 【 10】 _ a. less【 10】 b. tax-free 1 【 1】 2

6、【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 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

7、seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What strikes the woman most about the male robber is his _. （ A） clothes （ B） age （ C） physique （ D） appearance 12 The most detailed information about the woman robber is her _. （ A） manners （ B） talkativeness （

8、C） height （ D） jewelry 13 The interviewee is believed to be a bank _. （ A） receptionist （ B） manager （ C） customer （ D） cashier 14 Which of the following about the two robbers is NOT true? （ A） Both were wearing dark sweaters. （ B） Neither was wearing glasses. （ C） Both were about the same age. （ D）

9、 One of them was marked by a scar. 15 After the incident the interviewee sounded _. （ A） calm and quiet （ B） nervous and numb （ C） timid and confused （ D） shocked and angry SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the q

10、uestions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Who was taken hostage in one of Brazils most dangerous jails? （ A） The prisoners relatives. （ B） The prisoners friends. （ C） The officials of the jail. （ D） The guards of the jail. 17 Accordi

11、ng to the news, the incident happened mainly because of （ A） the maltreatment of the inmates. （ B） the poor living conditions. （ C） the transfer of a gang leader. （ D） the sentence of a murderer. 18 The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons carried out an explosion in Istanbul because they were （ A） willing to

12、resume its armed campaign against the Turkish government. （ B） anxious to prevent a rebel leader from being sentenced to death. （ C） dissatisfied with detention conditions of a Kurdish rebel leader. （ D） eager to declare a unilateral fire and attack Turkish civilians. 19 As to counter-terrorism on A

13、lgeria, Tunisia and Morocco, U.S. Secretary of Defense （ A） showed his worry. （ B） showed his concern. （ C） expressed his doubt. （ D） expressed his satisfaction. 20 The Awami League returned to parliament aiming to （ A） prevent against electoral scandals. （ B） push through electoral reform proposals

14、. （ C） defeat the ruling party and come into power. （ D） participate in parliamentary debates. 20 In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Karpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the ran

15、ge of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game for whose presence he kept so keen an outlook was none that figured in the sportsmans calendar as lawful and proper for the chase; Ulrich yon Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy. The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wi

16、de extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it “afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owners territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his gr

17、andfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three ge

18、nerations. The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest. Th

19、e feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way. As boys they had thirsted for one anothers blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other, and this windscourged winter night Ulrich had banded together his

20、foresters to watch the dark forest, not in quest of fourfooted quarry, but to keep a look-out for the prowling thieves whom he suspected of being afoot from across the land boundary. The roebuck, which usually kept in the sheltered hollows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things tonight

21、, and there was movement and unrest among the creatures that were wont to sleep through the dark hours. Assuredly there was a disturbing element in the forest, and Ulrich could guess the quarter from whence it came. The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a ri

22、fle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. But a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining eivilisation cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbour in cold blood and

23、without word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honour. And before the moment of hesitation had given way to action a deed of Natures own violence overwhelmed them both. A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere they could leap as

24、ide a mass of falling beech tree had thundered down on them. Ulrich yon Gradwitz found himself stretched on the ground, one arm numb beneath him and the other held almost as helplessly in a tight tangle of forked branches, while both legs were pinned beneath the fallen mass. His heavy shooting-boots

25、 had saved his feet from being crushed to pieces, but if his fractures were not as serious as they might have been, at least it was evident that he could not move from his present position till some one came to release him. The descending twig had slashed the skin of his face, and he had to wink awa

26、y some drops of blood from his eyelashes before he could take in a general view of the disaster. At his side, so near that under ordinary circumstances he could almost have touched him, lay Georg Znaeym, alive and struggling, but obviously as helplessly pinioned down as himself. All round them lay a

27、 thick-strewn wreckage of splintered branches and broken twigs. 21 We know from the first paragraph that Ulrich von Gradwitz （ A） patrolled the forest regularly. （ B） expected to chase a game. （ C） was on guard against a person. （ D） had a keen sense of hearing. 22 The forest lands of Gradwitz have

28、all the following features EXCEPT （ A） vast expanse. （ B） an abundance of game. （ C） diverse game. （ D） steep woodland. 23 The losing party in the law suit _ the judgment of the Courts. （ A） reluctantly consented to （ B） was in defiance of （ C） fought violently against （ D） was indignant at 24 Ulric

29、h suspected somebody had intruded into the woodland because （ A） some animals made some unusual movement. （ B） he was informed of the intrusion in advance. （ C） his foresters detected the trace of the intruder. （ D） there was suffocating quietness in the air. 25 The underlined phrase“pinioned downin

30、 the last paragraph can be interpreted as （ A） pinned down. （ B） let down. （ C） cracked down. （ D） lain down. 25 The single most shattering statistic about life in America in the late 1990s was that tobacco killed more people than the combined total of those who died from AIDS, car accidents, alcoho

31、l, murder, suicide, illegal drugs and fire. The deaths of more than 400, 000 Americans each year, 160, 000 of them from lung cancer, make a strong case for the prohibition of tobacco, and particularly of cigarettes. The case, backed by solid evidence, has been made in every public arena since the ea

32、rly 1950s, when the first convincing link between smoking and cancer was established in clinical and epidemiological studies yet 50 million Americans still go on smoking. tobacco-related illness. It is a remarkable story, clearly told, astonishingly well documented and with a transparent moral motif

33、. Most smokers in America eventually manage to quit, and local laws banning smoking in public have become common, but the industry prospers. The tobacco companies have survived virtually everything their opponents have thrown at them. At the end of his story, Mr. Brandt writes: “The legal assault on

34、 Big Tobacco had been all but repelled. The industry was decidedly intact, ready to do business profitably at home and abroad. “Although the conclusion is not to his liking, Mr. Brandts is the first full and convincing explanation of how they pulled it off. Cigarettes overcame any lingering oppositi

35、on to the pleasure they gave when American soldiers came to crave them during the World War I. War, says Mr. Brandt, was “a critical watershed in establishing the cigarette as a dominant product in modern consumer culture. “ Cigarettes were sexy, and the companies poured money into advertising. By 1

36、950 Americans smoked 350 billion cigarettes a year and the industry accounted for 3.5% of consumer spending on non-durables. The first 50 years of the“cigarette century“were a golden era for Big Tobacco. That was simply because, until the 1940s, not enough men had been smoking for long enough to dev

37、elop fatal cancers (women did not reach this threshold until the 1970s). The first clinical and epidemiological studies linking eigarette-smoking and lung cancer were published only in 1950. By 1953 the six leading companies had agreed that a collective response was required. They paid handsomely fo

38、r a public-relations campaign that insistently denied any proof of a causal connection between smoking and cancer. This worked well until 1964, when a devastating report from the surgeon-generals advisory committee in effect ended medical uncertainty about the harmfulness of smoking. But Big Tobacco

39、 rode the punches. When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled that health warnings must appear on each pack, the industry, consented. But it shrewdly exploited the warning: “In a culture that emphasised individual responsibility, smokers would bear the blame for willful risk-taking,“ notes Mr. Br

40、andt. Many cases for damages against the companies foundered on that rock. Cigarette-makers also marshaled their numerous allies in Congress to help the passage of a law that bypassed federal agencies such as the FTC, and made Congress itself solely responsible for tobacco regulation. Describing the

41、 pervasive influence of tobacco lobbyists, he says: “Legislation from Congress testified to the masterful preparation and strategic command of the tobacco industry. “ However, the industry was powerless to prevent a flood of damaging internal documents, leaked by insiders. The companies were shown,

42、for instance, to have cynically disregarded evidence from their in-house researchers about the addictive properties of nicotine. Internal papers also showed that extra nicotine was added to cigarettes to guarantee smokers sufficient“ satisfaction“. Despite such public-relations disasters, the indust

43、ry continued to win judgments, most significantly when the Supreme Court rejected by five votes to four a potentially calamitous attack that would have given the Federal Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products. The industrys shrewdest move was to defuse a barrage of eases brought

44、by individual states, aiming to reclaim the cost of treating sick smokers. The states in 1998 accepted a settlement of $246 billion over 25 years (the price of a pack rose by 45 cents shortly afterwards). In return, the states agreed to end all claims against the companies. But the settlement tied t

45、he state governments to tobaccos purse-strings; they now had an interest in the industrys success. For those who thought the settlement was akin to“ dancing with the devil“, it appeared in retrospect that the devil had indeed had the best tunes, reports Mr. Brandt. To his credit, he manages to keep

46、his historians hat squarely on his head. But you can feel the anguish. 26 It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that （ A） Allan Brandt is a writer of great talent for writing. （ B） the tobacco industry was just out of a heavy fine. （ C） most of the Americans died from lung cancer. （ D） th

47、e book on a history of the cigarette is unintelligible. 27 To protect the industry, the tobacco companies did all the following EXCEPT （ A） circumventing supervision. （ B） actualizing public relations. （ C） playing on words. （ D） lobbying a bill. 28 The phrase“rode the punches“in Paragraph 6 can be

48、interpreted as （ A） collapsed under the impact of the blow. （ B） coped with and survived adversity. （ C） took no notice of the current situation. （ D） persisted in its old ways. 29 According to the author, Allan Brandts attitude towards the cigarette reflected in his book is one of （ A） absolute obj

49、ectivity. （ B） slight disapproval. （ C） strong disapproval. （ D） total indifference. 30 Which of the following might be the most appropriate title for the text? （ A） Tobacco （ B） Tobacco Companies （ C） An Evil Weed （ D） A History. of the Cigarette 30 Judging from tales about the rise and fall of empires, there is always a point when things are going so well that