[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷610及答案与解析.doc

1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 610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 Interpreters Work? I. Understanding A. About words and expressions (1)_ words may be left out: (1)_ I

3、f not knowing a key word or expression, a) admit or clarify the question if necessary, with the delegates. b) deduce from (2)_. (2)_ B. About ideas/concepts (3)_ of different kinds of texts that (3)_ a) present logical arguments b) present a sequence of (4)_ (4)_ c) are descriptive, focusing on an e

4、vent, a scene or a situation identification of the main ideas analysis of ideas linked by (5)_ (5)_ II. Memorization of a speech A Objective to create a telegraphic version of the discourse to link its different parts through its semantic-logical connections B. Means of memorization concentrating on

5、 the ideas connecting main ideas to a series of (6)_ (6)_ focusing on the links among the main ideas III. (7)_ of the content in another language (7)_ A Goal: make sure the audience understand the speech. B. Suggestions: enriching ones general vocabulary and style following the press in ones native

6、language watching TV, see movies, etc. in the (8)_ language (8)_ IV. Conclusion A. Interpreting is a profession that is all about communication: “make their own speech“ (9)_ the speeches they interpret (9)_ be faithful to the original speech as accurate as possible B. Interpreters should take advant

7、age of all the possible (10)_ available in their working languages. (10)_ 1 (1) 2 (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

8、 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 According to Dr. Adams, what should we have as an attainable goal of language learning? （ A） Speaking as fluently as a native speaker. （ B）

9、 Gaining proficiency in a foreign language. （ C） Learning a language well within a month. （ D） Learning words without active use of them. 12 Which of the following is Dr. Adams suggestion to tap your learning potential? （ A） Following what a role model does. （ B） Learning new words in contexts. （ C）

10、 Knowing your own ways of learning. （ D） Reciting new vocabularies loudly. 13 If you favor reading illustrated books to learn a language, you are primarily （ A） an auditory learner. （ B） a visual learner. （ C） a tactile learner. （ D） an unusual learner. 14 When watching movies to learn English, you

11、should NOT （ A） turn on the captions for reference. （ B） watch in the most relaxed possible way. （ C） pause when encountering new expressions. （ D） use an English-English dictionary. 15 According to the interview, which of the following helps to better understand different accents? （ A） Following cl

12、assroom instructions. （ B） Watching plenty of movies online. （ C） Breaking down cultural barriers. （ D） Backpacking around the world. 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 eac

13、h news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 Ste. Genevieve is known for the following EXCEPT （ A） French colonial architecture. （ B） French traditions. （ C） historic preservation. （ D） alternate ownership. 17 What is the main idea of the news item? （ A） Somalia is re-infect

14、ed with polio virus. （ B） Somalia has successfully eradicated polio. （ C） Somalia suffers from indigenous polio. （ D） Polio still persists in developing countries. 18 According to the WHO, what does the success that Somalia has achieved show? （ A） Polio can be re-infected with virus originating from

15、 other countries. （ B） Polio can be eventually wiped out however persistent it may seem. （ C） Polio can be eradicated from areas where no central government functions. （ D） Polio can be eliminated from developing countries where it persists. 19 How many people were on board when the tour bus crashed

16、? （ A） Five. （ B） Six. （ C） Seven. （ D） Forty-five. 20 According to a police spokesman, what did initial inquiries show? （ A） Rick Vega was found to have a bad driving record. （ B） Navaira had been drinking before the accident. （ C） Joe Casias had been speeding before the accident. （ D） Navaira was

17、found to have no bus-driving license. 20 This fishing village of 1,480 people is a bleak and lonely place. Set on the southwestern edge of Iceland, the volcanic landscape is whipped by the North Atlantic winds, which hush everything around them. A sculpture at the entrance to the village depicts a n

18、aked man facing a wall of seawater twice his height. There is no movie theater, and many residents never venture to the capital, a 50-min. drive away. But Sandgerdi might be the perfect place to raise girls who have mathematical talent. Government researchers two years ago tested almost every 15-yea

19、r-old in Iceland for it and found that boys trailed far behind girls. That fact was unique among the 41 countries that participated in the standardized test for that age group designed by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development But while Icelands girls were alone in the world in the

20、ir significant lead in math, their national advantage of 15 points was small compared with the one they had over boys in fishing villages like Sandgerdi, where it was closer to 30. The teachers of Sandgerdis 254 students were only mildly surprised by the results. They say the gender gap is a story n

21、ot of talent but motivation. Boys think of school as sufferings on the way to a future of finding riches at sea; for girls, its their ticket out of town. Margret Ingporsdottir and Hanna Maria Hei-darsdottir, both 15, students at Sandgerdis gleaming schoolwhich has a science laboratory, a computer ro

22、om and a well-stocked libraryhave no doubt that they are headed for university. “I think I will be a pharmacist,“ says Heidarsdottir. The teens sat in principal Gudjon Kristjanssons office last week, waiting for a ride to the nearby town of Kevlavfk, where they were competing in West Icelands yearly

23、 math contest, one of many throughout Iceland in which girls excel. Meanwhile, by the harbor, Gisli Tor Hauksson, 14, already has big plans that dont require spending his afternoons toiling over geometry. “Ill be a fisherman,“ he says, just like most of his ancestors. His father recently returned ho

24、me from 60 days at sea off the coast of Norway. “He came back with 1.1 million kro-na,“ about $18,000, says Hauksson. As for school, he says, fit destroys the brain.“ He intends to quit at 16, the earliest age at which he can do so legally. “A boy sees his older brother who has been at sea for only

25、two years and has a better car and a bigger house than the headmaster,“ says Kristjansson. But the story of female achievement in Iceland doesnt necessarily have a happy ending. Educators have found that when girls leave their rural enclaves to attend universities in the nations cities, their scienc

26、e advantage generally shrinks. While 61% of university students are women, they make up only one-third of Icelands science students. By the time they enter the labor market, many are overtaken by men, who become doctors, engineers and computer technicians. Educators say they watch many bright girls

27、suddenly flinch back in the face of real, head-to-head competition with boys. In a math class at a Reykjavik school, Asgeir Gurdmundsson, 17, says that although girls were consistently brighter than boys at school, “they just seem to leave the technical jobs to us.“ Says Solrun Gensdottir, the direc

28、tor of education at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture: “We have to find a way to stop girls from dropping out of sciences.“ Teachers across the country have begun to experiment with ways to raise boys to the level of girls in elementary and secondary education. The high school in Kevlav

29、ik tried an experiment in 2002 and 2003, separating 16-to-20-year-olds by gender for two years. That time the boys slipped even further behind. “The boys said the girls were better anyway,“ says Kristjan Asmundsson, who taught the 25 boys. “They didnt even try.“ 21 Which of the following words can b

30、est describe Sandgerdi? （ A） desolate （ B） poor （ C） bustling （ D） thriving 22 According to the passage, the reason why girls do better than boys in math at Sandgerdi is most probably the following EXCEPT （ A） Boys and girls share different incentives in math learning. （ B） The girls are more anxiou

31、s about their future career. （ C） The boys consider that fishing doesnt necessarily need math. （ D） The boys spend more time on their part time jobs. 23 The fifth paragraph suggests that in the field of science （ A） women have advantages over men in competition. （ B） women tend to be in a less embar

32、rassing level. （ C） men are playing more important roles. （ D） men are one third less than women in number. 24 Girls flinch back in the competition with boys most probably because （ A） they are short of confidence in themselves. （ B） employers often prefer boys to take technical jobs. （ C） they have

33、 poorer performance in technical jobs. （ D） they are willing to leave technical jobs to boys. 25 Which of the following is the best title for this passage? （ A） A Village in Iceland （ B） A Land Where Girls Rule in Math （ C） Boys Cleverer Than Girls? （ D） Science Students in Sandgerdi 25 Considering

34、that anxiety makes your palms sweat, your heart race, and your brain seize up like a car with a busted transmission, its no wonder people reach for the Xanax to vanquish it. But in a surprise, researchers who study emotion regulationhow we cope, or fail to cope, with the daily swirl of feelingsare d

35、iscovering that many anxious people are bound and determined (though not always consciously) to cultivate anxiety. The reason, studies suggest, is that for some people anxiety boosts cognitive performance. In one recent study, psychologist Maya Tamir of Hebrew University in Jerusalem gave 47 undergr

36、aduates a standard test of neuroticism, which asks people if they agree with such statements as “I get stressed out easily.“ She then presented the volunteers with a list of tasks, either difficult (giving a speech, taking a test) or easy (washing dishes), and asked which emotion they would prefer t

37、o be feeling before each. The more neurotic subjects were significantly more likely to choose feeling worried before a demanding task; non-neurotic subjects chose other emotions. Apparently, the neurotics had a good reason to opt for anxiety: when Tamir gave everyone anagrams to solve, the neurotics

38、 who had just written about an event that had caused them anxiety did better than neurotics who had recalled a happier memory. Among non-neurotics, putting themselves in an anxious frame of mind had no effect on performance. In other people, anxiety is not about usefulness but familiarity, finds psy

39、chology researcher Brett Ford of the University of Denver. She measured the “trait emotions“ (feelings people tend to have most of the time) of 139 undergraduates, using a questionnaire that lists emotions and asks “to what extent you feel this way in general.“ She then grouped the students into tho

40、se characterized by “trait fear“ (those who tended to be anxious, worried, or nervous), “trait anger“ (chronically angry, irritated, or annoyed), and “trait happy“ (the cheerful, joyful gang). Six months later, the volunteers returned to Fords lab. This time she gave them a list of emotions and aske

41、d which they wanted to experience. Not surprisingly, the cheerful bunch wanted to be happy. But in a shock for those who think anyone who is chronically anxious cant wait to get their hands on some Ativan (氯羟安定 ), those with “trait fear“ said they wanted to be worried and nervouseven though it felt

42、subjectively unpleasant. (The “trait angry“ students tended to prefer feeling the same way, too.) Wanting to feel an emotion is not the same thing as enjoying that emotion, points out neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, who discovered that wanting and liking are mediated by t

43、wo distinct sets of neurotransmitters. In some cases, the need to experience anxiety can lead to a state that looks very much like addiction to anxiety. “There are people who have extreme agitation, but they cant understand why,“ says psychiatrist Harris Stratyner of Mount Sinai School of Medicine i

44、n New York. They therefore latch on to any cause to explain what theyre feeling. That rationalization doubles back and exacerbates the anxiety. “Some people,“ he adds, “get addicted to feeling anxious because thats the state that theyve always known. If they feel a sense of calm, they get bored; the

45、y feel empty inside. They want to feel anxious.“ Notice he didnt say “like.“ 26 The studies of emotion regulation suggest that （ A） anxiety can cause palms to sweat and hearts to race. （ B） anxiety can be vanquished by Xanax. （ C） anxious people tend to feel uncomfortable. （ D） anxiety can enhance c

46、ognitive competence. 27 Which of the following statements about the second paragraph is TRUE? （ A） The more neurotic subjects tended to choose a more challenging task. （ B） Anxiety made no impact on the performance of non-neurotic subjects. （ C） The neurotic subjects are better than non-neurotic sub

47、jects on anagrams solving. （ D） The non-neurotic subjects often recall their happy memory in their daily life. 28 The sentence “anxiety is not about usefulness but familiarity“ in the third paragraph means that （ A） the fact that anxiety is useless is familiar to the neurotics. （ B） anxiety is a psy

48、chological tendency for the neurotics. （ C） it is common for people to fall victim to anxiety. （ D） anxiety is a kind of pleasant feeling for the neurotics. 29 Some people are addicted to anxiety because （ A） they consider the state of anxiety as a normal situation. （ B） they enjoy being in the stat

49、e of feeling anxious. （ C） they have negative attitudes towards life. （ D） anxiety keeps them bored and empty inside. 29 A period of climate change about 130,000 years ago would have made water travel easier by lowering sea levels and creating navigable lakes and rivers in the Arabian Peninsula, the study says. Such a shift would have offered early modern humanswhich arose in Africa about 200,000 years agoa new route through the formerly s