[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷678及答案与解析.doc

1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 678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 Note-taking Skills Note-taking requires a high level of ability in many skills, particularly in the follo

3、wing four most important skills: 1. Understanding what the lecturer says as he says it. -A non-native speaker of English is usually under a strain for he may be unable to recognize words in speech which he understands in 【 1】 _. 【 1】_ He may not know the meaning of a new word. -A student should lear

4、n to infer the meaning of a new word from the context. -A student should 【 2】 _ only on important points so that he can 【 2】 _ understand much of a lecture. 2. Deciding what is important. -Read the 【 3】 _ of a lecture carefully and understand its 【 3】 _ meaning, for it implies the major points of a

5、lecture. -Pay attention to a lecturers direct and indirect signals concerning whats important or unimportant. The direct signals are 【 4】 _. The 【 4】 _ indirect signals include 【 5】 _, tempo, loudness and intonation of the 【 5】_ lecturers speech. 3. Writing the main points quickly and clearly. -Usin

6、g 【 6】 _ when writing. 【 6】 _ -Selecting words which give 【 7】 _information. 【 7】 _ -Choosing the right moment to write notes. -Writing only one point on each line. -Listening attentively to the lecturer when such connectives as “however“, “on the other hand“ or “nevertheless“ are uttered, for they

7、often mean that new and 【 8】 _ information is to follow. 【 8】 _ 4. Showing the relationship between the various points he noted. This can be done by a 【 9】 _ presentation. 【 9】 _ Spacing and 【 10】 _ are helpful in taking notes efficiently. 【 10】 _ 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【

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 seconds to answer each of the following fiv

9、e questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What does this conversation most probably take place? （ A） In a travel agency. （ B） On a campus. （ C） In a bookshop. （ D） In a teachersshop. 12 What does this conversation most probably take place? （ A） In Britain. （ B） In Australia. （ C） In Italy. （ D） N

10、one of the above. 13 In Australia, one can _. （ A） study English separately （ B） study English along with other subjects （ C） study English as a fun and relaxation （ D） all of the above 14 Those English language colleges that are not part of a university may be _. （ A） operated privately （ B） operat

11、ed by the government （ C） part of government technical and business colleges （ D） all of the above 15 Visitors on a tourist visa can undertake English study for up to _. （ A） three months （ B） six months （ C） one year （ D） three years SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hea

12、r everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 According to Louis Seck, the Israeli project_. （ A） can rapidly improve the daily lives of the Senegalese people （ B） is a big pa

13、rt of developing renewable energy in Senegal （ C） will inspire the Senegalese people to use solar power （ D） will meet growing demands for electricity 17 What is the main idea of the new item? （ A） How to use solar energy. （ B） An introduction to a renovation. （ C） How to live in balance with enviro

14、nment. （ D） Cooperation between two countries to solve energy crisis. 17 The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical a

15、rt. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defence of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it Was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against

16、commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting. Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnes

17、sing events, exploring themselves - anything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art impose

18、d by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art. Photographers disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, t

19、hose photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they arc getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentratin

20、g on the physical act of painting. Much of photographys prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities

21、 tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting - that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse - presupposes highly developed skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography,

22、 like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art. Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of

23、photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will for get that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity - in short, an art. 18 The author is concerned with _. （ A） defining the Modernist attitude toward art （ B） explaining how p

24、hotography emerged as a fine art （ C） explaining the attitude of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical context （ D） defining the various approaches that serious contemporary photographers take toward their art and assessing the v

25、alue of each of those approaches 19 Which of the following adjectives best describes “the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism“ as the author represents it in Paragraph 2? （ A） Objective. （ B） Mechanical. （ C） Superficial. （ D） Paradoxical. 20 Why does the author introduce Abstract Exp

26、ressionist painters? （ A） He wants to provide an example of artists who, like serious contemporary photographers, disavowed traditionally accepted aims of modem art. （ B） He wants to set forth an analogy between the Abstract Expressionist painters and classical Modernist painters. （ C） He wants to p

27、rovide a contrast to Pop artist and others. （ D） He wants to provide an explanation of why serious photography, like other contemporary vis ual forms, is not and should not pretend to be an art. 21 How did the nineteenth-century defenders of photography stress the photography? （ A） They stressed pho

28、tography was a means of making people happy. （ B） It was art for recording the world. （ C） It was a device for observing the world impartially. （ D） It was an art comparable to painting. 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choos

29、e the best answer to each question. 22 Which event is regarded as a turning point in the American War of Independence? （ A） Battle of Saratoga. （ B） Battle of Lexington. （ C） Battle of Yorktown. （ D） Boston Tea Party. 23 Which of the following is wrong about the official title of the present British

30、 monarch Elizabeth II? （ A） Head of the commonwealth. （ B） Head of the Catholic Church. （ C） Head of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. （ D） Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and her other realms and territories. 24 Britains leading customers and suppli

31、ers are France, Germany and_. （ A） Japan （ B） Belgium （ C） the Netherlands （ D） the United States 25 The four sounds /p/, /b/, /m/, /w/ have one feature in common, i.e. they are all （ A） bilabials. （ B） labiodentals. （ C） fricatives. （ D） dentals. 26 The objective of the Chartist Movement was democr

32、atic rights for all men, and it took its name from“_“ （ A） The Bill of Rights （ B） The Agreement of the People （ C） The People s Charter （ D） The Great Charter 27 The leader of the Civil Rights Movement is_. （ A） Abraham Lincoln （ B） Martin Luther King, Jr. （ C） Rosa Parks （ D） Theodore Roosevelt 28

33、 Which of the following is NOT a type of institution in U.S.? （ A） Two-year college. （ B） Three-year college. （ C） Four-year college. （ D） University. 29 The ocean of _lies to the east of America. （ A） Atlantic （ B） Pacific （ C） Indian （ D） Arctic 30 Which king had the longest reign during the monar

34、ch of Britain from 1837 to 1901? （ A） Queen Elizabeth. （ B） Queen Victoria. （ C） King James. （ D） King Arthur. 31 Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury （ A） William Faulkner. （ B） Ernest Hemingway. （ C） Scott Fitzgerald. （ D） John Steinbeck. 二、 PART IV PROOFREADING not as a c

35、all to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burdens of a long twilight struggle, year in, and year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation“ - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. Can we forge against these enemies a grand

36、 and global alliance, North and South, East and West that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort? In the long history of the world, only a few generation have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink fro

37、m this responsibility - I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it- and the glow from that fire can truly light the

38、world. 三、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 44 With social development, the Chinese families have witness changes, though some basic charactricties retains. Are they totally different? You are to write an essay of approximately 400 wo

39、rds on this subject. In your essay, you should compare the two kinds of families and tell the differences and similarities. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your composition on

40、ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 专业英语八级模拟试卷 678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

41、 the mini-lecture. 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 【听力原文】 Note-taking is a complex activity which requires a high level of ability in many

42、 separate skills. Today Im going to analyse the four most important of these skills. Firstly, the student has to understand what the lecturer says as he says it. The student cannot stop the lecture in order to look up a new word or check an unfamiliar sentence pattern. This puts the non-native speak

43、er of English under a particularly severe strain. Often-as weve already seen in a previous lecture-he may not be able to recognize words in speech which he understands straightway in print. Hell also meet words in a lecture which are completely new to him. While he should, of course, try to develop

44、the ability to infer their meaning from the context, he wont always be able to do this successfully. He must not allow failure of this kind to discourage him however. Its often possible to understand much of a lecture by concentrating solely on those points which are most important. But how does the

45、 student decide whats important? This is in itself another skill he must try to develop. It is, in fact, the second of the four skills I want to talk about today. Probably the most important piece of information in a lecture is the title itself. If this is printed (or referred to) beforehand, the st

46、udent should study it carefully and make sure hes in no doubt about its meaning. Whatever happens, he should make sure that he writes it down accurately and completely. A title often implies many of the major points that will later be covered in the lecture itself. It should help the student therefo

47、re to decide what the main point of the lecture will be. A good lecturer, of course, often signals whats important or unimportant. He may give direct signals or indirect signals. Many lecturers, for example, explicitly tell their audience that a point is important and that the student should write i

48、t down. Unfortunately, the lecturer whos trying to establish a friendly relationship with his audience is likely on these occasions to employ a colloquial style. He might say such things as “This is, of course, the crunch.“ or “Perhaps youd like to get it down“. Although this will help the student w

49、hos a native English-speaker, it may very well cause difficulty for the non-native English speaker. Hell therefore have to make a big effort to get used to the various styles of his lecturers. Its worth remembering that most lecturers also give indirect signals to indicate whats important. They either pause or speak slowly or speak loudly or use a great range of intonation, or they emp