[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷85及答案与解析.doc

1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 85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 Acupuncture Recently, acupuncture has become a【 1】 _ word in America. 【 1】 _. Acupuncture was performed in

3、 China long before the study of【 2】 _ 【 2】 _. In very ancient times, pieces of sharp stones were used to press or prick certain section of the body in order to cure an illness. Later, needles were made from【 3】 _ and bamboo. 【 3】 _. In the course of time, the Chinese people learned to make needles o

4、ut of copper, iron, and silver. Today, the needles are made of【 4】 _.【 4】 _. Important factors in the acupuncture treatment: - The size and 【 5】 _ of the needles. 【 5】 _. The depth of the insertion. The【 6】 _ of the time the needle should be left in the body. 【 6】 _. Finally, the number of needles u

5、sed in each treatment. The earliest recorded acupuncture cure took place about【 7】 _ years ago.【 7】_. The most important book on acupuncture appeared in the Qin Dynasty. In the book,【 8】 _ basic points in human body were listed, 【 8】 _. and a total of 649 points in a human body were defined. A Frenc

6、h【 9】 _ introduced it to the west at the beginning of this century. 【 9】 _. The first acupuncture clinicwas set up in【 10】 _ It was not until 1958 that the Chinese began to use acupuncture as an anesthesia. 【 10】 _. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B IN

7、TERVIEW 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. Now listen to the i

8、nterview. 11 What subject is Mr. Pitt good at? （ A） Art. （ B） French. （ C） German. （ D） Chemistry. 12 What does Mr. Pitt NOT do in his spare time? （ A） Doing a bit of acting and photography. （ B） Going to concerts frequently. （ C） Playing traditional jazz and folk music. （ D） Traveling in Europe by

9、hitch-hiking. 13 When asked what a managers role is, Mr. Pitt sounds _. （ A） confident. （ B） hesitant. （ C） resolute. （ D） doubtful. 14 What does Mr. Pitt say he would like to be? （ A） An export salesman working overseas. （ B） An accountant working in the company. （ C） A production manager in a bran

10、ch. （ D） A policy maker in the company. 15 Which of the following statements about the management trainee scheme is TRUE? （ A） Trainees are required to sign contracts initially. （ B） Trainees performance is evaluated when necessary. （ C） Trainees starting salary is 870 pounds. （ D） Trainees cannot q

11、uit the management scheme. 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 each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 These militants _. （ A） suffered seve

12、re casualties （ B） were on the recently issued list of terrorists （ C） fought with Saudi police forces （ D） were thought to be hiding in al-Rawdah district 17 Which statement is not true ? （ A） The girl was living with her mother （ B） The landlady witnessed the crime （ C） The girl and the suspect pr

13、obably were dating （ D） The girl was found dead on the floor 18 We can learn from the news that _. （ A） Police provided detail in formations about the girl （ B） Tobago has a population of 2 million （ C） Homicide increased in Tobago （ D） Tobago is generally a peaceful island 19 Rabbi Michael Strassfe

14、ld says that one should be grateful _. （ A） when everything goes smoothly （ B） when the sun stands still （ C） for peoples appreciation （ D） for everyday aspects of life 20 When a traditional Jew blesses God as“ the true Judge“ at hearing someones death, he _. （ A） is acknowledging that death is part

15、 of life （ B） is happy that his enemy finally died. （ C） thinks that death is a blessing （ D） God is good to that person. 20 Despite Denmarks manifest virtues, Danes never talk about how proud they are to be Danes. This would sound weird in Danish. When Danes talk to foreigners about Denmark, they a

16、lways begin by commenting on its tininess, its unimportance, the difficulty of its language, the general small-mindedness and self-indulgence of their countrymen and the high taxes. No Dane would look you in the eye and say, “Denmark is a great country.“ Youre supposed to figure this out for yoursel

17、f. It is the land of the silk safety net, where almost half the national budget goes toward smoothing out lifes inequalities, and there is plenty of money for schools, day care, retraining programmes, job seminars - Danes love seminars: three days at a study centre hearing about waste management is

18、almost as good as a ski trip. It is a culture bombarded by English, in advertising, pop music, the Internet, and despite all the English that Danish absorbs - there is no Danish Academy to defend against it old dialects persist in Jutland that can barely be understood by Copenhageners. It is the lan

19、d where, as the saying goes, “Few have too much and fewer have too little,“ and a foreigner is struck by the sweet egalitarianism that prevails, where the lowliest clerk gives you a level gaze, where Sir and Madame have disappeared from common usage, even Mr and Mrs. Its a nation of recyclers - abou

20、t 55% of Danish garbage gets made into something new - and no nuclear power plants. Its a nation of tireless planners. Trains run on time. Things operate well in general. Such a nation of overachievers - a brochure from the Ministry of Business and Industry says, “Denmark is one of the worlds cleane

21、st and most organized countries, with virtually no pollution, crime, or poverty. Denmark is the most corruption-free society in the Northern Hemisphere.“ So, of course, ones heart lifts at any sighting of Danish sleaze: skinhead graffiti on buildings (“Foreigners Out of Denmark!“), broken beer bottl

22、es in the gutters, drunken teenagers slumped in the park. Nonetheless, it is an orderly land. You drive through a Danish town, it comes to an end at a stone wall, and on the other side is a field of barley, a nice clear line. town here, country there. It is not a nation of jaywalkers. People stand o

23、n the curb and wait for the red light to change, even if its 2 a.m. and theres not a car in sight. However, Danes dont think of themselves as a waiting-at-2-a, m.-for-the-green-light people - thats how they see Swedes and Germans. Danes see themselves as jazzy people, improvisers, more free-spirited

24、 than Swedes, but the truth is (though one should not say it) that Danes are very much like Germans and Swedes. Orderliness is a main selling point. Denmark has few natural resources, limited manufacturing capability; its future in Europe will be as a broker, banker, and distributor of goods. You se

25、nd your goods by container ship to Copenhagen, and these bright, young, English-speaking, utterly honest, highly disciplined people will get your goods around to Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Russia. Airports, seaports, highways, and rail lines are ultramodern and well-maintained. The orderlin

26、ess of the society doesnt mean that Danish lives are less messy or lonely than yours or mine, and no Dane would tell you so. You can hear plenty about bitter family feuds and the sorrows of alcoholism and about perfectly sensible people who went off one day and killed themselves. An orderly society

27、cannot exempt its members from the hazards of life. But there is a sense of entitlement and security that Danes grow up with. Certain things are yours by virtue of citizenship, and you shouldnt feel bad for taking what youre entitled to, youre as good as anyone else. The rules of the welfare system

28、are clear to everyone, the benefits you get if you lose your job, the steps you take to get a new one; and the orderliness of the system makes it possible for the country to weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis. 21 The author thinks that Danes adopt a _ attitude towa

29、rds their country. （ A） boastful （ B） modest （ C） deprecating （ D） mysterious 22 Which of the following is NOT a Danish characteristic cited in the passage? （ A） Fondness of foreign culture. （ B） Equality in society. （ C） Linguistic tolerance. （ D） Persistent planning. 23 The authors reaction to the

30、 statement by the Ministry of Business and Industry is （ A） disapproving. （ B） approving. （ C） noncommittal. （ D） doubtful. 24 According to the passage, Danish orderliness （ A） sets the people apart from Germans and Swedes. （ B） spares Danes social troubles besetting other peoples. （ C） is considere

31、d economically essential to the country. （ D） prevents Danes from acknowledging existing troubles. 25 At the end of the passage the author states all the following EXCEPT that （ A） Danes are clearly informed of their social benefits. （ B） Danes take for granted what is given to them. （ C） the open s

32、ystem helps to tide the country over. （ D） orderliness has alleviated unemployment. 25 Do people who choose to go on exotic, far-flung holidays deserve free health advice before they travel? And even if they pay, who ensures that they get good, up-to-date information? Who, for that matter, should co

33、llectthat information in the first place? For a variety of reasons, travel medicine in Britain is a responsibility nobody wants. As a result, many travellers go abroad ill prepared to avoid serious disease. Why is travel medicine so unloved? Partly theres an identity problem. Because it takes an int

34、erest in anything that impinges on the health of travellers, this emerging medical specialism invariably cuts across the traditional disciplines. It delves into everything from seasickness, jet lag and the hazards of camels to malaria and plague. But travel medicine has a more serious obstacle to ov

35、ercome. Travel clinics are meant to tell people how to avoid ending up dead or in a tropical diseases hospital when they come home. But it is notoriously difficult to get anybody to pay out money for keeping people healthy. Travel medicine has also been colonised by commercial interests - the vast m

36、ajority of travel clinics in Britain are run by airlines or travel companies. And while travel concerns are happy to sell profitable injections, they may be less keen to spread bad news about travellersdiarrhoea in Turkey, or to take the time to spell out preventive measures travellers could take. “

37、The NHS finds it difficult to define travellers health,“ says Ron Behrens, the only NHS consultant in travel and tropical medicine and director of the travel clinic of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. “Should it come within the NHS or should it be paid for? Its a grey area, and opinion

38、is split. No one seems to have any responsibility for defining its role,“ he says. To compound its low status in the medical hierarchy, travel medicine has to rely on statistics that are patchy at best. In most cases we just dont know how many Britons contract diseases when abroad. And even if a dis

39、ease is linked to travel there is rarely any information about where those afflicted went, what they ate, how they behaved, or which vaccinations they had. This shortage of hard facts and figures makes it difficult to give detailed advice to people, information that might even save their lives. A re

40、cent leader in the British Medical Journal argued: “Travel medicine will emerge as a credible discipline only if the risks encountered by travellers and the relative benefits of public health interventions are well defined in terms of their relative occurrence, distribution and control.“ Exactly how

41、 much money is wasted by poor travel advice? The real figure is anybodys guess, but it could easily run into millions. Behrens gives one example. Britain spends more than 1 million each year just on cholera vaccines that often dont work and so give people a false sense of security. “Information on t

42、he prevention and treatment of all forms of diarrhoea would be a better priority,“ he says. 26 Travel medicine in Britain is （ A） not something anyone wants to run. （ B） the responsibility of the government. （ C） administered by private doctors. （ D） handled adequately by travel agents. 27 The main

43、interest of travel companies dealing with travel medicine is to （ A） prevent people from falling ill. （ B） make money out of it. （ C） give advice on specific counties. （ D） get the government to pay for it. 28 In Behrens opinion the question of who Should run travel medicine （ A） is for the governme

44、nt to decide. （ B） should be left to specialist hospitals. （ C） can be left to travel companies. （ D） has no clear and simple answer. 29 People will only think better of travel medicine if （ A） it is given more resources by the government. （ B） more accurate information on its value is available. （

45、C） the government takes over responsibility from the NHS. （ D） travellers pay more attention to the advice they get 29 While the roots of social psychology lie in the intellectual soil of the whole western tradition, its present flowering is recognized to be characteristically an American phenomenon

46、. One reason for the striking upsurge of social psychology in the United States lies in the pragmatic tradition of this country. National emergencies and conditions of social disruption provide special incentive to invent new techniques, and to strike out boldly for solutions to practical social pro

47、blems. Social psychology began to flourish soon after the First World War. This event, followed by the great depression of the 1930s, by the rise of Hitler, the genocide of Jews, race riots, the Second World War and the atomic threat, stimulated all branches of social science. A special challenge fe

48、ll to social psychology. The question was asked: How is it possible to preserve the values of freedom and individual rights under condition of mounting social strain and regimentation? Can science help provide an answer? This challenging question led to a burst of creative effort that added much to

49、our understanding of the phenomena of leadership, public opinion, rumour, propaganda, prejudice, attitude change, morale, communication, decision- making, race relations, and conflicts of war. Reviewing the decade that followed World War Il, Cartwright speaks of the “excitement and optimism“ of American social psychol