1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 128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 The pyramids Some of the most interesting building in the world are the pyramids. The pyramids stand huge
3、 and silent, and in modern days, people look at them and wonder, “Who built them? Why? When? What is in- side? How did they do it?“ Thousands of years ago in Egypt, kings built the pyramids. They used to build them as【 1】 _. The kings 【 1】 _ thought the pyramids would help them find life after【 2】 _
4、, 【 2】 _ - ,and join Ra in his journeys【 3】 _ life sky. 【 3】 _ They also wanted the world to remember them as important peo- ple. Some pyramids were found by thieves who in fact found their way into the pyramids and into most of the pharaohs tombs. The tombs were still full of treasure. There are ma
5、ny pyramids along the【 4】 _ River. 【 4】 _ The【 5】 _ is the pyramid of Khufa. It is made of 2,300, 【 5】 _ 000 huge【 6】 _ ,most of them higher than a person, It is 【 6】 _ about 144 meters high. Inside the pyramid are the burial rooms for the king and queen and long passageways to these rooms. The rest
6、 of the pyramid is solid stone. Workers usually built the pyramids when the flood began in 【 7】 _ and they could not work on their farms. To build 【 7】 _ the pyramid of Khufu, 100,000 men worked for twenty years. We know there were wonderful treasures in the pyramids: Robbers went into the pyramids
7、and took many of these treas- ures. Today some of the treasures are in museums, though. How did the people of ancient days build the pyramids? How did they carry and lift the huge stones? Each stone fit so well and they didnt have our modern machines! The ancient 【 8】 _ in Egyptian tombs give us som
8、e ideas. The workers 【 8】 _ used【 9】 _, levers and rollers to move stones. Besides 【 9】 _ the Egyptian pyramids, there are also great pyramids in【 10】 【 10】 _ _ which were used for human sacrifice and different from Egyptian tombs in shape and other aspects. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】
9、 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 seconds to answer each of the fo
10、llowing five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What are the speakers mainly discussing? （ A） Memberships in a food co - up. （ B） Tile benefits of health fond （ C） Shopping in the supermarket. （ D） The current cost of food 12 What change does the woman suggest the co -up make? （ A） Lowering
11、its prices. （ B） Selling more household necessities. （ C） Changing its memhership rules. （ D） Opening up more checkout lines. 13 What is one thing the members of the co - up must do? （ A） Avoid junk food （ B） Attend monthly meetings. （ C） Buy cleaning supplies at the co - up. （ D） Work at the co - u
12、p. 14 Why might the man join the co - up? （ A） To save money on food （ B） To buy food without additives. （ C） To do all his shopping in one place. （ D） To meet other health - conscious people. 15 Whats the advantage for the people who join the co - up for 6 month period? （ A） The membership fee is l
13、ower. （ B） They can help chouse the products that will be sold （ C） They may attend fewer meetings. （ D） They may go to the co - up more times per week. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow
14、. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What made the British government think about strengthening security measures? （ A） Some incidents had demonstrated its security problem. （ B） The Royal family found it necessary to do so. （ C） The House of Parli
15、ament proposed to do so. （ D） The European Union suggested it doing so. 17 The European Union study found that problems in Britains security job might have come from _. （ A） paying too little attention to this issue （ B） following the US too closely （ C） too much confidence about its own ability （ D
16、） lack of experience of terrorist attack 18 The head of homeland security indicated that _. （ A） the worry about terrorist attack was totally unnecessary （ B） the government had been well prepared for possible security problem （ C） the government had been too optimistic about its anti-terrorism effo
17、rts （ D） the legislators usually could do nothing except making empty talks 19 The research mentioned in this news has found that _. （ A） nostrils determine nose size （ B） the size of nostrils can change in ones life （ C） big nostrils help people tell different smells （ D） size of nostrils may be a
18、cause of smell problems 20 The research is conducted in order to _. （ A） explore how nose works （ B） find ways to treat deformed noses （ C） study the relation between nostrils and smelling power （ D） find ways to deal with smelling problems 20 In the art of the Middle Ages, we never encounter the pe
19、rsonality of the artist as an individual; rather it is diffused through the artistic genius of centuries embodied in the rules of religious art. Art of the Middle Ages is first a sacred script, the symbols and meanings of which were well settled. The circular halo placed vertically behind the head s
20、ignifies sainthood, while the halo impressed with a cross signifies divinity. By bare feet, we recognize God, the angels, Jesus Christ and the apostles, but for an artist to have depicted the Virgin Mary with bare feet would have been tantamount to heresy. Several concentric, wavy lines represent th
21、e sky, while parallel lines water or the sea. A tree, which is to say a single stalk with two or three stylized leaves, informs us that the scene is laid on earth. A tower with a window indicates a village, and, should an angel be depicted with curly hair, and a short beard, while Saint Paul has alw
22、ays a bald head and a long beard. A second characteristic of this iconography is obedience to a sacred mathematics. “The Divine Wisdom,“ wrote Saint Augustine, “reveals itself everywhere in numbers“, a doctrine attributable to the neo-Platonists who revived the genius of Pythagoras. Twelve is the ma
23、ster number of the Church and is the product of three, the number of the Trinity, and four, the number of material elements. The number seven, the most mysterious of all numbers, is the sum of four and three. There are the seven ages of man, seven virtues, seven planets. In the final analysis, the s
24、even-tone scale of Gregorian music is the sensible embodiment of the order of the universe. Numbers require also a symmetry. At Charters. a stained glass window show the four prophets, Isaac, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Jeremiah, carrying on their shoulders the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and Joh
25、n. A third characteristic of art is to be a symbolic language, showing us one thing and inviting us to see another. In this respect, the artist was called upon to imitate Cod, who had hidden a profound meaning behind the literal and wished nature itself to be a moral lesson to man. Thus, every paint
26、ing is an allegory. In a scene of the final judgment, we can see the foolish virgins at the left hand of Jesus and the wise at his right, and we understand that this symbolizes those who are Just and those who are saved. Even seemingly insignificant details carry hidden meaning: The lion in a staine
27、d glass window is the figure of the Resurrection. These, then, are the defining characteristics of art of the Middle Ages, a system within which even the most mediocre talent was elevated by the genius of the centuries. The artists of the early Renaissance broke with traditional at their own peril.
28、When they are not outstanding, they are scarcely able to avoid insignificance and banality in their religious works, and, even when they are great, they are no more than the equals of the old masters who passively followed the sacred rules. (523) 21 What does the circular halo placed behind the head
29、 signify in the art of the Middle Ages? （ A） Divinity. （ B） Sainthood （ C） Cod （ D） Sky. 22 Which of the following statements is NOT true about the characteristics of the art of the Middle Ages? （ A） It follows a kind of mathematics. （ B） Its religious art, employing symbols to convey its meanings.
30、（ C） Art becomes an allegory, beyond each painting some profound meanings are hidden. （ D） Art of the Middle Ages embodies the personality of the artist in a diffused way. 23 How does the writer value art of the Middle Ages? （ A） The art of the Middle Ages is elevated by its religious and sacred fac
31、et. （ B） Artists of the Middle Ages were absolutely talented （ C） The art of the Middle Ages formed its own unique system. （ D） The religious works in the Middle Ages reached unparallel height in art. 23 The science of wildlife management is actually quite new. It is the third major phase of the ori
32、ginal conservation movement. The first phase involved the preservation of wildlife through laws and hunting regulations. This phase was a reaction against the terrible destruction of ninny wild creatures. The second phase involved the control of certain birds and animals that were preying on other w
33、ildlife and causing their decline. However, the first two phases of the conservation movement had serious limitations. The new laws al lowed certain animals to increase so much that they actually “ate up“ their habitat. Many of them starved to death because the land simply could not provide for them
34、 all. Something had to Be done. This is how careful wildlife management came into being. One of the chief concerns of wildlife management is the protection and improvement of the natural habitat so that animals have enough food and water to survive. Wildlife management involves care of the soil to p
35、roduce good vegetation. It involves care of plants and bushes, not only as a source of food, but also as protection. Animals needs cover to hide from their natural enemies and to raise their offspring safely. Just as crops are harvested, wildlife too must sometimes be “harvested“. By allowing limite
36、d hunting and fishing, good management can control certain species that threaten to overpopulate their habitat. Another major part of the wildlife management is the increasing of certain species by artificial means. Some creatures, like the whooping crane, were brought back from the edge of extincti
37、on in this way. In order to save these species, members of wildlife teams have reared the young in the safety of research stations. (278) 24 The passage is mainly about _. （ A） the history of the wildlife conservation movement （ B） the preservation of wildlife through laws （ C） wildlife management a
38、s a new approach （ D） protection and improvement of the habitat of animals 25 Good wildlife management includes all of the following EXCEPT _. （ A） carrying on a campaign against the terrible destruction of wild creatures （ B） preserving and improving the habitat （ C） regulating wildlife growth thro
39、ugh hunting and fishing （ D） increasing wildlife population by artificial means 25 Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is partly to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English, and partly to secure grea
40、ter exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects, or jargons, are necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economic
41、al to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders. Different occupations, however, differ widely in the characte
42、r of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts, and other vocations, like farming and fishery, which have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary, is very old. It consists largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the
43、 very fiber of our language. Hence, though highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally understood, than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity, and philosophy have also, in their older strata, become pret
44、ty familiar to cultivated persons, and have contributed much to the popular vocabulary. Yet every vocation possesses a large body of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in the vario
45、us departments of natural and political science and in the mechanic arts. Here new terms are coined with the great freedom, and abandoned with indifference when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions, and seldom get into general literature or conver
46、sation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a close guild. The lawyer, the physician, the man of science, the divine, associates freely with his fellow-creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way. Furthermore, what is called “popular science“ makes everybo
47、dy acquainted with modern views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment, though made in a remote or provincial laboratory, is at Once reported in the newspapers, and everybody is soon talking about it-as in the case of the Roentgen rays and wireless telegraphy. Thus our common speech is alw
48、ays taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace. (419) 26 This passage is primarily concerned with _. （ A） a new language （ B） technical terminology （ C） various occupations and professions （ D） scientific undertakings 27 Special words used in technical discussion _. （ A） should be con
49、fined to scientific fields （ B） should resemble mathematical formulae （ C） are considered artificial speech （ D） may become part of common speech 28 It is true that _. （ A） the average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical language not meant for him （ B） various professions and occupations often interchange their dialects and jargon
