1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 139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 Besides “American“ characteristics individualism, self-reliance, informality, punctuality and direct ness
3、, there are also some “national traits“ could also be identified. Some of the national traits: 1) Being friendly. There are all kinds of friendships for Americans, such as 【 1】 _. 【 1】 _ 2) Having many questions. Some of Americans questions are【 2】 _. 【 2】_ 3) Internationally naive. Many Americans a
4、re not very knowledgeable about international geography or world【 3】 _. 【 3】 _ 4) Be nervous about silence. Talking about【 4】 _is always a good way to 【 4】_ break silence in a conversation. 5) Open and eager to【 5】 _. 【 5】 _ Cultural rules that make Americans more comfortable with you: 1) Queuing up
5、. 2) Blow their noses into a tissue. Its considered to be rude to spit, clear phlegm or【 6】 _. 【 6】 _ 3) Avoid to slurp, chew noisily or open your mouth while chewing. 4) Never asking questions about a persons age, financial affairs, cost of clothing or personal belongings,【 7】 _ or sex life. 【 7】 _
6、 5) Its not common for men to hold hands or link【 8】 _ in public with other【 8】 _ men. Some tips on personal safety: 1) Do not walk alone at night. 2) When you leave your room, apartment, or automobile, make sure that all doors are locked and all windows are【 9】 _ 【 9】 _ 3) Do not carry too much cas
7、h or wear jewelry of great value. 4) Never accept a ride from a stranger. 5) Be careful of purses and wallets, especially in crowded【 10】 _ 【 10】_ 6) Avoid resisting the robbers unnecessarily. 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
8、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 interview. 11 What s Mis
9、s Patty Ching s problem? （ A） To be a keen photographer is too costly. （ B） She has to develop 10 rolls of films. （ C） All her films were vanished （ D） After the trip, she was too fired to choose a good photo service. 12 According to Denis, if we want to get the consumer s right, we should _. （ A） s
10、pend more money （ B） complain to the manager （ C） fight for them （ D） wait for a sale 13 The Consumer of the Month is _. （ A） Denis （ B） Wendy （ C） Patty （ D） Alvin 14 When the store had a sale, the belt which Mr. Alvin Lok liked priced at _. （ A） $100 （ B） $150 （ C） $200 （ D） $300 15 Which of the f
11、ollowing items is true? （ A） Miss Patty Ching s tour lasted 3 weeks. （ B） Top-class Photo services compensated Miss Ching because the judge ordered them to pay compensation. （ C） According to Weedy, the problem with sale prices is that the reductions may not be enough. （ D） Mr. Alvin Lok was surpris
12、ed because at the sale the price of the belt had reduced by only fifty dollars. 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 th
13、e questions. 16 According to the news,_ have been killed in the war. （ A） 1,713 （ B） 1,711 （ C） 1,782 （ D） 1,730 17 Which statement is not tree? （ A） Bush met Iraqi Prime Minister on Friday. （ B） Brzezinski is a member of Republican Party. （ C） American people have no much confidence in the war in I
14、raq. （ D） Bush believed that the future would be tough. 18 According to Bush s strategy for military success, the enemies included _. （ A） Saddam Hussein s former regime members （ B） terrorists trained by al-Jaafari （ C） war criminals （ D） all of above 19 Who will be glad to see that stunning waves?
15、 （ A） Fishermen. （ B） Scientists. （ C） Tourists. （ D） Surfers. 20 What s the purposes of the team experts to set sail? （ A） Their goal is only to prove the huge wave s existence. （ B） They went to study the waves. （ C） They wanted to ride one as well as to prove its existence. （ D） They get sail jus
16、t out of fun. 20 Paula Jones case against Bill Clinton is now, for all possible political consequences and capacity for media sensation, a fairy routine lawsuit of its kind. It does, however, have enormous social significance. For those of us who care about sexual harassment, the matter of Jones v.
17、Clinton is a great conundrum. Consider: if Jones, the former Arkansas state employee, proves her claims, then we must face the fact that we helped to elect someone -Bill Clinton - who has betrayed us on this vital issue. But if she is proved to be lying, then we must accept that we pushed onto the p
18、ublic agenda an issue that is venerable to manipulation by alleged victims. The skeptics will use Jones case to east doubt on the whole cause. Still, Ms Jones deserves the chance to prove her case; she has a right to pursue this claim and have the process work. It will be difficult: these kinds of c
19、ases usually are, and Ms. Jones task of suing a sitting president is harder than most. She does have one thing sitting on her side: her case is in the courts. Sexual-harassment claims are really about violations of the alleged victims civil rights, and there is no better forum for determining and as
20、sessing those violations - and finding the truth - than federal court. The judicial system can put aside political to decide these complicated issues. That is a feat that neither the Senate Judicial nor ethics committees have been able to accomplish-witness the Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood affai
21、rs. One lesson: the legal arena, not the political one, is the place to settle these sensitive problems. Some have argued that the people (the “feminists“) who rallied around me have failed to support Jones. Our situations, however, are quite different. In 1991 the country was in the middle of a pub
22、lic debate over whether Clarence Thomas should be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Throughout that summer, interest groups on both sides weighed in on his nomination. It was a public forum that invited a public conversation. But a pending civil action - even one against the president - does not gener
23、ally invite that kind of public engagement. Most of the public seems content to let the process move forward. And given the conundrum created by the claim, it is no wonder that many (“feminists“ included) have been slow to jump into the Jones-Clinton fray. But people from all walks of life remain op
24、en to her suit. We don t yet know which outcome we must confront: the president who betrayed the issue or the woman who used it. Whichever it is, we should continue to pursue sexual harassment with the same kind of energy and interest in eliminating the problem that we have in the past, regardless o
25、f who is the accused or the accuser. The statistics show that about 40 percent of women in the work force will encounter some form of harassment. We can t afford to abandon this issue now. 21 What does the word “conundrum“ in the first paragraph mean? （ A） Dilemma （ B） A kind of musical instrument.
26、（ C） An easy thing. （ D） Comfortable condition. 22 According to the passage, the Paula Jones case was _. （ A） nothing important （ B） very significant （ C） doubtful （ D） vulnerable 23 The federal courts are much better than the Senate Judicial or ethics committees in determining and assessing those v
27、iolations because _. （ A） the federal courts have much bigger power （ B） the federal courts are forum for determining and assessing those violations （ C） the federal courts are more impartial （ D） the federal courts are political arena 24 According to the passage, the issue of sexual harassment must
28、 be dealt with seriously because _. （ A） the outcome is not known （ B） most of the public is not content （ C） many have been slow to jump into the Jones-Clinton fray （ D） as many as 40% of women in the work force will encounter it 25 According to the passage, sexual harassment is to _. （ A） violate
29、politics （ B） violate the Supreme Court （ C） cast doubt on the whole issue （ D） violate civil rights 25 In his essay “The Parable of the Tapeworm,“ Marlo Vargas Llosa argues that at the heart of the writer s will to write is rebellion, a “rejection and criticism of life as it is.“ Moreover, he specu
30、lates, it is even possible that good literature may inspire actual acts of rebellion when the reader compares the better world of the book to the relative junk heap of real life. Whether or not this is universally true, it s an attractive idea, and, in its way, a comforting one. Language is a lever
31、that might move the enormous weight of the fickle, war-tom world we live in. It s free, universal and highly portable: better than plastic bomb and difficult to govern. Vargas Llosa s idea is also, of course, a writerly sort of realpolitik, a wish that a good novel -or story or poem - can literally
32、remake history. When Luis Alberto Urrea began his epic novel, “The Hummingbird s Daughter,“ 20 years ago, the United States was in the first phase of a conservative backlash, the culture wars were gathering steam, and the left felt itself to be under a dark cloud. Two decades later, the situation se
33、ems even graver: the culture wars are more intense and the left feels under not a cloud but an anvil. With the election of a new, deeply conservative pope, Urrea s timing couldnt be better: his main character, Teresita, is a saint as envisioned not in the marble reaches of the Vatican but in the pop
34、ulist pueblos of liberation theology, a Mexican saint of dust and blood, with lice in her hair and dirt under her fingernails. Poor, illegitimate, illiterate and despised, Teresita is the embodiment of the dictum that the last shall be first, and her ascension over the course of 500 pages is a myth
35、that is also a charmingly written manifesto. Urrea, who was born in Tijuana to an American mother and a Mexican father, is the author of 10 previous books of nonfiction, fiction and poetry; the best known of these are probably “The Devil s Highway“ and “Across the Wire,“ nonfiction accounts of hards
36、crabble lives on the Mexican-United States border. For “The Hummingbird s Daughter,“ he reached back into his own family history, or what he calls “a family folk tale.“ Teresa Urrea, known in the novel as Teresita, was a distant relative and, as Urrea discovered, the subject of some earlier scholars
37、hip, an “influential“ series of newspaper articles in the 1930 s and at least one other novel. Urrea s book re-imagines her story on a grand scale, as a mix of leftist hagiography, mystical bildungsroman and melancholic national anthem. The half-Indian child of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Teresita,
38、 born in 1873 with a red triangle on her forehead, is also possessed of a supernatural gift for healing that becomes much stronger as she grows up, and stronger still after suffering a terrible assault that kills her. She rises from the dead and begins to perform miracles. The sick, the halt and the
39、 dying gather around her, and so do Mexican revolutionaries. “Everything the government does,“ Teresita preaches to them, “is morally wrong.“ This democratic groundswell inevitably results in a showdown with the Mexican authorities. Teresita s endurance- and survival - are literally and spiritually
40、linked to the struggles of Mexico itself, a struggle that Urrea sees firmly from the bottom up. “God is a worker, like us,“ Hnila, an aged curandera, insttucts the young Teresita. “He made the world w he didnt hire poor Indies to build it for him! God has worker s hands. Just remember - angels carry
41、 no harps. Angels carry hammers.“ 26 In the first paragraph, literature is compared to plastique because. （ A） both of them are portable （ B） both of them are difficult to govern （ C） both of them can be used in rebellion （ D） both are them are highly influential 27 Concerning the main character of
42、the novel, which of the following is NOT true? （ A） She is a relative of the writer. （ B） She is an embodiment of self-made hero. （ C） She had been studied or written about before this novel. （ D） She is a saint coming from the grass roots. 28 What does the writer mean by saying “angels carry no har
43、ps. Angels carry hammers“? Which of following is NOT true? （ A） This draws God closer to the workers and encourages them. （ B） This is to inspire the young Teresita that she should believe in the workers and depend on them. （ C） This is a challenge to the orthodoxy ideas that true religion belongs t
44、o the upper class. （ D） This is saying that God is hardworking and does not indulge in playing. 29 Which conclusion drawn from the passage is NOT true? （ A） The novel is about workers and for the workers. （ B） The book is religious and uses religion to inspire readers. （ C） The book is an inspiring
45、and happy ode to personal struggle. （ D） The book is focused on the lives and struggles of the Mexicans. 29 Goal Trimmer Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it s a dream that was, a twilit memory of the Golden Age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blu
46、e-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promise of paradise regained has become a key to the Democratic Party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U. S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educa
47、ted will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor is going to keep growing. No fiddling with the tax code, retreat to protectionism or job training for jobs that arent there is going to stop it. Income equality is a hopeless cause in the U. S. “Liberalism would be less depressing if it ha
48、d a more attainable end.“ Kaus writes,“ a goal short of money equality.“ Liberal Democrats should embrace an aim he calls civic equality. If government can t bring everyone into the middle class, let it expand the areas of life in which everyone, regardless of income, receives the same treatment. National health care, improved public schools, universal national service and government financing of nearly all election campaigns, which would freeze out special-interest money -there are the unobjectionable components
