1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 140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 Irish Riverdance Riverdance displays modern Irish culture while it is based on an old, influential cultur
3、e with a love of complicated stories and poetic styles and prevailing from the 6th century to the 9th century. The development of Riverdance 1) With【 1】 _ starting in the 9th century this ever-influential culture 【 1】_ declined and never recovered indeed. The traditional love of story and song exist
4、ed in a form the peasants liked and without a distinctive Irish style till the【 2】 _ beginning at the end of the 19th century. 【 2】 _ 2) The Irish love of music has succeeded in surviving the change from Irish, 【 3】 _ to the language of the invader and has once more begun to blos 【 3】_ som and becom
5、e influential outside the country. 3) Irish music was reduced to being the language used in the countryside and 【 4】 _ as people moved to the cities, for young city people didnt like 【 4】_ “peasant music“. However, this has begun to change and since the 1980 s has taken off. Many top singers in the
6、world are Irish and quite a number of people are working for the music industry in Ireland. Riverdance is an ex- pression of that【 5】 _ and that ability to understand the new. 【 5】_ Riverdance is also a kind of【 6】 _ interesting pop song. 【 6】 _ 1) It uses song and dance to tell the story of a peopl
7、e whose spirit the Great Famine broke. As a result of this famine, two million people died or left Ireland by 1851 and【 7】 _ continued to decrease until 1961 【 7】 _ 2) People with ideas left for【 8】 _ The Irish in Ireland became hopeless 【 8】_ and unconfident and much of its modem culture is about t
8、he sadness of that time and the sorrow of saying goodbye to those who left. There is【 9】 _ 【 9】_ for this saying goodbye-“American Wake“. 3) The leaving didnt cease until the 1970 s because Independence in 1921 was followed by a civil war and an economic depression. Now it is common to see along【 10
9、】 _ from that time falling into ruin. 【 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 based on an inter
10、view. 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 Old Fred does something stupid because _. （ A） he has some mental problems （ B） he is too old to know what he is doing （ C） he wants to have a good Christmas
11、 （ D） he has got into the habit of stealing 12 British police are not armed The average policeman _. （ A） doesnt really think about it （ B） dislike it very much （ C） worries about it greatly （ D） wants a reform 13 The interviewee feels that the English people love _. （ A） violence （ B） compromise （
12、C） forearms （ D） police 14 Once a man_. （ A） threatened the police （ B） took some hostages （ C） robbed a bank （ D） locked himself in a house 15 What was the most important factor in solving that man s problem? （ A） Power. （ B） Skill. （ C） Patience. （ D） Weapons. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions:
13、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 Haier Group bid for Maytag is _. （ A） $1.75 billion （ B） $18.5 billion （ C） $16.4 billion （ D） $1.3 b
14、illion 17 Which statement is not true? （ A） This is the biggest takeover battle for China （ B） China s bid will probably trigger a costly biding competition over the company Unacal. （ C） The U.S is planning forbidding Chinese company s bids for U.S company. （ D） Unocal has agreed to be sold to anoth
15、er American oil company. 18 What s the effect of the US slowdown? （ A） Cutting into demand for Nokia s handsets. （ B） Promote other economies. （ C） Many firms break down. （ D） Many handsets don t sell. 19 So far, how many percent of sales growth this quarter? （ A） 20%. （ B） 10%. （ C） 40%. （ D） 80%.
16、20 Why has the rate of new phone purchases slowed in Europe? （ A） Because of the warning about sales. （ B） Because the customers are reluctant to trade up to new handsets. （ C） Because of cutting into demand for handsets. （ D） Because of the U.S slowdown. 20 Eliot s interested in poetry in about 190
17、2 with the discovery of Romantic. He had recalled how he was initiated into poetry by Edward Fitzgerald s Omar Khayyam at the age of fourteen. “It was like a sudden conversion“, he said, an “overwhelming introduction to a new world of feeling.“ From then on, till about his twentieth year of age (190
18、8), he took intensive courses in Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne. It is, no doubt, a period of keen enjoyment.At this period, the poem, or the poetry of a single poet, invades the youthful consciousness and assume complete possession for a time.The frequent result is an outbu
19、rst of scribbling which we may call imitation.It is not deliberate choice of a poet to mimic, but writing under a kind of daemonic possession by one poet. Thus, the young Eliot started his career with a mind preoccupied by certain Romantic poets. His imitative scribbling survives in the Harvard Elio
20、t Collection, a part of which is published as Poems Written in Early Youth. “A Lyric“ (1905), written at Smith Academy and Eliot s first poem ever shown to anther s eye, is a straightforward and spontaneous overflow of a simple feeling. Modeled on Ben Johnson, the poem expresses a conventional theme
21、, and can be summarized in a single sentence: since time and space are limited, let us love while we can. The hero is totally self-confident, with no Prufrockian self-consciousness. He never thinks of retreat, never recognizes his own limitations, and never experiences the kind of inner struggle, wh
22、ich will so blight the mind of Prufrock. “Song: When we came home across the hill“ (1907), written after Eliot entered Harvard College, achieved about the same degree of success. The poem is a lover s mourning of the loss of love, the passing of passion, and this is done through a simple contrast. T
23、he flowers in the field are blooming and flourishing, but those in his lover s wreath are fading and withering. The point is that, as flowers become waste then they have been plucked, so love passes when it has been consummated. The poem achieves an effect similar to that of Shelley s “when the lamp
24、 is shattered“. The form, the dictation and the images are all borrowed. So is the carpe diem theme. In “Song: The Moonflower Opens“ (1909), Eliot makes the flower-love comparison once more and complains that his love is too cold-hearted and does not have “tropical flowers/With scarlet life for me“.
25、 In these poem, Eliot is not writing in his own right, but the poets who possessed him are writing through him. He is imitating in the usual sense of the word, having not yet developed his critical sense. It should not be strange to find him at this stage so interested in flowers: the flowers in the
26、 wreath, this morning s flowers, flowers of yesterday, the moonflower which opens to the moth w not interested in them as symbols, but interested in them as beautiful objects. In these poems, the Romantics did not just work on his imagination; they compelled his imagination to work their way. Though
27、 merely fin-de-siecle routines, some of these early poems already embodied Eliot s mature thinking, and forecasted his later development. “Before Morning“ (1908) shows his awareness of the co-habitation of beauty and decay under the same sun and the same sky. “Circle s Palace“ (1909) shows that he a
28、lready entertained the view of women as emasculating their male victims or sapping their strength. “On a Portrait“ (1909) describes women as mysterious and evanescent, existing “beyond the circle of our thought“. Despite all these hints of later development, these poems do not represent the Eliot we
29、 know. Their voice is the voice of tradition and their style is that of the Romantic period. It seems to me that the early Eliot s connection with Tennyson is especially interesting, in that Tennyson seems to have foreshadowed Eliot s own development. 21 Eliot was wrapped up in _ when he began to wr
30、ite poems. （ A） Edward Fitzgerald s poems （ B） romantic poets （ C） classical literature （ D） romantic literature 22 Who invited Eliot to poem when he was a child? （ A） Ezra Pound （ B） Whitman. （ C） Franklin. （ D） Edward Fitzgerald 23 Which of the following statement is NOT true of Eliot s first poem
31、? （ A） It was written at Smith Academy. （ B） It was modeled on Ben Johnson. （ C） It was included in Poems Written in Early Youth. （ D） It expresses the theme that a common person s mind is loaded with inner struggle. 24 Which of the following is NOT Eliot s poem? （ A） Song: When we came home across
32、the hill. （ B） Song: The Moonflower Opens. （ C） Fin-de-siecle. （ D） before Morning. 25 The article is primary concerned with _. （ A） comparing the early poems by Tennyson and Eliot （ B） illustrating Eliot s talent as a young artist （ C） introducing some background knowledge of Eliot （ D） representin
33、g Eliot s early style and his connection with Romantic poets 25 Yesterday, when Lil Kim was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for lying to a grand jury, it seemed like more proof that rappers just can t stay out of jail. The conventional wisdom is that for hip-hop stars, there s a connection b
34、etween crime and credibility. Every time some rapper poses for a mug shot, there is a chorus of commentators ready to declare that it s all a publicity stunt. The sentencing of Lil Kim comes after two months when two rappers faced more serious charges. On June 17 the Philadelphia rapper Cassidy turn
35、ed himself in to the police, who were looking for him as a suspect in a shooting that killed one man and wounded two others. Less than two weeks later, Cassidy s second album, “I m a Hustla“, arrived in stores; it makes its debut at No. 5 on this week s Billboard album chart. And in May, the emergin
36、g Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane surrendered in connection with the slaying of a rapper from Macon, Ga., named Pookie Loc; the arrest came the same day as the release of his new album, “Trap House“ (Big Cat). Gucci Mane, who was jailed, has said that the killing was self-defense and has suggested that Po
37、okie Loc was connected to his foe and former collaborator Young Jeezy, from the Atlanta group Boyzn da Hood, which released its thrilling self-rifled debut album on June 21; Jeezy s highly anticipated solo debut is due on July 26. It s clear that many rappers find themselves embroiled in violence, b
38、ut it s also clear that Radric Davis had plenty to worry about even before he became a Southern sensation named Gucci Mane: he had previously been convicted on cocaine charges. And while a high-profile arrest certainly won t scare off hip-hop fans, it won t usually drive them to the record shops, ei
39、ther. Billboard said the arrest gave Gucci Mane a “big boost on the charts,“ but in fact his album made its debut at No. 101. That s not a very strong showing, especially considering the popularity of Gucci Mane s breakout hit, “Icy,“ a regional favorite that became a BET favorite, too. The strange
40、troth is that being arrested or going to prison - even for murder - isnt likely to have much effect on a rapper s reputation. When Lit Kim makes her inevitable return, she II inevitably have some rhymes about her time inside. But although some fans might admire her for not testifying against her fri
41、ends (in hip-hop, as elsewhere, loyalty counts for a lot), it is by no means clear that jail will help her career. For a rapper, having your name printed in the police blotter is likely merely to reinforce whatever perceptions fans already have. 26 The Philadelphia rapper Cassidy _. （ A） released hi
42、s first album after his arrest （ B） was arrested and hence the sale of his album sharply declined （ C） delivered himself to the police （ D） was caught by the police 27 The arrest of Gucci Mane （ A） will scare off the fans （ B） will drive them to the stores to buy his album （ C） both A and B （ D） nei
43、ther A nor B 28 After reading the passage, we learn that （ A） the author believes that crime will certainly promote the rappers album （ B） the conventional wisdom of crime s connection with credibility is always true （ C） being put into jail will not necessarily help a rappers career （ D） being put
44、into jail may change the perceptions fans already have 28 Elizabeth was fortunate to be born in the lull flush of Renaissance enthusiasm for education. Women had always been educated of course, for had not St. Paul said that women were men s equals in the possession of a soul? But to the old idea th
45、at they should be trained in Christian manners and thought was now added a new purpose: to quicken the spirit and train them in the craft and eloquence of the classical authors of Greece and Rome. Critics were not wanting, morbidly obsessed with the weaknesses of the sex- its love of novelty and inb
46、orn tendency to vice - to think women dangerous enough without adding to their subtlety and forward- ness; but they were not able to stem the tide. Henry VII s mother was one of the first to indicate the new trend. She knew enough French to translate “The Mirror of God for the Sinful Soul“ and was t
47、he patron of Caxton, the first English printer, and a liberal benefactor to the universities. Sir Thomas More s daughters studied Greek, Latin, Philosophy, Astronomy, Physic, Arithmetic, Logic, Rhetoric and Music. In his household women were treated as men s equals in conversation and wit, and schol
48、ars boasted of them in letters to friends abroad. The movement was strengthened from abroad by Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII S Spanish Queen. In the Spain of her childhood ladies were the friends of scholars Vives, one of the most refreshing figures in the history of education, to write a plan of
49、studies for the education of her daughter Mary. This was the heritage into which the sharp-witted child Elizabeth entered. At six years old, it was said, she was precociously intelligent and had as much gravity as if she had been forty. Little is known of her education until her tenth year, when she became the pupil of the Camb
