[外语类试卷]专业英语八级模拟试卷140及答案与解析.doc
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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“.
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