1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 141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 It is a timeworn sign of old age and frailty. Yet arthritis often【 1】 _ the young. 【 1】 _ This disease of
3、 the body also has a【 2】 _ impact on the mind. 【 2】 _ “got very【 3】 _ I couldnt sleep. 【 3】 _ When pain is【 4】 _ like that, it changes your personality. 【 4】 _ And it affected everyone around me, “ says Nora Baldner, who had arthritis in both hips. “I“ d pour【 5】 _ milk on my kids cereal because I d
4、idnt want to walk to the back of the supermarket where the real milk was.“ 【 5】 _ Joint problems are now hurting and crippling 43 million Americans, and theyre more【 6】 _ than cancer or diabetes. 【 6】 _ The most common form, osteoarthritis, affects about 21 million. Rheumatoid arthritis, another com
5、mon type, hits slightly more than 2 million. (There are 95 or so other forms, often affecting fewer people.) And the numbers are going up【 7】 _. 【 7】 _ By 2025, the total is expected to top【 8】 _ million, 【 8】 _ as an obese population pounds more heavily on its joints and an active generation of bab
6、y【 9】 _ grinds them down. 【 9】 _ Whats worse, these people will be fighting the disease without medicines that had become staples of treatment: The drugs Vioxx and Bextra have just been yanked off the market because they appear to【 10】 _ the risk of heart disease, 【 10】 _ and that same shadow of fea
7、r has been cast over remaining drugs like Celebrex and even ibuprofen a medicine that had already worded doctors because heavy use can cause bleeding in the stomach. 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
8、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 Which of the following is true? （ A）
9、Andrew prefers filling the bad tooth to taking it out. （ B） Jackie prefers to have the bad tooth filled rather than pulled. （ C） Neither Andrew nor Jackie likes to have a tooth filled. （ D） Jackie and Andrew would rather have a tooth filled. 12 Jackie complained that nobody was doing anything to_. （
10、 A） prevent people from having trouble with teeth （ B） stop teeth from falling out （ C） put men on the moon （ D） transplant hearts and other organs 13 According to the context tooth transplanting_. （ A） will not be realized in the near future （ B） is still at a trial period （ C） is but a dream （ D）
11、has been widely practiced 14 Why did Jackie think Andrew was making up the story? （ A） She was sure Andrew was joking. （ B） She had never heard about it. （ C） She thought it totally impossible. （ D） It had never been mentioned anywhere. 15 This dialogue is mainly about_. （ A） Andrews toothache （ B）
12、teeth made of plastics （ C） tooth transplanting （ D） the Georgetown University Hospital 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 a
13、nswer the questions. 16 How do the scientists measure the pitch? （ A） According to the movement and vibrations of hot gasses （ B） The trade winds blow on Earth （ C） The rivers （ D） The sound travel through the space 17 We should-when we want to glimpse inside the sun. （ A） answer questions about its
14、 temperature （ B） translate the sounds into images （ C） know how gases inside ebb and flow （ D） measure the pitch 18 What did they find out? （ A） An equatorial belt of faster moving material. （ B） The solar sound. （ C） A sun orbiting satellite. （ D） An other plantet. 19 The reasons why the church wa
15、nted to bum Harry Potter books didnt include that_ （ A） it believed that the books were an abhorrence to God （ B） it believed that the books would weaken the communication with God （ C） it believed that the existence of God had been confused by the book （ D） it believed that the books would ruin the
16、 lifves of many young people 20 Which statement is not tree? （ A） The stories of Harry Potter are criticized in some other cities in U.S except New Mexicon （ B） Young people are fascinated with Harry Potter （ C） Christian churches hate Harry Potter （ D） Pastor Jack Brock planned to burn the Harry Po
17、tter books on Sunday 20 It used to be said that English people take their pleasure sadly. No doubt this would still be true if they had any pleasure to take, but the price of alcohol and tobacco in my country has provided sufficient external causes for melancholy. I have sometimes thought that the h
18、abit of taking pleasure sadly has crossed the Atlantic, and I have wondered what it is that makes so many English-speaking people somber in their outlook in spite of good health and a good income. In the course of my travels in the American I have been impressed by a kind of fundamental malaise whic
19、h seems to me extremely common and which poses difficult problems for the social reformer. Most social reformers have held the opinion that, if poverty were abolished and there were no more economic insecurity, the millennium would have arrived. But when I look at the face of people in opulent cars,
20、 whether in your country or in mine, I do not see that look of radiant happiness which the aforesaid social reformers had led me to expect. In nine cases out of ten, I see instead a look of boredom and discontent and an almost frantic longing for something that might tickle the jaded palate. But it
21、is not only the very rich who suffer in this way Professional men very frequently feel hopeless thwarted. There is something that they long to do or some public object that they long to work for. But if they were to indulge their wishes in these respects, they fear that they would lose their livelih
22、ood. Their wives are equally unsatisfied, for their neighbor, Mrs. So-and-So, has gone ahead more quickly, has a better car, a larger apartment and grander friends. Life for almost everybody is a long competitive snuggle where very few can win the race, and those who do not win are unhappy. On socia
23、l occasions when it is de rigueur to seem cheerful, the necessary demeanor is stimulated by alcohol. But file gaiety does not ring true and anybody who has just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose melancholy. One finds this sort of thing only among English-speaking people. A Frenchman
24、 while he is abusing the Government is as gay as a lark. So is an Italian while he is telling you how his neighbor has swindled him. Mexicans, when they are not actually starving or actually being murdered, sing ad dance and enjoy sunshine and food and drink with a gusto which is very rare north of
25、the Mexican frontier. When Andrew Jackson conquered Pensacola from the Spaniards, it was Sunday. She pointed out the scandal to her husband, who decreed that cheerfulness must cease forthwith. And it did. When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many American from being as happy as one m
26、ight expect, it seems to me that there are two muses, of which one goes much deeper than the other. The one that goes least deep is the necessity for subservience in some large organization, If you are an energetic man with strong views as to the fight way of doing the job with which you are concern
27、ed, you find yourself invariable under the orders of some big man at the top who is elderly, weary and cynical. Whenever you have a bright idea, the boss puts a stopper on it. The more energetic you are and the more vision you have, the more you will suffer from the impossibility of doing any of the
28、 things that you feel ought to be done; When you go home and moan to your wife, she tells you that you are a silly fellow and that if you became the proper sort of yes- man your income would soon be doubled, ff you try divorce and remarriage it is very unlikely that there will be any change in this
29、respect. And so you are condemned to gastric ulcers and premature old age. It was not always so. When Dr. Johnson complied his dictionary, he compiled it as he thought fit. When he felt like saying oats is food for men in Scotland and horses in England, he said so. When he defined a fishing-rod as a
30、 stick with a fish at one end and a fool at the other, there was nobody to point out to him that a remark of this sort would damage the sale of his great work among fishermen. But if, in the present day, you are (let us say) a contributor to an encyclopedia, there is an editorial policy which is sol
31、emn, wise, gad prudent, which allows no room for jokes, no place for personal preferences and no tolerance for idiosyncrasies. Everything has to be flattened out except where the prejudices of the editor am concerned. To these you must conform, however, little you may share them. And so you have to
32、be content with dollars instead of creative satisfaction. And the dollars, alas. leave you sad. This brings me to major cause of unhappiness, which is that most people in America act not on impulse but on some principle, and that principles upon which people act are usually faxed upon a false psycho
33、logy and a false ethic. There is a general theory as to what makes for happiness and this theory is false. Life is concerned as a competitive struggle in which felicity consists in getting ahead of your neighbor. The joys which are not competitive are forgotten. Now, I will not for a moment deny tha
34、t getting ahead of your neighbor is delightful, but it is not the only delight of which human beings are capable. There are innumerable things which are not competitive. It is possible to enjoy food and drink without having to reflect that you have a better cook and better wine merchant than your fo
35、rmer friends whom you are learning to cold- shoulder. It is possible to be fond of your wife and your children without reflecting how much better she dressed than Mrs. So-and-So and how much better they are at athletic than the children of that old stick-in-the-mud Mr. Such-and-Such. There are those
36、 who can enjoy music without thinking how cultured other ladies in their womens club will be thinking them There are even people who can enjoy a fine day in spite of the fact that the sun shines on everybody. All these simple pleasures are destroyed as soon as competitiveness gets the upper hand. Bu
37、t it is not only competitiveness that is the trouble. I could imagine a person who has turned against competitiveness and can only enjoy after conscious rejection of the competitive element- Such a person, seeing the sunshine in the morning, says to himself, “Yes, I may enjoy this and indeed I must,
38、 for it is a joy open to all.“ And however bored he may become with the sunshine he goes on persuading himself that he is enjoying it because he thinks he ought to. “But,“ you will ask, “are you maintaining that our actions ought to be governed by moral principles? Are you suggesting that every whim
39、 and every impulse should he given free rein? Do you consider that if So-and-Sos nose annoys you by being too long, that gives you a fight to tweak it? “Sir,“ you will continue with indignation,“ your doctrine is one which would uproot all the sources of morality and loosen all the bonds which hold
40、society together. Only self-restraint, self-repression, iron self-control make it possible to endure the abominable beings among whom we have to live, No, sir! Better misery and gastric ulcers than such chaos as your doctrine would produce. I will admit at once that there is force in this objection.
41、 I have seen many noses that I should have liked to tweak, but never once have I yielded to the impulse. But this, like everything else, is a matter of degree. If you always yield to impulse, you are mad. If you never yield to impulse, you gradually dry up and very likely become mad to boot. In a li
42、fe which is to be healthy and happy, impulse, though mot allowed to nm riot, must have sufficient scope to remain alive and to preserve that variety and diversity of interest which is natural to a human being. A life lived on a principle, no matter what is too narrowly determined, too systematic and
43、 uniform, to be happy. However much you care about success, you should have times when you are merely enjoying life without a thought of subsequence. However proud you .may be, as president of a womens club, of your impeccable culture, you should not be ashamed of reading a low-brow book if you want
44、 to. A life which is all principle is a life on rail. The rails may help toward rapid locomotion, but preclude the joy of wandering. Man spent some million years wandering before he invented rails, and his happiness still demands some race of the earlier ages of freedom. 21 In the writers opinion, i
45、n England alcohol and tobacco may_. （ A） make people indulge in pleasures （ B） lead to despondency （ C） pose touchy problems for social reformers （ D） throw a heavy burden on the countrys welfare program 22 What opinions do most social reformers hold? （ A） Once poverty were rooted out, people would
46、really enjoy their lives （ B） If economic security were obtained, one would grow fidgety and berserk （ C） An ideal society is the one in which all the people were no longer afraid of poverty. （ D） Great happiness and human perfection could be arrived at if and only if people learned to be content. 2
47、3 Who are easy to feel melancholy according to the writer? （ A） Mexicans （ B） professional （ C） English-speaking people （ D） B and C 24 What is the main cause of unhappiness for many Americans in the writers view? （ A） Life is a long competitive struggle, very few lucky people can win the race and a
48、ttain happiness. （ B） Lack of freedom and stimuli makes people unsatisfied with life. （ C） People tend to act on dubious principles. （ D） Peoples obsession of getting ahead of theft neighbors. 25 What solution does the writer suggest to dispel melancholy mood? （ A） cultivate wide interest （ B） balance impulse and principle （ C） strive for success and enjoy its gain （ D） A and B 25 Western tattooists work with a special electrical instrument, something like a dentists drill. It holds a number of very fine needles, which, for the purpose of reproducing the approved drawing, ac dipped, in blac
