1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 142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 Whim neighborhoods are becoming darker in【 1】 _ and more expensive. 【 1】 _ Analysts say that soaring hous
3、e prices and booming car sales are being fueled by an【 2】 _ mobile black middle class 【 2】 _ emerging from the ashes of【 3】 _. 【 3】 _ Blacks, who make up about 75 percent of South Africa s 46.6 million people, are moving from the【 4】 _of the economy into the mainstream 【 4】_ thanks to policies aimed
4、 at redressing decades of injustice. Statistics compiled by the independent Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) show that the black middle class has【 5】 _ to 7.8 percent of the total population in 2000 from 3.3 percent in 1994. 【 5】 _ “The development of a black middle class was deliberately stun
5、ted under segregation and apartheid,“ said the HSRC s Roger Southall. Although official figures are not【 6】 _, 【 6】 _ analysts say the black middle class is behind the retail sales boom and strong house price growth. Before 1994, blacks were【 7】 _ by legislation from owning properties in suburbs exc
6、lusively reserved for whites and had limited access to bank credit. 【 7】 _ But the face of the former white suburbs has changed as blacks【 8】 _ move from the townships m search of security and better municipal services. 【 8】 _ Living in posh suburbs is seen by many as a stares symbol. “The black mid
7、dle class is【 9】 _ strongly to the growth of the property market and other sectors of the economy,“ says Jacques du Toit, an economist at banking group Absa.【 9】 _ House prices rose by an【 10】 _ of 30.3 percent in real terms in 2004, 【 10】_ the highest since 1967, and business is also booming for au
8、to traders, with a growing number of sales attributed to black buyers. 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 t
9、o 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 word is not used by Norberg-Hodge to describe the Ladakhi people? （ A） open （ B） happy （ C） self-protected （ D） humble 12 Why
10、was the Ladakhi culture damaged? （ A） Because India and China fought there （ B） Because it becomes dependent on the import （ C） Because the Indian government regarded this region as the front in war （ D） Because the developing ways introduced are against the realities there 13 As far as tourism conc
11、erned, local people_ （ A） think their culture is being destroyed （ B） feel it is a pity to lose the paradise （ C） have different ideas from the foreigners （ D） are fully aware of the consequences 14 Ladakhi people think that the Westerns_ （ A） are not rich （ B） need not to work （ C） are unintelligen
12、t （ D） have the same lives as those of them 15 Ladakhi people usually_ （ A） have few interests in the information provided by Norberg-Hodge （ B） can understand the information （ C） feel ashamed of their backwardness after knowing about the outside world （ D） know how the outside world is SECTION C N
13、EWS 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 the questions. 16 What did Yasukuni shrine claim? （ A） It claimed that the 40 Class-A war cri
14、minals were no longer war criminals in Japan. （ B） It claimed that the Far East Sentence was not just （ C） The war criminals should be no longer regarded as criminals. （ D） The government should not grant pensions to criminals. 17 Which statement was not true? （ A） Japan had revised related taws to
15、grant pension to the family of these convicted war criminals. （ B） Some people at home and abroad called Yasukuni to establish new memorial to separate war criminals from ordinary war dead （ C） Koizumi took office in 2001. （ D） Yasukuni hadnt make response to the call of separating war criminals fro
16、m ordinary head. 18 What can you learn about Yasukuni from the news? （ A） Japans Prime Minister pays annual visit to it （ B） It is urging Japanese politicians to continual visits （ C） Many Asian country strongly protest establish new memorial for the war dead （ D） Koizumi is in favor of separating t
17、he war criminals from ordinary dead 19 Which one is not true according to the content of the news? （ A） This was the first congressional visit to the prison. （ B） The lawmakers ate the same launch given to detainees. （ C） A Senata delegation was visiting next weekend. （ D） The prison was under criti
18、cism this spring. 20 The lawmakers feared_ （ A） terrorists among the detainees could not be found out. （ B） interrogators in the prison would abused and tortured the detainees. （ C） the White House and Pentagon wouldnt improve the conditions there. （ D） the United States image was hurt because of th
19、e prison. 20 The ivory-billed woodpecker, if you havent heard, is no longer extinct. In late spring, a group of 17 researchers announced in the online version of Science that they had spotted at least one member of this majestic species living in the cypress and tupelo swamps of eastern Arkansas. On
20、ce found everywhere in Southern hardwood forests, the ivory-billed woodpecker tumbled in population after the tam of the century, the victim of avid collectors and logging. It had last been seen in 1944, reduced to what Tim Gallagher, author of “The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed W
21、oodpecker,“ calls “a symbol of everything that has gone wrong with our relationship to the environment.“ “The Grail Bird“ is the story of this remarkable rediscovery, told by one of the chief rediscoverers. The editor of Living Bird magazine, Gallagher began the book several years ago with milder am
22、bitions. The plan was to interview anyone who had seen the birdor thought he or she had. Soon, though, he was swept into a web of tantalizing rumors and half- clues, propelled by the possibility that a living ivory-bill might yet be found. “If someone, could prove that this remarkable species still
23、exists, it would be the most hopeful event imaginable: we would have one final chance to get it right, to save this bird. and the bottomland swamp forests it needs to survive.“ Hope was a thing with a three-foot wingspan. “The Grail Bird“ is less an ecological study than a portrait of human obsessio
24、n; if not for the outcome, it could as easily be a book about the hunt for Bigfoot. Gallagher stakes out swamps teeming with alligators and cottonmouths. He sifts through shady evidence, from fuzzy Instamatic photographs to bags of bark shavingspeeled, possibly, by the ivory-billed woodpecker in its
25、 search for beetle grubs. He suffers bloodied feet and an infected knee. His closest companion, Bobby Ray Harrison, a wildlife photographer and an arts professor at Oakwood College, dresses in full camouflage gear and canoes with a camcorder attached to his helmet “ Sasquatch chasers,“ Gallaghers wi
26、fe calls them Yet for ail the shenanigans, his book is an insightful look at what most biological fieldwork involves: a tot of Sweating, sitting and waiting for ghosts tomaybemake themselves real. As tales go; “The Grail Bird“ isnt the most stylishly told. Gallagher lets his characters talk at too-g
27、reat length, and the incidental details are sometimes overly incidental. (“After pigging out on bad burgers, we got a room at a cheap motel and quickly fell into a deep, exhausted sleep with lots of snoring.“) But most readers probably wont mind. As some rivers are to be enjoyed not for the quality
28、of the water but for the quality of the stones to be found therein, so it is with some books. Gallagher presents a series of lively characters: Fielding Lewis, a former Louisiana state boxing commissioner who in 1971 took two fuzzy Photographs of the woodpecker that were subsequently and perhaps mis
29、takenlydiscredited; an anonymous “woodpecker-whisperer“ who claims to have a telepathic connection to the birds, even a thousand miles away. (One group of searchers failed, they were told, because they were noisily scaring off the bird.) Oddly missing from this recounting is any extended focus on th
30、e ivory-billed woodpecker itself. Granted, the bird has been invisible for decades, a presence notable largely for its absence. Still, the book might have given us the animals history in more detailsomething to convey the visceral appeal of this “grail.“ Without that, the questthough triumphantat ti
31、mes feels hollow, and the fulfillment of the authors obsession veers perilously close to sounding like an end in itself. 21 According to the text, the ivory-billed woodpecker_ （ A） is extinct since the year of 1994. （ B） was found by a group of 17 researchers through the internet. （ C） is called “Gr
32、ail Bird“ because it is hallowed to the degree of holiness. （ D） is so famous that it has become a symbol of the spoiled relationship between human beings and nature. 22 By saying that the book of “Grail Bird“ could “easily be a book about the hunt for Bigfoot“, the author means that_ （ A） the book
33、is merely about the hunt for impossible things. （ B） if the bird had not been discovered by the researchers, the book would have been like all the books about Bigfoot - only legends, no facts and truths. （ C） the hunt for the ivory-billed woodpecker enjoys similarity to the hunt for Bigfoot, because
34、 both of them are rare animals. （ D） the book is about the human obsession of finding legendary animals and about their guilty conscience facing nature. 23 Concerning the style of the book, it is revealed in the text that_ （ A） it is a normal book of discovering trip, with no particular style. （ B）
35、it is stylish in its narration and the characters are vivid. （ C） its style is not so perfect especially concerning the trivial talks of the characters and the too incidental details. （ D） readers do not like the trivial style of this book. 24 Which of the following statements is NOT true? （ A） Fiel
36、ding Lewis has taken two pictures of the bird, but it was too fuzzy and he was mistakenly discredited. （ B） The author believes that the woodpecker-whisperer do have a telepathic connection to the birds. （ C） The quality of the book may not so perfect in itself, but there is still something to be ch
37、erished and reflected on. （ D） Them is much sweating, sitting and waiting before the completion of the book. 25 From this article, we may draw the conclusion that_ （ A） The focus on the bird is an important yet missing characteristic, and without it even the successful discovery will seem hollow. （
38、B） It is not the bird but the human efforts that attract a lot of readers attention. （ C） The article argues that the book is with great content and great focus. （ D） Although the book is not stylish, readers still find interesting things in its characterization and extended history of the bird. 25
39、We all know that programming language is the system of syntax, grammar, and symbols or words used to give instructions to a computer. Because computers work with binary numbers, first-generation languages, called machine languages, required the writing of long strings of binary numbers to represent
40、such operations as add. subtract, and compare. Later improvements allowed octal, decimal, or hexadecimal representation of binary strings. It is difficult to write error-free programs in machine language many languages have been created to make programming easier and faster. Symbolic, or assembly, l
41、anguagessecond-generation languageswere introduced in the early 1950s. They use simple mnemonics such as “A“ for add or “M“ for multiply, which are translated into machine language by a computer program called an assembler. An extension of such a language is the macro instruction, a mnemonic (such a
42、s “READ“) for which the assembler substitutes a series of simpler mnemonics. In the mid-1950s, a third generation of Languages came into use. Called high-level languages because they are largely independent of the hardware, these algorithmic, or procedural, languages are designed for solving a parti
43、cular type of problem. Unlike machine or symbolic languages, they vary little between computers. They must be translated into machine code by a program called a compiler or interpreter. The first such language was FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), developed about 1956 and best used for scientific calcu
44、lation. The first commercial language, COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), was developed about 1959. ALGOL (ALGOrithmic Language), developed in Europe about 1958, is used primarily in mathematics and science, as is APL (A Programming Language), published in 1962. P1/1 (programming Language 1)
45、, developed in the late 1960s, and ADA (for Ada Augusta, countess of Lovelace, biographer of Charles Babbage), developed in 1981, are designed for both business and scientific use. For personal computers the most popular languages are BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), develope
46、d in 1967 and similar to FORTRAN, and Pascal (for Blaise Pascal, who built the first successful mechanical calculator), introduced in 1971 as a teaching language. Modula 2, a Pacal-like language for commercial and mathematical applications, was introduced in 1982. The C language, introduced (1972) t
47、o implement the Unix operating system, has been extended to C+ to deal with the rigors of object-oriented programming. Fourth-generation languages are nonprocedural. They specify what is to be accomplished without describing how. The first one, FORTH, developed in 1970, is used in scientific and ind
48、ustrial control applications. Most fourth-generation languages are written for specific purposes. Fifth-generation languages, which are still in infancy, are an outgrowth of artificial intelligence research. PROLOG (PROgramming Logic) is useful for programming logical processes and making deductions automatically. Many other languages have been designed to meet specialized needs. GPSS (General Purpose System Simulator) is used for modeling physical and environmental events, and SNOBOL (String-Oriented Symbolic Language) and LISP (LISt Proce
