1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 143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 Chemistry plays an important part in our life. The【 1】 _ of a clock, 【 1】_ the clothes we wear, and our l
3、eather shoes are all made【 2】 _. 【 2】_ the water we drink is chemically purified. The glass and【 3】 _ of the mirror,【 3】 _ the manufacturing of light bulbs, the paint and plaster on our walls require chemistry. The cooking, digestion and assimilation of the food are all chemical【 4】 _ 【 4】 _ The con
4、struction of an automobile may require many kinds of chemically made【 5】 _. 【 5】 _ Chemistry and its【 6】 _ have helped us to live longer. 【 6】 _ The science of medicine also【 7】 _ heavily upon chemistry. 【 7】_ And with【 8】 _ and antiseptics, surgery is no longer crude and limited. 【 8】_ Our increasi
5、ng knowledge of the chemical【 9】 _ that take place in the human body results in great strides in modern medicine. 【 9】_ Fortunately, most of us do not need a profound knowledge of chemistry, but some understanding of chemistry should be a part of the【 10】 _ of every educated person. 【 10】 _ 1 【 1】 2
6、 【 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 interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10
7、 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 Whats Miss Patty Chings 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 tired to choose a good
8、 photo service. 12 According to Denis, if we want to get the consumers right, we should_. （ A） spend 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 w
9、hich Mr. Alvin Lok liked priced at _ （ A） $100 （ B） $150 （ C） $200 （ D） $300 15 Which of the following items is true? （ A） Miss Patty Chings tour lasted 3 weeks. （ B） Top-class Photo services compensated Miss Ching because the judge ordered them to pay compensation. （ C） According to Wendy, the prob
10、lem with sale prices is that the reductions may not be enough. （ D） Mr. Alvin Lok was surprised 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 q
11、uestions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the 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 true? （ A） Bush met Iraqi Prime Minister on Friday （ B） Brzezinski i
12、s a member of Republican Party （ C） American people have no much confidence in the war in Iraq （ D） Bush believed that the future would be tough 18 According to Bushs strategy for military success, the enemies included_. （ A） Saddam Husseins former regime members （ B） terrorists trained by al-Jaafar
13、i （ C） war criminals （ D） all of above 19 Who will be glad to see that stunning waves? （ A） Fishermen （ B） Scientists （ C） Tourists （ D） Surfers 20 Whats the purposes of the team experts to set sail? （ A） Their goal is only to prove the huge waves existence （ B） They went to study the waves （ C） The
14、y wanted to ride one as well as to prove its existence （ D） They get sail just 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 significanc
15、e. For those of us who care about sexual harassment, the matter of Jones v. 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
16、 she is proved to be lying, then we must accept that we pushed onto the public agenda an issue that is venerable to manipulation by alleged victims. The skeptics will use Jones case to cast doubt on the whole cause. Still, Ms Jones deserves the chance to prove her case; she has a right to pursue thi
17、s claim and have the process work. It will be difficult: these kinds of cases 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
18、victims civil rights, and there is no better forum for determining and assessing 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
19、able to accomplish witness the Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood affairs. 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
20、, are quite different. In 1991 the country was in the middle of a public 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 p
21、ending civil action even one against the president does not generally 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 th
22、e Jones-Clinton flay. But people from all walks of life remain open to her suit. We dont 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 i
23、n eliminating the problem that we have in the past, regardless of 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 cant afford to abandon this issue now. 21 What is the word “conundrum“ in the first par
24、agraph mean? （ A） dilemma （ B） a kind of musical instrument （ C） a 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 Judicia
25、l or ethics committees in determining and assessing those violations 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
26、According to the passage, the issue of sexual harassment must 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 Acc
27、ording to the passage, sexual harassment is to_ （ A） violate 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,“ Mario Vargas Llosa argues that at the heart of the writers will to write is rebellion,
28、a “rejection and criticism of life as it is.“ Moreover, he speculates, 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, its an attractiv
29、e idea, and, in its way, a comforting one. Language is a lever that might move the enormous weight of the fickle, war-torn world we live in. Its free, universal and highly portable: better than plastic bomb and difficult to govern. Vargas Llosas idea is also, of course, a writerly sort of realpoliti
30、k, a wish that a good novel or story or poem can literally 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
31、 be under a dark cloud. Two decades later, the situation seems 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, Urreas timing couldnt be better: his main character, Teresita, is a saint as envision
32、ed not in the marble reaches of the Vatican but in the populist 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,
33、 and her ascension over the course of 500 pages is a myth 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 Devils Hig
34、hway“ and “Across the Wire,“ nonfiction accounts of hardscrabble lives on the Mexican-United States border. For “The Hummingbirds 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, a
35、s Urrea discovered, the subject of some earlier scholarship, an “influential“ series of newspaper articles in the 1930 s and at least one other novel. Urreas book re-imagines her story on a grand scale, as a mix of leftist hagiography, mystical bildungsroman and melancholic national anthem. The half
36、-Indian child of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Teresita, 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
37、 begins to perform miracles. The sick, the halt and the 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 show-down with the Mexican authorities. Teresitas e
38、ndurance and survival are literally and spiritually linked to the struggles of Mexico itself, a struggle that Urrea sees firmly from the bottom up. “God is a worker, like us,“ Huila, an aged curandera, instructs the young Teresita. “He made the world he didnt hire poor Indios to build it for him! Go
39、d has workers hands. Just rememberangels carry 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 highl
40、y influential. 27 Concerning the main character of 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
41、does the writer mean by saying “angels carry no harps. 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 t
42、o the orthodoxy ideas that true religion belongs to 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
43、to inspire readers. （ C） The book is an inspiring 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 its a dream that was, a twilit memory of the Gol
44、den Age between V-$ day and OPEC, when even a blue-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 w
45、orld where only the highly skilled and well educated 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.
46、 S. “Liberalism would be less depressing if it had 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, regar
47、dless 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 of his enlarged public sphere. Kau
48、s is right to fear the hardening of class lines, but wrong to think the stresses can be relieved without a continuing effort to boost income for the bottom half.“ No, we cant tell them theyll be rich,“ he admits.“ Or even comfortably well off. But we eau offer them at least material minimum and a good shot at climbing up, the ladder. And we can offer them respect.“ And what might they offer back? The Bronx had a rude cheer for it. A good chunk of the Democratic core constituency would probably peel off. At the center of Kaus book is a thoughtful but no less risky proposal to dynamite welfare
