1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 144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 Take a taxi in Shanghai and you will pay mom than you would for a ride of【 1】_ distance in Beijing. 【 1】
3、_ Buy a beer at an international bar in Shanghai. and the same holds true. Go out for an Italian, German or French meal and ditto. And yet, according to a survey released yesterday by Mercer Human【 2】 _ Consulting, 【 2】 _ Beijing is the most expensive city on the Chinese mainland. “There arc some th
4、ings that might be more expensive in Shanghai, but the【 3】 _ we have is based on a basket of goods,“ 【 3】 _ said Ilya Bonick, Mercer s regional head of information services. Mercers cost of living survey is one of a handful of annual reports produced by international【 4】 _. 【 4】 _ it rakes into cons
5、ideration such things as housing, food,【 5】 _, clothing, household goods and transportation. 【 5】 _ Meals of noodles or jiaozi are not included in the report whereas products【 6】 _ are likely to buy and are available in all the cities surveyed, such as Coca-Cola and Pantene shampoo. 【 6】 _ This year
6、, Hong Kong, the most expensive Chinese city, took ninth【 7】 _.【 7】_ The top three in the world are Tokyo, Osaka and London. The good news is that Chinese cities are getting cheaper, driven by a US dollar【 8】_ in value. 【 8】 _ “Chinese cities have dropped significantly in the rankings as the【 9】 _ i
7、s pegged to the US dollar and has therefore been affected by the dollars depreciation,“ said Marie-Laurence Sepede, Mercers research manager, in a release. 【 9】_ “The shift in the China ranking is the most surprising,“ Bonick said. “We have seen it become more【 10】 _.“ 【 10】 _ Another factor for the
8、 drop, said Bonick, is the wider availability of products the company uses to measure. 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 follo
9、w. 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 Old Fred does something stupid because_. （ A） he has some mental problems （ B） he is too old to know what he is doin
10、g （ C） he wants to have a good Christmas （ 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
11、love_. （ A） violence （ B） compromise （ 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
12、. 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 answer the questions. 16 Haler Group bid for Maytag is_ （ A） $1.75 billion （ B） $18.5 b
13、illion （ C） $16.4 billion （ D） $1.3 billion 17 Which statement is not true? （ A） This is the biggest takeover battle for China （ B） Chinas bid will probably trigger a costly biding competition over the company Unacal （ C） The U.S is planning forbidding Chinese companys bids for U.S company （ D） Unoc
14、al has agreed to be sold to another American oil company 18 Whats the effect of the US slowdown? （ A） Cutting into demand for Nokias handsets. （ B） Promote other economies. （ C） Many firms break down. （ D） Many handsets dont sell. 19 So far, how many percent of sales growth this quarter? （ A） 20% （
15、B） 10% （ C） 40% （ D） 80% 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 Eliots interested in
16、 poetry in about 1902 with the discovery of Romantic. He had recalled how he was initiated into poetry by Edward Fitzgeralds 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 twentie
17、th year of age (1908), 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
18、 result is an outburst 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
19、in the Harvard Eliot 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
20、 conventional theme, 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
21、 inner struggle, which 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 lovers mourning of the loss of love, the passing of passion, and this is done through a
22、simple contrast. The flowers in the field are blooming and flourishing, but those in his lovers 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
23、s “when the lamp is shattered“. The form, the dictation and the images are all borrowed. So is the carpe diem theme. In “Song: The Moon- flower Opens“ (1909), Eliot makes the flowerlove comparison once more and complains that his love is too Cold-hearted and does not have “tropical flowers/With scar
24、let life for me“. 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: t
25、he flowers in the wreath, this mornings flowers, flowers of yesterday, the moonflower which opens to the moth - 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 t
26、heir way. Though merely fin-de-siecle routines, some of these early poems already embodied Eliots 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. “Circles Palace“ (1909) s
27、hows that he already 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 represen
28、t the Eliot we know. Their voice is the voice of tradition and their style is that of the Romantic period. It seems to me that the early Eliots connection with Tennyson is especially interesting, in that Tennyson seems to have foreshadowed Eliots own development. 21 Eliot was wrapped up in _when he
29、began to write poems. （ A） Edward Fitzgeralds 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 Eliots fir
30、st poem? （ 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 persons mind is loaded with inner struggle. 24 Which Of the following is NOT Eliots poem? （ A） Song: When we came home ac
31、ross 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 Eliots talent as a young artist. （ C） introducing some background knowledge of Eliot. （ D） represent
32、ing Eliots 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, theres a connection
33、between crime and credibility. Every time some rapper poses for a mug shot, there is a chorus of commentators ready to declare that its 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
34、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, Cassidys second album, “I m a Hustla“, arrived in stores; it makes its debut at No. 5 on this weeks Billboard album chart. And in May, the emerging
35、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 Pook
36、ie Loc was connected to his foe and former collaborator Young Jeezy, from the Atlanta group Boyzn da Hood, which released its thrilling self-titled debut album on June 21; Jeezys highly anticipated solo debut is due on July 26. Its clear that many rappers find themselves embroiled in violence, but i
37、t 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 wont scare off hip-hop fans, it wont usually drive them to the record shops, either.
38、Billboard said the arrest gave Gucci Mane a “big boost on the charts,“ but in fact his album made its debut at No. 101. Thats not a very strong showing, especially considering the popularity of Gucci Manes breakout hit, “Icy,“ a regional favorite that became a BET favorite, too. The strange truth is
39、 that being arrested or going to prisoneven for murderisnt likely to have much effect on a rapper s reputation. When Lil Kim makes her inevitable return, she11 inevitably have some rhymes about her time inside. But although some fans might admire her for not testifying against her friends (in hip-ho
40、p, 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 his first album aft
41、er 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） neither A nor
42、 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 crimes connection with credibility is always true. （ C） being put into jail will not necessarily help a rappers career. （ D） being put into ja
43、il 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 mens equals in the possession of a soul? But to the old idea that they
44、 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 Sexits love of novelty and inborn tende
45、ncy to viceto think women dangerous enough without adding to their subtlety and forwardness; but they were not able to stem the tide. Henry VIIs 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 the patron of Ca
46、xton, the first English printer, and a liberal benefactor to the universities. Sir Thomas Mores daughters studied Greek, Latin, philosophy, Astronomy, Physic, Arithmetic, Logic, Rhetoric and Music. In his household women were treated as mens equals in conversation and wit, and scholars boasted of th
47、em 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 studies for the e
48、ducation 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 Cambridge humanists, Roger Ascham and William Grindall, but she was already learning French and Italian and must have been well grounded in Lation. Ascham helped her to fo
