1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 147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 Acupuncture Recently, acupuncture has become a【 1】 _ word in America. 【 1】 _ Acupuncture was performed in
3、 China long before the study of【 2】 _. 【 2】 _ In very ancient times, pieces of sharp stones were used to press or prick certain section of the body in order to cure an illness. Later, needles were made from【 3】 _ and bamboo. 【 3】_ In the course of time, the Chinese people learned to make needles out
4、 of copper, iron, and silver. Today, the needles are made of【 4】 _. 【 4】_ Important factors in the acupuncture treatment:The size and【 5】 _ of the needles. 【 5】 _ The depth of the insertion. The【 6】 _ of the time the needle should be left in the body. 【 6】 _ Finally, the number of needles used in ea
5、ch treatment. The earliest recorded acupuncture cure took place about【 7】 _ years ago.【 7】 _ The most important book on acupuncture appeared in the Qin Dynasty. In the book,【 8】 _ basic points in human body were listed, 【 8】 _ and a total of 649 points in a human body were defined. A French【 9】 _ in
6、troduced it to the west at the beginning of this century.【 9】 _ The first acupuncture clinicwas set up in【 10】 _ It was not until 1958 that the Chinese began to use acupuncture as an anesthesia. 【 10】_ 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B INTERVIEW Direct
7、ions: 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 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 W
8、hat subject is Mr. Pitt good at? （ A） Art. （ B） French. （ C） German. （ D） Chemistry. 12 What does Mr. Pitt NOT do in his spare time? （ A） Doing a bit of acting and photography. （ B） Going to concerts frequently. （ C） Playing traditional jazz and folk music. （ D） Traveling in Europe by hitch-hiking.
9、13 When asked what a managers role is, Mr. Pitt sounds_ （ A） confident. （ B） hesitant. （ C） resolute. （ D） doubtful. 14 What does Mr. Pitt say he would like to be? （ A） An export salesman working overseas. （ B） An accountant working in the company. （ C） A production manager in a branch. （ D） A polic
10、y maker in the company. 15 Which of the following statements about the management trainee scheme is TRUE? （ A） Trainees are required to sign contracts initially. （ B） Trainees performance is evaluated when necessary. （ C） Trainees starting salary is 870 pounds. （ D） Trainees cannot quit the manageme
11、nt scheme. 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 These militants_ （ A） suffered severe casualties （ B）
12、 were on the recently issued list of terrorists （ C） fought with Saudi police forces （ D） were thought to be hiding in al-Rawdah district 17 Which statement is not true? （ A） The girl was living with hex mother （ B） The landlady witnessed the crime （ C） The girl and the suspect probably were dating
13、（ D） The gift was found dead on the floor 18 We can learn from the news that_ （ A） Police provided detail in formations about the girl （ B） Tobago has a population of 1.2 million （ C） Homicide increased in Tobago （ D） Tobago is generally a peaceful island 19 Rabbi Michael Strassfeld says that one sh
14、ould be grateful_ （ A） when everything goes smoothly （ B） when the sun stands still （ C） for peoples appreciation （ D） for everyday aspects of life 20 When a traditional Jew blesses God as“ the true Judge“ at hearing someones death, he_ （ A） is acknowledging that death is part of life （ B） is happy
15、that his enemy finally died. （ C） thinks that death is a blessing （ D） God is good to that person. 20 Back in 1985, Viktor Cherkashin was a senior KGB officer at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. In the shadowy world of espionage, he had a good professional reputationa spys spy. So when Robert Hanss
16、en decided to switch sides, he sent a letter to Cherkashin offering to work for the Russians. “I would not have contacted you,“ Hanssen wrote, “if it were not reported that you were held in esteem within your organization.“ Today, Cherkashin, 69, is a prosperous Moscow businessman. He owns a big hou
17、se in the suburbs and drives a light blue 1986 Chevrolet, a trophy car in the streets of Moscow. “Ive been on my pension now for 10 years,“ he said when NEWSWEEK contacted him by phone last week. “Im in the private-security business.“ Cherkashin didnt want to discuss the Hanssen case. “I dont like t
18、o talk about other peoples affairs,“ said the former spymaster. He Wasnt alone; no one in the Kremlin wanted to talk publicly about the exposure of Hanssen either. But that doesnt mean the Russians are bashful about spying on America. President Vladimir Putin, himself a former colonel in the now def
19、unct KGB, has revived the fortunes of Russian intelligence agencies. Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who defected to Britain in 1985, estimates that the number of Russian spies now in the United States has reached “a record figuremore than 300“. In Putin-style espionage, ideology is out, and so are m
20、ost acts of subversion aimed at the United States. What Russia needs now is information: military, technological and economic. Putin wants quick growth for Russias defense industry, sensing lucrative markets overseas. But he has written that it would take as many as 15 years for Russia to catch up w
21、ith even the poorest countries in the West. “Scientific institutes wont be able to do it; it costs a lot of money,“ says Jolanta Darczewska, a Polish expert on Russia s intelligence establishment. “Its better to stealcheaper and faster.“ Like many other Russian agents in the United States, Hanssen a
22、pparently was mothballed by the Kremlin after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. His masters feared he might be exposed by a security breach in Moscow, and they were getting information of more immediate value from their mole in the CIA, Aldrich Ames, anyway. The intelligence agencies began a
23、 comeback under Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, another former spymaster. Then, a few weeks after Putin became Boris Yeltsins prime minister in 1999, Hanssen was “reactivated“. With espionage picking up again, his counterintelligence know-how may have given Moscow a map of Americas defenses against
24、 spies. Putin purports not to care about Washingtons reaction to Russian spying. “During the Yeltsin years, they had instructions to avoid any scandals that would spoil relations with the West,“ says Gordievsky. “What Putin told his foreign-intelligence agency was, Don t worry. Im not afraid of scan
25、dals.“ What Putin may be worded about, however, is moles in his own security service. Some of the information revealed in the FBI affidavit last week has touched off a wave of concern in Moscow. The Russians fear it could only have been obtained from a source within Russian intelligence, and that ha
26、s led officials to suspect U.S. infiltration into the SVR. “If you look at the affidavit, they have documents from the archive of the SVR,“ said Oleg Kalugin, the former KGB general who says he brought Cherkashin to Washington. “Some of the references are from 1999.“ There were no Russian defectors
27、from that time who could have provided the Americans with the information, officials say. So are Washington and Moscow back to a spy-vs.-spy standoff? Gordievsky, among others, thinks Russian intelligence may have misread the new Bush administration, predicting it would be more “pragmatic“ and easie
28、r to work with than the Clinton White House. But so far, Washington has been no pushover. Bush advisers like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insist that the United States will go ahead with a national missile defense system, despite Russias opposition. Last week Moscow had to back down a bit, stre
29、ssing its willingness to talk about a missile shield. As Robert Hanssen has learned, intelligence is hardly a sure thing. 21 In Putin-style espionage, _. （ A） ideology is out, and most acts of subversion are aimed at the United States （ B） the aim of its ideology is to subvert the United States （ C）
30、 ideology and most acts of subversion aimed at the United States are out-dated （ D） ideology and most acts of subversion aimed at the United States are in the open air 22 Hanssen apparently was mothballed by the Kremlin after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 in part because _. （ A） his maste
31、rs feared he might be exposed by a security breach in the United States （ B） they were getting information of more immediate value from their mole in the CIA, Aldrich Ames through various means （ C） they can at least use Aldrich Ames, whose information is of more immediate value （ D） both A and B 23
32、 Hanssen was reactivated because _. （ A） espionage was reactivated （ B） his knowledge of counterintelligence might help Moscow understand how America defends against spies （ C） Aldrich Ames had been exposed and arrested by FBI （ D） he knew the names of many US spies in Russia 24 In the last paragrap
33、h, Gordievsky thinks that _. （ A） Washington and Moscow are back to a spy-vs.-spy standoff （ B） Russian intelligence, predicting the new Bush administration would be more “pragmatic“ and easier to work with than the Clinton White House, may have misread the new Bush administration （ C） Russian intel
34、ligence may have misread the new Bush administration, because he predicts it would be more “pragmatic“ and easier to work with than the Clinton White House （ D） Washington has been no pushover 25 What does the sentence imply: “As Robert Hanssen has learned, intelligence is hardly a sure thing.“? （ A
35、） He shouldnt have counted on the chances of not being exposed. （ B） It is hard to predict whether the Bush Administration would be more “pragmatic“ and easier to work with or not. （ C） Moscow had to back down a bit, stressing its willingness to talk about a missile shield. （ D） Both A and B 25 Auth
36、or Emma Heathcote-James has spent nine years looking into real-life ghost stories, collecting tales from hundreds of people who claim to have seen evidence of an afterlife. The 27-year-old started her research at university and her thesis was turned into a BBC documentary that she re-wrote as her de
37、but bestseller Seeing Angels. The book prompted so many people to write to her with their ghostly experiences that she used them for a second book After Death Communication, which has just been released in paperback. Her new book They Walk Among Us describes s6ances with mediums who can summon solid
38、 ghosts out of thin air. While working on the book she invited a medium to her home in the Cotswolds to demonstrate a form of ghostly communication where spirits take over the body. She explained: “This medium came to my house, sat in my front room, and went into a trance. An old mans body just appe
39、ared over the top of the mediumhe turned into an old man right in front of me. I was absolutely terrified at firsthis hands became all arthritic and rheumatoid and his voice was old and staggered. The lights in my old cottage were going mad, going up and down by themselves but they had never done it
40、 before or since.” Emma added: “The old man spoke to my boyfriend Paul and asked him to take the medium s pulse. Paul, an army doctor, felt his wrist and said I think hes deadbut he wasnt, he had let the spirit take him over.” They Walk Among Us tells stories of people like Nick McGlynn, who was reu
41、nited with his wife Marie during a seance. She spoke to him through a medium hours after dying in hospital from multiple organ failure. Nick recalls the moment, halfway through the s6ance, when he heard his wife for the first time: “A fairly weak voice said, Nick, Nick Im home, Im home, in the speci
42、al way I used to announce my arrival to her when I came home.“ He says he told her he was happy for her, and that she thanked him for staying with her in hospital and told him: “I want you to have a ball. Go out and have a good time.“ Emma says these paranormal experiences are “as natural as the sun
43、 and the rain“ and since the books release last month she s had hundreds more letters from readers. She adds: “Its such a huge subject, I feel like I am on the tip of a massive iceberg. “After the first book there were so many letters that the second one wrote itself.“ One miraculous tale retold in
44、After Death Communication is that of Dave Barber, who believes his dead grandmother saved him from drowning. Dave describes the day he almost died swimming with his son: “As neither my wife or I can swim we sat at the side of the pool, watching my son splash about. I decided to climb into the shallo
45、ws and join in the fun. Almost immediately, I slipped, and fell.“ As he lay at the bottom of the pool Dave saw a “white mist“ at the end, which got closer until he saw his dead grandmother emerge from it. “Her arms were outstretched towards me and she was dressed in a white silken gown,“ he says. “S
46、uddenly, I was aware that my nine-year-old son had dived in to save me. He was banging my head on the floor of the pool in an effort to lift me. My grandmother, Amelia, was now very close and I knew that if I turned to her, I would die. I looked at my son and knew he needed me. Immediately, the pain
47、 returned, I felt myself rising through the water and I blacked-out.“ 26 Author Emma Heathcote-James has at least written _ books telling real-life ghost stories. （ A） one （ B） two （ C） three （ D） four 27 The author believes the medium had let the spirit take him over because _ （ A） he used his hand
48、s to gesticulate （ B） the author s boyfriend thinks so （ C） many people in the cottage were going mad （ D） his pulse stopped beating for sometime 28 In the story told by Nick McGlynn, _. （ A） his dead wife spoke to him in a tone he used to announce his arrival to her （ B） his wife spoke to him who died a few hours ago, in a tone he used to announce his arrival （ C） his dead wife spoke to him in a tone she used to announce her arrival （ D） none of the above 29 In the story told by Dave Barber, _. （ A） he was finally saved by his grandmother （ B） he was finally saved by his nine-y
