1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 14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. 1 White neighborhoods are becoming darker in 【 1】 _ and more expensive. Analysts say that soaring house pric
3、es and booming car sales are being fueled by an 【 2】 _ mobile black middle class emerging from the ashes of 【 3】 _. Blacks, who make up about 75 percent of South Africas 46.6 million people, are moving from the 【 4】 _ of the economy into the mainstream thanks to policies aimed at redressing decades
4、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. “The development of a black middle class was deliberately stunted under segregation and apa
5、rtheid,“ said the HSRCs Roger Southall. Although official figures are not 【 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 exclusively reserved for whites and ha
6、d limited access to bank credit. But the face of the former white suburbs has changed as blacks 【 8】 _ move from the townships in search of security and better municipal services. Living in posh suburbs is seen by many as a status symbol. “The black middle class is 【 9】 _ strongly to the growth of t
7、he property market and other sectors of the economy,“ says Jacques du Toit, an economist at banking group Absa. House prices rose by an 【 10】 _ of 30.3 percent in real terms in 2004, the highest since 1967, and business is also booming for auto traders, with a growing number of sales attributed to b
8、lack 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 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview
9、 you will be given 10 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 t
10、ired to choose a good 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
11、 had a sale, the belt which Mr. Alvin Lok liked priced at _. （ A） $100 （ B） $150 （ C） $20O （ 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） Acco
12、rding to Wendy, the problem 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 careful
13、ly 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 How could the researchers explore the mummy now? （ A） separate it （ B） use 3-D tech （ C） put something in it （ D） remove something from it 17 How can we get 3-D images
14、? （ A） use CAT and SGI （ B） use photograph （ C） use medicine （ D） use software 18 With more study, we could identify. （ A） objects within the wrappings （ B） Nesperennubs age （ C） his face （ D） A, B and C 19 The reasons why the church wanted to burn Harry Potter books didnt include that _. （ A） it be
15、lieved 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 lifves of many young people 20 Which statement is not true?
16、（ 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 Potter books on Sunday 21 Paula Jones case against Bill Clinton
17、 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 significance. For those of us who care about sexual harassment, the matter of Jones v. Clinton is a great conundrum. Consider: if Jones, the
18、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 she is proved to be lying, then we must accept that we pushed onto the public agenda an issue that is venerable to manipulati
19、on 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 this claim and have the process work. It will be difficult: these kinds of cases usually are, and Ms. Jones task of suing a sitti
20、ng 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 victims civil rights, and there is no better forum for determining and assessing those violations - and finding the truth - th
21、an 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 able to accomplish- witness the Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood affairs. One lesson: the legal arena, not the political o
22、ne, 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, are quite different. In 1991 the country was in the middle of a public debate over whether Clarence Thomas should be co
23、nfirmed 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 pending civil action - even one against the president - does not generally invite that kind of public engagement. Most of
24、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 the Jones-Clinton fray. But people from all walks of life remain open to her suit. We dont yet know which outcome we mu
25、st 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 in eliminating the problem that we have in the past, regardless of who is the accused or the accuser. The statistics s
26、how 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 paragraph mean? （ A） dilemma （ B） a kind of musical instrument （ C） a easy thing （ D） comfortable condition 22 According
27、 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 Judicial or ethics committees in determining and assessing those violations because _. （ A） the federal courts have much b
28、igger 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 According to the passage, the issue of sexual harassment must be dealt with seriously because _. （ A） the outcome
29、 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 According to the passage, sexual harassment is to _. （ A） violate politics. （ B） violate the Supreme Court. （ C） c
30、ast doubt on the whole issue. （ D） violate civil rights. 26 In his essay “The Parable of the Tapeworm,“ Mario Vargas Llosa argues that at the heart of the writers will to write is rebellion, a “rejection and criticism of life as it is.“ Moreover, he speculates, it is even possible that good literatu
31、re 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 attractive idea, and, in its way, a comforting one. Language is a lever that might move the enormous weight of the fic
32、kle, 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 realpolitik, a wish that a good novel - or story or poem - can literally remake history. When Luis Alberto Urrea began
33、his epic novel, “The Hummingbirds 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 be under a dark cloud. Two decades later, the situation seems even graver: the culture wars are more inte
34、nse 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 envisioned not in the marble reaches of the Vatican but in the populist pueblos of liberation theology, a Mexican
35、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, and her ascension over the course of 500 pages is a myth that is also a charmingly written manifesto. Urr
36、ea, 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 Highway“ and “Across the Wire,“ nonfiction accounts of hardscrabble lives on the Mexican-United States border
37、. 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, as Urrea discovered, the subject of some earlier scholarship, an “influential“ series of newspaper articles
38、 in the 1930s 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-Indian child of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Teresita, born in 1873 with a red triangle on her forehead, i
39、s 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 begins to perform miracles. The sick, the halt and the dying gather around her, and so do Mexican revoluti
40、onaries. “Everything the government does,“ Teresita preaches to them, “is morally wrong.“ This democratic groundswell inevitably results in a showdown with the Mexican authorities. Teresitas endurance - and survival - are literally and spiritually linked to the struggles of Mexico itself, a struggle
41、 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! God has workers hands. Just remember - angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers.“ 26 In the first par
42、agraph, 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 highly influential. 27 Concerning the main character of the novel, which of the following is NOT true?
43、（ 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 does the writer mean by saying “angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers“? Which of following i
44、s 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 to the orthodoxy ideas that true religion belongs to the upper class. （ D） This is saying that God
45、 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 to inspire readers. （ C） The book is an inspiring and happy ode to personal struggle. （ D） The bo
46、ok is focused on the lives and struggles of the Mexicans. 30 Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately its a dream that was, a twilit memory of the Golden Age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The pro
47、mise 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 world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor
48、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. S. “Liberalism would be less depressing if it had a more attainable end.“ Kaus writes,“ a goal short of money
49、 equality.“ Liberal Democrats should embrace an aim he calls civic equality. If government cant bring everyone into the middle class, let it expand the areas of life in which everyone, regardless 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 co
