1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 152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 Leaving Home Generally, most people have in their minds a picture of their “ideal home“, but if you are s
3、tudents or people just beginning work, the practical limitations of money and location may prevent them from finding this ideal home. Serveral ideas for you to follow: . To stay at home for a while when leaving school: 1) many advantages while staying at home; 2) depending much on how you【 1】 _ your
4、 family. 【 1】 _ . To stay in your home area by renting a house or a fiat: 1) cannot inviting your【 2】 _ to visit you freely; 【 2】 _ 2) would be rather unhappy if not geting on well with your【 3】 _. 【 3】_ . To ask【 4】 _ on campus for help in finding houses: 【 4】 _ 1) difficult in some areas because o
5、f a【 5】 _ student population; 【 5】_ 2) many【 6】 _ not willing to rent rooms to students. 【 6】 _ . To share【 7】 _ with some other students: 【 7】 _ 1) very cheap rent; 2) no old people watching over; 3) and the housework shared with room-mates; 4) causing problems if having【 8】 _ characters. 【 8】 _ .T
6、o try a bed-sitter-one room that you use as a bedroom and sitting room【 9】 _: 【 9】 _ 1) not very expensive rent; 2) easy to keep clean and cheap and to heat; 3) simple to make it feel like a real home; 4) may be always【 10】 _ if cooking; 【 10】 _ 5) might be hanging your wet clothes all round the roo
7、m; 6) can be very lonely at first. 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 th
8、e end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 What 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 pho
9、tography. （ B） Going to concerts frequently. （ C） Playing traditional jazz and folk music. （ D） Travelling in Europe by hitch-hiking. 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）
10、An export salesman working overseas. （ B） An accountant working in the company. （ C） A production manager in a branch. （ D） A policy 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） Tr
11、ainees performance is evaluated when necessary. （ C） Trainees starting salary is 870 pounds. （ D） Trainees cannot quit the management 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 en
12、d of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What do you know about the attack? （ A） It killed 60 Iraqi Shias. （ B） It happened 14 miles from the capital. （ C） No one claimed the responsibility. （ D） Even Iraqis felt terrible. 17 Three British soldiers were killed in
13、_. （ A） the tanker attack （ B） a fighting happened in a Shia city （ C） a blast happened in al-Amarah （ D） the battle with Shia gunmern 18 How much did the Queen spend after attending a performance at La Scala in Milan this evening? （ A） $6,020. （ B） $440. （ C） $6,460. （ D） $6,202. 19 The Queen Mothe
14、r, for instance, is happy to have her name used in advertisements for the following EXCEPT_. （ A） the morning cereal Weetabix （ B） HP Sauce （ C） Kimberley Clark （ D） Cigarettes by Abdullah 20 From the news we know Englands Queen is _. （ A） extravagance （ B） pride （ C） popular （ D） economical 20 A Fr
15、enchman, the psychologist Alfred Binet, published the first standardized test of human intelligence in 1905. But it was an American, Lewis Terman, a psychology professor at Stanford, who thought to divide a test takers “mental age“, as revealed by that score, by his or her chronological age to deriv
16、e a number that he called the “intelligence quotient“, or IQ. It would be hard to think of a pop-scientific coinage that has had a greater impact of the way people think about themselves and others. No country embraced the IQ-and the application of IQ testing to restructure society-more thoroughly t
17、han the U.S Every year millions of Americans have their IQ measured, many with a direct descendant of Binets original test, the Stanford-Binet, although not necessarily for the purpose Binet intended. He developed his test as a way of identifying public school students who needed extra help in learn
18、ing, and that is still one of its leading uses. But the broader and more controversial use of IQ testing has its roots in a theory of intelligence-part science, part sociology -that developed in the late 19th century, before Bintes work and entirely separate from it. Championed first by Charles Darw
19、in s cousin Francis Galton, it held that intelligence was the most valuable human attribute, and that if people who had a lot of it could be identified and put in leadership positions, all of society would benefit. Terman believed IQ tests should be used to conduct a great sorting out of the populat
20、ion, so that young people would be assigned on the basis of their scores to particular levels in the school system, which would lead to corresponding socioeconomic destinations in adult life. The beginning of the IQ-testing movement overlapped with the eugenics movement-hugely popular in America and
21、 Europe among the “better sort“ before Hitler gave it a bad name-which held that intelligence was mostly inherited and that people-deficient in it should be discouraged from reproducing. The state sterilization that Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes notoriously endorsed in a 1927 Supreme Court decision
22、was done with an IQ score as justification. The American IQ promoters scored a great coup during World War I when they persuaded the Army to give IQ tests to 1.7 million inductees. It was the worlds first mass administration of an intelligence test, and many of the standardized tests in use today ca
23、n be traced back to it: the now ubiquitous and obsessed-over SAT(Study Ability Test); the Wechsler, taken by several million people a year, according to its publisher; and Terman s own National Intelligence Test, originally used in tracking elementary school children. All these tests took from the A
24、rmy the basic technique of measuring intelligence mainly by asking vocabulary questions (synonyms, antonyms, analogies, reading comprehension). 21 According to Termons theory, a twelve-year-old boys mental age is 10, then his IQ number is about_. （ A） 0.8 （ B） 0.9 （ C） 1.0 （ D） 1.2 22 IQ test is ori
25、gin ally used to _. （ A） find out the students who need extra help in learning （ B） assign young people to different majors （ C） select the acceptable recruits for army （ D） select the leaders for society 23 The viewpoint that intelligence was mostly inherited and people deficient in intelligence sh
26、ould be discouraged from reproducing was held by _. （ A） IQ-testing movement （ B） Eugenic movement （ C） Hitler （ D） both IQ-testing and Eugenic movements 24 What does the author probably mean by “scored a great coup“ (Para. 5)? （ A） Failed. （ B） Succeeded. （ C） Criticized. （ D） Advocated. 24 So far,
27、 inflation is roaring in only a few sectors of the economy. While platinum has soared 121 percent, soybeans have risen 115 percent, and an index of Real Estate Investment Trusts has climbed 42 percent since May 2001, the consumer price index (CPI) has gone up only 4.2 percent during the same period.
28、 The challenge is figuring out what happens next. Astute investors are asking two questions: 1) Will the dollar continue to decline? 2) Which assets will continue to inflate? The value of the dollar matters because much of what Americans buy comes from abroad. And in the past two years, the dollar h
29、as been slipping badly: down some 25 percent against a basket of foreign currencies, including the euro and the yen. That makes imported goods more expensive. If the dollar falls further, the rise in prices could boost inflation. And thats exactly what some analysts predict. “This is not a run-of-th
30、e-mill problem where the currency corrects 25 percent“ then stabilizes, says David Tice, Dallas-based manager of the Prudent Global Income Fund. “We have an economy thats very dependent upon ever-increasing amounts of debt. Look at borrowing in this country for automobiles and housing. At the federa
31、l level, we are creating credit as if it is going out of style. Given that, we think the dollar can decline substantially more from here.“ Thats why Mr. Tices income fund has invested in government bonds in countries that are major trading partners of the US. These bonds tend to increase in value as
32、 the dollar weakens. There are other ways for investors to protect themselves from inflation. For example: TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities) are US government bonds that increase both principal and interest payments in line with the CPI/U, which measures prices for urban dwellers. Thus,
33、 if the price of consumer goods goes up, TIPS owners get a boost in their rate of return. Thats a level of inflation protection that most bonds and money-market funds dont provide. Still, there are no guarantees. If real interest rates rise faster than inflation, TIPS can lose value if they re not h
34、eld to maturity. “TIPS have generally been less volatile than traditional bonds,“ but investors have already seen periods when their inflation-protection doesnt match the actual rise in prices, warns Duane Cabrera, head of the personal financial planning group at Vanguard, based in Valley Forge, Pa.
35、 For example, the year-over-year change in the CPI/U is running about 1.9 percent, he points out, but college costs have been rising about 5 percent annually. Investors should also discuss the tax consequences with their investment advisers, Mr. Cabrera notes. On the stock front, investors can also
36、turn to natural-resource stocks or mutual funds that invest in them. A slightly more exotic option: exchange-traded funds, which act like mutual funds but trade like stocks. Commodities offer another avenue for profit during inflationary times. Individual investors probably want to avoid commodity t
37、rading, often a wild and woolly experience. But certain mutual funds offer share- holders a chance to profit when commodity prices go up. The PIMCO Commodity Real Return Fund, for example, provides exposure to the performance of the Dow-Jones AIG Commodity Index while generating income from TIPS. An
38、other option: the Oppenheimer Real Asset Fund, which is actively managed and tracks the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index. Theres no clear winner between these stock funds and the commodities their companies have invested in. When commodity prices are hiring, natural-resource firms can protect themselve
39、s by hedging their risks, says Kevin Baum, portfolio manager of the Oppenheimer Real Asset Fund. On the other hand, hedging may keep them from benefiting when commodity prices rise. And the stocks can be more volatile than the commodities themselves. Gold funds typically are three times more volatil
40、e than the price of gold itself. Sometimes, the commodities and funds tied to those commodities move in opposite directions, Mr. Baum says. PIMCO s Mr. Harris is quick to note that many commodity prices have been soaring. So the key question is: Which ones will continue to rise in price? Individual
41、investors should maintain strict discipline when they pick commodities funds, he says. 25 “We have an economy thats very dependent upon ever-increasing amounts of debt. Look at borrowing in this country for automobiles and housing. At the federal level, we are creating credit as if it is going out o
42、f style. Given that, we think the dollar can （ A） the US economy is very dependent upon ever-increasing amounts of debt （ B） the amount of borrowing today in the US for automobiles and housing is getting bigger and bigger （ C） one of the main reasons for the depreciation of dollar is the ever increa
43、sing amounts of US domestic debts （ D） the US federal government is creating credit because the people have already showed unwillingness to be indebted 26 Which of the following is NOT a feasible way for investors to protect themselves from inflation? （ A） To invest in government bonds in countries
44、that are major trading partners of the US. （ B） To hold TIPS always to maturity. （ C） To turn to natural-resource stocks or mutual funds that invest in them. （ D） To try Commodities sometimes. 27 Which of the following is true about the commodity trading? （ A） When commodity prices are falling, natu
45、ral-resource firms loses money. （ B） Stock funds benefit when commodity prices rise. （ C） Individual investors should hold on to a commodities fund when they have decided upon it. （ D） Market performances of the stock funds and the commodities they have invested in are not necessarily the same. 28 “
46、If real interest rates rise faster than inflation, TIPS can lose value if theyre not held to maturity.“ In the 7thparagraph, this suggests all of the following except that_. （ A） the market performance of most bonds are rather sensitive to the fluctuation of real interest rates （ B） TIPS is a kind o
47、f long-term bond （ C） most traders prefer bonds with a safe rate of return （ D） TIPS tends to be inactive on the market because of light trading of this bond 29 If the dollar continues to decline, which of the following would be a possible result? （ A） Prices would fall. （ B） Importing would become
48、expensive. （ C） Pressure of inflation would be lessened. （ D） Consumers would be more willing to borrow money from banks. 29 Since ancient times, people have dreamed of leaving their home planet and exploring other worlds. In the later half of the 20th century, that dream became reality. The space age began with the launch of the first artificial satellites in 1963. A human first went into space in 1963. Since then, astronauts and cosmonauts have ventured into space for ever greater lengths of time, even living aboard orbiting space stations for months on end. Two dozen people have circled
