1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 166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 The Problems of Taking English Courses Through English When students take courses through the medium of E
3、nglish, they have to face psychological, cultural and linguistic problems. Psychological problems: a. the fear of the【 1】 _the fear of the difficulty of academic 【 1】 _ learning and the fear of【 2】 _in examinations. 【 2】 _ b. Possible【 3】 _because of separation from his family. 【 3】 _ cultural probl
4、ems: 1. arranging satisfactory【 4】 _ 【 4】 _ 2. getting used to British life. 3. settling into a strange environment and a new academic【 5】 _ 【 5】_ 4. learning a new set of social【 6】 _ 【 6】 _ 5. expressing appropriate【 7】 _ 【 7】 _ 6. understanding a different kind of humor. 7. learning how to make f
5、riends. Linguistic problems: Students of non-English speaking countries have little【 8】 _ 【 8】 _ opportunity to practise using English. Students of non-English speaking countries have great difficulty in understanding what a native speaker of English says. The reasons are: a. English people speak ve
6、ry quickly. b. Everyday spoken English is different from【 9】 _ English 【 9】_ students have learnt. c. Students do not practise listening to English people. How to overcome these linguistic difficulties? Attending English classes. Using a language【 10】 _as much as possible. 【 10】 _ Listening to progr
7、ams in English on the radio and TV. Taking every opportunity to communicate with native English- speaking people. 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 answ
8、er 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 The conversation is primarily concerned with _. （ A） the development of the rubber indust
9、ry in Malaysia （ B） the impact of rubber industry on Malaysia （ C） the uneven distribution of wealth in Malaysia （ D） the current situation in Malaysia 12 What percentage does rubber industry account for in the Gross National Product in Malaysia? （ A） 12%. （ B） 20%. （ C） 30%. （ D） 13%. 13 Malaysia i
10、s in a good position internationally because _. （ A） it produces a large amount of rubber oil every year （ B） it is rich in fossil resources （ C） it is rich in rubber resources （ D） it is a wealthy country with a large population 14 How many people are involved with the production of rubber in Malay
11、sia? （ A） 13 million. （ B） 7 million. （ C） 3 million. （ D） 30 million. 15 Which of the following is NOT the problem a smallholder of rubber business has to face in Malaysia? （ A） Financial problems. （ B） Boredom. （ C） Fatigue. （ D） Lack of insurance schemes. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In t
12、his 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 The demonstration took Place in _. （ A） Berlin （ B） Mainz （ C） Washington D.C. （ D） Germony 17 The motto
13、of this demonstration is “ _.“ （ A） Terrorist No. 1 （ B） Bush swim home （ C） Not welcome, Mr. Bush （ D） Take away Bush 18 Whats true about Chinas family planning policies? （ A） Not work well. （ B） Increase the population number. （ C） Delay the increase of population. （ D） It will not exist in the ye
14、ar 2030. 19 According to the passage, which statement is NOT true? （ A） Putin says Russia will support any option of reforming the UNs Security Council approved by consensus. （ B） Putin made the remarks before talks with French President and German Chancellor. （ C） Russia will continue supporting Ge
15、rmany as candidate to the seat of permanent member of the UN Security Council. （ D） Chirac and Schroeder came to Kaliningrad to mark the 750th anniversary of the exclaves founding. 20 How many cultural sites have been proposed for inscription on the World Heritage List? （ A） 42 （ B） 28 （ C） IO （ D）
16、4 20 They sparkle and glitter in the light. No other rocks are so hard. They are very valuable. It might cost thousands and thousands of dollars to buy just one. Most are found in the ground. The largest ore ever discovered is as big as a mans fist. But most are tiny. Theyre diamonds! For hundreds o
17、f years men have risked their lives searching for diamonds. To many the discovery of this glittering treasure has seemed more important than the discovery of new lands. Fairy stories tell of brave knights who battled fierce dragons and evil wizards to win kingdom rich with diamonds. In the Tower of
18、Lon- don in England, there is a very special room protected by guards. There, inside a thick glass ease, are jeweled crowns once worn by kings and queens. People from all over the world come to see the shimmering diamonds and other precious stones that shine from behind the glass. Most diamonds seem
19、 to flash with a kind of white fire. But there are diamonds that sparkle in other colors, too. Sometimes diamonds are discovered in gravel at the bottom of rivers and streams. (To get these diamonds, the gravel is sucked up through giant hoses that act like vacuum cleaners.) Diamonds are found in ri
20、vers, on land, and in great stretches of hot desert sand. A few small ones are even found or near meteorites that strike the ground from outer space. But most diamonds are found in rocks deep inside the diamond mines of Africa. The diamonds were made millions and millions of years ago when flaming v
21、olcanoes melted a mineral called carbon which was a part of these rocks. Gigantic earthquakes shook the rock and pressed them tightly, together. The hot melted carbon in the rock squeezed at the same time-squee2ed so tightly that by the time it cooled, it had changed into the lovely hard gems called
22、 diamonds, To get at these valuable diamond rocks, workers ride in an elevator that goes down and down into the blackness far below the ground. Tunnels connect this deep shaft with the openings-called pipes-inside the ancient volcanoes. When they are first dug from the mines, diamonds dont glitter o
23、r sparkle as they do when we see them in tings or other jewelry. They look more like dull bits of glass. A man who knows all about diamonds-a diamond cutter-must cut them just right. Diamonds are so hard that nothing can cut them except the edge of another diamond. Using his diamond-edged tools, the
24、 diamond cutter carefully removes tiny pieces so that the diamond will have many sharp edges and smooth surfaces-like little windows. It is because of these shaft edges and smooth surfaces that the diamond reflects light, sparkles and flashes with tiny bursts of color, and seems almost ablaze with f
25、ire. Diamond cutters often use diamond saws. The fine powder-diamond dust-that is left after the sawing is done can be used in a kind of sandpaper to polish the sparking gems. Not all diamonds are clear enough or pretty enough or large enough to be made into jewelry. But because they are so hard, th
26、ey can be used for other things, such as points for drills and needles for record player. These diamonds are called industrial diamonds. Some of them are man made. Carbon is heated until it is hot and then squeezed. If men ever learn how to make it hot enough and to squeeze it tightly enough, they w
27、ill probably be able to make big diamonds. Then maybe diamonds will be cheap enough to use as buttons on your shirt or coat! (610) 21 The following are the characters of diamonds EXCEPT _. （ A） they sparkle and glitter in the light （ B） they are very hard （ C） they are very valuable （ D） they are ti
28、ny 22 Why knights fought bravely to win kingdoms rich with diamonds? （ A） Diamonds are very valuable. （ B） They want to become the richest man （ C） They think it is more important to discover diamonds than to discover new lands. （ D） They are eager for jeweled crowns. 23 Most diamonds can be found _
29、. （ A） in Africa （ B） in gravel at the bottom of rivers and streams （ C） in desert sand （ D） in or near meteorites 24 Diamonds are so hard that only _ can cut it. （ A） a man who knows all about diamonds （ B） diamond-edged tools （ C） a special cutter （ D） diamond cutter 25 Except jewelry, diamonds ca
30、n be used as _. （ A） crown （ B） industrial diamonds （ C） shirt （ D） coat 25 Proponents of different jazz styles have always argued that their predecessors, musical style did not include essential characteristics that define jazz as jazz. Thus, 1940s swing was belittled by beboppers of the 1950s, who
31、 were themselves attacked by free jazzers of the 1960s. The neoboppers of the 1980s and 1990s attacked almost everybody else. The titanic figure of black saxophonist John Coltrane bas complicated the arguments made by proponents of styles from bebop through neobop because in his own musical journey
32、he drew from all those styles. His influence on all types of jazz was immeasurable. At the height of his popularity, Coltrane largely abandoned playing bebop, the style that had brought him fame, to explore the outer reaches of jazz. Coltrane himself probably believed that the only essential charact
33、eristic of jazz was improvisation, the one constant in his journey from bebop to open-ended improvisations on modal, Indian, and African melodies. On the other hand, this dogged student and prodigious technician-who insisted on spending hours each day practicing scales from theory books-was never ab
34、le to jettison completely the influence of bebop, with its fast and elaborate chains of notes and ornaments on melody. Two stylistic characteristics shaped the way Coltrane played the tenor saxophone, and he favored playing fast runs of notes built on a melody and depended on heavy, regularly accent
35、ed beats. The first led Coltrane to “sheets of sound“ where he raced faster and faster, pile-driving notes into each other to suggest stacked harmonies. The second meant that his sense of rhythm was almost as close to rock as to bebop. Three recordings illustrate Coltranes energizing explorations. R
36、ecording Kind of Blue with Miles Davis, Coltrane found himself outside bop, exploring modal melodies. Here he played surging, lengthy solos built largely around repeated motifs-an organizing principle unlike that of free jazz saxophone player Ornette Coleman, who modulated or altered melodies in his
37、 solos. On Giant Steps, Coltrane debuted as leader, introducing his own compositions. Here the sheets of sound, downbeat accents, repetitions, and great speed are part of each solo, and the variety of the shapes of his phrases is unique. Coltranes searching explorations produced solid achievement. M
38、y Favorite Things was another kind of watershed. Here Coltrane played the soprano saxophone, an instrument seldom used by jazz musicians. Musically, the results were astounding. With the sopranos piping sound, ideas that had sounded dark and brooding acquired a feeling of giddy fantasy. When Coltran
39、e began recording for the Impulse! label, he was still searching. His music became raucous, physical. His influence on rockers was enormous, including Jimi Hendrix, the rock guitarist, who following Coltrane, raised the extended guitar solo using repeated motifs to a kind of rock art form. (451) 26
40、The primary purpose of the passage is to _. （ A） discuss the place of Coltrane in the world of jazz and describe his musical explorations （ B） examine the nature of bebop and contrast it with improvisational jazz （ C） acknowledge the influence of Coltranes music on rock music and rock musicians （ D）
41、 discuss the arguments that divide the proponents of different jazz styles 27 According to the passage, John Coltrane did all of the following during his career EXCEPT _. （ A） improvise on melodies from a number of different cultures （ B） spend time improving his technical skills （ C） experiment wit
42、h the sounds of various instruments （ D） eliminate the influence of bebop on his own music 28 The author mentions the work of Ornette Coleman in the fourth paragraph in order to _. （ A） expand the discussion by mentioning the work of a saxophone player who played in Coltranes style （ B） compare Colt
43、ranes solos with the work of another jazz artist （ C） support the idea that rational organizing principles need to be applied to artistic work （ D） indicate disagreement with the way Coltrane modulated the motifs in his lengthy solos 29 According to the passage, a major difference between Coltrane a
44、nd other jazz musicians was the _. （ A） degree to which Coltranes music encompassed all of jazz （ B） repetition of motifs that Coltrane used in his solos （ C） number of his own compositions that Coltrane recorded （ D） importance Coltrane placed on rhythm in jazz 30 In terms of its tone and form, the
45、 passage can best be characterized as _. （ A） dogmatic explanation （ B） indignant denial （ C） enthusiastic praise （ D） lukewarm review 30 Many objects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science, but their form and function, their dimensions and appearance, were determined by technologists,
46、 artisans, designers, inventors, and engineers using non-scientific modes of thought. Many features and qualities of the objects that a technologist thinks about cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in the mind by a visual, nonverbal process. In the development o
47、f Western technology, it has been non-verbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings. Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture in the minds of those who
48、built them. The creative shaping process of a technologists mind can be seen in nearly every artifact that exists. For example, in designing a diesel engine, a technologist might impress individual ways of nonverbal thinking on the machine by continually using an intuitive sense of rightness and fitness. What would be the shape of the combustion chamber? Where should the valves be placed? Should it have a long or short piston? Such questions have a range of answers that are supplied by experience, by physical requirements, by limitations of available space, and not least by a sen
