1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 191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 How Deer Survive Winter Like most of the wild animals, deer survive the cold winter by using energy store
3、d in the summer and fall, usually in the form of【 1】【 1】 _ _. They also spend【 2】 _energy in winter than in 【 2】 _ summer. Deer always give birth to their fawns in May or June. This is good【 3】 _, because it coincides with the time when【 3】 _ plenty of new plants are available. The mother deer must
4、have enough food both to meet the needs of their own bodies and to【 4】 _ produce【 4】 _for their fawns. As the fawns grow, they become less and less【 5】 _on their mothers. As winter 【 5】 _ comes, deers hair becomes darker and【 6】 _. Besides, 【 6】 _ nature provides another【 7】 _to help them survive th
5、e 【 7】 _ cold weather. They become somewhat slow and drowsy. Their heart rate【 8】 _This is an internal physiological 【 8】 _ response which is to【 9】 _their cost of energy. 【 9】 _ All these practices and responses that increase deers chances of survival in winter are the result of thousands Of years
6、of【 10】 _. 【 10】 _ 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 int
7、erview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to Mr. Bacon, people keep snakes because _. （ A） they like them as pets （ B） they like them although they dont have them as pets （ C） they use them to frighten other people （
8、 D） they are keen on snake meat 12 From the conversation, we can conclude that the Royal-RSPCA must be _. （ A） a zoo with various animals （ B） a market selling various animals （ C） an organization for the protection of animals （ D） an organization for the protection of children 13 Animals are good f
9、or old peoples health in the sense that animals _. （ A） animals can look after them in hospital and home （ B） animals can be their good companions （ C） are more reliable than people （ D） can help them establish more social contacts 14 The lipstick marks on the animals heads show that people _. （ A）
10、are cruel with their animals （ B） spend more money on animals than on their children （ C） are treating their animals too well （ D） are making up their animals 15 According to Mr. Bacon, the best part of his job is _. （ A） the excitement involved with the possible danger （ B） the small amount of pape
11、r work （ C） the veterinary medicine （ D） the delivering of new animals 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 questio
12、ns. 16 According to the news, Jose Padilla _. （ A） is an American （ B） kidnapped two U.S. citizens （ C） was born in Afghanistan （ D） received terrorist training from the Afghan government 17 Al Qaeda leaders helped Jose Padilla _. （ A） blow up an apartment building in the U. S. （ B） gain access to s
13、ufficient natural gas and explosives （ C） prepare for a terrorist attack with natural gas （ D） store natural gas in an apartment building 18 Which of the following is NOT included as one of Padillas targets for terrorist attack? （ A） New York City. （ B） Washington. （ C） Florida. （ D） Chicago. 19 Acc
14、ording to the news, Iraqi Shiite militiamen have _. （ A） fought with U.S. troops （ B） broken a truce with U.S. troops （ C） clashed with Iraqi police （ D） killed 6 people during the clash 20 It can be inferred that Iraqi Prime Minister Was condemning _ for the cost of 200 million dollars on the count
15、ry. （ A） Iraqi militants （ B） Iraqi police （ C） U, S. troops （ D） Both A and C 20 Telecommunications stand for devices and systems that transmit electronic or optical signals across long distances. Telecommunications enables people around the world to contact one another, to access information insta
16、ntly, and to communicate from remote areas. Telecommunications usually involves a sender of information and one or more recipients linked by a technology, such as a telephone system, that transmits information from one place to another. Telecommunications enables people to send and receive personal
17、messages across town, between countries, and to and from outer space. It also provides the key medium for delivering news, data, information, and entertainment. Telecommunications devices convert different types of information, such as sound and video, into electronic or optical signals. Electronic
18、signals typically travel along a medium such as copper wire or are carried over the air as radio waves. Optical signals typically travel along a medium such as strands of glass fibers. When a signal reaches its destination, the device on the receiving end converts the signal back into an understanda
19、ble message, such as sound over a telephone, moving images on a television, or words and pictures on a computer screen. Telecommunications messages can be sent in a variety of ways and by a wide range of devices. The messages can be sent from one sender to a single receiver (point-to-point) or from
20、one sender to many receivers (point-to-multipoint). Personal communications, such as a telephone conversation 15etween two people or a facsimile (fax) message (see Facsimile Transmission), usually involve point-to-point transmission. Point-to-multipoint telecommunications, often called broadcasts, p
21、rovide the basis for commercial radio and television programming. Telecommunications begin with messages that are converted into electronic or optical signals. Some signals, such as those that carry voice or music, are created in an analog or wave format, but may be converted into a digital or mathe
22、matical format for faster and more efficient transmission. The signals are then sent over a medium to a receiver, where they are decoded back into a form that the person receiving the message can understand. There are a variety of ways to create and decode signals, and many different ways to transmi
23、t signals. Individual people, businesses, and governments use many different types of telecommunications systems. Some systems, such as the telephone system, use a network of cables, wires, and switching stations for point-to-point communication. Other systems, such as radio and television, broadcas
24、t radio signals over the air that can be received by anyone who has a device to receive them. Some systems make use of several types of media to complete a transmission. For example, a telephone call may travel by means of copper wire, fiber-optic cable, and radio waves as the call is sent from send
25、er to receiver. All telecommunications systems are constantly evolving as telecommunications technology improves. Many recent improvements, for example, offer high-speed broadband connections that are needed to send multimedia information over the Internet. Personal computers have pushed the limits
26、of the telephone system as more and more complex computer messages are being sent over telephone lines, and at rapidly increasing speeds. This need for speed has encouraged the development of digital transmission technology. The growing use of personal computers for telecommunications has increased
27、the need for innovations in fiber-optic technology. Telecommunications and information technologies are merging and converging. This means that many of the devices now associated with only one function may evolve into more versatile equipment. This convergence is already happening in various fields.
28、 Some telephones and pagers are able to store not only phone numbers but also names and personal information about callers. Wireless phones with keyboards and small screens can access the Internet and send and receive email messages. Personal computers can now access information and video entertainm
29、ent and are in effect becoming a combined television set and computer terminal. Television sets can access the Internet through add-on appliances. Future modifications and technology innovations may blur the distinctions between appliances even more. Convergence of telecommunications technologies ma
30、y also trigger a change in the kind of content available. Both television and personal computers are likely to incorporate new multimedia, interactive, and digital features. However, in the near term, before the actualization of a fully digital telecommunications world, devices such as modems will s
31、till be necessary to provide an essential link between the old analog world and the upcoming digital one. 21 Which of the aspects of telecommunication is NOT mentioned in the passage? （ A） Current development. （ B） Transmission of message. （ C） Computer networking. （ D） Government regulation. 22 In
32、this passage, “optical“ can be understood as related to. （ A） light （ B） audio （ C） electronics （ D） multimedia 23 According to the passage, _ has become the driving force for the development of telephone system? （ A） information technologies （ B） Internet （ C） PC （ D） convergence of telecommunicati
33、ons technologies 24 What can be concluded about “modem“? （ A） It converts data from one form to another. （ B） It will be out of date soon. （ C） It serves as a link between senders and recipients of message. （ D） It transmits message more efficiently than other devices. 25 Television is a _ in the tr
34、ansmission of message. （ A） sender （ B） receiver （ C） transmitting device （ D） none of the above 25 Thomas Hardys impulses as a writer, all of which he indulged in his novels, were numerous and divergent, and they did not always work together in harmony. Hardy was to some degree interested in explor
35、ing his characters psychologies, though impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy. Occasionally he felt the impulse to comedy (in all its detached coldness) as well as the impulse to farce, but he was more often inclined to see tragedy and record it. He was also inclined to literary realism in the
36、 several senses of that phrase. He wanted to describe ordinary human beings; he wanted to speculate on their dilemma rationally (and, unfortunately, even schematically); and he wanted to record precisely the material universe, Finally, he wanted to be more than a realist. He wanted to transcend what
37、 he considered to be the banality of solely recording things exactly and to express as well his awareness of the occult and the strange. In his novels these various impulses were sacrificed to each other inevitably and often. Inevitably, because Hardy did not care in the way that novelists such as F
38、laubert or James cared, and therefore took paths of least resistance. Thus, one impulse often surrendered to a fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting a compromise, simply disappeared. A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part
39、 of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower. In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one, and thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style. But on other occasions Hardy abandoned a perilous, risky
40、, and highly energizing impulse in favor of what was for him the fatally relaxing impulse to classify and schematize abstractly. When a relaxing impulse was indulged, the stylethat sure index of an authors literary worthwas certain to become verbose. Hardys weakness derived from his apparent inabili
41、ty to control the comings and goings of these divergent impulses and from his unwillingness to cultivate and sustain the energetic and risky ones. He submitted to first one and then another, and the spirit blew where it listed; hence the unevenness of any one of his novels. His most controlled novel
42、, Under the Greenwood Tree, prominently exhibits two different but reconcilable impulsesa desire to be a realist-historian and a desire to be a psychologist of lovebut the slight interlockings of plot are not enough to bind the two completely together. Thus even this book splits into two distinct pa
43、rts. 26 The most appropriate title for the passage could be _. （ A） Under the Greenwood Tree: Hardys Ambiguous Triumph （ B） The Real and the Strange: The Novelists Shifting Realms （ C） Hardys Novelistic Impulses: The Problem of Control （ D） Divergent Impulses: The Issue of Unity in the Novel 27 We g
44、et the impression that the author seems to be _ Hardys impulses as a writer. （ A） amazed at （ B） critical of （ C） fed up with （ D） interested in 27 During the first half of the seventeenth century, when the nations of Europe were quarreling over who owned the New World, the Dutch and the Swedes foun
45、ded competing villages ten miles apart on the Delaware River. Not long afterward, the English took over both places and gave them new names, New Castle and Wilmington. For a century and a half the two villages grew rapidly, but gradually Wilmington gained all the advantages. It was a little closer t
46、o Philadelphia, so when new textile mills opened, they opened in Wilmington, not in New Castle. There was plenty of water power from rivers and creeks at Wilmington, so when young Irenee DuPont chose a place for his gunpowder mill, it was Wilmington he chose, not New Castle. Wilmington became a town
47、 and then a citya rather important city, much the largest in Delaware. And New Castle, bypassed by the highways and waterways that made Wilmington prosperous, slept ten miles south on the Delaware River. No two villages with such similar pasts could have gone such separate ways. Today no two places
48、could be more different. Wilmington, with its expressways and parking lots and all its other concrete ribbons and badges, is a tired old veteran of the industrial wars and wears a vacant stare; Block after city block where people used to live and shop is broken and empty. New Castle never had to mak
49、e way for progress and therefore never had any reason to tear down its Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century houses. So they are still here, standing in tasteful rows under ancient elms around the original town green. New Castle is still an agreeable place to live. The pretty buildings of its quiet past make a serene setting for the lives of 4,800 people. New Castle may b
