1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 200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 In business, many places adopt a credit system, which dates back to ancient times. At present, purchases
3、can be made by using credit cards. They fall into two categories: one has【 1】 _use, while 【 1】 _ the other is accepted almost everywhere. The application for the use of the latter one must be made at a 【 2】 _. 【 2】 _ Once the customer starts using the card, he will be provided with a monthly stateme
4、nt of【 3】 _ 【 3】 _ by the credit company. He is required to pay one quarter to half of his credit【 4】 _every 【 4】 _ month. Advantages. 1. With a card, it is not 【 5】 _to save up money before an actual pur- 【 5】 _ chase. 2. If the card is lost, its owner is protected. 3. A【 6】 _and complete list of p
5、urchase 【 6】 _ received from the credit company helps the owner to remember the time and【 7】 _of his purchase. 4.【 7】 _ The cards are accepted in a(n)【 8】 _by 【 8】 _ professional people like dentists, etc. Major disadvantage. The card owner is tempted to【 9】 _his money. If this is the case, it will【
6、 9】 _ become increasingly difficult for the user to keep up with the required【 10】 _, which will result in【 10】 _ the credit card being cancelled by the credit company. 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 he
7、ar 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 The interviewee believes that havi
8、ng all union employees is the _way of operating from an employers point of view. （ A） simplest （ B） most difficult （ C） most tedious （ D） least desirable 12 Joining a union gives an employer the security of never having to worry about_. （ A） recruiting （ B） productivity （ C） the workforce （ D） admin
9、istration 13 According to the interviewee, when an employee joins a union he becomes_. （ A） more independent （ B） his own bargaining agent （ C） less independent （ D） more troublesome 14 The interviewee believes that those who work for a non-union small business_. （ A） have far less freedom （ B） have
10、 more freedom （ C） have the same freedom （ D） lose their freedom 15 One advantage of a non-union business is being able to deal directly with_. （ A） shop stewards （ B） agents （ C） employees （ D） trade officials SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY.
11、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 Which of the following is NOT a form of recent violence? （ A） Murdering. （ B） Kidnapping. （ C） Arson. （ D） Raping. 17 How many people fell victims in the
12、 market bombing and the hospital fire? （ A） 51. （ B） 72. （ C） 67. （ D） 70. 18 A demonstration was held to _. （ A） protest the governments crackdown on its opponents （ B） defy the attempt to assassinate President Augusto Pinochet （ C） celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of the military takeover （ D）
13、 support the Chilean Human Rights Commission 19 Heavily armed soldiers were stationed along major downtown streets _. （ A） to safeguard the demonstrators （ B） to prevent the demonstrators from marching ahead （ C） to protect President Augusto Pinochet （ D） to arrest members of the Chilean Human Right
14、s Commission 20 Carrascos wife said he was _ by men claiming to be police. （ A） called back from his office （ B） abducted on his way home （ C） arrested outside their home （ D） roused from bed 20 An adult giraffes head is about six feet above its heart. This means that to pump enough blood up to the
15、brain the circulatory system must be strong enough to keep the blood at very high pressure. Biologists have known for some time that giraffes solve this problem by having unusually high blood pressure, about double that of human beings. But an international team of biologists began to wonder about t
16、his. If giraffes have such high blood pressure, they should have a terrible problem with swelling in their legs and feet. Why dont giraffes have swollen feet? Giraffes should have another problem, too. Every time they bend heads down to drink, the blood should rush to their heads and have a hard tim
17、e flowing back up (when the head is down)to the heart. How come giraffes dont black out when they drink? The answer to the swollen feet problem, the researchers found, is that giraffes have what the researchers call a “natural anti-gravity suit“. It turns out that the skin and other tissues in their
18、 legs and feet are much stiffer and tougher than those of other animals. As a result, the blood vessels in the leg cannot swell. Therefore, the blood has nowhere to go but back to the heart. What about blood rushing to the head whenever the giraffe bends down to drink? The researchers found that the
19、 giraffes jugular vein, which carries blood from the head back to the heart, has lots of one-way valves in it. In the giraffes neck, there are lots of muscles that flex and relax repeatedly as the animal moves its head and sucks up drinking water. By squeezing the valved jugular vein, they keep bloo
20、d moving back to the heart even while the animal is drinking. 21 Giraffes do not have swollen legs because_. （ A） their legs and feet have strong skin and muscles （ B） their blood vessels are stiff and tough legs （ C） they wear a kind of special suit （ D） there are lots of one-way valves in the vein
21、s of their legs 22 The passage is mainly about_. （ A） what physical features the giraffe has （ B） how the giraffes heart works （ C） how the giraffes heart pumps blood to its head （ D） how the giraffes can stand up to high blood pressure 22 In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer his
22、tory, the earths postwar era, there was quite a widespread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are faced with a les
23、s dramatic but also less foreseen problem. People tend to be over-trusting in computers and are reluctant to challenge their authority. Indeed, they behave as if they were hardly aware that wrong buttons may be pushed, or that a computer may simply malfunction. Obviously, there would be no point in
24、investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong. Questioning and routine double-checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they w
25、ere in pre-computer days. Maybe each computer should come with the warning: for all the help this computer may provide, it should not be seen as a substitute for fundamental thinking and reasoning skills. 23 According to the passage, the initial concern about computers was that they might_. （ A） cha
26、nge our personal lives （ B） take control of the world （ C） create unforeseen problems （ D） affect our businesses 24 It can be inferred from the passage that the author would disapprove of_. （ A） investment in computers （ B） the use of ones internal computer （ C） double-checks on computers （ D） compl
27、ete dependence on computers for decision-making 24 A long painful struggle with cancer and chemotherapy had caused baldness for Barbara Bassett, of Moorstown, N.J. The day her blonde hair fell out in clumps was, for Barbara, the worst day of her ordeal. Determined to use some form of camouflage, she
28、 tried a wig but found it itchy and hot. Scarves slipped off or clung too tightly, accentuating the problem. Finally, a friend suggested Barbara call her neighbor, Marie Stevens, an accomplished seamstress who worked at home. Barbara explained to Marie that she needed something between a scarf and a
29、 hat, with a shape that suggested hair beneath. It had to fasten securely, and had no opening that would reveal baldness. Sensing a kindred spirit, Marie agreed to work something up. She was no stranger to medical tragedy herself, having lost two of her seven children to cystic fibrosis. The design
30、itself was simple, a combination scarf/hat of light cotton and polyester that fit well, disguising the lack of hair. “Smart“ was the description Barbaras friends came up with. For Barbara, elegance was secondary to the scarfs greatest asset. “That silly little hat saved me, she told her friends. Sho
31、rtly after, Marie and Barbara formed a partnership selling scarves, which they called Hide we are the oldest when it comes to having found the government which suits it best. It is instructive to remember the 55 men who framed this document. Elder statesmen like George Washington and Benjamin Frankl
32、in contributed little to the debate but greatly to the stability and inspiration of the convention. Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most brilliant American of those days, missed the meetings entirely; he was on diplomatic duty in France. The hard central work of determining the form of government seem
33、s to have been done by a handful of truly great men. James Madison and George Mason of Virginia, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, James Wilson and Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania. Alexander Hamilton of New York did not speak much but did exert considerable influence. The 55 contained a college presid
34、ent, a banker, a merchant, a great teacher of law, a judge, a major, a clergyman, a state governor and a surgeon. One-sixth of the members were foreign born. Two were graduates of Oxford University, one of St. Andrews in Scotland. But the group also contained some real nonentities, including a milit
35、ary man who had been court-martialed for cowardice during the Revolution, some who contributed nothing to the debate, and some who were not quite able to follow what was being debated. What this mix of men did was create a miracle in which every American should take pride. Their decision to divide t
36、he power of the government into three parts-Legislative, Executive, Judicial-was a master stroke, as was the clever way in which they protected the interests of small states by giving each state two Senators, regardless of population, and the interest of large states by apportioning the House of Rep
37、resentatives according to population. But I think they should be praised mostly because they attended to those profound principles by which free men have through the centuries endeavored to govern themselves. The accumulated wisdom of mankind speaks in this Constitution. 27 What is the major point t
38、hat the author is making in the article? （ A） The Constitution, one of the great documents of the world, was written by fifty- five men of varying talents and backgrounds. （ B） The Constitution owes its greatness to the fact that it has never changed in a changing world. （ C） The Constitution was wr
39、itten by many people working together cooperatively. （ D） The Constitution was written by many people, all of whom were thinkers of the highest order. 28 Which of the following statements about the 55 men framing the Constitution is TRUE? （ A） Thomas Jefferson was not among them. （ B） All of them we
40、re famous. （ C） All of them contributed much to the framing. （ D） George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were among them. 28 The science of wildlife management is actually quite new. It is the third major phase of the original conservation movement. The first phase involved the preservation of wild
41、life through laws and hunting regulations. This phase was a reaction against the terrible destruction of many wild creatures. The second phase involved the control of certain birds and animals that were preying on other wildlife and causing their decline. However, the first two phases of the conserv
42、ation movement had serious limitations. The new laws allowed certain animals to increase so much that they actually “ate up“ their habitat. Many of them starved to death because the land simply could not provide for them all. Something had to be done. This is how careful wildlife management came int
43、o being. One of the chief concerns of wildlife management is the protection and improvement of the natural habitat so that animals have enough food and water to survive. Wildlife management involves care of the soil to produce good vegetation. It involves care of plants and bushes, not only as a sou
44、rce of food, but also as protection. Animals needs cover to hide from their natural enemies and to raise their young safely. Just as crops are harvested, wildlife too must sometimes be “harvested“. By allowing limited hunting and fishing, good management can control certain species that threaten to
45、overpopulate their habitat. Another major part of the wildlife management is the increasing of certain species by artificial means. Some creatures, like the whooping crane, were brought back from the edge of extinction in this way. In order to save these species, members of wildlife teams have reare
46、d the young in the safety of research stations. 29 The passage is mainly about_. （ A） the history of the wildlife conservation movement （ B） the preservation of wildlife through laws （ C） wildlife management as a new approach （ D） protection and improvement of the habitat of animals 30 The main idea
47、 of the second paragraph is that_. （ A） the first two phases of the wildlife conservation movement failed （ B） the new laws made certain animals increase too rapidly （ C） there was not enough room for wild creatures to increase （ D） the excessive growth of certain animals caused their starvation 31
48、Good wildlife management includes all of the following EXCEPT_. （ A） carrying on a campaign against the terrible destruction of wild creatures （ B） preserving and improving the habitat （ C） regulating wildlife growth through hunting and fishing （ D） increasing wildlife population by artificial means 32 Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? （ A） The problem of wildlife conservation is quite new. （ B） There have been three phases i
