1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 203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 Do the Movies Do It? Have you ever seen movies in which a building was burned down or a bridge was de
3、stroyed? Have you seen films in which a train crashed or a ship sank into the ocean? If so, you may have wondered how these things could happen without【 1】 _ the people in the film. 【 1】 _ The man who knows the answer is the “special-effects“ man. He may be ordered to【 2】 _any kind of special effect
4、, from a flood 【 2】 _ or a battlefield explosion to an effect much less exciting in a film. For instance, in a scene there was a big glass bowl filled with water in which small fish were swimming. The【 3】 _ of the movie 【 3】 _ wanted the fish to stop swimming suddenly while seemed to stare at an act
5、or, and then to stop【 4】 _ and swim away. But fish cant be 【 4】 _ ordered to do anything. The special-effects man solved this problem by 【 5】 _ the fish with a harmless use of electricity. First he applied【 5】 _ electricity to the fish bowl causing the fish to be absolutely still. Then he rapidly【 6
6、】 _ the amount of electricity allowing the fish【 6】 _ to swim away. Thus the humorous effect was achieved. When explosives are used, as in battlefield scenes, special-effects men usually receive extra pay, for there is【 7】 _, and sometimes【 7】 _ there are accidents. For a large battlefield scene the
7、 special-effects man talks with the director,【 8】 _ the area and plans the effects【 8】 _ several days before the filming is to begin. He then places his explosives. In general, being a special-effect man requires【 9】 _, 【 9】 _ skill and experience. It also adds a great deal to the expense of produci
8、ng the film. It helps explain why so many movies are very 【 10】 _ to make. 【 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. Q
9、uestions 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 What do they talk about in the interview? （ A） A good memory is very important in studying English. （ B） The complex mov
10、ement of human brains. （ C） Human memory and how to use it. （ D） The importance of having a good memory. 12 According to Mr. White, the things to do to prepare one memory do not include _. （ A） associating （ B） describing （ C） understanding （ D） visualizing 13 Margaret finds that it is difficult for
11、 her to remember either the beginning or the end of the list. She solves this problem by _. （ A） placing the easier facts to remember near the beginning of the list （ B） placing the easier facts to remember near the end of the list （ C） placing the easier facts to remember on the top of the list （ D
12、） placing the easier facts to remember near the middle of her list 14 To overlearn means to learn things so well that one can _. （ A） write them down correctly （ B） recall them very easily and quickly （ C） recite them completely （ D） fully understand the meaning of them 15 In the interview, Mr. Whit
13、e has told Margaret _ ways to remember things. （ A） six （ B） five （ C） four （ D） three 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 an
14、swer the questions. 16 Which of the following statement is true according to the news report? （ A） Australia is to send 150 special forces troops back to Afghanistan by November. （ B） The deployment would last 20 months. （ C） The decision followed a request for support from the Afghan government, Br
15、itain and the United States. （ D） Members of the special forces unit are unwilling to patrol remote parts of Afghanistan. 17 Which city is the second to present in the show? （ A） Paris （ B） New York （ C） Moscow （ D） London 18 Where is the group of eight summit to be held this week? （ A） England （ B）
16、 Holland （ C） Ireland （ D） Scotland 19 The bombings took place on _ in central London. （ A） three trains and a bus （ B） three buses and a train （ C） three trains and two buses （ D） three trains and three buses 20 Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the report? （ A） Authorities
17、 say they have identified three of the four bombers. （ B） The bombers are British-born men of Afghanistan decent, ranging in age from 19 to 30. （ C） The police has shifted their focus toward finding out who may have recruited, financed and organized the bombers. （ D） Britains minister for law-and-or
18、der says the country should be prepared for more attacks. 20 The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its ninny gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbies (犹太人的学者 ) of old put it this way: “A man c
19、omes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.“ Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of Gods own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward gla
20、nce when we remember what was and then suddenly realize that it is no more. We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered. A recent experience re-tau
21、ght me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place. One morning, I had to have some additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be w
22、heeled across the courtyard on a gurney. As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. Thats all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was how warming, how sparkling, how brilliant! I looked to see whether anyone else relished the suns golden glow, but e
23、veryone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground. Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all. The insight gleaned from that experience is rea
24、lly as commonplace as was the experience itself: lifes gifts are precious but we are too heedless of them. Hem then is the first pole of lifes paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minut
25、e. Hold fast to life. “but not so fast that you cannot let go.“ This is the second side of lifes coin, the opposite pole of its paradox we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go. This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, t
26、hat whatever we desire with the fun force of our passionate being can, nay, will, be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second troth dawns upon us. At every stage of life we sustain losses and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives
27、only when we emerge from the womb and lose its protective shelter. We enter a progression of schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the gradua
28、l or not so gradual waning of our own strength. And ultimately, as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests, we must confront the inevitability of our own demise, losing ourselves as it were, all that we were or dreamed to he. But why should we be reconciled to lifes contradictory demands? W
29、hy fashion of beauty when beauty is evanescent? Why give our heart in love when those we love will ultimately be tom from our grasp? In order to resolve this paradox, we must seek a wider perspective, viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity. Once we do that, we realize that though
30、 our lives are finite, our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern. Life is never just being. It is becoming a relentless flowing on. Our parents live on through us, and we will live on through our children. The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. The beauty we fashion can
31、not be dimmed by death. Our flesh may perish, our hands will wither, but that which they create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Dont spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, fo
32、r ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth. Add love to a house and you have a home. Add righteousness to a city and you have a community. Add math to a pile of red brick and you have a school. Add religion to the humblest of edifices and you have a sanctuary. Add justice to t
33、he far-flung round of human endeavor and you have civilization. Put them all together, exalt them above their present imperfections, add to them the vision of humankind deemed, forever free of need and strife and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope. (886 words) 21 The second tr
34、uth to live by is _. （ A） to learn to deal with the losses we suffer in life （ B） to learn that death is unavoidable （ C） to learn to face a variety of deaths （ D） to learn to get accustomed to the pattern of life, departure and death 22 Which of the following statements is TRUE? （ A） Invest your ti
35、me and energy in pursuance of ideal. （ B） We grow old by deserting our ideals. （ C） One should strive for truth and justice. （ D） One must set out to live life. 23 Which of the following conclusions does the passage support? （ A） An ounce of wisdom is worth a million tons of books. （ B） Death makes
36、a contract with everyone, but no one can break it. （ C） Look on all that appears commonplace as something hard to come by, and well all the more treasure it. （ D） Own ones life and know how to treasure it, and this is and happy and beautiful life. 23 Joseph Jones had a criminal record, but he swore
37、up and down that this time he was innocent. Thats what the 36-year-old felon told a Los Angeles Superior Court judge last year, just moments before pleading guilty to selling cocaine. He received an eight-year sentence. On Wednesday, Jones walked out of Californias Salinas Valley State Prison, his c
38、onviction overturned at the request of the Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti. Turns out, Jones really was innocent of the cocaine charge. Jones case is not all that unusual. In Los Angeles lately, it is the prosecutors who are asking that defendants be set free. The criminal justice system
39、seems to have been turned inside out as authorities probe what might become the most widespread police corruption scandal in the citys history. “I wouldnt say the system is in shambles, but it has certainly been seriously disrupted,“ says Michael Judge, chief public defender for Los Angeles. A high-
40、ranking police official who asked not to be named adds: “Ive never seen anything like this before in Los Angeles. Its the kind of thing you hear about in other places. I dont know if well ever get over it.“ Police authorities say at least one officer has been fired, 11 placed on administrative leave
41、, and one, Rafael Perez, has resigned, as allegations swirl that they stole contraband, lied, planted evidence, roughed up witnesses and kept a crash pad where they had sex with prostitutes. Perez admitted shooting an unarmed man, then framing him by planting a semiautomatic rifle near his unconscio
42、us body and accusing him of attacking officers. Five Los Angeles prosecutors and a special police task force are reviewing hundreds of cases that might have been compromised. More than 200 police department supervisors and assistants are part of a board of inquiry expected to make recommendations to
43、 Police Chief Bernard Parks as early as next week. Five criminal convictions that Perez and his partner obtained have been overturned, and more could follow, a spokeswoman for Garcetti said. On Wednesday, public defenders received a list of more than 1000 cases involving eight law enforcement office
44、rs targeted in the probe. Each must be reviewed for possibly tainted testimony. If evidence is suspect, lawyers say, theyll argue for new trials or dismissal of charges. The courts could be tied up for years. Adding to the morass, officials expect an onslaught of civil law-suits against the police d
45、epartment from defendants who were wrongly convicted. The first has been filed. “This is a tarnish on our badge,“ says Officer Ted Hunt, president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which provides lawyers for accused officers. He cautioned, however, against jumping to the conclusion that p
46、olice corruption is widespread. Only Perez has been proved guilty, he notes. “Other than this one tiny person who embarrassed all of us, LAPD coppers are honest and ethical, and they want to do the right thing,“ Hunt adds. In September, Perez admitted in court that he had stolen about 8 pounds of co
47、caine from the police evidence room last year, In an attempt to lower his sentence, he offered to blow the whistle on alleged corruption in the departments Rampart Division. Assigned to a tough, mostly minority neighborhood west of downtown, Rampart Division police are known as pro-active. “Their jo
48、b is to go out and get the street hoodlums, the ones who cause ordinary citizens to be afraid“ Hunt says. “Rampart had the highest crime rate in the city, and they turned it around.“ According to Perez, some officers at Rampart were doing more than good police work. Perez contends, for example, that
49、 in 1996, he and his partner, Nino Durden, shot 19-year-old Javier Francisco Ovando, then framed him for assaulting them. The shooting paralyzed Ovando. Though he had no prior record, the judge handed down the stiffest sentence possible because, the judge said, the defendant showed no remorse. Ovando was released from prison in September after serving three years of a 23-year sentence. Tamar To
