1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 214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 Making good use of the college library might be a maximal help to students study. To get access to the li
3、brary, the student should know how to use his library more easily and more efficiently. I. Borrowing Books 1. To make sure that the book is【 1】 . 【 1】 _. 2. To find out where the book is-consult the catalogues cards arranged in alphabetical order: 1) in the center-the authors name(【 2】 comes first)
4、【 2】 _. 2) the top left hand corner the books number the class number(【 3】 areas) 【 3】 _. the author number (exact book shelf) 3) the lower middle part the title of the book, the edition 4) the bottom the collation details (【 4】 and maps) 【 4】 _. 3.【 5】 the borrowing slip. 【 5】 _. . Consulting Refer
5、ence Materials Three types of materials: 1. reference books e.g. dictionaries bibliographies-listing all the【 6】 on a particular subject 【 6】 _. encyclopedias-an/a【 7】 of a topic (clear, brief, authoritative)【 7】 _. 2. valuable books e.g. old edition, a single copy, out of print books 3. professiona
6、l【 8】 or periodicals 【 8】 _. . General Study Three reasons: 1.【 9】 working environment (spacious, well-lit, heated, free of【 9】 _. charge) 2. access to reference books and possibility of discussing with other students 3. a chance to make【 10】 with others 【 10】 _. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6
7、 【 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 interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of t
8、he following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 11 According to the interview, people often spend time looking for things because _. （ A） they suffer from amnesia. （ B） they are not organized. （ C） they have too many things. （ D） they are often in a hurry. 12 As for banking online, which o
9、f the following is NOT suggested? （ A） Giving up a little control. （ B） Using the website of your bank. （ C） Asking questions about its safety. （ D） Contacting consumer service clerks. 13 Which of the following is the advice given to library people? （ A） Go online and wait for the delivery of the bo
10、ok ordered. （ B） Check the librarys website and then go to the library. （ C） Go online or go to the library to check whether a book is in stock. （ D） Put a book in order and call a librarian to ask when you can get it. 14 The thing that should be put at hand in every single room is _. （ A） brush. （
11、B） thread. （ C） present. （ D） scissor. 15 Carolyn Forte gives us time saving tips on all of the following EXCEPT _. （ A） doing shopping. （ B） traveling by air. （ C） making phone calls. （ D） putting things in order. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ON
12、LY. 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 strike has broken out in South Africa because _. （ A） more than one hundred miners died 4n a disaster. （ B） black miners have been calling for a
13、wage rise. （ C） miners wanted to mourn over colleagues deaths. （ D） miners wanted to better their working conditions. 17 Which of the following statements about the strike is TRUE? （ A） The strike has resulted in a great loss to the mining industry. （ B） A few reporters were allowed to approach the
14、mine. （ C） Half the countrys black miners were on strike. （ D） White church leader called the strike action. 18 On hearing Yamanis firing, oil traders in New York were _. （ A） annoyed. （ B） ecstatic. （ C） surprised. （ D） gloomy. 19 The H5N1 bird flu has been found in all the following places EXCEPT
15、_. （ A） Australia. （ B） Maharashtra. （ C） France. （ D） Austria. 20 The news is mainly about the UN human rights investigators calling for _. （ A） a better treatment of the US detainees at Guantanamo Bay. （ B） an independent judicial body to bring the detainees to trial. （ C） the immediate closure of
16、 the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. （ D） the implementation of international human rights law at Guantanamo Bay. 20 In the evenings, they go to the mall. Once a week or more. Sometimes, they even leave the dinner dishes in the sink so they will have enough time to finish all the errands. The fath
17、er never comes he hates shopping, especially with his wife, Instead, he stays at home to read the paper and put around his study. To do things that the other dads must be doing in the evenings. To summon the sand to come rushing in and plug up his ears with its roaring silence. Meanwhile, the mother
18、 arms herself with returns from the last trip. Her two young daughters fro get games of flashlight tag or favorite TV shows and strap on tennis shoes and seatbelts: and theyre off. On summer nights, when its light until after, the fireflies arrive, the air is heavy and moist. The daughters unroll th
19、eir windows and stick the whole of their heads out into the slate blue sky, feeling full force the sweaty, honey suckle air. In the cold mall, their rubber soles squeak on shiny linoleum squares. The younger daughter tries not to step on any cracks. The older daughter keeps a straight-ahead gaze; he
20、r sullen eyes count down each errand as its dune. It is not until the third or, on a good night, the fourth errand that the trouble begins. The girls have wandered over to examine rainbow beach towels, perhaps, or some kind of pink ruffled bedspread. The mothers voice finds them from a few aisles aw
21、ay. Dinner squirms in the daughters stomachs. Now comes that what if I-threw-up-right this second? or where-is-a-rabbit-hole-for-me-to-fall-into? feeling that they get around this time of evening, at the mall. The older one shakes her ponytails at the younger one. Her blue eyes hiss the careful-dont
22、-cry warning, but the younger ones cheeks only get redder. Toe by toe, the daughters edge towards housewares where they finger lace placemats or trace patterns in the store carpet with sneakered soles. The mothers voice still finds them, shaking with rage. Finally, heels slapping in her sandals, she
23、 strides towards them and then keeps going. They follow, catching her word-trail, “Stupid people. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I HATE stupid people.“ Its the little skips between steps the younger one takes to keep up with her mothers long, angry legs. Its the car door slamming and the seat belt buckle y
24、anked into place. Its those things that tell the daughters how the next few hours will go. In the car, the older one sighs and grinds her back teeth. The younger one feels her face get hotter and her eyes start to swell. She stares at an ice cream stain on the back of the front .4eat and sees a pony
25、, a flower, and a fairy in that splash of chocolate mint chip. The mother begins on both at once. “And when we get home, if your shoes are still in the TV room, Im throwing them out. Same for books. No more shit house. No more lazy, ungrateful kids. “And so on and so on through the black velvet sky
26、and across the Hershey bar roads. On into the house with a slap or two. “Youll be happy when Im in my grave,“ wails at them as they put on their nightgowns and brush their teeth. The older one sets a stone jaw and the younger one tries not to sob an she opens wide, engulfing her small hand and. scru
27、bbing each and every molar. The father is not spared. The volcanic mother saves some up just for him. “Fucking lousy husband Do-nothing father.“ And on like that for an hour or so more. Then in the darkest part of the night, its bare feet and cool hands on a small sweaty forehead. Kisses and caresse
28、s and “Sorry Mom got a little mad.“ Promises for that pink ruffled bedspread or maybe a new stuffed animal. Long fingers rake through the younger ones curls. “Tomorrow evening, well get you some kind of treat, Right after dinner, well go to the mall.“ 21 From the first paragraph, we get the impressi
29、on that _. （ A） the father is inert. （ B） their life is bustling, （ C） the evenings are exciting. （ D） the mother is constantly nagging. 22 According to the .passage, the two daughters seem to _. （ A） enjoy the evenings shopping in the beginning. （ B） be reluctant to run errands with the mother. （ C
30、） enjoy browsing various kinds of items. （ D） he glad to help their mother with housework. 23 The word “squirms“ in the fourth paragraph probably means _. （ A） moves. （ B） squirts. （ C） wriggles. （ D） digests. 24 Which of the following adjectives does NOT describe the mother? （ A） Irritable. （ B） Re
31、morseful. （ C） Amiable. （ D） Discontented. 25 Which category of writing does the text belong to? （ A） Narration. （ B） Description. （ C） Persuasion. （ D） Exposition. 25 For one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing, America seemed ready to make peace with the SAT. When the University of Cali
32、fornia several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants not to buy it, the College Board junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what?), created a writing section (including producing an essay), added t
33、ougher math questions and more reading analysis -and had everybody talking about the new-and improved SAT. Then the first students to take SAT: The Sequel were seen stumbling out of the testing centers as if they had just run a marathon, and all the happy talks ended. With the three hours and 45 min
34、utes stretching to five hours with breaks and instructions, it got worse. Nobody is sure how, but moisture in some SAT answer sheets caused pencil marks to bleed or fade, producing more than 5,000 tests with the wrong scores. Even after that was fixed, several universities reported a sharp drop in t
35、heir applicants average scores, which many attributed to exhaustion, and more colleges told applicants they would no longer have to take the SAT. All of which stoked interest in the ACT, the SATs less famous and less feared rival based in Iowa City, Iowa. The shorter test is now becoming a welcome a
36、lternative for many high schoolers who no longer see a need to endure the usual SAT trauma. “I think the ACT is a true player in the college-admissions game these days,“ says Robyn Lady, until recently a college counselor at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Although most Jeff
37、erson students still take the SAT, the number of ACTs there has tripled in the last two years. Its a shift that, if it continues, could change the balance of entrance test power, since the Fairfax County, Va. , magnet sends more kids to the fry League than almost any other U.S. school. The SAT, with
38、 a maximum 2,400 points, and the ACT, with a maximum 36 points, are scored differently, but otherwise are no more different from each other than American football differs from the Canadian version. Students usually do equally well on each. The SATs new 25 minute essay is required, while the ACTs ess
39、ay is optional. The SAT is three hours and 45 minutes long. The comparable ACT is three hours and 25 minutes. The SAT has three sections: critical reading, math and writing. The ACT has math, science, reading and English sections, plus optional writing. The ACT with the writing test costs $ 43, more
40、 than the SATs $ 41.50, but the ACT is only $ 29 without the writing section. Several high school guidance counselors say they assume the ACT, with 1.2 million test takers in the class of 2005 compared with 1.5 million for the SAT, will eventually catch up, in part because so many educators are advi
41、sing their students to try both. Wendy Andreen, counselor at Memorial Senior High School in Houston-where the SAT has been supreme-says she tells students every year they should take both tests to be safe, and many are beginning to listen, with ACTs up 18 percent since 2002. Deb Shaver, director of
42、admissions at Smith College, says counselors are steering students to the ACT “because there is less hysteria surrounding the ACTs, and students feel less stressed about taking the test.“ The mistakes made in the scoring of the October 2005 SAT by Pearson Educational Measurement, the College Boards
43、subcontractor, have no; been forgotten, counselors say. The SAT suffered from damaging news stories as details of the errors came out bit by bit. In the end, 4,411 students had scores reported to colleges that were lower than they actually earned and had to be corrected; 17 percent of the correction
44、s were for more than 40 points. College Board president Caston Caperton apologized, saying the mishap “brings humility, and humility makes us more aware, empathetic and respectful of others.“ But many counselors, who often complain about the New York City-based nonprofits influence over their studen
45、ts futures, say they have their doubts. “I think the College Board sees this as a purely technical problem that they call solve through purely technical means,“ says Scott White, a counselor at Montclair (N. J.) High School. “I dont think they appreciate the damage that was done to their already sha
46、ky credibility.“ 26 The analogy of SAT to bad cafeteria food indicates that _. （ A） the SAT is undesirable. （ B） the SAT should be replaced. （ C） the SATs keepers are blamed. （ D） the SATs critics are praised. 27 “The happy talk“ in the second paragraph probably refers to _. （ A） the suggestion that
47、 the SAT should he reformed. （ B） the idea that the SAT will be improved. （ C） the concept that the SAT will be substituted. （ D） the belief that the SAT has been improved. 28 Which of the following statements is NOT true of the ACT? （ A） Many students now prefer to take the ACT. （ B） The ACT could
48、hardly be the SATs adversary. （ C） The ACT has taken the lead over the SAT. （ D） Some people think highly of the ACT. 29 Many American educators now tend to _. （ A） be in favor of the ACT. （ B） be slightly critical of the SAT. （ C） sit on the fence in the dispute. （ D） be strongly critical of the SAT. 30 The mistake made in the scoring of
