1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 218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 Coming Home: Life After Study Abroad Many returnees who have studied abroad may suffer re-entry culture s
3、hock when they go back 1o their hometown. Here some positive ways of dealing with the return culture shock are introduced. . The【 1】 of Re-Entry 【 1】 _. Re-entry is ones【 2】 experience of re-adjusting to life in ones【 2】 _. home culture after living abroad. For many study abroad returnees, it is mor
4、e difficult to adjust to their home culture than the【 3】 . 【 3】 _. . Some Common Re-Adjustment Issues 1. Personal growth and change When you come back, you have changed in many ways because you have experienced more freedom arid【 4】 living abroad. 【 4】 _. You have to adjust your new self to your old
5、 home. 2. New Knowledge and Skills When living abroad, you might develop new competencies including new knowledge skills and【 5】 . 【 5】 _. Some returnees feel frustrated if they feel these skills are of little use once they return home. 3. Relationships With Family and Friends Personal changes of re
6、turnees affect their families and friends who show little interest in hearing about their new experiences and attempt to make them【 6】 to what they once were. 【 6】 _. .【 7】 Dealing with Re-Entry Problems 【 7】 _. 1. Talk with people who understand【 8】 , for example, other returnees; 【 8】 _. 2. Share
7、your experiences with【 9】 study abroad students or 【 9】 _. write an article for some publications. 3. Be【 10】 . You may get involved in work where international 【 10】 _. experiences and perspectives are appreciated. 1 【 1】 2 【 2】 3 【 3】 4 【 4】 5 【 5】 6 【 6】 7 【 7】 8 【 8】 9 【 9】 10 【 10】 SECTION B IN
8、TERVIEW 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 the following five questions. Now listen to the i
9、nterview. 11 According to Samantha Heller, people tend to eat milk chocolate because _. （ A） it is less bitter than dark chocolate. （ B） it is more healthy than dark chocolate. （ C） it has special flavor with many nutrients. （ D） it is less expensive than dark chocolate. 12 Samantha Heller suggests
10、that to get benefits from chocolate, you may _. （ A） take nutrients out of chocolate. （ B） make cocoa powder on your own. （ C） make hot chocolate by yourself. （ D） consult an expert on chocolate. 13 According to the interview, chemicals contained in green tea actually help _. （ A） refresh ones memor
11、y. （ B） combat some diseases. （ C） revive ones spirits. （ D） improve ones physique. 14 Ginger can be used to deal with all of the following diseases or symptoms EXCEPT _. （ A） arthritis. （ B） morning sickness. （ C） nausea. （ D） flu. 15 According to Samantha Heller, people should eat a product from o
12、ther animals _. （ A） every two days. （ B） every other day. （ C） together with fruits. （ D） in small amounts. 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
13、given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 What did the government intend to do in the beginning? （ A） Greatly restrict public smoking. （ B） Ban smoking in all public places. （ C） Supervise smoking in some bars. （ D） Ban public smoking in England. 17 The staff who work in public places would favor
14、 the ban because _. （ A） they dont have to inhale foul air. （ B） they dont have to serve smokers. （ C） they will get more tip from non smokers. （ D） there will be a rise on their salaries. 18 Present Kibaki has called for patience of the investigation of the scandals because _. （ A） he didnt want to
15、 approve the resignation of Education Minister. （ B） the resigned officials wanted the opportunity to prove their innocence. （ C） he thinks corruption hasnt reached high levels of the government. （ D） John Githongo gave testimony to visiting Kenya members of Parliament. 19 President Mohammad Abbas h
16、as been given the authority to bypass parliament because _. （ A） Fatah Party intended to irritate the militant group Hamas. （ B） Fatah Party wanted to strengthen the legislative power. （ C） Fatah Party was defeated in the Palestinian election. （ D） Fatah Party suffered a stunning defeat in the const
17、itutional court. 20 The discovery of the tomb will enable archeologists to know about the life of _. （ A） commons. （ B） farmers. （ C） aristocrats. （ D） workers. 20 Except at night, they hardly ever have time together. He often sits alone in the house waiting for Julie-Julie to come home. It would be
18、 nice to have kids to play with when one comes home from work. But, Oh, the house is too small, Kappy-Pappy dear. We need to save and move to a bigger place before we can start a family. Kapsak never understands that. What does a big house have to do with having children? When he and Eka Udo had chi
19、ldren, did they have a big house? But they died, didnt they? And the doctor later mid something about cramped living conditions making it easy for malaria to virtually wipe out his family. So maybe Julie-Julie has a point. All his children had died because of being cooped up in one room. All except
20、Udo. Udo Kapsak would not ordinarily admit it but the truth is he misses the boy so much. Udos full faced smile. His quirky-chirpy ways. His innocent probing manner. Oh Udo! Hell be approaching five now. Five! A big baby! Sighing noisily, Kapsak tries to put thoughts of his son out of his mind. He h
21、as not seen the boy in over three years. And maybe he has gone the way his brother and sisters went. No. Not likely. Awadamoto would have told him. Awadamoto. Its been a long time since Kapsak saw him. Throwing on a shirt, Kapsak hurries off to the taxi rank in the business district. “Kapsak, Kapsak
22、!“ Awadamoto cheers as his childhood friend approaches. “Awadamoto! You have abandoned me!“ “Use that word lightly, Kapsak. You know who has done the most abandoning between me and you.“ “But Awad, we live here in town together.“ “Blame that wife of yours. I did not go to school and I dont like goin
23、g near people who make me remember that all the time.“ Kapsak has it in mind to say something good about his wife, but something else jumps to his mouth. “Come Awad, what is Gestapo?“ “Gestapo?“ “No, Gestapo.“ “Man, I dont know. Where did you hear it?“ “Eh, I heard it somewhere. How is the village?“
24、 “Exactly as you left it.“ “And.“ “Eka Udo?“ “Yes. How is she?“ “How does it concern you? Anyway, I heard some big chief from her mothers village has taken her for his third wife.“ “What of my son? Is it well with him?“ “You would have known if you had bothered to go and check on him. Look, its my t
25、urn.“ Bawling out lo passengers to climb into his ramshackle taxi, Awadamoto ambles off. It is pouring heavily when Julie-Julie returns. Outside. it is rain. Inside, it is confusion. Kapsak is at first happy to see her back safely. Then his happiness turns to anger as she carries on about what an ex
26、citing time she had. Finally his anger succumbs to her gentle caresses and passion rules their world. Julie-Julie shoots out at first light. “Ive got to see someone urgently, Kappy-Pappy.“ Kappy-Pappy, that is my name now, Kapsak laughs to himself as he shuffles off to the construction site where he
27、 manages to earn a few bucks. On his way into the main yard, he ducks out of the way of a fast-moving four-wheel drive vehicle driven by an expatriate. Cursing lightly, he looks back to see the driver locked in a passionate kiss with a woman with luxuriant hair. “No wonder he nearly killed me!“ Kaps
28、ak spits out. “Early morning and hes already-“ His mouth remains open but the words dry up like the water taps of the city. The woman with the expatriate turns momentarily, perhaps to pick up something from the backseat. In that instant, Kapsak sees clearly the woman for whom he had left his first w
29、ife and forsaken his family and people. But he does not see the earthmover in front of him. Neither does he hear its powerful horns. And the driver of the earthmover does not see Kapsak. By the time someone notices the crushed figure lying by the roadside, a blackening pool of blood has begun to see
30、p into the earth. 21 According to the doctor, Kapsak and Eka Udos children _. （ A） died of a constant headache. （ B） died from a traffic accident. （ C） died of an infectious malady. （ D） died from goods famine. 22 The phrase “cooped up“ in the second paragraph probably means _. （ A） mobilized. （ B）
31、captivated. （ C） confined. （ D） shoved. 23 Which of the following statements is NOT true of Kapsaks life? （ A） Kapask came across Awadamoto. （ B） His friend, Awadamoto, doesnt like Julie. （ C） Perhaps Julie is Kapsaks second wife. （ D） Kapask wasnt sure whether Udo is still alive. 24 All of the foll
32、owing can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT that _. （ A） Kapask and Julie had extra marital affairs. （ B） Kapasks parents may not forgive him. （ C） Julie lied to Kapask about her whereabouts. （ D） Julie and Kapask were blessed by his friends. 25 The best title for the passage would probably be _.
33、（ A） Kapask and Julie. （ B） Death of Kapask. （ C） Love Affairs. （ D） Kapasks Children. 25 Meteorologists routinely tell us what next weeks weather is likely to be, and climate scientists discuss what might happen in 100 years. Christoph Schar, though, ventures dangerously close to that middle realm,
34、 where previously only the Farmers Almanac dared go; what will next summers weather be like? Following last years tragic heat wave, which directly caused the death of tens of thousands of people, the question is of burning interest to Europeans. Schar asserts that last summers sweltering temperature
35、s should no longer be thought of as extraordinary. “The situation in 2002 and 2003 in Europe, where we had a summer with extreme rainfall and record flooding followed by the hottest summer in hundreds of years, is going to be typical for future weather patterns,“ he says. Most Europeans have probabl
36、y never read Schars report (not least because it was published in the scientific journal Nature in the dead of winter) but they seem to be bracing themselves for the Worst. As part of its new national “heat-wave plan“ France issued a level-three alert when temperatures in Provence reached 34 degrees
37、 Celsius three days in a row; hospital and rescue workers were asked to prepare for an influx of patients. Italian gove4nment officials have proposed creating a national registry of people over 65 so they can be herded into air conditioned supermarkets in the event of another heat wave. 1.ondons may
38、or has offered a 100,000 reward for anybody who can come up with a practical way of cooling the citys underground trains, where temperatures have lately reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius. (The money hasnt been claimed.) Global warming seems to have permanently entered the European psyche. If the pub
39、lic is more aware, though, experts are more confused. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hammered out its last assessment in 2001, scientists pulled together the latest research and made their best estimate of how much the Earths atmosphere would warm during the next century. There w
40、as a lot they didnt know, but they were confident theyd be able to plug the gaps in time for the next report, due out in 2007. When they explored the fundamental physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, though, they found something unexpected: the way the atmosphere and, in particular, clouds-respon
41、d to increasing levels of carbon is far more complex and difficult to predict than they had expected. “We thought wed reduce the uncertainty, but that hasnt happened,“ says Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of the next IPCC report.
42、 “As we delve further and further into the science and gain a better understanding of the true complexity of the atmosphere, the uncertainties have gotten deeper.“ This doesnt mean, of course, that the world isnt warming. Only the biased or the deluded deny that temperatures have risen, and that hum
43、an activity has something to do with it. The big question that scientists have struggled with is how much warming will occur over the next century? With so much still un known in the climate equation, theres no way of telling whether warnings of catastrophe are overblown or if things are even more d
44、ire than we thought. Why do scientists like Schar make predictions? Because, like economists, its their job to hazard a best guess with the resources at hand-namely, vast computer programs that simulate what the Earths atmosphere will do in certain circumstances. These models incorporate all the lat
45、est research into how the Earths atmosphere behaves. But there are problems with the computer models. The atmosphere is very big, but also consists of a multitude of tiny interactions among particles of dust, soot, cloud droplets and trace gases that cannot be safely ignored. Current models dont hav
46、e nearly the resolution they need to capture what goes on at such small scales. Scientists got an inkling that something was missing from the models in the early 1990s when they ran a peculiar experiment. They had the leading models simulate warming over the next century and got a similar answer fro
47、m each. Then they ran the models again-this time accounting for what was then known a bout cloud physics. 26 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that _. （ A） climate scientists are contemptuous of weather forecast. （ B） it is a venture to forecast what weather is like tomorrow. （ C） Schar ha
48、s the audacity to do what others seldom did. （ D） Schar has made gloomy predictions on future weather. 27 The expression “bracing themselves for the worst“ in the second paragraph probably means _. （ A） sneering at the impending difficulties （ B） cheering themselves up for the worst situation. （ C）
49、preparing themselves for the worst situation. （ D） having a total disregard for the coming difficulties. 28 All of the following statements are true of climate scientists EXCEPT _. （ A） they are all clued up about climate. （ B） they dont know much about climate. （ C） they are probing into the field of climate. （
